Book

Copyright, 1917,

By The Jewish Publication Society of America All rights reserved

Third Impression, August, 1919

The Lakeside Press, Chicago

PREFACE

THE sacred task of translating the Word of God, as revealed to Israel through lawgiver, prophet, psalmist, and sage, began at an early dale. According to an ancient rabbinic interpretation, Joshua had the Torah engraved upon the stones of the altar (Joshua viii. 32) not in the original Hebrew alone, but in all the languages of mankind, which were held to be seventy, in order that all men might become acquainted with the words of the Scriptures. This statement, with its universalistic tendency, is, of course, a reflex of later times, when the Hebrew Scriptures had become a subject of curiosity and perhaps also of anxiety to the pagan or semi-pagan world.

While this tradition contains an element of truth, it is certain that the primary object of translating the Bible was to minister to a need nearer home. Upon the establishment of the Second Commonwealth under Ezra and Nehemiah, it became imperative to make the Torah of God 'distinct and giving sense' through the means of interpretation (Nehemiah viii. 8 and xiii. 24), that the Word of God migHt be understood by all the people. The Rabbis perceived in this activity of the first generation of the Sopherim the origin of the Aramaic translation known as the Targum, first made orally and afterwards committed to writing, which was necessitated by the fact that Israel had forgotten the sacred language, 'and spoke the idiom current in a large part of western Asia. All this, however, is veiled in obscurity, as is the whole inner history of the Jews during the Persian rule.

The historic necessity for translation was repeated with all the great changes in Israel's career. It is enough to point to the Septua-gint, or the Greek translation of the Scriptures, the product of Israel's contact with the Hellenistic civilization dominating the world at that time; to the Arabic translation by the Gaon Saadya, when the great majority of the Jewish people came under the sceptre of Mohammedan rulers; and to the German translation by Mendelssohn and his school, at the dawn of a new epoch, which brought the Jews in Europe, most of whom spoke a German dialect, into closer contact with their neigh-

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hours. These translations are all historical products intimately connected with Israel's wanderings among the nations and with the great events of mankind in general.

Ancient and continuous as this task of translation was, it would be a mistake to think that there were no misgivings about it. At least it is certain that opinions were divided as to the desirability of such undertakings. While Philo and his Alexandrian coreligionists looked upon the translation of the Seventy as a work of inspired men, the Palestinian Rabbis subsequently considered the day on which the Septua-gint was completed as one of the most unfortunate in Israel's history, seeing that the Torah could never be adequately translated. And there are indications enough that the consequences of such translations wfere not all of a desirable nature. However, in view of the eagerness with which they were undertaken almost in every land and in every great epoch of the world's history, it is evident that the people at large approved of such translations, thinking them to be a heave-offering to the Lord of each newly acquired vernacular adopted in the course of the ever-changing conditions of history, and in particular a tribute to the beauty of Japheth dwelling in the spiritual tents of Israel.

The greatest change in the life of Israel during the last two generations was his renewed acquaintance with English-speaking civilization. Out of a handful of immigrants from Central Europe and the East who saw the shores of the New World, or even of England and her colonies, we have grown under Providence both in numbers and in importance, so that we constitute now the greatest section of Israel living in a single country outside of Russia. We are only following in the footsteps of our great predecessors when, with the growth of our numbers, we have applied ourselves to the sacred task of preparing a new translation of the Bible into the English language, which, unless all signs fail, is to become the current speech of the majority of the children of Israel.

The need of such a translation was felt long ago. Mention may here be made of the work of Isaac Leeser in America, which was both preceded and followed by two translations produced in England: the one by Dr. A. Benisch, the other by Dr. Michael Friedlander.

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The most popular, however, among these translations was that of Leeser, which was not only the accepted version in all the synagogues of the United States, but was also reproduced in England. Its great merit consisted in the fact that it incorporated all the improvements proposed by the Mendelssohn School and their successors, whose combined efforts were included and further developed in the so-called Zunz Bible, which enjoyed a certain authority among German Jews for several generations. With the advance of time and the progress made in almost all departments of Bible study, it was found that Leeser's translation would bear improvement and recasting.

Steps leading to the preparation of a new translation into the English language were taken by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1892. It was intended to secure, if possible, through the co-operation of scholars in the United States and in Great Britain, a new translation of each book, and to place it in the hands of an Editorial Committee, who by correspondence with the translators should harmonize the results of the work of the individual contributors. This method was followed until 1901 under the general direction of Doctor Marcus Jastrow, Editor-in-Chief, with Doctor * Kaufman Kohler and Doctor Frederick de Sola Mendes as the other members of the Editorial Committee.*

ft There is given herewith a list of the translations prepared for the Society:

Genesis, Max Landsberg, Rochester, N.Y. Obadiah and Jonah, J. Voorsanger (de-Exodus and Leviticus, L. N. Dembitz ceased), San Francisco, California.

(deceased), Louisville, Ky. Micah, Maurice H. Harris, New York.

Numbers, David Philipson, Cincinnati, Nahum, L. Mayer (deceased), Pitts-

Ohio. burgh, Pa.

Deuteronomy, F de Sola Mendes, New Habakkuk, R. Grossman, New York.

York. Zephaniah, M. Schlesinger, Albany, N Y.

.

Joshua, Joseph H. Hertz, London, Eng- Haggai, S. Mendelsohn, Wilmington,

land. N. C.

Judges, Stephen S. Wise, New York. Malachi, D. Davidson, New York.

II Samuel, Bernard Drachman, New Job, Marcus Jastrow (deceased), Phila-

York. , delphia, Pa.

Jeremiah, Sabato Morals (deceased), Ruth, Joseph Krauskopf, Philadelphia,

Philadelphia, P*,. Pa.

Ezekiel, Henry W. Schneeberger, Balti- Ecclesiastes, Gustav Gottheil (deceased),

more, Md New York.

Joel, Oscar Cohen (deceased), Mobile, Esther, William Rosenau, Baltimore, Md.

Ala. I and II Chronicles, M. Mielriner (de-

Amos, H. Pereira Mendes, New York. ceased), Cincinnati, Ohio.

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It became apparent in 1901 that by this procedure the publication of a translation of the entire Hebrew Bible would be indefinitely delayed, and accordingly the Book of Psalms, translated by Doctor Kohler and revised by his colleagues, was given to the press and issued in 1903. The death of Doctor Jastrow in that year required the formation of a new committee under the chairmanship of Doctor Solomon Schechter. This committee, however, soon found that the method adopted was too complex, and that it was impossible to accomplish by correspondence the extensive work required.

In 1908 the Jewish Publication Society of America and the Central Conference of American Rabbis reached an agreement to co-operate in bringing out the new translation upon a revised plan of having the entire work done by a Board of Editors instead of endeavoring to harmonize the translations of individual contributors. As a result of this understanding the present Board, composed of Doctor Solomon Schechter, Doctor Cyrus Adler, and^Doctor Joseph Jacobs, representing the Jewish Publication Society of America, and Doctor Kaufman Kohler, Doctor David Philipson, and Doctor Samuel Schulman, representing the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was constituted, and by mutual agreement Professor Max L. Margolis was chosen as the seventh member, he to be the Editor-in-Chief of the work and Secretary to the Editorial Board, of which Doctor Cyrus Adler was elected Chairman. Incidentally the selection thus made resulted in an equal representation of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America at New York, of the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, and of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning at Philadelphia. For one year Professor Israel Friedlaender acted as a member of the Board in the stead of Doctor Schechter.

The method employed by the Board was as follows: - In preparing the manuscript for consideration by the Board of Editors, Professor Margolis took into account the existing English versions, the standard commentaries, ancient and modern, the translations already made for the Jewish Publication Society of America, the divergent renderings from the Revised Version prepared for the Jews of

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England, the marginal notes of the Revised Version, and the changes of the American Committee of Revisers. Due weight was given to the ancient versions as establishing a tradition of interpretation, notably the Septuagint and the versions of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodo-tion, the Targums, the Peshitta, the Vulgate, and the Arabic version of Saadya. Talmudic and midrashic allusions and all available Jewish commentators, both the great mediaeval authorities, like Rashi, Kimhi, and Ibn Ezra, and the moderns S. D. Luzzatto, Malbim, and Ehrlich, as well as all the important non-Jewish commentators, were consulted. On this basis, a manuscript was prepared by the Editor-in-Chief and a copy sent to every member of the Board of Editors. Sixteen meetings, covering a period of seven years and occupying one hundred and sixty working days, were held, at which the proposals in this manuscript and many additional suggestions by the members of the Board were considered. Each point was thoroughly discussed, and the view of the majority was incorporated into the manuscript. When the Board was evenly divided, the Chairman cast the deciding vote. From time to time sub-committees were at work upon points left open, and their reports, submitted to the Board, were discussed and voted upon. The proof of the entire work was sent to each member of the Board for revision, and the new proposals which were made by one or another were in turn submitted to a vote by correspondence and to a final vote at the last meeting of the Board, held in October-November, 1915.

The present translation is the first for which a group of men representative of Jewish learning among English-speaking Jews assume joint responsibility, all previous efforts in the English language having been the work of individual translators. It has a character of its own. It aims to combine the spirit of Jewish tradition with the results of biblical scholarship, ancient, mediseval, and modern. It gives to the Jewish world a translation of the Scriptures done by men imbued with the Jewish consciousness, while the non-Jewish world, it is hoped, will welcome a translation that presents many passages from the Jewish traditional point of view.

The repeated efforts by Jews in the field of biblical translation

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show their sentiment toward translations prepared by other denominations. The dominant feature of this sentiment, apart from the thought that the christological interpretations in non-Jewish translations are out of place in a Jewish Bible, is and was that the Jew cannot afford to have his Bible translation prepared for him by others. He cannot have it as a gift, even as he cannot borrow his soul from others. If a new country and a new language metamorphose him into a new man, the duty of this new man is to prepare a new garb and a new method of expression for what is most sacred and most dear to him.

We are, it is hardly needful to say, deeply grateful for the works of our non-Jewish predecessors, such as the Authorised Version with its admirable diction, which can never be surpassed, as well as for the Revised Version with its ample learning—but they are not ours. The Editors have not only used these famous English versions, but they have gone back to the earlier translations of Wycliffe, Tyndale, Cover-dale, the Bishops' Bible, and the Douai Version, which is the authorised English translation of the Vulgate used by the Roman Catholics; in a word, upon doubtful points in style, all English versions have been drawn upon. The renditions of parts of the Hebrew Scriptures by Lowth and others in the eighteenth century and by Cheyne and Driver in our own days were likewise consulted.

As to the text and order of the biblical books, the present translation follows Jewish tradition, the Sacred Scriptures having come down in a definite compass and in a definite text. They are separated into three divisions: Law (Torah, Pentateuch), Prophets (Nebi'im), Writings (Ketubim). Each of these possesses a different degree of holiness or authority. In the Prophets and the Wntings the order of the books varies in manuscripts or among Jewish authorities; but there is absolute agreement as to the compass of these two divisions, and no book is transposed from the one into the other. Thus Ruth, Lamentations, and Daniel are all placed in the division of Writings — not among the Prophets, as in non-Jewish versions.

With every step by which each of the three parts was sealed, nothing to be added or to be taken away, the text was likewise fixed and thenceforth made the object of zealous watchfulness. Even with re-

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gard to the latest book of our Scriptures, we read its text substantially in the form in which the great Rabbi Akiba read it, he who said that the system by which the sacred text was guarded constituted a fence about the Scriptures. In that system, at first oral and later committed to writing, the letters were actually counted and lists made, to the end that no alterations should creep in at the hands of careless scribes The first to collect the notes known as Masorah was Jacob ben Haim Ibn Adonijah, the editor of the second Rabbinic Bible. In our own day many scholars have been prominent in this field of labour, chief among whom are Wolf Heidenheim, S. Frensdorff, S. Baer, and C. D. Ginsburg. We have" followed Baer's text a and for the parts not edited by him that of Ginsburg. Not only does the text known as the masoretic represent the text current in the Synagogue with regard to consonants, but also with regard to its signs standing for vowels and accents, both of which embody the interpretation accepted by the Synagogue. While in the scrolls which are read in the Synagogue the bare consonants are alone permitted, readers must prepare themselves from copies allowed for private use, in ancient times written and now printed, which contain the additional signs for vowels and accents. A translation must naturally follow the guide of the latter. Moreover, the public reader is bound in certain cases to substitute mentally other consonants in the place of those found in the scrolls, in accordance with the marginal annotations in the copies intended for private use. These variants are taken traditionally for corrections, and the public reader who persists in ignoring them forfeits his position. It is true that in the case of such variations the Jewish commentators of the Middle Ages sought to elicit a meaning also from the textual reading, and seem here and there tacitly to give it preference, but all this partakes of the nature of private judgment, and does not affect the uniform practice of the public readings in the Synagogue. While as a rule the margin (Kere) was followed, we have occasionally adopted the consonants of

a lt should be noted that in the otherwise excellent edition of Baer the word pH has been omitted by mistake in Proverbs v. 20. In EzeMel ix. 9 the Board deviated from the Baer edition and accepted the reading D^E"! instead of DEH. In Psalm bdi. 4 the vocalization of Ben Naphtali was followed instead of that of Ben Asher usually adopted by Baer.

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the text (Ketib), as for instance in Psalm cxxxix. 16, and II Chronicles xxiv. 27; xxxiv. 9.

A translation destined for the people can follow only one text, and that must be the traditional. Nevertheless a translator is not a transcriber of the text. His principal function is to make the Hebrew intelligible. Faithful though he must be to the Hebrew idiom, he will nevertheless be forced by the genius of the English language to use circumlocution, to add a word or two, to alter the sequence of words, and the like. In general, our rule has been that, where the word or words added are implied in the Hebrew construction, no device is used to mark the addition; where, on the other hand, the addition is not at once to be inferred from the original wording and yet seems necessary for the understanding, it has been enclosed in brackets. Naturally opinion will differ as to what may be deemed an addition warranted by the Hebrew construction and what may not, but as intelligibility was the principal aim, the Editors have felt justified in making their additions, sparingly it is true, but nevertheless as often as the occasion required.

We have thought it proper to limit the margin to the shortest compass, confining it to such elucidation of and references to the literal meaning as are absolutely necessary for making the translation intelligible. The Rabbis enumerate eighteen instances in which the scribes consciously altered the text. We have called attention to a change of this nature in Judges xviii. 30.

Personal pronouns referring to the Deity have been capitalized. As an aid to clearness direct discourse has been indicated by quotation marks. In the prophetical writings, where the speech of the prophet imperceptibly glides into the words of the Deity, and in the legal portions of the Pentateuch, it has been thought best to use quotation marks sparingly. Although the spelling of proper names in the English Bible in many instances deviates somewhat from an accurate representation of the Hebrew, it has nevertheless been deemed wise, owing to the familiarity of Hebrew names in their usual English form, generally to retain the current spelling.

In all externals this translation is especially adapted for use in syna-

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gogue and school. The Keriat ha-Torah, or the reading of the section from the Five Books of Moses, is the central feature of the Synagogue service. The Pentateuch is divided into fifty-four sections; beginning with the Sabbath following the Feast of Tabernacles, the readings on the Sabbaths of the year are taken in their order from the Five Books of Moses. The reading consists either of the whole section or of a selected portion. There was a variant custom according to which the reading of the Torah extended over a period of three years instead of one year. However, the one year cycle gradually superseded the three year cycle, and has become the universal custom in the Synagogue.

The Pentateuchal readings are supplemented by readings from the Prophets known as Haftarot. Readings from the third portion of the Bible, though customary at one time, have now largely fallen into disuse. The five small books known as the Five Megillot are given a place in the Synagogue service in their entirety. On the feast of Purim the book of Esther is read; the book of Lamentations is read on Tish'ah be-Ab (Ninth of Ab), the fast-day observed in commemoration of the destruction of Jerusalem; Song of Songs, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes are read respectively on the Feast of Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

The sections of the Pentateuch as traditionally read on the Sabbath are indicated, and a table gives all Scriptural readings, both on the Sabbath and on feast days and fast days.

By the favor of a gracious Providence the present company of Editors was permitted to finish the work which is now given to the public. The final meeting in November, nineteen hundred and fifteen, was closed with a prayer of thanks to God that the great task was completed and that the group which during seven years had toiled together was intact. Since that day two of our number have been called to the

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academy on high, Solomon Schechter and Joseph Jacobs, be their memory for a blessing. We grieve that it was not granted these cherished colleagues to live to see the final fruition of their labours; their wholehearted and devoted service is herewith recorded in grateful appreciation. In all humility their co-workers submit this version to the Jewish people in the confident hope that it will aid them in the knowledge of the Word of God.

n:t»n t»n m? September 27,1916.

TABLE OF SCRIPTURAL READINGS

PENTATEUCH

Genesis 1 1 - 6.8 6 § -11 32 12.1 -17.27 18.1 -22.24 23 1 -25 18 25.19-28.9 28.10-32 3 32.4 -36 43 37.1 -40 23 41 1 -44.17 44.18-47 27 47.28-50.26

Exodus 1.1 - 6 1 6.2 - 9 35 10.1 -13.16 13.17-17.16 18.1 -20.23 21.1 -2418 25 1 -27.19 27 20-30 10 30.11-3435 35 1 -38.20 38 21-40 38

Leviticus 1.1 - 5 26

6.1 - 8.36

9.1 -11.47

12.1 -13.59

14.1 -15 33

16.1 -18 30

19.1 -20.27

, 21.1 -2423

25.1 -26.2

26.3 -27.34

Numbers 1.1 - 4 20

4.21- 7.89

8 1 -12.16

13.1 -15.41

16 1 -18.32

19.1 -22.1

22.2 -25.9 25 10-30.1 30.2 -32 42 33,1 -36.13

PROPHETS

Isaiah 42.5-43.11 (42.5-21) a

Isaiah 54.1 -555(54.1-10)

Isaiah 40.27-41.16

II Kings 4.1-37 (4.1-23)

I Kings 1.1-31

Malachi 1.1-2 7

Hosea 11.7-12.12

Hosea 12 13-14.10 (Obadiah 1.1-21)

Amos 2 6-3.8

I Kings 3.15-4 1

Ezekiel 37 15-28

I Kings 2.1-12

Isaiah 27.6-28.13; 29.22, 23 (Jeremiah 1.1-2 3)

Ezekiel 28.25-29 21

Jeremiah 46.13-28

Judges 4 4-5 31 (5.1-31)

Isaiah 6.1-7.6; 9.5, 6 (6 1-13)

Jeremiah 34 8-22; 33 25, 26

I Kings 5.26-6.13

Ezekiel 43 10-27

I Kings 18 1-39 (18 20-39)

I Kings 7.40-50 (7 13-26)

I Kings 7 51-8.21 (7 40-50) Isaiah 43.21-44 23 Jeremiah 7 21-8.3; 9.22, 23

II Samuel 6.1-7 3 (6.1-19) II Kings 4 42-5 19

II Kings 7 3-20

Ezekiel 22.1-18 (22 1-16)

Amos 9 7-15 (Ezekiel 20 2-20)

Ezekiel 44.15-31

Jeremiah 32.6-27

Jeremiah 16.19-17.14

Hosea 2 1-22

Judges 13.2-25

Zechariah 2.14^4.7

Joshua 2.1-24

I Samuel 11.14-12 22

Judges 11.1-33

Micah 5.6-6.8

I Kings 18 46 -19 21

Jeremiah 1.1-2.3

Jeremiah 2.4-28; 3.4 (2.4-28; 4.1, 2)

a Parentheses indicate Sephardic ritual.

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PENTATEUCH

Deuteronomy 1.1 - 3 22 3 23- 7.11 7,12-11.25 11.26-16.17 16.18-21.9 21.10-25.19 26 1 -29.8 29 9 -30.20 31.1 -30 32.1 -52 33.1 -34.12

PROPHETS

Isaiah 1.1-27 Isaiah 40.1 -26 Isaiah 49.14-51.3 Isaiah 54 11-55 5 Isaiah 51.12-52.12 Isaiah 54 1-10 Isaiah 60 1-22 Isaiah 61.10-63 9 Isaiah 55.6-56 8 II Samuel 22 1-51 Joshua 1 1-18 (1 1-9)

New Year, 1st Day 2dDay Sabbath Shubah

Day of-Atonement, Morning

Afternoon

Tabernacles, 1st Day 2dDay

Genesis 211-34; Numbers 29 1-6 Genesis 22 1-24; Numbers 29 1-6 Weekly portion

Leviticus 16 1-34; Numbers 29 7-11 Leviticus 18 1-30

Leviticus 22 26-23 44;

Numbers 29 12-16

Leviticus 22 26-23 44;

Numbers 29.12-16

Exodus 33 12-34 26;

Daily portion from Numbers 29

Deuteronomy 14 22-16 17

Numbers 29 35-30 1

Deuteronomy 33 1-34 12;

Genesis 11-2.3;

Numbers 29.35-30 1 First Sabbath Hanukkah Weekly and Hanukkah

portions Second Sabbath Hanukkah Weekly and Hanukkah

portions Shekalim Weekly portion;

Exodus 30.11-16

Sabbath During the Middle Days

8th Day Rejoicing of the Law

Zakor

Weekly portion; Deuteronomy 25 17-19

I Samuel 1.1-2.10

Jeremiah 31.2-20 Hosea 142-10; Micah 7 18-20, or Hosea 14 2-10, Joel 2.15-17 (Hosea 14.2-10; Micah 7.18-20)

Isaiah 57.14-58 14 Jonah 11-411; Micah 7.18-20

Zechanah 14 1-21 I Kings 8 2-21

Ezekiel 38 18-39 16 I Kings 8 54-66

Joshua 1.1-18 (11-9) Zechariah 2.14-4.7

I Kings 7.40-50

II Kings 12.1-17(1117-1217)

I Samuel 15,2-34 (15.1-34)

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Sabbath During the Middle Days

7th Day 8th Day

Pentecost, 1st Day • 2dDay

Exodus 33.12-34.26 Numbers 28.19-25 Exodus 13 17-15 26; Numbers 28.19-25 Deuteronomy 15.19-16 17 ; a Numbers 28 19-25 Exodus 19 1-20 23; Numbers 28.26-31 Deuteronomy 15.19-16 17 ; a Numbers 28 26-31

Ninth of Ab, Morning Deuteronomy 4 25-40

Afternoon Exodus 32.11-14; 34 1-10

Other Fasts Exodus 32.11-14; 34.1-10

Sabbath and New Moon Weekly portion; Numbers 28.9-15 Sabbath immediately preceding New Moon Weekly portion

a On Sabbath, 14.22-16.17

Ezekiel 36.37-37.14 (37.1-14)

II Samuel 22.1-51 Isaiah 10 32-12.6 Ezekiel 11-28; 3.12

Habakkuk 3.1-19 (2.20-

319)

Jeremiah 8 13-9.23

Isaiah 55.6-56.8 (Hosea 14.

2-10, Micah 7.18-20)

Isaiah 55.6-56.8 (noae)

Isaiah 66.1-24 I Samuel 20.18-42

THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

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THE LAW

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GENESIS 3

EXODUS 65

LEVITICUS . 118

NUMBERS 157

GENESIS

"J IN the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 Novv the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. 3 And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

6 And God said: 'Let there be a firmament 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 Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

9 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. "And God called the dry land Earth, and the

fthering together of the waters called 3 Seas; and God saw that it was good. n And God said: 'Let the earth put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth.' And it was so. K And the earth brought forth grass, herb yielding seed after iljs^kind, and

tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a 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 firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth J And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, K and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

20 And God said: 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let fowl fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.' ^And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that creepeth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after its kind, and every winged fowl after its kind; and God saw that it was good. ^And God blessed them, saying: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth/ ^And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

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^And God said: 'Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind' And it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. ^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 creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.' 27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. 28 Aad 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 every living thing that creepeth upon the earth/ 29 And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed—to you it shall be for food; 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is a living soul, [I have given] every green herb for food/ And it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold^ it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. O And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had

made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.

4 These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

fi No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain 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 Then 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 And the LORD God planted a garden 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 the knowledge of good and evil. l °And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. u The name of the first is Pishon; 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; the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is a Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. "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

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mayest freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die/

18 And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him/ 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be the name thereof. 20 And the man 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 a help meet for him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof. ^And the rib, 'which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. ^And the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called a Woman, because she was taken out of b 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. Q Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall hot eat of any tree of the garden?' 2 And the wolnan said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 8 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

* Heb. Isshah.

ye touch it, lest ye die/ 4 And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die; *for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, ana ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil/ 6 And when ^ the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles. 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?' °And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself/ "And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?' ^And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat/ "And the LORD God said unto the woman: What is this thou hast done?' And the woman said: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat/ 14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy

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seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel/

16 Unto the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain 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 thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil 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 ret urn unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 7 20 And the man called his wife's name a Eve; because she was the mother of all living. ^And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.

^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/ ^Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. ^So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.

A And the man knew Eve his wife; ^ and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have b gotten a man with the help of the LORD.' 2 And

again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cam brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel 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, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.' 8 And Cain spoke unto Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the Afield, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

9 And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Where is Abel thy brother? 7 And

he said: brother's

r l know keeper? 7

not; am I my 10 And He said:

'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground. u And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. l2 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.' 13 And Cain said unto the LORD : ' My punishment is greater than I can bear. l4 Behold, Thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.' 15 And the LORD said unto him:

• Heb. Havvah, that is, Life.

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'Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on Mm sevenfold.' And the LORD set a sign for Cain, lest any finding him, should smite him.

16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of a Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch; and he builded a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and b Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lamech. I9 And Lamech took unto him two wives, the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20 And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle. 21 And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe. M And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. ^And Lamech said unto his wives^:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;

Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech;

For I have slam a ma,n for wounding me,

And a young man for bruising me; ^If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,

Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name c Seth* 'for God d hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cam slew him.' 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

£ This is the book of the genera-tions of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him; ^ale and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. 4 And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.

s And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh. 7 And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters. 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.

9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan. 10 And Enosh lived after he begot Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begot sons and daughters. "And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died.

12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot MahalaleL w And Kenan lived after he begot Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years; and he died.

16 And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begot Jared. 16 And Mahalalel lived after he begot Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years; and he died.

18 And Jared fived a hundred sixty and two years, and begot Enoch. 19 And Jared lived, after he begot Enoch

* That is, Wandering. *>Heb. MehijaeL • Heb. Sheth. <* Heb. shatJi.

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cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. M And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both fowl, and cattle, and beast, and every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth, and every man; ^all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, whatsoever was in the dry land, died. ^And He blotted out every living substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heaven; and they were blotted out from the earth; and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark. ^And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. Q And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 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 off the earth continually; and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 6 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. TAnd he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth 8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her

foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought 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 ark. u And the dove came in to him at eventide; and lo in her mouth an olive-leaf freshly plucked; 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; and she returned not again unto him any more.

^And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.

15 And God spoke unto Noah, saying: 16f Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both fowl, and cattle, and every creeping thing that creep-eth upon the earth; that they may swarm 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, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.

20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LOKD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar. 21 And the LORD smelled the sweet savour; and the LORD said in His

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

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, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every moving thing that hveth shall be for food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. 4 0nly flesh with the life thereof, which 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, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require 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; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'

8 And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying: 9 'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. u And I will establish My covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall

there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.' 12 And God said: 'This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: W I have 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 clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud, 15 that I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth/ 17 And God said unto Noah: 'This is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth/

18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan. "These three were the sons of Noah, and of these was the whole earth overspread.

20 And Noah the husbandman began, and planted a vineyard. ^And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

nd Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. K And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of then: father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. ^And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him. 25 And he said:

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son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai 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. ^And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

1 O Now the LORD said unto

Abram: 'Get thee out of thy

country, and from thy kindred, and

from thy father's house, unto the land

that I will show thee. 2 And I will make

of thee a great nation, and I will bless

thee, and make thy name great ; and be

thou a blessing. 3 And I will bless

them that bless thee, and him that

curseth thee will I curse; and in

thee shall all the families of the

earth be blessed/ 4 So Abram went,

as the LORD had spoken unto him;

and Lot went with him; and Abram

was seventy and five years old when

he departed out of Haran. 6 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 And Abram passed

through the land unto the place of

Shechem, unto the terebinth 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 he builded there

an altar unto the LORD, who appeared

unto him. 8 And he removed from

thence unto the mountain on the east

of 'Beth-el, and pitched his tent, hav-

ing Beth-el on the west, and Ai on

the east; and he builded there an

altar unto the LORD, and called upon

the name of the LORD. 9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

10 And there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. u 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 And it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say. This is his wife; and they will kill me, but thee they will keep alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.' 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he dealt well with Abram 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. X8 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said* 'What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 19 Why saidst thou: She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife; now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy ^ way.' 20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him; and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had. 1O 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 very

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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 Ai; 4 unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first; and Abram called there on the name of the LORD. 5 And Lot also, who 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 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt 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 are brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me; if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou take the right hand, then I will go to the left.' 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar. n So Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated themselves the one from the other. ^Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against the LORD exceedingly. 14 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. 1G 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 unto thee will I give it.' 18 And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

1 A And it came to pass in the * days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2 that they made war with Bcra king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela—the same is Zoar. 3 A11 these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim—the same is the Salt Sea. 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, 6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat—the same is Kadesh— and smote all the country of the Amalekites,and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazpn-tamar. 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela—the same is Zoar; and they set the battle in array against

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them in the vale of Siddim; 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five. 10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain. u And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. ^And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. ^Ajid there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew — now he dwelt by the terebinths of Mamre the Ajnorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 15 And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. 17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh—the same is the King's Vale. 18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought ^forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High. 19 And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abrain of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God the Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand/ And he gave him a tenth of

all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram: 'Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.' ^And Abram said to the king of Sodom: 'I have lifted up my hand unto the LORD, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth, 23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich; ^save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let thena take their portion.'

K After these things the word of ^the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying: 'Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, thy reward shall be exceeding great.' 2 And Abram said: '0 Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go hence childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?' 3 And Abram said: 'Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed, and, lo, one born in my house is to be mine heir.' *And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 'This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.' 5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said:' Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them'; and He said unto him: 'So shall thy seed be.' 6 And he believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness. 7 And He said unto him: 'I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land bo inherit it.' 8 And he said: '0 Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?' 9 And He said unto him: 'Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and

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a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon/ 10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other; but the birds divided he not. u And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12 And it came to pass, that, when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and, lo, a dread, even a great darkness, fell upon him. J3 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 hundred years; 14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 16 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come back hither; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.' 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18 In that 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 Euphrates; 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmpnite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite. and

the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

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Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abrarn: 'Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall be builded up through her.' And Abram hearkened to the

voice of Sarai. 3 And wife took Hagar the

Sarai Abram's Egyptian, her

» That is, God heareth. »> Heb. El rot.

handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4 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 be upon thee: I gave my handmaid 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 that which is good in thine eyes.' And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face. 7 And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur. 8 And he said: 'Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence earnest thou? and whither goest thou? 7 And she said: 'I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 7 9 And the angel of the LORD said unto her: ' Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.' 10 And the^ angel of the LORD said unto her: 'I wjll greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude/ n And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name a lshmael, because the LORD hath heard thy affliction. "And he shall be a wild ass of a man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the face of all his brethren.' w And she called the name of the LORD that spoke unto her, Thou art b a God of seeing; for she said: 'Have I even bere seen Him that seeth me?' "Wherefore the well was called c Beer-lahai-roi;

« That is, The well of the Liwno One who seeth me. 17

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a Heb. Ab hamon. b That is, Princess. « From the Heb. root meaning to laugh.

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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 selfsame day, as God had said unto him. ^And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27 And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

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1 Q And the LORD appeared unto him by the terebinths of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed down to the earth, 3 and said- 'My lord, if now I haye found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. 4 Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree. 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on; forasmuch as ye are come to your servant.' And they said: 'So do, as thou hast said.' 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.' 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it. 8 And he took curd, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under

the tree, and they did eat. 9 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 thee when the season com-eth round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.' And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.— ll Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.— 12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying: 'After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?' "And the LORD said unto Abraham: 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying: Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old? 14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the set tune I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son/ 15 Then Sarah denied, saying: 'I laughed not'; for she was afraid. And He said: ' Nay; but thou didst laugh.'

16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked out toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 17 And the LORD said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing; 1$ seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him/ 20 And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous. 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have, done altogether according to the cry of it, which

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is come unto Me; and if not, I will know.' ^And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. ^And Abraham drew near, and said. 'Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Perad-venture there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? ^ ^hat be far from Thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from Thee; shall not the Judge of all the earth do justly?' 26 And the LOBD said: 'If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will forgive all the place for their sake.' 27 And Abraham answered and said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who 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: 'I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.' 29 And he spoke unto Him yet again, and said: 'Peradventure there shall be forty found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it for the forty's sake.' s °And he said: 'Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Peradventure there shall thirty be found there.' And He said: 'I will not do it, if I find thirty there.' 3l And he said: 'Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord. Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.' And He said: 'I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake.' ^And he said: f 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 the ten's sake.' the LOBD went His way, as soon

as He had left off speaking to Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place.

1 Q And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he fell down on his face to the earth; 2 and he said: 'Behold now, my lords, turn aside, 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 way.' And they said: 'Nay; but we will abide in the broad place all night.' 3 And he urged 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 But before thfiy lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. 6 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him: 'Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.' 6 And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. 7 And he said: 'I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only unto these men do nothing; forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.' 9 And they said: 'Stand back.' And they said: 'This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs play the judge; now will we deal worse with thee, than with them.' And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. °But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to

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them, and the door they shut. u And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door. ^And the men said unto Lot: 'Hast thou here any besides? son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whomsoever thou hast in the city; bring them out of the place; ^for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before the LORD; and the LOED hath sent us to destroy it/ 14 And Lot went out, and

spoke unto married his

his sons-in-law, daughters, and

who

said:

'Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.' But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested. 15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot. saying: 'Arise, take thy wife, ana thy two daughters that are here; lest

thou be swep " '

the city/

; away in the iniquity of Jut he lingered; and 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 swept away/ "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 shown unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die. 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one; oh, let me escape thither— is it not a little 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 the city of which thou hast spoken. ^Hasten thou, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither/— Therefore the name of the city was called a Zoar. — ^The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. ^Then the LORD caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the

LORD out of heaven;

He over-

fc That is, Ltttle t see verse 20. 21

threw those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. ^But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt, 27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the pkce where he had stood before the LORD. 2S And he looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. ^

29 Aiid it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

30 And Lot went up put of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar; and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. 3l 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. ^Oome, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father/ ^And they made their father drink wine that night. Aiid the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew

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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 knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. 37 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab—the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. 38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi—the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day. OA And Abraham journeyed from ^ u thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned 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 of the night, and said to him: 'Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife/ 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and ha said: 'Lord, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation? ^aid he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother, In the simplicity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.' 6 And God said unto him in the dream: 'Yea, I know that in the simplicity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against Me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. *Now therefore restore the man's wife; for

he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.' 8 And 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, ^hen Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him: ' What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom 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 this thing?' u 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 moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and'so she became my wife. ^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 show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.' 14 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 thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and before all men thou art righted.' 17 And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and tiis maid-servants; and they bore children. 18 For the LORD had fast

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

And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken. 2 And" Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham 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 bore to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said: 'God hath made laughter for me; every one that heareth will laugh on account of me.' 7 And she said: 'Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.'

8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport. "Wherefore she said unto Abraham: 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.' u And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. ^And God said unto Abraham: 'Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall seed be called to thee. 13 And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.' "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 strayed in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. I5 And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot; for she said: ' Let me not look upon 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 the 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. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him fast by thy hand; for I will make him a great nation.' 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20 And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. ^And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

^And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spoke unto Abraham, saying: ' God is with thee in all that thou doest. ^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.' ^And Abraham said: 'I will swear.' ^And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. Abimelech said: 'I know not

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of round about, were macta 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. 18 And after this, Abraham buried Santh his wife in the cave of the field of Marhpelah 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 children of Hcth. 24- And Abraham was old, well ^ •*• stricken in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that ho had: Tut, I pray thee, th; hand under my thigh. 8 And I wi] make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. fBut thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.' 6 And the servant said unto hi™ : ' Peradven-ture the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this larid; must I needs bring thy son back unto the land from whence thou earnest?' 6 And Abraham said unto him: * Beware thou that thou bring not my son back thither. ^The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke unto me, and who swore unto me, saying: Unto thy seed will I give this land; He will send His angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence. 8 And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.' 'And the servant put his hand under the thigh of

A.braham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. "And the servant ^ took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed; having all goodly things of his master's in his hand; and^he arose, and went to a Aram-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor. u And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. ^And he said: 'O LORD,, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray Thee, good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water. 14 So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown kindness unto my master.' 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was bom to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to Look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her; and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drinkj I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher.' 18 And she said: 'Drink, my lord'; and she hastened, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had done giving lum drink, she said: 'I will draw for thy camels also, until

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hastened, and emptied her jpitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. a Ana the man looked sted-fastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. ^And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; ^and said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?' M And she said unto him: 'I am the daughter of Bethud the son of. Milcah, whom she bore 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 his head, and prostrated himself before the LORD. 27 And he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.' 28 And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. 29 And Re-bekah had a brother, and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain. 30 And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying: "Thus spoke the man unto me,' that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain. 31 And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD : wherefore standest thou without? fox I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.' ^And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and he gave

straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that were with him. ^And there was set food before him to eat; but he said: 'I will not eat, until I have told mine errand.' And he said: * Speak on.' ^And he said: *I am Abraham's servant. ^And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great; and He hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maidservants, and camels and asses. ^And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old; and unto bvm hath he given all that he hath. 37 Aiid my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. 38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. 39 And I said unto my master: Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 40 And he said unto me: The LORD, before 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 my father's house; tt then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou cpmest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath. ^And I came this day unto the fountain, and said: 0 LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now Thou do prosper my way which I go: ^behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink; 44 and she shall say to me: Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels; let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appoint-

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ed for my master's son. ^And before I had done speaking to my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew. And I said unto her: Let me drink, I pray thee. ^And she made haste, and let down her pitcher 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 Bethuel, Nahor's son. whom Milcah bore unto him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands. 48 And I bowed my head, and prostrated myself before the LOKD, and blessed the LOED, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. 49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.' 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said: The thing proceedeth from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. ^Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.' ^And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth unto the LORD. M 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. "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 master.' 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.' ^And he said unto them: 'Delay me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.' 57 And they said. 4 We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.' 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Wilt thpu go with this man?' And she said: 'I will go.' 69 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be thou the mother of tnrfusands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.' 61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62 And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South. ^And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. "And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. 65 And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said. 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself. ^And the servant told Isjiac all the things that he had done. 67 A nd Isaac brought her into his mower Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted for his mother.

O£ And Abraham took another

^ wife, and her name was Keturah.

2 And she bore him Zimran, and Jok-

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Ishbak, and Shuah. 8 And Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he 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, a hundred threescore and fifteen years. 8 And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people. 9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre: 10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth; there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

^Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham. ^And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14 and Mishma, and Du-mah, and Massa; 1& Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem; ^hese are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, ^ and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations. 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven

years; and he expired and died; and was gathered unto his people. "And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Asshur: over against all his brethren he cjid settle.

"And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac. 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Pad-dan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. a And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD let Himself be entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ^And the children struggled together within her; and she said: ' If it be so, wherefore do I live?' And she went to inquire of the LORD. ^And the LORD said unto her:

Two nations are in thy womb,

And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels;

And the one people shall be stronger than the other people;

And the elder shall serve the young-

er.

M And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. ^And the first came forth ruddy, all over like a hairy mantle; and they called his name Esau. ^And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called 8 Jacob. And Isaac was threescore years old when she bore them. 27 And the boys grew; and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling hi tents. 28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison; and Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 And Jacob

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sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. 30 And Esau said to Jacob: 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, some of this red, red pottage; for I am faint.' Therefore was Ms name called a Edom. 31 And Jacob said: 'Sell me first thy birthright.' ^And Esau said: 'Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall the birthright do to me?'

And Jacob said : ' Swear to me first* and he swore unto him; and he sold

his birthright unto Jacob. Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went Ms way. So

O fc And there was a famine hi the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the PMlistines unto Gerar. 2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said: 'Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land wMch I shall tell thee of. 3 Sojourn in tMs land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath wMch I swore unto Abraham thy father; 4 and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and by thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves; 6 because that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.' 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place asked him of Ms

wife; and he said: 'She is my sister'; for he feared to say: 'My wife'; 'lest

*.Wi iit/ JLlsCUt/U. UV OCUJf • -t-V-Lj TViXC , J.txOl/

the men of the place should kill

me for Rebekah, because she is fair to look upon.' 8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philis-

ft That is, Red.

tines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah Ms wife. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said: 'Behold, of a surety she is thy; wife; and how saidst-thou: She is my sister?' And Isaac said unto Mm: 'Because I said: Lest I die because of her.' 10 And Abimelech said:' What is tMs thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.' ll And Abimelech charged all the people, saying: 'He that toucheth tMs man or Ms wife shall surely be put to death.' ^And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed Mm. ^And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great. 14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household; and the Philistines envied him. 15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham Ms father, the PMlistines 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 encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham Ms father; for the PMlistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by wMch Ms father had called them. 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water. 20 And

the herdmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying: 'The water is ours.' And he called the name of the well b Esek; because they con-

b That is, Contention.

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tended with him. 2l And they another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it a Sitnah. ^And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not. And he called the name of it b Rehoboth; and he said: 'For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.' ^And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. M And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said: 'I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for. My servant Abraham's sake.' ^And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well. ^Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath. his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host. 27 And Isaac said unto them: 1 Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?' 28 And they said: 'We saw plainly that the LORD was with thee; and we said: Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant 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 blessed 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 swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32 And it came to pass the teame day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him: 'We have found water,' ^And he called it

a That is, Enmity.

Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

^And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. 35 And they were a bitterness of spirit unto Isaac and to Rebekah. 07 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 elder son, and said unto him: 'My son'; and he said unto him: 'Here am I.' 2 And he said: 'Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison; *and make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.' 5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6 And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying: 'Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying: 7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. 8 Now therefore, my son, hearken to 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 I will make them savoury food for thy father, such as he lov-eth; 10 and thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that.he may bless thee before his death.' u And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother: 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man. ^My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a mocker; and I shall bring a curse

fc That is, Room.

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upon me, and not a blessing.' 13 And his mother said unto him: 'Upon me be thy curse, my son; only hearken to my voice, and go fetch me them.' 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savoury food, such as his father loved. 15 And Rebekah took the choicest garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son. 16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck. 17 And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob. 18 And he came unto his father, and said: ' My father ' ; and he said: l Here am I; who art thou, my son?' 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 Ms son: 'How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son?' And he said: 'Because the LORD thy God sent me good speed.' 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.' ^And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said: 'The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.' ^And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him, 24 Andhesaid: 'Art thou my very son Esau?' And he said: 'I am.' 26 And he said: 'Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul f may bless thee/ And he brought it near to him, and he did eat; and he brought him wine, and he drank. M 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 So God give thee of the dew of heaven,

And of the fat places of the earth,

And plenty of corn and wine. 29 Let peoples serve thee,

And nations bow down to thee.

Be lord over thy brethren,

And let thyvmother's sons bow down to thee.

Cursed be every one that curseth thee,

And blessed be every one that

blesseth thee.

30 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 made savoury food, and brought it unto his father; and he said unto his father: 'Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.' 82 And Isaac his father said unto him: 'Who art thou?' And he said: 'I am thy son, thy first-born, Esau.' 38 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said: ^ 'Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou earnest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.' 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father: 'Bless me, even me also, O my father/ 35 And he said. 'Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.' 36 And he said: 'Is not he rightly named

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Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing/ And he said: 'Hast thou not reserved 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 then shall I do for thee, my son?' 88 And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my' father? bless me, even me also, 0 my father/ And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 89 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him: Behold, of the fat places of the

earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from

above;

^And by thy sword shalt thou live, and thou shalt serve thy brother; And it shall come to pass when thou

shalt break loose, That thou shalt shake his yoke from

off thy neck.

^And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart: 'Let the days of mourning for my father be at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob/ ^And the worots of Esau her elder son were told to Bebekah; and she sent and^ called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him: /Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. ^Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran; ^and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; 45 until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that

which thou hast done to him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence; why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?'

^And Rebekah said to Isaac: f l am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? ; OQ And Isaac called Jacob, aiid blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him: "Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Paddan-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 thoia. mayest be a congregation of peoples; 4 and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham/ & And Isaac sent away Jacob; and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Ara-mean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him 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 Jacob hearkened to his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram; 8 and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; 9 so Esaij went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives that he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

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10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. u And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 13 And, behold, the LORD stood beside him, and said: 'I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou best', to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And

thee and in thy families of the

in

seed shall all the earth be blessed. J*M.J behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.' 16 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 full of awe is this place! this is none other than the house of God. and this is the gate of heaven.' 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place *Beth-el, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20 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,

that I come back to my father's house in peace, then shall the LORD be my God, ^and this ^stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.'

OQ Then Jacob went on his jour-4 ney, and came to the land of the children of the east. *Aud he looked, and behold a well in the field, and lo three flocks of sheep lying there by it—For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's mouth was great. 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered; and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back upon the well's mouth in its place.— 4 And Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence areye?' And they said: 'Of Haran are we.' 5 And he said unto them: 'Know ye Laban the son of Nahor?' And they said: 'We know him.' 6 And he said unto them: 'Is it well with him?' And they said: 'It is well; and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.' 7 Andhesaid: '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 them.' 8 And they said: 'We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.' 9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she tended them. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. u And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted

1 That is, The house of God.

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lip his voice, and wept. ^And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and she ran and told her father. 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 And Laban said unto Jacob: * Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?' 16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 And Leah's eyes were weak; but Rachel was of beautiful form and fair to look upon. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel; and he 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 Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. ^And Jacob said unto Laban: 'Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.' ^And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. ^And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. ^And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a, handmaid. 25 And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, 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 hast thou beguiled me?' ^And Laban said: 'It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born. 27 Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.' 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week; and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife. 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid. 30 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

31 And the LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren. ^And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said: 'Because the LORD a hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband w^It love me.' ^And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Because the LORD b hath heard that I am hated, He hath therefore given me this son also.' And she called his name c Simeon. M And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Now this time will my husband be d joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons.' Therefore was his name called Levi. ^And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she said: 'This time will I e praise the LORD.' Therefore she called his name f Judah; and she left off bearing.

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children.

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Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob: 'Give me children, or else I die.' 2 Aad 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

* Heb. roah beonp. * Heb. shama. ° Heb. Shimeon. d From the Heb. root lavah. • From the Heb. hodah. ' Heb. Jehvdah.

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a Heb dan, be judged. b Heb. mphtal, he wrestled. ° That is, Fortune. * That is, Sappy * Heb. sarhar. * Heb, zabal, he dwelt. « Heb. asaph. * Heb. Joseph.

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from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every dark one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire. ^So shall my righteousness witness against me hereafter, when thou shalt come to look over my hire that is before thee: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and dark among the sheep, that if found with me shall be counted stolen/ w And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.' ^And he removed that day the he-goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the dark ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. ^And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. ^And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, making the white appear which was in the rods. 2 8 And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to drink. 39 And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs—he also set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark in the flock of La-ban—and put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock. 4l And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods; when the flock were feeble, he

put them, not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. ^And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maidservants and men-servants, and camels

Q ~| And he heard the words of La-^ •*• ban's sons, saying: 'Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this wealth/ 2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime. 3 And the LORD said unto Jacob: * Return 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, "and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as be-foretime; 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 mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 8 If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked. 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 flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. n And the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am I. ^And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

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"I am the God of ^ Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity/ 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 accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. 16 For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; ^and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. I9 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. 20 And Jacob outwitted La-ban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. a So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over a the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

^And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. ^And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. ^And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him.: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.' ^And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead. ^And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast bhou done, that thou hast outwitted

me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? 27 Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; 28 and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 30 And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?' 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force. 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.'—For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.—^And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. ^Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. 35 And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I eannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. 7 And he searched, but found not the teraphim. 36 And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? 37 Whereas thou

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hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou lound of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two t . 38 These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten. 39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. 40 Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. 41 These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten tunes. ^Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.' ^And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: 'The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these* my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne? **And now come, 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 a heap. And • they did eat there by the heap. 47 And Laban called it a Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it b Galeed. 48 And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.' Therefore 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. ^If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee/ 51 And Laban said to Jacob: * Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee. ^This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. ^The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.' And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. M And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain, O O And early in the morning Laban ^^ rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. And Laban departed, and returned unto his place. 2 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 3 And Jacob said when he saw them: 'This is God's camp.' And he called the name of that place d Mahanaim.

4 And Jacob sent messengers before to Esau his brother unto the

land of Seir, the field of Edom. 5 And he commanded them, saying: 'Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now. 6 And I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favour in thy sight/ 7 And the messengers

* That is, The heap of witness, in. Aramaic b That is, The heap of witness, in Hebrew. « That is, The watch-post. * That is, Tito camps.

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returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him/ 8 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps. 9 And he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is left shall escape.' "And Jacob said: { 0 God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who saidst unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good; U I am not worthy of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast shown unto Thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two camps. ^Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me. the mother with the children. ^And Thou saidst: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' 14 And he lodged there that night; and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother: 15 two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 16 thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty

she-asses and ten foals, livered them into the

17 And he de-hand of his

servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.' 18 And he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee? 19 then

thou shalt say: They are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord, even unto Esau; and, behold, he also is behind us.' 20 And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; a and ye shall say: 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; perad-venture he will accept me/ ^So the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

a That is, He who striveth utih God 40

he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok, ^And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had. ^And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. ^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 strained, as he wrestled with him. 27 And he said: 'Let me go, for the day breaketh/ And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me/ 28 And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And he said: 'Jacob/ 29 And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but a lsrael; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed/ 30 And Jacob asked him, and said: ' Tell me, I pray thee, thy name/ And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou' dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him there. 31 And Jacob called the name of the place b Peniel: 'for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved/ 32 And the

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sun rose upon him as he passed over a Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh. ^Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in the sinew of the thigh-vein. OO And Jacob lifted up his eyes, ^^ and looked, 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 children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he himself 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 embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said: 'Who are these with thee?' And he said: 'The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.' 6 Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed down. 7 And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed down; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed down. 8 And he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met? ' And he said: ' To find favour in the sight of my lord.' 9 And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.' 10 And Jacob said: 'Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favour in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. "Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath

» Heb. PenueL b That is, Booths.

dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.' And he urged him, and he took it. B 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 knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will journey on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.' 15 And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour in the sight of my lord.' 16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seu:. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Suc-coth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called b Succoth. 18 And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city. 19 And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money. , 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it °El-elohe-Israel. O A And Dinah the daughter of Leah, u •* whom she had borne unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and.lay with her, and humbled her. 3 And his soul did cleave unto Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel. 4 And Shechem spoke unto his father

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Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife/ 6 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his cattle in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to speak with him. 7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done 8 And Hamor spoke with them, saying: 'The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter. I pray you give her unto him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10 And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.' u And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren: 'Let me find favour 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 with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14 ,and said unto them: ' We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is un-circumcised; for that were a reproach unto us. ^Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you 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 become 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 Jacob's daughter. And he was honoured above all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying: a 'These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. ^Oniy on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised. ^Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us. 7 M And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. ^And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and slew all the males. 28 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth. 27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; 29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive

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and spoiled, even all that was In the house. s°And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.' 31 And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as with a harlot?'

And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother/ 2 Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments; 3 and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. : 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem. B And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan—the same is Beth-el— he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place *El-beth-el, because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was called MJlon-bacuth.

9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. IO And God said unto him: 'Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name 7 ; and He called his name Israel. "And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; ^and the land which I gave unto 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 spoke with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He spoke with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, id poured oil thereon. ^And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el. 16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some 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; for this also is a son for thee.' 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 d Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath — the same is Beth-iehem. 20 And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder. ^And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and ay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard of it.

Now twelve:

the

sons of Jacob were sons of Leah: Reuben,

a That is, The God of Beth-el. b That is, The oak of weeping. * That is, The eon of my sorrow. A That is, The son of the right hand.

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and for his words. 9 And lie dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said: 'Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down 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 to thee to the earth?' u And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.

12 And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. 13 And Israel said unto Joseph: 'Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them/ And he said to him:'Here am I.' 14 Andhesaidtohim: 'Gonow,see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me back word. 7 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?' 16 And he said: 'I seek my brethren. Tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.' 17 And the man said: 'They are departed hence; for I heard them say: Let us go to Dothan. ; And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. 18 And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. 19 And they said one to another: 'Behold, this dreamer cometh. 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him., and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say: An evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams.' ^And Reuben

heard it, and delivered him out of their hand; and said: 'Let us not take his life.' ^And Reuben said unto them:. 'Shed no blood; cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him'—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. ^And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colours that was on him; ^and they took him, and cast him into the pit— and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. ^And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and ladanum, going to carry it down to Egypt. ^And Judah said unto his brethren: 'What pr,ofit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood? 27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh.' And his brethren hearkened unto him. 28 And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. 29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. 30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said: 'The child is not; and as for me, whither shall I go?' 31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood; 82 and they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said: 'This have we found. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.' S3 And he knew it, and said: 'It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath

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and said* 'I have not found her: and also the men of the place said: There hath been no harlot here.' ^And Judah said: 'Let her take it, lest we be put to shame; 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 moreover, behold, she is with child by harlotry.' And Judah said: ' Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.' 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying. 'By the man, whose these are, am I with child'; and she said: 'Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, 'the signet, and the cords, and the staff/ 26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said: 'She is more righteous than I; forasmuch as I gave her not to Shelah my son.' And he knew her again no more. ^And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. ^And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a 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. 'Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself 9 ' Therefore his name was called a Perez. 30 And afterward canae out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name was called Zerah. QO And Joseph was brought down ^ to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither. 2 And the LOED was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

• That is,

3 And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. 5 And it came to pass from the time that he appointed 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 field. 6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and, having him, he knew not aught save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was of beautiful form, and fair to look upon,

7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said: 'Lie with me.' 8 But he refused, and said unto his master's wife: 'Behold, my master, having me, knoweth not what is in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand; 9 he is not 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 wickedness, and sin against God?' l °And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. u And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to .do his work, and there was none of the men of the house there within, ^that she caught him by his garment, saying: 'Lie with me.' And he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. ^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 spoke unto them, saying: 'See,

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he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice. 15 And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him out.' 16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home. 17 And she spoke unto him according to these words, saying: 'The Hebrew servant, whom thou bast 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 by me, and fled out.' 19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke 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, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison. ^But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. ^And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. ^The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him; and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper. AC\ And it came to pass after ^^ these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.^ 2 And Pharaoh was wroth against his two 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 to be with them, and he ministered unto them; and they continued a season in ward. 6 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 king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his master's house, saying: ' Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?' 8 And they said unto him: 'We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it.' And Joseph said unto them: 'Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.' 9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him: 'In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 10 and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes; u 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.' ^And Joseph said unto him: 'This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days; ^within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office; and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. 14 But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, 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

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the dungeon.' 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph: 'I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head; 17 and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.' 18 And Joseph answered and said: 'This is the interpretation thereof* the three baskets are three days; "within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.' 20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21 And he restored the chief butler back unto his butler-ship; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. ^But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. ^Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.

J. ~| And it came to pass at the end 1 * x of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the a river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favoured and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass. 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. ^ 6 And he slept and dreamed a second time : and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good* 6 And,

behold, seven ears, thin and blaste< with the east wind, sprung up afte them. 7 And the thin ears swallowed uj the seven rank and full ears, An< Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was i dream. 8 And it came to pass in th< morning that his spirit was troubled and ^ he sent and called for all th< magicians of Egypt, and all the wis< men thereof' and Pharaoh told then his dream; out there was none tha could interpret them unto Pharaoh 9 Then spoke the chief butler untc Pharaoh, saying: 'I make mention o my faults this day: 10 Pharaoh wa£ wroth with his servants, and put m* in the ward of the house of the captair of the guard, me and the chief baker, u And we dreamed a dream in one night I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. ^And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant tc the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. 13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was: I was restored unto mine office, and he was hanged.' 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, 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 when thou nearest a dream thou canst interpret it.' 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: 'It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an

17 And Pharaoh 'In my dream,

answer

spoke unto

behold, I stood upon the brink of the

river. 18 And, behold, there came up

out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed

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and well-favoured; and they fed in the reed-grass. 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favoured and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness. 20 And the lean and ill-favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine. a And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favoured as at the beginning. So I awoke. ^And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up upon one stalk, full and good. ^And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. ^And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.' 25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh. 'The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh, ^he seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 27 And the seven lean and ill-favoured kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine. 28 That is the thing which I spoke unto Pharaoh what God is about to do He hath shown unto Pharaoh. 29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. 80 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 31 and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous. ^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. ^Now therefore let Pharaoh look put a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. M Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in. the seven years of plenty. ^And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up com under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. ^And the food shall be for a 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 And Pharaoh said unto his servants: ' Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?' 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou. 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than thou.' ^And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: 'See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt/ ^And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. ^And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him: 'Abrech'; and he set him over all the land of Egypt. ^And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: C I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of rfc/ «And Pharaoh called Jo's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he" gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of

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Egypt.— 46 And Joseph was 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 years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps. ^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 was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number. ^And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera pnest of On bore unto him. 81 And Joseph called the name of the first-born a Manasseh: 'for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.' ^And the name of the second called he b Ephraim: 'for God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction/ ^And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end. M And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all lands; but ha all the land of Egypt there was bread. ^And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians: 'Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do/ ^And the famine was over all the face of the

earth; and Jo houses, and so

ph opened all the store-Id unto the Egyptians;

and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt. 67 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth. Now Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, and Jacob said

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'Lest peradventure 5 And the sons of

* That is, Mafonff to forget.

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.' lAnd Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: harm befall him.' Israel came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan. 6 And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth. 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly with 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 A-ad 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. u We are all one man's sons; we are upright men, thy servants are no spies/ 12 And he said unto them: ' Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come/ ^And they said: c We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not/ I4 And Joseph said unto them: 'That is it that I spoke unto you, saying: Ye are spies. "Hereby ye shall be proved: as Pharaoh liveth, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and VP

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shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you; or else, as Pharaoh liveth, surely ye are spies. 7 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: 19 if ye be upright men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses; 20 and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die/ And they did so. 21 And they said one to another: 'We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.' ^And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required/ ^And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for the interpreter was between them. M And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. 25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus was it done unto them. ^And they laded their asses with their corn, and departed thence. 27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 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 they turned trembling one to another, say-

ing: 'What is this that God hath done unto us?' 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying: 3 °'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 And we said unto him: We are upright men; we are no spies 32 We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. ^And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us: Hereby shall I know that ye are upright men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take corn for the famine of your houses, and go your way. HAnd bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are upright men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land/ 35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid. ^And Jacob their father said unto them: 'Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; upon me are all these things come.' 37 And Reuben spoke unto his father, saying 'Thou shalt slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring mm back to thee.' ^And he said:' My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left; if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave/ A O And the f amine 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, that their

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father said unto them: 'Go again, buy us a little food. 7 3 And Judah spoke unto him, saying: 'The man did earnestly forewarn us, saying: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food; 5 but 2 thou wilt not send him, we will not go down, for the man said unto us: Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.' 6 And Israel said: 'Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?' 7 And they said: 'The man asked straitly concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying: Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words; could we in any wise know that he would say: Bring your brother down? ; 8 And Judah said unto Israel his father: 'Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we 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 we had now returned a second time. 7 n And their father Israel said unto them: 'If it be so now, do this* take of the choice fruits of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spicery and ladanum, nuts, and almonds; 12 and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry back in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight, 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 release unto you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. 7

15 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 steward of his house: 'Bring the meninto the house, and kill the beasts, and prepare the meat; for the 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 occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.' 19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph 7 s house, and they spoke unto him at the door of the house, 20 and said: 'Oh my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food. 21 And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand. 22 And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food. We know not who put pur money in our sacks.' 23 Andhesaid: '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. ^And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses proven-

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der. 25 And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon; for they heard that they should eat bread there. 26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down to him to the earth. 27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said: 'Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?' 28 And they said: * Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive.' And they bowed the head, and made obeisance. 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said: 'Is this your youngest brother of whom ye spoke unto me?' And he said. 'God be gracious unto thee, my son.' 30 And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned toward his brother; and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face, and came out; and he 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, that did eat with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. ^And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth; and the men marvelled one with another. 34 And portions were taken unto them from before him; but Benjamin's portion, was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

A A And he commanded the stew-•*• ard 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 goblet, the silver goblet, 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 were not yet far off, 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? 6 Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.' 6 And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these words. 7 And they said unto him: 'Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing. 8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought back unto thee out of the land of Canaan; how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.' 10 And he said: 'Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless/ "Then they hastened, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 12 And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack. ^Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, and he was yet there; and they fell before him on the ground. 15 And Joseph said unto them: 'What deed is this that ye have done? know ye

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not that such a man as I will indeed divine?' 16 And Judah said: 'What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found ' l7 And he said:' Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the goblet is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.'

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18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said: ' Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; 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. ^And we said unto my lord: The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, his father would die. ^And thou saidst unto thy servants: Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. ^And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 26 And our father said: Go again, buy 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 be with us. 27 And thy servant my

father said unto us- Ye know that my wife bore me two sons; 28 and the one went out from me, and I said Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since; 29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his soul is bound up with the lad's soul; 31 it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. S2 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying: If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 84 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I look upon the evil that shall come on my father.' AK Then Joseph could not refrain •* u himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried: 'Cause every man to go out from me. 7 And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'lam Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence. 4 A.nd 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 And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold

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me hither; for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to give you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive for

your households, and come unto me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. "Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard

a great deliverance. 8 So now it was; not your stuff; for the good things of all not you that sent me hither, but God; j the Land of Egypt are yours/ 21 And the and He hath made me a father to i sons of Israel did so; and Joseph gave

Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. ^Hasten ye, and go up to my father,

and say unto him: son Joseph: God

Thus saith thy hath made me

lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast; n and there will I sustain thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast. 12 And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. K And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither.' 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and 'Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked with him.

16 And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying: 'Joseph's brethren are come'; and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: * Say unto thy brethren: This do ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 and take your father and

them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. ^To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver, and five changes of raiment. ^And to his father he sent in like manner ten asses laden with the good tilings of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and victual for his father by the way. M So he sent his brethren away, and they departed; and he said unto them: 'See that ye fall not out by the way.' ^And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the knd of Canaan unto Jacob their father. 26 And they told him, saying: 'Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.' And his heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph the spirit of

had sent to carry

Jacob their father revived. * 28 And Israel said: 'It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see hi™ before I die.'

A £ 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 spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said: 'Jacob, Jacob.' And he said: 'Here am I/ 3 And

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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 nation. 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.' 6 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 his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born. 9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, 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. u And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ^And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 And the sons of Issaohar Tola, and Puvah, and lob, and Shim-ron. 14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 16 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah; all the souls of his sons .and his daughters were thirty and three. 16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ez-bon, Eri, and ArocS, and Areli. 17 And the sons o'f Asher: Imnah, and Ish-

vah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bore 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 were born Ma-nasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him. ^And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, EM, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard, ^These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen. ^And the sons of Dan: Hushim. ^And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bore unto Jacob; all the souls were seven. 26 A11 the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six. 27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.

28 And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to t show the way before him unto Goshen; and they came into the ^ land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen; and he presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. s °And Israel^said unto Joseph: ' Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.' 31 And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house: 'I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say

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unto him: My brethren, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; ^and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. ^And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say: What is your occupation? ^hat ye shall say: Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.'

ATI Then Joseph went in 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 from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren: 'What is your occupation?' And they said unto Pharaoh: 'Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.' 4 And they said unto Pharaoh: 'To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.' 6 And Pharaoh spoke unjfco Joseph, saying: 'Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee; B 6 the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.' 7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy life?' 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: "The days of the years of my sojourn-ings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their soj ournings.' "And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence^ of Pharaoh. "And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. ^And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.

^And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when the money was ^all spent in the knd 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? for our money faileth.' 16 And Joseph said: 'Give your cattle, and I will give you [bread] for your cattle, if money fail.' 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. And Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year. 18 And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year,

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and said unto him: 'We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands. "Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.' 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them; and the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them city by city, from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof. ^Only the land of the priests bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land. ^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. ^And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth 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/ ^And they said: "Thou hast^ saved our lives. Let us find favour in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.' ^And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years. 29 And the time drew near that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. 30 But when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burymg-place.' And he said: 'I will do as thou hast said.' 31 And he said: 'Swear unto me.' And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed down upon the bed's head. AQ And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.' And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 And one told Jacob, and said: 'Behold, thy 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 company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. 6 And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine. 6 And thy issue, that thou begettest after them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died unto me in the land of Canaan in the way,

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when there was still some way to come unto Ephrath; and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath — the same is Beth-lehem/ 8 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 here/ 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 kissed them, and embraced them. u And Israel said unto Joseph: ' I had not thought to see thy face; and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also/ ^And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he fell down on 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 Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. "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 was the first-born. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said: 'The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath been my shepherd all my life long unto this day, 16 the angel who hath redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.' 17 And when Joseph saw that his father was laying his right 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 Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father:

'Not so, my father, for 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; howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations/ ^ 20 And he blessed them that day, saying: 'By thee shall Israel bless, saying: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh/ And he

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set Ephraim before Manasseh. Israel said unto Joseph: 'Behold, I die; but God will be with you, and bring you back unto the land of your fathers. ^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 my bow/

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: 'Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you hi the end of days. 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye

sons of Jacob;

And hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Reuben, thou art my first-born, My might, and the first-fruits of

my strength; The excellency of dignity, and the

excellency of power. ^Unstable as water, have not thou

the excellency; Because thou wentest up to thy

father's bed;

Then defiledst thou it—he went up to my couch.

5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence their kinship. 6 Let my soul not come into their

council; Unto their assembly let my glory

not be united;

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For in their anger they slew men, And in their self-will they houghed

oxen. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was

fierce,

And their wrath, for it was cruel; I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel.

8 Judah, thee shall thy brethren

praise; Thy hand shall be on the neck of

thine enemies; Thy father's sons 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 a lioness; who shall rouse

him up ? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from

Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between

his feet,

As long as men come to Shiloh; And unto him shall the obedience of

the peoples be.

"Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vine; He washeth his garments in wine, And his vesture in the blood of

grapes;

M His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of

the sea,

And he shall be a shore for ships, And his flank shall be upon Zidon.

L4 Issachar is a large-boned ass, Couching down between the sheep-folds.

L5 For he saw a resting-place that it was good,

• Heb. gedud.

And the land that it was pleasant; And he bowed his shoulder to bear, And became a servant under taskwork.

16 Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That biteth the horse's heels, So* that his rider falleth backward.

18 I wait for Thy salvation, 0 Lord.

19 Gad, »a troop b shall troop upon him; But he shall troop upon their heel.

20 As for Asher, his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.

21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.

22 Joseph is a fruitful vine, A fruitful vine by a fountain: Its branches run over the wall. 23 The archers have dealt bitterly with

him,

And shot at him, and hated him; ^But his bow abode firm, And the arms of his hands were

made supple, By the hands of the Mighty One of

Jacob, From thence, from the Shepherd,

the Stone of Israel, 2fi Even by the God of thy father, who

shall help thee, And by the Almighty, who shall

bless thee,

With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth

beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the

womb.

26 The blessings of thy father Are mighty beyond the blessings

of my progenitors

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Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;

They shall be on the head of Joseph,

And on the crown of the head of

the prince among his brethren.

27 Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth; In the morning he devoureth the

prey, And at even he divideth the spoil.'

28 A11 these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them; I every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them: 'I am to

house of Pharaoh^ saying: 'If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying: 5 My father made me swear, saying: 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 back/ 6 And Pharaoh said: 'Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.' 7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; 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

be gathered unto my people; bury me I brethren, and his father's house; only with my fathers in the cave that is in Jl " 1 " J1 ~ J Al -"- ^-1 ~ ~~ J

the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Mach-polah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32 The field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.' when Jacob made an end of

charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered unto his people.

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 embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.

4 And when the days of weeping for 'him were past, Joseph spoke unto the

their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company. 10 Ancl they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they wailed with a very great and sore wailing; and he made a mourning for his father seven days. u And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said: 'This is a grievous a mourning to the Egyptians.' Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the 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, in front of Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 15 And when

a Heb- sbel.

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Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: 'It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.' 16 And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying: 'Thy father did command before he died, saying: 17 So shall ye say unto Joseph: Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father/ And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said: 'Behold, we are thy bondmen.' 19 And Joseph said unto them: 'Fear not; for am I in the place of God? 20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to p'ass, as it is this day, to save much

people alive. ^Now therefore fear ye not; I will sustain you, and your little ones.' And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.

^And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. ^And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. ^And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I die; but God will surely remember you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.' 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.' 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

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1 Now these are the names of the hard service, in mortar and in brick, sons of Israel, who came into, and in all manner of service in the Egypt with Jacob; every man came field; in all their service, wherein they

with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and. Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. 5 And all the souls

made them serve with rigour.

15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the

that came out of the loins of Jacob ] name of the other Puah; 16 and he were seventy souls; and Joseph was j said: 'When ye do the office of a mid-in Egypt already. 6 And Joseph died, ] wife to the Hebrew women, ye shall and all his brethren, and all that gen-! look upon the birthstool: if it be a son,

eration. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding ir" filled with

U.X Ul LJ ja\^VA, OjLL\J. Y V duXV/Vl \iA

ity; and the land was

aem.

8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people: l Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us; l °come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befalleth us any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.' u There-fore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Haamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of Israel. 18 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 14 And they made their lives bitter with

but saved the men-children 18 And the king of Egypt called

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 commanded them,

alive. _

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 midwife come unto them/ 20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. ^And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses. ^And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying: 'Every son that is born ye shall east into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive/

O And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child,

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she hid him three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and

laid it in

4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. 6 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6 And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had cpmpa'ssion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children/ 7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter. 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? 7 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: ' Go/ And the maiden 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 thee 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 became her son. And she called his name Closes, and said: 'Because I b drew him out of the water'

n And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong * 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?' 14 And he

a Heb. Mosheh.

said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the 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 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?' 19 And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for 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 eat bread.' ^And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter ^And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said- 'I have been c a stranger in a strange land.'

M And it came to pass in the course of those many days 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 bondage. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them O Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock

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to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said: *I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt/ 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said: 'Moses, Moses/ And he said: ' Here am I ' 6 And He said:' Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground/ 6 Moreover He said: 'I am 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 And the LORD said: 'I have surely seen the affliction of My people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their pains; 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto Me; moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. "Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people the children of Israel out of Egypt/ n And Moses said unto God: 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the chil-' dren of Israel out of Egypt?' ^And He

said: 'Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the 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/ "And Moses said unto God: 'Behold, when 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 tome: What is His name? what shall I say unto them?' 14 And God said unto Moses: 'I AM THAT I AM'; and He said: "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I AIVI bath sent me unto you/ 15 And God said moreover unto Moses: 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is 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, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying: I have surely remembered 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 Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, 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, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us. And now let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. "And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, except

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'Go in peace/ 19 And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: ' Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.' 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do ^ before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. ^And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My firstborn. ^And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born/ — M And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him, t and sought to kill him. ^Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said: 'Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.' M So He let him alone. Then she said: 'A bridegroom ^of blood in regard of the circumcision.'

