.7- !-■ ^ tihvavy of trhe trheolojfcal ^emmar^ PRINCETON • NEW JERSEY •(J^B* PRESENTED BY Princeton University Library BSie>8 f\ B9 >-> ^U'-^;-' , ___ __ 'T^c.vv 9ea THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS AND THE APOCRYPHA TEANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES : BEING THE VERSION SET FOETH A.D. 1611 COMPAEED WITH THE MOST ANCIENT AUTHOEITIES AND EEVISED. PRINTED FOR THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1895 3Ii)non 8vo. All Rights reserved. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTEId by J. AND C. F. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. THE NAMES AND ORDER OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. Page Pape Genesis . . 1 ecclesiastes The Song of Songs .... Isaiah Jeeemiah . 494 . 499 . 504 . 543 . 588 . 593 Exodus . . 41 Leviticus . . 76 NUMBEES . . 101 . . 137 Deuteeonomy Lamentations Ezekiel Joshua . . 167 Judges 188 Daniel . 684 EuTH 208 I. Samuel 211 II. Samuel 287 I. Kings 259 II. Kings 284 I. Chronicles 808 II. Cheonicles , . . 830 EzEA 858 Nehemiah 366 ESTHEE 377 Job 383 The Psalms 409 The Proveebs 472 HosEA 646' Joel 652 Amos 654', Obadiah 658 Jonah 659 MiCAH 661 Nahum 664 Habakkuk _ . 665 Zephakiah 667 Haggai 669 Zechaeiah 670 Malachi 677 '^TJt^^' ■J 1 4 KJ> L-si . J_ "til \3 "^^^ (K (. THE NAMES AND ORDER BOOKS CALLED APOCRYPHA. Page I. ESDEAS 1 II. ESDRAS 14 ToBiT 38 Judith 46 The eest of Esther 58 The Wisdom of Solomon ... 61 ecclesiasticds 78 Bakuch, with the Epistle of Jeeemiah 119 The Song of the Three Holy Children The History of Susanna Bel and the Dragon The Prayer of Manasses I. Maccabees .... II. Maccabees .... Page 125 126 128 129 130 156 THE NAMES AND ORDER OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. Page S. Matthew 1 S. Mark 26 S. Luke 41 S. John 68 The Acts 88 To the Eomans 114 I. Corinthians 124 II. Corinthians 134 To the Galatians 141 To the Ephesians 144 To the Philippians 148 To THE Colossians 150 I. Thessalonians 152 II. Thessalonians 155 Page I. Timothy 156 II. Timothy 159 To Titus 161 To Philemon 162 To the Hebrews 162 James 170 I. Peter 173 II. Peter 176 I. John 178 II. John 180 III. John 181 JUDE 181 Kevelation 182 PEEFACE. The Revision of the Authorised Version was undertaken in consequence of a Resohitiou passed by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, as has been fully explained in the Preface to the Revised Version of the New Testament, which was hrst published in May 1881. When the two Companies were appointed for cai-rying out this work, the following Cieneral Principles, among others, were laid down by the Revision Committee of Convocation for their guidance : — '1. To introduce as few alterations as possible into the Text of the Authorised Version consistently with faithfulness.' ' 2. To limit, as far as possible, the expression of such alterations to the language of tlie Authorised and earlier English Versions.' '4. That the Text to be adopted be that for which the evidence is decidedly preponderating ; and that when the Text so adopted difters from that from which the Authorised Version was made, the alteration be indic- ated in tlie margin.' '7. To revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuation.' In order to shew the manner in which the Old Testament Company have endeavoured to carry out their instructions, it will be convenient to treat the subjects mentioned in the foregoing rules in a somewhat different order. It will be observed that in Rule 4 the word 'Text' is used in a different sense from that in Rule 1, and in the case of the Old Testament denotes the Hebrew or Aramaic original of the several books. In this respect the task of the Revisers has been much simi)ler than that which the New Testament Company had before them. The Received, or, as it is commonly called, the IMassoretic Text of the Old Testament Scriptures has come down to us in manuscripts which are of no very great antiquity, and which all belong to the same family or recension^. That other recensions were at one time in existence is probable from the variations in the Ancient Versions, the oldest of which, namely the Greek or Septuagint, was made, at least in part, some two centuries before the Christian era. But as the state of knowledge on the subject is not at jjresent such as to justify any attempt at an entire reconstruction of the text on the authority of the Versions, the Revisers have thought it most j^rudent to adopt the Massoretic Text as the basis of their work, and to depart from it, as the Authorised Translators had done-, only in exceptional cases. AVith regard to the variations in the Massoretic Text itself, the Re\isers have endeavoured to translate what appeared to them to be the best reading in the text, and where the alternative reading seemed sufficiently probable or important they have placed it in the margin. In some few instances of extreme difficulty a reading has been adopted on the authority of the Ancient Versions, and the departure from, the Massoretic Text recorded in the margin. In other cases, where the versions appeared to supply a very probable though not so necessary a correction of the text, the text has been left and the variation indicated in the margin only. In endeavouring to carry out as fully as possible the spirit of Rules 1 and 2, the Revisers have borne in mind that it was their duty not to make a new translation but to revise one already existing, which for more than two 1 The earliest MS. of which the age is certainly kno-mi bears date a.d. 916. 2 See, for instance, 2 Sam. xvi. 12; 2 Chi-, iii. 1, xxii. 6; Job xxxvii. 7; Ezek. xlvi. 10; Am. V. 26; Has. i. 2. vi PREFACE. centuries and a half had held the position of an English classic. They have therefore departed from it only in cases where they disagreed with the Translators of 1611 as to the meaning or construction of a word or sentence ; or where it was necessary for the sake of uniformity to render such parallel passages as were identical in Hebrew by the same English words, so that an English reader might know at once by comparison that a diflerence in the translation corresponded to a difference in the original; or where the language of the Authorised Version was liable to be misunderstood by reason of its being archaic or obscure ; or finally, where the rendering of an earlier English version seemed preferable, or where by an apparently slight change it was possible to bring out more fully the meaning of a passage of which the trans- lation was already substantially accurate. It has been thought advisable in regard to the word 'Jehovah' to follow the usage of the Authorised Version, and not to insert it uniformly in place of 'Lord ' or ' God', which when printed in small capitals represent the words substituted by Jewish custom for the ineffable Name according to the vowel points by which it is distinguished. It will be found therefore that in this respect the Authorised Version has been departed from only in a few passages, in which the introduction of a proper name seemed to be required. Terms of natural history have been changed only where it was certain that the Authorised Version was incorrect and where there was sufficient evidence for the substituted rendering. In cases of doubt the alternative rendering has been given in the margin ; and even where no doubt existed, but where there was no familiar English equivalent for the original word, the Old Version has been allowed to remain ^, and the more accurate term has been placed in the margin. In some words of very frequent occurrence, the Authorised Version being either inadequate or inconsistent, and sometimes misleading, changes have been introduced with as much uniformity as appeared practicable or desirable. For instance, 'the tabernacle of the congregation' has been everywhere changed to ' the tent of meeting', on account of Exodus xxv. 22, xxix. 42, 43, and also because 'the talaernacle of the congregation' conveys an entirely wrong sense. The words 'tabernacle' and 'tent', as the renderings of two different Hebrew words, are in the Authorised Version frequently inter- changed in such a manner as to lead to confusion ; and the Revisers have endeavoured throughout the Pentateuch to preserve a consistent distinction between them. Their practice in regard to the words ' assembly ' and ' con- gregation' has been the same in principle, although they have contented themselves with introducing greater consistency of rendering without aiming at absolute uniformity. In consequence of the changes which have taken place in the English language, the term ' meat offering ' has become in- appropriate to describe an offering of which flesh was no part ; and by the alteration to 'meal offering' a sufficiently accurate representation of the original has been obtained with the least possible change of form. As regards the use of words, there are only a few cases in which it has Ijeen found needful to deviate from the language employed in the Authorised Version. One of these deviations occurs so frequently that it may be well to state briefly why it was adopted. The word 'peoples' was nowhere used by King James's Translators in the Old Testament, and in the New Testament it occurs only twice (Rev. x. 11, xvii. 15). The efiect of this was to leave the rendering of numerous passages inadequate or obscure or even positively misleading. Thus in one of the best known Psalms (Ps. Ixvii.), where the Septuagint has Xaol and the Yxilgate popidi, the English had 'Let the people praise thee, 0 God ; let all the people praise thee'; leaving it at least doubtful 1 As for iustance, ' coney ' (Lev. xi. 5), ' fitches ' (Is. xx^iii. 25, 27), ' gourd ' (Jon. iv. 6). whether the 'nations' of verse 4, or God's people, Israel, be referred to. And in Isaiah Iv. 4, ' Behold, I have given him for a witness to the i)eople, a leader and conunander to the people', the word 'people' is naturally understood by the English reader to refer to Israel. Again, the Hebrew \voi\\ (/o>/im 'nations', which is applied to the nations of Canaan dispo.ssessed by the Hebrews, and then also to the surrounding nations among whom the people of Israel were afterwards dispersed, acquired in later times a moral significance, which is represented in the Authorised Ver.sion by the rendering 'heathen' or 'Gentiles'. While recognizing this moral sense of the word, the Revisers have employed it much more sparingly than their ])redecessors had done. Similarly, the Hebrew tS/teul, which signifies the abode of departed spirits, and corresponds to the Greek Hades, or the under w^orld, is variously rendered in the Authorised Version by 'grave', 'pit', and 'hell'. Of these renderings 'hell', if it could be taken in its original sense as used in the Creeds, would be a fiiirly adequate equivalent for the Hebi-ew word ; but it is so commonly understood of the place of torment that to employ it frequently would lead to inevitable misunderstanding. The Revisers therefore in the historical narratives have left the rendering 'the grave' or 'the pit' in the text, with a marginal note 'Heb. Sheol' to indicate that it does not signify 'the place of burial'; while in the poetical writings they have put most commonly 'Sheol' in the text and 'the grave' in the margin. In Isaiah xiv. however, where ' hell ' is used in more of its original sense and is less liable to be mis- understood, and where any change in so familiar a passage which was not distinctly an improvement would be a decided loss, the Revisers have con- tented themselves with leaving ' hell ' in the text, and have connected it with other passages by putting ' Sheol ' in the margin. In connexion with this it may be mentioned that ' Abaddon ', which has hitherto been known to the English reader of the Bible only from the New Testament (Rev. ix. 11), has been introduced in three passages (Job xxvi. 6; Prov. XV. 11, xxvii. 20), where a proper name appears to be required for giving _ vividness and point. The Hebrew word Asherah, which is uniformly and wrongly rendered 'grove' in the Authorised Version, most probably denotes the wooden symbol of a goddess ; and the Revisers therefore have not hesitated to introduce it as a proper name in the singular (Judg. vi. 25, &c.), with the plurals Asherim (Ex. xxxiv. 13, (Sec.) and Asheroth (Judg. iii. 7, &c.), following the analogy of the Baalim (Judg. iii. 7) and the Ashtaroth (Judg. ii. 13), which are already familiar. In regard to the language of the Authorised Version, the Revisers have thought it no part of their duty to reduce it to conformity with modern usage, and have therefore left untouched all archaisms, whether of language or construction, which though not in familiar use cause a reader no embarrass- ment and lead to no misunderstanding. They are aware that in so doing they will disappoint the large English-speaking race on the other side of the Atlantic, and it is a question upon which they are prepared to agree to a friendly difference of opinion. The principle by which they have been guided has been clear and consistent. Where an archaic word or expression was liable to be misunderstood or at least was not perfectly intelligible, they have substituted for it another, in equally good use at the time the Authorised Version was made, and expressing all that the archaism was intended to convey, but more familiar to the modern reader. In such cases the gain was greater than the loss. But in other instances where the word or ex- pression, although obsolete, was not unintelligible, it was thought that the change would involve greater loss than gain, and the old rendering was therefore allowed to stand. More especially was this the case when the archaism was a perfectly correct rendering of the original and there was no PREFACE. exact modern equivalent for it. The principle adopted by the Company will be best illustrated by two typical examples. The verb ' to ear ' in the sense of 'to plough' and the substantive 'earing 'for 'ploughing' were very reluctantly abandoned, and only because it was ascertained that their meaning was unknown to many persons of good intelligence and education. But it was easy to put in their place equivalents which had a pedigree of almost equal antiquity, and it would have been an excess of conservatism to refuse to substitute for an unintelligible archaism an expression to which no ambiguity could be attached. On the other hand the word 'boiled' (Ex. ix. 31), which signifies ' podded for seed ' and is known in provincial dialects, has no synonym in literary English. To have discarded it in favour of a less accurate or more paraphrastic expression would have been to impoverish the language ; and it was therefore left, because it exactly expresses one view which is taken of the meaning of the original. One of the few instances in which the language of the Authorised Version has been modified in accordance with later usage is the change of the neuter possessive pronoun from ' his ' to ' its '. It is well known that ' its ' does not occur in the Bible of 1611, and it does not appear to have been introduced into any edition before 1660. But it is found ten times in Shakespeare, and there is other evidence to shew that at the time of the Authorised Version it was coming into use. It was found necessary in some cases to substitute ' its ' for ' his ' in order to avoid obscurity, and there seemed no good reason, when it was once introduced, for refusing to admit it generally when it re- ferred to purely inanimate objects. In making minor changes, whether in translation or language, the Revisers have followed the example of the translators of the Authoi'ised Version, who allowed themselves in this respect a reasonable freedom, without permitting their liberty to degenerate into license. It will be at once seen that the old division of the books into chapters and verses has been abandoned in favour of the arrangement in paragraphs, jthe numbering of the chapters and verses being however retained for con- venience of reference. Where the change of subject seemed to require a greater lireak than was marked by the beginning of a new paragraph, it has been indicated by a space before the paragraph. Occasionally the divisions of the chapters in the Authorised Version differ from those in the common Hebi^ew Bibles. In such cases the variations are given in the margin. In the Psalms, the titles are printed in smaller type, as in some modern English Bibles, which differ in this respect from the edition of 1611. One con- sequence of the arrangement in paragraphs has been the omission of the headings of chapters, which for other and more important reasons it was thought advisable to abandon, as involving questions which belong rather to the province of the commentator than to that of the translator. With the headings of chapters the head-lines of pages naturally disappeared also, and for the same reason. In the poetical portions, besides the division into paragraphs, the Revisers have adopted an arrangement in lines, so as to exhibit the parallelism which is characteristic of Hebrew Poetry. But they have not extended this arrange- ment to the prophetical books, the language of which although frequently marked by parallelism is, except in purely lyrical passages, rather of the nature of lofty and impassioned prose. In the use of italics the Revisers departed from the custom of the Authorised Version and adopted as their rule the following resolution of their Company : ' That all such words now printed in italics, as are plainly implied in the Hebrew and necessary in English, be printed in common type.' But where any doubt existed as to the exact rendering of the Hebrew, all words which have been added in order to give completeness to the English expression are printed in italic tj-pe, so that the reader by omitting them may be able to see how far their insertion is justiticd by the words of the original. This of conrse is especially true of those renderings for which an alternative is given in the margin, where the roman and italic type play exactly opposite }>arts. To complete the account of the Revised Version it remains only to describe the marginal notes. These will be found to contain (1) The renderings of such variations in the Massoretic Text as appeared to be of sufficient importance. These variations are known by the technical names of K'ri (read) and (J'thib {written), which denote that the K'ri, or reading in the margin of the Hebrew Bible, is to be substituted for the C'thib which appears in the written text. The Revisers have generally, though not uniformly, rendered the C'thib in the text, and left the K'ri in the margin, with the introductory note ' Or, according to another reading ', or ' Another reading is '. "When the K'ri has been followed in the text, the C'thib has been placed in the margin, if it represented a variation of sufficient importance. (2) Alternative renderings, introduced by 'Or'. These are either dif- fei'ent meanings of the word or passage, or they serve to connect it with other renderings elsewhere. (3) Literal -renderings of the Hebrew or Aramaic, indicated by the prefix ' Heb.' or 'Aram.' (4) Changes of text made on the authority of the ancient Versions. (5) Readings from ancient Versions which appeared to be of sufficient importance to be noticed. (6) Renderings of the Hebrew consonants as read with different vowel points, or as differently divided. These are introduced by the words ' Or, as otherwise read'. (7) Marginal references to other passages, which are either strictly ])arallel, or serve the pm-pose of illustrating or justifying a particular ren- dering. (8) Explanations of certain proper names, the meaning of which is referred to in the text. In the Proper Names the Revisers have endeavoured to ascertain the system of transliteration adopted by the Translators of the Authorised Version and to carry it out with somewhat greater consistency. They have not how- ever attempted anything like rigid uniformit}^, and have left unchanged all those names which by usage have become English; as, for instance, Moses, Aaron, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the like. Among the Rules laid down by the Revision Committee of Convocation for the guidance of the Revisers was one that no change should be finally made in the text of the Authorised Version except by the vote of two-thirds of the Company present and voting; and this Rule has been invariably acted upon. The result has been that in many cases a rendering which was pre- ferred by the majority of the Company voting has been recorded in the margin, the majority not being sufficient to give it a place in the text. But all questions of marginal readings, as well as of punctuation and division into paragraphs, except where these affected the sense of a passage, were decided by a simple majority. It may be of some interest to describe the method observed by the Company in their work, if only to shew that every question raised was carefully and deliberately considered. In the first Revision it was the practice for the Secretary to read over each verse, first in the original and then in the Authorised Version : the proposals for change were then taken ; first those communicated in writing by absent members, and next those made by PREFACE. the members present. Each proposal was moved, and if seconded was dis- cussed and voted upon ; the decision in tlie first Revision being by a majority only. If a proposal met with no seconder, it was not discussed but allowed to drop. In the second Revision, the Secretary read out in order the changes which had been made at the first Revision ; if these were unchallenged they were allowed to remain, otherwise they were put to the vote and affirmed or rejected according as they were or were not supported by the requisite majority of two-thirds. In the second Revision new propositions could only be made by special permission of the Company, and discussion was limited, as far as possible, to exceptional cases. In the final review, which was in reality the completion of the second Revision, the Company employed themselves in making a general survey of what they had done, deciding finally upon reserved points, harmonizing inconsistencies, smoothing down roughnesses, removing unnecessary changes, and generally giving finish and completeness to their work. Everything in this final survey was decided by the vote of a majority of two-thirds. The Revisers had already made some progress, and had in fact gone twice through the Pentateuch, before they secured the co-operation of the American Old Testament Revision Company. The first Revision of the several books was submitted to the consideration of the American Revisers, and, except in the case of the Pentateuch, the English Company had the benefit of their criticisms and suggestions before they proceeded to the second Revision. The second Revision was in like manner forwarded to America, and the latest thoughts of the American Revisers were in the hands of the English Company at their final review. In every instance the suggestions from America were treated with the same consideration as those proceeding from members of the English Company, and were adopted or rejected on their merits. It was a part of the terms of agreement with the American Company that all points of ultimate difl:erence between them and the English Revisers should be placed on record, and they will accordingly be found fully stated at the end of the Old Testament, or at the end of the several portions, according as the Revised Version appears in one or more volumes. Many of them will be found to be changes of language which are involved in the essentially different circumstances of American and English readers ; others express a preference for the marginal rendering over that given in the text ; others again involve a real difference of opinion ; but all shew that they have been dictated by the same leading principle, the sincere desire to give to modern readers a faithful representation of the meaning of the original documents. It could not but be expected that in the course of fourteen years many changes would take place in the members of the Company. Of the original number who first put their hands to the work on the 3Uth of June 1870, only fifteen now remain. Ten of the Company have been removed by death, and two resigned: the places of these were filled from time to time by others; but since October 1875 no new members have been added. The Revision was completed in eighty-five sessions, ending on 20th June, 1884; and it occupied 792 days. The greater part of the sessions were for ten days each, and each day the Company generally sat for six hours. The labour therefore has been great, but it has been given ungrudgingly ; and now with a feeling of deep thankfulness to Almighty God, and the earnest hope that their endea- vours may with His blessing tend to a clearer knowledge of the Old Testament Scriptures, the Revisers bring their long task to a close. Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, 10 Juli/, 1884. THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED =N>-v '■ GENESIS. 1 Or, was brooding upon JHeb. expanse^ I In the bcgrinninfj God created the '2heaveu and the earth. And the earth was waste and Void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deeji : and the sjiirit of (iod Amoved upon the 3 face of the waters. And God said, Let there he light : and there was 4Ught. And God saw the hght, that it was good : and God divided the Hght 5 from the darkness. 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 he a -firma- ment in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And Goil made the tirmament, and di- vided the waters which were under the tirmament from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was 8 so. And God called the finuament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. 9 And God said, Let the waters mider the heaven be gathered together unto one iilace-, and let the dry laud ap- 10 1'car : and it was so. And God called the drj- land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : II and God saw that it was good. And God said. Let the earth put forth grass, herb yieldii;g seed, and fruit tree bear- ing fruit after its kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon theearth : and it was 12 so. And the earth brought forth gi'ass, herb yielding seed after its kuid, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after its kind : and God saw 13 that it was good. And there was even- uig and there was morning, a thiril day. 14 And God said, Let there be liglits in the fimiament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for 15 days and years : and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it 16 was so. And God made the two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the ITnight: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was 10 good. And there was evening and there was morning, a foui-th day. '20 And God said. Let the waters ^ bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and let fowl fly above the earth -^in the open fiiinament of 21 heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living crea- ture that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kinds, and every winged io\\\ after its kind: and God saw that it was 22 good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl niul- 23tiplj' iu the earth. And there was evening and there was morniug, a fifth day. 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creei)ing thuig, and beast of the earth after its kind : and it was 2.5 so. And God made the beast of the earth after its kmd, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeijeth u]ion the gi'ound after its kind : and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said. Let us make man in om' image, after our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and o^"er the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thuig that creepeth ux^on the earth. 27 And God created man in his own image, ui the image of God created he him ; male and female created he 28 them. And God blessed them : and God said unto them. Be fruitful, and nuiltiph', and replenish the earth, an.d subdue it ; and liave dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fo-nl of the air, and over every living thuig that 29 ''moveth upon the earth. And God said. Behold, I have given you every herb jielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yield- ing seed ; to you it shall be for meat : 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to evei-y fowl of the air, and to every thmg that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is ''life, / have given every gi'cen herb for meat : and it 31 was so. And God saw every thing that ho had made, and, behold, it was 3Heb. with Kwarmx of living crea- tures, 'as 24 taken out of ^Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and 25 they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 3 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not 2 eat of 10 any tree of the garden ? And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may 3 eat : 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 4 ye touch it, lest ye die.' And the ser- pent said unto the woman, Ye shall not 5 surely die : for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shaU be opened, and ye shall be as ^God, 6 knowing good and evil. 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 i^to be desu-ed to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat ; and she gave also mito her husband with her, 7 and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves 8 13 aprons. And they heard the i'* voice of the Lord God walking in the gar- den in the ^^ cool of the day : and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst 9 the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto the man, and said un- 10 to hmi. Where art thou ? And he said, I heard thy i^ voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked ; and 11 1 hid myself. Ajid he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked ? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I command- ed thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave 13 me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said mito the woman, What is this thou hast done '? And the avo- man said. The serx^ent beguiled me, 14 and I did eat. And the Lord God said imto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou i" above all cattle, and i'' above every beast of 4. 26. GENESIS. 1 Or, tie tviaU far 3Heb. Hawah^ ttvtt Is, Livinfl, or, Life, iHeb. kanah, to get "Or, shall it not be lifu-d up! 0 Or, M itt tie- sire, but thou thottldest rule over it 'Heb, laid unto. Many ancient authori- ties liave. said unto Abel hix brother. Let us (10 into the field. the field ; upon thj' 1)cllj' slialt tlioii go, and dust slialt thou eat all the daj-s of 15 thy life : and I will put enmity Ite- tween thee and the woman, and be- tween thy seed and her seed : it shall ihruiso thy head, and thou shalt 16 1 bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will gi-eatly multiply thy sor- row and thy conception ; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children ; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, 17 and he shall rule over thee. And luito Adam ho said. Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of tliy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I conananded thee, saying. Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed is the gi-ound for thj' sake ; in '■* toil shalt thou 18 eat of it all the daj-s of thy life ; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee ; and thou shalt eat the herb of 10 the field ; in the sweat of thy face slialt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground ; for out of it wast ;S— tl'O" taken : for dust thou art, and 20 unto dust shalt thou return. And the man called his wife's name <*Eve; lie- cause she was the mother of all living. "21 Aiid tlie Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skius, and clothed them. 22 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 li-v-e for ever : 23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 4 And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have ^gotten a man with 2 the help of the Lord. And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keei)er of sheep, but Cam was a StUler of the gromid. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground 4 an otfermg unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect rmto Abel and 5 to his offering : but unto Cain and to his ollering he had not respect. And Cain was very ■i\Toth, and his 6 countenance fell. And the Lord said luito Cain, ^Vhj- art thou wroth '? and 7 why is thy countenance fallen ? If thou doest well, » shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee '■shall be his desu'c, and thou 8 shalt rule over him. And Cain "' told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel liis l>rothcr, 9 and slew him. ^Vnd the Loud said mito Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not : am I my 10 brother's keeper ? And he said, Wliat hast thou done ? the voice of thy bro- ther's blood crieth unto me from the 11 ground. And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's 12 blood from thj- hand ; when thou tQlest the ground, it shall not hence- forth yield unto thee her strengtli ; a fugitive and a wanderer slialt tliou be loin the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, s My i>unishment is greater 14 •* than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that whosoever findeth 15 me shall slay me. And the Lord said luito hiin, Therefore whosoever slaj'- eth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord ap- pointed a sign for Cain, lest any find- ing him should smite him. 