□’znrcn owm min THE TWENTY-FOUR BOOKS OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES CAREFULLY TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE MASSORETIC TEXT, gifter tlje best Jebml) giut^orities, EY ISAAC LEESER. un? 'S': n3t?n xb “ For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of his seed.” Deut. xxxi. 21. FROM THE AMERICAN HEBREW PUBLISHING HOUSE. The BLOCH Publishing and Printing Company. Cincinnati and Chicago. Entered according to act ot Congress, in the year 1853, by ISAAC LEESER, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ADVERTISEMENT TO THE LONDON EDITION. This corrected version supplies an admitted want of our times. The so-called Authorized or Anglican version of the Scriptures, now already more than two centuries old, is an eminently clever work, con- sidering the state of knowledge then available for its production : but, examined by the light of iacer researches and more comprehensive studies, it betrays great need for revision. Indeed this need has long been recognized by the highest dignitaries and most accomplished scholars in the Anglican Church itself, and, but for the risk of therewith disturbing matters more difficult of adjustment, such a revision might ere now have been effected under corresponding authority.* * Even “ The British and Foreign Bible Society,” which has do.ne so much for the distribution of the Authorized version, is now denounced by u The Trinitarian Bible Society,” which claims that version as essentially Anti-Unitarian in de. igu. ADVERTISEMENT TO Meanwhile other Biblical students have been more free to publish the result of their investigations : — as witness “ Twenty Thousand Emendations,” by Dr. Conquest, and a like catalogue by Mr. Selig Newman. Objections are advanced by scholars unconnected with the State Church, to the bias in favour of its dogmas and polity traceable in the Authorized ver- sion, and sufficiently accounted for by the recorded instructions given to the translators by their patron, King James I. Their dedication of the work to him which has heretofore been published in the man- ner of a preface, is to be withdrawn from future editions, and therewith the warning for which it serves. The headings of chapters and of columns have from the first rendered the Anglican version propagandist in its tendencies, so that the Church of Scotland and other Christian denominations reject those headings as favouring foregone conclusions un- acceptable to those who wonld search the Scriptures for themselves. But the striking out of these assump- tions leaves, nevertheless, uncorrected in the text abundant cases of false rendering. In “Three Let- ters to the Archbishop of Canterbury, by the Rev. John Oxlee, Rector of Molesworth ” (published by Hatchard and Son), that learned minister of the Angli- can Church denounces even in its own interest : — “ The fanatic zeal which, in spite of reason and common sense, would cite and apply every passage —no matter whether historical, didactic, or prophetic — either to Jesus himself personally, or in support THE LONDON EDITION, of some doctrinal tenet admitted by the Church ; and that to the total exclusion of the literal sense, how- ever plain and indisputable it may seem to common understandings. This culpable bias on the part of the Church docent, has never ceased to display itself during the whole interval of the Christian dispensa- tion, from the 1st to the 19th century ; so that there is scarcely a passage of any striking importance which has not been more or less perverted or mis- applied, in order that faith and not truth might appear to be triumphant.” To Jewish families and schools this version may be considered as specially recommended, from the fact that the Jewish Association for the Diffusion of Reli- gious Knowledge have taken a large number of copies for distribution among the children of their JSabbath Schools. It is eminently the vocation of Israel to protect from falsification and error the sacred Testimonies commit- ted to their fathers. Jews, who of their own accord introduce the Anglican version into their households, and who provide nono other for their schools, commit a flagrant breach of sacred trust, in the abandonment of those for whose safe guidance they are immediately responsible, to a helpless ignorance of truth — an igtior- auce all the more fatal, because false interpretations are obtruded in season and out of season, with an un- scrupulous object — to procure apostasy from Judaism. Judaism, on the other hand, seeks no proselytes, and is altogether without inducement to put a gloss or colour & 2 ADVERTISEMENT. upon inspired words which, so far as a modern and western tongue can do it, are here found faithfully mirrored. Hence this version, accomplished by a learned and conscientious Hebraist, has found acceptance from all denominations. In correcting the Authorized version, he has treated it with due delicacy, preserving always its simple grace and that characteristic “ biblical style” endeared to all by its sacred associations. PREFACE No doubt many Israelites even will deem it an unneces* eury waste of time to bestow years of labour in producing a revised English translation of the Holy Scriptures. The book commonly known as the authorized or King James’s version has been so Tong looked upon with a deep veneration almost bordering on superstitious dread, that, to most per- sons, the very thought of furnishing an improved translation of the divine records will be viewed as an impious assump- tion and a contempt of the wisdom of former ages. But to reason in this manner would not display a proper apprecia- tion of the question, as it actually presents itself upon a candid inquiry. For argument’s sake, it may be admitted that those who assisted in furnishing the common version may have been as honest as men writing for their sect are ever likely to be ; but it must not be lost sight of, that, after all, they could not well avoid falling into the common error of most persons who have a favourite idea to defend, which is, of giving a colouring to their work wdiich would, in some manner, confirm their peculiar views. If it were the object of this preface to indite a criticism of the English version, many a proof could be brought forward. But a few speci- mens only will be given, to exhibit in brief the danger of taking for a higher authority than it deserves that which at best is nothing more than the opinion entertained of the divine Scriptures by ecclesiastics w'ho belonged to and wrote for a particular sect. — Deut. xxvii. 26 : “ Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them;” here “all” is not in the text ; and though it is so marked, by being printed in italic type, still, hardly any Bible-reader not. ac- quainted with the Hebrew but will believe that it is a cor- rect version from the text. Isaiah vii. 14: “Behold, a vir- gin shall conceive, and bear a son,” &c. ; here the word rendered a “virgin,” should literally be given “the young woman.” Zechariah xii. 10: “ And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced this is in nowise borne out by the context, as the next words are “and they shall mourn for him.” It is therefore evident that the objective embraced > PREFACE. in the relative whom lias not me as antecedent, but Ih at it refers to an ellipsis “for one;” thus “for one whom they/* &c., who is also then naturally referred to in “mourn for him.” Instances could be multiplied, from the prophets and Psalms in particular, where the text has been rendered so as to prove certain doctrines which otherwise are not em- braced therein ; but it is needless, since every one who is curious in the matter can institute a comparison for him - self. It must also be kept in view that most of the editions in use are disfigured by chapter and page headings, through which means ordinary readers are told what ideas they are to expect to find in every chapter or page ; and the merest inspection will at once show that these expositions are per- fectly arbitrary, and frequently not borne out by even the very common version over which they are so ostentatiously placed. Instead, therefore, of our having in this manner the word of God without note or comment, as is asserted so generally, and with a show of feigned liberality, we have an annotation which at once teaches us to read the Bible with a prejudice in favour of certain dogmas w r hich had their birth anywhere but in the unerring revelation of the God of heaven. But if it were otherwise, even, that no colouring had been given to the English words not warranted bj" the Hebrew, and that no such notes were ever appended, it would still be a species of mental slavery to rely for ever upon the arbi- trary decree of a deceased king of England, who certainly was no prophet, for the correct understanding of the Scrip- tures upon which our life in th‘,% world and the next depends: especially as, to a Jew, there can be Mj authorized transla- tion, except the traditional rendering of the legal terms of the ordinances of God, whai-ever this is accessible ; and for the remainder the text alone is Authority, and to be ex- plained from itself by the light which has come down from the beginning to our own time. No human power can there- fore say, “Thus and thus is the only expensive version of this and that text, and this version and no other shall be read in our public or private religious meetings. ” Since the time of King lames the world has likewise pro gressed in biblical knowledge x\o les-3 than lr all other branches of science; and giar-t minds have laboured to make clear what formerly was obscure. Hence it would be a wilful blindfolding of our own intellect, were we to rest satisfied without revision and examination with a production upward of two hundred years old, and refuse to accept such aids tc PREFACE. V illustrate the Bible as old authors and investigators- ^not Known or not sufficiently understood, or, if understood, not carefully consulted — have furnished, besides the new light thrown upon this all-important study by the search of many * moderns in this ample field since the common version was launched into the world by r,oyal authority. Now, as all old translations are obnoxious to the same objections, many attempts have been made of late years by Israelites in all European countries to furnish new versions in the various languages which they speak, unterrified by the consideration that there exist such works as the Septua- gint, the Vulgate, Luther’s and King James’s versions. And to this are we indebted for many highly successful render- ings of the whole or portions of the Bible, in German, French, Italian, Butch, and English. The translator cannot say with certainty that this course has been pursued in Russia and the other northern and eastern kingdoms of Europe ; but if it has not been done, it is solely owing to the fact that the German is accessible to most of these countries, wherefore a special version was not so necessary there. Hitherto — at least before the completion of the first edition of this work, two years ago — no other translation in the English had been completed by Jews, although several had been commenced ; for instance, Dr. Raphall’s and Mr. A. De Sola’s and Mr Lindenthal’s book of Genesis with Hebrew text and ample notes, and Dr. Benische’s version with Hebrew text to the end of the Second Book of Kings : beside which, there is now in progress a new version by a society called “ The American Bible Union,” who have in hand, at the time of writing this, the book of Job with Hebrew text, the old and a new ver- sion, together with very copious notes. This society, by-the- by, has collected large funds, to carry out its intention fully ; but several years will elapse before it can expect to furnish a complete translation of all the Scriptures, although many are engaged in rendering the various portions, if the writer of this be correct y informed. All this at least proves that others besides the present translator thought a new version absolutely necessary ; consequently, it is to be hoped that Israelites, if even no others, will see the propriety of intro ducing into their schools and families a version of the Scrip tures which, if not otherwise improved, has endeavoured to render the text as literally as possible. The translator is an Israelite in faith, in the full sense the word, and believes in the Scriptures as they have been handed down to us, as also in the truth and authenticity of prophecies arid their ultimate literal fulfilment; and has al 1 * VI PREFACE. ways Mudiel the Scrip cures to find .t confirmation for hi& faith and hope : nevertheless, he asserts fearlessly, that ii>. his going through this work he has thrown aside all bias, discarded every preconceived opinion, and translated the text be Id re him without regard to the result thence arising for his creed. But no perversion or forced rendering of any text was needed to bear out his opinions or those of Israel- ites in general; and he for one would place but little confi- dence in them, if he were compelled to change the evident meaning of the Bible to find a support for them. He trusts, therefore, that to those who agree with him in their religious persuasion he has rendered an acceptable service ; as they will now have an opportunity to study a version of the Bible which has not been made by the authority of churches in which they can have no confidence ; and that to those also who are of a different persuasion his labours will not be un- acceptable, as exhibiting, so far as he could do it, the pro- gress of biblical criticism among ancient and modern Irael- ites — a task utterly beyond the power of any hut a Jew by birth and conviction. As regards the style, it has been endeavoured to adhere closely to that of the ordinary English version, which for simplicity cannot be surpassed: though, upon a critical ex- amination, it will readily be perceived that the various trans- lators differed materially in their methods, and frequently rendered the same word in different ways. In the present version, great care has been taken to avoid this fault ; but the translator does not mean to assert that he has succeeded to as great an extent as he could have desired. He will not enumerate what he has done; but let any one who is desir- ous to investigate this point compare the two translations, and he will readily convince himself that this may be called a new version, especially of the Prophets, Psalms, and Job; and he confidently hopes that the meaning has been rendered more clear than it is in the old version. He found great difficulty about coming to a satisfactory resolution with regard to the spelling of Jhe proper nouns. Any one the least acquainted with the manner in which they are presented in the common versions and the languages of Western Europe, must know that they are very much cor- rupted; but they have in this shape become so much inter- woven with the language of history and of daily conversation, that it would have produced endless confusion to spell them after the original manner. Hence the ordinary method had to be retained for words in constant use; but, where this was aot the case, a spelling more in accordance with the original PREFACE. Vll has been resorted to. The j should always be pronounced as y, to accord with the Hebrew ; and ia as ya. A should be sounded as long or short ah; e as long a , or e in “met;” i as long ee, or i in “pin;” and u as oo. Ch stands for the • Hebrew n; where j? occurs in the Hebrew, an apostrophe * has been used for the most part; but there are no English letters to represent these sounds exactly. For instance, “ Zechariah,” pronounce Zechary'ah ; “Jehu,” as Yay-hoo , &c. Whenever words have been supplied which are not in the text, but are requisite to make the sense clear, they have been placed in parentheses; for instance, 1 Chron. iii. 9: “(These were) all the sons of David,” where there is no equivalent in Hebrew for “ these w r ere,” though no sense could be made of the phrase without supplying these two words. The parenthesis is also used occasionally, but very seldom, to denote a construction, where an actual parenthesis of a whole sentence, or of one or more verses, occurs. In offering this work to the public, the translator would also remark, that even in early youth he was made conscious how much persons differing from us in religious ideas make use of Scripture to assail Israel’s hope and faith, by what he deems, in accordance with the well-settled opinions of sound critics, both Israelites and others, a perverted arid hence erroneous rendering of the words of the original Bible. Therefore he has long entertained the hope to be one day permitted to do for his fellow- Hebrews who use the English as their verna- cular, what had been done for the Germans by some of the most eminent minds whom the Almighty has endowed with the power of reanimating in us the almost expiring desire for critical inquiry into the sacred text. So much had been done by these, that the translator’s labours were rendered comparatively easy ; since he had before him the best results of the studies of modern German Israelites, carried on for the space of eighty years, commencing with Moses Mendels- sohn, Herz Wesel, or, as he was called, Hartog Wessely, and Solomon of Dubno, down to Dr. L. Zunz of Berlin, whose work — aided as he was by Rabbi Chayim Arnheim of Glogau, Dr. Michael Sachs of Berlin, and Dr. Julius Fiirst of Leip- zig — appeared in 1889, Dr. Solomon Herxheimer, Rabbi of Anhalt-Bernburg, whose work was completed seven years ago, and Dr. Lewis Philippson, Rabbi of Magdeburg in Prussian Saxony, whose work was not yet quite completed when the first edition of this was printed. In addition to these entire Bible translations, the translator has had access to partial ver- sions of separate books, by Ottensosser, Heinemann, Ober- nik, Hochstatter, Wolfson, Lowenthal, and some anonymous PREFACE. viii writers ; besides which he has had the advantage of the copious notes of Dr. Philippson’sand Dr. Herxheimer’s Bibles, in which these learned men have collected the views of the investi- gators, both Israelites and others, in the path of biblical criticism. The ancient versions, also, of Onkelos, Jonathan, and the Jerusalem Targumist, have been carefully consulted, and, wherever accessible, the comments of the great ex- pounders Rashi, (Rabbi Shelomoh Yizchaki,) Redak, (Rabbi David Kimchi,) Aben Ezra, (Rabbi Abraham ben Me'ir ben Ezra,) Rashbam, (Rabbi. Shelomoh ben Meir, the grandson of Rashi,) Ralbag, (Rabbi Levi ben Gershom,) and Rabbenu Sa’adyah (Saadias) Gaon, as also the Miclilol Yophi, and the modern 3iurim, have been sedulously compared, so as to in- sure the utmost accuracy of which the translator is capable. The whole work has been undertaken at the sole responsi- bility, both mercantile and literary, of the translator. No individual has been questioned respecting the meaning of a single sentence ; and net an English book has been consulted, so that no one can say that any plagiarism has been com- mitted on the labours of others. The quarto edition of this work appeared two years ago ; and, although the translator cannot flatter himself that it has met with such a reception as would have gratified his ambition, he.has been stimulated, by the indulgent judgment pronounced by several eminent men every way able to form an opinion, to make an effort to render it more accessible to all classes than a»a expensive and heavy quarto could expect to be, although he regrets that the shape and size of the pages have prevented him appending the notes to this with wdiich the other is enriched. But in preparing this work anew for the press the whole has been carefully sub- jected to the elosest scrutiny, and improved and corrected wherever it was deemed necessary. With these few remarks the translator surrenders a labour in which he has been engaged, occasionally, for more than seventeen years, to the kindness of the public, trusting that, by the blessing of the Father of all. it may be made instru- mental in diffusing a taste for Scripture-reading among the community of Israelites, and be the means of a better appre- ciation of the great treasures of revelation to many who never have had the opportunity of knowing what the Hebrews have done for mankind, not alone in preserving the sacred books, but by labouring to make them intelligible to the world at large. Philadelphia, Tebtth 29 , 5616 . January 7 , 1856 . GENERAL REMARKS. Accoutring to Dr. Zunz, the creation of the world date* 3988 before the common era. The Rood, in 1656 after the creation. Abram born at Ur 1948. Jacob goes to Egypt, 2238. Moses born . 2413 Exodus, and piving of the L*eca- logue, 2493. Entrance in.'o Palestine, 2533. Deborah and Barak’s victory, 2653. Death r * ’EM, 2877. Saul made King, 2900. His death, 2930. David acknowledged king by all Israel, 2937. Temple commenced, 12973, in the year 480 after the Exodus. Division of the kingdom between Rehobo’am and Jerobo’am, 3010. Elijah, about 3068, when Aehab be- came king. Elisha’ becomes Elijah’s successor, 3090. Hoshea’, the last king of Israel, 3259-3268, when Shalmenesser con- quers Samaria, and carries the people into exile, while the kingdom of Judah yet continues under Hezekiah (3262) to Zedekiah, (3402,) in which year Nebuchadnezzar conquers Jerusalem, and carries the people mostly to Babylon, while a few fly to Egypt, taking Jeremiah with them. Babylon conquered, 3450, and two years later Cyrus permits the Jews to return to Palestine under Zerubbabel and Jeshua’. The new temple is completed, 3472, that is, 516 before the com- mon era. History of Hainan, 3514. ’Ezra comes to Pales- tine, 3530, and Nehemiah, 3544; returns to Persia, 3556, and arrives again in Palestine, 3564. Jaddua’ high-priest, 3656, and under him, two years later, Palestine is conquered by Alexander of Macedon. These few dates, it is hoped, will elucidate, with the Bible text, the history of the Scrip- tures. The various marks used in this work indicate the Mas- soretic sections, the only ones in use in the Hebrew MSS. without points, where neither chapter nor verse division are otherwise marked off, except that between one verse and the other there is a little more space than between two ordinary words. The boe-ks of the Holy Scriptures are divided into the following classes: the Law, Pentatcacb or Torah, Nebiim s GENERAL REMARKS. Rishonim, the Earlier Prophets, Nebiim Acharonira, the Later Prophets, and Ketubim, Hagiographa, or Holy Writings. The order of the books of the Holy Scriptures according to the usual Hebrew text is, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, comprising the Pentateuch. — Joshua, Judges, the First Book of Samuel, the Second Book of Samuel, the First Book of the Kings, and the Se- cond Book of the Kings, comprising the Earlier Prophets. — Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve minor prophets, (to wit, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Michah, Na- hum, Habakkuk, Zeplianiali, Haggai, Zechariah, and Mala- ehi,) comprising the Later Prophets. — Psalms, Proverbs, Job, the five rolls, (to wit, the Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther,) Daniel, Ezra, Nehe- miah, the First and Second Books of Chronicles, comprising the Hagiographa, or Holy Writings. The Jews also divide the Law in fifty-four sections, which are called after the first distinctive word in each sec- tion. For instance: the first of these sections is called Bereshitii, from the first word of the Bible, signifying “in the beginning.” The name of the first section in each book of the Pentateuch is also applied to that book ; so is Genesis called Bereshith ; Exodus, Shemoth; Leviticus, Vayikra ; Numbers, Bemiibar; and Deuteronomy, Debarim. Levi- ticus is also called Torath Cohanim, and Deuteronomy, Mishneh Torah. The whole law is read once every year in the Synagogue and families, together with a corresponding section (Hapiitorah) of the prophetic books — that is, exclud- ing the Hagiographa, the third division of this work. Occa- sionally two weekly sections are read together, when mostly the Hapiitorah of the second to the exclusion of the first is recited. So also are the especial Hapbtorotli for Sabbath New-Moon, or when new moon is on the first day of the week, first and second Sabbath Chanuckah, Parshath Shekalim, Zachor, Parah, and Hachodesh, as also Shim’u for Ivlattoth, likewise ’Aniyak So’arah for Reay, and Soss Assiss for Nizabim and Yayelech, read instead of the usual ones indi- cated for the respective occasions. The name of each weekly section is placed at its commencement, as also at the head of the pages embracing the same, and the Hapiitorah .s indicated at the end of each The weekly sections are divided ofl in seven subdivisions called Parashiyoth, or Parassahs, which are marked o it in this work with a * ; sc also the few verses read for the jfaphtere , or the om who reads the Haphtorah, as will appear from inspection. In addition to the above, the first division of next week « GENERAL REMARKS. section is read every Sabbath afternoon and Monday and Thursday morning, unless on these days some other portion should be read, because of there being a fast, or half or entire holy-day. Here follows a table of the Law sections and Haphtoroth for the various occasions : ParashaA Haphtorah. 1st day of New Year Genesis xxi. 1-34. 1 Sam. i.-ii. 10. 2d “ “ “ “ xxii. 1-24. Jeremiah xxxi. 2-20 On both days also. Numb. xxix. 1-6. Sabbath Teshubah The weekly section. As given after Vaye lech. rayofAtone m ent, m o ra in g .{“TxS 1 Vln 4 'If { Book of Jonah. Port, add three last verses of Mich ah. f Leviticus xxii. 26- 1 1st day of Tabernacles xxiii. 44. v (Numb. xxix. 12-17. J 2d “ “ “ the same as first day. . ( from Numb. xxix. 17-34, Middle days of do j the proper Terses . S Exod. xxxiii. 12-xxxiv. 26. from Numb. xxix. 17-34, the proper verses Deut.* xiv. 22-xvi. 17. Numb, xxix, 35-xxx. 1. f Deut. xxxiii. 1-fxxiv. 12. Rejoicing of the Law < Gen. i. 1-ii. 3. (Numb. xxix. 35-xxx. 1. ™ , u f Numb, vii.f each day, Chanuckah j the proper verses On 8th day end with viii. 1-4. Zechariah xiv. 1 Kings viii. 2-21. Ezekiel xxxviii. 18-xxxix. 16. 1 Kings viii. 54-66 Joshua i. 1-18. Portuguese only 1-9. Sabbaths of do. Shekalim Zachor Purim Parah Hacliodesh Ilaggadole 1st day of Passover. 2d On both days also. 1 Middle days of..... 2 8 “ “ 4 u u Usual weekly section, the proper passages . from Numb. vi. vii. ( and viii. See end of Exodus. j- See end of Genesis. “ Exodus. Exodus xvii. 8-15. See end of Exodus. “ 44 Leviticus. Weekly section. Exod. xii.| 21-50. Levit. xxii. 26-xxiii.44. Numb, xxviii. 16-25. Exod. xiii. 1-16. “ xxii. 24-xxiii. 19. “ xxxiv. 1-26.|| Numb. ix. 1-14. U U “ Leviticus, u u Joshua v. 2-vi. 1, 2 Kingsg xxiii 1-25. * This is if on Sabbath, otherwise xv. 19-xvi. 17. f The Portuguese add on the first day vi. 22-27. t If on Sabbath, Portuguese commence verse 14. | Portuguese leave out 9 to 20. ■ If Sabbath be on the third day, the order is -hanged. sii GENERAL REMARKS. Parashah. Haphtorau. Sabbath of M. D. oi Pass- over 7 th Day of Passover 8th Or. all six days read also 1 of Pentecost 2 « “ On both days also New-moon days Sabbath of do Fast days First of Ab, morning ^ afternoon 1 ( Exod. xxxiii. 12-xxxiv. t 26. Exod. xiii. 17-xv. 26. Deut. f xiv. 22-xvi. 17. Numb, xxviii. 19-25. Exod. xix. 1-xx. 23. Ezekiel i. entire, iii. 12. Deut.J xiv. 22-xvi. 17. Hab. ii. 20-iii. 19. Numb. xxix. 26-31. “ xxviii. 1-25. See end of Genesis. Exod. xxxii. 11-14, xxxiv. 1-10. [Deut. iv. 25-40. [ As on other fasts. Ezekiel * xxxvii 1-14. 