27 And the LORD said to Aaron: ' Go into the wilderness to meet Moses/ And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD wherewith He had sent him, and all the signs wherewith He had charged him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. s °And Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had remembered the children of Israel,

and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

£ And afterward Moses and Aaron ^ came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.' 2 And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.' 3 And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword/ 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them:' Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens/ 5 And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the knd are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens? 3 6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and then* 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 aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words/ 10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying: Thus saith Pharaoh: I will not give you straw. u Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought

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of your work shall be diminished.' 12 So the people were scattered abroad 'throughout all the land of Egypt io gather stubble for straw. ^And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.' 14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: ' Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and to-day as heretofore?' 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying* '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 are 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 and sacrifice 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 set on mischief, when they said: ' Ye shall not dimmish aught from your bricks, your daily task.' 20 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 you, 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.' ^And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me? ^For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at

all/

And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them^go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.'

6

2 And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him : ' I am the LORD ; 3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name a mrp I made Me not known to them. 4 And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourmngs, wherein they sojourned. 5 And moreover I have 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 bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched 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, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I hf ted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am the LORD.' 9 And Mioses spoke so unto the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: lx 'Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.' 12 And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying:

'Behold, the children of Israel have

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not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?'

13 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel,

the families of the Korahites. Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers 7 houses of the Levites according to their families.

and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to 1 26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to bring the children of Israel out of the whom the LORD said: 'Bring out the

land of Egypt.

u These are the heads of then* fathers' houses: the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. "And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Chad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. These are the families of Simeon. 16 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 were a hundred thirty and seven years. n The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, 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 were a hundred thirty and three years. 19 And the sons of Merari : MahJi and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. 21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. ^And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nah-shon, to wife; and she bore him Na-dab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and

children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts/ 27 These are they that spoks to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and Aaron. 28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 that the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 'I am the LORD; speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee/ 30 And Moses said before the LORD: 'Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall rj Pharaoh hearken unto me?' *And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet, ^hou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go 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 will not hearken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth Sly hosts, My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 6 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them/ 6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was fourscore years

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years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.

8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 9 'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.' 10 And Moses 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. u Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts. ^For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. ^And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.

14 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he re-fuseth to let the people go. 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened; 17 thus saith the LORD* In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD —behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the

Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'

19 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.' 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in k the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. ^And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with then* secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken. 23 And Pharaoh Burned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. 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. 25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.

^Ajid the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 27 And 3 thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. 28 And the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants,

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and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-trough s. 29 And the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and Q upon all thy servants.' J And the ^ LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.' 2 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 3 Aiid the magicians did in like manner with their secret arts, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt. 4 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said: 'Entreat the LORD, that He take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD.' 5 And Moses said unto Pharaoh: 'Have thou this glory over me; against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?' 6 And he said: 'Against 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. 7 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.' 8 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the LORD concerning the frogs, which He had brought upon Pharaoh. 9 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. 10 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank. u But when Pharaoh saw that there

was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken,

12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.' 13 And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt. 14 And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast, ^hen the magicians said unto Pharaoh: 'This is the finger of God'; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.

16 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. 17 Else, S thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies 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 whereon they are. 18 And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in "which My people dwell,, that no swarms of files shall be there; to the end that thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. ^And I will put a division between My people and thy people— by to-morrow shall this sign be.' 20 And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants'

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houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by reason of the swarms of flies. 21 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said 'Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land/ ^And Moses said: 'It is no'fc meet so to dp; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God; lo, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? ^We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us/ ^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/ 26 And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD/ 26 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 27 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 remained not one. 2 lAnd Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.

Q Then the LORD said unto Moses: 'Goin unto Pharaoh, and tell him* Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3 behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a

very grievous murrain. 4 And the LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel/ 6 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 the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.

8 And the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you hand-fuls of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 Aiid it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt/ 10 And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. u And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. ^And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.

13 And the ( LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 14 For I will this time send all My plagues upon thy person, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou may-

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est know that there is none like Me In all the earth. 15 Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth. 16 But in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee My power, and that My name may be declared 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 I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. 19 Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found 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; a and he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle hi the field.

^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch forth thy 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.' ^And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven; and the LOKD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the LORD caused to hail upon the land of Egypt, ^o there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 28 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and

broke every tree of the field. in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. 27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: 'I have sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and*my people are wicked. 28 Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these 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 I am gone out of the city, I will spread forth my hands unto the LORD; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know 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.'—^And the flax and the barley ^were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom. ^But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late.—^And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread forth his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the ram was not poured upon the earth. M 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- ^And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

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My signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am the LORD/ *And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble-thyself before Me? let My people go, that they may serve Me. ^Lse, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border; 5 and they shaD cover the face of the earth, that one shall not 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; *and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers^ nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day/ And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God; knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?' 8 And Moses and Aaron were brought 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 pur flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.' 10 And he said unto them: 'So be the LORD with you, as I will let-you go, and your Stile ones; see ye that evil is before your face. "Not so; go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what ye desire.' And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

E And the LORD said unto Moses 'Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the, hail hath left.' w 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 the 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 borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before 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, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16 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 away from me this death only.' 18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the LORD. 19 And the LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt. 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go. a And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the [and of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.' ^And Moses stretched :orth his hand toward heaven; and

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there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; Hhey saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. ^And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said: 'Go ye, serve the LOED; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you/ ^And Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. 26 0ur cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof 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 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 the day thou seest my face thou shalt die.' 29 And Moses said: "Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more/

"| "| And the LORD said unto Moses: A 'Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards 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 them ask every man 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 great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.

4 And Moses said: 'Thus saith the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt; ^nd all the

first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh ! that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none like it, nor shall be like it any more. 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog whet his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. & And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down 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 Pharaoh hi hot anger.

9 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt/ 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: 2 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every m^n a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; *and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. *Your lamb shall

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one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised*person shall eat thereof. 49 0ne law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sp-journeth among you/ 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

5I And it came to pass the selfsame day that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

1 O And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Sanctify unto Me all the first-born, whatsoever open-eth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.'

3 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. *This day ye go forth in the month Abib. 6 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Cana&nite, and the Hittite, and the Amqrite, -and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt -keep this service in this month, ^even days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with fchee, neither shaU there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders. 'And thou shalt tell thy son in that lay, saying: It is because of that ?phich the LORD did for me when I jame forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy land, and for a memorial between

thine eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

"And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 12 that thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the womb; every firstling that is a male, which thou hast coming of a beast, 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 its neck; and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt thou redeem. 14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: What is this? that thou shalt say unto him: By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast; therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes; for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.'

17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said: 'Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.' 18 But ,God

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led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying: 'God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.' 20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 2l And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might go by day and by night r^the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people.

1 A. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon, over against it shall ye encamp by the sea. 3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.' And they did so. 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned towards the people, and .they said: 'What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 7 6 And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him. 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. 8 And the LORD hardened the,

heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. 9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up then* eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD. 11 And they said unto Moses: l 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 bring us forth out of Egypt? ^Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying: Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.' 13 And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you to-day; for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.'

16 And the LORD said untjO Moses.: * Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. 16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will get Me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon chariots, and upon M« horsemen.

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18 And the Egyptians shall know tha I am the LORD, when I have gotten Me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. "And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed anc went behind them; and the pillar o: cloud removed from before them, anc stood behind them; 20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness here, yet gave it light by night there; and the one came not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. ^And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. M And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them, into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. ^And it came to pass in the morning watch, that the LORD looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians. ^And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: 'Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians/

^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 7 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength, when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and,

the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them. M 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 ihat day out of the hand of the Egyp-;ians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore. 31 And Israel saw the great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians, and the jeople feared the LORD; and they be-ieved in the LORD, and in His servant Moses.

1 £ Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spoke, saying. I will sing unto the LORD, for He

is highly exalted; The horse and his rider hath He

thrown into the sea. *The LORD is my strength and song, And He is become my salvation; This is my God, and I will glorify

Him; 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 cast into the sea, And his chosen captains are sunk in

the Red Sea. 6 The deeps cover them— They went down into the depths like

a stone. Thy right hand, 0 LORD, glorious

in power,

Thy right hand, 0 LORD, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

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7 And in the greatness of Thine excellency ^Thou oyerthrowest them that rise up against Thee;

Thou sendest forth Thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble.

8 And with the blast of Thy nostrils the waters were piled up—

The floods stood upright as a heap;

The deeps 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 them;

shall be satisfied upon

I will draw my sword, my hand shall

destroy them.' 10 Thou didst blow with Thy wind, the

sea covered them; They sank as lead in the mighty

waters. u Who is like unto Thee, 0 LOKD,

among the mighty? Who is like unto Thee, glorious in

holiness,

Fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst out Thy right

hand—

The earth swallowed them. 13 Thou in Thy love hast led the people

that Thou hast redeemed; Thou hast guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation. 14 The peoples have heard, they

tremble;

Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 16 Then were the chiefs of Edom

affrighted;

The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them; All the inhabitants of Canaan are

melted away.

16 Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of Thine arm they

are as still as a stone; Till Thy people pass over, 0 LOKD,

Till the people pass over that Thou

hast gotten.

17 Thou bringest them in, and plantest them in the mountain of Thine inheritance,

The place, O LORD, which Thou

hast made for Thee to dwell in,

The sanctuary, O Lord, which Thy

hands have established. 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and

ever.

^For^ the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.

30 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. a And Miriam sang unto them: Sing ye to the LORD, for He is highly

exalted:

The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.

^And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. ^And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called *Marah. ^And the people murmured against Moses, saying: 'What shall we drink?' ^And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There He made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them; ^and He said: 'If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt

* That is, Bitterness.

do that which is right in His eyes, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which J have put upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD that healeth thee.'

^And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters.

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children 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 t- 2 And the whole congregation e children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness; 3 and the children of Israel said unto them; 'Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, 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 cause to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or not. s And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.' °And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel: 'At even, then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt; 7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that He hath heard your murmurings against the LORD; and what are we, that ye murmur against us?' 8 And

Moses said: 'This shall be, 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 murmurings which ye murmur against Him; and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD ' 9 And Moses said 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 spoke unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. n And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: M 'I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them, saying: At dusk ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.' 13 And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew round about the camp. 14 And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the'ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: a 'What is it?'—for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them: 'It is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.' 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. 18 And when they did mete it with an omer,

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he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every roan according to his eating. 19 And Moses said unto thorny 'Let no man leave of it till the morning.' ^Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and rotted; and Moses was wroth with them. ^And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted. ^And it came to pass that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. ^And he said unto them: ' This is that which the LORD hath spoken: To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto the LOBD. Bake that which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning/ M And they kid it up till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not rot, neither was there any worm therein. ^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 is the sabbath, in it 'there shall be none. 7 27 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people 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 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 Aiid the house

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of Israel called the name thereof a Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. ^And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt/ ^And Moses said unto Aaron: ' Take a jar, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations/ ^As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. ^And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. ^Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

1 17 And all the congregation of the x children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and encamped in Hephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink/ Aiid Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?' 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?' 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me/ s And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and

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of all that God had done for Moses,

Now Jethro, the priest of Mid-Moses 7 father-in-law, heard

an,

thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. •Behold, I will stand before thee there ( upon the rock in Horeb; and thou

shalt smite the rock, and there shall \ and for Israel His people, how that come water out of it, that the people j the LORD had brought Israel out of may drink.' And Moses did so in the ; Egypt. 2 And Jethro, Moses' father-sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And; in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, the name of the ^lace was called \ after he had sent her away, 3 and her •Massah, and b Meribah, because of two sons; of whom the name of the

one was Gershom; for he

the striving of the children of Israel,

and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LOED among us, or not?'

*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; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my 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. n And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. X2 But Moses* hands were 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 down of the sun. "And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. "And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 7 u And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it c Adonai-nissi. 16 And he said: 'The hand upon the throne of the LORD: the LORD will have war

with Amalek from generation to gen-

eration/

have been a stranger in land'; 4 and the name of

said:

a strange the other

was d Eliezer: 'for the God of my father was my 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 was encamped, at the mount of God: 6 and he said unto Moses: 'I thy father-in-law Jethro am coming unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.' 7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed down and kissed lam; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came

into the ^tent. his father-in-law

8 And Moses told all that the LORD

had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, in that He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 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 Pharaoh; who hath delivered the people from under the tiand of the Egyptians. u Now I mow that the LORD is greater than all gods; yea, for that they dealt proudly against them.' ^And Jethro,

» Tiiat is, Trying.

*» That i d Heb.,

VIoses' father-in-law, took a burnt-

, Stnfe. o That is, The LORD is my banner. it, God, and ezer, help.

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offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses 7 father-in-law before God. "And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood about 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? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about 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, it cometh unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes of God, and His laws.' 17 And Moses' father-in-law said unto him: 'The thing that thou doest is not good. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. "Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee* be thou for the people before God, and bring thou the causes unto God. 20 And thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. ^Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. ^And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every at matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they judge themselves; so shall they

make it easier for thee and bear the burden with thee. ^If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.' ^o Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. ^And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. ^And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but eveiy small matter they judged themselves. 27 And Moses let his ^ father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land. 1 Q In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount. 3 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 Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto Myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; 6 and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel/ 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 And all the

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people answered together, and said: r All that the LORD hath spoken we will do/ And Moses reported the words of the people unto the LORD. 9 Afcd 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 may also believe thee for ever/ And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. JO And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments, ll and be ready against the third day; for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai, ^And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying: Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it; whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death; ^o hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the ram's horn 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 then? garments. 15 And he said unto the people: 'Be ready against the third day; come not near a woman/ w And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the, mount. 18 Now mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire;

and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount t quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered Kim, by a voice. 20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount; and the LORD called Moses 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. ^And let the priests also, ^ that come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break^ forth upon them/ ^And Moses said unto the LORD: 'The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou didst charge us, saying: Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it/ ^And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, 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 told them. O A And God spoke all these words, ^^ saying:

2 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 6 thou shalt not bow down unto 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

aeration of them that hate Me; 6 and

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generation of them that love Me and i prove you, and that His fear may be

keep My commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the 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 a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; u for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

^Honour thy father and thy mother,

before you, that ye sin not/ 18 And the people'stood afar off; but Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

19 And the LORD said unto Moses: Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 20 Ye shall not make with Me—gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you. ^An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless thee. ^And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast

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that thy days may be long upon the* profaned it. ^Neither shalt thou go up land which the LORD thy God giveth I by steps unto Mine altar, that thy thee. j nakedness be not uncovered thereon.

w Thou shalt not murder.

Thou shalt not commit adultery. |

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

14 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

15 And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off. 16 And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die/ 17 And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to

O1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 6 But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; ^hen his master shall bring him unto *God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.

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7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not out as the men-servants do. 8 If please not her master, who hatl espoused her to himself, then shal he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish. u And $ he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

^He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death. B And if a man He not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may nee.

14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die.

^And he that smiteth his father, or Ms mother, shall be surely put to death.

16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. ^ 17 Aiid he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; I9 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 And if a man smite his bondman, or his bondwoman, with a rod, and

he die under his hand, he shall surely

be punished. ^Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money.

^And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. ^But if any harm 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.

if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and warning bath been given to its owner, and he bath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is .aid upon him. 31 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. ^If the ox gore a Dondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

if a man shall open a pit, or f a man shall dig a pit and not cover t, and an ox or an ass fall therein, ^he owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the

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owner of them, and tKe dead beast shall be his.

35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dieth; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. 36 0r if it be known that the ox was

saith: 'This is it/ the cause of both parties shall come before a God; he whom *God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour.

9 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,

wont to gore in time past, and its | or driven away, no man seeing it-owner hath not kept it in; he shall zo the oath of the LORD shall be be-

surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own,

87 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a

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sheep. 1 If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so

that he dieth, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him. 2 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him — he shall make restitution ; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 3 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.

4 If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it 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 shocks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

6 If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. 7 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto *God, to see whether ^ he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's

goods. 8 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, For sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one

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tween them both, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. "But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. ^If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn.

^And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 14 If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire.

15 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. is lf her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins,

17 Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live.

18 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

19 He that sacrificeth unto the gods, save unto the LOED only, shall be utterly destroyed.

20 And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. ^Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. ^If thou afflict them in any wise—for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry—^My wrath shall wax

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hot, and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

M If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. *>lf thou at all take thy neighbour's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun. goeth

down; ^or that is his only covering, it is his garment 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.

27 Thou shalt not revile *God, nor curse a ruler of thy people. ^Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me. ^Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with its^dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me. ^And ye shall be holy men unto Me; therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it

to the dogs. 23 Thou shalt

not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou beaV witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice; 'neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

6 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under its burden, thou shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him.

*Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 'Keep thee

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far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindsth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of ~~

10 Aiid six years thou thy land, and gather in the increase thereof; u but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and He fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. ^Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed; and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

"Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. 15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib—for in it thou earnest out from

yypt; and none shall appear before

!e empty; 16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy Labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear Defore the Lord GOD.

"Thou shalt not pffer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of My feast re-

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main all _ night until the morning. 19 The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. a Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious against him; for he will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in him. ^But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. ^For Mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. ^Thou shalt not bow down to then* gods, nor serve them, nor do after their doings; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars. 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. ^None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28 Ahd I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts 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,

* That is, the Euphrates.

I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto a the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. ^Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ^They shall not dwell in thy land—lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods—for they will be a snare unto thee.

OJ. And unto Moses He said: 'Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off; 2 and Moses alone shall come near unto the LORD; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.' 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said: t All the words which the Lord hath spoken will we do/ 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent the young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, 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 dashed against the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and obey.' 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said: ' Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you in agreement with all these words/

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went up Moses, and Aaron, Xndab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; 10 and they saw

and silver, and brass; 4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair; 6 and rams' skins dyed

the God of Israel; and there was under red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood; His feet the like of a paved work of j ^oil for the light, spices for the an-sapphire stone, and the like of the i ointing oil, and for the sweet in-

very heaven for clearness. "And upon the nobles of the children, of Israel He laid not His hand; and they beheld God, and did eat and drink.

the LORD said unto Moses

'Come up to Me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the Taw and the com* mandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.' ^And Moses rose up/ and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the mount of God. 14 And unto the elders he said: Tarry ye here for us, until we come back unto you; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them/ 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the 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 appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount; and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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O £J And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^^ saying: 2 ' Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take My offering. 3 And this is the offer-lag which ye shall take of them: gold,

cense; 7 onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 8 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it.

10 And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. u 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 feet thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. w And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to bear the ark. 16 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 And thou shalt make an ark-cover 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 cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the ark-cover. 19 And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end

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ye make the cherubim of the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21 And thou shalt put the ark-cover above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony th'at I shall give thee. ^And there I will meet with thee, and I will speak with thee from above the ark-cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

^And thou shalt make a table of acacia-wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. ^And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. ^And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth 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 corners that are on the four feet thereof. 27 Close by the border shall the rings be, for places for the staves to bear the table. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the jars thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out; of pure gold shalt thou make them. 30 And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before

31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be~ made, even

its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it. ^And there shall be six branches going out of the sides thereof: three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof; ^three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches going out of the candlestick. M And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof. 35 And a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two brancKes of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the candlestick, ^heir knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold. 37 And thou shalt make the lamps thereof, seven; and they shall light the lamps thereof, to give light over against it. 38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold. 39 0f a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels. 40 And see that thou make them after their pattern, which is being shown thee in the mount. '26 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains: of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shalt thou make them, ^he length of each curtain, shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one measure. ^Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains

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shall be coupled one to another. 4 And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that ^ is outmost in the first set; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second set. 6 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 second set; the loops shall be opposite one to another. 6 And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another wit$ the clasps, that the tabernacle may be one whole. 7 And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shalt thou make them. 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each cur-tarn four cubits; the eleven curtains shall have one measure. 9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent. 10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the first set, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain -which is outmost in the second set. u And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. ^And as for the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth over shall hang over the back of the tabernacle. ^And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remaineth over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14 And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.

15 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. 17 Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward. 19 And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons; 20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty

>ards. 21 And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ^And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards. ^And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part. 24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring;

thus shall it be for them b< they shall be for the two corners! 26 Thus there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board, thou shalt make bars of acacia-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 hinder part westward; 28 and the middle bar in the midst of the boards, which shall pass through from end to end. 29 And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for holders for the bars;

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and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. 80 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion Lhereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.

31 And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made. ^ ^And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks being of gold, upon four sockets of silver. ^And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the arJk of the testimony; and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. ^And thou shalt put the ark-cover upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. 35 And thou shalt set the table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and thou shalt put the table on the north side. ^And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours. 37 And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

And thou shalt make the altar of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; ,the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits^ 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it; and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make its pots to take away^ its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make

of brass. 4 And thou shalt make for it a grating of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof. 6 And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it. 8 Hollow with planks shalt thou make it; as it hath been shown thee HI the mount, so shall they make it.

9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side. 10 And the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. u And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets ^twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. ^And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. 14 The hangings f6r the one side [of the gate] shall be- fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15 And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16 And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours: their pillars four, and their sockets, four. 17 A11 the pillars of the

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court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass. 18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, anc the breadth fifty every where, anc the height five cubits, of fine twinec linen, and their sockets of brass. 19 A1 the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

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20 Andthou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 21 In the^tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order, to burn from evening to morning before the LORD; it shaft be a statute for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel

OQ And bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Itha-oaar, Aaron's sons. 2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy Drother, for splendour and for beauty. f And thou shalt speak unto all that ire wise-hearted, whom I have filled ;vith the spirit of wisdom, that they nake Aaron's garments to sanctify aim, that he may minister unto Me in ;he priest's office. 4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a >reastplate, and an ephod, and a •obe, and a tunic of chequer work, a nitre, and a girdle; and they shall nake holy garments for Aaron, thy >rother, and his sons, that he may ninister unto Me in the priest's office.

5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman. ^ 7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined together. 8 And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece: of gold, of blue, and jmrple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth. n With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel; thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold. M And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel; and Aaron shall Dear their names before the LORD upon two shoulders for a memorial. And thou shalt make settings of gold; "and two chains of pure gold; of plaited thread shalt thou make them, >f wreathen work; and thou shalt put ihe wreathen chains on the settings.

"And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shalt make i1j: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet and ine twined linen, shalt thou make it. 6 Fourn3quare it shall be and double: span shall be the length thereof, and

span the breadth thereof. 17 And thou shalt set in it settings of stones,

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four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, holy place, for a memorial before the topaz, and smaragd shall be the first LORD continually. 30 And thou shalt row; 18 and the second row a carbuncle, | put in the breastplate of judgment a sapphire, and an emerald; 19 and the!the Urim and the Thummim; and third row a jacinth, an agate, and an ' they shall be upon Aaron's heart, amethyst; 20 and the fourth row a when he goeth in before the LORD;

beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be inclosed in gold in their settings. ^And the stones shall be

and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.

according to the names of the children I 31 And thou shalt make the robe of of Israel, twelve, according to their | the ephod all of blue. ^And it shall

names; like the engravings of a signet, every one accorolng to his name, they shall be for the- twelve tribes. ^And thou shalt make upon the breastplate plaited chains of wreathen work of pure gold. M And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ^And thou

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shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ^And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof. ^And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which is toward the side of the ephod inward. 27 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 28 And they shall bind tfye breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon

have a hole for the head in the midst thereof; it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent. M And upon the skirts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: M a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about. ^And it shall be upon Aaron to minister; and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not. ^And thou shalt make a. plate of pure gold, and engrave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLT TO THE LORD. 37 And thou shalt put it on a thread of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. ^And it shall be upon

Aaron's forehead, and Aaron bear the iniquity committed in the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow, even in all then* holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 39 And thou shalt weave the tunic in chequer work of fine linen, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt

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thou shalt make tunics, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for splendour and for beauty. 41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me hi the priest's office. ^And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the t flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach. ^And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die; it shall be a statute forever unto him and unto his seed after him.

f)Q And 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 blemish, 2 and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened spread with oil; of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. 5 And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the tunic, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 6 And thou shalt set 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. 8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and

put tunics upon them. 9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on them; and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute; and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. 10 And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of meeting; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock. "And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the remaining blood at the base of the altar. 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the lobe above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and make them smoke upon the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp; it is a sin-offering. 16 Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. 16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and dash it round about against the altar. 17 And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head. 18 And thou shalt make the whole ram smoke 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 lay their hands upon the head of the ram. -°Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its 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

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of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and dash the blood against the altar round about. ^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 and his garments shall be hallowed, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. ^Also thou shalt take of the ram "the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right thigh; for it is a ram of consecration; ^and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD. ^And thou shalt put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons; and shalt wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD. ^And thou shalt take them from their hands, and make them smoke on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ?6 And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD; and it shall be thy portion. 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the. heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is Aaron's, and of that which is his sons'. ^And it shall be for Aaron and his sons as a due for ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering; and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of

' unto the LORD. 29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them. 30 Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, even he who cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place. 31 And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place. ^And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. ^And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. 34 And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy. 36 And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them. ^And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering, beside the other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou shalt make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; thus shall the altar be most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

38 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 offer at dusk. 40 And with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part

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offering. 4l And the other lamb thou shalt offer at dusk, and shaft do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ^It shall be a continual burnt-offering tliroughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak there unto thoe. ^And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and [the Tent] shall be sanctified by My glory. 44 And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar; Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify, to minister to Me in the priest's office. 45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. ^And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.

Q A And thou shalt make an altar ^^ to burn incense upon; of acacia-wood shalt thou make it. 2 A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; four-square shall it be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it. 3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof 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 for it under tlie crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it. 6 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. 6 And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the ark-,

| cover that is over the testimony, where II will meet with thee. 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices; every morning, when he dress-eth the lamps, he shall burn it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at dusk, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. 9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor meal-offering; and ye shall pour no drink-offering thereon. 10 And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the blood of the sin-offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it throughout your generations; it is most holy unto the LORD.'

11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; 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 sanctuary— the shekel is twenty gerahs— half a shekel for an offering to the LORD. "Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of the LORD. 15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of the LORD, to make atonement for your souls. 16 And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the

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children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for your souls/

17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 'Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, whereat to wash; and thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat; 20 when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to cause an offering made by fire to smoke 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. 7

^Moreover the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'Take thou^also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty, M and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin. ^And thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. ^And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, 27 and the table and all ^ the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense, 28 and the altar of burnt-offering with all the vessels thereof, and the laver and the base thereof. 29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. 30 And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office. 31 And thou shalt speak

unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations. ^Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the composition thereof; it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you. ^Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people/

^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight. ^And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy. ^And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee; it shall be unto you most holy. 37 And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves; it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. ^Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his people. 7

Q~l And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^ x saying: 2f See, I have called by name Bezalel 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 workmanship, *to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, %nd in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. 6 And I, behold, I have appointed with him OhoHab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise-

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hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee: 7 the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the ark-cover that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent; 8 and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the altar of incense; 9 and the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base; 10 and the plaited garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office; u and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place; according TO all that I have commanded thee shall they do.'

12 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 13i Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying: Verily ye shall keep My sabbaths, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that ye may know that I am the LORD who sanctify you. 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore, for it is holy unto you; every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 16 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD; whosoever doeth any work in the 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 perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested/

18 And He gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of speaking with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables .

of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. OO And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him: 'Up, make us a god who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.' 2 And Aaron said unto them: 'Break off the golden 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 broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said: 'This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' 5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said: 'To-morrow shall be a feast to the LORD.' 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to make merry.

7 And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have dealt corruptly; *they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said: This is thy god, 0 Israel, which 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 stiffnecked people. 10 Now therefore iet Me alone, that My wrath may wax

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hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of thee a great nation.' u And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said: 'LORD, why doth Thy wrath wax hot against Thy people, that Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? ^Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying: For evil did He bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people. "Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou didst swear by Thine own self, and saidst unto them: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, 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 said He would do unto His people.

15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp/ 18 And he said-'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear/ 19 And it came tQ 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 broke them beneath the mount. 20 And he

took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. 21 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?' ^And Aaron said: 'Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil. ^So they said unto me: Make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. ^And I said unto them: Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.' 25 And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose—for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies— 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said: 'Whoso is on the LORD'S side, 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, the God of Israel: Put ye every man his sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.' 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there f eU of the people that day about three thousand men. 29 And Moses said* 'Consecrate yourselves to-day to the LORD, for every man hath been against his son and against his brother; that He may also bestow upon you a blessing this day/ 80 An<i it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go

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up unto the LORD, peradventure 1 shall make atonement for your sin/ w And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: 'Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold. ^Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written/ ^And the LORD said unto^ Moses: 'Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him will I blot out of My book. w And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, Mine angel shall go before thee; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them/ ^And the LORD smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

0 O And the LORD spoke unto Moses : uo 'Depart., jgo up hence, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land of which I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying: Unto thy seed will I give it— 2 and

1 will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebu-site— 3 unto a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way/ 4 A J1 d when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him. his ornaments. 6 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto the children of Israel: Ye are a stiff necked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall 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 from mount Horeb onward.

7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought the LORD went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the camp. 8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent. 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent; and [the LORD] spoke with Moses. 10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door. u And the LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And be would return into the camp; but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a

oung man, departed not out of the

'ent.

^And Moses said unto the LORD: 'See, Thou 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 ihee by name, and thou hast also found grace in My sight. w Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found grace in Thy sight, show me now Thy ways, that I may know Thee, to the end that I may find grace in Thy sight; and consider that this nation is Thy people/ ^AndHesaid: 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest/ 15 And he said unto Him: 'If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. 16 For wherein now shall it be known that I have found

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grace in Thy sight, I and Thy people? is it not in that Thou goest with us, so that we are distinguished, 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 §poken, for thou hast found grace in My sight, and I know thee by name.' 18 And he said: 'Show me, I pray Thee, Thy glory.' 19 And He said: f l will make all My goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 7 20 And He said: 'Thou canst not see My face, for man shall not see Me and live.' 21 And the LORD said: 'Behold, there is a place by Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock. ^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 until I have passed by. ^And I will take away My hand, and thou shalt see My back; but My face shall not be seen.'

O A And the LORD said unto Moses: ^ •*• 'Hew thee two tables of stone, like unto the first; and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou didst break. 2 And be ready by the morning, and come up hi the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to Me on 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 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded Mm, and took in his

hand two tables of stone. 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed: 'The LORD, the LORD, God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; 7 keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, 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 unto the fourth generation.' 8 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 the Lord, I pray Thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stifjnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Thine inheritance.' 10 And He said: 'Behold, I make a covenant; before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD that I am about to do with thee, that it is tremendous. u Observe thou that which I am commanding thee this day; behold, I am driving out before thee the Amqrite, and the Canaanite, and the EGttite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivrte, and the Jebusite. ^Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest they be for a snare in the midst of thee. 13 But ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut dowr their Asherim. 14 For thou shalt bo^v down to no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous

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God; xa iest them make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go astray after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and they call thee, and thou eat of their .sacrifice; "and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their slaughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. 18 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for hi the month Abib thou earnest out from Egypt. 19 AH that openeth the womb is Mine; and of all thy cattle thou shalt sanctify the males, the firstlings of ox and sheep. ^And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the l!rst-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty. 21 Six days thou shalt work, button the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and hi harvest thou shalt rest. ^And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year. ^Three tunes in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. ^For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders; neither shall any man covet thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the LORD thy God three times in the year, ^hou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. ^The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto tfre house of the LORD thy God. Thou

1 shalfc not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.'

27 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.' ^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 words. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face sent forth a beams while He talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face sent forth beams; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him; and Moses spoke to them. ^And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. ^And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. ^But when Moses went in before the Lord that He might speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. ^And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face sent forth beams; and Moses put the veil back upon his face, until he went in to speak with Him.

And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them: 'These

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are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them. 2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn, rest to the LORD; whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death. 3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.' .

4 And Moses spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: 'This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying: ^ake ye from among you an offering unto the LORD, whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the LORD'S offering: gold, and silver, and brass; 6 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair; 7 and ranis' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood; *and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense; 9 and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded: ^-the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; w the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the screen; 13 the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread; 14 the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light; "and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 16 the altar of burnt-offering, with its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base; ir the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for the gate of

the court; 18 the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords; a *the plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, ^the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.'

20 And all the congregation of the children 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 brought the LORD'S offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments. ^And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought nose-rings, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and girdles, all jewels of gold; even every man that brought an offering of gold unto the LORD. ^And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them. 24 Every one that did set apart an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia-wood for any work of the service, brought it. K And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair. 27 And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate; 28 and the spice, and the oil, for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense. 29 The children of Israel brought a freewill-offering unto the LORD; every man and woman, whose

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heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses to be made.

30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel: 'See, the LORD hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. »And He hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship. ^And to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, K and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship. M And He hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. ^Them hath He filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the craftsman, and of the skilful workman, and of the weaver in colours, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship, and of those that devise O/^ skilful works. x And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD hath commanded.'

2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it. lAnd they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And_ they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning. 4 And all the wise men, that

wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought. 5 And they spoke unto Moses, saying: 'The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORE commanded to make.' 6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying: 'Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.' So the people were restrained from bringing. 7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

8 And every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains: of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman made he them. ^The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had one measure. 10 And he coupled five curtains one to another; and the other five curtains he coupled one to another. 13 And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that was outmost in the first set; likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second set. ^Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of i\e curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to another. 13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps; so the tabernacle was one.

14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he made them. 16 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of

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each curtain; the eleven curtains had one measure. 16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the first set, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain, which was outmost in the second set* 18 And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one. 19 And he made a covering for the tent ^ of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.

20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up. 21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. ^Each board had two tenons, joined one to another. Thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle. ^And he made the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward. 24 And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. K And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, ^and their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 27 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 38 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle hi the hinder part; 29 that they might be double beneath, and in like manner they should be complete unto the top thereof unto the first ring. Thus he did to both of them in the two corners. 30 And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets: under every board two sockets. 31 And he made, bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards!

of the one side of the tabernacle, 32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward. ^And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the one end to the other. M And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

^And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim the work of the skilful workman made he it. ^And he made thereunto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold, their hooks being of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver. 37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours; 38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks; and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of brass.

QiT And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was 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 within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. 3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof: even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 4 And he made staves ^ of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 6 And he made an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 7 And

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he made two cherubim of gold of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-covet: 8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the ark-cover made he tho cherubim at the two ends thereof. 9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.

10 And he made the table of acacia-wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. "And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about. ^And he made unto it a border of a handbreadth ruund about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about. ^And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet thereof. 14 Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table. 15 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table. 16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the jars thereof, wherewith to pour out, of pure gold.

17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold- of beaten work made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knpps, and its flowers, were of one piece with it. 18 And there were six branches going out of the sides thereof: three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof; I9 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop

and a flower; and three cups mad like almond-blossoms in the othe branch, a knop and a flower. S< for the six branches going out of th< candlestick. 20 And in the candlesticl were four cups made like almond blossoms, the knops thereof, and th< flowers thereof; 21 and a knop unde: two branches of one piece with it and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under twc branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it. ^Theu knops and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold. 23 And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the tongg thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof of pure gold. 24 0f a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

^And he made the altar of incense of acacia-wood: a cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, four-square; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns thereof were of one piece with it. 26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it; and he made unto it a crown of gold round about. 27 And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for holders for staves wherewith to bear it. 28 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer. Q Q And he made the altar of burnt-

u offering of acacia-wood: rive cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, four-square, and three cubits the height thereof. 'And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof

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were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with brass. 3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire-pans; all the vessels thereof made he of brass. 4 And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up. 5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be holders for the staves. 6 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with brass. 7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, wherewith to bear it; he made it hollow with planks.

8 And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the serving women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.

9 And he made the court; for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twiiied linen, a hundred cubits. 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. u And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. ^And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver. 13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits. 14 The hangings for the one side [of the gate] were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 15 And so for the other side; on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three. 16 A11 the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. 17 And the

sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver. 18 And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the weaver in colours, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court. 19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver. 20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

^These are the accounts of the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were rendered according to the commandment of Moses, through the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. — ^And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. ^And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a craftsman, and a skilful workman, and a weaver in colours, in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen — 24 AH the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. ^And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: *& beka a

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head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. 27 And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil: a hundred sockets for 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 capitaK and made fillets for them. 29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels. 30 And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar, 31 and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the gate of the court, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

'.> O And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made plaited garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses.

2 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 plates, and cut it into threads, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman. 4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together. 6 And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work thereof: of gold, of blue, and purple,

and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the LORD commanded Moses.

6 And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel. ^ 7 And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.

8 And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful workman, like the work of the ephod: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 It was four-square; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being double. 10 And they set in it four rows of stones: a row of carnelian, topaz, and smaragd was the first row. "And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and an emerald. 12 And the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst., 13 And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper; they were inclosed in fittings of gold in their settings. 14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, for the twelve tribes, 15 And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold. 16 And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. 18 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof. 19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two ends of the breast-

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plate, upon the edge thereof, which was toward the side of the ephod inward. 20 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the skilfully woven band of the ephod. 2l And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.

^And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue; ^and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent. ^And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen. ^And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates: 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe round about, to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.

27 And they made the tunics of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons, 28 and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen, 29 and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the weaver in colours; as the LORD commanded Moses.

30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: HOLY TO THE LORD. 31 And they tied unto it a thread of blue,

to fasten it upon the mitre above; as the LORD commanded Moses.

32 Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting; and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

^And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its j bars, and its pjllars, and its sockets; ^nd the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen; ^he ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the ark-cover; ^he table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread; 37 the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light; 88 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door of the Tent; 39 the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and its base; 40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting; ^the plaited garments for mm-istering in the holy place; the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office. ^According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. ^And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it. And Moses blessed them.

A A And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^^ saying: *0n the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the

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tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thpu shalt screen the ark with the veil. 4 And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the bread that is upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof. B And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. 6 And thou shalt iset the altar of burnt-offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 7 And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein. 8 And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court. 9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the furniture thereof; and it shall be holy. 10 And thou shalt anoint the altar of burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the altar; and the altar shall be most holy. u And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it. "And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water. 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments; and thou shalt anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister unto Me in the priest's office. 14 And thpu shalt bring his sons, and put tunics upon them. 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's -office; and their anointing sba-U be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.' 16 Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.

17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars. 19 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.

20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the ark-cover above upon the ark. 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.

^And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil. ^And he set a row of bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

^And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the ^ tabernacle southward. 25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil; 27 and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as the LORD commanded Moses.

28 And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle. 29 And the altar of burnt-offering he set at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.

30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash; 31 that Moses and Aaron and his sons

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might wash their hands and their feet thereat; 32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they should wash; as the LORD commanded Moses.

^And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

^Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. ^And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of

meeting, because the cloud thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.—^And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys. 37 But if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. ^For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire therein by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.—

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1 AXD the LORD called unto Moses, 1 and spoke unto him out of the twit of meeting, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

When any man of you bringeth an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd or of the flock.

n lf his offering be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish; he shall bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LOUD. 4 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 Aud he shall kill the bullock before the LORD; and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood, and dash the blood round about against the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting. 6 And he rthall flay the burnt-offering, aud cut it into its pieces. 7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire. 8 And Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, and the head, and the suet, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar; *but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall make the whole smoke on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

IO And if his offering be of the flock, whether of the sheep, or of the goats,

for a burnt-offering, he shall offer it a male without blemish. n And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before the LORD; and^ Aaron's sons, the priests, shall dash its blood against the altar round about. ^And he shall cut it into its pieces; and the priest shall lay them, with its head and its suet, 'in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar. 13 But the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall offer the whole, and make it smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

14 And if his offering to the LORD be a burnt-offering of fowls, then he shall bring his offering of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons. 15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and pinch off its head, and make it smoke on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the altar. 16 And he shall take away its crop with the feathers thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes. 17 And he shall rend it by the wings thereof, but shall not divide- it asimder; and the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire; it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

O And when any one bringeth a meal-

off ering onto the LORD, his offering

shall be of fine flour; and he shaU

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thereon. 2 And he shall bring it to j on the altar. 13 And every meal-offering Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall i of thine shalt thou season with salt; take thereout his handful of the fine neither shalt thou suffer the salt of

flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, together with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall make the memorial-part thereof smoke upon the altar, an offering made by fire,

the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering; with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

I4 And if thou bring a meal-offering of first-fruits unto the LORD, thou

of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 3 But I shalt bring for the meal-offering of thy that which is left of the meal-offeriug first-fruits corn in the ear parched shall be Aaron's and his sons 7 ; it is af with fire,,even groats of the fresh ear. thing most holy of the offerings of the j 15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and LORD made by fire. lay frankincense thereon; it is a meal-

4 And when thou bringest a meal- i offering. I6 And the priest shall make offering baked in the oven, it shall be! the memorial-part of it fc^moke, even of unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled | the groats thereof, and of the oil therewith oil, or unleavened wafers spread i of, with all the frankincense thereof, with oil. j it is an offering made by fire unto the

5 And if thy offering be a meal-, LORD.

offering baked on a griddle, it shall be, O And if his offering be a sacrifice of fine flour unleavened, mingled with ° of peace-offerings: 2 he offer of the oil. 6 Thou shalt break it in pieces, and ' herd, whether male or female, he shall

pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering. 7 And if thy offering be a meal-offering of the stewmg-pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 And thou shalt bring the meal-offering that is made of these things unto the LORD; and it shall be presented unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the altar. 9 And the priest shall take off from the meal-offering the memorial-part thereof, and shall make it smoke upon the ajtar — an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 10 But that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.

meal-offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall make no leaven, nor any honey, smoke as an offering made by fire unto the LORD. ^As an offering of first-fruits ye may bring them unto the LORD; but they shall not come up for a sweet savour

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 tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons the priests shall dash the blood against the altar round about. 3 And he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto the LORD: the fat tliat covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, %nd the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away hard by the kidneys. 6 And Aaron's sons shall make it smoke on the altar upon the burn1>-offering, which is upon the wood that is on the fire; it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

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>h:ill he present it before the LORD. *And he shall lay his hand upon the houd of his offering, and kill it before tiie tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons >hall dash the blood thereof against the altar round about. 9 Aiid he shall present of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto the LOED: the fat thereof, the fat tail entire, which he shall take away hard by the rump-bone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys. n And the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD. if his offering be a

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then he shall present it before the LORD. w And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron dash the blood thereof against

the altar round about. 14 And he shall present thereof his offering, even, an offering made by fire unto the LORD: the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards, 13 and the "£wo kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys. 16 And the priest shall make them smoke 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 shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.

A And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:

If any one shall sin through error, in any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them: *if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin-offering. 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tent of meeting before the LORD; and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and kill the bullock before the LORD. 5 And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it to the tent of meeting. 6 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary. 7 And the priest shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the remaining blood of the bullock shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 8 And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he shall take off from it: 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 loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys, 10 as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar of burnt-offering. u But the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs,

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the ashes arc poured out shall it be burnt.

13 And if the whole congregation of Israel shall err, the tiling being hid from the eyes of the assembly, and do any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and are guilty: ^ 14 when the sin wherein they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and bring it before the tent of meeting. 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 anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting. 17 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil. 18 And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the LORD, that is in the tent of meeting, and all the remaining blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 19 And all the fat thereof shall he take off from it, and make it smoke upon the altar. 20 Thus shall he do with the bullock; as he did with the bullock of the sin-offering, so shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven. 21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock; it is the sin-offering for the assembly.

^When a ruler sinneth, and doeth through error any one of all the things which the LORD his God hath com-inanded not to be done, and is guilty: ^ his sin, wherein he hath ginned, be known to him, he shall bring for Ms offering a goat, a male without blemish. ^And he shall lay bis hand upon

the head of the goat, and kill it in | the place \shere they kill the burnt-i offering before the LORD; it is a sin* | offering. ~And the priest shall take of 1 the blood of the sin-offering with his ; finger, and put it upon the horns of the ' altar of burnt-offering, and the remaining blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering. i 26 And all the fat thereof shall he make | smoke upon the altar, as the fat of i the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and ! the priest shall make ^ atonement for ' him as concerning his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

27 And if any one of the common ( people sin through error, in doing | any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty: 2 *if his sin, which he hath I sinned, be known to him, then he shall I bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for Ms sin which he hath sinned. 29 And he shall Lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill the sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering. 30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar. 31 And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make it smoke upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

^And if he bring a lamb as his offering for a sin-offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish. ^And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the burnt-offering. M And

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the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and all the remaining blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar. 3: And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make them smoke on the altar, upon the offerings of the LORD made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

X And if any one sin, in that he heareth the voice of adjuration, he being a witness, whether he hath seen or known, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity; 2 or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean swarming things, and be guilty, it being hidden from him that he is unclean; 3 or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his" uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty; 4 or if any one swear clearly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall utter clearly with an oath, and it be hid from him; and, when he knoweth of it, be guilty in one of these things; 5 and it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that wherein he hath sinned; 6 and he shall bring his forfeit unto the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin. 7 And if his means suffice not for a, lamb, then he shall bring his forfeit for that

wherein he hath sinned, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD: one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering. 8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its 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 the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin-offering. 10 And he shall prepare the second for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin which he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

H But if his means suffice not for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that wherein he hath sinned, 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 thereon; for it is a sin-offenng. 12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke on the altar, upon the offerings of the LORD made by fire; it is a sin-offering. 13 And the priest ^hall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in any of these things, and he shall be forgiven; and the remnant shall be the priest's, as the meal-offering,

14 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 15 If any one commit a trespass, and sin through error, in the holy things of the LORD, then he shall brmg his forfeit unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy valuation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt-offering. 16 And he shall make

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restitution for that which he hath the prieat shall make atonement for done amiss in the holy thing, and him before the LORD, and he shall be shall_add the fifth part thereto, and forgiven, concerning whatsoever he give it unto the priest; and the priest doeth wo as to be guilty thereby, shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering, and he *£

shall be forgiven. f* And the LOUD spoke unto 'Moses,

17 And if any one sin, and do any of saying: 2 Command Aaron and his the things which the LORD hath com- SOIIM, saying:

manded not to J;>e done, though hej Thi* iV the law of the burnt-offering know it not, yet is he guilty, and shall' it is that \\hich goeth up on its fire-bear his iniquity. 18 And he shall wood upon the altar all night unto bring a ram without blemish out of the the morning; and the fire of the airlock, according to thy valuation, for; tar shall be kept burning thereby, a guilt-offering, unto the priest; and'. 3 And the priest shall put on his linen the priest shall make atonement for ; garment, and his linen breeches shall him concerning the error which he; he put upon his flesh; and he shall take committed, though he knew it not, up the ashes whereto the fire hath con-and he shall be forgiven. 19 It is a sumed the burnt-offering on the altar, guilt-offering—he is certainly guilty' and he shall put them beside the altar, before the LORD. 4 And he shall put off his garments, and

20 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, put on other garments, and carry forth saying: 21 If any one sin, and commit the ashes without the camp unto a a trespass against the LORD, and deal clean place. 5 And the fire upon the falsely with his neighbour in a matter | altar shall be kept burning thereby, it of deposit, or of pledge, or of robbery, j shall not go out; and the priest shall

kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the peace-offerings. 6 Fire shall be kept burning upon the

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or have oppressed his neighbour; ^r have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear to a lie; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein; ^then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he

altar continually; it shall not go out. 7 And this is'the law of the- meal-

took by robbery, or the thing which offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer he hath gotten^by oppression, or the jit before the LORD, in front of the deposit which was deposited with!altar. 8 And he shall take up there-him, or the lost thing which he found, from his handful, of the fine flour ^r any thing about which he hath of the meal-offering, and of the sworn falsely, he shall even restore [oil thereof, and all the frankincense it in full, and shall add the fifth part | which is ur3on the meal-offering, and more thereto; unto him to whom it j shall make the memorial-part there-appertaineth shall he give it, in the i of smoke upon the altar for a sweet day of his being guilty. ^And he shall savour unto the LORD. 9 And that

bring his forfeit unto the LORD, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy valuation, for a guilt-offering, unto the priest. 26 And

which is left thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without

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1( it rfiall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of My otlerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin-offering, and as the guilt-oftVrmg. "Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as a due for* ever throughout your generations, from the offerings of the LORD made by fire; whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

12 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 13 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 meal-offering perpetually, half of it in the ^ morning, and half thereof in the evening. 14 0n a griddle it shall be made with oil; when it is soaked, thou shalt bring it in; in broken pieces shalt thou offer the meal-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 15 And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from among his sons shall offer it, it is a due for ever; it shall be wholly made to smoke unto the LORD. l8 And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to Smoke; it shall not be eaten.

17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying:

This is the law of the sin-offering: in the place where the burnt-offering is killed shall the sin-offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy. ly The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. 20 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh 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 a holy place. 21 But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden

shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water. ^Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it is most holy. ^And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. *7 And this is the law of the guilt-

1 offering; it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they Mil the guilt-offering; and ^ blood thereof shall be dashed against the altar round about. 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys. 5 And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a guilt-offering. 6 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it shall be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7 As is the sin-offering, so is the giult-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that maketh atonement therewith, he shall have it. 8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered. 9 And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the stewing-pan, and on the griddle, shall the priest's that offereth it. 10 Ajid every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.

^And this is the law o'f the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one may offer unto the LORD. 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleav-

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cried cakes mingled with oil, and un- ^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, leavened wafers spread with oil, and saying: -\Speak unto the children of

cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. "With cakes of leavened bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving. 14 And of it he shall

Israel, saying:

Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. 24 And the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of beasts, may be

present one out of each offering for i used for any other service; but ye a gift unto the LORD; it shall be the' shall in no wise eat of it. ^For who-priest's that dasheth the blood of the I soever eateth the fat of the beast, of

peace-offerings against the altar. I5 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remaineth of it may be eaten. 17 But that which remaineth of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. 4 18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be at all eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it; it shall be an abhorred thing, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. 19 And the ^ flesh that toucheth any-unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean may eat thereof. 20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21 And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, whether it be the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean detestable thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which pertain unto

the LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

which men present an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people. ^And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 2r Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

28 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:

He that offereth his sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD shall bring his offering unto the LORD out of his sacrifice of peace-offerings. 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire: the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before the LORD. 31 And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. ^And the right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out of your sacrifices of peace-offerings. ^He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of ihe peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a portion. M Fqr the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving have

taken of the children of Israel out of their sacrifices of peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons as a due for ever from the children of Israel*

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36 This is the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out of the offerings of the LOED made by fire, in the day when they were presented to minister unto the LOED in the priest's office; 36 which the LOBD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in jfche day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.

37 This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the guilt-offering, and of the consecration-offering, and of the sacrifice of peace-offerings; 3 Vhich the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to present their offerings unto the LOED, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Q And the LOED spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread; 3 and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.' 4 And Moses did as the LOED commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting. 5 And Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LOED hath commanded to be done/ 6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. 7 And he put upon him the tunic, and girded him wilh the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skOfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. 8 And he placed the breastplate upon him; and in the breastplate he put the Unm and the

Thummim. 9 And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LOED commanded Moses. 10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. u And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven tunes, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them. ^And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with girdles, and bound head-tires upon them; as the LOED commanded Moses. 14 And the bullock of the sin-offering was brought; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock of the sin-offering. 15 And when it was slain, Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the remaining blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. 16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses made it smoke upon the altar. 17 But the bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, were burnt with fire without the camp; as the LOED commanded Moses. 18 And the ram of the burnt-offering was presented; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. 19 And when it was killed, Moses dashed the blood against the altar round about. 20 And when the ram was cut into its pieces, Moses made the head, and the pieces, and the suet smoke. 21 And when the inwards

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and the legs were washed with water, Moses made the whole ram smoke upon the altar; it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savour; it was an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses. ^And the other ram was presented, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram. ^And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood thereof, 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. ^And Aaron's sons were brought, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot; and Moses dashed the blood against the altar round about. 25 And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh. 2<J And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LOED, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and upon the right thigh. 27 And he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and waved them for a wave-offering before the LORD. 28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and made them smoke on the altar upon the burnt-offering; they were a consecration-offering for a sweet savour; it was an offering made 6y fire unto the LORD. 29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering before the LORD; it was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as the LORD commanded Moses. 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which

was 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 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons: 'Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting; and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying: Aaron and his sons shall eat it. ^And that which remain-eth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire. 33 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you seven days. 34 As hath been done this day, so the LORD Jiath commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 35 And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not; for so I am commanded/ 36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

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And 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 bull-calf for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and offer them before the LORD. 8 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying: Take ye a he-goat for a sin-offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt-offering; 4 and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meal-offering mingled with oil; for to-day the LORD ap-

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peareth unto you.' 5 And they brought tlxat which Moses commanded before the tent, of meeting; and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD. . 6 Aod Moses said: 'This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do; that the glory of the LORD may appear unto you. 7 7 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Draw near unto the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for the people; and present the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD commanded. 7 8 So Aaron drew near unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which was for himself. 9 And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the'' altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar. 10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, he made smoke upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses. u And the flesh and the skin were burnt with fire without the camp. 12 And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the blood, and he dashed it against the altar round about. w And they delivered the burnt-offering unto him, piece by piece, and the head; and he made them smoke upon the altar. 14 And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar. 16 And the people's offering was presented; and he took the goat of the sin-offering which was for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first. 16 And the burnt-offering was presented; and he offered it according to the ordinance. 17 And the meal-offering was presented; and he filled

his hand therefrom, and made it smoke upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning. 18 He slew; also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which was for the people; and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the blood, and he dashed it against the altar round about, 19 and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver. 20 And they put the fat upon the breasts, and he made the fat smoke upon the altar. ^And the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded. ^And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings. ^And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people. ^And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat; and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces. 1 A And Nadab and Abihu, the v sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. 2 And there came forth fire from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they difed before the LORD. 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron: 'This is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are nigh unto Me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.' And Aaron held his peace. 4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the

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uncle of Aaron, and said unto them: 'Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.' 6 So they drew near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said. 6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons: 'Let not the hair of your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes, that ye die not, and that He be not wroth with all the congregation; but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled. 7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you/ And they did according to the word of Moses.

8 And the LORD spoke unto Aaron, saying: 9 'Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not; it shall be a statute iOT ever throughout your generations. 10 And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; u and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'

w And Moses spoke unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left: 'Take the meal-pffering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy. M And ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the offerings of the LORD made by fire; for so I am commanded. 14 And the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for

they are given as thy due, and thy sons' due, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The thigh of heaving and the breast of waving shall they bring with the offerings of the fat made by fire,, to wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, as a due for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.'

16 And Moses diligently inquired for the goat of the sin-offering, and, behold, it was burnt; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying: 171 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD? 18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within; ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.' 19 And Aaron spoke unto Moses: 'Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the LORD, and there have befallen me such things as these; and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of the LORD?' 20 And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.

"j "j And the LORD spoke unto Moses •*~ 1 - and to Aaron, saying unto them: sSpeak unto the children of Israel, saying:

These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

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Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you. 5 And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you. 6 And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you. 7 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you. 8 0f their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

^These may 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 may ye eat. 10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that swarm in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are a detestable thing unto you, u and they shall be a detestable thing unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in detestation. ^Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.

13 And these ye shall have in detestation among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are a detestable thing, the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray; 14 and the kite, and the falcon after its kinds; 15 every raven after its kinds; 16 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds; 17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl; 18 and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture; 19 and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat*

20 A11 winged swarming things that go upon afl fours are a detestable thing unto you. ^Yet these may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth; ^even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its lands, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds. ^But all winged swarming things, which have four feet, are a detestable thing unto you.

^And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even. 26 And whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 26 Every beast which parteth the hoof, but is not cloven-footed, nor cheweth the cud, is unclean unto you; every one that toucheth them shall be unclean. 27 And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean unto you; whoso toucheth then* carcass shall be unclean until 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 And these are they which are unclean unto you among the swarming things that swarm upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kinds, 30 and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon. 31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that swarm; whosoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even. 32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean;

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whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean. 33 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean, and it ye shall break. ^All food therein which may be eaten, that on which water cometh, shall be unclean; and all drink in every such vessel that may be drunk shall be unclean. 35 And everything whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. 36 Nevertheless a fountain or a cistern wherein is a gathering of water shall be clean; but he who toucheth their carcass shall be unclean. 37 And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean. 38 But if water be put upon the seed, and aught of then* carcass fall thereon, it is unclean unto you.

39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carcass thereof 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.

^And every swarming thing that swarmeth upon the earth is a detestable thing; it shall not be eaten. ^Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all swarming things that swarm upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are a detestable thing, ^Ye shall not make yourselves detestable

with any swarming thing that swarmeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. ^For I am the LORD your God; sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy; neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of swarming thing that moveth upon the earth. 45 For I am the LORD that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

^This is the law of the beast, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that swarmeth upon the earth; 47 to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

~J O And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: v

If a woman be delivered, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean. 8 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purification be fulfilled. 6 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification threescore and six days. 6 And when the days of her purification 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-nfferinff unto the door of thp

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tent of meeting, unto the priest. 7 And he shall offer it before the LOKD, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that beareth, whether a male or a female. 8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

•j O And the LORD spoke unto Moses ^ and unto Aaron, saying:

a man shall have in the skin

of ids flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot, and it become in the skin of his flesh 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 if the hair in the plague be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy- and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him Tin-clean. 4 And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance thereof 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 stay in its appearance, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut hirY\ up seven days more. 6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague be dim, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce Mm clean: it is a scab; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again. 8 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him, unclean: it is leprosy.

9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest. 10 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, u it i§ an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean. ^And if the 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 feet, as far as appeareth to the priest; 13 then t the priest shall look; and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that ha-th the plague; it is all turned white: he is clean. 14 But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. 15 And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy. 16 But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall come unto the priest; 17 and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

* 8 And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed, 9 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest. 20 And the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and

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the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil. 21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and it be not lower than the skin, but be dim, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. ^And if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague. ^But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

24 0r when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white; 25 then the priest shall look upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright | spot be turned white, and the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy, it hath broken out in the burning; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, it is the plague of leprosy. 26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 27 And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day; if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. 28 And if the bright spot stay in its place, and be ^ not spread in the skin, but be dim, it is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for it is the scar of the burning.

29 And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the head or upon the beard, 30 then the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it yellow thin hair,

then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scall, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and there be no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days. ^And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin, 33 then he shall be shaven, but the scaU shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more. ^And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. ^But if the scall spread abroad 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 shall not seek for the yellow hair: he is unclean. 37 But if the scall stay in its appearance, and black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce brm clean.

38 And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; 39 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin: he is clean.

40 And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean. ^And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-

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bald; yet is lie clean. ^But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead. ^Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, ^he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his head.

^And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry: 'Unclean, unclean.' ^All the days wherein the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his dwelling be.

47 And when the plague of leprosy is in a garment, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment; 48 or in the warp, or in the woof, whether they be of linen, or of wool; or in a skin, or in any thing made of skin: ^if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown unto the priest. "And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days. 5l And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for, the plague is a malignant leprosy: it is unclean. ^And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, whether it be of wool or of linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is; for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire. ^And if

the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; ^then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more. 55 And the priest shall look, after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague have not changed its colour, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is a fret, whether the bareness be within or without. ^And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, 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, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is breaking out, thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire. 58 And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

1 A. And the LORD spoke unto Moses, x:r saying:

2 This 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; Hhen shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

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s And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds 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 in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field. 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean; and after that he may come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his tent seven days. 9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe 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 parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. "And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD. 13 And he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the guilt-offering; it is most holy. 14 And the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt-offering, and the priest shall 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. 15 And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. 16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. 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 guilt-offering. 18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD. 19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the meal-offering upon the altar; and the priest shall make atonement for TIITY^ and he shall be clean.

21 And if he be poor, and his means suffice not, then he shall take one he-lamb for a guilt-offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering, and a log of oil; ^and two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering. ^And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before the LORD. M And the priest shall take the lamb of the scuilt-offerine, and the

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log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LOED. 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the guiltroffering, and the priest shall take of the blood of the guilt-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. 28 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 right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the geult-offering. 29 Aiid the rest of the oir^hat is in the priest's hand he shall puti upon the head of him that is to bejcleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD. 30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as his means suffice for; 31 even such as his means suffice for, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD. ^This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

^And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

34 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 then he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: 'There seemeth to me to be

as it were a plague in the house/ 36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go^m to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house. 37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the wans of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be 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, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; ^then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city. ^And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the mortar that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place. ^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. ^And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that the stones have been taken out, and after the house hath been scraped, and after it is plastered; ^hen the priest shall come in and look • and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house: it is unclean. ^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 them forth out of the city into an unclean place. 46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. 47 And he ;fchat lieth in the house shall wash his clothes;

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and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. 48 And if the priest shall come in, and look, 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 one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 61 And he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 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. ^But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field; so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall ^be clean.

M This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall; K and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house; ^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.

~j £ And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, his issue 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 that hath the issue heth shall be unclean; and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean. 5 And whoso*

ever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he that hath the issue sat shall wash his 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 bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the 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. 9 And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean. 10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even; and he that beareth those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. n And whomsoever he that hath the issue toucheth, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. ^And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, 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 number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean. 14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tent of meeting, and give them .unto the priest. 15 And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his issue. 16 And if the flow of seed go out from

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a man, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the flow of seed, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. 18 The woman also with whom a man shall lie carnally, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. 20 And every thing that she heth upon in her impurity shall be unclean; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. ^And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. ^And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. ^And if he be on the bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even. ^And if any man he with her, and her impurity be upon him, lie shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her unclean-ness she shall be as in the days of her impurity, she is unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her impurity; and every thing whereon she sitteth shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 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 turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the LOED for the issue of her unclean-ness.

3l Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is in the midst of them

32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goeth out, so that he is unclean thereby; 33 and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of them that have' an issue, whether it be a man, or a woman; and of hiin that lieth with her that is unclean.

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"| £J And the LORD spoke unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near 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 veil, before the ark-cover which is upon the ark; that he die not; for I appear in the cloud upon the ark-cover. 3 Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and

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with the linen mitre shall he be attired; they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering. 6 And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house. 7 And he shall take the two goats, and set them before the LORD at the door of the tent of meeting. 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for Azazel. 9 And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for the LORD, and offer hi™ for a sin-off ering. 10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before the LORD, to make atonement over him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness. "And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself. 12 And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil. 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may coyer the ark-cover 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 ark-cover on the east; and before the ark-cover shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood

of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the ark-cover, and before the ark-cover. 16 And he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the unclean-nesses of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins, and so shall he do for the tent of meeting, that dwelleth with them in the midst of their unclean-nesses. 17 And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth hi to make atonement in the holy place, until he come put, and have made atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel. 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make atonement 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 hallow it from the un-cleannesses of the children of Israel. 20 And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat. a And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all then* sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of an appointed man into the wilderness. ^And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land which is cut off; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. ^And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there. ^And he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place,

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and put on his other vestments^ and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people. 25 And the fat of the sin-offering shall he make smoke upon the altar. 26 And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. 27 And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire then* 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 may come into the camp.

29 And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that sojourneth among you. 80 For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the LORD. 31 It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever, ^And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments. 33 And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. ^And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel be-

cause of all their sins once in the year ' And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.

"| *7 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, 1 - ' saying: 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 without the camp, 4 and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to present it as an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among

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the end that the

children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in fhe open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace-offerings unto the LORD. 6 And the priest shall dash the blood against the altar of the LORD at the door of the tent of meeting, and make the fat smoke for a sweet savour unto the LORD. ^ 7 And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the satyrs, after whom they go astray. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

8 And thou shalt say unto them: Whatsoever man there be of the louse of Israel, or of the strangers ;hat sojourn among them, that of-"ereth a burnt-offering or sacrifice, 'and bringeth it not unto the door of ;he tent of meeting, to sacrifice it un-;o the LORD, even that man shall be

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10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set My face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. u For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the hfe. ^Therefore I said unto the jchildren of Israel: No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall 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 them, that taketh in hunting any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust. 14 For as to the life of all flesh, the blood thereof is all one with the life thereof; therefore I said unto the children of Israel: Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever eateth it shall be cut off. 15 And every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a stranger, he shall 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.

"j Q And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

I am the LORD your God. 3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do; and after the doings of the land 1 of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.

4 Mme ordinances shall ye do, and My statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein : I am the LORD your God. ^e shall therefore keep My statutes, and Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them-1 am the LORD.

6 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, and the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

8 The nakedness of thy 'father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

e nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover; for theirs is thine own naked-

u The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

^Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.

^Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister; for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.

14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

16 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

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uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness* they are near kinswomen; it is lewd-ness. 18 And thou shalt not take a woman to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life-time. 19 And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she its impure by her uncleanness. 20 And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to set them apart to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. '2 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is abomination. '•^And thou shalt not he with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto; it is perversion.

24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out from before you. 25 And the land was denied, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. 26 Ye therefore shall keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that soj ourneth among you— 27 f or all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled— 28 that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you. 29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep My charge, that ye do not any of these

abominable customs, which were done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

~| O And the LORD spoke unto Moses, x ^ saying: 2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them:

Ye shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and ye shall keep My sabbaths * I am the LORD your God. 4 Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods I am the LORD your God.

6 And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, ye shall offer it that ye may be accepted. 6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow, and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire. 7 And if it be eateii at all on the third day, it is a vile thing; it shall not be accepted. 8 But every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath pro-, faned the holy thing of the LORD; and ' that soul shall be cut off from his people.

9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest. 10 And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the stranger I am the LORD your God. n Ye shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor He one to another. 12 And j* shall not swear by My name Falsely, so that thou profane the name of thy God. I am the LORD. 13 Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him, the wages of a hired servant

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shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but thou shalt fear thy God* I am the LORD. 15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor favour the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people; neither shalt thou stand idly by the blood of thy neighbour * I am the LORD . 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him. 18 Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of "thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I am the LORD. 19 Ye shall keep My statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind; thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed; neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together. 20 And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, designated for a man, and not at all redeemed, nor was freedom given her; there shall be inquisition; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. 2I And he shall bring his forfeit unto the LORD, unto the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a guilt-offering. 22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering before the LORD for his sin which he hath sinned; and he shall be forgiven for his sin which he hath sinned.

23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as forbidden; three years shall it be as forbidden

unto you; it shall not be eaten. hi the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto the LORD. 25 But in the fifth year may ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield, unto you more richly the increase thereof I am the LORD your God. 26 Ye shall not eat with the blood; neither shall ye practise divination nor soothsaying. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your 'heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor imprint any marks upon you. I am the LORD. 29 Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of lewdness. 30 Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD. 31 Turn ye not unto the ghosts, nor unto familiar spirits; seek them not out, to be defiled by them* I am the LORD your God. 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and thou shalt feir thy God: I am the LORD. ^And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not .do him wrong. 34 The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be unto you as the home-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. ^Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. 36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, all ye have: I arn the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 And ye shall observe all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them* I am the LORD. OA And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Moreover, thou shalt say to the children of Israel:

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Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 3 I also .will set My face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people, because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile My sanctuary, and to profane My holy name. 4 And if the people of lie land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and put him not to death; 6 then I will set My face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go astray after him, to go astray after Molech, from among their people. € And the soul that turneth unto the ghosts, and unto the familiar spirits, to go astray after them, I will even set My face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. 8 An4 keep ye My statutes, and do them: I am the LORD who sanctify you. 9 For whatsoever man there be that curseth his father or .his mother shall surely be put to death; he hath cursed his father or his mother- his blood shall be upon him. 10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 11 And the "rnn.in that lieth with his father's wife—he hath uncovered his father's nakedness—both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. ^And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have wrought corruption; their blood shall be upon them. 13 And if a

man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be 'put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 14 And if a man take with his wife also her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. 15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and he down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. l7 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness: it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness—he hath made naked her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood—both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister; for he hath made naked his near kin; they shall bear then* iniquity. 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife-be hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness—they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. ^And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be ihildless.

M Ye shaft therefore keep all My statutes, and all Mine ordinances, and do them, that the land, whither [ bring you to dwell therein, vomit

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you not out. 23 And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 24 But I have said unto you : ' Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, who have set you apart from the peoples. 25 Ye shall therefore separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean; and ye shall not make your souls detestable by beast, or by fowl, or by any thing wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. 26 And ye shall be holy "unto Me; for I the LORD am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be Mine.

27 A man also or a woman that diyineth by a ghost or a familiar spirit, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.

O -j And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them:

There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people; 2 except for his kin, that is near unto him, 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 virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself. 4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself. *They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6 They

shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer; therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profaned; 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 fchy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy. 9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

10 And ^the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes; "neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; 12 nerther shall he go out of tne sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD. ^And he shall take a wife in her virginity. 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profaned woman, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife. 15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him.

16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying:

Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a 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 any thing maimed, or anything too long,

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19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20 or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; ^no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall

not come

to offer the bread of

his God. ^He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. ^Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LOED who sanctify them. ^So Moses spoke unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

O O And the LOED spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they hallow unto • Me, and that they profane not My holy name: I am the LOED. 3 Say unto them: Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LOED, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before Me: I am the LOED. 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso touch-eth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out; 6 or whosoever toucheth any swarming thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take unclean-ness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; Hhe soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even,

and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water. 7 And when the sun is down, h6 shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. 8 That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LOED. 9 They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LOED who sanctify them. 10 There shall no a common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. u But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of Ms money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of

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his bread. 12 And if a priest's daughter be married unto a common man, she shall not eat of that which is set apart from the holy things. w But if a 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 may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing through error, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing. 15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, wMch they set apart unto the LOED; 16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy things; for I am the LOED who sanctify them.

17 And the LOED spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to lis sons, and unto all the children of [srael, and say unto them:

Whosoever he be of the house of [srael, or of the strangers in Israel, that bringeth his offering, whether it

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be any of their vows, or any of their freewill-offerings, which are brought unto the LORD for a burnt-offering; 19 that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not bring; for it shall not be acceptable for you. 2l And whosoever bringeth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LOKD in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for a freewill-offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. ^Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scabbed, or scurvy, ye shall vnot offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. ^Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing too long or too short, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. ^That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or torn, or cut, ye shall not offer unto the LORD; neither shall ye do thus in your land. 26 Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them; they shall not be accepted for you. (

26 And the LORD spoke 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; but from the eighth day and thenceforth it may be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day. 29 And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, ye shall sacrifice it that ye may be accepted. 30 0n the

same day it shall be eaten; ye shall leave none of it until the morning: I am the LORD. 31 And ye shall keep My commandments, and do them: I atn the LORD. S2 And ye shall not profane My holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD who hallow you, ^that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.

00 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children

of Israel, and say unto them:

The appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My appointed seasons. s Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation^ ye shall do no manner of work; it is a sabbath unto the LORD in all your dwellings.

^hese are the appointed seasons of the LORD, even holy^ convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their appointed season. 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, 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 shall eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work. 8 And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.

9 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

When ye are come into the land which

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the sheaf before the LOUD, to be accepted for you; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 13 And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah 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 a hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the offering of your God; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the May of rest, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks shall there be complete; 16 even unto the morrow after the seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new meal-offering unto the LORD. 17 Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for first-fruits unto the LORD. 18 And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams; they shall be a burnt-offering unto the LORD, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 19 And,ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin-offering, and two he-lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace-offerings. 20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-

offering before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. 21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the stranger I am the LORD your God.