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of 17 10 Nod, lion the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife ; and she con- ceived, and bare Enoch : and he build- ed a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, 18 Enoch. Aiid unto Enoch was born Ii-ad : and Irad begat Mehujael : and Meliujael begat Methushael : and Me- 19 thushael begat Lamecli. And La- mech took imto him t^vo wives : the name of the one was Adah, and the 20 name of the other Zillah. And Adah bare Jabal : he w^as the father of such 21 as dwell in tents and liave cattle. Ajid his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp 22 and jiipe. And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, 12 the forger of every cut- ting instrmiieut of 1^ brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naa- 23 mall. And Lainech said unto his wives : Adah and Zillah, hear my voice ; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken mito my speech : For 1^1 have slain a man '^^iox wounding me, And a yoimg man for bruising me : 24 If Cam shall be avenged sevenfold. Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold. 25 And Adam knew his wife again ; and she bare a son, and called his name ii'Setli: For, said she, GckI I'^hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel ; for Cain slew him. 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a sou ; and he called his name Enosh : then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. 1—2 GENESIS. 5. 1. j-v jj^-|.^.j. j.jj^,;j. families, in their nations. 6 AndLhu sojis,of JUiim; Cushj and 7 MiM^iui, and Put, and Canaltn. And the sons of Cush ; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Eaaniah, and Sabteca : and the sous of llaamah ; Sheba, and SDedan. And Cush begat Nimi-od: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 9 He M'as a mighty hunter liefore the Lord : wherefore it is said, Like Nim- rod a mighty himter before the Lord. 10 iVnd the beginnuig of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Acead, and 11 Cahieh, in the laud of Sniuar. Out of that laud ''he went forth into Assyria, and liuilded Nineveh, and Eehoboth-Ir, 12 and Calali, and liesen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the gi'eat city). 13 And Mizrauu begat L'l^lim, and iVna- miiu, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, 14 and ]?allu-usim. and Cashiliuu (whence went forth ^the Philistines), and Caphtorini. ,^i 15 And Canaan Jbegat Zidon his first- 16 born, and Heiu ; and the Jebusite, and 17 the Ambi'ite, aud the Girgashite ; and the Hivite; and the Ai-kite'J and the 18 Smite ; and the Ai-vadite, and the Zeinarit'e; aud the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the 19 Canaauite spread abroad. And the border of the Canaauite was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza ; as thou goest toward Sodom aud Gomorrah and Admah and Zelioiim, 20 unto Lasha. These are the sons of Ham, after theii- families, after their tongues, in theu- lauds, in their nations. 21__AiiiL unto SheiU, the father of all the children of Eber, ^the elder brother of Japheth, to hhu also were children 22 bom. The sous of Shem ; Elain, aud ■•• Asshur, aud Arpachshad, and Lud, and »0r. «« trother o/Ja- jthelh the elder 2HAram. And the sous of -■^ram; Uz, 21 and Hul, and (rether, aud Mash. .Vnd 'AiiJaehshad '■• begat Shelah ; aud Shelah 25 begat Eber. And unto Eber were born two sous: the name of the oue was loPeleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name 2Gwas Joktan. Aud Joktau begat Al- modad, and Sheleph, aud Hazarma- 27veth, and Jerah ; aud Hadoram, aud 2SUzal, and Diklah ; aud -101)31, and 2yAbiinael, and Sheba; and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab : all these were 30 the sous of Joktan. Aud their dwell- ing was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the i- mountain of the 31 east. These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lauds, after their nations. 32 These are the families of the sons of ] Noah, after their generations, in their nations : aud of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. 11 Aiul the whole earth was of one 2 13 language and of one ^ speech. Aud it came to pass, as they journeyed 15 east, that they fomul a plain in the land of Shmar; and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thi'ouglilj'. And they had brick for stone, and i" slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top mai/ reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name ; lest we be scattered abroad 5 ujion the face of the whole earth. And the Lord caiue down to see the city aud the tower, which the ehikh'en of G men builded. And the Lord said. Be- hold,thej- are one iieople, and they have j all one language ; and this is what they begm to do: and now nothing will be withholdeu froui them, which they 7 piu-pose to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound then- language, that they may not understand oue 8 another's speech. So the Lord scat- tered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : aud they left 9 off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there i^confouud the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them a- broad upon the face of all the earth. 10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hiuuh-ed years old, and begat Ai'pachshad two j-ears after the 11 flood: aud Shem lived after he begat Ai'pachshad five hmidred years, aud begat sons and daughters. 12 And Aii^achshad lived five and thirty 13 years, aud begat Shelah: aud Aii)ach- shad lived after he begat Shelah four hmuh-ed and three years, aud begat sous and daughters. 14 And Shelah Mved thirty years, and ifnili!, ^ J Catnan,^ . and - ^ 5 1 &*A Cttinan begat Nhclah. I J, li,, ,„ "In 1 Chr. 1. 2i Jibal. S~ Mjtt. I2 0r.7n7? country 13 Heb. Up- H Heb. n Heb. baUd, to con- found. t(yt: r . - f>« .^ -. 1 -^ i'tOVlJ JlXfcJl^^^^ ,;^,^ . |*tHi \,\ «/*'<>* i >l GENESIS. 11. 14. 15 begat Eber : . and Sbelab lived after be begat Eber four bundred and tbree years, and begat sons and daugbters. 16 AjkI Eber lived four and tbirty years, 17 and begat Peleg : and Eber lived after be begat Peleg foiu- bundred and tbirty years, and begat sons and daugbters. 18 And Peleg lived tbirty years, and 19 begat Eeu: and Peleg lived after he begat Eeu two bundi'ed and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 20 And lieu lived two and thirty years, '21 and begat Serug : and Eeu lived after be begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived tbirty years, and 23 begat Nabor: and Serug lived after he begat Nabor two hundred years, and begat sons and daugbters. 24 And Nabor lived nine and twenty 25 years, and begat Terah: and Nabor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daugbters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nabor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nabor, and 28 Haran ; and Haran begat Lot. And Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his nativity, 29 in Ur of the Cbaldees. And Abram and Nabor took them wives : the name of Abram 's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcab, the daughter of Haran, the father of Mil- 30 cab, and the father of Iscah. And Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his 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 Cbaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah wei-e two hundi-ed and five years: and Terah died in Haran. 12 Now the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy comitry, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I wiU shew 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 ciu-setb thee will I curse : and in thee shall all the families of 4 the earth be blessed. So Abram went, as the Lord had siwken unto him; and Lot went with bun: and Abram was seventy and five years old 5 when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their sub- stance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten m Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land 6 of Canaan they came. And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the ^oak of Moreb. And the Canaanite was then in the 7 land. And the Lord apjieared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this laud: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who api>ear- 8 ed unto him. And be removed from thence unto the momitain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east : and there he builded an altar un- to the Lord, and called upon the name 9 of the Lord. 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 11 sore in the land. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egj'pt, that he said unto Sarai his wife. Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12 and it shall come to jiass, when the Egyjitians shall see thee, that they shall say. This is his wife: and they will kiU me, but they will save tliee 13 alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be weU with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live 14 because of thee. And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egj-pt, the Egyptians beheld the wo- 15 man that she was very fair. Aud the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was 16 taken into Pharaoh's house. And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he- asses, and menservants, and maid- servants, and she-asses, and camels. 17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his bouse with great plagues because 18 of Sarai Abram's wife. And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was 19 thy wife? Why saidst thou. She is my sister? so that I took her to be my wife: now therefore behold thy 20 wife, take her, and go thy way. And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him : and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that be had. 13 And Abram went up out of Egypt, be, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South. 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in 3 silver, and in gold. And be Avent on bis journeys from the South even to Beth- el, mito the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth- 4 el and Ai ; unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first : and there Abram called on the name 5 of the Lord. And Lot also, which 14. 24. GENESIS. «0r, Joined them- setwg to- gether against went with Abram, bad flocks, and Gbcrds, and tents. And tbe bind was not able tu liear them, that tbcy luiglit dwell tojjetber: for tlieir sul)stance was j^reat, so tbat tbej- could not dwell Ttogetber. jVnd there was a strife be- tween tlie berdiueii of Abram's cattle and the lierdnien of Lot's cattle: and tbe Canaanite and the Perizzite dwell- 8ed then in the land. Aiid Alirani said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between uie and thee, and between my berdnien and thy herd- 9 men; for we are bretlu'en. Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thy- self, I pray thee, from me: if Ihou wilt take the left baud, then I will go to the right; or if thou tale the rigb.t 10 hand, then I will go to tbe left. And Lot lifti'd up bis eyes, and beheld all the iPlaiu of Jordan, tbat it was well watered every where, before tlie LoKD destroyed Sodom and Gomor- rah, like the garden of the Loud, like the land of Eg}-i)t, as thou goest unto llZoar. So Lot chose him all tlie Plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the 12 one from the other. Abram dwelled in tbe laud of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of tbe Plain, and moved bis tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now tlie men of Sodom were \vicked and suuiers against tbe Lord exceed- 11 ingly. And the Luiu) said unto Abram, after tbat Lot was separated from bim. Lift up now thine ej'es, and look from the place where tbou art, northward and southward and eastward and west- 15 ward: for all the land which tbou seest, to tliee Avill I give it, and to tby 16 seed for ever. Aiid I will make tby seed as the dust of the earth : so tbat if a man can number tbe dust of the earth, theu shall thy seed also be 17 numbered. Ai'ise, walk through the laud in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for mito thee will I give 18 it. And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the -oaks of Marm-e, •which are iu Hebron, and built there an altar unto t!ie Lokd. 14 And it came to pass iii tbe days of Amraiibel king of Sbinar, Aj-iocb king of EUasar, Cliedorlaomer king of E- 21am, and Tidal king of ^Goiim, tbat they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Go- morrah, Sbiiiab king of Admab, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and tlie 3 king of Bela (the same is Zoar). All these ■'joined together iu the vale of Siddim (tbe same is tbe Salt Sea). 4 Twelve years they served Chedorlao- mer, and iu tbe thirteenth year they 5 rebelled. And in the fourteenth year came Cliedorlaomer, and the kings tbat were with him, and smote the Eepbaim in Asbteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim ui •''Shaveb- Gkii-ialbaim, and tbe Horites in their moujit Seir, unto El-paran, which is 7 by the wilderness. And they returned, and came to En-mih.liprtt (the same is liadesb), and smote all tbe ''country of tbe ^Amalekites, and also tbe Ajuorites, Stliat dwelt in Haza/.on-tamar. And there went out the king of Sodtmi, and the king of Gomorrab, and tbe king of Admab, and the king of Ze- boiim, and tbe king of Bela (the same is Zoar) ; and they set the battle iu ai'raj' against them in tbe vale of Sid- 9 dim; against Cbedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Sbinar, and Aj'iocb king of Ellasar ; four kings against 10 tbe Ave. Now tbe vale of Siddim was full of ^slLme pits; and tbe kings of Sodom and Gomorrah lied, and tbcy fell there, and they that remained fled to lithe mountain. And they took all tbe goods of Sodom and Gomoi'rab, and all their victuals, and went tlicir way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt iu Sodom, aud bis 13 goods, and departed. And there came one tbat bad escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew : now bo dwelt by tbe 2 oaks of Mamre tbe Amorite, brother of Esbcol, and brother of Ajier; and these were confederate with Abram. 1-1 And when Abram beard that his bro- ther was taken captive, be led forth bis trained men, born in bis house, three bundred aud eighteen, and pur- 15 sued as far as Dan. And he divided himself against them by night, be and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is 16 ou the 8 left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and bis goods, aud tbe women also, 17 and tbe people. Aud the king of So- dom went out to meet liim, after bis return from the slaughter of Cbedor- laomer and the kings that were with bim, at the vale of Shaveb (the same 18 is tbe King's Yale). Aud Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine : and he was i^riest of '■> God 19 Most High. Aud he blessed bim, aud said. Blessed be Abram of ''God Most High, 10 possessor of heaven and earth : 20 and blessed be '•' God Most High, wbich bath delivered thine enemies into thy band. And be gave bim a tenth of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take 22 tbe goods to thyself. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift uj) mme baud unto tbe Lord, '•* God Most High, lOpossessor of heaven and earth, 23 tbat I will not take a tbi'ead nor a shoelatcbet nor aught that is thine, lest tbou shouldest sa.y, I have luade 24 Abram rich : ii save only tbat wbich the 10 GENESIS. 14. 24. I Or. thy fward shdll be other pLicea where GiiD is I.utin capitals. ■' Or. go henca iThe C.ialtiee and Syriac }iave. Kiiezer Ike JJa- ntascene. young men have eaten, and the por- tion of the men which went with me ; Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their portion. 15 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, ^and thy exceeding gi-eat re- 2 ward. And Abram said, O Lord 2 God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I 8 go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is *Dammesek SEliezer? And Abram said. Behold, to me thou hast given no seed : and, lo, one born in my house is mine 4 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 Sown bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought hun forth abroad, and said. Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to tell them : and he said unto him. So shall Gthy seed be. And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 7 for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give 8 thee this land to inherit it. And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I 9 know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three j-ears old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three 3'ears old, and a turtledove, and a lOyoimg pigeon. And he took him aU these, anil divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not. 11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcases, and Abram drove 12 them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram ; and, lo, an hoiTor of gi'eat 13 darkness fell upon him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a laud that is not theirs, and shall serve them ; and they shall afflict them four 14hunch'ed years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, wiU I judge: and afterward shall they come out 15 with great substance. But thou shalt go to thy fathers m peace ; thou shalt 16 be buried in a good old age. And in the fourth generation they shall come hither agam: for the iniquity 17 of the Amorite is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaraiiig torch 18 that passed between these pieces. In that day the Lord made a covenant ■^vith Abram, saying. Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Eg^'pt mito the great river, the 19 river Euphrates: the Kenite, and the 20 Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the 21Rephaim, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite. 16 Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no chililren : and she had an hand- maid, an Egyptian, whose name was 2 Hagar. And Sarai said uuto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid ; it may be that I shall ^obtain chihh-en by her. And A- bram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram's Avife took Hagar the Eg>iitian, her hanihnaid, after A- brain had dwelt ten j-ears in the land of Canaau, and gave her to Abram her 4 husband to be his wife. And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had con- ceived, her misti'ess was despised in 5 her eyes. And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong he 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 6 between me and thee. But Abi-am said luito Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt hartUy with her, and she fled from 7 her face. And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountaui in 8 the way to Shur. And he said, Ha- gar, Sarai's handmaid, whence earnest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I flee from the face of my 9 mistress Sarai. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Picturn to thy mistress, and submit thyself luider her 10 hands. And the angel of the Lord said uuto her, I wiU greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered 11 for multitude. 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 <> Ishmael, be- cause the Lord hath heard thy afflic- 12tion. And he shall be as a wild-ass among men; his hand shall be agamst every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dweU ''in 13 the presence of all his brethren. And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, '^Thou art ^a God that seeth : for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me ? 14 Wherefore the well was called i^Beer- lahai-roi ; behold, it is between Kadesh 15 and Bered. And Hagar bare Abram a son : and Abram called the name of his 16 son, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. 17 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said ruito him, I am nGod 18. 13. GENESIS. 11 JFrom the Heb. word inenninE; to laugh. Almighty ; wallc before mo, and be '2 thou perfect. jViid I will make my covenant between me and tliee, and 3 will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abrani fell on his face : and God talked •Iwith liim, saying, As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou slialt be tlie father of a multitude of .^) nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but tliy name shall be Abraliam ; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. GAnd I will make thee exceeding fruit- ful, and I will make nations of thee, 7 and kings shall come out of thee. Aiid I will establish my covenant between lue and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8 Aiul I wiU give unto thee, and to thj- seed after thee, the land of thy sojourn- ings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting jjossession ; and I will be 9 their God. And God said unto Abra- ham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout theu" generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee ; everj' male among llj'ou shall be cu'cumcised. And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you. 12 And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among j-ou, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of 13 thy seed. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your Hesh for an 14 everlasting covenant. And the unch-- ciuncised male who is not cu-cumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soid shall be cut off from his jieople; he hath broken my covenant. 15 And (Tod said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, tliou shalt not call her name Sarai, but i Sarah shall her name 16 be. And I will bless her, and more- over I wiU give thee a son of her : yea, I wiU bless her, and she shall be a mo- ther (if nations ; kings of peoples shall 17 be of her. Tlien Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto liim that is an hundi-ed years old ? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old. bear? 18 And Abraliam said unto God, Oh that li) Islmiael might live before thee ! And God said. Nay, but Sarah th3' wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name ^ Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlast- ing covenant for his seed after him. '20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : behold, I have blessed liim, and will make him IVuitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a gi-eat 21 nation. But my covenant will I estal)- lisli with Isaac, whicli Sarah sliall bear unto thee at this set time; in tlie 22 next year. And he left off talking with him, and God went uj) from Abraham. 23 And Abraham took Ishmael liis son, and all that were born in liis house, and all that were lionght with his luoney, every male among the men of Aliraliams liouse, and circumcised the llesh of their foreskin in tlie self- same day, as God had said unto liim. 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he ^\•as circumcised in tlie 25 flesh of his foreskin. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was cu-cmiicised in the flesh of his 26 foreskin. In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his 27 son. And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. 18 And the Lord appeared unto him by the ^ oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the 2 tent door in the heat of the day; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him : and when he saw them, lie ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed 3 himself to the earth, and said, '' My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from 4 thy servant : let now a little water be fetched, and wash yom* feet, and rest 5 yourselves under the tree: and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart ; after that ye shall pass on : 5 forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said. So do, 6 as thou hast said. And Abraham hast- ened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, !RIake ready quickly tlu-ee measui'es of fine meal, kuead it, and make cakes. 7Aiid Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the ser\ant; and he 8 hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood l)y them under tlic tree, and they 9 did eat. And tliej- said unto him, "\Micre is Sarah thy wife ? And he said. Behold, 10 in the tent. And he said, I wiU cer- tainly return unto thee when the season "cometli round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife sliall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was be- ll Imid him. Now Aliraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the 12 manner of women. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my 13 lord being old also? And the Lord 12 GENESIS. 18. 13. Eo&« said unto Abraham, Wlierefore did Sarah laugh, saying. Shall I of a 14 surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thmg too ^hard for the Lord? At the set time I wiU return unto thee, when the season 2 cometh round, 15 and Sarah shall have a son. 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 toward Sodom : and Abra- ham went with them to bring them 17 on the way. And the Lord said. Shall I hide from Abraham that which 181 do; seeing that Al)raham shall surely become a great and mighty na- tion, and all the nations of the earth 19 shall be blessed in him ? For I have 8 known him, to the end that he may command his children and his house- hold after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgement ; to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which 20 he hath spoken of him. And the Lord said, ^Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and ^ because their 21 sm is very grievous; I will go dovm now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I 22 will know. And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom : but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. 23 And Abraham di-ew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with 24 the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are there- 25 in? That be far from thee to do after this mamier, 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 26 the earth do right ? And the Lord said. If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place 27 for their sake. And Abraham answered and said. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which 28 am but dust and ashes : peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty right- eous : wilt thou destroj' 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 spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventui'e there shall be forty found there. And he said, I wiU not 30 do it for the forty's sake. And he said. Oh let not the Lord be angi-y, and I will speak : peradventure there shall thu-ty be found there. And he said, I will not 31 do it, if I find thirty there. And he said. Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: perad- venture there shall be twenty found there. Ajid he said, I will tiot destroy 32 it for the twenty's sake. And he said. Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once : jierad- ventm-e ten shall be foiuid there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the 33 ten's sake. And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left conununing with Abraham : and Abraham returned unto his place. 19 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 bowed himself with his face to the earth ; 2 and he said. Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into yoiu' 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 3 the street all night. And he rirged them greatly ; and they tui-ned in xm- to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake mileavened bread, and they did 4 eat. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the j)eoi)le 5 from every quarter ; and they called mito Lot, and said unto him, '\^^lere are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that 6 we may know them. Ajid Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut 7 the door after him. And lie said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I i^ray you, bi-ing them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; 5 forasmuch as they are come under the 9 shadow of my roof. And they said. Stand back. And they said. This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge : now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they i^ressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and di-ew near to break the door. 10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to 11 them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great : so that they wearied 12 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 13 of the jilace: for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the Lord ; and the Lord 14 hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out, and spake mito his sons in law, which 6 married his daughters, and said. Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord wiU destroy the city. But 20. 11. GENESIS. 13 •Or, punish- ment he seemed unto his sons in law as one 15 that mocked. And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saj'ing, i\i-ise, taki^ thj' wife, and thy two daughters which arc liere ; lest thou ho consumed in the liniciuity of 16 the city. But he lingered ; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and u])on the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lokd heing merciful unto 1dm : and they brought liim forth, and set him without the 17 city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thj' life; look not be- hind thee, neither stay thou in all tlie 2 Plain; escape to the mountain, lest 18 thou he consumed. And Lot said unto 19 them, Oh, not so, •''my lord: behold now, thy servant hath foiuid grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mei-cy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life ; and I cannot escape to the mountaui, lest ^ evil 20 overtake me, and I die: behold now, this city is near to flee mito, and it is a little one : Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall *211ive. And he said inito him. See, I have acceiited thee concerumg this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which thou hast spoken. •22 Haste thee, escape thither ; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was 23 called ^ Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. 24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire 25 from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the 26 gronnd. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of 27 salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place whei-e he had 28 stood before the Lord : and he looked 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 And it came to pass, when God de- stroyed 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 the which Lot dwelt. 30 Aiu\ Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountaui, and his two daughters ■nith hun ; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt m a 31 cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after 32 the manner of aU the earth: come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may 33 preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that inght : and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and lie knew not when she lay down, nor when she 34 arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the j^ounger. Behold, I lay yesternight with my father : let us make him drink wine this night also; and go Ihou in, and lie with him, that we may pre- ss serve seed of our fatlier. And they made their father drink wine tliat night also: and the younger arose, and lay with hmi ; and he knew not when she 36 lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with 37 child by their fatlier. And the first- born bare a sou, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the 38Moahites unto this day. And the younger, she also hire a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon luito this da}'. 20 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur ; and 2 he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister : and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and 3 took Sarah. But God came to Abimel- ech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. 4 Now Abhnelech had not come near her : and he said. Lord, wilt thou slay 5 even a righteous nation ? Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said. He is my brother : in the integrity of my heart and the iimoceucy of my hands have 6 1 done this. And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from shming against me : therefore suffered 7 I thee not to touch her. Now there- fore restore the man's vdie; for he is a jirophet, 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 m the mornuig, and called all his servants, and told all these thmgs in their ears : 9 and the men were sore afraid. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him. What hast thou done unto us ? and wherein have I simied 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 10 be done. And Abimelecli said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou 11 hast done this thing? And Abraham said. Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and 14 GENESIS. 20. 11. 1 Or, he 2 Or, 6c- fore all men 3 Or, pre- pared iffhter for me 4 Or, playing they will slay me for my wife's sake. 12 Aiid moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, hut not the daughter of my mother; and she be- 13 came 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 shew unto me ; at every place whither we shall come, saj- of me, He 14 is my brother. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and menservauts and womenservauts, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his 15 vnie. And Abimelech said. Behold, my land is before thee : dwell where 16 it pleaseth thee. And unto Sarah he said. Behold, I have given thy lirother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, ^it is for thee a covering of the eyes to aU that are with thee ; and ^ in re- 17 spect of all thovi art righted. And Abra- ham jn-ayed unto God : and (tod healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid- 18 servants ; and thej' bare children. For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Al)imelech, be- cause of Sarah Abraham's wife. 21 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did ixnto Sarah 2 as he had spoken. And Sarah con- ceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which 3 God had spoken to him. And Abra- ham called the name of his son that was born mito him, whom Sarah bare 4 to him, Isaac. And Abraham circum- cised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto 6 him. And Sarah said, God hath ^ made me to laugh ; every one that heareth 7 will laugh with me. 