r. I B R ^ li Y Theological Seminary,, PRINCETON, N. J. 1 0/>v x^ suit -t^ Sec ion^.Vi^O»,^„ . 1 Boo/,- /^ No.... - ^ Um$eD mnQliSi) IBMe. THE HOLY BIBLE ACCORDING TO THE ^uti^orisctr Vcxsion^ COMPAEED WITH THE HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS, AND CAREFULLY REVISED; ARRANGED IN PARAGRAPHS AND SECTIONS; SUPPLElVrENTAEY NOTES, EEFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES, AND MAPS. LONDON :-PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR BY GEOEGE E. EYEE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, printers to tl)c tgucen's Moat Excellent fHajcstg. WAREHOUSES: LONDON, 43, FLEET STREET, E.G.; EDINBURGH, IG, ELDER STREET; NEW YORK, COOPER UNION, FOURTH AVENUE. Minion 8?o. Par. Ref. THE chief peculiarities of this edition of the Holy Scriptures are (1) A revision of the Authorised Version, and (2) An improved arrangement of the Text. I. The revision of the English Bible has for many years en£;aged the attention of biblical scholars in this country ; and some of the most eminent among them have not only strongly maintained the desir- ableness and need of such a work, but have, by Trans- lations of various Books, and by the preparation of improved Grammars and Lexicons, afforded impor- tant help towards its execution. This publication is the completion of a, work which was commenced six- teen years ago, and was partly carried into effect by the publication in parts (in 1868 — 71) of a quarto Bible, containing within brackets in the text what were regarded as the more important emendations re- quired in the Authorised Version. Tlie present more complete revision has been executed as follows :— The first five Books of the Old Testa- ment (Genesis to Deuteronomy) by the Rev. F. W. GOTCH, M.A., LL.D.(Trin. Coll., Dub.); the remain- ing Books of the Old Testament (Joshua to Malachi) by the late Eev. Benjamin Davies, Ph.D., LL.D., Translator of Ebdiger's Hebrew Grammar, and Author of a Hebrew Lexicon ; and the New Testament, by the Rev. G. A. Jacob, D.D., late Head Master of Christ's Hospital, and the Rev. Samuel G. Green, D.D., Author of a Handbook of the Grammar of the Greek Testament. This work does not profess to be such a complete revision of the Authorised Version as the English- speaking world will in due time receive from the two learned and able Companies of Revisers who are known to be zealously and harmoniously working together for the production of a Book wliich may, sooner or later, take the place of that which has been for more than two centuries the loved and honoured English Bible. Such a thorough and per- fect revision as shall accord with the present advanced state of Hebrew and Greek scholarship will probably require a greater extent of alteration, minute as well as important, than English readers unacquainted with the original languages will be prepared to receive except from a body of competent Scholars possessing a weight of authority at least equal to that of the Translators to whona we owe our present Version. The design of the present work, so far as regards the revision, is to correct what may be considered indisputable errors and in- adequate renderings in our present English Bible ; and in tlie New Testament to give also the more im- portant emendations of the text which have been adopted by the best Editors of the Greek Testament. In the revision of the Old Testament the Received Hebrew Text has been adhered to ; because although eminent Hebraists have proposed many emenda- tions, more or less conjectural, (some of which will be found noticed in the margin), it is the general opinion of Hebrew scholars who have investigated the subject, tliat sufficient materials do not exist at present for a satisfactory revision of the Text. But in the New Testament, the labours of a long succession of eminent Critics, and especially of Lachmann, Tischendorf, Tregelles, and others, in recent times, in collating the most ancient manu. scripts and versions, &c., have produced a general agreement on the part of the best scholars in favour of certain readings differing from those of the text which our Translators followed. Most of these readings, where they are sufficiently important as affecting the sense, have been adopted in this edition, the Received Text being given in the margin ; and in like manner, words and clauses in the Received Text which the best authorities agree in regarding as spurious have been either transferred to the margin, if not too long to be placed there, or have been printed within brackets, with a marginal note. Some other readings of the Greek Text supported by good authorities, but without the same preponderating evi- dence in their favour, have been given in the margin. In endeavouring to amend incorrect or inadequate renderings in the Autliorised Version, the aim has been to express the meaning of the original as exactly as possible consistently witli idiomatic English. Special attention has been devoted to the correction of grammatical and other inaccuracies; First, by giving their exact force to the different tenses of verbs, as well as to articles, and preposi- tions and other particles, upon which the mean- ing of connected sentences greatly depends ; and Secondly, by introducing a greater uniformity in the translation of the same Hebrew and Greek words. Due regard, however, has been paid to the genius of the English language, which, aided by its duplicate system of words, of Saxon and of classical origin, generally prefers a synonymous expression to the repetition of the same word in a sentence, unless the repetition is required for emphasis or precision. PREFACE. With regard to the diction, and the choice of words, in this Revision, it was felt that more than ordinary care was needed lest the charms of style and language of our highly-venerated Version should be impaired. Hence (1) the peculiar rhythm of the language of our English Bible has been as far as I possible presen-ed ; and to secure this, sometimes a certain amount of literal accuracy of translation has been sacrificed, by allowing expressions to remain for which a more verbally exact, but less harmonious, j rendering might have been substituted. And (2) all words of a modern stamp have been, as a rule, ex- I eluded ; only such being used as are found elsewhere in our Version, or in one of the earlier English trans- lations, or in good English writers not later than the beginning of the 17th Century. Words which have become obsolete, or have ceased to be understood in the sense in which they were formerly used, have been exchanged for others in present use. And proper names of persons and places have been spelt uniformly in the different pas- sages where they occur ; the Old Testament names which are used in the New Testament being printed in their original form, instead of the modifications to which the Greek language had subjected them. In connection with the revision of the translation, the punctuation and orthography have been carefully I attended to. And the text has been supplemented, i in the margin, by (1) Alternative renderings of some I words or clauses respecting which the best authori- I ties diflfer; (2) Translations of certain Hebrew and Greek names ; (3) Exact renderings of some words I not literally translated in the text.; and (4) Some i explanatory notes on words or phrases which the English reader may find diflBcult or obscure. Perhaps some notice should be taken of the objec- tions which have been urged against any revision of the English Bible. These have been based chiefly on two opposite grounds. Some have objected to the correction of errors as tending to unsettle the minds of readers, and even to shake confidence in the Holy Scriptures. But the same objection might have been raised against our present Version of the English Bible, which was made after earlier transla- tions had gained a great hold on the public mind ; and it would apply equally to the revision of any generally received translation of the Bible, in any language, how- ever greatly such revision might be needed. This objection is further met by the consideration, that a careful and scholarly revision of the Authorised Version, by removing defects and imperfections, brings out more clearly its substantial excellencies, while at the same time it shows how small an amount of important alteration is required. Others again say that revision is unnecessary, because the errors are trivial and unimportant. But Archbishop Trench has well observed that nothing is really small or unimportant which has to do with the Word of God, as either helping or hindering the exact setting forth of that Word ; and the more deeply we are persuaded of its Divine inspiration, the more intolerant sliall we be of any hindrances to arriving at a perfect understanding of it. And in setting forth that Word in a diflerent language from that in which it was first written, we may justly desire such an approximation to perfection as the language will allow ; and this not merely in the greatest things but in the smallest. It seems hardly necessary to observe that a re- vision of the work which the Translators completed more than two centuries and a lialf ago implies no disrespect either for their scholarship or for their labours. It is only imitating tiieir example by en- j deavouring to make a wise and faithful use of the accumulated stores of biblical' knowledge which have been laboriously accumulated since their time. And those who reverently and with due qualifica- tions undertake the task of revision in our day may well claim the benefit of the Translators' remarks concerning the work of their predecessors : — "As nothing is begun and perfected at the same time, and the later thoughts are thought to be the wiser, so if we, building upon the foundation of those who went before us, and being holpen by their labours, do endeavour to make that better which they left so good, no man, we are sure, hath cause to mislike us. They, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us.'' II. With respect to the new arrangement of the text here given, it is v/ell known to biljhcal students I that the peculiar manner in which the Bible is printed, in chapters and verses, was no part of the original form in which the Scriptures were given; but is of comparatively modern origin. Although some arrangement of this kind is convenient for reference, it must be confe.ssed that the present division into verses often obscures the sense, some- times seriously, by making arbitrary breaks of sen- tences ; and the chapter-divisions frequently separate 'passages belonging to the same subject, and join { together others which are wholly unconnected. The headings of the chapters also in many instances I contain erroneous interpretations ; and they afibrd I little help to the reader. In the present edition the text is divided into sec- I tions and paragraphs, according to the sense : (the ! numbering of the chapters and verses being retained, I for the purpose of reference) ; and headings are pre- fixed to the several sections, indicating the contents of the section, and describing briefly the salient points of the narrative or argument. Tiie poetical portions are arranged in parallelisms, in their various forms (simple or regular, compound, antithetical, &c.), in accordance with the rhythmical construction of Heb- rew poetrj-. The force and beauty of many passages are in this way more clearly brought out ; and help is aff'ordeil towards the right understanding of some which arc obscure. PEEFACE. The dates which appear at the head of each page, are derived from the Chronological Tables of Usher and Hales ; the difiference between the two being caused by the former following the Hebrew Text, and the latter the Septuagint Version, of the Book of Genesis ; in which different numbers of years are given in the two genealogical lists of the patriarchs before Abraham {cfi. v. 3—32 ; xi. 10—26). Besides the information on this subject thus supplied throughout the Book, there are Chronological Tables of the Pro- phetical Books, and o.f the Gospel History, and a Chronological Summary of Bible History from the Creation of the World to the Destruction of Jerusalem. The Selection of Keferences to parallel and illus- trative passages has been prepared with great care for this work. Many References which are commonly given have been omitted, as being of secondary im- portance, and many others more serviceable to the elucidation of the text have been added. Westminster, May, 1877. The Maps, which are placed together at the end, for convenience of reference, are founded upon the best geographical authorities. This Volume has been prepared in the hope that it may, under the Divine blessing, contribute in some measure to the more extensive and more pro- fitable study of Holy Scripture. By a more accurate rendering many passages become more intelligible and instructive, as well as more graphic and forcible. And it is hoped that a more correct and natural arrangement of the text, with appropriate headings to its several sections, will be found to remove some causes of obscurity, and to afford some help towards obtaining clearer apprehensions of the teaching of many portions of this Divine book, and more com- prehensive views, both of its contents as a whole, and of the mutual bearings and relations of its several parts. J.G. CONTENTS. THE OLD TESTAMENT. CHAPS. First Book of Moses called Genksis 50 Second ... Exonus 40 Third ... Leviticus 27 Fourth ... ... ... Numbers 38 Fifth ... Deuterono.my . 34 Book of Joshua 24 Judges 21 Ruth 4 First Book of Samuel 31 Second Book of Samuel 24 First Book of the Kings 22 Second Book of the Kings 25 First Book of the Chronicles 29 Second Book of the Chronicles 36 Ezra 10 Book of Nehemiah 13 Esther 10 Job 42 Psalms 150 Proverbs 31 Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher. Song of Solomon Book of the Prophet Isaiah , Jeremiah.. Lamentations of Jeremiah , CHAM. . 12 . 8 . 66 . 52 . 5 Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 48 Book of Daniel 12 HOSEA 14 Joel 3 Amos 9 Obadiah 1 Jonah 4 MiCAH 7 Nahum 3 Habakkuk 3 Zeihaniah 3 Haggai 2 Zechariah 14 Malachi 4 THE NEW TESTAMENT. Gospel ascording to St. Matthew 28 St. Mark 16 St. Luke 24 St. John 21 Actsof the Apostles 28 Epistle to the Romans 16 First Epistle to the Corinthians 16 Second Epistle to the Corinthians 13 Epistle to the Galatians 6 Ephesians 6 Philippians 4 Colossians 4 First Epistle to the Thessalonians 5 Second Epistle to the Thessalonians 3 First Epistle to Timothy 6 Second Epistle to Timothy 4 Epistle to TiTus Philemoiv , the Hebrews 3 1 13 Epistle of James 5 First Epistle of Peter 5 Second Ejistle of Peter 3 First Epistle of John 5 Second Epistle of John 1 Third Epistle of John ,. 1 Epistle of Jude 1 Revelation of St. John the Divine 22 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES, &c. Tahle for reading the Prophetical Books in chronological order (at the beginning of Isuiiih). Brief Summary of the History of the Jews during the period between the 0\(\ and New Testaments {at the end of the Old Testament). Chronological Tabic of the Gospel History (at the end of the four Go!>pels). Chronological Summary of Bible History from the Creation of the World to the Destruc- tion of Jerusalem {at the end of the New Testatnent'). MAPS. Egypt, the Sinaitic Peninsula, and the Pro- mised Land. Canaan as divided between the Tribes. Assyria, Armenia, Syria, and the adjacent lands. Palestine in the time of our Saviour. Jerusalem and its environs. The Missionary Journeys/of the Apostle Paul. (J// at the ciid of the IVei/? Testament.) B.C. 2348—2347. U.] GENESIS, Vlir,— X. [B.C. 3154— ABOUT 3148. H. -"And Noah built an altar unto the Lord; and took of "^ every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-o) ings on the altar. 21 And the Lord smelt " the sweet savour ; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again " curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the '' imagination of jj j^. man's heart is evil from his youth; ^'nei fl['- 15.191 1 ther will I again smite any more every 21. g ch. 9. 11 15. >• Is. 54.9: Jer.5. 24. sJer. 33. « Job .5.22, 23 ! Ps. 8. 6—8 ; Ja. 4.3—5. U ch. 1. 29, GO. .2Ro.14.14, 20; 1 Cor. 10. 23, 26, 31. a he. 17. 10,11,14: Deu. 12. 16,23; Ac. IS. 20. 5 Ex. 21. 28, 29. c Num.35. 31 -.■53 j Ps. 9. 12. d Ex. 21, 12, 14 ; 1 Ki. 2. 28 -34; Mt. Jaju.3.9. /ch. 1. 28. fch.fi.18; thing living, as I have done. 22 'while the earth remaineth, seed-time and liar- vest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and *day and night, shall not cease. 9. And God blessed Noah and his sons, and he said unto them : t Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth. 2 And " the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered. 3 * Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the ^ green herb have I given you *all things. ^^But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. ^ And surely your blood of your lives will I require, * at the hand of every beast will I require it, and ' at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. ^ <* Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed ; * for in the image of God made he man. ^ And you, / be ye fruitful and multiply, bring forth abun- dantly in the earth, and multiply therein. 8 And God spake to Noah and to his sons with him, saying: 9 And I, behold »I, establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you, i** and with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. "And I will establish my covenant with you ; neither shall all flesh be cut ofi" any more by the waters of a flood ; nor shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said : ''This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations. 13 1 do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth, i* And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud : i^ and * I will remember my covenant which IS between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh, ic And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remem- ber *^the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. " And God said unto Noah: This w the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. Noah's further history; (25) his prophecy con- cerning his three sons. 18 AND the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem and Ham and Ja- pheth ; and " Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah ; and * from them was the whole earth overspread. -"And Noah began to he a 'husband- man, and he planted a vineyard ; 21 and he drank of the wine, and was '^ drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the naked- ness of his father, and told his two breth- ren without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father ; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness. 24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. 25 And he said : ' Cursed he Canaan ! fA servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 2'> And he said : Blessed he the Lord, the God of Shem ! And Canaan shall be his servant. 27 God will enlarge Japlietli, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. 28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years ; and all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years : and he died. Descendants of Noah's three sons ; their disper- sion and geographical settlements. 10. NOW these are the generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham and Ja- pheth : " and to them were sons born after the flood. 2 The sons of Japheth ; Gomer and * Ma- gog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. 3 And the sons of Gomer ; Ashkenaz and Eiphath and Togarraah. * And the sons of Javan ; Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 By these were the ' isles of the nations cJer.2.10: 25. 22 ; Zeph. 2. 11. B.C. 2347—2247. U.] GENESIS, X, XI. [B.C. 3148— ABOUT 2614. H. icli.15. 18 -21; Ex. 3.8. .■i.',, 3G. : Chr. 1. divided in their lands ; every one according to his own tongue, according to their fami- lies, in their nations. << And <* the .sons of Ham ; Cush and Mizraim and Phut and Canaan. ^ And the sons of Cush ; Seba and Ha- vilah and Sabtah and Kaamah and Sabte- chali. And the sons of Kaamah ; Sheba and Dedan. ''And Cush begat *Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth ; ^he was a mighty Imntcr before the LouD ; where- fore it is said, Even as Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Loud, i'^ And /the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. H Out of that land he went forth to Assyria; and he built "Nineveh and Eehoboth-Ir and Calah, 12 and Eesen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 And JNIizraim begat the Ludim and the Anamim, and the Lehabimand theNaphtu- him i^and the Pathrusim and the Casluhira '' (from whom came the Philistim) and the Caphtorim. 15 And i Canaan begat Si Jon his fkstborn, and Heth, ii'and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgasite I'and the Hi- vite and the Arkite and the Sinite 18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamatliite. And afterwards were the fami- lies of the Canaanites spread abroad. 1' * And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou goest to Gerar, unto Gaza, as thou goest unto Sodom and Go- morrah and Admah and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. ""These are the sons of Ham, accord- ing to tlieir families, according to their tongues, in their countries and in their nations. 21 And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brotlier of Ja- pheth, even to him were children born. 22 The 2 sons of Sliem ; Elam and Asshur and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram. 3 And the sons of Aram ; Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ^^ And Arphaxad begat "* Salah, and Salah begat Eber. 25 And "to Eber were bom two sons; the name of one was Peleg [t. e. Division], for in his days was the earth divided ; and his brother's name v;a9 Joktan. 20 And Joktan begat Almodad and She- leph anil Hazarmaveth and Jerah 27 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah 28 and Obal and Abimael and Sheba 2'Jand Ophir and Havilah and Jobab ; all these were the sons of Joktan. so ^.nd their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a moun- tain of the east. ''I These arc the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations. 32 These are the families of tlie sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations ; " and by tliese were the nations divided on tlie earth after the flood. Building of Babel; (S)confusion of tongues, and (8) consequent dispersion qf nations. 11. AND the whole eartli was of one language and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed eastward, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 And they said one to another : Go to, let us make bricks and burn tliem tho- roughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen had they for mortar. And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, "lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5 And * the Loed came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built. ^ And the Loud said : Behold, '^ the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do ; and now nothing will be restrained from them which <^they have imagined to do. "Go to, "^let us go down, and there confound their language, / that they may not under- stand one another's speech. 8 So ^ tlie 'Loud scattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. » There- fore is the name of it called Babel [i. e. Confusion], because the Loud did there confound the language of all the earth. And from thence did the Loud scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Shem's descendants down to Terah, the father of Abram. 1" THESE "arc the generations of Shem. Shem was a liundrcd years old and begat Arphaxad, two years after the flood ; H and Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah ; 13 Arphaxad lived after he begat Salali four hundred and three years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 1* And Salah lived thirty years, and begat d Fs. 2. 1. cJob.'i.Ji!. 13 ; Ps. 2, B.C. 2247—1921. U.] GENESIS, XI, XII. [B.C. 2614—2077. H. ■ Jos. 24, ;; ; 1 Chr. 1. 2(5. b ch. 17. .% C, : 18. 18; lki.S.8. c ch. 14. 14 — 20 ; 24. 1, 35. d ch. 22. 17, 18 ; Oal.3.14. f oli.27.29; Num. 24. Eber ; i^ and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years ; and he begat .sons and daughters. 16 And " Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat '' Peleg ; i^ and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years ; and lie begat sons and daughters. 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Eeu ; 19 and Peleg lived after he begat Eeu two hundred and nine years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 20 And Eeu lived two and thirty years, and begat "^Serug; 21 and Eeu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years ; and lie begat sons and daughters. 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and be- gat Nahor ; 23 and Serug lived after he be- gat Nahor two hundred years ; and he be- gat sons and daughters. 2* And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat ** Terah ; 25 and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years ; and lie begat sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years ; and * begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Terah'sfamil;/; (31) his migration to Haran. 27 NOW these a7-e the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran ; and Haran begat Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives ; the name of Abram's wife was " Sarai ; and the name of Nahor's wife, f> Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 But " 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 >i Ur of the Chaldees, to go to "^ the land of Canaan. And they came to /Haran, and dwelt there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years ; and Terah died in Haran. Call of Abram to leave his own countrtj; (4) his first journey iwjs in Canaan and (10) Egypt. I 12. AND the Lord said unto Abram : Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee. 2 And *! will make of tliee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and "^make thy name great ; and <*thou shalt be a blessing : Sand "^I will bless them that bless thee, and curse liim that curseth thee : and / in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. * So " Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him ; and Lot went with him. And Abram xvas seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. ^ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and ''the souls that they had gotten in » Haran ; and they went forth to go to the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came. 6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to ^the oak of Moreli. And ' the Canaanite v)as then in the land. 7 And '"the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said : " Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there built he an "altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence to the mountain on the east of ^ Eeth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Hai on the east. And there he built an altar unto the Lord, and ' called upon the name 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 to Egypt to so- journ there ; for the famine was * grievous in the land. H And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife : Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon ; 12 therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say : This is his wife ; and they " will kill me, but they will save thee alive 13 ^ Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister that it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul shall live because of thee. 1* And it came to pass, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she ivas very fair. 15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and com mended her before Pharaoh ; and ^the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house 16 And *he treated Abram well for her sake ; and he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men-servants and maid-servants, and she-asses and camels, i" And the Lord "plagued Pharaoh and his hou.se with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife. 18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said : * What is this that thou hast done unto me ? Why didst thou not tell me that she ivas thy wife ? i^ Why saidst thou, She is my sister ? So I might have taken her to me to wife. Now therefore behold thy wife, take her s.nd go thy way. 20 And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him ; and A5 /ch. 18.18; 22. 18; 26. 4 ; Ac. .•!. 25;C-al.3. /< oil. 14.14, 21. i ch. 11.31. ich. 10.18, ly ; 13. 7. mch.17.1. n Ex. 33. l;Ps.l(l.5. 9, 11, 12. 0 ch. 13. 4, /ch. 20.2, : ch.20.14, z ch.20.17 18 ; Ps 105.14,15. B.C. 1921—1913. U.] GENESIS, XII,— XIV. [n.c. 2077 — 2070. nch. 12.0. b ch.24.35; rt. 112. 1 -3. they sent him away, and his wife, and all that lie had. Ahram's return from Egypt to Canaan; (5) his separation from Lot; (14) God's renewed x'ro- mise to him. 13. AND Abram went up out of Egj pt, he and liis wife, and all that lie had, and Lot with him, " into the soutli. - And l> Abram mis very rich, in cattle, in silver and in gold. ^And he went on his jour- neys from the south even to Beth-el, to tlie place where his tent had been at the begin- ning, between Beth-el and Hai; * to tlie 'place of the altar which he had made there at tlie first. And there Abram called on the name of the Lord. 5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. ''And (i the land was not able to bear them that they might dwell together; for their sub- stance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was * strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herd- men of Lot's cattle. And the /Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. « And Abram said unto Lot : "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, or between my herdmen and thy herd- men ; '' for we are brethren. ■' * Iss not the whole land before thee ? Separate thyself, earth, tlicii shall thy seed also be number- ed. 1' Arise, walk through the land, in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee. 18 Then Abram removed Ids tent, and came and "dwelt at the oaks of Mamre, ^whichwin Hebron. And he built there an altar unto the Lord. Inversion and plundering of CoTiaan and ad- joining countries iy allied kinijs from the ExLphratcs valley ; (U) A bram's rescue of Lot and recapture of the spoil; (Ih) MelchizedekJ 14. AND it came to pass in the days of j Amraphel king of " Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of *> Elam, and Tidal king of nations, " that tliesc made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrali, Shinab king of *^ Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, (which is ''Zoar). -^All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, C which is tlie Salt Sea). ^ Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thir- teenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Clie- dorlaomcr, and the kings that were with him, and smote /the Itcphaims in "Ash- tcroth-Kaniaim, and '' the Zuzims in Ham, and ' the Eraims in the plain of Kiriath- aim, ^ and ^' the Horites in their Mount Seir, unto ^ Elparan (which is by the wilder- ness). "And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (which is '" Kadesli), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also that dwelt "in Hazezon- ich. L'o.i.-.. J pi-jiy t,hee, from me. ^If thou wilt take *^°-'--"''the left hand, then I will go to the right ; jor if thou, depart to the right hand, then j the Amorites, I will go to the left. tamar. 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld I 8 And there went out the king of Sodom, 1 all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well- ■ and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Jch. 13.24, watered everywhere, (before the Lord ^de-j Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah,) even as | king of Bela, (tlie same is Zoar) ; and they m ch. 2.10; I '» the garden of the Loud, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto "Zoar. " Then Lot chose him all the plain of the Jordan ; and Lot journeyed east. And they separated themselves the one from the other. i- Abram dwelt in the joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim ; ^ with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar ; four kings with the five. ^^ And the vale of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, land of Canaan ; and Lot ° dwelt in the i And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah pch.14.12; 19. 1. a ch.18.20., 2 Pet. 2.7, r ch.28.14. » ch.lS.18i 28.4; Dcu. 34. 4; 2 Chr.20.7i AC. 7. .■;. P». 37. 22, i»; 112.2. fch. 22.17; 28.14;.S2. 12; IKi. a.BtUcb. 11.12. cities of the plain, and '' encamped as far as to Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom « icerc wicked, and sinners before the Lord ex- ceedingly. 1* And the LoBD said unto Abram, after Lot wixs separated from him : Lift up now thine eyes and look from the place where thou art, '"northward and southward and eastward and westward ; i-* for all the land which thou seest, ' to thee will I give it, and to tliy seed for ever, i" And ' I will c Dcu. 20. 23; IIos. 11. 8. d ch.19.22. • Den. ?. 17iJos.3. It;. /ch. 15.20. 17 Jos.12.4; 13. 12. h Dcu. 2. ■ Deu. 10,11. I- Dcu. fled, and fell there ; and they that remain ed fled "to the mountain. "And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomor- rah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 1- And they took Lot, Abram's " bro- thers son, <'who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and dc])arted. 13 And those that escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew ; for 'he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner ; and these ) ch. 12. fCh.13.12. make thy seed as the dust of the earth ; so i were confederate with Abram. i* And that if a man can number the dust of the when Abram heard that * his brother was B.C. 1213. U.] GENESIS, XIV,— XVI. [B.C. 2070— 20G9. 11, r. 2 Sam. 18. 18. 1/ neb. 7.1. *!.c.KiDe of righ- teousness. z ¥a. 7C. 2. a Vs. 110. 4;Heb.5. a Num. 12. fi ; Dan. 10.1. ich.2G.24; Dan. 10. 12. cDeu. S3. 29; Vs. .3. .3; 84. 11; 119.114. (/ Ac. 7. 5. <;ch.l3.16. /ch. 14.14. 3Ch.l7.1fii 2 Sam. 7. 12. taken captive, ho led forth his trained ser- vants, ' born in his own house, three hun- dred and eighteen, and pursued them unto " Dan. 1^ And lie divided himself against tliem, he and his servants, by night, and smote tliem ; and he pursued them unto Hobah, (which is on the left liand of Damascus). i*'And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his bro- ther Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people, i^ And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from smiting Chedorlaoraer and the kings tliat ivcrc with him, at the valley of Shaveh, (which ii tlie * King's dale). 18 And 2' Melchizedek,* king of ^ Salem, brought forth bread and wine ; and he was " priest of ^ the jNlost High God. i'' And he blessed him and said: "^Blessed 6c Abram of the Most High God, '^ possessor of heaven and earth ; 20 and blessed be the Most High God, "who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand! And he gave him /tithes of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram : Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 22 ^.^d Abram said to the king of Sodom : I " have lifted up my hand unto the Lord, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth, 23 that '« from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, from anything that is thine, I will not take, lest thou sliouldst say,' I liave made Abram rich ; 21 save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with rac, Aner, Eshcol and Mamre ; * let them take their portion. God's covenant ivith Ahrain renewed in connec- tion with the offering of sacrifice. 15. AFTEE these things the word of the LoED came unto Abram "in vision, saying : ^ Fear not, Abram ; I am thy " shield, thy exceeding great reward. 2 And Abram said : O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me ? '^ For I go child- less, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus ? 3 And Abram said : " Behold, to me thou liast given no seed ; and lo, /one of my household is mine heir. * And behold, the word of the Loud came unto him, saying : This shall not be thine heir ; but ''one that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said : Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him : ^ So shall thy seed be. •^ And i he believed in the Lord ; and He ^' counted it to him for righteousness, 'And lie said unto him : I am the Lord who 'brought thee out of "'Ur of the Chal- dees, "to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said : O Lord Jehovah, " where- by shall I know that I shall inherit it ? 9 And He said unto him : Take me a heifer of three years old and a she-goat of three years old and a ram of three years old and a turtle-dove and a young pigeon. 1" And he took unto him all these, and ^ divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one over against the other ; but * the birds divided he not. 11 And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 ^.nd when the sun was going down '"a deep sleep fell upon Abram ; and lo, a liorror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And He said unto Abram : Know of a surety that * thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them ; and ' they shall afflict them " four hundred years. i^And also that nation whom they shall serve "will I judge; and afterward *' shall they come out with great substance. i^Aiid *thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace ; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. i" And "in the fourth gene- ration they shall come hither again. For the iniquity of the Amorites is ''not yet full. 1' And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, beliold a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire '^ that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the Lord ''made a covenant with Abram saying : ' Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates ; i^ the Kenites and the Keniz- zites and the Kadmonites 20 and the Hit- tites and the Perizzites and the Eephaims 21 and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites. Birth of Ishmacl. 16, NOW Sarai Abram's wife " bare him no children ; and slie had a handmaid, & an Egyptian, whose name ivas "Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram : Behold now, the Lord ''hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, "go in unto my maid ; it rnay be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his i Ro. 4. 3, y, 18-22; «al. 3. «. k Pa. lOG. Ii.^°^ 5. a Ex. 40. 12. b Dan. 23. 8. B.C. 1913—1898. U.] GENESIS, XVI, XVII. [B.C. 2069—2054. H. m ch. 29. 32; 41.51, .52:lSam. 1.20. n ch.21.20. 0 ch.2,').18. » or, east- ward. ;;P3. 139.1 5ch.82..",0i Ex.;j3.20; Judg. 13. 22. rch.24.C2; 2.5. 11. a Num. 13. wife. *And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived : !md ^viien she saw that she liad conceived, her mistress was despised in lier eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto Abrani : My wrong be upon thee ; I have given my maid into thy bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes; /the Lord judge between me and thee. ''But Abram said unto Sarai : " Behoki, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, slic fled from her face. ' And '' the angel of the Loud found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to ^ Shur. 8 And he said : Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence camest thou ? And whither wilt tliou go ? And she said : I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai. 9 And the angel of the LoKD said unto her : Eeturn to thy mistress, and * submit thyself under her hands, i" And the angel of the Lord said unto her : ^ I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude, " And the angel of the Lord said unto lier : Behold, thou ! art with child, and shalt bear a son ; and I thou shalt call his name Ishmael [i. c. God j will hear] ; '" because the Loud hath heard thy affliction, i'^ " And he will be a wild man ; his hand ivill he against every man j and every man's hand against him ; " and | he shall dwell in. the presence* of all his brethren. IS And she called the name of the Lord who spake unto her, ^ Thou God seest me : for she said, v Have I also here seen after seeing God ? i* "Wherefore the well was called '"Bcer-lahai-roi [t. e. The well of the living *that saw God]. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bercd. 15 And ' Hagar bare Abram a son ; and Abram called his son's name, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael. i^-And Abram teas four- score and six years old when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram. Go(f« ecvffiiant with Abram furOier confirmed; (9) institution of the rite of circumcision ; (15) promise of Isaac. 17. AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and .said unto him : ° I am the Almighty God: ''walk before me and be thou "^per- fect; 2 and I will make my covenant be- tween me and thee, and <* will multiply thee exceedingly. SAnd Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him saving: * As for me, be- hold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be 'a father of a multitude of nations. ^ Neither shall thy name any more be call- ed Abram ;*but /thy name shall be Abra- ham [i.e. Father of a multitude]; "for a father of many nations have I made thee. •^ And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make ''nations of thee, and 'kings shall come out of thee. "And I will establish *my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, 'to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee, s^nd "'I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land " where- in thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, " for an everlasting possession ; and P I will be their God. ^ And God said unto Abraham : Tliou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. I'' Tliis is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee ; ^ Every man child among you shall be circumcised ; '^ and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. i"And he that is '"eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations, * he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger who is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised. And my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. li And the uncircumcised man-child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off" from his people ; he hath broken my covenant. 1* And God said unto Abraham : As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah t shuU her name6e. it>And I will bless her, and will ' give thee a .son also of her : yea, I will bless her, and she sliall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her. 1' Then Abraham fell upon his face, " and laughed, and said in his heart : Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old ? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee ! 1^ And God said : '^ Sarah tliy wife shall bear thee a son indeed ; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: t and I will establish my covenant with liim for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 2* And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : •j-f.ingh father, /ch. 32.28; Ne. 0. 7. 9R0. 4.17. Ach.3J.ll. iver. 11!: ch.3r,.31. 4.1; Mt.l. (), 12. k see ch. l.'). 18; GnI.3.I7. ich. 20.24; Heb. 11. o ch. 48. 4. ?'Ei.C.7; Deu. 29. 13. \ i.c.Prin- cess. ; ch. 18.10. |«ch.l8.12| 21. (i ; Jolm».5Bi ■ch.IS.lO — 14; 21.2, ,'(; Gal. 4. B.C. 1898. U.] GENESIS, XVII, XVIII. [B.C. 2054. H. sch.2J.12, 16, 18. (I ch.21.13, behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and ^will multiply him ex- ceedingly ; ' twelve princes shall he beget, and I "will make him a great nation. 21 But '' my covenant will I establish with Isaac, ''whom Surah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 22 And He made an end of talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin ; 25 and Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 2G On the selfsame day was Abraham cir- cumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27 And <^ all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. The promise to Abraham and Sarah repeated. 18. AND the LoKD appeared unto liim at " the oaks of Mamre. And he was sit- ting in the tent door in the heat of the day ; 2 and he lifted up his eyes and look- ed, and lo, three men stood before him. And ^ when he saw them he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed liim- self toward the ground. ^ And he said : My Lord, if now I Iiave found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. * Let ' a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree : ^ and '^ I will fetch a morsel of bread ; and ^ comfort ye your hearts ; after that ye shall pass on ; /for therefore are ye come to your ser- vant. And they said : So do, as thou hast said. '3 And Abraham hastened into the tent, unto Sarah, and said : Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead il, and make cakes upon the hearth. ' And Abra- ham ran to the lierd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it to a young man ; and he hasted to dress it. 8 And ^ he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set il before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. ^ And they said unto him : "Where is Sarah thy wife ? And he said ; Behold, in the tent, lo And He said : I will certainly return unto thee ''according to the time of life ; * and lo, » Sarah thy wife shall have son. And Sarah heard it at the tent door, which 2vas behind him. ^^ Now *^ Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after i the manner of women. ^2 Therefore Sarah "' laughed within herself, saying : " After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my "lord being old also? 13 And the Lord said unto Abraham Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying. Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old? I'f'Is any thing too hard for the Lord? '<' At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. i^ Then Sarah de nied, saying : I laughed not ; for she was afraid. And He said ; Nay, but thou didst laugh. The destruction of Sodom foretold; (23) Abra- ham's intercession for the city. I'^AND the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom ; and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way. 17 And the Lord said: "Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do ; i'^ seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be '' blessed in him ? i^ For I have known him, to the end that ''he should command his children and his household after him, and that they should keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. 20 And the Lord said : Because <^ the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, * and be- cause their sin is very grievous, 21 / 1 will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me ; and if not, "I will know. 22 And the men turned their faces from thence, ^and went toward Sodom. But Abraham ' stood yet before the Lord. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said: ^' Wilt thou even destroy the righteous with the wicked ? 24 1 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city ; wilt thou even destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein ? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and "'that the righteous should be as the wicked ; that be far from thee. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 2GAnd the Lord said: "If I find in Sodom fifty * or, as in the Bea- Bon of vigour; and so in ver. 14. ich. 21.2; Ho. £ ich.17.17; Ro. 4.19; Heb. 11. 11, 12, 19. ich.31.35. mch.17.17. nLk.1.18. o 1 Fet. 3. iiseeNum. ,lcr32.'l7; Mt. 19.2(1; Lk,1.37 o yer. 10 ; eh. 17.2- 2Ki.4.10. aP8.2.'-,.14: Am. 3. 7 John 15 6ch. 12. 2, 3; 22. Gal. .". t<. cch.l7. 23 -27iDeu. 4.9, 1()|0. rfch.19.13; Is. 3. 9. e ch. 13.13. /ch. 11. 5 17. '10. ich.19. 1. :Num.ir,. 22;2Sam. ! see Job i. 20; Is. i. 10, 11. n Deu. 32. 4; Job .34.10,11; Ro. 3. 5,(;. o Is. 65. 8; Jer. 5. 1 ; Ezc. 22. 30 ; MU 24. 22. D.C. 1898. U.] GENESIS, XVIII, XIX. [n.c. 2054. II pch. ;. 7 Job 4. 19 Kc:-. 12.7. <7 Xum.l4. ir-i'j. :Heb.l3.2. utting it on her shoulder, and the child, anil sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. i^ And the water was spent in the skin ; and she put the child under one of "the shrubs. i^'And she went and sat her down over against him, a good way off, as it were a bow-shot ; for she said : Let me not sec the death of the child. And she sat over against Am, and lifted up her voice and wept. " And "^ God heard the voice of the lad. And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to lier: What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad, where he is. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand ; for I will make him a great nation, i'-* And ""God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad drink. 20 And * God was with the lad, and he grew up, and dwelt in the wilderness, 'and became an archer. 21 ^^d he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran : and his mother "took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt. Abraliam' s covenant with the Pldlintim king. 22/VND it came to pass at that time, that "Abimelech, and Phicholthc chief captain of his host, spake unto Abraham, saying : *» God is with thee in all that thou doest. 23Xow therefore "^ swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son ; hid <^ according to the kindness tliat I have done to thee, thou wilt do to me and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 2' And Abraham said : I will swear. 2j And Abraham reproved Abimelech be- cause of a well of water which Abimelech's servants *had violently taken away. 20 And Abimelech said : I know not who hath done this thing; nor didst thou tell me, nor yet heard I of it, but to-day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech ; and both of them /made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by them- selves. 20 And Abimelech said to Abra- ham : What 'mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves ? 30 And he said : Because thou shalt take of my hand the seven ewe lambs, that "they may be a witness ujito me that I have digged this well. 31 -Wherefore he ''called that place Beer-sheba [i. c. The well of the oath], be- cause there they sware both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Bccr- sheba. t ch. 39. 2 3,21. ch. ]?.. 2 Ps. 112. 1 -3. 7 And Abraham stood up and l)owed him- self to the people of the land, even to the sons of Heth. ^And he communed with them, saying : If it be your mind that I shoiihl bury my dead out of my sight, liear mc, and intreat for mc to Ephron the son of Zohar, ^ that he may give me the cave of Slachpelah, which he hath, wliich is in the end of liis held ; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burying-place amongst you. l*' And Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth : and Ephron the Hittite an- swered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth, even of all that * went in at the gate of liis city, saying : ii / Nay, my lord, hear me. The field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee. Bury thy dead. 1- And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land, is And he spake to Ephron in tlie audience of the people of the land, saying : But if thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me : I will give thee money for the field ; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. '*And Ephron answered Abraham, say- ing unto him: is My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundred "shekels of silver ; what is that betwi.xt me and thee ? Bury therefore thy dead. K'And Abraham hearkened to Ephron; and Abraham ''weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the" sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 17 And 'the field of Ephron which %vas in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which teas therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that vxre in all tlie borders round about, were made sure is unto Abraham for a posses- sion, in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 13 And after this, * Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre ; (the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.) 20 And tlie field, and the cave that is therein, 'were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, by the sons of Heth. Abraham obtains a iri/e f,r Isaac from his cum kindred. 24. AND Abraham "was old and well stricken in age. And the Lord b had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said 'unto his eldest servant of his house, that <* nded over all that he had : ' Put, I i)ray thee, thy hand under my thigh, ^ and I will make thee / swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that " thou wilt not take a wife unto my son of tlic daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; **but thou shalt go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said to him : Perad- venture the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land ; must I needs bring thy son again to the land from whence thou camcst ? "And Abraham said to him : Beware thou that tliou bring not my son thither again. ^The Lord God of heaven, who * took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and who spake unto me and who sware unto mc, saying, *Unto thy seed will I give this land, 'he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. 8 And if the woman shall not be willing to follow thee, then "' thou shalt be clear from this my oath ; only bring not my son thither again. 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. 10 And the sen'ant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed ; and he took of all the goods of his master in his hand ; and he arose, and went to Me- sopotamia,* to " tlie city of Nahor. n And he made his camels to kneel down without the city, by a well of water, at the time of the evening, cvm the time that "women go out to draw water. 12 And he said : "0 Lord, the God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, 'send me good speed this day, ami show kindness unto my master Abraham, i^ Behold, *" I stand here by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water; i^and let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink ; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also ; let the same be she that thou hast ajipointed for thy ser- vant Isaac ; and * thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master. 15 And it came to pass ' before he had done speaking, tli.at behold, Ptcliekah came out, (who was born to Bethuel, son of d ch. 30. 4 e ch.47.29. /ih.14.22; Deu.e.lS; Jos. 2.12. 0 ch.26.34, :«: I'H. 2 ; Dcu. 7. :;, 4 ; 2 Cor. IS ; Ex. 32. 13 : Deu.34.4; Ac. 7. 5. I Ex.23.20, 23; 33. 2 ; Hcb.1.14. m Jos. 2. the two nch.ll.3I; 27.43. oEx.2.1fl: 1 Sam. il. 11 ; John 4.7. peh2f,.24; 32. y; Kx. 3.B. (7P».37.S; IS7. 1; Pro. 3. 5, socJndi;. <;. 17, 37 I 1 Sam. a. U. C5.24J Dan. 9.20 -23. B.C. 1857. U.] GENESIS, XXIV. [B.C. 2013. H. 3h.ll.29; xcli.2*3.7. 10 i Ru. 4. U ; 1 Sam. 25. /see Pro. 17.. S; 18. la; 19. 6. Crch. 18. 4; '■■ 21; lb'. 19. " Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brotlier,) with her pitcher upon her shoul- der. 1^ And the damsel ^ was very fair to look upon, a virgin ; neither Iiad any man Ifnown her. And she went down to tlic well, and filled lier pitcher and came up. ^7 And the servant ran to meet her, and said : Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher, i*^ And she said : Drink, my lord. And .she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. i^'And when she had done giving him drink, she said : I will draw ivalev for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. 20 ^^d she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels, ^i ^,-,£1 the man, wondering at her, held his peace, to knoAV whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. 22 And it came to pass, when the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ^ring* of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold. 23 And he said : Whose daughter art thou ? Tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in ? 2i And she said unto him : " I am the daughter of Bcthuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. 25 g^e said moreover unto him : We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 2'JAnd "the man bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. 27 And he said : '' Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not left my master destitute of ' his mercy and his truth ; I beinff in the way, <^ the Lord led me to the house of my master's bre- thren. 28 And the damsel ran and told them of her mother's house these things. 29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was ^ Laban ; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. 30And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Kebekah his sister, saying. Thus spake the man to me, that he came unto the man ; and behold, he stood by the camels at the well. 31 And he said : Come in, / thou blessed of the Lord ! Wherefore standest thou without? For I have pre- pared the house, and room for the camels. And the man came into the house. And he ungirded his camels, and "gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash liis feet and the men's feet that tvcre with him. 33 And there was set food before him to eat; but he said: ''I will not eat until I have told mine errand. And he said : Speak on. 3' And he said: I am Abraham's servant ; 35 and the Lord » hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become great ; and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-ser- vants, and camels and asses. 3GAnd Sarah my master's wife ^bare a son to my master when she was old ; and ' unto him hath he given all that he hath. 37 And "* my mas- ter made me swear, saying. Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell ; 38 but thou shalt go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son. 39 And I said to my master : Per- adventure the woman will not follow me. ^" And he said to 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; ^^then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath. *2 And I came this day unto the well ; and I said : " O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, If now thou do prosper my way which I go ; -IS behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass that the virgin who comcth forth to draw ivater, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink ; *i and she say to me. Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels ; let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master's son. «And before I had done ''speaking in my heart, behold, Eebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder ; and she went down unto the well, and drew icater : and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. ^^And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also, ■t^ And I asked her, and said, Whose daugh- ter (U-t thou ? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him. And I put the ring upon lier face, and the bracelets upon her hands. i^And I bowed down my head and wor- shipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take ^ my master's brother's daughter unto his son. *'•• And k ch.21. i ch.' 2.-). ; ch.22.23. i B.C. 1857— ABODT 1822. U.] GENESIS,' XXIV," XXV. [B.C. 2013—1978. 11. Pg. UC. 1, 2. r see Ex. 3.22. 2Ch.l7.1C, a ch.22.17 now if ye will ''deal kindly and truly with my muster, tell me ; and if not, tell me ; that I may turn to the xight hand or to the left. 'ThenLaban andEcthuel answered and said : The thing proccedeth from the Lord : we cannot ' speak unto thee bad or good. ^1 ' Behold, Eebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be tliy master's son's wife, as the Lord hath spoken. ^2 _A.nd it came to pass that when Abraham's ser- vant heard their words, he "worshipped the Lord, lowing himself to the earth. 53 And the servant brought forth ^jewels of silver and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave Uicm to Eebekah ; he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. ^ And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said : Send me away unto my mas- ter. 5^ And her brother and her motlier said : Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten ; after that she shall go. ^o And he said unto them : Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath i)rospered my way ; send me away that I may go to my master. " And they said : We will call tlie damsel, and inquire at her mouth. '•>^ And they called Eebekah, and said to her : Wilt thou go with this man ? And she said : I will go. ^^ And they sent away Eebekah their sis- ter, and "her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men. <^ And they blessed Eebekah and said unto her : Thou art our sister ; be thou 'the mother of thousands of mil- lions ; and " let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them. 61 And Eebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and fol- lowed the man ; and the servant took Ee- bekah, and went his way. 62 And Isaac came from the way of the 6 well Lahai-roi ; for he dwelt in the south country. '^And Isaac went out '^to medi- tate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, the camels were coming. "^^ And Eebekah lift- ed up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted oflf the camel. ''^ And she said unto the sen'ant : "What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us ? And the servant said : It « my master. There- fore <* she took a veil and covered her- self. '^ And the servant told Isaac all things that he liad done. "J'And Isaac brouglit her into his motlier Sarah's tent ; and he took Eebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac *was comforted after his mother's death. Abraham's other soiis; (7) his deaOi and burial. 25. AND again Abraham took a wife, and lier name was Kcturah. 2 And "she bare him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuali. 3A.nd Jokshan begat ''Slicba and <^Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurira and Letushim and Leummim. *And the sons of Midian ; ^ Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abidah and Eldaah. All these were sons of Keturah 5 And ' Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. c_4nd to the sons of the concu bines which Abraham had Abraham gave gifts, and /sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the I east country. " And these are the days of the years of Abraliam's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years. ^ Then Abra- ham gave up the ghost, and "died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, ■ and 'twas gathered to his people. ^And ' his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of jMachpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ; ^'^ the field * which Abra- ham purchased of the sons of Heth ' there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. " And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac : and Isaac dwelt by the '" well Lahai-roi. Descendants of Ishmael. 12 NOW these are the generations of Ish mael, Abraham's son, " whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham. ^^ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, ac cording to their generations. The firstborn of Ishmael, '' Xcbajoth ; and ' Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam '* and Mishmxi and Dumah and Massa, i^ <^ Hadar and " Tema, Jetur, /Naphish and Kedemah. i" These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles;* "twelve princes according to their nations 1' And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years : and ^ he gave up the ghost and died, and was gathered unto his people 18 And 'they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that w before Egj-pt, as thou goest toward Assyria. In the * presence of all his brethren he settled, t tJobl.15; 6. 19. cJer.40..S; Eze. :;•.. 13. (il6a.C0.0. Is 42. II. d I Chr. yd, IJa- clad. e Job 6.19; Iaa.21.14. 1 ver. 8. 1 Sftm. *: ch.lC.12. t^«6.feU. B,c. 1822— ABOUT 1804. U.] GENESIS, XXV, XXVI. [B.C. 1978— ABOUT 1960. H. a ch.22.23. • {. c. The plain of Aram. 6 cli.24.29. c Ezra 8. 20 ; Pa. H.-,. 19. ilRo.'J.lO. ch. 27.30, ■i.e. Sup- plauter. ZUeb.11.9. m ch. 27. 10,25,BI. u Dcu. 21 17;sc-ech 27.4,27- 2!l; 2». 4 la-lo. 9 Ileb. 12 Family history rf Isaac ; Esau sells his birth- right to Jacob. 13 AND these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac ; -'* and Isaac was forty years old when he took Eebekah to fe, " the daughter of Bethucl the Syrian of Padan-aram,* * tlie sister to Laban the Syrian. 21 And Isaac ''entreated the Lord for his wife, because she ivas barren ; and Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 2 And ' the Lord appeared unto him, and said : Go not down into Egj'pt ; dwell in Sam.14, ); Mt.27. B.C. ABOUT 1760. U.] GENESIS. XXVII. [B.C. 191C. n. fc vcr. IC /Ileb. il 5 ch.^S.lS. ri Deu. 7. 1 3; ."A 28; Joel 2. 111. 7 1 Ki. 4. I ch.23.2.';; 49. 8 ; 2 Sam.8.14. !Cli. 12.3; 18 And he came to his father, and said : My father ! And he said : Here am I ; who art thou, my son? I'-'And Jacob said to his father : I am Esau tliy firstborn ; I have done according as thou badest me. Arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. '^ And Isaac said to his son : How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son ? And he said : Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. -1 And Isaac said to Jacob : Come near, I pray thee, that I » may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --And Jacob went near to Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said : The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands arc the hands of Esau. -^ And he discerned him not, be- cause ^his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands ; ^ so he blessed him. -* And he said. Art thou my very son Esau ? And he said, I am. -^ And he said : Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, '"that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat ; and he brought liim wine, and he drank. -•'And his father Isaac said to him : Come near now, and kiss me, my son : 2" and he came near, and kissed him. And he .smelled the smell of his raiment ; and he blessed him, and said : See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field "Which the Lord hath blessed. 28 Therefore God give thee from " the dew of heaven. And from " the fatness of the earth. And P plenty of corn and wine. 23 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. Cursed * be every one that curseth thee. And blessed be he that blesseth thee. 30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 3i And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it to his fatlier. And he said unto his father : Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 32 And Isaac his father said to him: Who art thou? And he said: lam thy son, thy first-born Esau. 33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly ; and he said : Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it nie, and I liave eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him ? Ye:i, ' and he shall be blessed. 3' And when Esau heard the words of his father, " he cried with a great and exceed- ing bitter cry. And he said to his father Bless me, even me also, O my father! 35 And lie said : Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. 3GAnd he said: ^Is not he rightly named Jacob [i. e. Supplanter] ? For he hath supplanted me these two times : ^ he took away my birthright ; and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said : Hast thou not reserved a lilcssing for me ? 3'' And Isaac answered and said to Esau ^Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants ; and " with corn and wine have I sustained him ; and Avhat shall I do now unto thee, my son ? 38 And Esau said to his father : Hast thou but one blessing, my father ? Bless me, even me also, Omy father! And ''Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 33 And Isaac his father answered and said to him : Behold, ' thy dwelling shall be from the fatness of the earth. And from the dew of heaven from above ; w And by thy sword shalt thou live. And thou <^ shalt serve thy brother. And " it shall come to pass, as thou rovest about. That thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. Esaic haviiifj resolved to slay Jacob, (42) Isaac and Rcbckah send him away to Haran; (ch. 28. 6) Esau marries Ishmacl's daughter. *i AND Esau " hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart : ** The days of mourning for my father are at hand ; "^ then will I slay my brother Ja- cob. ^- And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Kebekah : and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him : Behold, thy brother Esau, as touch- ing thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. *3Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ; and arise, flee thou to La- ban my brother, '^ to Haran ; *^ and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; '^ until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him. Then I will send and fetch thee from thence. Why dch.2;.23; 2 Sam. H. M; Chad. B.C. ABODT 1760. U.] GENESIS, XXVII.— XXIX. [n.c. 1916. H. Ach.24.3; IJcu. r. 1 -4: a Cor. 6.14. . I ch. 22.23; 23.20. ilch.24.29. p ch. 3C. 3, Bcuihc- math. q ch.25.13. 6 Num.12. C; Job 33. 13, 16. cch..^2. 1, 2; John 1. 51 : Ucb. 1.14. (Ich. 33.1; 48.3. «ch. 26.24. g ch. 13. 14,16. should I be deprived also of you both in one day ? w And Rebckah said to Isaac : I am weary of my life * because of the daughters of Heth : /if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? 28. And Isaac called Jacob, and "blessed him ; and he charged him and said to him : * Thou shalt not take a wife of the daugh- ters of Canaan. ^ Arise, go to Padan-aram, to the house of » Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of *Laban thy mother's brother. 3i And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of peo- ples ; ■* and give thee "* the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee ; that thou mayest possess the land wherein thou art a sojourner, which God gave unto Abraham. ^And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram, unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Re- bekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. '' And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent liim away to Padan-aram, to take him a wife from thence ; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan ; ' and that Jacob obeyed his father "and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram. ** And Esau saw " that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; "then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had ^Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of « Nebajoth, to be his wife. GodCs revelation to Jacob in a dream. 