^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:

In the 'seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation. 25 Ye -shall do no manner of servile work; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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27 Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; there shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make 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 his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that docth any manner of work in that same day, that soul will I destroy from among his people. 31 Ye shall do no manner of work; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all

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your dwellings. ^It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

33 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^Speak unto the children of Israel, saying:

On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. 35 0n the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work. 36 Seven days ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a day of solemn assembly; ye shall do no manner of servile work.

37 These are the appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day; 38 beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your Vows, and beside all your freewill-offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

39 Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. 40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. ^And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever in your generations; ye shall

keep it in the seventh month. shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-bora in Israel shall dwell in booths; ^hat your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. ^And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the appointed seasons of the LORD.

O A And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2C Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. 3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.

5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table "before the LORD. 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, a perpetual due/

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tian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp. u And the son of the Israehtish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. ^And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.

^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 14 'Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. 15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. 16 And he that blas-phemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to ^death; ah 1 the congregation shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the Name, shall be put to death. 17 And he that smit-eth any man mortally shall surely be put to death. 18 And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life. 19 And if a man maim his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him: 20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath maimed a man, so shall it be rendered unto him. 21 And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; and he that killeth a man shall be put to death. ^Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the home-born; for I am the LORD your God.' ^And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. -And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

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And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof. 4 But m the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto the LORD; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard, ^hat which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land 6 And the sabbath-produce of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for the settler by thy side that sojourn with thee; 7 and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou make proclamation with the blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye make proclamation with the horn throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto^ his family. "A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be

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unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines. -^For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another. "According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee. 16 According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of crops doth he sell unto thee. 17 And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God. 18 Where-fore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat until ye have enough, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase'; ^then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it

[ bring forth produce for the three years. ^And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store. ^And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me. ^And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. ^If thy brother be waxen poor, and

sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold, 26 And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it; 27 then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession. 28 But if he have not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee. 3l But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. 32 But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption. ^An;! if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. ^But the fields of the open land about their cities may not* be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.

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35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee. 36 Take th6u no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give Mm thy victuals for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.

39 And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant. 40 As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee. ^Then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. ^For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. ^Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. **And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. ^Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten ha your land; and they may be your possession. ^And ye may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession: of them may ye take your bondmen for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over! another, with rigour.

47 And if a stranger who is a settler with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger who is "a settler with thee, or to the offshoot of a stranger's family, ^after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him; 49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxen rich, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. a lf there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption. ^As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. ^And if he be not redeemed by any of these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him. ^For unto Me the children of Israel are servants; they are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

^J Ye shall make you no idols, u neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God. 2 Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD,

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3 If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them; Hhen I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and^ the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread until ye have enough, and dwell m your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish My covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old from before the new. u And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. ^And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be My people. M I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments; "and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant; 16 I also will do this unto

you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall make the eyes to fail, and the soul to languish; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set My^face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies; they that hate you shall rule over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. 18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass. 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield her produce, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit. 21 And if ye walk contrary unto Me, and will not hearken unto Me; I will bring seven times more Blagues upon you according to your sins. ^And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate. ^And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me; ^hen will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins. ^And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities; and I win send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this

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hearken unto Me, but walk contrary unto Me; 2 Hhen I will walk contrary unto you in fury; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ^And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. 34 Then shall the land be paid her sabbaths, as long as it heth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and repay her sabbaths. 35 As long as it hcth desolate it shall have rest; even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies 38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your ^enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers

shall they pine away with them. 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of' their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary unto Me. 41 I also will walk contrary unto them, and bring them into the land of their enemies; if then perchance their un-circumcised heart be humbled, and they then be paid the punishment of their iniquity; ^then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. ^For the land shall he forsaken without them, and shall be paid her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them; and they shall be paid the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected Mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred My statutes. ^And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them; for I am the I>RD their God. 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God* I am the LORD.

46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between Him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

O 7 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^ ' saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them-

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from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy valuation shall be for the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy valuation shall be for the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if it be from sixty years old and upward if it be a male, then thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he be too poor for thy valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the means of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man -giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy. n And if it be any unclean beast, of which they may not bring an offering unto the LORD, then he shall set the beast before the priest. ^And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad; as thou the priest valuest it, so shall it be. 13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof unto thy valuation.

14 And when a map shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad; as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. 16 And if

he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be his.

16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD part of the field of Ins possession, then thy valuation shall be according to the sowing thereof; the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy valuation it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of jubilee, and an abatement shall be made from thy valuation. 19 And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. ^But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. ^And if he sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which is not of the field of his possession; 23 then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy valuation unto the year of jubilee, and he shall give thy valuation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD. 24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth. 25 And all thy valuations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary; twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

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whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom it according to thy valuation, ajid shall add unto it the fifth part thereof; or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy valuation.

^Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man may devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. 29 None devoted, that may be devoted of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

30 And all the tithe of the land,

whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the LORD'S; it is holy unto the LORD. 31 And if a man will redeem aught of his tithe, he shall add unto it the fifth part thereof. ^And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD. ^He shall not inquire whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it; and if he change it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

^These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

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"I AND the LOED spoke unto Moses x in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: *'Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, by their polls; sfrom twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: ye shall number them by their hosts, even thou and Aaron. 4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, every one head of his fathers' house. 5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6 0f Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7 0f Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab. ^Of Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar. 9 0f Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon. 10 0f the children of Joseph: of Ephraim, EKshama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahjzur. U 0f Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 0f Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 18 0f Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran. 14 0f Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15 0f Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.' 16 These were the elect of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. l7 And Moses and Aaron took these men that are pointed out bv name. 18 And they

assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai.

^Aad the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by then* families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ^ those that were numbered of them, of the tril e of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

^Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

^Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by then* fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

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M 0f the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand " and six hundred.

28 0f the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

30 0f the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

^Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers 7 houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

34 0f the children of Manasseh, their generations, by then- families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; S5 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

^Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their

fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

38 0f the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by then-fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; 89 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

40 0f the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ^those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

^Of the children of Naphtati, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; ^those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

^These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; they were each one for his fathers' house. ^And all those that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; ^even all those that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 47 But the Levites after the

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tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'Howbeit the tribe of Levi thou shalt not number, neither shalt thou take the sum of them among the children of Israel; 50 but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it; they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. 51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up; and the common man that draw-eth nigh shall be put to death. 52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man with his own camp, and every man with his own standard, according to their hosts. ^But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.' ^Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so olid they.

O And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2 'The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting. 3 Now those that pitch on the east side toward the sunrising shall be they of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Judah being Nahshon the son of Ammina-dab, *and his host, and those that

were numbered of them, threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred; 6 and those that pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar; the prince of the children of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, ^nd his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty and four thousand and four hundred; 7 and the tribe of Zeb-ulun; the prince of the children of Zeb-ulun being Eliab the son of Helon, 8 and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, fifty and seven thousand and four hundred; 9 all that were numbered of the camp of Judah being a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts; they shall set forth first.

10 0n the south side shall~ be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur, n and his host, and those that were numbered thereof, forty and six thousand and five hundred; ^and those that pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Simeon; the prince of the children of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, w and his host, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and nine thousand and three hundred; "and the tribe of Gad; the prince of the children of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel, 15 and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty; 16 all that were numbered of the camp of Reuben being a hundred thousand and fifty and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their hosts; and they shall set forth second.

17 Then the tent of meeting, with the camp of the Levites, shall set forward in the midst of the camps;

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as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.

18 0n the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Ephraim being Elish-ama the son of Arnmihud, 19 and his host, and those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred; 20 and next unto him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; the prince of the children of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, 21 and his host, and those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and two hundred; ^and the tribe of Benjamin, the prince of the children of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni, 23 and his host, and those that were numbered of them, thirty and five thousand and four hundred; ^all that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim being a hundred thousand and eight thousand and a hundred, according to their hosts; and they shall set forth third.

26 0n the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, 26 and his host, and those that were numbered of them, threescore and two thousand and seven hundred; 27 and those that pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Asher; the prince of the children of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran, 28 and his host, and those that were numbered of them, forty and one thousand and five hundred; 29 and the tribe of Naphtali; the prince of the children of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan, 30 and his host, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and three thousand and four hundred; 81 all that were numbered of the camp of Dan being a hundred

thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred; they shall set forth hindmost by their standards/

32 These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses; all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. ^But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses. ^Thus did the children of Israel: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, each one according to its families, and according to its fathers' houses.

O Now these are the generations of u Aaron and Moses in the^day that the LORD spoke with Moses in mount Sinai. 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office. 4 And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

6 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 6 'Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. 7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle. 8 And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of

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the tabernacle. 9 And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given unto him from the children of Israel. 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, that they may keep their priesthood; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death/

u And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine; J3 for all the firstborn are Mine: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto Me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast, Mine they shall be: I am the LORD/

14 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying: 16< Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.' t ^And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. 17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libm and Shimei. 19 And the sons of Kohath fey their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

21 0f Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. ^Those that .were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those

that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred. ^The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward; ^he prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites being Elia-saph the son of Lael, ^and the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covenng thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, 26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court— which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar, round about—and the cords of it, even whatsoever pertaineth to the service thereof.

27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites: 28 according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keepers of the charge of the sanctuary. 29 The families of the sons of Kohath were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward; 30 the prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites being Elizaphan the son of Uzziel, ^and their charge the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith the priests minister, and the screen, and all that pertaineth to the service thereof; ^Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest being prince of the princes of the Levites, and having the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

^Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mu-shites; these are the families of Merari. M And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and up-

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ward, were six thousand and two hundred; ^he prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari being Zuriel the son of Abihail; they were to pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward; 86 the appointed charge of the sons of Merari being the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all that pertameth to the service thereof; 37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and then* cords. 38 And those that were to pitch before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunnsing, were Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary, even the charge for the children of Israel; and the common man that drew nigh was to be put to death. 39 A11 that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

40 And the LORD said unto Moses. 'Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names 41 And thou shalt take the Levites for Me, even the LORD, instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel' ^And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel. ^And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month, old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

44 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine, even the LORD'S. 46 And as for the redemption of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Iwrael, that are over and above the number of the Levites, 47 thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them—the shekel is twenty gerahs. 48 And thou shalt give the money wherewith they that remain over of them are redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons/ 49 And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites; 60 from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. ftl And Moses gave the redemption-money unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

A And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2 'Takethe sum of the sons of Kohath from among the song of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houbes, ^lom thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do work in the tent of meeting. 4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things: Vhen the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the ^screen, a,nd cover the ark of the testimony with it; 6 and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin,

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and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof. 7 And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the pans, and the bowls, and the jars wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall remain thereon. 8 And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof. 9 And they shall take a cloth of'blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its lamps, and its tongs, and its snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it. 10 And they shaft put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon a bar. u And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof. ^And^they shall take all the vessels of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on a bar, 18 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon. 14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, the fire-pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and set the staves thereof. 16 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the holy furniture, and all the holy vessels, as the camp is to set forward—after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear them; but they shall not touch the holy things, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of I

Kohath in the tent of meeting. 16 Anci the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaror the priest shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual meal-offering, and the anoint^ ing oil: he shall have the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, whether it be the sanctuary, or the furniture thereof.'

17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 18 'Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; 19 but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach -unto the most holy ^thingb: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden; 20 but they shall not go in to see the holy things as they are being covered, lest they die.'

21 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families; ^rom thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them: all that enter^in to wait upon the service, to do service in the tent of meeting. M This is the service of the families of the Gershon-ites, in serving and in bearing burdens ^hey shall bear the curtains of ihe tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above upon it, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting; ^and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatsoever there may be to do with them, therein shall they serve. 27 At the commandment of Aaron and his

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sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden. 28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting; and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

29 As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers' houses; 30 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth upon the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting. 31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof; ^and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and then: cords, even all their appurtenance, and all that pertaineth to their service; and by name ye shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden^ $ ^This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.'

M And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 33 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for service in the tent of meeting. 86 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. 37 These are they that were numbered of the families

of the Kohathites, of all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 89 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for service in the tent of meeting, 40 even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty. 41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD.

^And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers' houses, ^rom thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for service in the tent of meeting, ^even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred. 45 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

^All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, 47 from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to do the work of service^ and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting, 48 even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and

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five hundred and fourscore. ^According to the commandment of the LORD they were appointed by the hand of Moses, every one to his service, and to his burden; they were also numbered, as the LORD commanded Moses.

K And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^ saying: v Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead; 3 both male' and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.' 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp; as the LORD spoke unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

5 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 6 Speak unto the children of Israel:

When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that soul be guilty; 'then they shall confess their sin which they have done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add unto it the fiftli part thereof, and give it unto him in respect of whom he hath been guilty. 8 But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made shall, be the LORD'S, even the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, whereby atonement shall be made for him. 9 And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his. l °And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever

any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

n And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

If any man's wife go aside, and act unfaithfully against him, 13 and a'ntan lie with her carnaUy, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, she being defiled secretly, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken in the act; 14 and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled; or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled; ^hen shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is a meal-offering of jealousy, a meal-offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance. 16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the LORD. 17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water. "And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal-offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal-offering of jealousy; and the priest shall have hi his hand the water of bitterness that causeth the curse. 19 And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say unto the woman: 'If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to un-cleanness, being under thy husband, be thou free from this water of bitterness that causeth the curse; *°but if thou hast gone aside, being under thv

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husband, and if thou be denied, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband— 21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman—the LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy belly to swell; ^and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to fall away'; and the woman shall say: 'Amen, Amen.' ^And the priest shall write these curses in a scroll, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. ^And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 25 And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before the LORD, and bring it unto the altar. 26 And the priest shall take a handful of the meal-offering, as the memorial-part thereof, and make it smoke upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have acted unfaithfully against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall be a curse among her people. ^And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean: then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed. 29 This is the law of jealousy, when, a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled; ^or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he be jealous

over his wife; then shall he set the faoman before the LORD, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. 81 And the man shall be clear from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.

g And the LORD spoke unto Moses, u saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them-

When either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a Nazir-ite, to consecrate himself unto the LORD, 3 he shall abstain from wine and strong drink: he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried. 4 AU the days of his Nazrriteship shall he eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the pressed grapes even to the grape-stone. 6 A11 the days of his vow of Nazinteohip there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled, hi which he consecrat-eth himself unto the LORD, he shall be^holy, he shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long. 6 A11 the days that he consecrateth himself unto the LORD he shall not come near to a dead body. 7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his consecration unto God is upon his head. 8 A11 the days of his Naziriteship he is holy unto the LORD. 9 And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it. 10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. ll And the priest shall pro-pare one for a sin-offering, and the

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other for a burnt-offering, and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead; and he shall hallow his head that same day. 12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his Naziriteship, and shall bring a he-lamb of the first year for a guilt-offering; but the former days^ shall be void, because his consecration was defiled.

13 And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his consecration are fulfilled: he shall fl bring it unto the door of the tent of meeting; 14 and he shall present his offering unto the LORD, one he-lamb of the first year without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings, 16 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings. ^And the priest shall bring them before the LORD, and shall offer his sin-offering, and his burnt-offering. 17 And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also the meal-offering thereof, and the idrink-offering thereof. 18 And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of his consecrated head, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings. 19 And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram when it is sodden, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he hath shaven his consecrated head. 20 And the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering

before the LORD; this is holy for the priest, together with the breast of waving and the thigh of heaving, and after that the Nazirite may drink wine. ^This is the law of the Nazirite who voweth, and of his offering unto the LORD for his Naziriteship, beside that for which his means suffice; according to his vow which he voweth, so he must do after the law of his Naziriteship.

the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying: On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel; ye shall say unto them:

w The LORD bless thee, and keep thee;

25 The LORD make His face to shine upon thee, and'be gracious unto thee;

26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

27 So shall they put My name upon

the children of Israel, and I wiU bi them/

*7 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof^ and had anointed them and sanctified them; ^that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered—these were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered. 3 And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen: a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox; and they presented them before the tabernacle. 4 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying* 5< Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tent of meet-

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ing; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.' 6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites. 7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service. 8 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 9 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the holy things belonged unto them: they bore them upon their shoulders. 10 And the princes brought the dedication-offering of the altar in the day that it was anointed, even the princes brought their offering before the altar. u And the LORD said unto Moses* 'They shall present their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedication of the altar.'

12 And he that presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Ammmadab, of the tribe of Judah; I3 and his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ^ 4 one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense ; 15 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; 16 one male of the goats for a sin-offering; I7 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

X8 0n the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer: 19 he presented for his offering one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one

silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 20 one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; 21 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; ^one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ^and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.

^On the third day Ekab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun: 25 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 26 one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; 27 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; 28 one male of the goats for a sin-offering; 29 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.

80 0n the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben: 31 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 32 one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; ^one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; ^one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ^and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats,, five he-lambs of the first year. This

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was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

36 0n the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon: 37 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 3 *one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; 39 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; '"'one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ^and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

^On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad: ^his^ offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ^ne golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; ^one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, tor a burnt-offering j-^one male of the goats for a sin-offering; 47 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

48 0n the seventh day Elishama the son of Amznihud, prince of the children of Ephraim: 49 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 60 one golden pan

of ten shekels, full of incense; 61 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; 52 one male of the goats for a sin-offering; ^and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

M 0n the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: ^his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ^one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; 67 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; 68 one male of the goats for a sin-offering; 59 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

60 0n the ninth day Abidan the son of Gidepni, prince of the children of Benjamin: 61 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; ^one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; ^one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; w one male of the goats for a sin-offering; €5 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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of Dan: 67 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary 5 both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 68 one golden pan of ten shekels, fufl of incense; 69 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; 70 one male of the goats for a sin-offering; 71 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

72 0n the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher* 78 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 74 one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; 75 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; 76 one male of the goats for a sin-offering; 77 and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

78 0n the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali: 79 his offering was one silver dish, the weight thereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; 80 one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; ^one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; ^one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.

^This was the dedication-offering of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, at the hands of the princes of Israel: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver basins, twelve golden pans; 86 each silver dish'weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each basin seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; ^twelve golden pans, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the pans a hundred and twenty shekels; 87 all the oxen for the burnt-offering twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the he-lambs of the first year twelve, and their meal-offering; and the males of the goats for a sin-offering twelve; 88 and aS the oxen for the sacrifice of peace-offerings twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication-offering of the altar, after that it was anointed. 89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting that He might speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking unto him from above the ark-cover that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and He spoke unto him.

Q And the LOED spoke unto Moses, ° saying: *'Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him: When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the candlestick' 3 And Aaron did so: he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in

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front of the candlestick, as the LOED commanded Moses. 4 And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; unto the base thereof, and unto the flowers thereof, it was beaten work; according unto the pattern which the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the candlestick,

5 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 6 'Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves. 8 Then let them take a young bullock, a and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering. 9 And thou shalt present the Levites before the tent of meeting; and thou shalt assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel. 10 And thou shalt present the Levites before the LORD; and the children of Israel shall lay their ha'nds upon the Levites. u And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for a wave-offering from the children of Israel, that they may be to do the service of the LORD. ^And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks; and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites. ^And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto the LORD. 14 Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be Mine. 15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting; and thou shalt cleanse them,

and offer them for a wave-offering 16 For they are wholly given unto Me from among the children of Israel; 1 instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto Me. 17 For all the first-born among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself. 18 And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel. 19 And I have given the Levites — they are given to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel, through the children of Israel coming nigh unto the sanctuary/ 20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the Levites; according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them. ^And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them for a sacred gift before the LORD; and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them. ^And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron, and before his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

^And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^This is that which per-taineth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to perform the service in the work of the tent of meeting; ^and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work,

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and shall serve no more; 26 but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, but they shall do no manner of service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges/ O And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second' year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 'Let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at dusk, ye shall keep it in its appointed season; according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep it/ 4 And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover. 5 And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in the -wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. 6 But there were certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. 7 And those men said unto him: 'We are unclean by the dead body of a man; wherefore are we to be kept back, so as not to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed season among the children of Israel?' 8 And Moses said unto them: 'Stay ye, that I may hear ^ what the LORD will command concerning you. 1 9 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 10< Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD; n in the second month on the fourteenth day at

dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; ^they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof; according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut. off from his people; because he brought not the offering of the LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD: according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do; ye shall have one statute, both for the stranger, and for him that is born in the land/

15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped. 19 And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. 20 And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the

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LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning,^ and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. ^Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. ^At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

•J A And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2< Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them; and they shall be unto thee for the calling of the congregation, and for causing the camps to set forward. 8 And when they shall blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting. 4 And if they blow but with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. 6 And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey. 6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. ''But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they

shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations. 9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresseth you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. 10 Also in the day ^ of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.'

u And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from, over the tabernacle of the testimony. ^And the children of Israel set forward by their stages out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.—"And they took their first journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 14 And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judab set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Nahshon the son of Ammi-nadab. ^And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Ne-thanel the son of Zuar. ^And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore tjie tabernacle, set forward. 18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of

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Zurishaddai. 20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 21 And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming. 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elishama the son of Am-naihud. ^And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. ^And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan,

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camps, set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ainmishaddai. ^And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran. 27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. 28 Thus were the jour-neyings of the children of Israel to their hosts. — And they set

aci forward.

29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law. 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said: I will give it you; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LOED hath spoken good concerning Israel/ 30 And he said unto him: 'I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.' 81 And he said: 'Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes. •* 2 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.'

33 And they set forward from the mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them. ^And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.

35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: ' Rise up, 0 LORD, and let Thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee.' 36 And when it rested, he said: 'Return, 0 LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'

-j 1 And the people were as mur-1 - 1 - murers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. 2 And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated. 3 And the name of that place was called a Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat I *We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.'— 7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium, 8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and

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cake baked with oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.— 10 And Moses heard the people weeping, family by family, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. n And Moses said unto the LORD : 'Wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with Thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in Thy sight, that Thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? ^Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carrieth the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers?- "Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people myself alone, because it is too heavy for me. ^ 15 And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.'

15 And the LORD said unto Moses* ' Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down and speak with thee there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. 18 And say thou unto the people: Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying: Would

that we were given flesh to eat r for it was well with us hi Egypt, therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD" who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?' ^And Moses said: 'The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and yet Thou hast said* I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month! ^If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, will they suffice them? 7 ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.'

Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. ^And the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders; and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. ^But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were recorded, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they^ prophesied in the camp. 27 And there

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Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses ^ from his youth up, answered and saipl: ' My lord Moses, shut them in.' 29 And Moses said unto him. 'Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His spirit upon them!' 80 And Moses withdrew into* the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

^And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought across quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. ^And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps; and they spread them all abroad for

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^While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. ^And the name of that place was called a Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted. 36 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people jour-

neyed unto Hazeroth; i at Hazeroth. 1 O And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 And they said: 'Hath the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? hath He not spoken also with us?' And the LORD heard it.— 3 Now the man Moges was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth — 4 And the LORD spoke suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron,

and unto Miriam: 'Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting.' And they three came out. 5 And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. 6 AndHesaid: 'Hear now My words, if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so, he is trusted in all My house; 8 with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?' 9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed. 10 And when the cloud was removed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam; and, behold, she was leprous. ll And Aaron said unto Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half^ consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.' 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying. 'Heal her now, 0 God, I beseech Thee.'

14 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.' 15 And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days; and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. 16 And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.

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overcome it.' ^But the men that went up with him said: 'We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.' 32 And they spread an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof j and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. ^And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in then 1 sight/ •| A And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: 'Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore doth the LOKD bring us unto this lajad, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?' 4 And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.' 6 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes. 7 And they spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us— a land which floweth with milk and honey. 9 0nly rebel not against the

LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their defence is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us; fear them, not.' 10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones, when the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.

n And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long will this people despise Me? and how long will they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? W I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they/ 13 And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear—for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them—"they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud standeth over them, and Thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; 15 now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which ( have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying: 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto ^ them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying: 18 The LORD is ^ slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. "Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the

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greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.' 20 And the LORD said: 'I have pardoned according to thy word. a But in very deed, as I live—and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD —^surely all those men that have seen My glory, and My signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to proof these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice; ^surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it. M But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. ^Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the Vale; to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'

^And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 27< How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they keep murmuring against Me. ^ay unto them: As I live, saith the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine sars, so will I do to you: 29 your car-Basses shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, ye that have murmured against Me; ^surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up My band that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephiin-aeh, and Joshua the son of Nun. Jl But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in,

and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. ^And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. ^After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My displeasure. ^1 the LORD have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die/ ^Aitd the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who, when they returned, made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, ^even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD. ^But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land. 39 And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly. *°And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying: 'Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised; for we have sinned.' ^And Moses said: 'Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper? ^o not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies. ^For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; forasmuch as ye are turned back from following the LORD, and

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the LORD will not be with, you/ ^But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. ^Then the Amalekite and the Ca-naanite, who dwelt in that hilL-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.

1 £ And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying. 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them

When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 3 and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or as a freewill-offering, or in your appointed seasons, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; *then shall he that bringeth his offering present unto the LORD a meal-pffering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil; *and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 6 0r for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil; 7 and for the drink-offering thou shalt present the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 8 And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for peace-offerings unto the LORD; *then shall there be presented with the bullock a meal-onering of three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil. 10 And thou shalt present for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet

savour unto the LORD. u Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids. "According to the number that ye may prepare, so shall ye do for every one according to their number. 13 A11 that are home-born shall do these tilings after this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD. 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you, throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do. 15 As for the congregation, there shall be one statute both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations; as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 16 0ne law and one ordinance shall be both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:

When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall set apart a portion for a gift unto the LORD. 20 0f the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart. 21 0f the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.

when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, ^even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD

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gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; ^hen it shall be, if it be done in error by the congregation, it being hid from their eyes, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for'a sweet savour unto the LORD— with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the ordinance—and one he-goat for a sin-offenng. ^And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their error. ^And all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done in error.

27 And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering* 28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that erreth, when he sinneth through er,ror, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven, ^both he that is home-born among the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them: ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught in error. 80 But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemeth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken His commandment; that soul shall utterly be cut off, his iniquity shall be upon him.

while the children of Israel in the wilderness, they found a

man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day. ^And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. ^And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him. ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp/ ^And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the LORD commanded Moses.

37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 38 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue. 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray-40 that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God. ^1 am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God. 7

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Aaron, and said unto them: c Ye take too much upon you, seeing al] the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them; wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?' 4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face. 6 And he spoke unto Korah and unto all his company, saying: f ln the morning the LORD will show who are His, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto Him; even him whom He may choose will He ^cause to come near unto Hun. 6 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company; 7 and put fire therein, and put incense upon them before the LORD tomorrow; and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose, he shall be holy; ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.' 8 And Moses said unto Korah: 'Hear now, ye sons of Levi: 9 is it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them; 10 and that He hath brought thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee? and will ye seek the priesthood also? ^Therefore thou and all thy company that are gathered together against the LORD —; and as to Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?' ^And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and^they said: 'We will not come up; ^s it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but thou must needs make thyself also a prince over us? "Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land flowing with milk and

honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards; wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.' 15 And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD: 'Respect not Thou their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.' 16 And Moses said unto Korah: 'Be thou and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow; 17 and take ye every man his fire-pan, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his fire-pan, two hundred and fifty fire-pans; thou also, and Aaron, each his fire-pan.' 18 And they took every man his fire-pan, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. 19 And Korah assembled all the congregation against them unto the door of the tent of meeting; and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the con-

20 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2l 'Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment/ ^And they fell upon their faces, and said: f O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Thou be wroth with all the congregation?'

the LORD spoke unto Moses, sayng: w Speak unto the congregation, saying: Get you up from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.' 26 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. spoke unto the congregation, saying: 'Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked rasa, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be

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they got them up from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side; and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, and their sons, and their little ones. 28 And Moses said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all ^ men, and be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LOBD hath not sent me. 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.' 31 And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground did cleave asunder that was under them. 32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. ^So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. M And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said: 'Lest the earth swallow us up.' 36 And fire came forth from the LORD, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

•| H- And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the fire-pans out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are become holy; Seven the fire-pans of these men who have sinned at the cost of then-lives, and let them be made beaten

plates for a covering of the altar—for they are become holy, because they were offered before the LoRD-*-that they may be a sign unto the children of Israel.' 4 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen fire-pans, which they that were burnt had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, *to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no common man, that is not of the seed of Aaron, draw near to burn incense before the LORD; that he fare not as Korah, and as his company; as the LORD spoke unto him by the hand of

6 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying: 'Ye have killed the people of the LORD.' 7 And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting; and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 8 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting. 9 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 10 'Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.' And they fell upon their faces. u And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Take thy fire-pan, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from the LORD: the plague is begun.' ^And Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people; and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people. 13 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

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14 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah. 15 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting, and the plague was stayed.

l6 And the LOHD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17< Speak unto the children, of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods; thou shalt write every man's name upon his rod. 18 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi, for there shall be one rod for the head of their fathers' houses. 19 And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you. 20 And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his rod shall bud; and I will make to cease from Me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you. 7 21 And Moses spoke unto the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods; and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. ^And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD ia the tent of the testimony. ^And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house 6i Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds. ^And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel; and they looked, and took every' man his rod.

^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept there, for a token against the rebellious children, |

that there may be made an end of their murmurings against Me, that they die not.' ^hus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

27 And the children of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone. 28 Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of the LORD, is to die; shall we wholly perish?' 1 Q And the LORD said unto Aaron: •*u 'Thou and thy sons and thy fathers' house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee, thou and thy sons with thee being before the tent of the testimony. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent; only they shall not come nigh unto the holy furniture and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, whatsoever the service of the Tent may be; but a common man shall not draw nigh unto you. 6 And ye shall keep the charge of the holy things, and the charge of the altar, that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Jsrael; for you they are given as a gift unto the LORD ? to do the service of the tent of meeting. 7 And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood in everything that pertaineth to the altar, and to that within the veil; and ye shall serve; I give you the priesthood as a service of gift; and the common man that draweth nigh shall be put to death.'

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8 And the LORD spoke unto Aaron: 'And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of My heave-offerings; even of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel unto thee have I given them for a consecrated portion, and to thy sons, as a due for ever. ^This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every guilt-offering of theirs, which they may render unto Me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In a most holy place shalt thou eat thereof; every male may eat thereof; it shall be holy unto thee. u And this is thine: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of th'e children of Israel; I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof. M AU the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the corn, the first part of them which they give unto the LORD, to thee have I given them. "The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house may eat thereof. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. ^Every thing that openeth the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto the LORD, both of man and beast, shall be thine; howbeit the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. "And their redemption-money—from a month old shalt thou redeem them—shall be, according to thy valuation, five shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary— the same is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of an ox, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat,

thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt dash their blood against the altar, and shalt make their fat smoke for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it shall be thine. 19 AU j the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever; it is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee/

20 And the LORD said unto Aaron: Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them; I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel. ^And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting. ^And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die. ^But the Levites alone shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, and among the children of Israel they shalliave no inheritance. ^For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they set apart as a gift unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance; therefore I have said unto them: Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance/

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then ye shall set apart of it a gift for the LORD, even a tithe of the tithe. 27 And the gift which ye set apart shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall set apart a gift unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall give the gift which is set apart unto the LORD to Aaron the priest. 29 0ut of all that is given you ye shall' set apart all of that which is due unto the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them: When ye set apart the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase^ of the threshing-floor, and as the increase of the winepress. 31 And ye may eat it in every^ place, ye and your households; for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, seeing that ye have set apart from it the best thereof; and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not/

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2 This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer, faultless, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke. 3 And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and she shall be brought forth without the camp, and she shall be slain before his face. 4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven

times. 5 And the heifer shall be burnt in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall be burnt. 6 And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer. 7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even. 8 And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of sprinkling; it is a purification from sin. 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even; and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever. n He that toucheth the dead, even any man's dead body, shall be unclean seven days; ^the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day and on the seventh day, and he shall be clean; but if he purify not himself the third day and the seventh day, he shall not be clean. 13 Whoso-ever toucheth the dead, even the body of any man that is dead, and punfieth not himself—he hath defiled the tabernacle of the LORD —that soul shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of sprinkling was not dashed against him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him. "This is the law: when a man dieth in a tent, every one that cometh into the tent, and every thing that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven

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days. 15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering close-bound upon it, is imclean. 16 And- whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or one that dieth bone of a man, be unclean seven

days. 17 And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the purification from sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel. 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave. "And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify him- and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even. 20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD; the water of sprinkling hath not been dashed against him: he is unclean. 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them; and he that sprinkleth the water of sprinkling shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of sprinkling shall be unclean until even. ^And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth him shall be unclean iyH1 even.

OA And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the, people abode in Ka-desh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there. 2 And there was no

water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. 3 And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD ! 4 And why have ye brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, to die there, we and our cattle? 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt,, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or-of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.' 6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces; and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them. 7 And the LORD saying: 8 'Take

O poke unto Moses, 0 <*yjm 5 . JL«^ the rod, and assemble the congregation, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock; so thou shalt give the congregation and their cattle drink. 7 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as He commanded him. 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he "said unto them: 'Hear now, ye rebels; are we to bring you forth water out of this rock?' u And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle. ^And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'Because ye believed not in Me, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.' 13 These are the waters of a Meribah, where the children of

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Israel strove with the LORD, and He was sanctified in them.

14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom: 'Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us; 16 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers; M and when we cried unto the LORD, He heard our voice, and sent an angel, arid brought us forth out of Egypt; and, ^ behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border. 1T Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land; we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells; we will go along the king's highway, we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border/ 18 And Edom said unto him: 'Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.' 19 And the children of Israel said unto him: 'We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof; let me only pass through on my feet; there is no hurt.' 20 And he said: 'Thou shalt not pass through.' And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. ^Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him.

^And they journeyed from" Kadesh; and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor. ^And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying: **' Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto

the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against My word at the waters of Menbah. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor. ^And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall otie there.' 27 And Moses did as the LORD commanded; and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation. 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount; and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. 29 And when

all the con was dead, days, even

Cation saw that Aaron

"wept for Aaron thirty

the house of Israel

01 And the Canaanite, the king of ^ x Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.' 3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Ca-naanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities; and the name of the place was called a Hormah.

4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Bed Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient because of the way. 6 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses: 'Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loath-eth this light bread.' 6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people,

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and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses, and said: 'We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us. * And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses : 'Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live/ 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived. 10 And the children of Israel joumeyed, and pitched in Oboth. u And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sunrising. 12 From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered. 13 From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites. — For Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites; "wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD:

Vaheb in Suphah,

And the valleys of Arnon,' 15 And the slope of the valleys

That inclineth toward the seat of Ar,

And leaneth upon the border of

Moab. —

16 And from thence to a Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.' 17 Then sang Israel this song:

Spring up, O well— sing ye unto it — 18 The well, which the princes digged,

Which thenoblesof the peopledelved,

With the sceptre, and with their

And from the wilderness to Mat-tanah; 19 and from Mattanah to Na-haliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.

Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying: ^'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.' ^And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and \tent out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel. M And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. ^And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof. ^For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon. 27 Wherefore they that speak in parables say:

Come ye to Heshbp£!

Let the city of Sihon be built and

established!

28 For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon; It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of

Arnon.

29 Woe to thee, Moab! Thou art undone, 0 people of Che-

mosh; He hath given his sons as fugitives,

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And his daughters into captivity,

Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 We have shot at them — Heshbon

is perished — even unto Dibon,

And we have laid waste even unto Nophah,

Which reacheth unto Medeba. 31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. ^And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there. ^And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan ^ went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. ^And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon/ 35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land. OO And the children of Israel jour-neyed, and pitched in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites. 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was overcome with dread because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: 'Now will this" multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.' — And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. — 5 And he sent messengers unto Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying: 'Behold, there is ai

people come out from Egypt; behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me. 6 Comc now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me; peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed/ 7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spoke unto him the words of Balak. 8 And he said unto them: 'Lodge here this night, and I will bring you back word, as the LORD may speak unto me'; and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam. 9 Ajid God came unto Balaam, and said: 'What men are these with thee?' 10 And Balaam said unto God: 'Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me [ } saying] u Behold the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth; now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out/ ^And God said unto Balaam: 'Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed/ 13 And Balaam rose up in the morn-£, and said unto the princes of Ba-L: 'Get you into your land; for the LORD refuseth to give me leave to go with you/ 14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said: 'Balaam refuseth to come with us/ 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they. 16 And they came to Ba-[aam, and said to him: 'Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor: Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me; 17 for I will promote

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thee unto very great honour, and whatsoever thou sayest unto me I will do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.' 18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great. 19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak unto me more.^ 20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him: ^If the men are come to call thee, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.' 21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. 22 And God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself hi the way for an adversary against him.1 -Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.. — ^And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the way', and went into the field; and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. ^Then , the angel of the LORD stood in a hollow way between the vineyards, a fence being on this side, and a fence on that side. 25 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD, and she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and he smote her again. ^And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. ^And the ass saw the angel of the LORD, and she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with

his staff. ^And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam: 'What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?' 29 And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou hast mocked ma; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.' 30 And the ass said unto Balaam: 'Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy fife long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?' And he said: 'Nay.' 31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw 'the angel 'of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face. ^And the angel of the LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I am come forth for an adversary, because thy way is contrary unto me; ^and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times; unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive/ ^And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me; now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back.' ^And the angel of the LORD said unto Balaam: 'Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.' So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. 36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto Ir-moab, which is on the border of Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border. 37 And Balak said unto Balaam: 'Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore earnest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?' 88 And Balaam said unto

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*Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.' 39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kiriath-huzoth. 40 And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him. ^And it, came to pass in the morning that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into Bamoth-baal, and he saw from thence the utmost part of the people. OO And Balaam said unto Balak: ^^ 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.' 2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram. 3 And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LOKD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height. 4 And God met Balaam; and he said unto Him: 'I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar/ 5 And the LOKD put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said: ' Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.' 6 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. 7 And he took up his parable, and said: From Aram Balak bringeth me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: 'Come, curse me Jacob, And come, execrate Israel' 8 How shall I curse, whom God hath

not cursed? And how shall I execrate, whom the

LORD hath not execrated? 9 For from the top of the rocks I see him,

And from the hills I behold him:

Lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone,

And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

10 Who hath counted the dust of Jacob,

Or numbered the stock of Israel?

Let me die the death of the righteous,

And let mine end be like his! u And Balak said unto Balaam: ' What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether' l2 And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD putteth in my mouth?' 13 And Balak said unto him: 'Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them; thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, ancl shalt not see them all; and curse me* them from thence.' 14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar 16 And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I

toward a meeting yonder.' 16 And

e LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said: 'Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.' 17 And he came to him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him: 'What hath the LORD spoken?' l8 And he took up bis parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear;

Give ear unto me, thou son of Zip-

por:

19 God is not a man, that He should lie;

Neither the son of man, that He should repent:

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When He hath said, will He not

doit? Or when He hath spoken, will He

not make it good? 20 Behold, I am bidden to bless; And when He hath blessed, I cannot call it back.

21 None hath beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath one seen perverseness

in Israel;

The LORD his God is with him, And the shouting for the King is

among them. ^God who brought them forth out

of Egypt Is for them like the lofty horns

of the wild-ox. ^For there is no enchantment with

Jacob, Neither is there any divination with

Israel;

Now is it said of Jacob and of Israel* 'What hath God wrought!' ^Behold a people that riseth up as

a lioness,

And as a lion doth he lift himself up; He shall not lie down until he eat

of the prey,

And drink the blood of the slam. K And Balak said unto Balaam-'Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.' ^But Balaam answered and said unto Balak:'Told not I thee, saying: All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?' 27 And Balak said unto Balaam 'Come now, I will take thee unto another place; per-adventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.' 28 And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert. S9 And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams/ 30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

OJ. And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness. 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling tribe by tribe; and the spirit of God came upon him. 3 And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of

Beor, And the saying of the man whose

eye is opened; 4 The saying of him who heareth

the words of God, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty,

Fallen down, yet with opened eyes: 8 How goodly are thy tents, 0 Jacob, Thy dwellings, 0 Israel! * 6 As valleys stretched out, As gardens by the river-side; As aloes planted of the LORD, As cedars beside the waters; ^ater shall flow from his branches, And his seed shall be in many

waters; And his king shall be higher than

Agag,

And his kingdom shall be exalted. 8 God who brought him forth out of

Egypt Is for him like the lofty horns of the

wild-ox; He shall eat up the nations that are

his adversaries, And shall break their bones in

pieces, And pierce them through with his-

arrows.

9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse

him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth

thee,

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10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together; and Balak said unto Balaam: 'I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them these three times. n Therefore now flee thou to thy place; I thought to promote thee anto great honour; but, lo, the LORD nath kept thee back from honour. 7 2 And Balaam said unto Balak:' Spoke 1 not also to thy messengers that thou didst send unto me, saying: 13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what the LORD speaketh, that will I speak? 14 And now, behold, I go unto my people; come, and I will announce to thee what this people shall do to thy people in the end of days/ 15 And he took up his parable, and said: The saying of Balaam the son of

Beor, And the saying of the man whose

eye is opened; 16 The saying of him who heareth the

words of God, And knoweth the knowledge of the

Most High,

Who seeth the vision of the Almighty,

Fallen down, yet with opened eyes: 17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh; There shall step forth a star out of

Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out of

Israel, And shall smite through the corners

of Moab, And break down all the sons of

Seth.

18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also, even his enemies, shall be a possession;

While Israel doeth valiantly. 19 And out of Jacob shall one have

dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from

the city.

20 And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the first of the nations; But his end shall come to destruction.

21 And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said: Though firm be thy dwelling-place. And though thy nest be set in the

rock;

^Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted; How long? Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

23 And he took up his parable, and said:

Alas, who shall live after God hath

appointed him?

^But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim,

And they shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber,

And he also shall come to destruction.

25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto the Baal of Peor; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take all the chiefs of

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the people, and hang them up unto the LORD in face of the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel/ 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: 'Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto the Baal of Peor/ 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand. 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the chamber, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

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10 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: uf Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned My wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was very jealous for My sake among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in My jealousy. ^Wherefore say: Behold, I give unto him My covenant of peace; 13 and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel/ 14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.

15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.

16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17 * Harass the Midianites, and smite them; 18 for they harass you, by their wiles wherewith they have beguiled you hi the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague hi the matter of Peor/

19 And it came to pass after the pl&gue, Hhat the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying: 2< Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their f athers* houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel/ 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: 4 '[Take the sum of the people,] from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt/

6 Reuben, the first-born of Israel* the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the sons of Pallu: Eliab, 9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, the elect of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD; 10 and the earth opened her

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mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what tune the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. "Notwithstanding the sons of Korah died not.

12 The sons of Simeon, after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; ^of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; 16 of Qzni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; 17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areh, the family of the Arelites. 18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. 20 And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. 21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. ^These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

^The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; ^f Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 25 These are the

families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, three* score and four thousand and three hundred.

^The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the JahleeKtes. 27 These are the families of the, Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of theniy threescore thousand and five hundred.

28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. 29 The sons of Manasseh' of Machir, the family of the Machintes — and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. 30 These are the sons of Gilead: of lezer, the family of the lezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites; 31 and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 32 and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. ^And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 34 These are the families of Manasseh; and they that were numbered of them were fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. 35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. ^And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

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38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: 'of Bcla, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Hupham-ites. 40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman; [of Ard,] the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. 41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.

^These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. 43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.

^The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishyi, the family of the Ishyites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. ^Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Mal-chielites. ^And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. 47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

48 The sons of Naphtali after their families 1 : of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; 49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. 60 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.

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of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

62 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: ^'Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names. ^To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; to each one according to those that were numbered of it shall its inheritance be given. ^Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. ^According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.'

67 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites. ^These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebron-ites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath begot Amram. 69 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore unto Ann ram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. 60 And unto Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. 62 And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the chilolren of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

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numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 6 *But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children oi Israel in the wilderness of Sinai 65 For the LORD had said of them 'They shall surely die in the wilderness.' And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

O 17 Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Mil-cah, and Tirzah. 2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying: 3 '0ur father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons. 4 Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father/ 6 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 7 'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them. 8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto

his daughter. 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. 10 And if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren. u And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses '

12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel." 13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered; "because ye rebelled against My commandment in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at the waters before their eyes.'—These are the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.— 15 And Moses

»ke unto the LORD, saying: 16 'Let LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, 17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.' "And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is spirit, and lay thy hand upon him; "and set him before Eleazar the priest, and Before all the congregation; and give nm a charge in their sight. 20 And ;hou shalt put of thy honour upon lim, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may hearken.

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the LORD; at his word shall they go put, and at Ms word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.' ^And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation. ^And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD spoke by the hand of Moses.

O Q And the LORD spoke unto Moses, ^° Saying: 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them:

My food which is presented unto Me for offerings made by fire, of a sweet savour unto Me, shall ye observe to offer unto Me in its due season. 3 And thou shalt say unto them: This is the offering made by fire which ye shall bring unto the LORD: he-lambs of the first year without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt-offering. 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other Iamb shalt thou offer at dusk; 6 and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil. 6 It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered in mount Sinai, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place shalt thou pour out a drink-offering of strong drink unto the LORD. 8 And the other lamb shalt, thou present at dusk; as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering thereof, thou shalt present it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

9 And on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemish, and two tenth parts of an ephah of fine, flour for a meal-offering, min-

gled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof. 10 This is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof. m

u And in your new moons ye shall present a burnt-offering unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 12 and three tenth parts of an ephah of .fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for each bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for the one ram; ^and a several tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering unto every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. "And^ their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt-offering of every new moon throughout the months of the year. 15 And one he-goat for a sin-offering unto the LORD; it shall be offered beside the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.

M And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S passover. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. 18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work; 19 but ye shall present an offering made by fire, a burnt-offering unto the LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven he-lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish; 20 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil; three tenth parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram; 21 a several

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tenth part shalt thou offer for every lamb of the seven lambs; w and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you. ^Ye shall offer these beside the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for a continua burnt-offering. M After this manner ye shall offer daily, for seven days the food of the offering made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD it shall be offered beside the continua burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof. ^And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work

^Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto the LORD in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work; 27 but ye shall present a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD: two young bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year; 28 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, 29 a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; so one he-goat, to make atonement for you. 31 Beside the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, ye shall offer them — they shall be unto you without blemish — and their drink-offerings. OO And in the seventh month, on

^ the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day of blowing the horn unto you. 2 And ye shall prepare a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD, one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without blemish; J and their meal-off ering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth

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for every lamb of the seven lambs; 8 and one he-goat for a sm-offering, to make atonement for you; 6 beside the burnt-offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering thereof, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings, according unto their ordinance, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

7 And on the tenth day ' of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls; ye shall do no manner of work; 8 but ye shall present a burnt-offering unto the LORD for a sweet savour: one young bullock, one ram, bs of

seven he-lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish; 9 and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, 10 a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; "one tie-goat for a sin-offering; beside the sin-qffering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings.

"And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation, ye shall do no manner of servile work, and ye shall keep a r east unto the LORD seven days;

an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: thirteen young Bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year; they shall be without jlemish; 14 and 'their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth Darts for every bullock of the thirteen Dullocks, two tenth parts for each am of the two rams, 15 and a several ;enth part for every lamb of the ourteen lambs' 16 and one he-goat for sin-off ering; beside the continual

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burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

17 And on the second day ye shall present twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 18 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the ranis, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 19 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings.

- 20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 21 and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 22 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

^And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 24 their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 25 and one he-goat for- a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering there-3f, and the drink-offering thereof.

26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 27 and then: meal-offering and their drink-offerings For the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; 28 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 30 and their meal-

offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the^ ordinance; S1 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offerings thereof.

^And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs of the first year without blemish; ^and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ^nd one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

35 0n the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no manner of servile work; ^but ye shall present a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without blemish; 37 their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance; 38 and one he-goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof

89 These ye shall offer unto the LOBD in your appointed seasons, beside your vows, and your freewill-offerings, whether they be your burnt-offerings, or your meal-offerings, or your drink-offerings, or your peace-offerings. O A And Moses told the children of ov/ Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

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This is the thing which the LOBD hath commanded. 3 When a man voweth a vow unto the LORD, or sweareth an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word he shall do according to all that pro-ceedeth out of his mouth. 4 AJso when a woman voweth a vow unto the LORD and bindeth herself by a bond, bein^ in her father's house, in her youth 5 and her father heareth her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bounc her soul, and her father holdeth his peace at'her, then all her vows shal stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 6 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, none of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her. 7 And if she be married to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; 8 and her husband hear it, whatsoever day it be that he heareth it, and hold his peace at her; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 9 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; and the LORD will forgive her. 10 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her. u And if a woman vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, M and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith

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if her husband make them null and void in the day that he heareth them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, whether it were her vows, or the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD will forgive her. 14 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may let it stand, or her husband may make it void. 15 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he causeth all her vows to stand, or all her bonds, which are upon her; he hath let them stand, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them. 16 But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them, then he

shall bear her iniquity. 17 These are the statutes,, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.

Q1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, •*• saying: 2 'Ayenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people/ 3 And Moses spoke unto the people, saying: ' Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD'S ' vengeance on Midian. 4 0f every iribe a thousand, throughout all the ;ribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war/ *So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6 And Moses sent them, i thousand of every tribe, to the war, ;hem and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm n his hand. 7 And they warred against klidian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew every male.

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8 And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. 9 And the children of Israel took captive the w<jmen of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. 10 And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. u And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast. ^And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp, unto the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

M And Moses, andEleazarthe priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. 15 And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive? 16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to revolt so as to break faith with the LOED in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and Mil every woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19 And encamp ye without the camp seven days; whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves

on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives. 20 And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify.'

21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle: 'This is the statute of the law which the LOED hath commanded Moses: ^Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ^every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it "shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water. ^And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye may come into the camp.'

^And the LOED spoke unto Moses, saying: 26< Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads t of the fathers' houses of the congregation; 27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to battle, and all the congregation; 28 and levy a tribute unto the LOED of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flocks; 29 take it of their half, and give' it unto Eleazar. the priest, as a portion set apart for the LOED. 30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LOED.' 3l And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LOED com-

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manded Moses. ^Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, ^and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, M and threescore and one thousand asses, 36 and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with him. 36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep. 37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. 38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve. 39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one. 40 And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons. ^And Moses gave the tribute, which was set apart for the LORD, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. 42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred—^ow the congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep, 44 and thirty and six thousand beeves, ^and thirty thousand and five hundred asses, ^and sixteen thousand persons— 47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.

48 And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains

of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses; 49 and they said unto Moses: 'Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. 50 And we have^brought the LORD'S offering, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and girdles, to make atoneinent for our souls before the LORD.' 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. B2 And all the gold of the gift that they set apart for the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.—^For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.—^And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for ,the children of Israel before the LORD.

OO Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle, ^he children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying: 3 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Se-bam, and Nebo, and Beon, *the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle/ 6 And they said: 'If we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession,

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bring us not over the Jordan/ s And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: 'Shall your brethren go to tne war, and shall ye sit here? 7 And wherefore will ye turn away the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? 8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they turned away the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. 10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled in that day, and He swore, saying: "Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed Me; ^save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed the LORD. 13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and He made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed. 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers 7 stead, a brood of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. 15 For if ye turn away from after Hun, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people/

16 And they came near unto him, and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones; 17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones

shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.'

20 Ajad Moses said unto them: 'If ye will do this thing: if ye will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war, ^and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORDJ until He hath driven out His enemies from before Hun, M and the land be subdued before the LORD, and ye return afterward; then ye shall be clear before the LORD, and before Israel, and this land shall be unto you for a possession before the LORD. ^But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD; and know ye your sin which will find you. ^Build you cities for your little ones, and fokls for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'

25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying: 'Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. 26 0ur little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; 27 but thy servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.'

28 So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. 29 And Moses said unto them: ' If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every

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man that is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subduec before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession 30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. 82 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan/

^And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Manasseh the son oi Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king oJ the Amorites, and the kingdom oi Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about. w And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer; ^and Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah; 36 and Beth-niTprah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim; 38 and Nebo, and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah'; and gave their names unto the cities which they builded. S9 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein. 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. ^And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them a Hawoth-jair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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OO These are the stages of the ^^ children of Israel, by which they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings forth, stage by stage, by the commandment of the LORD; and these are their stages at their goings forth. 3 And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passoyer the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, Vhile the Egyptians were burying them that the LORD had smitten among them, even all their first-born; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 6 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth. 6 And they journeyed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. 7 And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon; and they pitched before Migdol. 8 And they journeyed from Pene-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. 9 And they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and ;hreescore and ten palm-trees; and ihey pitched there. 10 And they ourneyed from Elim, and pitched by ihe Red Sea. u And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin. ^And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and pitched in Dophkah. w And they ourneyed from Dophkah, and pitched n Alush. 14 And they journeyed from

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Alush, and pitched in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 15 And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai, 16 And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and pitched in Klbroth-hattaavah. 17 And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and pitched in Hazeroth. 18 And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah. 19 And they journeyed from Rithmah, and pitched hi Rimmon-perez. 20 And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and pitched in Libnah. 21 And they journeyed from Libnah, and pitched in Rissah. ^And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelah. K And they journeyed from Kehelah, and pitched in mount Shepher. ^And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and pitched in Haradah. ^And they journeyed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth. 26 And they journeyed from Makheloth, and pitched in Tahath. 27 And they journeyed from Tahath, and pitched in Terah. 28 And they journeyed from Terah, and pitched in Mithkah. 29 And they journeyed from Mithkah, and pitched in Hashmonah. 30 And they journeyed from Hashmonah, and pitched in Moseroth. 31 And they journeyed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan. 32 And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and pitched in Hor-haggidgad. ^And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad, and pitched in Jotbah. M And they journeyed from Jotbah, and pitched in Abronah. 86 And they journeyed from Abronah, and pitched in Ezion-geber. ^And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin —the same is Kadesh. S7 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land

of Edom.— 38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. 39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. 40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.— ^And they journeyed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah. ^And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon. ^And they journeyed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth. ^And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije-abarhn, in the border of Moab. ^And they journeyed from Ijim, and pitched in Dibon-gad. ^And they journeyed from Dibon-gad, and pitched in Almon-diblathaim. 47 And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, in front of Nebo. 48 And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.' 49 And they pitched by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

fi °And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: 6lt Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ^then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places. ^And ye shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you have

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I given the land to possess it. 54 And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families—to the more ye shaft give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance; wheresoever the lot falleth to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit. ^But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your "sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell. ^And it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you/

OA And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2C Command the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof. 3 Thus your south side shall be from the wilderness of 2Jin close by the side of Edom, and your south border shall begin at the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 4 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon; a and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Sea. 6 And for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor; ^rom mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto j the entrance to Hamath; and the!

goings out of the border shall be at Zedad; 9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border. 10 And ye shall mark out your line for the east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; 11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall strike upon the slope of the sea of Chinnereth eastward; 12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea; this shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about. 7

13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: 'This is the land wherein ye shall receive inheritance by lot, which the LORD hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; 14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers 7 houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe or Ma-nasseh have received, their inheritance; 15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising. 7

16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17 ' These are the names of the men that shall take possession of the land for you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to take possession of the land. "And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 21 0f the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. ^And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki

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the son of Jogk. ^Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod; ^and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. 25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. 2b And of the tribe of the children of Issaehar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan. 27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. 28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Anumhud. 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan/

O £ And the LORD spoke unto Moses ^^ in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying: ^Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell'in; and their open land shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts. 4 Amd the open land about the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. fi And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the open land about the cities. 6 And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the > six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee

thither; and beside them ye shall give forty and two cities. 7 AU the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with the open land about them. 8 And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many, and from the few ye shall take few; each tribe according to its inheritance which it inhenteth shall give of its cities unto the Levites.'

9 And the LORD spoke'unto Moses, saying: 10 * Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, n then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the nianslayer that killeth any person through error may flee thither 12 And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment. 13 And as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of refuge. 14 Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that every one that killeth any person through error may flee thither. 16 But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. "And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer, the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 0r if he smote him with a, weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely

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be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. 20 And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him any thing, lying in wait, so that he died; ^or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death: he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meeteth him. ^But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait, ^or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; ^hen the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled; and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. 26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth; 27 and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him; 28 be-cause he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return into bhe land of his possession. 29 And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall 1

not testify against any person that he die. 31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. t 32 And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. ^So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. M And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.'

And the heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' nouses of the children of Israel; 2 and they said: 'The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel; and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters. 3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance -of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong; so will it be taken away from the lot of pur inheritance. 4 And when the lubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong; so will their inheritance be taken away from the

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inheritance of the tribe of our fathers/ 5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying: 'The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right. 6 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. 7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. 8 And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may

every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.' 10 Even as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. u Por Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons. l4 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

^These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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I THESE are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab, 2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb unto Ka-desh-barnea by the way of mount Seir. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in c6mmandment unto them; 4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei; 5 beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:

^he LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain; 7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, andja the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaamtes, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.'

9 And I spoke unto you at that time,

saying: 'I am not able to bear you myself alone; 10 the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven f01 multitude.—"The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you'— ^How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads over you.' 14 And ye answered me, and said * 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do/ 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe. 16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it. 7 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

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dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the LOED our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LOED our God giveth unto us. ^Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee; go up, take possession, as the LOED, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed/ ^And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said: 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us back word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come. 7 ^And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe; ^and they turned and went up into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us/ 26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God; 27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whith-er are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover ws have seen the sons of the Anakim there.' 29 Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God who goeth before you, He shall fight for you, according to all

that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes; ^and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. ^Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God, 33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day/

^And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, ant} swore, saying: 35 'Surely there shall not one of these men, even this evil generation, see the good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers, ^save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the LORD/ 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: 'Thou also shalt not go in thither; 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage thou him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea/ ^Then ye answered and said unto me: ' We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us/ And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the hill-country. ^And the LORD said unto me: 'Say unto them* Go not up.

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neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies/ ^So I spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. ^And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Honnah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days tliat ye abode there. O Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.

*And the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 3f Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward. *And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore^ Contend not with them; for I will not give you of 'their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. Tor the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness; these Forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing/ 8 So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the

Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber.

And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.— 10 The Emim dwelt -therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; u these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. ^And in Seir dwelt the Horites aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto tliem.—"Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered/ And we went over the brook Zered, 14 And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation, even the men of war, were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore unto them. 15 Mpre-over the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 that the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 18 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar; 19 and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, harass them not, nor contend with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession: because I have given it unto the children of Lot

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for a possession.— 20 That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them ZaxnmiTnmim ^a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; ^as He did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day; ^and the Awim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.— 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of Arnon; behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 2S This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the report of thee, shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.'

^And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying: 27 'Let me pass through thy land-1 will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on my feet; 29 as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.' | 80 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might de~ j

liver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

^And the LORD said unto me: 'Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee; begin to possess his land.' ^Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. ^And the LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. M And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones; we left none remaining; 35 only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us: the LORD our God delivered up all before us. 37 0nly to the land of the children of Ammon thou earnest not near; aH the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.

O Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the knag of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei. 2 And the LORD said unto me: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand: and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon/ 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashaw, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom

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of Og in Bashan. 5 A11 these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many. °And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.

8 And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of Arnon unto mount Hermon—Vhich Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir— 10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.—"For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.— 12 And this land we took in possession at that time; from Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubemtes and to the Gadites; 13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob— all that Bashan is called the Jand of Rephaim, 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-acathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Hawoth-jair, unto this day.— 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubemtes and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley for

a border; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 the Arabah also, the Jordan being the border thereof, from Chin-nereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea. under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

18 AndI commanded you at that time, saying: 'The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valour. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle — I know that ye have much cattle — shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 until the LORD give rest unto your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God giveth them beyond the Jordan; then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. 7 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying. 'Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God fiath done unto these two kings; so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou goest over. 22 Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you/

I besought the LORD at that time, saying: M '0 Lord GOD, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness, and Thy strong hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth, that can do according to Thy works, and according to Thy mighty acts? ^Let me go over, I pray Thee, and see the good land that is beyond the 1 Jordan, that goodly hill-country, and Lebanon. 7 26 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and the LORD said unto me: 'Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto Me of this matter.

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27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. 28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.' M So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor. A And now, 0 Israel, hearken unto ^ the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did in Baal-peor; for all the men that followed the Baal of Peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee. 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 6 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it. 'Observe therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that, when they hear all these statutes^shall say: 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 7 For what great nation is there, that hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is whensoever we call upon Him? 8 And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 0nly take heed to thyself,

and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children's children; 10 the day that thou^ stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me: 'Assemble Me the peo* pie, and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teaeh their children.' u And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. 12 And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no form; only a voice. u And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even the ten words; and He wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances,- that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves—for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire— lc lest ye deal corruptly, >and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, 18 the likeness of any thing that creepeth on th« ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; I9 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and

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worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven. 20 But you hath the LORD taken and brought forth out of the iron furnace, out^of Egypt, to be unto Hun a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 21 Now the LORD was angered with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; ^but I must die in this knd, I must not go over the Jordan; but ye are to go over, and possess that good land. ^Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, even the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. ^For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall deal corruptly, and make a graven image, even the form of any thing, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke Him; ^1 call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD shall lead you away. 28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. 29 But from thence ye will seek the LORD thy God; and thou shalt find Him, if

thou search after Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 30 In thy distress, when aU these things are come upon thee, in the end of days, thou wilt return to the LORD thy God, and hearken unto ^ His voice; 31 for the LORD thy God is a merciful God; He will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He swore unto them. 32 For ask now of the days past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? ^Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? ^r hath God assayed to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before thine eyes? 36 Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else beside Him. 36 0ut or heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee'and upon earth He made thee to see His great fire; and thou didst hear His words out of the midst of the fire. 37 And because He loved thy fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt, 38 to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is bhis day; 39 know this day, and lay it to thy heart, that the LORD, Heiis God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.

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40 And thou shaltkeep His statutes, and His commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the land, which, the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sun-rising,^ ^that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him, not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live: ^Bezer in the wilderness, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel; 45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth put of Egypt; ^beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, when they came forth out of Egypt; 47 and they took his land in possession) and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sun-rising; 48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion — the same is Hermon — 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

£J And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your

ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them, sThe LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The LORD spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire— 5 I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare unto you the word of the LORD; for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount—saying-

6 I am the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

7 Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. 8 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, even any manner of 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, ^hou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate Me, 10 and showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments.

u Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vaia; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

^Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee. 13 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter nor thy man-servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass

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nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

16 Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

17 Thou shalt not murder.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Neither shalt thou steal.

Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

"Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his inan-seryant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

19 These words the LORD spoke unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and it went on no more. And He wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me. 20 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain did burn with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; ^and ye said: 'Behold, the LORD our God hath shown us His glory and Has greatness, and we have heard His voice out of the midst of the fire; we have seen this day that God doth'speak with man, and he liveth. ^Now therefore why should i

we die? for this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall die. ^For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 24 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God may say; and thou shalt speak unto us all that the LORD our God may speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it/ ^And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke unto me; and the LORD said unto me: 'I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee; they have well said all that they have spoken. 26 0h that they had such a heart as this alway, to fear Me, and keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever! 27 Go say to them: Return ye to your tents. 28 But as for thee, stand thou here by Me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.' 29 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your ( God hath commanded you; ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 30 Ye shall walk in all the way which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess. Now this is the commandment, ;the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it— 2 that thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments,

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which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with^thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee — a land flowing with milk and honey.

4 HEAR, O ISRAEL* THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. 5 And thou

shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy

10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee—great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, u and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied—^then beware lest thou forget the LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. M Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; and Him shalt thou serve, and by His name shalt thou swear, 14 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that

are round about you; 15 for a jealous God, even the LORD thy God, is in the midst of thee; lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and He destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

16 Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of'the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes, which He hath commanded thee, 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, 19 to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the 1 LORD hath spoken.

20 When thy son asketh thee in tune to come, saying: 'What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?' ^then thou shalt say unto thy son: 'We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ^And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes. ^And He brought us out from thence, that He might bring us in, to give us the land which He swore unto our fathers. ^And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. ^And it shall be righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as He hath commanded us.' 77 When the LORD thy God shall * bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall

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cast out many nations before thee the Hittite, and the Girgashite, anc the Amorite, and the Canaanite, anc the Perizzite, and the Hivite, anc the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; Neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For he will turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He will destroy thee quickly. 6 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in nieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 For thou art a holy people unto the LOKD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be His own treasure, out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people—for ye were the fewest of all peoples— 8 but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath wnich He swore unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God; the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations;, 10 and repayeth them, that hate Him to their face, to destroy them; He

will not be slack to him that hateth Him, He will repay him to his face. u Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy fathers, "and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the increase of thy kine and the young of thy flock, in the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. 16 And thou shalt consume all the peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

17 If thou shalt say in thy heart: These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them; thou shalt well remember what the LORD thy lod did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt: 19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the LORD ihy God brought thee out • so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the peoples

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of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover the LOED thy God mil send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves, perish from before thee. ^Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LOED thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful. ^And the LOED thy God will cast out those nations before thee by tittle and little; thou mayest not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. ^But the LOED thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed. ^And He shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against thee, until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LOED thy God. ^And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and be accursed like unto it; thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing. 6 All the commandment which I ° command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LOED swore unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LOED thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that He might afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no. 3 And He afflicted thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not,

neither did thy fathers know; that He might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every thing that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LOED doth man live, ^hy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. 5 And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LOED thy God chasteneth thee. 6 And thou shalt keep the commandments of the LOED thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Hun. 7 For the LOED thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and'depths, springing forth in valleys and hills* *a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; 9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10 And thou shalt eat and be satisfied, and bless the LOED thy God for the good land which He hath given thee. u Beware lest thou forget the LOED thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I command thee this day; ^lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 and when thy herds ^ and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LOED thy God, who brought thee forth out of th^ land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; 16 w t ho led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were serpents, t fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 1& who

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fed thee in the -wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that He might afflict thee, and that He might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; 17 and thou say in thy heart: 'My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth.' 18 But thou shalt remember the LOED thy God, for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth; that He ma; establish His covenant which H swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

19 And it shall be, if thou shalt forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, anil serve them, and worship them, I forewarn you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations that the LOKD rnaketh^ to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God. Q Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass ^ over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say: 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 3 Know therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is He who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; He will destroy them, and He will bring them down before thee; so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD hath spoken unto thee. *Speak not thou in thy heart, after that the LORD thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying: 4 For my righteousness tke LORD hath brought me in to possess this land'; whereas for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 6 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness I

of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that He may establish the word which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 6 Know therefore that it is not for thy righteousness that the LORD thy God giveth thee this good land to possess it; for thou art a stiff necked people.

7 Remember, forget thou not, how thou didst make the LORD thy God wroth in the wilderness; from the day that thou didst go forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 Also in Horeb ye made the LORD wroth, and the LORD was angered with you to have destroyed you. 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. 10 And the LORD delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. u And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. ^And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have dealt corruptly; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.' ^Furthermore bhe LORD spoke unto me, saying: 'I have seen this people, and, behold,

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it is a stiff necked people; 14 let Me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.' 18 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire; and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands. 16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God; ye had made you a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you. 17 And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. 18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him. 19 For I was in dread of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me that time also. 20 Moreover the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him; and I prayed for Aaron also the same time. 21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and beat it in pieces, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust; and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.—^And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye made the LORD wroth. ^Andwhen the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying: 'Go up and possess the land which I have given you'; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed Him not, nor hearkened to His voice. M Ye have been rebellious

against the LORD from the day that I knew you.—^So I fell down before-the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26 And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: '0 Lord GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought-forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; 28 lest the land whence Thou broughtest us out say: Because the LORD was not able to bring them into-the land which He promised unto them, and because He hated them,. He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou didst bring out by Thy great power and by Thy outstretched arm/

•J A At that time the LORD said unt$ me: 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto Me into the mount; and make thee an ark of wood. 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou didst break, and thou shalt put them in the ark/ 3 So I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into-the mount, having the two tables in my hand. 4 And He wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten words, which the LORD spoke unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the LORD gave them unto me. 5 And I turned and came-down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made;,

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and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.— 6 And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth-bene-jaakan to Moserah; there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgod; and from Oudgod to Jotbah, a land of brooks of water.— 8 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day. 9 Wherefore Ley! hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God spoke unto him.—*°Now I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me that time also; the LORD would not destroy thee. 11 And the LORD said unto me: 'Arise, go before the people, causing them to set forward, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give unto them.' , ^And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; 13 to keep for thy good the commandments of the LORD, and His statutes, which I command thee this day? "Behold, unto the LORD thy God belongeth the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is. 15 0nly the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you, above all peoples, as it is this day. "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of, your heart, and be no more stiffnecked. 17 For the LORD your God, He is God

of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awful, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. 18 Be doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; Him shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear. 21 He is thy glory, and He is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and tremendous things, which thine eyes have seen. ^Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. < ' « 1 "1 Therefore thou shalt love the xx LORD thy God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His ordinances, and His commandments, al-way. 2 And know ye this day; for I speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched arm, 3 and His signs, and His works, which He did r in the mi'dst of Egypt unto Pharaot the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; *and what He did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how He made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and Low the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5 and what He did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place; 6 and what He did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the sarth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living sub-

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stance that followed them, in the midst of all Israel; *but your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD which He did. therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it; 9 and that ye may prolong your days upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10 For the landj whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou didst sow thy seed, and didst water it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; u but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of frills and valleys, and drinketh water as the rain of heaven cometh down; ^a land which the LORD thy God careth for; the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Hun with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied. 16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17 and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall not yield her fruit; and ye perish

quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; ^that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.

^For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him, ^hen will the LORD drive out all these nations- from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border. ^There shall no man be able to stand against you: the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as He hath spoken unto you.

^Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day; 28 and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way ^which

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I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to } assess it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the terebinths of Moreh? 31 For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall 'possess it, and dwell therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

•j O These are the statutes and the •*• ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. 2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every leafy tree. 3 And ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place. *Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even unto His habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: 6 and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and your vows,

and your freewiU-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; 7 and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. 8 Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes; 9 for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth thee. 10 But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causeth you to inherit, and He giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; u then it shall come to pass that the place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest; n but in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

^Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which He hath given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as 9f the hart.

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"Only ye shall not eat the blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. 17 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vow-est, nor thy freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; 18 but thou shalt eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. 19 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon thy land. 20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as He hath promised thee, and thou shalt say: 'I will eat flesh', because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to put His name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul. ^Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. ^Only be stedf ast in not eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life with the flesh, ^hpu shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. ^Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy ehildren after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD. 26 0nly thy holy things which thou hast, and thy

vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose; ^and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh. 28 0bserve and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.