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 9 the day that Isaac was weaned. Aiid Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto 10 Abraham, ^ mocking. Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond- woman and her son : for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heu" with my 11 son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight 12 on account of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and be- cause of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice ; for in Isaac shall thy seed 13 be caUed. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, be- 14 cause he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a s bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away : and she departed, and wandered in the 15 wilderness of Beer-sheba. 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 nie not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over agamst him, and lift uj) her 17 voice, and wept. 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 18 of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation. 19 And God opened her ej-es, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave 20 the lad drinlc. And God was with the lad, and he grew ; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and ^ became an archer. 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran : and his mother took liim a wife out of the land of Egypt. 22 And it came to pass at that tune, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest : 23 now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with ''my son, nor with my son's sou: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land 24whereui thou hast sojourned. And 25 Abraham said, I wiU swear. And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had A'iolently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I know not who hath done this thing : neither didst thou teU me, neither yet heard I of it, bi;t 27 to-day. And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech ; 28 and they two made a covenant. And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the 29 flock by themselves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set 30 by themselves"? And he said. These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. 31 Wlierefore he called that place Beer- sheba ; because there they sware both 32 of them. So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba : and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the 33 Philistines. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the 34 Everlasting God. And Abraham so- journed in the land of the Philistines many days. 23. 13. GENESIS. 15 I Heb. 8*'e/or 2 Or, ac- cording nmny ancient utliiiri- tiea. be- hutd a (Hch. ni'jht 3 That is, The Imrb leiU .^rrc. or, pro- fide. i Or. lie shall be seen 22 And it came to i)asH after thoso tiling's, that (tO(1 (lid prove Abriihuiii, iiiid said unto him, Aliraham; and lie sai'herefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the eamels. 32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and lie gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that were with him. 33 And there was set meat liefore him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. AikI :Mhe said. Speak on. And he said, I 35 am Abraham's servant. And the Lord hath blessed mj' master gi"eat- ly ; and he is become great : and he hath given huu flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and menservants and maidservants, and camels and 36 asses. And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old : and unto him hath he given 37 all that he hath. And my master made me swear, saying. Thou slialt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose 38 land I dwell: but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, 39 and take a wife for my son. And I said unto my master, Peradventui'e 40 the woman wiU not follow me. 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: ■11 then shalt thou be clear from my oath, wlien thou comest to my kind- red; and if they give her not to thee, 4'2 thou shalt be clear from my oath. Aiid I came this day unto the fomitain, and said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now thou do jirosper my 43 way which I go: behold, I stand by the fountain of water ; and let it come to pass, that the maiden which cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say. Give me, I pray thee, a little water 44 of thy pitcher to druik ; 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 aiipoiiited for my master's 4.5 son. And before I had done speaking iu mine heart, behold, Reliekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder ; and she went down unto the fount- ain, and drew: and I said unto her, IGLet me drink, I pray thee. And she made haste, and let down her i)itcher from her shoulder, and said. Drink, and I will give thy eamels drmk also : so I drank, and she made the camels 47 drink also. And I asked her, and said. Whose daughter art thou ? And she said. The daugliter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I i)ut tlie ring upon her nose, and the bracelets ui)on her liands. 48 And I bowed my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for 49 his son. And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, teU me: and if not, tell me; that I may tm-n to the right hand, or to .'iOthe left. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said. The thing pro- ceedeth from the Lord: we cannot 51 speak mito thee bad or good. Behold, Eebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's sou's 52 wife, as the Lord hath spoken. And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he liowed himself down to the earth unto the 53 Lord. And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raunent, and gave them to Re- bekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. 54iViid they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with hiin, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send 55 me away unto my master. And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a feiu days, at the least ten ; after that she shall go. 56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may 57 go to my master. And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at 58 her mouth. And they called Eebekah, and said unto her. Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. 59 And they sent away Eebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's 60 servant, and his men. And they blessed Eebekah, and said unto her. Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed i)ossess the 61 gate of those which hate them. And Eebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and fol- lowed the man : and the servant took 62 Eebekah, and went his way. And Isaac came ifrom the waj" of Beer-lahai-roi ; for he dwelt in the land of the South. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide : and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there 64 were camels coming. And Eebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw 65 Isaac, she lighted off the camel. And 18 GENESIS. 24. 65. lOr, settled Yieh.fell. 2 Or, over against 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 66 covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Kebekah, and she became his wife ; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. 25 And Abraham took another wife, 2 and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and 3 Shuah. And Jokslian begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Assluu'im, and Letushun, and 4Leummim. And the sous of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were 5 the chiltli'en of Ketvu-ah. And Abra- ham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his sou, while he j'et lived, 7 eastward, unto the east country. And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hmidred threescore and fifteen years. 8 And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years ; and was gathered to his 9 people. And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried hhn in the cave of Macbpelah, in the field of Ei^hron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mann-e; 10 the field which Abraham piu'chased of the children of Heth : there was Abra- 11 ham buried, and Sarah his wife. And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son ; and Isaac dwelt by Beer-labai-roi. 12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare 13 unto Abraham: and these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations : the fii-stborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth ; and 14Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, and Mishma, and Dmnah, and Massa; 15 Hadad, and Tenia, Jetur, Naphish, and 16 Kedemah: these are the sons of Islmiael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their na- 17 tions. And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years : and he gave up the ghost and died ; and was gathered unto 18 his people. And thej^ dwelt from Havi- lah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyi-ia: he i abode 2ui the presence of all his brethren. 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat 20 Isaac: and Isaac was forty years old when he took Eebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the ^ Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the ^ Syrian, to be 21 his wife. And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Eebekah his wife con- 22ceived. And the childi-en struggled together withm her ; and she said, If it be so, * wherefore do I live"? And 23 she went to inquire of the Lord. And the Lord said mito her. Two nations are in thy womb. And two peoples shall be separated even from thy bowels : And the one people shaU be stronger than the other people ; And the elder shall serve the young- er. 24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in 25 her womb. And the first came forth 5 red, all over like an hauy garment; 26 and they called his name Esau. And after that came forth liis brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel ; and his name was called ^ Jacob : and Isaac was threescore j-ears old when she bare 27 them. And the boys gi-ew : and Esau was a cuiming hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a ''plain man, 28dwellmg in tents. Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: 29 and Eebekah loved .lacob. And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came in from 30 the field, and he was faint: and Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with **that same red ^jo??rt(/e ; for I am faint: therefore was his name called 31 9 Edom. And Jacob said. Sell me i" this 32 day thy birthright. And Esau said. Behold, I am at the point to die : and what profit shall the birthright do to 33 me? And Jacob said. Swear to me 10 this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. 34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and pot- tage of lentils; and he did eat and di-ink, and rose up, and went his way : so Esau despised his birthright. 26 And there was a famine m the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abunelech kmg of the 2Philistuies unto Gerar. And the Lord appeared luito hhn, and said. Go not down into Egj'pt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and wiU bless thee ; for imto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give aU these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware mito Abraham thy 4 father ; and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands ; and in thy seed shall aU the nations of the earth "be 5 blessed; because that Abraham obey- ed my voice, and kept my charge, my 27. 10. GENESIS. 19 IHeh. livinij. « That is. Sroitd places, ot.Room. g comiuanilments, my btsitutes, and mj' ylaws. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: and the men of the iihice asked liini of his wife ; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said lie, the men of the i)hicc should kill me for Eehekah : hecause she was 8 fair to look upon. And it canio to pass, when he liad been there a lon^j time, that Abinieleeh king of the I'hii- istines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting 9 with l{el)ekah his wife. And Abimel- ech called Isaac, and said, I'ehold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou. She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest 101 die for her. And Abuaeleeh said, What is this thou hast done unto us ? one of tlie people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest 11 have l)rouglit guiltiness upon us. And Abimelecli charged all the people, saying. He that toucheth this man or liis wife shall surely be init to death. 12 And Isaac sov.ed in that land, and found in the same jear an hundredfold: and 13 the LoKD blessed him. And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very gi-eat: 14 and he had i)ossessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great house- hold: and the Philistines envied him. 15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abra- ham his father, tlie Philistines had stoji- ped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art nnich mightier 17 than we. Aiid Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, 18 and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they bad digged in the days of Abraliam his father ; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraliam: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19 Aiid Isaac's servants digged in the val- lej% and found there a well of i spring- 20ing water. And the herdmenof Gerar strove with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well ^'Esek; because 21 they contended with him. And they digged another well, and they strove for that also : and he called the name 22 of it ^Sitnah. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it ^Rehoboth; and lie said, For now the Lokd hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful 23 in the land. And he went up from 2-1 thence to Beer-sheba. And the Loud appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham tby father : fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Loitn, and pitched his tent there: and tliere 26 Isaac's servants digged a well. Tlien Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Alnizzath his friend, and Pliicol the 27 captain of his host. And Isaac said unto them, Vi'lierefore are ye come unto me, si'eing ye Imte' me, and have sent me 28 away from you? And they said. We saw plainly that the Louo was with thee: and we said. Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and tliee, and let us make a coven- 29 ant with thee; 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: tliou art now the blessed 30 of the Lord. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and di-ink. 31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they de- 32 parted from him in peace. And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concern- ing the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found 33 water. And he called it sshibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer- sheba mito this day. 31 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Baseniath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 and they were ''a gi-ief of mind unto Isaac and to Eebekah. 27 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 sou : 2 and he said unto bun, Here am I. And he said. Behold now, I am old, I know 3 not the day of my death. Now there- fore take, I j)ray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the 4 field, and take me venison; and make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before 51 die. And Eebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for 6 venison, and to bring it. And Eebekah spake mito Jacob her son, saying, Be- hold, I heard thy father speak unto 7 Esau thy brother, saying. Bring me venison, and make me savom-y meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before 8 the Lord before my death. Now there- fore, my son, obey my voice according 9 to that which I conunand thee. Go ncf\v to the flock, .and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats ; and I will make them savoury meat for thy 10 father, such as he loveth: and thou shalt bring it to thy fatlier, that he 20 GENESIS. 27. 10. may eat, so that he may bless thee 11 before his death. And Jacob said to Eebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a 12 smooth man. My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a 1 deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. 13 And his mother said mito him. Upon me be thy curse, my son : only obey my voice, and go fetch me them. 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoiury meat, such as his 15 father loved. And Eebekah took the goodly raiment of Esau her elder son, which -were with her in the house, and put them ujion Jacob her younger 16 son: and she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and 17 upon the smooth of his neck : and she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand 18 of her son Jacob. And he came unto his father, and said. My father: and he said. Here am I ; wlio art thou, 19 my son? And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless 20 me. And Isaac said unto his son. How is it that thou hast fomid it so quick- ly, my son ? And he said, Because the LoED thy God sent me good speed. '21Andr~rsaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son 22 Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said. The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. 23 And he discerned him not, because his hands werehau-y, as his brother Esau's 24 hands : so he blessed him. And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he 25 said, I am. And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's veni- son, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat : and he brought him wine, and he 26 drank. And his father Isaac said unto him. Come near now, and kiss me, my 27 son. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smeUed the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son Is as the smeU of a field which the LoBD hath blessed : 28 And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And jilenty of corn and wine : 29 Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to thee : Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : Cm-sed be every one that cui'seth thee, And blessed be every one that bless- eth 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 81 in from his hunting. And he also made savom-y meat, and brought it luito his father; and he said unto bis father. Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul 32 may bless me. And Isaac his father said unto huu. Who art Ihou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, 33 Esau. And Isaac trembled very exceed- ingly, and said. Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of aU before thou camest, and have blessed him? j-ea, 3-iand he shall be blessed. When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding gi-eat and bitter cry, and said mito his father. Bless me, even 35 me also, 0 my father. And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath 36 taken away thy blessing. And he said, Is not he rightly named ^ Jacob ? for he hath supi;)lanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, be- hold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said. Hast thou not 37 reserved a blessing for me ? And Isaac answered and said mito Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for serv- ants; and vfith corn and wine have I sustained him : and what then shall 38 1 do for thee, my son ? And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessuig, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted 39 up his voice, and wept. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him. Behold, 3 of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling. And ^of the dew of heaven from above ; 40 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 oiJ thy neck. 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart. The days of mourning for my father are at hand ; then wiU I slay ni}' brother Ja- 42 cob. And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her yomiger sou, and said mito him, Behold, thy bro- ther Esau, as toucliing thee, doth com- 43 fort him.seli,2mr2}osiiig to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ; and ai"ise, flee thou to Laban my brother 44 to Haran ; and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn 45 away ; until thy brother's anger tiu-n 29. 12. GENESIS. 21 1 Heb. £1 Shad- ilai. SHeb. Aram' ean. »Heb. break forth. awaj- from tlieo, and lio foryot that which thou }iast (lono to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be bereaved of you both ui one day ? 4G And Eebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life l)ecause of tlu; daugh- ters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as tliese, of the daughters of the land, what 28 good shall my life do nie ? And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged liim, and said unto him. Thou shalt not take a wife of the 2daugliters of Canaan. Ai-ise, go to I'addan-ai'am, to the house of Bethuel tin' mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of tlie daugliters of 3 Laban thj- mother's l)rotlier. And i God Ahnighty bless thei", and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, tliat thou 4 mayest be a comiiany of peoples ; and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee ; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojourniugs, which God gave 5 unto Abraham. And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the -S3'rian, the brother of Eebekah, Jacob's and G Esau's mother. 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, say- ing, Thou shalt not take a wife of the 7 daughters of Canaan ; and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and 8 was gone to Paddan-aram: and Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan 9 pleased not Isaac his father ; and Esau went imto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which be had Mahalath the daughter of Islunael Abraham's sou, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife. 10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, 11 and Went to\\ard Harau. And he lighted upon ^a certain 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 liehold the angels of God ascending and descend- 13ing on it. And, behold, the Lokd stood ^above it. and said, I am the Lokd, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and 14 to thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt 5 spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth 15 be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whitherso- ever thou gocst, and will bring thee agahi into tliis land; for I will not leave thee, until I have douc that IG which I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and lie said, Surelj' the Loun is in tliis jilace; 17 and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is tliis place 1 this is none other but tlie liouse of God. 18 and this is the gate of heaven. And Jficob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone tliat he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the 19 top of it. And he called the name of that place "Beth-el: but the name 20 of the city was Luz at the first. 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 21 on, so that I come again to my fa- ther's house in i)eace, ''then shall tlie 22 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 wiU siu'ely give the tenth mito thee. 29 Then Jacob ^went on his journey, and came to the land of the children 2 of the east. And 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 3 gi'eat. And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the weU's mouth, and watered the sheei^, and jjut the stone again ui)on the well's mouth in its place. 4 Ajid Jacob said unto them, My breth- ren, whence be ye? And they said. 5 Of Haran are W"e. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor"? G And they said, We know him. And he said unto them. Is it weU with him '? And they said, It is well : and, behold, Kachel his daughter cometh with the 7 sheeiJ. And he said, Lo. it is yet high day, neither is it tune 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 togetlier, and they roll the stone from tlie well's mouth; then we water the sheep. 9 While he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for 10 she kept them. And it came to i^ass, when Jacob saw Piachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's l)ro- ther, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban bis mother's 11 brother. And Jacob kissed Eachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 And Jacob told Eachel that he was 22 GENESIS. 29. 12. iHeb. raah beonyi. her father's brother, and that he was Eebekah's son: and she ran and told 13 her father. And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidmgs of Ja- cob his sister's son, that he ran to meet huu, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these 14 things. And Laban said to him, Siu'ely thou art my bone and mj' tiesh. And he abode with him the space of a 15 month. Aiid Laban said imto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, should- est thou therefore serve me for nought? 16 tell me, what shall thy wages be ? And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of 17 the yomiger was Rachel. And Leah's ej^es were tender; but Rachel was IS beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel 19 thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to tliee, than that I should give her to 20 another man: abide ^\ith me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed mito him but a few '21 days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my daj^s are fulfilled, that 221 may go in unto her. And Laban gathered together all the men of the 23 place, and made a feast. And it came to iiass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to bun; and he went in unto her. 24 And Laban gave Zilpali his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for an hand- 25 maid. And it came to j)ass in the morning that, behold, it was Leali: and he said to Laban, T\liat is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore 26 then hast thou beguiled me? And Laban said. It is not so done in oiu- place, to give the yomiger before the 27 firstborn. Fulfil the week of this one, and we ■noil give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve 2S with me yet seven other years. Aiid Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter 29 to wife. And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter BiUiah his handmaid to 30 be her handmaid. And he went in also imto Rachel, and he loved also 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 32 Rachel was barren. And Leah con- ceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben : for she said, Because the Lord ifiath looked upon mj' afiiic- tion ; for now my husband wiU love me. 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son ; and said. Because the Lord ^hath heard that I am hated, he hath there- fore given me this son also: and she 34 called, his name ^ Simeon. And she con- ceived again, and bare a son ; and said, Now this time wiU my husband be * jomed unto me, because I have borne him thi'ee sons: therefore was his 35 name called Levi. And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Tbis time ■sviU I Upraise the Lord: therefore she called his name ^Judah; and slie left bearing. 30 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no chUdi-en, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give 2 me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kmdled against Rachel : and he said. Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the 3 womb ? And she said, Behold my maid Billiah, go in mito her ; that she may bear upon mj- knees, and I also may 4 '' obtain chibh'en by her. Aiid she gave him BUliah her handmaid to wife : and 5 Jacob went in unto her. And BUhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 6 And Rachel said, God hath ^ judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son : therefore called 7 she his name Dan. And BQhah Ra- chel's handmaid conceived again, and 8 bare Jacob a second son. And Rachel said, With ^ mighty wrestlings have I 10 wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name 9Naphtali. 'W^heu Leah saw that she had left bearmg, she took ZUpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to 10 wife. And ZUpah Leah's handmaid 11 bare Jacob a son. And Leah said, iiFortunate! and she caUcd his name 12i"-Gad. And Zilpah Leah's handmaid 13 bare Jacob a second sou. And Leah said, 13 Happy am II for the daughtei-s wUl i^caU me happy: and she called 14 his name Asher. And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found i^raandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray 15 thee, of thy son's mandi-akes. And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken away my husband? and wouldest thou take away my sou's mandrakes also' And Rachel said, Therefore he shall Ue with thee to-night 16 for thy son's mandrakes. And Jacob came from the field hi the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have sm-ely hii-ed thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with 17 her that night. And God hearkened uuto Leah, and she conceived, and 18 bare Jacob a fifth son. And Leah said, God hath given me my i"^ hire, because I gave my handmaid to m j' husband : and she called his name Issachar. 19 And Leah conceived again, and bare 20 a sixth son to Jacob. And Leah said. 31. U. GENESIS. 23 iHeK zabat, he dwvlt »Heb. 3Heb. broken forth. « Heb. at my foot. sOr, »rorax G(k1 bath endowed me witli a gocnl dowi-j", now will my husband i dwell with mc, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name 21 Zebulun. And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dhiah. 22 AixA (iod remembered Eachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened 23 her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken 21 away niy reproach: and slio called his name Joseph, saying. The Lokd -add to me another son. 25 -\nd it came to pass, when Hachel liad borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go imto mine own place, and to my coun- 2C try. Give me my wives and my child- ren for whom I have served thee, and let me go : for thou knowest my service 27 wherewith I have served thee. And Laban said unto him. If now I have foiuid favour in thine eyes, tarnj : ftn- 1 have divined that the Lord hath 28 blessed me for thy sake. And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give 29 it. iVnd he said luito hun. Thou know- est how I have served thee, and how 30 thy cattle hath fared with me. For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath 'Mncreased imto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee ■• whithersoever I turned : and now when shall I provide for mine own 31 house also '? And he said, WTiat shall I give thee ? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me aught: if thou wilt do this thuig for me, I will again feed thy 32 flock and keep it. I will pass thi-ough aU tin- flock to-day, removmg from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hii-e. 33 So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when thou shalt come concerning mj- liire that is before thee : every one that is not speckled and spot- ted among the goats, and black among the sheep, that if found with me shaP 34 be counted stolen. And Laban said, Lehold, I would it might be according 35 to thy word. And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and s^iotted, and aU the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave 36 them into the hand of his sons; and he set three daj's' journey betwixt himself and Jacob : and Jacob fed the 37 rest of Laban's flocks. And Jacob took him rods of fresh ^poplar, and of the ahnoud and of the plane tree; and peeled white strakes m them, and made the white apjjear which 38 was in the rods. 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 .39 came to drink. And the flocks C(m- ceivcd before the rods, and the flocks 1>rought forth ringstraked, speckled, 40 and spotted. And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he init his own droves apart, and put 41 them not unto Laban's flock. 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 42 conceive among the rods; but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in : so the feebler were Laban's, 43 and the stronger Jacob's. And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maidseiwants and menservants, and camels and asses. 31 And he heard the ■words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he 2 gotten aU this "glory. And Jacob be- held the comitenauce of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as 31)eforetime. And the Lord said mito Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kmdi*ed; and I 4 will be -tt-ith thee. And Jacob sent and caUed Rachel and Leah to the field 5 unto his flock, and said mito them, I see your father's comitenanee, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been 6 with me. And ye know that with all my power I have seiwed your father. 7Aiid your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times ; but 8 God suffered him not to hurt me. If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy ■wages ; then aU the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus. The ringstraked shall be thy wages ; then bare aU the 9 flock ringstraked. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of yom- father, 10 and given them to me. And it came to pass at the time that the flock con- ceived, that I lifted ui? mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he- goats which leaped upon the flock were 11 ringstraked, speckled, and gi-isled. And the angel of God said unto me m the di-eam, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. 