1' AND Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. " And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took of the stones of that place, and put " them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. ^2And he * dreamed, and behold, a lad- der set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven ; and behold, 'the angels of God a.scending and descending on it. 13 And behold, <* the Lord stood above it; and he said : * I am the LOBD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. /The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed ; i* and "thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth ; and thou shalt spread abroad, to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in thee and * in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ^^And behold, 'I am with thee, and will '^keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will I bring thee again to this land ; for "* I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. i''And Jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said: Surely "the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. >" And he was afraid, and said : How dreadful is this place ! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morn- ing, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and "set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. i^And he called the name of that place ^ Beth-el [t. c. House of God] ; but the name of that city was Luz at the first. 20 And 'Jacob vowed a vow, saying: If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me ''bread to eat and raiment to put on, -i so that I come again to my father's house in peace; ' then shall the Lord be my God ; — and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, i shall be God's house ; and " of all that thou shalt give me 1 will surely give the tenth unto tlice. Jacob's service to Laban ; his double marriage, and children. 29. THEN Jacob went on his journey, and came to " the land of the people of the ca.st. - And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and lo, there vxrc three flocks ' of sheep lying by it ; for out of that well ' they watered the flocks : and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. ^ And thither were all the flocks gathered ; and they roll- ed the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place. ■t And Jacob said to them : My brethren, whence are j-e ? And they said : Of Haran are we. ^ And he said to them : Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said : We know him. c And he said to them : Is he well ? And they said : He is well ; and behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep. " And he said : Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together; water ye the sheep, and go and feed them. «And they said: We cannot until all the flocks be gathered to- gether, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth ; then we water the sheep. 3. ;i' ch.48.16: P«. 121.5, och.31.13. 43; 35. 14, 1 Sam.! r Pro. 7-9: 1. Tim.C. 8. iich.14.20; Lc. 27. 30 — 33; ' Chr. B.C. 1760—1753. U.] GENESIS, XXIX, XX:X. [B.C. li -1915. H. rfch.13.8; 14. 14, l(i. edi. 24.28. 5ch.2.23; Judg.y.2i 2 Sam. .';. i ; 19. 12, ^And while he yet spake with them, '' Rachel came with her father's sheep ; for she kept them. '''And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. ^^ And Jacob ''kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. i^Anj Jacob told Rachel that he was ''her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son ; and she ' ran and told her father. 13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that /he ran to meet him, and embraced liim and kissed him; and he brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. '*And Laban said to him : "Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month. 15 And Laban said to Jacob : Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou there- fore serve me for nought ? Tell me, what sJiall thy wages be ? I'^And Laban had two daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. ^^Leah was tender-eyed ; but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured. 18 And Jacob loved Rachel ; and he said : I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. ^'■^ And Laban said : It is better that I give her to thee than that I should give her to another man ; abide with me. 20 And Jacob '<■ served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. 21 And Jacob said to Laban : Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. 22 _^nd Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and »made a feast. 23 ^^d it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him ; and he went in unto her. 24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid ^'/oc a handmaid. 25 And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah ; and he said to Laban : What is this thou hast done to me? Did not I serve with thee for Rachel ? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me ? 20 And Laban said : It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. 27 1 Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this one also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week ; and he gave him Rachel his daugh- ter to wife also. 29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. soAnd he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him "* yet seven other years. 31 And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he " opened her womb ; but Rachel was barren. 32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben [i. e. See a son] ; for she said : Surely the Lokd hath "looked upon my affliction ; now therefore my husband will love me. 33 And she conceived again, and bare a son ; and she said : Because the Lord hath heard that I ivas hated, he hath therefore given me this son also ; and she called his name Simeon [i. e. Hearing]. 31 And she conceived again, and bare a son ; and she said : Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called '' Levi [i. e. Joined]. 35 And she conceived again, and bar son ; and she said : Now will I praise the Lord ; therefore she called his name ^Judah \i. e. Praise], And she left ofi" bearing. 30. -A.nd when Rachel saw that ""she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister ; and she said to Jacob : Give me children, *or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel ; and he said : ^mlin God's stead, 'who hath with- held from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said : Behold " my maid Bilhah, go in unto her ; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. *And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife ; and Jacob went in unto her. ^And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. "And Rachel said : God ^ hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son : therefore called she his name Dan [i. e. Judging]. 7 And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. ^And Rachel said : With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have pre- vailed : and she called his name Naphtali [i. e. My wrestling]. ''"When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her Jacob to wife. '"And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a son. n And Leah said : A troop * Cometh ; and she called his name Gad [i.e. At Troop].!' oKxA.SU Deu.2G.7 ; Vs. lOG. 44.Lk.l. qUt. 1.2. r ch.29.31. 3 see ch. 3:..16-1!»; Job 5. 2. t oj', Good fortune. !/ 18.60.11. B.C. 1753—174.0. U.] GENESIS, XXX, XXXI. [B.C. 1916—1902. II. rfl3. 4. 1 ; I,k. 1. -Jo. cch. 30.17. dch. Sl.fi, .■i8-40; 1 Pet.'.MJ, IB. 1- And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bare Jacob a second son. -* And Leah said : Hapi)y am I, for the daughters will call me hai)py ; and she called liis name Asher [i.e. Happy]. i^iAnd Reuben went out in the days of wheat harvest, and found 'mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah : Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes. '^ And she said to her : Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husl)and ; and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also ? And Rachel said : Therefore he shall lie with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes. ••^ And Jacob came out of tlie field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said : Tliou must come in unto me ; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her tliat night. ^' And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob a fifth son. I'* And Leah said : God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband ; and she called his name Is- sachar [i. e. Hire]. 1^ And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob a sixth son, 2t> And Leah said : God hath endued me ivith a good dowry ; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons ; and she called his name " Zebulun [i. e. Dwelling]. 21 And afterwards she bare a daughter ; and she called her name Dinah. " And God ^ remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and " opened her womb. -^And she conceived and bare a son ; and she said : God hath taken away <* my reproach : 24 and she called his name Joseph [t. e. Adding], and said : ' The Lord will add to me another son. Jacob's new contract of service with Laban, and (34) its results. 2j AND it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban: Send me away, that I may go to mine own place and to my country. 2*^ Give me my wives and my children, "for whom I have served thee, and let me go : for thou knowest my service which I liave done thee. 2^ And Laban said to liim : I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, taivi/ ; for I have divined that ^the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake. -^ AxiH he said : ' Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 29 And he said to him ; d Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have been with me. 30 f^r n ^.^^g jj^tie which thou hadst before I came, and it is noio increased unto a multitude ; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming : and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 3' And he said. What shall I give thee? And Jacob said : Thou shult not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock. 32 1 will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats ; and ' of such shall be my wages. 33 And my righteousness shall answer for me before thy face in time to come, when thou comest concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and brown among the sheep that shall be counted stolen with me. 31 And Laban said: Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 3^ And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring-straked and spotted and all the she-goats that were speckled and spot- ted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave titem into the hand of his sons. 3'' And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 37 And Jacob took him green rods of pop- lar and of almond and of plane, and peeled white streaks in them, making the white which was in the rods to appear. 33 ^.nd he set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering- troughs when the flocks came to drink, and they conceived when they came to drink. 33 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ring-straked, si)eckled, and spotted. *OA.nd Jacob se- parated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring-straked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban ; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's flock. 'HAnd it came to pass, whensoever the stronger flocks did conceive, that Jacob laid Uie rods before the eyes of the flocks in the troughs, that they might conceive by the rods : *2 but when the Hocks were feeble, he put them not in. So the feebler wero La- ban's and the stronger Jacob's. *3 And the man increased exceedingly, and /had much cattle, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses. 31. And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying : Jacob hath taken away all / see ch. 24. .v.; 26. 13, 14. B.C. 1739. U,] GENESIS. XXXI. [B.C. 1896. H. ly. 3. <(ch.20.6; Jobl. lOj I's. 105. 14, 15. e ver. 19. -i;2i 35.7. h -ver. 3 ; ch. 3'.'. 9. that vias our father's ; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory. 2 And Jacob beheld the counte- nance of Laban, and behold, it was not toward him as before. Jacob's flight with his family and (20) Laban's pursuit ; (43) the covenant be- tween Jacob and Laban. 3 AND the LoKD said unto Jacob : " Ee- turn to the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred ; and I will Ijc with thee. ^ And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock. ^ And he said to them : I see your father's counte- nance, that it is not toward me as before ; but the God of ray father hath been with me. "^And *ye know that with all my power I have served your father ; '^ and your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages "^ ten times ; but God ** suffered him not to hurt me. ^if he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages, then all the flock bare speckled ; and if he said thus. The ring-straked shall be thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-straked. '^ Thus God hath ^ taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. i** And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flock 2vere ring-straked, speckled and grisled. ^^ And the angel of God spake to me in a dream, saying : Jacob ! And I said : Here a7ii I. 12 And he said : Lift up now thine eyes and see, all the rams which leap upon the flock aj'c ring- straked, speckled and grisled ; for /I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. ^^1 am the God of Beth-el, ''where thou anoint- edst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me ; now ''arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. i*And Eachel and Leah answered and said to him: Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house ? '^Are we not counted of him strangers? For the hath sold us, and hath quite de- voured also our money. l^ For all the riches * which God hath taken from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do. " Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels ; ^^ and he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his get- ting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, ' to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. ^ And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Eachel stole the "*teraphim that were her father's. 2o And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. '^ So he fled, with all that he had ; and he rose up, and passed over the river, * and set his face toxvards the mountain of Gilead. "And it was told Laban on the tliird day that Jacob was fled. -3 And he took his bretliren with him, and pursued after him, seven days' journey ; and they over- took him in the mountain of Gilead. 21 And " God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him: Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob " either good or bad. 25 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the moun- tain ; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead. 2'JAnd Laban said to Jacob : What hast thou done that thou hast stolen away un- awares to me, and carried away my daugh- ters, as captives takeri with the sword ? 27 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me ; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, witli tabret and with harp; 2Sand hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ? Thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 29 it is in the power of my hand to do you hurt ; but the* God of your father spake to me yester- night, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. 3t> And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou ^i stolen my gods ? 31 And Jacob answered and said to La- ban : Because I was afraid ; for I said, Per- adventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me. •^2 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, '"let him not live. Before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Eachel had stolen them. 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maid- servants' tents ; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and en- tered into Eachel's tent. 34 Now Eachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not. 35 And she said to her father : Let it not displease my lord that I cannot "rise up before thee ; for the custom of ich. 20..",; Job 33. 15 -17; Jit. B.C. 1739. U.] GENESIS, XXXI. XXXII. [B.C. 1896. H. !/ch.26.28: Pro. Hi. 7. : Jos. 24. cJudjr. 11. 29;lSam. 7.6. women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim. 2'' And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban ; and Jacob answered and said to Laban : What is my trespass, what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me ? 37 Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and tliy brethren, that they may judge betwi.xt us both, ^s xhese twenty years have I been with thee ; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy fiock have I not eaten. '^'•'That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee ; I bare the loss of it ; of ray hand didst thou require it, uheCher stolen by day or stolen by night. ^'^ Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. *■! Thus have I been twenty years in thy house ; I ' served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock : and thou hast changed my wages ten times. •*- Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and " the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. * God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and " rebuked thee yesternit,'ht. *^And Laban answered and said to Ja- cob : These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine. And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have borne? **Now therefore come thou, ''let us make a cove- nant, 1 and thou; 'and let it be for a wit- ness between me and thee. *5 And Jacob " took a stone and set it up for a pillar. *''And Jacob said to his breth- ren : Gather stones. And they took stones and made a heap ; and they did eat there upon the heap. *"And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha \i. e. The heap of witness, Chald.] ; but Jacob cidled it Galeed [i. e. The heap of witness, HeO.]. ♦*>And Laban said : ''This heap is a wit- ness between me and thee this day. There- fore was the name of it called Galeed,*^ and 'Mizpah \i. c. a Watch-tower] ; for he said, The LoKD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. ***If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside ray daughters, no man is with us ; sec, And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them ; and Labarf departed and returned to his place. Jacob's vision, prayer, and wrestling tcith the A ngel ; and his preparations for meeting Esau. 32. AND Jacob went on his way, and ° the angels of God met him. - And when Jacob saw them, he said. This is God's ''camp. And he called the name of that place "^ Mahanaim [i. e. Two camps]. 3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to ch.13.18. : ch. 23. 2, 19; .' 14.15; B.C. 1796—1740. U.] GENESIS, XXXVL [b.c. 1889. U. fch. G2. .1: Dcu.2. .^; Jos. :;4.4. ;Kx.l7.8, 14; Num. 2t. 'M: 1 Emu's wives and ehildrm ; (6) Ai« settlement in the mouiifams of Seir. 36. NOW these arc the generations of Esau, who "is Edom. 2 Esau ^took his wives of the daughters of Canaan ; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholi- bamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivitc, 3.ind "^Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Ncbajoth. *And t^Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz, and Bashcmath bare Ecuel, ^and AhoUbamah bare Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. These arc the sons of Esau, who were born unto him in the land of Canaan. "And Esau took his wives, and his sons and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle and all his beasts, and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from his brother Jacob. 7«For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they sojourned could not bear them, because of their cattle. ^ Tluis dwelt Esau in /Mount Seir : Esau is Edom. Esau's sons and grandsons, as fathers of tribes. 9 AND these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edoraites, in mount Seir. lOTliese are the names of Esau's sons; "Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Eeuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau. " And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, * Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz. 12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz ''Ama- lek : these iccre the sons of Adah, Esau's wife. 13 And these are the sons of Keuel ; Na- hath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah : these were the sons of Bashemath, Esau's wife. 1* And these were the sons of Aholi- bamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife : and she bare t( Esau, Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. The licads of the three principal divisimis of the Edomitcs. ij THESE are dukes * of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau: duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, i^duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek ; these arc the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom ; these arc the sons of Adah. 1' And these arc the sons of Eeuel, Esau's son : duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah; these are the dukes that came of Eeuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Bashe- math, Esau's wife. And these are the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife : duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah ; these arc the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife, i" These are the sons of Esau, (who is Edom) and these are their dukes. Seir's deseendanis, the original inhabitants of the country, and (29> their chiefs. 20 THESE arc the sons of "Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land: *Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah -land Dishon, and Ezer and Dishan ; these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir, in the land of Edom. 22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and "^ Hemam ; and Lotan's sister was <^ Timna. 23 And the children of Shobal were these : Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, /Shepho and Onam. 2t And these are the children of Zibeon : both Ajali and Anah. This was that Anah that found the hot springs in the wilder- ness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father. 2S And the children of Anah were these : Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. 26j^jid these arc the children of Dishon ; " Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. 27 The children of Ezer are these ; Bilhan and Zaavan and * Akan. 28 The children of Dishan are these; Uz and Aran. 29 These are the dukes of the Horites : duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 30 ,^uke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan ; these arc the dukes of the Horites according to their dukes in the land of Seir. The kings of Edom brfore there was any king of Jsracl. 31 AND "these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. 32 And Bcla the son of Beor reigned in Edom ; and the name of his city was Dinhabah 33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of *Bozrah reigned in his stead. 3i And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. 3iAnd Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead ; and the name of his city was Avith. 3C And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead. 37 And Samlah died, and Saul of ich.14.6; Deu. 2. 12, 22. ) 1 Chr. 1. : 1 Chr. 1. W.Aliatt. ' 1 Chr. 1. B.C.ABO0T 1715— 1729. U.] GENESIS, XXXVI, XXXVIL [b.c. 1885. H. ; ch. 17.8; Il'eb. il. ' -: ch. 42. C, !) ; 4.';. 26 ; •14. 14. Rehoboth hy the river reigned in his stead. 3^ And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. 39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and 'Hadar reigned in his stead ; and the name of liis city was Pau ; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Hatred, the daugliter of Mezahab. The dwclUiiQplaccs (or seats of government) (f the EdoTnitish princes. *o AND these are the names of " the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names ; duke Timnah, duke ''Alvah, duke Jetheth, *' duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon, ^- duke Kcnaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, «duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These were the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession : he is Esau the father of the Edomites. 37. But Jacob dwelt in the land "^wherein his father v/as a sojourner, in the land of Canaan. Jacob's family history— (2) Joseph, specially loved by his father, (4) is hated by his brethren, and (28) sold into slavery. 2 THESE are the generations of Jacob. Joseph being seventeen years old, was feed- ing the flock with his bretliren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives : and Joseph brought to his father an evil report concerning them. •'Now Israel loved Jo- seph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age ; and he made him a coat of many colours.* * And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they * hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. 5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren ; and they hated him yet the more. 6_^i|(j j^g g^id to them: Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed ; '' for liehold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, "^my sheaf arose and also stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8 And his brethren said to him : Shalt thou indeed reign over us? Or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams and for his words. " And he dreamed yet anotlier dream, and told it his brethren ; and he said : Be- hold, I have dreamed a dream more ; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. i" And he told i« to his father and to his breth- ren ; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him : What is this dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ? " And rf his brethren envied him ; but his fatlier ^ observed the saying. J- And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. '^And Israel said to Joseph : Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem ? Come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him : Here am I. i* And he said to him : Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks ; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of / He- bron, and he came to Shechem. i^ And a certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field ; and the man asked him, saying: What seekest thou? ^'^And he said : I seek my brethren ; tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks. " And the man said ; They are departed hence ; for I heard them say. Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in "Dothan. 18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they con- spired against him to slay him. i^And they said one to another : Behold, this dreamer cometh. 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him : and we shall see what will become of his dreams. '-1 And '' Reuben heard it, and he deliver- ed him out of their hands ; and he said : Let us not kill him. "^^(1 Reuben said to them : Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again. 23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, "that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that ivas on him; -land they took him and cast him into the pit; and the pit was empty, there zvas no water in it. 25 And they sat down to cat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a company of * Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and ' balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. 26 And Judah said to his brethren : What profit is it if we slay our brother and "'conceal his blood? 2" Come, and let us sell him to the Ish- maelites, and Jet not our hand be upon (/Ac. 7. 9. cLk.i.lO, k see 1 liet.i B.C. 1729—1727. U GENESIS, XXXVII, XXXVIII. [ii.c. 1885—1883. II. 2 : Judg. G. 3. O ch. Ar,. 4 5: Ps. I ().-.. J"i Ac. 7. 9. p see Mt. 27. 9. rch. 42.13 .16; Jet. 31. J J. chief of the exe- cution- ich.46.12; Wum. 20. 19. him ; for he is our brother and our flesh, Aiid his brethren were content. -* Then there jjiissed by " Midianitcs, mercliantmen ; and they drew and lilted up Joseph out of the pit ; " and lliuy .sold Jo- seph to the Ishmaclitcs for ^ twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into EgyiJt. 29 And Eeuben returned to the pit ; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit ; and he "^ rent his clothes. *) _^nd he returned unto his brethren, and said : The child '" is not ; and I, whither shall I go ? 31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped tiie coat in the blood. ^'- And they sent the coat of mani/ colours, and brought it to their fa- ther; and they said: This have we found ; know now whether it be thy son's coat or no. 33 And he knew it ; and he said : Jt in my son's coat ; an * evil beast hath de- voured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. 31 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 35 ^.nd all his sons and all his daughters ' rose up to comfort him ; but he refused to be comforted, and lie said. For I will go down to the grave * unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him. 3''And "the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard, t Occurrences in Judah's family. 38. AND it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name iva^ Hirah. - And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was " Shuah ; and he took her, and went in unto her. 3And slie conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name ^ Er. * And she conceived again, and bare a son ; and she called his name Onan. 5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son ; and she called his name ' Shelah : and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. '' And Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, whose name loas Tamar. "> And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord ; "^and the Loud slew him. *> And Judah said unto Onan : Go in unto ' thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. '•' And Onan knew that the seed should not be his ; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother, i" And the thing which he did displeased the Lord : where- fore he slew /him also. ^'Then said Judah to Tamar his daughlerin-law : Itemain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown ; for lie said, licst peradven- ture he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in Let father's house. 12 And in process of time the daughter of Shuah, Judah's wife, died ; and Judah " was comforted, and he went up to his sheepshearers, to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite. "And it was told Tamar, saying: Be- hold thy father-in-law goctli up "to Tim- nath to shear his sheep. '* And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped her- self, and ' sat in the gate of Enaim, which IS by the way to Timnath; for she saw *^that Shelih was grown, and she was not given to him to wife. '^Whcn Judah saw her, he thought her to he a harlot ; because she had covered her face. "'And he turned unto her by the way, and said ; Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter-in- law.) And she said: What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me ? '^And he said: 'I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she said : "Wilt thou give me a pledge till thou send it ? i^ And he said: What pledge shall I give thee? And she said : Thy signet and thy brace- lets,* and thy stall' that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. is'And she arose and went away; and she laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 20And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his iriend the Adullamite, to receive hix pledge from the woman's hand : but he found her not. 21 Then he asked the men of that place, saying : Where is the harlot that was at Enaim by the way-side ? And they said : There was no harlot in this place. -- And he returned to Judah, and said : I cannot find her ; and also the men of the place said that there was no harlot in this place. 23 And Judah said : Let her take it for herself, lest we be shamed ; be- hold, 1 sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 2* And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, say- ing : Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath play- ed the harlot ; and also, behold, she is with child by •whoredom. And Judah said : /ch.46.12i Num. 2G. 19. i Pro. 7.12. * vers. 11, B.C. 1729—1715. U.] GENESIS, XXXVIIL— XL. [B.C. 1878—1874. H. n I Sam 24.17: Ho 'A 1,3,21 och.«.12i Num. 26. 20; 1 Chr. •ch.2(>.24, 2bi28. 15i 1 Sam 18. 14.28! Ac. A Pro. 6.2.". —25; 7.2.^ -27; 1 Pet. 2. 11. Bring her forth, ""arKl let her be burnt. 2iWhen she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying : By the man whose these are am I Avith child. And she said : Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet and bracelets* and the staflP. 26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, " She hath been more righteous than I ; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. -'^ And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that behold, twins wei-e in her womb, -s^jid it came to pass, when she travailed, that (he one put out his hand : and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. -^And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his bro- ther came out ; and she said, How hast thou broken forth! The breach is upon thee. Therefore his name was called "Pharez [i. e. A breacli]. 3*^ And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand. And his name was called Zarah. Joseph's faithful and prosperous service, (7 ) his temptation, and (20> imprisonvient. 39. AND Joseph was brought down to Egj^jt. And " Potiphar, an officer of Pha- raoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, 6 bought him of the hands of the Ishmael- ites, who had brought him down thither. 2 And ''the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man ; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ^An^i ''his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord ^ made all that he did to prosper in his hand. * And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him ; and he made him /overseer over his house, and all that he liad he put into his hand. 5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that ^the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake ; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house and in the field. "^And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand ; and he knew not aught he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well- favoured. "And it came to pass after these things, that his masters wife cast her eyes upon Joseph ; and she said : Lie with me. ^ But *he refused, and said unto his master's wife : Behold, my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; ^ the7-e is none greater in this house than I ; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife. How then can I do a man in whom the Spirit of God is ? 39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph: Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is none so dis- creet and wise as thou art: ^'^'^thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled ; only in the throne will I be greater than thou. *i And Pharaoh said to Joseph : See, I have And Israel said : "Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother ? 7 And they said : The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye ano^/icj- brother? And we told hmi according to the tenor of these words. Could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down ? 8 And Judali said to Israel his father: Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go ; tliat we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones, will be surety for him; of my liand shalt thou require him ; if I bring him not unto thee and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever, i'^ For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time. 11 And their father Israel said to them : If it must be so now, do this ; take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and '" carry down the man a present, a little "^balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds: 12 and take double money in your hand ; and the money "^ that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand ; peradventure it icas an oversight. 13 Take also your bro- ther, and arise, go again unto the man. 1* And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of mi) children, I am bereaved ! 15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin : and they rose up, and went down to Egypt ; and they stood before Joseph. ifi And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the « ruler of his house : Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready ; for these men shall dine with me at noon. " And the man did as Joseph bade ; and the man brought the men into Jo- seph's house. 18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house ; and they said: Because of the money that was re- turned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in ; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses. " And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him at the door of the house. -» And they said : O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food ; 21 and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and behold, every mans money teas in the mouth of his sack, our money in full Aveight; and we have brought it again in our hand; 22 and other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food. We cannot tell wjio put our money in our sacks. fi.c. 1707. U.] GENESIS, XLIII, XLIV. [B.C. 1863. H. t ch. 30. 22 -24 : 3j. 17. 18. 23 And he Raid; Peace be to you, fear not. Ydur God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks ; I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to them. -*And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, aixd /gave them water, and they wasbed their feet ; and he gave their asses provender. 25 And they made ready the present against Josepli came at noon : for they heard that tliey should eat bread there. 2UA.nd when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their liand into the house; and they " bowed themselves to him to the earth. 2" And he asked them of their welfare, and said : 7s your father well, ''the old man of whom ye spake ? 7s he yet alive ? 2S And they answered : Thy servant our fatlier is in good health, he vi yet alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obei- sance. 29 And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, 'his mother's son ; and he said : Is this your younger brother of whom ye spake to me ? And he said ; God be gracious unto thee, my son. 3" And Joseph made haste, for * his bowels did yearn upon his brother ; and he sought lehere to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face, and went out ; and he refrained himself, and said : Set on bread. 32 And they set on, for him by him- self, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who did eat with him by themselves; because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that w 'an abomination unto the Egyptians. 33 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the young- est according to his youth ; and the men marvelled one at another. 34 And he took and sent messes to them from before him : and Benjamin's mess was '"five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him. 44. And he commanded the steward of his house, saying : Fill the men's sacks u-Uh food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth ; ^and put my cup, the silver cup. in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and bis corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses. * And when they were gone out of the city, and not i/ct far off, Joseph said to his stew- ard : tJp, follow after the men ; and when thou dost overtake them, say to them, WTierefore have ye rewarded evil for good ? 1 5 7s not this it in which my lord drinketh, j and whereby indeed he divineth ? Ye have done evil in so doing. 6 And he overtook them, and he spake to them these same words. 7 And they said to him: Wherefore saitli my lord these I words 1 God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing. 8 Be- hold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths we brought again to thee out of the land of Canaan ; how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold ? ^ With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. ''' And he said : Now also let it be accord- ing to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my servant, and ye shall be blameless. '1 Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. 12 And he searched, a7id began at the eldest and ended at the youngest ; and the cup was found in Ben- jamin's sack. 13 Then they "rent their clothes; and they laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. i^^And Judah and his brethren I came to Joseph's house ; for he was yet ' there : and they fell before him on the ground. '^And Joseph said unto them: What deed is this that ye have done ? Know ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine ? 1" And Judah said : AVliat shall we say to my lord ? What shall we speak ? Or how shall we clear ourselves ? " God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants. Be- hold, '' wc are my lord's servants, both we, j and he also with whom the cup is found. 17 And he said : God forbid that I should do so ; but the man in whose hand the cup [is found, he shall be ray servant; and a.s for you, get you up in peace unto your father. 1** Then Judah came near unto him, and said : O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's cars, and "^ let not thine anger burn against thy ser- vant; for 'thou art even as Pharaoh. 'y My lord asked his servants, saying : Have ye a father, or a brother? -'O And we said to my lord : We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one ; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 And thou saidst to thy servants : Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 22 And we said unto .c. 1707—1706. U.] GENESIS, XLIV, XLV. [B.C. 1864—1863. H. ach.50.20; P3.105.16. 17. my lord : The lad cannot leave his father ; for if he should leave his fatlier, his father would die, 23 And ihou saidst to thy ser- vants : Except your youngest brother come down with you ye shall see my face no more. -lAnd it came to pass when wc came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25 And our father said : Go again, and buy us a little food. 20 And we said: "VVe cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down ; for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother be Avitli us. 27 And thy servant my father said to us : Ye know that * my wife bare me two sons; 28 and the one went out from me, and I said, ' Surely he is torn in pieces ; and I saw him not since ; 29 and if ye " take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave, so Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us, seeing that * his life is bound up in the lad's life, ^i it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not ivith lis, that he will die ; and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy ser- vant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying : If I bring him not unto thee, then I will bear the blame to my father for ever. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord ; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad not with me ? Lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father. 45. Then Joseph could not refrain him- self before all them that stood by him ; and he cried : Cause every man to go out from me. And tliere stood no man with him while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said to his brethren : ^I am Joseph. Doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. * And Joseph said to his brethren : Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said : I am Joseph your brother, ^ whom ye sold into Egypt. ^ jfoyy therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; "for God did send me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land : and yet there are five years in which there shall neither 6e plough- ing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. ^ So now it was not you. that sent me hither, but God ; and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. '■' Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not; ^and ^thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy chil- dren and thy children's children, and thy flocks and thy herds, and all that thou hast : '1 and there will I nourish thee, for yet there are five years of famine ; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. ^- And behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 13 And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither. i-iAnd he fell upon his brother Benja- min's neck, and wept : and Benjamin wept upon his neck, i* Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them : and after that his brethren talked with him. Jacob, at the Icing's invitation, goes to Egijpt with all his family and possessions— (ch. 46. 1.) On h'.avinq the promised land he recewes assu- rances of Divine protection and hlessinc;. 16 AND the fame thereof was heara in Pharaoh's house, saying : Joseph's brethren are come. And it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: Say to thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan ; i« and take your father and your households, and come unto me ; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat "the fat of the land. '9 Now thou art commanded ; this do ye ; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. 20 Also regard not your stuff, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours. 21 And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. "- To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment ; ^ but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment. 23 And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and B.C. 17'J6. U. GENESIS, XLV, XLVL [B.C. 1863. H. 7 - 10 ; Deu.26.5. o cb. ld.14 -16; 28. J5;48. 21; SO. 13. 24, 25; Ex.3. h Den. 2B. 5; Jos. 24. 4; Pa. 10.5. 23;I«. 52. 4 : Ac. 7. c Ex. CIS: 1 Clir. i. 24. e 1 Chr. 2 3; 4. 21. .rch.38.a 7.10. bread and meat for his father by the way. 21 So he sent his brethren away, and they departed. And he said to them : See that ye fall not out by the way. 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their father. 2fi ^Vn j they told him, saying : Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. But Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph which he had said to them : and when he saw the wagons which Josepli had sent to carry him. the .spirit of Jacob their father revived; 2s and Israel said: Jt is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive ; I will go and see him before I die. 46. A.nd Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to ' Beer-sheba ; and he offered sacrifices <* imto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel *in the visions of the night, and said: Jacob, Jacob ! 3 And he said : Here am I. And he said : I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into P'gypt ; for I will there / make of thee a great nation ; ^ 1 will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring thee up ayain. And Jo- seph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. ^ And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba : and tlie sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, '' Jacob, and all his seed with him ; ^ his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. Lut of the home of Israel at the time of their goino down to L'gypt 8 AND " these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Ileuben, * Jacob's firstborn. ^ And the sous of Reuben ; Hanoch and Phalla and Hezron and Carmi. ^^ And * the sons of Simeon ; Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zo- bar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. >i And - t 1 Chr. 7. 12. u Num.21. 42. Hhu- ham. X 1 Chr. 7. 13. ;/ ch. 30. 5, I ch. 29.29. 1EX.I..5; Deu. 10. 22 : see B.C. 1706—1689. U.l GENESIS, XLVI, XLVII. [B.C. 1863—1846. H. ■ ch. 43. 32 ; Ex. S. 2G. «■ Ac. 7.1.3. /ch.4G.33. p 1 ChT.29. 15 ; Ps. liy. 54. h Job 14. l;Ps. 3% 4,5; Jam. 4.14. « ch. 6. 27; 11.11:25. 7 ; 35, 28. 31 And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father's house : I will go up and show Pharaoh, and say to him : My brethren, and my father's liouse, who u-a'C in the land of Canaan, are come to me ; ^- and the men arc shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks and their herds, and all that they have. 33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say. What is your occupation? "* that ye shall say: Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle, from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers ; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For every shep- herd is '^ an abomination unto the Egyp- tians. 47- Then Joseph came 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 behold, they aix in <^ the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and *^ presented them unto Pha- raoh. 3 And Pharaoh said to his brethren : / What is your occupation ? And they said to Pharaoh: Thy servants a?-e shepherds, both we and also our fathers. * They said moreover to Pharaoh: To sojourn in the land are we come ; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan ; now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. ^ And Pharaoh spake to Joseph, saying : Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee ; '' the land of Egypt is before thee ; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell ; in the land of Go- shen let them dwell : and if thou knowest awy men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle. ' And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob : How many ai'e the days of the years of thy life? ^ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh ; Tlie days of the years of my " pilgrimage are a hun dred and thirty years. '' Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been ; and i they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage, i** And Jacob blessed Pharaoh ; and he went out from before Pharaoh. 1' And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egj'pt, in the best of the land. in tb.e land of * Eameses, as Pharaoh hadli-.Ex.i.ii; commanded. ''- And Joseph nourished his father and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to tueir families. Joseph's administration in Egypt during the seven yearx c/ famine. '3 AND there was no bread in all the land ; for the famine u-as very sore, " so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 1* * And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought ; and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 1^ And when money failed in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said : Give us brea And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh ; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them. So the land became Pharaohs : '-^ and as for the people, he re- moved them to cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the othei- end thereof. 22 d Only the land of the priests bought he not ; for the priests had a por- tion assigned them by Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their lands. 23 Then Joseph said to the people : Be- hold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land ; 21 and it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the * fifth part unto Pharaoh and four B.C. 1689. U.] GENESIS, XLVIl. XLVIII. [B.C. 1846. H. b see ch. 50. 2J. C'.h.25. 9; 2Sam.l!i. 37; Heb. 11.22. dch. 49.29, .■iO ; M. 5, 13. parts sliall be your own, for seed of the fit'M, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. ^ And they said : Thou hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 2" And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part ; except the land of the priests only, ichich became not Pharaoh's. Israel's prosperous condition in Hgypt ; (29) Ja cob's dying command respectinrj his burial. •' AND Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in tlie country of Goshen, and they had possessions therein, and grew and multiplied exceedingly. -^ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years ; so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years. -3 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die ; and he called his son Joseph, and said to him : If now I have found grace in thy sight, " put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. '' Bury me not, I pray thee, in Egj'pt ; 30 but ''I will lie with my fathers ; and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and '^ bury me in their burying-place. And he said : I will do as thou hast said. 31 \nd he said : Swear unto me ; and he sware unto him. And ' Israel bowed himself up- on the bed's head. Jacob's adoption of Joseph's two sons as his own, and his blessing upon them. 48. AND it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph : Behold, thy father ts sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. -And one told Jacob and s:ud: Behold, thy son Joseph Cometh unto thee ; and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph: God Almighty appeared unto me at "Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, *and said unto me. Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of peoples ; and I will give this land to thy seed after thee ''for an everlasting possession. ^ And now "^thy two sons, Epliraim and Manasseh, wiio were bom to thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, they arc mine; as Keuben and Simeon. PJphraim and ]Ma- nasseh shall be mine. ^ And thy issue which thou begettest after tlieni shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. ' And as for me, when I came from Padan, "Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was a length of way to come unto Ephrath ; and 1 buried her there in the way to Eplu-ath, (the same is Beth- lehem.) ^And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said : Who are these 1 ^And Josepii said to liis father : 'They are my sons, whom God liath given me in this place. And he said : Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and /I will bless them. ^^ J^^Q^^^ u l]^^. jjygg of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near to him; and ''he kissed them and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph : *I had not thought to see thy face, and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. I'-And Joseph brought them out from between his knees. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth. '3 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Is- rael's right hand, and brought them near to him. 1* * And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, '■ guiding his hands wittingly; for ^Manasseh was the firstborn. ii>And "'he blessed Joseph, and said: God, "before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who fed me all my life long unto this day, ^''''the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads ; and let ^ my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abra- ham 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 Eph- raim, it displeased him ; and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim s head to Manassehs head. i«jVnd Joseph said to his father: Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. " And his father refused and said : '■' I know tt, my son, 1 know it ; he also shall become a j)eople, and he also shall be great; but truly ''his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. iJ"And he blessed them that day, saying: 'In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim ami as Manasseh. ' And he set Ephraim before Manas.seh. -' And Israel said to Josei)h : Behold, I die ; but " God will be with you, and bring B.C. 1689. U.] GENESIS, XLVIII, XLIX. [b.c. 1846. H. a pee Deu. ch. a.j. b Num.24. H: Is. 2. 2; Dan. 2. 28,20. cch.20.."2. d Deu. 21. e .Tudg. .';. 15, IG; Jam.l.K. /C11..T.5.22; Deu. 27. 20j 1 Chr. O ch.29.33, .H. h ch. 3A.2J their ha- brtations. iPro.l.lo, Ifi. k Ps. 2C.9; Eph..').ll. / ch. y4.2C. nch,29.3J. o Deu. . •J.I. 7 : .Jus. 18. -11'. ;• 1 Chr. 5. 2. 7 Rev. 5. .5. r Num. 23- 24 -, 24. 9 .s Num. 24. 108. 8. ' or. ru- lera staff « Is. 9. C, ; n. 1 -5; Jer. 23. h, 6 ; Dan. 9. 271, 2K; l.k. 1. Bl, XP9.72.8, ]1;I8.U. 10. 12; 49. 6,7; Hag. 2. 7 ; Lk. 2. .■S0-.12 John 12 32. you again unto the land of your fatliers. 22 Moreover ^ I have given to thee one por- tion ahove tliy bretliren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. Jacob's final prophetic charge to his twelve sons. 49. AND Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may " tell you that which shall befall you * in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob ! And hearken unto Israel, your father. 3 Keuben, thou art " my firstborn, My might <*and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity, and the excel- lency of power. * Bursting forth as water, "thou shalt not excel ; Because thou /wentest up to thy father's bed, Then defiledst thou it ; he went up to my couch. 5 Simeon "and Levi arc brethren ; Instruments ^ of cruelty arc their devices.* c O my soul, * come not thou into their se- cret! Unto ^ their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united ! For ' in their anger they slew a man, And in their selfwill they hamstrung an ox. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce ! And their wrath, for it was cruel ! I ™will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel. SJudah, "thou art he whom thy bre- thren shall praise : Thy " hand shall he on the neck of thine enemies ; Thy '' father's sons shall bow down before thee. 9 Judah M ^a lions whelp : From the prey, my son, thou art gone up : He '"stooped down, he couched, as a lion. And as a lioness ; who shall rouse him up ! 10 The * sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor < a lawgiver * from between his feet, Until " Shiloli come ; And ^unto him sW?i he the obedience of the peoples. II Binding his foal unto the vine. And his ass's colt unto the choice vine ; He washed his garments in wine. And his clothes in the blood of grapes : 12 His eyes are red with wine. And his teeth white with milk. "Zebulun ^ shall dwell at the haven of the sea, And he shall he for a haven of ships ; And his border shall he unto Zidon. 1* Issachar is a strong ass. Lying down between two folds : IS And he saw a rest that it was good, And the land that it was pleasant ; And he bowed his shoulder to bear. And became a servant unto tribute. 10 Dan ^ shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel. ' !■ Dan " shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path. That bitetli the horse's heels, So that his rider falletli backward. 18 I !* have waited for thy salvation, 0 Lord. 19 Gad, "a troop shall overcome him : But he shall overcome at the last. 20 Out rfof Asher his bread shall he fat, And he shall yield royal dainties. 21 Naphtali * is a hind let loose ; He giveth goodly words. 22 Joseph f is a fruitful bough, Even a fruitful bough by a well, Wliose branches run over the wall. 23 The archers " sorely grieved him. And shot at him, and hated him : 21 But his ''bow abode in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong By the hands of * the Miglity One of Jacob : From '■ thence is the Shepherd, ' the Stone of Israel : --> Even ™by the God of thy father, who will help thee ; And " by the Almighty, who will bless thee. With " blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lieth under. Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 2*5 The blessings of thy father prevail Above the blessings of my progenitors, Unto " the utmost bound of the everla.sting hills ; They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him '' that was separated from his brethren. 27 Benjamin shall '" ravin as a wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil. 2S All these are the twelve tribes of Israel : and this is it that their father spake to them, and blessed them ; every one accord- ing to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them and said to them : I am to be " gathered unto my 2.-.; 15. 20; l.S. 1,2. a Judg.18. Mic. 7.7; Lk. 2. 'ir,. c eh. 8(1. 11; Deu. dDeu. .33. 24; Jos. 19. 24. c Deu. 33. 23. / ch. 41. .02; 49. 19; Deu. 33. 13 - 17 ; Jos. 17. 14, 18. 'J ch. ;'.7. 4, 24. 28;, 39. 7 -20; 42. 21. '( Job 29. 20; Ps.18. 32 - .-id ; 28.8. il's.132.2, 5. A- ch. 4:,. 11:47.12; iO. 21 . I Deu. 32. 4 ; Is. 28. 16; Eph. 2.20. nich.36.3. n ch. 35. 11. o Deu. 33. 13-lB. B c. 1689—1635. U.] GENESIS, XUX. L. [B.C. 1846—1792. H. ach.Vui. ft 2 Ki.13. 14. c ver.2n;2 Chr. iii. 14;Mt.2(:. 12 : Nk. Ifi. l;l,k 24.I:.Jno. 7 : ly. liO, 40. i< Num.20. 29: IK M. H. people. ' Bury me with my fathers, " in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hit- titc, 50 jn the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, ''which Abraham bought, with the field, of Ephron the Hittite for a pos session of a liurying-place. •''• " There they buried Abraham and .Sarah his wife, ^ tliere they buried Isaac and Kebekah his wife and there I buried Leah. 3: xhc purchase of the field and of tlie cave that is therein was from the sons of Hetb. Jacob dies i i Egypt, and (7) is buried in Canaan. 33 AND when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 50. And Joseph " fell upon his father's face, and '' wept upon him, and kissed him. - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to "^embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. ^And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are ful- filled the days of those who are embalmed. And the Egyptians f* mourned for him threescore and ten days. •*And when the days of his mourning were past, Jo.seph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying : If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, 1 |)ray you, in the cars of Pharaoh, saying, ^ " !My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die ; in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let nie go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. •J And Pharaoh said : Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. "And Joseph went up to bury his father ; and Avith him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, ^ and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren and his father's house ; only their little ones, and their flocks and their herds, they left in the land of Go-shen. ^ And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen ; and it was a very great company. '" And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which IS beyond the Jordan ; and there they /mourned with a great and very sore lamentation : " and he made a mourning for his father seven days. '' And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the floor of Atad, they said : This is a grievous mourning to the Egyjjtians. Wherefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim \i. c. The mourning of the Egyptians], which is beyond the Jordan. '2 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them; i^for /"his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought, with the field, for a possession of a burying- place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. '*And Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. Joseph's assurance of forgiveness and love to his brelliren ; (21 j his dyiwj charrje. ^^AND when Josephs brethren saw that their father was dead, they said: Josepli will pcradventure hate us, and will cer tainly requite us all tlie evil which we did unto him. i''And they sent a messenger to Joseph, saying : Thy father did com- mand before he died, saying, •'' Thus shall ye say unto Joseph : Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto thee evil. Now therefore we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake to him. "^And his brethren also went and "fell down before his face ; and they said : Be- hold, we are thy servants. 19 And Joseph said to them : *Fearnot; 'for am I in the place of God? -"But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but, ^ God meant it unto good, to bring to pass as it is this day, to save much i)cople alive. -1 Now therefore fear ye not ; * I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly to them. 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house ; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. ^3 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children /of the third r/enera- lion ; the children also of " Macliir the son of Mana.sseli ''were brought up upon Jo- seph's knees. -I And Joseph said to his brethren: I die ; and * God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land '•'concerning which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying : God will surely visit you, and 'ye shall carry up my bones from hence. ^bSo Joseph died, t«nsr a hundred and ten years old ; and "* they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egjpt. A ch.40.2 3i): Ac. 16. 6ch.4J.5. 0 Deu. .'!2. K, : Ro. ]2. 19. * I am the God of thy father, the God of Aliraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for » he was afraid to look upon God. " And the Lord said : * I have surely seen the affliction of my people who ai-e in their fathers flock ; 17 and the shepherds Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason came and drove them away ; but Moses stood up and helped them, and ' watered their flock. 18 And when they came to "* Eeuel their father, he said : How is it that ye are come of their taskmasters ; for I know their sor rows ; ^ and ' I am come down '" to deliver them out of the hand of the Eg)-ptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unfo a land " so soon to-day ? i^ And they said : An with milk and honey ; unto the place of Egj'ptian delivered us out of the hand of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the the shepherds, and also drew vmter enough Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivitcs for us, and watered the flock. 20 j^uj j^e and the Jebusites. ^ Now therefore, behold, said to his daughters: And where is he ? , " the cry of the children of Israelis come p Ac. 7.20: Heb. 11. .13, 14. Why IS it that ye have left the man ? Call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man ; and he gave Moses ** Zipporah his daughter. 22 ^nj gjig bare liim a son, and he called his name Gershom*; for he said, I have been ^ a stranger in a strange land. unto me : and I have also seen the '' oppres sion wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 1" ' Come now therefore, and I will send thee to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my peoi)Ie the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God : '' AVlio am. I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that a Jos. 5 15,Ecc.5 1: Ac. 7. 33. A ch. 4. 5 ; Ge.2S.13; Uk. 20.37. i see 1 K 19. 13;l8. 6. 1—5, k ch. 2. 23 -2-.;Neh. 9. 9; Ac. 7.31. I Ge.18.21 . .nch.l2,il; Ge. iO.24. 27-Tcr.ll, S; Eze.20 6. q Pe. IM. 26; Mic.fi. 4; Ac r see ch. 6. 12;lSam, 18.18Jcr, 1.6. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, III. IV. [B.C. 1648. H. e ch. 6. 3; P.s. 68. 4 ; John 8. -.8 ; Heb. )3.8;Kev. ].4,8, 17. A ch. 2. 23 4.31 ;l.ie r,0.24;Lk k ch. 4. 31, I ch. .5.1,3. o ch.B.6 5; a. 1.1. p see ch. 7 to ch. 13 ; Neh.9.10; Jer.32.'.i0; Ac. 7. .".(J. sch. 11.2; 12.35, ;;(!■, Ge. 15.14. I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And He said : Certainly " I will be with thee ; and this shall be the sign unto thee, that I have sent thee : "When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ^ yc shall serve God upon this mountain. 1^ And Moses said unto God : Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them. The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you ; and they shall say to me, "\"\niat is his name ? what shall I say to them ? 14 And God said unto Moses : I am that I AM. And he said : Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, ^ I am hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses : Tlius shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is f my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations, i** Go and «' gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them : Jehovah, the God of your fiithers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, ''I have surely visited you and seen that which is done to you in Egypt ; 17 and I have said, i I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebus- ites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. li^ And ^ they will hearken to thy voice. And ' thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egyi)t ; and ye shall say to him : Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews hath '"■ met with us, and now let us go, we beseech thee, three day.s' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. i^ And I know that to my voice ; for they will say, The LOED hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And the LoKD said unto him : Wliat is that ill thine hand ? And he said : " A rod. 3 And He said : Cast it on tlie ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 4 And the Lord said unto Moses : Put forth thy hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it be- came a rod in his hand. ^ That they may * believe that 2' Jehovah, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. '" And the Lord said furthermore unto him : Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom : and when he took it out, behold, his hand was ' leprous as snow. ^ And He said : Put thy hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again ; and he plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, " it was turned again as his otlw flesh. 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river and pour ii upon the dry land ; and ^ the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land. 1** And Moses said unto the Lord : 0 my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken unto thy ser- vant ; but ' I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue. 11 And the Lord said unto him : Wlio hath made man's mouth ? Or who maketh the dumb or deaf, or the seeing or the blind? Have not I the Lord? 12 jyTQ^p therefore go, and I will be <* with thy : Num. 12, 10: 2 Ki 5.27. the king of Egypt "■ will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20 And I will " stretch j mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt out my hand and smite Egypt with ^ all say. my wonders which I v.'ill do in the midst thereof; and 'after that he will let you go. 21 And *" I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians ; and it shall come to pass that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty ; 22 « but every woman shall 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 your daughters; and * ye shall spoil the Egyptians. 