29 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land; 30 take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying: 'How used these nations to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.' 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons>and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

1 Q All this word which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

2 If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams—and he give thee a sign or a wonder, 3 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee-^saying: 1 Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them 7 ; Hhou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, qr unto that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God putteth you to proof, to know whether ye do

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love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 6 After the LORD your God shall ye walk, and Him shall ye fear, and His commandments shall ye keep, and unto His voice shall ye hearken, and Him shall ye serve, and unto Him shall ye cleave. 6 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the

midst of thee. 7 If thy brother,

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mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own. soul, entice thee secretly, saying: 'Let us go and serve other gods*, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 8 of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Hhou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him.; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; 10 but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. u And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to draw thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee. 18 If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy

God giveth thee to dwell there, saying: 14 'Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their

city, saying: other gods,

Let us go and serve which ye have not

known 7 ; 16 then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee; 16 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that_ is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 17 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the broad place thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto the LORD thy God; and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again. 18 And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of His anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers; 19 when thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all His commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God. 1 A Ye are the children of the LORD xT your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be His own treasure out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth. 8 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, Hhe hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat,

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and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. 6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof wholly cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye may eat. Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you; 8 and the swine, because he parteth the hoof but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 10 and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

U 0f all clean birds ye may eat. ^But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray; w and the glede ; and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds; 14 and every raven after its kinds; "and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds; 16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl; 17 and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant; * 8 and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 And all winged swarming things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten. 20 0f all clean winged things ye may eat.

21 Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself; thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy people unto the LOUD thy f God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's

f Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy seed, that which is brought forth in the field year by year. ^And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which He shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always. ^And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD thy God shall bless thee; 25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose. 26 And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul de-sireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household. 27 Ajad the Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee.

28 At the end of every three years, even in the same year, thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase, and shalt lay it up within thy rtes. 29 And the Levite, because he ith no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest. "I K At the end of every seven years AtJ thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he

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hath lent unto his neighbour; he shall not exact it of his neighbour and his brother; because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed. 3 0f a foreigner thou mayest exact it; but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release. 4 Howbeit there shall be no needy among you— for the LORD will surely bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it— 5 if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day. 6 For the LORD thy God will bless thee, as He promised thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee. 7 If there be among you a ^needy man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; 8 but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth. 9 Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand 7 ; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin in thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto. u For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy poor and needy brother, in thy land.'

12 lf thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. ^And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; 14 thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day. 16 And it shall be, if he say unto thee: 'I will not go out from thee'; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he fareth well with thee; 17 then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. -And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise. 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.

"All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God. ^hou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. ^Only thou shalt not

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eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water. "j £J Observe the month of Abib, and • L * J keep the passover unto the LORD thy God; for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. 2 And thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for in haste didst thou come forth out of the land of Egypt; that thou may-est remember the day when thou earnest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. 4 And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the morning, ^hou mayest not sacrifice the pass-over-ofTering within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee; 6 but at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover-offering at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou earnest forth out of Egypt. 7 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose; and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the' seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no work therein.

9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of

weeks unto the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesseth thee. ll And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. 12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. 13 Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress. 14 And thou shalt re j oice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful. l6 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the LORD empty; 17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which He hath given thee.

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thy God giveth thee, tribe by tribe; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. 19 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons; neither shalt thou take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pecvert the words of the righteous. 20 Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

21 Thou shalt not plant thee ^ Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. ^Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth. 1 rr Thou shalt not sacrifice unto x ' the Lop thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, even any evil thing; for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

2 If there be found in the midst of thee, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that doeth that which is evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing His covenant, s and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have commanded not; 4 and it be told thee, and thou hear it, then shalt thou inquire diligently, and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; ^hen shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who have done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them with stones, that they die. 6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to

put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood • and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the pkce which the LORD thy God shall choose. 9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Leyites, and unto the judge that shall be^in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment. 10 And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee. "According to the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. ^And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt exterminate the evil from Israel. ^And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

14 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein; and shalt say: 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me'; 15 thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose; one from among thy brethren shalt

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thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother. 16 0nly he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; forasmuch as the LOED hath said unto you: 'Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.' "Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. 18 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LOED his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them; 20 that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and bis children, in the midst of Israel.

"J Q The priests the Levites, even 1 0 all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the LOED made by fire, and His inheritance. 2 And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the LOED is their inheritance, as He hath spoken unto them.

8 And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw. ^e first-fruits of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him. 5 For the LOED

thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LOED, him and his sons for ever.

6 And it a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which the LOED shall choose; 7 then he shall minister in the name of the LOED his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the LOED. 8 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which is his due according to the fathers 7 houses.

°When thou art come into the land which the LOED thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, n or a charmer, or one that ^consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer. ^For. whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LOED; and because of these abominations the LOED thy God is driving them out from before thee. M Thou shalt be whole-hearted with the LOED thy God. 14 For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LOED thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. U A prophet will the LOED thy God raise up unto thee, from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto hJTn ye shall hearken; According to all that thou didst desire of the LOED thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LOED my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not/ l7 And the LORD said unto me: 'They

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have well said that which they have spoken. 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die/ 21 And if thou say in thy heart: 'How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken 97 ^When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken; the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.

1 Q When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations, whose, land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou dost succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 2 thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which the LORD thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee thither and live: whoso killeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in time past; 5 as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and

lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live; 6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not deserving of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. ^Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee. 7 8 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which He promised to give unto thy fathers— 9 if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in His ways—then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three, lo that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

u But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die; and he flee into one of these cities; ^then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thme eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in'thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established. 36 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him; 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days. 18 And the judges shall inquire diligently; and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; 19 then shall ye do unto him, as he had purposed to do unto his brother; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. 20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit, no more any such evil in the midst of thee. 2l And thine eye shall not pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

OA When thou goest forth to battle ^ w against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, thou shalt not be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it shall be, when ye draw nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, 3 and shall say unto them: 'Hear, O Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your heart faint; fear not, nor be alarmed, neither be ye affrighted at them; *for the LORD your God is He that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.' 6 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying: 'What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him, go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it. 6 And what man is there Jiat hath planted a vineyard, and

hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lebt he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof. 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her/ 8 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: ' What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest Ins brethren's heart melt as his heart.' 9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that captains of hosts shall be appointed at the head of the people. 10 When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. u And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee. ^And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. ^And when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword; 14 but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. ^hua shalt thou do tihto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. 16 Howbeit of the cities of these ^ peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, I7 but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the

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Oanaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; 18 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, and so ye sin against the LORD your God.

19 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, but thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tiee of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee? 20 0nly the trees of which thou know-est that they are not trees for food, them thou mayest destroy and cut down, that thou mayest build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall. O ~| If one be found slain in the land A 1 - which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him; Hhen thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are Around about hiTn that is slain. s And it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke. 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near—for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 6 And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain

man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. 7 And they shall speak and say: 'Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it-forgive, 0 LORD, Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of Thy people Israel.' And the blood shall be forgiven them, 9 So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.

10 When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, u and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; ^hen thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; %nd she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; 16 then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the

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son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn; 17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the first-fruits of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

18 If t a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not hearken to the^voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 and;they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.' ^And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

^And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; ^his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is a reproach unto God; that thou defile not thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

O O Thou shalt not see thy brother's ^^ ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother. *And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother require it, and thou shalt restore it to him. 3 And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt

thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found; thou mayest not hide thyself.

^hou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

6 lf a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; 7 thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself-that it may be well with thee, ana that thou mayest prolong thy days.

8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

^hou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed; lest the fulness of the seed which thou hast sown be forfeited together with the increase of the vineyard.

10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. u Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

M Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

^If any m.a,n take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 and lay wanton charges against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say:

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4 I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of viiginity'; 15 then shall th father of the damsel, and her mother take and bring forth the tokens o: the damsel's virginity unto the elder* of the city in the gate. 1G And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders: 'I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her 17 and, lo, he hath laid wanton charges, saying: I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. 7 And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. 19 And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

^But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; ^then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that bhe die; because she hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

^If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

^If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24 then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye

shall stone them with stones thai they die: the damsel, because sh&criec not, being in the city; and the man because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; so thou shalt put awa> the evil from the midst of thee.

26 But if the man find the damse that is betrothed in the field, and the man take hold of her, and lie with her then the man only that lay with hei shall die. 26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter. 27 For he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found, 29 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

Q A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

2 He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of'the LORD.

3 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.

4 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none of them enter into the assembly of the LORD for ever; because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Aram-

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naharaim, to curse thee. Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unbo thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. 7 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

8 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. 9 The children of the third generation that are born unto them may enter into the assembly of the LORD.

10 When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing. 11 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp. 12 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when the sun is down, he may come within the camp. M Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad. 14 And thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee. 15 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy; that He see no unseemly thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

16 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master a bondman that is escaped from his master unto thee; 17 he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him.

"There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. l9 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow; for even both these are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

20 Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest. ^Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in aU that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

^When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it; for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it will be sin in thee. ^But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. M That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed freely unto the LORD thy God, even that which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

25 When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes until thou have enough at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

26 When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn. O A When a man taketh a wife, and

•** marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house, 2 and she departeth out of his

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house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife, 3 and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; 4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her ^again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

5 When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall cheer his wife whom lie hath taken.

*No man shall take the rnill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

'If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with hi™ as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

*Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you, as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do. 9 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam, by the way as ye

came forth out of 10 When thou dost

[end thy neigh-

bour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. u Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. ^And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge; ^hou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep iri his garment, and bless

thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates. 15 In the same day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it; lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin in thee.

16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge. 18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

19 When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go back to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. 21 When thou gatherest the grap

thy vineyard, thou shalt not v after thee; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ^And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of ]

therefore I command thee to do this

thing.

If there be a controversy be-tween men, and they^ come unto

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by justifying the righteous, and condemning the wicked, 2 then it shall be, if the wicked man deserve to be beaten, that the judge shall cause hirr?. to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to the measure of his wickedness, by number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shaU not exceed,^ lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be dishonoured before thine eyes.

4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be married abroad unto one not of his kin; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife r then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say: 'My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.' 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto Mm; and if he stand, and say: 'I like not to take her'; *then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto hing in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.' 10 And his name shall be called in Israel The house of him that had his shoe loosed. ,

u When men strive together one with another, and the wife or the one draw-

eth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of Mm that smiteth him, and

C'teth forth her hand, and taketh by the secrets; ^hen thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

w Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. 14 Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. 15 A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have; that thy days may be long upon the land wMch the LORD thy God giveth thee. 16 For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

17 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; 18 how he met thee by the way, and smote the Mndmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. 19 Therefore it shall be, when, the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all tMne enemies round about, in the land wMch the LOED thy God giyeth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.

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O £ And it shall be, when thou art ^ ^ come in unto the land wMch the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and dost possess it, and dwell therein; ^hat thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, wMch thou shalt bring in from thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee; and thou shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place wMch. the LORD thy God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. 3 And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall

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be in those days, and say unto him 'I profes 0 this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the lane which the LORD swore unto our fathers to give us/ 4 And the priest shal take the basket out of thy hand, anc set it down before the altar of the LOED thy God. 6 And thou shalt speak and say before the LOED thy God 'A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 6 And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage 7 And we cried unto the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression. 8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders. 9 And He hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with TrrilTf and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the land, which Thou, O LORD, hast given me/ And thou shalt set it down before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God. H And thou shalt rejoice in all the good which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is in the midst of thee.

f ^When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be satisfied, ^then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God: 'I have put away the hal-

lowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all Thy commandment which Thou hast commanded me; I have not transgressed any of Thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them. 14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead; I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, I have done according to all that Thou hast commanded me. 15 Look forth from Thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Thy people Israel, and the land which Thou hast given us, as Thou didst swear unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey/

16 This day the LORD thy God com-mandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances; thou shalt therefore observe and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. "Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and that thou wpuldest walk in His ways, and keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and hearken unto His voice, 18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be His own treasure, as He hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all His commandments; ^and to make thee high above all nations that He hath made, in praise, and in name, and in glory; and that bhou mayest be a holy people unto the LORD thy God, as He hath spoken.

And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying: 'Keep all the commandment which I command you this day. 2 And t shall be on the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee,

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that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster. 3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath promised thee. 4 And it shall be when ye are passed over the Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster. 6 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them, ^hou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God. 7 And thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings, and shalt eat there; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God. 8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.'

^ 9 And Moses and the priests the Le-vites spoke unto all Israel, saying: 'Keep silence, and hear, 0 Israel; this day thou art become a people unto the LORD thy God. 10 Thou shalt therefore hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I command thee this day*'

u And Moses charged the people the same day, saying: -^'These phq.U stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin; ^and these shall stand upon mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. 14 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

15 Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and setteth it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

16 Cursed be he that dishonoured his father or his mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.

17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say: Amen.

18 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go astray in the way. And all the people shall say: Amen.

"Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say: Amen.

20 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he hath uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say: Amen.

^Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say: Amen.

^Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say: Amen.

^Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say: Amen.

^Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour in secret. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say: Amen.

26 Cursed be he that confirmeth not the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say: Amen/ OQ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments which I command thee

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day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations oi the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and shall flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD will command the blessing with thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and He will bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ^The LORD will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in His ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the LORD is called upon thee; and they shall be afraid of thee. u And the LORD will make thee overabundant for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers to give thee. J^The LORD will open unto thee His good treasure the heaven to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. M And the LORD will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above

only, and thou shalt not be beneath if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of the LORD ^thy God, which I command thee this day, tc observe and to do them; I4 and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the young of thy flock. 19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 20 The LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, hi all that thou puttest thy hand unto to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the evil of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken Me. ^The LORD will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until He have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest in to possess it. ^The LORD will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflamm*^ tion, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ^And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron, ^he LORD will make :he rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down

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upon thee, until thou be destroyed, ^he LORD will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways beforejthem; and thou shalt be a horror unto all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And thy carcasses shall be food unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.

27 The LORD will smite thee with the boil of Egypt, and with the emer-pds, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. 28 The LORD will smite thee with madness, ^ and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not make thy ways prosperous; and thou shalt be only oppressed androbbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee. 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and ^ shalt not use the fruit thereof. 81 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies; and thou shalt have none to save thee. ^Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand. ^The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway; ^o that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 35 The LORD

will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head. '"The LORD will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. 37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.

88 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather httle in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them. 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off. fl Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity. ^All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust

stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower. '"He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ^And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee. ^And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever; 47 because thou didst not serve the

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LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; ^therefore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he snail put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. 4 ^The LORD will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the vulture swoopeth down; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 60 a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favour to the young. 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall^ not leave thee corn, wine, or oil, the increase of thy kine, or the young of thy flock, until he have caused thee to perish. 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou didst trust, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. _ M And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee. w The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; 5S so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in all

thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for dehcateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her ^ bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter; 57 and against her afterbirth that cometh put from between her feet, and against her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly; in the siege and in the strait-ness, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee in thy gates.

68 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and awful Name, the LORD thy God; 59 then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. 60 And He will bring back upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast in dread of; and they shall cleave unto thee. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ^And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst riot hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. M And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from/ off the land whither thou goest in to possess it. ^And the LORD shall scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth iven unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods,

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which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. ^And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul. ^And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life. 67 In the morning thou shalt say: 1 Would it were even!' and at even thou shalt say: 'Would it were morning!' for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. 68 And the LORD shall bring thee back into Egypt in ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee: 'Thou shalt see it no more again'; and there ye shall sell yourselves unto your enemies for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

69 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

OQ And Moses called unto all ^ u Israel, and said unto them:

Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; Hhe great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders; 3 but the LORD hath not given you a heart to know,, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. 4 Aiid I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 5 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD

your God. 6 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them. 7 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites. 8 0bserve therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may make all that ye do to prosper.

9 Ye are standing this day all of you before the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel, 10 your little ones^your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; n that thou shouldest enter into the covenant of the LORD thy God— and into His oath — which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day; ^that He may establish thee this day unto Himself for a people, and that He may be unto thee a God, as He spoke unto thee, and as He swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ^Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 14 but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day— I5 for ye know how we dwelt in the land of >t; and how we came through the of the nations through which ye 1; 16 and ye have seen their detestable things, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were with them — 17 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of

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those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; 18 and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying: ^ 'I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart — that the watered be swept away with the dry'; 19 the LORD will not be willing to pardon him, but then the an^er of the LORD and His jealousy shall be kindled against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven; 20 and the LORD shall separate him unto evil put of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is,written in this book of the law. ^And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of^that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick; ^and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath; ^even all the nations shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?' ^hen men shall say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them forth out of the land of Egypt; ^and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that He had not allotted unto them; ^erefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land,

to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book; 27 and the LORD rooted them out of then* land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'.— 28 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

0 A And it shall come to pass, when v all these things are come upon

thee, the blessing and the curse, which

1 have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, 2 and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; Hhat then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee. 4 If any of thine that are dispersed be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee. 6 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee. 8 And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which

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I command thee this day. 9 And the LORD thy God will make thee overabundant in all the work of thy hand, in tjie fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good; for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers; 10 if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law* if thou turn unto the LORD thy Goa with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

u For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is-not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. ^It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say: ' Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?' ^Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?' 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, 16 in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then thou shalt live and multiply, and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 17 But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18 I declare unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not pro-long your days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go in to possess it. 19 I call heaven and

earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; 20 to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

0 1 And Moses went and spoke these x words unto all Israel. 2 And he said unto them : ' I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in; and the LORD hath said unto me: Thou shalt not go over this Jordan, ^he LORD thy God, He will go over before thee; He will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them; and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath spoken. 4 And the LORD will do unto them as He did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom He destroyed. 5 And the LORD will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment which I have commanded you. 6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee/

7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt go with this people into the land which the LORD hafch sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. 8 And the LORD, He it is that doth

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go before thee; He will be with thee, He will not fail thee, neither forsake thee; fear not, neither be dismayed/

9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, u when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LOBD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; 13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your Godj as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it. 7

14 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Behold, thy days approach that thou must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge.' And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 15 And the LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16 And the LORD said unto Moses: ^ 'Behold, thou art about to sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go astray after the foreign gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake Me, and break My covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then My anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake

them, and I will hide My face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them; so that they .will say in that day: Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us? 18 And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach _ thou it the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness' for Me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten their fill, and waxen fat; and turned unto other gods, and served them, and despised Me, and broken My covenant; 21 then it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of then* seed; for J know their imagination how they do even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.' ^So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. ^And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them; and I will be with thee.'

w And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until "they were finished, 25 that Moses command-ed the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying: 26 'Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that

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it may be there for a witness against thee. 27 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death? 28 As-semble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call^ heaven and earth to witness against them. 29 For I know that after my death ye will in any wise deal corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil- will befall you in the end of _ days ^because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.' 30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished:

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Give ear, ye heavens, and I will

speak; And let the earth hear the words

of my mouth.

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech v shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender

grass,

And as the showers upon the herb. 3 For I will proclaim the name of the

LORD; Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

4 The Rock, His work is perfect;

For all His ways are justice;

A God of faithfulness and without iniquity.

Just and right is He.

5 Is corruption His? No; His children's is, the blemish;

A generation crooked and perverse.

6 Do ye thus requite the LORD,

0 foolish people and unwise?

Is not He thy father that hath gotten thee?

Hath He not made thee, and established thee?

7 Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of many generations;

Ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee,

Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the children of men,

He set the borders of the peoples

According to the number of the children of Israel.

9 For the portion of the LORD is His people,

Jacob the lot of His inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land,

And in the waste, a howling wilderness;

He compassed him about, He cared for him,

He kept him as the apple of Has

eye. ll As" an eagle that stirreth up her nest,

Hovereth over her young,

Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,

Beareth them on her pinions— 12 The LORD alone did lead him,

And there was no strange god with Him.

13 He made him ride on the high

places of the earth, And he did eat the fruitage of the

field; And He made him to suck honr-

out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock; 14 Curd of kine, and milk of sheen. With fat of lambs,

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And rams of the breed of Bashan,

and he-goats,

With the kidney-fat of wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou

drankest foaming wine.

"But Jeshurun waxed fat, and

kicked—

Thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross—

And he forsook God who made him, And contemned the Rock of his

salvation. l6 They roused Him to jealousy with

strange gods,

With abominations did they provoke Him.

17 They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods,

Gods that they knew not, New gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not. 18 Of the Rock that begot thee thou

wast unmindful, And didst forget God that bore thee.

"And the LORD saw, and spurned, Because of the provoking of His

sons and His daughters. 20 And He said: 'I will hide My face

from them,

I will see what their end shall be; For they are a very froward generation,

Children in whom is no faithfulness. *They have roused Me to jealousy

with a no-god; They have provoked Me with their

vanities; And I will rouse them to jealousy

with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile

nation.

^For a fire is kindled in My nostril, And burneth unto the depths of

the nether-world, !

And devoureth the earth with her

produce, And setteth ablaze the foundations

of the mountains.

ffl l will heap evils upon them;

I will spend Mine arrows upon them; M The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send

upon them, With the venom of crawling things

of the dust.

25 Withput shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; Slaying both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

26 I thought I would make an end of them,

I would make their memory cease

from among men;

27 Were it not that I dreaded the enemy's provocation,

Lest their adversaries should misdeem,

Lest they should say: Our hand is exalted,

And not the LORD hath wrought all this.'

28 For they are a nation void of

counsel, And there is no understanding in

them.

29 If they were wise, they would understand this,

They would discern their latter end.

30 How should one chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Except their Rock had given them

over, And the LORD had delivered them

up? 81 For their rock is not as our Rock,

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Even our enemies themselves being

^For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,

And of the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter; ^Their wine is the venom of serpents,

And the cruel poison of asps.

^'Is not this laid up in store with Me,

Sealed up in My treasuries? 35 Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, Against the time when their foot

shall slip; For the day of their calamity is at

hand,

And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

^For the LORD will judge His people,

And repent Himself for His servants;

When He seeth that their stay is gone,

And there is none remaining, shut

up or left at large. 87 And it is said: Where are their gods,

The rock in whom they trusted; 38 Who did eat the fat of their sacrifices,

And drank the wine of their drink-offering?

Let him rise up and help you,

Let him be your protection.

39 See now that I, even I, am He,

And there is no god with Me;

I kill, and I make alive;

I have wounded, and I heal;

And there is none that can deliver

out of My hand. 40 For I lift up My hand to heaven,

And say: As I live for ever, tt lf I whet My glittering sword,

And My hand take hold on judgment;

I will render vengeance to Mine

adversaries, And will recompense them that

hate Me. 42 I will make Mine arrows drunk

with blood,

And My sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the skin and the

captives, From the long-haired heads of the

enemy.*

aloud, 0 ye nations, of His

people ; For He doth avenge the blood of

His servants, And doth render vengeance to His

adversaries, And doth make expiation for the

land of His people.

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**And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. ^And when Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel, ^he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day ; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this law. 4 ]For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'

48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsaine day, saying: 49 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession; 50 and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people. 51 Becaussye

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trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of Israel. K For thou shalt see the land afar off; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.'

O O And this is the blessing, where-with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2 And he said: The LORD came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And He came from the myriads holy, At His right hand was a fiery law

unto them.

3 Yea, He loveth the peofJles, All His holy ones — they are in Thy

hand;

And they sit down at Thy feet, Receiving of Thy words. 4 Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance of the congregation

of Jacob.

5 And there was a king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were

gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

6 Let Reuben live, and not die In that his men become few.

7 And this for Judah, and he said : Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people; His hands shall contend for him, And Thou shalt be a help against

his adversaries.

8 And of Leyi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be

with Thy holy one, Whom Thou didst prove at Massah,

With whom Thou didst strive at

the waters of Meribah; 9 Who said of his father, and of his

mother: 'I have not seen him', Neither did he acknowledge his

brethren,

Nor knew he his own children; For they have observed Thy word, And keep Thy covenant. 10 They shall teach Jacob Thine ordinances,

And Israel Thy law; They shall put incense before Thee, And whole burnt-offering upon Thine

altar.

n Bless, LORD, his substance, And accept the work of his hands; Smite through the loins of them that

rise up against him, And of them that hate him, that

they rise not again.

12 0f Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD shall dwell

in safety by Him; He covereth him all the day, And He dwelleth between his shoulders.

"And of Joseph he said: Blessed of the LORD be his land; For the precious things of heaven,

for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth

beneath, 14 And for the precious things of the

fruits of the sun, And for the precious things of the

yield of the moons,' 15 And for the tops of the ancient

mountains, And for the precious things of the

everlasting hills, 16 And for the precious things of the

earth and the fulness thereof, And the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush;

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Let the blessing come upon the head

of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head

of him that is prince among his

brethren.

17 His firstling bullock, majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the

wild-ox; With them he shall gore the peoples

all of them, even the ends of the

earth; And they are the ten thousands of

Ephraim, And they are the thousands of

Manasseh.

18 And of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out, And, Issachar, in thy tents. 19 They shall call peoples unto the

mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of

righteousness; For they shall suck the abundance

of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.

20 And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad, He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the crown

of the head. 21 And he chose a first part for him-

self, For there a portion of a ruler was

reserved; And there came the heads of the

people, He executed the righteousness of

the LORD, And His ordinances with Israel.

of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, That leapeth forth from Bashan.

of Naphtali he said: 0 Naphtali, satisfied with favour, And full with the blessing of the

LORD: Possess thou the sea and the south.

24 And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; Let him be the favoured of his brethren,

And let him dip his foot in oil. ^Iron and brass shall be thy bars; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

26 There is none like unto God, 0

Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heaven as thy

help,

And in His excellency on the skies.

27 The eternal God is a dwelling-place,

And underneath are the everlasting

arms; And He thrust out the enemy from

before thee, And said: 'Destroy. 7 ^And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of corn and wine; Yea, his heavens drop down dew. 29 Happy art thou, 0 Israel, who is

like unto thee? A people saved by the LORD, The shield of thy help, And that is the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall dwindle

away before thee; And thou shait tread upon their

high places.

QA And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, even Gilead as far as Dan; 2 and all Naphtali, and

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the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the hinder sea; 3 and the South, and the Plain, even the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, as far as Zoar. 4 And the LORD said unto him: 'This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying: I will give it unto thy seed; I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. 3 5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6 And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. 7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim,

nor his natural force abated. 8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days^so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. 9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the^ spirit of wisdom; for Moses had ^laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. 10 And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face; u in ^all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; %nd in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.

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1 Now it came to pass after the -*- death of Moses the servant of the LORD, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses 7 minister, saying: 2 'Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel 3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spoke unto Moses. 4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border, ^here shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 6 Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them. 7 0nly be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest. 8 This book of the law shall riot depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be-thou dismayed; for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.'

10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying: u 'Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying: Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this Jordan, to'go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it/

^And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying: 13 ' Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying: The LORD your God giveth you rest, and will give you this land. 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them; 15 until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as unto you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them; then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising.'

16 And they answered Joshua, saying: 'All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go. "According

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as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee; only the LORD thy God be with thee, as He was with Moses. "Whosoever he be that shall rebel against thy commandment, and shall not hearken unto thy words in all that thou com-mandest hi™, he shall be put to death; only be strong and of good courage/

0 And Joshua the son of Nun sent put of Shittim two spies secretly,

saying: 'Go view the land, and Jericho.' And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Eahab, and lay there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying: t Behold, there came men in lather to-night of the children of Israel to search out the land.' 3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying:

1 Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.' 4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were; *and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.' 6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof. 7 And the men pur-sued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords; and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, the gate was shut. 8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; 9 and she said unto the men: 'I know that the LOBD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land,

melt away before you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. n And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spint in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. ^Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house—and give me a true token— 13 and save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.' 14 And the men said unto her: 'Our Me for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.' 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them: ' Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and ' afterward may ye go your way.' 17 And the men said unto her: 'We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. 18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by; and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household. "And it shall be, that whosoever

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shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon Mm. 20 But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. 7 21 And she said: 'According unto your words, so be it.' And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window. ^And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned; and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. ^Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them. ^And they said unto Joshua: "Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.'

O And Joshua rose up early in the ^ morning, and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over. 2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp; 3 and they commanded the people, saying: 'When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4 Yet there snail be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.'

5 And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.' 6 And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying: 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people.' And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

7 And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day will I begin to magnify thee hi the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. 8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying: When ye are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.'

9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.' 10 And Joshua said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth on before you over the Jordan. ^Now therefore take you twelve men put of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

nd it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.' 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bore the ark of the covenant being before the people; 15 and when they that bore

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the ark were come unto the Jordan and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water—for the Jordan over-floweth all its banks all the time of harvest— 16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over right against Jericho. 17 And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, while all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan. A And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying: *'Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a Tna.Ti, 3 and command ye them, saying: Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood, twelve stones jmade ready, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.'

4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man; ^nd Joshua said unto them: 'Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; ^hat this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying: What mean ye by these stones? 7 then ye shall say unto them: Because the waters of the Jordan

were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever/ 8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there unto this day. 10 And the priests that bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hastened and passed over. u And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed on, and the priests, before the people. ^And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed on armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke unto them; 13 about forty thousand ready armed for war passed on in the presence of the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

14 0n that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

15 And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying: 16 'Command the priests that )ear the ark of the testimony, that ihey come up out of the Jordan.' 7 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of

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the Jordan/ 18 And it came to pass, as the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the midst of the Jordan, as soon as the soles of the priests' feet were drawn up unto the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, and went over all its banks, as aforetime. 19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho. 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. a And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying: 'When your children shall ask their fathers in tune to come, saying: What mean these stones? ssthen ye shall let your children know, saying: Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. ^For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up from before us, until we were passed over, ^hat all the peoples of the earth may, know the hand of the LORD, that it is'mighty; that ye may fear the LORD your God for ever.' K And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until they were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Make thee knives of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time/ 8 And Joshua made him knives of flint, and cir-

cumcised the children of Israel at Kjribeath-ha-araloth. 4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were^ males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt. 6 For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised, ^or the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD; unto whom the LORD swore that He would not let them see the land which the LORD swore unto their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with rnilk and honey. 7 And He raised up their children in their stead; them. did ^Joshua circumcise; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised by the way. 8 And it came to pass, when all the nation were circumcised^ every one of them, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

9 And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you/ Wherefore the name of that place was called b Gilgal, unto this day.

10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. u And they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn, in the selfsame day. ^And the mnmm ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the

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children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

w And it came to pass, when Joshua-was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him: 'Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?' 14 And he said: 'Nay, but I am captain of the host of the LOED; I am now come.* And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said unto Mm: 'What saith my lord unto his servant? 7 15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua: Tut off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy/ And Joshua did so.

£* Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.— 2 And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the king thereof, even the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear seven rams' horns before the ark; and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the horns. 5 And it shall be, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the horn, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him. 3 6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them: 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven rains' horns before the ark of the I

LORD.' 7 And he said unto the people: 'Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed body pass on before the ark of the LORD.' 8 And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the seveS priests bearing the seven rams* horns before the LORD passed on, and blew with the horns; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. 9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew the horns, and the rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing with the horns continually. 10 And Joshua commanded the people, saying: 'Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed put of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.' u So he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

^And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. ^And the seven priests bearing the seven rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with, the horns; and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] blowing with the horns continually. 14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp; so they did six days. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times; only on that day they compassed the city seven times. 16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the horns, that Joshua said unto the people: 'Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. 17 And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is there-

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in, to the LORD; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed by taking of the devoted thing, so should ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy unto the LORD; they shall come into the treasury of the LORD/ 20 So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew with the horns. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the horn, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every nrm.n straight before him, and they took the city. 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. ^And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land: 'Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore unto her/ ^And the young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had, all her kindred also they brought out; and they set them without the camp of Israel. ^And they burnt the city with fire, and all ,that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD, **Bni Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had : did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel, unto this day; because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent

Joshua charged the people with an oath at that time, saying: 1 Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city, even Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.'

27 So the LORD^ was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land. n But the children of Israel committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel

2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spoke unto them, saying: 'Go up and spy out the land.' And the men went up and spied out Ai. 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto hinv 'Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.' *So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men, and they fled before the men of Ai 5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men; and they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. 6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust # upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said: 'Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to

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cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan! ^h, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies! 9 For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?'

10 And the LORD 'said unto Joshua: 'Get thee up; wherefore, now, artthou fallen upon thy face? "Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed My covenant which I commanded them; yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing; and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have even put it among their own stuff, therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies, they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed; I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. ^Up, sanctify the people, and say: Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow; for thus saith^ the LORD, the God of Israel: There is a curse in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. M In the morning therefore ye shall draw near by your tribes; and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come near by families; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come near by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come near rr\fl,n by man. 15 And it shall be that he that is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD,

and because he hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel.'

16 So Joshuarose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken. 17 And he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites. And he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken. 18 And he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. "And Joshua said unto Achan: 'My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make confession unto Him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide nothing from me/ 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said: 'Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. a "Wlien I saw among the spoil a goodly a Shinar mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it/ ^So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. • ^And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before the LORD. M And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and bis sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up unto the valley of Achor. ^And Joshua said: 'Why tiast thou troubled us? the LORD shall

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trouble thcc this day.' And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. 26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones, unto this day; and the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called The valley of a Achor, unto this day. Q And the LORD said unto Joshua: u 'Fear not, neither be thou dismayed; take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the long of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land. 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves; set thee an ambush for the city behind it.' 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them forth by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying: 'Behold, y6 shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready. 6 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city; and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them. 6 And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say: They flee before us, as at the first; so we will flee before them. 7 And ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. 8 And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of the LORD shall ye do; see, I have commanded

you. 7 9 And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. "And all the people, even the men of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai— now there was a valley between him and Ai. 12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai. u So the people set themselves in array, even all the host that was on the north of the city, their rear lying in wait on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the vale. 14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hastened and rose up early and went out against Israel to battle, he and -all his people, at the time appointed, in front of the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 16 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. 17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

18 And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand/ And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand to-

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ward the city. 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hastened and set the city on fire. 20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back, and slew the men of Ai. ^And the other came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side; and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. ^And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, even in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. ^And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 0nly the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which He commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged

on a tree until the eventide; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

80 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD, the God of Israel, hi mount Ebal, 31 as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron; and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings. 32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote before the children of Israel. ^And all Israel, and then: elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger as the home-born; half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel. ^And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.

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Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebu-site, heard thereof, ^that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, *they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wineskins, worn and rent and patched up; 5 and worn shoes and clouted upon their feet, and worn garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become crumbs. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel: 'We are come from a far country; now therefore make ye a covenant with us.' 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hi-vites: 'Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?' 8 And they said unto Joshua: 'We are thy servants/ And Joshua said unto them: 'Who are ye? and from whence come ye?' 9 And they said unto him: 'From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LOED thy God; for we have heard the fame of Him. and all that He did in Egypt, 10 and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. u And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying: Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them: We are your servants; and now; make ye a Covenant with us. ^This^ our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, be-

hold, it is dry, and is become crumbs. 13 And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent. And these our garments and our shoes are worn by reason of the very long journey/ 14 And the men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LOBD. 15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the princes of the congregation swore unto them.

^And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them. 17 And the children of t Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon. and Chephjrah, and Beeroth, ana Kiriath-jearim. 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LOED, the God of Israel. And^all the congregation murmured against the princes. 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation: 'We have sworn unto them by the LOED, the God of Israel; now therefore we may not touch them. 2 JThis we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them/ 21 And the princes said concerning them: 'Let them live 7 ; so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken concerning them. ^And Joshua called for them, and he spoke unto them, saying: 'Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying: We are very far from you, when ye dwell among us? ^Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of

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my God/ M And they answered Joshua, and said: ' Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. 25 And now, behold, we are in thy hand-as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.' 26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. 27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, unto this day, in the place which He should choose. •j A Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her kmg; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them ; 2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying: 4< Qome up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel/ ^Therefore the five kings of the Ainorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts,

and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying: l Slack not thy hands from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amontes that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us/ 7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

8 And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Fear them not; for I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand against thee/ 9 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night. 10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon; and they chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makke-dah. "And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died; they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

^Then spoke Joshua to the LORD ha the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said hi the sight of Israel:

'Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon;

And thou, Moon, in the valley of

Aijalon/

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midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.

t 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

16 And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying: 'The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.' 18 And Joshua said: 'Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them; 19 but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities; for the LORD your "God hath delivered them into your hand/ 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, 21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace; none whetted his tongue against any of the children of Israel. ^Then said Joshua: ' Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings unto me out of the cave.' M And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto hi™ out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the long of Eglon. M And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went with him: 'Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings.' And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 25 Aad

Joshua said unto them: 'Fear not, nor be dismayed; be strong ana of good courage; for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.' 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. 27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.

28 And Joshua took Makkedah oa that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof; he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein, he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

29 And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah. 30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did unto the king thereof as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

^And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him^unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. ^And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

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34 And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it. 35 And ^they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according* to all that he had done to Lachish.

36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it. 37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were therein.

38 And Joshua turned back, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it. 39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king thereof.

40 So Joshua smote all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the Lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings; he left none remaining; but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded. ^And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. ^And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. ^And Joshua returned, and

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"1 "1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard thereof, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of SMmron, and to the king of Achshaph, 2 and to the kings that were on the north, in the hill-country and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the Lowland, and in the regions of Dor on the west, ^o the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amprite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. 5 And all these kings met together; and they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

6 And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Be not afraid because of them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel; thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire/ 7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them. 8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining. 9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him; he houghed their horses, and burnt then* chariots with fire. ^ 10 And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword; for Hazor

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beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms. u And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed; and he burnt Hazor with fire. ^And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. 13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only—that did Joshua burn. 14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed. 15 As the LORD commanded Moses His servant, so did Moses command Joshua; and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.

16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the Lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the Lowland of the same; 17 from the bare mountain, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon; and all their kings he took, and smote them, and put them to f death. 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon; they took all in battle. 20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that they might be utterly destroyed, that they might have no

favour, but that they might be destroyed, as the LORD commanded Moses.

^And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakun from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them "with their cities. ^There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. ^So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spoke unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

1 O Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, from the valley of Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward: 2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; 3 and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt^Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshjmoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah; ^nd the border of Og Mng of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 5 and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Saleah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half ^ Gilead, even unto the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. 6 Moses the servant of the

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7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the bare mountain, that goeth up to Seir; and Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions; 8 m the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and m the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: ^he king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside

Beth-el, one;

10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; u the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; 12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 15 the king of Libnah, one;

the king of Adullam, one; 16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one; 17 the king of Tappuah, one;

the king of Hepher, one; 18 the king of Aphek, one;

the king of the Sharon, one; 19 the king of Madon, one;

the king of Hazor, one; 20 the king of Shimron-meron, one;

the king of Achshaph, one; 21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 2*the king of Kedesh, one;

the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

23 the king of Dor in the region of

Dor, one; the king of Goiim in the Gilgal, one;

24 the king of Tirzah, one. All the kings thirty and one. 1 O Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him: 'Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there re-maineth yet very much land to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; ^rom the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward—which is counted to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, and the Ash-dodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; also the Avvim 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that be-longeth to the Zidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; 5 and the land of the Gebahtes, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath; 6 all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even all the Zidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel; only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.' 8 With turn the Reubenites and the Gad-ites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; ^rom Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba unto Dibon; 10 and all

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the cities of Sihon king of the Amor-ites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; "and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hennon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; 12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei—the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim—for these did Moses smite, and drove them out. "Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites; but Geshur and Maacath dwelt in the midst of Israel unto this day. 14 0nly unto the tribe of ]Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings of the LOBD, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as He spoke unto him.

15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families. 16 And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the city that iSjin the middle of the valley, and all the 'table-land by Medeba; 17 Hesh-bon, and all her cities that are in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon; 18 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath; 19 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley; 20 and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; ^and all the cities of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amor-ites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land. ^Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain. ^And | as for the border of the children of Reuben, the Jordan was their border.

This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

24 And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, unto the children of Gad, according to their families. 25 And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; 26 and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Lidbir; 27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-mmrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan being the border thereof, unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

29 And Moses gave inheritance unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families, 30 And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities; 81 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.

^These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. ^But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He spoke unto them. "j A And these are the inheritances -"-^ which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun,

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and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 7 And the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the brook; and the border passed aloi_ shemesh, anc

to the waters of En-the goings out thereof

were at En-rogel. 8 And the border went up by the Valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward—the same is Jerusalem— and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the vale of Rephaim northward. 9 And the border was drawn from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah—the same is Ejriath-jearim. 10 And the border turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on the north—the same is Chesalon— and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah. n And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward; and the border was drawn to Shikkeron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. ^And- as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

M And unto Caleb the son of Je-phunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the X/OBD to Joshua, even IGriath-arba, which Arba was

the father of Anak—the same is Hebron. 14 And Caleb drove out thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15 And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir — now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher. 16 And Caleb said: 'He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh

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it, to him will I daughter to wife/ son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 18 And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from "off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?' 19 And she said: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the ^Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And he gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

the cities at the uttermost part of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur; ^and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah; ^and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan; ^Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth; ^and Hazor, and Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron —the same is Hazor; ^Amam, and Shema, and Moladah; 27 and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, andBeth-pelet; 28 andHazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah; 29 Baalah, and lim, and Ezem; 80 and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Honnah; S1 and Ziklag, and Madman-nah, and Sansannah; 32 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.

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^In the Lowland: Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah; M and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam; 35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah; 36 and Shaaraim, and Adi-thainx, and Gederah, with. Gederoth-aim; fourteen cities -with their villages.

37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad; 38 and Dilan, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel; 39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon; 40 and Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Chithlish; ^and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

^Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan; ^nd Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib; **and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mare-shah; nine cities with their villages.

^Ekron, with its towns and its villages; 4e from Ekron even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; unto the Brook of Egypt, the Great Sea being the border thereof.

48 And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh; 49 and Dannah, and Kiriath-sann ah—the same is De-bir; M and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim; 61 and Gpshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

^Arab, and Rumah, and Eshan; M and Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah; w and Humtah, and Kiriath-arba—the same is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

fis Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah; M and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah; 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Tim-nah; ten cities ^with then: villages.

58 Halhul, Beth-^ur, and Gedor; B9 and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

^Kiriath-baal—^the same is Kiriath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

61 In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, 62 and Nibshan, and ;the City of t Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.

^And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, unto this day.

•j g And the lot for the children of Joseph went out from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, Agoing up from Jericho through the hill-country to the wilderness, even to Beth-el. 2 And it went out from Beth-el-luz, and passed along unto the border of the Archites to Ataroth. 3 And it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. 4 And the children of Joseph, Ma-nasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. 5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus; even the border of their inheritance eastward wa's Atroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper. 6 And the border went out westward, Michmethath being on the north; and the border turned about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah. 7 And it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. 8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families; together with the cities which were separated for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the

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children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. 10 And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezerj but the Canaanites dwelt in the midst of Ephraim, unto this day, and became servants to do taskwork!

1 7 And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. _ 2 And the lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida; these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families. 3 But Ze-lophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hog-lah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying: 'The LOED commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren'; therefore according to the commandment of the LOED he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. f 5 And there feH ten parts to Manasseh', beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; 6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons; and the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

7 And the border of Manasseh was,

beginning from Asher, Michmethath,

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der went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.— 8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.— 9 And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook, by cities which belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh; but the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook; and the goings out thereof were at the sea: "southward it was Ephra-im's, and northward it was Ma-nasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

u And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three regions. 12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land. w And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, but did not utterly drive them out.

14 And the children of Joseph spoke unto Joshua, saying: 'Why hast thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LOED hath blessed me thus?' "And Joshua said unto them: 'If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim .is too narrow for thee.' 16 And the children of Joseph said: ' The hill-couixtry will not be enough for us; and all the

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Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.' 17 And Joshua spoke unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying-'Thou art a great people, and hast great power; thou shalt not have one lot only; 18 but the hill-country shall be thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the goings out thereof shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though the; have chariots of iron, and thoug] they be strong.'

1 Q And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the knd was subdued before them. 2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. 3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: ' How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, hath given you? 4 Appoint for you three men for each tribe; and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me. 5 And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south ; and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north. 6 And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. Tor the Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east-

ward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.'

8 And the men arose, and went; and Joshua charged them ^that went to describe the land, saying: 'Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come back to me, and I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh/ 9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book, and they came to Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh. 10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD; and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

u And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin ^ came up according to their families; and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. ^And their border on the north side was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 13 And the border passed along from thence to Luz, to the side of Luz—the same is Beth-el—southward; and the border went down to Atroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on the south of Beth-horon the nether. 14 And the border was drawn and turned about on the west side southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal—-the same is Kiriath-jearim—a city of the children of Judah; this was the west side. 18 And the south side was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah. 16 And the border went

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down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the Valley of Einnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel. 17 And it was drawn on the north, and went out at En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adiunrnim; and it went down to the Stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. 18 And it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down unto the Arabah. 19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan; this was the south border. 20 And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east side. This was the inher-, itance of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof jround about, according to their families.

^Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz; ^and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el; ^and Awim, and Parah, and Oph-rah; w and Chephar-ammonah, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages: ^ibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth; 26 and Mizpeh, and Che-phirah, and Mozah; 27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah; 28 and Zela, Eleph, and the Jebusite—the same is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

"j Q And the second lot came out for ^^ Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to

their families; and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2 And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba with Sheba, and Moladah; 3 and Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem; 4 and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah; 5 and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah; 6 and Beth-lebapth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages: 7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages; 8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, as far as Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. 9 0ut of the allotment of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon, for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them; therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of ijieu* inheritance.

10 Aad the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of then* inheritance was unto Sand. u And then* border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam. ^And it turned from Sand eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Dobrath, and went up to Japhia. M And from thence it passed along eastward to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon-methoar unto Neah. 14 And the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out thereof were at the valley of Iphtahel; 15 and Kattath, and Na-halal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages. 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their

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17 The fourth lot came out for Issa-char, even for the children of Issachar according to their families. 18 And their border was Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem; 19 and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath; 20 and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez; ^and Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez; ^and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazim, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages. ^This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages

^And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph; 26 and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and tp Shihor-Hbnath. 27 Ajnd it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun and to the valley of Iphtah-el northward at Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand, 28 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon. 29 And the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea from Hebel to Achzib; 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob; twenty and two cities with their villages. 3lr This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

^The sixth lot caine out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. ^And their border was from Heleph, from. Elon-bezaanannioi, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lak-1

kum; and the goings out thereof were at the Jordan. w And the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from thence to Hukok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sun-rising. 35 And the fortified cities were Ziddim-zer, and Hammath, and Rakkath, and Chirm ereth; 36 and Ada-mah, and Ramah, and Hazor; 37 and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor; 38 and Iron, and Migdal-el, and Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. 39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. ^And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh; ^and Shaal-abbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah; ^and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron; 44 and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath; 46 and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon; 46 and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. 47 And the border of the children of Dan was too strait for them;so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with then* villages.

49 When they had made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by the borders thereof, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them; 50 according to the commandment of

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the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

61 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LOED, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land. OA And the LOED spoke unto Joshua, saying: 2< Speak to the children of Israel, saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses; ^hat the manslayer that killeth any person through ^ error and unawares may flee thither; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. 4 And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance _ of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. 5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated hirn not beforetime. 6 And he shall dwell in that city, Until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days; then may the manslayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled. 7

7 And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naph-tali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba—the same is Hebron—in the hill-country of Judah. 8 And beyond the Jordan at

Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the table-land out of m the tribe of Reuben, and Ra-moth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe^ of Manasseh. These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that so-journeth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation. O-| Then came near the heads of u ^ fathers 7 houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel; 2 and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The LOED commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.' 3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the ^ commandment of the LOED, these cities * with the open land about them.

4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites; and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

6 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe erf Naph-tali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

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7 The children of Merari according to their famihes had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with the open land about them, as the LOKD commanded by the hand of Moses.

9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name. 10 And they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. n And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of a Anak — the same is Hebron — in the hill-country of Judah, with the open land round about it. ^But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with the open land about it; 14 and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it; 16 and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir ^ with the open land about it; 1G and Ain with the open land about it, and Juttah with the open land about it, and Beth-shemesh with the open land about it; nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with the open land about it, Geba with the open land about it; 18 Ana-thoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities. 19 A11 the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were

thirteen cities with the open land about them,

20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. M And they gave them She-chem with the open land about it in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with the open land about it; 22 and Kibzaim with the open land about it, and Beth-horqn with the open land about it; four cities. 23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with the open land about it, Gibbethon with the open land about it; ^Aijalon with the open land about it, Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; four cities. 25 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with the open land about it, and Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; two cities. 26 AH the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with the open land about them.

27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities. 28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with the open land about it, Dob-rath with the open land about it; 29 Jarmuth with the open land about it, En-gannim with the open land about it; four cities. 30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with the open land about it, Abdon with the open land about it; 31 Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities. ^And out of the tribe of Naph-tali, Kedesh in Galilee with the open.

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land about it, the city of refuge for

the manslayer, and Hammpth-dor with the open land about it, and Kartan with the open land about it; three cities. ^All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them.

^And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with the open land about it, and Kartah with the open land about it: 35 Dimnah with the open land about it, Nahalal with the open land about it; four cities. [^And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with the open land about it, and Jahaz with the open land about it; 37 Kedemoth with the open land about it, and Mepha-ath with the open land about it; four cities.] 3 *And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with the open land about it; 39 Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in aft. 40 A11 these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

^All the cities of the Levites — forty and eight cities with the open land about them—shall be in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel, ^even these cities, every one with the open land round about it; thus it shall be with all these cities.

^So the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which He swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. **And the LOED gave them rest round about, according to all that He swore unto their

fathers; and there stood not a man of all their enemies against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand, ^here failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. OO Then Joshua called the Reu-^^ benites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2 and said unto them: 'Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD com-

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unto my voice in all that I commanded you; sye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. 4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as He spoke unto them; therefore now turn ye, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan, ^nly. take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave unto Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.' 6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.

7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but unto the other half gave Joshua among their brethren beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away unto their tents, he blessed them, 8 and spoke unto them, saying: 'Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass,

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and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.'

9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses* 10 And when they came unto the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon. "And the children of Israel heard say: 'Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.' ^And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

^And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest; 14 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. 15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying: 16 'Thus saith the whole congregation I

of the LOKD: What treachery is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, to rebel this day against the LORD? 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD, 18 that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to-day against the LORD, that to-morrow He will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel. 19 Howbeit, if the land of your possession be unclean', then pass ^ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us; but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of the LORD our God. 20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass concerning the devoted thing, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.'

^Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke unto the heads of the thousands of Israel: 22 'God, God, the LORD, God, God, the LORD, He knpweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in treachery against the LORD —save Thou us not this day— ^that we have built us an altar to turn away from following the LORD; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let the liORD Himself require it; M and if we lave not rather out of anxiety about a matter done this, saying: In time to come your children might

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speak unto our children, saying: What have ye to do with the LORD, the God of Israel? 25 for the LOBD hath made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in the LORD; so might your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD. 26 Therefore we said: Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; 27 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not say to our children in tune to come: Ye have no portion in the LORD. 28 There-fore said we: It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say: Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, aot for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you. 29 Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn away this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the LORD our God that is before His tabernacle/ s °And when Phmehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well. 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh: 'This day we know that the LORD is in the midst of us, because ye have

not committed this treachery against the LORD; now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD/ 32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them back word. ^And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and the children of Gad dwelt, nd the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar —: 'for it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.'

O O And it came to pass after many days, when the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years; Hhat Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said unto them: 'I am old and well stricken in years. 3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God, He it is that hath fought for you. behold, I have allotted unto you for an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun. 6 And the LORD your God, He shall thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight, and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God spoke unto you. therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written

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in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; 7 that ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor worship them; 8 but cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day; therefore the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and mighty; but as for you, no man hath

against you unto this day.

man of you hath chased a thousand; for the LORD your God, He it is that fought for you, as He spoke unto you. "Take good heed therefore

stood l °0ne

that ye love the if ye do in

unto yourselves, LORD your God.

any wise go back, and cleave"unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you; 13 know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and pricks in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth; consider ye therefore in all your heart and in all your soul, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof. "And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which the LORD your God spoke unto you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all the evil things, until He have destroyed you from off this good land which

the LORD your God hath given you. 16 When ye transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which He hath given unto you.'

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout ^ all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 4 A.nd I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau; and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in the midst thereof; and afterward I brought you out. I brought your fathers out of

and ye came unto the sea; an< Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea. 7 And when they cried out unto the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt; and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days. 8 And [ brought you into the land of ;he Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan; and they fought with you;

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and I gave them Into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel; and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. "But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he even blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand. u And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho; and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not laboured, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat. 14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.'

16 And the people answered and said: ' Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 for the LORD our God, He it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and

among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed; 18 and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land; therefore we also "will serve the LORD; for He is our God.'

"And Joshua said unto the people: 'Ye cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that He hath done you good/

21 And the people said unto Joshua: 'Nay; but we wjll serve the LORD/ 22 And Joshua said unto the people: 'Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve Him.—And they said: 'We are witnesses/—^Now therefore put away the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD, the God of Israel/ ^And the people said unto Joshua: 'The LORD our God will we serve, and unto His voice will we hearken/

25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people: 'Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke unto us; it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God/ 28 So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.

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hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 3l And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that He had wrought for Israel, the bones of Joseph, which the

children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces ^of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the Hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

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1 AND it came to pass after the x death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of the LORD, saying: 'Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?' 2 And the LORD said: 'Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.' 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother: 'Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites j and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot.' So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah w6nt up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Periz-zites into their hand; and they smote of them m Bezek ten thousand men. 6 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adoni-bezek fled ; and they pursued after him, and caught turn, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 7 And Adoni-bezek said: "Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered fopd under my table; as I have done, so God hath requited me.' And they brought' him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

8 And tl^e children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire. 9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the Lowland. 10 And Judah went against the Canaan-

ites that dwelt in Hebron—now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba—and they smote She-shai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. u And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir—now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher. ^And Caleb said: 'He that smiteth Eriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife/ 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 14 And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wpuldest thou?' 15 And she said unto him:' Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people, 17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah. 18 Also" Judah took Gaza with the border thereof, and Ashkelon with the border thereof, and Ekron with the border thereof. 19 And the LORD was

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with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. 20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses had spoken; and he drove out thence the three sons of Anak.^ ^And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwelt with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem, unto this day.

^And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el; and the LORD was with them. ^And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el— now the name of the city before-time was Luz. ^And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him: 'Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee. ; 28 And he showed them the entrance into the city, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family. 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day.

27 And Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its towns, nor of Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites were resolved to dwell in that land. 28 And it came to pass, when Israel was waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, but did in no wise drive them out.

29 And Ephraim drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

30 Zebulun drove not out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributary.

31 Asher drove not out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob; ^but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out. -

^Naphtali drove not out the inhabitants of Beth-sheme.sh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributary unto them.

34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley. 85 But the Amorites were resolved to dwell in Har-heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributary. 36 And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrab-bim, from Sela, and upward. O And the angel of the LORD came

up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said:'... I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said: I will never break My covenant with you; 2 and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars; but ye have not hearkened unto My voice; what is this ye have done? 3 Wherefore I also said: I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be unto you as snares, and their gods shall be a trap unto you.' 4 And it

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came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 6 Ajad they called the name of that place a Bochim; and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD, that He had wrought for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, that knew not the LORD, nor yet the work which He had wrought for Israel.

u And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim. "And they forsook the LORD, the God of "their f athers^who brought them out of the land of gods, of the

», and followed other of the peoples that were'round libout them, and worshipped them; and they provoked the LORD. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and the Ash-taroth. 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and He gave them over into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. "Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD, was against

them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn unto them; and they were sore distressed. 16 And the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. 17 And yet they hearkened not unto their judges, for they went astray after other gods, and worshipped them; they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not so. 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented the LORD because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them. 19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to worship them; they left nothing undone of their practices, nor of their stubborn way. 20 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and He said: ' Because this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto My voice; 21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; 22 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not/ ^So the LORD left those nations, without driving them put hastily; neither delivered He them into the hand of Joshua. Q Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel

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might know, to teach, them war, a the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof; 3 namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all th Canaanites, and the Zidonians, anc the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath. 4 And they were there, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they woulc hearken unto the commandments o: the LORD, which He commanded their fathers^ by the hand of Moses. 5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 6 and they took then* daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to then-sons, and served their gods.

7 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Ashe-roth. therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He gave them over into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim; and the children of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years* 9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 10 And the spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Cushan-rishathaim. "And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

12 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against

Israel, because they had done that which was evil in thesightpf the LORD. 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees. 14 And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. "But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed; and the children of Israel sent a present by him unto Eglon the king of Moab. 16 And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh. "And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab— now Eglon was a very fat man. 18 And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that bore the present. 19 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said: 'I have a secret errand unto thee, O king.' And he said: 'Keep silence/ And all that stood by him went out from him. 20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. And Ehud said: 'I have a message from Grod unto thee.' And he arose out of ais seat. 21 And Ehud put forth his .eft hand, and took the sword from us right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, for he drew not the sword, out of his belly; and it came out behind. 23 Then Ehud went forth nto the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and ocked them. ^Now when he was *one out, his servants came; and they aw, and, behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they

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said: 'Surely he is covering his feet in the cabinet of the cool chamber/ 2b And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper chamber; therefore they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. 26 And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah. 27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a horn in the hill-country of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them. 28 And he said unto them: ' Follow after me; for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.' And they went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and suffered not a man to pass over. 29 And they smote of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and every man of valour; and there escaped not a man. 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.

81 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad; and he also saved Israel. A And the children of Israel again 1 - did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. 2 And the LORD gave them over into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-goiim. 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel

at that time. 5 And she sat tinder the palm-tree of Deborah between Hamah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtaH, and said unto him: 'Hath not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, saying: Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? 7 And I will draw unto thee to the brook Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thy hand/ 8 And Barak said unto her: 'If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.' 9 And she said: 'I will surely go with thee; notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thy honour; for the LORD will give Sisera over into the hand of a woman/ And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up" ten thousand men at his feet; and Deborah went up with him.

u Now Heber the Kenite had severed himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as Elon-bezaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

^And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. ^And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth-goiim, unto the brook Kishon. 14 And Deborah said unto Barak: 'Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy

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hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee?' So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. 15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet. 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth-goiim; and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.

17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of He-ber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabm the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him : ' Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not/ And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug 19 And he said unto her: f Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.' And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave Mm drink, and covered him. 20 And he said unto her: 'Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say: Is there any man here? that thou shalt say: No.' 21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died. 22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto- him: 'Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest.' And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples. ^So God subdued on that day Jabm the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

M And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabm king of Canaan.

EJ Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day,

2 When men let grow their hair in

Israel, When the people offer themselves

willingly,

Bless ye the LORD. 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, 0 ye

princes,

I, unto the LORD will I sing; I will sing praise to the LORD, the

God of Israel.

4 LoRD, when Thou didst go forth out of Seir,

When Thou didst march out of the field of Edom,

The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped,

Yea, the clouds dropped water.

The mountains quaked at the presence of the LORD,

Even yon Sinai at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel.

6 In the days of Shamgar the son of

Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways

And the travellers walked through

byways. v 7 The rulers ceased in Israel, they

Until that thou didst arise, Deborah, That thou didst arise a mother in

Israel.

8 They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates; Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?

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9 My heart is toward the governors

of Israel, That offered themselves willingly

among the people. Bless ye the LORD. 10 Ye that ride on white asses, Ye that sit on rich cloths, And ye that walk by the way, tell

of it; "Louder than the voice of archers,

by the watering-troughs! There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, Even the righteous acts of His rulers

in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went

down to the gates.

12 A wake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity

captive, thou son of Abinoam. 13 Then made He a remnant to have dominion over the nobles and the people; The LORD made me have dominion

over the mighty. 14 Out of Ephraim came they whose

root is in Amalek; After thee, Benjamin, among thy

peoples;

Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handle

the marshal's staff. 15 And the princes of Issachar were

with Deborah;

As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into the valley they rushed forth

at his feet.

Among the divisions of Reuben There were great resolves of heart. 16 Why sattest thou among the sheep-folds,

To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the divisions of Reuben There were great searchings of heart. 17 Gilead abode beyond the Jordan;

And Dan, why doth he sojourn by

the ships?

Asher dwelt at the shore of the sea, And abideth by its bays. 18 Zebulun is a people that jeoparded

their lives unto the death, And Naphtali, upon the high places

of the field.

19 The kings came, they fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan, In Taanach by the waters of Megid-

do;

They took no gain of money. 20 They fought from heaven, The stars in their courses fought

against Sisera.

21 The brook Kishon swept them away, That ancient brook, the brook Kishon. 0 my soul, tread them down with

strength.

^Then did the horsehoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the

prancings of their mighty ones. 251 Curse ye Meroz', said the angel of

the LORD, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants

thereof, Because they came not to the help

of the LORD, To the help of the LORD against

the mighty.'

^Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite, Above women in the tent shall she

be blessed.

25 Water he asked, milk she gave him; In a lordly bowl she brought him

curd.

26 Her hand she put to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer;

And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

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27 At her feet he sunk, he fell, he lay, At her feet he sunk, he fell; Where he sunk, there he fell down dead

28 Through the window she looked forth, and peered,

The mother of Sisera, through the lattice:

1 Why is his chariot so long in coming?

Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?'

M The wisest of her princesses answer her,

Yea, she returneth answer to herself 3 °'Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?

A damsel, two damsels to every man;

To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,

A spoil of dyed garments of embroidery,

Two dyed garments of broidery for the neck of every spoiler?'

a So perish all Thine enemies, 0 LORD; But they that love Him be as the

sun when he goeth forth in his

might.

And the land had rest forty years. ft And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LOBD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds. 8 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them; 4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no

sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it. 6 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.

7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of Midian, 8 that the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel; and he said unto them: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage; 9 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land. 10 And I said unto you: I am the LORD your God; ye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but ye have not hearkened unto My voice.'

""And the angel of the LORD came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating ^ out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said 'unto him: 'The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.' ^And Gideon said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, if the LORD be with us, wny then is all this befallen us? and where are all His wondrous, works which our fathers told us of, saying: Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath cast -us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.' 14 And the LORD turned towards him, and said: 'Go in this

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thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian; have not I sent thee?' 15 And he said unto him: 'Oh, my lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.' "And. the LORD said unto him: ' Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.' 17 And he said unto him: 'If now I have found favour in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me. "Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and lay it before thee ' And he said: *I will tarry until thou come back/ 19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal; the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the terebinth, and presented it. 20 And the angel of God said unto him: 'Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth.' And he did so. ^-Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh, and the unleavened cakes:

and thfrgiigel of the LORD departed out of his sight. ^And Gideon saw that he was the angel of the LORD; and Gideon said: 'Alas, O Lord GOD! forasmuch as I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face. J ^And the LORD said unto him: 'Peace be unto thee; fear not; thou shalt not die.' M Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it a 'Adpnai-shalom'; unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 And it came to pass the same night, „ ^ ,

that the LORD said unto him: 'Take the valley of JeireeL M But the spirit

» That is, The LORD \s peace. bThat is, Let Baal contend. 301

thy father's bullock, and the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it; 26 and build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down/ 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken unto him; and it came to pass, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night. 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. 29 And they said one to another: 'Who hath done this thing?' And when they inquired and asked, they said:' Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.' 30 Then the men of the city said unto Joash: 'Bring out thy son, that he may die; because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the Asherah that was by it.' 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him: 'Will ye contend for Baal? or will ye save him? he that will contend for him, shall be

)ut to death before morning; if he a god, let him contend for himself, because one hath broken down his altar.' 32 Therefore on that day he was called b Jerubbaal, saying: 'Let Baal contend against him, because he hath broken down his altar/

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of the LORD clothed Gideon; and he blew a horn; and Abiezer was gathered together after him. 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him; and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. 36 And Gideon said unto God: £ If Thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken, 37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor ; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that Thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken/ 38 And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water. 39 And Gideon said unto God: 'Let not Thine anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: let me make trial, I pray Thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew/ 40 And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

n Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, * and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside En-harod; and the camp of Mid-ian was on the north side of them, by Gibeath-moreh, in the valley.

2 And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midian-ites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying: Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore make proclamation in the ears of the people, saying: Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.' And there returned of the

people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

4 And the LORD said unto Gideon* 'The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there; and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee: This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee: This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.' 5 So he brought down the people unto the water; and the LORD said unto Gideon: ' Every one that lap-peth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that bow-eth down upon his knees to drink.' 6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 7 And the LORD said unto Gideon: 'By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midian-ites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place.' 8 So they took the victuals of the people in their hand, and their horns; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but retained the three hundred men; and the,, camp of Midian was beneath him in^$e valley.

9 And it came to pass the s«tme night, that the LORD said unto him: 'Arise, get thee down upon the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand. 10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp. u And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down upon the camp/ ^ Then went he down with Purah his servant unto the outermost Dart of the armed men that were in ;he camp. 12 Now the Midianites and

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the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude. 13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream unto his fellow, and saying: 'Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it that it fell, and turned it upside down, that the tent lay flat. 7 14 And his fellow answered and said- 'This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel* into his hand God hath delivered Midian, and all the host.'

15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said* "Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.' - 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them horns, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them: 'Look on me, and do likewise; and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow the horn, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the horns also on every side of all the camp, and say: For the LOED and for Gideon!'

19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch; and they blew the horns, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in then* hands. 20 And the three companies blew the horns, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left

hands, and the horns in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried: "The sword for the LOED and for Gideon!' 2I And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and fled. ^And they blew the three hundred horns, and the LOED set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. ^And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian. ^And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying: 'Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.' So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan. 25 And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the Rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the Winepress of ?eeb, and pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan. Q And the men of Ephraim said unto him: 'Why hast thou served us thus, that thou didst not call us when thou wentest to fight with Midian?' And they did chide with him, sharply. 2 And he said unto them * 'What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?' Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

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4 And Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing. 5 And he said unto the men of Succoth: 'Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zal-munna, the kings of Midian.' 6 And the princes of Succoth said: 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now hi thy power, that we should give bread unto thine army?' 7 And Gideon said: 'Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.' 8 And he went up thence to Penuel, and spoke unto them in like manner; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Suecoth had answered. 9 And he spoke also unto the men of Penuel, saying:' When I come back in peace, I will break down this tower.'

10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword. u And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was secure. 12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. K And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres. 14 And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he wrote down for him the princes of Suceoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men. 16 And he came unto the

men of Succoth, and said: 'Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying: Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy power, tha-j; we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?' 16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. 17 And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. 18 Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna: 'Where are the men whom ye slew at Tabor?' And they answered: 'As thou art, so were they; of one form with the children of a king.' 19 And he said: 'They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.' 20 And he said unto Jether his first-born: 'Up, and slay them.' But the youth drew not his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth. 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said: 'Rise thou, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength.' And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna. and took the crescents

that were on their camels' necks.

M Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon: 'Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also; for thou hast saved us out of the hand of Midian.' ^And Gideon said unto them: 'I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you-the LORD shall rule over you.' ^And Gideon 'said unto them: 'I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of bas spoil.'—For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites. 28 And they answered: ' We will willingly give them.' And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil. 26 And

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the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple raiment that was on the ^ kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks. 27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah; and all Israel went astray after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house. 28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days df Gideon.

29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. 30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. ^And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

^And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again went astray after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. ^And the children of Israel remembered not the LOED their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; 35 neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown unto Israel. Q And Abimelech the son of Jerub-** baal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying: 2f Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem: Which is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal,

who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.' 3 And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said: 'He is our brother.' 4 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him. 5 And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

6 And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all Beth-millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the terebinth of the pillar that 'was in Shechem. 7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Geri-zim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them: 'Hearken'unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. 8 The s trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree: Reign thou over us. 9 But the olive-tree said unto them: Should I leave my fatness, seeing that by me they honour God and man ; and go to hold sway over the trees? 10 And the trees said to the fig-tree: Come thou, and reign over us. u But the fig-tree said unto them: Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruitage, and go to hold sway over the trees? 12 And the trees said unto the vine: Come thou, and reign over us. "And the vine said unto them: Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go

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to hold sway over the trees? 14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble. Gome thou, and reign over us. IB And the bramble said unto the trees* If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon. 16 Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands—"for my father fought for you, and adventured his Me, and delivered you out of ^the hand of Midian; 18 and ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother—"if ye then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the men of Skechem, and from Beth-millo, and devour Abimelech.' 21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

^And Abimelech was prince over Israel three years. ^And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Sbechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech; ^hat the violence done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and

upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren. 25 And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them; and it was told Abimelech.

26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went on to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him. 27 And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech. 28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said: 'Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him? 2 *And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.' And he said to Abimelech: 'Increase thine army, and come out.' 30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. 31 And he sent messengers unto Abimelech in Tormah, saying: 'Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren are come to Shechem; and, behold, they will incite the city against thee. 32 Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field. ^And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city; and, behold, when he and the people that are with him corne out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt be able.'

^And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they ky in wait against

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Shechem in four companies. 35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from the ambushment. 35 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: 'Behold, there come people down from the tops of the mountains.' And Zebul said unto him: * Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men/ 37 And Gaal spoke again and said:' See, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company cometh by the way of Elon-meonenim/ 38 Then said Zebul unto him: 'Where is now thy mouth, that thou saidst: Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them' 39 And Gaal went out bef ore the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate. ^And Abimeleeh dwelt at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

^And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and it was told Abimelech. ^And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the field; and he looked, and, behold, the people were coming forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. ^And Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed upon all that were in the field, and smote them. 45 And Abimelech fought against the'city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were

therein; and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

^And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the hold of the house of El-berith. ^And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. 48 And Abimelech got him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough^ from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder; and he said unto the people that were with him: ' What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done/ 49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

60 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, even all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower. 52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went close unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. w And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull. M Then he called hastily unto the young man his armour-bearer, and said unto him: Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me: A woman slew him/ And his young man thrust him through, and he died. ^And when the men of Israel saw that Abirnelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place. ee Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech,

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which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren; 57 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads, and upon them came the curse oi Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim. 2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.

3 And after him arose Jair* the Gil-eadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years. 4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called *Hawoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

6 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and served Him not. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He gave them over into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon. 8 And they oppressed and crushed the children of Israel that year-; eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9 And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was sore distressed. 10 And the children of Israel cried unto the

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LORD, saying: 'We have sinned against Thee, in that we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.' u And the LORD said unto the children of Israel: 'Did not I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the ^children of Ammon, and from the Philistines? 12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalek-ites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried unto Me, and I saved you out of their hand. ^Yet ye have forsaken Me, and served other gods; wherefore I will save you no more. 14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress. 7 15 And the children of Israel said unto the LORD: 'We have sinned; do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee; only deliver us, we pray Thee, this day.' 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD; and His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah. 18 And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another: 'What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.' •j ~j Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah. 2 And Gil-ead's wife bore him, sons; and when bis wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him: 'Thou shalt not inherit in our father's louse; for thou art the son of another woman.' 8 Then Jephthah fled from lis brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and there were gathered vain

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fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.

4 And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. 6 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob. 6 And they said unto Jephthah: 'Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.' 7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead: 'Did not ye hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?' 8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah: 'Therefore are we returned to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon, and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.' 9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead: 'If ye bring me back home to fight with the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, I will be your head.' 10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah: 'The LOUD shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do/ u Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LOED in Mizpah.