2 Sam. xxii. 1-51 Isaiah x. 32-xii. 6 $ In afternoon, $ Isaiah lv. 6-lvi. 8. Jeremiah viii. 13-ix. 23 As on other fasts. * Others commence xxvi. 37. f On week days, xv. 19-xvi. 17. t On week days, xv. 19-xvi. 17. $ Portuguese say no Ilaphtorah on Fast days’ afternoon, except on 9th oi Ab, when they say Hosea xiv. 2-10, and Michah vii. 18-20. O’mmi D’traa min THE HOLY SCRIPTURES : PART FIRST, CONTAINING THE PENTATEUCH; OR, THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. nro min genesis, mt?xi3 exodus, maty LEVITICUS, Xip'l NUMBERS, 13103 DEUTERONOMY, D'131- THE BOOK OF GENESIS. BERESHITH, 71W13, CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE CREATION AND PATRIARCHS. Sec. 1. BERESHITH, rrooma. CHAPTER I. 1 In the beginning God cre- ated the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep ; and the spirit of God was waving over the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between the light and the dark- ness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And it was evening and it was morning, the first day. 6 And God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and let it divide be- tween waters and waters. 7 And God made the expan- sion, and divided between the waters which were under the ex- pansion and the waters which were above the expansion : and it was so. 8 And God called the expan- sion Heaven. And it was even- ing and it was morning, the se- cond day. 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be ga- thered together unto one place, and let the dry' land be visible: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas : and God saw that it vrts good. 11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, herbs yielding seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, in which its seed is upon the earth : and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees yielding fruit, in which its seed is, after their kind : and God saw that it was good. 13 And it was evening and it was morning, the third day.* 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the expansion of the heaven to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years; 15 And let them be for lights in the expansion of the heaven, to give light upon the earth : and it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. 17 And God set them in the expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule by day and by night, and to divide between the light and the darkness : and God saw that it was good. 19 And it was evening and it was morning, the fourth day. 20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly moving creatures that have life, GENESIS I. II. and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open expansion of the heaven. 21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundant- ly after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind : and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multi- ply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply on the earth. 2d And it was evening and it was morning, the fifth day.* 24 % And" God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creep- ing things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind : and God saw that it was good. 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our like- ness ; and they shall have domi- nion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him ; male and fe- male created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have domi- nion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that mov- eth upon the earth. 29 And God said, Behold I 4 BERES1IITH. have given unto you every herfc bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree on which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, where- in there is life, (I have given) every green herb for food : and it was so. 31 And God saw every thing that' he had made, and behold, it was very good. And. it was even- ing and it was morning, the sixth day. CHAPTER II. 1 Thus were finished the heavens and the earth, and all their host. 2 And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because thereon he had rested from all his work which God had created in making it.* 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, on the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven. 5 And every plant of the field was not yet on the earth, and every herb of the field had not yet grown ; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and man was not yet there to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground, and breathed i.Dto his nostrils the GENESIS II. III. BERESHITH. breath of life; and the man be- came a living being. 8 And the Lord God planted a garden in ’Eden to the eastward, and he put there the man whom he had formed. 9 And the Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of 'Eden to water the garden, and from there it was parted, and be- came four principal streams. 11 The name of the first is Pishon, the same which compass- eth the whole land of Chavilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good ; there is the bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gichon, the same which compasseth the whole land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is Chiddekel, the same which floweth towards the east of Assyria ; and the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 And the Lord God took the mati, and put him into the garden of ’Eden, to till it, and to keep it. 16 And the Lord God com- manded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat ; 17 But of the tree of the know- ledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it; for on the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. * 18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone : I will make him a help suitable for him.'** 19 And the Lord God had formed out of the ground every 1 * beast of the field, and every fowl of the heaven, and he brought them unto the man to sec what he would call them ; and what- soever the man would call every living creature, that should be its name. 20 And the man gave names to all cattle, ancl to the fowl of the heaven, and to every beast of the field ; but for man there was not found a help suitable for him. 21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. 22 And the Lord God formed the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23 And the man said, This time it is bone of my bones, and flesh of m} r flesh ; this shall be called Woman [Ishah], because out of Man [Ish] was this one taken. 24 Therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. CHAPTER III. 1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made ; and he said unto the woman, Hath God indeed said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees ot the garden ; 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the gar- den, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 6 GENESIS III. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye will surely not die ; 5 For God doth know, that, on the day ye eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they felt that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the Lord God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou ? 10 And he said, Tky voice I heard in the garden ; and I was afraid, because I am naked ; and I hid myself. 11 And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I com- manded thee that thou shouldst not eat? 12 And the man said, The wo- man whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done ? And the woman said, The serpent be- guiled me, and I did eat. 14 And the Lord God said un- to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, be thou cursed above 6 BERESHITH. all the cattle, and above every beast of the field ; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : 15 And I will put enmity be- tween thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed ; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt wound his heel. 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and (the suffering of) thy concep- tion ; in pain shalt thou bring forth children ; and for thy hus- band shall be thy desire, but he shall rule over thee. 17 ^f'And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened un- to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I com- manded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it : cursed be the ground for thy sake ; in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. 18 And thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the field. 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou re- turn unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken ; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou re- turn. 20 And the man called his wife’s name Eve [Chavvah] ; be- cause she was the mother of all living [Chay]. 21 And the Lord Clod made unto Adam and to his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.* 22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil ; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever — 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of ’Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. GENESIS III. IV. BERESHITH. 24 So he drove out the man ; and he placed at the east 'of the garden of ’Eden the Cherubim, and the flaming sword which re- volveth, to guard the way to the tree of life. CHAPTER IV. 1 5f And the man knew Eve his wife ; and she conceived, and bore Cain [Kay in], and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she bore again, his bro- ther, Abel [Habel] ; and Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And it came to pass in pro- cess of time, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offer- ing unto the Lord. 4 And Abel — he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fattest thereof,* and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering; 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect; and I it was very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance fell. 6 And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and w r hy is thy countenance fallen ? 7 If thou doest well, shaltthou not be accepted ? and if thou do- est not well, sin lieth at the door ; and unto thee is its desire, but thou canst rule over it. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. 9 And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother ? And he said, I know not; am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy bro- ther’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand : 12 When thou tillest the j ground, it shall not henceforth yield its strength unto thee; fugi- tive and vagabond shalt thou be on the earth. 13 And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground ; and from thy face shall 1 be hid; and if I shall be a fu- gitive and vagabond on the earth, it will come to pass, that every one that findeth me will slay me. 15 And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slay- eth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold. And the Lord set a sign unto Cain, that any one finding him should not kill him. 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of ’Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bore Enoch [Chanoch] ; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad ; and Irad begat Mechujael ; and Mechijael begat Methu- shael ; and Methushael begat Le- mech.* 19 And Lemech took unto him- self two wives, the name of the one was ’Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. 20 And ’Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and have cattle. 21 And his brother’s name was Jubal ; he was the father of all such as play on the harp and guitar. GENESIS IY. Y. BERESHITH. 22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal cain, an artificer in every article of copper and iron ; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Na’amah. 23 And Lemech said unto his wives, 'Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lemech, heark- en unto my speech ; for I have slain a man to my own wound- ing, and a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold, truly Lemech seventy and seven-fold. 25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Sheth [Seth] ; for God (said she) hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. 26 And to Sheth, to him also, there was born a son ; and he called his name Enosh : then be- gan men to call upon the name of the Lord.* CHAPTER Y. 1 This is the book of the ge- nerations of Adam. On the day that God created man, in the like- ness of God made he him : 2 Male and female created he them ; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, on the day when they were created. 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness, after his image ; and called his name Sheth. 4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Sheth were eight hundred years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years ; and he died. 6 And Sheth lived a hun- dred and five years, and begat Enosh. 7 And Sheth lived after he had 8 begotten Enosh eight hundred and seven years; and he begat sons and daughters. 8 And all the days of Shetli were nine hundred and twelve years ; and he died. 9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. 10 And Enosh lived after he had begotten Kenan eight hun- dred and fifteen years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 11 And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years; and he died. 12 And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. 13 And Kenan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years; and he begat sons and daughters. 14 And all the clays of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years ; and he died. 15 And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared. 16 And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jared eight hun- dred and thirty years ; and he be- gat sons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Maha- lalel were eight hundred ninety ancl five years ; and he died. 18 And Jftred lived a hun- dred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch [Chanoch]. 19 And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hun- dred years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years ; and he died. 21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methu- shelach. 22 And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methu. shelach three hundred years ; and begat sons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Enoch GENESIS V. were three hundred sixty and five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more; for God had taken him.* 25 And Methushelach lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lemech. 26 And Methushelach lived after he had begotten Lemech seven hundred eighty and two years ; and he begat sons and daughters. 27 And all the days of Methu- shelach were nine hundred sixty and nine years ; and he died. 28 And Lemech lived a hun- dred eighty and two years, and begat a son. 29 And he called his name No- ah [Noach], saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. 30 And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred ninety and five years ; and he be- gat sons and daughters. 31 And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred seventy and seven years ; and he died. 32 And Noah was five hun- dred years old, and Noah begat Shem, Ham [Cham], and Ja- pheth. CHAPTER VI. 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair ; and they took them- selves wives of all whom they chose. 3 And the Lord said, My Spi- rit shall not always strive for the sake of man, for that he is but flesh; yet his days (of grace) VI. NOACH. shall be a hundred and twenty years. 4 The giants were on the earth in those days ; and also af 4 er that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these became the mighty men, who were of old the men of renown.* 5 And God saw that # the wick- edness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagina- tion of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the Lord said, I will destroy the man whom I have cre- ated from the face of the earth ; both man and beast, and the creeping things and the fowls of the heaven ; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Haphtorah in Isaiah xlii. 5-21 ; the Gor- mans read to xliii. 11. Sec. 2. NOACH, ru 9 These are the generations of Noah : Noah was a just, per- fect man in his generations ; No- ah walked with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 1 1 And the earth was corrupt before God ; and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 ^ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come be- fore me ; for the earth is filled with violence through them, and .1 will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher- 0 GENESIS Y I. wood, rooms shalt thou make in ^he ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the manner in which thou shalt make it : The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and thou shalt finish it above, to be one cubit broad, and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof ; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17 And as regards myself, be- hold, I will bring a flood of wa- ters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under the heavens; every thing that is on the earth shall perish. 18 But I will establish my co- venant with thee : and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing, of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee : male and female shall they be. 20 Of the fowls after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And thou, for thy part, take unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee ; and it shall be unto thee, and un- tc them for food. 22 Thus did Noah ; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.* CHAPTER VII. 1 And the Lord said unto No- tth, Come thou and all thy house- 10 VII. NOACH. hold into the ark ; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven pair of each, the male and his female; and of beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female. 3 Also of the fowls of the hea- ven, seven pair of each, the male and the female ; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For after only seven days more, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days aird forty nights : and I will blot out every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did all just as the Lord had commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of wa- ters was upon the earth. 7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, be- cause of the waters of the flood. 8 Of the clean beasts, and of the beasts that are not clean, and of the fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 One pair of each went in un- to Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had com- manded Noah. 10 And it came to pass, after the seven days, that the wa- ters of the flood were upon the earth. 1 1 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13 On that self-same day en- tered Noah, and Shetn, and Ilam, and Japbeth, the sons of No’&h, GENESIS VII. and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark ; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird, every thing that hath wings. 15 And they went in unto No- ah into the ark, one pair of each, of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and then the Lord shut him in.* 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth : and the wa- ters increased, and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth : and the ark floated along upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth ; and all the high mountains that are under the whole heavens were co- vered. 20 Fifteen cubits above them did the waters prevail ; and the mountains were (thus) covered. 21 And all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man. 22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that were on the dry land, died. 23 And it swept off every liv- ing substance which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and 'keeping things, and fowls of the heaven ; and they were swept from the earth ; and Noah only was left, together with VIII. NOACH. those that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days. CHAPTER VIII. 1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark : and God caused* a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters were assuaged ; 2 The fountains also of the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped ; and the rain from heaven was restrained. 3 And the waters returned from off the earth, gradually return- ing ; and the waters were abated after the end of the hundred and fifty days. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seven- teenth day of the month, upon tho mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month ; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen ; 6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made ; 7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, un- til the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 He then sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no rest- ing-place for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him unto the ark ; for there was water on the face of the whole earth ; then he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark. 11 GENESIS VIII. IX. NOACH. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 11 And the dove came in to him at the time of the evening; and, lo, an olive-leaf plucked off was in her mouth ; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove ; but she returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth ; and Noah removed the "covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth per- fectly dried up.* 15 And God spoke unto No- ah, saying, 16 Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee. 17 Every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth up- on the earth, bring forth with thee ; that they may breed abun- dantly on the earth, and be fruit- ful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and < his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creep- 1 ing thing, and every fowl, what- 1 soever creepeth upon the earth, i after their families, went forth out of the ark. i 20 And Noah built an altar un- < to the Lord, and he took of every i clean cattle, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings i on the altar. 12 21 And the Lord smelled tha ; sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not agarin curse the ground any more for the sake of man ; although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth : neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 All the while the earth re- mainethu seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease. CHAPTER IX. 1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and re- plenish 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 heaven ; whatever is that moveth upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea, are de- livered into your hand. 3 Every moving thing that liv- eth shall be yours for food ; even as the green herbs have I given you all things. 4 But flesh in which its life is, which is its blood, shall ye not eat. 5 Your blood, however, on which your lives depend, 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. 6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed ; for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply ; bring forth abundantly on the earth, and multiply there- on.* 8 And God spoke unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish GENESIS IX. my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; 1 0 And with every living crea- ture that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you, from all those that go out of the ark, for every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my co- venant with you ; and all flesh shall not be cut off any more by the waters of a flood : neither shall there be any more 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 genera- tions. 13 My bow have I set in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, that, when I bring a cloud over the earth, and the bow shall be seen in the cloud, 15 I will remember my cove- nant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud ; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the ever- lasting covenant between God and every living creature, of all flesh, that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established between me an 1 all flesh that is upon the earth.* 18 And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth ; and Ham was the father of Ca- aa’an. 19 These three were the sons 2 , X. NOACH. of Noah, ami of them was the whole earth overspread. 20 And Noah, who was a hus- bandman, began his work, and he planted a vineyard. 21 And he drank of the wine, and became drunken ; and he uncovered himself within his tent. 22 And Ham, the father of Ca- na’an, saw the nakedness of his father, and told it his two bro- thers without. 23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon the shoulders of both of them, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned back- ward, and they saw not their fa- ther’s nakedness. 24 And N an( i his wife, and all j 12 Abram dwelt in the land of that he had, and Lot with him,| Cana’an ; and Lot dwelt in the into the south. | cities of the plain, and pitched 2 And Abram was very rich in j his tents, till close to Sodom, cattle, in silver, and in gold. | 13 But the men of Sodom wero 3 And he went on his journeys; wicked and sinners before the from the south even to Beth-el, Lord exceedingly. unto the place where his tent had | 14 And the Lord said unto been at the beginning, between! Abram, after Ll 4 was separated Beth-el and ’Ai ,* [from him, Lift up now thy eyes, 4 Unto the place of the altar, and look from the place where which he had made there at the thou art, northward, and south- fi/st; and Abram called there on ward, and eastward, and west- the name of the Lord.* iward; 2* a 2 17 GENESIS XIII. XIV. LECH LECHA. 15 For all the land which thou eeest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth ; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walkthrough the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for unto thee will I give it. 18 Then Abram pitched his tent, and came and dwelt in the grove of Mamre, which is in He- bron ; and he built there an altar unto the Lord.* CHAPTER XIV. 1 And it came to pass, in the days of Amraphel king of Shin’ar, Arioch king of Ellassar, Kedorla’omer king of ’Elam, and Thid’al king of Gdyim ; 2 That these made war with Bera’ king of Sodom, and with Birsha’ king of Gomorrah, Shin- ab king of Admah, and She- meber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela’, which is Zo’ar. 3 All these joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is now the Salt Sea. 4 Twelve ), ears had they serv- ed Kedorla’omer, but in the thir- teenth year they rebelled. 5 And in the fourteenth year came Kedorla’omer, and the kings that were with him, and they smote the Rephaim in ’Ash- teroth-karnayim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Sha- veh-kiriathayim, 6 And the Horites in their mountain Se’ir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 And they returned, and came, to ’En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Emo-| 18 rites, that dwelt in Ohazezon thamar. 8 And then went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Go- morrah, and the king of. Admah and the king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela’, (the same is Zo’ar) ; and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim; 9 With Kedorla’omer king of ’Elam, and with Thid’al king of Goyim, and Amraphel king of Shin’ar, and Arioch king of El- lassar ; four kings with five. 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits ; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell therein ; and they that re- mained fled to the mountain. 11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way. 12 And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in So- dom, and hisgoods, and departed. 