12 And he said. Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap up- on the flock are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen aU that 13 Laban doeth mito thee. I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow mito me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and retmii unto the land 14 of thy nativity. And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him. Is there yet any portion or inheritance 24 GENESIS. 31. 14. 2 See w. Sll.Si, JudK. x\ii. 5, 1 Sani. xL\. 13. and Hos, iii. 4. 3 Heb. stole the heart i That is, the Eu- phrates. 5 Heb. didst steal me. 15 for us in our father's house? Are we not counted of hun strangers ? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite 16 devoured ^our money. For all the riches which God hath taken awaj' from our father, that is oui's and our children's : now then, whatsoever God 17 hath said unto thee, do. Then Jacob rose lip, and set his sons and his wives 18 upon the camels ; and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, whicli he had gathered in Paddan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. 19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Eachel stole the steraphun 20 that were her father's. And Jacob s stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that 21 he fled. So he fled with aU that he had ; and lie rose up, and passed over *the Eiver, and set his face toward the mountahi of Gilead. 22 And it was told Laban on the third 23 day that Jacolj was tied. And he took his brethren with him, and pm-sued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of 24 GUead. And God came to Laban the Syi'iau in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either 25 good or bad. And Laban came iip with Jacob. Now Jacob had jiitched his tent in the mouutaui: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount- 26 am of Gilead. And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughcers as captives 27 of the sword? Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and ^ steal away from me ; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mu'th and with songs, with tabret and with harp ; 28 and hast not suffered me to kiss my sous and my daugliters ? now hast thou 29 done foolishly. It is in the power of my hand to do you Inn-t : but the God of yoiu' father spake unto me yester- night, saj'ing, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or 30 bad. And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore long- edst after thy father's house, yet where- 31 fore hast thou stolen my gods? And Jacob ansT\'ered and said to Laban, Be- cause I was afraid: for I ^aid, Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from 32 me by foi'ce. With whomsoever thou findest thj- gods, he shall not live : be- fore om- brethren discern thou what is thme with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Eachel had stolen 33 them. And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants ; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Eachel's 34 tent. Now Eachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's fm-nitm-e, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but 35 found them not. And she said to her father. Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee ; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the 36 teraphim. And Jacob was wi'oth, and chode with Laban : and Jacob answer- ed and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sm, that thou 37 hast hotly pursued after me ? Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou fomid of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge 38 betwixt us two. This twenty years have I been with thee ; thy ewes and thy she -goats have not cast theu' yoimg, and the rams of thy flocks 39 have I not eaten. That which was torn of beasts I brought not imto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether 40 stolen bj- day or stolen by night. Thus I was; in the day the di-ought con- sumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. 41 These twenty j-ears have I been in thy house ; I served thee fom'teen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast 42 changed my wages ten times. Except the God of my father, the God of A- braham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been Avith me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mme afiiiction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 43 And Laban answered and said unto Ja- cob, 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 unto these my daugh- ters, or unto then* chUth-en which they 44 have borne? And now come, let us " make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and 45 thee. And Jacob took a stone, and set 46 it up for a isillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren. Gather stones ; and they took stones, and made an heap: and 47 they did eat there by the heap. And Laban called it •> Jegar-sahadutha: but 48 Jacob called it 'i'Galeed. And Laban said. This heajj is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the 49 name of it caUed Galeed : and ^Mizpah, for he said. The Loed watch between me and thee, when we are 9 absent one 50 from another. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt 51 me and thee. And Laban said to 33. 1. GENESIS. 25 [Ch. xxxii. 1 I Heb.] ! That is, Ilostt, or, Cotn- panies. »Heb. /am l^st than alt Jacob, Belioltl this lieap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt 52 me and thee. This heap he witness, and the i)illar he witness, that I will not pass over this lie.ip to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for 53 harm. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the i (rod of their father, iud{,'e betwixt us. And Jacob sware by 54 the Fear of his father Isaac. And Ja- cob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread: and the J' did eat bread, and tarried 55 all ni{,'ht in the mountain. And early in the morning Lahan rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban dejjarted, 32 and returned unto his i)lace. And Jacob went on his way, and the angels 2 of God met him. And Jacob said when he saw them. This is God's host : and he called the name of that place ^Mahauaim. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land 4 of Seir, the field of Edom. And he commanded them, saying. Thus shall ye say unto mj lord Esau ; Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now: Sand I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and menservants and maidservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I 6 may find grace in thy sight. And tl messengers retm-ned to Jacob, say- ing, 'W'e came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that was with hun, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, 8 into two companies ; and he said, If Esau come to the one comiiany, and smite it, then the company which is 9 left shall escape. .(Vnd Jacob said, 0 God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, 0 Lord, which saidst unto me. Return unto thy coun- try, and to thy kindred, and I will do 10 thee good: -^I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed un- to thy servant; for with, my staff I jiassed over this Jordan ; and now I 11 am become two companies. 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 12 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 multi- 13 tude. And he lodged there that night ; and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother; 14 two hundred she-goats and twenty he- goats, two hundred ewes and twenty 15 rams, tliirty mihth camels and their colts, forty kine and ten bulls, twenty IGslieasscs and ten foals. And lie de- livered them into the liaiid of his serv- ants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants, I'ass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and ITtkove. And he commanded the fore- most, saying, Wien Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou ? and whose are these before tliee ? 18 then thou shalt say. The;/ he thy serv- ant Jacob's; it is a present sent imto my lord Esau : and, behold, he also is 19 behind us. And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the di'oves, saj-ing. On this manner shall j-e sjieak unto Esau, 20 when ye find him ; and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy seiwant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will ap- pease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face ; peradventnre he will accept me. 21 So the present jiassed over l>efore him: and he himself lodged that night in the conipanj'. 22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and passed 23 over the ford of Jabbok. And he took them, and sent them over the stream, 4 and sent over that he had. And Jacob was left alone; and there WTestled a man with him until the breaking of 25 the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh ; and the hoUow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he 26 ^\Testled with him. Aiid he said. Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, excejit thou 27 bless me. And he said unto him, "What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said. Thy name sliaU be called no more Jacob, but * Israel: for ^thou hast 6 striven with God and vith men, 29 and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said. Tell me, I praj- thee, thj' name. And he said. Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? 30 And he blessed hun there. And Jacob called the name of the place '' Peniel : for, said he,l have seen God face to 31 face, and my life is preserved. And the sun rose upon him as he i)assed over Penuel, and he halted ujion his 32 thigh. Therefore the children of Is- rael eat not the sinew of the hij) which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hol- low of Jacob's thigh in the sinew of the hip. ./ 33 And Jacob lifted up bis eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hiuidred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and 26 GE1^^ESIS. 33. 1. 4 That is, Booths. 5 Or. to Shalem, nty 7 That is, God. the God of Israel, unto Rachel, and unto the two hand- 2 maids. And he put the handmaids and their chikh-eu foremost, and Leah and her chilih-en after, and Eachel and 3 Joseph liinderniost. Aiid 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 em- braced him, and fell on his neck, and 5 kissed him: and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the chil(h-en; and said. Who are these with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously 6 given thy servant. Then the hand- maids came near, thej^ and then child- 7ren, and they bowed themselves. And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves : and after came Joseph near and Eachel, and they 8 bowed themselves. And he said. What meanest thou bj^all this company which I met '? And he said, To find gi-ace in 9 the sight of my lord. And Esau said, I have enough; my brother, let that 10 thou hast be thine. And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found gi'ace in thy sight, then receive my pre- sent at my hand : i forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my ^gift that is brought to thee ; because God hath dealt gi'aciously with me, and because I have 8 enough. And he urged him, and he 12 took it. And he said, Let us take oiu* jom-ney, and let us go, and I will go be- 13 fore thee. And he said unto hun, Mj- lord knoweth that the children are ten- der, and that the fiocks and herds with me give suck: and if they overdrive 14 them one daj^ all the flocks will die. Let my lord, I praj' thee, pass over before his servant : and I will lead on softly, according to the pace of the cattle that is before me and according to the pace of the chilch'en, until I come imto my 15 lord unto Seir. And Esau said. Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And lie said. What needeth it ? let me find gi-ace in 16 the sight of my lord. So Esau returned 17 that day on his way mito Sen-. And Jacob jom-neyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle : therefore the name of the place is called * 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 cit3'. 19 And he bought the parcel of groimd, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred 20 "pieces of money. And he erected there an altar, and called it 'El-elohe- Israel. 34 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out 2 to see the daughters of the land. And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her ; and he took her, and lay with her, and 3 humbled her. And his soul clave unto Dmah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved tlie damsel, and spake ^ kindly 4 unto the damsel. And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get 5 me this damsel to wife. Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter ; and his sons were with his cattle in the field : and Jacob held his 6 peace imtil they came. And Hamor the father of Shechem went out imto 7 Jacob to commune with him. And the sons of Jacob came ui from the field when they heard it : and the men were gi-ieved, and they were very ■wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daugh- ter ; which thing ought not to be done. 8 And Hamor commmied with them, saying. The soul of my son Shechem longetli for your daughter: I pray 9 you give her unto him to wife. And make ye marriages with us ; give your daughters unto us, and take our daugh- 10 ters unto you. And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dweU and trade je therein, and get 11 you possessions therein. And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren. Let me find gi-ace in your eyes, and what j-e shall say unto me 121 will give. Ask me never so much do\\Ty and gift, and I wiU give accord- ing as ye shall say unto me : but give me 13 the damsel to wife. And the sons of Ja- cob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spake, because 14 he had defiled Dinah their sister, and said unto them. We camiot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is imcircumcised; for that were a reproach 15 unto us: oidy on this comhtion will we consent unto you : if ye will be as we be, that every male of you be cir- 16 cumcised ; then will we give our daugh- ters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we wQl dwell with you, and w-e \\ill become one iieople. 17 But if ye wiU not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then T\'ill we take our daughter, and we will be gone. 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and 19 Shechem Hamor's son. And the young man deferred not to do the thing, be- cause he had delight in Jacob's daugh- ter: and he was honoured above all 20 the house of his father. And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with 21 the men of their city, saymg. These men are peaceable with us ; there- fore let them dwell iu the land, and trade therein ; for, behold, the land is 35. 29. GENESIS. 27 2 Or, tere- binth 3 Hcb. a terror of Ood. lai't,'e enougli for them ; let us take their (laiit,'htors to ns for wives, and let us 22 give theia our daughters. Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to becimie one pi'oph", if ever}' male among us be circunieised, 23 as they are circumcised. Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? oidy let us consent mito them, and they will dwell •2-lwUh us. And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his sou hearkened all that went out of tlie gate of his cit}-; and every male was circumcised, all that '25 went out of the gate of his citj-. And it cauie to iiass ou the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and camo upon tlie city i unawares, 26 and slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Sliechem 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 ujion the slain, and spoiled the city, because '28 they had defiled then- sister. They took their Hocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the lield ; 20 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they cap- tive and spoiled, even all that was in 30 the house. And Jacob saib found grace in bis sight, and he muiistered un- to bim : and be made him overseer over bis bouse, and aU that he bad be put in- 5 to bis hand. And it came to pass from tbe tune that be made bim overseer in bis house, and over all tbat be had, that tbe Loed blessed tbe Egy^jtian's bouse for Josex)b's sake; and the blessing of the Loed was upon all tbat be bad, in tbe house and in tbe field. 6 And he left all that he bad in Joseph's band ; and -^be knew not aught that vas Anth him, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph Avas comely, and 7 well favom-ed. And it came to pass after these things, tbat bis master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and sbe 8 said. Lie with me. But be refused, and 40. 21. GENESIS. 31 lOr, not with niii what said unto his master's wife, Behold, lay master i kuoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath put all 9 that he hath into my hand ; 2 there is none greater in this house than I ; nei- ther hath he kept back any thin;^' from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great 10 wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as slie spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. 11 And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work ; and there was none of the men 12 of the house there within. And she caught him by his garment, saying. Lie with me : and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his gannent in her 14 hand, and was fled forth, that she called unto the men of her house, and sjiake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought m an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with 15 me, and I cried with a loud voice : 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 16 got him out. Aiid she laid up his gar- ment by her, until his master came 17 home. And she spake unto him ac- cording to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in iiuto me to 18 mock me : and it came to pass, as I lift- ed III) ™y '^'oice and cried, that he left 19 his garment by me, and fled out. And it came to jiass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying. After this maimer did thy servant to me ; that his wrath •20 was kindled. 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 21 prison. But the Lord was w'ith Jo- seph, and shewed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the 22keeiierof the iirison. And the keei)er of the iirison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison ; and whatsoever they did there, 23 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 bun ; and that wliich he did, the Lord made it to prosper. 40 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egyiit and his baker offended their 2 lord the king of Egy[it. And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and 3 agamst the chief of the bakers. And he put them ui ward hi the house of the captain of the guard, into the jirison, the place where Joseph was bound. 4 Aiid the captain of the guard charged Josejih with them, and he ministered unto them: and they continued a 5 season in ward. And they dreamed a dream botli of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the Initler and the baker of the king of Egyi)t, which were liound in 6 tlie prison. And Joseph came hi unto them in the morning, and saw them, 7 and, behold, they were sad. And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in ward in his master's house, say- ing, Wlieref ore look ye so sadly to-day ? 8Aiid 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 be- long to God? tell it me, I pray you. 9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, Li my dream, behold, a vine was before me ; 10 and in the vine were tliree branches : and it was as though it budded, and its blossoms shot forth; aiid the clusters thereof brought forth ripe 11 grapes: and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's ciqi, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 12 Aiid Josei)li said unto him. This is the interiiretation of it : the three branches 13 are three days ; withhi yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thine ofiice: and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cui^ into his hand, after the former manner when 14 thou wast his butler. But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be weU with thee, and shew khidness, I pray thee, unto me, and make men- tion of me unto Pharaoh, and bring 15 me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing tlia;. they should put me into 16 tlie dungeon. When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of 17 white bread were on my head : and in the uppermost basket there was of aU manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh ; and the birds did eat them out of the basket 18 upon my head. And Joseph answered and said. This is the interpretation thereof: the three baskets are three 19daj-s; 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 bu-thday, that he made a feast luito all his servants : and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker 21 among his servants. And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership 32 GENESIS. 40. 21. again; and he gave tbe cup into 22 Pharaoh's hand: but he hanged tlie chief baker : as Josejih had interpreted 23 to thein. Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him. 41 Ajid it came to i:)ass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed : and, beliold, he stood by the i river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well favoured and fatfleshed; and they fed in the reed- 3 gi-ass. And, behold, seven other kine came uji after them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of 4 the river. And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh 5 awoke. And he slejit and dreamed a second tune: and, behold, seven ears of corn came uji upon one stalk, ^rank 6 and good. And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted ivith the east wind, 7 sprung up after them. And the thm ears swallowed uj) the seven - rank and f uU ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, 8 it was a dream. And it came to pass in tlie morning that his sjiirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the ^magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pha- raoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them 9imto Pharaoh. Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, sajdng, I ido 10 remember my faults this day: Pha- raoh was wroth with his servants, and l^ut me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the 11 chief baker: and we dreamed a dream m one night, I and he; we dreamed each man accordii.g to the interpreta- 12tion of his dream. And there was with us there a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams ; to each man according 13 to his dream he did interjiret. And it came to pass, as he interijreted to us, so it was; ^nie he restored unto muie 14 office, and him he hanged. Then Pha- raoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dmigeon : and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pha- 15raoh. And Pharaoh said unto Josei^h, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it : and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it. 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying. It is not in me : God shall give Pharaoh 17 an answer of peace. AJnd Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, be- hold, I stood upon the brink of the 18 river : and, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well f avom-ed ; and they fed in the reed- 19gi"ass: and, behold, seven other kme came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egyi)t 20 for badness: and the lean and ill fa- voured kine did eat up the first seven 21 fat kine: and when tliey had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them ; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginnmg. So 221 awoke. And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up ui^on 23 one stalk, full and good: and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after 24 them : and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears : and I told it unto the magicians ; but there was none that 25 could declare it to mo. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do he hath declared unto Pharaoh. 26 The seven good kine are seven years ; and the seven good ears are seven 27 years : the dream is one. And the seven lean and iU 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 28 of famine. That is the thing which I spake unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do he hath shewed unto 29 Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of gi'eat plenty tlu-oughout all 30 the land of Egj^pt: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine ; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egyjit ; and the famine 31 shall consume the land ; and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that f amme which f olloweth ; 32 for it shall be very grievous. And for that the dream was doubled unto Pha- raoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God \vill 33 shortly bring it to pass. Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land 34 of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egyi^t in the seven plenteous 35 years. And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let 36 them keep it. And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be m the land of Egypt; that the land 37 perish not through the famine. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his 38 servants. Ajid Pharaoh said unto his servants. Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God 39 is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and 40 wise as thou: thou shalt be over my 42. 23. GENESIS. 33 'Or, order them' selves Or, do homage 3Abrech, probably an Egypt- ian worii. stniilar iu sound to the Hebrew word meauiuK to kneel. » That is, Making toforget. 5 From a Hebrew word sig- nifying to be fruitful. house, and according unto thy word shall all my people ibe ruled: only iu tlie tln\)!ie will I be greater than 41 thou. And I'haraoh said luito Joseph, See, I Iiave set thee over all the land 42 of Egypt. iVnd I'haraoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it ui)on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of -tine linen, and put a gold 43 chain about his neck ; aners of cattle ; and they have brought tlieir flocks, and their herds, and all that they have. 33 And it shall come to pass, when Pha- raoh shall call j'ou, and shall say. What 34 is your occupation ? that ye shall say. Thy servants have been keejiers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers : that j'e may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. 47 Then Joseph went in and told Pha- raoh, 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, be- hold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And from among his brethren he took iive men, and presented tlieni unto 3 Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, "What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and 4 our fathers. And they said unto Pha- raoh, 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 there- fore, we pray thee, let thy servants 5 dwell in the land of Goshen. And 38 GENESIS. 47. 5. lOr, 7nen of activity 2 Or, sojowni- ings 3 Or, ac- cording to the number of their little 4Heb. cattle of the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds. 5Heb. led tftem asa shep- herd. Pliaraoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are 6 come unto thee : the land of Eg3^3t is before thee ; in the best of the laud make thj- father and thy bretln'en to dweU ; in the land of Goshen let them dwell : and if thou luiowest any i able men among them, then make them 7 rulers over my cattle. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh : and Jacob bless- 8 ed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the 9 years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my 2piigi-image are an hundi-ed 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 then- ^pil- 10 grimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of 11 Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his fa- ther and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Eameses, as Pharaoh had conrmand- 12 ed. And Joseph noiu-ished his father, and his brethi-en, and aU his father's household, with bread, ^ according to their famiUes. 13 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 fainted by reason of 14 the famine. And Jose^jh gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Ca- naan, for the corn which they bought : and Joseph brought the money into 15 Pharaoh's house. And when the money was aU spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Eg3T3t- ians came unto Joseph, and said. Give us bread : for why should we die in thy presence ? for our money faUeth. 16 And Joseph said, Give youi- cattle ; and I will give you for your cattle, if 17 money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread m 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 then- 18 cattle for that year. And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is aU spent ; and the herds of cattle are my lord's ; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, 19 but our bodies, and our lands : where- fore should we die before thine eyes, both we and om* land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants imto Pharaoh : and give us seed, that we may hve, and not die, and that the land be not •20 desolate. So Joseph bought all the land of Egyi^t for Pharaoh ; for the Egj'ptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them : and the land became Plia- 21raoh's. And as for the i)eople, ^\\& removed them ''to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to 2'2 the other end thereof. Only the land of the priests l)ought he not : for the priests had a iJortion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pha- raoh gave them ; wherefore they sold 23 not their land. Then Joseph said im- to the peoi)le. Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pha- raoh : lo, here is seed for you, and ye 24 shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shaU give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and iowx parts shall be yom' own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and 25 for food for your little ones. And they said. Thou hast saved our lives : let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we wiU be Pharaoh's serv- 26 ants. And Josej)h made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto tins day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth ; only the land of the jjriests 27 alone became not Pharaoh's. And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen ; and they gat them possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly. 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egyjjt seventeen years : so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were an hundi'ed 29 forty and seven years. And the time di-ew near that Israel must die : and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him. If now I have found gi-ace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me ; bury me not, I 30 pray thee, in Egj-i)t : but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bm'y me in their buryuigplace. And he said, 311 win do as thou hast said. And he said. Swear unto me : and he sware mito him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head. 48 And it came to pass after these thuigs, that one said to Joseph, Be- llold, thy father is sick : and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and 2Ephraim. And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee : and Israel strengthened 3 himself, and sat upon the bed. And Jacob said unto Joseph, ^ God Al- mighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 and said unto me. Behold, I wiU make thee fruitful, and multijily thee, and I wiU make of thee a company of peoples ; and will give this land to 49. 12. GENESIS. 39 a Or, to my sorrow thy seed after thee for an everlasting 5 possession. And now thy two sons, which were born unto thee in the hmd of Eg3-i)t before I came unto tliee into Egypt, are mine ; Ephraim and Manas- seh, evenas Heubeu and tjimeon, shall 6 be mine. ^Vjid thy issue, which thou ibegettest afler them, shall be thine; they shall be called after the name of then- lirethren in their inheritance. 7 And as for nic, when I came from I'ad- dan, Euclid died -by me in the land of Canaan in tlie way, when there was still some way to come unto Eplu-ath : and I l)uried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem). 8 And Israel l)theld Joseph's sons, and 9 said, Who are these ? And Joseph said unto his father. They are uiy sons, whom {!od hath given me here. And he said. Bring them, I pray thee, 10 unto me, and I will bless them. Now the eyes of Israel were dim for ago, so that he couhl not si'e. Aiid he brought them near unto liim ; and he kissed 11 them, and embraced them. And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face : and, lo, God hath let 12 me see thy seed also. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with 13 his face to the earth. And Josei)h took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Maiias- seh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near 14 unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Eph- raim's head, who was the yomiger, and bis left hand upon Manasseh's head, ^ guiding his hands wittingly ; 15 for Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac tlid walk, the God which hath fed me aU my life long unto this day, 16 the angel which hath redeemed me from all evU, bless the lads ; and let my name be named on 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 laid his right hand upon the head of Epkraim, it displeased him : and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephrauu's head mito Manasseh's 18 head. And Joseph said unto his father. Not so, my father : for this is the first- born ; put tlij- right hand upon his head. 19.;Vnd 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 yoimger brother shall be gi'eater than he, and his seed shall become ■*a multitude of nations. 