4. And Moses answered and said : But, behold, they will not believe me nor hearken 13 And he said : O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. I* And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said : 7s not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also," behold, *he cometh forth to meet thee ; and when he seeth thee he will be glad in his heart. 15 And /thou shalt speak to him and ''put words in his mouth ; and I will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. i^'And he dig. 50. 4; Jer. 1. St, Eze. 33. 22 ; Mt. 10. m, 20; Lk. 21.14, B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, IV, V. [B.C. 1648. H. 0 011.2.1.% ■a; Mt. 2. •M. 6cll.2. 21, 22; 18. 3, « ch. T. .-!, 13 ; 9. 12, 35 : 10. 1 ; 14.8: Deu. 2.30;Jo3. 11. 20 ; John 12. 40. f Hos. 11. 1 ; Ko. 9. 4; 2 Cor. (i. 18. <;i:h.ll.5-, ' 12. 29. /' NuDi.22. 22; IClir. 21. ii;. /.-.loi. 5. 2, 3. / vera. 14, ovCT».9S: ch. 3. 18. j>ch.3.16. /ch.2.25; shall be thy spokesman unto the people ; and he shall be, cren he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and ^ thou slialt be to him instead of (!od. ^'And thou shalt take tliis rod in thy luinil, wherewith thou shalt do signs. J^And JIoscs went and returned to Jeth- ro his father-in-law, and said to him : Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my breth- ren who arc in Egypt, and sec whether they be yet ahvo. jVnd Jcthro said to Moses, Go in peace. Moses returns to Egypt, (27) beiiig joined by Aaron at Iloreb. JO AjS'D the Lord said unto Moses in Midian : Go, return into Egypt ; for " all the men are dead who sought thy life. -OAnd ]\Ioses took his ^wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to tlie land of Egypt ; and Moses took ' the rod of God in his hand. 21 And the Loud said unto Moses : When thou gocst to return into Egypt, see tliat thou do all those ''wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thy hand. But*^! will harden his Iieart, that he will not let the people go. -- And thou shalt say to Pharaoh : Thus saith the Lord, /Israel is my son, even my firstborn; -^^nd I say unto thee. Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let liim go, behold, " I will slay thy son, eren thy firstborn. 21 And it came to pass by the way in the lodging-place, that the Lord *met him, and sought to kill him. "^ Then Zijjporah took i a sharp stone and cut off tlie foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and .said : Sure a bloody husband art thou to me. -CSo He let him go: then she said: A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision. 2' And the Lord said to Aaron : Go into the wilderness '^ to meet Moses. And he went and met him in ' the mount of God, and kissed him. -^ And ]\Ioses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the '"signs which he had com- manded him. 23 And Moses and Aaron "went and ga- thered together all the elders of the chil- dren of Israel ; 3<) and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people, ^i ^mi ti^g people "believed; and when they heard that the Lord had "visited the children of Israel, and that he ' had looked u])on their affliction, then '■ they bowed their heads and worshipped. God's inessage to Pharaoh ; (2) his refusal, and (G) increased oppression ^ llie Israelites. 5. AND afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh : Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold "a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said : ^ Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go ? I know not the Lord, '^neither will I 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' journey into tlie desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God ; lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword. * And the king of Egypt said unto them : Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, hinder the people from their works? Get you unto your ^ burdens. ^ And Pharaoh said : Behold, the people of the land now are / many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. ''And Pharaoh commanded the same day the " taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying : ^ Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore ; let them go and gatlier straw for them- selves : ^ and the talc of the bricks which they did make heretofore ye shall lay upon them ; ye shall not diminish aught thereof. For they are idle ; tlierefure they cry, say- ing. Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9 Let more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words. I'' And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying : Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw, ^l Go ye, get you straw wliere ye can find it ; yet not aught of your work shall be diminished. ^'- So the people were scattered abroad through- out all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw. ^^ And the taskmasters hasted them, saying : Fulfil your works, !/our daily tasks, as when there was straw. I* And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying : Where- fore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to-day as heretofore. 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, say- ing : Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants ? i" There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick ; /,ch.]0.9; see I^v. ch. 23. c ch. .1. 10. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. 27 And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them ; " I 6ch. 8. 10. ch. 3. 20. ut when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 And * the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go ; the Lord, had spoken by Moses. 10. And the Lord said unto Moses : Go in unto Pharaoh ; " for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, * that 1 might show these my signs before him ; 2 and that ^ thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son and of thy son's son what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among tliem j * that ye may know how that I am the Lord. 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said to him. Thus saith the Lord, the God of the Hebrews : How long wilt thou refuse to " humble thyself before me ? Let my people go, that they may serve me. * Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy border ; ^ and they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth ; and '' they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, " which remaineth unto you from the hail ; and they shall eat every tree which growcth for you out of the field ; ^and they -pt. ^*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 ordinance for ever, lo^' Seven days shall ye eat un- leavened bread ; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, "^ that soul shall be cut off from Israel, ii^ And on the first day there shall be '' a. lioly convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must cat, that only may be done of you. 1" And ye shall observe the feast of Unleavened bread ; for * on this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egj'pt ; therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordi- nance for ever. 18 In 'the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat un- leavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even, i" "Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses. For whosoever eateth that which is leavened, * even that soul shall be cut oflf from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land, ^o Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. The Passover kept. 21 THEN Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: Draw out and take you a lamb, according to your families, and kill "the Passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of ^ hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and ° strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And ''none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. 23j'or *the Lord will pass through to smite the Egj-p- tians, and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and /will not sufi'er " the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite ?/om. 2* And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you, ^ according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 ^^d » it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, AVhat mean ye by this service ? 27 that ye shall say : It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. 28 And the children of Israel went away and did as the Lord had com- manded Moses and Aaron ; so did they. Death of the first-bom of the Egyptians; (31) Re- lease of the Israelites. 29 AND it came to pass that at midnight "the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, ''from the first-born of Pha- raoh that sat on his throne unto the first- born of the captive that tvas in the dun- geon ; and all the first-born of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians ; and there was a '^ great cry in Egypt; for there xvas not a house where there ivas not one dead. 3i And ''he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said : Eise up, and get you forth from among my people, ^ both ye and the children of Israel ; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said. 32 /Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone ; and bless me also. 33 And ^ the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste ; for they said : '' We are all dead men. 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses ; and they asked of the Egyptians 'jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment ; 3i3 and the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they yielded unto them such things as they required. And * they spoiled the Egyptians. 37 And ' the children of Israel journeyed from "'Rameses to Succoth, about "six hundred thousand on foot that were men. beside children. 38 And "a mixed multi- tude went up also with them ; and flocks and herds, even very much cattle. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because ^ they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals. 17. ch. 13. 8, 14; Jog. 4. ch.10.9. /ch. 10.26. ch. 3.21, 22; 11. 2, 3; Ps.105. I Num; 33. 3,5. m Ge. 47- 5 ver. 33 : ch. 6. 1; 11.1. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XII, XIII. [B.C. 1648. H. ** Now the sojourning of tlic children of , Jebusites, wliich ho "^ swarc unto thy fathers j Israel, which they sojourned in EfO'pt u-as ] to give thee, a laud flowing with milk and 'four hundred and thirty years. -^ And it honey, ''that thou shalt keep this service came to pass at the end of the four huiulred in this month. '' 'Seven days thou shalt and thirty years, even tlie selfsame day it eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh came to pass, that all tlie hosts of the i day shall be a feast to the Loud. ' Un- Loud went out from the land of Egypt, j leavened bread shall be eaten seven days ; ♦2 It is '■ a night to be much ob.served I and there shall no leavened bread be seen b see Ge. 17. 12, l:i. cLe.2-2.10. dKum. 9. 12 ; John 19. 33, 86. « ver. 6 ; Num. a. 13. / Num. 9. unto the Lord for bringing tiiem out from the land of Egypt ; this is that night of the Loud to be observed of all the children of Israel in tlieir generations. Directions cnnceming the celebration of tlie Passover and the participation of foreigners therein; (ch. 13. 1.) the consecration of the first-born ; and (3) the seven days festival of Unleavened bread. with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. ^ And thou shalt 'show thy son in that day, say- ing: This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for "a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes; that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth : for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee *3 AND the Lord said unto Moses and j out of Egj-pt. i" -^ Thou shalt therefore Aaron, This is "the ordinance of the Pass- keep this ordinance in its season from year over : There shall no stranger eat thereof; j to year. "but every man's servant that is bought | n And it shall be when the Lord shall for money, '' when thou hast circumcised bring thee into tlie land of the Canaanites, him, then shall he eat thereof. ^^ "^ A so- as he sware to thee and to thy fathers, and journer and a hired servant shall not eat ' shall give it thee, 12 that thou shalt set thereof. ■"' In one house shall it be eaten ; j apart unto the Lord all that openeth the thou shalt not carry forth aught of the { womb, and every firstling that cometh of flesh abroad out of the house. <^ Neither ' a beast wliich thou hast ; the males shall shall ye break a bone thereof, •i" ^ All the { be the Lord's. IJ And "every firstling of an congregation of Israel shall keep it. *^ And ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb ; and if /when a stranger shall sojourn with thee I thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt and will keep the Passover to the Lord, let j break its neck ; and "all the first-born of all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it ; and he shall be as one that is born in the land ; for no uncircumcised person shall cat thereof. •49 " One law shall be to him that is home- born and to the stranger that sojourneth among you. 50 Thus did all the children of Israel ; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. ^^ And '' it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Loud did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt iby their armies. 13. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying : - * Sanctify unto me all the first- born, whatsoever openeth the womb among man among thy children shalt thou re deem. 11 And " it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this ? that thou shalt say to him : By strengtl; of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage ; i^ and it came to pas,s, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the first-born in the land of Egyi)t, botl the first-born of man and the first-born of beast : therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my children 1 redeem. ii^And it shall be for a token upon thy hand, and for frontlets between ch.l2.2i. ch.l2. H -20 ; 1 Cor. i. 7. tich.12.14: Deu. G. 8; 11.18. !/ eh .34.20; Num. 18. 10. 16. Dcu. IC.l.i the children of Israel, both of man and thine eyes. For by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt. The Israelites' departure; (ch. 14. 5.) Pharaoh's pursuit; (15) passage Virough the Bed Sea; (■26) destruction nf Pharaoh and his army. 17 AND it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, tiiat God led them " not by the way of the land of the Philis- tines, although that was near; for God said : Lest peradventure '' the people repent when tliey see war, and they return to of beast; it w mine. <»h. 12.42; 3 And Moses said unto the people: ^ Re- member this day in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the liouse of bondage ; 1 ch. fi. 1. for »» i,y strength of hand the Loud brought >ch.i2.ii. you out from this place; "there shall no j leavened bread be eaten. * " This day came :ye out, in the month Abib. ^And it shall )ch. 3. «. be when the Loud shall ''bring thee into I the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the 12; Nt 14. 1- Nch.a.17. I.e. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XIII, XIV. [B.C. 1648. H. cch. 14. 2; Num. 3:5. fl,40;Deu. d Ge..50.2t, Jos.L'l. Ac. 7. J, Num. S3. A Jer.44.1. ich. 4. 21; 7.3. i- eh. 9. IC ; ^ 3. 9. 17, ,23. 0 oh. 6. 1 : Num.X-. 3; Ac. 13. 7J03.24.7; Neh. 9. 9. rseeoh.13. Pa. 100. 7, 8. Egypt; ^^but God "^led the people about, hy the way of the Wihlerness of the Eed Sea. And the children of Israel went up in battle array out of the land of Egypt. 13 And Mose.s took the bones 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 bones away hence with you. 2« And ^ they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21 And /the Lord went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: 22 he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, jrom before the people. 14. And the Lord spake unto Ikloses, saying : 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before " Pi-ha- hiroth, between '' Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon ; before it shall ye encamp by the sea. '^Vax: Pharaoh will say of th children of Israel, They are entangled ii the land, the wilderness hath .shut them in •t And ^1 vail harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them ; and I '- will be honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his host; Uhat the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord. And they did so. 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled. And "' the heart of Pha- raoh and of his servants was turned against the people ; and they said : Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us 1 c And he made ready his cha- riot, and took his people with him. 7 And he took " si.x hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel. And "the children of Israel went out with a high hand; '-"but the ''Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal- zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them ; and they were sore afraid. And the chil- dren of Israel « cried out unto the Lord. 11 •■ And they said unto Moses ; Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness ? Where- fore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt ? 12 /^ not this the word that *we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyp- tians ? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. '2 And Moses said unto the people : t Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to- day. For the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, "ye shall sec them again no more for ever. 11 ^'The Lord will fight for you, and ye shall ^ hold your peace. 15 And the Lord said unto Moses : Where- fore criest thou unto me ? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward. iGBut lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the. sea, and divide it ; and the children of Israel shall go ow Avy ground through the midst of the sea. i^ And I, be- hold I, will harden the hearts of the Egyp- tians, and they will follow them. And I will get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians ^ shall know that I am the Lord when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen. 19 And the angel of God, " who went be- fore the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood be- hind them; 20 and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Is- rael ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these; so that the one came not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go hack by a strong east wind all that night, and ''made the sea dry land; and the waters were 'divided. 22 And ''the chil- dren of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground ; and the waters ivere " a wall unto them, on their right hand and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots and his horsemen. 24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians ; 25 and be took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily ; so that the Egyptians said : Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 20 And the Lord said unto Moses: ' Num. 14. 9: 2Chr 20. Ij, 17. c Deu. XO; Jos. 10.U,42; 2 Chr. 20. b Ps. 66. 6. cch.15.^, Jos. 3. 16; P3.IOG.9. dch.lS.ID; la. 63. 13; Heb..ll. 29. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XIV, XV. B.C. 1648. H. ADcu. n. ■l;Neh.a. 11. a Jud?. . 100. 12. 2. cDeu. 10. 21. d Pa. IIS. 28; la. 25. 1. cPs.24.8; Httb. 3. B -16. /Ps.83.18. !7Cll. U.ia -26. h ch. 1 1. 7. Stretch out tby hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon tlie Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horse- men. 27 And Moses stretched fortli his hand over the sea, and the sea /returned to its strength when the morning appeared ; and the Egyptians fled against it ; and the I Loud "overthrew the Egyptians in the ! midst of the sea. 28 And '' the waters re- turned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh, that came into the sea after them; there re- mained not so much as one of them. 29 jjut •the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea ; and the waters xixre * a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left. 3^'Thus the Lord ^ saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egj'ptians : and Is- rael ""saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. siAnd Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyp- tians ; and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and his servant Moses. Moses' song of praise. 15. THEN sang "Jloses and the chil- dren of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying : I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; Tlie horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. - The '' Lord is my strength and ^ song. And he is become my salvation : He "^ is my God, and I will glorify him, My father's God, and I ^will e.xalt him. 3 The Lord is * a man of war, Jehovah is his /name. ■* Pharaoh's "chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea : His '' chosen captains t also are drowned in the Eed Sea. ^ The depths have covered them. They »sank to the bottom as a stone. c Thy ^ right hand, 0 Lord, is become glo- rious in power. Thy ' right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. ''And in the greatness of thy majesty Thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee. Thou sentest forth thy wrath, which ""con- sumed them as stubble. 8 And "by the blast of thy nostrils the waters were heaped up, Tlic " floods stood upright as a heap, The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. 8 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will over- take, I will P divide the spoil, i\Iy lust shall be satisficil upon them ; I will draw my sword. My hand shall destroy them. 1^' Thou didst « blow with thy wind, '' The sea covered them, They sank as lead in the mighty waters. II Who 'is like unto thee, 0 Lord, among the gods ? \Vho is like thee, 'glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, " doing wonders ? ''-Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them. '3 Thou in thy mercy hast "^ led forth the people luliom thou hast redeemed ; Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto *' thy holy habitation. 11 The ^peoples shall hear, and he afraid ; Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palcstina. 15 Then " the dukes * of Edom shall be amaz- ed; The mighty men of IVIoab, & trembling shall take hold upon them ; All "^ tlie inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. iG Fear <* and dread shall fall upon them. By the greatness of thine arm they shall be OS still *as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Lord, Till the people pass over, / whom thou hast purchased. "■Thou wilt bring them in, and "plant them. In the mountain of thine inheritance. The place, O Lord, ichich thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The ''sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have est.-iblished. 18 The « Lord shall reign for ever and ever. 'Tor the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and *the I^)RD brought again the waters of the sea upon them ; but the chil- dren of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20 And 'Jliriam the prophetess, the sis- ter of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out afterher "'with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them : Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath tri- umphed gloriously ; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 7clul4.21; Is. 11. W. r ch.l4.28. U. C. 3. «P8.77.14. : Deu. 2. 2.'.;Jo«.2. y, 11. nGc.M.l.';, ♦or,chiefs, h Xum.22. r. Joe. 5. 1, d Dcu. 11, c 1 Sam, /2Sam.7. L'.;;ls.43. l.y; Jer. :u.n. y Ps. 4.42; h Ps.78.54, 08. 69 ; I'f • "• i Ps. 146. 10: Rev. 11. 15. m Judc.ll. .H;lSam, 18.6. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XV, XVI. [B.C. 1648. H. throMjh- out this section. fch. Ifi. 4 ; Deu. 8. 2, 16; Ps.Sl. 1015. 2.i ; 1 Cor.lO.IO. n Niim.20. p P3.78.24. 25 ; Jolm 0.31,^2. q ch. 15. 2.5; Dcu. 8. 2, Hi. ■vera. 'J2, Israel's march towards Sinai— (22) They travel three days in the desert witliout finding water ; . and (23) when found, lis bitterness causes tnurmuring; hut (25) it is miraculously sweet- ened—(26) God gives them a solemn charge, loith a promise— After (27) a lonn stay in a fertile valley (ch. IC. 1) tliey complain, in the desert, for want of fond; and (.5) the Lord sends quails and manna, and (23; a double supply of manna on the sixth day, 22 AND Moses brought Israel from the Eed Sea ; and they went out into the wil- derness* of " Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness ; and they found no water. 23 And when they came to & Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because they loere bitter ; therefore the name of it was called Marah t. ^i And the people " murmured against Moses, saying : What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord showed him a tree, ''which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet. There he * made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there /hfi proved them. 26 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 sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these ^^ diseases upon thee which I have lirought upon the Egyptians ; for I am the Lord that » healeth thee. 27 And ^ they came to Elim, where ivere twelve springs of water and threescore and ten palm-trees ; and they encamped there by the waters. 16. And they ^ took their journey from Elim. And all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure out of the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the chil- dren of Israel '" murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness ; ^ and the children of Israel said to them : " Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, " when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we ate bread to the full ; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. * Then said the Lord unto Moses : Be- hold, I will rain '' bread from heaven for you ; and the people shall go out and ga ther a daily portion every day ; that I may 'prove them, whether they will walk in my lan^, or not. ^ And it shall come to pass, that *■ on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel : In the evening, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt ; ' and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; because he hearcth your murmur- ings against the Lord ; and * what are we, that ye murmur against us ? ^ And Moses said: This shall be when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full. For Uhe Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him; and what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but " against the Lord. 8 And Moses spake unto Aaron : Say unto all the congregation of the children of Is- rael : * Come near before the Lord ; for he hath heard your murmurings. lo And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Is- rael, that they looked towards the wilder- ness, and behold, ^ the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 1^ And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them saying : In the evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread. And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. 13 And it came to pass that in the even- ing ^ the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning " the dew lay round about the host ; '* and when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay * a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. '^ And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another : What is this*? for they knew not what it ims. And Moses said unto them : '^ This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. '^ This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded : Gather of it every man according to his eating, '* an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons ; take ye every man for them that arc in his tents. '■? And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more some less. ^^ ^nd when they measured it with an omer, ^ he that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little had no lack ; they gathered every man according to his eating. '9 And Moses said : Let no man leave of it till the morning. 20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses ; but some 10. IG. « Num. 11. 31-33 ; P8.78.2r, 28. a Num.11. h Num.11. 7;Deu.S. 3 ; Ps. 78. 24. * or, It is manna ; see ver. 31 ; Heb. ilan hu. John . 1491. U.] EXODUS, XVI, XVII. [b.c. 1648. H. B ch. 20. S —11 : 31. 15; Gc. 2. a ch.2-,.lG, 21 ; Deu. 10. a : I of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank ; and Moses was wroth with them. -' And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating ; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. "And it came to pass that 'on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two oincrs for one man. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mose-s. 2:! ^Ynd he saitl unto them : This is that which t]ie Loud hath said, To-mor- row is "a rest, a holy sabbath unto the Lord. Bake that which ye will bake to- day, and seethe that wliich ye will seethe ; and that wliich remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 2* And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade ; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein, ^o^nd Mo- ses said : Eat tliat to-day ; for to-day is a sabbath unto the Loud ; to-day ye shall not find it in the field. "''Six days ye shall gather it ; but on the seventh day, ichick is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. "^ And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day to gather, and they found none. -^And the Lord said unto Moses : How long " re- fuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws ? "^ See, because tlie Lord hatli given you the sabbath, therefore he givetli you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 go the people rested on the seventh day. SI And the liouse of Israel called the name thereof Manna. And ^it was like coriander seed, white ; and the taste of it teas like wafers made with honey. 32 And Moses said : This is the thing which the Lord conimandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations ; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from tlie land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron : Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up ^Ixifore the Lord, to l)e kept for your generations. 34jVs the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before " tlie Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, *< until they came to a land inhabited ; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 j^ow an omer is tlie tenth part of an ephah. The people murmur for water ; (5) Cod s/ivet them a supply out of tlie rock. 17. AND "all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wil- derness of Sin, after their journeys, accord- ing to the commandment of the Lord ; and they encamped in Ucjihidim. And there was no water for the people to drink. 2 b Wlierefore the people did strive with Moses, and said: (iive us water that we may drink. And Moses .said unto them : AVhy strive ye with me ? Wherefore do ye ' tempt tlie Lord ? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people «' murmured against Moses, and said : AVherefore m this that thou hast l)rought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? *And Closes cried unto tlie Lord, say- ing : "What shall I do unto this people ? They are almost ready to * stone me. '• And the Lord said unto Moses : Go on before the people, and take with thee some of the elders of Israel ; and thy rod, /where- with thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. '' Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Iloreb ; and " thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, /» that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place *Massah [i. c. Temptation], and '-Meribah [/. c. Striving], because of the strife of the children of Israel, and because they tempt- ed the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not ? The Amalekites attacking Iftracl arc defeated, and (14) laid under a curse. 8 THEN " came Amalek and fought with Israel in Eephidim. ^Aiid ]\loses said unto '' Joshua : Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek ; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the liill with ''tlie rod of God in mine hand, l" So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses (iheld up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone and put it under him, and lie sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his liands, the one on tlie one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discom- c Deu. r. I6il»8.78. 18,41: Mt. 4.7;faeb. 3. U. dch.l5.24j ; seel Sam. 30.0iJno. S. 59 ; 10. a Num.20. 8-11; Ps. 78. lb, \6, 20. h Is, 43.19, 20; John 4. 10, 14 ; 7. 37, 38 ; 1 Cor. 10. 4. .■ Vs. M. 8; iicb. 3. 8. k Num. 20. l:i;l"s.81- a Deu. SI. 17; 1 Sam. 15.2. 6ch.24.13; Ac.7.4.'. : IIeb.4. 8, J,KUS. c ch. 4. 20. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XVII, XVIII. [B.C. 1G48. H, ech.l2.14i 34.27. /Num. 24. 20 i Deu. 25.17-19; 1 Sam. 15. 3, 7, 18 ; 30. 1, 17. ich.3. 1. 6 Pa. 105 Ac. 7. 29, d ch. 2. 22, »//ci.Ger, e ch. 3. 1 12; IKl 19. 8. /Ge. 14.17; 18. 2 : 19. lilKi.2. ;ch. 1. 10. 16. 22 ; 5. 2,7. m Job 40 fited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 1* And the Lokd said unto Moses : ^ Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for /I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it jEHOVAH-nissi [i. c. The Lord my " banner] ; i^ for he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord wUl have war with Amalek from generation to generation. Jethro's visit and advice. 18, WHEN « Jethro, the priest of Mi- dian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that ''God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt, 2 then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 3 and her 'two sons, of whom the <^ name of the one was Gershom * ; for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land ; * and the name of the other was Eliezer [i. c. My God is a help] ; for the God of my father, said he, was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh. ^And Jeth- ro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses, into the wil derness, where he encamped at " the mount of God. *> And he said to Moses : I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. ' And Moses f went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and "kiss- ed him ; and they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent. 8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them l)y the way, and how the Lord had '>■ deli- vered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good- ness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians, i^ And Jethro said: 'Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians, n Now I know that ''^ the Lord is greater than all gods ; ' for in the thing wherein they dealt "* proudly he was above them. 12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God. And Aaron came, and all the ciders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law ^ be- fore God. And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood by Moses from the morn- ing unto the evening, i* And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said : What is this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto evening? 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law : Because the people come to me to inquire of God ; 16 '"when they have a matter, they come to me ; and I judge between one and another, and * I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him : The thing that thou doest is not good. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee ; for this thing is too heavy for thee ; ' thou art not able to perform it thyself alone, i^ Hearken now unto my voice ; I will give thee coun- sel, and " God shall be with thee. Be thou * for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest *' bring the causes unto God ; ^o and thou shalt ^ teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 And thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as " fear God, men of truth, hating covetous- ness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens. " And let them judge the people at all seasons; and it shall be that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small mat- ter they shall judge ; so shall it be easier for thyself, and ^ they shall bear the bur den with thee. 23 if thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 2* So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said. 25 And '' Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hun- dreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens. 20 And they judged the people at all sea- sons ; the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 27 And Moses let his father-in-law de- part; and ''he went his way into his own land. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XIX, XX. [B.C. 1648. H. I ch.20.21 Ac. 7. 3)5 : ch. 3. 4. g Dcu. 32. 11,12; Is. 6;i.y;Rev. 12. 14. h Deu.7.0; Ps. 13J.4; Mai. 3.17. »Ps. 21. I. A- 1 Vet. 2. .-.,9;Kcv. ach.20.2l-, Ps. IS. 11, 12iMt.l7. 5. b Deu. 4. 12, Ci\: John 12. 29,30. d vers. Ifi, I«,2(P:cli. 34..'-,;Deu. 33.2. Encampment at Sinai~(i) The covenaiU between God and Israel. 19. IN* the third month after the chil- dren of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on the same day " came they into the wiliierness of Sinai. - For they were departed from << Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness ; and there Israel en- camped before ' the mountain. 3 And <* Moses went up unto God ; and ' the LoiiD called unto him out of the mountain, saying : Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel ; ■* / Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and hoio " I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then '' ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people ; for * all the earth is mine ; '^and ye shall be unto me a *•■ kingdom of priests, and a ' holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LoBD com- manded him. s And '" all the people answered toge- ther and said : All that the Lord liath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. Preparations for the giving of the Laiv. 5 AND the Lord said unto Moses : Lo, I come unto thee " in a thick cloud, * that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever, And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord. 1" And the LORD said unto Moses : Go unto the people, and ' sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 1^ and be ready against the third day ; for on "^ the third day the JjORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. ^'- And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying. Take heed to yourselves that ye go not up into the mountain, or touch the border of it. * Whosoever toucheth the mountain shall be surely put to death ; '^ there shall not a hand touch it but he shall surely be stoned or shot through ; whether it be beast or man it shall not live. When the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mountain. 1^ And Moses went down from the moun- tain unto the people, and sanctified the peo- ple ; and they washed their clothes. l^Aiid he said unto the people : Be ready against the third day ; / come not at >/our wives. I*' And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were " thunders and lightnings, and a '• thick cloud upon the mountain, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the jjcople that were in the camp Urcmbled. J'' And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God ; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain, i^ And * mount Sinai was altogether on a Biuoke, because the Loud descended upon it ^ in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace ; and "' the whole mountain quaked greatly. I'J And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and loud- er, Moses spake ; and " God answered him by a voice. 29 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. -1 And the Loud said unto Moses : Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Loud " to gaze, and many of them perish. 22 And let the priests also, who come near to the Loud, ^' sanctify themselves, lest the Lord « break forth upon them. -3 And Moses said unto the Lord : The people cannot come up to mount Sinai ; for thou chargedst us, saying, "" Set bounds about the mountain, and sanctify it. "* And the Lord said unto him : Away, get thee down; and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee : but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. 25 go Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. The Ten Cammandmcnti. 20- AND " God spake all these words, saying: 2 I ft am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egyi)t, out of the house of bondage. ^ <: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.* < Thou <* shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any tiling that M in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that w in the water un- der the earth : ^ * thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I the Lord thy God am /a jealous God, " visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth / 1 Sam. 21.4. .■>; 1 Cor. 7. 6. 0 Heb. 12. 18, 11) ; Rct. 4. o. Ach.40.34; 2 Chr. fi. 14. f Heb. 12. 2 Chr. 7. 1-3. m Pfl. 68. 8:Ueb.U. o seech. 3. 5; S3. 20; Judp. 13. 22; ISam. 6.19. pLe. 10.3. g 2 Sam.S. 7,B. r Jos. 3. 4. b Le. 2fi. l.'(;P9.81. 1(1. c 2 Ki. 17. 15:, <-J09. 23.7. /Jos. 19. 24. 4.7- 1 Ki 21. ffl; Jer. S3. 18; T.Tf. rh. is. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, xx;xxL [e.c. 1648. H. ir.K!. 23. 3: la. fl8. l;!, I Ge. 2. 2 n Neh. 13, iC.e.l, J) Ge. 9. S, 6; Mt. 5. 21,22. jLe.20.10i Mt. 5. 27, 28; Mk. 10. 11,12. .•i Le.19.11. t Deu. 19. 16- 21 ; I's. 101. r.-7. h -peu.!}. lial. ZA'J. 12. 20. (' Deu. 4, 10; 0.2. generation of them that hate me ; " and '' showing mercy unto the thousands of them that love me, and keep my command- ments. ' Thou » shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain*; for the Lord will not hold liim guiltless that taketh his name in vain. s Kemember ^' the sabbath day, to keep it holy. '^ ' Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work ; '" but the '" seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy man-servant nor thy maid - servant, nor thy cattle, " nor thy stranger that is within thy gates, n For " in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour ^ thy father and thy mother ; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 1^ Thou « shalt not kill. 1* Thou '" shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou ' shalt not steal. 16 Thou 'shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 1^ Thou '"■ shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant nor his maid-ser- vant, nor his ox nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. The people's cnfrcati/ that God will 7io more speak to them directly, but through Moses. 18 AND " all the people saw the thunder- ings and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar oif. l^ And they said unto Moses: '' Speak thou with us, and we will hear ; but let not God .speak with us, lust we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people : "^Fear not ; for God is come to prove you, and / mischief follow, then thou shalt give * life for life, 24 « eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. -^ And if a man smite the eye of his ser- vant or the eye of his maid, that it perish, he shall let him go free for his eyes sake. 27 And if he smite out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, then ''the o.x shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten ; but the owner of the ox shall he quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman, the ox shall bo stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. ^"If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. ^^ Whether he have gored a son or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done to him. 32 If the ox shall push a man-servant or a maidservant, he shall give to their master ''thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 23 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, •''* the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owner of them ; and the dead beast shall be his. 3JAnd if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die, then they shall sell the live o.v, and divide the money of it ; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 30 Or jf jt ))c known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in, he shall surely pay ox for ox ; and the dead shall be his own. 22. If ii man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and >>■ four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found ' breaking in, /and be smitten that he die, there is no blood-guilti- ness to him w/to smote him. 3 if the sun be risen upon him, there is blood-guiltiness to him who smolc him : he shall make full restitution ; if he have nothing, then he shall be "sold for his theft. *lf the theft be certainly ''found in his hand alive, whether it be ox or ass or sheep, he shall » restore double. ^If a man shall cause a field or vine- yard to be eaten, and shall let his beast go loose, and it shall feed in another man's field, of the best of his own field and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution. ''If fire break out and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith, he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 7 If a man shall deliver unto his neigh- bour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house, if the thief be found, let him pay double. » If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the '^judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. ^ For all manner of trespass, whether it he for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whichanothcr challengeth to be his, the ' cause of both parties shall come before the judges ; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a jiian deliver to his neighbour an ass or an ox or a slieep or any beast, to keep ; and it die, or be hurt or driven away, no man seeing it, " then shall an "* oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods ; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. '2 And " if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 11 And if a man borrow «Mr//(e. 20. 27; Deu. 18. ](M1; ISam. 2j). 3,9. r Le. 18. 23; 20. 15. s IJeu. ].!. 1-15; 17. 2,3,5. t Le.l9.3.'i; Mai. 3. 5. X Pro. 23. 10. 11 ; Lk. 18.7; Jam. 5. 4. !/ Deu. 23. 19, 20 ; Neh. 5.3 -5,10,11. I Deu. 24. 12,13,17; Ain.2.6,8. rfch. 13.2. c Deu. 15. 19. /Le. 22.27. ffch. 19.C. ALe.22.S; ;e 1 Ki. 10,13; Mt. 2B. 59 -61. c Pro.1.10; Mt. 27.24, 26. e Deu. 22. 1-4 ; Mt. .%. 44 i 1 Thes. 5. 10 And " if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the ^ dowry of virgins. 1** Thou ' shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever *" lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He * that sacrificetli unto any god save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly de- stroyed. 21 Thou 'shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him ; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye " shall not afflict any widow or fa- therless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely ^ hear their cry ; 24 and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 2o If *' thou lend money to an)/ of my people (hat is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 26 If ^ thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him at the going down of the sun : -' for that is his only covering, it is his raiment for the skin : wherein shall he sleep ? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear ; for I am " gra- cious. 2S Thou shalt not revile God, nor * curse the ruler of thy people. 29 Thou shalt not delay to offer "^tlie first of thy ripe fruits and of thy liquors. <^ The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. socLike^ise shalt thou do with thine oxen and with thy sheep : /seven days it shall be with its dam ; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 31 And ye shall be ^ holy men unto me: '' neither shall ye eat anii flesh that is torn by beasts in the field ; ye shall cast it to the dogs. 23. Thou "shalt not raise a false report. Put not thy hand with the wicked to be an ^ unrighteous witness. 2 Thou ' shalt not follow a multitude to do evil ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after many to wrest judg- ment : 3 neither ''shalt thou show partiality to a poor man in his cause. ■*If *thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. 6 Thou /shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. "^ Keep thyself far from a false matter ; and the innocent and righ- teous slay thou not ; for ^ I will not justify the wicked. 8 And 'Hhou shalt take no gift ; for a gift blindeth tlie wise, and per- verteth the words of the righteous. 8 Also "■ thou shalt not oppress a stranger ; for ye know the heart of a stranger, see- ing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 And ^ six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof; 11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still ; that the poor of thy peo pie may eat ; and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like man- ner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard and with thy oliveyard. 12 Six ' days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest ; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and tlie son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have said unto you '"be circumspect; and "make no men- tion of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 1* Three " times in the year thou shalt keep a feast unto me. i^ Thou ^ shalt keep the feast of Unleavened bread ; thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I com- manded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib ; for in it thou earnest out from Egypt ; «and none shall appear before me empty : K* and ''the feast of Harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, wliich thou hast sown in the field : and *the feast of In- gathering, luhich is in the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field, i"' Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. 18 Thou " shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread ; * neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. 19 The ^ first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou ^ shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. God's covenant with Israel cmitinued— Promises of guidance, protection and blessing. 20 BEHOLD, "I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place which I have prepared. h Deu. IG- 19; 1 Sam. 12. 3. m Jos. 22. 5. n Num. 32. 38; Deu. 12.3; Hob. 2.17. o ch. 34. in -23: Deu. 1(>. 16. p ch. 12. 14 -28, 43- Le. 23. 9 -21. sLe.23.34 uc]».12. 8: Le. 2. II. X Le. 7. 15. y cli.22 Num. 18. 12,13. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXIII, XXIV. [B.C. 1648. H. 6 ch. 32.34. c U. 7. U; 3 Ix. IS. ."», AXum.30. 52. Ic Deu. r. 13 : Mai. 3. 10, II. / Deu. 7. m Job a. 2fi: P6.90. 10. n Ge. Zr,. n. q Deu. 7. 22 ; Jos. 1.'.. G3; Hi. Euphrates Jos. 21. 21 Beware of liim and obey his voice, pro voke him not; for * he will not pardon your tran.sgressions ; for "^iny name is in him. --But if thou wilt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak, then ''I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adver- sary unto thine adversaries. ^ For ' mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites ami the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites the Hiv- ites and the Jebusites ; and I will cut them off. 2^ Thou shalt not / bow down to their gods, nor serve them, "nor do after their works; but ''thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 25 And ye » shall serve the Lord your God; and *he will bless thy bread and thy water. And I will take sickness away from the mi" For I will ' deliver the inhabitants of the I land into your liand, and thou shalt drive . them out before thee. ^'' ' Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me ; for if thou sene their gods, " it will surely be a snare unto thee. Ratification of the covenant, hy (3) the people's promise 0/ obedience, (i) the offering of sacri- fice, and (9) the admission of their representa- tives into God's presence. 24. AND he said unto Moses : Come up unto the Lord, thou and Aaron, " Nadab and Abihu, '' and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. -And Moses 'alone shall come near the Lord: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. ^And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said : <^ All the words which the Lord hath said will we do. ■* And Moses * wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose up early in the morning and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve /pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. ^ And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt- offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord. •^And Moses took half of the blood and put it in bxsins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on 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 said will we do, and will be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said : Behold " the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. ^ Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. ^^ And they i^ saw the God of Israel : and tlia-e u-as under his feet as it were a paved work of * sapphire stone, and as it were heaven itself for brightness. "And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand : also * they saw God, and did eat and drink. Moses j> called up to the mountain to receive furtiier Divine commands, and remains there forty days. 12 AND the Lord said unto Moses : "Come up to me into the mountain, and be there : and I will give thee the '^ tables of 1 4 ch.31.i8; stone and the law and commandments '^'-- is. le! which I have written, to teach them. I'J And Moses rose up, and '^his minister I cch.33.ll. Joshua, and Moses went up into the moun- tain of God. 11 And he saiil unto the elders : Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you : and beholil, Aaron and Hur are with you ; if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them. i» And Moses went up into the mountain ; and ''a cloud covered tlie mountain. ii'And * the glory of the Lord abode ujjon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like /devouring fire on the top of the mountain, in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 ^.nd Moses went into the midst 28; Heb. !». 18-20; 13.20. A seech. 3. 6; 33.20- 23; Ge.32. 30; le.U. 1,5. i Eze. 1. 2ti; Bev. 4.3. * Ge. in. 13; com p. Deu. 4. 12, 15, 33. a vers. 2, dch. 19.9, c ch. 16.10. /ch.l9.1S; Deu. 4. 06; Ilch. 12. 18, 20. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXIV, XXV. [b.c. 1648. H. fhere. or, seal. b ch.27.20. ;ch.G0.23 -2o. ich.SO.34 — 3S. ' ch. 28. 4, /ch. 28.15, 21. ffch. .-W.l, 3.4; Ileb. i). 1,2. /iCh.29.45; Kev.21.3. i 1 Chr. 28. 19; Ac. 7. 44 ; Heb. 8.5. fc ch. 37. 1 —3; Heb. 9.4. I ch. 30. 3, 4 ; 37. 2, 11,12,26, -5 ; 31. 2« ; 1 Ki, H. 9. och.37.B: Ko. 3. 25; Ileb. y. 5 1 John 2, 2. i> 1 Ki. 8. 7; IChr. 28. 18 ; Ueb.9.5. of the cloud, and gat him up into the mountain. And " Moses was in the moun- tain forty days and forty nights. Directions/or the construction of a Sanctuary, with its typical. furniture; viz. (10) the ark, (17) the mercy seat, (23) tJie shew-hread table, and (31) the lamp-stand; also (ch. 26. 1) its cur- tains, (7) its sheltering tent of goats' -hair cloth, (14) its outer coverings of raitis' and badgers' skins, (15) its boards and bars. 25. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying : ^ Spealc unto the children of Israel that they bring me an offering : " of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering. ^ And this is the offering which ye shall take of them ; gold and silver and brass* ^ and blue and purple and scarlet and fine linen and goats' hair Sand rams' skins dyed red and badgers' t skins, and acacia wood, ^ i> oil for the light, " spices for the anointing-oil and for the sweet incense, '' onyx stones and stones to be set, in the "^ephod and in the /breastplate. 8 And let them make me a " sanctuary ; that ''I may dwell among them. ^ 'Accord- ing to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the in- struments thereof, even so shall ye make it. 10 And '^ they shall make an ark o/ acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. H And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it ; and thou shalt make upon it a 'rim of gold round about. 12 ^nd thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put tliem upon its four corners ; and two rings shall be upon the one side of it and two rings upon the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. 1* And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them, i^ The "'staves shall be in the rings of the ark ; they shall not be taken from it. 18^,^(1 thou shalt put into the ark " the testimony which I shall give thee. 17 And " thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, on the two ends of the mercy-seat. i^^And make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end ; out of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends there- of. 20^^(1 Pthe cherulnm shall spread forth their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their face: shall look one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be. 21 And * thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. And in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. "" And '"there I wiN meet with thee ; and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from * between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, concerning all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the chil- dren of Israel. 23 Thou 'shalt also make a table 0/ acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a rim of gold round about. 25 And thou shalt make to it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden rim to its border round about. 20 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet. 27 Near the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29 And thou shalt make "its dishes and its spoons and its cups and its bowls to pour out withal ; of pure gold shalt thou make them. 3'>And thou shalt set upon the table ^shew-bread * before me always. 31 And '' thou shalt make a lampstand of pure gold. Of beaten work shall the lamp- stand be made : its base, its stem, its bowls its knops, and its flowers, shall be of the same 32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it ; three branches of the lampstand out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side there of : 33 three bowls made like almond-flowers in one branch, a knop and a flower, and three bowls made like almond-flowers in the other branch, a knop and a flower : so in the six branches that come out of the lampstand. 34 And in the lampstand shall be four bowls made like almond-flowers, their knops and their flowers. 35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that come out of the lampstand. 36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same; all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. 37 And thou shalt make its seven lamps; and ^they shall light its lamps, that they may " give light towards the front thereof. And the embroidered band for girding it on, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to tlic work thereof; even of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet, and line twined linen. ^And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and * grave on them the names of the children of Is- rael ; i** six of their names on one stone and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth. "With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Thou shalt make tliem to be set in sorkets of gold. 12 And thou shalt put tiie two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel : and 'Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders "Tor a memorial. " And thou shalt make sockets of gold ; 1* and two chains of pure gold ; thou shalt make them of wreathen work tivustcd like cords ; and fasten the wreathen chains to the sockets. 1^ And " thou shalt make the breast-plate of judgment, the work of the skilful work- man; like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; o/gold, 0/ blue and o/purplc and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. 10 Foursquare it shall be, being doubled ; a span shall he its length, and a span shall he its breadth. 1* And "thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones. The first row shall he a sardius, a topaz, and a car- buncle ; this shall be the first row. is And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire and a diamond. 19 And the third row a ligure, an agate and an amethyst. 20 And the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper. They shall be set in gold iji their settings, -i And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Is- rael, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet ; every one with his name shall they be accord- ing to the twelve tribes. --And thou shalt make upon the breast- plate chains of wreathen work twisted like cords of pure gold. -3 And thou shalt make upon the breast-plate two rings of gold, and slialt put the two rings on the two ends of the breast-plate. 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings whirk arc on the ends of the breast- plate. 25 And the two ends of the two wreathen diains thou shalt fasten in the two sockets, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of tlie epliodin the forepart thereof. 2C And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breast-plate on the border thereof, which is in the side of the ejjhod inward. 27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two shoulder- pieces of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the embroidered band of the ephod. 2b And they shall bind the breast-plate by its rings to the rings of the ephod, with a lace of blue, that it may be above the embroidered band of the ephod, and tliat the breast-plate be not loosed from the ephod. 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breast-plate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, ^for a memorial before the Lord continually. ^^ And 'thou shalt put in the breast-plate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim ; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart ''when he goeth in before the Lord ; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually. 31 And *thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue. 32 And there shall be an opening for the head in the midst thereof; it shall have a binding of woven work round about the opening of it, as the opening of a corslet, that it be not rent. 33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt malie pomegranates of blue and of purple and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: 3ia golden bell and a pomegi-anate, a golden bell and a pome- granate, upon the hem of the robe round about. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place be- fore the Lord and when he cometh out, that he die not. ^^ And ' thou shalt make a plate o/pure gold, and grave upon it, like tiie engrav- ings of a signet, "holiness to the lord, 3" And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre ; upon the fore- front of the mitre it sliall be. 38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may ^liear the iniquity of the holy things which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall be al- ways upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the Lord. 39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of 7 T.e. 8. R ; Num. 27. 21 ; l)cu. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXVIII, XXIX. [B.C. 1648. H. cch. 29. 7; :Hi.-M;Le. 10. 7. a cli. 29. 1 -37; etc.; Le.ch. 8; Heb.7.28. 6Le. C. 10; Ji;.4;Eze. 44. 1». ch. 30.18 -lil ; 4(1. 12; r,e. K. « ; llc'b. 10. 22. ! ch. 28. trch. 30.2.1; Le. ti. 12; 10. 7; 1 John 2. line linen ; and thou shalt make tlie mitre of fine linen ; and thou shalt make tlie girdle, the work of the embroiderer. ■^" And ^ for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats ; and thou shalt make for them gir- dles ; and caps shalt tliou make for them, for glory and for beauty, ■ii And thou shalt put tliem upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons witli him ; and thou shalt * anoint them, and "consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office, i- And thou shalt make them ft linen breeches to cover their naked- ness ; from the loins even unto the thighs tliey shall reach : « and they shall be upon Aaron and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place ; that they " bear not iniquity, and die. It shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him. The consecration of the priests. 29. AND this is the thing that tliou shalt do unto them to hallow them to min- ister unto me in the priest's office. "Take one young bullock and two rams without blemish, 2 and * unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil : of wheaten flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams. lAnd Aaron and his .sons thou shalt bring unto tlie door of the tent of meet- ing, and ' shalt wash them 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 breast-plate, and gird him with "^the embroidered band of the ephod : » and thou slialt put / tlie mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. 7 Then shalt thou take "the anointing oil and pourii upon his head, and anoint him. And '' thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon tliera. " And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the caps on them. And » the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual ■ :itute : and thou shalt ^ consecrate Aaron and his sons. And tliou shalt cause tlie bullock to be brought before the tent of meeting. And I Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon tlie head of the bullock. 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting. 12 And thou »■'» shalt take of the blood of the bullock and put it upon " the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. 13 And " thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. ^ But ^ tlie flesh of the pLc.4. bullock, and his skin and his dung, shalt ueb. thou burn with fire without the camp : it is a sin-offering. 15 Thou « shalt also take one ram ; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. i" And thou shalt slay the ram ; and thou shalt take his blood and sprinkle it round about upon the altar. i^And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces and unto his head. 18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar : it us a burnt offering unto the Lord ; it is a ^ sweet savour, an oflfering made by fire unto the LOED. 19 And ' thou shalt take the other ram and Aaron and his sons shall put thei: hands upon the head of the ram. 20 xhen shalt thou kill the ram; and take of his blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their riglit hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot ; and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar and of ' the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and upon his garments, and upon his sons and upon the garments of his sons with him ; and " he shall be hallowed and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. 22 Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it a ram of consecration ; 23 and * one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord ; 21 and thou shalt put all on the hands of Aaron, and on the hands of his sons : and shalt ^ wave them for a wave-ofi"ering before the Lord. 25 And ^ thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar, upon the burnt-ofi"ering, for " a sweet savour be- fore the Lord : it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. '6 And thou shalt take & the breast of the * i>e. 8. 20. ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXIX, XXX. [B.C. 1648. H. cLe. 7.ni, 34; Num. IS. 1J,18. pch.40.10. q Mt. 23. 1 Num.28. a. I Ezra 3. tenth part of an ephah : Hcech.lfi. .%; Num. 2S. fi. c 1 Ki. 18. 29, Jfi : D»n.9.21. \for a wave-offering before the Lord : aiul it shall be thy part. ^7 And thou shalt sanc- tify '^ the breast of the wavcoffering, and the shoulder of the heave-otiuring, which is waved and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron and of that which is for his sons ; -^ and it shall be Aaron's and his sons '' by a statute for ever from the children of Is- rael ; for it M a heave-ofl'ering : and it shall be a licave-ofi'ering from the children of Is- rael of the sacrifice of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering unto the Lord. 23 And the holy garments of Aaron * shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them. "^^ And the son that is priest in his stead shall put them on / seven days, when he Cometh into the tent of meeting, to min- ister in the holy ylace. 31 And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and " seethe his flesh in the holy place. 32 ^^d Aaron and his sons sliall cat the flesh of the ram and the ^ bread tliat is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. 33 And 'they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made to consecrate imd to sanctify them; but *a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. 31 And if aught of the flesh of the conse- crations or of the bread remain until the morning, then ^ thou shalt burn the re- mainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it i& holy. 35 And thus shalt thou do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all iJiinys which I have commanded thee. '" Seven days shalt thou consecrate them. 30 And thou shalt " offer every day a bullock for a sin-offer- ing for atonement ; and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atone- ment for it, and " thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar and sanctify it ; and ^ it shall bean altar most holy ; 'what- soever toucheth the altar shall be holy. The daily mrrning and evening sacrifice ; and (42) the promised communion tliereupon be- tweM God and his peupk. 