13 And there came one that had escaped, and told it to Abram the Hebrew ; but he dwelt in the grove of Mamre the Emorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of ’Aner, and these were confede- rates of Abram. 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. 15 And he divided himself against them, he and his ser- vants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Chobah, which is on the left hand of Da- mascus. 16 And he brought back all the goods ; and he also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and also the women, and the people. I 17 And the king of Sodom GENESIS XIY. XY. LECH LECHA. went out to meet him (after his return from smiting Kedorla- 'omer, and the kings that were with him) at the valley of Sha- veh, which is the kings’ dale. 18 And Malkizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine ; and he was a priest of the jnost high God. 19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth. 20 And blessed be the most high God, who hath delivered thy enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.* 21 And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the per- sons, and the goods take to thy- self. 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of hea- ven and earth, 23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and j that I w r ill not take any thing that is thine ; lest thou shouldst say, I have made Abram rich : 24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me, ’Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre — these may take th,eir portion. CHAPTER XY. 1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram ; I am thy shield, thy reward shall be exceedingly great. 2 And. Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is Eli’ezer of Barnas- cus ? 3 And Abram said, Behold to me thou hast given no seed ; and lo, one born in my house will be my heir. 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying. This one shall not be thy heir ; but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now to- ward the heaven, and count? the stars, if thou be able to count them ; and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the Lord; and he accounted it to him for righteousness.* 7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give un- to thee this land, to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it ? 9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one opposite the other ; but the birds he did not divide. 11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses; but Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was about going down, a deep sleep fell upon A bram ; and lo, a horror, dark and great, fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall bea stranger in aland which is not theirs, and they will make them serve, and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward shall they go *iut with great substance. 19 GENESIS XV. XVI. LECH LECHA. 15 But thou shalt come to thy fathers in peace ; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 Yet the fourth generation shall come hither again ; for tin iniquity of theEmorites will not be full until then. 17 And it came to pass, when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold a smoking furnace, and a burning flame, which . passed between those pieces. 18 On 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 ; 19 The Kenites, and the Ke- nizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, 21 And the Emorites, and the Cana’anites, and the GirgaEites, and the Jebusites. CHAPTER XVI. 1 Now Sarai. Abram's wife, bore him no children ; and she had an Egyptian handmaid, whose name was Hagar. 2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath re- strained me from bearing : go in, I pray thee, unto my maid ; it may be that I may obtain chil- dren by her. And Abram heark- ened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar, the Egyptian, her maid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Cana’an, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived ; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little esteem in her eyes. 5 And Sarai said unto Abram, 20 I suffer wrong through thee; I have placed my maicl into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became of little esteem in her eyes : may the Lord judge between me and thee. 6 But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. Ami when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face. 7 And an angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Sliur. 8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence earnest thou ? and whither wilt thou go ? And she said, From the face of my mis- tress Sarai I am fleeing. 9 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mis- tress, and submit thyself under her hands. 10 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply tby seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. 11 And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and wilt bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Ish- ma’el ; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction. 12 And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him ; and in the presence of all his brethren shall he dwell. 13 And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her, Thou art an all-seeing God ; for she said, Have I not also seen here a vision after he appeared to me ? 14 Wherefore the well was call- ed Beer-lachai-roi : behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15 And Hagar bore Abram a son ; and Abxim called the name GENESIS XVI. XVII. LECH LECHA. pf his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishma’el. 16 And Abram was eighty and six years old, when Hagar bore Ishma’el to Abram. CHAPTER XVII. 1 And when Abram was nine- ty and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said un- to him, 1 am the Almighty God ; walk before me, and be thou per- fect. 2 And I will make my cove- nant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. 3 And Abram fell on his face, and God spoke with him, saying, 4 As for me, behold my cove- nant is with thee, and thou shalt become the father of a multitude of nations. 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. 6 And I will make thee ex- ceedingly fruitful, and I will cause thee to become nations; and kings shall come out of thee.* 7 And I will establish my co- venant between me and thee and between thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlast- ing covenant: to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou sojournest, all the land of Cana’an, for an ever- lasting possession; and I will be their God. 9 And God said unto Abraham, But thou, for thy part, shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and between you, and between thy seed after thee: Everyman-child among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and this shall serve as the token of the covenant between me and you. 1 2 And at eight days old shall every man-child in your genera- tions be circumcised among you, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stran- ger, 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 circum- cised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And any uncircumcised male, who circumciseth not the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. 15 And God said unto Abra- ham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee also a son of her ; yea I will bless her, and she shall be- come a mother of nations; kings of people shall spring from her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed ; and he said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear ? 18 And Abraham said unto God, 0 that Ishma’el might lrvo before thee ! 19 And God said, Truly, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son ; and thou shalt call his name Isaac [Yitzchak] ; and I will esta- blish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, for his seed after him. 20 And as for Ishma’el, I have heard thee : behold, I have bless- ed him, and will make him fruit- 21 GENESIS XVII. ful, and will multiply him ex- ceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make of him a great nation. 21 But my covenent will I esta- blish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. 22 And when he had left off talking with him, God went up from Abraham. 23 And Abraham now took Ishma’el 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 he cir- cumcised the flesh of their fore- skin on the self-same day, as God had spoken unto him.* 24 And Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishma’el his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 On the self-same day was Abraham circumcised, with Ish- ma’el his son. 27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. Haphtorah in Isaiah, xl. 27 to xli. 16. Sec. 4. VAYERA, am CHAPTER XVIII. 1 And the Lord appeared un- to him in the grove of Mamre ; while he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day. 2 And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood near him; and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the door of the tent, and bowed himself to the ground ; 3 And he said, My Lord, if 22 XVIII. VAYERA. now I have found favour in thy eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 5 And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart, after that ye may pass on ; since ye have once passed by your ser- vant. And they said, So do, as thou hast spoken. 6 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three mea- sures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. 7 And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, and he hastened to dress it. 8 And he to-ok cream and milk, and the calf w r hich he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. 9 And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife ? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10 And he said, I will certainly return unto thee at this time next year; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it at the door of the tent, which was behind him. 11. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in years ; it had ceased to be with Sa- rah after the manner of women. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have plea- sure, my lord also being old? 13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, since I am old? 14 Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed GENESIS XVIII. I will return unto thee, at this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.* 15 Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid ; but he said, Nay ; indeed thou didst laugh. 16 And the men rose up from there, 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 what I am about doing ? 18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him ? 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice ; in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him. 20 And the Lord said, Because the cry against Sodom and Go- morrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous : 21 I will go down now, and see, if they have done according to the cry against them, which is come unto me, destruction (shall come upon them) ; and if not, I will know it. 22 And the men turned their faces from there, and went toward Sodom ; but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. 23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou then de- stroy the righteous also with the wicked ? 24 Perad venture there are fifty righteous within the city ; wilt thou then also destroy and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are there- in ? 25 Far be it from thee to do XIX. VAYERA. [after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked ; far be this from thee ; shall the Judge of all the earth not exercise justice ? 26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then will I spare all the place for their sake. 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou then destroy all the city for the (lack of) these five? And he said, I will not destroy, if I find there forty and five. 29 And he spoke yet again unto him, and said, Peradven- fcure there will be found there forty. And he said, I will not do it for the sake of the forty. 30 And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak : Peradventure there will be found there thirty. And he said, I will not do it, if I find there thirty. 31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord : Peradventure there will be found there twenty. And he said, I will not destroy, for the sake of the twenty. 32 And he said, Oh, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once : Peradventure there will be found there ten. And he said, I will not destroy, for the sake of the ten. 33 And the Lord went away, when he had finished speaking with Abraham ; and Abraham re- turned unto his place.* CHAPTER XIX. 1 And the two angels came tc 23 GENESIS XIX. VaYEIU. 8j'i?m in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom ; and when Lot saw them he rose up to meet them, and he bowed him- self with his face to the ground. 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, in- to your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye can rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. 3 And he pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house ; and he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they did eat. 4 But before they had lain down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter : 5 And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. 6 And Lot went out unto them, at the entrance (of the house), and shut the door after him, 7 And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not act wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man ; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes; only unto these men do nothing, since they have once come under the shadow of my roof. 9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one man came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge ; now will we deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed sorely upon the man Lot, and they came near to break the door. 24 10 But the men pul forth their hand, and pulled Lot to them in- to the house, and the door they locked. 11 And the men that were at the entrance of the house they smote with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the entrance. 12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides ? a son-in-law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring out of this place. 13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry against them is waxed great before the face of the Lord : and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it. 14 And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, Arise, get yourselves out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city ; but he seemed as one that jesteth in the eyes of his sons-in-law. 15 And as the morning dawn arose, the angels urged Lot, say- ing, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed for the iniquity of the city. 1 6 And while he yet lingered, the men laid hold of his hand, and of the hand of his wife, and of the hand of his two daughters, because the Lord desired to spare him ; and they brought him forth, and .seft him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain ; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. 18 And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord ! 19 Behold now, thy servant GENESIS XIX. hath found grace in thy eyes, and thou hast magnified thy kind- ness, which thou hast showed un- to me in saving my life ; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest the evil overtake me, and I die. 20 Behold now, this city is near to flee thereunto, and it is little: oh, let me, I pray thee, escape thither (as it is but little), that my life may be saved.* 21 And he said unto him, See, I have favoured thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, of which thou hast spoken. 22 Haste thee, escape thither ; for I cannot do any thing till thou hast come thither. There- fore was the name of the city called Zo’ar. 23 The sun rose over the earth, when Lot entered into Zo’ar. 24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brim- stone and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven ; 25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. 26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord : 28 And he looked towjird So- dom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and be- held, and lo, smoke went up from the earth as the smoke of a fur- nace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot away out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot had dwelt 3 I XX. VAYERA. 30 And Lot went up out of Zo’ar, and dwelt in the moun- tain, and his two daughters with him, for he feared to dwell in Zo’ar ,* and he dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters. 31 And the first-born said un- to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the country to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth : 32 Come, let us make our fa- ther drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. 33 And they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father; let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may pre- serve seed of our father. 35 And they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and Lay with him, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. 36 And both the daughters of Lot became with child by their father. 37 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moiib; the same is the father of the Mo- abites unto this day. 38 And the younger, she also, bore a son, and called his name Ben-’ammi : the same is the father of the children of ’Ammon unto this day. CHAPTER XX. 1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south coun- try, and dwelt between Kadesh i 25 GENESIS XX. : and Shur, and sojourned ini Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister ; and Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou shalt die for the sake of the woman whom thou hast taken ; for she is a man’s wife. 4 But Abimelech had not come near to her ; and he said, Lord, wilt thou then slay also a right- eous nation ? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister ? and she, even she her- self, said, He is my brother ; in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I also well know, that thou hast done this in the integrity of thy heart; therefore did I also withhold thee from sinningagainstme; for this cause I suffered thee not to touch her. 7 And now restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for thee, that thou may- est live ; and if thou restore her not, know thou, that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine. 8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing ; and the men were greatly afraid. 9 Then Abimelech called Abra- ham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us ? and in what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin ? deeds that ought not to be done thou hast done unto me. 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, Whatsawest thou, that thou didst this thing ? 26 XXL YAYERA. I 11 And Abraham said, Because 1 thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me for the sake of my wife. 12 And yet indeed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my me ther; and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said un- to her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. 14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife. 15 And Abimelech said, Be- hold, my land is before thee : dwell where it is pleasing in thy eyes. 16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy bro- ther a thousand pieces of sil- ver : behold, this is to thee a co- vering of the eyes unto all that are with thee; and with all others thou canst thus justify thyself. 17 And Abraham prayed unto God ; and God healed Abime- lech, and his wife, and his maid- servants, so that they could bear children. 18 For the Lord had fast closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. CHAPTER XXI. 1 And the Lord visited Sa- rah as he had said, and the Ljrd did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 And Sarah conceived, and bore unto Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the GENESIS XXL VAYERA. name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, at eight days old, as God had commanded him.* 5 And Abraham was a hun- dred years old, when his son Isaac j was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me joy, whoever heareth it will laugh concerning me. 7 -And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarai should have given children suck? yet I have born a son in his old age. 8 And the child grew, and was weaned ; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had born unto Abraham, mock- ing. 10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bond-wo- man and her son ; for the son of this bond-woman shall not be heir with my son, with Isaac. 11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s eyes, be- cause of his son. 12 And God said unto Abra- ham, Let it not be grievous in thy eyes because of the lad, and because of thy bond-woman ; in all that Sarah may say unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 13 And also of the son of the bond-woman will I make a na- tion, because he is thy seed. 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered away in the wilderness of Beer-sheba’. 15 And the water was spent from the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and seated herself down at some distance, a good way off, about a bowsh )t ; for she said, I cannot look on [when the child dieth ; so she sat at a distance, and lifted up her voice, and wept. 17 And God heard the voice of the lad ; and an angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? Fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad, there where he is. 18 Arise, lift up the lad, and lay hold on him with thy hand ; for I will make of him a great nation. 19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water : and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. 20 And God was with the lad; and he grew up, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. 21 And he dwelt in the wilder- ness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt. * 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, spoke unto Abraham, say- ing, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God, that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son ; (but) according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, shalt thou do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved 27 GENESIS XXL XXII. VAIERa. Abimelech because of a well of I offer him there for a burnt-offer* water, which Abimelech’s ser- vants had violently taken away. '26 And Abimelech said, I know not wdio hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me ; nor have I heard of it except this day. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech ; and both of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock, by them- selves. 29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these se- ven ewe-lambs which thou hast set by themselves ? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have dug this well. 31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba’; because there they swore, both of them. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba* ; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they re- turned into the land of the Phi- listines. 33 And Abraham planted an orchard in Beer-sheba*, and call ed there on the name of the Lord, the God of everlasting. 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.* CHAPTER XXII. 1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and he said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here am I. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thy only one, whom thou Invest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and 28 ing upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son ; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and arose, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder, and w r e will worship, and then come again to you. 6 And Abraham took the wood for the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son ; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac spoke unto Abra- ham his father, and said, My fa- ther ; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, here is the fire and the wood ; but where is the lamb for a burnt- offering ? 8 And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son ; so they went both of them together. 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of ; and Abraham built there an altar, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him or the altar above the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither dc GENESIS XXII. XXIII. CHAYE SARAH. thou the least unto him ; for now I know that thou fearest God, see- ing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thy only one, from me. 13 And Abrrham lifted up his eyes, and saw, and behold, there was a ram that was afterward caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place, Adonai-yireh : as it is said to this day, On the mount of the Lord itshall be seen. 15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham the second time out of heaven, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, since, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thy only one : 17 That I will greatly bless thee, and I will exceedingly mul- tiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore ; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his ene- mies ; 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be bless- ed; because that thou hast obeyed my voice. 19 And Abraham returned un- to his young men ; and they rose up, and went together to Beer- sheba’; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-shebaV** 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold, Mil- cah, she also, hath born children unto Nachor thy brother ; 21 ’Uz his first born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the fa- ther of Aram, 22 And Kessed, and Chazo, and Pildash, and Yidlaph, and Be- thuel. 23 And Bethuel begat Rebe kah ; these eight did Milcah bear to Nachor, Abraham’s brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reiimah, she also, bore Tebach, and Gacham, and Tha- chash, and Ma’achah. Haphtorah in 2d Kings iv. ] to 37 ; but the Portuguese end with v. 23. Sec. 5. CHAYE SARAH, mtr »n. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 And the lifetime of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years; (these) were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kiryath- arba’, the same is Hebron in the land of Cana’an : and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4 A stranger and a sojourner I am with you ; give me a pos- session for a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Ileth answered Abraham, saying unto him : 6 Hear us, my lord ; a prince of God thou art among us ; in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, so that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7 And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Ileth, 8 And he spoke with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and intercede for me with ’Ephron the son of Zochar, 9 That he may give me the cave of Machpelab, which is his, 29 3 * GENESIS XXII L XXIV. OH AYE SARAH. which is at the end of his field ; for as much money as it is worth shall he give vt me, for a posses- sion as a burying-place amongst you. 10 And ’Ephron dwelt among Aie children of Ileth ; and ’Eph- ron the Hittite answered Abra- ham in the hearing of the chil- dren of Heth, of all those that went in at the gate of his city, saying, 1 1 Nay, my lord, hear me : the field I give to thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it to thee ; in the presence of the sons of my people do I give it thee; bury thy dead. 12 And Abraham bowed him- self down before the people of the land. 13 And he spoke unto ’Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wouldst only hear me ; I will give the money for the field, take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. 