20 And he blessed them that day, saying, *Iu thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseli : and he set Ephraim before 21 Manasseh. Ain\ Israel said unto Jo- seph, Bcliold, I die : but (lod sliall be with you, and liring you again mito 22 the land of your fatliers. Moreover I have given to thee one « portion above thy brethren, which I took out of tlie hand of the Amorito with my sword and with my bow. 49 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said : (iather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days. 2 Assemlile yourselves, and hear, ye sous of Jacob ; iVnd hearken unto Israel your father. 3 Ileuben, thou art my lirstborn, my nnght, and the ''begiuuiug of my strength ; The excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power. ■1 8 Unstable as water, " thou shalt not have the excellency ; Because thou weutest up to thy father's bed : Then deflledst thou it: he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are brethren ; Weapons of violence are their 10 swords. 6 O my soul, come not thou into their 11 council ; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united ; For in their anger they slew i^ a man. And m their seKwUl they houghed 13 an ox. 7 Cui'sed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel : I wUl divide them hi Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. 8 Judah, thee shaU thy brethren praise : Thy hand shall be on the neck of thme enemies ; Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah is a lion's whelj) ; From the prey, my son, thou art gone \\\} : He stooped do'svu, he couched as a lion. And as a lioness ; who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor 1* the ruler's staff from between his feet, IS UutU Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be. 11 Binding his foal unto the vine, And his ass's colt unto the choice vme ; He hath washed his garments in wine. And his vesture in the blood of grapes : 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with mQk. 40 GENESIS. 49. 13. SHeb. gedud, a maraud- ing band. 6Heb. gad, to press. • Accord- ing to some ancient versions, Asher, his bread &c. SHeb.tfte son of a fruitful tree, OHeb. daugh- ters. thence, from the shep- herd Or, as other- 12 Ac- cording to some ancient author- ities, the blessings of the ancient tnoitnt- tfie desire (or, de- sirable things) of the everlast- ing hills, 13 Or, that is prince among 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the ^ haven of the sea : And he shall be for an i haven of ships ; Aiid his border shall be ^ ujion Zidon. 14 Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheep- folds: 15 And he saw ^a resting place that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant ; And he bowed his shoulder to bear. And became a servant under task- work. 16 Dan shall judge his people. As one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, An * adder in the ijath, That biteth the horse's heels, So that his rider faJleth backward. 18 I have waited for thy salvation, 0 Lord. 19 Gad, 5 a troop 6 shall press upon him: But he shall press upon their heel. 20 'Out of 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 8 a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a fountain ; His y branches run over the wall. 23 The archers have sorely grieved him. And shot at him, and persecuted him: 24 But his bow abode in strength. And the arms of his hands were made 1° strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (11 From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel,) 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee. And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee. With blessmgs of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath. Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 26 The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above i^ the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the ever- lasting hills : They shall be on the head of Jo- sejjh. And on the crown of the head of him 13 that was separate from his brethren. 27 Benjamin is a wolf that ravineth : In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at even he shall divide the spoil. 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel : and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them ; every one according to his blessing 29 he blessed them. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people : bm-y me with my fathers in the cave that is m the field of Eplnon the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Mach- pelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Aln-aham bought with the field from Ephi-on the Hittite for a possession of a bm-y- 31 ingplace : there they bm-ied Abraham and Sarah his T*lfe ; there they bm-ied Isaac and Eebeksih his wife ; and 32 there I buried Leah : the field and the cave that is thereui, which was purchased from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob made an end of charg- ing his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and j-ielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his peojjle. 50 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed 2 him. And Joseph conunanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the phj'sicians embalmed 3 Israel. 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 weepmg for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying. If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, 5 saying. My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die : in my gi'ave which I i^have digged for me in the hind of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will 6 come again. And Pharaoh said. Go up, and bury thy father, according as 7 he made thee swear. And Joseph went vq) to bui'y his father : and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and aU the 8 elders of the laud of Egjq^t, and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house : onlj' 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 10 very great company. And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they lament- ed with a very great and sore lament- ation : and he made a mourmng for 11 his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said. This is a grievous i* mourning to the Egyptians : wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which 12 is beyond Jordan. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded 1. 16. EXODUS. 41 1 Or. too many and too might!/ for lu 13 them: for bis sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and hm'ied liim in the cave of the field of Maehpelah, which Abraham bought witli the field, for a possession of a buryint,i)lace, of Ephron tlie Hittite, before Manire. 14 ^\jid Joseph returned into EjJiypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury bis father, after 15 he had buried bis father. And when Joseph's bretlnx'n saw that their fatlier was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did 16 imto bun. Aiid they sent a message unto Josei)h, sajdng. Thy father did 17 command before be died, saying. So shall j'e say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, tlie transgi'essiou of thy bretbi-en, 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. Ajid Joseph wept when they spake 18 unto him. And his brethren also went and fell down before bis face; and they said, Behold, we be thy 19 servants. And Josejib said unto them, Fear not : for am I iu the place of I '20 God ? And as for you, ye meant evil agauist me ; but God meant it for , good, to bruig to pass, as it is this 21 day, to save much jx'ople alive. Now therefore fear ye not: I will nouri.sh you, and youi- bttle ones. And be comforted them, and spake i kindly unto them. •I'l And Joseph dwelt in Egji)t, be, and his father's house: and Joseph lived 23 an hundred and ten years. And Joseph saw Eijhraini's children of the third generation: the children also of Ma- chir the son of Manasseb were born 24 upon Joseph's knees. And Joseph' said mito bis brethren, I die : but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the laud which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and 25 to Jacob. And Josexih took an oath of the children of Israel, sajiug, God ■wUl sm-ely visit you, and ye shall 26 carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed htm, and be was put iu a cofiSn in Egypt. THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED EXODUS. 1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and bis household came 2 with Jacob. Eeuben, Simeon, Levi, Sand Judah; Issacbar, Zel)ulun, and 4 Benjamin; Dan aud Napbtali, Gad 5 and Asher. Aud all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls : and Joseph was in 6 Egypt ab-eady. And Joseph died, and aU his brethi-en, and all that genera- 7 tion. And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; aud the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over 9Egyi)t, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are 10^ more and mightier than we: come, let us deal wisely i,\itb them; lest they multiidy, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war. they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get 11 them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to aiHict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, 12Pithom and Kaamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multipUed and the more they spread abroad. And they ^were grieved be- 13 cause of the childi'en of Israel. And the Egj'jitians made the chikb-en of 14 Israel to serve with rigour : and they made their Uves bitter ii\"itb hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service iu the field, aU then- service, wherein they made them serve ■ndth rigoiu-. 15 And the king of Egyjit spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Sliipbrab, and the name ' 16 of the otlier Puab : and lie said, When ye do the oflice of a midwife to the Hebrew women, aud see them upon the birthstool ; if it be a son, then ye shall 2-5 42 EXODUS. 1. 16. iSee Gen. xli. I. 2 That is, papyrus. 3 That is, Htitmc7i. iHeb. HosJieh. 5Heb. mashah, to draw out kill him ; but if it be a daughter, then 17 she shall live. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men 18 children aUve. And the king of Egj^)t called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? 19 Aiid the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women ; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the mid- "20 wife come unto them. And God dealt well with the midwives : and the peoj)le multiphed, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made '22 them houses. And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying. Every son that is born ye shall cast into ^the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. 2 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter 2 of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son : and when she saw him that he was a goodly chUd, she hid .Shim three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of ^buh-ushes, and daubed it with s slime and with pitch ; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know 5 what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and 6 sent her handmaid to fetch it. And she opened it, and saw the child : and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said. This is 7 one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter. Shall I go and call thee a nm-se of the Hebrew women, that she may um-se 8 the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's 9 mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her. Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I wiU give thee thy wages. And the woman took the 10 child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name * Moses, and said. Because I * drew him out of the water. 11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was gi'own up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an E- gyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his 12 brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, 13 and hid him in the sand. And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong. Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? thmkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian ? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the 15 thing is known. 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 flUed the troughs to water 17 their father's flock. And the shepherds came and ch-ove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered 18 their flock. And when they came to Eeuel their father, he said. How is it 19 that ye are come so soon to-day ? And they said, An Egyjitian dehvered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, 20 and watered the flock. And he said unto his daughters. And where is he ? why is it that ye have left the man ? 21 call him, that he may eat bread. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipjjorah 22 his daughter. And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom : for he said, I have been "a sojourner in a strange land. 23 And it came to pass m the course of those many days, that the king of Egyjit died : and the chUdreu of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up mito 24 God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God re- membered his covenant with Abraham, 25 with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge of them. 3 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the moimtain of God, unto Horeb. 2 And the angel of the Loed appeared unto him in a flame of lire out of the midst of a bush : and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, 3 and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is 4 not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he tm-ned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he 5 said. Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither : put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou 6 standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 4 13. EXODUS. 43 I A iJ. He- el OB I AM Or, /AM WBOAM Or. / WILL Be THAT I WILL BX Be Heb. Shyeh. 3 Heb. JehovaK, from the same root as Ehyeh. and the Ciod of Jacob. Aiid Moses liid his face ; for he was afraid to look 7 upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the afHictioii of my lieople which ai'e in Ei,'ypt, and have beard their cry by reason of their taskmasters ; for I know their sorrows ; 8 and I am conic down to deliver them out of the hand of tlie Egyptians, and to hriiif,' them uj) out of that laud imto a }j;ood land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey ; unto the place of the Canaan- ite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and 9 the Jebusite. Ajid now, lieliold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the ojipression wherewith the EgjT^tians 10 oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou inayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egjqit. 11 And Moses said unto (iod. Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children l'2of Israel out of Egyjit? 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 jieople out of Egyi^t, ye shall serve (xod upon this momitain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come luito the children of Israel, and shall say unto them. The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say 14 unto them? And God said unto Moses, ii AM THAT I am: and he said, Thus shall thou saj- mito the children of Israel, ^i am hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, ^Tlie Lokd, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraliam, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto 3'ou : this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto 10 all generations. 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 mito me, saying, I have sm-ely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt : 17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Eg>7)t unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amoi'ite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land ISflowmg with milk and honey. Ajid 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 luito 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 sacritice to the Lord our God. 19 And I know that the kuig of Egj-jit vr^ not give you leave to go, no, not by a •20 mighty hand. And I will put forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders wliich I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you •21 go. And I will give this jii'ople favour in the siglit of tlie Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye •J"2 go, ye sliall not go empty: but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment : and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon yawv daughters; 4 and ye shall spoil tlie EgjiHians. And Moses answered and said. But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say, The TiORD hath not ajipeared mito thee. "2 And the Lord said mito him, ^Vliat is that in thine hand? And he said, A 3 rod. Aiid he said. Cast it on the ground. Aiid he cast it on the ground, and it became a * serpent; and Moses fled 4 from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thhie hand, and take it by the tail: (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it 5 became a rod in his hand:) that they may believe that the Loud, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, 6 hath appeared unto thee. And the Lord said furthermore unto hun, Put now thuie hand into tli3' bosom. And he i^ut his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand 7 was leprous, as n-ldte as snow. And he said. Put thine hand into thy bosom again. (And he jjut his hand into his bosom again ; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned 8 agam as his otlier flesh.) And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they wiU believe 9 the voice of the latter sign. And it shall come to pass, if they wQl not believe even these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and iiovu; it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land. 10 And Moses said unto the Lord, Oh Lord, I am not ^ eloquent, neither heretofore, nor shice thou hast spoken unto thy servant: for I am slow of 11 speech, and of a slow tongue. ArA the Lord said unto him. Who hath made man's mouth ? or who maketli a man dmnb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? l'2is it not I the Lord? Now there- fore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak. 13 And he said. Oh Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou 44 EXODUS. 4. 13. 2Heb. make strong. 3Heb. matte it touch. i Or, A bride- groom of blood in regard of the eircttrn- cisioii 14 wilt send. And the anger of the Lord was kmdled against Moses, and he said, Is there not Aaron thy brother the Levite ? I know that he can sjjeak well. Aiid also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee : and when he seeth 15 thee, he wiU. be glad m his heart. And thou shalt sj)eak unto him, and put the words in his mouth : and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and 16 wiJl teach you what ye shall do. And he shall be thy spokesman imto the people : and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and 17 thou shalt be to him as God. And thou shalt take in thme hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs. 18 And Moses went and returned to 1 Jethro his father ta law, and said unto him. Let me go, I pray thee, and retm'n unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, 19 Go ia peace. And the Loed said un- to Moses in Midian, Go, retm-n into Egypt : for aU the men are dead which 20 sought thy life. And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he retiu-ned to the land of Egypt : and Moses took the rod of God 21 in his hand. And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh aU the wonders which I have put in thine hand: but I wiU 2 harden his heart, and he wUl not let the people 22 go. And thou shalt say mito Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, 23 my firstborn: and I have said unto thee. Let my sou go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will slay thy 24 son, thy fii'stborn. And it came to pass on the way at the lodging place, that the Lord met him, and sought to 25 kill him. Then Zij)porah took a flint, and cut off the foreskm of her son, and 3 cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegi'oom of blood art tliou 26 to me. So he let him alone. Then she said, ■'A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the cu'cmncision. 27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the momitain of God, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron aU the words of the Lord wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had 29 charged him. And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together aU the 30 elders of the chUdi-en of Israel: and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken imto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the 31 people. And the people beheved ; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen then- affliction, then they bowed theh' heads and worshipped. 5 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 2 unto me in the wilderness. And Pha- raoh said. Who is the Lord, that I should hearken mito his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, and moreover I wUl not let Israel go. 3 And they said. The God of the He- brews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' joiu-ney into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the Lord om* God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the king of Egypt said mito them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from then- works'? 5 get you unto your bm-dens. And Pha- raoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make 6 them rest from their burdens. And the same day Pharaoh couunanded the taskmasters of the people, and their 7 officers, saying. Ye shaU no more give the peojjle straw to make brick, as here- tofore: let them go and. gather straw 8 for themselves. And the tale of the bricks, which they did make hereto- fore, ye shall lay upon them ; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they be idle ; therefore they cry, saying. Let 9 us go and sacrifice to our God. Let heavier work be laid u^jon the men, that they may labour therein ; and let 10 them not regard lying words. And the taskmasters of the people went out, and then- officers, and they spake to the people, saying. Thus saith Pharaoh, I 11 wUl not give you straw. Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of yom- work shaU be dimin- r2ished. So the j)eople were scattered abroad throughout aU the land of 13 Egypt to gather stubble for straw. And the taskmasters were ui'gent, saying. Fulfil yom- works, your daUy tasks, 14 as when there was straw. And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, 5 and demanded. Wherefore have ye not fulfiUed your task both yesterday and to-day, in 15 making brick as heretofore ? Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried mito Pharaoh, saying. Where- fore dealest thou thus vdih thy serv- 16 ants? 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 thiue o'\\ti 17 people. But he said. Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go 18 and sacrifice to the Lord. Go there- fore now, and work ; for there shaU no straw be given you, yet shaU ye deliver 19 the tale of bricks. And the officers 7. 3. EXODUS. 45 chief, when they said 2Heb. El Shad- dai. »0r, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24AjuI the sons of Kor.ah; Assu-, and Elkanah, and Abiasa^ih; these are the 25 families of the Korahites. And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daugh- ters of Putiel to wife ; and she bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according 26 to their families. These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said. Bring out the childi-en of Israel from the land of Egyjit according to their 27 hosts. These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egyjit, to bring out the children of Israel from Egyjjt: these are that Moses and Aaron. 28 And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land 20 of Egypt, that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord : sj^eak thou imto Pharaoh kmg of Egyjit aU 30 that I speak mito thee. And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumciseflies into the house of Pharaoh, and ' into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was i^ cor- rupted by reason of the swarms of 25 flies. And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said. Go ye, sacrifice 26 to your God in the land. And Moses said. It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abommatiou of the Egyptians before their eyes, and 27 will they not stone us ? We will go three days' journey into the wilder- ness, and sacrifice to the Lokd our 28(iod, as he shall command us. And Pharaoh said, 1 will let you go, that ye may sacrilico to the Lord your God ui the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away : intreat for me. 29 And Moses said, lk"ht)ld, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the himu that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from liis servants, and from | his people, to-morrow: only let not Pharaoli deal deceitfully any more in not letting tlie peojjle go to sacrifice 30 to the Lord. And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord. 31 And the LoitD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; 32 there remained not one. And Pharaoh 2 hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the peojile go. 9 Then the Lord said mito Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him. Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve 2 me. For if thou refuse to let them go, Sand wilt hold them still, l)ehold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is m the field, upt 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 peojile go. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of hashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprmkle it toward the heaven in the 9 sight of Pharaoh. And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egyjjt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man ami upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 And they took ashes of the fm-nace, and stood before Pharaoh ; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils ; for the boils were upon the magicians, 12 and upon aU the Egyjitians. And the Lord '•* hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he heai-kened not unto 48 EXODUS. 9. 12. lOr, fiashing continu- ally amidst 2Heb. voices (or thun- derings) o/Qod. them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses. 13 And the Lord said unto Moses, Else up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto hun, Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they 14 may serve me. For I will this time send all my ijlagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and ujiou thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off 16 from the earth: but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, for to shew thee my power, and that my name may be declared through- 17 out all the earth. As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that 18 thou wilt not let them go ? Behold, to- morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very gi-ievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day 19 it was founded even imtU now. Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field ; for every man and beast which 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 21 the houses : and he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward hea- ven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. ! 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thimder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and the Lord rained 24 hail upon the land of Egyjit. So there was hail, and fire i mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in aU the laud of Egj^it since it 25 became a nation. 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 brake every tree of 26 the field. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was 27 there no hail. And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said imto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my 28 people are wicked. lutreat the Lord ; for there hath been enough of these 2 mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no 29 longer. And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands mito the Lord; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail ; that thou mayest know that the 30 earth is the Lord's. But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will 31 not yet fear the Lord God. And the flax and the barley were smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and 32 the flax Swas boUed. But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for 33 they were not grown up. And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands mito the Lord: and the thunders and haU. ceased, and the rain was not poured 34 upon the earth. And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thiuiders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and * hardened his heart, 35 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. 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in mito Pharaoh: for I have * hard- ened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my 2 signs in the midst of them : and that thou mayest tell in the ears of th}- sou, and of thy sou's sou, ^^hat things I have ■CTTOught upon Egyjit, and my signs which I have done among them ; that ye may know that I am the 3 Lord. And Moses and Aaron went in imto Pharaoh, and said unto him. Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, How long wUt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring 5 locusts into thy border : and they shaU 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 remaiueth mito you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for jou out 6 of the field: and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of aU the Egj-ptians ; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they wei"e 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 mito us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egyi)t is 8 destroyed? And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them. Go, serve the Lord your God: but who are they 9 that shall go? And Moses said. We wiU go with our young and with our old, ■svitli our sons and ■nith oui- daugh- 12. 3. EXODUS. 49 'Or, what ye purpose Heb. before If our face. -I'.Vm VJJ. 2 Heb. made strong. that men shall ffrope in darkness ters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go ; for we must hold a 10 feast unto the Lord. And he said unto them, So he the Loud with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is ihefore you. 11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Loun; for tliat is what ye desire. Aiid they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. 1'2 And the Louo said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egj-pt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egji)t, and eat every herb of the land, even aU 1.3 that the hail hath left. And Moses stretched forth his rod over the laad of Egjiit, and the Lord brought an east wind ui)on tlie land all that day, and all tlie night; and wlien it was morning, the east wind brought lithe locusts. And the locusts went up over all the land of Eg3'pt, and rested in aU the borders of Eg^iit; veiy grievous were they ; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. l.")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 reniamed not any green thmg, either tree or herb of the field, through IGall the land of EgjiH. Then Pha- raoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and 17 agamst you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord yom* God, that he may take away from me this death only. 18/Vnd he went out from Pharaoh, and lOintreated the Lord. And the Loud turned an exceedmg strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there re- mained not one locust in all the border 20 of Egypt. But the Lord ^hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go. 21 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, tliat (j , I , ,^ there may be darkness over the land of - •'' "" Egypt, ■''even darkness which may l)e 22 felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven ; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt 2.3 three days ; they saw not one anotlier, neither rose any from his place for three days: hut all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24 And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said. Go ye, serve the Lord ; only let your flocks and yom* herds be stayed : let your little ones also go with you. 25 And Moses said. Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offer- ings, that we may sacrifice unto the 2G Lord our God. Our cattle also shall go with us ; there shall not an hoof l)e left behind ; for thereof must we take to serve the Loud our (Jod; and wo know not with wliat we nuist serve 27 tlie Lord, until we come thither. But the Lord 2 hardened Pliaraoli's heart, 28 and he would not let tlit-m go. Aiu\ Pharaoh said unto him. Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest 29 my face thou shalt die. And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more. 11 .AjuI the Lord said unto Mo.ses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egj-pt ; afterwards he will let you go hence: ^whcn he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust 2 you out hence altogether. Speak now in the oars of the people, and let tliem ask every man of his neighl)our, and every woman of her neighi)our, jewels .3 of silver, and jewels of gold. And the Lord gave the people favour in tlie sight of the Egj-ptians. 