3^ NOW this is /7(rti which thou shalt offer upon the altar ; " two lambs of the first year ^ day by day continually. 30 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt offer in the evening. *o And with the one lamb a tenth part *of flour mingled with the fourth part of a bin of beaten oil ; and the fourth part of a bin of wine for a drink-offering. ■*! And the other lamb ' thou shalt offer in the even- ing, and thou shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and ac- cording to its drink-offering, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LOKD. ■*- This shall he <^ a continual burnt-offer- ing throughout your generations, at the door of the tent of meeting before the Loud ; ' where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. 13 And tliere I will meet j with the children of Israel, and it /shall /ch.; be sanctified by my glory. ^^ And I will sanctify the tent of meeting and the altar. I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office. •^ And ^ I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. ■*'' And they shall know that I am the Lord their (iod, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them : I am the Lord their God. The altar of incense, and {"!) its daily and annual une. d Num.28. C; Dau. 11-13. 30. AND thou shalt make " an altar to burn incense upon; of acacia wood shalt thou make it. - A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth ; four-square shall it be ; and two cubits shall be its height : its horns shall he of the same. 3 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides round about and its horns; and thou shalt make unto it a rim of gold round about. 4 And two golden rings slialt thou make to it, under the rim of it ; by its two corners, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it ; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. 5 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold. ^ And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the ^ mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon "^ sweet incense every morning ; when '^ he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. ** And when Aaron lighteth the lamps in the evening, he shall burn incense upon it; a perpetual incense before the Loiiu through- out your generations. '•* Ye shall offer no •^ strange incense thereon, nor burnt-sacri- fice, nor meal-offering; neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon. 1*^ And / Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it, once in a year, with the blood of the sin-ottering of atonements : once in the year shall he make atonement upon it, throughout your generations : it is most holy unto the Lord. Hag. 2. 7 y ; Mul 3.1. 0 Zec.2.1 2 Cor. Ki; Rev. sch.37.?.';', 40. 5 J Le. 4.7; Ki B.3,4. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXX, XXXI. [B.C. 1G48. H. 24. 2. b seeNum. 31. -19,00. ! Eze. 4J. 12. th. 38.2e. /ch. 33.2; -31 ; Ne iO. 32, 33. c ch.4n.31. .-i-j.-Ps.ai. 6; 13.62. 11 : Heb. 10.22. Sons ■t.l4:Eze. 27. 22. /Pa. 45. 8. i ch.37.29; Pa. S9.2'j. 133. 2. TAc ransom money (16) to 6e devoted to the service of the Sanctuary. 11 AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying : i-"\Vlien " thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man *" a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them ; that there be no plague among them when thou numberest them. 13 Tills 'they shall give, every one that passcth among them that are numbered : half a shekel after the shekel of the sanc- tuary (** a shekel is twenty gerahs) " a half shekel shall he the ofi'ering of the Lord. I'*' Every one that i)asseth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an ofiering unto the Lord. 15 The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an oftering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls. i''And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and f shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting ; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls. The brasen lavm- and its use ; (22) the holy anointing oil; (-34) the holy incense. "■AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: is Thou shalt also make" a laver o/ brass, and its foot also o/ brass, to wash ivithal ; and thou shalt * put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. 19 And Aaron and his sons ' shall wash their hands and their feet thereat. 20 When they go into the tent of meeting they shall wash with water, that they die not ; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord ; 21 ^o 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, saying : 23 Take thou also unto thee « prin- cipal spices, of pure /myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet "calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, 24 and of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive-oil a '^ hin ; 25 and thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, an ointment com- pounded after the art of the » perfumer; it shall be * a holy anointing oil. 20 And 'thou shalt anoint therewith the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testi- mony, 2- and the table and all its vessels, and the lampstand and its vessels, and the altar of incense, 2Sand the altar of burnt- offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its foot. 29 And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy : '" what- soever toucheth them shall be holy. 30 ^nd "thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that thci/ may minister unto me in the priests office. 31 And thou shalt speak unto the chil- dren of Israel, saying : This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. 32 Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy cmd it shall be holy unto you. 33 Whosoever compoundetli aitij like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, '^ shall even be cut ofl' from his people. 31 And the Lord said unto Moses : Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum ; these sweet spices with pure frankincense : of each shall there be a like weight; 35 and thou shalt make it a per- fume, a confection after the art of the perfumer, tempered together, pure aiid holy ; 3C and thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testi- mony, in the tent of meeting, where 1 will meet with thee : it shall be unto you most holy. 37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make for yourselves according to the composition thereof; it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord. 38 whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people. 'I ch. 20 7,37,e Le. 8. Appointment ' the master ?f assistants. rkmen and their 31. AND the Lord spake unto ]\Ioses, saying: 2 gee, "I have called by name Be- zaleel the ^ son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 3 and 1 have "^filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, -ito devise curious works, to work in gold and in silvei' and in brass, ^and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. ^ And I, behold I, have given with him •^ Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And in the hearts of all that are " wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have com- manded thee : '1 the / tent of meeting, and " the ark of the testimony, and the mercy- seat that is thereupon, and all the fur- / ch. 25 ( 28. /e may know that I am the Lord who doth sanctify you. i* Ye shall '' keep the sab- bath therefore, for it is holy unto you: everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death ; for whosoever docth auf/ work therein, that soul sliall be cut off from among his people. ^^ "^ Six days may work be done, but on the <^ seventh is the sab- bath of rest, holy to the LuKD ; * whoso- ever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death, ic "Where- fore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath tliroughout their generations for a perpetual covenant. ""It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever. For /m si.x days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. The two tables of the Law given. i^'AND He gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, "two tables of testi- mony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. First breach of the covenant— The mipatiencs and idolatry of the people. 32. AND when the people saw that Moses "delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him : f' Up, make us gods, which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Kgypt, we know not what is become of him. ^ And Aaron said unto them : Break off the "^golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons and of your daughters, and bring them to me. 3 And all the people brake oflf the golden ear- rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. * And he received them, at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving- tool, after he had made it a molten ''calf. And they said: This is thy god, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ^ And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made 'pro- clamation and said : To-morrow is a feast to the Loud. ^ And they rose up early on the morrow, and ofl'ered burnt-offerings and brought peace-offerings. And the / people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Trial of Mases as Mediator ; his prevailing iiUercengion. '< AND the Loud said unto Moses : ° Go, get thee down ; for thy people, whom thou broughtcst out of the land of Egypt, *> have corrupted themselves ; ^ they have turned aside quickly out of the way which "^I commanderl them: they have made them a molten calf and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said : ''This is thy god, O Israel, which hath brought thee up out of the land of Egj'pt. 'J And the Loud said unto Moses : 1 have seen this people, and behold, '^it is a stiff- necked people : 10 210W therefore /let me alone that " my wrath may wa.x hot against them, and that I may consume them : and '* I will make of thee a great nation. 11 And * Moses besought the Lord his God, and said : O Loud, why doth thy wrath wa.K hot against thy people, whom thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand ? 1- Wherefore * should the E^'yptians speak and say. For mischief did he bring tliem out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth ? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and ' rei)cnt of this evil against thy people. iSEemember Abraham, Isaac and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou '"swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, "I will multiply your seed as the stars of lieaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it lor ever. 11 And the Lord " repented of the evil wliich he thought to do unto his people. Moses' descent from thcmotintain-C20) Punish- rnent (f Uie people. i^AND "Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand : the tables HC)-c written on both their sides, on the one side and on the other were they written, lo And the '' tables ivere the work of God, I Den. 9. IC ; 1 Kl. \i.Mi l-B. \m. 19- / Deu. ». H.l'.):Jer. 14.11.15. II Ge. 12.2, •Mi. 4: ;■ 13, 14. olChr.21. 1-,; Jer. 26. 19: Joel 2.13; Jon. 3.10. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXXII, XXXIII. [B.C. 1648. H. <7 ch. 14. 11 ; 17.2, 4 J comp. 1 Sam. 15. 24. made them bare. and the writing ivcts the writing of God, graven upon the tables. 1' And wlicn "^ Joshua heard tlie noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses : There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said : It m not the voice of tlicm that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being over- come ; but tlic noise of them that sing do I hear. 1" And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigli unto the camp, that <* he saw the calf and the dancing. And Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mountain. 20 And ^ he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed iiupon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it. ^1 And Moses said unto Aaron : /What did this people unto tliee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? "2 And Aaron said : Let not the anger of my lord wax hot. " Thou knowest the people, that they arc set on mischief. ^3 For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us ; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of liim. 24 And I said to them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me : tlien I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 'And when Moses saw that tlie people loere let loose* (for Aaron had let them loose t unto their shame among their ene- mies,) 20 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said : Who is on the Lord's side ? Let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him. 27 And he said to them : Thus saith the Lord, tlie God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and ''slay every man his lirotlier, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour. 28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses : and there fell of tlie people tliat day about three thousand men. 23 For Moses had said: * Consecrate your- selves to-day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother ; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day. Moses' persevering intercession; (ch. 33. 4) penitence of the people; (1) the temporary sanctuary set up outside the camp. 30 AND it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto tlie people : " Ye have sinned a great sin ; but now I will go up un- to the Lord ; peradventure I shall ^ make an atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses "^ returned unto the Lord, and said : Oh, tliis people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Yet now, '^ if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, '^ lilot me, I pray thee, out of thy /book which thou hast written. 33 And the Lord said unto Moses : "Who- soever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. 34 Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold, ^mine angel shall go before thee. Nevertheless »in the day when I visit 1 will vi.sit their sin upon tliein. 35 And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made. 33. And the Lord said unto Moses : Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, '' Unto thy seed will I give it. 2 And ' I will send an angel before thee ; "'' and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amor- ite and the Hittite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite ; 3 "unto a land flowing witli milk and honey. "For I will not go up in the midst of thee, for thou '" art a stiffnecked people ; lest I consume thee in the way. *And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned ; and no man did put on him his ornaments. -' For the Lord had said unto Moses : Say unto the chil- dren of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people : if I *came up in the midst of thee for a moment, I should consume thee ; there- fore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. 0 And the children of Israel stripped them- selves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb. 'And Moses took the tent and pitched it without the camp, afar ofl' from the camp, ""and called it the Tent of meet- ing. And it came to pass, that everyone who souglit the Lord went out unto the tent of meeting which was without the camp. * 8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tent, that all the people rose up and stood * every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tent. "And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tent, the cloUdy A ch. 2.3.20; ;W.2,14- 17;l5um. B.C. 1491.. U.] EXODUS, XXXIII, XXXIV. [B.C. 1648. H. ,1 Num. 12. 8: Deu. 34. 10. (/ Deu. 9. c ch. J(i. 34 -38 ; Joa. 1.5. /•Jos. 21. 44; S,-?. 1. jch. S4.9. icli.19. 5, li;Deu.4. r:lKi. 8. pis. 2.21. 7P3. 9I..1, pilLir descended, and stood at the door of the tent, and He ' talkol with Moses, i" And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the door of the tent ; and all the people rose up and worshipped, everj' man in his tent door. 11 And "the L<»RD si)ake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp : but *^his servant Joshua, the son of Xun, a younj^ man, departed not out of the tent. Moses intercedes JurDier, and obtains the re- nerval of the covenant; (18) he beholds'a vision c/ the Divine glory— {ch. 34. 1 / Again ascend- ing the mountain, he receives a new revelation of the 2iaine of God. 12 AND Moses said unto the Lord : Sec, " thou sayest unto me. Bring up this peo- ple ; and thou liast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, ^ I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. !■' Now there- fore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, '^show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight; and consider that this nation is <^thy people. 1' And He said : * My presence shall go with thee, and /I will give thee rest. l-'And he said unto Him: "If thy pre- sence go not wtV/i me, carry us not up hence. ^''For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? ^ Is it not in that thou goest with us ? So « shall we be dis- tinguished, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. 1' And the Lord said unto Moses : i' I will do this thing also that thou liast si)oken ; for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. 1* And he said : I beseccli thee, ' show me thy glory. 13 And He said : I will make all my good- ness pass before thee, and "' I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee ; and I "will be gracious to whom I will lie gra- cious, and will show mercy on wliom I will show mercy. "^ And He said : Thou canst not sec my face ; for ° there shall no man sec me, and live, -i And the Lord said ; Behold, there is a place by me, and tb.ou shalt stand upon a rock : -- and it shall come to pass, while my glory passcth l)y, that I will put thee '' in a cleft of the rock, and will ''cover thee with my hand while I pass by; -^and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts ; 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 uix)n these tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest. - And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morn- ing unto mount Sinai, and jiresent thyself there to me "^ on the top of the mountain. 3 And <^no man shall come up with thee neither let any man be seen throughout all the mountain ; neither let the flocks or herds feed before that mountain. * And he hewed two tallies of stone like unto the first. And Moses rose up early the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. s And the Lord * descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and /proclaimed the name of the Lord. ^ And the Loud passed by before him, and proclaimed : The Lord, The Lord, a God "merciful and gracious, longsuifering, and abundant in goodness and '' truth ; '^ keeping * mercy for thousands, * forgiving iniquity and trans- gression and sin; and ^that will by no means clear the ijidlly ; "'visiting the in- iquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth ijcncralion. ^ And IVloses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped. •'And he said: If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, " let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us ; for "it is a stifTnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for ^' thine inheritance. ^^ And he said : Behold, I make a cove- nant ; before all thy people '^ I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation ; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord; for it is ''a ter- rible thing that I will do with thee. Conditions of the covenant— (U) Fellowship with idolaters forbidden; (18) directions cun- cernimi the worship of God. 11 OBSEEVE thou that which I com- mand thee this day. Behold, " I drive out before thee the Amoritc and the Canaan- ite and the Hittite and the Pcrizzite and the Hivite and tlie Jebusite. i- 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. I'^But ye shall ''destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their Asherim*: l^for thou shalt worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name ts Jealous, is a jealous God : idlest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the cch.l9.' 24. 12. (icii. 19.12, la, 21. sNe.n.i- Ps. 103. -13; Joel 2.13. h Rev. IJ. i"ch. 2n. C. ArDon.O.U: 1 John 1. 9. /Num.14. 18.22,2:i; Na. 1. 3. mch.2lj.:i. ich.33.1; cli. 32. 9. 7 Deu .4 .32 —35; Jos. fi. 20 ; Ki. 18. > Thin B.C. 1491. U.J EXODUS, XXXIV, XXXV. [B.C. 1648. H. e Num. 25. /V Ki. 11. 21-4; 2 Cor. 6. 14 —17. !7Nura.23. h Lc. in. 4. k- ch. IX 4. I ch. 13. 2. oDeu. IG. 1(J. p ch. 20. a q ch. 2.1. Ifi; Deu. ly. 10, 13. 1, comp. ithDeu. 9, IS. land, and they <*go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods ; and one ^call thee, and thou cat of his sacrifice ; I'^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. 1" Thou /* slialtraake thee no molten gods. IS The feast of * Unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat un- leavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib; for in the ^' month Abib thou earnest out from Egypt. 13 All 'that openeth the womb is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 20 But "' tlie first- ling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. " All the first- born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And " none shall appear before me empty. 21 Six J' days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest ; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 22 And 5 thou shalt observe the feast of Weeks of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest ; and the feast of Ingathering at the year's end. 23 Thrice ^ in the year shall all your males appear before tlie Lord God, the God of Israel. 24 For I will *cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy bor- ders ; 'and no man shall desire thy land when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy (jod thrice in the year. 25 Thou " shalt not ofl'er the blood of my sacrifice with leaven ; ^ neither shall the sa- crifice of the feast of the Passover be left unto the morning. 20 The 2^ first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou -shalt not seethe a kid in its mothers milk. Pluses is directed to ivrite the words of God ; (29) he comes down with .supernatural glory on his face, and delivers the commandments to the people. 27 AND the Lord said unto Moses : Write thou these words ; for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. 2SAnd "he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights ; he did neither eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 23 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with tlie ''two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses knew not that " the skin of his face shone'^ while he talked with Him. so^nd when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone ; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them ; 32 and afterward all the children of Israel came nigh. And <^ he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken witli him on mount Sinai. 33 And when Moses had done speaking with them he put 'a veil on his face. 3iBut /when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he took the veil ofi", until he came out. And he came out, and spake to the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone ; and Moses put the veil upon his face again, un- til he went in to speak with Him. The law of the Sabbath repeated. 35. AND Moses gathered all the con- gregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them : These are the words which the Lord hath commanded that yc should do them. ^Six." days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord; * whosoever doetli work therein shall be put to death. 3 c yg shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day. Offerings of the people, and other preparations for the construction of the satictuary. * AND Moses spake unto all the congre- gation of the children of Israel, saying: This is the thing which the Lord com- manded, saying, ^ Take ye from among you an oflering unto the Lord; "whoso- ever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the offering of the Lord ; gold and silver and brass, "^ and blue and purple and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 7 and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' t skins, and acacia wood, * and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet in- cense, 3 and onyx stones and stones to be set, for the epliod and for the breast-plate. i"And ''every wise-hearted man among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded ; H the "^ tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its taches and its boards, its bars, its pillars and its sockets ; 12 the <*ark, and its staves, with the mercy- seat, and the veil of the hanging; 13 ^the and SCI i vers. 0 35. e 2 Cor. 3. / 2 Cor. 3. ich.Sl.l.-. c ch. 1(1. rfch.2,';.10, 22. e ch. 25.23. B.C. 1491. U.] EXODUS, XXXV, XXXVI. [B.C. 1648. H. / ch. as. 30; Lc.24. 5.0. och. 25.31, table and its staves and all its vessels, Hur, of the tribe of Judali ; 31 and he hath and /the shrcwbread; '* the "lampstand filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, I for the light, and its furniture and its in under.standing and in knowledge, and in lamps, with the oil for the light; i" and all manner of workmanship ; 33 and to dc- * the incense altar and its staves, and ' the vise curious works, to work in gold and in anointing oil, and * the sweet incense : and | silver and in brass, 3;i and in tlie cutting of the hanging of the door for the door of the stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, tabernacle; i" the 'altar of burnt-offering, ! to work in all manner of curious work, with its brazen grate, its staves and all its I 'i And he hath put in his heart that he vessels ; the hiver and its foot ; ^^ the < may teach, iufh he anil ^ Aholiab, the son hangings of the court, its pillars and their ! of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. 3i Them nch.31.10; 39. 1. 41; Mum. 4, 5, ' 1 Chr Ezra 2 sockets; and the hanging for the gate of the court ; ^^ the pins of the tabernacle and the pins of the court, and their cords : the " garments of service, to do service in the holy pl^e ; the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's oflicc. 20 And all the congregation of the chil- dren of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord's offering for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments. 22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brace- lets, and rings and signet-rings, and tab- lets, all jewels of gold. And every man hath he "filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the skilful workman, and of the em- broiderer in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen, and of the weaver, eixn of them that do any work, and of those that devise curious work. 36. -A-id Bezalecl shall work, and Aho- liab, and every ' wise-hearted man, in whom the Loud bath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord hath coniiuanded. The tabernacle and its furniture— (2) The super- abundant offerings of the people; and (8) the execution (f the work. " THEN Moses called Bezaleel and Aho- liab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose that oflTered an off"ering of gold unto the j heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every Lord, 23and ^ every man with whom was one "whose heart stirred him up to come found blue and purple and scarlet, and fine unto the work to do it : 3 and they received linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of [from Jloses all ''the offering which the chil- rams,' and badgers' * skins, brought «/(0«. jdrenof Israel had brought for the work of the 2^ Every one that did ofier an offering of ser\'ice of the sanctuary, to make it withal silver and brass brought the Lord's offer- 1 And they brought unto him yet more ing: and every man with whom was found ^ free offerings every morning. ^ And all the acacia-wood for any work of the service, wise men that wrought aU the work of the brought iJt. ! sanctuary came every man from his worl' 25 And all the women that were wise- [which they made, ^and they spake unto hearted ' did spin with their hands, and j Moses, saying : "^ The people bring much brought that which they had spun, both of j more than enough for the service of the blue and of purple and of scarlet and of fine ! work which the Lord commanded to make, linen. 20 And all the women whose heart | " And l\Ioses gave commandment, and they stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair. 27 And ""the rulers brought onyx-stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breast-plate ; 28 and * spice and oil, for the light and for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense. 29 The children of Israel brought a 'will- ing off"ering unto the Lord, every man and woman whose heart made them willing to l)ring for all manner of work which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. 30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel: See, "the Lord hath called by I name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of 21;; 1 Chr. 2S». .■■.. 4 ch. 35.29. caused it to be proclaimed throughout th camp, saying : Let neither man nor woman make anymore work for the offering of th sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing ; '' for the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. 8 And * every wise-hearted man among them that wrought the work of the taber- nacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet ; wi And they made * bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates, 20 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe, to minister inj as the Lord commanded Moses. "' And ' they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and for his sons, -^ and a mitre of fine linen, and '" goodly caps of fine linen, and " linen breeches of fine twined linen, -^ and " a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as the Lord commanded Moses. 30 And P they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 31 And ihcy tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre ; as the Louu com- manded Moses. The completion of tlic wor!:, and its delivery to Munex. 32 THUS was all the work of the taber- nacle of the tent of meeting finished : and the children of Israel did " according to all that the Lord commanded Moses ; so did they. 33 And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses ; the tent and all its furniture, its taches, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, 3iand the covering of rains' skins dyed red, and the covering of bad- gers' •"■ skins, and the veil of the hanging ; 35 the ark of the testimony and its staves, and the mercy-seat : 3i> the table and all its vessels, and the shcwbread ; 37 the pure lampstand with its lamps, even icith the lamps to be set in order, and all its vessels, and the oil for light; 3S and the golden altar ; and the anointing oil ; and the sweet incense ; and the hanging for the tent door ; 39 the brazen altar, and its grate of brass, its staves and all its vessels; the laver and its foot ; *<* the hangings of the court, its pillars and its sockets ; and the hanging for the court-gate, its cords and its pins; and all the vessels of the service of the taber- nacle, for the tent of meeting ; 'H the gar- ments of 8er^'lce to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office. *2 According * to all that the Lord com- manded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work. •'3 And Moses looked upon all the work, and behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded ; even so had they done it. And Moses "^ blessed them. The setting up and anointing of the tabernacle ; and direclionn respectiivj the consecration of the priests; (31) manifestation of the Divine fflory over and within tlie tabernacle. 40, AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: 2 On the first day of the "first month slialt thou ^ set up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. 3 And ' thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and screen the ark with the veil. * And <* thou shalt bring in the table, and * set in order the things that arc to be set in order upon it. And thou shalt bring in the lampstand, and light the lamps there- of. 5 And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testi- mony, and put the curtain of the door to the tabernacle. <* And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt-oflering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. ' And / thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein. ** And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court-gate. -' And thou shalt take the anointing oil and " anoint the tabernacle and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it and all the ves- sels thereof ; and it shall be holy, i** And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt- oftering and all its vessels^ and sanctify the altar : and ^ it shall be an altar most holy. 11 And thou shalt anoint the laver and its foot, and sanctify it. 12 And » thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tent of meet- ing, and wash them with water. 13 And tliou -shalt i)ut upon Aaron the holy gar- ments, ^ and anoint him and sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, i' And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats : i^ and thou shalt anoint thcin, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may mini- ster unto me in the priest's ofiice ; for their anointing shall surely be ' an ever- lasting priesthood throughout their gene- rations. !•» Thus did Moses : according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he. i^ And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the "* tabernacle was reared up. •■ I*. 9. 22, ai: Num B.C. 1490. U.] EXODUS, XL.— LEVITICUS, L [B.C. 1647. H. p cii.20.3; vcr. 4. !ch.2j.3r. uch.2G.GC. Heb.a.U 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bare, and reared up its pillars. ^'■> And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the cover- ing of the tent above upon it ; as the Lokd commanded Moses. "" And he took and " put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy-seat above upon the ark. 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and he set up " the veil of the hanging, and screened the ark of the testi- mony ; as the Lord commanded Moses. 2- And P he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil. 23 And "^ he set the bread in order upon it before the Lokd ; as the Lord commanded Moses. 2-t And '' he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward. 25 And « he lighted the lamps before the Lord ; as the Lord commanded Moses. -'^ And t he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil : 27 and he burnt sweet incense thereon ; as the Lord commanded Moses. 28 And " he put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle. 29 x ^nd he put the altar of burnt-offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and 2' ofl'cred upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering ; as the Lord ci manded Moses. 30 And ' he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal. ^lAnd Mo- ■ses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat ; 32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, " they washed ; as the Lord commanded Moses. 33 And ^ he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar ; and he set up the hanging of the court-gate. " So Moses finished the work. "i Then <« a cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses " was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 And / when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys; 37 but if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. 38 por ^ the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. THE THIRD BOOK OF MOSES, LEVITICUS. Law of sacrifice— The burnt-offerin and tlie priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary. ' And the priest shall /put soinc of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the tent of meeting ; and he shall pour ^all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt-oflering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting. 8 And he shall take oft' from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin-ofi'ering ; the fat that covereth the in- wards and all the fat that is upon the in- wards, ^ and the two kidneys and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kid- neys, it shall he take away, i" as it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace-ofi'erings ; and '' the priest shall burn them upon tlic altar of the burnt- ofi'ering. HAnd 'the skin of the bullock and all his flesh, with his head and with his legs, and his inwards and his dung, ^2 even the whole bullock, shall he carry forth with- out the camp to a clean place, '•' where the ashes are poured out, and ' burn it on the wood with fire ; where the ashes are poured out shall it be burnt. 13 And '"if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and "the thing be hidden from the eyes of the as- sembly, and they have done someivkat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty ; ^ when the sin which they have sinned against it is known, then the congregation shall ofl'cr a young buUock for the sin, and bring it before the tent of meeting. ^■' And the elders of the congregation "shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord, i** And ^ the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tent of meeting ; ^'i and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the veil. 18 And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which before the Lord, that is in the tent of meeting; and he shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt-oft'ering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting, l^ And he shall take all its fat from it, and burn it upon the altar. 20 And he shall do with tiic bullock as he did with ^ the bullock for a sin-offering, so shall he do with this : and *" the priest 8; 10. IK, 17iEx.2SI. 14; Num. tch. 6. 11. I Heb. 13. Num. ;. 24-20. ch. ;>. 2 -4, 17. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, IV, V. [B.C. 1647. II. 1/ ch. 3. .5. a Num. 15. d ch. 3.14. e ch. 3. 3. sliall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven tliem. -i .Vnd he shall carry forth the buUock witliout the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock : j it is a sin-offering for the congregation. " 'When a ruler hath sinned, and * done \snmavhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty; 23 or Mf his sin wherein he hath .sinned come to his know- ledge ; he sliall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish; -*and " he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place wliere they kill the burnt-offering before the Loud: it « a sin-offering. -^ And ^ the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-ofl'ering ; and he shall pour out its blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt-offering. "^ And he shall burn all its fat upon the altar, as ^tlic fat of the sacri- fice of ))eacc-offerings : and *the priest shall make an atonement for him as con- cerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him. 27 And "if any one of the common peo- ple sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the command- ments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty; 2Sor '' if his sin which he hath sinned come to his knowledge ; then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female with- out blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned. 29_4nd "he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and slay the sin-offering in the place of the l)urnt- offering. 30A.nd the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering ; and he shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar, ^i _A.nd '^ he shall take away all its fat, *as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-otlerings ; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a /sweet savour unto the Lord; ''and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. 32 And if he bring a lamb for a sin-offer- ing, ''he shall bring it a female without blemish. 33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and slay it for a sin-offering in the place where they kill the burnt-offering. 3' And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, ami put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering ; and he shall pour out all its blood at the bottom of the altar. 35 And lie shall take away all its fat, as the 1 fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings ; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, upon the offerings made by fire unto the Loud : and • the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him. 5. And if a soul sin, " and hear the voice of adjuration, and is a witness, whether h saw it or knew o/ it; if he do not declare it then he shall &bear his iniquity. 2 Or "if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast or a carcase of unclean cattle or the carcase of '^unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him ; he also shall be unclean and guilty. 3 Or if he touch " the undean- ness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled with, and it be hidden from him ; when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty. * Or /if a soul swear, speaking lightly with Aw lips, "to do evil or ''to do good, what soever it be that a man shall speak lightly with an oath, and it be hidden from him ; when he knoweth of it then he shall be guilty in one of these. ^ And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that » he shall con- fess that he hath sinned in that thing; ^ and he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin-offering ; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin. 7 And * if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed two ' turtle-doves or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin-ofl'ering and the other for a burnt- offering. 8 And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and '"wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it asunder : " and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin-offering upon the side of the altar; and "the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar : it is a sin-offering. i^And he shall offer the second for a burntofiering, according to the ordinance. And " the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be for- forgiven him. 11 But if he be not able to bring two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering ; '' he shall put no oil upon it. 3 1 Ki. 8. 31 : Pro. 29.24. b ver. 17; eh. 7. 18; Num. 'J. 13. cch. 11.24. 28; Num. 19. 11, 13 -Ifi. i/ch.11.31, 39. ech.l2;13 45,40!^ /Jos. 9. 15;Jud8. 11. 31. J 1 Snm. 14. .4- 28; 2.1. 22; Ac.2:j. 12. 'i Ecc. .5. 2; Alt. 14. 7 -9. 10.11,12; Pro. 2H. 13;lJohn 1. 8-iU. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, V, VI. [E.C. 1647. H. rch. 4. 35. s ch. 4.:.'G. cch. 27. Ex. Jell, r Num 5. neither shall he put an;/ frankincense thereon ; for it is a sin-oliering. i- Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even ^a me- morial thereof, and burn it on the altar, *■ upon the ofl'erings made by fire unto the Lord ; it is a sin-oflering. i^ And * the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these (hin(/s, and it shall be forgiven him. And Hhe re7nnant shall be the priest's as a meal-offering. Law of sacrifice— The trcspass-offcrin()S. i-i AND the LoKD spake unto Moses, say- ing : 15 If a soul "commit a wrong, and sin through ignorance in the holy things of the Lord ; then '' he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, according to thy estimation by shekels of silver, after '^the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering ; ^^ and he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the lioly thing, and ** shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the tres- pass-offering, and it shall be forgiven him. li" And if a soul sin, and commit any of the things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the Lord ; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity. l^And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto tlie priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and knew it not, and it shall be forgiven him. 19 It is a trespass-offering : he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord. 6. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: 2 if a soul sin, and ^commit a wrong against the Lord, and /lie unto his neighbour in that ^ which was delivered him to keep, or in that which was put into his hand, or in a thing taken away by vio- lence, or hath defrauded his neighbour, 3 or '' hath found that which was lost and hath lied concerning it and » sworn falsely ; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning there- in ; 4 then it shall be, because he hath sinned and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath gotten by fraud, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, ^ or all that about which he hath sworn falsely, he shall even * restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it to him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass-offering. *> And he shall bring his trespass-offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass- oflering, unto the priest. "And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in tres- passing therein. The duties and ric/hts of the priests in relaiion to all tlie sacrifices. s AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing: 'J Command Aaron and his sons, say- ing. This is the law of the burnt-oflering : It is the burnt-oflering upon the hearth ijldch is upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it. ii'And "the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall put them ^beside the altar. "And 'he shall put off his gar- ments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp, ''unto a clean place. 12 And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it, it shall not be put out ; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt-offering in order upon it ; and he shall burn thereon * the fat of the peace- offerings. 13 The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar, it shall never go out. j 1* And this is the law of /the meal-offer- \ ing. The sons of Aaron shall ofl'cr it before ! the Lord, before the altar, is And he shall ' take of it his handful of the flour of the I meal-offering and of the oil thereof, and all I the frankincense which is upon the meal- i offering, and shall burn it upon the altar i/wa sweet savour, even the ^memorial of I it, unto the Lord. I'^And *■ the remainder I thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat : » un- leavened shall it be eaten, *^in the holy place ; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it. i"It ^ shall not be baken with leaven. "'I have given it uyito them for their portion of my offerings made by fire ; " it is most holy, as is the sin-oflering, and as the trespass-offering, i^ All " the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. ^ It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire : ' every one that toucheth them shall be holy. 19 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : 20 This is the offering of Aaron and of dch.4.12; John lu. 41,41' (7Cli2. 2, 9. h ch. 2. 3, 111; 24. W; Ezt. 44. Zcli. 2. 11. m Num. 18. 9. II). 11 eh. 2. 3 i B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, VI, VII. [B.C. 1647. H. d ch. C ; 1-7. ech. C his sons, which they sliall offer unto the Lord in the day Avhen he is anointed ; the tenth part of an '"ephah of fine flour for a mcal-ofiering perpetual, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. -1 Upon a flat plate it shall be made M'ith oil ; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in ; and the baken pieces of the meal-offering .shalt thou offer /or a sweet savour unto the Loud. -- And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it : it is a statute for ever unto the Lord ; *it shall be wholly burnt. -^Fot every meal-offer- ing for the priest shall be wholly burnt ; it shall not be eaten. 21 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : "' Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of ' the sin-offering. "In the place where the burnt-oflering is killed shall the sin-offering be killed be- fore the Lord : ^ it is most holy. 'The Itch 18; n.in- Niim '.1, 111. ich 2.3. Ach 26i . fi. ;.'. priest '•' that offereth it for sin shall eat it ; iu the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting. "^ Whatso- ever ^ shall touch its flesh shall be holy. And when there is sprinkled of its blood upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place ; -'^but the earthen vessel wherein it is sod- den sliall be broken ; and if it be sodden in a brazen pot, it shall be both scoured and rinsed in water. -^ All " the males among the priests shall eat thereof : ^ it is most holy. 30^,1,1 Cjio sin-offering whereof j any of the blood is brought into the tent of j meeting to make an atonement in the holy; place shall be eaten ; it shall be burnt in the fire. 7. Likewise this is the law of '' the tres- pass-offering : *itis most holy. ^Infthe place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the trespass-offering : and its blood shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. 3 And he shall offer of it » all its fat ; the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards, * and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away : ^and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the Loud : it is a trespass-offering. '^ Every ^ male among the priests sliall eat thereof ; it shall be eaten in the holy place : <■ it is most holy. "As '^the sin-offering is so is the tres- pass-offering, tlin-e is one law for them ; the priest that maketh atonement there- with shall have it. * And the priest that offereth any man's burnt-offering, even the priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt-oflering which he hath offered. ^And 'all the meal-ofl'ering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the frying- pan and on the flat plate, shall be the priests that oflereth it. i" And everj' meal- ofl'ering, mingled with oil or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as mudi as another. 11 And this is the law of '" the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord, i- If he offer it for a thanks- giving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleaveneil cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers "anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. ^-^ Besides the cakes he shall offer for his offering " leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace- offerings. l*And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for " a heave- offering unto the Lord; and ''it shall be the priest's who sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offerings, i^ And '" the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-oficrings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the same day that it is ofl'ered ; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. ^^ But *if the sacrifice of his oflering he a vow or a volun- tary offering, it shall be eaten on the same day that he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall l>e eaten ; ^^ but the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. i^'And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be 'imputed un- to him that oflereth it ; it shall be an " abomination, and the soul that cateth of it shall bear his iniquity. 19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean tldng shall not be eaten ; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, all that are clean shall eat thereof ; 20 buf; the soul that eatcth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-ofl'erings that pertain unto the Lord ' having his un- eleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people, ^i Moreover ^the soul that shall touch any unclean thiu(j, us *tlie undeanness of man, or any "unclean beast, or any ''abominable un- clean thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peaee-oflerings, which per- tain unto the Loud, even that soul shall be cut off from liis people. 22 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- l ch. 2. 3, lOi Num. 18.9; Eze. 44. ^J. Xum. 18. I ch. 19. 7. ing; ' Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, - Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox or of sheep or of goat. 21 AhJ the fat .vch..'i.2.3. --Ch.l2;13; a ih.11.24, iKzc.l.U. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, VII, VIII. [b;c. 1647. H. (ich. 17.10 Deu. U lil ; Eze •1, a. U. Ach.9.21; Ex.2tf.2-l, 27; Num. (>. 20. of the d- beast that dieth of itself, and the him, and << the garments, and "^ the anoint- fat of that which is torn with beasts, may ! ing oil, and the bullock for the sin-oifering, be used in any other use ; but ye shall in | and the two rams, and the basket of un- no wise eat of it. 25 ^ov whosoever eateth i leavened bread ; 3 and gather thou all the the fat of the beast of which men ofier an | congregation together at the door of the ottering made by tire unto the Lohd, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people. -"Moreover *ye shall eat no manner of blood, xvhdlier it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27 what- soever .soul it he that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. -'' And the Lokd spake unto Moses, say- ing : 2a Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, /He that offereth the sacrifice of tent of meeting. ■1 And Moses did as the Lord commanded him ; and the assembly was gathered toge- ther at the door of the tent of meeting. ^ And Moses said unto the congregation : This is the thing which the Lokd hath commanded to be done. *> And Closes brought Aaron and his sons, and that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire. 33 And ye shall not go out of the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end : for ' seven days shall he consecrate you. 3i As he hath done this day, so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you. 35 There- fore shall ye abide at the door of the tent of meeting day and night seven days, and >■ Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them : Come near, carry your brethren from before tlie sanctuary out of the camp. ^ go they went near and carried them in their coats out of the camp as Moses had said. 6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Elea- zar and to Ithamar, his sons : * Uncover not your heads,* neither rend your clothes ; lest ye die, and lest '' wrath come upon all the people : but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled. 7 And ^ ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die ; "' for the anointing- oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses. ^ And the Lord spake unto Aaron, say ing : 'J Do " not drink wine or strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, lest ye d: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations : if and that ye may " put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean ; n and ^' that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. 12 And Moses spake to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left : Take '^ the meal-offering that remain eth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar ; for '" it is most holy ; 13 and ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due and thy sons' due of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire ; for * so I am com- manded, n And ' the wave-breast and heave- shoulder shall ye eat in a clean pilace ; thou, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee : for ihei/ are thy due and thy sons' due, which are given out of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The " heave-shoulder and the wave- breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it far a wave-offering before the Lord ; and it shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever ; as the Lord hath commanded. IG And Moses diligently sought ^ the goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was burnt ; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left alive, saying : i' Wherefore have ye not y eaten the sin-offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you " to bear the iniquity of the con- gregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord? is Behold, "the blood of it was not brought in within the holy 'place ; ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy jlace, as I commanded. I'-' And Aaron said unto Moses : Behold, I ch. 21.10, Eze. 24. 16, 17. * or, Ixt not your hair be And the hare, because he cheweth the cud but divideth t the hoof; he ts unclean unto you. 7 And the swine, though he divideth the hoof and is cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud ; * he is unclean to you. ^ Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their car- case shall ye not touch ; "^ they are unclean to you. 9 These ^ shall ye eat of all that art in the waters : Whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. i*^ And all that have not fins and scales in the seas and in the rivers, of all creeping things which arc in the waters, and of any living thing which ii in the waters, they shall be an ' abomi- nation unto you : " they shall be even an abomination unto you ; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. ^2 AVhatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. 13 And /these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls ; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomi- nation : The eagle and the ossifrage and the ospray l' and the vulture, and the kite after its kind, ^^ every raven after its kind, 1" and the ostrich and the night-hawk and the cuckow, and the hawk after its kind, 17 and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl is and the iltis and the pelican and the gier eagle I'^and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing and the bat. 20 All flying creeping things, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth ; 22 even these of them ye may cat: "The locust after its kind, and tlie bald locust after its kind, and the green locust after its kind, and the grass- hopper after its kind. 23j>ut all other flying creeping things which have four feet shall be an abomination unto you. ^i And for these ye shall be unclean ; whosoever touchcth the carcase of them shall be un- clean until the evening ; ^ and whosoever beareth auffhl of the carcase of them shiiU wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. 2G The carcases of every beast which di- videth the hoof and is not cloven-footed, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you ; every one that toucheth them shall be un- clean. 27 And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all manner of animals that go on all four, those are unclean unto you. Whoso toucheth their carcase shall be un- clean until the evening ; 28 and he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening ; they are unclean unto you. 2'-' These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth : The mole and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind, 30 and the crying lizard and the strong lizard and the red lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon. 3i These a7X unclean to you among all that creep. Whosoever doth touch them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening. 32 And upon whatsoever ani/ of them when they arc dead doth fall, it shall be un- clean ; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be wherein anil work is done ; it must l)e put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening ; so it shall be cleansed. 33 And every earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth, wliatsoever is in it shall be unclean ; and ye shall break it. 34 of all food which may be eaten, that on which such water comcth shall be unclean ; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean. 35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven or stewpan, they shall be broken down ; for they arc unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. 30 Nevertheless a fountain or a i)it wherein there is plenty of water shall be clean ; but that which toucheth their carcase shall be B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XL- XIII. [B.C. 1647. H. fcch.19.2; Ex. h~.l^] 1 Pet. 1. 15, IG. I Ex. 6. 7. unclean. 37 And if anij jtart of their car- j are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, case fall upon any sowing-seed which is to i she shall bring a lamb of the first year for be sown, it shall he clean, ^s But if any a burnt-oflfering, and a young pigeon or water be put upon the seed, and any -part ! a turtle-dove for a sin-offering, to the of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be un- door of the tent of meeting, unto the clean unto you. 33 And if any beast of which ye may eat die, he that toucheth its carcase shall be un- clean until the evening. *OAnd ^■he that cateth of its carcase shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening ; he also that beareth its carcase shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. 41 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall he an abomination ; it shall not be eaten. 42 whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon (ill four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat ; for they are an abomination. *3 Ye i shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall i his flesh like the plague of leprosj', then ye make yourselves unclean with them, I ^ he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, that ye should be defiled thereby. 44 j^or ! or to one of his sons the priests : ^ and the I am the Lord your God ; ye shall there- ! priest shall look on the plague in the skin fore sanctify yourselves, and *^ ye shall be ' of the flesh. And if the hair in the plague holy ; for I am holy ; and ye shall not de- •■ is turned white, and the plague in sight file yourselves with any manner of creep- is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a ing thing that creepeth upon the earth. ' plague of leprosy : and the priest shall look 45 For ^ I am the Lord who bringeth you up j on him, and shall pronounce him unclean, out of the land of Egypt, to be your God : I * If the bright spot he white in the skin of priest ; ^ who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her ; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath borne a male or a female. ^ And '^ if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons ; the one for the burnt-oflfering and the other for a sin-offering ; and " the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean. Laws concerning leprosy and its cleansing. 13. AND the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying : 2 "When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, " a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 4'' This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth ; 47 to '" make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the animal that may be eaten and the animal that may not be eaten. Purification after child-hiHh. 12. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, - Speak unto the children of Israel, saying : If a woman have conceived seed, an.d borne a man-child, then "she shall be unclean seven days : according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. 3 And on the * eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days ; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled. ^ But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation ; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and si.x days. ^And ''when the days of her purifying his flesh, and in sight he not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days. ^ And the priest shall look on him on the seventh day ; and behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more. •'And the priest shall look on him again on the seventh day ; and behold, if the plague he faded, and the plague be not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean ; it is hut a scab : and he " shall wash his clothes, and be clean. "^ But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin after that he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again. ^ And if the priest see that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean ; it is a leprosy. 9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the priest. 1'^ And <^ the priest shall see him ; and be- hold, t/ there he a white rising in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there he living raw flesh in the rising, 11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his b Deii. 24. 8; Lk. 17. 14. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, xm. [B.C. 1647. H. flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, anil shall not shut him up; for he is unclean. i-And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the lague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest lookcth, " then the priest shall look and behold, if the le- prosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague; it is all turned white ; he is clean, l^ But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean ; i^ and the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be un- clean ; for the raw flesh is unclean ; it is a leprosy. i« Or if the raw flesh turn again and be changed to white, he shall come to the priest ; i' and the priest shall see him ; and behold, if the plague be turned into ■.vhite, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague : he is clean, IS The flesh also in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil, and is healed, '■' and in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white and somewhat reddish, and it be showed to the priest; 20 and if when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean ; it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. -1 Hut if the priest look on it, and behold, (here he no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, and be faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. -' And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean ; it is a plague : ^Sbut if the bright spot stay in its place, and spread not, it is the inflammation of the boil ; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. -i Or if there be an>f flesh in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the living Jlcsh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish or white, -'■> then the priest shall look upon it ; and behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin, it m a leprosy broken out of the burning. AVherefore the priest shall pro- nounce him unclean; it is the plague of leprosy. 20 But if the priest look on it, and behold, there be no white hair in tlic bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, and be faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days. "^ And tlie priest shall look upon him on the seventh day ; and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean ; it is the plague of leprosy, ^s And if the bright spot stay in its place, and spread not in the skin, and it be faded, it is a rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean : for it is the scar of the burning. 2-' If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard, so then the priest .shall see the plague ; and behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin, and there be in it a yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean ; it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. 31 And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and there be no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days. 32 And on the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague ; and behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yel- low hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin, 33 he shall be shaven but the scall shall he not shave. And the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more. 31 And on the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall ; and behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, nor be in sight deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean ; and he shall wash liis clothes, and be clean. 3o But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing, 3^ then the priest shall look on him ; and behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean. 37 But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and there be black hair grown up therein, the scall is healed, he is clean ; and the priest shall pronounce him clean. 38 If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots, 3S) then the priest shall look ; and behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white, it is a freckled spot that growcth in the skin ; he is clean. *o And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald, ijet is he clean, -ii And he that hath his hair fallen ofl" from the part of his head toward his face, he is fore- head-bald, yet is he clean, -t^ And if there be in the bald head or bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head or his bald forehead. *3 Then the priest shall look upon it ; and behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head or in his bald fore- head, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh, ■" he is a leprous man, he is unclean; the priest shall pronounce him B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XIII, XIV. [B.C. 1647. H. g Num. .';. 2 i 11'. 14 15; 2Ki 7.3; 15. .i; Lk.17.12 AIa.04.fi; Jude 23. utterly unclean ; his plague is in head. *5 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head neglected, and he shall * put a covering upon his upper lip, and he shall cry, /Un clean, unclean ! *s All the days wherein the plague shall, be in him he shall be de filed ; he is unclean : he shall dwell apart ; " without the camp shall his habitation be. *7 The ft garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen gar- ment or a linen garment, ** whether it be in the warp or woof, of linen or of wool- len, whether in skin or in anything made of skin, i^and if tlie plague be greenish or reddish in the garment or in the skin, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is a plague of leprosy; and it shall be showed to the priest, ^fj And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days. 51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day ; if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in a skin or in any work that is made of skin, the plague is *a fretting leprosy; it is unclean. 