14 And ’Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, 15 My lord, hearken unto me : a piece of land worth four hun- dred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee ? only bury thy dead. 16 And Abraham understood the meaning of ’Ephron ; and Abraham weighed out to ’Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current with the mer- chant.* 17 And the field of ’Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all its borders round about, were made sure 18 Unto Abraham for a bought 30 possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city. 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Cana’an. 20 And the field, with the cave that is therein, was made sure unto Abraham for a possession as a burying-place by the sons of Heth. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 ^ And Abraham was old, well stricken in years ; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the eldest of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh : 3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son from the daughters of the Cana’anites, among whom I dwell. 4 But unto my country, and to my birthplace shalt thou go, and take a wife unto my son, un- to Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land : must I then bring thy son again unto the land from which thou earnest? 6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou, that thou bring not my son thither again. 7 The Lord, the God of hea- ven, who took me from my fa- ther’s house, and from the land of my birth, and who spoke unto me and who swore unto me, say- ing, Unto thy seed will I giv6 this land : he will send his angel GENESIS XXIV. oefore thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from there. 8 But if the woman should not be willing to follow thee, then shalt thou be clear from this my oath : only my son shalt thou not bring thither again. 9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abra- ham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. * 10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his mas- ter, and departed, with all kinds of precious things of his master in bis hand; and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nachor. 11 And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by a woil of water at the time of the evening, at the time that the 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, and deal kindly with my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand by the well of water ; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water : 14 And let it come to pass, that the maiden to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink ; and she shall say, Drink, and to thy camels also will I give drink, be the one thou hast appointed for thy ser- vant Isaac ; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shown kind- ness unto my master. 15 And it came to pass, before he had yet finished speaking, that, behold, Rebekah [Ribkah] came out, who was born to Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Na- chor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the maiden was of a very handsome appearance, a| CHAYE SARAH, virgin, neither had any mac known her; and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water out of thy pitcher. 18 And she said, Drink, my lord : and she hastened, and lei down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him to drink. 19 And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, Also for thy camels will I draw water, until they have finished drinking. 20 And she hastened, and emp- tied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels. 21 And the man was wonder- ing at her; remaining silent, to* discover whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. 22 And it came to pass, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ear- ring, half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands, ten gold shekels in weight ; 23 And he said, Whose daugh- ter art thou? tell me, I pray thee ; is there room in thy father’s house for us to stay this night in ? 24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore unto Nachor. 25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and proven- der in plenty, as also room to ledge in. 26 And the man bowed down his head, and prostrated himself before the Lord.* 27 And he said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not with- | drawn his mercy and his truth 31 GENESIS XXIY. from my master ; I being on the way, which the Lord hath led me, to the house erf the brethren of my master. 28 And the maiden ran, and told at her mother’s house these things. 29 And Rebekah had a bro- ther, and his name was Laban ; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. 30 And this came to pass, when he saw the ear-ring and the brace- lets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Re- bekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man unto me ; and he came unto the man ; and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the well. 31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord ; wherefore standest thou without? while I have prepared the house and room for the camels. 32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the ca- mels ; and he gave straw and pro- vender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him. 33 And there was set food be- fore him to eat ; but he said, I will not eat, until I have spoken my words. And he said, Speak on. 34 And he said, I am Abra- ham’s servant. 35 And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly ; and he is be- come great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses. 36 And Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master after she was become old : and he hath given unto him all that he hath. 37 AM my master made me 32 CHAYE SARAH, swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Cana’anites, in whose land I dwell : 38 But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kin- dred, and take a wife unto my son. 39 And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 40 And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I have walk- ed, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; that thou mayest take a wife for my son from my kindred, and from my father’s house. 41 Then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred ; and if they do not give thee one, (then) shalt thou be clear from my oath. 42 And I came this day unto the well, and said, 0 Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if thou wouldst but prosper my way on which I am going. 43 Behold, I stand by the well of water ; and it shall be the young woman who cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me; I pray thee, a little wa- ter out of thy pitcher to drink; 44 And she say to me, Be th drink thou, and also for thy ca- mels will I draw : this shall be the wife whom the Lord hath destined for my master’s son. 45 And before I had yet fin- ished speaking to my own heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water ; and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee. 46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Brink, and also to thy camels will I give j drink; and I drank, and she 'made the camels drink also. GENESIS XXIV. XXV. CHAYE SARAH. *»7 And I asked her, and said, \S tuve daughter art thou ? And she .said, The daughter of Be- thuel, Nachor’s son, whom Mil- cah bore unto him : and I put the ear-ring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. 48 An l I bowel down my head, an 1 prostrated myself be- fore the Lord ; and I blessed the Lord, the Grod o*f my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son. 49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my mas- ter, tell me : and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right, or to the left. 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing hath proceeded from the Lord ; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be the wife of thy master’s son, as the Lord hath spoken. 52 And it came to pass, when Abraham’s servant heard their words, that he prostrated himself to the earth unto the Loud.* 53 And the servant brought forth vessels of silver, and ves- sels of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah ; and pre- cious things he gave to her bro- ther and to her mother. 54 And they did eat and drink, he and the . men that were with him, and tarried the night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master. 55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the maiden abide with us a year or ten months ; after that she shall go. 56 And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way ; send me away, that I may go to my master. 57 And they said, We will cali the maiden, and inquire her own decision. 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man ? And she said, i will go. 59 And thereupon they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s ser- vant and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of myriads, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them. 61 And Rebekah arose with her maidens, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man ; and the servant took Re- bekah, and went his way. 62 And Isaac came from a walk to the well Lachai-roi ; for he dwelt in the south country; 63 And Isaac was gone out to meditate in the field toward even- ing; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, camels were coming. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and she saw Isaac ; and she alighted off the camel. 65 And she said unto the ser- vant, Who is yonder man that walketh in the field toward us ? And the servant said, This is my master; therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 And Isaac brought her in- to the tent of Sarah his mother, and took Rebekah, and she be- came his wife, and he loved her ; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. CHAPTER XXV. 1 Then Abraham took again 33 GENESIS XXV. TOLEDOTH. a wife, and her name was Ke- turah. 2 And she bore him Zimran, and Yokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Yishbak, and Shu- ach. 3 And Yokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of De- dan were Asshurim, and Letu- shim, and Leiiminim. 4 And the sons of Midian : 'Ephah, and ’Epher, and Cha- noch, and Abida’, and Elda’ah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the con- cubines that Abraham had, Abra- ham gave gifts ; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he was yet living, eastward, un- to the east countrf. 7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, one hundred seventy and five years. 8 Then Abraham departed this life, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 9 And his sons Isaac and Ish- ma’el buried him in the cave of Maehpelah, in the field of ’Eph- ron the son of Zochar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ; 10 The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth : there was Abraham buried, with Sarah his wife. 11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that G od blessed Isaac his son ; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lachai-ro'i.* 12 •[ Now these are the gene- rations of Ishma’el, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s handmaid, bore unto Abraham. 13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishma’el, by their f.4 names, according to their gei/e- rations : the first-born of Ish- ma’el, Nebayoth ; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsatn, 14 And Mishma’, and Dumah, and Massa, 15 Chadad, and Thema, Ye tur, Naphish, and Kedemah.* 16 These are the sons of Ish ma’el, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their cas- tles ; twelve princes according to their nations. 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishma’el, one hundred and thirty and seven years : and he departed this life, and died ; and was gathered unto his people. 18 And they dwelt from Cha- vilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward As Syria : he dwelt in the presence of all his brethren. Haphtorah in 1 Kings i. 1 to 31. Sec. 6. TOLEDOTH, rnSm 19 And these are the gene rations of Isaac, the son of Abra- ham : Abraham begat Isaac. 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, of Padan-aram, the sister to La- ban the Syrian, to himself as wife. 21 And Isaac entreated the Lord in behalf of his wife, be cause she was barren : and the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why did I SeMre this? And she went to inquire of the Lord. 23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and one people shall be stronger GENESIS XXY. XXVI. TOLEDOTII. than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. 24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. 25 And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name ’Esau [’Esav]. 26 And after that came his brother out, his hand holding on to ’Esau’s heel ; and his name was called Jacob [Ya’acob] : and Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. 27 And the boys grew up : and ’Esau was an expert hunter, a man of the field ; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. 28 And Isaac loved ’Esau, be- cause he did eat of his venison ; but Rebekah loved Jacob. 29 And Jacob at one time boil- ed pottage, and ’Esau came from the field, and he was faint. 30 And ’Esau said to Jacob, Let me swallow down, I pray thee, some of that yonder red pottage, for I am faint; therefore was his name called Edom. 31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy right of first-born. 32 And ’Esau said, Behold, I am going to die ; and what pro- fit then can the right of first-born be to me ? 33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day ; and he swore unto him : and he sold his right of first-born unto Jacob. 34 Then Jacob gave ’Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he did eat and drink, and he rose up, and went his way ; thus ’Esau despised the birthright. CHAPTER XXVI. 1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first fa- mine that was in the days of Abraham; and Isaac went unto Abimelech, the king of the Phi- listines, unto Gerar. 2 And the Lord appeared un- to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee ; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, will I give all these coun- tries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father ; 4 And I will cause thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and I will give unto thy seed all these countries ; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves; 5 Because that Abraham obey ed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and m3 7 laws.* 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place asked (him) concerning his wife; and he said, She is my sister ; for he feared to say, She is my wife ; lest (said he) the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is of a handsome ap- pearance. 8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, looked out at a win- dow, and saw, and behold, Isaac was sporting with R,ebekah his wife. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife : and how saidst thou, She is my sister ? An-d Isaac said unto him, Because I thought, Perhaps I may die for her. 10 And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? How easily might one of the peo- ple have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldsthave brought guilti- ness upon us. 35 GENESIS XXVI. TOLEDOTH. 11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touch- eth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundred-fold : so the Lord blessed him.* 13 And the man became great, and went forward and grew, un- til he became very great ; 14 And he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants ; and the Philistines envied him. 15 And all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, these the Philistines stopped, and filled them with earth. 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go away from us ; for thou hast become much mightier than we. 17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the val- ley of Gerar, and dwelt there. 18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham ; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. 19 And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. 20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours : and he called the name of the well ’Essek ; because they strove with him. 21 And they dug another well, and they strove for that also : j and he called the name of it Sit- j nah. 22 And he removed from there, and dog another well ; for that fcney strode not: and he called the name of it Rechoboth, and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall increase in the land.* 23 And he went up from there to Beer-sheba’. 24 And the Lord appeared un- to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for the sake of Abraham my servant. 25 And he built there an altar, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched there his tent : and the servants of Isaac dug there a well. 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Achuzzath his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing that ye do hate me, and have sent me away from you ? 28 And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, between us and thee ; and we will make a covenant with thee ; 29 That thou shalt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace : thou art now one blessed of the Lord.* 30 And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and they swore one to the other ; and Isaac sent them away, and they departe d from him in peace. 32 And it came to pass the .same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and they said unto him, We hav« found water. GENESIS XXVI. XXVII. TOLEDOTIL 33 And he called it Shib’ah : therefore is the name of the city Becr-sheba’ unto this day. 31 And when ’Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri, the Ilit- tite, and Bahsemath the daughter of El on the Hittite. 35 And they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. CHAPTER XXVII. 1 ^ And it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called ’Esau his eldest son, and said un- to him, My son : and he said un- to him, Behold, here am I. 2 And he said, Behold now, I am grown old, I know not the day of my death : 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and hunt for me some ve- nison ; 4 And make me savoury food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat ; that my soul may bless thee before I die. 5 And Rebekah heard as Isaac was speaking to ’Esau his son. And ’Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. 6 And Rebekah spoke unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto ’Esau thy brother, saying, 7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury food, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. 8 And now, my son, obey my voice in that which I command thee. 9 Go, I pray thee, to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids; and I will make them sa- voury food for thy father, such as he loveth : 10 And thou shalt bring it to 4 thy father, that he may eat; for the sake that he may bless thee before his death. 11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, ’Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man : 12 Peradventuremy father will feel me, and I shall then seem to him as a deceiver ; and I would bring upon me a curse, and not a blessing. 13 And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son ; only obey my voice, and go fetch them to me. 14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mo- ther; and his mother made sa- voury food, such as his father loved. 15 And Rebekah took the good- ly garments of her eldest son ’Esau, which were with her in the house, and clothed therewith Jacob her younger son ; 16 And the skins of the kids she put upon his hands, and upon the smooth part of his neck ; 17 And she gave the savoury food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of Jacob her son. 18 And he came unto his fa- ther, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son ? 19 And Jacob said unto his father, I am ’Esau thy first-born ; I have done as thou didst speak to me: arise, I pray thee, sit here and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. 20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son ? and he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it before me. 21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I mav feel thee, my son, whether 37 GENESIS XXVII. TOLEDOTH. thou be truly my son ’Esau or not. 22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father, and he felt him ; and he said, The voice is the roiee of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of ’Esau. 23 And he recognised him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother ’Esau’s hands: sd, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked the officers of Pharaoh that were with him in ward in his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to- day ? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is none to interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God ? tell it to me, I pray you. 9 The chief of the butlers then told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, be- hold, a vine was before me; 10 And on the vine were three branches ; and it was as though it budded, shot forth its blos- soms, and on its clusters the grapes became ripe : 11 And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand ; and I took the grapes, and pressed them out into Pha- raoh’s cup, and I placed the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. 12 And Joseph said unto him, This is its interpretation: The three branches are three days ; 13 Within yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thy office ; and Jiou shalt place Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. 14 Therefore if thou thinkest on me when it shall be well with thee, then show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make men- tion of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house; 15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land o:' the He- brews ; and here also have I not clone the least that they should put me into the dungeon. 16 And when the chief of the bakers saw that he had well in- terpreted, he said unto Joseph, I also (saw) in my dream, and behold, I had three baskets with fine bread on my head : 17 And in the uppermost bas- ket there was of all manner of bakemeats, used as food f« r Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket from my head. 18 And Joseph answered and said, This is its interpretation : The three baskets are three days ; 19 Within yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and will hang thee on a tree ; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.* 20 And it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants : and he lifted up the head of the chief of the butlers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants. 21 And he restored the chief of the butlers unto his butler- ship; and he placed the cup in- to Pharaoh’s hand; 22 But the chief of the bakers he hanged, as Joseph had inter- preted to them. 23 Yet the chief of the butlers did not remember Joseph, and forgot him. Haphtorah in Amos ii. 6 to iii. 8 Sec. 10. MICKETZ. yp c . CHAPTER XLI. 1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed ; and behold he stood by the river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, of good appearance and fat in flesh ; and they fed in the meadow. 3 And, behold, seven other 59 GENESIS XLI. MICKETZ. cows came up after them out of the river, ill-favoured and lean in flesh ; and th-ey stood by the other cows upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill-favoured and led n -fleshed cows did eat up the seven well-favoured and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke. 5 And he slept and dreamed a second time : and, behold, seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, rank and good. 6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. 7 And the seven thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 8 And it come to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled ; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret the same unto Pharaoh. 9 Then spoke the chief of the butlers unto Pharaoh, saying, My faults I must call to remem- brance this day : 10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guards, me and the chief of the bakers ; 11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he ; we dreamed each in accordance with toe interpretation of his dream. 12 And there was with us a Hebrew lad, a servant to the captain of the guards; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams ; to each accord- ing to his dream did he inter- pret. I 13 And it came to pass, just' 60 as he had interpreted to us. so it was; me he restored unto my office, and him he hanged. | 14 Then Pharaoh sent and jhad Joseph called, and they .brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved him- 'self, and changed his garments, and came in unto Pharaoh.* , 15 And Pharaoh said unto ! J oseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can in- terpret it : and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst under- stand a dream to interpret it. 1 6 And Joseph answered Pha- raoh, saying, It is not in me ; God will give an answer for the peace of Pharaoh.* 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river ; 18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cows, fat in flesh and good in shape ; and they fed in the meadow ; 19 And, behold, seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ill-shaped and lean in flesh ; I never saw any like these in all the land of Egypt for ugli- ness ; 20 And the lean and the ill- favoured cows did eat up the first seven fat cows ; 21 And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them ; but their appearance was still as bad as at the beginning. And I awoke. 22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good ; 23 And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them ; 24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears : and I told this unto the magicians; but GENESIS XL there was none that could tell it to me. 25 And Joseph said unto Pha- raoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one, that which God is about to do, he hath told to Pharaoh. 26 The seven good cows are seven years ; and the seven good ears are seven years,* the dream is one. 27 And the seven thin and ill- favoured cows that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, blasted with the east wind, shall be seven years of famine. 28 This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh : What God is about to do he hath shown unto Pharaoh. 29 Behold, there are coming seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt : 80 And there shall arise seven years of famine after them, when all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt ; and the famine shall consume the land ; 31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following it; for it shall be very grievous. 