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 .5 into the midst of Egypt: and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth uiion his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the miU ; and all the firstborn 6 of cattle. And there shall be a gi-eat cry throughout aU the land of Egj^pt, such as there hath been none like it, 7 nor shall be like it any more. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog ^move his tongue, a- gainst man or beast: that ye may know liow that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and 8 Israel. And all these thy servants sliaU come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, sajing. Get tliee out, and all the peo2ile that follow tlioe : and after that I will go out. And lie went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Pha- raoh will not hearken unto you: that my wonders may be multiiilied in the 10 land of Egypt. And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and the Lord 2iiardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his laud. 12 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the laud of Egj^it, sajnng, 2 This month shall be unto you the begiii- nhig of months: it shall be the lirst 3 month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, say- ing. In the tenth dai/ of this month they 50 EXODUS. 12. 3. SHeb. between the two 3 Or, /or a de- stroyer shall take to them every man a ilamb, according to their fathers' houses, a 4 lamb for an household: and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his house take one accordmg to the number of the souls ; according to every man's eating ye shall make 5 your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it from 6 the sheep, or from the goats: and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of 7 Israel shall kill it ^at even. And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall Seat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs 9 they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at aU with water, but roast with fire ; its head with its legs 10 and with the inwards thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the mornmg ye shall burn 11 with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with j-our loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand : and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the 12 Lobd's passover. For I wiU go through the land of Egyj^t in that night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and be^ist; and against aU the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements: I am the Lokd. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses wliere ye are : and when I see the blood, I wiU. pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you ^to destroy you, when I 14 smite the land of Egyjit. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordin- 15 ance for ever. Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses : for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day mitil the seventh day, that soul shall be 16 cut off from Israel. And ui tlie first day there shall be to you an holy con- vocation, and in the seventh day an holy convocation ; no maimer of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may 17 be done of you. And ye shall observe the/east of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt : there- foi'e shaU ye observe this day through- out your generations by an ordinance 18 for ever. In the fii-st month, on the fourteenth day of the mouth at even, ye shall eat mileavened bread, imtil the one and twentieth day of the month 19 at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is lea- vened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born 20 in the land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened ; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, ^Draw out, and take you ^ lambs according to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a buncli of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the hntel and the two side posts with the blood tliat is in the bason ; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until 23 the morning. For the Lord wiU pass through to smite the Egyjitians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord wiU pass over the door, and wiU not suffer the destroyer to come in unto 24 your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordin- ance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord wiU give you, according as he hath jiro- mised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when yom- children shall say imto you. What 27 mean ye by this service ? that ye shall say. It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, 6 who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people 28 bowed the head and worshijiped. And the children of Israel went and did so ; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 29 And it came to pass at midnight, that the Lord smote aU the firstborn in the land of Egyjjt, from the first- born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon ; and aU the fii-st- 30 born of cattle. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his serv- ants, and all the Egyjitians ; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not 31 one dead. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Kise up, get you forth from among my peoi)le, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have 32 said. Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone ; 33 and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste ; for they 34 said. We be aU dead men. And the people took their dough before it was 13. 17. EXODUS. 51 1 >0r, a night of tcatch- ini7 un- to the LOSD 2 Or. thi» same night if a night ofvKiteh- ing un- to the Lord /(n-all leavened, their kneadiiif^troughs being bound up in tlieir clotliea upon their 35 shoulders. And thci children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, 36 and raiment: and tlio Lokd gav(^ tlie people favour in the sight of the Egj'ptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Ajid they spoiled the Egyptians. 157 And the children of Tsi-ael journeyed from liameses to Succoth, about six luuidred thousand on foot that were 38 men, beside children. Aiul a mixed multitude went up also with them; and Hocks, and herds, even very much 39 cattle. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egjpt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egji)t, and could not tai-ry, neither had they prepared for them- 40 selves any victual. Now the sojourn- ing of the children of Israel, which they sojourned in Egyjit, was four 41 hun(b-ed and thirty years. Aiul it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thii'ty years, even the selfsame day it came to jjass, that aU the hosts of the Lord went out from the laud 42 of Egypt. It is ^a night to be much observed mito the Lokd for bringing them out from the land of Egyjit : 2 this is that night of the Lokd, to be much observed of all the chililreu of Israel throughout their generations. 43 Aiid the Lokd said luito Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat 44 thereof : but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circirmcised him, then shall he eat 45 thereof. A sojourner and an hired 46 servant shall not eat thereof. In one house shall it be eaten ; thou shalt not caiTy forth aught of the tlesh abroad out of the house ; neither shall ye break 47 a bone thereof. All the conj^i'egation 48 of Israel shall ^ keep it. And when a stranger shall sojom-n with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lokd, let all his males be cii'cumci.sed, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall he as one that is born in the land: but no uncircmncised person 4!> shall oat thereof. One lav/ shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and 51Aai-ou, so did they. And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lokd did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. 13 Ajid the Lokd spake unto Moses, "2 saying. Sanctify vmto me all the first- born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. 3 And Moses said unto the people. Re- member this day, in whicli ye came out from Egypt, out of tlie house? of 'bond- age; for by strengtliof hand the Lokd brought you out from this place : there 4 shall no leavened bri'ad be eaten. This day ye go forth in the nioiitli Al)il). 5 j\iul it shall be when the Lokd shall bring thee into the land of the (Janaan- ite, and the liittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusitc, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land Howmg with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this 6 mouth. Seven days thou shalt eat un- leavened bread, and hi the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lokd. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten tlu-oughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen 8 \\ith thee, in all thy borders. Aiul thou shalt teU thy son ui that day, saying, It is because of that which the Lokd did for me when I came forth 9 out of Egyi)t. And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine ej'es, that the law of the Lokd maj- be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egj^pt. 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordui- ance in its season from year to year. 11 AjkI it shall be when the Lo]U) shall bring thee into the land of the I'anaan- ite, as he sware luito thee and to thy 12 fathers, and shall give it thee, tliat thou shalt 6 set apart mito the Lokd all that openeth the womb, and every firsthng which thou hast that cometh of a beast ; 13 the males shall be the Lord's. And every firstlmg of an ass thou shalt re- deem with a "^lamb ; and if thou wUt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck : and all the firstborn of man a- 14 mong thy sons shalt thou redeem. And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, sajing. 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 fii-stborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of Ijeast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb, being males ; but all the 16 firstborn of my sons I redeem. And it shall be for a sign upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egjrpt. 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 52 EXODUS. 13. 17. pillar of cloud liif day, nor the &c. 2Heb. ynake strong. 4 Heh. made- strong. the Philistines, although that was near ; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and 18 they return to Egypt : hut God led the lieople ahout, hy the way of the wilder- ness by the Red Sea : and the chUdren of Israel went up armed out of the 19 land of Egypt. And Moses took the liones of Joseph with him : for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you ; and ye shall carry up my hones away hence '20 with 3'ou. And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, '21 in the edge of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by day in a piUar of cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night in a iJillar of fire, to give them light ; that they might go by day '22 and by night : i the piUar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the i^eople. 14 And the Lord spake unto Moses, '2 saymg. Speak unto the children of Is- rael, 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 Ajid Pharaoh will say of the chUdren of Israel, They are entangled m the land, 4 the wilderness hath shut them in. And I will 2 harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them ; and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and uj)on all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord. And they 5 did so. And it was told the king of Egyi)t that the people were fled : and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said. What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from servuig 6 us? And he made readj^ his ^ chariot, 7 and took his people with him : and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egyi^t, and captains 8 over all of them. And the Lord * harden- ed the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pm'sued after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel went 9 out with an high hand. And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and over- took them encamijuig by the sea, be- side Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyjitians marched after them ; and they were sore afraid : and the children of Israel cried out llimto the Lord. And they said mito Moses, Because there were no gi'aves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die m the wilderness ? wherefore hast thou dealt thiis with us, to bring us 12 forth out of Egyi)t? Is not this the word that we spake mito 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 shoidd die in the wil- ISderness. And Moses said unto the people. Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he Avill work for you to-day: ^for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them agaui no more for 14 ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold yom- peace. 15 And the Lord said imto Moses, Where- fore criest thou unto me? speak unto the childi-en of Israel, that they go 16 forward. And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thme hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Is- rael shall go into the midst of the 17 sea on dry ground. And I, behold, I will 2 harden the hearts of the Egji)t- ians, and they shall go in after them : and I will get me honour upon Pha- raoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 18Aaid the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his 19 chariots, and upon his horsemen. And the angel of God, which went before the cam^j of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood 20 behind them : and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camj) of Israel ; and there was the cloud and the dark- ness, yet gave it light by night: and the one came not near the other all 21 the night. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the Lord caused the sea to go bacJc by a strong east wuid all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were di- 22 vided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea uiJon the dry gromid: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on 23 their left. And the Egj'ptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his 24 chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to j)ass in the morning watch, that the Lord looked forth upon the host of the Egyi)tians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and dis- comfited the host of the EgjiJtians. 25 And he "Jtook off their chariot wheels, ''that they drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said. Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyjjtians. 26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thme hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, 27 and uj)on their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea retm'ned to its ^ strength when the morning appeared ; and the Egyptians fled agamst it ; and the 15. 26. EXODUS. 53 iHeb. shook off. 1 Or, U hiijMu exulted Lord lovertlu'ew the Egjiitians iii the '28 midst of tbo sea. Aiul the waters re- turned, and covered the cliariots, and tlie horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much 29 as one of them, liut the children of Israel walked upon di-y land in the midst of the sea ; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right 30 hand, and on their left. Thus the LoKi) saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea 31 shore. Ajid Israel saw the gi'eat ^ work which the Loud did upon the Egypt- ians, and the people feared the Lokd : and they beUeved ui the Lokd, and in his servant Moses. 15 Then sang Moses and the childi'en of Israel this song unto the Lokd, and sjiake, saj'uig, I will sing unto the Lokd, for he ''hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thi'own into the sea. 2 *The Lord is my strength and song, Arid he is become my salvation : This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lokd is a man of war : The Loud is his name. •i Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into tlie sea : And his chosen captains are sunk in the Eed Sea. 5 The deeps cover them : They went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Thy right hand, 0 Lord, is glorious in power. Thy right baud, O Lord, dasheth in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of thine excel- lency thou overthi'owest them that rise up against thee : Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it cousumeth them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled n\}. The floods stood ujiright as an heaj) ; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, I wiU pursue, I will overtake, I wiU divide the spoil : My lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I wiU 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. 11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods ? "Who is Hke thee, glorious ui holi- ness. Fearful in praises, doing wonders ? 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand. The earth swallowed tliem. 13 Thou in thy m, ny Imst led tli(^ people which thou hast redeemed : Thou hast guided tliem in thy strength to thy holy habitation. 11 The peoples ha\e beard, they treml)le : Pangs have taken hold on the in- habitants of Pliilistia. 15 Then were the dukes of Edom amazed ; The ''mighty men of Moab, trem- bling taketh bold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. IG Terror and ili-ead falleth upon them ; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone ; Till thy people i)ass over, O Lord, Till the people pass over which thou hast "pm-chased. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the uiouutam of thine in- heritance. The place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in. The sanctuai-y, O Lord, which thy hands have established. 18 The Lord shall reign for ever and ever. I'.t For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horse- men into the sea, and the Lord brought agam the waters of the sea upon them ; but the children of Israel walked on 20 dry land in the midst of the sea. And Mii'iam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel ui her hand ; and all the women went out after her 21 with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them. Sing ye to the Lord, for he *hath triumphed gloriously ; The horse and his rider hath he tkrown into the sea. 22 And Moses led Israel onward from the Eed Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Sbm- ; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found 23 no water. And when they came to Marah, they could not ib-uik of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called 24 ''Marah. And the peoide murmm'ed against Moses, sayhig. What shall we 25 drink ? And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord shewed 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 ordui- 26ance, and there he proved them; and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his com- 54 EXODUS. 15. 26. iHeb. Bet-iieen Vie two even- mandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egji^tians : for I am the Lokd that healeth thee. 27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve sprmgs of water, and three- score and ten palm trees: and they 16 encamped there by the waters. And they took their journey from Ehm, and all the congregation of the child- ren of Israel came unto the wilder- ness of Sin, which is between Elim and Siuai, on the fifteenth day of the second uioiith after theu' departing out 2 of the laud of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel mm-mured against Moses and agamst 3 Aaron ui the wilderness : and the child- ren of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the laud of EgyiJt, when we sat by the flesh i)ots, when we did eat bread to the f uU ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 4 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Be- hold, I will 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 5 will walk in my law, or no. And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice Gas much as they gather daily. And Moses and Aaron said mito aU the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought 7 you out from the land of Eg>i)t : and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings agauist the Lord : and Avhat are we, that ye mur- 8 mur against us ? And Moses said, TJds shall he, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your mui-mm-- ings which ye murumr against him: and what are we ? your miu-mm-ings are not against us, but against the Lord. 9 And Moses said unto Aaron, Say mito aU the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your mm-mm-uigs. 10 And it came to pass, as Aaron simke unto the whole congi-egation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the 11 cloud. And the Lord spake unto Moses, 12 saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, i At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread ; and ye shall know that I 13 am the Lord your God. And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp : and in the morning the dew lay romid about the 14 camp. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the A^dlderness a small Ground thing, small as the hoar frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, ^What is it? for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them. It is the bread which the Lord hath given you 16 to eat. 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 i)ersons, shall ye take it, everj' man for them which are ui his tent. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and 18 gathered some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothuig over, and he that gathered Uttle had no lack ; they gathered every man according 19 to his eating. And Moses said mito them. Let no man leave of it till the 20 morning. Notwithstanding they heark- ened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it mitil the morning, and it bred worms, and stank : and Moses 21 v/as wroth with them. And they gath- ered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when 22 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 congi-egation came and 23 told Moses. And he said unto them. This is that which the Lord hath spoken. To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath mito the Lord: bake that which ye wiU bake, and seethe that which ye vnil seethe ; and all that remaiiieth over lay up for you to be 24 kejjt until the mornmg. And they laid it up tiU the mornmg, as Moses bade : and it did not stink, neither was there 25 any worm therein. And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sab- bath mito the Lord: to-day ye shall 26 not find it in the field. Six days ye shall gather it ; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. 27 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the peojjle for to gather, and they found 28 none. And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my com- 29 mandments and my laws? See, for that the Lord hatli given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days ; abide ye every man ui his place, let no man go out of his place on the 30 seventh day. So the peoi^le rested 31 on the seventh day. And the house of Israel called the name thereof * Manna : and it was like coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it was like wafers '^2 made with honev. And Moses said. 18. U. EXODUS. 55 lOr, stages 2 That is, Tempt- ing, or. Proving. 3 That is, Chiding, or. Strife. This is the thing whicli tlie Lord liath commanded, Let an oincrful of it he kept for your generations ; thut they may see the hread wherc^witli I fed you in the wilderness, wlieii I brouglit j-ou forth from the laud of Egypt. .S3 And Closes said unto Aaron, Take a i)ot, and put an ouierfnl of manna therein, and lay it up before the Loud, 34 to be kept for your generations. As the Loud counnanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimonj', to be 35 kept. And the cliildren of Israel did eat the manna forty jears, until they came to a land inliabited ; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the 36 borders of the lii;;d of Canaan. Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah. IT And all the congregation of the children of Israel jom-neyed from the wilderness of Sin, by tlieir i journeys, according to the commandment of the Loud, and pitched in IJephidim: and there was no water for the people to 2 drink. Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said. Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? 3 wherefore do ye tempt the Lord ? And the iieople thu-sted there for water; and the jieople murmured against Moses, and said, "Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egyi)t, to kill us and our cliildren and our cattle with 4 thirst? And Moses cried unto the Lord, .saying. What shall I do unto this people? they be ahnost ready to 5 stone me. And the Loud said unto Moses, Pass on before the peojile, and take with thee of the elders of Israel ; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thhie hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb ; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the jieople may druik. And Moses did so in the sight 7 of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place ^Massah, and sMeribah, because of the strivuig of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lori>, saj'iug. Is the Lord among us, or not ? 8 Then came Amalek, and fought with 9 Israel in Eephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, tight with Auialek : to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with 10 the rod of God in mine hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of 11 the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel l)revailed : and when he let down his 12 hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy ; and thej' took a stone, and put it under huu, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hm- stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until 13 the going down of the sun. And Josluia 'discomfited Amalek and his lieople with the edge of the sword. 14 Aiid tlic Loud said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and re- hearse it in the ears of Joshua : ■'' tliat I wiU utterly blot out the remembrance 15 of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar, and called the 16 name of it ''Jehovah-nissi : and he said, 'The Loud hath sworn: the Loud will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. 18 Now .Tethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, lieard of all tliat God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how that the Loud had 2 brought Israel out of Egypt. And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zip- porah, Moses' wife, after he had sent 3 her away, and her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been ''a sojourner in 4a strange land: and the name of the other was '-'Eliezer; for he .said, The God of my father was my help, and de- livered 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 eu- 6 camped, at the mount of God: and he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons mth her. 7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him ; and they asked each other of their welfare ; and they came into the 8 tent. Aiul Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pha- raoh and to the Egj^jtians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the 9 Lord delivered them. And Jethi-o re- joiced for all the goodness which the Loud had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the 10 Egyptians. And Jethro said. Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered j'ou out of the hand of the Egy[itians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath deUvered the people from inider lithe hand of the Egyjitians. Now I know that the Loud is gi-eater than all gods: yea, in tlie thing whereui 12 they dealt proudly agamst them. Aiid Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God : and Aaron came, and aU the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father 13 in law before God. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the peojile: and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto 14 the evening. And when Moses' father 56 EXODUS. 18. 14. ill 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 aloue, and all the people stand about thee from moiuuig mito 15 even ? And Moses said unto his father in law. Because the people come unto 16 me to inquire of God : when they have a matter, they come unto me ; and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make them know the statutes 17 of God, and his laws. And Moses' father in law said unto him. The thing 18 that thou doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for the thuig is too heavy for thee ; thou art not able to perform it thj'self alone. 19 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people to God- ward, and bring thou the causes unto 20 God: and thou shalt teach them the statutes and the laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the iieople able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hatmg unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers 22 of fifties, and rulers of tens: and let them judge the people at all seasons : and it shall be, that every great matter they shall brmg unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden 23 with thee. If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and aU this people also shall go to then- place in 24 peace. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all 25 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 26 of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at aU seasons : the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged 27 themselves. And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land. 19 In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came 2theymto the wUderness of Sinai. And when they were departed from Eephi- dim, and were come to the wilderness of Smai, they pitched in the wilder- ness ; and there Israel camped before 3 the mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the Loed called unto him out of the mountain, sayuig. Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and 4teU the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did luito the Egyjitians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, 5 and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye wiU obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a pecuhar treasure unto me 1 from among aU peoples : for aU the 6 earth is mine: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak mito the children of 7 Israel. And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Loed 8 commanded him. And aU the people answered together, and said. All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people 9imto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people mito the Lord. 10 And the Lord said imto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash 11 then- garments, and be ready against the thu'd day: for the thu-d day the Loed wiU come do\\Ti in the sight of 12 aU the peojile upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the i^eople round about, saying. Take heed to yoiu-selves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it : whosoever toucheth the mount shall 13 be siu'ely put to death : no hand shall touch 2 him, but he shall sm-ely be stoned, or shot through ; whether it be heast or man, it shall not live: when the ° trumpet soundeth long, they shall 14 come up to the mount. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the peojile ; and 15 they washed theu' ganuents. And he said unto the i^eople. Be ready a- gainst the third daj' : come not near a 16 woman. And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and hghtnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a trmupet exceeding loud ; and all the people that were in the 17 camp trembled. And Moses brought fortH the people out of the camp to meet God ; and they stood at the nether 18 part of the mount. And niomit Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the Loed descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furaace, and the whole 19* mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God 20 answered him by a voice. And the Loed came down uiJon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount : and the Lord called Moses to the toj> of the mount ; 21 and Moses went up. And the Loed said unto Moses, Go down, charge the 21. 11. EXODUS. 57 iHeb. bomi' men. !0r. befids 3 Or, (I thou- sand genera- tions See Deut." vii. 9. * Or,. for vanity or false- hood people, lest they break through unto the Lord to {,'aze, and many of them 22 perish. And let the priests also, wliich come near to the Loud, sanctify them- selves, lest the Lord break forth U2)()n 23 them. And Moses said unto tlic Loki>, The people (-lunot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charf,'e us, say- ing. Set l)ounds about tlie mount, and 24 sanctify it. And the Loud 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 2.'> them. So Moses went down unto the people, and told them. 20 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which brouglit thee out of the land of Eg}i)t, out of the house of i bondage. 3 Thou shalt have none other gods 2 before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, iiov the likencKs of any fonn that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the 5 water under the earth : thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them : for I the Loud thy (rod am a jealous God, visiting the iniijuity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth gener- G ation of them that hate me ; and shewing mercj' unto -'thousands, of them that love me and keep my com- mandments. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God •* in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh bis name *iii vain. 