52 jje shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is ; for it is a fretting leprosy ; it shall be burnt in the fire. 53 And if the priest shall look, and be- hold, the plague be not spread in the gar- ment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, 54. then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more. 55 And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed ; and behold, if the plague have not changed its colour, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean ; thou shalt burn it in the fire ; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without. 5(j And if the priest look, and behold, the plague be faded after the wash- ng of it, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. 57 And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is a spreading pkif/ue ; thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire. And the garment, either warp or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean. 14. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying : " This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing : He " shall be brought to the priest; 3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, *then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and ''cedar wood and ' scarlet and <* hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. "As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water ; 7 and he shall ^ sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy /seven times, and shall pronounce him clean; and he shall "let the living bird loose into the open field. 8 And he that is to be cleansed ^ shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean. And after that, he shall come into the camp, and » shall " tarry abroad out of his tent seven days. ° But it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair ofi" his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water ; and he shall be clean. 1" And on the eighth day *he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth parts ■• of fine flour for ' a meal-off'ering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil. 11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meet- ing. 1- And the priest shall take one he- lamb, and '" olfer it for a trespass-ofi"ering, and the log of oil, and "wave them for a wave-oflering before the Lord, i^ And he shall slay the lamb " in the place where he shall kill the sin-offering and the burnt- offering, in the holy place. For ^as the sin-offering is the priest's, so is the trespass- offering ; * it is most holy. i*And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it *■ upon the tip of the right ear of him U 4; Mk. 1. 40, 44 ; 1^.5.12, 14; 17. 14. 6 Num. 19. C. c Heb. 9. 11). d I Ki. 4. 33; Ps.Sl. 7. * I.e. parts of an ephah. )i ch. 5. 2, 18;6.«,7. t Ez. 29. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XIV. [B.C. 1647. H. ) ch. 4. 2G. ich. 5.1,0. that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. UAiid the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand ; '"^ and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lokd ; i^ and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that hath been cleansed, and uiion the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-oflering. i* And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed : and * the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord. 1^ And the priest shall ofl'er 'the sin-ofier- ing, and make an atonement for him tliat is to be cleansed from his uncleanness ; and afterwards he shall kill the burnt-offer- ing: -"and the priest shall offer the burnt- offering and the meal-offering upon the altar : and the priest shall make an atone- ment for him, and he shall be clean. 21 And " if he be poor and cannot get so much, then he shall take one lamb /or a trespass-offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal- offering, and a log of oil ; 22 and " two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get ; and the one shall be a sin-oflering, and the other a burnt-offering. 23 And ^he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before the Lord. 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wiive them for a wave-offering before the Lord. 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 2GA.nd the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand ; 27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil tliat is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. 28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his riglit foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass-offering. 29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the liead of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atone- ment for him before the Lord. 3u And he * shall offer the one of the turtle-doves or of the young pigeons, such as he can get, 31 even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin-offering and the other for a, burnt- offering, with tlie meal-offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for liiui that is to be cleansed before the Lord. 32 This M the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy whose hand is not able to get " that which jyertaineth to his cleansing. 33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 31 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, ''which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession ; 35 and he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, say- ing. It seeraeth to me there is as it were ■^a plague in the house; 30then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean. And afterwards the priest shall go in to see the house; 37 and he shall look on the plague ; and behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow spots, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall, 38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. 39 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and shall look ; and behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house, 10 then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city. *i And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: *2and they shall take other stones and put them in the jjlace of those stones; and he shall take other mortar and shall plaster the house. *3And if the plague come again and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hatli scraped the house, and after it is plastered, *ithen the priest shall come and look, and behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is '^a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean. ^-^ And he shall break down the house, its stones and its timber, and all the mortar of the house ; and he shall carry tJmn forth out of the city into iGe.17.8; Num. 32. 22 ; Deu. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XIV, XV. [B.C. 1647. H. 17 ch. 13.30, I ch. 13.47 ver. 34. ; ch. 13. 2. I Deu. 24 8; Eze.44. 23. an unclean place. *•' Moreover he that go- eth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening. ^' And he tliat lieth in the house shall wash his clothes, and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clotlies. •^^And if the priest shall come in and look iipon it, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then tlie priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. ■iaAnd ^he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop; so and he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water ; ^i and he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in tlic running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. S2^nd he shall cleanse the house witli the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and witli the hyssop, and with the scarlet. ^3 And he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields ; and he shall /make an atonement for the house ; and it shall be clean. 5* This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and " scall, 55 and for '' the leprosy of a garment, and * of a house, 56 and * for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot ; 57 to ' teach when anp thing is unclean and when it is clean ; this is the law of leprosy. Laws concerning other ceremonial xmcleamiess. 15. AND the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: "When any man hath a running issue out of his flesh, because of his issue he is un- clean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue ; whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness. * Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lieth is unclean; and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean. 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes and ''bathe him- self in water, and be unclean until the even- ing. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he that hath the issue sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall and be unclean until the evening. 9 And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean, i" And who- soever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And he that beareth any of those tilings shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. '1 And whomsoever he that hath the issue toucheth, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening. 1 2 And the "^ vessel of earth that he who hath the issue toucheth shall be broken ; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. 13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, then "^he shall num- ber to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clotlies and bathe his flesh in running water, and .shall be clean, i* And on the eighth day he shall take to him " two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest; i5and the priest shall oflPer them, /the one for a sin-oflTering and the other /or a burnt-oflfering ; and "the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue. 1'' And '» if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be luiclean until the evening, i' And every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening, is^he woman also with whom man shall lie joith seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening. 19 And ' if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days; and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the evening. 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean ; every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be imclean until the evening. 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself m water, and be unclean until the evening. 23 And if it be on her bed or on any thing whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the evening. 24 And * if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon him, he shall be unclean seven days ; and all the wash his clothes and bathe Amse//in water, | bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean B.C. 1490.- U.l LEVITICUS. XV, XVI. [B.C. 1647. H. » ch. 11. 47 ; Deu. 24.8; Kze. 44. 2.J. ) Num. .1. 3 : 19. 1,'!, 20; Eze. 2J. 33., 6 Ex. 2t;. S3, 34; 30 10 ; Hcb 9. 3,7,8 10. 19. c Ex. 25. 22:40. .-M 1 Ki. 8. 10 (ich. 4. 3 ech.fi. 10; Ex. 28. 2, 39 — 43 ; Eze. 44. 17,18. 25 And if 'a woman liave an issue of her blood many days out of tlie time of her separation, or if it run beyoml the time of her separation ; all the days of tlie issue of her uncleanness shall be as tlie days of her separation ; she sital/ be unclean. *"J Every bed whereon she lieth all tlie days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation ; and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation. -' And whosoever touch- eth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himsdf in water, and be unclean until the evening. -**But '"if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven day.s, and after that she shall be clean. ™j^,iJ on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, and bring them to the priest, at the door of the tent of meeting, so And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-oftcring ; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall ye "separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness ; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they "defile my tabernacle that is among them. 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith, 33 and of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the wo- man, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean. The annual Day of 4tonement. 16. AND the Lord spake unto Moses after "the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they ofJered before the Lord, and died; 2 and the Lord said unto Moses: Speak unto Aaron thy brother that become not at all times into '' the holy place within the veil before the mercy-seat, which is upon the ark, that he die not; for '^I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: <^with a young bullock for a sin- ofl'ering and a ram for a burnt-offering. *He shall put on * the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen I girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he I be attired : these are holy garments ; there- ;'^?Ex.'2y.''fore /shall he wash his flesh in water, and 4'i 30. 20. j JO put them on. 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin-offering and one ram for a bumt-oti'ering. •' And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and "make an atonement for himself and for his house. 7 And he shall take the two goat.s, and pre- sent them before the Loud at the door of the tent of meeting, s^mi Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats ; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for '* the scape- goat.* ^And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him for 'a sin-offering; i"but tlie goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat t shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat | into the wilderness. 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin-offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which i;j for himself. i2_A.nd he shall talie *a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of ^ sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil ; 13 and he shall '" put the incense upon the fire before the Loud, that the cloud of the incense may cover the " mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not. l* And " he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy-seat eastward ; and before the mercy- seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times. 1^ Then " shall he kill the goat of the sin- offering, that is for tlie people, and bring his blood 'within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bul- lock, and sprinkle it upon tiie mercy-seat and before the mercy-seat, i'' And he shall '"make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgres- sions in all their sins. And so shall he do for the tent of meeting, that dwelleth among them in the midst of their unclean- ness. i^And there shall be *no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. i"* Anil he shall go out to the altar that is ' before the Lord, and " make an atone- ment for it. And he shall take of the blood of the bullock and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about ; i^ and he shall sprinkle 7 ch. 9. 7 ; Hcb. .1.2; 7. 27, 28 ; 9.7. which t lotfcllfor Azazel. 11 Ex. GO. 1. 7, b: Kuv. 8. 3, 21. och.4.5.G, 17; Ueb. -• see Ex. 29. 3C; Eze. Ar,. I 18; Heb. U. 22, 23. «ch. 1. 5; 4.24. u ch. 4 Ei.30. 10; Heb. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XVI, XVII. [B.C. 1647. H. rfch.4.( 10; £ ■ja. 13. * //eft. for Azazel. e ch. 13. 5. fch. 4. V2, 21 ; 6. SO; Heb. lo. g ch. 2.1. 27-32; Num. 2!». 7 ; I's. ;i-,. 13 ; Dan. 10. 3, 12. A Ex. 12. 16. i Ps. :•!. 2, 7 ; Eze. 38. 25; Ueb. i). 13, 14; 10. fc eh. 23. of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and ''hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. -"And when he hath made an end of ^ reconciling the holy 2)lace and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall bring the live goat. 21 And Aaron shall *lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their trans- gressions in all their sins, "putting them upon the head of the goat ; and he shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness. 22j\^nd the goat shall ''bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land of separation ; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. 23 And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and ''shall put ofi" the linen garments which lie put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there. "iAnd he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and the burnt-off"ering of the people, and make an atonement for himself and for the people. 25 And d the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar. 26 And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat* shall wash his clothes, and 'bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards come into the camp. 27 And /the bullock for tiie sin-offering, and the goat foi- the sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy j^lace, shall one carry forth without the camp ; and they shall burn in the fire their skins and their flesh and their dung. 2S And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp. 29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you : that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, "ye shall humble your souls, and ''do no work at all, tvhether it he one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourncth among you ; 30 for on that day shall an atonement be made for you, to » cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. 31 It shall be *^a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall humble your souls, by a statute for ever. 32 And the priest whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement ; and he shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy gar- I ments ; 33 and he shall make an atonement I for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tent of meeting, and for the altar, and he shall make an atone- ment for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation. 3* And ' this shall be an everlasting sta- tute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins '"once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses. All animals slain for food to be brought to the tabernacle ; (10) blood not to be eaten. 17. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying : 2 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them. This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, saying : 3 What man soever there he of the house of Israel " that killeth an o.x or sheep or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp, ■<■ and ^ bringeth it not to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord, blood shall be imputed unto that man ; he hath shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people : 5 to the end that the children of Israel may bring "^ their sacrifices which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them to the Lord, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and offer them for ])eace-offerings unto the Lord. 0 And the priest d shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of the Lord at the door of the tent of meeting, and " burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the Lord. 7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices / unto devils,* after whom they " have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. s And thou shalfc say unto them : What- soever man there he of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, '' that offereth a burnt-offering or sa- crifice 9 and bringeth it not to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it unto the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from among his people. 1" And whatsoever man there he of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any man- ner of blood, « I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For * the life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I liave given it to you upon the altar ' to make an atonement for your souls ; for it is the blood that maketh an a see Deii. 12.5 — 7 11-15, 21) -22, / Deu. 32. 17;2Chr. 11.15;Ps. 106.37; " *o;-,goatB. g Deu. 31. 16. ch. 20.8; I's. 34.1G; Eze. 14.8. c. 1490. U.J LEVITICUS, XVII, XVIII. .c. 1C47. IL atonement by the life (hereof. ^" There- fore I said unto the chihlrcn of Israel, "* No soul of you shall eat blood, neither i:;. shall any stranger that sojourneth among you cat blood. 13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that huntuth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall even " pour out the bloud EJc. ! thereof, and "cover it with dust, i' For ^ ^ ! the ^ life of all llesh U the blood thereof in 'i.>; the life thereof. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not eat the blood of any flesh ; for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof; whosoever eatetli it shall be cut off. 15 And « every soul that cateth that which died of itself or that which was torn by beasts, whether it be one of your own country or a stranger, he sliall both wash his clothes and batlie/iiwise// in water, and be unclean until tlio evening; then shall he be clean. •'' But if he wash them not nor bathe his flesh, then '" he shall bear his iniquity. Ejt.22. K/e. aj. b Eze. 20. 8; ». 8. c ch.20.t>3: Et.23.24; Ueu. 12. M, ol. (7Ch.20.ll; Gc. 43. 4; Oeu. 27. 20; Ezc. ■2.'. 10 ; 1 Cor. 5. 1. Ach.20.17; 2 Sam.Lt. 12; Ezc. 22.11. Cnlauful marriages aiid lusts forbidden. 18. AND the LoKD spake imlo Moses, saying, - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them : " I am the Loud your God. 3 After * the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do ; and ''after the doings of the land of Ca- naan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do ; neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. ^Ye shall ''do my judgments and keep j mine ordinances, to walk therein : I am I the Lord your God. ^ Ye shall therefore I keep mine ordinances and my ju/ one of these abo- minable customs which were committed before you, and that ye defile not your- selves therein : I am, the Lord your God. Various laios, reliijious, moral, and social. 19. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation of" the children of Israel, ami say unto them : " Ye shall be holy ; for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 Ye * shall reverence every man his mo- ther, and his father; ''and ye shall keep my sabbaths : I am the Lord your God. 4 Turn "^ ye not unto idols, * nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God. 5 And / if ye offer a sacrifice of peace- offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it so that ye may he accepted. ** It ^ shall be eaten on the same day ye offer it and on the morrow ; and if aught remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire. 7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable ; '^ it shall not be accepted. 8 Therefore evei-y one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord ; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 9 And * when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. !•> And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the scattering of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God. 11 Ye *•■ shall not steal, nor deal falsely, ^ nor lie one to another, i^ And ye shall not '" swear by my name falsely, " neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God : I am the Lord, is Thou " shalt not op- press thy neighbour, nor rob him. ^ The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning. 1* Thou shalt not curse the deaf, ' nor put a stumbling-block before the blind ; but thou shalt fear thy God : I am the Lord. Ij Ye '■ shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; thou shalt not respect the per- son of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty ; bid in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. 16 Thou * shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people ; neither shalt thou ' stand up against the blood of thy neighbour : I am the Lord. 17 Thou " shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart ; ^ thou shalt in any wise re- buke thy neighbour, and not bear sin on account of him. 18 Thou ^ shalt not avenge thyself, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people ; ' but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. I' am the Lord, i'' Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind : " thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. 20 And wliosoever lieth carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a man, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free, ^i And * he shall bring his tres- pass-offering unto the Lord, to the door of the tent of meeting, even a ram for a trespass-offering. 22 And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done ; and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. 23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count its fruit as uncircumcised ; three years shall it be uncircuincised unto you ; it shall not be eaten of. 24 But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, "to praise the Lord ivith. 25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of its fruit, that it may yield to you its increase : I am the Lord your God. 26 Ye <* shall not eat any thinr; with the blood. ^Neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times. 27 Ye / shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not ^ make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the Lord. 29 Do 1^ not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore ; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness. 30 Ye i shall keep my sabbaths, and *re verence my sanctuary : I am the Lord. 31 Eegard ' not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them : I am the Lord your God. 32 Thou "* shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the Lord. 33 And " if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not oppress hi ilJohnS. 12-15. : Fro. 27. S,6:Eph. 6. 11; 1 Tim. 5. 20. - Pro. 20. 22;Ro.l2. 17, 19. d ch.17.10, 14. eDeu. 18. 10,11,14; 2 Ki. 21. 6. /ch. 21. 5. g Deu. 14. I ; Jer. 16. ich.26. 2. i-Ps.89. 7; John 2. 15, 16. I ch. 20. fi, 27;lChr. 10. 13; Is. 8. 19, 20. m comp. Gen. 31. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XIX, XX. [B.C. 1647. H. jDcu. 2.1. la, 13 ; Pro. 11. 1 ; 20. 10 ; comp. Am. K. 5. rch. 18. 4, 5:Deu.4. 5,6. och.lS.21; 2 Chr. -M. 6 ; Eze. 20. 26, 31. <1 Eze. .■;. II ; aa. 37 -3». t ch. 18.21. g Ex. 20.; Ach-ir.; tch.19.2. - a harlot, these shall he not take ; but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife. 1^ And he shall not profane his seed among his people ; for I the Lord do sanctify him. IG And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing, 1" Speak unto Aaron, saying : Whoso- ever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not '"ap- proach to offer the bread of his God. i^ For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose or any thing * superfluous, i^* or a man that is broken-footed or broken-handed 20 or crook- backed or a dwarf, or that hatli a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy or scabbed, or « hath his stones broken ; 21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest that hath a blemish shall come nigh to ofier the offerings of the Lord made by fire ; he hath a blemish ; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the "most holy and of the "^holy ; 23 only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries ; for I the Lord do sanctify them. 2* And Moses told it unto Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel. Warnings against improper uses of holy things. 22. AND the Lord spake unto Closes saying: 2Sj,eak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they " profane not my holy name in those things which they * hallow unto me : I am the Lord. ^ y^y nnto them : Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations that goetli unto the holy things which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord "^having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence : I am the Lord. * Whatso- ever man of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath <^a running issue, he shall not cat of the holy things "until he be clean. And /whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean bi/ the dead, or "a man whose seed goeth from him ; ^ or '' whosoever toucheth any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean, or » a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever un- cleanness he liatli ; ^ the soul who hath touched any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the lioly things unless he ^"wasli his flesh with water. 7 And wlien the sun is down he shall be clean, and shall afterwards eat of the holy things; because 'it is his food. ^That d1 ich. 2. 10; 24. i Num. 1 38; Nun 18. 32 Deu. 1. 13. ^^ ' ch. 15. 16. /ich.n B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XXIL XXIII. [B.C. 1647. H. m ch. 17. li; Ex. 2-.'. 31 : Eze. « :il. n Sum. 18. ; ch. 1. 2, S, 10 . Num. 15. J3. 14. 3. 10 ; 4. 32. c Heb. 9. 14 ; 1 Fet. 1.19. d Deu. l.'j. 21; 17- 1. ch. 3. 1, / Num. 1.^. 3, 8 ; Deu. 23. 21. 23 ; Pb. M. 1. »MaL1.8, whicli "*dieth of itself or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith : I am the Lokd. ^Tiiey shall therefore keep mine ordinance, "lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore if they profane it : I the Lord do sanctify them. l" There "shall no stranger eat of the holy thing ; a sojourner with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing; ''but if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house; ^they shall eat of his food. 12 If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things. ^3 i>Qt if the priest's daughter be a widow or di- vorced, and have no child, and Ls 'returned to her father's house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's food ; but there shall no stranger eat thereof. i^And '"if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall jiut *the fifth jxirt thereof unto it and shall give it to the priest, with the holy thing. ii>And 'they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto the Lokd, i<' or suffer them to bear the inicjuity of tres- pass when they eat their holy things ; for I the LoED do sanctify them. TIte requisites to acceptable sacrifices. 1" AND the Lokd spake unto Moses say- ing, 18 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them : " Whosoever ?te be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, tliat will offer his oblation for all his vows and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the Lokd for a burnt-offer- ing, 13 that ye may be accepted ye * shall offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, '^ of the sheep or of the goats ; 2« but «* what- soever hath a blemish t/iat shall ye not of- fer, for it shall not be acceptable for you. 2t And ' whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the Lokd /to accom- plish his vow or a freewill-offering, of the beeves or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted ; there shall be no blemish therein. 22j3iiQ(j o q^ broken or maimed, or having a wen or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make '^ an offering by fire of them up- on the altar unto the Lokd. -^ Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing i superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 2* Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised or crushed or broken or i-Nuir 15, ItJ ich. 21. C, > comp. Dtu. 'Jl 6, 7. >ch. 1.3; Ps. 7ch. 7. IJ -18. r ch. 19. 37 ; Dcu. 4. 40. J ch. 18.21. I cut, neither shall yc make ani/ offering \ thereof in your land. 2i jjeithej. <;from a ! stranger's hand shall ye ofl'er ' any of these as the bread of your Uod, because their •"corruption is in them and blemishes are in them ; they shall not be accepted for you. -"And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : -' When " a bullock or a sheep or a goat is brought fortli, then it shall be seven days under the dam ; and from the eightli day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the Lord. -^ And u-hcther it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill her "and her young both in one day. -3 And when ye will '' offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the Lord, offer it that it may be accepted for you. 30()n the same 17 ; day it shall be eaten up, ye shall leave ' none of it until the morrow : 1 am the Lord. 31 And ""ye shall keep my command- ments, and do them : I am the Lord. 3- Ye *shall not profane my holy name ; but ' I will be hallowed among the children t ch. lo, of Israel : I airi the Lord who halloweth you, 23 who brought you out of the land of Egj'pt, to be your God. I am the Lord. The holy festivals- (Z) The weekly sabbath; and six yearly festivals ; viz. (5) the Passover, (9) I the Offerino of flrst-fniiU, (15) the Pentecost, (23) tlie Blowing of trumpets, (2C) the Day of Atonemait, and (33) the Feast of Tabernacles. 23. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them : Concerniiuj " the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall f* proclaim to be holy convocations, ecen these are my feasts. 3 Six ^ days shall work be done ; but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation ; ye shall do no work tlicrein ; it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. * These ^are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall pro- claim in their seasons. ^On ''the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover. •^ And /on the fifteenth day of the same month w the feast of Unleavened bread unto the Lord ; seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. " On " the first day ye shall have a holy convocation ; ye shall do no servile work therein. *Lut ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days ; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work therein. 3 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them : When ye are come • Ex. 20. 8-11; 2.-1. 12:31.15; Lk. 13.14. r Ex. 12. 2-14,18; Num. 28. I'i. 17 ; Deu. 16. 1. / Kx. 12. B.C. 1490. U.] LEVITICUS, XXIII. [B.C. 1647. H. *neb. an omer. /* Ex. 22. 29j23.19; t Num. 18. 12; Deu. IS. 4. uch.lO. 9 10; Deu. •M. 10. into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest tliereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf* of '• the first-fruits of your har- vest unto the i)riest; Hand he shall 'wave the sheaf before the Loud, to be accepted for you. On the morrow after the sabbath the priest sliall wave it. 12 ^^d ye shall ofi'er on that day wlien ye wave the sheaf '•a he-Iamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt-ofiering unto the Lord. 13 And 'the meal-oflering thereof sJudl he two tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil ; an offering made by fire unto the L And / it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and " they shall eat it in the holy place ; for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute. Punishment cf blaxphemy, and (IT) other offences. ^0 AND the son of an Israelitish woman, I whose father vias an Egj-ptian, went out among the children of Israel ; and this son ; of the Israelitish woman and a man of Is- rael strove together in the camp ; ' ' and the 2i; liibil-'raelitish woman's son blasphemed the 6*E !•= ' "^™^ '^f ^^ Lord and "cursed. And they 22,'j.i. ''' brought him unto Moses; (and his mo- '"sl""'^' ^^^^'^ Tiomz u-as Shelomith, the daughter d Ex. 18. of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan ;) 12 and they rium.^lr! * P"* ^'™ '° ^'^'■d' ** that the mind of the fi;36. 5,8. Lord might be showed them. a homer. d Ei. 25. 23, 24: Ueb. U. 2. ! Num. 4. 7; 1 Chr. 9. 32 ; 2 Chr. 2. 4. /ch.8..'H; lSim.21. 6; 4lt. 12. 12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : 1* IJring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him * lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation / stone him. 15 And thou shalt speak unto the chil- dren of Israel, saying : Whosoever curseth his God " shall bear his sin ; l*^ and he that '' blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him : as well the stranger as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death. 1^ And • he tliat killeth any man shall surely be put to death. '^ And '' he that killeth a beast shall make it good, beast for beast. ^^ And if a man cause a blem- ish in his neighbour, ' as he hath done so shall it be done to him ; -'^ breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him aijain. 21 ^nd he that killeth a beast shall restore it : and he that killeth a man shall be put to death. — Ye shall have "' one manner of law as well I for the stranger as for one of your own j country : for I am the Lord your God. 23 And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him I that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the cliildren of Is- rael did as the Lord commanded Moses. I The Sabbatical years, and (8.) years of Jubilee; (39) the law of servitude far Hebrew servants. 25. AND the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, - Speak unto the chil- dren of Israel and say unto them: When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep " a sabbath unto the Lord. 3 gjx years thou shalt sow thy field, and si.x years thou shalt prune thy vinej'ard and gather in the fruit thereof; ^ but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord ; thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard. * That f> which grow- eth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed ; for it is a year of rest unto tlie land. ^ And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you ; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that so- journeth with thee ; " and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that ace in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be food. 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven a eh. 5. 1 ; Ex. 20. 7. A 1 Ki.21. 10,ly;Mt. I 12. 31 : I John 10. 32-36. I Gc. 9. 5, C:Ex- 21. 12 - 14 ; Num. 35. 31. k Ex. 21. 33,34. / Ex. 21. 2:1-25; Deu. 19. 21 ; Mt. 5. 38; 7. 2. n ch. 17. 10; 10. 34; Num. 15. 11;, 29. a ace ch. '\ 2C. 34,35; •' Ex. 28.1 111, 11: 31 Chr. 06. 21. B.C. 1491. U.] LEVITICUS, XXV. [B.C. 1G48. H. els. 61. 1 —a: Jer. 34. 8, la- 17;Lk.4. 18, 19. /ch. 27.24. i ch.19.13; 1 Sam. 12. 3. 4 ; Mic. 2. 1, m ch. 2(5. 0 ; Deu. .33. 27, 28; Jer. 23.0. nPs. S.-i.g, 12; Eze. 34.26-28. o ch. 26. 3. 2J Mt. 6.25, r Deu. 28. 8. s 2 Ki. 19. 3; Joel 2. 18:3.2. X 1 Chr. 29.1.5; Ps. S9. 12 ; Heb. 11. 9,13. !/ see Ru. 4. y, 6 . Jer. 32. 7. years ; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. » Then shalt thou cause ' the trum- pet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth cknj of the seventh month ; <' on tlie Day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. ^^ And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and ^pro- claim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto j'ou. And / ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family, ii A Ju- bilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed ; ^- for it is the Jubilee ; it shall be holy unto you ; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In B the year of this Jubilee ye shall return every man unto his posses- sion. 1* And if thou sell aught to thy neigh- bour, or buy aught of thy neighbour's hand, 'i ye shall not oppress one another ; i^ ac- cording * to the number of years after the Jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to thee; i" according to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fev/- ness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it : for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. 17 Ye shall therefore not oppress one an- other ; but *■ thou shalt fear thy God : for I am the Lord your God. IS Wlierefore ' ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them ,• and "' ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 1^ And "■ the land shall yield her fruit, and " ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, » What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, ' we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase ;— 2i then I will '' command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And * ye shall sow in the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year ; until its fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. 23 The t land shall not be sold for ever ; for " the land is mine ; for ye arc ^strangers and sojourners with me. '-4 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a re- demption for the land. 25 if thy brother be waxen poor and hath sold away some of his possession, and if ^ any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 2CAnd if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it, 27 then * let him count the years from the sale thereof, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it ; that he may return to his possession. "^ But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of Jubilee ; " and in the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. 29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it with- in a whole year after it is sold; icithin a full year may he redeem it. 3o And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be estabhshed for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations ; it shall not go out in the Jubilee, ^i But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country ; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee. 32 And concerning '' the cities of the Le- vites, the houses of the cities of their pos- session may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Le- vites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of Jubilee ; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34 g^t the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold ; for it is their perpetual posses- sion. 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor and fallen into decay with tliee, then ' thou shalt relieve him, yea though he he a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with thee. 36 Take ''thou no usury or increase of him ; but ''fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 3S i fam the Lord your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. 39 And "if thy brother that dicelleth by thee be waxen poor and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant ; ^^hut as a hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of Jubilee ; ■'•1 and then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children ^ with him, and shall return to his own family ; and » to the pos- session of his fathers shall he return. 4I.l:Lk. 6. .'ill, :i.i ; 1 John -i. d Ex. 22. 2.5; Pro. 28. 8. ; Neh. .5. ^i^^r'is 12; 2Ki 4.1; Neh 7..i; Jer 34. 14. u.c. U91. U. LEVITICUS, XXV, XXVI. [B.C. 1648. H. ■■ Job 7. 1 ; U. ! either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of liis family may redeem him ; or if '' he be able he may redeem himself. "''And he shall reckon with him that bought liim from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of Jubilee : and the price of his sale shall be according to the num- ber of years, * according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. ^i If there be yet many years behind, according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. »- And if there remain but few years unto the year of Jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. °'^ And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him; and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. iiiAnd if he be not redeemed by these means, then ' he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, both he and his children with him. ^ For unto me the children of Israel arc servants ; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egj-pt. I am the LoiiD your Uod. Commands (^ to avoid idolatry, and (2J to ob- Kcrue the jntblic worship of God. 26. YE shall make you " no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a pillar, neither shall ye set up any image of stone Joel 2.23. 2.V, IChr. 22.9. /Job 11. 19; Zcpli. .3.1.1: Kze. 34.25. r Deu. 28. 7; Jos. at. 1(1; 1 Sam. 14. C, 23. in your land, to bow down unto it : for I am the I^ORD your God. i! Ye '' shall keep my sabbaths, and reve- rence ray sanctuary : 1 am the Lord. Prophetic promises, and (14) iiiarnings ; (40) promises oj restoration upon repentance. 3 IF "ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments and do them, * then | -js. 1-^14! '' I will give you rain in due season, and & Eze. 34. the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. ^ And ''your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto j the sowing time; and ''ye shall cat your w/ Joel 2 bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. '' And * I will give peace in the land, and /ye shall lie down and none shall make yoa afraid : and /I will rid evil beasts out of the land ; neither shall the sword go through your land. '' And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall full before you by the sword; s and "five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight : and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 0 For I will ^ have respect unto you, and ' make you fruitful and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. lo^mj ye shall eat >' old store, and bring forth the old store from before the new. n And ' I will set my tabernacle among you ; and my soul shall not "'abhor you. '- And "I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. 13 1 » am the Lokd your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that yc should not be their bond men; and ''I have broken the bands of . ''.,F^'- ** your yoke, and made you go upright. I'lBut «if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments, IS and if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant, ^'' I also will do this unto you : I will even apimint over you ^ terror, * consumption and the burning ague, which shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to fail. Aiu\ 'yc shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall j'.'w, iT\ cat it. 17 And I will set my face against ^?f j'^^^^ you, and "ye shall be slain before your «• i*- enemies ; they that hate you shall reign | ",Jy"J«- over you ; and ^ yc shall flee when none pursueth you. i<» And if ye will not yet for all this heark- en unto me, then "I will punish you seven times more for your sins. i^And I will H 2 Cor. C. och. 25.38. pcu._ 28. )>eu. 28. Dcu. B.C. 1491. U.] LEVITICUS, XXVI, XXVII. [B.C. 1648. H. tJcr.13.9; Eze.T.M. I Ueu. 28. 6Deu. 28 3*1 - 40 ; Hug. 1. 9 4-10. • Lam. 1. 10. Am. 5.21 -23. Eze. .",3. 28, 2i). nDeu Jer. break the pride of your power ; and I " will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass : -" and your strength shall be spent in vain ; for >> your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits. 21 And if ye walk contrary to me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you accord- ing to your sins. -'- 1 ' will also send wild beasts among you, <* which .shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number ; and " your ways shall be desolate. 23 And if ye -''will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me, 24 then "will I also walk contrary to you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. 25 And '' I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of mi/ covenant. And when ye are gathered together within your cities, «I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 2G j^nd k when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall de- liver you, your bread again by weight ; and ' ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. 27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you also ™ in fury ; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 And "ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. 30 And "I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols ; and my soul shall ^ abhor you. 31 And «I will make your cities waste, and ''bring your sanctu- aries to desolation ; and * I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. 32 And i I will bring the land into desolation : and your enemies who dwell therein shall be " astonished at it. 33 And * I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you ; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then *' shall the land enjoy its sab- baths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land ; even then shall the land rest and enjoy its sabbaths; 35 all the days that it lieth desolate shall it rest, which it rested not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it. 3« And upon them that are left alive of you * I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies ; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them ; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword ; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 37 And " they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pur- sueth ; and * ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ^^ And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And they that are left of you ' shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands ; and also <* in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 4" If " they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me, *i and I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their en- emies ; if then their /uncircumcised hearts be " humbled, and they then '^ accept of the punishment of their iniquity; ^2 then will I i remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I, remember; and I will *; remember the land. 43 The Mand also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them. And they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity ; because, even because, they despised ray judgments, and because their soul abhorred my sta tutes. 44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, *" I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and "to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God. ^^But I will for their sakes "remember the covenant of their ances- tors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt ^ in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord. 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel, at mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses. 17 ; Dan. ). 3-20: IJolm 1. 29; 2Ch; ;«. 12. 13; F.ze. 20. 43. '; Ezra 9. 13-1.5. i Fa. lOG. 45. l-Ps.85.1; Eze. 3B. 1 - 15. 33, n Deu. 4. 29 - .''I ; Neh. 9. 31; Ro. 11.2. n Eze. II GO— 62. 3 Ex. 2.24. p Ps. 98. 2, 3 ; Eze. 20. 9. Supple^nentary laws respecting the redemption of vows, devoted things, and tithes. 27. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: "When a man shall make a special vow the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation. 3 And thy estimation shall be for the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, * after the skekelof the sanctuary, i And if it be a female, then thy estimation It Num. 2 ; 1 Sam. 1. 11, 28. B.C. 1491. U.] LEVITICUS, XXVIL [b.c. 1648. H. • or. the laml of a homer. shall be thirty shekels. ^ And if il be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be for the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels. « And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estima- tion shall be for the male five sliekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver. " And if it be from sixty years old and above, if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 But if he be too poor to pan thy estima- tion, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him ; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him. ^ And if it he a beast whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that anyj man givcth of such unto the Lord shall be holy. ii'He shall not alter it nor change it, a good for a bad or a bad for a good ; and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then l)oth it and the exchange thereof shall be lioly. 11 And if it he any unclean beast of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest, i- and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad : as thou valuest it who art the priest, so shall it be. i^But 'if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy esti- mation. i*And when a man shall sanctify his house to he holy unto the Lord, then the priest shall estimate it ; whether it be good or bad, as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand, i' And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth j>art of the money of thy estima- tion to it, and it shall be his. "5 And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some jmrt of the field of his posses- sion, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: a homer •■■ of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver, i" If he sanctify his field from the year of Jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall stand, l^ gut jf he sanctify his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall ''reckon to him the money according to the years that remain, even to the year of the Jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation, i^^^nd "^ if he that sancti- fied the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth 2)a;-< of the t/Num. I ' money of thy estimation to it, and it shall be assured to him. 20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be re- deemed any more: "ibut the field /when it goeth out in the Jubilee shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted ; " the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 22 And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession, '^^ then '' the priest shall reckon to him the worth of thy estimation, even to the year of the Jubilee ; and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord. '■^'In i the year of the Jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land dul belong. 25 And all thy estimations shall be accord- ing to the shekel of the sanctuary ; * twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. '-« Only the 'firstling of the beasts which should be the Lord's firstling, no man shall sanctify it ; whether it be ox or sheep, it is the Lord's. 27 ^nd if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it ac- cording to thine estimation, and "'shall add a fifth part of it thereto ; or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold accord- ing to thy estimation. 2S Notwithstanding, "no devoted thing, that a man shall devote imto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be j sold or redeemed ; every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord. 29jjone <* de- lo.Num--'!. voted, who shall be devoted of men, shall be j j'udg. n. j redeemed ; he shall surely be put to death. '^' 30 And P all the tithe of the land, xvhether P„„Ge^ 14. of the seed of the land or of the fruit of j Num.'Ts." ' the tree, is the Lord's ; it is holy unto thej ciir'si'.s"! Lord. ^lAnd if a man will at all redeem I jJch"'in \auf)ht of his tithes, he shall add thereto I i??-.^"- i the fifth par ^ thereof. 3- And concerning j KiVlii-i).' i the tithe of the herd or of the flock, even of; '• '^''• ' whatsoever '' passeth under the rod, the [ \'^j^f "■• tenth shall be holy unto the Lord. 3^ He: tie. ao. shall not search whether it be good or] ^" j bad, '"neither shall he change it ; and if hejiver.io. change it at all, then both it and the | change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed. \ 3ixhese *a>'C the commandments which ''<=li.2G.-iC. the Lord commanded Moses for the chil i dren of Israel, at mount Sinai. k Ex. GO. lo; Num. a. 47. I Ex. 13. 2. 12 ; 22. a) . Num. IS. 17. 111. B.C. 1490. U.] [B.C. 1647. H. / called ch."2.'H. .<7ch. 7. 2, h Ex. 18. 21,23. THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES, NUMBERS y umbering of the twelve tribes, (47) omitting the Leviien. 1. AND the Lord spake unto Moses in tlie wilderness of Sinai, "in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egj'pt, saying: 2 Take ''ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, hy the house of their fathers, according to the number of their names, every male by their polls, 3 from ''twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel. Thou and Aaron shall number them ' ivere forty and six thousand and five hundred. -2 Of the children of ' Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the num- ber of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, -^ those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, '"''were fifty and nine thou- sand and three hundred. 21 Of the children of " Gad, by their gene- rations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, '5 those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were " forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty. -« Of the children of ^ Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 27 those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were 'threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. 28 Of the children of '"Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, 29 those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were * fifty and four thousand and four hundred 30 Of the children of 'Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, hy the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war, si those that were numbered of them, ei^en of the tribe of Zebulun, were "fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. o ch.2G.lS. pell. 2. o, ! eh.2G.25. :ch.2.7,8. B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, I, II. [B.C..1647. H. 6 ch. 26.41; 44-4(5: 2 Chr. 17. d ch.26.4.3. ' ch. 2. 27, 32 Of the children of ' Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their genera- tions, after their laniilies, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years olrael, being twelve men ; each one was for the house of his fathers. 15 So all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the hou.se of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel, **> even all they that were numbered, were *six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 1' But ' the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. ■*■' For the LouD spake unto Moses, saying : *'■' Only '" thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel. ^^ But " thou shalt appoint the Levites over the taber- nacle of testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all things that belong to it ; they shall bear the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they shall minister unto it, "and shall encamp round about the tabernacle, ^i .tVnd ^when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down ; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up : "^ and the stranger that Cometh nigh shall be put to death. ^^And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, ' every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts : S3 but the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony ; that there be no * wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel. ' And the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony. 5' And the children of Israel did accord- ing to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they. The arrangement of the camp, and the order of march. 2. AND the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying : - Every " man of the children of Israel shall encamp by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: over against the tent of meeting shall they encamp round about. 3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah encamp according to their armies. And i-Nahshon tlie son of Am- minatlab shall he captain of the children of Jndah. * And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and si.x hundred, i And those that encamp next unto him shall he the tribe of Issachar. And Netha- neel the son of Zuar shall he captain of the children of Issachar. '^ And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred. ' Then the tribe of Zebulun. And Eliab the son of Helon .yfiall he captain of the children of Zebulun. ''And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, wei-e fifty and seven thousand and four hundred. 37;38.2)j. J ch. 2.3.1; see ch. 3 ; 4 : 1 Chr. )ch.3.10, .■18; 18.22; J Sam. 6. : ch. 8. 24 —26; 18. ."5-5; 31. 3(1. 47 ; 1 Chr. 23. 32. Ich. 10.14; Ku.4. 20; 1 Chr. 2. 10. .Mt. 1. 4 : l.k. 3. 32, 33. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, II, HI. [b.c. 1647. e Deuel, ch. 1. 14: 7. 41', 47 ; 10. 21). ^ All that were numbered in the camp of Judali were a hundred thousand and four- score thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their armies. ''These shall first set forth. 10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Eeuben according to their armies. And the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of She- deur. 11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thou- sand and five hundred. 12 And those which encamp by him s/iaZ^ be the tribe of Simeon. And the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 13 And his host, and those that were num- bered of them, were fifty and nine thou- sand and three hundred. i*Then the tribe of Gad. And the captain of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of ' Reuel. 15 And his host, and those that were num- bered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty, i*^ All that were numbered in the camp of Eeuben were a hundred thousand and fifty and one thou- sand and four hundred and fifty, according to their armies. And / they shall set fortl in the second rank. I'Then "the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp ; as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards. IS On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim, according to their armies. And the captain of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. i^'And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thou- sand and five hundred. 20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh. And the cap- tain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 2tAnd his host, anj those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hun- dred. 22 'fhen the tribe of Benjamin. And the captain of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. -^ And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. 24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim we7-e a hundred thousand and eight thousand and a hun- dred, according to their armies. And '' they shall go forward in the third rank. 25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side, according to their armies. And the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammi- shaddai. 2C And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. -~ And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher. And the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran. 28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. 29 Then the tribe of Naphtali. And the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. 30And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. 31A11 they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. *They shall go hindmost with their standards. 32 These aix those who were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers. *^ All those that were num- bered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty. 33 But ! the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel ; as the Lord commanded Moses. 31 And the children of Israel did accord- ing to all that the Lord commanded Moses. '"• So they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers. The ■pricathj famihi of Aaron. 3. THESE also arc the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day tliat the Lord spake with Moses at mount Sinai. 2 And these arc the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the " firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar ; 3 these are the names of the sons of Aaron, * the priests who were an- ointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the x^riest's office. ^ And " Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai ; and they had no chil- dren ; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office before the face of Aa- ron their father. Numbering of the Levites; and tlieir dedica- tion to God's special service in place of the fimt-horn in all the twelve tribes ; their offices and duties. o AND the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing: *< Bring " the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him. ' And they shall keep his charge and the charge of the whole congregation, before the tent of meeting, to do ^ the service of the taber- nacle. ^ And they shall keep all the in- :ch. 1.4fi; 11.21, Ex ■a. •in. ■ ch.2(;.(;i Le. 111. 1 2; 1 Chr B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, III. [B.C. 1647. H. rfch. 1R.7; Ro. 12.7; 1 Tim. -1. 15, 10. e ver. 38 ; 1.51; 7ch.8.ir,; Kx. 13.1': Lk. 2. 23. / And ' thou shalt give the Levites to I ites, and the family of the Uzzielites ; Aaron and to his sons ; they arc wholly these are the families of the Kohathites. given to him out of the chililrcu of Israel. pS In the number of all the males, from a 10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his month old and upward, utvc eight thou- sons, and '' they shall wait on their priest's sand and six hundred, keeping the charge office : and ' the stranger that cometh nigh I of the sanctuary. -'•' The " families of the shall be put to death. sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ! of the tabernacle southward. 30 ^^d the ing : 12 And I, behold / 1, have taken the chief of the house of the father of the Levites from among the children of Israel, families of the Kohathites icas Elizaphan i-ch.20..';7; Ge.4ti.ll; Ex. i;. 10, ]9;lChr. (i. 1, 10; 23. G. .1 Ex. 25.9; 2H. 1-li. o Ex. 2C.7, instead of every first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel ; there- fore the Levites shall be mine; i^bccause "all the first-born wj-cmine: for ''on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egj-pt I hallowed unto me all the first- born in Israel, both man and beast; mine shall they be : I am the Lord. 1* And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying : l** Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families : » every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them, i" And Moses num- bered them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded. 1^ And ^ these were the sons of Levi by their names ; Oershon and Kohath and Merari. i^ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families ; Libni and Shimei. i^ And the sons of Ko- hath by their families ; Amram and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 ^^d the sons of Merari by their families; Malili and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites ac- cording to the house of their fathers. 21 Of Gershon was the family of the Lib- nites and the family of the Shimites ; these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, cten those that were num- bered of them, vjere seven thousand and five hundred. 23 The * families of the Ger- shonites shall encamp behind the taber- nacle westward. 24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites wan Eliasaph the son of Lael. 2i And "* the charge of the sons of Ger- shon in the tent of meeting sliali he " the tabernacle, and the tent, " the covering thereof, and '' the hanging for the door of the tent of meeting, 20 and " the hang- ings of the court, and '' the curtain for the gate of the court, which is by the taber- nacle and by the altar round about, and ' its cords for all the service thereof. the son of LTzziel. ^1 And ^ their charge shall be " the ark, and * the table, and " the lampstand, and ^ the altars, and the vessels of the sanc- tuary wherewith they minister, and ' the hanging, and all the service thereof. 3^ And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest tvas chief over the chiefs of the Le- vites; and he had the oversiglit of them that kept the charge of the sanctuary. 33 Of Merari was the family of the Mah- lites and the family of the Mushites ; these are the families of Merari. 3i And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred. 35 And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. 2'hcsc shall en- camp on the side of the tabernacle north- ward. 30 And under the custody and charge of the sons of Mer.ari j thigh to rot. And / the woman shall say : Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them off into the bitter water ; 24 and he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that cans eth the curse ; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy- offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the ofiering before the Lord, and oft'er it upon the altar ; 20 and " the priest shall take a handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterwards shall cause the woman to drink the water. 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot ; and the woman '' shall be a curse among her people. 28 And if the woman be not defiled but be clean, then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed. 29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled ; 30 or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the wo- man before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law. 31 Then shall the man be free from iniquitj', and this woman ' shall bear her iniquity. lOy. 18. / Deu. 27 h Dcu. 2,S. .ir ; Jer. 29. 18, 22. B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, VI, VII. [B.C. 1647. H. a Lc. 27. 2; Judg. 13. Si Ac. 21. 43, a. b Am. 2. 11,12; Lk. 1.15. cJudg. 13. 5; 16. 17; 1 Sam. 1. I le. 4. 2, m Le. 3.C. Law of the Xazaritca. 6. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, - Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto thciu : When either man or woman shall " separate thcnucives to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the Loud, ^ he '' shall separate lam- self from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes or dried. •* All the days of Jiis separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine-tree, from the kernels even to the husk. '' All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no "^ razor come upon his head ; until the days be fulfilled in i which he separateth hbmelf unto the i Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. ^ All j the days that lie separateth himself unto the Lord <* he shall come at no dead body. " He " shall not make himself unclean for his father or for his mother, for his brother or for his sister, when they die ; because the separation of his God is upon his head. * All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord. 3 And if any man die very suddenly be- side him, and he hath defiled the head of his separation, then / he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day shall he shave it. ^^ And on the j eighth day he shall bring " two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to tlie priest, to the door of the tent of meeting: ^and the l)riest shall offer the one for a sin-offer- ing and the other for a burnt-offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sin- ned by the dead body, and shall hallow his head that same day. ^- And he shall sepa- rate unto the Lord the days of his separa- tion, and shall bring a lamb of the first year '' for a trespass-offering; but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled. 13 And this is the law of the Nazarite •when the days of his separation are ful- filled. He shall be brought to tlie door j of the tent of meeting ; i* and he sh.ill i offer his offering unto the Lord, ^ one he- lam! > of the first year without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one cwe-lamb of the first year without blemish 'for a sin-offer- ing, and one ram without blemish "' for peace-offerings, '^ and a basket of un- leavened bread, " cakes of fine flour min- gled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meal- offering and their " drink-offerings, l" And the priest shall bring them before theLoBD, and shall offer his sin-offering and his burnt- offering. 