^And Jephthah sent messengers unto the long of the children of Ammon, saying: 'What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?' "And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah: 'Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan; now

therefore restore those cities peaceably.' 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon; 16 and he said unto him: ' Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon. 16 But when they came up from Egypt, and Israel walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh; 17 then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying: Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not; and Israel abode in Kadesh. 18 Then he walked through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they pitched on the other side of the Arnon, but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab. 19 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon long of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him: Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place. 20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel. ^And the LOED, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them; so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country. ^And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan. ^So now the LOED, the God of Israel, hath dis-the Amorites from before people Israel, and shouldest thou

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possess them? ^Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess. 25 And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight agair them? 26 While Israel dwelt in Hesh-bon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; wherefore did ye not recover them within that time? 27 I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me; the LORD, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.' 28 Howbeit the king of the children of Amrnon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

29 Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Aram on. 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, 81 then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering/ ^So Jephthah passed over unto the children of A mm on to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hand. 83 And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Min-nith, even twenty cities, and unto Abel-cheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon

were subdued before the children of Israel.

34 And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; and she was his only child* beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 85 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said* 'Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art become my troubler; for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.' 86 And she said unto him: 'My father, thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon/ 37 And she said unto her father: 'Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down upon^ the mountains, and bewail ^my virginity, I and my companions.' 38 And he said: 'Go.' And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, , that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed; and she had not known man. And it was a custom in Israel, 40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year. "| O And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed to Zaphon; and they said unto Jephthah: 'Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go

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with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire/ 2 And Jephthah said unto them: 'I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand. 3 And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand; wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?' 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said: 'Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.' 5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites; and it was so, that when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said: 'Let me go over 7 , the men of Gilead said unto him: 'Art thou an Ephraimite?' If he said: 'Nay'; ^hen said they unto him: 'Say now Shibboleth'; and he said 'Sibboleth'; for he could not frame to pronounce it right; then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan; and there fell at that tune of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

8 And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judge4 Israel. 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 10 And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.

n And after V>iin Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel

ten years. 12 And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

13 And after him Abdpn the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 14 And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts; and he judged Israel eight years. 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

•j O And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not. 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her 'Behold now, thou art barren, and hast not borne; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing. 5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.' 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying: 'A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name; ^ut he said unto me: Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God

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from the womb to the day of his death.'

8 Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said: 'Oh, Lord, I pray Thee, let the man of God whom Thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born/ 9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said unto him: 'Behold, the man *hath appeared unto me, that came unto me that day.' u And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him: 'Art thou the man that spokest unto the woman?' And he said: 'I am.' ^And Manoah said: 'Now when thy word cometh to pass, what shall be the rule for the child, and what shall be done with him?' ^A the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah: 'Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the grape-vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.' 15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee/ 16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah: 'Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.' For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of the LORD. 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'What is thy name, that when thy words come to pass we may do thee honour?' 18 And the angel of the,

LORD said unto him: 'Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is hidden?' 19 S6 Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the LORD; and [the angel] did wondr ously, and Manoah and his wife looked on. 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar; and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. 21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife: 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God' ^But his wife said unto him: 'If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.'

^And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him, 25 And the spirit of the LORD began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

A And Samson went down to *- Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said: 'I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife.' 3 Then 'his father and his mother said unto him: 'Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?' And Samson said unto his father:

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'Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.' 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

6 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and, behold, a young lion roared against him. 6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as one would have rent a lad, and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. 7 And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. 8 And after a while he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 And he scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went, and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat; but he told them not that he had scraped the honey out of the body of the lion. 10 And his father went down unto the woman; and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do. u And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him. ^And Samson said unto-them: 'Let me now put forth a riddle unto you; if ye can declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment; M but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment.' And they said unto him: 'Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.' 14 And he said unto them:

Out of the eater came forth food,

And out of the strong came forth

sweetness.

And they could not in three days declare the riddle. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife; 'Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire; have ye called us hither to impoverish us?' 16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said: 'Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not; thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and wilt thou not tell it me?' And he said unto her: 'Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell thee?' 17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her >le. 18 And the men of the city unto him on the seventh day t>efore the sun went down:

What is sweeter than honey?

And what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them:

If ye had not plowed with my heifer,

Ye had not found out my riddle.

^d the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and smote thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of raiment unto them that declared the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house. 20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he lad had for his friend.

But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, ;hat Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: 'I will go hi to my

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wife into the chamber/ But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said: 'I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.' 3 And Samson said unto them. 'This time shall I be quits with the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.' 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails. 5 And when he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing corn, and also the oliveyards. 6 Then the Philistines said: ' Who hath done this?' And they said: 'Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken his wife, and given her to his companion.' And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire. 7 And Samson said unto them: 'If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.' 8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

^Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves against Lehi. 10 And the men of Judah said: 'Why are ye come up against us?' And they said: 'To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.' u Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: 'Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?' And he said unto them: 'As they did unto me, so

That is, The hitt of the jawbone.

have I done unto them.' ^And they said unto him: 'We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.' And Samson said unto them: 'Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.' "And they spoke unto him, saying: 'No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand; but surely we will not kill thee.' And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock. 14 When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands. 15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith. 16 And Samson said:

With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps,

With the jawbone of an ass have I

smitten a thousand men. 17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called 'Ramath-lehi. 18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said: 'Thou hast given this great de-hverance by the hand of Thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the un-circumcised?'. "But God cleaved the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came back, and he revived; wherefore the name thereof was called b En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the "^hiBstines twenty years.

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"J Q And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her. 2 [And it was told] the Ga-zites, saying ' Samson is come hither/ And they compassed him in, and lay in wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying: 'Let be till morning light, then we will kill him.' 3 And Samson^ lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and-carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.

4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her: * Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we inay bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.' 6 And Delilah said to Samson: 'Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. 3 7 And Samson said unto her: 'If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as any other man.' 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought uj) to her seven fresh bowstrings which ^ had not been dried, and she bound him with them. 9 Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson.' And he broke the bowstrings as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known. 10 And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Behold,

thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound/ "And he said unto her: 'If they only bind me with new ropes wherewith no work hath been done, then shall I become weak, and be as any other man.' ^So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson/ And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he broke them from off his arms like a thread. 13 And Delilah said unto Samson: 'Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies; tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound/ And he said unto her: 'If thou weavest the seven locks of my head ^with the web/ 14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson/ And he awoke out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web. 15 And she said unto him: 'How canst thou say: I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth/ ls And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him., that his soul was vexed unto death. 17 And he told her all his heart, and said unto her: 'There hath n*ot come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother's womb; if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man/ 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying: 'Come up this onoe, for he hath told me all his heart/ Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money

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in their hand. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and had the seven locks of his head shaven off; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. 20 And she said: 'The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. 7 And he awoke out of his sleep, and said: 'I will go out as at other times, and shake myself/ But he knew not that the LORD was departed from him. 2I And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house. ^Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

^And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rej oice; for they said: ' Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.' M And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said: 'Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who hath slain many of us.' 26 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said: 'Call for Samson, that he may make us sport/ And they called for Samson out of the prison-Kbuse; and he made sport before them; and they set him between the pillars. 26 And jSamson said unto the lad that held him, by the hand: ' Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house resteth, that I may lean upon them/ 27 Now the house was full of men "and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport. 28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord GOD, remember me,

I pray Thee, and strengthen me, I pray Thee, only this once, 0 God, that I may be this once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes/ 29 And Samson took fast hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and leaned upon them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. 30 And Samson said: 'Let me die with the Philistines/ And he bent with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life. 31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Ma-noah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years. 1 *7 Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said unto his mother: 'The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it/ And his mother said:' Blessed be my son of the LORD/ 3 And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said: 'I verily dedicate the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore I will restore it unto thee/ 4 And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah. B And the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod. and teraphim, and conse-

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crated one of his sons, who became his priest. 6 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem in Judah—in the family of Judah—who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. 8 And the man de-parted^out of the city, out of Bethlehem in Judah, to sojourn where he could find a place; and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. 9 And Micah said unto him: 'Whence com-est thou?' And he said unto him: 'I am a Levite of Beth-lehem in Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.' 10 And Micah said unto him: 'Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. 7 So the Levite went in. u And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. 12 And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. "Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.'

"| Q In those days there was no king xu in Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day there had nothing been allotted unto them among the tribes of Israel for an inheritance. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtapl, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them: 'Go, search the land'; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there. 3 When

they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him; 'Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?' 4 And he said unto them: 'Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.' & And they said unto him: 'Ask- counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we are going shall be prosperous.' 6 And the priest said unto them: 'Go in peace; before the LOED is your way wherein ye go.'

7 Then the five men departed^ and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in any thing, and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no dealings with any man. 8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brethren said unto them: 'What say ye?' 9 And they said: 'Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good; and are ye still? be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land. l °When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large; for God hath given it into your hand; a place where there is no want; it hath every thing that is in the earth.'

u And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and put of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war. ^And they went up^ and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in Judah; wherefore that place was called Mahaneh-dan

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hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem in Judah. 2 And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem in Judah, and was there the space of four months. 3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly unto her, to bring her back, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses; and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him. 4 And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days; so they did eat and drink, and lodged there. 5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart; and the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law: 'Stay thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye shall go your way/ 6 So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together; and the damsel's father said unto the man: 'Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.' 7 And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there again. 8 Aid he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father said: 'Stay thy heart, I pray thee, and tarry ye until the day declineth'; and they did eat, both of them. 9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his^ concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him: 'Behold, now the day draweth toward evening; tarry, I pray you, all night; behold, the day groweth to an end; lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.' 10 But the

man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus—the same is Jerusalem; and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine also was with him. n When they were by Jebus —the day was far spent—the servant said unto his master: 'Come, I pray thee, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.' ^And his master said unto him: 'We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.' K And he said unto his servant: 'Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.' 14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them near to Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin. 15 And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gibeah; and he went in, and sat^him down in the broad place of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge. 16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even; now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites. 17 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the broad place of the city; and the old man said:' Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?' 18 And he said unto him: 'We are passing from Beth-lehem in Judah unto the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from thence am I, and I went to Beth-lehem in Judah, and I am now going to the house of the LORD; and "there is no man that taketh me into his house. 19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid,

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and for the young man that is with thy servants; there is no want of any thing.' 20 And the old man said-'Peace be unto thee; howsoever let all thy wants he upon me; only lodge not in the broad place.' a So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses fodder; and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink. ^As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying: 'Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.' 23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them: 'Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this wanton deed. ^Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; I will bring them out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you; but unto this man do not so wanton a thing.' 25 But the men would not hearken to him; so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning; and when the day began to spring, they let her

'"Then came the woman in

the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light. 27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands upon the threshold. 28 And he said unto her: 'Up, and let us be going'; but none answered; then he took her up upon the ass; and the man

rose up, and got him unto his place. 29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel. 30 And it was so, that all that saw it said: 'Such a thing hath not happened nor been seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.' OQ Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD at Mizpah. 2 And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.— 3 Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah —And the children of Israel said: 'Tejl us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?' 4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said: 'I came into Gibeah that be-longeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. 5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night; me they thought to have slain, and t my concubine they forced, and she is dead. 6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and wantonness in Israel. 7 Behold t ye are all here, children of Israel, give here your advice and counsel/ s 8 And all the people arose as one man, saying: ' We wiH not any of us go to his tent^ neither will we any of us turn unto his house.

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30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. ^And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the field, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, about thirty men of Israel. 32 And the children of Benjamin said: 'They are smitten down before us, as at the first/ But the children of Israel said: 'Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.' ^And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar; and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba. M And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them. 3B And the LORD smote Benjamin'before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men; all these drew the sword.

36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had t set against Gibeah.— 37 And the liers-in-wait hastened, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew forth, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. 38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait, that they should make a great beac9n of smoke r,ise up out of the city.—^And the men of Israel

turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said: 'Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.' 40 But when the beacon began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven. ^And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed; for they saw that evil was come upon them. ^Therefore they turned then-backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the city destroyed them in the midst of the men of Israel. ^They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and overtook them at their resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising. '"And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour. 4B And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmpn; and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men. 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour. 47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months. 48 And the men of Israel turned back upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found; moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

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01 Now the men of Israel had sworn ^^ in Mizpah, saying: 'There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife/ 2 And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till ^ even before God, and lifted up taeir voices, and wept sore. 3 And they said: '0 LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?' 4 And.it came to pass on the morrow that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and

Eeace-offerings. 5 And the children of srael^said: 'Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto the LORD?' For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah, saying: 'He shall surely be put to death.' 6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said: 'There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day. 7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?' 8 And they said: 'What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto the LORD to Miz-pah?' And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly. 9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there. 10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the vahantest, and commanded them, saying: * Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones. u And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy

every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.' ^And they'found

among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

13 And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of Rim-mon, and proclaimed peace unto them. 34 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead; and yet so they sufficed them not. 15 And the ^ people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

16 Then the elders of the congregation said: 'How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?' 17 And they said: "They that are escaped must be as an inheritance for Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel. 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters.' For the children of Israel had sworn, saying: 'Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.' 19 And they said: ' Behold, there is the feast of the LORD from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.' 20 And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying: 'Go and lie in wait in the vineyards; a and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in tite dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man, his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. ^And it shall be, when their fathers or $eir brethren come to strive with us. that

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we will say unto them: Grant them graciously unto us; because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle; neither did ye give them unto them, that ye should now be guilty/ ^And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off; and they went

and returned unto then* inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them. 24 And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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1 Now there was a certain man of x Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2 And he had two wives: the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there priests unto the LORD. 4 And it came to pass upon a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, that he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions; 5 but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had shut up her womb. 6 And her rival vexed her sore, to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb, 7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she vexed her; therefore she wept, and would not eat. 8 And Elkanah her husband said unto her: 'Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?' 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk—now Eli the priest sat upon his seat by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD; 10 and she was in bitterness of soul—and

prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore. 11 And she vowed a vow, and said: '0 LORD of hosts, if Thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget Thy handmaid, but wilt give unto Thy handmaid a man-child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head. 7 ^And it came to pass, as she prayed long before the LORD, that Eli watched her mouth. ^Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice could not be heard; therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. 14 And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee/ 15 And Hannah answered and said: 'No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before the LORD. 16 Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman: 'for out of the abundance of my complaint and my vexation have I spoken hitherto' 17 Then Eli answered and said: 'Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of Him.' 18 And she said: 'Let thy servant find favour in thy sight.' So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad. 19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah; and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD re-

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rnembered her. 20 And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she called his name Samuel: 'because I have asked him of the LORD/

21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. ^But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband: 'Until the child be weaned, when I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.' ^An Elkanah her husband said unto her 'Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish His word.' So the woman tarried and gave her son suck, until she weaned him. ^A when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh; #nd the child was young. 26 And when the bullock was slam, the child was brought to Eli. 26 And she said: 'Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD. 27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath granted me my petition which I asked of Him; therefore I also have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he is lent to the LORD.' And he worshipped the LORD there. O And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exulteth in the LORD,

My horn is exalted in the LORD;

My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies;

Because I rejoice in Thy salvation.

2 There is none holy as the LORD;,

For there is none beside Thee;

Neither is there any rock like our God.

3 Multiply not exceeding proud talk;

Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth;

For the LORD is a God of knowledge,

And by Him actions are weighed.

4 The bows of the mighty men are broken,

And they that stumbled are girded with strength.

5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread;

And they that were hungry have

While the barren hath borne seven, She that had many children hath languished.

6 The LORD killeth, and maketh

alive; He bringeth down to the grave,

and bringeth up.

7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich; He bringeth low, He also lifteth

up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the

dust, He lifteth up the needy from the

dung-hill,

To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are the

LORD'S, And He hath set the world upon

them.

*He will keep the feet of His holy

ones, But the ^ wicked shall be put to

silence in darkness; For not by strength shall man

prevail. 10 They that strive with the LORD

shall be broken to pieces; Against them will He thunder in

heaven;

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The LORD will judge the ends of the

earth; And He will give strength unto His

king, And exalt the horn of His anointed.

u And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

^Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not the LORD. 13 And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his hand; 14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did unto all the Israelites that came thither in Shiloh. 15 Yea, before the fat was made to smoke, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed: 'Give flesh to roast for the Eriest; for he will not have sodden esh of thee, but raw/ 16 And if the man said unto him: 'Let the fat be made to smoke first of all, and then take as much as thy soul desireth'; then he would say: 'Nay, but thou shalt give it me now; and if not, I will take it by force/ 17 And the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD; for the men dealt contemptuously with the offering of the LORD.

18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod. "Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 20 And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to the LORD.' And they would go unto their

own home. 21 So the LORD remembered Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

^Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting. ^And he said unto them: 'Why do ye such things? for I hear evil reports concerning you from all this people. ^Nay, my sons; for it is no good report which I hear the LORD'S people do spread abroad. 25 If one man sin against another; God shall judge him; but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?' But they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them. ^And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.

27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him: 'Thus s&ith the LORD: Did I reveal Myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh's house? 28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be My priest, to go up unto Mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before Me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? 29 Wherefore kick ye at My sacrifice and at Mine offering, which I have commanded in My habitation; and honourest thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel My people? ^Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, saith: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before Me for ever; but now the LORD saith: Beit far from Me;

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for them that honour Me I will honour, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed. 31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house. ^And thou shalt behold a rival in My habitation, in all the good which shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever. ^Yet will I not cut off every man of thine from Mine altar, to make thine eyes to fail, and thy heart to languish; and all the increase of thy house shall die young men. ^And this shall be the sign unto thee, that which shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phine-has: in one day they shall die both of them. 35 And I wfll raise Me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in My heart and in My mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before Mine anointed for ever. 36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, ^and shall say: Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread/

O And the child Samuel ministered ^ unto the LOBD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision. 2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down hi his place-^now his eyes had begun to wax dim, that he could not see— 3 and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel was laid down to sleep in the temple of the LORD, where the v ark of God was, Hhat the LORD called Samuel; and he said: 'Here am I. 7 6 And he ran unto Eli, and said: 'Here am I; for thou didst call me/ And he

said: 'I called not; lie down again/ And he went and lay down. 6 And the LORD called yet again Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said: 'Here am I; for thou didst call me/ And he answered: 'I called not, my son; He down again/ 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. 8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said: 'Here am I; for thou didst call me/ And Eh perceived that the LORD was calling the child, therefore Eli said unto Samuel: 'Go, lie down; and it shall be, if thou be called, that thou shalt say; Speak, LORD; for Thy servant heareth/ So Samuel went and lay down in his place. 10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times: 'Samuel, Samuel/ Then Samuel said: 'Speak; for Thy servant heareth/ u And tke LORD said to Samuel: 'Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. ^In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even unto the end. 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity, in that he knew that his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he rebuked them not. 14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever/ 15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to tell Eli the vision. 16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said: 'Samuel, my son/ And he said:'Here am I/ 7 And he said: ' What is the thing that He hath spoken unto thee? I pray thee,

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hide it not from me; God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that He spoke unto thee/ 18 And Samuel told hJTn all the words, and hid nothing from him. And he said: 'It is the LOED; let Him do what seemeth Him good/

19 And Samuel grew, and the LOED was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. 20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD. 21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh; for the^ LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the A LORD. *And the word of Samuel *• came to all Israel.

Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer; and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. 2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel; and when the battle was spread, Israel was smitten before the Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men. 3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said: 'Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that He may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.' 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who sitteth upon the cherubim; and the two sons of EH, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang. 6 And when the Philistines heard the

noise of the shout, they said: 'What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?' And they knew that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp. 7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said: 'God is come into the camp/ And they said: 'Woe unto us! for there was not such a thing yesterday and the day before. 8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues and in the wilderness. 9 Be strong, and quit yourselves Eke men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you; quit yourselves like men, and fight/ 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent; and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. u And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

K And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head. ^And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out* 14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said* 'What meaneth the noise of this tumult?' And the man made haste, and came and told Eli. 15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see. 16 And the man said unto Eli: 'I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to-day out of the army/ And he said: 'How went the matter, my son?' l7 And he that brought

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the tidings answered and said: 'Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.' 18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

19 And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered; and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came suddenly upon her. 20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her: 'Fear not; for thou hast brought forth a son.' But she answered not, neither did she regard it. 21 And she named the child a lchabod, saying: 'The glory is departed from Israel'; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said: 'The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken' K Now the Philistines had taken the ar.k of God, and they brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. 2 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the |

» That is, There is no glory.

ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands lay cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said: 'The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for His hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.' 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said: 'What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?' And they answered: 'Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath.' And they earned the ark of the God of Israel about thither. 9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great discomfiture; and He smote the men of the city, both small and great, and emerods broke out upon them. 10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying: 'They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.' u They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said: 'Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people'; for there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

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12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven. £ And the ark of the LORD was in u the country of the Philistines seven months. 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying: 'What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? declare unto us wherewith we shall send it to its place/ 3 And they said: f lf ye send away ^ the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return Him a guilt-offering; then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why His hand is not removed from you/ 4 Then said they: ' What shall be the guilt-offering which we shall return to Him?' And they sard: 'Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords, therefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel; peradventure He will lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land. 6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when He had wrought among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? 7 Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and two •milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them. 8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return Him for a guilt-offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go. 9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of its

own border to Beth-shemesh, then He hath done us this great evil- but if not, then we shall know that it is not His hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us/

10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home. "And they put the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods. ^And the kine took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh. "And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it. "And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone; and they cleaved the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine for a burnt-offering unto the LORD. 15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD. 16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a guilt-offering unto the LORD: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ash-kelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; 18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of

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country villages, even unto Abel by the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD, which stone re-maineth unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite. 18 And He smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had gazed upon the ark of the LORD, even He smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people a mourned, because the LORD had smitten the people with a great slaughter. 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?' ^And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Eariath-jearim, saying: 'The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.' n And the men of Kiriath-jeanm 1 came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.

2 And it came to pass, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years; and all the house 'of Israel yearned after the LORD. 3 And Samuel spoke unto all the house of Israel, saying: 'If ye do return unto the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts unto the LORD, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.' ^hen the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.

5 And Samuel said: 'Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.' 6 And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD,

* From the Hebrew root abeL

and fasted on that day, and said there: 'We have sinned against the LORD/ And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

7 And when tne Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. 8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel: 'Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that He save us out of the hand of the Philistines.' 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt-offering unto the LORD; and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD answered him. 10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel. n And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car. 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it b Eben-ezer, saying: ' Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.' 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of Israel; and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the border thereof did Israel^ deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. 15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. 16 And he went from year to year in circuit

b That is, The stone of help.

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to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. 17 And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and he built there an altar unto the LORD. Q And it came to pass, when Samuel *•* was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. 2 Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

^Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah. 5 And they said unto him: 'Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways; now make us a king to judge us like all the nations/ 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said: 'Give us a king to judge us.' And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. 7 And the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, that I should not be king over them. 8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken Me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee/. 9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice; howbeit thou shalt earnestly forewarn them, and shalt declare unto them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.'

10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. u And he said: 'This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for

his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots. w And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants, 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his servants. 18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day. 7 19 But the people refused to hearken unto the voice of Samuel; and they said: 'Nay; but there shall be a king over us; 20 that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.' 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he spoke them in the ears of the LORD. ^And the LORD said to Samuel: 'Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king.' And Samuel said unto the men of Israel: 'Go ye every man unto his city/ Q Now there was a man of Ben-^ jamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valour. 2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, young and goodly,

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and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people. 3 Now the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son: 'Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses. 7 4 And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shafishah, but they found them not; then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they were not; and he passed through the land of the Ben-jamites, but they found them not. 5 When they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him: 'Come and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and become anxious concerning us/ 6 And he said unto him: 'Behold now, there •is in this city a man of God, and he is a man that is held in honour; all that he saith com-eth surely to pass; now let us go thither; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go. 7 7 Then said Saul to his servant: 'But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God; what have we? ; 8 And the^ servant answered Saul again, and said: 'Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver, that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 7 —^eforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said: 'Come and let us go to the seer'; for he that is now called a prophet was beforetime called a seer.— 10 Then said Saul to his servant: 'Well said; come, let us go' So they went unto the city where the man of God was. ll As they went up

the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them: 'Is the seer here?' 12 And they answered them, and said: 'He is; behold, he is before thee; make haste now, for he is come to-day into the city; for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place". 13 As soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are bidden. Now therefore get you up; for at this time ye shall find him/ 14 And they went up to the city; and as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place.

15 Now the LORD had revealed unto Samuel a day before Saul came, saying: 16< To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be prince over My people Israel, and he shall save My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon My people, because their cry is come unto Me/ 17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD spoke unto him: 'Behold the man of whom I said unto thee: This same shall have authority over My people/ 18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said: 'Tell me, I ^pray thee, where the seer's bouse is/ 19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said: 'I am the seer; go up before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat with me to-day; and in the morning I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart. 20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of

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Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?' 21 And Saul answered and said: 'Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speak-est thou to me after this manner?'

22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the chamber, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, who were about thirty persons. ^And Samuel said unto the cook: 'Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee: Set it by thee/ ^And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And [Samuel] said: 'Behold that which hath been reserved! set it before thee and eat; because unto the appointed time hath it been kept for thee, for I said: I have invited the people.' So Saul did eat with Samuel that day. 25 And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he spoke with Saul upon the housetop. 26 And they arose early; and it came to pass about the break of day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying: 'Up, that I may send thee away.' And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad. 27 As i they were going down at the end of the ! city, Samuel said to Saul: 'Bid the, servant pass on before us—and he i passed on-—but stand thou still at this time, that I may cause thee to! hear the word of God.' •J A Then Samuel took the vial of •*- ^ oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: 'Is it not that the LORD hath anointed thee to be prince over His inheritance? 2 When thou art departed from me to-

day, then thou shalt find two men by the tomb of Rachel, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee: The asses which thou wentest to seek are found; and, lo, thy father hath left off caring for the asses, and is anxious concerning you, saying: What shall I do for my son? 3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the terebinth of Tabor, and there shall meet thee there three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine. 4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two cakes of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hand. s After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the high pkce with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying. 6 And the spirit of the LORD wiU come mightily upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. 7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou dp as thy hand shall find; for God is with thee. 8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt-offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings; seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come unto thee, and teH thee what thou shalt do.'

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the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them. u And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another: 'What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Sau] also among the prophets? 5 ^And one of the same place answered and said: 'And who is their father?' Therefore it became a proverb: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' 13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant: 'Whither went ye?' And he said: 'To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.' 15 And Saul's uncle said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you. ; 16 And Saul said unto his uncle: 'He told us plainly that the asses were found.' But concerning the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spoke, ,he told him not.

17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpah. 18 And*he said unto the children of Israel: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you. 19 But ye have this day rejected your God, who Himself saveth you out of ah 1 your calamities and your distresses; and ye have said unto Him: Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands/ 20 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken. a And he brought the tribe of Ben-

jamin near by their families, and the family of the M^trites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken; but when they sought him, he could not be found. ^Therefore they asked of the LORD further: 'Is there yet a man come hither?' And the LORD answered: 'Behold, he hath hid himself among the baggage.' ^And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward. M And Samuel said to all the people: 'See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?' And all the people shouted, and said: 'Long live the king.'

26 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. 26 And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the men of valour, whose hearts God had touched. 27 But certain base fellows said: 'How shall this man save us?' And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he was as one that held his peace.

1 Then Nahash the Ammonite •*• came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash: 'Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.' 2 And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them: *On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.' 3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto nm: 'Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to deliver us, we

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will come out to thee. 7 4 Then came the messengers to Gibeath-shaul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people; and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5 And, behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said: 'What aileth the people that they weep? 7 And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh. 6 And the spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly. 7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying: 'Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. 7 And the dread of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man. 8 And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 9 And they said unto the messengers that came: 'Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead: To-morrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance. 7 And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. 10 And the men of Jabesh said: 'To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you. 7

u And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and it came to pass, that they that remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together. ^And the people said unto Samuel: 'Who is he that said: Shaft Saul reign over us? bring the

men, that we may put them to death. 7 w Saul said: '

There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day the LORD hath wrought deliverance in Israel. 7

14 Then said Samuel to the people: 'Come and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there. 7 15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. 1 O And Samuel said unto all Israel: 'Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you. 2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and gray-headed; and, behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day. 3 Here I am; witness against me before the LORD, and before His anointed : whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? or whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. 7 4 And they said: 'Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand/ 6 And he said unto them: 'The LORD is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. 7 And they said: 'He is witness. 7

6 And Samuel said unto the people: It is the LORD that made Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. TSTow therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous, acts of the LORD, which He did to you and to your

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fathers. 8 When Jacob was come into then your fathers cried unto

the LORD, and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, ^ and they were made to dwell in this place. 9 But they forgot the LORD their God, and He gave them over into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. 10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve Thee. 11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelt in safety. ^And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when the LORD your God was your king. 13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for; and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. 14 If ye will fear the LORD, and 1 serve Him, and hearken unto His voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you,be followers of the LORD your God—; 15 but if ye will not hearken unto the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, and against your fathers. as Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. 17 Is it not wheat harvest to-day? 'I will call unto the LORD, that He may send {minder and rain;

and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.' 18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. "Aid all the people said unto Samuel: 'Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not; for we have added unto all our fting this evil, to ask us a king.' 20 And Samuel said unto the people: 'Fear not; ye have indeed done all this evil; yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; 21 and turn ye not aside; for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain. ^For the LORD will not forsake His people for His great name's sake; because it hath pleased the LORD to make you a people unto Himself. ^Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and the right way. ^Only fear the LORD, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things He hath done for you. 25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be swept away, both ye and your king.'

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he began to reign; and two years he reigned over Israel. 2 And Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmas and in the mount of Beth-el, and^a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeath-benjamin; and the rest of the people tie sent every man to his tent. 8 Ajid Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the horn throughout all the

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land, saying: 'Let the Hebrews hear/ 4 And all Israel heard say that Sa,ul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also had made himself odious with the Philistines. And the people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

6 And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude; and they came up, and pitched ha Michmas, eastward of Beth-aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait—for the people were distressed — then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in holds, and in pits. 7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed; but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from hm). 9 And Saul said: 'Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings.' And he offered the burnt-offering. 10 And it came to pass that, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, behold, -Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him. ^And Samuel said: 'What hast thou done?' And Saul said: 'Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou earnest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together against Michmas; ^therefore said I: Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favour of the LORD;

I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt-offering/ B And Samuel said to Saul: "Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which He commanded thee; for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel foi ever. 14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue; the LORD hath sought him a man after His own heart, and the LORD hath appointed him to be prince over His people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee/

^And Samuel arose, and got Him up from Gilgal unto Gibeath-benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men. 16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in "Gibeath-benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmas. 17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies, one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual; 18 and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned the way of the border that lopketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said: 'Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears'; 20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. ffl And the price of the filing was b a pirn for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads. ^So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear

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found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. ^And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmas. •J A Now it fell upon a day, that 1 -1 - Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bore his armour: 'Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side/ But he told not his father. 2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men, 3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's [brother, the son of Phinehas, the son .of Eli, the priest of the LOED in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone. 4 And between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag oa the other side; and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the ,6ther Seneh. ^The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmas, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: 'Come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us; for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.' 7 And his armour-bearer said unto him : ' Do all that is in thy heart; turn thee, behold I am with thee according to thy heart.' 8 Then said Jonathan: 'Behold, we wiU pass over unto the men, and we will disclose ourselves unto them. 9 If they say thus unto us: Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand

still in our place, and will not go up unto them. 10 But if they say thus: Come up unto us; then we will go up; for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand; and this shall be the sign unto us.' u And both of them disclosed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said: 'Behold Hebrews coming forth out of the holes where they hid themselves' 12 And the men of the garrison spoke to Jonathan and his armour-bearer, and said: ' Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.' And Jonathan said unto his armour-bearer: 'Come up after me; for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.' 13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armour-bearer after him; and they fell before Jonathan; and his armour-bearer slew them after him. 14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armour-bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. 16 And there was a trembling in the camp in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked; so it grew into a terror from God. 16 And the watchmen of Saul hi Gibeath-benjamm looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went hither and thither.

17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him: 'Number now, and see who is gone from us.' And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armour-bearer were not there. 18 And Saul said unto Ahijah: 'Bring hither the ark of God.' For the ark of God was there at that time with the children of Israel. 19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philis-

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tines went on and increased; and Saul said unto the priest: * Withdraw thy hand.' 20 And Saul and all the people that were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture. 21 Now the Hebrews that were with the Philistines as be-foretime, and that went up with them into the camp round about; even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan. 22 Likewise all the men of Israel that had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. ^So the LORD saved Israel that day; and the battle passed on as far as Beth-aven.

^And the men of Israel were distressed that day; but Saul adjured the people, saying: l Cursed be the man that eateth any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on mine enemies.' So none of the people tasted food. 26 And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground. 26 And when the people were come unto the forest, behold a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath; and he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened. 28 Then answered one of the people, and said: 'Thy father straitiy charged the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.' 29 Then said Jonathan: 'My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, how mine

eyes are brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. 30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? had there not been then a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?' 31 And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmas to Aijalon; and the people were very faint. ^And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood. ^Then they told Saul, saying: 'Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood.' And he said: ' Ye have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone unto me this day.' ^And Saul said: ' Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them: Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood.' And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there. 35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD; the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.

^And Saul said: 'Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.' And they said: 'Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee.' Then said the priest: 'Let us draw near hither unto God.' 37 And Saul asked counsel 9f God: 'Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt Thou deliver them into the hand of Israel?' But He answered him not that day. 38 And Saul said: 'Draw nigh hither, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day. 39 For, as the LORD liveth, who saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall

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surely die.' But there was not a man among all the people that answered him. 40 Then said he unto all Israel 'Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side/ And the people said unto Saul: 'Do what seemeth good unto thee.' ^Therefore Saul said unto the LORD, the God of Israel: ' Declare the right/ And Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot; but the people escaped. Saul said: * Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.' And Jonathan was taken. -"Then Saul said to Jonathan: ' Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said. 'I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; here ani I: I will die. **And Saul said: ' God dp so and more also; thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.' ^And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it; as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day.' So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not. 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the longs of Zobah, and against the Philistines; and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse. * 8 And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

the sons of Saul were Jonathan,, and Ishvi, and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters

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were these: the name of the first-born Merab, and the name of the younger Michal; 60 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz; and the name of the captain of his host was *Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 61 And Eash was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

And Samuel said unto Saul: 'The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over His people, over Israel; now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD. 2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'

4 And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and lay in wait in the valley. 6 And Saul said unto the Kenites: £ Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children ' of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.' So the Kenites departed From among the Amalekites. 7 And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is in front of Egypt. 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and

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the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, even the young of the second birth, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but every thing that was of no account and feeble, that they destroyed utterly.

10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying: u 'It repenteth Me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following Me, and hath not performed My commandments.' And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night. 12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying: 'Saul caine to Carmel, and, behold, he is setting him up a monument, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal/ "And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him : ' Blessed be thou of the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LOED/ 14 And Samuel said: 'What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?' 15 And Saul said: 'They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed/ 16 Then Samuel said unto Saul: 'Stay, and I will tell thee what the LOED hath said to me this night/ And he said unto Mm: 'Say on/

17 And Samuel said: 'Though thou be little in thine own sight, art thou not head of the tribes of Israel?' And the LOED anointed thee king over Israel; 18 and the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said: Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. "Wherefore then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the

LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of the LORD?' 20 And Saul said unto Samuel: 'Yea, I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LOED sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ^But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in, Gilgal/ ^And Samuel said: 'Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of

the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than

sacrifice,

And to hearken than the fat of rams. ^For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as idolatry and

teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king/ ^And Saul said unto Samuel: 'I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words; because I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice. ^Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD/ ^And Samuel said unto Saul: 'I will not return with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel/ 27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent. 2S And Samuel said unto him: 'The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou, 29 And also the Glory of Israel will

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not lie nor repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent.' 30 Then he said: 'I have sinned; yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.' 31 So Samuel returned after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.

^Then said Samuel ' Bi ing ye hither "to me Agag the king of the Arnaltk-ites.' And Agag came unto him in chains. And Agag said: 'Surely the bitterness of death is at hand/ ^And Samuel said:

As thy sword hath made women childless,

So shall thy mother be childless

among women.

And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

^Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeath-shaul. 35 And Samuel never beheld Saul again until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul; and the LORD repented that He had made Saul king over Israel. -j f* And the LORD said unto Samuel* •*- ^ •" How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided Me a king among his sons.' 2 And Samuel said: 'How can I go? if Saul hear it, he wilt kill me.' And the LORD said: 'Take a heifer with thee, and say: I am come to sacrifice to the LORD. 3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will tell thee what thou shalt do; and thou shalt anoint unto Me him whom I name unto thee.' 4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said*

'Comest thou peaceably?' 6 And he said : 'Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD; sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.' And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he beheld Eliab, and said: 'Surely the LORD'S anointed is before Him/ 7 But the LORD said unto Samuel: 'Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.' 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said: 'Neither hath the LORD chosen this.' 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said: 'Neither hath the LORD chosen this.' 10 And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'The LORD hath not chosen these.' 11 And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Are here all thy children?' And he said:' There remameth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.' And Samuel said unto Jesse: 'Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.' ^And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of beautiful eyes, and goodly to look upon. And the LORD said: 'Arise, anoint him; for this is he.' 13 Then Samuel m took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren; and the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. 14 Now the spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD terrified him.- 15 And Saul's servants said unto him: 'Behold now, an evil spirit from God

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terrifieth thee. 16 Let our lord now command thy servants, that are before thee, to seek out a man who is a skilful player on the harp; and it shall be, when the evil spirit from God cometh upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well/ 17 And^ Saul said unto his servants: 'Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.' "Then answered one of the young men, and said: 'Behold, I have seen a json of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valour, and a man of war, and prudent in affairs, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him/ "Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said: 'Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.' 20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul. ^And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer. M And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.' ^And it came to pass, when the [evil] 'spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul found relief, and it was well with him, and the evil spirit departed from him.

~| HT Now the Philistines gathered to-x ' gether their armies to battle, and they were gathered together at Spcoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 8 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the

mountain on the other side; and there was a valley between them. 4 And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 6 And he had greaves of brass upon Ms legs, and a javelin of brass between his shoulders. 7 And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went ^ before him. 8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them: 'Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. 9 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then wiU we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.' 10 And the Philistine said: 'I do taunt the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.' u And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

n Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men. K And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 And David yras the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.— 15 Now David went to and fro

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from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.—* 6 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

17 And Jesse said unto David his son: 'Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren. 18 And bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and toothy brethren shalt thou bring greetings, and take their pledge; 19 now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, are in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.' 20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the barricade, as the host which Was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle. 21 And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army. M And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brethren. ^And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words; and David heard them. M And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. ^And the men of Israel said: 'Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to taunt Israel is he come up; and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.'

^And David spoke to the men that stood by Mm, saying: 'What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the taunt

from Israel? for who is this uncir-cumcised Philistine, that he should have taunted the armies of the living God?' 27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying: 'So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.' 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said: '"Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy presumptuousness, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou might-est see the battle.' 29 And David said: 'What have I now done? Was it not but a word?' 80 And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him after the former manner.

31 And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he was taken to Kirn. 32 And David said to Saul: 'Let no man's heart fail within him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.' ^And Saul said to David: "Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.' ^And David said unto Saul: 'Thy servant kept his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircum-cised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath taunted the armies of the living God.' 37 And David said: 'The LOBD that delivered me out of

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the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.' And Saul said unto David: 'Go, and the LORD shall be with thee.' 38 And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. 39 And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he essayed to go [, but could not]; for he had not tried it. And David said unto Saul: 'I cannot go with these; for I have not tried them.' And David put them off him. 40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his scrip; and his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.

41 And the Philistine came nearer and nearer unto David; and the man that bore the shield went before him. ^And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance. ^And the Philistine said unto David: 'Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?' And the Philistine cursed David by his god. **And the Philistine said to David: ' Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field/ ^Then said David to the Philistine: 'Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the name of the LOED of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast taunted. ""This day will the LORD deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the

earth may know that there is a God in Israel; 47 and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD'S, and He will give you into our hand.' 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon Ms face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. H And David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it put of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, they fled, 52 A:nd the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron, And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron. ^And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled then: camp. w And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour hi his tent.

^And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host: 1 Abner, whose son is this youth?' And Abner said: 'As thy soul hveth, O king, I cannot tell.' M And the king said* 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.' "And as David returned

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from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took Mm, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in hid hand. 68 And Saul said to him: 'Whose son art^thou, thou young man?' And David answered: 'I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.' 1 Q And it came to pass, when he xo had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of ^David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 3 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his apparel, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. fi And David went out; whithersoever Saul sent him, he had good success; and Saul^ set him over the men of war; and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

6 And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments. 7 And the women sang ^ one to another in their play, and said:

Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands. 8 And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!' 9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house; and David played with his hand, as he did day by day; and Saul had his spear in his hand. "And Saul cast the spear; for he said: 'I will smite David even to the wall/ And David stepped aside out of his presence twice. ^And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul 13 Therefore Saul removed hirn from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. 14 And David had great success in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. 15 Aiid when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him. 16 But all Israel and Judahloved David; for he went out and came in before them*

"And Saul said to David: ' Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife' only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles.' Tor Saul said: 'Let not my hand be upon him., but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.' 18 And David said unto Saul: 'Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?' 19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. 20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Sa,ul, and the thing pleased him. ^And Saul said: 'I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.' Wherefore Saul said to David: 'Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law through the one of the twain.'

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Saul commanded his servants: ' Speak with David secretly, and say: Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee; now therefore be the king's son-in-law.' 23 And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said: 'Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?' ^And the servants of Saul told him, saying: 'On this manner spoke David' 25 And Saul said: 'Thus shall ye say to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.' For Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired; 27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David; and Michal Saul's daughter loved him. 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David prospered more than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

1 Q And Saul spoke to Jonathan his x ^ son, and to all his servants, that they should slay David; but Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David. 2 And Jonathan told David,

saying: 'Saul my father seeketh to slay thee; now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hid0 thyself. 3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will speak with my father of thee; and if I see aught, I will teU thee/

4 And Jonathan spoke good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him: 'Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his work hath been very good towards thee; ^or he put his life in his hand, and smc/te the Philistine, and the LOED wrought a great victory for all Israel; thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?' t 6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore: 'As the LORD liveth, he shall not be put to death.' 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told Mm all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as beforetime.

8 And there was war again; and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. 9 And an evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall; and David fled, and escaped that night, u And Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch Mm, and to slay him in the morning; and Michal David's wife told him, saying: 'If thou save not thy life to-night,

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to-morrow thou shalt be slain.' ^ Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and. fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof, and covered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said: 'He is sick. 7 16 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying: 'Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. ; 16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats' hair at the head thereof. 17 And Saul said unto Michal: 'Why hast .thou deceived me thus, and let mine 'enemy go, that he is escaped?' And Michal answered Saul: 'He said unto me: Let me go; why should I kill thee?'

18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it was told Saul, saying: 'Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.' 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. ^Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great cistern that is in Secu; and he asked and said: 'Where are Samuel and David?' And one said: 'Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah/ ^And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah; and the spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to

Naioth in Ramah. 24 And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say: 'Is Saul also among the prophets?' Of) And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan. 'What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?' ^ 2 And he said unto him: 'Far from it; thou shalt not die; behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me, and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.' 3 And David swore moreover, and said: 'Thy father knoweth well that I have found favour in thine eyes; and he saith: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul hveth, there is but a step between me and death.' 4 Then said Jonathan unto David: 'What doth thy soul desire, that I should do it for thee?' 6 And David said unto Jonathan. 'Behold, to-morrow is the new moon, when I should sit with the king to eat; so let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even. *I£ thy father miss me at all, then say: Pavid earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.., 7 If be say thus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but if he\be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him. therefore de^al dndly with thy servant; for thoi^ hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee; but if there be in me iniquity, slay, me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me

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to thy father?' *And Jonathan said: 'Far be it from thee; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?' 10 Then said David to Jonathan: 'Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?' u And Jonathan said unto David: 'Come and let us go out into the field.' And they went out both of them into the field.

12 And Jonathan said unto David: 'The LORD, the God of Israel—when I have sounded my father about this time to-morrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send unto thee, and disclose it unto thee? 13 The LORD do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do thee evil, if I disclose it not unto thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace; and the LORD be with thee, as He hath been with my father. 14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not; 15 but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.' ie So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David: 'The LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.' 17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

18 An,d Jonathan said unto him: 'To-morrow is the new moon; and thou wilt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. 19 And in the third day thou shalt hide thyself well, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself in the day of work, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel. 20 And I will shoot three arrows to

the side-ward, as though I shot at a mark, ^And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows. If I say unto the lad: Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee; take them, and come; for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as the LORD liveth. ^But if I say thus unto the boy: Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way; for the LORD hath sent thee away. ^And as touching the matter which I and thou have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between me and thee for ever.'

™&o David hid himself in the field; and when the new moon was come, the king sat hire down to the meal to eat. ^And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat by the, wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side; but David's place was empty. ^Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day; for he thought: ^'Something hath befallen him, he is unclean; surely he is not clean.' 27 And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, which was the second day, that David's place was empty; and Saul said unto Jonathan his son: 'Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to the meal, neither yesterday, nor today?' 28 And Jonathan answered Saul: 'David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem; 29 and he said: Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me; and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the king's table.'

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the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness? 31 For as long as the son oJ Jesse liveth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he deserveth to die. ^And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him: 'Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?' ^And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to put David to death. ^So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, and because his father had put him to shame.

^And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him. 36 And he said unto his lad: 'Run, find now the arrows which I shoot/ And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said: 'Is not the arrow beyond thee?' 38 And Jonathan cried after the lad: 'Make speed, hasten, stay not.' And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. 39 But the lad knew not any thing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter. 40 And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him: 'Go, carry them to the city.' ^And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times; and they kissed one an-fether, and wept one with another, until David exceeded 42 And Jonathan said to David. 'Go in peace,

forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying: The LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and O"J thy seed, for ever/ x And he arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city

2 Then came David to Nob to Ahim-elech the priest; and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him: 'Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?' 3 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest: 'The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me: ^ Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and the young men have I appointed to such and such a place. 4 Now therefore what is under thy hand? five loaves of bread? give them in my hand, or whatsoever there is present.' 5 And the priest answered David, and said: 'There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.' 6 And David answered the priest, and said unto him: 'Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day, when there shall be holy bread in their vessels?' 7 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.— 8 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herd-men^ that belonged to Saul.— 9 And David said unto Ahimelech: 'And

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is there peraclventure here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor n weapons with me, because the king's business^ required haste/ 10 And the priest said: 'The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here.' And David said: ' There is none like that; give it me.'

n And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. ^And the servants of Achish said unto him. 'Is not this David ^ the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands?' 13 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. 14 And he changed his demeanour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard. 15 Then said Achish unto his servants: 'Lo, when ye see a man that is mad, wherefore do ye bring him to me? 16 Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?'

OO David therefore departed thence, ^ ^ and escaped to the cave of Adul-lam; and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was 1 in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became captain over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.

3 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said unto the king of Moab: 'Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.' 4 And he brought them before the king of Moab; and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. 5 And the prophet Gad said unto David: 'Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah.' Then David departed and came into the forest of Hereth.

6 And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him; now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. 7 And Saul said unto his servants that stood about him: 'Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds; "that all of you have conspired against me, and there was none that disclosed it to me when my son made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or discloseth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?' 9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said: 'I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahim-elech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he inquired of the LORD for hi™, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.'

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said: 'Hear now, thou son of Ahitub.' And he answered: 'Here I am, my lord.' M And Saul said unto him: 'Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?' 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said: ' And who among all thy servants is so trusted as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and giveth heed unto thy bidding, and is honourable in thy house? u Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me; let not^ the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all $*is, less or more.' 16 And the king said: 'Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.' 17 And the king said^ unto the guard that stood about him: 'Turn, and slay the priests of the LOED; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.' But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. 18 And the king said to Doeg: 'Turn thou, and fall upon the priests/ And Doeg the Edqmite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. "And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword. 20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. ^And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain the LORD'S i

priests. ^And David said unto Abiathar: 'I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul; I have brought about the death of all the persons of thy father's house. ^Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life; for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.' OO And they told David, saying: ^° 'Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.' 2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I go and smite these Philistines?' And the LORD said unto David: 'Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.' 3 And David's men said unto him: 'Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?' ^hen David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said: 'Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand/ 6 And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. 7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And jSaul said: 'God hath delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.' 8 And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. 9 And David ^ knew that Saul devised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest: 'Bring hither the ephod.' 10 Then said David: '0

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LORD, the God of Israel, Thy servant hath surely heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. u Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as Thy servant hath heard? 0 LORD, the God of Israel, I beseech Thee, tell Thy servant.' And the LORD said: 'He will come down.' 12 Then said David-'Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul?' And the LORD said: 'They will deliver thee up.' 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbore to go forth.

14 And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand. 15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. 16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. 17 And he said unto him: 'Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.' 18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD; and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

"Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying: 'Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? *°Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire

of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.' ^And Saul said: 'Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have had compassion on me. ^o, I pray you, make^yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. ^See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye back to me with the certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.' M And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of Jeshimon. ^And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David; wherefore he came down ^ to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when

^ heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. 2S And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for SauLand his men compassed David and his men round about to take them. 27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying: 'Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.' 28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore they called that 24 P^ 0 ? a Sela-ha,mm ahlekoth. *And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.

2 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying: 'Behold, David is in the wilder-

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ness of En-gedi.' 3 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. 4 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his^ feet. ^ Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave. 5 And the men of David said unto him 'Behold the day in which the LORD hath said unto thee: Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into tlr$r hand, and thou shalt do to him as it shall seem good unto thee/ Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. 6 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off SauPs skirt. 7 And he said unto his men: 'The LORD forbid it me, that I should do this thing unto my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD'S anointed.' 8 So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

9 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying: 'My lord the king.' And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and prostrated himself. 10 And David said to Saul 'Wherefore hearkenest thou to men's words, saying: Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? "Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill thee; but mine^ eye spared thee; and I said: I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed. Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in I

my hand; for in that I cut off the slart of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou layest wait for my soul to take it. ^The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee. 14 As saith the proverb of the ancients: Out of the wicked cometh forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be upon thee. 1 lifter whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 16 The LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.'

17 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said. 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. 18 And he said to David: 'Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto thee evil. 19 And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me; forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me up into thy hand, thou didst not kill me. 20 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day. 21 And now, behold, I know that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand. ^Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my ( name out of my father's house.' ^And David swore unto Saul. And Saul went home; but

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David and his men got them up unto the stronghold.

O£J And Samuel died; and all Israel ^^ gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb. *And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. 5 And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men: 'Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name; 6 and thus ye shall say: All hail! and peace be both unto thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. 7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel. 8 Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee; wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come on a good day; give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thy hand, unto thy servants, and to thy son David.'

9 And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. 10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said: 'Who is David? and who is the son

of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master; u shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men of whom I know not whence they are?' 12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words. 13 And David said unto his men* 'Gird ye on every man his sword.' And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword; and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying: 'Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he flew upon them. 15 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we went with them, when we were hi the fields; 1G they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep. 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a base fellow, that one cannot speak to him/

18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses. 19 And she said unto her young men: f Go on before me; behold, I come after you.' But she told not her husband Nabal. 20 And it was so, as she rode on her ass, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that, behold,

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David and his men came down towards her: and she met them —^Now David had said: 'Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him; and he hath returned me evil for good, ^od do so unto the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain'to him by the morning light so much as one male.'—^And when Abigail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed down to the ground. M And she fell at his feet, and said: 'Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid. ^Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this base fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: a Nabal is his name, and churlishness is with him; but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. ^Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from blood-guiltiness, and from finding redress for thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. 27 And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord. 28 Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid; for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD; and evil is not found in thee all thy days. 29 And though man be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lor<J shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls

of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling. 30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that He hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over Israel; 31 that this shall be no stum-blingblock unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath found redress for himself. And when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.'

32 And David said to b Abigail: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me; ^and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from finding redress for myself with mine own hand. w For in very deed, as the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, who hath withholden me from hurting thee, except thou hadst made haste and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light so much as one male.' 88 So t David received of her hand that which she had brought him; and he said unto her: 'Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person/

36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. 88 And it came to pass about

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ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, so that he died.

39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back His servant from evil; and the evil-doing of Nabal hath the LORD returned upon his own head/ And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife. 40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke unto her, saying: 'David hath sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.' ^And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.' ^And Abigail hastened, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

^David also took Ahinoam of Jez-reel; and they became both of them his wives. ^Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

Oft And the Ziphites came unto AU Saul to Gibeah, saying: 'Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshi-mon?' 2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with Mm., to seek David in the wilder-• ness of Ziph. 3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is-, before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty. 5 And David

arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the ^ captain of his host; and Saul lay within the barricade, and the people pitched round about him.

^hen answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying: 'Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?' Aiid Abishai said: 'I will go down with thee.' 7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the barricade, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him. 8 Then said Abishai to David: 'God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.' 9 And David said to Abishai: 'Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?' 10 And David said: 'As the LORD liveth, nay, but the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle, and be swept away. u The LORD forbid it me, that I should put forth my hand against the LOBD'S anointed; but now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.' 12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they got them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.

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between them. 14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying: 'Answerest thou not, Abner?' Then Abner answered and said: 'Who art thou that criest to the king?' 16 And David said to Abner: ' Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept watch over thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the kin] thy lord. 16 This thing is not goo< that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye deserve to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. And now, s< where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head. :

17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said: 'Is this thy voice, my son David?' And David said: 'It is my voice, my lord, 0 king.' 18 And he said* 'Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand? 19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be the LORD that hath stirred thee up against me, let Him accept an offering; but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day that I should not cleave unto the inheritance of the LORD, saying: Go, serve other gods. ^Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.'

^Then said Saul: 'I have sinned; return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.' ^And David answered and said: 'Behold the king's

spear! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it. ^And the LORD will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as the LORD delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed. M And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation.' ssThen Saul said to David: 'Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail' So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. 07 And David said in his heart: 1 'I shall now be swept away one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel; so shall I escape out of his hand.' 2 And David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him, unto Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. 3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahmoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. 4 A.nd it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath; and he sought no more again for him.

5 And David said unto Achish: 'If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one • of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with :hee?' 6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day; wherefore Ziklag belongeth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

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7 And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. 8 And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the , Geshurites, and the Gizrites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt. 9 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel. And he returned, and came to Achish. 10 And Achish said: 'Whither have ye made a raid to-day?' And David said: 'Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeel-ites, t and against the South of the Kenites.' u And David left neither man nor woman ahve, to bring them to Gath, saying: 'Lest they should tell on us, saying: So did David, and so hath been his manner all the while he hath dwelt in the country of the Philistines/ ^And Achish believed David, saying: 'He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.'

OQ And it came to pass in those ^° days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David: 'Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with'me in the host, thou and thy men.' 2 And David said to Achish: 'Therefore thou shalt know what thy servant: will do.' And Achish said to David: 'Therefore will I make thee keeper of my head for ever.'

3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that

divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land. 4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa. 5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. 6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. 7 Then said Saul unto his servants: 'Seek me a woman that divineth by a ghost, that I may go to her, and inquire of her.' And his servants said to him: 'Behold, there is a woman that divineth by a ghost at En-dor.'

8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the^ woman by night; and he said: 'Divine unto me, I pray thee, by a ghost, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name unto thee.' 9 And the woman said unto him: 'Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that divine by a ghost or a familiar spirit out of the land; wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?' 10 And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying: 'As the LORD hveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.' u Then said the woman: 'Whom shall I bring up unto thee?' And he said: 'Bring me up Samuel.'

nd when the woman saw Samuel ; she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying: 'Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.' 13 And the king said unto her: Be not afraid; for what seest thou?' And the woman said unto Saul: 'I see a godlike being coming up out of the earth.' 14 And he said unto her:

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'What form is he of ? ' And she said: 'An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a robe.' And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and prostrated himself.

15 And Samuel said to Saul: 'Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?' And Saul answered: ' am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.' 16 And Samuel said: 'Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine adversary? 17 And the LORD hath wrought for Himself, as He spoke by me; and the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thy hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David. 18 Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the LORD, and didst not execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day. "Moreover the LORD will deliver Israel also with thee into the hand of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me; the LORD will deliver the host of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines/

20 Then Saul feU straightway his full length upon the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night. 21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore affrighted, and said unto him: 'Behold, thy handmaid hath hearkened unto thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou

spokest unto me. ^Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thy handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way. 3 ^But he refused, and said: 'I will not eat.' But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth., and sat upon the bed. ^ ^And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she made haste, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof; 25 and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

OQ Now the Philistines gathered ^ ^ together all their hosts to Aphek ; and the Israelites pitched by the fountain which is in Jezreel. 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish. 3 Then said the princes of the Philistines: 'What dotaese Hebrews here?' And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines: 'Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who hath been with me these days or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away unto me unto this day?' 4 But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him: 'Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us; for wherewith should this fellow reconcile himself unto his lord? should it not be with the heads

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of these men? 5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands? 7 6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him: 'As the LORD Hveth, thpu hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is'good in my sight; for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day; nevertheless the lords favour thee not. Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.' 8 And David said unto Achish: 'But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been before thee unto this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?' 9 And Achish answered and said to David: 'I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God; notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said: He shall not go up with us to the battle. 10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of thy lord that are come with fchee; and as soon as ye are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.' u So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

OA And it came to pass, when David u v and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites bad made a raid upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2 and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great; they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way. 3 And when

David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives, ^hen David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech: 'I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod.' And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired of the LORD, saying: 'Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them?' And He answered him: 'Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake them, and shalt without fail recover all.' °So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Bespr, where those that were left behind stayed. 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

u And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink; ^and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins; and when he had eaten, his spirit came back to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. 13 And David said unto him: 'To whom, belongest

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thou? and whence art them?' And he said: 'I am a young Egyptian, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick. 1 ^We made a raid upon the South of the Cherethites, and upon that which belongeth to Judah, and upon the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire/ 15 And David said to him: ' Wilt thou bring me down to this troop?' And he said: 'Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.'

16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and feasting, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. 17 A.nd David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled. 18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives. 19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them; David brought back all. 20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said: 'Tins is David's spoil.'

^And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him; and when David came near to the people, he saluted them, answered all the wicked men

and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said: ' Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.' ^Then said David: { Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given unto us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand, 24 And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as is the share of him that goeth down to the battle, so shall be the share of him that tarrieth by the baggage; they shall share alike.' 25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying 'Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD'; 27 to them that were in Beth-el, and to them that were in Ramoth of the South, and to them that were in Jattir; 28 and to them that were in Aroer, and to them that were in Siphmoth, and to them that were in Eshtemoa; 29 and to them that were in Racal, and to them that were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them that were in the cities of the Kemtes; 30 and to them that were in Hormah, and to them that were in Bor-ashan, and to them that were in Athach; 31 and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. Q-j Now the Philistines fought

A against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa. 2 And the Philistines followed hard

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upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abina-dab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul. 3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was in great anguish by reason of the archers. 4 Then said Saul to his armour-bearer: * Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it. 5 And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died with him. 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men, that same day together. 7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they

forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. 8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they ^ found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa. 9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people* 10 And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. H And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. 13 And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

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1 AND it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; ^t came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head; and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and prostrated himself. 3 And David said unto him: 'From whence comestthou?' And he said unto him: 'Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped/ 4 And David said unto him: 'How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me.' And he answered: 'The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also/ 5 And David said unto the young man that told him: 'How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?' 6 And the young manthattoldhimsaid: 'Aslhappened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen pressed hard upon him. 7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered: Here am I. 8 And he said unto me: Who art thou? And I answered him: I am an Amalekite. 9 And he said unto me: Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me, for the agony hath taken hold of me; because my life is just yet in me. 10 So I stood beside him, and slew him, because

I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen; and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord/

u Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him. 12 And they wailed, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LOED, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. 13 And David said unto the young man that told him: 'Whence art thou? 7 And he answered: 'I am the son of an Amalekite stranger/ 14 And David said unto him: 'How wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?' 15 And David called one of the young men, and said: 1 Go near, and fall upon him/ And he smote him that he died. 16 And David said unto him: 'Thy blood be upon thy head• for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying: I have slain the LOKD'S anointed/

17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son, 18 and said—To teach the sons of Judah the bow. Behold, it is written in the book of Jashar: 19 Thy beauty, 0 Israel, upon thy high places is slain'

How are the mighty fallen!

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Lest the daughters of the Philistines

rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircum-

cised triumph. 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon

you,

Neither fields of choice fruits; For there the shield of the mighty

was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed

with oil. ^From the blood of the skin, from

the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned not

back, And the sword of Saul returned not

empty. ^Saul and Jonathan, the lovely and

the pleasant In their lives, even in their death

they were not divided; They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions. ^Ye daughters of Israel, weep over

Saul, Who c^thed you in scarlet, with

other delights, Who put ornaments of gold upon

your apparel. 25 How are the mighty fallen in the

midst of the battle!

Jonathan upon thy high places is

slain! 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother

Jonathan; Very pleasant hast thou been unto

me;

Wonderful was thy love to me, Passing the love of women. 27 How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!

O And it came to pass after this,

that David inquired of the LORD,

saying: 'Shall I go up into any of

the cities of Judah?' And the LORD said unto him: 'Go up.' And David said: 'Whither shall I go up?' And He said: 'Unto Hebron/ 2 So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreehtess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 3 And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household; and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. 4 And the men of Judali came, and they there anointed David king over the house of Judah.

And they told David, saying: 'The men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.' 5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them: 'Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shown this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him. 6 And now the LORD show kindness and truth unto you; and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing, *Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.'

8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bpsheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; 9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 10 Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David. u And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

^And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to

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Gibeon. 13 And Joab the son of Zeru-iah, and the servants of David, went out; and they met together by the pool of Gibeon, and sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool. 14 And Abner said to Joab: 'Let the young men, I pray the®, arise and play before us/ And Joab said: 'Let them arise.' passed over by

they arose and number: twelve for

Benjamin, and for Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. 16 And they caught everyone his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together ; wherefore that place was called a He!kath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon. 17 And the battle was very sore that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

18 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel; and Asahel was as light of foot as one of the roes that are in the field. 19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner. 20 Then Abner looked

behind him, and said: 'Is Asahel? 7 And he answered:

it thou, 'It is I.'

21 And Abner said to him: 'Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour.' But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. ^And Abner said again to Asahel. 'Turn thee aside from following me; wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?' ^Howbeit he refused to turn aside, wherefore Abner with the

hinder end of the spear smote him in the groin, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there,

and died in the same place; and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner; and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Amman, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon. 25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill. 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said: 'Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?' 2 ~And Joab said: 'As God liveth, if thou hadst not spoken, surely then only after the morning the people had gone away, every one from following his brother/ 28 So Joab blew the horn, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more. 29 And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.

30 And Joab returned from following Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel. 31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, even of Abner's men—three hundred and threescore men died. 32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke

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upon them at Hebron.

Q Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David waxed stronger

That is, The field of the sharp knwes.

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and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

2 And unto David were sons born in Hebron; and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; s and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; 4 and the fourth, Adornj ah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital; s and the sixth, Ith-ream, of Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner showed himself strong in the house of Saul. 7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah; and [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner: i Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?' 8 Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said: 'Am I a dog's head that belongeth to Judah? This day do I show kindness unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, and yet thou chargest me this day with a fault concerning this woman. 9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as the LORD hath sworn to David, I do not even so to him; 10 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.' u And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

^And Abner sent messengers to David straightway, saying; * Whose is the land?' saying also: 'Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring over all Israel unto thee.' "And he said*:

'Well; I will make a league with thee; but one thing I require of thee, that is, thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.' 14 And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying: 'Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.' 15 And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish. 16 And her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him: 'Go, return'; and he returned.

17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying: 'In tunes past ye sought for David to be king over you; 18 now then do it; for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying: By the hand of My servant David I will save My people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.' 19 And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin; and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of Benjamin. 20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast. 21 And Abner said unto David: 'I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thy soul desireth/ And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

^And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent Mm away,

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and he was gone in peace. Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying: 'Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace/ ^Then Joab came to the king, and said: 'What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone? 25 Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest/ 26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from Bor-sirah; but David knew it not.

^And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the groin, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother. 28 And afterward when David heard it, he said: 'I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner; 29 let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth by the sword, or that lacketh bread.' 30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

81 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: 'Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and wail before Abner/ And king David followed the bier. ^And they buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice, and-wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept. ^And the king lamented for Abner, and said:

Should Abner die as a churl dieth? M Thy hands were not bound, nor

thy feet put into fetters; As a infl.rt falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall. And all the people wept again over him. 35 And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying: 'God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down/ 36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; whatsoever the king did, pleased all the people. 37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner. 38 And the king said unto his servants: 'Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? 39 And I am this day weak, and just anointed 'king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for mej the LORD reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness/

A And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were affrighted. 2 And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin; for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin* 3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been so-journers'there until this day.

4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him, up, and fled; and it came to pass, as she made haste

to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

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5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he took his rest at noon. 6 And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the groin; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. 7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. 8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king: 'Behold the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, who sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord ^the king this day of Saul, and of his seed/ 9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 10 when one told me, saying: Behold, Saul is dead, and he was in his own eyes as though he brought good tidings, I took hold of him^ and slew him in Ziklag, instead of giving a reward for his tidings. u How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth? 7 ^And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut on their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. K Then came all the tribes of Israel ^ to David unto Hebron, and spoke, saying: 'Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 In times past, when Saul

was king over us, it was thou that didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the LORD said to thee: Thou shalt feed My people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.' 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel.

4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 6 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: 'Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither'; think-ing: 'David cannot come in hither.' Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David. 8 And David said on that day: 'Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth up to the gutter, and [taketh away] the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul—.' Wherefore they say: 'There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.' 9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward. 10 And David waxed greater and greater; for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.

u And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house. ^And David perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for His people Israel's sake.

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and the LORD blessed Obed-edom, and all his house.

12 And it was told king David, saying: 'The LOBD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God.' And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy. 13 And it was so, that when they that bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. 14 Aiid David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the horn.

16 And it was so, as the ark^ of the LORD came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst 01 the tent that David had pitched for it; and David ^ offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before the LORD. 18 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts. 19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and .women, to every one a cake of bread, and a cake made in a pan, and a sweet cake. So all the people departed every one to his house.

20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said: 'How did the king of Israel get him honour to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of

the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!' a And David said unto Michal: 'Before the LORD, who chose me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the LORD, over Israel, before the LORD will I make merry. ^And I will be yet more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight; and with the handmaids whom thou hast spoken of, with them will I get me honour.' ^And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. n And it came to pass, when the 1 king dwelt in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies round about, Hhat the king said unto Nathan the prophet: 'See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.' 3 And Nathan said to the king: 'Go, do all that is in thy heart; for the LORD is with thee.' 4 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying: 5 'Go and tell My servant David: Thus saith the LORD: Shalt thou build Me a house for Me to dwell in? ^or I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. 7 In all places wherein I have walked among all the children of Israel, spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people Israel, saying: Why have^ye not built Me a house of cedar? 8 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto My servant David: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I took theefrom the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over My people, over Israel. 9 And I have

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been with thee whithersoever thou didst go, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth. 10 And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disquieted no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, u even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will cause thee to rest from all thine enemies. Moreover the LORD telleth thee that the LOKD will make thee a house. ^When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14 I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men; 15 but My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established for ever.' 17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

18 Then David the king went in, and sat before the LORD; and he said: 'Who am I, 0 Lord GOD, and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me thus far? "And this was yet a small thing in Thine eyes, 0 Lord GOD; but Thou hast spoken also of Thy servant's house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of great men, 0 Lord GOD. 20 And what

can David say more unto Thee? for Thou knowest Thy servant, 0 Lord GOD. 21 For Thy word's sake, and according to Thine own heart, hast Thou wrought all this greatness, to make Thy servant know it. ^Therefore Thou art great, 0 LORD God; for there is none like Thee, neither is there any God beside Thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 And who is like Thy people, like Israel, a nation one in the earth, whom God went to redeem unto Himself for a people, and to make Him a name, and to do for Thy land great things and tremendous, even for you, [in driving out] from before Thy people, whom Thou didst redeem to Thee out of Egypt, the nations and their gods? ^And Thou didst establish to Thyself Thy people Israel to be a people unto Thee for ever; and Thou, LORD, becamest their God. 25 And now, 0 LORD God, the word that Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, confirm Thou it for ever, and do as Thou hast spoken. 26 And let Thy name be magnified for ever, that it may be said: The LORD of hosts is God over Israel; and the house of Thy servant David shall be established before Thee. 27 For Thou, 0 LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to Thy servant, saying: I will build thee a house; therefore hath Thy servant taken heart to pray this prayer unto Thee. 28 And now, 0 Lord GOD, Thou alone art God, and Thy words are truth, and Thou hast promised this good thing unto Thy servant; 29 now therefore let it please Thee to bless the house of Thy servant, that it may continue for ever before Thee; "or Thou, 0 Lord GOD, hast spoken it; and through Thy blessing let the house of Thy servant be blessed for ever.'

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Q And after this it came to pass, 0 that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them; and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

4 2 And he smote Moab, and measured tKem -with the line, making them to he down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought presents.

3 David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to establish his dominion at the river Euphrates. 4 And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots. 5 And when the Arameans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David smote of the Arameans two and twenty thousand men. ^hen David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Arameans became servants to David, and brought presents. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went. 7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem. 8 And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

9 And when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer, 10 then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him —because he had -fought against Hadadezer and smitten him; for Hadadezer had wars with Toi—and he brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass. u These

also did king David dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued: ^of Aram, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. 13 And David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Arameans in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men. "And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.

15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness unto all his people. 16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; 17 and Za-dok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Seraiah was scribe; 18 and Bena-iah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers. Q And David said: 'Is there yet u any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?' 2 Now there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him unto David; and the king said unto him: 'Art thou Ziba? J And he said: 'Thy servant is he.' 3 And the king said* 'Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Jonathan hath yet a son, who is lame on his feet.' 4 And the king said unto him: 1 Where is he?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-

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debar/ JThen king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machii the son, of Ammiel, from Lo-debar. 6 And Mephibosheth, the son oJ Jonathan, the son of Saul, came unto David, and fell on his face, and prostrated himself. And David said 'Mephibosheth! 7 And he answered: * Behold thy servant!' 7 And David said unto him: 'Fear not; for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. 1 8 And he bowed down, and said: 'What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?'

sThen the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him: 'All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given unto thy master's son. 10 And thou shalt till the land for him, thou, and thy sons, and thy servants; and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread continually at my table.' Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. u Then said Ziba unto the king: 'According to all that my lord the king commandeth his servant, so shall thy servant do; but Mephibosheth eateth at my table as one of the king's sons,' ^Now Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. Aiid all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth. ^But Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he did eat continually at the king's table; and he was lame on both his feet.

*| A And it came to pass after this,

that the king of the children of

Ammon ^died, and Hanun his son

reigned in his stead. 2 And David

said: 'I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness unto me.' So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort hirn concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children'of Ammon. 3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord: 'Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David sen-t his servants unto thee to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?' 4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 6 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'

6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob, and the Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand ^ footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand inen. 7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men. 8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate; and the Arameans of Zobah, and of Elehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, /were by themselves in the field.

9 Now when Joab -saw that the Battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Arameans; 10 and the rest

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of the people he committed into the hand of "Abishai his brother, and he put them in array against the children of Ammon. u And he said: 'If the Arameans be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me, but if the children of Ajnmon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee. 12 Be of good courage, and let us prove strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and the LORD do that which seemeth Him good.' 13 So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh unto the battle against the Arameans; and they fled before him. 14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Arameans were fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

15 And when the Arameans saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together. 16 And Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Arameans that were beyond the River; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadadezer at their head 17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Arameans set themselves in array against David, and fought with him. 18 And the Arameans fled before Israel; and David slew of the Arameans seven hundred drivers of chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there. 19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Arameans feared to help the children of Ammon

any more.