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep Oit holy. Six days slialt thou Iabom% 10 and do all thy work : but the seventh day is a sabbath luito the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy luauservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that His wnthin thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day : wherefoie the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and > hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thj- mother: that thy days may be long ui^on the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. i:! Thou shalt do no murder. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 1.5 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shr.lt luit bear false witness agauist thj- neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neigh- bour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. IK And all the i)eople saw the thuii- derings, and the liglitnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and tin; mo\uitain smoking: and when the people saw it, they f' trembled, and stood afar off. I'.tAnd they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will liciir: Imt let not 20 God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for (xod is come to prove you, aiid that his fear may be before you, that 21 ye sin not. And the peo]ile stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness w here (xod was. 22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with jou from heaven. 23 Ye shall not make ot//t>r ijods with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, 24 ye shall not make unto you. An altar of earth thou shalt make inito me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt otierings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen : in every place where I " record my nanu' I will come 2.") unto thee and I will 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, 26 thou hast polluted it. Neither shalt thou go uj) by steps mito mine altar, that thy nakeilness be not discovered thereon. 21 Now these are the judgements wliich thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou l)uy an Hebrew '^ servant, six years he shall serve : and in the seventh 3 he shall go out free for nothing. If he come in by himself, he sliall go out by hmiself : if he be married, then 4 his wife shall go out with him. If his master give him a wife, and she bear Inm sons or daugliters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, 5 and he shall go out by himself. But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children ; 6 1 will not go out free : tlien his master shall bring him mito ^God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door post ; and his master shall bore his ear througli with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever. 7 Ajid if a man sell his daughter to be a ''maidservant, she shall not go 8 out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, i"who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed : to sell her unto a strange i)eopie he shall have no power, seeuig he huth dealt deceit- 9fuUy with her. And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 10 If he take him another vife; her 1' food, her raiment, and her duty of 11 mai-riage, shall he not diminish. jVnd if he do not these three unto her, then tlutt he hath not espoused her. II Heh. flesh. 58 EXODUS. 21. 11. 3Heb. sitting or ceasing, 3 Or, his boiid- shall she go out for nothing, without money. 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he 13 die, shall surely be put to death. And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver /; im mto his hand ; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall 14 flee. And if a man come presumptu- ously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile ; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his 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 And he that icurseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 18 And if men contend, and one smiteth the other with a stone, or with his fist, 19 and he die not, but keep his bed : if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: oidy he shall pay for 2 the loss of his time, and shall cause him. to be thoroughly healed. 20 And if a man smite ^his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die mider his hand ; he shall surely be pimished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished : for he is his money. 22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no mischief follow : he shaU be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him ; and he shall pay as the judges deter- 23 mine. But if any mischief follow, then 24 thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot 25 for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroy it ; he shall let him go free for 27 his eye's sake. And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidserv- ant'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 his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall 29 be quit. But if the ox were wont to gore in tinie past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kej)t him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put 30 to death. If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the re- demption of his life whatsoever is laid 31 upon him. "Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, ac- cording to this judgement shall it be 32 done unto him. If the ox gore a man- servant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thuty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therem, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner of them, and the dead heast shall be his. 35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the Uve ox, and divide the price of it ; and 36 the dead also they shall divide. Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in ; he shall surely paj' ox for ox, and the dead heast shall be his own. 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and foui' 2 sheep for a sheep. If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he die, there shaU be no *bloodguilti- 3 ness for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him : he should make restitution ; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for 4 his theft. If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep ; he shall pay double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vine- yard 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 vine- yard, 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, be con- sumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 7 If a man shall 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 8 double. 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 9 neighbour's goods. 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 saith. This is it, the cause of both parties shall come before ^God; he whom 5 God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour-. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighboiu- an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep ; and it die, or be hurt, 11 or driven away, no man seeing it: the oath of the Lord shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accei)t it, and he shall not make restitution. 12 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner there- 23. 23. EXODUS. 59 2 Or, i7 i« reckoned in (Heb. Cometh ittto) its hirti 3 Heb. devoted. See Lev. xxviL29. * Or. the judges 5 Heb. thy ful- ness afid thy tear. «0r. bear vitness 13 of. If it be torn in jiieces, lot him bring it for witness ; he shall not make good that wliich %\ as torn. 14 And if a man i borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, tlie owner thereof not being with it, he 15 shall surely make restitution. If the owner tlicreof be with it, he shall not make it good: ii it be an hired thing, 2 it came for its hu-e. 16 And if a man entice a wgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall sui'ely i)ay a dcjw ly for her to l)e his 17 wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be i>iit to death. 20 He that sacriticeth unto any god, save unto the Loku only, shaU l)e 21 3 utterly destroyed. And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him : for ye were strang- 22ers in tlio land of Egypt. Ye shall not alHict any widow, or fatlierless 23 child. If thou afUict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will 24 surely hear theu- cry; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and jour wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 25 If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor ; nei- 26 ther shall ye lay ujion him usury. If thou at all take thy neighbom-'s gar- ment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goeth down : 27 for that is his only covering, it is his gannent for his skin : wherein shall he sleep ■? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will beai' ; for I am gi-acious. 28 Thou shalt not revile ^God, nor 29 curse a ruler of thy peojile. Thou shalt not delay to offer of ^ the abmid- ance of thy fruits, and of thy liquors. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou 30 give imto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thme oxen, and with thy sheeji ; seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it 31 me. And ye shall be holy men unto me : therefore j-e shall not eat any flesli tliat is torn of beasts in the field; ye sliaU ca.st it to the dogs. 23 Thou shalt not take up a false re- port: init not thuie hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not foUow a multitude to do evil ; neither shalt thou '' speak in a cause to tui'u aside after a multitude 3 to wvest J ud(/e me nt: neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause. 4 If thou meet thine enemj's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt sm-ely 5 bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him tliat haleth thee lying under his l)iirden, 'and would- est forl)ear to liclp him, thou shalt surely help with hhii. 0 Tliou blialt not wn'st the judgement 7 of thy poor in liis cause. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the in- nocent and righteous slay thou not: 8 for I will not justify llie wicked. And thou shalt take no gift: for a gift blindeth them tliat have sight, and perverteth the ** words of the righteous. 9 And a stranger shalt lliou not oi)i>ress: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seehig ye were strangers in tlic laud of Eg}i)t. 10 And six years thou .slialt sow thy land, and slialt gather in the increase 11 thereof: but the sevi'ntli year thou shalt -'let it rest and lie fallow; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of tlie field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy 12 oliveyard. Six dajs thou shalt do thy w-ork, and on the seventh day tliou shalt lOrest: that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of tliy handmaid, and the stranger, may be 13 refreshed. And in all things that I have said unto jou take ye heed : and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast 15 mito me in the year. The feast of un- leavened bread shalt thou keeji : seven days tliou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time ap- pointed in the month Abib (for iu it thou camest out from Egypt) ; and none shall appear l)efore me empty : 16 and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou sowest hi the field : and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, w lien thou gatli- erest in thy laboiu's out of the field. 17 Tlu-ee tunes in the year all thy males shaU appear before the Lord God. 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of mj- sacrifice with leavened bread ; neither shall the fat of my feast remam aU 19 night imtil the morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy ground tliou shalt bring into the house of the Imkd thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid iu its mother's milk. 20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee l)y the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have 21 prei)ared. Take ye heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; Hjjrovoke him not : for lie w Ul not pardon your transgression; for my name is in 22 him. But if thou shalt indeed heark- en unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I wiU lie an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversai'y 23 unto thme adversaries. For mine 60 EXODUS. 23. 23. lOr, obeVs7:s See Lev. xxvi. ], 2 Kings 2 That is, tlie Eu- phrates. angel shall go before thee, and brhig thee in unto the Aniorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Ca- naanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 24 and I will cut them off. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overtln-ow them, and 25 break in pieces their i]3illars. Aiul ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water ; and I will take sickness away from the 26 midst of thee. There shall none cast her young, nor be liarren, in thy land : the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 1 will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the peojile to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto 28 thee. And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from 29 before thee. I wiU not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. oOBy little and little I ^^^ll drive them out from before thee, until thou be ;;i increased, and inherit the land. And I will set thy border from the Bed Sea even luito the sea of the Philistmes, and from the wilderness unto ^the Eiver: for I will deliver the inhabit- ants of the laud into your hand ; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with S3 them, nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me : for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. 24 And he said mito Moses, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye 2 afar off : and Moses alone shall come near unto the Lord; but they shall not come near ; neither shall the peo- 3 pie go up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgements: and all the people answered with one voice, and said. All the vvords which the Lord hath spoken will we do. 4 And Moses vv'rote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morn- ing, and builded an altar under the momit, and twelve pillars, according 5 to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent yoimg men of the children of Israel, which offei-ed burnt offer- ings, and sacrificed peace offerings of 6 oxen unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on 7 the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said. All that the Lord hath spoken will we do. Sand be obedient. 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 Sconcernmg all these 9 words. Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the 10 elders of Israel: and they saw the God of Israel; and there was mider his feet as it were *a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the livery 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. 12 And 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 law and the command- ment, which I have written, that thou ISmayest teach them. And Moses rose u]}, and Joshua his minister: and Moses 14 went up into the momit of God. And he said unto the elders. Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you : whosoever hath a cause, let him 15 come near mito them. And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud 16 covered the mount. 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 17 of the midst of the cloud. And the apjjearauce of the glory of the Lord was like devourmg fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children 18 of Israel. And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went uj) into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. 25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, 2 saying. Speak unto the children of Israel, that they take for me an * offer- ing : of every man whose heart maketh him willing ye shall take my "offer- Sing. And this is the * offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and 4 silver, and brass; and blue, and pm-- ple, and scarlet, and ''fine Imen, and 5 goats' hair ; and ranis' skins dyed red, 6 and 'sealskins, and acacia wood; oil for the light, spices for the anointing 7 oil, and for the sweet incense; ^onj'x stones, and stones to be set, for the Sephod, and for the breastplate. And let them make me a sanctuary ; that I 9 may dwell among them. According to aU that I shew thee, the pattern of the 9 tabernacle, and the i^attern 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 11 and a half the height thereof. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt tliou over- 26. 8. EXODUS. 61 'Or. /-re- sencf- bread lay it, ami slialt make upon it a 121 crown of jr^id lonud about. And thou slialt cast four rings of gold for it, anil put them in tlio four feet thereof; and two rings shall he on tlie one '•^side of it, and two rings on the other IH 2 side of it. And tliou slialt make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them witli 1-1 gold. And thou shalt put tlie staves into the rings on the sides of the 15 ark, to bear the ark withal. The staves shall be in tlie rings of the ark : IG they shall not be taken from it. And thou shalt put into the ark the testi- 17 niony which I shall give thee. And thou shalt make a ■"'mercy-scat of pure gold : two cubits and a half .shalt be the length tliereof, and a cubit and a IS half the breadth thereof. And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of ■' beaten work slialt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy- 19 seat. Aiid make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at tlio other end: ^of one piece witli the mercy- seat shall ye make the cherubim 20 on the two ends thereof. Aiid the cherubmi shall spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with theu' wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall 21 the faces of the cherubim be. And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above ujjon the ark ; and in the ark thou shalt put the testmiony that I shall 22 give thee. And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thoe from above the mercy-seat, from be- tween the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the childi-eu of Israel. 23 And thou slialt make a table of acacia wood: two cubits shall he the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth there- of, and a cubit and a half the height 24 thereof. And thou shalt overlay it with pui-e gold, and make thereto a 25^ crown of gold round about. Aiid thou shalt make unto it a border of an handhreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the bor- 2Gder thereof round about. And thou shalt make for it four* rings of gold, and put the rings in the foiu- corners that are on the foui- feet thereof. 27 Close by the border shall the rings be, for places for the staves to bear 28 the table. And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may 29 be borne with them. And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the flagons there- of, and the bow-Is thereof, to pour out withal : of pure gold shalt thou make 30 them. And thou shalt set upon the table ''shewbread hefore me alwav. 31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of ibeateu work shall the candlestick be made, even its "base, and its shalt ; its cu])s, its knops, and its tlowei's, shall l)e "of one piece with 32 it: and there shall be six l)ranche8 going out of the sides thereof; thi-ee hranches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of tlie other side 33 thereof : three cups mal)riesfR office. And they sliall take ''the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen. 0 Ajid they shall make the cphod of gold, of bhie, and puri)le, scarlet, and fin(^ twined linen, the work of the 7 cunning workman. It shall have two sliouldi'ri)ieces joined to the two ends tlicreof ; that it may be joined togetlier. 8 And the cunningly woven band, wliich is upon it, to gird it on withal, sliall be like the work thereof upon his two shoulders for a memorial. 13 And thou shalt make ouches of gold : 14 and two chains of pure gold ; like cords shalt thou make them, of wreatlien work : and thou shalt i)ut the wreathen 15 chains on the ouches. And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgement, the work of the cumiing worlonan; like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and tine twined linen, shalt 1() thou make it. Foursipiare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth there- 17 of. And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones : a row of *sardius, topaz, and ^ carbuncle 18 shaU be the first row ; and the second row an lOemerald, a sapphire, and a 19 11 diamond; and the third row a 12 ja- 20 cinth, an agate, and an amethj'st ; and the fourth row a is beryl, and an 'onj-x, and a jasper: they shall he inclosed in 21 gold in their settings. Aud the stoues shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names ; like the engi-avings of a signet, every one according to his name, 22 they shall be for the twelve tribes. Aiid thou shalt make upon the breast- plate chains like cords, of WTeathen 23 work of pui-e gold. And thou slialt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastjdate. 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathwi chains of gold on the two rings at the 25 ends of the breastplate. And the 64 EXODUS. 28. 25. 1 That is, the Lights and the Perfec- tions. 2 Or, there shall be a hole in the top of it other two euds of the two wreatheii chains thou shalt ]5ut on the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder- pieces of the ephod, in the forepart 28 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 to- ward the side of the ephod inward. 27 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two shoulderpieces of the ephod under- neath, in the forepart thereof, close by the couphng thereof, above the cun- 28 nuigly woven band of the ephod. And they shall bind tlie breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the cmuiingly woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be 29 not loosed from the ephod. And Aaron shall bear the names of the children^/ of Israel m the breastplate of judge- ment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial 30 before the Loud contumaUy. And thou shalt put hi the breastplate of judgement ^the Urim and the Thum- mim ; and they shaU be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord : and Aaron shall bear the judge- ment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually. 31 And thou shalt make the robe of 32 the ephod all of blue. And ^it shall 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 33 it be not rent. And upon the skii-ts of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of pm-ple, and of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round a- 34 bout : a golden beU and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the sku'ts of the robe round about. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister : and the sovmd thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not. 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the en- gi-avings of a signet, holy to the 37 LORD. And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the ^ mitre; uijon the forefront of the ^ mitre it shall 38 be. And it shall be upon Aaron's fore- head, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all then- holy gifts ; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted 39 before the Lord. And thou shalt weave the coat in chequer work of ^fuie Imen, and thou shalt make a ^ mitre of *iine linen, and tliou shalt make a gu'dle, •10 the work of the embroiderer. And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them gh-dles, and headtires slialt thou make for them, for 41 glory and for beauty. And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him; and shalt anomt them, and 5 consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office. 42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the ilesh of then- nakedness; from the loms even unto 43 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 iniquitj', and die : it shall be a statute for ever unto him /' and mito his seed after him. ■^9 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to muiister unto me in the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams 2 without blemish, and mileavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of line wheaten flom- shalt 3 thou make them. And thou shalt put them mto one basket, and bring them m the basket, with the bullock and the 4 two rams. And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bruig unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them 5 with water. And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastijlate, and ghd him with the cunningly woven 6 band of the ephod : and thou shalt set the 3 mitre upon his head, and put 7 the holy crown upon the s mitre. Then shalt thou take the anomtiug oil, and pour it upoiThis head, and anoint him. 8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put 9 coats upon them. And thou shalt gu-d them with guxlles, Aaron and his sons, and bhid headtires on them : and they shall have the priesthood by a per- petual statute: and thou shalt conse- 10 crate Aaron and his sons. And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of lithe bullock. And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, at the door of 12 the tent of meeting. 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 pom* out all the blood at the base of the altar. 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul upon the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and 14 burn them upon the altar. But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and its dung, shalt thou bm-u with fire without the camp : it is a ^sin offering. 30. 1. EXODUS. 65 .•1**'^^ . 'Or. upon 15 Thou shall also take the one rain ; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their IC hands upon tlio head of the ram. Ami thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take its blood, and siirinklo it 17 round about uinin tlic altar. And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its le;,'s, and put them iwith its pieces, and ^witli its 18 head. And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt of- fering unto the Lokd: it is a sweet savour, an olfering made by fire unto 19 the Loud. And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands ujjon the head of •20 the ram. Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it ujion 1 the tij) of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the gi-eat toe of their right foot, and sin-uikle the blood upon the altar round about. '21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oO, and sprinkle it upon Aaron, ancl upon his gannents, and upon his sons, and upon the gannents of his sons with him: and he sliall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sous, and 22 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 caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right 2 thigh; for it is a ram 23 of consccratiou ; and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of luileavened bread that is before the 24 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 otferuig before the 25LoKi). And thou shalt take them from then- hands, and buni them on the altar upon the bm-nt olferuig, for a sweet savoui" before the Lor.D: it is an offer- 26 iug made by fire unto the Lokd. And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Loud: and it 27 shall be thy i)ortion. And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the -thigh of tlic heave offerhig, which is waved, and which is heave(l uj), of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that 28 which is for his sons : and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as a due for ever from the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their l)eaco offerings, even their heave offe;-- 29ing iinto the Loud. And the holy gar- ments of Aaron sliall be for his soi:s after hun, to be anointed m them. 30and to be consecrated in thcni. Seven days shall the son tliat is priest in his stead put tliem on, when he comcth into the tent of meeting to minister in 31 the holy place. And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe .32 its flesh in a holy placf. And Aaron and his sons sliall eat the llesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the doin- of the tent of meet- 33ing. And they shall cat those thuigs wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate am/ to sanctify them : but a stranger shall not eat "thei-eof, be- 31 cause they are holy. And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remauuler with lire : it shall not be eaten, because it is 35 holy. And thus shalt tliou do unto Aaron, and to his sous, according to all that I have connuanded thee: seven 36 days shalt thou consecrate them. And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin offeruig for atonement: and thou shalt -^cleanse the altar, when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou slialt make atone- ment for the altar, and sanctify it : and the altar shall be most holy; ^whatso ever toucheth the altar shall be holy. 38 Now this is that which thou shart 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 ■10 sluilt oll'er ^'at even : and with the one laml) a tenth part oj' mi <'//Iiah of fine Hour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink 11 offering. And the other lamb thou shalt offer ^at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meal offering of the morning, and accorduig to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet sa- vour, an ofl'eriug made bj- fire unto the 42 Loud. It shall be a continual burnt offeruig throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the Loud: where I will meet with you, to speak there unto thee. 43 And there I will meet with the chil(b"en of Isi'ael; and the Tent shall be sanc- 41 titled by my glorj-. And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar: Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify, to minister to me ui the in-iest's office. 4.5^Vjid I wUl dwell among the chilcb-en 46 of Israel, and will be thch- God. And they shall know tliat I am the Loud their (rod, that brought them forth out of the land of Egj-jit, that I maj- dwell among them: I am the Loi:d their God. 30 -And thou shalt make an altar to bui'u iiicenso upon: of acacia wood 66 EXODUS. 30. 1. 1 Heb. raof. 2 Heb. VKtilS. 3 Or, rm Or, nolUd- 'Or, setteth up Heb. causeth to as- cend. 5 Heb. between the two evenings. 6 Or, /or •2shalt thou make it. A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be : and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be 3 of one piece with it. And thou shalt overlay it with pui'e gold, the ^top thereof, and the ^ sides thereof roimd about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make luito it a s crown of 4 gold round about. And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs there- of, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they shall be for j)laces for staves to bear it withal. 5 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with G gold. And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testi- mony, before the mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet 7 with thee. And Aaron shall burn there- on incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresseth the lamj)s. She shall burn it. And when Aaron ^lighteth the lamiis ^at even, 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 oifeiing; and j'e shall j)om" no drink 10 offering thereon. And Aaron shall make atonement "upon the horns of it once in the j-ear : 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 spake unto Moses, 12 saying. When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul tuito the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou num- ISberest them. This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are nmnbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the siinctuary: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:) half a shekel 14 for an offermg to the Lord. Every one that passeth over mito them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of 15 the Lord. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, Vvhcn they give the offering of the Lord, to make 16 atonement for yom- souls. .And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt aj)- point it for the service of the tent of meetuig ; that it may be a memorial for ^ the children of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for your souls. 17 And the Lord spake unto Moses, ISsajing, Thou shalt also mcke a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, to wash withal : and thou shalt put it between the tent of meetuig 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 bm-n an offer- 21 ing made by fire unto the Lord : so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not : and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations. 22 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, 23 saj'ing. Take thou also unto thee the chief spices, of flowing myi-rh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cuina- mon half so much, even two himdi-ed and fifty, and of sweet calamus two 24 hundred and fifty, and of ^ cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanc- 25 tuary, and of oUve oil an hin : and thou shalt make it an holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer : it shall be an holy 26 anointing oil. And thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and 27 the ark of the testimony, and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the 28 candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels there- of, and the laver and the base thereof. 29j\jid thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: Swhatsoever-j-i2£f?''''° SOtoucheth them shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister mito me in the priest's office. 