1' And he shall otier the ram for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LoKl), with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall ofler also his meal-offering and his drink-offering. 1* And '' the Nazarite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation and put it in the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace-offerings, i'-' Anil the priest shall take the « sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and *" shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven ; -" and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the Lord. * This is holy for the priest, with the wave-breast and heave- shoulder. And after that the Nazarite may drink wine. -1 This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, besides that which his hand shall get ; according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation. Form of the priestly blessing. 22 AND the Lord spake unto ]\Ioses, say- ing, 23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying : In this wise " ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them : 21 The Loud '' bless thee, and " keep thee ; 25 The Lord '^ make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee ; 2<'The Lord ^ lift up his countenance upon thee, and / give thee peace. Si" And '' they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. The gifts preseiited by the princes of the tribes for the service > Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benja- min, offered. ^^ His offering was one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the sliekel of the sanctuary ; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering ; ''- one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense ; *^ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering; ^ one kid of the goats for a sin-offering ; '^ and for a sa- crifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This 2vas the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni. •^ On the tenth day ' Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered. ^ jjis offering was one sil- i-er charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty glukels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary ; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; *^ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense ; '^ one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering ; "" one kid of the goats for a sin-offering ; "' and for a sacrifice of peace-ofl'erings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the oflering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. "- On the eleventh day «' Pagiel the son'<'/ij_:.i.l3i of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered. '•■^ His offering %vas one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy j shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuarj- ; I both of them full of fine flour mingled , with oil for a meal-offering ; "^ one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense; '*one young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering ; ''' one kid of the goats for a sin-offering ; "' and for a sacrifice of peace-ofi'crings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This was the oflering of Pagiel the son of Ocran. '^ On the twelfth day ' Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the cliildren of Naphtali, offered. '•'■> His offering was one silver charger of the weight of a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary ; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering ; *' one golden spoon of ten shckel.t, full of incense ; *>ione young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering ; *- one kid of the goats for a sin-offering ; ^ and for a sacrifice of peace-oHerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs of the first year. This icas the offering of Ahira the son of Enan. ^ This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the| princes of Israel. Twelve chargers of sil- ver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold ; *^" each charger of silver wcu/hing a hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy ; all the silver vessels wci'/hcd two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary ; ^ the golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, wtiyh- ing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary ; all the gold of the 1 spoons 2ms a hundred and twenty she-\ kels. 87 All the oxen for the burnt-offer- 1 ing were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meal-offering ; and the kids of the goats for sin-oflering twelve. ^ And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace- offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was /anointed. B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, VII,— IX. [B.C. 1647. H. God's direct communication with Hones luithin the tabernacle. ^"AND when Moses was gone into the tent of meeting " to speak with Him, then he heard ''the voice speaking unto him from off the mercy-seat that vms upon tlio ark of testimony, from between tlie two cherubim; and He spake unto him. The lamps of the sancticari/. 8. AND tlic Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him : When thou lightest tlie lamps, " the seven lamps shall give light in the front of the lampstand. 3 And Aaron did so ; ''he lighted the lamps thereof in front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses. *And ''tliis work of the lampstand tvas of beaten gold; unto its shaft, unto its flowers, was <^ beaten work. * According to the pattern which the Lord had sliowed Moses, so he made the lampstand. The ordination of the Levites to tlieir duties. SAND the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing: 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. ^ And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: "Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and '' let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clotlies, and so make themselves clean. ^Then let them take a young bullock witli ''his meal-ofler- ing, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering. ^ And '^ thou shalt bring the Levites before the tent of meeting: and "^ thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together. I'^And tliou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord ; and the children of Israel /shall put their hands upon the Levites; ^^and Aaron shall ofler the Levites before tlie Loud for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the Lord, i^^^i fthe Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks ; and thou shalt ofler the one for a sin-oflcr- ing and the other /or a burnt-offering, unto the Lord, to make an atonement for the Levites. 13 And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and otter them /or an offering unto the Lord. i^Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel ; and '» the Levites shall be mine, i^ And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting. And thou shalt cleanse them. and 'offer them for an offering. T^^Fot they arc wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of sucli as open every womb, eren instead of the first- born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me. i^^For ''all the first- born of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast; 'on the day that I smote every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself. is^ikJ j have taken the Levites for all the first-born of the children of Israel. I'J And '" I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to malce an atone- ment for the children of Israel ; " that there be no plague among the cliildren of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary. 20 And Moses and Aaron, and all the con- gregation of tlie children of Israel, did to the Levites according to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites ; so did the children of Israel unto them. 21 And "the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their clothes ; and '^ Aaron ofl'ered them as an offering before the Lord ; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them. 22 ^nj 3 ^fter that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting, before Aaron and before his sons. As the Lord had commanded Moses con- cerning the Levites, so did they unto them. 23 And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : 24 This is that which belmigctli unto the Levites: ''From twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tent of meeting ; 25 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more ; 20 \y\xt they shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, *to keep the charge, and shall do no ser- vice. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge. The first annioersary of the Passover at Sinai. 9. AND the Lord spake unto INIoses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after tliey were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 Let the children of Israel also keep "the Passover at its appointed season. 3 (jn the fourteenth day of this month, in the evening, ye shall keep it in its appointed season ; according to all the statutes thereof and according to all the ordinances thereof shall ye keep it. 4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. /.ch. 3.13; Ex. \-i. 2, I2,13,ir,, ].k. 2.2;'.. / Ex. 12. ich. i..-r i(;.4i;;i; ■->: 2 Cli •see cli.4. ;i; 1 Clir. 2:}. 3, 24, B.C. 1490. U]. NUAIBERS, IX, X. [B.C. 1647. H. e Ex. 12.8; TH-u. Hi. ;i. f Ki. 12. 10. g Ex. ^2. 46 ; John 19.36 I ICx. r.i. •13. 49 ic-h. ir .T(); Ex.): .li. 5 And * they kept the Passover on the four- teenth day of the first month, in the even- ing, in the wilderness of Sinai ; acconling to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. Supplementary prnvisimi for persons unable to keep the Pa-xsoeer at the proper time. "AND there were certain men who were " defiled by the dead body of a man, and could not keep the Passover on that day ; and ''they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. " And tliose men said unto him : AVe are defiled by the dead body of a man; wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer the offering of the Loud in its appointed season among the children of Israel ? ^ And Moses said to them : Stay ye, and ' I will hear what the Loud will command concerning you. "And tlie Lohd spake unto Moses, say- ing, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying : If any man of you or of your jios- terity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover unto the Lord. 11 On ''the fourteenth day of the second month, in the evening, they shall keep it, and *eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. l-They /shall leave none of it unto the morning, "nor break any bone of it. '•According to all the statutes of the Pass- over they shall keep it. 13 But the man that is clean and is not on a journey, and ' forbeareth to keep the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he brought not tlic offer- ing of the Lord in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. i*And if a stranger shall sojourn among you and will keep the Passover unto the Lord, accord- ing to the statute of the Passover and ac- cording to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do. * Ye shall have one statute lioth for the stranger and for him that was born in the land. The sigtutU for marching and halting ; viz. (15) llie cloud over Uie tabernacle, and (ch. 10.1) the trumpets— Other tcscn of the trumpets, (9) ill war, and (10) at the sacred festivals. 15 AND "on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covereil the taber- nacle, namely, the tent of tlie testimony; and in the evening there was over the taber- nacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning, i'' So it was always ; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And wlien the cloud * was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed ; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. 18 At the commandment of the Loud the children of Israel journeyed, and at the command- ment of the Lord they encamped. As long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. i^And when the cloud tarried long ui)on the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel •^kept the charge of the Lord, and jour- neyed not. -"And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle. According to the commandment of- the Loud they abode in their tents, and accord- ing to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed. -'And so it was, when the cloud abode from evening unto the morn- ing, and tJie cloud was taken up in tlie morning, then they journeyed ; whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. "- Or whetfier it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, re- maining thereon, the children of Israel <* abode in their tents, and journeyed not ; but when it was taken up, tlicy journeyed. 23 At the commandment of the Lord they rested in the tents, and at the command- ment of the Lord they journeyed : tliey kept the charge of the Loud, at the command- ment of the Lord by the hand of Moses. 10. And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing: 2 Make thee two 'trumpets of silver ;. '■'-<=v. •-■... of a whole piece shalt thou make them ; 1 that thou mayest use them for the /calling /P^. 81^3; of the assembly, and for the journeying of' Joci'i.i*! the camps. 3 And when " tliey siiail blow j "/oVi o'lii with them, all the assembly sliall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tent of meeting. * And if they blow with bid one tnimpd, then the princes icho are ^ heads of the thousands of Israel shall '',<=';, gather themselves unto thee. '' When ye blow an alarm, then » the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward, o-^ien j ye blow an alarm the second time, then tlie camps that lie on * the south side shall take *■ their journey. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys ; ' but when the congre- gation is to be gathered together, 'ye shall ' blow, but ye shall not "'sound an alarm, j " **And "the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow witli the trumpets. And they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. "And "if ye go to war in your land against the ene- my that "oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets ; and ye shall be "remembered before the Lord your God. and ye shall be saved from your ic, :i; Ex. i ch. 2. 3- r. 3. Chr. och.31.0: Jos. 6. .•> : 2 Chr. 13. 12. 14. nJudg. 4. 3; Jll. H, 12; 1 Sam. IV. 1». 17GC. 8. 1. B.C. 1490. U.j NUMBERS, X. XI. [B.C. 1647. H. 2».'JG— 28; Ezra 3. 1" ; Pa. 1(5 ; 13. 3, l'6;Ge.21. 21 ; Deu. cli. 2. 3, 9. (clj. 1. 7. 3ch. 1. 51. h ch. 4. 24 k ch. 4. 4 I that is, the Gcr- shouitcs and the ilcrar- iles : see ver. 17 ; enemies. it'Also ''in the day of your glad- ness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets, over your burnt-offering and over the sacrifices of your peace-offer- ings ; tliat they may be to you for a me- morial before your Goil ; I am the Lord your God. Departure from Sinai- (14) Tlie order of march ; (29) Moses' iimtation to Hobab. 11 AND it came to pass on the twentieth da^ of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud "was taken up from 'off the tabernacle of the testimony; i-and the children of Israel took their journeys out of the * wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud rested in the " wilderness of Paran. 13 And they first took their journey ''ac- cording to the commandment of the Lokd by the hand of Moses. 1' In " the first j^toce went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah ac- cording to their amiies. And over his host was /Nahshon the son of Ammina- dab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar ims Nethaneel the son of Zuar. K' And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. ■ 17 And " the tabernacle was taken down ; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, '' bearing the tabernacle. IS And » the standard of the camp of Reu- ben set forward according to their armies. And over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. i^ And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 ^nd over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 21 And the Kohathites set forward, bear- ing the '• sanctuary ; and ^ the others did set up the tabernacle against they came. 22 And "' the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraini set forward according to their armies. And over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedali zur. 24, And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni. 25 And " the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, whieh was the rereward of all the camps according to their armies. And over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran. 27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan. 2SThus "were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward. 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of ^'Eagnel the Midianite, Moses' father-in- law : We are journeying to the place of which the Lord said, «! will give it you. Come thou with us, and '' we will do thee good ; for * the Loed hath spoken good concerning Israel, so And he said unto him : I will not go ; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred. 31 And he said : Leave us not, I pray thee ; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us * instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea it shall be, that what goodness the Lokd shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee. 33 And they departed from " the mountain of the Lord three days' journey ; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord * went be- fore them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting-place for them. 3i And y tlie cloud of the Lord ivas over them by daj% when they went out of the camp. 35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Jiloses said : 'Rise up, O Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee flee before thee. 3'J And when it rested, he said : Return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel. The rebellions of the people, and GocTs displea- sure—(16) Appointment of seventy elders to assist'Moses—(ol)The people's craving for flesh gratified, and punished. 11. AND token the people complained, it displeased the Lord ; and the Lord heard it ; and his anger was kindled ; and " the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed than that icere in the utter- most parts of the camp. 2 And ''the people cried unto Moses; and ''when Moses prayed unto the Lord the fire was quenched. 3 And he called the name of the place i^Taberah [i. e. Burning]; because the fire of the Lord burnt among them. ^And •'the mi.xed multitude that toas among them fell a lusting : and the chil dren of Israel also wept again, and said : Who / will give us flesh to eat ? 5 \Ve re member the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlick 6 but now our soul is dried away ; ^ there is nothing at all besides this manna before our eyes. Ge. 12.7. • Judg. 1. comp. Job 2J. 15. /Ex.lfi.3, 20; Ps. 7S. 18; 106.14; 1 Cor. lO.G, a ch. 21. 5, B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, XI. [B.C. 1647. H. t G«. 2. l->. k Ex. 16. 16-18. ao. j(2Ki.2.!>, 15: Nch. 9.20. s Ex. 18. 22. 'Ex. IC." c Ac. 7.3; " And * the manna teas as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of • bdellium. <^ And '■ the people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and bakcil it in pans and made cakes of it ; and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. '•' And ^ when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the people "'weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent. And " the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly ; Moses also was displeased. "yVnd "Moses said unto the Lord: Wlierefore hast thou afflicted thy servant, and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou laycst the burden of all this people upon me ? ^- Have I con- ceived all this people ; have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a ^' nursing father carrieth the sucking child, unto the whom I am are six hundred thousand foot- men ; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may cat a whole month. — Shall *the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them ? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them? 23 And the Lord said unto Moses : /Is the Lord's hand waxed short ? Thou shalt see now whether " my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. "* And Moses went out, and told the peo- ple the words of the Lord. And he ga- thered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tent. 2J And ''the Lord came do^vn in a cloud, and spake unto him ; and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy ciders ; and it came to pass, when the spirit rested upon them, that Hliey prophesied, but not further. * "^ But there remained two of the men in the camp ; the name of the one was Eldad, land which thou * swarest unto their fa- 1 and the name of the other Medad ; and the thers ? 13 Whence ''should I have flesh to : spirit rested upon them ; and they were of give unto all this people ? For they weep ] them that were written, but they went not unto me, saying. Give us flesh, that we j out unto tlie tent ; and they prophesied in may eat. I'l * am not able to bear all this ' the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, people alone, because it is too heavy for and told Moses, and said : Eldad and He- me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, 'kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight ; and let me not see my wretchedness. i** AJid the Lord said unto Moses : " Ga- ther unto me seventy men of the ciders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them ; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee. I'And * I will come down and talk with thee there; and "I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon 2:fiU IK g ch. 23. 19; 2 Ki. * Tleb. they ad ded not dad do prophesy in the camp, 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said: My lord Moses, * forbid them. | *g| j^^ .^^ 29 And Moses said unto him: Enviest thou for my sake ? ^ Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them ! so And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 31 And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and '"brought quails from the sea, and let them fall over the camp, as it were Cor. 14 ; Fhil, 15-lt, them; and ^ they shall bear the burden of, a day's journey on this side, and as it 1 Ex. in. 13,18:Ps. 78. 2U - 28; lOi. the i)eople with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone. l^And say thou unto the people, " Sanctify yourselves against to- morrow, and ye sliall eat flesh : for ye have wept* in the ears of the Lord, saying. Who will give us flesh to eat ? ' For it was well with us in Egypt. Therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. i^* Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days ; 20 (,ut even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because ye have despised the Lord, who is among you, and have wept before him, saying. Why came we forth out of Egypt? 21 And Moses said : <' The people among were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits above the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, ' and they gathered the quails ; he that ga- j thered least gathered ten "homers; antl , V^.^vII!' they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 33 And "while the flesh iL-as yet between their teeth, ere it was consumed, the wrath of the Lord was kin- dled against the people, and ^theLoRD smote the people with a very great plague. 3* And he called the name of that place 'Kibroth-hattaavah [i. c. Graves of lust- ing] ; because there they buried the people that lusted. 9 P». 78.2n, ."1 : lOti. 14,1.5. B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, XI,— XIII. [B.C. 1647. H. c Ex. 7. 10; 1.5.20,21; 3Iiu. (i. 4. dch.11.1; 2Ki.l9.4; Kze. 35. 12,13. /Ge. 1.1.1; Job 33.15; Eze.1.1; Dan. 8. 2; Lk. 1. 11, 22; Ac.lO. 11. 3lKi.3.5; Mt. 1. 20. hHeb.3.2, 5. i 1 Tim. 3. 15. k Deu. 34. 10. JEx. 33.23. J cli. 5. 3 J Le. 1 4.';,4B;s 2 Chr.2 20,21. ^^ And ^ the people journeyed from Kib- roth-hattaavali unto Hazeroth ; and they abode at Hazeroth. Rebellion cf Miriam ami Aaron against Moses ; (4) God's vindication of Idin, 12. AND "Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, because of the Cusliite wo- man whom he had married; for ''he had married a Cushite woman. " And they said : Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses ? "^ Hath he not spoken also by us ? And '^ the Lokd heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses ivas very meek, above all the men who luere upon the face of the earth.) ■lAnd the Lord spake suddenly to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam ; Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting. And they three came out. 5 And * the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam ; and they both came forth. 6 And he said: Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him /in a vision, and will speak unto him dream. ''Not so with my servant '' he is faithful in all ' my house ; 8 with i' him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches and ' the similitude of the Lord shall he behold. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? 9 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them ; and he departed ; i" and the cloud departed from off the tent. And behold, Miriam '"■feecawie leprous, ivhitc as snow ; and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said unto Moses : Alas ! my lord, I beseech thee, "lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly and wherein we have sinned. 12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. 13 And Moses cried unto the Lord, say- ing : Heal her now, O Uod, I beseech thee. 11 And the Lord said unto Moses: If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be "shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15 And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days ; and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in arjain. i''And afterwards the people removed from ^ Hazeroth, and encamped in the wil- derness of Paran. Mission of the Spies, and their report; (ch.U. 1.) despair and rebellion of the people; (0) re- monstrance of the two faithful Si/ies ; (lo) ap- pearance of the .glory of God at the tabernacle. 13, AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: ^Send "thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel ; of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from *» the wilderness of Paran. All those men were heads of the children of Israel. *And these were their names. Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zac- cur. " Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. « Of the tribe of Judah, <^ Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ^ Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Josepli. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, <* Oslica the son of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. i« Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. H Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. i- Of the tribe of Dan, Am- miel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. i*Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. i^ These arc the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, And Moses called Oshea'"' the son of Nun, Jehoshua.t 17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan; and he said unto them: Get you up this way into the south, and go up to * the mountain : 18 and see the land, what it is ; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they he strong or weak, few or many ; i^ and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it he good or bad; and what cities they he that they dwell in, whether in camps or in strong holds ; 20 and what the land is, whether it he /fat or lean, whetlier there be wood therein or not. And " be ye of good courage ; and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. 21 So they went up, and searched the land ''from the wilderness of Zin unto ^Rehob, as men come to Hamath. 22 And they went up by the south, and came un- to *: Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, Uhe sons of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before '"Zoan in Egypt.) 23 And "they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they c ch. 14. 6, 24, 30, 3 34. 19; Jos. 14. G ch. 27. 18, 23; Deu. 31. 7, llch.34.3; Jos. 15. 1. i Jos. 11). Id.c. 1490. U.] NUMBERS. XIII. XIV. [iJ.c. 1647. H. och. so. 1, IC; Si. 30; Jos. 14. U. ir ; aj. 3. 7 Deu. 1. II ch. 32. D; I)cu.l.2S; Jus. 14. 8. 2 Deu. 1. 2» ; a. 10 ; 9.2. a 1 Sam. 37. 41'. &ch. 11.4. cch.lG.4I; Ex. 10.2; 17.3. / Neh. fl. lB,17;Ac. 7.38. brought of the pomegranates and of the figs. 24 The place was called the valley of Eshcol [i.e. Cluster of grapes], because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from tliencc. ^And they returned from searching the laud after forty day.s. -"^And tlicy went and came to Moses and to Aaron, and to all tlie congregation of the children of Is- rael, unto tlie wilderness of Paran, to "Ka- desh ; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation ; and they show- ed them the fruit of the land. "'• And they told him and said : We came to tlic land whither thou scntest us, and surely ■''it flowetli with milk and honey; and 'this w the fruit of it. '''>fevertheless [""the people are strong tliat dwell in the land, and the cities are walled and very great ; and moreover we saw the sons of Xaak there. -» The * Amalekites dwell in the land of the south ; and the Hittites and the'Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the Sea, and by the side of the Jordan. 3* And 'Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said : Let us go up at once, and possess it ; for we are well able to overcome it. yiBut "the men that went up with him said : We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we. 3- And they ^ brouglit up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying: The land through which we have gone to search it is a land that eateth up its inhabitants; and "all the people that we saw in it arc men of a great stature; 33 and there he saw the giants, " the sons of Anak, who come of the giants ; and we were in our own sight as gra-sshoppers, and " so we were in their sight 14. And all the congregation lifted up their voice ami cried ; and '' the people wept that night. - Ax\A 'all the children of Is- rael murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and tlie whole congregation said to them : Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or ''would that we had died in this wilderness! ^And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, ' that our wives and our children should be a prey? Were it not better for us to return to Egj-pt ? * And they said one to another: /Let us make a captain, and let us return to Egypt. 5Then Moses and Aaron "fell on their feces, before all the assembly of the congre- gation of the children of Israel. "And A Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that searched the land, irent their clothes; "and tliey spake to all the com- pany of the children of Isr.iel, saying : The land which we pa.ssed through to search it w an exceeding good land. '' If ^' the LoKD I delight in us, then he will l)ring us into I this land, and give it us ; a land which j floweth with milk and honey. '•• Only rebel not ye against the Lord; 'neither fear ye the people of the land ; for "* they are bread for us ; their defence is departed from them, and " the Lord is with us ; fear them not. i" But " all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And '' the glory of the Lord appeared in the tent of meeting before all the chQ- j dren of Israel. . Mosei' intercp^siim for the people; (20) God's ieiitence (^fmercy and of judgment. ^^ AJXD the Lord said unto Moses : How long will this people '' provoke me ? And how long will it be ere they ' believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? i- 1 ''will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and ''will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. 1'^ And Moses said unto the Lord : /Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people by thy might from among them,) -'and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land ; "/or they have heard that thou the Loud art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that ''thy cloud standeth over them, and tluit thou gocst before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. ^^^Nowj/thou shall kill att this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee willj .speak, saying, i'' Because the Lord «was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. I'And now, I beseech thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, I'^The *^LoRD is long- suffering and of great mercy, forgiving ini- quity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, ' visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. lOTardon, "'I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy, and "as thou hast forgiven this people from Egjpt even imtil now. 20 An(l the Lord said : " I have pardoned according to thy word; -i but truly, '^m I live, and as '"all the earth shall be filled k Deu. lit. I.'. ; 1 Ki, 1(1. B ; V». 22.8. I Deu. 7. 1». ni Ps. "4. b Dcii. 7, B; llcb. 3. 8, 10. c Deu. 9. 23; Ps. 78.22. d ch. 10. 40-49. c Ex. 32. 10. n Ex. 32. Ill —14 ; Pi. KJG. 4j. ol Johns. 14-10. q la. 49.18. r'H«b. 2. 14. B.C. 1490. U.] NUMBERS, XIV, XV. [B.C. 1647. H. Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley. To-mor- row turn you, and ^get you into the wil- derness by the way of the Red Sea. 20 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: -^How ^long shall I bear ivith this evil congregation, who mur- mur against mCi "I have heard the mur- murings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. 28 gay unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, * as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you. 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and ''all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 3^' doubtless ye shall not come into the land concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein ; ''save Caleb the son of Jepbunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But ''your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which /ye have despised. 32]3ut as for you, "your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. ^3 And your children shall ''wander in the wilderness forty years, and ' bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. 3* After *^the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my estrange- ment. 35 X 2 the Lord have said; I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me : in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. 38 And the men whom Moses sent to search tlie land, who returned and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, 37 even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, '"died by the plague before the Lord. 38 gut "Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Je- pbunneh, loJio were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. 39 And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel; and "the people mourned greatly. 40 And tliey rose up early in the morn- ing, and gat them up unto the top of the mountain, saying : Lo, we are here, and '''we will go up to the place which the Lord hath promised ; for we have sinned. *iAnd Moses said: « Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? But it shall not prosper. ^^Qq ''not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. I 43 For *the Amalekites and the Canaan- [ ites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword. 'Because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you. ** But " they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain. Nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp, ^u^hen *the Amalekites came down, and the Ca- naanites who dwelt on that mountain, and smote them and discomfited them, even unto ^Hormah. Ordinances respecting the meal and drink- offerings accompanyin!/ the burnt-offerings. 15. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them : When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give to you, 3 and "■ will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt-ofi'ering, or a sacrifice *in performing a vow, or in a freewill-oflering, or ' in your solemn feasts, to make a <* sweet savour unto the Lord, of the herd or of the flock, ^then shall he that ofieretli his ofi'ering unto the Lord bring a meal-oifering of a tenth ''part of flour mingled /with the fourth pa)'< of a hin of oil; ^and "the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering shalt thou pre- pare with the burnt-offering or sacrifice, for each lamb. « Or '' for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil; ^and for a drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the Lord. ^ ^nd when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt- offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or * peace-offerings unto the Lord, 0 then shall he bring ' with a bullock a meal- offering of three tenth parts of flour mingled with half a hin of oil ; W and thou shalt bring for a drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord. ,) Deu. 1. 41. 9 2 Clir. ;,ch. 21.3; JuUg. 1. aLe. 1. 2, 3. h Le. 22. 18,21-23. c eh. 28. 17 -25 ; Le. 23. 8, 12, 30. d Ei. 29. 29. 40. /cll. 28 Ei. B.C. 1490. U. NUJ^IBEES, XV, XVI. [B.C. 1647. H. 12. c Deu. 2C. 2,10; Pro. 3. 9, 10. dU.i.U: 2a. 10, 16. * ch. 28. ir,,Lf.4. 33: Ezra "Thus "* shall it be done forone bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid. 12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one accord- ing to their number, i^^ll that are bom of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord. i*And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your genera- tions, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord, as ye do, so he shall do. i^ As for the congrega- tion, " one ordinance sliaU be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations. As yc are so shall the stranger be before the Lord ; i>'one law and one ordinance shall be for you and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. Ordinances resjiectinfj Vie Offering of first-fntits ; (22) and the atonement for ains of ignorance. 1" AJND the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing, 18 Speak " unto the children of Israel, and say unto them : When ye come into the land whither I bring you, I'J then it shall be that when ye eat of ''the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-offering unto the Lord. -^ Ye 'shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for a, heave-offering ; as ye do ^ the heave-offering of the thresh- ing-floor, so shall ye heave it. 21 of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the Lord a heave-offering, in your generations. 22 And 'if ye have erred, and not ob- ser\'ed all these commandments which the Lord bath spoken unto Jloses, 23 ^j.^^ all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Closes, from the day that the Lord commanded 3Ioses, and henceforward among your generations, 24 then it shall be, /if auf/ht be committed by ignorance, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer "one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his meal-offer- ing and his druik-offering, according to the ordinance, and '•one kid of the goats for a sin-offering. 25 And ' the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and it shall be for- given them ; for it is ignorance. And they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, and their sin-offer- ing before the Lord, for their ignorance. 26 And it shall be forgiven all the congre- gation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them ; see- ing all the people were in ignorance. 27 And * if any soul sin through igno- rance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering. 2b ^.ad ' the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the Loud, to make an atonement for him ; and it shall be forgiven him. 29 ye "' shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the chil- dren of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. ^* But " the soul that doeth atight pre- sumptuously,* whether he be born in the land or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord ; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ^' Because he hath ° despised the word of the Lord and hath broken his conimandmuiit, that soul shall utterly be cut off'; '' his iniquity shad be upon him. Punishment of a sabbath-hrcaker. 32 AJND while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. ^ And they that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation. 34 Aud " they put him in ward, because it was not de- clared what should be done to him. 3j And the Lord said unto Jloses : '' Tlie man shall be surely jiut to death ; all the congregation shall ' stone him with stones without the camp. 3G ^.nd all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died ; as the Lord commanded Moses. Ordinance respecting a t-ymbolical memento Wi the clothing. 3" AJND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: ^^ Speak unto the children of Is-| rael, and bid them that " they make for themselves fringes in the borders of their | garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a riband of blue : 30 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the command- ments of the Lord, and do them ; and that ye '' wander not after your own heart and j your own eyes, after which ye are wont '^ to go a whoring ; *'' that ye may remem- 1 ber and do all my commandments, and be j . 15 - 22 ; Ac. 2. 40. ij Ex. ;52. ■ 10; .'53. S. z ch. 14. 5. ach.27.ie; Job 12. 10; Ecc. 12. 7 ; neb.12.9. 6 Ge. 18. 2;J-2j: 2 Sam. 24. cch. 24.13; 1 Ki. 18. .3t> ; Jer. 3 Job 31.3. B.C. 1471. U.] NUMBERS, XVI, XVII. [b.c. 1647. H. I^. 10. 2; Pi. 106. AS. all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit; and the earth closed / Juacii.|upon them; and ' they perislied from among the congregation, ^l And all Israel that were round about tlicni fled at the crj- of them ; for they said : Lest the earth swallow us up al«}.' ^^ And there '" came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense. 3* And the Lk^ud spake unto Moses, say- ing : 3" Speak unto Eieazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning ; and scatter thou the fire yonder ; for they are liallowed. ^^ The censers of these " sinners against their 5!.2:iub! ' own souls, let them be made broad plates for a covering of tlie altar : for they oll'ercd |/ora covermg oi ineauar: lor iney ouercu them before the Lokd, tlierefore they are .17.10; I hallowed ; and " they shall be a sign unto och 20. 10 Cor, pch. 3.10, 38;2Chr. 26.16-21. 6Ei.40.34. c ver. IP; 6 : 1 Chr. 27.24: Ps. 106. '£>. they io" the children of Israel. 39 And Eieazar the priest took the brazen censers wherewith they that were burnt had offered ; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar ; *" io be a memorial unto the children of Israel, P that no stranger who m not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the Lord ; that he be not as Korali, and as his company ; as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses. Murmuring of the people; (44) God^s anger, and (46) the intercession of Moses and Aaron. *i BUT on the morrow " all the congre- gation of the children of Israel murmur- ed against Moses and against Aaron, saying : Ye have killed the people of the Lord. *- And it came to pass, when the con- gregation was gathered against ]Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting, and behold, i> the cloud covered it, and "^ the glory of the Lokd ap- peared. ^3 And Moses and Aaron came before the tent of meeting. ** And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : *j Get rovision/or their maiiUenaiice. 1- AND the children of Israel sjjake unto Moses, saying : Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish: 13 ■\vhosoever "cometh at all near imto the tabernacle of the Lord a Ex. 2,5. 16 — 22 ; 29. 42. 43; »0. »;. h ch. 16. 5. cch.lC.U. (/ch.18.2; Ex. 38. 21; Ac. 7. c neb. 9. 4. /ch. 16.38. B.C. 1471. U.] NUMBERS, XVIIL [B.C. 1647. H. (/ ch. 3. 1o, ■ ch. -1. IS. /"Ex. 27. L'l ;a0.7; Le. 24. 3. h ch. 3. 9, ]2,4Ji 8. ly. i Le. If). 2, 12 - 1-1 ; Heb. a. 3 fl Le. 10. 32,13. I.e. C. 2.1. 27, 28. s I-e. 10. t Le. 22. 2, o, 11—13. t Deu. 18. shall die. Shall we be consumed with dying ? 18. And the Lord said unto Aaron : Thou and thy sons and tliy father's house with thee shall ^-bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priest- hood. - And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and 'minister to thee; but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tent of the testimony. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and ^ the charge of all the tent ; ' only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. * And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent ; and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. 5 And /ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; *that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. ^And I, behold I, have ''taken your brethren the Levitesfrom among the children of Israel ; to you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tent of meeting. "And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and » within the veil; and ye shall serve : I have given your priest's office unto you, as a service of gift ; and *the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 8 And the Lord spake unto Aaron: Be- hold, 'I also have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel ; unto thee have I given them ""■ by reason of the an- ointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. ^ This shall be thine of the most holy things reserved from the fire : every oblation of theirs, every "meal-offering of theirs, and every "sin-offering of theirs, and every '' trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall he most holy for thee and for thy sons, i'* In ' the most holy p/ace shalt thou eat it ; every male shall eat it ; it shall be holy unto thee. H And this is thine : ""the heave-offering of their gift, with all the wave-offerings of the children of Israel ; I have given them unto * thee, and to thy sons anet. 2.: Jude 1 B.C. 1452. U.] NUMBERS, XXII, XXIU. [B.C. 1G09. H. I !/ see Ge. ■ 21. 19 : 2 Ki. 6. 17. 6 lSain.l5. 24 ; Job 34.31 LoBD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall bciiiff on this side and a wall on that side. 25 ^nd when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she tlirust herself unto the wall, and crushed BaUiam's foot against the wall. And he ainote her again. -'' And the angel of the L Who " can count the dust of Jacob, And.the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die '' the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his! 1' And Balak said to Balaam : Wliat liast thou done unto me ? « I took thee to curse mine enemies, and behold, thou hast bless- ed them altogether. '- And he answered and said : '" Must 1 not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth ? ». ver. 15 g ver. 18 : ch. 24. S. l.-) ; Job 27.1 ;Mic. 2.4. /tDeu.23.4. n Dea.3S. 28: tee Kzra9.2: Kst. 3. 8. I Ei. 33. 16. ) Ge. 13. 16. » Pe. :i:. 37: Is. i<- 1,2: Kev. 14. 13. B.C. 1452. U.] NUMBERS, XXIII, XXIV. [b.c. 1609. H. • or. of the watch- Mai. Lk.21.aa; Ko. 11.29 Heb.fl.18 uch.22.I2 Ge. 12. 2 X ch.22.18 w Jer. 50. -lie 20 : 7. 18-: z Ex. 45, 4ti. a Is. SG.22. 6ch.24.8; Ex. 20. 2. c Deu. 33. 17 ; Job ' And Balak said to liim : Come, I pray j place ; peradventiire it will please God that | thee, with mc to another place, from whence thou mayest curse me them from thence. thou mayest see them ; thou shalt sec but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all ; and curse me them from thence. 1* And he brought him into the field of Zo- phim,* to the top of Pisgah ; and he built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on everi/ altar. '^ And he said to Balak: Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I meet the Lord yonder. 't* And the Lord met Balaam, and *put a word in his mouth, and said: Go again to Balak, and say thus, i^ And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt- offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him : Wliat hath the Lord spoken ? i^ And he took up his parable, and said : Else up, Balak, and hear I Hearken unto me, tliou son of Zippor I 1^ God ' is not a man, that he should lie. Neither the son of man, that he .should repent : Hath he said, and shall he not do it ? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ? 20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless ; And " he hath blessed ; and * I cannot re- verse it. 21 He " hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel : The ' Lord his God is with him. And " the shout of a king is among them. ^'^ God * brought them out of Egypt ; He hath as it were " the strength of a buffalo. 23 Surely there is ^ no enchantment in t Jacob, Neither is there any divination in t Israel : At this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What * hath God wrought ! 2* Behold, the people shall risef up / as a lioness. And lift up himself as a young lion : He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey. And drink the blood of the slain. 2^ And Balak said to Balaam : Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all. ^ti But Balaam answered and said to Balak : Told not I thee, saying, *•' All that the Lord speaketh, that 1 must do ? Salaam's prophecies continued ~ He foretells Israel's future greatness and glory, and the destruction of their enemies. 27 AND Balak said to Balaam : Come, I pray thee, 1 will bring thee to another c ch. 2. 2, Jch.11.25; 1 Sam. If). 10; 19.20, 23. 2« And Balak brought Balaam to the to)) of Pcor, that looketh "■ toward the desert. -'■> And Balaam said to Balak : Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams, so And Balak did as Balaam had said; and he offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 24. And when Balaam saw that it pleas- ed the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at *> other times, to seek for enchant- ments, but he set his face toward the wil- derness. 2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel "^ abiding in his tents according to their tribes. And <* the Spirit of God came upon him ; 3 and he took up his parable and said : — Balaam the son of Beor hath said. And the man whose eyes were closed hath said : * He hath said, who heard the words of God, Who saw the vision of the Almighty, Falling " to the ground, and having his eyes opened : ^ How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, And thy tabernacles, O Israel ! ^' As the valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river's side. As the lign-aloes /which the Lord hath planted. As cedar trees " beside the waters. "^ He shall pour the water out of his buckets, And his seed shall he in many waters ; And his king shall be higher than '' Agag, And his » kingdom shall be exalted. 8 God *= brought him forth out of Egypt ; He hath as it were the strength of a buffalo. He shall ' eat up the nations his enemies, And shall break their bones, and "' pierce them through with his arrows. 9 He " couched, he lay down as a lion. And as a lioness ; who shall stir him up ? Blessed " is he that blesseth thee. And cursed is he that eurseth thee. | 10 And Balak's anger was kindled against | Balaam, and he ^ smote his hands toge- ' p Gze. 21. ther. And Balak said to Balaam : « I called ' ^',',;.^22?6, thee to curse mine enemies, and behold,! 11.23.U; thou hast altogether blessed them these] 4,''5; Nc! three times, i^ Therefore now flee thou to I ^'^' ^' thy place. *■ I thought to promote thee to '.ch.22.1r, great honour; but lo, the Lord hath kept I thee back from Iionour. I 12 And Balaam said to Balak : Spake I ! not also to thy messengers whom thou| ^j^ ^ sentest to me, saying, ^^1( * Balak would I is. ."!«. h iSam.iS. 9. i 2 Sam, 12. ich. 23.22. Ich. 14.9; Deu. 7. m Vs. 40. ».c. 1452. U.] NUMBERS, XXIV, XXV. [bc. 1C09. H. J-Mt. 0. 2, '.I : Kev. 22. IG. V Ge. 49. !0; Pa. 45. r. i Ueb. 1. 8. = 2 Sam. 8. 2 ; Jer. < Ge. 10. 4 . Dan. II. 3u. / Oc. 10. 21. •.•.-.. a ch. 33. 40: Mic. 6.5. give me Iiis house full of silver and gold, I i cannot go bej-ond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or bad of mine own mind ; but wliat tlie Loud saith tliat will I speak 1 i ' And now behold, I go unto my i)eople. Come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this jjcople sliall do to thy i)eople in the latter days. i^And he took up liis parable, and said : — Balaam the son of Beor hath said. And the man ' whose eyes were closed hath said : '"He hath said who heard the words of God, And knew the knowledge of " the Most High, Who saw the vision of the Almighty, Falling to the (/round, and having his eyes opened : 1" 1 see it, but not now, I behold it, but not nigh. There shall come *a Star out of Jacob, And " a Sceptre shaU rise out of Israel ; * And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the cliildren of Sheth. ■* And " Kdom shall be a possession. And Seir shall be a possession for his ene- mies; And Israel shall do valiantlj'. 19 Out «'of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, And shall destroy the remnant from the city. 20 And he looked on Aiuuleli, and he took up his parable, and saiil : Amalck was the beginning of nations, ■^But his latter end shall bc that he perish for ever. 2' And he looked on <* the Xenites, and took up his parable and said : Strong i.s thy dwelling-place, And thou puttest thy nest in a rock. 22Nevertlieless the Kcnite shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive. 23 And he took up his parable and said : Alas, who shall live when Uod docth this? -* And ships sfudl come from the coast of 'Chittim, And shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict /Eber. And he also shall perish for ever. 2^ And Balaam rose up and went and re- turned to his idace ; and Balak also went his way. The idolatry and licmtiausness of the Israelites, and their punishment. 25. AND Israel abode in "Shittim; and ''the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. ^^jid 'they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did cat, and bowed down to their gods. 3_A.nd Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor. And ''the anger of the Loud was kindled against I.srael. ' And the Loud said unto Moses : Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them uj) before the Loud against the sun, ' that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from IsraeL ^And Moses said unto the judges of Israel: / Slay ye every one his men that were joined to Baal-peor. ''And behold, one of the children of Is- rael came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, " who were weeping before the door of the tent of meeting. " And when Phinehas, '' the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, 'he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand, ^ and he went after the man of Israel into the chamber, and thrust both of thom through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. ''And *■' those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand. 1" And the Lord spake unto Moses, say ing : 11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the cliildren of Israel in 'my jealousy, i- Wherefore say: ""Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace ; ''^ and he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of "an ever- lasting priesthood; because he was "zealous for his God, and ''made an atonement for the children of Israel. "Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, eren that was slain with the Midian- itish woman, 7vas Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeon- ites. 15 And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain wax Cozbi, the daughter of « Zur ; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian. i** And the Lord spake unto Moses, say- ing : 1" Ve.\ *■ the Midianitcs, and smite them ; "> for they vex you witli their 'wiles, where- with they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor. and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake. Ex. 34. !.'•, \6; 1 Cor. 10. I 2(1; Jos. y Ex. 32. 27, 28 ; Deu.4.3; 13. 6-9, la, 15. ;i- Deu. 3 : 1 Cor. 10. S. I Ex. 20. .-.: 1 Kl. 14. 22: Zeph. J . Ex. 40. - i'Ki. 19. 10, 14 : Ro. 10. 2. ) Kx. .32. :M>: Ueb. • ch. 31. 2. ch. 31. B.C. 1452. U.] NUMBERS, XXVI. [b.c. 1609. H. c vcr. B'? ; cli. a2. 1 ; < Ge. 29. 32; Ex. «. :4;lChr. Cor. 10.11. J 1 Chr. (). 22 ; Vs. 42, «, & 45, titles. k Ge. 40. lOiEx.O. 15, Je- 1 1 Chr. 4. 24, Jaiib. m Ge. -W. iO.Zo- n Ge. AC. li;, E:bon. t> Ge. 4(i. 16,^ro of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites : of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ' These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the sons of Pallu ; Eliab. ^ And the sons of Eliab ; Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram tvho were famous in the congregation, / who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the Lord; '"and '^ the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men ; and '' they became a sign, i' Notwith- standing » the children of Korah died not. ^'-The sons of Simeon after their fa- milies : Of '-"Nemuel, the family of the Ne- muelites ; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites ; of ' Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; ^^of "'Zerah, the family of the Zarhites ; of Shaul, the family of the Shaul- ites. li These are the families of the Si- meonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred. 15 The sons of Gad after their families : Of "Zephon, the family of the Zephonites ; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites ; i^of " Ozni, the family of the Oznitcs ; of Eri, the family of the Erites ; i" of '' Arod, the family of the Arodites ; of Areli, the family of the Arelites. 18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thou- sand and five hundred. 13 The « sons of Judali were Er and Onan ; and Er and Onan died in the land of Ca- naan. -0 And *■ the sons of Judah aftertheir families were : Of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites ; of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites ; of Zerah, the family of tlie Zar- hites. 21 XwA the sons of Pharez were : Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. "- These are the families of Judah accord- ing to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred. 23 The ' sons of Issachar after their fa- milies : Of Tola, the family of the Tolaites ; of i Pua, the family of the Punites ; 24 of " Jashub, the family of the Jashubites ; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. 25 These are the families of Issachar accord- ing to those that were numbered of them, tlireescore and four thousand and three hundred. 215 The ^sons of Zebulun after their fa- milies: Of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites ; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. 2'' These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hun- dred. 28 The J' sons of Joseph after their fa- milies loere Manasseh and Ephraim. 29 xhe sons of Manasseh: Of ^Machir, the family of the Machirites ; and Machir begat Gi- lead; of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites. so^rhese are the sons of Gilead : Of "Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites ; 31 and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites ; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites ; 32 and of Shemida, the family of the She- midaites ; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 33 And *Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters ; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. 34 These are tlie families of Manas- seh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. 3j These are the sons of Ephraim after their families : Of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites ; of '^ Becher, the family of the Bachrites ; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. 36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: Of Eran, the family of the Eranites. 37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families. e Ge. 46.13 Plaivah. \t Ge. 48. 13, Job. ; Jos. 17.1; 1 Chr. 7. 14, 15. a called Abiczer, J08.17.2; Judg. 6. 11,24,34. B.C. 1452. U. NUMBERS, XXVI, XXVII. [B.C. 1609. H. ^ The "^ sons of Benjamin tiftur their hered of the Levites after their families : families : Of Bela, tlie family of the Bela- 1 Of (lershon, the family of the Gershonites ; I ites ; of Ashbel, the family of the Ash- ' of Kohatli, the family of the Kohathites ; belites ; of * Ahiram, the family of the j of Merari, the family of the Merarites. jAhinimites; 39 of / Shupham, the family *■* These arc the families of the Ijcvites ,: Gc. 46. 2\.Khi;\ Chr. 8. I, Aharah. fiie.\6:n, ifunpim qitiauup- I of the Shuphamites ; of Hupham, the I family of the Huphamites. ^« And the I sons of Bela were " Ard and Naaman : Of The family of the Libnites, the family of the Hehronitcs, the family of the Mahlites, the family of tiie Mushitcs, the family of \Ard, the family of the Ardites ; an<■ kins- man that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be unto the children of Israel * a statute of judg- ment, as the Lord commanded Moses. Announcement of Moses' approaching death; (18) the formal and public appointment of Joshua Wi his successor. 12 AND the Lord said unto Moses : " Get thee up to this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel. 13 And when thou hast seen it, thou also '' shalt be gathered unto thy people, "^ as Aaron thy brother was gathered, i* For ye <* rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes. (That is the " water of Meribah at Kadesli in the wilderness of Zin.) 15 And Moses spake unto the Lord, say- ing : 18 Let the Lord, / the God of the spirits of all fiesh, set a man over the con- gregation, 1^ who " may go out before them and who may go in before them, and who may lead them out and who may bring them in ; that the congregation of the Lord be not ft as sheep which have no shepherd. 18 And the Lord said unto Moses : Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man ' in whom is the spirit, and * lay thy hand upon him ; i^ and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation ; and ' give him a charge in their sight. 20 And "■• thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel " may be obedi- ent. 21 And " he shall stand before Elea- zar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him ^ after the judgment of Urim before the Lord. * At his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in, hoth he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation. 22 And Moses did as the Lord com- manded him : and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation ; 23 and he laid his hands upon him, and *" gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses. The sacrifices and offerings to he presented, (3) daily, (9) weeldy, (11) monthly, and at the yearly festivals ; viz. (16) the Passover, (2<;) the Offering of First-fruits, (ch. 29. 1) the Dlouinn of Trumpets, (7) the Day of Atonement, and (12) the Feast of Tabernacles. 28. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them : My offering, " my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for f> a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to ofi'er unto me in their due season. 3 And thou shalt say to them : '^ This is the oflering made by fire which ye shall otfer unto the Lord ; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day, for a con- tinual burnt-offering. * The one lamb shalt thou ofi'er in the morning and the other lamb shalt thou offer in the even- ing ; s and <^ a tenth pai't of an ephah of flour for a meal-ofl'ering, mingled with the fourth i)art of a hin of beaten oil. c It is * a continual burnt-offering, which was or- dained * at mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord. '' And its drink-offering shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb. In the holy ^)toce shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for f a drink- oftering. * And the other lamb shalt thou offer in the evening; as the meal-ofl'ering of the morning and as the drink-off'ering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, a sweet savour unto the Lord. 3 And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth parts t of fiour for a meal-ofl'ering, mingled with oil, and the drink-offering thereof 10 This is " the burnt-offering of every sab- bath, beside the continual burnt-offering and the drink-offering thereof. 11 And ft in the beginnings of your months ye shall ofl'er a burnt-offiering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot ; 12 and * three tenth parts of flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock ; and two tenth parts of flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for one ram; i^and a several tenth part of flour mingled with oil for a meal-offcring for one lamb ; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, it And their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a hullnck, and r-Le.21.C, 6Ge.8.21. c Ex. 29. e Ex.2fl.42. * IJth. made. &e. g Eze. 46. h ch. 10. 10;2Chr. 2. 4; Ezra 3.5;Is.l. 13,. 14; Hob. 2. 11. ch. 13.4 -12. B.C. 1462. U.] NUMBERS, XXVIII, XXIX. [B.C. 1609. H. 1*. 23. 5. (i : Ezti. 45. 21. p Ex. 12. lli; 1.-!. 0 ; Le. 23. 8. g Ex. 34. 22; Le. 23.10,1-,; Deu. ]•!. 10; Ac. 2. 1. (ch. 10. 1 -10; I.e. 23. 24, Z',. the third part of a bin for a ram, and a | mingled with oil, three tenth parts for a fourth part of a bin for a lamb. This is ! bullock, and two tenth parts for a ram. the burnt-offering of every month through- out the months of the year. ^^ And * one kid of the goats for a sin-oflering unto the Louu shall be ofioreil, beside the continual burnt-oflering and its drink-oft'ering. J" And 'on the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover of the Lord; '"and on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast ; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. l'*On the "'first day sltall be a holy convocation ; ye .shall do no manner of servile work therein. '9 But ye shall offer * and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs ; ^and one kid of the goats /<>»• a sinoH'ering to make an atonement for you ; '' besides " the Viurnt-ofiering of the month and its meal-ofi'ering, and ^the daily burnt-oflering and its meal-ofiering, and their drink-offerings, "according to the or dinance thereof, for a sweet savour, a sacri- fice made by fire unto tlie Lokd. "And *ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation and ye shall " humble your souls ; ye shall a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt-offering i not do any work therein. 8 jj^t ye shall unto the Lord; two young bullocks and one ram and seven lambs of the first year; "they shall be unto you without blemish; 20 and their meal-offering shall be of flour mingled with oil; three tenth parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for a ram ; -i a several tenth part shalt thou oflFer for every lamb of the seven lambs; and "one goat for a sin-offering, to make an atonement for you. 23 Ye shall offer these besides the burnt-offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt-offering. After this manner ye shall ofler daily, throughout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice made by fire, a sweet savour unto the Lord. It shall be offered beside the con- tinual burnt-offering and its drink-offering. 2iAnd '' on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation ; ye shall do noservile work. 26 Also «on the day of the First-fnuts, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have a holy convocation ; ye shall do no servile work. '-7 j^ut ye shall offer the burnt- oflering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord ; ""two young bullocks, one ram, seven laml)s of the first year ; 2-i and their meal-oflering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for one bullock, two tenth jjarts for one ram, 2»a several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs ; ^o and one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you. •*i Ye shall oflfer them beside the continual burnt- oflering, and its meal-offering, (they shall be unto you 'without blemish,) and their drink-offerings. 29. And in the seventh month, on the offer a burnt-oftering unto the Lord, for a sweet savour ; one young bullock, one ram and seven lambs of the first year; ''they shall be unto you without blemish; 'and their meal-oflering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts to a bullock, and two tenth parts to one ram, i*Ja several tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs; 'lone kid of the goats fw a sin- ofl'ering ; beside "^ the sin-offering of atone- ment, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink- ofi'ering.s. '2 And don the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy con- vocation ; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a Feast unto the Lord seven days. '3 And * ye shall ofler a burnt-oflering, a sacrifice made by fire, a sweet savour unto the Lord; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish : '■i and their meal-oflering shall he of flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, '■•and a several tenth part for each lamb of the fourteen lambs; '^and one kid of the goats for a sinofi'ering; besides the continual burnt-oftering, its meal-oflering and its drink-ofl'ering. '-"And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot ; '** and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, I first da;/ of the month, ye shall have a /after the ordinance; i'-* and one kid of the ^ holy convocation; ye shall do no servile j goats /<>?