1 "j And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings

David sent

out to battle, that loab, and his servants

with him, and all Israel, and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.

2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: 'Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?' 4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house. 5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said: 'I am with child/

6 And David sent to Joab [, saying]: 'Send me Uriah the Hittite/ And Joab sent Uriah to David. 7 And when Uriah was come unto him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered. 8 And David said to Uriah. 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king. 9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house. 10 And when they had told David, saying: 'Uriah went not down unto his house', David said unto Uriah: 'Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?' n And Uriah said unto David: 'The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths;

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of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul hveth, I will not do this thing.' 12 And David said to Uriah: 'Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart.' So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow. 13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk; and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 And he wrote in the letter, saying: 'Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.' 16 And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. 18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; 19 and he charged the messenger, saying: 'When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king, 20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee: Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall? a who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say: Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.' i

M So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.^ ^And the messenger said unto David: 'The men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entrance of the gate. ^And the shooters shot at thy servants from off the wall; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.' ^hen David said unto the messenger: 'Thus shalt thou say unto Joab: Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth in one manner or another; make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it; and encourage thou him.'

26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. 27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD 1 O And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto H-m, and said unto him: 'There were two men in one city: the one rich, and the other poor. 2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds; 3 but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and reared; and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own morsel, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. 4 And •there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and- of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.' 6 And

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David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan : ' As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this deserveth to die; 6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.'

7 And Nathan said to David: 'Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; 8 and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that were too little, then would I add unto thee so much more. 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in My sight? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten with the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to be thy wife, and him thou hast slain with the sword of the children of Anxmon. "Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised Me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. "Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. ^For thou didst it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.' 13 And David said unto Nathan: 'I have sinned against the LORD .' And Nathan said unto David: 'The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast greatly blasphemed the enemies of the LORD, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.' 15 And Nathan departed unto his house.

And the LORD struck the child that

Uriah's wife bore unto David, and it was very sick. 16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and as often as he went in, he lay all night upon the earth. 17 And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them. 18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said: 'Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he hearkened not unto our voice; how then shall we tell him that the child is dead, so that he do himself some harm?' 19 But when David saw that his servants whispered together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said unto his servants: ' Is the child dead?' And they said: 'He is dead/ 20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel; and he came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped; then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. 21 Then said his servants unto him: 'What thing is this that thou hast done? f thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread/ ^Andhesaid. 'While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said: Who knoweth whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live? ^But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.'

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called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him; ^and He sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name a Jedidiah, for the LORD'S sake.

26 Now Joab fought against Kabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city. 27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said: 'I have fought against Rabbah, yea, I have taken the city of waters. 28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name/ 29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. 80 And he took the crown of Malcam from off his head; and the weight thereof was & talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; ana it was set on David's head. Ajid he brought forth ioil of the city, exceeding much.

^And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln; and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem. •J O And it came to pass after this, •*• that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her. 2 And Amnon was so distressed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do any thing unto her. 3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man. 4 And he said unto him: ^Why, O son

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not tell me?' And Amnon said unto him: 'I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.' 6 And Jonadab said unto him: 'Lay thee down on thy bed, and feign thyself sick; and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him: Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and give me bread to eat, and dress the food hi my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.' 6 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick; and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king: 'Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand/

7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Am-non's house, and dress him food.' 8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes. 9 And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said: 'Have out all men from me/ And they went out every man from him. 10 And Amnon said unto Tamar:'Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat of thy hand/ And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother. 11 And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her: 'Come lie with me, my sister/ w And she answered him: 'Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel; do not thou this wanton deed. 13 And I, whither shall I carry my shame? and, as for thee, thou wilt be as one of the base men in Israel. Now therefore,

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14 Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her. * 15 Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her: 'Arise, be gone.' 16 And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.' But he would not hearken unto her. 17 Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said: ' Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her/— 18 Now she had a garment of many colours upon her; for with such robes were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled.—And his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her. 19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of many colours that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

20 And Absalom her brother said unto her: 'Hath 'Amnon thy brother been with thee? but now hold thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart.' So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house. ^But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth. ^And Absalom spoke unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

M And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim; and Absalom invited all the king's sons. M And Absalom came to the

_ and said: 'Behold now, thy servant hath sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray thee, and his servants go

with thy servant. 7 26 And the king said to Absalom: 'Nay, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome unto thee.' And he pressed him; how-beit he would not go, but blessed him. ^Then said Absalom: 'If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us.' And the king said unto him: 'Why should he go with thee?' 27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. 28 And Absalom commanded his servants, saying: 'Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you: Smite Amnon, then Mil him, fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.' 29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man got him up upon his mule, and fled.

30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way; that the tidings came to David, saying: 'Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.' a Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants

stood by with their clothes rent. Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said: 'Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Ta.rn.ar. ^New therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.'

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about way by the hill-side. 35 And Jonadab said unto the king: 'Behold, the king's sons are come; as thy servant said, so it is.' 36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept; and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.

37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day.

38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 39 And the soul of king David failed with longing for Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Arrmon, seeing he was dead.

1 A. Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. 2 And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her: 'I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead; 8 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. 7 So Joab put the words in her mouth.

4 And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and prostrated herself, and said: 'Help, O king.' 5 And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'Of a truth I am a widow, my husband being dead. 6 And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him. 7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they said: Deliver him that smote his brother,

that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.'

8 And the king said unto the woman: 'Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.' 9 And ^the woman of Tekoa said unto the king: 'My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.' 10 And the king said : ' Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.' "Then said she: 'I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.' And he said: 'As the LORD hveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.'

the woman said: 'Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king ' And he said: 'Say on.' 13 And the woman said: 'Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one. 14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person; but let him devise means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him. 15 Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy handmaid said: I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant. 16 For the king

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will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God. 17 Then thy handmaid said: Let, I pray thee, the word of my lord the king be for my comfort; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and the LORD thy God be with thee.'

18 Then the king answered and said unto the woman: 'Hide not from me, I pray thee, aught that I shall ask thee/ And the woman said: 'Let my lord the king now speak. 3 19 And the king said: 'Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this?' And the woman answered and said: 'As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thy handmaid; 20 to change the face of the matter hath thy servant Joab done this thing; and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth/

^And the king said unto Joab: 'Behold now, I have granted this request; go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back/ 22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and prostrated himself, and blessed the king; and Joab said: 'To-day thy servant knoweth that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath performed the request of tny servant/ ^So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. ^And the king said: 'Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face/ So Absalom turned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.

25 Now in all Israel there was none

to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty; from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. 26 And when he polled his head—now it was at every year's end that he polled it; because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it—he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight. 27 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar; she was a woman of a fair countenance.

28 And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem; and he saw not the " "ng's face. 29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him; and he sent again a second time, but he would not come. 30 Therefore he said unto his servants: 'See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire/ And Absalom's servants set the field on fire. ^Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him: 'Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?' ^And Absalom answered Joab: 'Behold, I sent unto thee, saying: Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say: Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still; now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me/ ^So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed .tarn self on his face to the ground before the king; and the ting kissed Absalom.

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way of the gate; and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said: 'Of what city art thou?' And he said: 'Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel/ 3 And Absalom said unto him: 'See, thy matters are good and right, but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee/ 4 Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!' 6 And it was so, that when any man came nigh to prostrate himself before him, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. 6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

7 And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king: I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. 8 For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Aram, saying: If the LORD shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD/ 9 And the king said unto him: 'Go in peace/ So he arose, and went to Hebron. 10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying: ' As soon as ye hear the sound of the horn, then ye shall say: Absalom is king in Hebron/ u And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they knew not any thing. ^And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was

strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

13 And there came a messenger to David, saying: ' The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom/ 14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem: 'Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom; make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword/ 15 And the king's servants said unto the king: 'Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall choose/ 16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house. 17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they tarried in Beth-merhak. 18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the JPele-thites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite: 'Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king; for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile from thine own place. 20 Whereas thou earnest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren with thee in kindness and truth/ 21 And Ittai answered the king, and said: 'As the LORD liveth, and a3 my lord the king hveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant be/ ^And David said to Ittai: 'Go and pass over/ And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that

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were with him. ^And all the country wept with a loud voice, as all the people passed over; and as the king passed over the brook Kidron, all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

^And, lo, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God—but Abiathar went up—until all the people had done passing out of the city. ^And the king said unto Zadok: 'Carry back the ark of God into the city; if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back, and show me both it, and His habitation; 26 but if He say thus: I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let Him do to me as seemeth good unto Him.* 27 The king said also unto Zadok the priest: 'Seest thou? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the ^ son of Abiathar. 28 See, I will tarry in the plains of the wilderness, until there come word from you to announce unto me.' 29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem; and they abode there.

30 And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot; and all the people that were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. 81 And one told David, saying: 'Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.' And David said: '0 LORD, I pray Thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.' ^And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the ascent, where God was wont to be worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to

meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head. ^And David said unto him'" 'If thou passest on with me, then thou wilt be a burden unto me; w but if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom: I will be thy servant, 0 king; as I have been thy father's servant in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel. 35 And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. 36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye shall hear.' 37 So Hushai David's friend came into the city; and Absalom was at the point of coming into Jerusalem. •J £ And when David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two ^hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine. 2 And the king said unto Ziba: 'What meanest thou by these?' And Ziba said: 'The asses are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are [aint in the wilderness may drink/ 3 And the king said: 'And where is thy master's son?' And Ziba said unto the king: 'Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem; for he said: To-day will the house of Israel restore me the [dngdom of my father.' 4 Then said the long to Ziba: 'Behold, thine is all that pertameth unto Mephibosheth*'

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And Ziba said: 'I prostrate myself; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.'

5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and kept on cursing as he came. 6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left. 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed: 'Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow; ^he LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood. 7

9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king: 'Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee. and take off his head.' 10 And the long said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? So let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him: Curse David; who then shall say: Wherefore hast thou done so?' u And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants: 'Behold, my son, who came forth of my body, seeketh my life; how much more this Benjamite now? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. w lt may be that the LORD will look on mine eye, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing of me this day.' w So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side over against him, and cursed as he went,

and threw stones at him, and cast dust. 14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.

15 And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him. 16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Long live the king, long live the king.' 17 And Absalom said to Hushai: 'Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?' 18 And Hushai said unto Absalom: 'Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide. 19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.'

20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel: 'Give your counsel what we shall do.' 21 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom: 'Go in unto thy father's concubines, that he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that thou art abhorred of thy father; then will the hands of all that are with thee be strong.' ^So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.—

ow the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man inquired of the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

"1 rr Moreover Ahithophel said unto •*• Absalom: 'Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night; 2 and I will come upon him while

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he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee; when all shall have returned, [save] the man whom thou seekest, all the people will be in peace.' 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

6 Then said Absalom: 'Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.' 6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke unto him, saying: 'Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner; shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.' 7 And Hushai said

unto Absalom: "The counsel that Ahithophel hath given this time is not good.' 8 Hushai said moreover: 'Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are embittered in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people. 9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some place; and it will come to pass, when they fall upon them at the first, and whosoever heareth it shall say: There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom; 10 then even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion; will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with Mm are valiant men. u But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. 12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will

light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him we will not leave so much as one. "Moreover, if he withdraw himself into a city, then shall all Israel bring up ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the valley until there be not one small stone found there/ 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said: 'The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of ^Ahithophel. '—For the LOKD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests: 'Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled. 16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but in any wise pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.' "Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; and a m^id-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David; for they might not be seen to come into the city. 18 But a lad saw them, and told Absalom; and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well hi his court; and they went down thither. 19 And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed groats thereon; and nothing was known. 20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said: 'Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?' And the woman said unto them: 'They are gone over the brook of water.' And when they had sought and could

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not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

a And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said unto David. 'Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.' ^Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan; by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over the Jordan.

^And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

24 When David was come to Maha-naim, Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. 25 And Absalom had set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. 26 And Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Kabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse, 29 and honey, and curd, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat; for they said: ' The people is hungry, and faint, and thirsty, in the wilderness.'

•1 Q And David numbered the people •^ that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them. 2 And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people: 'I will surely go forth with you myself also.' 8 But the people said: 'Thou shalt not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; but thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succour us out of the city.' 4 And the king said unto them: 'What seemeth you best I will do. ; And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands. 5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying: ' Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom.' And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

6 So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. 7 And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. 8 For the battle was there spread over the face of all tbe country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth, and his head caught hold of the terebinth, and he was

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taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went on. 10 And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said: 'Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth/ u And Joab said unto the man that told him: 'And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.' 12 And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom. 13 0therwise if I had dealt falsely against mine own ]ife—-and there is no matter hid from the king— then thou thyself wouldest have stood aloof/ 14 Then said Joab: 'I may nbt tarry thus with thee/ And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth. 15 And ten young men that bore Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

16 And Joab blew the horn, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people. 17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit* in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his tent'.— 18 Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said: 'I have no son to keep my name in remembrance' ; and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument unto this day.

19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok: 'Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies/ 20 And Joab said unto him: "Thou shalt not be the bearer of tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, forasmuch as the king's son is dead/ a Then said Joab to the Cushite: 'Go tell the king what thou hast seen/ And the Cushite bowed down unto Joab, and ran. ^hen said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab: 'But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite/ And Joab said: 'Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?' ^'But come what may, [said he,] I will run/ And he said unto him: 'Run/ Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Flam, and overran the Cushite,,

^Now David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone. ^And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said: ' If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth/ And he came apace, and drew near. 26 And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said: 'Behold another man running alone/ A_nd the king said: 'He also bringeth tidings/ ^And the watchman said: ' I think the running of the foremost is like the nmniiig of Ahimaaz the &on of Zadok/ And the king said: 'He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings/

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be the LOED thy God, who hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.' 29 And the king said: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And Ahimaaz answered: 'When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.' 30 And the king said: 'Turn aside, and stand here.' And he turned aside, and stood still.

31 And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said: 'Tidings for my lord the king; for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.' 32 And the king said unto the Cushite: 'Is it well with the young man Absalom?' And the Cushite answered: 'The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.' -j Q And the king was much moved, 1 -* 7 and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said: 'O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!'

2 And it was told Joab: 'Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom/ 3 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people; for the people heard say that day: 'The king grieveth for his son.' 4 And the people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal' away when they flee in battle. 5 And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice: 'O my son Absalom, 0 Absalom, my son, my son!' 6 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said: ' Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who this day have saved thy hf e, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and

the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; 7 in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee; for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well. 8 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak to the heart of thy servants; for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry a man with thee this night; and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now.' 9 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying: 'Behold, the king doth sit in the gate'; and all the people came before the king.

Now Israel had fled every man to his tent. 10 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying: 'The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and, he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom. u And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?'

^And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying: 'Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying: Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house?—For the speech of all Israel was come to the king, to bring him to his house.— 13 Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh; wherefore then should ye be the last to bring back the king? 14 And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captam of the host before me continually in

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the room of Joab.' 15 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king: ' Return thou, and all thy servants.'

16 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. 17 And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benja-mite, who was of Bahurim, made haste and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. 18 And there were & thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they rushed into the Jordan before the king. 19 And the ferry-boat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan. 20 And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did iniquitously the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. ^For thy servant doth know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king/ ^But Abishaj the son of Zendah answered and said: 'Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LOKD'S anointed?' ^And David said: 'What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?' M And the king said unto Shimei: l Thou shalt notdie.' And the king swore unto him.

26 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace. ^And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him: 'Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?' 27 And he answered: 'My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said: I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame. 28 And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 29 For all my father's house were deserving of death at the hand of my lord the king; yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet? or why should I cry any more unto the king?' 30 And the king said unto him: 'Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say: Thou and Ziba divide the land.' 81 And Mephibosheth said unto the king: 'Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come in peace unto his own house.'

^And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he passed on to the Jordan with theking, to bring him onthewayovertheJordan. ^NowBar-zillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old; and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. ^And the king said unto Barzillai: 'Come thou over with me, and I will sustain thee with me in Jerusalem.' S5 And Barzillai said unto the king: 'How many are the days of the

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years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 36 I am this day fourscore years old; can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the long? 37 Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king;

and why should the ! it me with such a rewa

; recompense '" 88 Letthy

servant, I pray thee, turn back, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.' 39 And the king answered: ' Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee; and whatsoever thou

It require of me, that will I do for thee.' 40 And all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.

^So the king went over to Gilgal, and a Chimham went over with him; and all the people of Judah brought over, and also half the people

, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king: 'Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?' ^And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel: ' Because the king is near of kin to us; wherefore then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's cost? or hath any gift been given us?' ^And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said:

'We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye; why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?' And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer' than the words of the men of Israel.

OQ Now there happened to be there a bas"e fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the horn, and said: 'We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, 0 Israel.' 2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah did cleave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

8 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided them with sustenance, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood, with their husband ahve.

^hen said the king to Amasa: ' Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.' 5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. 6 And David said to Abishai: 'Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom; take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.' 7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. 8 When they

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were at the great stone which, is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell put. 9 And Joab said to Amasa: 'Is it well with thee, my brother?' A-nd Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. 10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand; so he smote him. therewith in the groin, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died.

And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. u And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said: 'He that far voureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him follow Joab/ ^And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he m carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still. ^When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maacah, and all the Berites; and they were gathered- together, and went in also after him. ^And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a mound against the 6ity, and it stood in the moat; and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.

16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city: 'Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab: Come near hither, that I may speak with thee/ 17 And he came

near unto her; and the woman said: 'Art thou Joab?' And he answered: 'I am/ Then she said unto him: 'Hear the words of thy handmaid/ And he answered: * I do hear/ 18 Then she spoke, saying: 'They were wont to speak in old time, saying: They shall surely ask counsel at Abel; and so they ended the matter. 19 We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?' 20 And Joab answered and said: 'Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy. ^The matter is not so; but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city/ And the woman said unto Joab: 'Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall/ ^hen the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the horn, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

^Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoi-ada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites; "and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder; 25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 26 and Ira also the Jairite was chief minister unto David.

O"j And there was a famine in the

days of David three years, year

after year; and David sought the

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said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.' 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them —now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them; and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah — 3 and David said unto the Gibeonites: 'What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?' 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him: 'It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul, or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel/ And he said: 'What say ye that I should do for you?' 5 And they said unto the king: 'The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel, 6 let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.' And the king said: 'I will deliver them.'

^ut the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore unto Saul, Armoni and^ Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite; 9 and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before the LORD, and they fell all seven together; and they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

"And Bizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. u And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. ^And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the broad place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul hi Gilboa; 13 and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. 14 And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they performed all that the long commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.

15 And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him., and fought against the Philistines; and David waxed faint. 16 And Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being "rded with new armour, thought to

we slain David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him,. Then the men of David swore unto him, saying: 'Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.'

18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai

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the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant. 19 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. 20 And there was again war at Gath, where was a champion, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. a And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him. ^hese four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

And David spoke unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul; 2 and he said: The LORD is my rock, and my

fortress, and my deliverer; 3 The God who is my rock, in Him

I take refuge;

My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My saviour, Thou savest me from

violence.

^Praised, I cry, is the LORD, And I am saved from mine enemies.

5 For the waves of Death compassed

me,

The floods of a Belial assailed me. 6 The cords of a Sheol surrounded me; The snares of Death confronted me. 7 In my distress I called upon the

LORD,

Yea, I called unto my God; And out of His temple He heard

my voice, And my cry did enter into His ears.

8 Then the earth did shake and quake,

The foundations of heaven did tremble;

They were shaken, because He was wroth.

9 Smoke arose up hi His nostrils,

And fire out of His mouth did devour;

Coals flamed forth from Him. 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down;

And thick darkness was under His

feet.

"And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly;

Yea, He was seen upon the -wings

of the wind.

12 And He made darkness pavilions round about Him,

Gathenng of waters, thick clouds

of the skies. 18 At the brightness before Him

Coals of fire flamed forth. 14 The LORD thundered from heaven.

And the Most High gave forth His

voice.

"And He sent out arrows, and scattered them;

Lightning, and discomfited them. 16 And the channels of the sea appeared,

The foundations of the world were laid bare,

By the rebuke of the LORD,

At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

17 He sent from on high, He took

me;

He drew me out of many waters; 18 He delivered me from mine enemy

most strong, From them that hated me, for they

were too mighty for me. 19 They confronted me in the day of

my calamity; But the LORD was a stay unto me.

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20 He brought me forth also into a

large place; He delivered me, because He de-

lighted in me. ^The LORD rewarded me according

to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.

I have kept the ways of the LORD,

And have not wickedly departed from my God. all His ordinances were before

me; And as for His statutes, I did not

depart from^them. ^And I was single-hearted toward

Him, And I kept myself from mine in-

iquity. 25 Therefore hath the LORD recom-

pensed me according to my

righteousness, , According to my cleanness in His

eyes.

26 With the merciful Thou dost show

Thyself merciful, With the upright man Thou dost

show Thyself upright; 27 With the pure Thou dost show

Thyself pure; And with the crooked Thou dost

show Thyself subtle. 28 And the afflicted people Thou dost

save;

But Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that Thou mayest humble them.

29 For Thou art my lamp, 0 LORD;

And the LORD doth lighten my

darkness. ^For by Thee I run upon a troop;

By my God do I scale a wall. 31 As for God, His way is perfect;

The word of the LORD is tried;

He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in Him.

32 For who is God, save the LORD?

And who is a Rock, save our God? ^The God who is my strong fortress,

And who letteth my way go forth

straight; ^Who maketh my feet like hinds',

And setteth me upon my high

85 Who traineth my hands for war, So that mine arms do bend a bow

of brass. 36 Thou hast also given me Thy shield

of salvation; And Thy condescension hath made

me great. 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under

me, And my feet have not slipped.

38 I have pursued mine enemies, and

destroyed them; Neither did I turn back till they

were consumed.

39 And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, that they cannot arise;

Yea, they are fallen under my feet. 40 For Thou hast girded me with

strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those

that rose up against me. ^Thou hast also made mine enemies

turn their backs unto me; Yea, them that hate me, that I

might cut them off. ^They looked, but there was none

to save;

Even unto the LORD, but He answered them not. * ^Then did I beat them small as the

dust of the earth,

I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did tread them down.

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also hast delivered me from the contentions of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head

of the nations; A people whom I have not known

serve me. ^he sons of the stranger dwindle

away before me; As soon as they hear of me, they

obey me.

^The sons of the stranger fade away, And come halting out of their close places.

47 The LORD liveth, and blessed be my

Rock; And exalted be the God, my Rock

of salvation;

48 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And bringeth down peoples under

me, 49 And that bringeth me forth from

mine enemies; Yea, Thou liftest me up above them

that rise up against me; Thou deliverest me from the violent

man.

50 Therefore I will give thanks unto Thee, 0 LORD, among the nations, And will sing praises unto Thy

name. 61 A tower of salvation is He to His

And showeth mercy to His anointed,

To David and to his seed, for evermore.

OO Now these are the last words ^° of David: The saying of David the son of

Jesse, And the saying of the man raised

on high, The anointed of the God oi Jacob,

my

And the sweet singer of Israel: 2 The spirit of the LORD spoke by

me, And His word was upon my tongue.

3 The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: 'Ruler over men shall be The righteous, even he that ruleth

in the fear of God, 4 And as the light of the morning,

when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds; When through clear shining after

rain, The tender grass springeth out of the

earth. 7 6 For is not my house established

with God? For an everlasting covenant He

hath made with me, Ordered in all things, and sure; For all my salvation, and all

desire,

Will He not make it to grow? 6 But the ungodly, they are as

thorns thrust away, all of them, For they cannot be taken with

the hand;

7 But the man that toucheth them Must be armed with iron and the

staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned

with fire in their place.

8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite; [he lifted up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.

9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they jeoparded their lives against the Philistines that were

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there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away; 10 he stood firm, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand did cleave unto the sword; and the LOBD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to strip the slain.

^And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines. ^But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory.

13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 14 And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. 15 And David longed, and said: 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!' 16 And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he said: 'Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of then: Hves? 7 therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And he lifted up his spear

against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three. 19 He was most honourable of the three; therefore he was made their captain; howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he smote the two altar-hearths of Moab; he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow; 21 and he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man; and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear. 22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men. ^He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him, over his guard.

^Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem; ^Shammah the Harodite, Ehka the Harodite; 26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; 27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the HushatMte; 28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netopha-thite; 29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Eibai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin; s °Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of Nahale-gaash; 31 Abi-albon the Ar-bathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite; 32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan; 33 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite; 84 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite; 35 Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite; S6 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite;

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37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah; 38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite; 39 Uriah the Hittite. Thirty and seven in all. O A And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He moved David against them, saying: ' Go, number Israel and Judah.' 2 And the king said to Joab the captain of the host that was with him: 'Go now to and fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the sum of the people.' 3 And Joab said unto the king: 'Now the LOED thy God add unto the people, how many soever they may be, a hundredfold, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?' ^Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. 5 And they passed over the Jordan, and pitched ^ in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and unto Jazer; ®then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and round about to Zidon, 7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beer-sheba. 8 So when they had gone to and fro through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of

Judah were five hundred thousand men.

10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LOED: 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.' u And when David rose up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying: ^'Go and speak unto David: Thus saith the LORD: I lay upon thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it^unto thee.' ^So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him: 'Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy foes while they lursue thee? or shall there be three [ays' pestilence in thy land? now advise thee, and consider what answer I shall return to Him that sent me/ 14 And David ^said unto Gad:

am in a great strait; let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.'

15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. 16 And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented Him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the

ople: 'It is enough; now stay thy

nd.' And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 And David spoke unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said: Lo, I have sinned, and I have done iniquitously; but these sheep, what

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have they done? let Thy hand, I pray Thee, be against me, and against my father's house/

18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him: 'Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.' 19 And David went up according to the saying of Gad, as the LORD commanded. 20 And^ Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him; and Araunah went out, and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. ^And Araunah said: ' Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?' And David said: 'To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.' ^And Araunah said unto David: 'Let my

lord the king take and offer up what seemedeth good unto him; behold the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-instruments and the furniture of the oxen for the wood.' ^All this did Araunah the king give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king: 'The LORD thy God accept thee.' ^And the king said unto Araunah: 'Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto the LORD my God which cost me nothing.' So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. So the LORD was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

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1 Now king David was old and •*• stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat. 2 Wherefore his servants said unto him: 'Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin; and let her stand before the king, and be a companion unto him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat. 7 3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunamrmte, and brought her to the king. 4 And the damsel was very fair; and she became a companion unto the king, and ministered to him; but the king knew her not.

5 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying: 'I will be king 7 ; and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. 6 And his father had not grieved him all his life in saying : f Why hast thou done so? 7 and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born

after Absalom. 7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they following Adonijah helped him. 8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and^the mighty men that belonged to David, were not with Adonijah. 9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlin^s by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants; 10 but Na-

than the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.

u Then Nathan spoke unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying : ' Hast thou not heard that Adoni-jah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not? ^Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the hfe of thy son Solomon. 13 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto tarn: Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thy handmaid, saying Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign? 14 Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words/

15 And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber.—Now the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.— 16 And Bath-pheba bowed, and prostrated herself unto the king. And the king said: 'What wouldest thou? 7 17 And she said unto him: 'My lord, thou didst swear by the LORD thy God unto thy handmaid: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne. 18 And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and thou, my lord the king, knowest it not. 19 And he hath slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king,

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and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon thy servant hath he not called. 20 And thou, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shoulclest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. 21 0therwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders/

^And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. ^And they told the king, saying* ' Behold Nathan the prophet/ And when he was come in before the king, he bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. M And Nathan said: 'My lord, 0 king, hast thou said: Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? 25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say: Long live king Adonijah. 26 But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. 27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not declared unto thy servant who should sit on the tjirone of my lord the king after him?'

28 Then king David answered and said: 'Call me Bath-sheba/ And she came into the king's presence, and stood before the king. 29 And the king swore and said: 'As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, 30 verily as I swore unto thee by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying: Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my

stead; verily so will I do this day.' 31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and prostrated herself to the king, and said: 'Let my lord king David live for ever.'

32 And king David said: 'Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada/ And they came before the king. 33 And the king said unto them: 'Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel; and blow ye with the horn, and say: Long live king Solomon. 85 Then ye shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah/ 36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said: ' Amen; so say the LORD, the God of my lord the king. 37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be He with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David/

38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, ^ and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon. 39 And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the rani's horn; and all the people said: 'Long live king Solomon/ 40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, .so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

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that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. Anc when Joab heard the sound of the horn, he said: 'Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar? 3 ^While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adornjah said: 'Come In; for thou art a worthy man, and bring-est good tidings.' ^And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah: 'Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king. ^And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Chere-thites and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's mule. 46 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that ye have heard. 46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. 47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying: God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne; and the king bowed down upon the bed. 48 And also thus said the king: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.'

49 And all the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way. 60 Aiid Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 61 And it was told Solomon, saying: ^Behold, Adonijah feareth king Solomon; for, lo, he hath laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying: Let king Solomon swear unto me first of all that he will

not sky his servant with the sword.' 62 And Solomon said: 'If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.' M So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and prostrated himself before king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him: 'Go to thy house.' O Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying: 2 'I go the way of all the earth; be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man; 3 and keep the charge of the LOED thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself; Hhat the LORD may establish His word which He spoke concerning me, saying: If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee, said He, a man on the throne of Israel. %Ioreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about lis loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet. 6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar lead go down to the grave in peace. 7 But show kindness unto the sons of BarziUai the Gileadite, and let them )e of those that eat at thy table; for so they drew nigh unto me when I

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fled from Absalom thy brother. 8 And, behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Ba-hurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying: I will not put thee to death with the sword. 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to the grave with blood.

10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. u And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. ^And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established firmly.

^Then Adonijah the son of Hag-gith came to Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon. And she said: 'Comest thou peaceably ? ' And he said:' Peaceably/ 14 He said moreover: 'I have somewhat to say unto thee.' Ajid she said: 'Say on.' 15 And he said: 'Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set then-faces on me, that I should reign; how-beit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from the ^ LORD. 16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not/ And she said unto him: 'Say on/ 17 And he said: 'Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king—for he will not say thee nay—that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife/ 18 And Bath-sheba said: 'Well; I will speak for thee unto the king/

19 Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to

meet her, and bowed down unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. 20 Then she said. 'I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not/ And the king said unto her: 'Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee/ 21 And she said: 'Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife/ ^And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother: 'And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah/ ^Then king Solomon swore by the LORD, saying: 'God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life. 24 Now therefore as the LORD liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put'to death this day/ 25 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Be-naiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so that he died.

26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king: 'Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art deserving of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted/ 27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that the word of the LORD might be fulfilled, which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

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A.nd Joab fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. 29 And it was told king Solomon: ' Joab is fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and, behold, he is by the altar.' Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying: 'Go, fall upon him/ 30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of the LORD, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the king: Come forth.' And he said: 'Nay; but I will die here.' And Benaiah brought back word unto the king, saying: 'Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.' 31 And the king said unto him: 'Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house. 32 And the LORD will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah. ^So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever; but unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, shall there be peace for ever from the LORD.' ^Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. 85 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: 'Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. 37 For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kid-

ron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die; thy blood shall be upon thine own head/ 38 And Shimei said unto the king: 'The saying is good; as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do.' And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying: 'Behold, thy servants are in Gath.' 40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath. ^And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come back. ^And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him: 'Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and forewarned thee, saying: Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me: The saying is good; I have heard it. ^Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?/ ^The king said moreover to Shimei: 'Thou knowest all the wickedness which thy heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father; therefore the LORD shall return thy 'wickedness upon thine own head. ^But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever' ^So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon him, so that he died.

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Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LOUD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. 2 0nly the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD unti] those days. 3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; only he sacrificed and offered in the high places.

4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place; a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. 5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said: 'Ask what I shall give thee.' 6 And Solomon said: 'Thou hast shown unto Thy servant David my father great kindness, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that Thou hast given ^ him a^son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 And now, O LORD my God : Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in. 8 And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people which Thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give Thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?' 10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. u And God said unto him: 'Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor

hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice; 12 behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour—so that there hath not been any -among the kings like unto thee—all thy days. 14 And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.' ^And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream; and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said: 'Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlay it. 20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy landmaid slept, and laid it in her Dosom, and laid her dead child in my Dosom. ^And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked well at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear/ ^And jhe other woman said: 'Nay; but

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the living is my son, and the dead is thy son/ And this said- 'No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son/ Thus they spoke before the king.

^Then said the king: 'The one saith: This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead; and the other saith: Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living/ 24 And the king said: 'Fetch me a sword/ And they brought a sword before the king. 25 And the king said 'Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other/ 26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned upon her son, and she said: 'Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it/ But the other said: 'It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it/ 27 Then the king answered and said: 'Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof/ 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was hi him, to do justice.

A And king Solomon was king over -*• all Israel. 2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder; 4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests; 6 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend; 6 and Ahi-shar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.

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over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year. 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; 9 the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan; 10 the son of Hesed, in Arub-both; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher; n the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife; ^Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam; 13 the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of Manae-seh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars; 14 Ahina-dab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim; 15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife; 16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth; 17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar; 18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin; 19 Geber the son of Uri, in th£ land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and one officer that was [over all the officers] in the land. 20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry. £ And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt; they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 2 And Solomon's provision for one

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day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal; ^en fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. 4 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River; and he had peace on all sides round about him. 5 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

6 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. 7 And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking. 8 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where it should be, every man according to his charge.

9 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore. 10 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt. n For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about. ^And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five. 13 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. 14 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings

of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

15 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram was ever a lover of David. I6 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying: 17 ' Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of my feet. 18 But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence. 19 And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke unto David my father, saying: Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for My name. 20 Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants; and I will give thee hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt say; for thou knowest that there is not among us any that hath skill to hew timber like unto the Zidonians/

2l And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said: 'Blessed be the LORD this day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.' ^And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying: ' I have heard that which thou hast sent unto me; I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of cypress. ^My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there,

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and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household/ ^So a Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire. ^And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of beaten oil; thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year. 26 And the LORD as He promii

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and Afloniram was 29 And Solomon had

peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a, league together. 27 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 28 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; over the levy, threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains; so besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people that wi ought in the work. 31 And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone. 32 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did. fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

£ And it came to pass in the four u hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land.of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits,

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and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits. 3 And the porch before b the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. 4 And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without. 5 And against the wall of the house he built a side-structure round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of c the Sanctuary; and he made side-chambers round about; 6 the nethermost story of the side-structure was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made rebatements in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.— 7 For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.— 8 The door for the d lowest row of chambers was in the right side of the house; and they went up by winding stairs into the middle row, and out of the middle into the third. ^ 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams. 10 And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house.

each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

u And-the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying: M< As for this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in My statutes, and execute Mine ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then will I establish My word with thee, which I spoke unto David thy father;

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13 in that I will dwell therein among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.'

* 4 So Solomon built the house, and finished it. 15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house unto the joists of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress. 16 And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the joists; he even built them for himself within, for a Sanctuary, even for the most holy place. 17 And the house, that is, the temple before [the Sanctuary], was forty cubits long. 18 And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen. 19 And he prepared the Sanctuary in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LOEB. 20 And before the Sanctuary which was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof overlaid with pure gold, he set an altar, which he covered with cedar. 21 So Solomon overlaid a the house within with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the wall before the Sanctuary; and he overlaid it with gold. 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished; also the whole altar that belonged to the Sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

^And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of ohve-wood, each ten cubits high. ^And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub; from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. 25 ABd the other |

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cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubim were of one measure and one form. 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house. 28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without. 30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without. 31 And for the entrance of the Sanctuary he made doors of ohve-wood, the doorposts within the frame having five angles. 32 And as for the two doors of olive-wood, he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees. 33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, within a frame foursquare; M and two doors of cypress-wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. 35 And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work^ 36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.

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finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

*7 And Solomon was building his

^own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the side-chambers, that lay on forty and five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were beams in three rows; ancl light was over against light in three ranks. 6 And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against light in three ranks.

6 And he made the porch of pillars: the 'length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and thick beams before them.

7 And he made the porch of the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

8 And his house where he might dwell, in the other court, within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

9 A11 these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court. 10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. u And above were costlv stones, after the measure of

hewn stones, and cedar-wood. 12 And the great court round about had three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams, like as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the court of the porch of the house.

13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naph-tahV and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.

^hus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits cUd compass it about; [and so] the other pillar. 16 And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. "He also made nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven , for the other capital. 18 And he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pomegranates; and so did he for the other capital. 19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. 20 And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network; and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon each capital. ^And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof

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the top of the

of the pillars finished, d he made the

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molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. ^And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about; the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. 2S And it was a hand-breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.

27 And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays; 29 and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters; beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 31 And the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit high; and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings; and their

borders were foursquare, not round. 32 And the four wheels were underneath the borders; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. ^And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel; their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten. ^And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base; the undersetters thereof were of one piece with the base itself. 35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays thereof and the borders thereof were of one piece therewith. 36 And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about. 37 After this manner he made the ten bases; all of them, had one casting, one measure, and one form.

38 And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 39 And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

40 And a Hiram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins.

So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the LORD:

he two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

nd the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to

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cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars; ^and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases; ^and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; ^and the^ pots, and the shovels, and the basins; even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass. ^In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zare-than. 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many; the weight of the brass could not be found out. 48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, and the table where? upon the showbread was, of gold; 49 and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the Sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; ^and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and the fire-pans, of pure gold; and^the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the temple, of gold.

51 Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon ^brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

Q Then Solomon assembled the el-° ders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 And all the men of Israel

assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast, in the month Etha-nim, which is the seventh month. 3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. 4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites briag up. 5 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto its place, into the Sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim, 7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place, even before the Sanctuary; but they could not be seen without; and there they are unto this day. ^here was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt 10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, 1L so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

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The LORD hath said that He would

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14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel stood. 15 Andhe said: l Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke "with His mouth unto David my father, and hath with His hand fulfilled it, saying; 16 Since the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that My name might be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel. 17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 18 But the LORD said unto David my father* Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart; "nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for My name. 20 And the LORD hath established His word that He spoke, for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. 21 And there have I set a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.'

ffl And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven; ^and he said: 1 O LORD, the God^of Israel, there is no God like Thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants, that walk before Thee with all their heart; M who hast kept with Thy servant David my father

that which Thou didst promise him; yea, Thou spokest with Thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with Thy hand, as it is this day. 25 Now therefore, O LORD, the God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David my father that which Thou hast promised him, saying: There shall not fail thee a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before Me as thou hast walked before Me. 26 Now therefore, 0 God of Israel, let Thy word, I pray Thee, be verified, which Thou didst speak unto Thy servant David my father.

27 But will God in very truth dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the Jieaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less this house that I have builded! 28 Yet have Thou respect unto the prayer of Thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which Thy servant prayeth before Thee this day; 29 that Thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof Thou hast said: My name shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall pray toward this place. 30 And hearken Thou to the supplication of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place; yea, hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place; and when Thou nearest, forgive.

81 If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be exacted of him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before Thine altar in this house; 32 then hear Thou in heaven, and do, and judge Thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

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Thy people Israel are smitten down before the enemy, when they do sin against Thee, if they turn again to Thee, and confess Thy name, and pray and make supplication unto Thee in this house; Hhen hear Thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy people Israel, and bring them back unto the land which Thou gavest unto their fathers.

35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, when they do sin against Thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess Thy name, and turn from their sin, when Thou dost afflict them; 36 then hear Thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, when Thou teach-est them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon Thy land, which Thou hast given to Thy people for an inheritance.

37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; 3a what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man of all Thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house; 39 then hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, -whose heart Thou know-est—for Thou, even Thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men—"that they may^fear Thee all the days, that they live in the land which Thou gavest unto our fathers.

^Moreover concerning the stranger that is not of Thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for Thy name's sake—^or they shall hear of Thy great name, and of Thy

mighty hand, and of Thine outstretched arm—when he shall come and pray toward this house; ^hear Thou in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to Thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee, as doth Thy people Israel, and that they may know that Thy name is called upon this house which I have built.

**If Thy people go out to battle against then 1 enemy, by whatsoever way Thou shalt send them, and they pray unto the LORD toward the city which Thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for Thy name; ^hen hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. ^If they sin against Thee—for there is no man that sinneth not—and Thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, far off or near; 47 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn back, and make supplication unto Thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying: ^ We have sinned, and have done injquitously, we have dealt wickedly; 48 if they return unto Thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray unto Thee toward their land, which Thou gayest unto their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for Thy name; 49 then hear Thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven Thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause; M and forgive Thy people who have sinned against Thee^ and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against

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Thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them; 51 for they are. Thy people, and Thine inheritance, which Thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron; ^that Thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of Thy servant, and unto the supplication of Thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto Thee. M For Thou didst set them apart from among all the

Eeoples of the earth, to be Thine in-eritance, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, when Thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, 0 Lord GOD/

M And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LOBD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, -from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven. B5 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying: ^'Blessed be the LOBD, that hath given rest unto His people Israel, according to all that He promised; there hath not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised by the hand of Moses His servant. 57 The LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; let Him not leave us, nor forsake us; 68 that He may incline our hearts unto Him, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers. 69 And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that He maintain the cause of His servant,

and the cause of His people Israel, as every day shall require; 60 that all

the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else. 61 Let your heart therefore be whole with the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commandments, as at this day.'

^And the long, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD. ^And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which He offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and aft the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD. ^The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings; because the brazen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

66 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days. 66 0n the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown unto David His servant, and to Israel His people. Q And it came to pass, when u Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's delight which he was pleased to do, 2 that the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as He had appeared unto him at Gibeon. 8 And the LORD said unto him: 'I ^have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou

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hast made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put My name there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually, 4 And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before Me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee ? and wilt keep My statutes and Mine ordinances; Hhen I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever; according as I promised to David thy father, saying: There shah 1 not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel. 6 But if ye shall turn away from following Me, ye or your children, and not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve 'other gods, and worship them; 7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for My name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples; 8 and this house which is so high [shall become desolate], and every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and when they shall say: Why hath the LOKD done thus unto this land, and to this house? 9 they shall be answered: Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them; therefore hath the LOED brought all this evil upon them.'

10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house— u now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees

and cypress-trees, and with gold, according to all his desire—that then I king Solomon gave Hiram twenty j cities in the land of Galilee. ^And I Hiram came out from Tyre to see the ] cities wliich Solomon had given him; • , and they pleased him not. ^And^he Isuid: ' \Vhat cities are these which i thou hast given me, my brother?' And ] they were called the land of Cabul, unto this day. 14 And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

15 And this is the account of the levy which king Solomon raised; to build the house of the LOBD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. 16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. 17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, 18 and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, "and all the store-cities that Solomon had. and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. 20 AU;fche people that were left of the Amorites, the Hitfcitee, the Pcrizzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb-usites, who were not of the children of Israel; 21 even their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondseryants, unto this day. t22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, .and his captains, and rulers of hit* chariots and of his horsemen.

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K These were the chief officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.

^But Pharaoh's daughter came up •out of the city of David unto her house which [Solomon] had built for her; then did he build Millo,

25 And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, offering thereby, upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the house.

26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Moth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. 27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. 2S And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. 1 A And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon because of the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. 2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices and gold very much, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she spoke with him of all that was in her heart. ^ 3 And Solomon told her all her questions; there was not any thing hid from the king which he told her not. 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built, 6 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his burnt-offering which he offered,

in the house of the LOED, there was no more spirit in her. 6 And she said to the king: ' It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom. 7 Howbeit I believe^ not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the hall was not told me; thou hast wisdom and prosperity exceeding the fame which I heard. 8 Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. 9 Blessed be the LORD thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel; because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made He thee king, to do justice and righteousness/ 10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great'store, and precious stones; there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon. u And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of sandal-wood and precious stones. ^And the king made of the sandal-wood pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers; there came no such sandal-wood, nor was seen, unto this day. 13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold, 15 beside that which came of the merchants, and of the traffic of the traders, and of all the kings of the mingled people and of the governors of

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the country. 16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target. 17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold: three pounds of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

18 Moreoyer the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold. 19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were arms on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. 20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps; there was not the like made in any kingdom.

^And all king Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. /^For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram; once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

^So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom. ^And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart. 25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen; and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, ^that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem. 27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem

as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the Lowland, for abundance. 28 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; also out _ of Keveh, the king's merchants buying them of the men of Keveh at a price. 29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Aram, did they bring them out by their means. 1 "j Kow king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zi-donians, and Hittites; 2 of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel: 'Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods'; Solomon did cleave unto these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 6 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestation of the children of Ammon. 8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.

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9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared unto hhn twice, i°and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. "Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon: 'Forasmuch as this hath been in thy mind, and thou hast not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. ^Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to thy son, for David My servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.'

14 And the LORD raised up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the king's seed in Edom. 15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was^gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom— 16 for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom — 17 that a Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child. 18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land. 19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave Him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh. 21 And when Hadad ^ heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad ^said to Pharaoh: 'Let me depart, 'that I may go to mine own country.' ^Then Pharaoh said unto him: 'But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country?' And he answered: 'Nothing; howbeit let me depart in any wise.'

23 And God raised up another adversary unto him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. 24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a troop, when David slew them [of Zobah]; and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus. 25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did; and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Aram.

26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king. ^ 27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father. 28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of Joseph. 29 And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite foumj him in the way; now Ahijah

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had clad .himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field. 30 And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam: 'Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee—-32 but he shall have one tribe, for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel—^because that they have forsaken Me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zi-donians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, to do that which is right in Mine eyes, 'and to keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, as did David his father. ^Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David My servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commandments and My statutes; 35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes. 3 ?And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David My servant may have a lamp alway before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen Me to put My name there. 37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. 38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in My ways, and do that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as David My servant did, that I will be with thee, and will build thee a sure house, as I

built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. 39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever/

40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

^Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? ^And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. ^And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father; and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. 1 O And Rehoboam went to She-chem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it—for he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt, 3 and they sent and called him—that Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spoke unto Rehoboam, saying: 4 'Thy father made our yoke grievous; now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, ^and we will serve thee.' 5 And he said unto them: 'Depart yet for three days, then come again to me.' And the people departed.

6 And Mng Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying: 'What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?' 7 And they spoke unto him, saying: 'If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good

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words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.' 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grownup with him, that stood before him. 9 And he said unto them: 'What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying: Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us fighter?' 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke unto him, saying: 'Thus shalt thou say unto this people that spoke unto thee, saying: Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou speak unto them: My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. u And now whereas my father did burden you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.'

12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying: 'Come to me again the third day.' 13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him; 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying: 'My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' 15 So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

16 And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying 'What portion have we in David?

neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, 0 Israel; now see to thine own house, David.' So Israel departed unto their tents. 17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. 18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the levy; and all Israel stoned him with stones, so that he died. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David, unto this day. ^And it came to pass,when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel; there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

a And when Rehobeam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men that were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom back to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. 22 But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying: ffl 'Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying: ^Thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel; return every man to his house; for this thing is of Me.' So they hearkened unto the word of the LORD, and returned and went their way, according to the word of the LORD.

25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel. 25 And Jeroboam

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said in his heart: 'Now will the kingdom return to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn back unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.' 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of goldj and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' 29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi. ^And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, ^and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, to sacrifice unto the calves that he had made; and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made. ^And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth, day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to offer.

I O And, behold, there came a man x ° of God out of Judah by the word of the LOBI> unto Beth-el; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to offer. 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said: '0 altar, altar, thus saith the LORD: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah. by

I name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that offer upon thee, and men's bones shall they burn upon thee.' 3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying: 'This is the sign which the LORD hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.' ^ 4 And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Beth-el, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying: 'Lay hold on him.' And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to him. 5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD. 6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God: 'Entreat now the favour of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me.' And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him, and became as it was before. 7 And the king said unto the man of God: 'Come Lome with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.' 8 And the man of God said unto the king: 'If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place. 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying: Thou shalt eat no bread, nor drink water, neither return by the way that thou earnest.' 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.

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Beth-el, and the words which he had spoken unto the king, and they told them unto their father. 12 And their father said unto them: 'What way went he? 7 For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came from Judah. 13 And he said unto his sons: 'Saddle me the ass.' So they saddled him the ass; and he rode thereon. M And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under a terebinth; and he said unto him: 'Art thou the man of God that earnest from Judah?' And he said: 'I am. ; 15 Then he said unto him* 'Come home with me, and eat bread/ 16 And he said: 'I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place. 17 For it was said to me by the word of the LORD: Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn back to go by the way that thou earnest.' 18 And he said unto him: 'I also am a prophet as thou art; and an angel spoke unto me by the word of the LORD, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'—He lied unto him.— 19 So he went back with him, and did eat bre,ad in his house, and drank water.

20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the LORD ' came unto the prophet that brought him back. 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah) saying: 'Thus saith the LORD: Forasmuch as thou hast rebelled against the word of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, ^but earnest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which He said to thee: Eat no t^ead, and drink

no water; thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.' ^And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, namely, for the prophet whom he had brought back. ^And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him; and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the carcass. 25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcass cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcass; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said: 'It is the man of God, who rebelled against the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke unto him.' 27 And he spoke to his sons, saying: 'Saddle me the ass.' And they saddled it. 28 And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcass; the lion had not eaten the carcass, nor torn the ass. 29 And the prophet took up the carcass of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to lament, and to bury him. s °And he laid his carcass in his own grave; and they made lamentation for him: 'Alas, my brother!' 3l And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying: ' When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. 32 For the saying which^ he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all

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the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samana, shall surely come to pass. 7

33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places; whosoever would, he consecrated him, that he might be one of the priests of the high places. 34 And by this thing there was sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth. -j A At that time Abijah the son of • L ' s - Jeroboam fell sick. 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife: 'Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh; behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people. 3 And take with thee ten loaves, and biscuits, and a cruse of honey, and go to him; he will tell thee what shall become of the child/ 4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. 6 Now the LORD had said unto Ahijah: 'Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick; thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it will be, when she cometh in, that she will feign herself to be another woman/

6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said: 'Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. 7 Go, tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over My people

Israel, 8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments, and who followed Me with all his heart, to^do that only which was right in Mine eyes; 9 but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke Me, and hast cast Me behind thy back; 10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone. "Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat; for the LORD hath spoken it. ^Arise thou therefore, get thee to thy house; "and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. ^ 13 And all Israel shall make lamentation for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave; because in him there is found some good* thing toward the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. "Moreover the LORP will raise Him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day. But what is it even then? 15 for the LORD will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water* and He will root up Israel out of this good land, which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River ^because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD. 16 And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith he hath made Israel to sin/

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17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah; and as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died. 18 And all Israel buried him, and made lamentation for him; according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years; and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

^And Rehpboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there; and his 'mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. ^And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; and they moved Hun to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. ^For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every leafy tree; ^and there were also sodomites in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

26 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem ; 26 and he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all; and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 27 And king Rehoboam

made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house. 28 And it was so, that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. '

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam^ continually. 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah. 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father. Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem; 6 because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that He commanded him all the days of his hf e, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. 6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life,

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8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

9 And in _ the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. u And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. 12 And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. "And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for^an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. 14 But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole with the LORD all his days. 18 And he brought into the house of the LORD the things that his father had hallowed, and the •things that himself had hallowed, silver, and gold, and vessels.

16 And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days. 17 And Baasa king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Aram, that dwelt at Damascus, saying: 19 'There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father; behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league

with Baasa king of Israel, that he may depart from me/ 20 And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali. ^Aiid it came to pass, when Baasa heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. 22 Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasa had build-ed; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

^Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. w And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in ttye city of David his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

^And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.

nd he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. 27 And Baasa the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasa smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for 'Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. 28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasa slay him, and reigned in his stead, 29 And it came to pass that, as soon as he was Mngj he smote all the house of Jeroboam,'

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he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him; according unto the saying of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the Shilonite; 30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; because of his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.

31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 32 And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

^In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasa the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, and reigned twenty and four years. 34 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. "1 £* And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying* 2 *Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over My people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made My people Israel to sin, to provoke Me with their sins; 3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasa and his house; and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 4 Him that dieth of Baasa in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.'

6 Now the rest of th6 acts of Baasa, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in. the book of the chronicles of the "kings of Israel? 6 And Baasa slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and'Elah his son reigned in his stead.

7 And moreover by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasa, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.

8 In^the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasa to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years. 9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him; now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah; 10 and Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seyenth year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. "And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasa; he left him not a single man-child, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends. ^Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasa, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke against Baasa by Jehu the prophet, 13 for all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, with their vanities.

34 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gib-bethon, which belonged to the Philistines. 16 And the people that were encamped heard say: ' Zimri hath con-i-

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spired, and hath also smitten the king 7 ; wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. 17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. 18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, _ and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died; 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. ^But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath; so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

^In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, and reigned twelve years; six years reigned he in Tirzah. ^And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill, Samaria. 25 And Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and dealt wickedly above all that were before him. 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, with their vanities.

27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, are they not written m the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 28 And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel; and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. 30 And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him. 32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. ^And AJiab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

M In his days did Kiel the Beth-elite build Jericho; with Abiram his first-born he laid the foundation thereof, and with his youngest son Segub he set up the gates thereof; according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun.

rr And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said unto Ahab: 'As the LORD, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my • word/ 2 Aiid the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 3< Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 4 And it

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shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.' 5 Sohewent and did according unto the word of the LORD ; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried'up, because there was no rain in the land.

8 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying: 9 'Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.' 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her, and said: 'Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.' u And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said: 'Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.' ^And she said: 'As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse; and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.' l3 And Elijah said unto her: 'Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it forth unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son. 14 £or thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: The jar of meal shall not be spent, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the land.' 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house,, did eat many days.

16 The jar of meal was not spent, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Elijah.

17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said unto Elijah: 'What have I to do with thee, 0 thou man of God? art thou come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?' 19 And he said unto her: 'Give me thy son,' And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. 20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said: '0 LORD my God, hast Thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?' 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said. '0 LORD my God, I pray Thee, let this child's soul come back into him.' ^And the LORD hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came back into him, and he revived. ^And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the upper chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother; and Elijah said: 'See, thy son liveth.' ^And the woman said to Elijah: 'Now I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.'

1 Q And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying: 'Go, show thyself unto Ahab, and I will send rain upon the land.' 2 And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab.

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over the household.—Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly; *for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LOKD, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.— 5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah: 'Go through the land, unto all the springs of water, and unto all the brooks; peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.' 6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him; and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said: 'Is it thou, my lord Elijah?' 8 And he answered him: 'It is I; go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here/ 9 And he said: 'Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? 10 As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee; and when they said: He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not. n And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here. ^And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the spirit of the LORD will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me; but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. ^Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? "And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will

slay me.' 15 And Elijah said: 'As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to-day.'

M So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him: 'Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel?' 18 And he answered: 'I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed the Baahm. 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table.'

20 And Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

nd Elijah came near unto all the people, and said: 'How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.' And the people answered him not a word, ^hen said Elijah unto the people: 'I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. ^Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. ^And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God.' And all the people answered and said: 'It is well spoken.'

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ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under. 7 26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying: '0 Baal, answer us/ But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they danced in halting wise about the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said: /Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.' ^And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and lances, till the ^blood gushed out upon them. 29 And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

30 And Elijah said unto all the people • 'Come near unto me'; and all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was thrown down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying: 'Israel shall be thy name.' 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD ; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. ^And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it on the wood. 34 And he said: 'Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt-offering, and on the wood. 7 And he said: 4 Dp it the second time'; and they did it the second time. And he said: 'Do it the third time'; and they did it the third time. ^And the water

ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said: '0 LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that Thou, LORD, art God, for Thou didst turn their heart backward.' ^Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said: 'The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God.' 40 And Elijah said unto them: 'Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.' And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

^And Elijah said unto Ahab: 'Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.' ^So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees. ^And he said to his servant: 'Go up now, look toward the sea.' And he went up, and looked, and said: 'There is nothing.' And he said: 'Go again seven times.' ^And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said: 'Behold, there ariseth a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand.' And he said: 'Go up, say unto Ahab: Make ready thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.' ^And it came to pass in a little while, that

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the heaven grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

1 Q And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying: 'So let the gods do [to me], and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.' 3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom-tree; and he requested for himself that he might die; and said: 'It is enough; now, 0 LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.' 6 And he lay down and slept under a broom-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him, and said unto him: 'Arise and eat.' 6 And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the hot stones, and a cruse of water. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. 7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said: 'Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.' 8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meal forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and He said unto him: 'What doest thou here, Elijah?' IO And he said: 'I have

been very jealous for the LORD, God of hosts; for the children Israel have forsaken Thy thrown down Thine altars, and

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said: 'Go forth, and stand mount before the LORD.' And, behok^ the LORD passed by, and a great and" strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice. "And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said: 'What doest thou here, Elijah?' 14 And he said: 'I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, thrown down Thine altars, and slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.'

16 And the LORD said unto him: 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, thou shalt anoint Hazael to be king over Aram; ls and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. 17 And it shall come to pass, that him that eseapeth from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that eseapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. 18 Yet will I leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which

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have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him/

19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth; and Elijah passed over unto him, and cast his mantle upon him. 20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said: 'Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee.' And he said unto him: 'Go back; for what have I done to thee?' ^And he returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

OQ And Ben-hadad the king of u ^ Aram gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it. 2 And he sent messengers to Aiab king of Israel, into the city, 3 and said unto him: 'Thus saith Ben-hadad: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and tlry; children, even the goodliest, are mine.' 4 And the king of Israel answered and said: 'It is according to thy saying, my lord, 0 king: I am thine, and all that I have.' 6 And the messengers came again, and said: 'Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying: I sent indeed unto thee, saying: Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; 6 but I will send my servants unto thee to-morrow about this time, and they shall search thy house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they I

shall put it in their hand, and take it away.'

7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said: 'Mark, I pray jrou, and see how this man seekoth mischief; for he sent unto me for my wives, and for m*7 children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.' 8 And all the elders and all the people said unto him: 'Hearken thou not, neither consent.' 9 Wheref ore he said unto the messengers of Ben-hadad: 'Tell my lord the king: All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do.' And the messengers departed, and brought him back word. 10 And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said: 'The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.' u And the king of Israel answered and said: 'Tell him: Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself] as he that putteth it off.' ^And it came to pass, when [Ben-hadad] heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings, in the booths, that he said unto his servants: 'Set yourselves in array.' And they set themselves in array against the city.

13 And, behold, a prophet came near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thy hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LOED.' 14 And Ahab said: 'By whom?' And he said: 'Thus saith the LORD: By the young men of the princes of the provinces.' Then he said: 'Who shall begin the battle?' And he answered: 'Thou.' lfi Then he numbered the t young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were

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two hundred and thirty-two; and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

16 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad wasdrinkhig himself drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him. 17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying? ' There are men come out from Samaria.' 18 And he said: 'Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive. 7 19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them. 20 And they slew every one his man; and the Arameans fled, and Israel pursued them; .and Ben-hadad the king of Aram escaped on a horse with horsemen. ^And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Arameans with a great slaughter. ^And the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said unto him: 'Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest; for at the return of the year the king of Aram will come up against thee.'

^And the servants of the king of Aram said unto him: 'Their God is a God of the Mils; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. 24 And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their room: ^nd number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.' And

he hearkened unto their voice, and did so,

26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. 27 And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them; and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Arameans filled the country, 28 And a man of God came near and spoke unto the king of Israel, and said: 'Thus saith the LORD: Because the Arameans have said: The LOBD is a God of the hills, but he is not a God of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I am the LOBD/ 29 And they encamped one over against the other seven* days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Arameans a hundred thousand footmen in one day. 30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber

31 And his servants said unto him: 'Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; peradventure he will save thy life.' ^So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said: *Thy servant Ben-hadad saith: I pray thee, let me live.' And he said: 'Is he yet alive? he is my brother.' M Now the men took it for a sign, and hastened to catch it from

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him; and they said: 'Thy brother Ben-hadad/ Then he said: 'Go ye, bring him.' Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into his chariot. w And [Ben-hadad] said unto him: 'The cities which my father took from thy father I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.' 'And I [,said Ahab,] will let thee go with this covenant/ So he made a covenant with him, and let him go.

^And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his fellow by the word of the LOED: 'Smite me, I pray thee.' And the man refused to smite him. ^hen said he unto him* 'Because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee.' And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him; and slew him. * 7 Then he found another man, and said: 'Smite me, I pray thee.' And the man smote him., smiting and wounding him. 88 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes. 39 And as the kmg passed by, he cried unto the king; and he said: 'Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said: Keep this man; if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. 40 And as thy servant was busy here and there, he was gone.' And the king of Israel said unto him: 'So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.' ^And he hastened, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets. ^And he said unto him:

"Thus saith the LORD: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people/ ^And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria. O ~j And it came to pass after these

x things, that Naboth the Jez-reelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. _ 2 And Ahab spoke unto Naboth, saying: 'Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money/ 3 And Naboth said to Ahab: 'The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee/ 4 And Ahab came into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said: 'I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers/ And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him: 'Why is thy spirit so sullen, that thou eatest no bread?' 6 And he said unto her: 'Because I spoke unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him: Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it; and he answered: I will not give thee my vineyard/ 7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him: ' Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite/ 8 So she wrote letters in

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Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying. 'Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people; 10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him, saying: Thou didst curse God and the king. Ajid then carry him out, and stone him, that he die.'

n And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. ^They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. w And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him; and the base fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying: 'Naboth did curse God and the king.' Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. 14 Then they sent to Jezebel, sayjng: 'Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 7 u And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab: 'Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.' 16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

17 Ajid the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying: 18 'Arise, go down to meet A-hab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take

possession of it. 19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying: Thus saith the LORD: Hast thou, killed, and also taken possession? and thou shalt speak unto him, saying: Thus saith the LORD: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.' ^And Ahab said to Elijah: ' Hast thou found me, 0 mine enemy?' And he answered: 'I have found thee; because thou hast given thyself over to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD. ^Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will utterly sweep thee away, and will cut off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel. ^And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasa the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked Me, and hast made Israel to sin. ^And of Jezebel also spoke the LORD, saying: The dogs shall eat Jezebel in the moat of JezreeL ^Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.' ^But there was none like unto Ahab, who did give himself over to do that which was evil in the sigjht of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. ^And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel,

27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. 28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying: 29t Seest thou how Ahab hum-bleth himself before Me? because he

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humbleth himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.'

OO And they continued three years without war between Aram and Israel. 2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel. _ 3 And the king of Israel said unto his servants: 'Know ye that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Aram? 7 4 And he said unto Jehoshaphat: 'Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead?' And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel: 'I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.'

5 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel: 'Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to-day.' fThen the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them: 'Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?' And they said: 'Go up; for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.' 7 But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here besides a prophet of the LORD, that we might inquire of him?' 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat: 'There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.' And Jehoshaphat said: 'Let not the king say so.' ^hen the king of Israel called an officer, and said: 'Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah/ 10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in a threshing-floor, at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and

all the prophets prophesied before them. u And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said: ' Thus saith the LORD : With these shalt thou gore the Arameans, until they be consumed.' ^And all the prophets prophesied so, saying: 'Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.'

^And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke unto him, saying: ' Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth, let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak thou good.' 14 And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.' 15 And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him: 'Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? 7 And he answered him: 'Go up, and prosper; and the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.' 16 And the king said unto him: 'How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?' 17 And he said: 'I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd; and the LORD said: These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.' J8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?' 19 And he said: 'Therefore hear thou the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left. 30 And the LORD said: Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said: On this manner; and another said:

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On that manner. 2l And there came forth the spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said: I will entice him. 22 And the LORD said unto him. Wherewith? And he said: I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit m the mouth of all his prophets. And He said* Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also; go forth, and do so. ^Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.'

24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chena-anah came near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said: 'Which way went the spirit of the LORD from me t6 speak unto thee?' 25 And Micaiah said: 'Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.' 26 And the king of Israel said: 'Take Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; 27 and say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with scant bread and with scant water, until I come in peace. 7 ^And Micaiah said: ' If thou return at all in peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. ; And he said: 'Hear, ye peoples, all of you. 1

29 So the king of Israel and Jehosha-phab the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead. 80 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat: 'I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes.' And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. ^Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty and two captains of his chariots, saying: Tight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.' ^And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Je-

hoshaphat, that they said: 'Surely it is the king of Israel'; and they turned aside to fight against him; and Jehoshaphat cried out. ^And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. ^And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the lower armour and the breastplate; wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot: 'Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded/ ^And the battle increased that day; and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Arameans, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot. ^And there went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying: 'Every man to his city, and every man to his country.'

87 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the lang in Samaria. 38 And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; the harlots also washed themselves there; according unto the word of the LORD which He spoke.

S9 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 40 So Aliab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. ^And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD; ^howbeit the high places were not taken awayj the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places. ^And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

^Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 47 And the remnant of the sodomites that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land. 48 And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king. 49 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold; but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber. 60 Then said

Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat: 'Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships/ But Jehoshaphat would not. a And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.

^Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel. ^And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LOED, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Ne-bat, wherein he made Israel to sin. w And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the LOKD, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

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~| AND Moab rebelled against Israel x after the death of Ahab.

2 And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in^his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick; and he sent messengers, and said unto them: 'Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this sickness/ 3 But an angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite: 'Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them: Is it because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? 4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD: Thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die/ And Elijah departed.

5 And the messengers returned unto him, and he said unto them: 'Why is it that ye are returned?' 6 And they said unto him: 'There came up a man to meet us, and said unto us: Go, return unto the king that sent you, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die/ 7 And he said unto them: 'What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told you these words?* 8 And they answered him: 'He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins/ And he said: 'It is Elijah the Tishbite/

Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him; and, behold, he sat on the top of the hill. And he spoke unto him: '0 man of God, the king hath said: Come down/ 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty: 'If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty/ And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. "And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him: '0 man of God, thus hath the king said: Come down quickly/ ^And Elijah answered and said unto them: 'If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty/ And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed hirn and his fifty. M And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him: '0 man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. 14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in thy sight/ ^And the angel of the LORD ^said unto Elijah: 'Go down with him; be not afraid of him/ And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

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16 And he said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.'

17 So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son. 18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

0 And it came to pass, when the ^ LORD would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2 And Elijah said unto Elisha: 'Tarry here,

1 pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me as far as Beth-el/ And Elisha said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' So they went down to Beth-el.— 8 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Ehsha, and said unto him: 'Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to-day?' And he said* 'Yea, I know it j hold ye your peace.'— 4 And Elijah said unto him: 'Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho.'' And he said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' So they came to Jericho.— 5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said unto him: 'Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to-day?' And he answered: 'Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.'— 6 .And Elijah said unto him: 'Tarry

here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to the Jordan.' And he said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And they two went on.

7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar off; and they two stood by the Jordan. 8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. 9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Ehsha: 'Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken from thee.' And Elisha said: 'I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.' 10 And he said: 'Thou hast asked a hard thing; nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.' u And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked,! that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

^And Elisha saw it, and he cried: 'My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof 1' And he saw him no more; and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. 33 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of the Jordan. 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: 'Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?' and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over.

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saw him, they said: 'The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha.' And they came to meet him, and bowed down to the ground before him. 16 And they said unto him: 'Behold now, there are with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master; lest peradventure the spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him, upon some mountain, or into, some valley/ And he said: 'Ye shall not send.' 17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said: 'Send. 7 They sent therefore fifty men;,and they sought three days, but found him not. 18 And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them: 'Did I not say unto you- Go not?'

19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha: 'Behold, we pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth; but the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth.' 20 And he said: 'Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein.' And they brought it to him. ^And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said: "Thus saith the LORD: I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.' ^So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

^And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him: 'Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.' M And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them. ^And he went from thence to mount Carmel,

and from thence he returned to Samaria.

O Now Jehoram the son of Ahab u began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made. Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered unto the king of Israel the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams. 5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. 6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel. 7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying: 'The king of Moab hath rebelled against me; wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle?' And he said: 'I will go up; I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.' 8 And he said: 'Which way shall we go up?' And he answered: 'The way of the wilderness of Edom.' 9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey; and there was no water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them. 10 And the king of Israel said: 'Alas! for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.' u But Jehoshaphat said: 'Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?' And one of the king of

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Israel's servants answered and said: * Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.' 12 And Jehoshaphat said: 'The word of the LORD is with him.' So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel: 'What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother/ And the king of Israel said unto him. 'Nay; for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.' 14 And Elisha said: 'As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee. 15 But now bring me a minstrel/ And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. 16 And he said: 'Thus saith the LORD: Make this valley full of trenches. 17 For thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water; and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts. 18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD; He will also deliver the Moab-ites into your hand. 19 And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.' 20 And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of making the offering, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

^Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all that were able to

put on armour, and upward, and stood on the border. M And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water some way off as red as blood; M and they said: 'This is blood: the kings have surely fought together, and they have smitten each man his fellow; now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.' 24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them. And they smote the land, even Moab, mightily. 25 And they beat down the eities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the fountains of water, and felled all the good trees; until there was left only Kir-hareseth with the stones of the wall thereof; so the slingers encompassed it, and smote it. 28 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not. 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there came great wrath upon Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land. A Now there cried a certain woman • E of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying: 'Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD; and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.' 2 And Elisha said unto her: 'What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?' And she said: 'Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.' 3 Then he said: 'Go, borrow

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thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. 4 And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full.' c So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out. 6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son: 'Bring me yet a vessel/ And he said unto her: 'There is not a vessel more.' And the oil stayed. 7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said: 'Go, sell the oil r and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.'

8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. 9 And she said unto her husband: 'Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually. 10 Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick; and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.' u And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the upper chamber and lay there. ^And he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Call this Shunammite.' And when he had called her, she stood before him. ^And he said unto him: -'Say now unto her: Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? 7 And she answered: 'I dwell among mine own people.' 14 And he said:!

'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old. ; I5 And he said: 'Call her.' And when he had called her, she stood in the door. 16 Andhesaid: 'At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son.' And she said: 'Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.' ^And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto her.

18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. 19 And he said unto his father: 'My head, my head.' And he said to his servant: 'Carry him to his mother.' 20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. 21 And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. ^And she called unto her husband, and said: 'Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come back.'

nd he said: 'Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.' And she said: It shall be well.' 24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant: Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.' 25 So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel.

And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Behold, yonder is that Shunammite. 26 Run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her: Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child?' And she answered: *It is well.' 27 And when she

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came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said: 'Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.' 28 Then she said: 'Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say: Do not deceive me?' 29 Then he said to Gehazi • 'Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.' 30 And the mother of the child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, and followed her. ^And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore ^he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: 'The child is not awaked.'

^And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and kid upon his bed. ^He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. M And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. S5 Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. ^And he called Gehazi, and said. 'Call this Shunammite/ So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said: 'Take up thy son. 7 ^Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed down to the!

ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal; and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant: 'Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.' 39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not. 40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried put, and said: '0 man of God, there is death in the pot.' And they could not eat thereof. ""But he said: 'Then bring meal.' And he cast it into the pot; and he said: 'Pour out for the people, that they may eat.' And there was no harm in the pot.

^And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. And he said: 'Give unto the people, that they may eafc.' ^And his servant said: 'How should I set this before a hundred men?' But he said: 'Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith the LORD: They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.' **Sq he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.

Now Naaman, captain of the host

of the king of Aram, was a great man with his master, and held in esteem, because by him the LORD had given victory unto Aram; he was also a mighty man of valour, but he was a leper. 2 And the Arameans

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brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. 3 And she said unto her mistress: 'Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy. 7 4 And he went in, and told his lord, saying: 'Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of t Israel/ 5 And the king of Aram said: 'Go now, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel/ And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment. ^ 6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying: 'And now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy/ 7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said: 'Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh an occasion against me/

8 And it was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying: 'Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel/ 9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying: 'Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come back to thee, and thou shalt be clean/ n But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said: 'Behold, I thought: He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the

LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 12 Are not Amanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?' So he turned, and went away in a rage. w And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said: 'My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee: Wash, and be clean?' 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came back like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said: 'Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; now therefore, I pray thee, take a present of thy servant/ 16 But he said: 'As the LORI) liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none/ And he urged him to take it; but he refused. 17 And Naaman said: 'If not, yet I pray thee let there be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD. 18 In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant: when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I prostrate myself in the house of Rimmon, when I prostrate myself in the house of Simmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing/ 19 And he said unto him: 'Go _in peace/ So he departed from him some way.