31 And thou shalt speak imto the children of Israel, sayuig. This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your 32 generations. Upon the flesh of man shaU it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, according to the composition thereof : it is holy, and it 33 shall be holy unto you. Whosoever couipomideth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people. 34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, i^stacte, and onyclia, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense : of each shall 35 there be a like weight ; and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, ii seasoned 36 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 yom'- selves: it shall be unto thee holy for 10 Or, opobal- samutn "Or. teni- 23ered together 32. 15. EXODUS. G7 • Some niicicnt versions render, par- mentt of service. iiS the Lord. Whosoever shall make like luito that, to smell thereto, he uhaU cut off from his people, 31 And the Loud spaKe^into Moses, "2 saving. See, I have called by name Bt'zalel the son of Uri, tlie son of 3Hur, of the tril)o of Jiulah: ami I have filled him with the sjjirit of (rod, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in Iniowledge, and in all manner of work- 4manship, to devise cunning works, to work ui gold, and in silver, and in 5 brass, and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. G And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholial), the son of AJnsamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that ai'e wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that 7 1 have commanded thee : the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the merc3--seat that is thereuj)on, S and all the furniture of the Tent ; and the table aud its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the 5) altar of incense ; aud the altar of bui-nt offering with all its vessels, and the lOlaver aud its base; and the i finely wrought garments, aud the holy gar- ments for Aarou the i)riest, and the garments of his sous, to minister in the 11 priest's of&ce; aud the auomtiug oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy ijlace : according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do. 12 Aiid the Loud spake unto Moses, 13 saying. Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying. Verily ye shaU keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and j'ou throughout j'our generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord which sanctify 14 you. Ye shall keep the sabbath there- fore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaueth it shall surely be init to death : for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut 15 off from among his people. Six days shall work be done ; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any Avork in the sabbath day, he shall It) surely be put to death. "Wherefore the ohildieu of Israel shaU keep the sab- bath, to observe the sabbath through- out then* generations, for a perpetual 17 covenant. 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 rested, and was refreshed. 18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of conumuiing with him upon momit Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, ■RTitten with the finger of God. 32 And when the jicople saw that Moses delayed to come do^^Ti from the mount. the people gathered themselves to- gether unto Aaron, and said unto him. Up, make us '•'gods, wliich shall go before us; for as for this Mo.ses, tlie man that brought >is up out of tlie land of Egypt, we know not what is 2 become of him. And Aaron said unto theni, Break off the golden rings, which are in the cars of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, ■'5 and bring them unto me. And all the people brake off the golden ruigs which were in then- ears, and brought •1 them unto Aaron. And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These l)e tliy gods, O Israel, wbii-h brought thee up 5 out of the land of Egypt. And wlu^n Aaron saw tJii.s, he built an altar be- fore it ; and Aaron made i);-oclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast C to the Lord. 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 play. 7 And the Lord sjiake unto Moses, Go, get thee do\vn; for thy j)eople, which thou broughtest up out of the land of Egj'pt, have corrupted themselves : 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshijipod it, and have sacri- ficed unto it, and said. These bo thy gods, O Israel, wliich brought thee up 9 out of the land of Egj^)t. And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked 10i)eoi>le: now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them : and I wUl make of thee a gi'eat nation. 11 And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said. Lord, why doth thy wrath Avax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great jiower and with a 12 mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egji)tians speak, saying, For evil did he brmg them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce WTath, and repent of this 13 evil against thy pco]ile. llemember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy serv- ants, to whom thou swarest by thine ov,n self, and saidst mito them, I wiU multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, aud aU this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, 14 and they shall inherit it for ever. And the Lord repented of the evil whicli he said he would do mito his people. 15 And Moses turned, and went downi from the mount, with the two tables of the testunony in his hand; tables that were written on both theii' sides; 3-2 68 EXODUS. 32. 15. 2 Keb. FiUnvu hand. sOr./o; every bath on the one side and on the other were 16 they written. 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 peox)le as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war iu 18 the camj). 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 19 of them that sing do I hear. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath '20tlie mount. And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it U25on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this iieople unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them ? •22 And Aaron said. Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou kuowest the 23 people, that they are set on evil. For they said unto me. Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, tlie man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not 24 what is become of him. And I said unto them,'V\1iosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so they gave it me : and I cast it into the fire, and 25 there came out this calf. And when Moses saw that the peoi^le were broken loose; for Aaron had let them loose for a 1 derision among their enemies: 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, "V^Tioso is on the Loed's side, let Mm come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered 27 themselves together unto him. And he said mito them. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his sword ujion his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate thi-oughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his comiianion, 28 and every man his neighbour. And the sons of Levi did accorduig to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about tln-ee thousand 29 men. And Moses said, 2 Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Loed, ^yea, every man ^agaiust his son, and ■la- gamst his brother ; that he may bestow 30 upon you a blessing this day. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have siimed a great sin : and now I will go up mito the Loiid; peradventiu-e I shall make atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto the Lor.D, and said. Oh, this i^eople have sinned a gi-eat sin, and have made them gods 32 of gold. Yet now. if thou wilt forgive their sui — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou 33 hast written. And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him v.ill I blot out of my book. 3-1 And now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken mito thee: behold, mine angel shall go be- fore thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit then* sin 35 upon them. And the Lord smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. 33 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Depart, go u^) hence, thou and the jjeople which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egj-pt, unto the land of which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saymg. Unto thy seed 2 will I give it : and I will send an angel before thee ; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hit- tite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and 3 the Jebusite : unto a land flowing with milk and honey : for I will not go up iu the midst of thee ; for thou art a stiff- necked people : lest I consume thee in 4 the way. And when the peoiile heard these evil tidings, they mom-ned : and no man did put on him his ornaments. 5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Y^e are a stiffnecked peojile : if I go uj) into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may 6 know what to do imto thee. And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb onward. 7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to i^itch it without the camp, afar oft' from the cami) ; and he caUed it. The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tent of meeting. 8 which v.'as without the camp. And it came to pass, when Moses went out vjito the Tent, that aU the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he 9 was gone into the Tent. 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 IQLono spake with Moses. And aU the l^eople saw the piUar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent : and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at 11 his tent door. And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh mito his friend. And he turn- ed again into the camp : but his minis- ter Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the Tent. 12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me. Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know 5 whom thou wdt send with 31 24. EXODUS. 69 "Or. and he ftood leith him there, and efUltd upon Ac «0r, Jehovah b!/n,imc 'Seech. XX. 5, 6. me. Yet tliou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found gi-acc 13 m my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found {ji-ace in thy si}j;lit, shew me now thy ways, tliat I may know tlice, to the end tliat I may find Pfrace in tliy sigiit: and consitk'r that 1 1 tliis nation is tliy people. And he said, My presence shall go irith thee, and I 15 will give thee rest. And he said unto hmi, If thy presence go not vnth me, 16 carry us not up hence. l'''or wherein now shall it he known that I have found grace in thy sight, I and tliy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we be separated, I and thy people, from all the pcoi)le that are upon the face of the earth ? 17 And the Loui> said unto Moses, I wiU do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for tliou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. IS And he said. Shew me, I pray thee, I'Jthy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and wiU proclaim the name of the Lokd before thee ; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gi'acious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. '20 And he said. Thou canst not see my face: for man shall not see me and live. '21 And the Loki> said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand '2'2 upon the i-ock: 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 '23mitil I have passed by: and I will take away mme hand, and thou shalt see my back : but my face shall not be seen. 34 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, "2 which thou brakest. Aiid be ready by the moi-niug, and come np in the morn- ing mito mount Suiai, and i)i-esent thyself there to me on the top of the 3 mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen thi-oughout all the mount ; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that •1 mount. 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 liun, and took 5 in his hand two tables of stone. And the LoRU descended in the cloud, ^and stqpd with him there, and proclaimed G 2the name of the Lord. And the Lokd passed by before hun, and proclaim- ed, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy and 7 truth; "keepuig mercy for thousands, forgiving uiiquity and transgi'ession and sin: and that will by no means 21 clear the gnilly; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon tlie children, and upon tlie children's cliildrell, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. .Vnd Moses made haste, and bowed his liead toward the earth, and wor- sliipi)ed. And he said, If now I liave found grace in thy sight, () Lord, let till! liord, I pray thee, go iji the midst of us; for it is a stilliieckcd people; and ])ardon our iniiiuity and our sui, and take us for thine inheritance. And he said. Behold, I make a covenant: before aU thy jieople I will do marvels, such as have not been ^wrouglit in all the earth, nor in any nation : and all the people among wliicli lliou art shall see the work of the Lord, for it is a terrible tiling that I do with thee. Observe thou that which I com- mand thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Aniorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Je- busite. Take heed to tliyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: but j'e shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces then- * pillars, and ye shall cut down their "Asherim: for thou shalt worship) no other god : f(n' the Lord, whoso name is Jealous, is a jealous God: lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after then- gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and tliou eat of his sacrifice ; and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. The feast of un- leavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven da3-s thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time ap- pointed in the mouth Abib : for in the month Abib thou earnest out from Egyi)t. All that openeth the womb is mine ; and all thy cattle that is male, the firstlings of ox and sheep. And the firstling of an ass thou shalt re- deem with a ''lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. Si.x days thou shalt work, but on the se\enth day thou shalt rest : in plow- ing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, ercn of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of in- gathei'ing at the year's ^end. Three times in the j-ear shall all thy males apjiear before the Lord God, the Gotl oi Israel. For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders : 70 EXODUS. 31 24. talkel with ch, xxv. •2-7. neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the Lord thy God three times in the 25 year. Thou shalt not offer tlie blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morn- 26 ing. The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of the LoBD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. 27 And the Lokb said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a coven- 28 ant M'ith 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 i commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of the testunony m Moses' hand, when he came down fi'om the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face 2 shone ^by reason of his speak- 30 ing with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, be- hold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called imto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the con- gregation retmiied mito him: and 32 Moses spake to them. And afterward all the childi'en of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment aU that the Lord had spoken with him 33 in mount Sinai. And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a. veil 34 on his face. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, untU he came out ; and he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was 35 conunanded ; and the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, untU he went in to speak vnih. him. 35 And Moses assembled all the con- gi'egation of the children of Israel, and said mito them. These are the words which the Lord hath com- 2 manded, that ye should do them. ^ Six days shall work be done, but on tlie seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord : whosoever doeth any work 3 therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. 4 And Moses spake unto all the con- gregation of the chUdi'en of Israel, saying. This is the thing which the 5 Lord commanded, saying, ^Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the Lord's of- 6 fering; gold, and silver, and brass ; and blue, and piu-ple, and scarlet, and 7 fine linen, and goats' hair; and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and 8 acacia wood; and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for 9 the sweet incense; and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, 10 and for the breastplate. And let every wise hearted man among you come, and make aU that the Lord hath com- 11 manded; the tabernacle, its tent, and its covermg, its clasps, and its boards, 12 its bars, its pillars, and its sockets; the ark, and the staves thereof, the mercy- 13 seat, and the veil of the screen ; the table, and its staves, and all its ves- 14sels, and the ''shewbread; the candle- stick also for the light, and its ves- sels, and its lamps, and the oil for the 15 light ; and the altar of mcense, 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 gi'ating of brass, its staves, and aU its 17 vessels, the laver and its base; the hangings of the coui't, the pillars there- of, and then- sockets, and the screen 18 for the gate of the com-t; the pins of the tabernacle, and the pms of the 19 court, and theu' cords; the 'finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to mmister in the priest's office. 20 And all the congregation of the child- ren of Israel dex)arted from the pro- 21 sence of Moses. And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spu-it 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 22 holy garments. And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought brooches, and **earrings, and signet-rings, and ''armlets, aU jewels of gold ; even every man that offered an offering of gold 23 unto the Lord. And every man, with whom was found blue, and pui-ple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and 24 sealskins, brought them. Every one that did offer 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 25 ser\'ice, brought it. And aU the women that were vnse hearted did spi^ with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the pui'ple, the scarlet, and the fine linen. 26 And all the women whose heart stu-red them up in wisdom s^jun the goats' 11 hair. And the rulers brought the lOonyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate ; 36. 29. EXODUS. 71 •28 and the si)ice, and the oil; for tlie light, and foi- the anointing oil, and '29 for tlio sweet incense. Tlie children of Israel brought a freewill offcn-ing luito the Loiti); every man and woman, whose heart made tlieni willing to bring for all the work, which the Loud had couunanded to be made by the liand of Moses. 30 ^And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lokd liath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, tlie 31 son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he hath tilled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner 3'2 of workmansliip ; and to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, 33 and in brass, and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of cunning 34 workmansliii). /Vnd he hatli put in his heart that he may teach, botli \w, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, 35 of tlie tribe of Dan. Them liath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of the 2 engraver, and of the cuimuig work- man, and of the embroiderer, m blue, and in piu-ple, in scarlet, and in fuie linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do anj' workmanship, and of those 36 that devise cunning works. And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lokd hath put wisdom and mider- standmg to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuarj-, according to all that the Loud hath coimnanded. 2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholi- ab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wis- dom, even every one whose heart stuTed him u]} to come unto the 3 work to do it: and they received of Moses aU the offering, which the children of Israel had ))rought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto hun freewill offermgs every 4 morning. And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuai-y, came every man from his work which 5 they wrought; and they spake unto Moses, saying. The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lokd commanded 6 to make. And Moses gave command- ment, and they caused it to be pro- claimed throughout the camji, saying. Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were re- 7 strained from bringing. For the stuff they had was sufficient for aU the work to make it, and too much. 8 *And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work made the tabernacle witli ten curtains; of fine twined Unen, and blue, and puri)le, and scarlet, witli ch('rul)iiu tlie work of the cuniiiug worliinaii made lie 9 them. The length of eadi curtain was eight and twenty cul)its, and tlie breadth of each curtain four cubits: 10 all the curtains had one measure. ^Vnd ho coupled five curtains one to an- otlier: and the, other five curtains he 11 coupled one to another. And he made loops of l)lue upon tlie edge of the one curtaui 'from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost 12 in tlie second "coupling. Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the cur- tain that was in the second ^coupling: the loojis were opposite one to another. 13 And he made fiftj' clasps of gold, and coupled tlie curtams one to another with the clasjjs : so the tabernacle was one. 14 Arid he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle : eleven 15 curtains he made them. The length of each curtain was thirtj' cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain : the 16 eleven curtains had one measure. And he coupled five curtains by themselves, 17 and six curtauis by themselves. And he made fifty loops on the edge of the ciu-tain that was outmost in the •jcoupluig, and fifty loojis made lie upon the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second ^ coupling. 18 And he made fifty clasjis of brass to couple the tent together, that it might 19 be one. And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dj-ed red, and a covering of ''sealskins above. 20 8 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 22 of each board. Each board had two tenons, ''joined one to another: thus did he make for all the boards of the 23 tabernacle. And he made the boards for the tabernacle ; twenty boards for 24 the south side southward: and he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets imder another lioard for its 25 two tenons. And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, 26 he made twenty boards, and then- forty sockets of" silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets 27 under another board. And for the huider i^art of the tabernacle west- 28 ward he made six boards. And two boards made lie for the corners of 29 the tabernacle in the hinder part. And they were double beneath, and in like manner they were entire unto the top thereof unto '"one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners. EXODUS. 36. 30. 1 See cli. xxvi. ;l-r. 30 And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets ; 31 under every board two sockets. Aucl lie made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the cue side of the 3'2 tabernacle, 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 west- 38 ward. And he made the middle bar to pass tlu-ough 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 places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. 35 lAnd he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen : with cherubim the work of the 3Gcunnuig workman made he it. And he made thereunto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold ; and he cast 37 for them four sockets of silver. And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and j)urj)le, and scarlet, and fine twined Imen, the work of the .■!8 embroiderer ; and the five pillars of it with then- hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and then- fillets with gold: and theu* five sockets were of brass. 37 ^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 2 and a half the height of it: and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a ** crown of gold 3 to it round about. And he cast for it four rings of gold, m the fom' feet thereof ; even two rings on the one ■* side of it, and two rings on the other ■^side 4 of it. And he inade staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold. 5 And he put the staves into the rmgs on the sides of the ark, to bear the G ark. And he made a ^ mercy-seat of l)ure gold : two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a 7 half the breadth thereof. And he made two cherubim of gold; of o beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the 8 mercy-seat ; one cherub at the one end, raid one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof. 9 And the cherubim spread out their vv-mgs on high, covering the mercy- seat with their wings, with theu' faces one to another ; toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim. 10 ^And he made the table of acacia wood : two cubits was the length there- of, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof : 11 and he overlaid it with jiure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold romul 12 about. And he made unto it a border 2 See ch. XXV. 10-20. 3 Or, I rim I Or, mould- Ing iHeb. ■ib. ' See ch. XXA. of an handbreadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border 13 thereof round about. And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the 14 four feet thereof. Close by the border were the rings, the places for the 1.5 staves to bear tlie table. And he made the staves of acacia wood, and over- laid them with gold, to bear the table. 16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the flagons thereof, to pour out withal, of pure gold. 17 ^iViid he made the candlestick of pm-e gold: of beaten vrork made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it: 18 and there were six branches gouig out of the sides thereof; tlu-ee branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side 10 thereof : tliree cups made like ahnond- 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. 20 And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops 21 thereof, and the flowers thereof: 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 branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out 22 of it. Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pm-e gold. 23 And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the tongs thereof, and the snuff- 24 dishes thereof, of pure gold. Of a talent of pure gold made lie it, and all the vessels thereof. 25 '-'And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth there- of, foursquare ; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns thereof were 20 of one piece with it. And he overlaid it with pm-e gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof romid about, and the horns of it: and he made unto it a 27 crown of gold round about. And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs there- of, upon the two sides of it, for places 28 for staves to bear it withal. And he made the staves of acacia wood, and 29 overlaid them with gold. lOAnd he made the holy anointing oil, and the imre mcense of sweet spices, after the art of the pei'funier. 38 11 And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five 39. 5. EXODUS. 771 2 Or, tho teomr:i which assem- bled to minister 3Sco Nunu iv. at. vih. '2i ; 1 Sanv iln. * See ch. xxvu. ll-ia. cubits the breadth thereof, foursquare ; and three cubits the height thereof. 2 And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; tlio horns there- of were of one piece with it : and he 3 overlaid it with brass. And he niarael, throughout all theij- journeys. THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES, COMMONLY CALLED LEVITICUS. 1 AxD the Lord called luito Moses, and spake uuto him out of the tent 2 of meetmg, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say imto them, When any man of you offereth an oblation unto the Lokd, ye shall offer your oblation of the cattle, even of the herd and of the flock. 3 If his oblation be a bui-nt offermg of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish; he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord. •iAnd he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering ; and it shall be accepted for him to make 5 atonement for him. And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord : and Aaron's sous, the priests, shall pre- sent the blood, and sprinkle the blood romid about iipon the altar that is at 6 the door of the tent of meeting. And he shall flay the burnt offering, and 7 cut it mto its pieces. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon 8 the fire: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on 9 the fire which is upon the altar: but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water : and the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fii'e, of a sweet savour unto the Lord. 10 And if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a bm-nt offering ; he shaU offer it a male with- 11 out blemish. And he shall kiU it on the side of the altar northward be- fore the Lord : and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood upon 12 the altar round about. And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on 13 the fire which is upon the altar: but the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water : and the priest shall offer the whole, and bm-n it upon the altar : it is a bm-nt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord. 14 And if his oblation to the Lord be a burnt offering of fowls, then he shall offer his oblation of turtle - 15 doves, or of yomig pigeons. And the priest shall bruig it unto the altar, and iwTing off its head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the 16 altar : and he shall take away its crop with the 2 filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in 17 the place of the ashes: and he shall rend it by the wings thereof, hut shall not divide it asmider: and the i^riest shall bm-n it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the frre: it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord. 2 And when any one offereth an obla- tion of a meal offering unto the Lord, his oblation shall be of fine flour ; and he sliall pour oil upon it, and put 2 frankincense thereon: and he shall brmg it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the fiiie flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall bm-n it as the memorial thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a 3 sweet savoiu* unto the Lord ; and 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. 4 And when thou offerest an oblation of a meal offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine floiu" mingled with oU, or unleavened 5 wafers anointed with oil. And if thy oblation be a meal offering of the 3 baking i^an, it shall be of fine floiu- 6 unleavened, mingled with oil. Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil 7 thereon : it is a meal offering. And if thy oblation be a meal offering of the frying pan, it shall be made of fine 8 flour with oil. And thou shalt bring the meal offering that is made of these things unto the Lord : and it shall be presented imto the jiriest, and he shall 9 bring it mito the altar. AJnd the priest shall take up from the meal offering the memorial thereof, and shaU burn it upon the altar : an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the 10 Lord. And that which is left of the 1 9. LEVITICUS. 'Or, thank offerings = 0r, vhich he shall take away by the kid- neys meal offeriug shall be Aaron's and liis sons': it is a thing most holy of tlie offerings of the Lokd made l)y fire. 1 No raoal offering, wliicli ye shall olfer inito the LoKD, shall ])e nnide witli leaven; for ye shall hum no leaven, nor any honey, us an offering made 12 by fire mito the Loud. As an obla- tion of lirst/;-«//s j-e shall offer them mito the Loiin : but they shall not come np for a sweet savour on the altar. \^ And every oblation of thy meal ofl'ering shalt thou sctison with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the eo\en- ant of thy God to be laeldng from tliy meal offeriug : with all thine oblations thou shalt otfer salt. 14 And if thou offer a meal offering of firstfruits unto the Loun, thou shalt offer for the meal offering of thy first- fruits corn in the ear parched with 15 fire, bruised corn of the fresh ear. And thou shalt put oil ui)on it, and lay fraidsmcense thereon : it is a meal of- IG fering. And the jn-iest shall burn the memorial of it, jiart of the bruised corn thereof, and part of the oil there- of, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an ofi'ering made by fire unto tlie. Lord. y^ 3 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of 1 peace offerings; if he offer of the herd, whether male or female, he shaU offer it without blemish before the 2 Lord. And he shall lay his band upon the head of his oblation, and kill it at the door of the tent of meet- ing : and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar ."round about. And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace oft'erings an offeruig made by fire unto the Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the