• a sin-offering; beside the con- work ; Mt is a day of Blowing the Trumjiets tinual burnt-offering and the meal-ofi'ering unto you. 2 And ye shall offer a burnt- 1 thereof, and their drink-offerings, ofl'ering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord ; -" And on the third day eleven bullocks, one young bullock, one ram, and seven two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year lambs of the first year without blemish : without blemish ; 21 and their meal-offering 8and their meal-offering shall he o/ flour and their drink-ofTerings for the bullocks, I ch. 28.11 -i.v - cli. 28. :j :Le.lC.2!i -31, 23. d Le. T. 34 — 4;l Den. K; l.'i; Eze U52..U.] NUMBERS, XXIX, XXX. [B.C. 1609. H. A Ix. 23. 2; aChr.lil. a:Ezra:j. for the rams and for the lambs, shall he according to their number, after the ordi- nance ; ^'" and one goat for a sin-oflerhig ; beside the continual burnt-offering and its meal-offering and its drink-offering. 2^ And on the fourtli day ten bullocks, two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year Avithout blemisli ; -* their meal-offer- ing and tlicir drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall he according to their number, after the ordi- nance ; -^ and one kid of the goats /o7- a sin- offering ; besides the continual burnt-offer- ing, its meal-offering and its drink-offering. 26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot ; ^7 and their meal-offer- ing and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, sliall he according to their number, after the ordi- nance ; 2S and one goat fm- a sin-offering ; beside the continual burnt-offering and its meal-offering and its drink-offering. -9 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish; 30 and their meal- offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lambs, shall he according to their number, after the ordinance ; 3i and one goat for a sin- offering ; beside the continual burnt-ofi'ering, its meal-offering and its drink-oflering. 32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish ; 3^ and their meal- offering and their drink-ofterings for the bullocks, for the rams and for the lamlis, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance ; 3^ and one goat for a sin-of- I'ering ; besides the continual burnt-oftcring, its meal-offering and its drink-offering. 35 On the eighth day ye shall have a ^ so- lemn assembly ; ye shall do no servile work therein. 3PBut ye shall offer a burnt-ofi'er- ing, a sacrifice made by fire, a sweet savour unto the Lokd ; one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish: 37 their meal-offering and their drink-offer- ings, for the bullock, for the ram and for the lambs, shall he according to their num- ber, after the ordinance : '^^ and one goat for a sin-offering; beside the continual burnt-offering and its meal-offering and its drink-offering. 39 These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your '' set feasts, beside your * vows and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt-ofter- ings and for your meal-offerings and for your drink-offerings and for your peace offerings. 40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses. Conccrninq the validity and obligatio/i of vows. 30, AND Moses spake unto " the heads of the tribes concerning the children of I Israel, saying : This is the thing which the j Lord hath commanded, "li ^a. man vow a vow unto the Lord, or '^ swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word, ''he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. 3 And if a woman vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, heiwj in her father's house in her youth, * and her father hear her vow and her bond where- with she hath bound her soul, and her father hold his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond where- with she hath bound her soul shall stand. 5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, not any of her vows or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand ; and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her. •^ And if she had at all a husband when she vowed or uttered aught out of her lips wherewith she bound her soul, 'and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand, sgut if her husband ^disallowed her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she ut- tered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect ; and the Lord shall forgive her. 9 But every vow of /a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her. 10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, Hand her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not ; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 12 But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or con cerning the bond of her soul shall not stand ; her husband hath made them void ; and " the Lord shall forgive her. 13 Every vow, and every binding oath to humble the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. i*But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he establisheth all ft JudK.ll. U, 3.-.. Ecc. Job 22 27;Ps.( Ecc. 5. 4. B.C. 1462. U.] NUMBERS, XXX, XXXI. [b.c. 1600. H. cb. • see Lo. a;. 8; 1 Sam. 14. I ch. 10. 9. :tee Judg, g Jos. 1^ her vows or all her bonds which are upon her; he confirmeth them, because he lield liis peace at her in llie day that he heard them. 1* But if lie sliall any way.s make them void after that lie hath lieard them, then he shall l>ear her iniquity. l« These are the statutes which the Loud commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daugh- ter being yet in her youth in her fathers house. The executinn of tlie Divine sentence against the Midianites ; (25) the division of the spoil, ami offerings to God Viefefrom. 31. AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying : - Avenge " the children of Israel of the Midianites ; afterwards shalt thou * be gathered unto thy people. ^ And Moses spake unto the people, say- ing : Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of JMidian. ''Of every tribe "^ a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war. 5 So there were set apart out of the thou- sands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. ^ And I\Ioses sent them to the war, a thousand of cn-ry tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instru- ments and ''the trumpets to blow in his hand. " And they warred against ' the Midian- j ites, as the Lord commanded Moses ; and / Dcu. 20. /they slew all the males. *> And they slew 27! 9^*"! the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them {^'•^^•'•''•| that were slain; namely, "Evi and Kekem and Zur and Hur and Keba, live kings of Midian ; Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword. ^ And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took for a spoil all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods. '•'And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. " And '' they took all the spoil and all the prey, boUi of men and of beasts ; i- and they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of I Israel, to the camp, at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan near Jericho. I 13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the ])rinces of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. " And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, v.-ilh the cai)tains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who came from the battle. ^^And Moses said unto /.Dcu them : Have ye saved » all the women alive ? 1'' Behold, *thesc caused the children of Israel, through the ' counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor ; and '" there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. '^Now therefore "kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. i*But all the women-children that have not known man by lying with him, "keep alive for yourselves. 1^ And ^do ye abide without the camp seven days : whosoever hath killed any person, and ''whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day. -'> And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' huir, and all things made of wood. 21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle : This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded ISIoses : --Only the gold and the silver, the brass,* the iron, the tin and the lead, ^3 every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean ; nevertheless it shall be purified with *" the Water of separation ; and all that abidetli not the fire ye shall make go through the water. 24 And *ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean ; and afterwards ye shall come into the camp. -5 And the Lord spake unto ISIoses, say- ing : "•' Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation; "'and 'divide the prey into two parts ; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and betM'een all the congregation. -''And levy "a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war who went out to battle, * one soul of five hundred ; both of the persons, and of the beeves and of the asses and of the sheep ; -^ take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave-offer- ing of the Lord. 3o And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take " one imrtion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and *give them unto the Levites, "who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Loi:d. 3iAnd Moses and Eleazar the jiriest did as the Lord commanded Moses. 3- And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had taken was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, 33 and threescore Satn. u. a. i ch. 25. 1 -3. ich. 34.14: 2.-.. 18: 2 Pet. 2.1:,; Rev. 2.14. >iJudg.21. o Lc. 25. 1- ch. 19. 9, sch. 19.19; 11 Cic. 14. 20; .Jos. 0. 19, 24. r 8CC vera. ■M, 47. : ch. 18.24. « ch. 3. 7, «, 2.-., 31, :«i i 18. y, B.C. 1452. U.] NUMBEES, XXXI, XXXII. [b.c. 1609. H. and twelve thousand beeves, s^and three- score and one thousand asses, 3i> and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him. 26 And the half v:likh loas the portion of them that went out to war wa.s in number three hundred thousand and seven-and- Thc conquered countries East of tlie Jordan are given to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh. 32. NOW the children of Eeuben and tlie children of Gad had a very great multi- tude of cattle ; and when they saw the land of •* Jazer and the land of Gilead, that be thirty thousand and five hundred sheep ; [ hold, the place was a place for cattle, 2 the ^^ and the Lords tribute of the sheep was si.Y hunched and threescore and fifteen. 38 And the beeves were thirty-and-six thou- sand ; of which the Lord's tribute ivas threescore and twelve. 39 ^^j tjig asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the Lord's tribute was threescore and one. ■t'^And the persons were sixteen thousand ; of which the Lord's tribute %ms thirty and two persons. *i And Moses gave the tribute, %cliich vjas the Lord's heave- oflering, unto Eleazar the priest ; * as the Lord commanded Moses. ■i-And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred, — ^^(no^yrthe half that jiertained un- to the congregation was three hundred thou- children of Gad and the children of Eeuben came and spake to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the con gation, saying : 3 Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer and b Ximrah and Heshbon and Elealehand "^Shebamand Nebo and <*Beon, '^cven the country * which the Lord hath smitten before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle. ^"Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over the Jordan. 6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the cliildren of Eeuben : Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here I ~ And wherefore discourage ye the heart of sand and thirty thousand and seven thou- the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them '^Thus did your fathers /when I sent tliem from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ^For thousand persons) — *'' even "^ of the children "when they went up unto the valley of sand and five hundred sheep, ^^ and thirty and six thousand beeves, *^ and thirty thou- sand and five hundred asses, ^'^ and sixteen of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord ; as the Lord commanded Moses. *^And the officers who zcere over the thousands of the host, the captains of thou- Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them, lo^nd ''the Lord's anger was kindled at that time, and he sware, saying : n Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty sands and captains of hundreds, came near j years old and upward, shall see the land of to Moses ; ^^ and they said to Moses : Thy i which I sware to Abraham, to Isaac and to servants have taken the sum of the men of Jacob ; because they have not wholly fol- war who are under our charge, and there i lowed me ; i^ save Caleb the son of Jephun- lacketh not one man of us ; ^o we have t neh the Kenezite, and Joshua tlie son of therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, } Nun ; for ^ they have wholly followed the what every man hath gotten, of jewels of i Lord. ^3 And the Lords anger was kindled gold, chains and bracelets, rings, earrings j against Israel, and he made them 't wander and tablets, \ 13. s, , ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned hGc. 4. 7; [against the Lord; and be sure "your sin S ig.'^iV; ''*^''l *^°'^ y^^ °"*^- "* Build ^ you cities for xven. IG, 34,42. [B.C. 1C09. H. 34 And the children of Gad built «Dibon|ech.33.4.-. and Ataroth and /Aroer 3.iand Atroth- /Jo». J3. Shophan and '' J.oazcr and Jo^jhehah 36and^ '^.^^ ,, '' I>eth-nimrah and Betli-haran ; fenced cities, ■''. y«=f;;- and folds for sheep. 'yimrah.' 37 And tlie children of Eeuben « built ich. 2t.r, Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim 3^and '■ Neboand ' Baal-meon C" their names being changed) and Shibraah ; and they gave other names unto tlie cities which they built. 39 And the children of " Macliir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite who was in it. ♦"And Moses "gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh ; and he dwelt there- in. *iAnd ''Jair the son of IManasseh went and took the small towns'-^ thereof, and called them ' Havoth-jair. *2 And No- bah went and took Kcnath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name. /M. llavoth. Judg.lO. your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth. 25 And the children of Gad and the chil- dren of Eeuben sjjuke unto Moses, saying : Thy servants will do as ray lord command- 1/J09.1.14. eth. 26 Our "little ones, our wives, our flocks and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead ; 27 but thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, * before "-'• I the Lord, to battle, as my lord saith. Jos. 1.13,' ^So "concerning them Closes com- I manded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the I tribes of the children of Israel ; 20 and" 1 Moses said unto them : If the children of Gad and the children of Eeuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a posses- sion ; 30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. 31 And the children of Gad and the chil- dren of Eeuben answered, saying : As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. 32 We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side the Jordan ma>/ be ours. Deu. 3. 33 And '' Jloses gave to them, even to the List of the stations of encampment during the forty years' VMudcritifis in tlie wilderness. 33. THESE aj-ethe journeys of the chil- dren of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Closes and Aaron. 2 And Moses wrote their goings-out " according to their journeys, by the commandment of the Lord ; and these arc their journeys accord- ing to their goings-out. 3 And they ''departed from Rameses in 'the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out And of the tribe of the children j of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Aramihud. 1 -1 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son ■n,, , , ,1 u 1 1 II I iofChislon. " And the prince of the tribe Edom. And your south border shall be - ., , ., , , t-, S, , , ■ .i «• i,, ,, ,,^. . , . -of the clnldren of Dan, Bukki the son of ' the halt hea eastward : * and ' ,. The boundaries r\f the Promised Land. 34. Al^D the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: 2 Command the children of Israel and say unto them : "Wlien ye come into the land of Canaan, this ix the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even ° the land of Canaan unto the borders thereof. 3 Then ("your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of from the end of your border shall turn southward <^to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin ; and its going forth shall be southward to ' Kadesh-barnea ; and it shall go on to Ha- zar-addar, and pass on to Azmon ; ^and the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon /to the river of Egypt, and the goings-out of it shall be at the Sea. ^ And for the western border ye shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall point out for you " mount Hor ; 8 from mount Hor ye shall point out i/our border unto '' the en- trance of Hamath ; and the goings-forth of the border shall be to *Zedad ; ^and the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings-out of it shall be at *Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border. 1" And ye shall point out your east bor- der from Hazar-enan to Shepham ; n and the border shall go down from Shepham 'to Riblah, on the east side of Ain ; and the border shall descend and shall reach unto the side of the ""Sea of Chinnereth east- ward; 12 and the border .shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings-out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with the borders thereof round about. 13 And Moses commanded thechildren of Israel, saying : "This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the Loud com- manded to give unto the nine tril)es and to the half tribe. ' Ami the prince of the tribe of the chil- dren of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. -'' And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan. -^ And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shclomi. -8 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. -5 These *■ are Uiey whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance un- to the children of Israel in the land of Ca- naan. The Levitical cities, and (6) Cities of refuge ; (10) Laics respectiyu) the puninhment of mur- der; and the distinction betweeti murder and manslaughter. 35. AND the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, saying : - Command " the cliildren of Israel that they give to the Levites out of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in ; and ye shall give also to the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them. 3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in ; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle and for their goods and for all their beasts, *And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. ''And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cu- bits; and the city .^hall be in the midst; tliis shall be to them the suburbs of the cities. "And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be *six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the man-slayer, that he may flee thither; and to them ye shall add forty and two » Jos. 14. 3, 4 : 21. 2; sec Eze. 45. 1 ', Joa. 20. 2,7,8; 21. .3, 13. 21, 27. 32, 36, B.C. 1452. U.] NUMBERS, XXXV, XXXVI. [B.C. 1609. H. (/ Jos.2i.n. ;ch. 26.54. I Ex. 21. 12, 14; 1-e. 24.17 Deu. 19 11,12. 31, 32. 0 E:c 21. H; Deu. la. 11. cities. '^ So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be ' forty and eight cities ; them shall ye give with their su- burbs. 8 And of the cities which ye shall give And the inheritance shall not remove from one tribe to another tribe ; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep hunself to his own inheritance. '" Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad ; !• for '' Mahlah. Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah anil Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons. 1- They were married into the fami- lies of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph ; and their inlieritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father. i-* These arc the commandments and the judgments which the Loud commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel, * in the plains of Mcab, by the Jor dan, 7icar Jericho. THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES, CALLED DEUTERONOMY. Introduclir.n, connecting thU hook vjWi the pre- cedi7ig—{'.i) The lime arid place of the follow- ing addressen by Moses to the people — (0) The first address, hcifinning with a review of the Divine leading of Itrael from Sinai to Vie bordir of the Promised Land. 1, THESE are the words which Moses spake unto all Israel " beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel and La- ban and Hazeroth and Di-Zabad. - {There are eleven days' jnurnc;i from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto '' Kadesh-barnea.) 3 And it came to pass "in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first dan of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according to all that the IjORD had given him in commandment unto them ; * after <* he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at Astarolh ' in Edrei. ^ Beyond the Jordan in the landofMoab, began Moses to declare this law, saying : 6 The Lord our God sf)ake unto us / in Ho- reb, saying : Ye have dwelt long enough " in 1 this mountain ; " turn you and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, and .to all the neighbourhood thereof, '' in the plain, in the hill-countrj-, and in the lowlands, and in the south, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. ''Behold, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, I Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them. '•' And I spake unto you at that time saying : ^' I am not able to bear you myself alone. ^*' The Lord your God hath multi- plied you, and behold, ' ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. " (The "• Lord, the God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, " as hi^hath promised you!) 12 How " can I my.self alone bear your cum- brancc and your burden and your strife? 13 Take '' you men wise and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you. '* And ye an- i(;e.l2. iii. 4; 2)j. l;J. ;ch. 10.22: (ic. 1.-...-,; Neh. ».2;i. p see Ex. 18. 21 ; Num. 11. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, I. [b.c. 7 Ex. 'IS. Num.'sh J8; Ex. Kx. 23. !);Le ch.K .10: Job SI. swered me and said : The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do. ^^ So I took tlie chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them ' heads over you, captains over thousands and captains over hundreds and captains over fifties and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes, l" And I charged your judges at that time saying: Hear the causes be- tween your brethren, and ""judge right- eously between ever)/ man and his brother, and " tlie stranger that is with him. i"" Ye 'shall not respect persons in judgment, hut ye shall hear the small as well as the great ; " ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for * the judgment is God's ; and the cause that is too hard for you, ^ bring it unto me, and I will hear it. i^ And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 19 And when we departed from Horeb, ^ we went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw by the way of the mountains of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us ; and " we came to Kadesh-barnea. "*^ And I said unto you Ye are come unto the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God doth give unto us. 21 Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee ; go up and possess it, as the Lord, the God of thy fathers, hath said unto thee ; & fear not neither be discouraged. 22 And ye came near to me every one of you, and said : " We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and to what cities we shall come. 23 And the saying pleased me well ; and I took twelve men of you, one of a trilie. 24 ^nd d, they turned and went up to the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out : 25 and they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and brought us word again and said : It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us. 26 Notwitlistanding " ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God ; 27 and ye / murmured in your tents and said : Because the Lord " hated us he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 2^ Whither shall we go up? Our brethren have discouraged our heart saying ; >^ The people are greater and taller than we ; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the » Anakim there. 29 Then I said unto you : Dread not nei- ther be afraid of them. 30 xhe >< Lord your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, 'according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31 and in the "* wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God "bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. 32 Yet in this thing " ye did not believe the Lord your God, 33 ^ho ^ went in the way before you, ^ to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. 3^ And the Lord heard tlie voice of your words ; and he was wroth, and sware, say- ing: 35 Surely *■ there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land which I sware to give unto your fathers ; 3G save Caleb the son of Jephun- neh, he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because ' he hath wholly followed the Lord. 37 Also ' the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying : Thou also shalt not go in thither ; 3S lut Joshua the son of Nun, " who standetli before thee, he shall go in thither; * encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 30 Moreover " your little ones which ye said should be a prey, and your children which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. ■'"But as for you, ^turn you and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Eed Sea. ■*i Then ye answered and said unto me : -' We have sinned against the Lord ; we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and ye made it a light thing to go up into the mountain. ^2 ^^d the Lord said unto me : Say unto them, '' Go not up, nor fight ; for I am not among you ; lest ye be smitten before your enemies. ■*3 So I spake unto you ; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the command- ment of the Lord, and ''went presumptu- ously up into the mountain. «And the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto <^Hor- mah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the Lord ; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice nor give ear unto you. •**' So ' ye abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that ye abode there. I Ex. ch. 7 to ch. 15. m Ex. ch. 1C&17. n ch. n2. 11, 12 ; Ex. 19.-4; > Ps. 106. 2-1. } Ex. i( Ex. 24. 13 ; see 1 Sam. lu. ! Num. 20. Judii."' 11. 1«, 17. p.c. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, II, [b.c. 1608. H. !) see ■««. '. 14; ch. 1. G. t Jos. 24.4. /Tcr. 28. /< Job HI. 23. 1 eh. 8. 4. '" AXum 21), : Judg. IS. 2n. 1 : 11. / 1 Ki 9. m Num. 21. 28. n Ge. 10. 36.37. oGc.H..-.. pch. 9. 2. « //c». Re- pliaim. Recital of the viardi round Edom. and along the borders nf Moab, and Amnum: ('J-l) con- quest of the kingdmns of Ileslibon, and (di. 3. 1) Jianhan; (12) division of the conquered cowUrics; (22) Moses' cxIiortatUm to Joshua thereupon ; (23) his pra'jer to be jtermitted to enter Canaan, and (itf) ilie Lords answer. 2. TILEN we turned and took our jour- ney into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, "us the Louu spake unto me. And we compassed mount Seir many days. - And the LouD spake unto me saying : 3 Ye liave compassed this mountain ^ long enough ; turn you northward. * And com- mand thou the people, saying, ' Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir ; ">■ and they shall be at'raid of you. Take ye good heed to yourselves therefore ; ^ meddle not with them ; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot-breadth ; because "I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. *' Ye /shall buy food of them for money, that ye may eat ; and " ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. " For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand ; '' he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness ; Hhese forty years the Lokd thy God hath been with thee ; thou hast lacked nothing. 8 And * when we had passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from 'Elath and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 3 And the Lord said unto me : Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle ; for I will not give thee of their land /or a possession ; because I have given "'Ar unto "the children of Lot for a possession. — i}'' The " Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great and many, and tall as J' the Anakim ; ^^who also were accounted giants,* as the Ana- kim ; but tlie Moabites call them Emim. ^-The ''Horini also dwelt in Seir before- time ; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead ; ""as Israel did unto the land of his posses- sion, which the L/). Re- 31 And the Lord said unto me : Behold, I have begun to give 8ilion and his land before thee ; begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his laud. '•'- Then '^ Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. s:: And '' the Lord our God delivered him before us ; and we smote him and his sons, and all his people. 3* And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men and the wo- men and the little ones of every city ; we left none to remain : ^j only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took, ^op-i-om *Aroer, which is by the brink of the river Arnon, and from tlie city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us ; t. the Lord our God de- livered all unto us. 37 Only "unto the land of the children of Amnion thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river * Jab- bok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God for- bad us. 3. Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And ^ Og the kingofBashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. - And the Lord said unto me : Fear him not ; for I will deliver him and all his people and his land into thy hand ; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto ^ Sihon king of the Amor- ites, who dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people ; and " we smote him until none was left to him remaining. * And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them ; tlire^score cities, '' all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ^ AJl these cities were ' fenced with high walls, gates and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many. ^ And <^ we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women and children of every city. " But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that luas on this side the Jordan, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, 9 {which ^ Hermon the Sidonians call Si- rion, and the Amorites call it Shenir), l** all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and / all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. II (For " only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants.* Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron ; is it not in '' Eabbath of tlie children of Amnion Nine cubits ^oas its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.) 1- And this land wldch we possessed at that time, » from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead and ^ the cities thereof, gave I to the Eeubenitei and to the Gadites. 1^ And ' the rest of Gilead and all Bashan, hciny the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half tribe of Manas seh ; all the region of Argob, with all Ba shan, which was called the land of giants.-* 11 Jair "' the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob "unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites ; and " called them after his own name, Bashan- havoth-jair, unto this day. i^ And ^ I gave Gilead unto Machir. i^^ And to the Eeuben- ites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, the midst of the river and the border thereof, even unto the river Jabbok, xvhich is '' the border of the children of Amnion ; 17 the plain also, and Jordan and the border thereof, from '" Chin- nereth * even unto the Sea of the plain, t even the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pis- gah eastward. 1*= And I commanded you at that time saying: The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it. " Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that arc meet for the war ; 19 but your wives and your little ones and your cattle, {for I know that ye have much cattle), shall abide in your cities which Iliave given you, 20 until the Lord hathgiven rest unto your brethren as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them be- yond Jordan ; and then shall ye * return every man unto his possession which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time saying: Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings ; ^ so will the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. "2 Ye shall not fear them, for ' the Lord your God he will fight for you. 23 And I besought the Lord at that time saying: 210 Lord Jehovah, thou hast be- gun to show thy servant " thy greatness and thy mighty hand. For * what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do ac- cording to thy works and according to thy might ? 23 I pray thee, let me go over and see "^ the good land that is beyond the dor- ian, that goodly mountain f and Lebanon. * But the Lord <^ was wroth with me for ch. . 3rt: ioi. 12. : k Num..32. 33 _ 3S : J0S.13.S. i Num. 32. 39-42. *JIeh.ne- phaim. m 1 CIir.2. 22. n Jo5i. 13. ]3:2Sam. o^Nii 41. p Num.32. tch. 11.2. . Ex. 1... ll;2Sam. 7. 22;Ps. 71. 19; 86. 8. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, III, IV. [b.c. 1608. H. ft ch.12.32; Vro.m.ii; Mt. ].-). 0, 9; Rev. 22. 18, 19. c Num. 25. ;;.i(<:Jos. 22. ir. d Job 2S. 28 i Vs. 111. 10 : Pro. 1. 7. Sam. 7. / Pg. 148. <7 P». m. 7 -U; Ro. . 12-14. t Pro. 3. 1 -3; 4. 21: Bev. 3. 3. *• ch.n. 7: .18.19. i Ex. 19. P. 16; 20. 18. your eakes, and would not licar mc and the Lord said unto mc : Lut it suffice thee ; speak no more unto me of this matter. -7 Get • thee up unto the top of Pisgali, and lift up thine eyes westward and north- ward and southward and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. ^ But / charge Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him ; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. 29 So we abode in " the valley over against Beth-peor. Concluding exJinrtatians to a faiOiful observance of the law, with learnings and promises. 4. NOW therefore hearken, " O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you, to do therii ; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers giveth you. - Ye * shall not add unto the wonl which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LOKD your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of ' Baal-peor : for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. * But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. ^ Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God com- manded me ; that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. c Keep therefore and do them ; for <' this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, who will hear all these statutes, and will say : Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7 For ' what great nation is there that haih /God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for ? ** And what great nation is there that hath " statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day ? 9 Only take heed to thy.self, and * keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, ' and lest they depart from thy heart, all the days of thy life ; but * teach them to thy sons and thy sons' sons ; 1° specially ' the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in lloreb, when the LoBD said unto me : Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and thiit they may teach their children. H And ye came near and stood under the mountain ; and "' the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds and thick darkness. '- And " the Lord spake imto you out of the midst of the fire ; ye heard the voice of the words, but ye saw no form; "only ye heard a voice. '3 And ^ he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to jjcrform, even ' Ten Commandments ; and '' he wrote tliem upon two tables of stone. '+ And * the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments; that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 1^ Take ' ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of " form on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire : "^ lest ye corrupt jiourselvcs, and * make you a graven image, the form of any figure, " the likeness of male or female, 1" the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, i^ ti^g likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth ; ^ i^ and lest thou lift up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even " all the host of heaven, shouldest be drawn away to worship tliem and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath di- vided unto all nations under the whole heaven. -" But the Lord hath taken you, and '' brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egj-pt, ' to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. '^^ Furthermore <* the Lord was angry with me for your sakcs, and sware that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an in- heritance ; -- but I must die in this land * I must not go over the Jordan. But ye shall go over, and possess that good land. 23 Take heed unto yourselves / lest ye forget the covenant of the Loud your God, which he made with yon, and " make you a graven image or the likeness of any thing which the I.1OBD thy (Jod hath for- bidden thee. -* For '' the Lord thy God w a consuming fire, even * a jealous God. 2j When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have re- mained long in the land, and shall corrupt •-'2 ; 1 Ki- 19. 12. p ch. 9. 9 .l09. 23. 11. Is. 40.18. ch. 5. «. Ac. 17. /vcr. 9. ff Ei. 20.4, Ach. 9.3; Heb. 12. 29. i ch. 6. 15. B.C. 1451. U.l DEUTERONOMY, IV, V. [B.C. 1608. H. k 2 Ki. 17. 17,41. I ch. 30.1S, Neh. 1. S. ij Eze. 20. I 11-14. Hos. S., y ch. r,. 24 -■26; Ex. 20.18,19; X ch. 7. 19. > Ex. 7. 3. ;ch. 26.S: r/ch.02.39. c Ex. 19. 9, 11); Nell. 9.13. yourselves, and make a graven image or the likeness of anythimj, and ^ sliall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger, ^o I i call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong i/our days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. -'And the LoED ™ will scatter you among the peoples ; and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the Loud shall lead you. 28 _^,i(2 » there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's liands, wood and stone, •^ which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. -9 But ^ if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him witli all thy heart and with all thy soul. ^" Wlien thou art in tribula- tion, and * all these things are come upon thee, even '" in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedi- ent unto his voice, si because the Lord thy God is a * merciful God, ' he will not for- sake thee, nor destroy thee, " nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. 3^ For "ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been caji/ such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? ^SDiJ ^ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 31 Or hath God assayed to go and ^take him a nation from the midst of another nation, 'Hiy trials, ''by signs and by won- ders, and by war, and "^by a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes ? 3JUnto thee it was shoAved, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; '^ there is none else beside him. ^^ Out " of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee ; and upon earth he showed thee his great fire ; and thou heard- est his words out of the midst of the fire. 3' And because /he loved thy fathers, there- fore he chose their seed after them, and "brought thee out in his sight, by his mighty power, out of Egypt; 38 to ''drive out from before thee nations greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 29 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thy heart, that ^the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth be- neath ; there is none else. *o Thou shalt therefore keep his statutes and his com- mandments, which I command thee this day, ^that it may go well with thee and with tliy children after thee, and that thou mayest 'prolong th;/ days upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever. Appointment of three Cities of Rcjuge on the east of the Jordan. *1THEN Moses "severed three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; *2that ''the slayer miglit flee thither, who should kill his neighbour without intent, and hated him not in times past, and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live; ^^ namely, '^Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Eeubenites ; and Eamoth in Gilead, of the Gadites ; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassitcs. Moses' second address, bepinning with a recapi- tulation of the Ten Commandments, and the Covenant at Ilorcb. ** AND this in the law which Moses set before the children of Israel ; *^ these arc the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt, *** beyond the Jordan, " in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, ''whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt. . ^^ And they possessed his land, and the land of 'Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who %cere beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; *3from ''Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is ^ Hermon, *9 and all the plain, beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the Sea of the Plain, under /the slopes of Pisgah. 6. And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them :— Hear, 0 Israel, the statutes and judg- ments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep and do them. -The "Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. ^^he Lord '' made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, cocn us who are all of us here alive this day. *The ^Lord talked with you face to face in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, ^(^I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to show you the word of the Lord ; for ' ye were afraid ] k ch. 6. 3, 18; 22. 7 ; 1 Tim. 4. !>ch. 1.4; Num. 21. :;i-32. -ch..'?.-3,4; Num. o3— 35 Ps. 133.3. /eh. 3. 17 Ii.x. 19. 2, /ich. 29.10 19. 9, U). k Ex. 20. n.c. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, V, VI, [B.C. 1608. IL • lleh. be- fore my I'tvc. o Jer. ra. 18; Diui. 9.4. ««t«.19.3; Eph.6. 2, a. rMt.5.21. I Ex. no. lRo.13.9. Mt. 19. 6 Hab. 2. fl: Lk. 12. lH: Jio. 7. by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mountain), sayinj,' : "I "*«;«. the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the hind of Kj,'ypt, from the house of bondage. <■ Thou slialt have none other gods before mc. ' 8 Thou shalt not m.ike thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thim/ that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or tliat is in tlie waters beneath the earth ; ^ thou shalt not bow down thy- self unto them, nor serve them. For I the Lkjud thy God am a jealous God, " vi- siting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth genera- tion of them that hate me, l^and "showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. '^Thou ''shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 12 Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. "Six 'days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work; i* but the seventh day w the •"Sabbath of the Lord thy God ; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that w within thy gates; that thy man- servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. i» And * remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence 'by a mighty hand and by a stretchcd-out arm ; therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day. 1" Honour "thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee ; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. I'Thou ^shalt not kill. "* Neither "shalt thou commit adultcrj-. 1' Neither * shalt thou steal. 20 Neither "shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour. ^1 Neither * shalt thou desire thy neigh- bour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbours house, his field, or his man- servant or liis maid-servant, his ox or his s, or any thing that is thy neighbour's. 22 These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick darkness, with a great voice ; and he added no more. And ' he wrote them on two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. 23 And ''it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, and tlie mountain burned with fire, that ye came near unto me, cren all the heads of your tribes, and your elders ; 2+and ye said : Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and '^ we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire ; we liave seen this day that (Jod doth talk with man, and he /liveth. -JNow therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: "if we hear the voice of the IX)RD our God any more, then we shall die. 2«For''\vho is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of 'the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we hai-e, and hath lived 27 Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say ; and '^ speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee ; and we will hear it and do it. 2SAnd the Lf.RD heard the voice of your words when ye spake unto me; and the Lord said unto me : I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee ; ' they have well said all that they have spoken. "'•> Oh '"that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and "keep all my commandmenl.s always; that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever ! 30 ^q, say to them. Get you into your tents again. ■•' But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and "I will speak unto thee all the commandments and the sta- tutes and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do than in the land which I give them to possess it. 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you; "ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 33 Ye shall walk in «all the ways which the Lord your tiod hath com- manded you; that ye may live, ""and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the lanrl which ye shall possess. Exposition and enforcement of the Law; Ich. 7. 1) tcarninga against tidi-ratinn of idolatry ; (12) renewed promises ch. 2S. 14; Ju«. 23.0; I'ro. 4.27. 7Ch. 10.12, 13; Jer. 7. 23;Lk. ). 6. •Ch.4.40. i.e. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, VI, VII. [B.C. 1608. H. d Ge. U. 3. ! Ex. S. /"Mk. 29, 32 , Cor. 8. i —6. a 2 Ki. 23 25; Mk. 12. 30. A ch. 11.18, Vs. 40.8. tch. 4. k Ex.lS.9, Pro. G.21;7.3. 4.10. Jos. 2. 12; Is. 6.-,. 16;Jcr.4. s Mt. 4. 7. t Ex. 17. 2 statutes and his commandments, which I command thee ; thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and "that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, ''as the Lord, the God of thy fathers, hath pro- mised thee, in * the land that floweth with milk and honey. *Hear, O Israel! /The Lord our God w one Lord : ^ and " thou slialt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. •^ And '' these words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart; 7 and i tliou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walk- est by the way, and when tliou liest '^down and when thou risest up. 8 And tliou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And 'thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and on thy gates. I'^And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give thee ; '" great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not, 11 and houses full of all good things which thou fiUedst not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive- trees which thou plantedst not; "when thou shalt have eaten and be full, i^ then beware lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egj'pt, from the house of bondage, i^ Thou shalt "fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and P shalt swear by his name. 14 Ye shall not ^go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples which «?'c round about you, i^(for the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you,) *" lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth. iG Ye * shall not tempt the Lord your God, 'as ye tempted him at Massah. 17 Ye "shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. 18 And thou * shalt do that ivhich is right and good in the sight of the Lord ; y that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fa- thers, 13 to *cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. ^^ And "when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying: Wliat mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judg- ments, which the Lord our God hath com- manded you? 21 then thou shalt say unto thy son : ^ We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with "^a mighty hand; 22 and ''the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his houseliold, before our eyes ; "^ and he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. -■^And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, ^for our good always, that /he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 ^^id "it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us. 7. AVhen the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, >>■ the Hittites and the Girgash- ites and the Amorites and the Ganaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations 'greater and mightier than thou ; 2 and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them up before thee ; thou shalt smite them and '-"utterly de- stroy them. 'Thou shalt make no cove- nant with them, nor show mercy unto them. 3 Neither "shalt thou make mar- riages with them ; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. * For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods : so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee suddenly. 5 But thus shall ye deal with them; "ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their Asherim ""' and burn their graven images with fire. ''For "thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God. ^ The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all peoples that arc upon the face of the earth. ' The Lord did not set his love upon you or choose you be- cause ye were more in number than any people, for ye tverc ■* the fewest of all peo- ples; 8 but '"because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep ^ the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, ' hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, Jos. S. 24; 10. 28, 40. I Ex. no'te'Ex. 34. 13. 9ch.H.2; Jer. 2. 3. p Ex. 19. r, ; 1 Pet. 2.9. ■ ch. 10. ■ch. 4.37; B.C. 1451. U. DEUTERONOMY, VII, VIII. [B.C. 1608. H. X Ne. 1. 5; Dan. V. 4. V Nah. 1 » ch. RQ. 33: 2 Pet. 3. 3, 10. O ch. U'. .10 ; P;). lOG. S6. Num.33. eh. 31. C. k Ex. ch. 7 ton. ■ Kum. 14. 9, 14 ; Jos. 3. 10. o ch. 10. 17;Ne.4. 14. p Kx. 23. 7 Jo«. 10. 24,25,42; 12.1,24. he is God, " the faithful God, ' wlio keep eth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep Iuk commandments, to a thousand generations; '"and "repay- eth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them; *hc will not i)e slack to him that liatcth him, he will repay him to his face. "Thou shalt therefore keep the comniandiacnts and the statutes and the judgments which I command thee this day, to do them. 1- Wherefore " it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep and do tiiem, that the Loud thy God will keep unto thee '' the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers. i^And he will love thee, and will bless thee and multiply thee; 'he will also bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy wine and thine oil, the in- crease of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. " Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples ; <'■ there shall not be male or female barren among you or among your cattle, i^ And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the 'evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them, that hate thee. I*' And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the Lord thy God shall deliver unto thee; /thine eye shall have no pity upon them. Neither shalt thou serve their gods ; for that will be ^ a snare unto thee. 1' If thou shalt say in thy heart : These nations are more than I ; how can I i^ dis- possess them? '*thou * shalt not be afraid of them ; but shalt well remember * what the Lord thy God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt; ^^the ' great trials which thine eyes saw ; and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the stretched-out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out ; so will the Lord thy God do un- to all the peoples of whom thou art afraid. 20 Moreover '"the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left and hide themselves from thee are destroyed. -' Thou shalt not be aflfrighted at them ; for the Lord thy God is " among you, " a mighty God and terrible. -2 And ''the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little ; thou maye.st not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. ^Eut the Lord thy God will deliver them imto thee, and will destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. 24 And «he will deliver their 1 kings into thy hand, and thou shalt ''de- stroy their name from under heaven ; * there shall no man be able to stand before thee until thou have destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods 'shall ye burn with fire : thou "shalt not desire the silver or gold thai is on them, nor take it to thyself, lest thou be ^snared there- with ; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. 2Gjfeitiier <;i,ait thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it ; but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it ; " for it is a cursed thing. Warnings against pride and self-confidence, arul /orgi't/ulness of God and his merciful can and discipline in the Wilderness. 8. ALL the commandments which I command thee this day " shall ye observe to do ; that ye may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LOBD sware unto your fathers. 2 And thou shalt ^ remember all the way which the Lord thy God 'led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee and <^ to prove thee, ' to know what VMS in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no. ^ And he humbled thee, and /suffered thee to hunger, and "fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he miglit make thee know that ''man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that procecdeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. 'iThy 'raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years. ^ Thou shalt also consider in thy heart that *-as a man chastenetli his son so tlie IjORD thy God chasteneth thee. « Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. J^For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, 'a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig-trees and po- megranates ; ''a land of olive-oil and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any (hinf/ in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.* 1" When '" thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. 11 Beware that tliou forget not the LoiiD thy God, in not keeping his commandments and his judgments and his statutes, which I command thee this day: 12 lest ^when k Pro. 3. 12; neb. 12.5-11. • or, cop- per. mch.C.l). 12. u.c. 1451. U]. DEUTERONOMY, VIII, IX. [B.C. 1608. H. 2 Chr. J2. 2j. Pa. IOC. I Num. 20. n ; Ps. 7S. 13. II lleb. 12. ID. 11. j; ch. y. 4. y Pro. 10. 22 : see Ho3. 2. 8. 1 Cor. 4.7. 3 cli. 7. 8. a ch.ll.Sl ich. 4.08 /^cli. 1.30. cch.T. 24: thou hast eaten and art full, and Jiast built goodly houses and dwelt therein; i^and ^L•hen thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all tliat thou hast is multiplied ; ^i then thy heart be lifted up, and thou '' forget the Lord thy Cod, wlio brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage ; ^^ who ^ led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, '^ ivhcreinwere fiery serpents and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water ; * who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint ; 10 who fed thee in the wilderness with ' manna, which thy fathers knew not ; that might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, " to do thee good at thy latter end ; ^~ and * thou say in tliy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealtli. is But thou shalt remember the LoKD thy God, (for " it is he who giveth thee power to get wealth), 'that he may establish his covenant which he swarc unto thy fathers, as it ts this day. 19 And it shall be, if thou do at all for- get the LoED thy God, and walk after otlier gods, and serve them and worship them, " I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish ; 20 as the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, * so shall ye perish ; because ye would not be obedi- ent unto the voice of the Lord your God. Cautions against ascribing' their possession of Canaan to their ovm righteousness; (5) it is due to the loickcdness of the former inhabitants and to God'i, faithfulness to his promises ; (6) as is proved by Israel's repeatedrebellions,and (18) their need of Moses' intercessions. 9. HEAE, O Israel ! Thou art " to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations * greater and mightier than thy- self, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, " the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard &ay. Who can stand before the sons of Anak ! 3 Understand there- fore this day, that the Lord thy God i& he who '^ goeth over before thee as a con- suming fire ; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thy face ; '^ so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said un- to thee. * Speak / not thou in thy heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying: For my right- eousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land. But " for the wicked- ness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee. ^ Not '' for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go to possess their land ; but for the wickedness of these na- tions the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may per- form » the word which the Lord sware un- to thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. ^ Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness ; for thou art ^ a stiffnecked people. 7 Eemember and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. ' From the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egj'pt until ye came to this place ye have been rebellious against the Lord. 8 Also in ™ Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to ha\ e destroyed you. ^ When " I was gone up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you then " I abode in the mountain forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water. 10 And " the Lord de livered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written * according to all the words which the Lord spake with you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, n And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. 12 XwA the Lord said unto me *" Arise, get thee down quickly from hence ; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted them- selves ; they are * quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them ; they have made them a molten image. 13 Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying : I have seen this people, and be- hold, Mt w a stiS'necked people : 1* let "me alone, that I may destroy them, and out their name from under heaven ; and * I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they. 15 So ^ I turned and came down from the mountain ; and ^ the mountain burned with fire ; and the two tables of the cove nant were in my two hands. 11 And ° I looked, and behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf; ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had com manded you. i^ And I took the two tables and cast thcni out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. (;e.l3.15: 2ii.3,4,13, 14, 28. hV.y ? Of). ■■ii.-J. IEkA 11 V, ", 2 ; N 11.4 14 1-3 IH l-;i; Ps. 78.8. m Ki 32 24. in. . 4. "18^- 31 "^^1 r!S u Ex. 32. X Num.14. 12. t/ Ex. 32. ; Ex. 19. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, IX, X. [b.c. 1608. H. Jch.10.10; Ex.32.14: Pa. IOC. 23. it ch. 1.'32, Fs. 106. 24,25. ich.Gl.27. « Ex. 32. 12; Num. 14. IG. c Ex. 23. ; !C,2i. c/Ei..T7.1. t Ex. 34.4. " And I fr fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights, I did neither eat bread nor drink water ; be- cause of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke liim to anger. ^^ For ' I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But '^ the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also. 20 And the Djrd wasverj-angry with Aaron to have destroyed him ; and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time. '^ And * I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust : and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mountain. 22 And at .'' Taberah and at " Massah and at '^ Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath. -•' Likewise * when tlic Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying. Go up and possess the land which I have given you, then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your Goil, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. -*Ye * have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you. -'s Thus I fell down before the Lord the forty days and the forty nights which 1 fell down, because the Lord had said he would destroy you. 26 j »» prayed there- fore unto the Lord, and said : O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine nheritance, which thou hast redeemed by thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Look not unto the stubborn- ness of this people, nor to their wicked- ness, nor to their sin ; 28 lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say : " Be- cause the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to slay them in tlie wilderness. 23 Yet " they are thy people and thine in- heritance, wliich thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched-out arm. 10. At that time the Lord said unto me : " Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mountain, and '' make thee an ark of wood ; 2 and I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and ' tliou shall put them into the ark. ^ And I made an ark of <* acacia wood ; and I '■ hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and I went up into the Ex.40.20. 1 Ki. 8. ) Num. 3, fi ; B. 14; 16.9. pch.l8.S, 21. 5 i Num. C, 23-2(5. q Num.18, 20-24. mountain, having the two tables in my I hand. * And /He wrote on the tables, ac- / Ex. 34. cording to the first writing, " the Ten Com-;p^j. jo.i mandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, '' on the day of the assembly ; and the Lord gave them unto me. ^ And I turned myself and came down from the mountain ; and I » put the tables into the ark which I had made ; and '^ there they are, as the Lord commanded me. ^ And the children of Israel ' took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera. "• There Aaron died, and there he was buried ; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead. ' From " thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah ; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters. '^ At that time ** the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the cove- nant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and " to bless in his name, unto this day. ^ "Wherefore ' Levi hath no portion or inheritance with his brethren ; the Lord is his inheritance, ac- cording as the Lord thy God promised him. '0 And *■ I stayed in the mountain, ac- cording to the first time, forty days and forty nights. And * the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy thee. ^^ And ' the Lord said unto nie : Arise, take thy journey before the peoi)le, that they may go in and possess the land which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them. Admonitimu to fear and love God; withpromises o/blessiiif/ upon obedience, and Uireatenings of judgments for apostaxy. - AND now, O Israel, " what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but * to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, I and ' to love him, and to sen'e the LordJ thy God with all thy heart and with all tliy soul, ^2 to keep the commandments of the Lord and his statutes, which I com- mand thee this day ; for thy good ? i* Be- hold, <* the heaven and the heaven of hea- vens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. '5 Only *the Lord had a delight in tliy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, evax you above all tlie peoples, as it is this day. "5 Circumcise /therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stifl'necked. " For the Lord your God is " God of gods and ^ Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty and the terrible, who ' rcgardcth not personsnor taketh reward. '**He '^exccuteth the judgment of the fatherless and widow. /Jer. 4.4: Bo. 2 2«, 20. 2. 47. A Rev. 17. .2Chr 19. 7: Ac. 10. 34. kVt.et 'i; 146.9. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, X, XI. [B.C. 1608. H. , 1. 10. a ch.10.12. 6Zech. 3. <-_ch. 8.2- d ch. 7. 19. / Ez. 14. 27, 28; 15. 9,10. ich. 4. 40 «.2;Fro, 10. 27. and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. 19 Love ' ye therefore the stranger ; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 20 Tliou ™ shalt fear the Lord thy God ; himshalt thou serve, and to liim shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name, -i He "is thy praise, and he is thy God, "who hath done for thee those great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt "with threescore and ten persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee ''as the stars of heaven for multitude. H. Therefore " thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and ''keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway. 2 And know ye this day, for / sixak not with your children who have not known and who have not seen ''the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, '' his mighty hand and his stretched out arm, 3 and "his miracles and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt, to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land; *and what he did unto the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots ; /how he made the water of the Red Sea to over- flow them as they pursued after you, and hoio the Lord hath destroyed them unto this day; ^and "what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place ; ^ and '' what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reu- ben ; how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households and their tents, and all the substance that ivas in their possession, in the midst of all Israel. ' For « your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he hath done. 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the com- mandments which I command you this day ; that ye may * be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to pos- sess it; ''and that ye may 'prolong your days in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give to them and to their seed, "' a land that floweth with milk and honey. !•> For the land whither thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs ; 11 but "■ the land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven ; 12 a land which the Lord thy God careth for ; " the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments whicii I command you this day, " to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, i*that 'I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, *■ the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oil. i^ And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, tliat *thou mayest eat and be full. 'OTake heed to yourselves, 'that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them ; 17 and then " the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he *^shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit ; and ^ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you. 13 Therefore ^ shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And "ye shall teach them to your chil- dren, speaking of them when thou sittestin thy house and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates ; 21 that * your days may be muliplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, ' as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22 For if ■ even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it ; " thou shalt not add there- to, nor diminish from it. The punishment of idolaters and tempters to idolatrrj. 13. IF there arise among you a prophet or a " dreamer of dreams, and givetli thee a sign or a wonder ; 2 and '' the sign or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them ; 3 thou ''shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams ; for the Lord your God 'Jproveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. * Ye shall * walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his com- mandments, and obey his voice ; and ye shall serve him, and /cleave unto him. And "that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death ; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God com- manded thee to walk in. '' So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. cjf Uhy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son or thy daughter, or '-" the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend ^ who is as thine own soul, entice tliee secretly, saying. Let us go and serve other gods, '^ which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers, " namelij, of the gods of the peoples which arc round about you, nigh unto thee or far ofl' from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth ; ^ thou "shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him ; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him; ^but ** thou shalt surely kill him ; * thy hand shall be first upon him to put liim to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people; 10 and thou shalt '^ stone him with stones, that he die ; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. '1 And '■ all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. 