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the man of God, said: 'Behold, my master hath spared this Naaman the Aramean, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought; as the LORD liveth, I will surely run after him, and take somewhat of him.' 21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said: 'Is all well?' ^And he said: 'All is well. My master hath sent me, saying: Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.' ^And Naaman said: 'Be content, take two talents.' And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bore them before him. 24 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and deposited them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed. 25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him: 'Whence comest thou, Gehazi?' And he said: ' Thy servant went no whither.' ^And he said unto him: 'Went not'my heart [with thee], when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and ohve-yards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maidservants? 27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever.' And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

£{ And the sons of the prophets said u unto Elisha: 'Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us. 2 Let us go, we

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thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.' And he answered: 'Go ye.' 3 And one said: ' Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants.' And he answered: 'I will go.' 4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood. 5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cned, and said: 'Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.' 6 AJnd the man of God said: 'Where fell it?' And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim. 7 And he said: 'Take it up to thee.' So he put out his hand, and took it.

8 Now the king of Aram warred against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying: 'In such and such a place shall be my camp.' 9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying: 'Beware that thou pass not such a place; for thither the Arameans are coming down.' 10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he guarded himself there, not once nor twice. u And the heart of the long of Aram was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them* 'Will ye not tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?' 12 And one of his servants said. 'Nay, my lord, 0 king; but Ehsha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bed-chamber.' 13 And he said: 'Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him.' And it was told him, saying: 'Behold, he is in Dothan/

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the city about. 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a host with horses and chariots was round about the city. And his servant said unto him: 'Alas, my master! how shall we do?' 16 And he answered: 'Fear not: for they that are with us are more than they that are with them/ "And Elisha prayed, and said: 'LORD, I pray Thee, open his eyes, that he may see.' And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw; and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. ls And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'Smite this people, I pray Thee, with blindness/ And He smote them with blindness ac-| cording to the word of Elislra. 19 And Elisha said unto them: 'This is not the way, neither is this the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek.' And he led them to Samaria.

20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said: 'LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.' And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 2l And the long of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them: 'My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?' ^And he answered: 'Thou shalt not smite them; hast thou taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow those whom thou wouldest smite? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.' ^And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aram came no more into the land of Israel.

it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. ^And there was a great famine in Samaria; and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying: 'Help, my lord, Oking.' 27 Andhesaid: 'If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?' 28 And the king said unto her: 'What aileth thee?' And she answered: 'This woman said unto me: Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day: Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.' 30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent Ms clothes —now he was passing by upon the wall—and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. 31 Then he said: 'God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.'

32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and tibe king sent a man from before him; but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders: 'See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger com-eth, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him; is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?' ^And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him; and [the king] said: 'Behold, this evil

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is of the LORD; why should I wait for 1*7 the LORD any longer?' z AndElisha 1 said:' Hearye the word of theLoRD; thus saith the LORD : To-morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. 7 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said: 'Behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might this thing be?' And he said: 'Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.'

3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate; and they said one to another. 'Why sit we here until we die? 4 If we say: We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Arameans; if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.' 6 And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Arameans; and when they were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the host of the Arameans to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host; and they said one to another: 'Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.' 7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 Aid when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid

it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and-hid it.

9 Then they said one to another: 'We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace; if we tarry till the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.' 10 So they came and called unto the porters of the city; and they told them, saying: 'We came to the camp of the Arameans, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.' "And the porters called, and they told it to the king's household within. 12 And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants: 'I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying: When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.' 13 And one of his servants answered and said: 'Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are

left in the city behold, they are as

all the multitude of Israel that are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are consumed— and let us send and see.' 14 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Arameans, saying: 'Go and see.' 15 And they went after them unto the Jordan; and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Arameans had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

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for a shekel, and two measures of barley 4 for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD. 17 And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate; and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him. 18 And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying: 'Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria'; 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said: 'Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?' and he said: 'Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof; ^it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Q Now Elisha had spoken unto the ° woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: 'Arise, and go thou and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn; for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years/ 2 And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years. 3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines; and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land. 4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying: 'Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done/ 5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him that was

dead, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said: 'My lord,

0 king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.' 6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying: 'Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now/

7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Aram was sick; and it was told him, saying: 'The man of God is come hither. 7 8 And the king said unto Hazael: ' Take a present in thy hand, and go meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD by Mm, saying; Shall I recover of this sickness?' *So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him., even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said: 'Thy son Ben-hadad king of Aram hath sent me to thee, saying: Shall

1 recover of this .sickness?' 10 And Elisha said unto him: 'Go, say unto him: Thou shalt surely recdver; howbeit the LORD hath shown me that he shall surely die.' "And he settled his countenance stedfastly upon him, until he was ashamed; and the man of God wept. "And Hazael said: 'Why weepeth my lord?' And he answered: 'Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their women with child/ 13 And Hazael said: 'But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?' And

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Elisha answered: "The LOED hath shown me that thou shalt be king over Aram/ 14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him: 'What said'Elisha to thee?' And he answered: 'He told me that thou wouldest surely recover.' 15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his stead.

16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehosha-phat being then king of Judah, Je-horam the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. 17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD . 19 Howbeit the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David His servant's sake, as He promised him to give unto him a lamp and to his children alway. *

20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. ^Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him; and he rose up by night, and smote the Edom-ites that compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents. ^Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, unto this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time. ^And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and

Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. 25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. ^Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel. ^And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. ^And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead; and the Aram cans wounded Joram. 29 And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Arameans had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

Q And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said unto him: 'Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead. 2 And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and oarry him to an inner chamber. 8 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say: Thus saith the LORD: I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.' ^ the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead. 6 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said* 'I have an errand to thee,

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Ms hands, and fled, and said to Aha-ziah: 'There is treachery, 0 Ahaziah.' 2*And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and smote Joram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot. 25 Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain: 'Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD pronounced this burden against him: 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plot, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD/

27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. And Jehu followed after him, and said: 'Smite him also in the chariot'; [and they smote him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there. 28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window. ^And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said: 'Is it peace, thou Zimri, thy master's -murderer?' ^And he lifted up his face to the window, and said: ' Who is on my side? who? 7 And there looked out to him two or three officers. ^And he said: "Throw her j down.' So they threw her down; I

and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses; and she was trodden under foot. M And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said: 'Look now after this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.' ^And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands. 36 Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said: 'This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying: In the portion of Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel; 37 and the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say: This is Jezebel.' A Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and unto them that brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying: 2< And now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are^with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and armour; 3 look ye out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.' 4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said: 'Behold, the two kings stood not before him; how then shall we stand?' 5 And he that was over the household, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and they that brought up the children, sent to Jehu, paying: 'We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any man king; do thou that which is good in thine eyes.' 6 Then he wrote EL letter the second time to them, saying: 'If ye be on my side, and if ye

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will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time.' Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. 7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them unto him to Jezreel. 8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying* 'They have brought the heads of the king's jsons.' And he said: 'Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.' 9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people: 'Ye are righteous; behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who smote all these? l °Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD hath done that which He spoke by His servant Elijah.' u So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his ^familiar friends, and his priests, until there was left him none remaining.

^And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way, 33 Jehu met with the brethren of AJiaziah king of Judah, and said: 'Who are ye?' And they answered: 'We are the brethren of .Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children pf the queen.' "And he said: 'Take them alive.' And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

15 And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coining to meet him; and he saluted him, and said to him: 'Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thy heart?' And Jehonadab answered: 'It is.' 'If it be, [said JehuJ give me thy hand.' And he gave him Ms hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot. 16 And he said: 'Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.' So they made him ride in his chariot. I7 And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke to Elijah

18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them: 'Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. J9 Now therefore call untojrne all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting; for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. 7 But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. 20 And Jehu said: * Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.' And they proclaimed it. 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another. ^And he said unto him that was over the vestry: 'Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal.' And he brought them forth vestments. ^And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said unto the worshippers of Baal: 'Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of

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the LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only/ 24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt-offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him fourscore men without, and said: t 'If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, his life shall be for the life of him.'

25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains: 'Go in, and slay them; let none come forth/ And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal. 26 And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house, unto this day.

28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. 29 Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, the golden calves that were in Beth-el, and that were in Dan. 30 And the LORD said unto Jehu: 'Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in Mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in My heart, thy sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel/ 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all Ms heart; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel. 33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the

Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. 34 Now the rest of the acts of* Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 85 And Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead. S6 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.

1 1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, even him and his nurse, and put them in the bed-chamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slam. 3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years; and Athaliah reigned over the land.

4 And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds, of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son. 5 And he commanded them, saying: 'This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, and that keep the watch of the king's house—^ow another third part was at the gate> Sur, and another third part at the gate behind the guard — shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. 7 And the other two parts of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of the

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LORD about the king. 8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he that cometh within the ranks, let him be slain; and be ye with the king when he goeth out, and when hte cometh in.'

9 And the captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath, with those that wore to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest. )0 And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spear and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of the LORD. 11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about. ^Then he brought out the > king's son, and put upon him the crown and the insignia; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said: 'Long live the king. 1

13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the house of the LORD. 14 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood on the platform, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the long; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried: 'Treason, treason.' 15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them: 'Have her forth between the ranks; and him that followeth her slay with the sword 7 ; for the priest said: 'Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.'

IC So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house; and there was she skin.

17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people. 18 And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. 19 And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the' kings. 20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and they slew Athaliah with the sword at the king's house. •J O Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. 2 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 3 And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD ^ all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him. 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.

5 And Jehoash said to the priests: 'All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, all the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into

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the house of the LORD, 6 let the priests take it to them, every man from him that bestoweth it upon him; and they shall repair the 'breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found/ 7 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house. 8 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them: 'Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no longer money from them that bestow it upon you, but deliver it for the breaches of the house/ 9 And the priests consented that they should take no longer money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.

10 And Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the hous6 of the LORD; and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought ^ into the house of the LORD. n And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD. 32 And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD, 13 and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.- 14 But there were not made for the house of the LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins,

trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD; I5 for they gave that to them that did the work, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD. 16 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt faithfully. 17 The forfeit money, and the sin money, was not brought into the house of the LORD; it was the priests'.

18 Then Hazael king of Aram went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem. 19 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

20 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 21 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at Beth-millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla. ^For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead. ~j Q In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,

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wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and He delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael, continually. 4 And Jeho-ahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Aram oppressed them.— 5 And the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, so that they went out from under the hand of the Arameans; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein; and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.— 7 For there was not left to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Aram destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing. 8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? *And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria; and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years. u And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein, ^Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the

! chronicles of the kings of Israel?

1 13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and

' Jeroboam sat upon his throne; and

Joash was buried in Samaria with the

kings of Israel.

14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he was to die; and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said: 'My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!' "And Elisha said unto him: 'Take bow and arrows'; and he took unto him bow and arrows. 16 And he said to the king of Israel: 'Put thy hand upon the bow'; and he put his hand upon it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands. l7 And he said: ' Open the window eastward 7 ; and he opened it. Then Elisha said: 'Shoot'; and he shot. And he said: 'The LORD'S arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory against Aram; for thou sfralt smite the Arameans in Aphek, till thou have consumed them/ 18 And he said: 'Take the arrows'; and he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel: 'Smite upon the ground'; and he smote thrice, and stayed. "And the man of God was wroth with him, and said: 'Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitteA Aram till thou hadst consumed it; whereas now thou shalt smite Aram but thrice/

20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites used to invade the land at the coming in of the year. ^And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha; and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

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pressed Israel all the days of Jeho-ahaz. **But the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, t neither hath He cast them from His presence until now. M And Hazael king of Aram died; and Ben-hadad his son reigned in his stead. ^And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel. ~i A In the second year of Joash son •*• •* of Joahaz king of Israel ^began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign. 2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. ^ 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done. 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places. 6 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who^had slain the king his father; 6 but the children of the murderers he put not to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying:' The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.' 7 He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, unto this day.

8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying: 'Come, let us look one another in the face.' 9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saving: 'The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying: Give thy daughter to my son to wife; and there passed by the wild beasts that were in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle. 10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and will thy heart hf t thee up? glory therein, and remain at home; for why shouldest thou meddle with evil, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?' u But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah. 12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent. ^And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits^ 14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah long of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

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king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? "And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there. 20 And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. ^He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

^In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years. M And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of ^ Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. ^He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher. 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel. 27 And the LORD said not that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and big might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath,

for Judah in Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son reigned in his stead.

In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began a Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered

»In verses 13, 30, &e., Uzzidh.

in the high places. 5 And the LORD smote the long, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. 6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 7 And Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. u Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written

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in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 12 This was the word of the LORD which He spoke unto Jehu, saying: 'Thy sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.' And so it came to pass.

^Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in Samaria. 14 And Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 18 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah; because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria. 18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not aU his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. 19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand 20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of^ wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land. 21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written

in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

^In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. 26 And Pekah the son of Rem-aliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, by Argob and by Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites; and he slew him, and reigned in his stead. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. 28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin. 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. 30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remahah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. 31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. ^Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. M And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 35 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed

and offered in the

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days the LORD ^ Judah Rezin the

built the upper gate of the house of the LORD. 36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 37 In those m to send against ing of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. 38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. 1 £ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not that which was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and offered in the high places,

and on the leafy tree.

hills, and under every

Rezin king of Aj-am and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war; and they besieged Ahaz, but could not

overcome him. 6 At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath to Aram, and drove the Jews from *Elath; and the Edomites came to Elath, and dwelt there, unto this day.

7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tig-lath-pileser king of Assyria, saying: 'I am thy servant and thy son; come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me/ 8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria. 9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. n And Urijah the priest built an altar; according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it

against the Damascus.

of king Ahaz from when the king was

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come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon. 13 And tie offered his burnt-offering and his meal-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and dashed the blood of his peace-offerings against the altar. L4 And the brazen, altar, which was Before the LORD, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar. 16 And Mng Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying: 'Upon the

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great altar offer the morning burnt-offering, and the evening meal-offering, and the king's burnt-offering, and his meal-offering, with the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, a-nd their drink-offerings; and dash against it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the brazen altar shall be for me to look to.' 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone. 18 And the covered place for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he unto the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria. 19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his "fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

1 rr In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as^the kings of Israel that were before him. 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him presents. 4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison. ^Then the king of

Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan. and in the cities of the Medes. 7 And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they practised; 9 and the children of Israel did impute things that were not right unto the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; 10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree; n and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD; ^and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing'; 13 yet the LORD forewarned Israel, and Judah. by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying: 'Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets'; Notwithstanding they would ^not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God; 15 and they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies

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wherewith He testified against them; and they went after things of nought, and became nought, and after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them; 16 and they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served JBaal; 17 and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and gave themselves over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him; 18 that the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised. 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight. 21 For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drew Israel away from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. 22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 until the LORD removed Israel out of His sight, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria, unto this day.

^And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avya, and from Hamath and Sepharvaun, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the

I children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. ^And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 2 *Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying: 'The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; therefore He hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.'

27 Thentheking of Assyria commanded, saying: 'Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.' 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 29 Howbeit every nation made gods of then* own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. 80 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Awites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adram-melech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. ^So they feared the LORD, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. ^They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

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former manners* they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel; 35 with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; 36 but the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him shall ye fear, and Him shall ye worship, and to Him shall ye sacrifice; 37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and £he law and the commandment, which He wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods; 38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods; 39 but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and He will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.' 40 How-beit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. **So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and then* children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day. •J Q Now it came to pass in the third ° year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. ^Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. ^ 3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. 4 He removed the high places, and broke! the pillars, and cut down the Asherah;

and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did offer to it; and it was called a Ne-hushtan. 5 He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him. 6 For he cleaved to the LORD, he departed not from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD commanded .Moses. 7 And the LORD was with him: whithersoever he went forth he prospered; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 8 He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city. 9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10 And at the end of three years they took it; even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. ll And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes; ^because they hearkened not to the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

^ 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. 14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying: 'I have offended; return from me; that which thou puttest on me will I bear.' And the king of Assyria

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appointed unto Hezekiah king of in Jerusalem? M Now therefore, I

Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. 16 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house. 16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the door-posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to

the king of Assyria. 17 And the king of

Assyria sent

a Tartan and b Rab-saris and °Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fullers' field. 18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

"And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? 20 Sayest thou that a mere word of the lips is counsel and strength for the war? Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? ^Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt • whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh kjng of Egypt unto all that trust on hi™. ^But if ye say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar

pray thee, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 24 How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? and yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen! ^Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: Go up against this land, and destroy it.'

^hen said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh: 'Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Aramean language; for we understand it; and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.' 27 But Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?' 28 Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying: ' Hear ye the word of the great king, the long of Assyria. 29 Thus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah beguile you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand; 30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. 31 Hearken not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria: Make your' peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; ^until I come and take you away to a

L That is, Commander-in-chief.

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land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die; and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying: The LORD win deliver us. ^Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Iwah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'

36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying: 'Answer him not.' 37 Then came EHaMm the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

-| Q And it came to pass, when king 1 - ^ Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. 2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah'the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And' they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah- This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 Itmaybethe LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke the words

which the LORD thy God hath heard; wherefore make prayer for the remnant that is left.' 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'

8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia: 'Behold, he is come out to fight against thee'; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying: 10 'Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: Let not thy God in whom thou trustest beguile thee, saying: Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. "Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? ^Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Go-zan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telas-sar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Iwah?'

14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: '0 LORD, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, Thou art the God,

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even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth. "Incline Thine ear, 0 LORD, and hear; jpen Thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to taunt the living God. 17 0f a truth^ LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save Thou us, I be-seech^ Thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art the LORD God, even Thou only.'

20 Then > Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Whereas thou hast prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard thee. 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him:

The virgin daughter of Zion

Hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn;

The daughter of Jerusalem

Hath shaken her head at thee. ^Whom hast thou taunted and blasphemed?

And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice?

Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes on high,

Even against the Holy One of Israel! ^By thy messengers thou hast taunted the Lord,

And hast said: With the multitude of my chariots

Am I come up to the height of the mountains,

To the innermost parts of Lebanon;

And I have cut down the tall cedars thereof,

And the choice cypresses thereof; And I have entered into his farthest

lodge,

The forest of his fruitful field. **! have digged and drunk Strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have

I dried up All the rivers of Egypt.

thou not heard? Long ago I made it, In ancient times I fashioned it; Now have I brought it to pass, Yea, it is done; that fortified cities Should be laid waste into ruinous

heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were

of small power, They were dismayed and con-

founded;

They were as the grass of the field, And as the green herb, As the grass on the housetops, And as corn blasted before it is

grown up.

27 But I know thy sitting down, and thy going put, and thy coming in, And thy raging against Me. 28 Because of thy raging against Me, And for that thy tumult is come

up into Mine ears, Therefore will I put My hook in thy

nose,

And My bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the

way

By which thou earnest. 29 And this shall be the sign unto thee: ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that _ which springeth of the same; and in the third ^ year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of

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Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 3l For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall escape; the zeal of the LORD of hosts 'shall perform this. ^Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the Mng of Assyria: He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast a mound against it. ^By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD. ^For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'

s5 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. ^So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroeh his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead. Of) In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live/ 2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying: 3 *Remember now, O LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with^ a whole'heart, and have done that which is good in Thy sight/ And Hezekiah I

wept sore.^ 4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out of the inner court of the city, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying: 5 'Return, and say to Hezekiah the prince of My people: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. 6 And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.' 7 And Isaiah said: 'Take a cake of figs.' And they took and laicf it on the boil, and he recovered.

8 And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah: 'What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of the LORD the third day?' *And Isaiah said: 'This shall be the sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that He hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?' io And Hezekiah answered: 'It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.' u And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD; and he brought the shadow-ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

"At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present unto Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick. 13 And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all his treasure-house, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures; there was nothing in his

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house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. 14 Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?' And Hezekiah said: 'They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.' 15 And he said: 'What have they seen in thy house?' And Hezekiah answered: 'All that is in my house have they seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.'

16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah: 'Hear the word of the LORD. 17 Be-hold, the days come, that all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left, saith the LORD. 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.' 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah: ' Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: 'Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?'

20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? a And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

O "1 Manasseh was twelve years old A when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out before the

children of Israel. 3 Fpr he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab long of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: ' In Jerusalem will I put My name.' 6 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORB. 6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised soothsaying,, and used enchantments, and appointed them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to pro-yoke Him. 7 And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son: 1 In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever; 8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; if only they will observe to do according to aU that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.' & But they hearkened not; and Ma-nasseh'seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying: "'Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols; ia therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, 1 bring such evil upon Jerusalem and

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Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wipi it and turning it upside down. 14 Ai__ I will cast off the remnant of Mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become'a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 16 because they have done that which is evil in My sight, and have provoked Me, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.'

"Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father. ^And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them. ^And he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. ^And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house, j

24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. ^Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? t ^And he was buried in his sepulchre hi the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. OO Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath. 2 And he did that which was right in^the eyes of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying: 4< Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people; 5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD; and let them give it to the workmen that are in the house of the LORD, to repair the breaches of the house; 6 unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons; and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house/— 7 Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully!

8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe: 'I have found the book of the Law in the house of the LORD.' And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

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9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought back word unto the king, and said: "Thy servants have poured out the money that was found m the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of the LORD/ 10 And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying: 'Hilkiah. the priest hath delivered me a book.' And Shaphan read it before the king. ^ "And it came to pas when the king had heard the words of the book of the Law, that he rent his clothes. 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying: 13 'Go ye, inquire of the LOBD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LOBD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to dp according unto all that which is written concerning us.'

14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe—now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter—and they spoke with her. 1B And she said unto them: 'Thus saifch the LORD, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me: 16 Thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read; 17 because they have forsaken Me, and have offered unto other gods, that they might provoke Me with all the work of their hands; therefore My

wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched. l8 But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall ye say to him: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard, "because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become an astonishment and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me, I also have heard thee, saith the LORD, therefore, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered toothy grave in peace,_neither shaU thine eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.' And they brought back word unto the king. OQ And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 2 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the in habitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both smaU and great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD. 8 And the king stood on the platform, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people stood to the covenant. 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were

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made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he btirned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron. and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 8 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to offer in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that offered unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kadron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the common people. 7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove coverings for the Asherah. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand as he entered the gate of the city. ^Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LOKD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren. 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hirrnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. n And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nethan-melech the officer, which was in the precincts; and he

burned the chariots of the sun with fire. ^And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron. 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the detestation of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the detestation of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. 14 And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

"Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and stamped it small to powder, and burned the Asherah. 16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things. 17 Then he said: 'What monument is that which I see?' And the men of the city told him: 'It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the -altar of Beth-el/ 18 And he said: ' Let him be; let no man move his bones.' So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet

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that came out of Samaria. "And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [the LORD], Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el. 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

21 And the king commanded all the people, saying: 'Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.' ^For there was not kept such a pass-over from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; ^but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to the LORD in Jerusalem. w More-over them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the detestable things that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that HHkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD. 25 And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

^Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of His great wrath, wherewith His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations wherewith Manasseh had provoked Him. 27 And the LORD said: 'I will remove Judah also out of My sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the

house of which I said: My name shall be there/

28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 29 In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.

31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. ^And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. ^And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a fine of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. M And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim; but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh; he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-necoh.

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he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Zebudah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carne up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Arameans, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servants the prophets. 3 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of His sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not pardon.

5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ^o Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the Brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months; and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem. 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done. 10 At that

time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. n And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it. ^And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and^his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. 13 And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which ^ Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said. 14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. 17 And the king of Babylon made Mattamah his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

"Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. 20 For through the anger of the LORD did it

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come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until He had cast them out from His presence.

And Zedekiah rebelled against the Og king of Babylon. 1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. ^3o the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 0n the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden—now the Chaldeans were against the city round about—and the king went by the way of the Arabah. *But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him, ^hen they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebu-zarAdan / the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem. 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great man's house, burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the

guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about. n And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebu-zaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive. ^But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

**And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the fire-pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 18 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits; with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass; and like unto these had the second pillar with network.

ls And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zepha-niah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door; "and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land,

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that were found in the city. 20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land. ^And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.

^Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tan-humeth the Netophathite, and Jaaza-niah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 24 And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said unto them: 'Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans; dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.' 25 But it

came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. 26 Ana all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid oHhe Chaldeans.

^And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison. 28 And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon. 29 And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life. 30 And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his 1]"

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"I THE vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of IJzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. i

2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, 0

earth,

For the LORD hath spoken: Children I have reared, and brought

up,

And they have rebelled against Me. 8 The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib; But Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider.

4 Ah sinful nation, ^

A people laden with iniquity,

A seed of evil-doers,

Children that deal corruptly;

They have forsaken the LORD,

They have contemned the Holy One of Israel,

They are turned away backward.

6 0n what part will ye be yet stricken,

Seeing ye stray away more and more?

The whole head is sick,

And the whole heart faint;

6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head

There is no soundness in it;

But wounds, and bruises, and festering sores:

They have not been pressed, neither bound up,

Neither mollified with oiL

Your country is desolate;

Your cities are burned with fire;

Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,

And it is desolate, as overthrown by floods.

8 And the daughter of Zion is left

As a booth in a vineyard,

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

9 Except the LORD of hosts

Had left unto us a very small remnant,

We should have been as Sodom,

We should have been like unto Gomorrah.

10 Hear the word of the LORD,

Ye rulers of Sodom;

Give ear unto the law of our God,

Ye people of Gomorrah. u To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me?

Saith the LORD;

I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams,

And the fat of fed beasts;

And I delight not in the blood

Of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ^When ye come to appear before Me,

Who hath required this at your hand,

To trample My courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations;

It is an offering of abomination unto Me;

New moon and sabbath, the hold* ing of convocations—

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I cannot endure iniquity along with

the solemn assembly. ^Your new moons and your appointed seasons

My soul hateth;

They are a burden unto Me;

I am weary to bear them. L5 And when ye spread forth your hands,

I will hide Mine eyes from you;

Yea, when ye make many prayers,

I will not hear;

Your hands are full of blood. *Wash you, make you clean,

Put away the evil of your doings

From before Mine eyes,

Cease to do evil; t7 Learn to do well;

Seek justice, relieve the oppressed,

Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

l8 Come now, and let us reason, together,

Saith the LORD;

Though your sins be as scarlet,

They shall be as white as snow;

Though they be red like crimson,

They shall be as wool.

9 If ye be willing and obedient,

Ye shall eat the good of the land; !0 But if ye refuse and rebel,

Ye shall be devoured with the sword;

For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken.

P1 How is the faithful city Become a harlot! She that was full of justice, Righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers. 2 Thy silver is become dross, Thy wine mixed with water, 3 Thy princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Every one loveth bribes, And followeth after rewards;

They judge not the fatherless, Neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD

of hosts,

The Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries,

And avenge Me of Mine enemies; 26 And I will turn My hand upon thee, And purge away thy dross as with

lve > . i

And will take away all thine alloy; ^And I will restore thy judges as at

the first,

And thy counsellors as at the beginning; Afterward thou shalt be called The

city of righteousness, The faithful city.

27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, And they that return of her with

righteousness.

28 But the destruction of the transgressors and the sinners shall be together, And they that forsake the LORD

shall be consumed. 29 For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths which ye have desired, And ye shall be confounded for the

gardens that ye have chosen. 80 For ye shall be as a terebinth whose

leaf fadeth,

And as a garden that hath no water. 31 And the strong shall be as tow, And his work as a spark; And they shall both burn together, And none shall quench them.

O The word that Isaiah the son of ^ Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

2 And it shall come to pass in the end of days,

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That the mountain of the LORD'S

house shall be established as the

top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many peoples shall go and say: 'Come ye, and let us go up to the

mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; And He will teach us of His ways, And we will walk in His paths/ For out of Zion shall go forth the

law, And the word of the LORD from

Jerusalem. 4 And He shall judge between the

nations,

And shall decide for many peoples; And they shall beat their sworols

into plowshares,

And their spears into pruning-hooks ; Nation shall not lift up sword

against nation, Neither shall they learn war any

more.

5 0 house of Jacob, come ye, and let

us walk

In the light of the LORD. 6 For Thou hast forsaken Thy people

the house of Jacob; For they are replenished from the

east, And with soothsayers like the

Philistines, And they please themselves in the

brood of aliens. 7 Their land also is full of silver and

gold, Neither is there any end of their

treasures;

Their land also is full of horses, Neither is there any end of their

chariots.

sTheir land also is full of idols; Every one worshippeth the work

of his own hands,

That which his own fingers have

made.

•^And man boweth down, And man lowereth himself; And Thou canst not bear with them. "Enter into the rock, And hide thee in the dust, From before the terror of the LORD, And from the glory of His majesty. "The lofty looks of man shall be

brought low, And the haughtiness of men shall

be bowed down, And the LORD alone shall be exalted

in that day.

^For the LORD of hosts hath a day Upon all that is proud and lofty, And upon all that is lifted up, and

it shall be brought low; 13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, That are high and lifted up, And upon all the oaks of Bashan; 14 And upon all the high mountains, And upon all the hills that are

lifted up;

16 And upon every lofty tower, And upon every fortified wall; 16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, And upon all delightful imagery. 17 And the loftiness of man shall be

bowed down, And the haughtiness of men shall

be brought low;

And the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

18 And the idols shall utterly pass

away. 19 And men shall go into the caves of

the rocks,

And into the holes of the earth, From before the terror of the LORD, And from the glory of His majesty, WnenHe arisethto shake mightily

the earth. 20 In that day a man shall cast away

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His idols of silver, and his idols of

gold, Which they made for themselves

to worship,

To the moles and to the bats; 21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, And into the crevices of the crags, From before the terror of the LORD, And from the glory of His majesty, When He ariseth to shake mightily

the earth.

^Cease ye from man, in whose nostrils

is a breath; For how little is he to be accounted!

O For, behold, the Lord, the LORD 0 of hosts, Doth take away from Jerusalem

and from Judah Stay and staff, " Every stay of bread, and every stay

of water; sThe mighty man, and the man of

war;

The judge, and the prophet, And the diviner, and the elder; 3 The captain of fifty, and the man

of rank,

And the counsellor, and the cunning charmer, -and the skilful

enchanter. 4 And I will give children to be their

princes,

And babes shall rule over them. *And the people shall oppress one

another, Every man his fellow, and every

man his neighbour; The child shall behave insolently

against the aged,

And the base against the honourable. 6 For a man shall take hold of his

brother of the house of his father: "Thou hast a mantle, Be thou our ruler, And let this ruin be under thy hand.'

7 In that day shall he swear, saying: 'I will not be a healer; For in my house is neither bread

nor a mantle; Ye shall not make me ruler of a

people/

8 For Jerusalem is ruined, And Judah is fallen; Because their tongue and their

doings are against the LORD, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

9 The show of their countenance doth

witness against them; And they declare their sin as Sodom,

they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have wrought evil unto

themselves. IO Say ye of the righteous, that it shall

be well with him; For they shall eat the fruit of their

doings. u Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill

with him; For the work of his hands shall be

done to him. 12 As for My people, a babe is their

master,

And women rule over them. 0 My people, they that lead thee

cause thee to err, And destroy the way of thy paths.

13 The LORD standeth up to plead, And standeth to judgje the peoples. 14 The LOED will enter into judgment With the elders of His people, and

the princes thereof: 'It is ye that have eaten up the

vineyard; The spoil of the poor is in your

houses; 15 What mean ye that ye crush My

people,

And grind the face of the poor?' Saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

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"Moreover the LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are

haughty,

And walk with stretched-forth necks And wanton eyes, Walking and mincing as they go, And making a tinkling with their

feet; 17 Theref ore the Lord will smite with

a scab

The crown of the head o'f the daughters of Zion, And the LORD will lay bare their

secret parts.

18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their anklets, and the fillets, and the crescents; 19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the veils; ^the headtires, and the armlets, and the sashes, and the corselets, and the amulets; 21 the rings, 'and the nose-jewels; 22 the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles; ^and the gauze robes, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the mantles. 24 And it shall come to pass, that Instead of sweet spices there shall

be rottenness;

And instead of a girdle rags; And instead of curled hair baldness; And instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; Branding instead of beauty. 2S Thy men shall fall by the sword,

And thy mighty in the war. 26 And her gates shall lament and

mourn; And utterly bereft she shall sit upon

the ground.

A And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying: 'We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach/

2 In that day shall the growth of the LORD be beautiful and glorious,

And the fruit of the land excellent and comely

For them that are escaped of Israel. 3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left .in Zion, and he that re-maineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written unto life in Jerusalem; Vhen the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of destruction. 6 And the LORD will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory shall be a canopy. 6 And there shall be a pavilion for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.

£J Let me sing of my well-beloved, A song of my beloved touching

his vineyard.

My well-beloved had a vineyard In a very fruitful hill; 2 And he digged it, and cleared it of

stones, And planted it with the choicest

vine, And built a tower in the midst of

it,

And also hewed out a vat therein; And he looked that it should bring

forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.

3 And now, 0 inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,

Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

*What could have been done .more to my vineyard,

That I have not done in it?

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Wherefore, when I looked that it

should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?

fi And now come, I will te.ll you What I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, And it shall be eaten up; I will break down the fence thereof, And it shall be trodden down; 6 And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned nor hoed, But there shall come up briers and

thorns;

I will also command the clouds That they rain no rain upon it.

*For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,

And the men of Judah the plant of His delight;

And He looked for justice, but behold violence;

For righteousness, but behold a cry.

8 Woe unto them that join house to

house,

That lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be

made to dwell

Alone in the midst of the land! 9 In mine ears said the LOUD of

hosts: Of a truth many houses shall be

desolate,

Even great and fab:, without inhabitant. 10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield

one bath, And the seed of a homer shall yield

an ephah.

H Wpe unto them that rise up early

in the morning,

That they may follow-strong drink; That tarry late into the night, Till wine inflame them!

the harp and the psaltery, the

tabret and the pipe, And wine, are in their feasts; But they regard not the work of the

LORD, Neither have they considered the

operation of His hands. 13 Therefore My people are gone into

captivity,

For want of knowledge; And their honourable men are

famished, And their multitude are parched

with thirst. "Therefore the nether-world hath

enlarged her desire, And opened her mouth without

measure; And down goeth their glory, and

their tumult, and their uproar, And he that rejoiceth among them. 15 And man is bowed down, And man is humbled, And the eyes of the lofty are

humbled; 16 But the LORD of hosts is exalted

through justice, And God the Holy One is sanctified

through righteousness. 17 Then shall the lambs feed as in

their pasture, And the waste places of the fat

ones shall wanderers eat.

18 Woe unto them that draw iniquity

with cords of vanity, And sin as it were with a cart rope, 19 That say: ' Let Him make speed,

let Hun hasten His work, That we may see it; And let the counsel of the Holy One

of Israel draw nigh and come, That we may know it!'

20 Woe unto them that call evil good, And good evil • That change darkness into light,

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And light into darkness; That change bitter into sweet, And sweet into bitter!

21 Woe unto them that are wise in

their own eyes, And prudent in their own sight!

unto them that are mighty to

drink wine, And men of strength to mingle

strong drink; ^That justify the wicked for a re-

ward, And take away the righteousness of

the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the tongue of fire de-

voureth the stubble, And as the chaff is consumed in

the flame,

So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust ; Because they have rejected the

law of the LORD of hosts, And contemned the word of the

Holy One of Israel.

25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD

kindled against His people, And He hath stretched forth His

hand against them, and hath

smitten them, And the hills did tremble, And their carcasses were as refuse

in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned

away, But His hand is stretched out still.

26 And He will lift up an ensign to the

nations from far, And will hiss unto them from the

end of the earth;

And, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly;

shall be weary nor stumble among them;

None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the girdle of their

loins be loosed, Nor the latchet of their shoes be

broken;

28 \Vhose arrows are sharp, And all then* bows bent; Their horses' hoofs shall be counted

like flint,

And their wheels like a whirlwind; ^heir roaring shall be like a lion, They shall roar like young lions,

yea, they shall roar, And lay hold of the prey, and carry

it away safe,

And there shall be none to deliver. ^And they shall roar against them in

that day

Like the roaring of the sea; And if one look unto the land, Behold darkness and distress. And the light is darkened in the

skies thereof.

£ In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and His train

led the temple. 2 Above Him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one called unto another, and said:

Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory. 4 And the posts of the door were moved at the voice of them that called, and the house was filled with smoke, ^hen said I:

Woe is me! for I am undone;

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For mine eyes have seen the King,

The LORD of hosts.

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6 Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar; 7 and he touched my mouth with it, and said:

Lo, this hath touched thy lips;

And thine iniquity is taken away,

And thy sin expiated. 8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

Whom shall I send,

And who will go for us? Then I said: 'Here am I; send me.' 9 And He said: 'Go, and tell this people:

Hear ye indeed, but understand not;

And see ye indeed, but perceive

not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat,

And make their ears heavy,

And shut their eyes;

Lest they, seeing with their eyes,

And hearing with their ears.

And understanding with their heart,

Return, and be healed.' "Then said I: 'Lord, how long?' And He answered:

' Until cities be waste without inhabitant,

And houses without man,

And the land become utterly waste, ^And the LORD have removed men far away,

And the forsaken places be many in

the midst of the land. 13 And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be eaten up; as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they cast their leaves, so the holy seed shall be the stock thereof.'

*7 And it came to pass in the days of 1 Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to

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Jerusalem to war against it; but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying: 'Aram is confederate with Ephraim.' And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest are moved with the wind.

3 Then said the LOKD unto Isaiah: 'Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and a Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fullers' field; 4 and say unto him. Keep calm, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and of the son of Remaliah. 6 Because Aram hath counselled evil against thee, Ephraim also, and the son of Remaliah, saying: 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7 thus saith the Lord GOD:

It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8 For the head of Aram is Damascus,

And the head of Damascus is Rezin;

And within threescore and five years

Shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people;

9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,

And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.

If ye will not have faith, surely ye shall not be established.' *

10 And the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying: u ' Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.' 12 But Ahaz said: 'I will not ask, neither

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will I try the LORD.' 13 And hesaid: 'Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that ye will weary my God Lord Himself : behold, the conceive, and

also? "Therefore the shall give you a

young woman

bear a son, and shall call his name a ImmanueL 18 Curd and honey shall he eat, when he knoweth to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16 Yea, before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou hast a horror of shall be forsaken. "The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria/ 18 Andit shall come to pass in that day,

That the LORD shall hiss for the fly

That is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,

And for the bee that is in the land

of Assyria.

19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them

In the rugged valleys, and in the holes of the rocks,

And upon all thorns, and upon all

brambles.

20 In that day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also sweep away the beard.

a And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a young cow, and two sheep; ^and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give, he shall eat curd; for curd and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.

^And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there

• That is, God w vrith us.

were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns. M With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. ^And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

Q And the LORD said unto me: 0 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth; 2 and I will take unto Me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and

Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah/ 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name b Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry: My father, and: My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria/

6 And the LORD spoke unto me yet again, saying:

6 Forasmuch as this people hath refused

The waters of Shiloah that go softly,

And rejoiceth with Rezin and Remanah's son;

'Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them

The waters of the River, mighty and many,

Even the king of Assyria and all

his glory;

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come up over all his

And he \

channels,

And go over all his banks; 8 And he shall sweep through Judah, Overflowing as he passeth through; He shall reach even to the neck;

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And the stretching out of his wings Shall fill the breadth of thy land, 0 Immanuel.

9 Make an uproar, 0 ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

And give ear, all ye of far countries;

Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces;

Gird yourselves, and ye shall be

broken hi pieces.

10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought;

Speak the word, and it shall not stand;

For God is with us.

n For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand, admonishing me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying: M 'Say ye not: A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people do say: A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor account it dreadful. 13 The LORD of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. 14 And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken/

16 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.' 17 And I will wait for the LORD, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him. "Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me shall be for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you: 'Seek unto the ghosts and the familiar spirits, that chirp and that mutter; should not a people seek

unto their God? on behalf of the living unto the dead ^f or instruction and for testimony? 7 —Surely they will speak according to this word, wherein there is no light.— M And they shall pass this way that are sore bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and, whether they turn their faces upward, ^or look unto the earth, behold distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and outspread thick darkness. ^For is there no gloom to her that was stedfast? Now the former hath lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but the latter hath dealt a more grievous blow by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, in the district of the nations.

O The people that walked in darkness ^ Have seen a great light; They that dwelt in the land of the

shadow of death, Upon them hath the light shined. 2 Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast increased their joy; They joy before Thee according to

the joy in harvest, As men rejoice when they divide

the spoil.

3 For the yoke of his burden, And the staff of his shoulder, The rod of his oppressor, Thou hast broken as in the day of

Midian.

4 For every boot stamped with fierceness,

And every cloak rolled in blood, Shall even be for burning, for fuel

of fire.

6 For a child is born unto us, A son is given unto us; And the government is upon his

shoulder;

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And his name is called a Pele-j oez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom ; 6 That the government may be in-

creased,

And of peace there be no end, Upon the throne of David, and

upon his kingdom, To establish it, and to uphold it Through justice and through right-

eousness

From henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts doth

perform this.

7 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, And it hath lighted upon Israel. 8 And all the people shall know, Even Ephraim and the inhabitant

of Samaria, That say in pride and in arrogancy

of heart: 9 'The bricks are fallen, but we will

build with hewn stones; The sycomores are cut down, but

cedars will we put in their place ' "Therefore the LOKD doth set upon

high the adversaries of Rezin

against him, And spur his enemies; n The Arameans on the east, and the

Philistines on the west; And they devour Israel with open

mouth. For all this His anger is not turned

aiYi ay, But His hand is stretched out still.

the people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them, Neither do they seek the LORD

of hosts. 13 Therefore the LORD doth cut off

from Israel 'head and tail, Palm-branch and rush, in one day. 14 The elder and the man of rank, he is the head;

And the prophet that teacheth

lies, he is the tail. 15 For they that lead this people cause

them to err; And they that are led of them are

destroyed. 16 Therefore the Lord shall have no

joy in their young men, Neither shall He have compassion

on their fatherless and widows; For every one is ungodly and an

evil-doer,

And every mouth speaketh wantonness. For all this His anger is not turned

away, But His hand is stretched out still.

17 For wickedness burneth as the fire; It devoureth the briers and thorns; Yea, it kindleth in the thickets of

the forest, And they roll upward in thick

clouds of smoke. 18 Through the wrath of the LORD

of hosts is the land burnt up; The people also are as the fuel of

fire;

No man spareth his brother. 19 And one snatcheth on the right

hand, and is hungry; ' And he eateth on the left hand, and

is not satisfied; They eat every man the flesh of

his own arm: 20 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim,

Manasseh; And they together are against

Judah. For all this His anger is not turned

away, But!

i hand is stretched out still.

1 A Woe unto them that decree •*• u unrighteous decrees, And to the writers that write iniquity;

* That is, Wonderful in counsel %s God the MiQhty, the Everla9tmg Father, the Rulrr of peace.

ISAIAH

2To turn aside the needy from

judgment, And to take away the right of the

poor of My people, That widows may be their spoil, And that they may make the fatherless their prey! 3 And what will ye do in the day of

visitation, And in the ruin which shall come

from far?

To whom will ye flee for help? ' And where will ye leave your

glory? 4 They can do nought except crouch

under the captives, And fall under the slain. For all this His anger is not turned

away, But His hand is stretched out still.

K) Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, In whose hand as a staff is Mine

indignation! I do send him against an ungodly

nation, And against the people of My wrath

do I give him a charge, To take the spoil, and to take the

prey, And to tread them down like the

mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, Neither doth his heart think so; But it is in his heart to destroy, And to cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith: 'Are not my princes all of them

kings?

9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? ' Is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath reached the

kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images did exceed

them of Jerusalem and of Sa-

maria;

"Shall I not, as I have done unto

Samaria and her idols, So do to Jerusalem and her idols?' 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed His whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks. 13 For he hath said: By the strength of my hand I

have done it, And by my wisdom, for I am

prudent; In that I have removed the bounds

of the peoples,

And have robbed their treasures, And have brought down as one

mighty the inhabitants; 14 And my hand hath found as a

nest the riches of the peoples; And as one gathereth eggs that are

forsaken,

Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved

the wing,

Or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

16 Should the axe boast itself against

him that heweth therewith? Should the saw magnify itself

against him that moveth it? As 3 a rod should move them that

lift it up, Or as if a staff should lift up him

that is not wood. 16 Therefore will the Lord, the LORD

of hosts,

Send among his fat ones leanness; And under his glory there shall be

kindled

A burning like the burning of fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a

fire, And his Holy One for a flame;

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And it shall burn and devour his

thorns

And his briers in one day. 18 And the glory of his forest and of

his fruitful field,

He will consume both soul a-nd body; And it shall be as when a sick man

wasteth away. 19 And the remnant of the trees of his

forest shall be few, That a child may write them down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, That the remnant of Israel, And they that are escaped of the

house of Jacob, Shall no more again stay upon him

that smote them; But shall stay upon the LORD, the

Holy One of Israel, in truth. 2Ia A remnant shall return, even the

remnant of Jacob, Unto God the Mighty. ^For though thy people, 0 Israel,

be as the sand of the sea, Only a remnant of them shall

return; An extermination is determined,

overflowing with righteousness. ^For an extermination wholly determined Shall the Lord, the GOD of hosts,

make in the midst of all the earth.

^Therefore thus saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts: 0 My people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of Asshur, though he smite thee with the rod, and lift up his staff thee, after the manner of ^For yet a very little while, indignation shall be accomplished, and Mine anger shall be to their destruction. ^And the LORD of hosts shall stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the Rock of Oreb; and as His rod was

over the sea, so shall He lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Has burden shall depart from off

thy shoulder,

And his yoke from off thy neck, And the yoke shall be destroyed

by reason of fatness. ^He is come to Aiath, He is passed through Migron; At Michmas he layeth up his baggage;

29 They are gone over the pass; They have taken up their lodging

at Geba;

Ramah trembleth; Gibeath-shaul is fled. 30 Cry thou with a shrill voice, 0

daughter of Gallim! Hearken, 0 Laish! 0 thou poor

Anathoth!

31 Madmenah is in mad flight; The inhabitants of Gebim flee ft

cover.

^his very day shall he halt at Nob, Shaking his hand at the mount of

the daughter of Zion, The hill of Jerusalem.

^Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Shall lop the boughs with terror; And the high ones of stature shall

be hewn down,

And the lofty shall be laid low. ^And He shaft cut down the thickets

of the forest with iron, And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

1 "1 And there shall come forth a •*• shoot out of the stock of Jesse,

And a twig shall grow forth out of Ms roots.

2 And the spirit of the LORD "shall rest

upon hjrn,

The spirit of wisdom and understanding,

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The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and of the

fear of the LORD. 3 And his delight shall be in the fear

of the LORD; And he shall not judge after the

sight of his eyes, Neither decide after the hearing of

his ears; 4 But with righteousness shall he

judge the poor, And decide with equity for the

meek of the land; And he shall smite the land with

the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips

shall he sky the wicked. 6 And righteousness shall be the

girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle of his

reins. *And the wolf shall dwell with the

lamb, And the leopard shall lie down with

the kid; And the calf and the young lion

and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed, Their young ones shall lie down

together; And the lion shall eat straw like

the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play

on the hole of the asp, And the weaned child shall put his

hand on the basilisk's den. shall not hurt nor destroy

In all My holy mountain;

For the earth shall be full of the

knowledge of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

10 And it shall come to pass hi that

day,

That the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples,

Unto him shall the nations seek; And his resting-place shall be glorious.

n And it shall come to pass in that

day, That the Lord will set His hand

again the second time To recover the remnant of His people, That shall remain from Assyria,

and from Egypt, And from Pathros, and from Gush,

and from Elam, And from Shinar, and from Hamath,

and from the islands of the sea. 12 And He will set up an ensign for

the nations, And will assemble the dispersed of

Israel, And gather together the scattered

of Judah

From the four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall

depart, And they that harass Judah shall

be cut off;

Ephraim shall not envy Judah, And Judah shall not vex Ephraim. "And they shall fly down upon the

shoulder of the Philistines on the

west;

Together shall they spoil the children of the east; They shall put forth their hand

upon Edom and Moab; And the children of Ammon shall

obey them. "And the LORD will utterly destroy

the tongue of the Egyptian sea; And with His scorching wind will

He shake His* hand over the River, And will smite it into seven streams, And cause men to march over dry-shod.

16 And there shall b§ a highway for , the remnant of His people,

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That shall remain from Assyria; Like as there was for Israel In the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

•J O And in that day thou shalt say: *-** 'I will give thanks unto Thee, 0 LORD;

For though Thou wast angry with me,

Thine anger is turned away, and Thou comfortest me.

2 Behold, God is my salvation;

I will trust, and will not be afraid;

For GOD the LOHD is my strength and song;

And He is become my salvation. 7

therefore with joy shall ye draw water

Out of the wells of salvation.

4 And in that day shall ye say:

'Give thanks unto the LORD, proclaim His name,

Declare His doings among the peoples,

Make mention that His name is exalted.

5 Sing unto the LOED; for He hath done gloriously;

This is made known in all the earth.

6 Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion;

For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.'

"I O The burden of Babylon, which x u Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

2 Set ye up an ensign upon the high

mountain,

Lift up the voice unto them, Wave the hand, that they may go Into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded My consecrated ones,

Yea, I have called My mighty ones for Mine anger,

Even My proudly exulting ones. 4 Hark, a tumult in the mountains, Like as of a great people! Hark, the uproar of the kingdoms Of the nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts mustereth The host of the battle.

come from a far country, From the end of heaven, Even the LORD, and the weapons of

His indignation, To destroy the whole earth. 6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD

is at hand; As destruction from the Almighty

shall it come.

7 Therefore shall all hands be skck, And every heart of man shall melt. 8 And they shall be affrighted; Pangs and throes shall take hold

of them; They shall be in pain as a woman in

travail; They shall look aghast one at

another; Then* faces shall be faces of flame.

9 Behold, the day of the LORD

cometh, Cruel, and full of wrath and fierce

anger;

To make the earth a desolation, And to destroy the sinners thereof

out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and the

constellations thereof Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened in his

going forth, And the moon shall not cause hei

light to shine. n And I will visit upon the world

their evil,

And upon the wicked their iniquity; And I will cause the arxogancy of

the proud to cease,

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And will lay low the haughtiness

of the tyrants. 12 I will make man more rare than

fine gold, Even man than the pure gold of

Ophir.

^Therefore I will make the heavens

to tremble, And the earth shall be shaken out

of her place,

For the wrath of the LORD of hosts,

And for the day of His fierce anger.

14 And it shall come to pass, that as

the chased gazelle, And as sheep that no man gathereth, They shall turn every man to his

own people, And shall flee every man to his

own land. 15 Every one that is found shall be

thrust through; And every one that is caught shall

fall by the sword. 16 Their babes also shall be dashed in

pieces before their eyes; Then- houses shall be spoiled, And their wives ravished.

"Behold, I will stir up the Medes

against them,

Who shall not regard silver, And as for gold, they shall not delight in it. "And their bows shall dash the

young men in pieces; And they shall have no pity on the

fruit of the womb; Their eye shall not spare children. "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation;

Neither shall the Arabian pitch

tent there;* Neither shall the shepherds make

their fold there. 21 But wild-cats shall lie there; And their houses shall be full of

ferrets;

And ostriches shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. ^And jackals shall howl in their

castles, And wild-dogs in the pleasant

palaces;

And her time is near to come, And her days shall not be prolonged.

~j A s For the LOBD will have com-passion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. 2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and for handmaids; and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LO'RD shall give thee rest from thy travail, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, ^hat thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! The exactness of gold ceased! The LORD hath broken the staff of

the wicked,

The sceptre of the rulers, 6 That smote the peoples in wrath With an incessant stroke, That ruled the nations in anger, With a persecution that none restrained.

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7 The whole earth is at rest, and is

quiet;

They break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee, And the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since thou art laid down, No feller is come up against us. J

9 The nether-world from beneath is moved for thee

To meet thee at thy coming;

The shades are stirred up for thee,

Even all the chief ones of the earth;

All the kings of the nations

Are raised up from their thrones. 10 A11 they do answer

And say unto thee.

'Art thou also become weak as we?

Art thou become like unto us? "Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world,

And the noise of thy psalteries;

The maggot is spread under thee,

And the worms cover thee. ;

12 How art thou fallen from heaven,

0 day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the

ground,

That didst cast lots over the nations! w And thou saidst in thy heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, Above the stars of God Will I exalt my throne; And I will sit upon the mount of

meeting,

In the uttermost parts of the north; 14 I wiU ascend above the heights of

the clouds;

1 will be like the Most High.' 16 Yet thou shalt be brought down to

the nether-world, To the uttermost parts of the pit.

16 They that saw thee do narrowly

look upon thee, They gaze earnestly at thee:

'Is this the man that made the

earth to tremble, That did shake kingdoms; "That made the world as a wilder-

ness,

And destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his

prisoners? 7

18 A11 the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast forth away from

thy grave

Like an abhorred offshoot, In the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, That go down to the pavement of

the pit,

As a carcass trodden under foot. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with

them irx burial, Because thou hast destroyed thy

land,

Thou hast slain thy people; The seed of evil-doers shall not Be named for ever. "Prepare ye slaughter for his children For the iniquity of their fathers; That they rise not up, and possess

the earth, And fill the face of the world with

cities.

^And I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the LORD. a l will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.

LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall

it come to pass;

And as I have purposed, so shall it stand,

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25 That I will break Asshur in My

land, And upon My mountains tread him

under foot; Then shall his yoke depart from off

them, And his burden depart from off their

shoulder. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed

upon the whole earth; And this is the hand that is stretched

out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed,

And who shall disannul it? And His hand is stretched out, And who shall turn it back?

28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

29 Rejoice not, 0 Philistia, all of

thee, Because the rod that smote thee is

broken: For out of the serpent's root shall

come forth a basilisk, And his fruit shall be a flying

serpent. 30 And the first-born of the poor shall

feed, And the needy shall lie down in

safety; And I will kill thy root with

famine,

And thy remnant shall be slain. ^Howl, 0 gate; cry, O city; Melt away, 0 Philistia, all of thee; For there cometh a smoke out of

the north, And there is no straggler in his

ranks. ^What then shall one answer the

messengers of the nation? ! That the LORD hath founded Zion, And in her shall the afflicted of His

people take refuge.

The burden of Moab.

For in the night that Ar of Moab is

laid waste,

He is brought to ruin; For in the night that Ear of Moab is

laid waste,

He is brought to ruin. 2 He is gone up to Baith, and to

Dibon,

To the high places, to weep; Upon Nebo, and' upon Medeba,

Moab hpwleth; On all their heads is baldness, Every beard is shaven. 3 In their streets they gird them-

selves with sackcloth; On their housetops, and in their

broad places, Every one howleth, weeping pro-

fusely. 4 And Heshbon crieth out, and

Elealeh; Their voice is heard even unto

Jahaz; Therefore the armed men of Moab

cry aloud;

His soul is faint within him. 6 My heart crieth out for Moab; Her fugitives reach unto Zoar, A heifer of three years old; For by the ascent of Luhith With weeping they go up; For in the way of Horonaim They raise up a cry, of destruction. 6 For the Waters of Nimrim shall

be desolate; For the grass is withered away, the

herbage f aileth, There is no green thing. therefore the abundance they have

gotten,

And that which they have laid up, Shall they carry away to the brook

of the willows.

8 For the cry is gone found about The borders of Moab;

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The howling thereof unto Eglaim, And the howling thereof unto Beer-

elim. 9 For the waters of Dinion are full of

blood; For I will bring yet more upon

Dimon, A lion upon him that escapeth of

Moab, And upon the remnant of the land.

1 C\ Send ye the lambs for the ruler iu of the land From the crags that are toward the

wilderness, Unto the mount of the daughter of

Zion. 2 For it shall be that, as wandering

birds,

As a scattered nest, So shall the daughters of Moab be At the fords of Arnon. 3 'Give counsel, execute justice; Make thy shadow as the night in the

midst of the noonday, Hide the outcasts: betray not the

fugitive.

'Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; As for Moab, be thou a covert to

him from the face of the spoiler. 7 For the extortion is at an end,

spoiling ceaseth,

They that trampled down are consumed out of the land; 6 And a throne is established through

mercy, And there sitteth thereon in truth,

in the tent of David, One that judgeth, and seeketh

justice, and is ready in righteous-

°We have heard of the pride of

Moab;

He is very proud; Even of his haughtiness, and Ms

pride, and his arrogancy,

His ill-founded boastings.

^Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab,

Every one shall wail;

For the sweet cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn,

Sorely stricken.

*For the fields of Heshbon languish,

And the vine of Sibmah,

Whose choice plants did overcome

The lords of nations;

They reached even unto Jazer,

They wandered into the wilderness;

Her branches were spread abroad,

They passed over the sea.

'Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer

For the vine of Sibmah;

I will water thee* with my tears,

0 Heshbon. and Elealeh;

For upon thy summer fruits and

upon thy harvest The battle shout is fallen. 10 And gladness and joy are taken

away

Out of the fruitful field; And in the vineyards there shall

be no singing,

Neither shall there be shouting; No treader shall tread out wine in

the presses;

1 have made the vintage shout to cease.

"Wherefore my heart moaneth like a harp for Moab,

And mine inward parts for Kir-

heres.

^And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab hath wearied himself upon the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

13 This is the word that the LOBD spoke concerning Moab in time past. "But now the LORD hath spoken, saying: 'Within three years, as the

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years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall wax contemptible for all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and without strength/

The burden of Damascus.

Behold, Damascus is taken away

from being a city, And it shall be a ruinous heap. *The cities of Aroer are forsaken; They sha.ll be for flocks, Which shall lie down, and none shall

make them afraid. 8 The fortress also shall cease from

Ephraim,

And the kingdom from Damascus; And the remnant of Aram shall be

as the glory of the children of

Israel, Saith the LORD of hosts.

jAnd it shall come to pass in that

day, That the glory of Jacob shall be

made thin, And the fatness of his flesh shall

wax lean. 5 And it shall be as when the har-

vestman gathereth the standing

corn,

And reapeth the ears with his arm; Yea, it shall be as when one glean-

eth ears

In the valley of Rephaim. 6 Yet there shall be left therein

gleanings,

As at the beating of an olive-tree, Two or three berries In the top of the uppermost bough, Four or five in the branches of the

fruitful tree, Saith the LORD, the God of Israel.

In that day shall a man regard his Maker,

And his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel.

8 And he shall not regard the altars,

The work of his hands,

Neither shall he look to that which ^his fingers have made,

Either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation, 10 For thou hast forgotten the God

of thy salvation, And thou hast not been mindful

of the Rock of thy stronghold; Therefore thou didst plant plants

of pleasantness, And didst set it with slips of a

stranger; n ln the day of thy planting thou

didst make it to grow, And in the morning thou didst make

thy seed to blossom— A heap of boughs in the day of

grief And of desperate pain.

12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, That roar like the roaring of the

seas; And the rushing of nations, that

rush

Like the rushing of mighty_waters' 13 The nations shall rush like the

rushing of many waters; But He shall rebuke them, and

they shall flee far off, And shall be chased as the chaff of

the mountains before the wind, And like the whirling dust before

the storm.

14 At eventide behold terror; And before the morning they are not.

This is the portion of them that

spoil us, And the lot of them that rob us.

1 Q Ah, land of the buzzing of x ° wings, Which is beyond the rivers of

Ethiopia; 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the

sea, Even in vessels of papyrus upon

the waters!

Go, ye swift messengers, To a nation tall and of glossy skin, To a^ people terrible from their

beginning onward; A nation that is sturdy and tread-

eth down,

Whose land the rivers divide! 3 A11 ye inhabitants of the world, and

ye dwellers on the earth, When an ensign is lifted up on the

mountains, see ye; And when the horn is blown, hear

4 For thus hath the LORD said unto

me: I will hold Me still, ancf I will look

on in My dwelling-place, Like clear heat in sunshine, Like a cloud of dew in the heat of

harvest. 5 For before the harvest, when the

blossom is over, And the bud becometh a ripening

grape, He will cut off the sprigs with

pruning-hooks, And the shoots will He take away

and lop off. hey shall be left together unto

the ravenous birds of the moun-

tains,

And to the beasts of the earth; And the ravenous birds shall sum-

mer upon them,

And all the beasts of the earth shall

winter upon them.

7 In that time shall a present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people tall and of glossy skin, and from a people terrible from their beginning onward; a nation that is sturdy and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion,

1O The burden of Egypt.

Behold, the LORD rideth upon a

swift cloud,

And cometh unto Egypt; And the idols of Egypt shall be

moved at His presence, And the heart of Egypt shall melt

within it. 2 And I will spur Egypt against

Egypt;

And they shall fight every one; against his brother, »

And every one against his neighbour,

City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

3 And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it;

And I will make void the counsel thereof;

And they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers,

And to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits.

4 And I will give over the Egyptians

Into the hand of a cruel lord;

And a fierce king shall rule over them*

Saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts,

5 And the waters shall fail from the

sea,

And the river shall be drained dry. 6 And the rivers shall become foul;

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The streams of Egypt shall be min-

ished and dried up; The reeds and flags shall wither. 7 The mosses by the Nile, by the

brink of the Nile, And all that is sown by the Nile, Shall become dry, be driven away,

and be no more. 8 The fishers also shall lament, And all they that cast angle into

the Nile shall mourn, And they that spread nets upon the

waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in combed

flax, And they that weave cotton, shall

be ashamed. 10 And her foundations shall be

crushed, ATI they that make dams shall be

grieved in soul.

1J The princes of Zoan are utter fools; The wisest counsellors of Pharaoh

are a senseless counsel; How can ye say unto Pharaoh:

'I am the son of the wise, The son of ancient kings' ? "Where are they, then, thy wise

men?

And let them tell thee now; And let them know what the LORD

of hosts

Hath purposed concerning Egypt. "The princes of Zoan are become

fools,

The princes of Noph are deceived; They have caused Egypt to go

astray^ That are the corner-stone of her

tribes.

"The LORD hath mingled within her A spirit of dizziness; And they have caused Egypt to

stagger in every work thereof, As a drunken man staggereth in his

vomit.

"Neither shall there be for Egypt any work,

Which head or tail, palm-branch or

rush, may do.

16 In that day shall Egypt be like unto women; and it shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which He shaketh over it. 17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror unto Egypt, whensoever one maketh mention thereof to it; it shall be afraid, because of the purpose of the LORD of hosts, which He purposeth against it.

18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.

19 In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. 20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a saviour, and a defender, who will deliver them. 21 And the LORD shall make Himself known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and offering, and shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and shall perform it. 22 And the LORD will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto the LORD, and He will be entreated of them, and will heal them.

^In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.

24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a

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blessing in the midst of the earth; 25 for that the LORD of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Aline inheritance.'

OA In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying: 'Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot.' And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

3 And the LORD said: 'Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot to be for three years a sign and a wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia, ^o shall the king of Assyria'lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. s And they shall be dismayed and ashamed, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day: Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?'

01 The burden of the wilderness of the sea.

As whirlwinds in the South sweeping on,

It cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land.

! A grievous vision is declared unto me:

'The treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.

Go up, 0 Elam! besiege, 0 Media!

All the sighing thereof have I made to cease.'

therefore are my loins filled with

convulsion; Pangs have taken hold upon me, as

the pajBgs of a woman in travail; ] am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see. 4 My heart is bewildered, terror hath

overwhelmed me; The twilight that I longed for hath

been turned for me into trembling. 6 They prepare the table, they light

the lamps, they eat, they drink— 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the

shield/

6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me:

Go, set a watchman;

Let him declare what he seeth!

7 And when he seeth a troop, horsemen by pairs,

A troop of asses, a troop of camels,

He shall hearken diligently with much heed.

8 And he cried as a lion: 'Upon the watch-tower, O Lord,

I stand continually in the day-time,

And I am set in my ward all the nights/

9 And, behold, there came a troop of men, horsemen by pairs.

And he spoke and said:

'Fallen, fallen is Babylon;

And all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground/ 10 0 thou my threshing, and the winnowing of my floor,

That which I have heard from the LORD of hosts,

The God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

u The burden of Dumah.

One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

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12 The watchman said:

' The morning cometh, and also the night—

If ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'

13 The burden upon Arabia

In the thickets in Arabia shall ye

lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites

14 Unto him that is thirsty bring ye

water!

The inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitive with his bread. 15 For they fled away from the swords,

from the drawn sword, And from the bent bow, and from

the grievousness of war. 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me 'Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail; 17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished; for the LORD, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.'

The burden concerning Valley of Vision.

the

What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,

2 Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous town?

Thy slain are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

3 A11 thy rulers are fled together,

Without the bow they are bound;

All that are found of thee are bound together, they are fled afar off.

4 Therefore said I: ' Look away from me, I will weep bitterly;

Strain not to comfort me, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

5 For it is a day of trouble, and of

trampling, and of perplexity, From the Lord, the GOD of hosts,

in the Valley of Vision; Kir shouting, and Shoa at the mount. 6 And Elam bore the quiver, with

troops of men, even horsemen; And Kir uncovered the shield. 7 And it came to pass, when thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, And the horsemen set themselves in

array at the gate, 8 And the covering of Judah was laid

bare,

that thou didst look in tha,t day to the armour in the house of the forest. 9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye broke down the houses to fortify the wall; u ye made also a basin between the two walls for the water of the old pool— But ye looked not unto Him that

had done this, Neither had ye respect unto Hun

that fashioned it long ago. 12 And in that day did the Lgrd, the

GOD of hosts, call

To weeping, and to lamentation, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

13 And behold joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating flesh and drinking wine— 'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow

we shall die!' 14 And the LORD of hosts revealed

Himself in mine ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be

expiated by you till ye die, Saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord, the GOD of hosts:

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Go, get thee unto this steward, Even unto Shebna, who is over the

house: 1G What hast thou here, and whom

hast thou here, That thou hast hewed thee out here

a sepulchre,

Thou that newest thee out a sepulchre on high,

And gravest a habitation for thyself in the rock? "Behold, the LORD will hurl thee up

and down with a man 7 s throw; Yea, He will wind thee round and

round;

18 He will violently roll and toss thee Like a ball into a large country; There shalt thou die, and there shall

be the chariots of thy glory, Thou shame of thy lord's house. 19 And I will thrust thee from thy

post, And from thy station shalt thou

be pulled down.

20 And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will call my servant Eliakim

the son of Hilkiah; ^And I will clothe him with thy

robe,

And bind him with thy girdle, And I will commit thy government

into his hand;

And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. ^And the key of the house of David

will I lay upon his shoulder; And he shall open, and none shall

shut; And he shall shut, and none shall

open. ^And I will fasten him as a peg in a

sure place; And he shall be for a throne of

honour to his father's house. M And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the

offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons. 20 In that day, suith the LORD of hosts, shall the peg that was fastened in a sure place ghe way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall, and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for the LORD hath spoken it.

9Q The burden of Tyre.

Howl, ye ships of Tarshish,

For it is laid waste, so that there is no hoube, no entering in;

From the land of Kittini it is revealed to them.

2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast-land;

Thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

3 And on great waters the seed of Shihor,

The harvest of the Nile, was her revenue;

And she was the mart of nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, 0 Zidon; for

• the sea hath spoken,

The stronghold of the sea, saying:

'I have not travailed, nor brought forth,

Neither have I reared young men, nor brought up virgins.'

5 When the report cometh to Egypt,

They shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

''Pass ye over to Tarshish;

Howl, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.

7 Is this your joyous city,

Whose feet in antiquity,

In ancient days,

Carried her afar off to sojourn?

*Who hath devised this against Tyre, the crowning city,

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Whose merchants are princes, Whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth? & The LORD of hosts hath devised it, To pollute the pride of all glory, To bring into contempt all the

honourable of the earth. "Overflow thy land as the Nile, 0 daughter of TarslushJ there is no

Lie any more. u He" hath stretched out His hand

over the sea,

He hath shaken the kingdoms; The LORD hath given commandment concerning Canaan, To destroy the strongholds thereof; l2 And He said: 'Thou shalt no more

rejoice.' 0 thou oppressed virgin daughter

of Zidon,

Arise, pass over to Kittim; Even there shalt thou have no rest. 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans— this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen—they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin. 14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish, For your stronghold is laid waste.'

15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy years it shall fare with Tyre as in the song of the harlot: 16 Take a harp.

Go about the city,

Thou harlot long forgotten;

Make sweet melody,

Sing many songs,

That thou mayest be remembered. 17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will remember Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall have commerce with all the kingdoms of

the world upon the face of the earth. 18 And her gain and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her gain shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat their fill, and for stately clothing.

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste, And turneth it upside down, and

scattereth abroad the inhabitants

thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people,

so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his

master;

As with the maid, so with her mistress;

As with the buyer, so with the seller: As with the lender, so with the

borrower; As with the creditor, so with the

debtor. 3 The earth shall be utterly emptied,

and clean despoiled; For the LORD hath spoken this

word. 4 The earth fainteth and fadeth

away.

The world faileth and fadeth away, The lofty people of the earth do fail. 5 The earth also is defiled under the

inhabitants thereof; Because they have transgressed

the laws, violated the statute, Broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath a curse devoured

the earth, And they that dwell therein are

found guilty; Therefore the inhabitants of the

earth waste away, And men are left few. 7 The new wine faileth, the vine

fadeth,

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All the merry-hearted do sigh. [ 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, j

The noise of them that rejoice

endeth, 1

The joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They drink not wine with a song; Strong drink is bitter to them that i

drink it. |

10 Broken down is the city of waste-;

ness; j

Every house is shut up, that none 1

may come in. j

"There is a crying in the streets'

amidst the wine; |

AH joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone. ,

12 In the city is left desolation,

And the gate is smitten unto ruin. ; w For thus shall it be in the midst

of the earth, among the peoples, As at the beating of an olive-tree, As at the gleanings when the vintage is done. "Those yonder lift up their voice,

they sing for joy; For the majesty of the LORD they

shout from the sea: 15< Therefore glorify ye the LORD in

the regions of fight, Even the name of the LORD, the

God of Israel, in the isles of the

sea.'

16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: 'Glory to the righteous.' But I say: I waste away, I waste

away, woe is me!

The treacherous deal treacherously; Yea, the treacherous deal very

treacherously.

17 Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, 0 inhabitant of the earth.

18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the ixoise of the terror shall fall into the pit;

And he that cometh up out of the

midst of the pit shall be taken in

the trap; For the windows on high are

opened, And the foundations of the earth

do shake;

19 The earth is broken, broken down, The earth is crumbled in pieces, The earth trembleth and tottereth; 20 Thc earth reeleth to and fro like a

drunken man,

And swayeth to and fro as a lodge; And the transgression thereof is

heavy upon it,

And it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that

clay, That the LORD will punish the host

of the high heaven on high, And the kings of the earth upon

the earth.