12 If thou shalt hear in one of thy cities which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, sons ' of Belial, ' are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn tlie inhabitants of their city, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods, Avhich ye have not known ; i^then shalt thou inquire and make search, and ask diligently; and behold, )/ it he truth and the thing certain tltat such abomination is wrouglit among you, 15 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, ^destroying it utterly, and all that m there- in, and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city and all the spoils thereof, every whit, unto the Lord thy God. And it shall be ^a heap for ever, it shall not be built again. "And ^ there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thy hand ; that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compas- sion upon thee, and multiply thee, "as he hath sworn unto thy fathers; is when Jlic. 7. .'.. I 1 Sam. 18.1,3. )ieh. 17. C, 1/ comp. Jos. 8. 28; Jer. 49.2. aGe.22. 28.' 14.' .c. 14.51. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XIH,— XV. [B.C. 1608. H. Jer. Irt.il. ; Tcr. 'il : Ex. 19.6. 10. 13, H. -Le. 11.2, Ilcb. distion, ^'I'i'huJof antelope. thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, * to keep all hi.s commandments which I command thee this day, to do that whirh is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God. Commands to act mitably to IgraeTs special relation to God, by avoiding (1) the mmimiiig customs of the heathoi and (3) unclean food. 14, YE are " the children of the Lord your (Jod : ^yc shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead, ^por "^thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God ; and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the nations that arc upon the earth. 3 Thou (). A Vs. 41. 1 ; Pro. 3. 9, 10. 1 ch. 31, 10 ; Ex. 21. 2; Jer. 34.14. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XV, XVI. [B.C. 1608. H. the man that will do presump- tuously, and will not hearken unto * the priest that standeth to minister there be- fore the Loud thy (jod, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel, i^ And "all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously. u.c. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XVII, XVIII. [b.c. 1608. H. / see 1 Ki. II. :.'— .-, ; Ne. 13.26. /ich.S i'j' Uit.W — ItHl. k Vs. 10. 7. U J 11!). 1U5, 130. Num. 3. IIJ. /ch. 10. 8. Concerning the future election of a king, and (16) his duties. 14 WHEN thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, " I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that ai-c about me ; ^^ thou shalt surely set him king over thee f> whom the Lord thy God shall choose ; one ' from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee ; thou mayest not set a stranger over thee who is not thy brother. 1"^ But he shall not multiply '^ horses to himself, nor cause the people " to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses ; forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you : / Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. i'' Neither shall he multi- ply wives to himself, that ^ his heart turn not away. Neither shall he greatly multi- ply to himself silver and gold. ^8 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of '» that which is before the priests the Levites ; ^^ and » it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life ; *-■ that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them ; "^ that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he ' turn not aside from the com- mandment, to tlie right hand or to the left ; to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel. Provision for the priests and Levites. 18. THE priests the Levites and all the tribe of Levi " shall have no portion or in- heritance with Israel ; they ^ shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and his inheritance. 2 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren ; the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. 3 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep ; and '^ they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw. * The <* firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy .sheep shalt thou give him. '' For " the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, / to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever. fi And if a Levite come from ^ any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he so- journed, and come with all the desire of his mind z* to the place which the Lord shall choose; ? then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, i as all his brethren the Levites do who stand there before the Lord ; » they shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony. Prohibitions of divination and witchcraft— {li>) Promise of a prophet like unto Moses— (11) How false prophets may be known. 3 WHEN thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, " thou shalt not learn to do after the abo- minations of those nations, lo There shall not be found among you any one that '' maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or " a witch, ^ or a charmer, or a consulter with ''familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. 12 jor all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord ; and ^ because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee. 13 Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. i* For these nations which thou shalt possess hearkened unto observers of times and unto diviners ; but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. 15 The / Lord thy God will raise up un- to thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken, is According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb on the day of the assembly saying, " Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not ; i" and the Lord said unto me. They have well spoken that which they have spoken ; is i ^f,\\\ raise them up a prophet from among their bre- thren, like unto thee, and ''will put my words in his mouth ; and * he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And * it shall come to pass that whoso- ever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But J the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thy heart. How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? 22 when "'a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, r 0 ils.-il.Tfi; John H. 10-24 ; 17. 8. , '. John S. 2fi, 28;12. 49, 50; 15. 15. i- Ac. 3.23; ,B.c. 1451. U. DEUTEEONOxMY, XVIII, -XX. [b.c. 1608. H. b ch. 4. 41 Num. 35. !()- IS; Jos. 20. 2. rch.-i. 42; Num. X,. 15-28. ♦HeJ. iron, t Heb. >TUO and '' tliose who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. 21 And thine eye shall not pity ; but * life Khali (JO for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. The Laws of War, as applied to (1) the Israelites themselves, and (10) their enemies; (16) the Canaanitish nalioViS being excepted. 20. WHEN thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest " horses and chariots, and a pcojde more than thou, be not afraid of them ; for ^ the Lord thy (Jod is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 2 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that '^ the priest shall ap- proach and speak to the people, ^ and shall say to them : Hear, 0 Israel ! Ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies. Let not your hearts faint, fear not and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them ; * for the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, "^ to fight for you against your enemies, to save you. 5 And ' the officers shall speak unto the people, saying: A^Hiat man in there that hath built a new house and hath hot / de- dicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it. '' And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard and hath not yet eaten of it? Let him a/so go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and 0 another man eat of it. 7 And '' what man is tliere that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? I^ct him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and k ch.27.17 Pro. 22 28; Uo.. m 6CC 1 Ki. 21.1(1,1:! iMt. 2.J.U0, » Ex. 21 .23 -2.'.; Mt. 5.^. (Num.23. 21;2Chr. 13. 12; 32. :6ceNum. 10. K, 9 i 31. C. / FCC Nc. l-'.J-; I'.. y<), title. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XX, XXI. [n.c. 1608. H. 10; Judg. l.G0,35. 1,1 Jos. U. VJ,X. ■ ch. 7. 1 -3,16; Num. 21. s ch. I. 4 ; 12. 30, .31; 18. 9; Ex. another man take her. 8 ^^^j 4},^ officers shall speak further unto the people, and shall say : i \Vhat man is there that is fear ful and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house, '^ lest his brethren heart faint as well as his heart. 9 And it sliall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the peoi)le, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people. 10 AVhen thou comcst nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. "And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall be ' tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve tliee. 12 And ™ if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it. ^^And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thy hands, " thou shalt smite every male there of with the edge of the sword; i* but "the women, and the little ones, and '' the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the .spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and * thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord thy God hath given thee. IS Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which ar not of the cities of these nations, i*^ But *■ of the cities of these peoples which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breath- eth ; 17 but thou shalt utterly destroy them : namely, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzite.?, the Hivites and the Jebusites ; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee ; 18 that ^ thay teach you not to do after all their abominations which they liave done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God. 13 Wlien thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them; for tliou may- est eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down, (for the tree of the field is man's life), to employ them in the siege. 20 Q,i)y the trees which thou knowest that they he not trees for food, them shalt thou destroy ' cut down ; and thou shalt < build bul- warks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. Provision for the expiation of uncertain murder. 21. IF one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him, - then thy j elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain. 3 j^,^^] it shall be thai the city ivhich is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which hath not been wrought with and which hath not drawn in the yoke, i and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley which is neither ploughed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley. 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for " them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and ''by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried. 6 And all the elders of that city thai are nearest unto the slain man ' shall wash their hands over the hei- fer that is beheaded in the valley ; 7 and they shall answer and say : Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. « j^q merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and <' lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. » So " shalt thou put avmy the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that ivhich is right in the sight of the Lord. Laws relating to domestic, social and civil re- lations, riyhts and duties. 10 WHEN thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hatli delivered them into thy hands, and thou hast taken them captive, n and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her that thou woiildest have her for thy wife ; 12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house ; and she shall shave her head and pare her nails ; 13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and sliall remain in thy house, and " bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. " And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will ; but i' thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast ' humbled her. 15 If a man have two wives, <^ one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the first-born son be hers that was hated ; is then it shall be, " when lie maketh his sons to inherit that which lie hath, that he may not make tlie son of dGe.29.: CI, xi ; Sam. 1. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XXI, XXII. [B.C. 1608. H. ;.Ios.8.29; .lo'im' lb; ■M. m Gal. 3. the beloved to he the first-born l)cforc the son of the hated, who i'.^ indeed the first- born ; 1" but he sliall acknowledge the son of the hated for the first-born, / by giving him a double portion of all that he hath ; for he is " the beginning of his strength ; 'i the riglit of the first-lmrn is his. 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebel- lious son, who will not obey the voice of his futlicr or the voice of his mother, and who, when thoy have chastened him, will not hearken unto them ; i" then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; ^o and they shall say to the ciders of his city : This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice, he is a glutton and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. i So shalt tliou put evil away from among you ; and ^" all Israel shall hear, and fear. -- And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree, -3 his i body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him that day, (for '" he that is hanged is ac- cursed of God), that " thy land be not de- filed which the LoKD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. 22. Thou " shalt not sec thy hrothcr's ox or his sheep go astray and hide thyself from them ; thou shalt in any case bring let the dam go, and maycst take the young! to thee; 'that it may be v/ell with thee, I « <:i>- and that thou mayest prolong thj/ days. 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for tliy roof, tliat thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. 3 Thou '.shalt not sow thy vineyard with mingled seeds ; lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled, i" Thou " shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. 'iThou ^ shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together. -'-Thou shalt make thee ^fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and he hate her, '^and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say : I took this wo- man, and when I came to her I found her not a maid ; i^then shall the father of tlie damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate. I'' And the damsel's father shall say unto the ciders : I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her, i^ and lo, he hath given occasions of speech against ha; saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. them again unto thy brother. " And if is And the elders of that city shall take that thy brother he not nigh unto thee, or if man and chastise him ; l'-* and they shall thou know him not, then thou shalt bring amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it ; and '' thou shalt restore it to him again. 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass ; and so shalt thou do with his raiment ; and with any lost thing of thy brother's which he hath lost and thou hast found shalt thou do likewise ; thou mayest not hide thyself. •» Thou « shalt not sec thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way and hide thyself from them; thou shalt .surely help him to lift them up .again. •'' A woman shall not wear that which pertainetli to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment ; for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God. •^ If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in .any tree, or on the ground, whether theii he young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, '"thou shalt not take the dam with the young, " hut thou shalt in any wise and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be liis wife ; 'he may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel, 21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she h.ath "wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house. ^ So shalt thou put evil away from among you. 2'- If " a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall hoth of tliem die, hoth the man tliat lay with the wom.an and the woman. So shalt thou put away evil from Israel. 23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betroth- ed to a liusband, and a man find licr in the city, and lie with her ; "* then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and vc shall stone them with stones that Ib.c. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XXII, XXIII. [B.C. 1608. H. /ch.7.7,8. m2Sam. ■iGe. : - -M Num. 20. they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and tlie man, be- cause he hath (^ humbled liis neighbour's wife. So thou shall put away evil from among you. 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel the field, and the man force her and lie with her, then the man only that lay with shall die ; 2C but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death. For as wlien a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him, even so is this matter ; ^v for he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. If ^ a man find a damsel that is a vir- gin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found ; 0 then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, /because he hath humbled her ; he may not put her away all his days. A ''man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt. 23. He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut ofi", sliall not enter into the congregation of the Lord. 2 A bastard shall not enter into the congrc- ion of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the con- gregation of the Lord. 3 An ''Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall tliey not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever ; * because Hhey met you not with bread and with water in the way, wlien ye came forth out of Egypt; and *; because tliey hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam ; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto tliee, 2 because the Lord thy God loved thee. ^ Thou "^ shalt not seek their peace or their prosperity all thy days for ever. 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for " he is thy brother. Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because " thou wast a stranger in his land. ^ The children that are begot- ten of tliera shall enter into the congrega- tion of the Lord in their third generation. 9 "When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing. ^''If ^ there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of un- cleanness that chanccth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, h shall be, when evening cometh on, "he shall wash himself witli water ; and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again, i^xhou shalt have a place also without the camp whither thou slialt go fortli abroad, i^and thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon, and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that whicli cometh from thee. li For "■ the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of tliy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; there- fore shall thy camp be holy, that he do not see an unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 1^ Thou ' shalt not deliver unto his master tlie servant who is escaped from his master unto thee ; ^^ he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it lik- eth him best ; * thou shalt not oppress him. 1' There shall be no wliore " of the daugh- ters of Israel, nor * a sodomite of the sons of Israel, is Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow ; for even both tliese are abomination unto the Lord thy God. 19 Thou ^ shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother ; usury of money, usury of victuals usury of any thing that is lent upon usury -" unto ' a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: "that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settcst thy hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it 21 Wlien * ihou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it; for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee ; and it would be sin in thee. "2 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee. ^SThat *= which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform ; even a freewill-ofi'ering, accord- ing as thou hast vowed unto the Lord thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth. -4 When thou comest into thy neigh- bour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel. ^5 when thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighboiu-, «Thc t fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers ; every man shall l)e put to death for liis own sin. 17 Thou "shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger or of the fatherless ; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge : !•* but * thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Loud thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore 1 com- mand thee to do this thing. I'J When " thou cuttest down thy harvest in thy field an go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him : I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country " which the Lord sware to our fathers to give us. 4 Anil the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God. 5 And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God : ■ the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine and the breeding of thy flocks. 5 Blessed shall he thy basket and thy kneading-trough. Blessed ^ shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou oest out. 7 The Lord /will cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten be- fore thy face ; they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The Lord ^ will command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and '' in all that thou settest thy hand to; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lokd thy God giveth thee. "The »LoRD will establish thee a holy people unto himself, ^'as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou wilt keep the command- ments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. WAnd all the peoples of the earth shall see that ' thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be "'afraid of thee. 11 And " the Lord will make thee plen- teous in goods, in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 12 The Lord will open unto thee his good trea- sure, the heaven, ° to give the rain unto thy land in its season, and " to bless all the work of thy hand. And ''thou shalt lend unto many na tions, and thou shalt not borrow. 13 And the Lord wilF make thee ^ the head, and not the tail ; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them; i*and *thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. 15 But it shall come to pass, ' if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his command ments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. •> Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou he in the field. "Cursed shall he thy basket and thy kneading-trough. 1*=^ Cursed shall he the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine and the breeding of thy flocks. 19 Cursed shalt thou be " when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou he when thou goest out. 20 The Lord will send upon thee cursing, vexation and * rebuke, in all that thou set- test thy hand to for to do, ^ until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly ; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. 21 The Lord shall make ' the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he hath consumed thee from ofi' the land whither thou goest to possess it. 22 The "Lord shall smite thee with wasting and with fever and with inflammation and with extreme burning, and with sword, and with ^ blasting and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. 23 And *^ thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. "* The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust ; from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed. 25 The Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and over- take thee, till thou be destroyed ; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee ; ^'^ and they shall be upon thee / for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. ■" Because " thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things, *8 therefore shalt thou ^ serve thine enemies whom the Lord will send against thee, * in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness, and in want of all things ; and he * shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he hath destroyed thee. *3 The ' Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, ™ as swift as the eagle flieth ; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; ^'5 a nation of fierce countenance, " which shall not regard the person of the old. nor show favour to the young ; 5i and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed ; which also shall not leave thee eitha' corn, wine or oil, or tiie increase of thy kine or the breed- ing of thy fiocks, until he have destroyed thee. ^'- And lie shall " besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls wherein thou trustedst come down, through- out all thy land ; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the Lord thy God hath given thee. '-"^ And ^' thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom the Lord thy God liath given thee, in the siege and in the strait- ness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee. '^^So that the man among you that is tender and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of I his bosom, and toward the remnant of his j children which he shall have remaining ; j ^■'' so that he will not give to any of them of ; the flesh of his children whom he shall eat ; because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. ^^ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicate- ncss and ten and we took their land, and " gave it for an inheritance to the Eeubenites and to the Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 5 Keep 1^ therefore the words of this cov nant, and do them; that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders and your officers, with all the men of Israel, ii your little ones, your wives, and thy * stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water ; i^ that thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and *•' into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day- 13 that he may ' establish thee to-day for a people unto himself, and llmt he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and '"as he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. 11 Neither with you only " do I make this covenant and this oath, i^ ijut with Idni that standetli here with us this day before the Lord our God, " and also with him that is not here with us this day. 10 For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which ye passed by ; 17 and ye have seen their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which ^cere among them, i^ Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe ^ whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations ; * lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; i^and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, for I will walk in the firmness of my heart, to add drunk- enness to thirst. 20 The ^ Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and * his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and 'the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the Lord will separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant tliat is written in this book of the law. 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it ; 23 and that the whole land thereof is " brimstone ^ and salt and burning.; that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein I 'J like the overthrow of Sodom and Go I morrah, * Admah and Zeboim, which the ! Lord overthrew in his anger and in h n Jer. 31. 31-:a ; Ileb. 8. 7 pch.ll.- q Heb. ] (ch. 9. 14. Ex. 32. 32, 33. li Is. 34. 9. >; see J Zepli. Jcr. 20. li;. sOe.14.: B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XX1X,-XXXI. [B.C. 1608. H. t.ch.28. 15, CS; Le.26.I4, :!J ; Dan. U. 11-J4. c I Ki. U. lS;«Chr. 7.20. I JAc. J.7;! wrath : even all nations will bch.4.7'.1, ■il : 1 Ki. B. 47, 4a. e Ezral. 1-4: J er. .■«.87; Ere. 34. 12, 13. / Nc. 1. 0; .■a : Eic. 11. laiSC. 'J6. say: I " Wherefore hath theLoiU) done thus unto j this land .' What mcanctk the lieat of this great anger ? ^ Then men will say : Be- 1 cause they have forsaken the covenant of i the Lord, the God of their fathers, which | he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egjpt ; ■'^ for they ] went and served other gods, and worshipped ; them, gods whom they knew not, and wlMin he had not given unto them. -^ And the | anger of the Lord was kindled against this | laud, '' to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book ; -^ and the Lokd ' rooted them out of their land, in anger and in wrath and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as U is this day. 23 The <* secret things belong unto the Lokd our God; but those thlwjs -which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. PromUes of restoration upon repentance; (11) ccinductint] exhortations, and warnings. 30. AJS'D it shall come to pass, when " all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee ; and '' thou shall call them to mind among all the nations whither the Lord thy God liath driven thee, - and shall ' return unto the Lord thy God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I com- mand thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart and with all thy soul ; 3 that <* then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and ' gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. ■* If/ any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee; ^ and the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shall possess it ; and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers. "^ And " the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. ".iVnd the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, who persecuted thee. ^ And thou shall return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I com- mand thee this day. " And /^ the Lord thy God will make thee i)lcnteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy land, for good. For the| Lord will again 'rejoice over thee fori good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers, l" jj thou shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes, which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 11 For this commandment which I com- mand thee this day, *•" it is not too high for tliee, neither w it far off. i- It ' is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say. Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unions, that we may hear it and do it ? 13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say. Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us, that we may hear it and do it ? H But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. li See, ^ I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, i^jn that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply ; and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 1" But if thy heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them, is i » denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over the Jordan to go to possess it. ^'•> 1 " call heaven and earth to witness this day against you tluit I have set before I you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life ; that both thou and thy seed may live ; -" that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him ; for ^ he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord swarc to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them. Moses' final arrangement* and acts; (7) / seven years, in the solemnity of the year of Release, in * the Feast of Tabernacles, H when all Israel ' Cometh to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, " thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing. 12 Gather * the people together, men and women and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law ; 13 and that ^ their children who have not known ariT/ thing " may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it. Joshua receives his cliarge of office in the Taber- nacle. (16) The future apostasy of the nation is revealed to Moses; and (19) he is directed to ivrite a Song, testifying of God's mercies to his people, and foretelling their defection and its sad consequences. 1* AND the Lord said unto Moses ; " Be- hold, thy days approach that thou must die; call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that ^ I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went and pre- sented themselves in the tent of meeting, i'^ And '^ the Lord appeared iu the tent in a pillar of a cloud ; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tent. I'' And the Lord said unto Moses: Be- hold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers ; and this people will rise up and <* go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to he among them ; and they will "^ forsake me, and / break my covenant which I have made with them. 1" Then "my anger shall be kindled against them in that day ; and I will for- sake them, and '' I will hide my face from them; and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them ; so that they will say in that day : * Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us ? is And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods. 1^ Now therefore write ye this Song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel ; put it in their mouths; that this song may be ^ a witness for me .igainst the children of Israel. "^ For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, ^ that fioweth with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and "' waxen fat ; then will they turn unto other gods and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness ; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination " which they go about even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware. -" Moses therefore wrote this song on the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel. 23jVnd he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said : " Be strong and of a good courage ; ^ for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them; and I will be with thee. "^ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites who bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying : 2C Take this book of the law, and ' put it by the side of the ark of the cove- nant of the Lord your God; that it may be there for a witness against thee. ""^ For I know thy rebellion and thy '' stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this <; Ex. ."-4. 15; Judg. ; ch. 32. 1.5; .Judi;. 2. 12; 10. «, 13. g Judg. 2. 14, 15. ft ch. 32. 20; Is. (54. 7; Eze. 39. 23. i Judg. C. mch.S. in -14; 32 l.;i;Ne. iios". Vs.n. IJ.C. 1451. U.j DEUTERONOMY, XXXI, XXXII. [u.c. 1608. H. I Judg. 2. 19: Is. 1. 4;Hos. ». ich.28. l^oK. xch.4. .lO; Ge. 4y. 1, day, ye have been rebellious against the LoKD ; and how mucli more after my deatli ! ^ Gather unto rae all the ul.lers of your tribes, and your oflicurs, that I may speak these words in their ears, and * cull heaven and earth to witness against tlicni. 2a For I know tliat after my death ' ye will utterly corrupt ijoursdrcf, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you ; and " evil shall befall you '^ in the latter days ; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. Moses' prophetic Song.— lie contrasts the faith- fulness of God with the faithlessness of Is- rael ; and (19) foretells God's chastisement of his people, and (34) punishment of his ene- mies; andiii) Israel's future union wiUi the Gentiles in Ilis service. 30 .tVND ]\Ioses spake in the cars of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. 32. Give " ear, 0 ye heavens, and I will speak. And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. •'■'*}• I i^ My doctrine ^ shall drop as the rain, ?,".'. To', H.' ! My speech shall distil as the dew, As ' the small rain upon the tender herb, And as the showers upon the grass : 3 Because I will publish ** the name of the LOKD. Ascribe * ye greatness unto our God. * He is f the Eock, " his work is perfect; For ^ all his ways are judgment : A God of truth and i without iniquity. Just and right is he. 5 They have dealt corruptly with him, Thnj are not his children, hut their blot : A *^ perverse and crooked generation. c Do ye thus requite the Lord ? 0 foolish people and unwise! Is not he ' thy father, that hath *" bought thee? Hath he not " made thee, and established thee? 7 Remember " the days of old, Consider the years of many generations : Ask '' thy father, and he will show thee ; Thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the Most High ' divided to the nations their inheritance, \Vlien he '' separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the i)eoi)les According to the number of the children of Israel. 0 For * tlic Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him ' in a desert land. And in the waste howling wilderness; lChr.20. /2SBm. 22. 2, H; Ps. 18. 2. q 2 Sam. 22. 31. A Dan. 4. 37 J Rev. 15.3. t Ve. 92. 15. h Phil. 2. f Ex. 4. 22, 23. m P.. 74. ;)Ps.44.1. > Ex. 19.5, .!: l'». 13.-.. 4. He led him about, he instructed him. He " kei)t him as the apple of his eye. -1 As * an eagle stirreth up her nest, Fluttcreth over her young, Spreadeth abroad her wings, takeththem, Beareth them on her wings ; 12 So " tlie Lord alone did lead him. And * there was no strange god with him. " He " made him ride on the high places of the earth. That lie might cat the increase of the fields ; And he made him to suck ^ honey out of the rock. And ' oil out of the flinty rock ; 1* Butter of kine and milk of sheep, Witli the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of <' Baslian, and goats, With * the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink the pure /"blood of the grape. !'> But " Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked : Thou '' art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered tvifh fatness. Then lie ' forsook God who made him. And lightly esteemed the * Kock of his salvation. 10 They ' provoked him to jealousy with strange f/ods, With abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They ™ sacrificed unto devils, not to God ; To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came newly up, Whoni your fathers feared not. 18 Of " tlie Bock that begat thee thou art unmindful. And hast " forgotten God who formed thee. 15 And ^ when the Lord saw it, he ab- horred Ihcm, Because ^ of the provocation of his sons and of his daughters. -0 And he said : '" I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end will he ; For they arc a very froward generation, Children * in whom is no faith. -1 They ' have moved me to jealousy with (hat which is not God, They " have provoked me to anger with ^ their vanities; And " I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. " For ' a fire is kindled in mine anger. And it shall burn unto the lowest hell," i ; Zee. 2. S. Ex.1 : Is. 43.12. I cli. ;i3. •M; Is. 58. b Ps. 81. IG. r Job 29. ich.31.lC. 1 2 Sam. 22. 47. lKi.l4. 22; 1 Cor. lU. 21,2'-'. II Is. 17. 10. o Uot. 8. 14. 'l4:lV. " l(K5. 4(1. 7 Is. 1. 2. . I.. W. 9. Ps. 78. M. < 1 Ki. JO. 13, art; Jcr.».19. rJcr. 14. 22; Ac. 14. l,'.. '/ Ko. 10. 19. 4.11. • /trh. Shcol. B.C. 1451. U.] DEUTERONOMY, XXXII. [u.c. 1608. H. <; Le. 2C. 22; Eze. 5.17. cGe.3.14; Am. y. 3. /"Lam. 1. 20; Kze. 7. la. P Lam. 2. ; Ts. 27. 11; Jer. 4.22. t Ts. 140. 3; Ro. 3. 13. u Job 14. 17iHos. 13. 12. xP8.94.1i Ro. 12.ia, W F3. 73. 18. z 2 Pet. 2, a Vs. 135. H. And it shall consume the earth and its in- crease, And it shall "set on fire the foundations of the mountains. "3 I will '' heap mischiefs upon them, I " will spend mine arrows upon them. -* Thci/ shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat. And with bitter destruction. I roses. * From ' the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea to- ward the going down of the sun, shall be your / border. s There " shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Moses, so ^1 will be with thee; * I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. <> Be * strong and of a good courage ; for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land ' which I sware unto their fathers to give them. ^ Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou may- est observe to do according to all the law "* which Moses my servant commanded thee. " Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper "whithersoever thou goest. ^This ''book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth ; but ' thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written there- in. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. 5 Have "" not I commanded thee. Be strong and of a good courage ? * Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee whitherso- ever thou goest. i^Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying: i' Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you actuals; for 'within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God givcth you to possess it. 12 And to the Eeubenites and to the Gad- ites and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying : ^3 Remember " the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land, i* Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan ; but ye shall pass over before j-our brethren * in battle array, all the mighty men of valour, and help them, is un- til " the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them. " Then ye shall return unto " the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord's ser- vant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising. 1*1 And they answered Joshua, saying : * All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. i?^ According as we hearkened unto Moses in all thing.s, so will we hearken un- to thee. Only the Lord thy God ' be with thee, as he was with Moses, ever <^ he be that doth rebel against thy d i Sam. commandment, and will not hearken to thy j Ri. iV. 4, words in all that thou commandest hini, j ^' he shall be put to death. ' Only be strong < Eiraio. and of a good courage. Mixsion of two spien to Jericho. 2, AND Joshua the son of Nun sent " out of Shittim two men to si)y secretly, saying. Go view the land, and Jericho. And they went, and ^ came into a har- lot's house, named ' Rahab, and lodged there. - And it was told the king of Jericho, saying : Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the country. 3 And the king of Jericho sent to Ilahab, saying: Bring forth the men that are come to thee, who arc entered into thy house ; for they are come to search out all the country. 21 ; 25. 1. A neb. 11. 31; Jam. 2. 2.'.. B.C. 1451. U.] JOSHUA, II, III. [b.c. 1608. H. cGe.3S.Ci Ex. 23. 27;Deu. 2. 25 ; 11 23. fEx.15. 15. h Num. , 24. 34, ; Deu. 14, 15. fcch. 5. 1 7.5; Is. 1.3. 7. I Deu. 4. 39; P». !W. 18. * And <* the woman took the two men and hid them, and said thus : There came men unto me, but I knew not whence they were ; * and it came to pass at the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out ; whither the men went I know not. Pursue after them quickly, for ye shall overtake them. •' But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hidden them with stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. "^ And the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan, unto the fords. And as soon as they who pur- sued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. 8 And before they were laid down she came up to them upon the roof ; ^ and she said to the men : I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that ^ your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land / faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed, ^i And tvlmi we » heard these things ^ our heart melted, and there re mained no more courage in any man, be cause of you. For ' the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above and in earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I pray you^ "' swear unto me by the Lord, since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also | came to the Jordan, he and all the children show kindness unto my father's house ; and of Israel ; and they lodged there before give me a true token ; ^ that ye will save 1 they passed over. alive my father and my mother, and my j 2 And it came to pass * after three days. n ch. fi. 17, L'3; Judg. 1.24. o 1 Sam. 19.12: Ac. 9. 25 ; shalt bring thy father and thy mother and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee, i^ And it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be blameless ; and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head if amj hand be upon him. 20 But if thou utter this our business, then we will be blameless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. 21 And she said : According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet line in the window. 22 And they went, and came to the moun- tains, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned. And the pursuers sought throughout all the way, but found them not. 23 So the two men returned, and descend ed from the mountains, and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them. 24 And they said to Joshua : Truly •" the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land ; for even all the inhabitants of the country do * faint because of us. The miraculous crossing of the Jordan; (ch. i. 20) encampment at Gilgal; and (21) the me- morial set up there ; (eft. 5. 1) the alarm of the Canaanitish kings. 3. AND Joshua rose early in the morn- ing ; and they removed " from Shittim, and a ch. 2. 1. : Ps. 48. 5, brethren and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. 1* And the men answered her : Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that " we will deal kindly and truly with thee. 15 Then she ^ let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 18 And she said to them : Get you to the mountains, lest the pursuers meet you ; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned ; and afterwards may ye go you^r way. 17 And the men said to her : "We will be P blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear, is Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by ; « and thou that the officers went through the host ; 3 and they commanded the people, saying : ' "When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, 'f and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it : '^ yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it ; that ye may know the way by which ye must go ; for ye have not passed this way heretofore. 5 And Joshua said to the people : * Sanc- tify yourselves ; for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you. 0 And Joshua spake to the priests, say- ing : / Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. 7 And the Lord said unto Joshua : This day will I begin to " magnify thee in the cseeNum 10. as. dNum. 4 ]5;1U.21 Deu. 31. 9,25. ech.r. 1 Ex. 19. 10—15 ; Num.1 gch.4.U; 1 Chr. 29. 25:2Chr. 1.1. B.C. 1451. U.] JOSHUA, III, IV. [B.C. 1608. H. J- Num.lG 28— ail J 1 Ki. J8 36, 3r. tsee Deu. 31. 17. niEx.3.8; 33. 2; Deu. 7.1; Ps. 44. 2. II Is. 54. r, Mic. 4.1.1 Zee. 4. 14 i ch. 4. p Ex. l.v. 8 ; Ps. 78. 13; 114. 3. rch.4.18; ICIir. 12. ii; Jcr. 12. 5 ; i'J. 1». X Ex. 14. 22.2a ; Ps. OC. G. sight of all Israel, that they may know that '' as I was with Moses I will be with tliec. * And thou shalt tomiiiand * the priests tliat bear the ark of tiie covenant, saying : Wlien ye are conic to the brink of the water of the Jordan, ye shall stand still at the Jordan. »Anil Joshua said unto tlie cliildrcn of Israel: ("ome hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God. i^And Joshua said: *^ Hereby ye shall know that the living God is 'among you. and that he will without fail "'drive out from before you the C'a- naanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgasliites and the Ainoritcs and the Jebusites. ^i Behold, the ark of the covenant of "tlie Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into the Jordan. I2^,jj now " take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man. i^And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of tlie priests tliat bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off (the waters that come down from above) and they ^ shall stand up in a heap. 11 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, and the priests bearing tlie '''ark of the covenant before the people, i-'and as they that bare the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for '"the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,) ^''that the waters which came down from above stood ; tliey rose up in a lieap very far off, by tlie city Adam, that is beside *Zaretaa; and those | that came down 'toward the Sea of tlie Plain, "the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off. And the people passed over right against Jcriclio. ^^ And the priests tliat bare the ark of the covenant of the Loud stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan. *And all the Israelites jiassed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over the Jordan. 4. And it came to i)ass, when all the peo- ple were clean passed over the Jordan, that tlie Lord spake unto Joshua, saying: 2 Take "you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3 and command ye them, saying. Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where * the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and j leave them in the lodging-place where ye | sfaall lodge this night. | * Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man ; * and Joshua said unto them: Pass over before the ark of the LoRD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, ac- cording to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel ; C that this may be " a sign among you, '' when your children ask in time to come, saying. What mean these stones for you ? 7 then ye shall say to them, that "^ the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord ; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for '^a, memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. **And the children of Israel did so, as Joshua commanded; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the jilace where they lodged, and laid them down there. '■' And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bare the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there unto this day. 1" And the priests who bare the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until every thing was finished that the Lord com- manded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people * hasted and pass- ed over. 1' And it came to pa.ss, when all the people were clean passed over, that / the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 12 And "the children of Eeuben and the children of Gad and half the tribe of Ma- nasseh passed over armed before the chil- dren of Israel, as Moses spake unto them ; "about forty tliousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. I'J On that day the Lord '' magnified Jo- shua in the sight of all Israel ; and they feared »hini as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life. li And the Lord spake unto Joshua, say- ing : I'^Commaml the priests that bear * the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan. I'And Joshua com- manded the priests, saying: C'(jine ye up out of the Jordan, i^ And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of a Ex. 13. 9; Ex. 12. 20,27. b Ps. 44. 1 ; 78. 3-0. cch. 3.13, d Ex. 12. 14; Num. 1G.40. 1 ch. 3. 7 Ex. 14 B.C. 1451. U.] JOSHUA, IV,— VI. [B.C. 1608. H.! I Ex. 14. 2(i- 28. meh.u.lj. ?Ex.9.1fi; 2 Ki. :9. 19; Dan. 6.2(5,27. • 1 Chr.29. : Num. 13. t ch. 2. 9 -11; Ex. 1-). 14,1j; Ps. 48. 4 —6. cl Ki.lO. 'i. e. the Hill of the fore- skins. ; Num.14. 29; 2(;. 64, 6,-.; Deu. 2. 16. e Num.14. 33, 3t; Dcu. 1.3; the midst; of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry- land, that the waters of tlie Jordan ^ re- turned to their place, and '"■ flowed over all its banks, as before. 19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month; and they encamped " in Gilgal, on the east- ern side of Jericho. 20 And those twelve stones which they tooli out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal. 21 And he spake unto the chil- dren of Israel, saying : When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, say- ing, What are these stones? 22 then ye shall let your children know, saying, "Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over ; as the Lord your God did to the Eed Sea, " which he dried up from be- fore us, until we were gone over : 24 that ^ all the peoples of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is *" mighty : that ye might *fear the Lord your God for ever. 5. And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites 'who were by the Sea, "heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, ^neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. The renewal of circumcision, and (10) celebra- tion of the Passover, at Gilgal; (11) cessation of the manna. 2 AT that time the Lord said unto Jo- shua: Make thee "knives of flint, and ''cir- cumcise again the children of Israel the second time. ^ And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the Hill of Haaraloth.* ■1 And this is the cause why Jos.liua did circumcise : "All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. ^Now all the people that came out were circum- cised; but all the people born in the wil- derness, by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, '^ they had not circum- cised. '^ For the children of Israel walked ^ forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Loed: unto whom the Lord sware that /he would not show them the land which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, "a land that floweth with milk and honey. 7 And '^ their children whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. 8j\^n(i it came to pass, when they had done cir- cumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp till they were whole. ^ And the Lord said unto Joshua : This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from ott' you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal [i. e. EoUing ij unto this day. If* And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal ; and they kept the Passover >' on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the plains of Jericho. 11 And they did eat of the store corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover ; unleavened cakes and parched corn, on the selfsame day. 12^^,(1 the 'manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the store corn of the land ; neither had the children of Israel manna any more ; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Ca- naan that year. Divine manifestation to Joshua; (ch. 6. 1) caji- ture and destruction of Jericho. 13 AND it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood "a man over against him ''with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went unto him and said to him : Art thou for us, or for our adversaries ? 1* And he said: Nay; but the Captain ■•' of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua '^fell on his face to the earth and worshipped, and said unto him: What saith my lord to his servant? 15 And the Captain t of the Lord's host said to Joshua: ''Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou stand- est is holy. And Joshua did so. 6. (Now Jericho was straitly shut up be- cause of the children of Israel ; none went out, and none came in.) 2 And * the Lord said unto Joshua : See, /I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the ''king thereof, the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all men of war, going round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. '' And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns. X And the seventh day ye shall compass the city c fee ch. 13. /ch. 2. 9, B.C. 1451. U.] JOSHUA, VI, VII. "B.C. 1608. H. m 2 Chr. 13. 1.5. n Le.27 28. • or, de- voted ; ve'r. 18. seven times, and *the priests sliall blow wilh the tnunpcts. '•And it shall come to pass wlien they make a long Umt with the ram's horn, when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and tlic wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him. '■'And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them: Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of tlie Lord. " And he said unto the people : Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of tlie Lord. « And it came to pass, when Joshua liad spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets ; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them. ^And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, going on, and blowing with the trumpets ; ^ and the rear- ward came after the ark. i" And Joshua commanded the people, saying: Ye shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, neither shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout. "So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going around once. And they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. 1- And Joshua rose early in the morning; *and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. i3_A.nd seven priests Ijcaring seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets; and the armed men went before them ; and the rear-ward came after the ark of the Lord, tlie priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. ^^ And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days. 1^ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times; 'only on that day they compassed the city seven times. 1'' And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trum- pets, Joshua said to the people : "'Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city. 17 And the city shall be " accursed,* it and all that are therein, to the Lord. Only Raliah the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because "she hid the messengers that we sent. i^And ye ''in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves ac- cursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse,* and 'trouble it. i^But all the '"silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are conse- crated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord. 20 So the i)eoplc shouted, and the priests blew with the trumpets. And it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a gnat shout, that ' the wall fell down flat ; so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. -'And they 'utterly de- stroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword. 22 But Joshua had said to the two men that had spied out the country: Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman and all tliat she hath, "as ye sware unto her. 23 ^nd the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, *and her father and her mother and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them 2' without the camp of Israel. -^ And ^they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasiuy of the house of the Lord. 2^ And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had. And she dwelleth in Is- rael "unto this day; because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 2t' And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying : * Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho : he shall lay the foundation there- of in his first-born, and in his youngest shall he set up the gates of it. 2' So the Lord was with Joshua ; and his fame was throughout all the countrj-. A Chan's sin ; (2) the comeqveiU defeat of Israel before Ai ; (6) Joshtia's jtrayer, and God's ansicer ; (16) the detection and punishment of Achan. 7. BUT the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed t thing ; for "Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of ''Zab- di, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, ' took of the accursed thing. And the an- ger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel. nch. '. 1, 11. Vi; Deu. 13. 17. > or. a de- voted thinf. q ch. 7. 2.". ■ Num.31. 21-?3; 2 Sam. b. 11. f Num. 31. 19. Deu. 13. and to I vcr». 1 1, 12, !.•?, 15. a\ Chr. 2. b 1 Chr. 2. c ch. C. 1 1451. U.] JOSHUA, VII. [B.C. 1608. H. d Ge. 12. 8, Hai: Ne. II. 31, Aija. e ch. 2. 11 Le.26.36; Is. 13. 7 21.2. h 1 Sam. 4. 12 ; 2 Sam. 1.2; Job 2. 12. i Num. 14. 3; 2Ki.3. 10. k Ex. 16. I Num. 14. 13. m Ps. 83.4. « see Eze. 20. 9; Joel 2.17. r ch. e. IS. * or, a de- voted tiling. s Ex. 19. 10. t ch. 0. C. X 1 Sam. l(t. 1!) - 21; Pro. l(i. 33; " And Joshua sent men from Jericho to •^Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake to them, saying ; Go up and spy out the country. And the men went up and spied out Ai ; 3 and they returned to Joshua, and said to him: Let not all the people go up ; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai ; make not all the people to labour thither, for they are few. 4 So there went up thither of the people about three tliousand men. And they tied before the men of Ai ; ^and the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men ; and they chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim, and smote them on the descent. Wherefore " the hearts of the peo- ple melted, and became as water. •5 And Joshua /rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord "until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel ; and '' put dust upon their heads. <■ And Joshua said : Alas ! O Lord God, * wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? * Would that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan ! 8 O Lord, what shall I say when Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies ! ^ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land ' will hear, and will environ us around, and "' cut off our name from the earth. And " what wilt thou do unto thy great name ? 10 And the Lord said unto Joshua : Get thee up I " Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? " Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them ; p for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have also put it among their own stuff. 12 There- fore 'the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies ; they turned their backs before their enemies, because '"they were accursed.* Neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed from among you. 13 xjp, sanctify *the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves against to- morrow. For thus saith tlie Lord God of Israel: An accursed thing is in the midst of thee, O Israel. Thou canst not stand before thine enemies "until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. i*In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes : and it shall be that the tribe which ^the Lord taketh shall come by families ; and the family which the Lord shall ^take shall | come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man. 15 And ^'it shall be that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he ^hath wrought folly in Israel. 1*^ So Joshua rose up early in the morn- ing, and brought Israel by their tribes ; and the tribe of Judah was taken. 17 And he brought the family of Judah ; and he took the family of the "Zarhites. And he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man ; and Zabdi was taken. 18 And he brought his household man by man ; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, * was taken. 19 And Joshua said to Achan : My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, " and make confession unto him ; and ''tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me. 20 And Achan answered Joshua and said : Indeed I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done : -1 When "I saw among the spoils a goodly robe of /Shinar, and two hundred .shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty she- kels weight, then I coveted them and took them ; and behold, they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. "2 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent ; and behold, it was hidden in his tent, and the silver under it. ^ And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord. 2* And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold, and ^ his sons and his daughters, and his oxen and his asses and his sheep, and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them to '» the valley of Achor. "^ And Joshua said : * Why hast thou troubled us? The Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones ; and they ^ burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. ^fi And they ' raised over him a great heap of stones, unto this day. And '"the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. ■\Vherefore the name of that place was called, " The valley of Achor [i. e. Trouble], unto this day. : Num. o G,7. I 1 Sam ; comp. Ps. 119. 37 ; Pro. 1 Num.16 Pro. is". n Is. M. lU ; H03. 2. 1.5. B.C. 1451. U.] JOSHUA, VIII. [b.c. 1608. H. ach. 1.9 : Dcu.l. •Jl;7.18 31.8. 6 ch. 0. a. c ch. 0. 2. d Deu. 20. 14. /•Ex. U The capture and destruction of At. 8. AND the Lord said unto Joshua: " Fear not nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai. Bee, >> I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people and his city and his land ; - and thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst to ' Jericho and her king : only "^ the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves. Lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai. And Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. i And he commanded them, saying : Be- hold, * ye shall lie in wait against the city, behind the city ; go not very far from th city, but be ye all ready. ^ And I, and all the people that are with me, will ap- proach unto the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at tlie first, that we will flee before them, « and / they will come out after us, till we have drawn them from the city ; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first : therefore we will flee before them. " Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city; for the Lokd your God will deliver it into your hand. ^ And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, j,ch.c.24. ye shall "set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lokd shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. 9 ^Vnd Joshua sent them forth ; and they went to lie in aml)ush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai. But Joshua lodged that night among the people. >*> And Joshua rose up early in the morn- ing, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. i^ And all the people, ike men of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. And the valley was between them and Ai. j 1- And he took about five thousand men, 'and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city, i''^ And when they had set the peo- ple, all the camp that was on the north of the city, and their Hers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. 1* And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the place api)ointed, before the plain ; but he '' knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city, li And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness, i'' And all the pecple that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city, i' And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. "^ And the LoiiD said unto Joshua: Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai ; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city, l^ And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand ; and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire. -^ And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven ; and they had no power to flee this way or that way. And the people that had fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai. -- And the others issued out of the city against them ; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they smote them, so that they * let none of them remain or escape. -^ And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 21 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where- in they chased them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And all that M\ that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, all the men of Ai. 20 For Jo- shua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he liad utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according to the word of the Lord which he com- manded Joshua. 28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it AJu(]c20. .14 : Ecc. y. 12. * a heap for ever, a desolation unto this n;. .c. 1451. U.] JOSHUA, VIII, IX. [B.C. 1608. H. Jch.l0.2C. m ch. 10. d Deu. 31. c"ex.'i2. 4!l; Deu, rfch.l0.2i 2 Sam. 21.1,2. ech.6.2-. day. 29 And ' the king of Ai he hang- ed on a tree until eventide : "* and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and " raise thereon great heap of stones, standing unto tliis day. The fulfilment rf the command to write the Law upon stones, and to proclaim publicly its blessiiKjs and cursea. 30 THEN Joshua built an altar to the LoHD, the God of Israel " on mount Ebal, ^1 as Moses the servant of the Lord com- manded the children of Israel ; as it is writ- ten in the book of the law of Moses ; an ^ altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lifted up iron. And they offered there- on burnt-offerings unto the Loed, and sacri- ficed peace-offerings. -'^ And "^ he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. 33 And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side, before the priests the Levites, Ai and her king) ; an