--And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered

in the dungeon,

And shall be shut up in the prison, And after many days shall they be

punished. ^Then the moon shall be confounded,

and the sun ashamed; For the LORD of hosts will reign in

mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And before His elders shall be

Glory.

0 LORD, Thou art my God,

1 will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name,

For Thou Iiast done wonderful

things; Even counsels of old, in faithfulness

and truth. 2 For Thou hast made of a city a

heap,

Of a fortified city a ruin; A castle of strangers to be no city, It shall never be built.

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"Therefore fhall the strong people

glorify Thee, The city of the terrible nations shall

four Thoo. 4 Fc»r Thou liast been a stronghold to

the ponr, A MrnnghoM to the needy in his

A refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat;

Fur the bhibt of the terrible ones

was as a storm against the wall. 5 A^ the heat in a dry place, Thou didst subdue the noise of strangers:

As the heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terriblej ones was brought low.

fi Anrl in tins mountain will the

LORD of hobts make unto all

peoples A feast of fat things, a feast of

wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, of

wines on the lees well refined. r And He will destroy in this mountain The face of the "covering that is

cast over all peoples, And the veil that is spread over all

nations.

*He will swallow up death for ever; And the Lord GOD will wipe away

tears from off all faces; And the reproach of His people will

He take away from off all the

earth; For the LORD hath spoken it.

*And it shall be said in that day:

'Lo, this is our God,

For whom we Waited, that He might

save us; This is the LORD, for whom we

waited, We will be glad and rejoice in His

salvation.'

10 For in this mountain will the hand

of the LORD rest, And Moab shall be trodden down in

his place, Even as straw is trodden down in

the dunghill. n And when he shall spread forth his

hands in the midst thereof, As he that swimmeth spreadeth

forth his hands to swim, His pride shall be brought down

together with the cunning of his

hands. 12 And the high fortress of thy walls

will He bring down, lay low, And bring to the ground, even to

the dust.

In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; Walls and bulwarks doth He appoint for salvation. 2 0pen ye the gates, That the righteous nation that keepeth faithfulness may enter in. 3 The mind stayed on Thee Thou

keepest in perfect peace; Because it trusteth in Thee. *Trust ye in the LORD for ever, For the LORD is GOD, an everlasting Rock. 6 For He hath brought down them

that dwell on high, The lofty city, Laying it low, laying it low even

to the ground, Bringing it even to the dust. 6 The foot shall tread it down, Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

7 The way of the just is straight; Thou, Most Upright, makest plain

the path of the just. 8 Yea, in the way of Thy judgments, 0 LORD, have we waited for Thee;

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To Thy name and to Thy memorial

is the desire of our soul. 9 With my soul have I desired Thee

in the night; Yea, with my spirit within me

have I sought Thee earnestly; . For when Thy judgments are in the

earth, The inhabitants of the world learn

righteousness. 10 Let favour be shown to the wicked,

yet will he not learn righteousness; In the land of uprightness will he

deal wrongfully, And will not behold the majesty

of the LORD.

U LORD, Thy hand was lifted up, yet

the3 r see not; They shall see with shame Thy zeal

for the people;

Yea, fire shall devour Thine adversaries. 12 LoRD, Thou wilt establish peace for

us; For Thou hast indeed wrought all

our works for us.

^0 LORD our God, other lords beside Thee have had dominion

over us; But by Thee only do we make

mention of Thy name. 14 The dead live not, the shades

rise not; To that end hast Thou punished

and destroyed them, and made * all their memory to perish. 15 Thou hast gotten Thee honour

with the nations, 0 LORD, Yea, exceeding great honour with

the nations; Thou art honoured unto the farthest

ends of the earth.

16 LoRD, in trouble have they sought

Silently they poured out a prayer

when Thy chastening was upon

them. 17 Like as a woman with child, that

draweth near the time of her

delivery, Is in pain and crieth out in her

pangs; So have we been at Thy presence,

0 LORD. 18 We have been with child, we have

been in pain, We have as it were brought forth

wind;

We have not wrought any deliverance in the land; Neither are the inhabitants of the

world come to life. 19 Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies

shall arise— Awake and sing, ye that dwell in

the dust—

For Thy dew is as the dew of light, And the earth shall bring to life

the shades.

20 Come, my people, enter thou into

thy chambers,

And shut thy doors about thee; Hide thyself for a little moment, Until the indignation be overpast. 21 For, behold, the LORD cometh forth

out of His place To visit upon the inhabitants of

the earth their iniquity; The earth also shall disclose her

blood,

And shall no more cover her slain. O rj In that day the LORD with His f sore and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the slant serpent, and leviathan the tortuous serpent; and He will slay the dragon that is in the sea. 2 In that day sing ye of her: *A vineyard of foaming wine I' 3 I the LORD do guard it,

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1 water it every moment;

U»di Mine anger vif.it it,

I <#iard it night and day.

*Fury is not in Me;

Would that I were as the briew tmd thorns in flame!

I would with one step burn it altogether.

HJr ebe let him take hold of \ strength,

That he may make peace with Me;

Yea, let him make peace with Me.

*Iu days to come shall Jacob take root,

Israel shall blossom and bud;

And the face of the world shall be filled with fruitage.

7 Hath He smitten him as He smote

those that smote him? Or is he slain according to the

slaughter of them that were

slain by Him? *In full measure, when Thou sendest

her away, Thou dost contend

with her;" He hath removed her with His

rough blast in the day of the east

wind. ^Therefore by this shall the iniquity

of Jacob be expiated, And this is all the fruit of taking

away his sin: When he maketh all the stones of

the altar as chalkstones that are

beaten in pieces,

So that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more. For the fortified city is solitary, A habitation abandoned and forsaken, like the wilderness; There shall the calf feed, and there

shall he lie down,

And consume the branches thereof. When the boughs thereof are

withered, they shall be broken

off;

The women shall come, and set them on fire;

For it is a people of no understanding;

Therefore He that made them will not have compassion upon them,

And He that formed them will not be gracious unto them.

l2 And it shall come to pass in that

day, That the LORD will beat off [His

fruit] From the flood of the River unto the

Brook of Egypt, And ye shall be gathered one by one,

0 ye children of Israel.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day,

That a great horn shall be blown;

And they shall come that were lost in the land of Assyria,

And they that were dispersed in the land of Egypt;

And they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

OQ Woe to the crown of pride of the ** u drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of his

glorious beauty, Which is on the head of the fat

valley of them, that are smitten

down with wine! 2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty

and strong one, As a storm of hail, a tempest of

destruction,

As a storm of mighty waters overflowing, That casteth down to the earth

with violence. ^The crown of pride of the drunkards

of Ephraim Shall be trodden under j

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4 And the fading flower of his glorious

beauty, Which is on the head of the fat

valley, Shall be as the first-ripe fig before

the summer,

Which when one looketh upon it, While it is yet in his hand he

eateth it up.

5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be For a crown of glory, and for a

diadem of beauty, Unto the residue of His people; 6 And for a spirit of judgment to him ' that sitteth in judgment, And for strength to them that turn back the battle at the gate.

7 But these also reel through wine, And stagger through strong drink; The priest and the prophet reel

through strong drink, They are confused because of wine, They stagger because of strong

drink; They reel in vision, they totter in

judgment.

8 For all tables are full of filthy vomit, And no place is clean.

9 Whom shall one teach knowledge?

And whom shall one make to understand the message?

Them that are weaned from the milk,

Them that are drawn from the

breasts?

10 For it is precept by precept, precept by precept,

line by line, line by line,;

Here a little, there a little. u For with stammering lips and with a strange tongue

Shall it be spoken to this people; 12 To whom it was said: 'This 1 the rest,

is

Give ye rest to the weary;

And this is the refreshing';

Yet they would not hear. 13 And so the word of the LORD is unto them

Precept by precept, precept by precept,

Line by line, line by line;

Here a little, there a little;

That they may go, and fall backward, and be broken,

And snared, and taken.

"Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scoffers,

The ballad-mongers of this people

which is in Jerusalem: "Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death,

And with the nether-world are we at agreement;

When the scouring scourge shall pass through,

It shall not come unto us;

For we have made lies our refuge,

And in falsehood have we hid ourselves '; 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD:

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone,

A tried stone, a costly corner-stone of sure foundation;

He that believeth shall not make

haste. 17 And I will make justice the line,

And righteousness the plummet;

And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies,

And ^he waters shall overflow the

hiding-place.

18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled.

And your agreement with the netherworld shall not stand;

When the scouring scourge shall pass through,

Then ye shall be trodden down by it.

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"As often as it pa^seth through, it fchaii take you;

For morning by morning shall it pass through,

By day and by night;

And itVhall be bheer terror to understand the message. 20 For the bed is too short for a man to bt retch himself;

And the covering too narrow when

he gathereth himself up. a For the LOUD will rise up as in mount Pcrazim,

He will be wroth as in the valley of j Gibeon; |

That He may do His work, strange t is His work,

And bring to pass His act, strange

is His act. ^Now therefore be ye not scoffers,

Lest your bandg be made strong;

For an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the Lord, the GOD of hosts,

Upon the whole land.

Hiive ye ear, and hear my voice;

Attend, and hear my speech. "Is the plowman never done with

plowing to sow, With the opening and harrowing of

his ground? "When he hath made plain the face

thereof,

Doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, . ^

And put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place And the spelt in the border thereof? *For He doth instruct him aright;

His God doth teach him. ^For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, Neither is a cart-wheel turned about; upon the cummin; \

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But the black cummin is beaten

out with a staff, And the cummin with a rod. 28 Is bread corn crushed? Nay, he will not ever be threshing

it; And though the roller of his wagon

and its sharp edges move noisily, He doth not crush it. 39 This also cometh forth from the

LORD of hosts: Wonderful is His counsel, and great

His wisdom.

-Ah, *Ariel, Ariel, the city where

David encamped! Add ye year to year, Let the feasts come round' 2 Then will I distress Ariel, And there shall be mourning and

moaning; And she shall be unto Me as a hearth

of God. *And I will encamp against thee

round about, And will lay siege against thee with

a mound, And I will raise siege works against

thee. 4 And brought down thou shalt speak

out of the ground, And thy speech shall be low out of

the dust; And thy voice shall be as of a ghost

out of the ground, And thy speech shall chirp out of

the dust. 6 But the multitude of thy foes shall

be like small dust, And the multitude of the terrible

ones as chaff that passeth away; Yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly— There shall be a visitation from

the LOUD of hosts With thunder, and with earthquake,

and great noise,

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With whirlwind and tempest, and

the flame of a devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations

that war against Ariel, Even all that war against her, and

the bulwarks about her, and they

that distress her, Shall be as a dream, a vision of the

night. 8 And it shall be as when a hungry

man dreameth, and, behold, he

eateth, But he awaketh, and his soul is

empty; Or as when a thirsty man dreameth,

and, behold, he drinketh, But he awaketh, and, behold, he is

faint, and his soul hath appetite— So shall the multitude of all the

nations be, That fight against mount Zion.

9 Stupefy yourselves, and be stupid! Blind yourselves, and be blind! Ye that are drunken, but not with

wine, That stagger, but not with strong

drink. 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon

you the spirit of deep sleep, And hath closed your eyes; The prophets, and your heads, the

seers, hath He covered. u And the vision of all this is become unto you as the words of a writing that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: 'I cannot, for it is sealed'; ^and the writing is delivered to him that is not learned, saying: 'Read this, I pray thee'; and he saith: ' I am not learned/

13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as

this people draw near, And with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me,

But have removed their heart far from Me,

And their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote; 14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvellous work among this people,

Even a marvellous work and a wonder;

And the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,

And the prudence of their prudent men shall be hid.

"Woe unto them that seek deep to

hide their counsel from the LORD, And their works are in the dark, And they say: 'Who seeth us? and

who knoweth us?' 16 0 your perversity! Shall the potter be esteemed as

clay; That the thing made should say of

him that made it: 'He made me

not'; Or the thing framed say of him

that framed it: 'He hath no

understanding?'

"Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be turned into a

fruitful field,

And the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear

the words of a book, And the eyes of the blind shall see

out of obscurity and out of darkness. 19 The humble also shall increase their

joy in the LORD, And the neediest among men shall

exult in the Holy One of Israel. 20 For the terrible one is brought to

nought,

And the scorner ceaseth, And all they that watch for iniquity

are cut off;

ISAIAH

"That make a man an offender by

And lay a snare for him that re-

provt'th in the Rate*, And turn aside the just with a thing

of nought.

1 thus saith the LOKD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the hou»e of Jacob:

Jacob bhall not now be ashamed, Neither shall his face now wax

pale;

^When he seeth his children, the work of My hands, in the midst of him,

That they sanctify My name; Yea, they shall sanctify the Holy

One of Jacob, And fhall stand in awe of the God

of Israel. "They abo that err in spirit shall

come to understanding, And they^that murmur shall learn instruction.

OA Woe to the rebellious children, v saith the LOBD, That take counsel, but not of Me; And that form projects, but not of

My spirit,

That they may add sin to sin; That walk to go down into Egypt, And have not asked at My mouth; To take refuge in the stronghold of

Pharaoh, And to take shelter in the shadow

of Egypt! 'Therefore shall the stronghold of

Pharaoh turn to your shame, And the shelter in the shadow of

Egypt to your confusion. 4 For hifi princes are at Zoan, And his ambassadors are come to

Hanes.

*They shall all be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them,

That are not a help nor profit, But a shame, and also a reproach.

6 The burden of the beasts of the South.

Through the land of trouble and

anguish, From whence come the lioness and

the lion,

The viper and flying serpent, They carry their riches upon the

shoulders of young asses, And their treasures upon the humps

of camels, To a people that shall not profit

them. 7 For Egypt helpeth in vain, and to

no purpose;

Therefore have I called her Arrogancy that sitteth still. "Now go, write it before them on a

tablet, <

And inscribe it in a book, That it may be for the time to come For ever and ever. 9 For it is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children that refuse to hear the

teaching of the LORD; 10 That say to the seers: 'See not', And to the prophets: 'Prophesy not

unto us right things, Speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions; n Get you out of the way, Turn aside out of the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us.' ^Wherefore thus saith the Holy One

of Israel:

Because ye despise this word, And trust in oppression and per-

verseness, And stay thereon; ^Therefore this iniquity shall be to

you

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As a breach ready to fall, swelling j out in a high wall, j

Whose breaking cometh suddenly

at an instant.

14 And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken,

Breaking it in pieces without &par-

Jag; So that there shall not be found ;

among the pieces thereof a sherd j To take fire from the hearth, Or to take water out of the cistern.

15 For thus said the Lord Gor> r the (

Holy One of Israel. >

In sitting still and rest shall ye be!

saved, |

In quietness and in confidence shall;

be your strength; |

And ye would not. 10 But ye said: 'No, for we will flee

upon horses'; Therefore shall ye flee; And: ' We will ride upon the swift'; Therefore shall they that pursue

you be swift.

17 One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one,

At the rebuke of five shall ye flee, Till ye be left as a beacon upon the

top of a mountain, And as an ensign on a hill. 18 And therefore will the LORD wait,

that He may be gracious unto

you, And therefore will He be exalted,

that He may have compassion

upon you;

For the LORD is a God of justice, Happy are all they that wait for

Him.

"For, O people that dwellest in Zion at

Jerusalem,

Thou shalt weep no more; He will surely be gracious unto thee

at the voice of thv cry,

When He s>hall hear, He will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you bpar-

ing bread and scant water, Yet shall not thy Teacher hide

Himself any more, But thine eyes shall see thy Teacher; 21 And thine ears shall hear a word

behind thee, baying: 'This is the way, walk ye in it, When ye turn to the right hand, and

when ye turn to the left.* fr-And ye shall defile thy graven images overlaid with silver, And thy molten images covered

with gold; Thou shalt put them far away as one

unclean; Thou shalt say unto it: *Get thee

hence.' M Aiid He will give the rain tor thy

beed, wherewith thou sowest the

ground, And bread of the increase of the

ground, and it shall be fat and

plenteous; In that day shall thy cattle feed in

large pastures. 24 The oxen likewise and the young

asses that till the ground Shall eat savoury provender, Which hath been winnowed with

the shovel and with the fan M And there shall be upon every- lofty

mountain, and upon every high

hill,

Streams and watercourses, In the day of the great slaughter,

when the towers fall. 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall

be as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun shall be

sevenfold, as the light of the

seven days, In the day that the LORD bindetn

up the bruise of His people,

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And hiMleth the stroke of their wuuud.

"Behold, th« name of the LORD

cometh from far, With Hid anger burning, and in

thick uplifting of smoke;_ His lips arc full of indignation, And His tongue is as a devouring

fire; 2 *An<i His breath is as an overflowing

stream.

That divideth even unto the neck, To sift the nations with the sieve

of destruction; And a bridle that causeth to err

shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

* 9 Ye fchall have a song

As in the night when a feast is

hallowed; And gladness of heart, as when one

goeth with the pipe To come into the mountain of the

LORD, to the Rock of Israel. * D And the LORD will cause His

glorious voice to be heard, And will show the lighting down of

His arm, With furious anger, and the flame

of a devouring fire, With a bursting of clouds, and a

storm of rain, and hailstones. 3l For through the voice of the LORD

shall Asshur be dismayed, The rod with which He smote. ^And in every place where the appointed staff shall pass, Which the LORD shall lay upon

him,

It shall be with tabrets and harps; And in battles of wielding will He

fight with them, **For a hearth is ordered of old; Yea, for the king it is prepared, Deep and large; The pile thereof is fire and much

The breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

Q1 Woe to them that go down to f ~* x Egypt for help, And rely on horses, And trust in chariots, because they

are many, And in horsemen, because they are

exceeding mighty; But they look not unto the Holy

One of Israel, Neither seek the LORD! 2 Yet He also is wise, And bringeth evil, And doth not callback His words; But will arise against the house of

the evil-doers, And against the help of them that

work iniquity. 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and

not God, And their horses flesh, and not

spirit; So when the LORD shall stretch out

His hand, Both he that helpeth shall stumble,

and he that is helped shall fall, And they all shall perish together.

4 For thus saith the LORD unto me: Like as the lion, or the young lion,

growling over his prey, Though a multitude of shepherds be

called forth against him, Will not be dismayed at their voice, Nor abase himself for the noise of

them;

So will the LORD of hosts come down To fight upon mount Zion, and

upon the hill thereof. 5 As birds hovering, So will the LORD of hosts protect

Jerusalem;

He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.

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^urn ye unto Him

Against whom ye have deeply

rebelled, 0 children of Israel. 7 For in that day they shall cast

away Every man his idols of silver, and

his idols of gold, Which your own hands have made

unto you for a sin. 8 Then shall Asshur fall with the

sword, not of man, And the sword, not of men, shall

devour him;

And he shall flee from the sword, And his young men shall become

tributary. 9 And his rock shall pass away by

reason of terror, And his princes shall be dismayed

at the ensign, Saith the LOUD, whose fire is in

Zion, And His furnace in Jerusalem.

OO Behold, a king shall reign in ^^ righteousness, And as for princes, they shall rule

in justice.

2 And a man shall be as in a hiding-place from the wind, And a covert from the tempest; As by the watercourses in a dry

place, As in the shadow of a great rock in a

weary land. 8 And the eyes of them that see shall

not be closed, And the ears of them that hear

shall attend. 4 The heart also of the rash shall

understand knowledge, And the tongue of the stammerers

shall be ready to speak plainly. The vile person shall be no more

called liberal,

Nor the churl said to be noble. 6 For the vile person will speak villany,

And his heart will work iniquity, To practise ungodliness, and to

utter wickedness against the LORD, To make empty the soul of the

hungry, And to cause the drink of the thirsty

to fail. 7 The instruments aJso of the churl

are evil;

He deviseth wicked devices To destroy the poor with lying

words, And the needy when he speaketh

right. 8 But the liberal deviseth liberal

things; And by liberal things shall he stand.

9 RIse up, ye women that are at ease,

and hear my voice; Ye confident daughters, give ear

unto my speech. 10 After a year and days shall ye be

troubled, ye confident women; For the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come. "Tremble, ye women that are at

ease;

Be troubled, ye confident ones; Strip you, and make you bare, And gird sackcloth upon your loins, 12 Smiting upon the breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;

13 For the land of my people Whereon thorns and briers come up; Yea, for all the houses of joy And the joyous city. I4 For the palace shall be forsaken; The city with its stir shall be de-

The mound and the tower shall be

for dens for ever, A joy of wild asses, a pasture of

flocks; 15 Until the spirit be poured upon us

from on high,

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And the wilderness become a fruit-

ful Md, And tho fruitful field be countec

for a forest. l Then jti.stic<» .shall dwell in the

wilderness, Arid right oouMiew shall abide in

the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall

l>e peace;

And the effect of righteousness

quietness and confidence for ever.

1H And my people shall abide in a

peaceable habitation. And in secure dwellings, and in

quiet resting-places. "And it shall hail, in the Downfall of

the forest; But the city shall descend into the

valley. SM H:ippy are ye that sow beside all

waters,

That send forth freely the feet of the ox and the ass.

thou wast not spoiled; And dealest treacherously, and

they dealt not treacherously with

ihee! When thou hast ceased to spoil,

thou shalt be spoiled; And when thou art weary with

dealing treacherously, they shall

deal treacherously with thee.

K) LORD, be gracious unto us; We have waited for Thee; Be Thou their arm every morning, Our salvation also in the time of

trouble. *At the noise of the tumult the

peoples are fled; At the lifting up of Thyself the

nations are scattered. 4 And your spoil is gathered as the

caterpillar gathereth;

As locusts leap do they leap upon

it. 5 The LORD is exalted, for He dwell-

eth on high; He hath filled Zion with justice and

righteousness. •And the stability of thy times shall

be A hoard of salvation—wisdom and

knowledge, And the fear of the LORD which is

His treasure.

7 Behpld, their valiant ones cry-without;

The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways lie waste,

The wayfaring man ceaseth;

He hath broken the covenant,

He hath despised the cities,

He regardeth not man.

*The land mourneth and languisheth;

Lebanon is ashamed, it withereth;

Sharon is like a wilderness;

And Bashan and Carmel are clean

bare. 10 Now will I arise, saith the LORD;

Now will I be exalted;

Now will I lift Myself up. u Ye conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble;

Your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

M And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime;

As thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

u Hear, ye that are far off, what I

have done; And, ye that are near, acknowledge

My might.

"The sinners in Zion are afraid; Trembling hath seized the ungodly: ' Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?

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Who among us shall dwell with

everlasting burnings?' 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly;

He that despiseth the gain of oppressions,

That shaketh his hands from holding of bribes,

That stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood,

And shutteth his eyes from looking

upon evil; 16 He shall dwell on high;

His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks;

His bread shall be given, his waters shall be sure.

17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his

beauty; They shall behold a land stretching

afar.

18 Thy heart shall muse on the terror: 'Where is he that counted, where

is he that weighed? Where is he that counted the

towers?'

"Thou shalt not see the fierce people: A people of a deep speech that thou

canst not perceive, Of a stammering tongue that thou

canst not understand. 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our

solemn gatherings; Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a

peaceful habitation, A tent that shall not be removed, The stakes whereof shall never be

plucked up,

Neither ahall any of the cords thereof be broken. 2l But there the LORD will be with us

in majesty, In a place of broad rivers and

streams; Wherein snail go no galley with oars,

Neither shall gallant ship pass

thereby.

^For the LORD is our Judge, The LORD is our Lawgiver, The LORD is our King; He will save us. M Thy tacklings are loosed; They do not hold the stand of their

mast,

They do not spread the sail; Then is the prey of a great spoil

divided;

The lame take the prey. ^And the inhabitant shall not say:

'I am sick'; The people that dwell therein shall

be forgiven their iniquity.

CM Come near, ye nations, to hear, ^ •*- And attend, ye peoples; Let the earth hear, and the fulness

thereof, The world, and all things that come

forth of it. 2 For the LORD hath indignation

against all the nations, And fury against all their host; He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the

slaughter.

3 Their slain also shall be cast out, And the stench of their carcasses

shall come up, And the mountains shall be melted

with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall

moulder away, And the heavens shall be rolled

together as a scroll; And all their host shall fall down, As the leaf falleth off from the vine, And as a falling fig from the fig-tree. *»For My sword hath drunk ifcs fill

hi heaven;

Behold, it pha-fl come down upon ' Edom,

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And upon the people of My ban, to judgment.

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood,

It is made fat with fatness,

With the blood of luniks and goats,

With the fat of the kidneys of rams;

For the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them,

And the bullocks with the bulls;

And their land shall l>e drunken with blood,

And their dust made fat with fatness.

8 For the LORD hath a day of vengeance,

A year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.

*And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,

And the dust thereof into brimstone,

And the land thereof shall become

burning pitch.

lo lt shall not be quenched night nor day,

The smoke thereof shall go up for ever;

From generation to generation it shall lie waste:

None shall pass through it for ever

and ever.

"But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it,

And the owl and the raven shall dwell therein;

And He shall stretch over it

The line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

tt As for her nobles, none shall be there to be called to the kingdom:

And all her princes shall be nothing.

13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces,

Nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof;

And it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs,

An enclosure for ostriches. u And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals,

And the satyr shall cry to his fellow;

Yea, the night-monster shall repose there,

And shall find her a place of rest. "There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay,

And hatch, and brood under her shadow;

Yea, there shall the kites be gathered,

Every one with her mate. 16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read;

No one of these shall be missing,

None shall want her mate;

For My mouth it hath commanded,

And the breath thereof it hath

gathered them. "And He hath cast the lot for them,

And His hand hath divided it unto them by line;

They shaft possess it for ever,

From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

The wilderness and the parched

land shall be glad; And the desert shall rejoice, and

blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and

rejoice,

Even with joy and singirfg; The glory of Lebanon shall be given

unto it, The excellency of Carmel and

Sharon;

They shall see the glory of the LORD, The excellency of our God.

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Strengthen ye the weak hands, And make firm the tottering

knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful

heart: 'Be strong, fear not'; Behold, your God will come with

vengeance,

They shall obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Heze-i kiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria

With the recompense of God He' came up against all the fortified cities

will come and save you.

the eyes of the blind shall be

opened,

And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a

hart, And the tongue of the dumb shall

sing; For in the wilderness shall waters

break out,

And streams in the desert. 7 And the parched land shall become

a pool, And the thirsty ground springs of

water; In the habitation of jackals herds

shall lie down, It shall be an enclosure for reeds

and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and

away, And it shall be called The way of

holiness; The unclean shall not pass over it,

but it shall be for those; The wayfaring men, yea fools,

shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, Nor shall any ravenous beast go up

thereon,

They shall not be found there; But the redeemed shall walk there; 10 And the ransomed of the LORD

shall return,

And come with singing unto Zion, And everlasting joy shall be upon

their heads;

of Judah, and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fullers' field. *Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. 4 And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah-Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? *I said: It is but vain words; for counsel and strength are for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me? € Behpld, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust on him. 7 But if thou say unto me: We trust in the LORD our God; is not that He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem: Ye shall worship before this altar? 8 Now therefore, I pray thee, make a wager with my master" the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. 9 How then canst thou turn away the face of one captain, even of the least of my master's servants? yet thou puttest thy trust on Egypt for chariots and

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for horsemen! IO And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? The LORD said unto me: CJo up against this land, arid destroy it,'

"Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joiih unto Rab-shakeh: ' Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Aramean language, for we understand it; and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.' w But Rab-shakeh said: *Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own clung, and to drink their own water with you 9 ' 13 Then Itab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews 1 language, and said: 'Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. "Thus saith the king: Let not Hezekiah beguile you, for he will not be able to deliver 'you; ls neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying: The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. lc Heark-ea not to Hezekiah; for thus saith the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me, and come out to -me; and cut ye every one of his vine, and everyone of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern; 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land "a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 1& Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying: .The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Seph-arvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand 9 s °Whoi

are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'

21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying. 'Answer him not.' L>2 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

O "7 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD, 2 And he sent Ehakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3 And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master hath sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD thy God hath heard; wherefore make prayer for the remnant that is left.' fi So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 And Isaiah said unto them: 'Thus shall ye say to your master: Thus saith the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7 Behold, I will put a' spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return unto his

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own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. 7

8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish 9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Kthiopia: 'He is come out to fight against thee.' And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying. 10 'Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: Let not thy God in who» thou tmstest beguile thee, saying. Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. "Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? 12 Have the gods of the nations" delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? "Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Iwah?'

14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 1& And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying: 16< 0 LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, that sittest upon the cherubim, Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; Thou hast made heaven and earth. "Incline Thine ear, 0 LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, 0 LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to taunt the living God. 18 0f a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their land, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's

hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from 1 his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that Thou art the LORD, even Thou only. 7

"Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God -of Israel: Whereas thou hast prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, **thLs is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion Hath despised thee and laughed

thee to scorn; The daughter of Jerusalem Hath shaken her head at thee. ^Whom hast thou taunted and

blasphemed?

And against whom hast thou exalted thy voice? Yea, thou hast lifted up thine eyes

on high, Even against the Holy One of

Israel! M By thy servants hast thou taunted

the Lord,

And hast said: With the multitude of my chariots Am I come up to the height of the

mountains,

To the innermost parts of Lebanon; And I have cut down the tall

cedars thereof,

And the choice cypress-trees thereof; And I have entered into his farthest

height,

The forest of his fruitful field, tt l have digged and drunk water, And with the sole of my feet have

I dried up

All the rivers of Egypt. *Hast thou not heard? Long ago I made it, In ancient times I fashioned it;

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Now have I brought it to pass, Yea, it in done; that fortified cities Should be laid waste into ruinous

heaps. "^Therefore their inhabitants were

of small power, Thfv were dismayed and confounded;

They were as the grass of the field, And" as the green herb, As the grass on the housetops, And as a field of corn before it is grown up

28 But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in,

And thy raging against Me. "Because of thy raging against Me, And for that "thine uproar is come

up into Mine ears, Therefore will I put My hook in thy

nose,

And My bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the

way

By which thou earnest. w Anci this shall be the sign unto thee: ye bhali eat this year that which groweth of itself, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. 5l And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. ^For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall escape; the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall perform this. ^Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor

cast a mound against it. "By the way that he came, by the same shall

he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith the LORD. 35 For I will defend this city to save it, for Mine own sake, and for My servant David's sake.'

M And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nis-roch his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live/ 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, 3 and said: 'Remember now, 0 LORD, I beseech Thee, how I have walked before Thee in truth and with a whole heart, and have done that which is good in Thy

And Hezekiah wept sore, the word of the LORD

came

sight. 7 4 Then

to Isaiah, saying: 5 'Go, and say to Hezekiah* Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears; behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 6 And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city. 7 And this shall be the sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that He hath spoken:

8 behold, I will cause the shadow of

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sun-dial of Ahaz, to return backward ten degrees.' So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness. 10 I said: In the noontide of my days

I shall go.

Even to the gates of the netherworld; I am deprived of the residue of my

years.

ll l said: I shall not see the LORD, Even the LORD in the land of the

living; I shall behold man no more with

the inhabitants of the world. 12 My habitation is plucked up and

carried away from me As a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up like a weaver my

life;

He will cut me off from the thrum; >From day even to night wilt Thou

make an end of me. 13 The more I make myself like unto

a lion until morning, The more it breaketh all my bones; From day even to night wilt Thou

make an end of me. 14 Like a swallow or a crane, so do

I chatter,

I do moan as a dove; Mine eyes fail with looking upward.

0 LORD, I am oppressed, be Thou my surety.

16 What shall I say? He hath both

spoken unto me, And Himself hath done it;

1 shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

16 O Lord, by these things men live, And altogether therein is the fife of my spirit;

Wherefore recover Thou me, and

make me to live.

"Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness;

But Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it

From the pit of corruption;

For Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back.

18 For the nether-world cannot praise

Thee,

Death cannot celebrate Thee; They that go down into the pit

cannot hope for Thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise

Thee,

As I do this day; The father to~ the children shall

make known Thy truth. 20 The LORD is ready to save me; Therefore we will sing songs to the

stringed instruments ^ All the days of our hfe in the house

of the LORD.

21 And Isaiah said: 'Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. ^And Hezekiah said: 'What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?'

OQ At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. 3 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them his treasure-house, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures; there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. ^hen came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him: 'What

bail! thoric men? and from whence cam they unto thee?' And Hezekiah salt 'They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon ' *Then said he: 'What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered *A11 that is in my house have the eseen; there is nothing among nv treasures that I have not shown them/ *Then said Isaiah to Heze kiah: 'Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days come, tha all that is in thy hoube, and that whic] thy fathers have kid up in store unti this day, shall be carried to Babylon nothing shall be left, saith the LORD 7 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shal they take away; and they shall be officers in the palace of the king o; Babylon/ *Then said Hezekiah unto Ibaiah: 'Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken.' He said moreover: •*!£ but there shall be peace and truth in my days.'

Af\ Comfort ye, comfort ye My ^y people,

Saith your God.

2 Bid Jerusalem take heart,

And proclaim unto her,

That her time of service is accomplished,

That her guilt is paid off;

That she hath received of the LORD'S hand

Double for all her sins.

3 Hark! one calleth* 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way

of the LORD, Make plain in the desert A highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be lifted up, And every mountain and hill shall

be made low; And the rugged shall be made level,

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And the rough places a plain; 6 And the glory of the LORD shall be

revealed,

And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.'

6 Hark' one saith. 'Proclaim! 7

And he saith. 'What shall I proclaim?'

'All flesh is grass,

And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field;

7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; u

Because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it—

Surely the people is grass.

8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;

But the word of our God shall stand for ever.'

9 0 thou that tellest good tidings to

Zion,

Get thee up into the high mountain; 0 thou that tellest good tidings to

Jerusalem,

Lift up thy voice with strength; Lift it up, be not afraid; Say unto the cities of Judah: 'Behold your God!' "Behold, the Lord GOD will come as

a Mighty One,

And His arm will rule for Him; Behold, His reward is with Him, And His recompense before Him, "Even as a shepherd that feedeth

his flock,

That gathereth the lambs in his arm, And carrieth them in his bosom, And gently leadeth those that give suck.

12 Who hath measured the waters in

the hollow of his hand, And meted out heaven with th,e span,

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And comprehended the dust of the

earth in a measure, And weighed the mountains in

scales,

And the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath meted out the spirit of

the LORD? Or who was His counsellor that

he might instruct Him? "With whom took He counsel, and

who instructed Him, And taught Him in the path of

right,

And taught Him knowledge, And made Him to know the way of

discernment? "Behold, the nations are as a drop of

a bucket, And are counted as the small dust

of the balance; Behold, the isles are afe a mote in

weight.

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, Nor the beasts thereof sufficient

for burnt-offerings. 17 A11 th6 nations are as nothing before Him; They are accounted by Him as

things of nought, and vanity. 18 To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare

unto Hun? 19 The image perchance, which the

craftsman hath melted, And the goldsmith spread over with

gold,

The silversmith casting silver chains? 20 A holm-oak is set apart, He chooseth a tree that will not rot; He seeketh unto him a cunning

craftsman To set up an image, that shall not

be moved,

a Know ye not? hear ye not? Hath it not been told you from the beginning?

Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth? ^It is He that sitteth above the circle

of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as

grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens

as a curtain, And spreadeth them out as a tent

to dwell hi;

ssThat bringeth princes to notfung; He maketh the judges of th« earth

as a thing of nought. 24 Scarce are they planted, Scarce are they sown. Scarce hath their stock taken root

in the earth; When He bloweth upon them, they

wither, And the whirlwind taketh them

away as stubble. 25 To whom then will ye liken Me,

that I should be equal? Saith the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, And see: who hath created these? He that bringeth out their host by

number,

He calleth them all by name; By the greatness of His might, and

for that He is strong in power, Not one faileth.

27 Why sayest thou, 0 Jacob, And speakest, O Israel: ( My way is hid from the LOBJO, And my right is passed over from

my God'? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou

not heard

That the everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the

earth,

Fainteth not, neither is weary? His discernment is past searching

out. **He giveth power to the faint;

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And to him that hath no might He

increaseth strength. *°Even the youths sliall faint and be

weary, And the voung men shall utterly

fall; * ^But, they that wait for the LORD

fhall renew their strength; They fehall mount up with wings us

They shall run, and not be weary; They shall walk, and not faint.

Keep silence before Me, 0 is-

lands,

And let the peoples renew their strength; them draw near, then let them

I^ot us come near together to judgment.

*\Vhu hath raised up one from the ea&t,

At who^e yteps victory attendeth? He civeth nations before him,

And inaketh him rule over kings;

His sword maketh them as the dust,

Hw bow as the driven stubble,

1I« pursueth them, and passeth on safely;

The way with his feet he treadeth not.

A YV ho hath wrought and done it?

He that called the generations from the beginning.

I, the LORD, who am the first,

And with the last am the same. *The isles saw, and feared;

The ends of the earth trembled;

They drew near, and came.

They helped every one his neighbour;

And every one said to his brother.

'Be of good courage. 7

7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,

And he that smootheth with the

hammer him that smiteth the

anvil, Saying of the soldering: 'It is

good'; Arid he fastened it with nails, that

it should not be moved.

8 But thou, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The seed of Abraham My friend; ^hou whom I have taken hold of

from the ends of the earth, And called thee from the uttermost

parts thereof, And said unto thee: 'Thou art My

servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee

away';

10 Fear thou ^lot, for I am with thee, Be not dismayed, for I am thy

God;

I strengthen thee, yea, I help thee; Yea, I uphold thee with My victorious right hand. "Behold, all they that were incensed

against thee

Shall be ashamed and confounded; They that strove with thee Shall be as nothing, and shall perish. J2 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt

not find them, Even them that contended with

thee;

They that warred against thee Shall be as nothing, and as a thing

of nought.

"For I the LOHD thy God Hold thy right hand, Who say unto thee: 'Fear not, I help thee.'

14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, And ye men of Israel; I help thee, saith the LORD, And thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

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16 Behold, I make thee a new threshing-sledge

Having sharp teeth;

Thou shalt thresh the mountains, ', and beat them small,

And shalt make the hills as chaff. 16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, j

And the whirlwind shall scatter! them; j

And thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, j

Thou shalt glory in the Holy One of! Israel. j

l7 The poor and needy seek water and I there is none,

And their tongue faileth for thirst;

I the LORD will answer them,

I the God of Israel will not forsake

them. 18 I will open rivers on the high hills,

And fountains in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a pool of water,

And the dry land springs of water. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia-tree,

And the myrtle, and the oil-tree;

I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane-tree, and the larch together; 20 That they may see, and know,

And consider, and understand together,

That the hand of the LORD hath done this,

And the Holy One of- Israel hath created it.

"Produceyour cause, saith the LORD; Bring forth your reasons, saith the

King of Jacob.

^Let them bring them forth, and declare unto us

The things that shall happen; The former things, what are they?

Declare ye, that we may consider, And know the end of them; Or announce to us things to come, ^Declare the things that are to come

hereafter,

That we may know that ye are gods; Yea, do good, or do evil. That we may be dismayed, and

behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are nothing, And your work a thing of nought; An abomination is he that chooseth you.

25 I have roused up one from the

north, and he is come, From the rising of the sun one that

calleth upon My name; And he shall come upon rulers as

upon mortar,

And as the potter treadeth clay. 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? And beforetime, that we may say

that he is right?

Yea, there is none that declareth, Yea, there is none that announceth. Yea, there is none that heareth

your utterances. 27 A harbinger unto Zion wijl I give:

'Behold, behold them', And to Jerusalem a messenger of

good tidings.

28 And I look, but there is no man; Even among them, but there is no

counsellor, That, when I ask of them, can give

an answer. 25> Behpld, all of them, Their works are vanity and nought; Their molten images are wind and

confusion.

Behold My servant, whom I

uphold;

Mine elect, in whom My soul de-lighteth;

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I hnvo put My spirit upon him, H<* shall make the right to go forth

to the nations.

2 IIe .-hull not cry, nor lift up, Nor cause his voice to be heard in

the street.

*A bruised reed shall he not^ break. Ami the dimly burning wick shall

he not qucwh; He shall make the right to go forth

according to the truth. 4 He shall not fail nor be crushed, Till he have set the right in the

f*nrth; And the isles shall wait for his

teaching.

-Thua saith God the LORD, He that created the heavens, and

wretched them forth, He that spread forth the earth and

that which cometh out of it, He that giveth breath unto the

people upon it, And spirit to them that walk therein: f i the LORD have called thee in

righteousness,

Arid have taken hold of thy hand, And kept thee, and set thee for a

covenant of the people, For a light of the nations; r fo open the blind eyes, To bring out the prisoners from

the dungeon, And them that sit in darkness out of

the prison-house.

8 I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory will I not give to

another, Neither My praise to graven im-

9 Behold, the former things are come

to pass,

And new things do I declare; Before they spring forth I tell you

of them.

l °Sing unto the LORD a new song,

And His praise from the end of the earth;

Ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein,

The isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

"Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice,

The villages that Kedar aoth inhabit;

Let the inhabitants of Sela exult,

Let them shout from the top of the

mountains. I2 Let them give glory unto the LORD,

And declare His praise in the islands. "The LORD will go forth as a mighty man,

He will stir up jealousy like a man of war;

He will cry, yea, He will shout aloud,

He will prove Himself mighty against His enemies.

14 I have long time held My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; Now will I cry like a travailing

woman,

Gasping and panting at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and

hills,

And dry up all their herbs; And I will make the rivers islands, And will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way

that they knew not, In paths that they knew not will I

lead them; I will make darkness light before

them,

And rugged places plain. These things will I do, And I will not leave them undone. 17 They shall be turned back, greatly

ashamed,

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That trust in graven images, |

That say unto molten images: j 'Ye are our gods/ I

18 Hear, ye deaf,

And look, ye blind, that ye may see.' J9 Who is blind, but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger that I

send?

Who is blind as he that is wholehearted,

And blind as the LORD'S servant? 20 Seeing many things, thou observes!

not;

Opening the ears, he heareth not. 21 The LORD- was pleased, for His righteousness' sake, {

To make the teaching great and | glorious. !

22 But this is a people robbed and

spoiled,

They are all of them snared in holes, And they are hid in prison-houses; They are for a prey, and none de-

.livereth,

For a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore/ ^Who among you will give ear to

this? Who will hearken and hear for the

time to come? ^Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and

Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD? He against whom we have sinned, And in whose ways they would not

walk, Neither were they obedient unto

His law. ^Therefore He poured upon him the

fury of His anger, And the strength of battle; And it set him on fire round about,

yet he knew not,

And it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

But now thus saith the LORD

that created thee, 0 Jacob, And He that formed thee, 0 Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou

art Mine. -When thou passest through the

waters, I will be with thee, And through the rivers, they shall

not overflow thee; When thou walkest through the

fire, thou shalt not be burned, Neither shall the flame kindle upon

thee.

3 For I am the LORD thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. 4 Since thou art precious in My sight,

and honourable, And I have loved thee; Therefore will I give men for thee, And peoples for thy life. 6 Fear not, for I am with thee; I will bring thy seed from the east, And gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north: 'Give up', And to the south: 'Keep not back, Bring My sons from far, And My daughters from the end of

the earth; 7 Every one that is called by My

name, And whom I have created for My

glory* I have formed him, yea, I have made

hijn/ 8 The blind people that have eyes

shall be brought forth, And the deaf that have ears. 9 A11 the nations are gathered together,

And the peoples are assembled; Who among them can declare this, And announce to us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that

they may be justified;

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And let them hear, and say: 'It is

truth/ 10 Yo are My witnesses, saith the

LORD, And My servant whom I have

chosen; That ye may know and believe Me,

and understand That I am He;

Before Me there was no God formed, Neither shall any be after Me.

ll l, even I, am the LORD;

And beside Me there is no saviour, **I have declared, and I have saved, And I have announced, And there was no strange god among

you; Therefore ye are My witnesses^,

saith the LORD, and I am God. u Yea, Mnee the 1 day was I am He, And there is none that can deliver

out of My hand; I will work, and who can reverse it?

"Thus saith the LOKD, your Redeemer,

The Holy One of Israel:

For your sake I have sent to Babylon,

And I will bring down all of them as fugitives,

Even the Chaldeans, in the ships

of their shouting. W I am the LORD, your Holy One,

The Creator of Israel, your King.

l8 Thus saith the LORD, who maketh a

way in the sea,

And a ;path in the mighty waters; 17 Who bringeth forth the chariot and

horse,

The army and the power— They lie down together, they shall

not rise,

They are extinct, they are quenched as a wick: j

X8 Remember ye not the former things, Neither consider the things of old. "Behold, I will do a new thing; Now shall it spring forth; shall ye

not know it?

I will even make a way in the wilderness,

And rivers in the desert. 20 The beasts of the field shall honour

Me,

The jackals and the ostriches; Because I give waters in the wilderness,

And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My people, Mine

elect;

21 The people which I formed for Myself, That they might tell of My praise.

M Yet thou hast not called upon Me,

0 Jacob, Neither hast thou wearied thyself

about Me, 0 Israel. M Thou hast not brought Me the small

cattle of thy burnt-offerings; Neither hast thou honoured Me with

thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with a

meal-offering,

Nor wearied thee with frankincense. w Thou hast bought Me no sweet

cane with money, Neither hast thou satisfied Me with

the fat of thy sacrifices; But thou hast burdened Me with

thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine

iniquities. 25 I, even I, am He that blotteth out

thy transgressions for Mine own

sake;

And thy sins I will not remember. 26 Put Me in remembrance, let us

plead together; Declare thou, that thou mayest be

justified.

27 Thy first father sinned, And thine intercessors have trans-

gressed against Me. 28 Therefore I have profaned the

princes of the sanctuary, And I have given Jacob to con-

demnation, And Israel to reviling.

A A Yet now hear, 0 Jacob My

servant,

And Israel, whom I have chosen; 2 Thus saith the LORD that made

thee, And formed thee from the womb,

who will help thee: Fear not, 0 Jacob My servant, And thou, Jeshurun, whom I have

chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon the

thirsty land,

And streams upon the dry ground; I will pour My spirit upon thy seed, And My blessing upon thine off-

spring; 4 And they shall spring up among the

grass,

As willows by the watercourses* 5 0ne shall say: 'I am the LORD'S'; And another shall call himself by

the name of Jacob; And another shall subscribe with

his hand unto the LORD, And surname himself by the name j

of Israel.

saith the LORD, the King

of Israel, And his Redeemer the LORD of

hosts:

I am the first, and I am the last, And beside Me there is no God. 7 And who, as I, can proclaim — Let him declare it, and set it in

order for Me — Since I appointed the ancient peo-

ple?

And the things that are coming, and

that shall come to pass, let them

declare.

*Fear ye not, neither be afraid; Have I not announced unto thee of

old, and declared it? And ye are My witnesses. Is there a God beside Me? Yea, there is no Rock; I know not

any.

"They that fashion a graven image

are all of them vanity, And their delectable things shall

not profit; And their own witnesses see not,

nor know;

That they may be ashamed. 10 Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image

That is profitable for nothing? "Behold, all the fellows thereof shall

be ashamed; And the craftsmen skilled above

men; Let them all be gathered together,

let them stand up; They shall fear, they shall be

ashamed together.

^he smith maketh an axe, And worketh in the coals, and fash-

ioneth it with hammers, And worketh it with his strong arm; Yea, he is hungry, and his strength

faileth;

He drinketh no water, and is faint, ^he carpenter stretcheth out a line; He marketh it out with a pencil; He fitteth it with planes, And he marketh it out with the

compasses, And maketh it after the figure of a

man, According to the beauty of a man,

to dwell in the house. 14 He heweth him down cedars,

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Ami takr'th the ilex and the ozik, ; And tftrengthonoth for himself onej

among tho trees of the forest; j He planteth a hay-tree, tuid thej

ram doth nourish it. !

iy Tht*n a man useth it for fuel; And he taketh thereof, and warm-

eth himself; Yea, he kindleth it, and baketh |

bread; |

Yea, he maketh a god, and worship-

peth it; !

He maketh it a graven image, and j

falleth down thereto. M He burneth the half thereof in the

fire; With the half thereof he eateth

fle>h;

He roast eth roast, and is satisfied Yea, he wurmeth himself, and saith

'Aha,

I am warm, I have seen the fire' 17 And the residue thereof he maketh

a god, even his graven image; He falleth down unto it and wor-

shipi>eth, and prayeth unto it, And saith: * Deliver me, for thou

art my god.*

1K They know not, neither do they

understand; Por their eyes are bedaubed, that

they cannot see, And their hearts, that they cannot

understand.

19 And none^considereth in his heart, Neither is there knowledge nor

understanding to say: 'I have burned the half of it in the

fire; Yea, also I have baked bread upon

the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it; And shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a

tree?'

20 He striyeth after ashes, A deceived heart hath turned him

aside, That he cannot deliver his soul,

nor say: ' Is there*not a lie in my right hand?'

^Remember these things, 0 Jacob,

And Israel, for thou art My servant;

I have formed thee, thou art Mine pwn servant;

0 Israel, thou shouldest not forget

Me.

^1 have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,

And, as a cloud, thy sins;

Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.

^Sing, 0 ye heavens, for the LORD hath done it;

Shout, ye lowest parts of the earth;

Break forth into singing, ye mountains,

0 forest, and every tree therein; For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, • And doth glorify Himself in Israel.

24 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, And He that formed thee from the womb:

1 am the LORD, that maketh all • things;

That stretched forth the heavens

alone-That spread abroad the earth by

Myself; 26 That frustrateth the tokens of the

impostors,

And maketh diviners mad; That turneth wise men backward, And maketh their knowledge foolish; 26 That eonfirmeth the word of His

servant, And performeth the counsel of His

messengers; That saith of Jerusalem: 'She shall

be inhabited';

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And of the cities of Judah: 'They! shall be built, |

And I will raise up the waste places j

thereof; i

27 That saith to the deep: *Be dry,!

And I will dry up thy rivers'; I

28 That saith of Cyrus: 'He is My shepherd,

And shall perform all My pleasure';

Even saying of Jerusalem: 'She shall be built';

And to the temple: 'Thy foundation shall be laid. 7

Thus saith the LORD to His

anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have

holden,

To subdue nations before him, And to loose the loins of kings; To open the doors before him, And that the gates may not be

shut:

2 I \vju go before thee, And make the crooked places

straight; I will break in pieces the doors of

brass, And cut in sunder the bars of

iron; *And I will give thee the treasures of!

darkness, ^

And hidden riches of secret places, That thou mayest know that I am

the LORD, ,

Who call thee by thy name, even

the God of Israel.

4 For the sake of Jacob My servant. And Israel Mine elect, I have called thee by thy name, I have surnamed thee, though thou

hast not known Me. & I am the LORD, and there is none

else,

Beside Me there is no God; I have girded thee, though thou

hast not known Me;

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the webt,

That there is none beside Me;

I am the LORD, and there is none else ;

7 1 form the light, and create dark-

I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

H Drop down, ye heavens, from above, And let the skies pour down right-

eousness; Let the earth open, that they may

bring forth salvation, And let her cause righteousness to

spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

9 Woe unto him that striveth with

his Maker, As a potsherd with the potsherds

of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that

fashionethit: ' What makest thou?' Or: 'Thy work, it hath no hands'? 10 Woe unto him that saith unto his

father: 'Wherefore begettest

thou? ; Or to a woman: 'Wherefore tra-

vailest thou?'

n Thus saith the LORD, The Holy One of Israel, and his

Maker-Ask Me of the things that are to

come; Concerning My sons, and concern-

ing the work of My hands, com-

mand ye Me.

1S I, even I, have made the earth, And created man upon it; I, even My hands, have stretched

out the heavens, And all their host have I command-

ed.

ISAIAH

L1 I have roused him up in victory, And I make level idl his ways; He hhull build My city, And he* tfhall let Mine exilen go free, Not for price nor reward, Saith the LOUD of hosts. -

14 Thus saith the LORD:

The labour of Egypt, and the merchundifcw of Ethiopia,

And of the Salxnins, men of stature,

Shall come over unto thee, and they shall lie thine;

They shall go after thce, in chains they shall come over;

And they shall fall down unto thee,

They shall make nupplication unto tHee:

Surely God is in thee, and there ib none else,

There is no other God. "Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself,

0 God of Israel, the Saviour. lf 'They shall be ashamed, yea, confounded, all of them;

They sliali go in confusion together

that are makers of idols. 17 0 Israel, that art saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation;

Ye .shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

18 For thus saith the LORD that created

the heavens, He is God;

That formed the earth and made it, He established it, He created it not a waste, He formed

it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is none

else.

"I have not spoken in secret, In a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob: 'Seek ye Me in vain 1 ;

I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. 20 Assemble yourselves and come,

draw near together, Ye that are escaped of the nations; They have no knowledge that carry

the wood of their graven image, And pray unto a god that cannot

save.

21 Declare ye, and bring them near, Yea, let them take counsel together: Who hath announced this from

ancient time, And declared it of old? Have not I the LORD? And there is no God else beside Me; A just God and a Saviour; There is none beside Me. ^Look unto Me, and be ye saved, All the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is none

else.

^By Myself have I sworn, The word is gone forth from My

mouth in righteousness, And shall not come back, That unto Me every knee shall

bow,

Every tongue shall swear. ^Only in the LORD, shall one say of

Me, is victory and strength; Even to Him shall men come in

confusion, All they that were incensed against

Him. 26 In the LORD shall all the seed of

Israel Be justified, and shall glory.

A Ci Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; TU Their idols are upon the beasts,

and upon the cattle; The things that ye carried about

are made a load, A burden to the weary beast.

stoop, they bow down together,

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They could not deliver the burden;

And themselves are gone into captivity.

3 Hearken unto Me, 0 house of Jacob,

And all the remnant of the house of Israel,

That are borne [by Me] from the birth,

That are carried from the womb:

4 Even to old age I am the same,

And even to hoar hairs will I carry you;

I have made, and I will bear;

Yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

6 To whom will ye liken Me, and

make Me equal, And compare Me, that we may "be

like?

6 Ye that lavish gold out of the bag, And weigh silver in the balance; Ye that ^ hire a goldsmith, that he

make it a god,

To fall down thereto, yea, to worship. 7 He is borne upon the shoulder, he

is carried, And set in his place, and he stand-

eth,

From his place he doth not remove; Yea, though one cry unto him, he

cannot answer, Nor save him out of his trouble.

8 Remember this, and stand fast;

Bring it to mind, 0 ye transgressors.

9 Remember the former things of old:

That I am God, and there is none else;

I am God, and there is none like

Me;

10 Declaring the end from the begm-ning,

And from ancient times things that are not yet done;

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Saying: 'My counsel shall stand, And all My pleasure will I do 7 ; "Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man of My counsel from a far

country; Yea, I have spoken, I will also

bring it to pass, I have purposed, I will also do it.

"Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, That are far from righteousness:

13 I bring near My righteousness, it

shall not be far off, And My salvation shall not tarry, And I will place salvation in Zion For Israel My glory.

4*7 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the ground without a throne,

0 daughter of the Chaldeans; For thou shalt no more be called Tender and delicate.

^ake the millstones, and grind meal; Remove thy veil,

Strip off the train, uncover the leg, Pass through the rivers. 3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, Yea, thy shame shall be seen;

1 will take vengeance,

And will let no man intercede, *0ur Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name,

The Holy One of Israel.

^it thou silent, and get thee into

0 daughter of the Chaldeans; For thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms*

6 I was wroth with My people,

1 profaned Mine inheritance, And gave them into thy hand; Thou didst show them no mercy; Upon the aged hast thou very

Laid thy yoke. 7 And thou saidst:

ISAIAH

'For ever «hall I be mistress';

So that thou didst not lay these'

things to thy heart, 1

Neither didst remember the end j

thereof.

8 Now therefore hear thin, thou that,

art given to pleasures, That sittest securely, That sayest in thy heart: ' I am, and there is none else beside

I shall not sit as a widow, {

Neither shall I know the loss of j children'; '

•But these two things shall come to thee in a moment

In one day,

The loss of children, and widowhood;

In their full measure shall theyj come upon thee,

For the multitude of thy sorceries,

And the great abundance of thine enchantments.

10 And thou hast been secure in thy

wickedness,

Thou hast said: 'Noneseethme'; Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It hath perverted thee; And thou hast said in thy heart: 'I am, and there is none else beside

me/

11 Yet shall evil come upon thee; Thou shalt not know how to charm

it away;

And calamity shall fall upon thee; Thou shalt not be able to put it

away; And ruin shall come upon thee

suddenly, Before thou knowest.

12 Stand now with thine enchantments, And with the multitude of thy

sorceries,

Wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth;

If so be thou shalt be able to profit,

If so be thou may eat prevail. "Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels;

Let now the astrologers, the star* gazers,

The monthly prognosticators,

Stand up, and save thee

From the things that -shall come

upon thee, "Behold, they shall be as stubble;

The fire shall burn them;

They shall not deliver themselves

From the power of the flame;

It shall not be a coal to warm at,

Nor a fire to sit before. 16 Thus shall they be unto thee

With whom thou hast laboured;

They that have trafficked with thee from thy youth

Shall wander every one to his quarter;

There shall be none to save thee.

AQ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of

Israel, And are come forth out of the

fountain of Judah; Who swear by the name of the LORD, And make mention of the God of

Israel,

But not in truth, nor in righteousness. 2 For they call themselves of the

holy city, And stay themselves upon the God

of Israel,

The LORD of hosts is His name. 3 I have declared the former things

from of old; Yea, they went forth out of My

mouth, and I announced them; Suddenly I did them, and they came

to pass.

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art 1

4 Because I knew that thou

obstinate,

And thy neck is an iron sinew, And thy brow brass; ^Therefore I have declared it to

thee from of old; Before it came to pass I announced

it to thee; t

Lest thou shouldest say: 'Minej

idol hath done them, ,

And my graven image, and my

molten image, hath commanded

them.'

6 Thou hast heard, see, all this; And ye, will ye not declare it? I have announced unto thee new)

things from this time, Even hidden things, which thou hast

not known. 7 They are created now, and not from

of old, And before this day thou heardest

them not; Lest thou shouldest say: 'Behold,

I knew them.' 8 Yea, thou heardest not; Yea, thou knewest not; Yea, from of old thine ear was not

opened; For I knew that thou wouldest

deal very treacherously, And wast called a transgressor

from the womb. 9 For My name's sake will I defer

Mine anger, And for My praise will I refrain

for thee,

That I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but

not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of

affliction. n For Mine own sake, for Mine own

sake, will I do it; For how should it be profaned? And My glory will I not give to

another:

^Hearken unto Me, 0 Jacob,

And Israel My called:

I am He; I am the first,

I also am the last.

13 Yea, My hand hath laid the foundation of the earth,

And My right hand hath spread out the heavens;

When I call unto them,

They stand up together. "Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear;

Which among them hath declared these things?

He whom the LOBD loveth shall perform His pleasure on Babylon,

And show His arm on the Chaldeans. 16 I, even I, have spoken, yea, I have called him;

I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

16 Come ye near unto Me, hear ye

this: From the beginning I have not

spoken in secret; From the time that it was, there

am I; Ajad now the Lord GOD hath sent

me, and His spirit.

17 Thus saith the LOBD, thy Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: I am the LOED thy God, Who teacheth thee for thy profit, Who leadeth thee by the way that

thou shouldest go. I8 0h that thou wouldest hearken to

My commandments! Then would thy peace be as a

river, And thy righteousness as the wav^s

of the sea;

19 Thy seed also would be as the sand, And the offspring of thy body

like the grains thereof;

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His name would not be cut off Nor destroyed from before Me.

s °Go ye forth from Babylon,

Flee ye from the Chaldeans;

With a voice of singing

Declare ye, tell this,

Utter it even to the end of the earth

Say ye: 'The LORD hath redeemec

His servant Jacob. 21 And they thirsted not

When He led them through the deserts;

He caused the waters to flow

Out of the rock for them;

He cleaved the rock also,

And the waters gushed out.' ^here is no peace,

Saith the LORD concerning the wicked,

ACl Listen, 0 isles, unto me, ^^ And hearken, ye peoples, from

far: The LORD hath called me from the

womb, From the bowels of my mother hath

He made mention of my name; 2 And He hath made my mouth like

a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand hath He

hid me; And He hath made me a polished

shaft, In His quiver hath He concealed

me; a And He said unto me:-"Thou art

My servant,

Israel, in whom I will be glorified/ 4 But I said: 'I have laboured in

vain, I have spent my strength for nought

and vanity; Yet surely my right is with the

LOKD,

And my recompense with my God.' *And now saith the LORD

That formed me from the womb to

be His servant, To bring Jacob back to Him, And that Israel be gathered unto

Him— For I am honourable in the eyes of

the LORD, And my God is become my

strength— 6 Yea, He saith: 'It is too light a

thing that thou shouldest be

My servant

To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the offspring of

Israel: I will also give thee for a light of

the nations, That My salvation may be unto

the end of the earth.'

7 Thus saith the LORD,

The Redeemer of Israel, his Holy

One,

To ham who is despised of men, To him who is abhorred of nations, To a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, Princes, and they shall prostrate

themselves;

Because of the LORD that is faithful, Even the Holy One of Israel, who

hath chosen thee.

Thus saith the LORD:

In an acceptable time have I answered thee,

And in a day of salvation have I helped thee;

And I will preserve thee, and give thee

For a covenant of the people,

To raise up the land,

To cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

laying to the prisoners: 'Go forth';

To them that are in darkness: 'Show yourselves';

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They shall feed in the ways,

And in all high hills shall be their

pasture;

10 They shall not hunger nor thirst, Neither shall the heat nor sun

smite them; For He that hath compassion on

them will lead them, Even by the springs of water will

He guide them. "And I will make all My mountains

a way. And My highways shall be raised

on high.

12 Behold, these shall come from far; And, lo, these from the north and

from the west, And these from the land of Sinim,

13 Sing, 0 heavens, and be joyful, O

earth, And break forth into singing, 0

mountains; For the LORD hath comforted His

people, And hath compassion upon His

afflicted.

14 But Zion said: "The LORD hath

forsaken me,

And the Lord hath forgotten me.' "Can a woman forget her sucking

child,

That she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, Yet will not I forget thee. 16 Behold, I have graven thee upon

the palms of My hands; Thy walls are continually before

Me.

17 Thy children make haste; Thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth from thee.

l8 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold:

All these gather themselves together, and come to thee.

As I live, saith the LORD,

Thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament,

And gird thyself with them, like a

bride.

"For thy waste and thy desolate places

And thy land that hath been destroyed— y

Surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants,

And they that swallowed thee up

shall be far away. ™ThQ children of thy bereavement

Shall yet say in thine ears:

The place is too strait for me;

Give place to me that I may dwell/ 21 Then shalt thou say in thy heart:

'Who hath begotten me these,

Seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary,

An exile, and wandering to and fro?

And who hath brought up these?

Behold, I was left alone;

These, where were they?'

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD:

Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations,

And set up Mine ensign to the peoples,

And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom,

And thy daughters shall be carried

upon their shoulders. ^And kings shall be thy foster-fathers,

And thftir queens thy nursing mothers;

They shall bow down to thee with their face to the earth,

And lick the dust of thy feet;

And thou shalt know that I am the LORD,

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For they shall not be ashamed that wait for Me.

24 Shall the prey be taken from the

mighty, Or tin* captive* of the victorious be

delivered?

M H»t thas saith the LORD: Even the captives of the mighty

yhall be taken away, ^ And the prey of the terrible shall

bo delivered; And I will contend with him that

contendeth with thee, And I will save thy children. ^And I will feed them that oppress

th«*e with their own flesh; ]

And they shall Ixj drunken with!

their own blood, as with sweet j

wine; i

And ail fl«*h shall know that I the,

LORD am thy Saviour, i

Ahd thy Redeemer, the Mighty I

One of Jacob. I

i

£1/1 Thus saith the LORD: '

Where w the bill of your mother's divorcement, ' Wherewith I have put her away? ! Or which of My creditors is it , To whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye

sold. And for your transgressions was

your mother put away. 2 Wherefore, when I came, was there

no man? When I called, was there none to

answer? Is My hand shortened at all, that

it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the

sea,

I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish become foul, because there is no water,

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And die for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, And I make sackcloth their covering.

4 The Lord GOD hath given me The tongue of them that are taught, That I should know how to sustain

with words him that is weary; He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear To hear as they that are taught. 6 The Lord GOD hath opened mine

ear,

And I was not rebellious, Neither turned away backward. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, And my cheeks to them that plucked

off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and

spitting.

7 For the Lord GOD will help me; Therefore have I not been confounded; Therefore have I set my face like

a flint, And I know that I shall not be

ashamed.

8 He is near that justifieth me; Who will contend with me? let us

stand up together; Who is mine adversary? let him

come near to me.

'Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; Who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall wax old as a

garment, The moth shall eat them up.

10 Who is among you that feareth

the LORD, That obeyeth the voice of His

servant?

Though he walketh in darkness, And hath no light, Let him trust in the name of the

LORD,

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And stay upon his God. j

"Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, ;

That gird yourselves with fire- j

brands, I

Begone in the flame of your fire, j

And among the brands that ye have ,

kindled. i

This shall ye have of My hand; j

Ye shall lie clown in sorrow.

£ 1 Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, i

Ye that seek the LORD; j

Look unto the rock whence ye were '

hewn, I

And to the hole of the pit whence ye

were digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah that bore you; For when he was but one I called

him, And I blessed him, and made him

many.

3 For the LORD hath comforted Zion; He hath comforted all her waste

places, And hath made her wilderness like

Eden, And her desert like the garden of

the LORD; Joy and gladness shall be found

therein, !

Thanksgiving, and the voice of'

melody. j

4 Attend unto Me, 0 My people, j And give ear unto Me, 0 My nation; For instruction shall go forth from

Me, And My right on a sudden for a

light of the peoples. 6 My favour is near, My salvation is gone forth, And Mine arms shall judge the

peoples;

The isles shall wait for Me, And on Mine arm shall they trust.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

And look upon'the earth beneath;

For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke,

And the earth shall wax old like a garment,

And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner;

But My salvation shall be for ever,

And My favour shall not be abolished.

7 Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness,

The people in whose heart is My law;

Fear ye not the taunt of men,

Neither be ye dismayed at their revi lings.

8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment,

And the worm shall eat them like wool;

But My favour shall be for ever,

And My salvation unto all generations.

9 Awake, awake, put on strength, 0 arm of the LORD; Awake, as in the days of old, The generations of ancient times. Art thou not it that hewed Rahab

in pieces,

That pierced the dragon? 10 Art thou not it that dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea

a way

For the redeemed to pass over? "And the ransomed of the LORD

shall return,

And come with singing unto Zion, And everlasting joy shall be upon

their heads;

They shall obtain gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing shall flee

away.

ISAIAH

B I, even I, am He that eomforteth

you; !

Who art thou, that thou art afraid '

of man that shall die T \

And of the son of man that shall be?

made as grass; I

"And hast forgotten the LORD thy

Maker,

That stretched forth the heavens. And laid the foundations of the

earth;

And fearest continually all the day' Because of the fury of the oppressor,! As he makcth ready to destroy? ' And where is the "fury of the op-1

pressor? |

l4 He that is bent down shall speedily j

be loosed: !

And he shall not go down dying into'

the pit,

Neither shall his bread fail. lv For I am the LORD thy God, Who stirreth up the sea, that the

waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is His name. I6 And I have put My words in thy |

mouth, |

And have covered thee in the shad-1

ow of My hand, |

That I may plant the heavens, i And lay the foundations of the earth, \ And say unto Zion: 'Thou art My

people/

17 Awake, awake, Stand up, 0 Jerusalem, That hast drunk at the hand of the

LORD

The cup of His fury; Thou hast drunken the beaker, even

the cup of staggering, And drained it. 18 There is none to guide her Among all the sons whom she hath

brought forth; Neither is there any that taketh

her by the hand

Of all the sons that she hath brought

up.

* These two things are befallen thee; Who shall bemoan thee? Desolation and destruction, and the

famine and the sword; How shall I comfort thee? 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at

the head of all the streets, AH an antelope in a net; They are full of the fury of the LORD, The rebuke of thy God. 21 Theref ore hear now this, thou afflict-

ed,

And drunken, but not with wine; *Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, A nd thy G od that pleadeth the cause

of His people: Behold, I have taken out of thy

hand

The cup of staggering; The beaker, even the cup of My f ury, Thou shalt no more drink it again; M And I will put it into the hand of

them that afflict thee; That have said to thy soul 'Bow down, that we may go over'; And thou hast laid thy back as the

ground, And as the street, to them that go

over.

Awake, awake,

Put on thy strength, 0 Zion; Put on thy beautiful garments, 0 Jerusalem, the holy city; For henceforth there shall no more

come into thee

The uncircumcised and the unclean. ''Shake thyself from the dust; Arise, and sit down, 0 Jerusalem; Loose thyself from the bands of thy

neck, 0 captive daughter of Zion,

3 For thus saith the LORD: Ye were sold for nought;

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And ye shall be redeemed without

money.

4 For thus saith the Lord GOD: My people went down aforetime

into Egypt to sojourn there; And the Assyrian oppressed them

without cause. *Now therefore, what do I here,

saith the LORD, Seeing that My people is taken

away for nought? They that rule over them do howl,

saith the LORD, And My name continually all the

day is blasphemed, therefore My people shall know

My name; Therefore they shall know in that

day That I, even He that spoke, behold,

here I am.

7 How beautiful upon the mountains

Are the feet of the messenger of good tidings,

That announceth peace, the harbinger of good tidings,

That announceth salvation;

That saith unto Zion:

'ThyGodreigneth!' 8 Hark, thy watchmen! they lift up the voice,

Together do they sing;

For they shall see, eye to eye,

The LORD returning to Zion. 9 Break forth into joy, sing together,

Ye waste places of Jerusalem;

For the LORD hath comforted His people,

He hath redeemed Jerusalem. IO The LORD hath made bare His holy arm

In the eyes of all the nations;

And all the ends of the earth shall

The salvation of our God.

"Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out

from thence, Touch no unclean thing; Go ye out of the midst of her; be

ye clean, Ye that bear the vessels of the

LORD.

12 For ye shall not go out in haste, Neither shall ye go by flight; For the LORD will go before you, And the God of Israel will be your

rearward.

"Behold, My servant shall prosper, He shall be exalted and lif ted up, and

shall be very high. "According as many were appalled

at thee— So marred was his visage unlike

that of a man, And his form unlike that of the

sons of men—

15 So shall he startle many nations, Kings shall shut their mouths because of him; For that which had not been told

them shall they see, And that which they had not heard

shall they perceive. £Q 'Who would have believed our 00 report? And to whom hath the arm of the

LORD been revealed? 2 For he shot up right forth as a

sapling,

And as a root out of a dry ground; He had no form nor comeliness,

that we should look upon Mm, Nor beauty that we should delight

in him.

3 He was despised, and forsaken of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with

disease, And as one from whom men hide

their face: He was despised, and we esteemed

him not.

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Purely our disea&en he clid bear, and

our pains he carried; Whereas we did esteem him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. *But he was wounded because of! our transgressions, I

He was crushed because of our, iniquities: j

The chastisement of our welfare! was upon him, '

And with his stripes we were healed. | 'All we like sheep did go astray, ] We turned every one to his own

way; And the LORD hath made to light

on him