32 And as it respecteth that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is firmly resolved on by God, and God hasteneth to bring it to pass. 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man, discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part (of the produce) of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty. 35 And let them gather up all the food of those good years that are coming, and lay up corn 6 I. MICKETZ. under the hand of Pharaoh, aa food in the cities, and keep the same. 36 And that food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt ; that the land be not cut oft* through the famine. 37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spi- rit of God is ?* 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Inasmuch as God hath caused thee to know all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou : 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according to thy word shall all my people be ruled ; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than thou. 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a golden chain about his neck ; 43 And he caused him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bend the knee : and he placed him (thus) over all the land of Egypt. 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh ; but without thee shall no man lilt up his hand o*r his foot in all the land of Egypt. 45 And Pharaoh called Jo- seph’s name Zaphenath-pa’ne- iich ; and he* gave him Asse- nath the daughter of Poti-phera’ til GENESIS XLI. XLII. MICKETZ. the priest of On, for wife. And Josepn went out over* all the land of Egypt. 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt ; and Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And the earth brought forth in the seven years of plenty by handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities : the food of the field of the city which was'round about it laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph heaped up corn as the sand of the sea, very much ; until he left off numbering, for it was without number. 50 And unto J oseph were born two sons before the years of fa- mine came, whom Assenath the daughter of Poti-phera’, the priest of On, bore unto him. 51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Menasseh [Menasheh] ; Eor God (said he) hath made me forget all my toil, and all in y father’s house. 52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim [Ephrayim] ; For God (said he) hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.* 53 And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of . Egypt, were ended. 54 And the seven years of fa- mine began to come, just as Jo- seph had said ; and there was • famine in all the countries, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. 55 And when all the land of Egypt also felt hunger, the peo- ; pie cried to Pharaoh for bread : and Pharaoh said unto all the 62 Egyptians, Go unto Joseph: ■ what he saith to you, do. 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth : and Joseph opened all the store- houses, wherein corn was, and sold unto the Egyptians ; for the famine grew strong in the land of Egypt. 57 And all the countries came into Egypt to buy corn of Jo- seph ; because the famine was sore in all the countries. CHAPTER XLII. 1 And when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, "Why do ye look at one another ? 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard thatthere is corn in Egypt ; get you down thither, and buy for us provision from there, that we may live, and not die. 3 And ten brothers of Jo- seph went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s bro- ther, Jacob sent not with his brothers ; for he said, Lest mis- chief befall him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came ; for the famine was in the land of Cana’an. 6 And Joseph — he was the governor over the land, it was he that sold corn to all the peo- ple of the land; and Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed them- selves down before him with the face to the earth. 7 And Joseph saw his bro- thers, and he recognised them; but made himself strange unto them, and spoke roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Cai.a'an to buy food. 8 And Joseph recognised his GENESIS LXII. MICKETZ. brothers, but they recognised not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed concerning them, and he said unto them, Ye are spies ; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. 10 Af.d they said unto him, No, my lord, thy servants are only come to buy food. 11 We all are sons of one man,* we are true men; thy servants have never been spies. 12 And he said unto them, No ! but to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. 13 And they said, We, thy ser- vants, are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Ca- na’an ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more. 14 And Joseph said unto them, It is as I have spoken unto you, saying, Ye are spies ; 15 Hereby shall ye be proved : By the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether the truth be with you ; and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, ye are surely spies. 17 And he put them together into ward three days. 18 And Joseph said unto them on the third day, This do, and live ; I fear God.* 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brothers remain impri- soned in the house of your con- finement ; but ye, go, carry home what ye have bought for the want of your household. 20 But your youngest brother bring unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so. 21 And they said one to an- other, Truly we are guilty con- cerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear ; therefore is this dis- tress come upon us. 22 And Reiiben answered them, saying, Did I not say unto you, thus, Do not sin against the child ; and ye would not hear ? and behold, his blood also is now required. 23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spoke unto them by an inter- preter. 4 24 And he turned himself away from them, and wept ; and returned to them again, and spoke with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him be- fore their eyes. 25 And Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them pro- vision for the way ; and he did unto them thus. 26 And they loaded their asses with their corn, and departed thence. 27 And one of them opened his sack to give his ass pro- vender in the inn : when he espied his money; for, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 28 And he said unto his bro- thers, My money hath been re- stored ; and, lo, it is even in my sack : and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us ? 29 And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Ca- na’an, and they told him all that had befallen them; saying, 30 The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and GENESIS XLII. XLIII. MICKETZ. took us as though we were espy- ing the country. 31 And we said unto him, We are true men ; we have never been spies: 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father ; the one is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Cana’an. 33 And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Here- by shall I know that ye are true men : leave one of your brothers here with me, and (the food for) the want of your households take ye and be gone ; 34 And bring your youngest brother unto me ; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men ; your bro- ther I will give up to you, and in the land ye shall be allowed to traffic. 35 And it came to pass as they were emptying their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack : and when they saw the bundles of their money, they and their fa- ther, they were afraid. 36 And Jacob, their father, said unto them, Me ye have be- reaved of my children : Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone, and Benjamin ye will take away ; all the.se things are against me. 37 And Reuben said unto his father, thus, Two of my sons shalt thou slay, if I bring him not to thee ; deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him back to thee. 38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you ; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left : and if mischief befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 64 CHAPTER XLIII. 1 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had completely eaten up the provisions which they had brought out of Egypt, that their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. 3 And Judah said unto him, thus, The man did solemnly pro- test unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our bro- ther with us, we will go down and buy thee food; 5 But if thou sendest him not, we will not go down ; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. 6 And Israel said, Wherefore have ye dealt so ill with me, as to tell the man that ye have yet another brother ? 7 And they said, The man in- quired particularly concerning us, and our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother’ and we told him according to the tenor of these words : could we possibly know that he would say, Bring down your brother ? 8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go ; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, as also our little ones. 9 I will be a surety for him ; from my hand shalt thou require him : if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then shall I have sinned against thee all the days. 10 For, if we had not lingered, surely we had now returned the second time. 11 And their father Israel said GENESIS XLIII. MICKETZ. an to them, If it must be so now, do this : take of the best products of the land in your vessels, and carry down to the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, soices, and lotus, pistachio-nuts and almonds ; 12 And twofold money take in your hand ; and the money that was put back in the mouth of your sacks, you must carry back in your hand ; peradventure it was an oversight; 13 Also your brother take along, and arise, go again unto the man. 14 And may God the Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away to you your other brother, and Benja- min. And I, if I am to be be- reaved, let me be bereaved. 15 And the men took that pre- sent; and twofold money they took in their hand, as also Ben- jamin; and they rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.*' 16 And when Joseph saw Ben- jamin with them, he said to the superintendent of his house, Bring these men into the house, and slay, and make read}' ; for with me shall these men dine at noon. 17 And the man did as Joseph had said ; and the man brought the men into Joseph’s house. 18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house: and they said, Because of the money that came back 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 bond-men, together with our asses. 19 And they came near to the man who was appointed over Joseph’s house, and they spoke 6* c with him at the door of the house, 20 And they said, Pardon, my lord, we came down at the first time to buy food : 21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in its full weight; and we have brought it back in our hand. 22 And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food ; we know not who hath put our money in our sacks. 23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not; your God, and the God of your father, hath given you a treasure in your sacks ; your money hath come to me. And he brought Simeon out unto them. 24 And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house; and he gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses. 25 And they made ready the present before Joseph came home at noon ; for they had heard that they should eat bread there. 26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the pre- sent which was in their hand into the house, and bowed them- selves to him to the earth. 27 And he asked them after their welfare, and said, Is your old father well, of whom ye spoke? is he yet alive? 28 And they answered, Thy servant, our father, is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and prostrated themselves. 29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spoke unto me ? And 2 65 GENESIS XLiri. : be said, God be gracious unto! thee, my son.* 30 And Joseph hastened a way, for his affection toward his bro- ther became enkindled, and he sought to weep ; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there. 31 And he washed his face, and came out, and refrained him- self, and said, Set on the bread, j 32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by them- selves, and for the Egyptians, who did eat with him, by them- selves ; because the Egyptians may not eat bread with the He- brews ; for that is an abomina- tion unto the Egyptians. 33 And they sat before him, the first-born according to his prior birth, and the youngest according to his youth : and the men marvelled one at the other. 34 And he sent portions unto them from before him ; but Ben- jamin’s portion exceeded the portions of all of them fivefold. And they drank, and were merry with him. CHAPTER XLIV. 1 And he commanded the su- perintendent of his house, say- ing, Fill the sacks of these men with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s mo- ney in the mouth of his sack. 2 And my cup, the silver cup, thou shalt put in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and the money for his corn. And he did according to the word of Joseph which he had spoken. 3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, ; they and their asses. 4 They were gone out of the city, not yet far off, when Joseph said unto the superintendent of his house, Up, follow after the < men ; and when thou hast over- 66 XLIV. MICKETZ. • ! taken them, say unto them. Wherefore have ye returned evil , for good ? 5 Is not this out of which my i lord drinketh, and whereby in- . deed he divineth ? ye ha ve done evil in so doing. 6 And he overtook them, and he spoke unto them these same j words. 7 And they said unto him, Wherefore will my lord speak such words as these ? God for- bid that thy servants should do any thing like this. 8 Behold the money, which we found in the mouth of our sacks, we brought back unto rhee out of the land of Cana’an : how then should we steal out of , thy lord’s house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy ser- vants it be found, let him die; and we also will be bond-men unto my lord. 10 And he said, Now also let it be according to your words : he w r ith whom it is found shall be my servant ; but ye shall be blameless. 11 And they made haste, and every one (of them) took down his sack to the ground, and every one opened his sack. 12 And he searched, at the eldest he began, and at the youngest he left off; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13 Then they rent their clothes, and every one loaded his ass, and they returned to the city.'* 14 And Judah and his bro- thers came into Joseph’s house, and he was yet there ; and they fell down before him on the ground. 15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? knew ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine? GENESIS XLIV. XLV. VAYIGGASH. 16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord ? what shall we speak? or how shall we justify ourselves ? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants : behold we are ser- vants unto my lord, both we, as also he in whose hand the cup was found. 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do this: the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my servant,* and as for you, go you up in peace un- to your father. Haphtorah in 1 Kings iii. 15 to iv. 1. Sec. 11. VAYIGGASH, vrr 18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Pardon, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thy anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother ? 20 And we said unto my lord, We have an old father, and a little child born in his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 .And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set my eye upon him. 22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his father, he would die. 23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest bi other come down with you, ye shall not see my face any more. 24 And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant U*.y father, that we told him the words of my lord. 25 And our father said, Go back, and buy us a little food. 26 And we said, we cannot go down : if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down ; for we cannot see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us. 27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons ; 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he hath been torn in pieces ; and I have not seen him up to this time. 29 And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief be- fall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. 30 And now, 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 ;* 31 It will come to pass, that when he seeth that the lad is not with us, he will die: and thy servants would thus bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my fa- ther, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I have sin- ned against ray father all the days. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad as bond-man to my lord ; and let the lad go up with his brothers. 34 For how shall I go up tc my father, and the lad be not with me? I should perhaps be compelled to witness the evil which would come on my father. CHAPTER XLV. 1 Then could Joseph not re- 67 GENESIS XLV. frain himself before all those that stood by him; and be cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there re- mained no man with him, while Joseph made himself known un- to his brothers. 2 And he raised his voice in weeping; and the Egyptians heard it, and the house of Pha- raoh heard it. 8 And Joseph said unto his brothers, I am Joseph ; doth my father yet live ? And his bro- thers could not answer him ; for they were terrified at his pre- sence. 4 And Joseph said unto his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you ; and they came near ; and he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 But now be not grieved, nor be angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for in order to preserve life did God send me before you. 6 For these two years hath the famine been already in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest- ing. 7 And God hath thus sent me before you to prepare for you a permanence on the earth, and to save your lives by a great de- liverance.* 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God ; and he hath made me a father to Pha- raoh, and a lord for all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 9 Haste ye, and go op to my father, and say unto him, Thics hath said thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not. 10 And thou shalt dwell in 68 YAYIGGASH. the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that is thine. 11 And I will maintain thee there ; for there are yet five years of famine ; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty. 12 And, behold, your own eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you. 13 And ye shall tell my fa- ther of all my honour in Egypt, and of all that ye ha ve seen ; and ye shall hasten and bring down my father hither. 14 And he fell upon his bro- ther Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. 15 And he kissed all his bro- thers, and wept upon them ; and after that his brothers spoke with him. 16 And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, say- ing, Joseph’s brothers are come; and it was pleasing in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brothers, This do ye : load your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Cana’an ; 18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me ; and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.* 19 And thou art commanded, This do ye, take unto yourselves out of the land of Egypt wagons for your little ones, and for your wives, and take up your father, and come. 20 And do ye feel no concern on account of your household GENESIS XLV. XLVI. YAYIGGASH. goods; for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours. 21 And the children of Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the com- mand of Pharaoh ; and he gave them provision for the way. 22 To all of them he gave to each changes of raiment ; but to Benjarmin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. 23 And to his father he sent after this manner : Ten asses la- den with the best things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with corn and bread and other food for his father, for the journey. 24 And he accompanied his brothers on the way, and they de- parted : and he said unto them, Do not fall out by the way. 25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Cana’an, unto Jacob their fa- ther. 26 And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive ; and that he is governor over all the land of Egypt. But his heart remained cold, for he believed them not. 27 But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him : the spirit of Jacob their father revived.* 28 And Israel said, Enough : Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die. CHAPTER XLVI. 1 And Israel commenced his journey with all that he . had, and came to Beer-sheba’, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father ; fear not to go down into Egypt ; for a great nation will I make of thee there : 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt ; and I will also surely bring thee up again ; and Joseph shall put his Land upon thy eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from JBeer-sheba’ : and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their tittle ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pha- raoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Cana’an, and came into Egypt ; Jacob, and all his seed with him : 7 His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt. 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, that came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons : The first-born of Jacob, Reuben. 9 And the sons of Reuben : Chanoch, and Pallu, and Chez- ron, and Carmi. 10 And the sons of Simeon : Yemuel, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yachin, and Zochar, and Shaiil the son of the Cana’an- itish woman. 11 And the sons of Levi T Gershon, Kehath, and Merari. 12 And the sons of Judah : ’Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerach ; but ’Er and Onan died in the land of Ca- na’an, and the sons of Perez were Chezron and Chamul. 13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola’, and Puvah, and Yob, and Shimron. 14 And th.e sons of Zebulun : Sered, and Elon, and Yachleel. 15 These are the sons of Leah # 69 GENESIS XLVL XLYII. VAYIGGASH. whom she bore unto Jacob in Padan-aram, with Dinah his daughter: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. 16 And the sons of Gad: Zipbyon, and Chaggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, ’Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher: Yimnah, andYishvah, and Yish- vi, and Beri’ah, and Serach their sister; and the sons of Beri’ah : Cheber, and Malkiel. 18 These are the sons of Zil- pah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these unto Jacob, sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 And there were born unto Joseph in the land of Egypt Menasse-h and Ephraim, whom Assenath the daughter of Poti- phera’, the priest of On, bore unto him. 21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela’, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Na’aman, Echi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Chuppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Ra- chel, that were born to Jacob: in all fourteen souls. 23 And the sons of Dan: Chu- shim. 24 And the sons of Naphtali : Yaclizeel, and Guni, and Yezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bil- hah. whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bore these unto Jacob, in all seven souls. 26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides the wives of Jacob’s sens, were in all sixty and six souls. 27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born him in Egypt,! 70 were two souls ; all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.* 28 And Judah he sent be- fore him unto Joseph, to direct him beforehand unto Goshen ; and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen ; and when he obtained sight of him, he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. 30 And Israel said unto Jo- seph, Let me die now, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive. 31 And Joseph said unto his brothers, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brothers and my father’s house., who were in the land of Cana’an., are come unto me ; 32 And the men are shepherds, for they have been owners of cattle; and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, they have brought along. 33 And it shall come to pass, if Pharaoh should haye you called, and say, What is your occupation ? 34 That ye shall say, Owners of cattle have thy servants been from our youth even until now, both we, as also our fathers; in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen ; for every shep- herd is an abomination unto the Egyptians. CHAPTER XLYII. 1 Then came Joseph and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Cana’an; and, behold,- Ithey are in the land of Goshen. GENESIS XLVII. VAYIGGASH. 2 And he took some of his 1 brothers, five men, and presented them before Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brothers, What is your occupa- tion ? And they said unto Pha- raoh, Thy servants are shep- herds, both we, as also our fa- thers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come ; because there is no pasture for the flocks of thy servants, for the famine is sore in the land of Cana’an ; and now let thy servants dwell, we pray thee, in the land of Goshen. 5 And Pharaoh said unto Jo- seph, thus, Thy father and thy brothers are come unto thee : 6 The land of Egypt is before thee ; in the best of the land let thy father and brothers dwell ; let them dwell in the land of Goshen ; and if thou knowest that there are among them men of activity, then appoint them rulers over my cattle. 7 And Joseph brought in Ja- cob his father, and placed him before Pharaoh ,• and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Ja- cob, How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pha- raoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my lathers in the days of their pilgrimage. 10 And Jacob blessed Pha- raoh, and went out from before Pharaoh Ji- ll And Joseph assigned places of residence for his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the 'land of Ra’messes, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph supplied his father, and his brothers, and all his father’s household, with bread, in proportion to their fa- milies. 13 And there was no bread in all the land ; for the famine was very sore ; and the land of Egypt and the land of Cana’an fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Cana’an, for the corn which they bought; and Joseph brought the money into Pha- raoh’s house. 15 And when the money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Cana’an, all the Egyp- tians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread; fof why should we die in thy presence, since the money is all gone ? 16 And Joseph said, Give up your cattle ; and I will give you for your cattle, if the money be all gone. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph ; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks of sheep, and for the herds of cat- tle, and for the asses ; and he supplied them with bread for all their cattle for that year. 18 And when that year was ended, they came unto him in the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money with our herds of cattle hath entirely passed into the possession of my lord ; there is naught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our land. 19 Wherefore shall we die be- fore thy eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land 1V-T 71 GENESIS XI/VTi. X bread ; and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh ; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not rendered desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the rand of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine pre- vailed over them : so the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And as for the people, he removed them to the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof. 22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them by Pharaoh, and they ate their por- tion which Pharaoh gave them: therefore they did not sell their land. 23 Then said Joseph unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh : lo, here is seed for you, and sow ye the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the harvest times, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh ; and four parts shall be your own, for the seed of the field, and for your food, and for those belong- ing to your households, and for food for your little ones.* ‘ 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives : let us but find grace in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a sta- tute unto this day over the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh’s. 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen ; and they had posses- sions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly, flaphtorah in Ezekiel xxxvii. 15 to 28. 72 LVIII v'AYECHEE. Sec. 12. VAYECHEE, 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seveKeen years: and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty and seven years. 29 And when the time of Israel drew near that he was to die, he sent to call his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh; and deal with me in kind- ness and truth ; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. 30 But when I shall lie with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. 31 And he said, Swear unto me ; and he swore unto him ; and Israel bowed himself upon the head of the bed. CHAPTER XLVIII. 1 And it came to pass after these things, that some one said to Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick ; and he took his two sons with him, Menasseh and Ephraim. 2 And some one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee ; and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. 3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God, the Almighty, appeared un- to me at Luz in the land of Ca- na’an, and blessed me, 4 And he said unto me, Be- hold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of peo- ple ; and I will give this land to thy seed after thee for an ever- lasting possession. 5 And now thy two sons, who were born unto thee in the land GENESIS XL V III. VAYECIIEE. of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, shall be mine : Ephraim and Menasseh shall be unto me as Reiiben and Simeon. 6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, after the name of their brothers shall they be called in their inheritance. 7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Cana’an on the way, when yet there was some distance to come unto Ephrath : and I buried her there on the way of Ephrath, the same is Beth-lechem. 8 And Israel perceived the sons of Joseph, and said, Who are these ? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.* 10 Now the eyes of .Israel were dim through age, he could not see; and he brought them near unto him, and he kissed them, and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Jo- seph, To see thy face I had not hoped ; and, lo, God hath shown me also thy seed. 12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. 13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Menas- 8 eh in his left hand toward Is- nel’s right, and brought them near unto him. 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon MenasselTs head ; he laid his 7 ] hands wittingly; although Me- nasseh was the first-born. 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God w T ho fed me from my first being unto this day, 16 The angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads ; and let my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.* 17 And when Joseph saw that his father would lay his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him : and he took hold of his father’s hand, to remove it from the hea.d of Ephraim un4o the head of Me- nasseh. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-boim, put thy right hand upon his head. 19 And his father refused, and said, I know, my son, I know, he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of na- tions. 20 And he blessed them on that day, saying, W ith thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Menasseh: and so he set Ephraim before Menasseh. 21 And Israel said unto Jo- seph, Behold, I die ; but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fa- thers. 22 Moreover I have given un- to thee one portion above thy brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Emorit.e with my sword and with my bow.'* ) 73 GENESIS XLIX. VAYECHEE. CHAPTER XLIX. 1 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 Reuben, thou art my first- born, my might, and the begin- ning of my strength ; the excel- lency of dignity, and the excel- lency of power (should be thine). 4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not have the excellence; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed ; then defiledst thou the one who ascended my couch. 5 Simeon and Levi are bre- thren; weapons of violence are their swords. 6 Into their secret shall my soul not come ; unto their assem- bly my spirit shall not be united ; for in their anger they slew the man, and in their self-will they lamed the ox. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel : I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Is- rael. 8 ^ Judah, thou art the one thy brothers shall praise, thy hand shall be on the neck of thy enemies ; thy father’s children shall bow down unto thee. 9 Like a lion’s whelp, 0 Ju- dah, from the prey, my son, thou risest: he stoopeth down, he croucheth as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him up? 10 The sceptre shall not de- part from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet; until Shi- loh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11 He bindeth unto the vine his foal, and to the vine-branch his ass’s colt; he washeth his! 74 garments in wdne, and in the blood of grapes his clothes; 12 His eyes shall be red from wine, and his teeth white from milk. 13 f Zebulun shall dwell at the margin of the seas ; and he shall be at the haven oi ships; and his border shall be near to Zidon. 14 Issachar is a strong-boned ass, crouching down between the stables. 15 And when he saw the rest- ing-place that it was good, and the land that it was pleasant, he bent his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. 16 Dan shall judge his peo- ple, as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder on the path, ►that biteth the horse in the heels, so that his rider falleth back- ward. 18 For thy salvation, I hope, 0 Lord.- 19 Gad, troops will band against him; but he shall wound their heel. 20 Out of Asher cometh fat bread, and he shall yield roya* dainties. 21 Naphtali is (like) a fleet hind ; hebringeth pleasant words. 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring ; the branches of which run over the wall. 23 And they embittered his life, and they shot at hin* ; and they hated him, the men of the arrows. 24 But his bow abode in strength, and his arms and his hands remained firm ; from the hands of the mighty God of Ja- cob, from there thou becamest the shepherd, the stone of Israel. 25 From the God of thy father. ! who will help thee; and from GENESIS XLIX. the Almighty, who will bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, with blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, with bless- ings of the breasts, and of the womb ; 26 With the blessings of thy father that have excelled the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the ever- lasting hills: these shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated from his brothers.* 27 Benjamin shall be as a wolf that rendeth : in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at evening he shall divide the spoil. 28 All these are the tribes of Israel, twelve in number; and this is what their father spoke unto them, and wherewith he blessed them; every one accord- ing to his proper blessing blessed he them. 29 And he charged them and said unto them, I am to be ga- thered unto my people; bury me near my fathers in the cave that is in the field of ’Ephron the Hittite, J. 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Marnre, in the land of Cana’an, which field Abraham bought of ’Ephron the Hittite, for a possession as a burying- place, 31 (There they buried Abra- ham and Sarah his wife ; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah ) , 32 Purchasing the field and the cave that is therein from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed ; and he departed this life, and was gathered unto his people. L. VAYECHEE. CHAPTER L. 1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to em- balm his father : and the physi- cians embalmed Israel. 3 And they fulfilled fcr him forty days; for so they fulfil the days of those that are embalmed ; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pha- raoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pha- raoh, saying, 5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die ; in my grave, which I have dug for me in the land of Cana’an, there shalt thou bury me : now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and I will bury my father, and return again. 6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, as he hath made thee swear. 7 And Joseph went up to bury his father, and there went up with him all the servants of Pha- raoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of E gypt, 8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father’s house ; only their little ones, and their flocks and their herds, they left behind in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen ; and the encampment was very great. 10 And they came to the thrashing-floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and they held there a great and very sore la- mentation; and he made for his father a mourning of seven days. 11 And when the inhabitants 75 GENESIS L. of the land, the Cana’anites, saw the mourning at the thrashing- floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyp- tians ; wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizrayim, which is beyond the Jordan. 12 And his eons did unto him according as he had commanded them ; 13 And his sons carried him into the land of Cana’an, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham bought for a posses- sion, as a burying-place, of ’Eph- ron the Hittite, before Mamre. 14 And Joseph returned unto Egypt, he, and his brothers, and all that were gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph’s bro- thers saw that their father was dead, they said, Perad venture Joseph may now hate us; and then he would certainly requite us all the evil which we have done unto him. 16 And they sent word unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before his death, say- ing, 17 So shall ye say unto Jo- seph, Oh forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brothers, and their sin ; for evil have they done unto thee : and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servan ts of the God of thy father ; and Joseph wept when they spoke unto him. 18 And his brothers also went and fell down before him ; and they said, Behold, we will be thy servants. 19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not, for am I ,n the place of God? VAYECHEE. 20 But as for you, though ye thought evil against me, God meant it unto good; in order to bring to pass, as it is this day, tc save alive a numerous people.* 21 Now therefore fear ye not, I will support you, and your lit- tle ones; and he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them. 22 And Joseph dwelt iu Egypt, he, and his father’s house ; and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.* 23 And Joseph saw of Ephraim children of the third generation ; the children also of Machir, the son of Menasseh, were brought up upon Joseph’s knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brothers, I shall die ; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Ja- cob. 25 And Joseph caused the children of Israel to swear, say- ing, God will surely visit you, and then shall ye carry up my bones from here. 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old ; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Haphtorah in 1 Kings ii. 1 to 12. Note.— Haphtorah for the Sabbath, if on the day before New Moon, is iu 1 Samuel xx. 18 to 42. Reading for Maphtere for Sabbath aDd New Moon, Numbers xxviii. 9 to 15. Haphtorah for Sabbath and New Moon in Isaiah lvi. 1 to 24. Haphtorah for Sabbath Chanukkah n Zeehariah ii. 14 to iv. 7. Haphtorah for the second Sabbath Chanukkah in 1 Kings vii. 40 to 50. When either of the above is read on any Sabbath, the usual weekly Hapli- torah is omitted. The same is* the case with all other occasional Haphtoroth, which usually take the place of the regu- lar ones. 76 THE BOOK OF EXODUS. SHEMOTH, mot?, CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT, AND THEIR REDEMPTION, TO THE BUILDING OF THE TABER NACLE. Sec. 13. SHEMOTH, nw. CHAPTER I. 1 Now these are the chil- dren of Israel that came into Egypt; with Jacob were they come, every man and his house- hold. 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Ben- jamin, 4 Dan, and NaphtaJi, Gad, and Asher. 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls ; together with Jo- seph who was already in Egypt. 6 And Joseph died, with all his brothers, and all that gene- ration. 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abun- dantly, and multiplied, and wax- ed exceedingly mighty : and the land was filled with them. 8 Now there Tose up a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the chil- dren of Israel is more numerous and mightier than we : 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with it ; lest it multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there happen to be a war, it join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and depart out of the land. 11 And they thereupon did set over it taskmasters, to afflict it with their burdensome labours; and it built treasure cities, for Pharaoh, Pithom, and Ra’amses. 12 But in the measure that they afflicted the same, so it mul- tiplied and so it spread itself out; and they felt abhorrence because of the children of Israel. 13 And the Egyptians com- pelled the children of Israel to labour with rigour : 14 And they made their lives hitter with hard labour, in mor- tar, and in bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field; besides all their other service, wherein they made them labour with rigour. 15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiph- rah, and the name of the other, Pu’ah ; 16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the He- brew women, ye shall have due regard upon the birth : if it be a son, then shall ye kill him; but if it be a daughter, then may she live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and they did not as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but saved the men-chil- dren alive.* 18 And the king of Egypt called for the mid wives, and he said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive? 19 And the midwives said un- to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew EXODUS I. II. SHEMOTH. women are not as the Egyptian women ; for they are lively ; ere the midwife cometh in unto them they are deli vered. 20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multi- plied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, be- cause the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. CHAPTER II. 1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son ; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him a box of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch ; and she put the child therein, and laid it amidst the flags by the brink of the river. 4 And his sister placed her- self afar off, to ascertain what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pha- raoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the side of the river ; and when she saw the box among the flags, she sent her maid and fetched it. 6 And she opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, it was a weeping boy ; and she had com- passion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. 7 Then said his sister to Pha- raoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse for thee the child ? 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go ; and the maiden went and called the mother of the child. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take away this child, and nurse him for me, and I will give thee thy wages ; and the woman took the child, and nursed him. 10 And the child grew up, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became to her as a son ; and she called his name Moses [Mosheh] ; and she said, Because out of the water have I drawn him.** 11 And it came to pass * in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdensome labours; and he saw an Egyptian man smiting a He- brew man, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one by, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were striving together ; and he said unto him that was in the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow ? 14 And he said, Who made thee a chief and a judge over us ? intendest thou to kill me, as thou hast killed the Egyptian ? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is become known. 15 And Pharaoh heard this thing, and he sought to slay Mo- ses ; but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and tarried in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and fillej EXODUS II. III. SHEMOTH. the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses arose and helped them, and wa- tered their flock. 18 And when they came to Re’uel their father, he said, Wherefore are ye come home so soon to-day ? 19 And they said, An Egyp- tian man delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds ; and he algo drew water for us, and wa- tered the flock. 20 And he said unto his daugh- ters, And where is he ? where- fore have ye left the man ? call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man ; and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. 22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershoin ; for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land. 23 ^ And it came to pass, in this long time, that the king of Egypt died ; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried; and their complaint came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And God heard their groan- ing, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.* CHAPTER III. 1 And Moses was keeping Lie flock of Jithro his father-in- law, the priest of Midian ; and be led the flock far away into the desert, and came to the moun- tain of God, to Horeb. 2 And an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a thorn-! bush ; and he looked, and, be- hold, the thorn-bush was burn- ing with fire, but the thorn-bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I must turn aside, and see this great sight, why the thorn-bush is not burnt. 4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the tliorn-bush, and said, Moses, Mo- ses; and he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place where- on thou standest is holy ground. 6 And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abra- ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and Moses hid his face ; for he was afraid to look up to God. 7 And the Lord said, I have truly seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard its cry by reason of its taskmasters ; yea, I know its sor- rows ; 8 And I am come down to de- liver it out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring it up out of that land unto a land, good and large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Cana’anites, and the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me : and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 And now then go, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, and thou shalt bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go un- i to Pharaoh, and that I should 79 EXODUS III. 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SHEMOTH. bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Because I will be with thee ; and this shall be unto thee the token, that I have sent thee : when thou hast broaght forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, if I come unto the chil- dren of Israel, and say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they then say to me, What is his name ? what shall I say unto them ? 14 And God said unto Moses, I WILL BE THAT I WILL BE I and he said, Thus shaft thou say un- to the children of Israel, I will be hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover un- to Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Everlasting One, the God of your fathers, the God of Abra- ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me un- to you : this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.* 16 Go, and assemble the elders of Israel, and say unto them, The Everlasting One, the God of your fathers, the God of Abra- ham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely taken cognizance of you and of that which is done to you in Egypt : 17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Cana’anites, and the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Periz- zites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 18 And they will hearken to thy voice : and thou shalt come, 80 thou and the elders of Israel* unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Ever- lasting One, the God of the He- brews hath met with us; and now let us go, we beseech thee, a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our £rod. 19 But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, unless it happen through a mighty hand. 20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof; and after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favour in the eyes of the Egyp- tians ; 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, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments ; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters ; and ye shall empty out Egypt. CHAPTER IV. 1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice ; for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thy hand? and he said, A staff. 3 And he said, Cast it on the ground; and he cast it on the ground, and it became a ser- pent; and Moses fled from be- fore it. 4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and grasp it by the tail ; and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of EXODUS IV. it, and it became a staff in his hand. 5 In order that they may be- lieve that there hath appeared unto thee the Everlasting One, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. 6 And the Lord said farther- more unto him, Do put thy hand into thy bosom : and he put his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, white as snow. 7 And he said, Put thy hand again into thy bosom : and he put his hand again into his bosom ; and when he pulled it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will be- lieve the voice of the latter sign. 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, and will not hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land : and the water which thou shalt take out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land. 10 And Moses said unto the Lord, Pardon, 0 Lord, I am not a man of words, neither yester- day, nor the day before, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant ; for I am heavy of speech, and heavy of tongue. 11 And the Lord said unto him, Who hath given a mouth to man? or who maketh him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind ? is it not I the Lord ? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak. 13 And he said, Pardon, 0 . SHEMOTH. Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wouldst send. 14 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there not Aaron, thy brother, the Levite ? 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 unto him, and put the words in his mouth : and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and I will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall speak for thee unto the people; and he shall be, yea he shall be to thee as a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as a god. 17 And this staff shalt thou take in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.* 18 And Moses went and re- turned to Jether his father-in- law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive; and Jithro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19 And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return in- to Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life. 20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt; and Moses took the staff of God in his hand. 21 And the Lord .said unto Moses, When thou goest to re- turn into Egypt, regard well all the wonders which I have put in thy hand, and do them before Pharaoh ; but I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus hath said the 81 EXODUS IV. y. 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Lord, My son, my first-born, is Israel. 23 And I said unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me ; and thou refusest to let him go : so, behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born. 24 And as he was on the jour- ney in the inn, the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. 25 Then took Zipporah a sharp instrument, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody relative art thou to me. 26 And then he withdrew from him : when she said, A bloody relative, but only in respect of the circumcision. 27 And the Lord said to Aaron, Go to meet Moses, into the wilderness; and he went and met him by the mount of God, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the el- ders of the children of Israel : 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spo- ken unto Moses; and he did the signs before the eyes of the people. 31 And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and pros- ; trated themselves.* CHAPTER V. 1 And after that Moses and i Aaron went in, and said unto i Pharaoh, Thus hath said the 1 Everlasting One, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that 1 32 they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Everlasting, whose voice I am to obey, to let Israel go ? I know not the Everlasting, nor will I let Israel go. 3 And they said, the God of the Hebrews hath met with us : let us go, we pray thee, a three days’ journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God ; lest he fall upon us with the pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, hinder the people from their works ? get you unto your own affairs. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye disturb them in the pursuit of their labours. 6 And Pharaoh commanded on the same day the taskmasters of the people, and its officers, saying, 7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make the bricks, as yesterday and the day before ; they themselves shall go and gather themselves straw. 8 And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall impose upon them, ye shall not diminish aught thereof ; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9 Let the work be made to lie heavily upon the men, that they may have enough to do therein ; and that they may not pay at- tention to false words. 10 And the taskmasters of the people and its officers went out, and they said to the people, say- ing, Thus hath said Pharaoh, I will not give you any straw. 1 1 Go ye, get yourselves stra w from wherever ye can find it; EXODUS V. 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VAAYRAH. yet not the least shall be taken oft' from your work. 12 And the people scattered themselves abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 13 And the taskmasters were urgent, saying, Fulfil your works, every day its due portion, just as when there was straw. 14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, as these said, Wherefore have ye not ful- filled your task in making brick as heretofore, both yesterday and to-day ? 15 And the officers of the chil- dren of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Where- fore deales-t thou thus with thy servants ? 16 Straw is not given unto thy servants, and, Make bricks, say they to us : and, behold, thy servants are beaten, and thy people are treated as sinners. 17 But he said, Idle are ye, idle ; therefore say ye, Let us go and sacrifice to the Loud. 18 And now go, work, and straw shall not be given you ; yet the required number of bricks shall ye deliver. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel saw them- selves in the evil necessity to say, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, every day of its task. 20 And they met Moses and Aaron, standing in their way, as they came forth from Pharaoh. 21 And they said unto them, May the Loud look upon you, and judge ; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.* I 22 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Lord, where- fore hast thou let so much evil come upon this people ? why is it that thou hast sent me ? 23 For, since I came unto Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done more evil to this people ; but thou hast in nowise delivered thy people. CHAPTER VI. 1 Then said the Lord unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh ; for with a strong hand shall he send them away, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. Haphtorah in Isaiali xxvii. 6 to xxviii. 13, and y. 22 and 23 of xxix. The Portuguese read Jeremiah i. 1 to ii. 3. Sec. 14. VAAYRAH, n-w). 2 And God spoke unto Mo- ses, and said unto him, I am the Lord : 3 And I appeared unto Abra- ham, unto Isaac, and unto Ja- cob, by the name of God, the Almighty; but by my name The Eternal was I not made known to them. 4 And as I did also establish my covenant with them, to give unto them the land of Cana’an, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they sojourned : 5 So have I also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians compel to labour; and 1 have remembered my covenant. 6 Therefore say unto the chil- dren of Israel/I am the Eternal, and will bring you out from un- der the burdens of the Egyp- tians, and I will release you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments * 83 EXODUS VI. VA AYR A II. 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you for a God ; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, who bringeth you out from un- der the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in un- to the land, concerning which I did lift up my hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Ja- cob ; and I will give it you for an heritage : I am the Lord. 9 And Moses spoke thus unto the children of Israel : but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. 10 And the Lord spoke un- to Moses, saying, 1 i Go in, speak unto Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, that be shall let the children of Israel go out of his land. 12 And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me : how then shall Pharaoh hear me, whereas I am of uncircumcised lips ? 13 And the Lord spoke un- to Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. * 14 These are the heads of their family divisions : The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Chanoch, and Pallu, Chezron, and Carmi ; these are the fami- lies of Reuben. 15 And the sons of Simeon : Yemuel, and Yam in, and Oh ad, and Yachin, and Zochar, and Shaiil the son of the Cana’an- itish woman ; these are the fami- lies of Sitnecn. 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations : Gershon, and 84 Kehath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty and seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon : Lib- ni, and Shim/i, according to their families. 18 And the sons of Kehath : ’Amram, and Yizhar, and Che- bron, and ’Uzziel ; and the years of the life of Kehath were one hundred and thirty and three years. 19 And the sons of Merari : Machli and Mushi; these are the families of Levi according to their generations. 20 And ’Amram took himself Yochebed his aunt for wife ; and she bore unto him Aaron [Aha- ron] and Moses; and the years of the life of ’Amram were one hundred and thirty and seven years. 21 And the sons of Yizhar: Korach, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And the sons of ’Uzzicl: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23 And Aaron took himself Elisheba’, daughter of ’Ammi- nadab, sister of Nachshon, for wife; and she bore unto him Nadab, and Abihu, ETazar, and Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korach : Assir, and Elkanah, and Abias- saph ; these are the families of the Korchites. 25 And El’azar the son of Aaron took himself one of the daughters of Putiel for wife ; and she bore unto him Phinehas [Pinechass]: these are the heads of the divisions of the Levites according to their families. 26 These are Aaron and Mo- ses, to whom the Lord said, Bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt accord- ing to their armies. EXODUS VI. VII. VAAYRAH. 27 These are they that spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt: these are Moses and Aaron. 28 And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spoke unto Moses in the land of Egypt.* 29 % Then spoke the Lord unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord ; speak thou unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee. 30 And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncir- cumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me? CHAPTER VII. 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh ; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I shall command thee ; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send away the children of Israel out of his land. 3 And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 And Pharaoh will not hear- ken unto you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by means of great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth my hand over Egypt, and bring out the chil- dren of Israel from the midst of them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did so ; as the Lord commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty and three years old, when they spoke untc Pharaoh.* 8 And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 9 If Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for yourselves : then shalt thou say unto Aaron, Take thy staff and cast it down before Pharaoh ; it shall become a serpent. 10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had commanded ; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a ser- pent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorce- rers ; and they also, the magi- cians of Egypt, did with their secret arts in like manner. 12 And they cast down every man his staff, and they became serpents ; but Aaron’s staff swal- lowed up their staves. 13 But the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken. 14 And the Lord said untc Moses, The heart of Pharaoh is obdurate, he refuseth to let the people go. 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water ; and thou shalt place thyself opposite to him by the brink of the river; and the staff which was turned to a ser- pent shalt thou take in thy hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him, The Eternal, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me untc thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness : and, behold, thou wouldst not hear, up to this time. 17 Thus hath said the Lord, By this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I will 85 EXODUS VII. 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VAAYRAH. smite with the staff that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loath to drink water from the river. 19 *[ And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy staff, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, and over their ponds, and over all their pools of water, that they become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, also in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord had commanded ; and he lifted up (his hand) with the staff, and smote the waters that were in the river, before the eyes of Pharaoh, and before the eyes of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood. 21 And the fish that was in the river died ; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 And the magicians of Egypt did so with their secret arts : and the heart of Pharaoh remained hardened, and he did not hearken unto them; as the Lord had spoken. 23 And Pharaoh turned away and went into his house, and he did not set his heart to this thing also. 24 And all the Egyptians dug in the neighbourhood of the river for water to drink ; for they could not drink of the water of the river. 25 And full seven days elapsed, 86 after that the Lord had smitten the river. 26 *[ And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus hath said the Lord, Let my people g#, that they may serve me. 27 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite ah thy borders with frogs : 28 And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, and they shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy sleeping- chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thy ovens, and into thy knead- ing-troughs ; 29 And upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy ser- vants, shall the frogs come up. CHAPTER VIII. 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy hqpd with thy staff over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause the frogs to come up over the land of Egypt. 2 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 3 And the magicians did so with their secret arts, and brought up the frogs over the land of Egypt. 4 Then did Pharaoh call for Moses and Aaron, and said, En- treat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people ; and I will lot the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the Lord. 5 And Moses said unto Pha- raoh, Arrogate thyself glory over me : for what time shall I en- treat for thee, and for thy ser- vants, and for fhy people, to de- EXODUS VIII. VAAYRAH. stroy the frogs from thee and from thy houses, that they may remain in the river only ? 6 And he said, For to-mor- row ; and he said, Be it accord- ing to thy word ; in order that *hou mayest know that there is uone like unto the Lord our God, 7 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people ; only in the river shall they remain. 8 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh ; and Moses cried unto the Lord on account of the frogs which he had in- flicted on Pharaoh. 9 And the Lord did according to the word of Moses ; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of fhe fields. 10 And they gathered them together in many heaps; and the land stank. 11 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hard- ened his heart, and hearkened not unto them : as the Lord had spoken. 12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy staff, and smite the dust of the earth, and it shall become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 13 And they did so ; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and smote the dust of the earth, and the lice were thus on man, and on beast ; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 14 And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring Torth the lice, but they could not : so were the lice upon man [ and upon beast. 15 Then said the magicians unto Pharaoh, This is a finger of God; but Pharaoh’s heart re- mained hardened, and he heark- ened not unto them : as the Lord had spoken. 16 And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and place thyself be- fore Pharaoh ; lo, he goeth forth to the water ; and say unto him, Thus hath said the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 17 For if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send against thee, and against thy servants, and against thy people, and into thy houses various wild beasts : and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of the wild beasts, and also the ground whereon they dwell. 18 And I will distinguish on that day the land of Goshen, in which my people abideth, so that no wild beasts shall be there ; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth. * 1 9 And I will put a distinction between my people and thy people; to-morrow shall this sign be. 20 And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous multitude of beasts into the house of Pha- raoh, and into the house of his servants; and in all the land of Egypt, the land was laid waste by reason of the wild beasts. 21 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your Gid in the land. 22 And Moses said, It is not proper to do so ; for the abomi- nation of the Egyptians must wo sacrifice to the Eternal our God: jlo, if we should sacrifice the abo- Imination of the Egyptians be- 87 EXODUS VIII. IX. VAAYRAH. fore their eyes, would they not stone us ? 23 A three days’ journey will we go into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he may say unto us. 24 And Pharaoh said, J will surely let 3 7 ou go, that ye may sacrifice to the Eternal your God in the wilderness ; only do Kot go very far away : entreat for me. 25 And Moses said, Behold, I am going out from thee, and I will entreat the Lord, and the wild beasts shall depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceit- fully any more, so as not to let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord. 26 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord. 27 And the Lord did accord- ing to the word of Moses ; and he removed the wild beasts from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people ; there remained not one. 28 But Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, and he did not let the people go. CHAPTER IX. 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and speak to him, Thus hath said the Eternal, the God of the 'He- brews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 For if thou refusest to let them go, and still holdest on to them, 3 Behold, the hand of the Lord will be sent against thy cattle which is in the field, against the horses, against the asses, against the camels, against the oxen, and against the sheep; — a very grievous pestilence. 4 And the Lord will distin- 8.8 guish between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and not one head shall die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel. 5 And the Lord appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow will the Lord do this thing in the land. 6 And the Lord did this thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died ; but of the cattle of the children of Israel there died not one. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and, be- hold, there had not died of the cattle of the Israelites even one ; but the heart of Pharaoh re- mained hardened, and he did not let the people go. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take unto yourselves your hands full of soot of the furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward be- fore the eyes of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall become upon man and beast an inflammation, produc- ing boils, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 And they took the soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh ; and Moses threw it up heavenward ; and it became an inflammation, producing boils upon man, and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the inflammation; for the in- flammation was upon the magi- cians, and upon all the Egyp- tians. 12 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them ; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses. 13 And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and place thyself be- EXODUS IX. fore Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus hath said the Eternal, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14 Eor at this time I send all my plagues against thy heart, and against thy servants, and against thy people; in order that thou mayest know that there is none like me on all the earth. 15 For even now I might have stretched out my hand, and I might have smitten thee and thy people with the pestilence; and thou wouldst have been cut off from the earth ; 16 But for this cause have I allowed thee to remain, in order to show thee my power; and in order that they may ' proclaim my name throughout all the earth.* 17 If thou dost yet wantonly oppress my people, so as not to let them go : 18 Behold, then will I let rain, about this time to-morrow, a very grievous hail, the like of which hath not been in Egypt since the day of its foundation even until now. 19 And now send, and bring under shelter thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field ; (for) every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought into the house, upon them shall the hail come down, and they shall die. 20 He that feared the word of the L)ro among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses : 21 And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand 8 * Y A AYR AH. toward heaven, and there shall be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, in the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his staff toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran down to the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 And there was hail, and fire was flaming up amidst the hail, very grievous, the like of which had not been in all the land of Egypt, since it had be- come a nation. 25 And the hail smote through- out all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and every herb of the field did the hail smite, and every tree of the field did it break. 26 Only in the land of Go- shen, where the children of Is- rael were, there was no hail. 27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and he said unto them, I have sinned this time; the Eternal is the righteous, and I and my people are the wicked. 28 Entreat the Lord that there may be no more of the thunders of God, and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall no longer stay 'here. 29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands unto the Lord : the thunders shall cease, and the hail shall not be any more ; in order that thou mayest know how that to the Lord belongeth the earth. 30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye are not yet afraid before the Lord God. 31 And the flax and the bar- ley were smitten ; for the barley 89 D 2 EXODUS IX. X. BO. was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. 32 But the wheat and the millet were not smitten ; for they are late-ripening.*** 33 And Moses went away from Pharaoh out of the city, and spread out his hands unto the Lord : and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured out upon the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sin- ned yet farther, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh remained hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go; as the Lord had spoken by the hand of Moses. Haphtorah in Ezekiel xxviii. 25 to xxix. 21. Sec. 15. BO, CHAPTER X. 1 ^ And the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, in order that I might display these my signs in the midst of them : 2 And in order that thou may- est tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, the wonders which I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have shown among them ; and ye shall know how that I am the Lord. 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus hath said the Eternal, the God of the Hebrews, How long yet wilt thou refuse to hum- ble thyself before me? let my peo- ple go, that they may serve me. 4 For, if thou refusest to let my people go, behold, I w*ill bring to-morrow locusts into thy*, boundary. 90 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the earth ; and they shall eat the residue of that which escaped, which hath been left unto you from the hail, and they shall eat off every tree which groweth for you out of the field: 6 And t!;y houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians shall be full of them; such as neither thy fathers, nor thy fa- thers’ fathers have seen, since the day of their being upon the earth, until this day ; and he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh. 7 And the servants of Pharaoh said unto him, How long shall this man be unto us for a snare ? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God : know- est thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed ? 8 And Moses was brought back with Aaron unto Pharaoh ; and he said unto them, Go ye, serve the Lord your God ; who all are they that shall go ? 9 And Moses said, With our young and with our old will we go ; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we are to hold a feast unto the Lord. 10 And he said unto them, So be the Lord with you, as I will let you go, together with your little ones : look, surely your in- tentions are evil. 11 Not so; go now ye men, and serve the Lord, for this you desire : and they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.* 12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over j the land of Egypt for the locusts, land they shall come up over the EXODUS } land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the earth, all that the hail hath left. 13 And Moses stretched forth his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord urged an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; when it was morn- ing, the east wind bore along the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the boundaries of Egypt ; in very large masses ; before them there were no such locusts as they, and after them there will not be any such. 15 And they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the earth was darkened ; and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there was not left any green thing on the trees, or on the herbs of the field, throughout all the land of Egypt. 16 Then made Pharaoh haste to call for Moses and Aaron ; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 And now forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me only this death. 18 And he went out from Pha- raoh, and entreated the Lord. 19 And the Lord turned a very strong west wind, which bore away the locusts, and cast them into the Red Sea; there was not left one locust in all the boundary of Egypt. 20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he did not let the children of Israel go. 21 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand to- ward heaven, and there shall be :. xi. bo. darkness over the land of Egypt, and it shall be a darkness of the night. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven ; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 23 They saw not one another, neither did they rise, any one from his place, for three days ; but for all the children of Israel there was light in their dwell- ings.* 24 And Pharaoh called for Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord ; only your flocks and your herds shall remain behind : also your little ones may go with you. 25 And Moses said, Even thou also must give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice (them) un- to the Eternal, our God. 26 And also our cattle must go with us, there shall not be left behind a single hoof, for thereof jnust we take to serve the Lord our God ; and we cannot know with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thit-her. 27 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. 28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee away from me ; take heed to thyself, see my face no more ; for on the day thou seest my face thou shalt die. 29 And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will not see thy face again any more. CHAPTER XI. 1 *[ And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt ; after that he will let you go hence : when he doth let you go, he shall surely thrust you out altogether from here. 2 Speak now in the ears of the 91 EXODUS XI. XII. BO. people and let them ask every j man of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold. 3 And the Lord gave the peo- ple favour in the eyes of the Egyptians ; also the man Moses was very great in the land of Egv pt, in the eyes of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the eyes of the people.*' 4 And Moses said, Thus hath said the Lord, About mid- night will I go out in the midst of Egypt: 5 And there shall die every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that is to sit upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill ; and every first-born of cattle. 6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, the like of which hath never been, and the like of which will not be any more. 7 But against any of the chil- dren of Israel not a dog shall move his tongue, neither against man nor beast ; in order that ye may know how that the Lord doth distinguish between the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow themselves down unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the pe )ple that followeth thee ; and after that I will go out : and he went out from Pharaoh in a burn- ing anger. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken unto you ; in order that my won- ders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pha- raoh ; and the Lord hardened I 92 | Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land. CHAPTER XII. 1 *[[ And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the chief of months : the first shall it be unto you of the months of the year. 3 Speak ye unto all the con- gregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth day of this month they shall take to themselves every man a lamb for every family, a lamb for every house: 4 And if the household be too small for a lamb, then shall he take it with his neighbour who is next unto his house, according to the number of the souls; every man according to what he eateth shall ye make a count for the lamb. 5 A lamb without blemish, a male of the first year shall ye have; from the sheep, or from the goats may ye take it. 6 And ye shall have it in keep- ing until the fourteenth day of the same month ; and then the whole assembly of the congrega. tion of Israel shall kill it toward evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side- posts and on the upper door-post, in the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted by the fire, with unleavened bread; together with bitter herbs shall they eat it 9 You shall not eat of it raw, nor in any wise sodden with water; but roasted by the fire; its head with its legs, and with its entrails. I 10 And ye shall not let any EXODUS thing of it* remain until morn- ing ; and that which remaineth of it until morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it, With your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand ; and ye shall eat it in haste, it is passover unto the Lord. 12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt in this night, and I will smite every first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt will I execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 And the blood -shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are ; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you ; and there shall be no plague against you to destroy, when I smite (others) in the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial : and ye shall celebrate it as a feast unto the Lord : throughout your genera- tions, as an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it. 15 Seven days shall ye eat un- leavened bread ; but on the first day ye shall have put away lea- ven out of your houses ; for who- soever eateth leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day. 16 And on the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you : no manner of work shall be done on them, save what is eaten by every man, that only may be prepared by you. 17 And ye shall observe the unleavened bread ; for on this selfsame day have I brought forth your armies out of the land XII. 130. of Egypt; therefore shall ye ob- serve this day in your genera- tions as an ordinance for ever. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, shall ye eat unleavened bread, until the one and twen- tieth day of the month at even- ing. 19 Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off* from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or one born in the land. 20 Nothing that is leavened shall ye eat; in all your habita- tions shall ye eat unleavened bread. 21 And Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said un- to them, Draw out and take for yourselves lambs according to your families, and kill the pass- over sacrifice. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the ba- sin ; and none of you shall go out from the door of his house until the morning. 23 And the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians ; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite. 24 And ye shall observe this thing, as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come into the land which the Lord will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 2-6 And it shall come to pass, 93 EXODUS when your children shall say un-| to you, What mean ye by this service ? 27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the passover unto the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyp- tians, and our houses he spared; and the people bent the head and bowed themselves. 28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron : so did they.* 29 ^ And it came to pass at midnight, that the Lord smote every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that -was to sit on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his ser- vants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not some one dead. 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel ; and go, serve the Eternal, as ye have spoken. 32 Also your flocks and your herds take, as ye have spoken, and be gone ; and bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to make haste to send them away out of the land ; for they said, We are all dying. 34 And the people took up their dough before it was yet < leavened, their kneading-troughs i being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 94 XII. BO. ■| 35 And the children of Israel > had done according to the word of Moses ; and they had asked s of the Egyptians vessels of sil- s ver, and vessels of gold, and gar- ; ments. 36 And the Lord had given the people favour in the eyes of ; the Egyptians, so that they gave . unto them what they required; and they emptied out Egypt. 37 And the children of Is- rael journeyed from Ra’meses to Succoth, about six hundred thou- sand men on foot, beside chil- ) dren. 38 And a mixed multitude also went up with them ; and flocks, and herds, a very large amount r of cattle. 39 And they baked of the dough, which they had brought forth out of Egypt, unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, nei- ther had they prepared any pro- visions for themselves. 40 Now r the time of the resi- dence of the children of Israel, which they dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, and it happened even on the selfsame day, that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 42 A night to be observed was this unto the Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt : this is that night holy to the Lord, to be observed by all the chil- dren of Israel in their genera- tions. 43 And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: No stranger shall eat thereof. 44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, whec EXODUS XII. XIII. BO. thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45 A resident foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat there- of. 46 In one house shall it be eaten ; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house ; and no bone shall ye break in it. 47 All the congregation of Is- rael shall prepare it. 48 And when a stranger so- journeth with thee, and will pre- pare the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and prepare it, and he shall be as one that is born in the land ; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 50 And all the children of Is- rael did so : as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 51 And it came to pass on the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.* CHAPTER XIII. 1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast : it is mine. 3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, on which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from here : and no leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 This day go ye out, in the .month of Abib. 5 And it shall be, when th6 Lord doth bring thee into the land of the Cana’anites, and the Hittites, and the Einorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he hath sworn unto thy fathers to give unto thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt perform this ser- vice in this month. 6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and on Oie seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten these seven days ; and there shall not be seen with thee any leavened bread, neither shall there be seen with thee any lea- ven in all thy boundaries. 8 And thou shalt tell thy son on that day, saying, This is done for the sake of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be unto thee for a sign upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thy eyes, in order that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee forth out of Egypt. 10 And thou shalt keep this ordinance in its season, from year to year. 11 And it shall be, when the Lord doth bring thee into the land of the Cana’anites, as he hath sworn unto thee and to thy fathers, and giveth it to thee, 12 That thou shalt set apart all that openeth the womb unto the Lord ; and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou shalt have, the males, shall belong to the Lord. 13 And every firstling of an ass shalt thou redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not re- 95 EXODCJS XIII. XIV. BESHALLACH. deem it, then shalt thou break its neck : and all the first-born among thy children shalt thou redeem.* 14 And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery ; 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh obstinately refused to let us go, that the Lord slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast; therefore do I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first- born of my children must I re- deem. 16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for front- lets between thy eyes ; that by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt. Haphtorah in Jeremiah xlvi. 13 to 27. Sec. 16. BESHALLACH, nStto- 17 ^ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh let the people go, that God did not lead them the way through the land of the Phi- listines, because it was near ; for God said, Lest perad venture the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt. 18 But God led the people about, by the way of the wilder- ness to the Red Sea : and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had caused the children of Israel to swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall then carry 96 up my bones away hence with you. 20 And they took their jour- ney from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, at the edge of the wil- derness. 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way ; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give light to them ; that they might go by day and by night : 22 He took not away the pil- lar of cloud by day, nor the pil- lar of fire by night, from before the people. CHAPTER XIV. 1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hachiroth, be- tween Migdol and the sea; in front of Ba’al-zephon ; opposite to this shall ye encamp by the sea. 3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are en- tangled in the land, the wilder- ness hath shut them in. 4 And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, that he shall follow after them ; and I will get myself honour on Pharaoh, and on all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord ; and they did so. 5 And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled ; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed with respect to the people, and they said, What is this whLh we have done, that we have let Is- rael go from serving us ? 6 And he made ready his cha- riot, and took his people with him. 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the cha EXODUS XIV. riots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; and the chil- dren of Israel went out with a Ligh hand.* 9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, and they overtook them encamping by the sea, all the horses and chariots of Pha- raoh, and his horsemen, and his army, beside Pi-hachiroth, be- fore Ba/al-zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they were greatly afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord. 1 1 And they said unto Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, that thou hast taken us away to die in the wilderness ? what is this which thou hast done to us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians ? for it is better for us to serve the Egyp- tians than that we should die in the wilderness. 13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will do for you to-day; for as ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall not see them again any more for ever. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.* 15 And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou un- to me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward ; 16 But do thou lifi up thy 9 j BESHALLACH. staff, and stretch out thy han^ over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17 And I, behold, I will hard- en the heart of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them : and I will get myself honour on Pha- raoh, and on all his host, on his chariots, and on his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have got myself honour on Pharaoh, on his chariots, and on his horsemen. 19 And the angel of God, that went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them ; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood be- hind them ; 20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness (to the first), but it gave light by night (to these) : and the one came not near unto the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the Lord drove back the sea with a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them, on their right hand, and on their left, 23 And the Egyptians pur- sued, and went in after them, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen, to the midst of the sea. 24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that the Lord looked unto the camp of the Egyptians with the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and brought J 97 EXODUS XIV. 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BESHALLACH. into confusion the camp of the Egyptians; 25 And he took off the wheels of their chariots, and caused them to move onward with diffi- culty; and the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Is- rael; for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.* 26 And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, and the waters shall return over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned, when the morning appeared, to its strength ; while the Egyptians were fleeing against it : and the Lord over- threw the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, with all the host of Pharaoh that came after them into the sea : there remained of them not even one. 29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry ground in the midst of the sea; and the waters were unto them a wall on their right hand, and on their left. 30 Thus the Lord saved Israel on that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore of the sea. 31 And Israel saw that great power which the Lord had shown on the Egyptians: and the peo- ple feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord, and in Moses his servant. CHAPTER XV. 1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and thus did they say, I will sing unto the Lord, for he 98 hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 2 My strength and song is the Lord, and he is become ray sal- vation : he is my God, and [ will declare his praise, the God ol my father, and I will exalt him. 3 The Eternal is the lord of war: the Eternal is his name. 4 The chariots of Pharaoh and his host hath he hurled into the sea ; and the chosen of his cap- tains are sunk in the Red Sea. 5 The depths have covered them : they went down to the bottom as a stone. 6 Thy right hand, 0 Lord, is become glorious in power : thy right hand, 0 Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the greatness of thy excellency hast thou overthrown those that rose up against thee : thou didst send forth thy wrath, it consumed them as stubble. 8 And with the breath of thy nostrils the waters were heaped up together, the floods stood up- right as a wall ; congealed were the depths in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy, said, I will pur- sue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my desire shall be satisfied upon them ; I will dra w my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them : they sunk as lead in mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, 0 Lord, among the mighty? who is like unto thee, glorious in holi- ness, fearful in praises, doing wonders ? 12 Thou didst stretch out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 Thou leadest forth in thy kindness the people thou hast redeemed ; thou guidest it in thy EXODUS XV. 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BESHALLACH. strength unto the habitation of thy holiness. 14 Nations hear it and trem- ble : sorrow seizeth the inhabit- ants of Palestine. 15 Then were troubled the dukes of Edom; the mighty men of Moab, trembling seizeth them; faint-hearted become all the in- habitants of Cana’an. 16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thy arm they shall be still as a stone : till thy people pass over, 0 Lord, till this people pass over, which thou hast pur- chased. 17 Thou wilt bring them, and plant them on the mountain of thy inheritance, the place, 0 Lord, which thou hast wrought for thy residence, the sanctuary, 0 Lord, which thy hands have established. 18 The Lord will reign for ever and ever. 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel went on dry ground through the midst of the sea. 20 Then took Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam began her song to them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 22 And Moses caused Israel to depart from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. 23 And they came to Marah;! but they could not drink the wa- ters of Marah, for they were • bitter ; therefore they called its name Marah. 24 And the people murmured s against Moses, saying, What shall we drink ? 25 And he cried unto the Lord ; and the Lord showed him a tree, which he cast into the waters, and the waters were made sweet: i there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he : 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 eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and wilt keep all his statutes: I will put none of those diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyp- tians ; for I the Lord am thy physician.* 27 And they came to Elim, and there were twelve wells of water, and seventy palm-trees: and they encamped there by the water. CHAPTER XVI. 1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congre- gation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing cut of the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel mur- mured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness : 3 And the children of Israel said unto them, W r ould to God that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pot, when we ate bread to the full ; I for ye have brought us forth into 99 EXODUS XVI. this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. 4 f Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will let rain for you bread from heaven; and the people shall go out and gather a certain portion every day, in order that I may prove it, whether it will walk in my law, or not. 5 And it shall come to pass, on the sixth day, when they prepare what they shall have brought in, that it shall be twice as much as they shall gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At evening, then shall ye know that it is the Lord who hath brought you out from the land of Egypt : 7 And in the morning, then shall ye see the glory of the. Lord ; since he heareth your murmurings against the Lord; and what are we, that ye should murmur against us? 8 And Moses said, When the Lord giveth you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to the full ; since the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him : — what are we then ? not against us are your murmurings, but against the Lord. 9 And Moses said unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord ; for he hath heard your murmurings. 10 And it came to pass, as Aaron was speaking unto the whole congregation of the chil- dren of Israel, that they turned round toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.* 11 And the Lord spoke un- to Moses, saying, 12 1 have heard the murrnur- 10U BESHALLACH. ings of the children of Israeli speak unto them, saying, To- ward evening ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and yp shall know that I am the Eternal your God. 13 And it came to pass, that at evening the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew' round about the camp. 14 And when the layer of dew was gone up, behold, there was upon the face of the wilderness something fine in grains, small as the hoar-frost, on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna, for they knew not what it was; and Mo- ses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating; an ’omer for every head, according to the number of your persons that every man hath in his tent, shall ye take. 17 And the children of Israel did so ; and they gathered, some much, some little. 18 And when they measured it with an ’omer, he that had gathered much had nothing over, and he that had gathered little had no lack : every man accord- ing to his eating, had they ga- thered. 19 And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the inornin/. 20 But they hearkened not unto Moses; but some men left of it until morning, and it bred worms, and stank; and Moses was wroth with them. 21 And so they gathered it every morning, every man ac- EXODUS XVI. XVII. BESHALLACII. cording to liis eating ; and when the sun waxed hot, it melted. 22 And it came to pass on the sixth day, that they gathered twofold bread, two 'omers for every one; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told it to M'oses. 23 And he said unto them, This is what the Lord hath spo- ken, A rest, a holy rest is unto the Lord to-morrow : that which ye will bake bake to-day, and what ye will seethe seethe to- day ; and all the remainder lay up for you to be kept until the morning. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses had bidden ; and it did not stink, nor was there any worm therein. 25 And Moses said, Eat it to- day ; for a sabbath is this day unto the Lord: to-day ye will not find it in the field. 26 Six days shall ye gather it; but on the seventh day, the sabbath, on it there shall be none. 27 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather; but they found nothing. 28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws ? 29 See, that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, there- fore he giveth you on the sixth day bread for two days ; remain ye, every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. 31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna [Man] ; and it was like corian- der-seed, white, and its taste was like wafers made with honey. 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, One \>mer-full of it is to be kept for your genera- tions; in order that ye may see the bread which I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you forth out of the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a flask, and put therein an ’omer-full of manna, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations. 34 As the Lord had com- manded Moses, so did Aaron lay it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited laud ; the manna they did eat, until they came unto the borders of the land of Cana’an. 36 But the ’omer is a tenth part of an ephah.* CHAPTER XVII. 1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel jour- neyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeyings, by the order of the Lord; and they encamped in ltephidim, and there was no water for the peo- ple to drink. 2 And the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink; and Moses said unto them. Why will ye quarrel with me? why will ye tempt the Lord? 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, For what purpose is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill me and my chil- dren and my cattle with thirst ? 4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do 101 9 * EXODUS XVII. : unto this people? but little is wanting and they will stone me. 5 And the Lord said unto Moses, Pass on before the peo- ple, and take with thee some of the elders of Israel ; and thy staff, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will be standing before thee there upon the rock at Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come out from it water, and the peo- ple shall drink; and Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah; because of the quarrelling of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying* Is then the Lord among us, or not ? 8 Then came ’Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said unto Jo- shua’, Choose for us men, and go out, fight with ’Amalek; to- morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand. 10 And Joshua’ did as Moses had said to him, to fight with ’Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Chur went up to the top of the hill. 11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down hi3 hand, that ’Amalek prevailed. 12 But when the hands of Moses became heavy, they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Chur supported his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side: and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua’ discomfited i02 XVIII. YITHRO. ’Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.* 14 And the Lord said urto Moses, Write this for a memo! al in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua’; for I will utterly blot out the remembrance of ’Amalek from under the heavens. 15 And Moses built an altar, and called its name Adonay Nissy [The Lord is my Banner]. lfi And he said, Because the Lord hath sworn on his throne, that the Lord will have war with ’Amalek from generation to generation. Haphtorah in Judges iv. 4 to v. 31. The Portuguese commence at v. 1. Sec. 17. YITHRO, w. CHAPTER XVIII. 1 And Jithro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, that the Lord had brought forth Israel out of Egypt. 2 Then took Jithro, the father- in-law of Moses, Zipporah, the wife of Moses, after he had sent her back, 3 And her two sons ; of whom the name of the one was Ger- shom ; for he said, I have been a stranger in a foreign land: 4 And the name of the other was Eli’ezer; for the God of my father was my help, and deliv- ered me from the sword of Pha- raoh. 5 And Jithro, the father-in- law of Moses, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses, unto the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mount of Goa. 6 And he sent word unto Mo- ses, I thy father-in-law Jithrc am coming unto thee, with thy wife, and her two sous with her. EXODUS XVIII. YITIIRO. 7 And Moses went out to meet j his father-in-law, and bowed ] himself, and kissed him; and < they asked each other after their welfare; and they went into tho < ten t. < 8 And Moses told his father- < in-law all which the Lord had i done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians on account of Israel; ! all the hardship which had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. 9 And Jithro rejoiced over all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, that he had delivered it out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 And Jithro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyp- tians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the Eter- nal is great above all gods; for by the very thing wherein they sinned presumptuously was pu- nishment brought upon them. 12 And Jithro, the father-in- law of Moses, offered a burnt- offering and sacrifices unto God ; and Aaron came, with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread w T ith the father-in-law of Moses, before God.* 13 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people ; and the people stood around Moses from the morning unto the evening. 14 And the father-in-law of Moses saw all that he did to the people: and he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people ? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand- eth around thee from morning until evening? 15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the peo- ple cometh unto me to inquire of God. 16 When they have a matter of dispute, they come unto me ; and I judge between one and the other, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 17 And the father-in-law of Moses said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 18 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this peo- ple that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee; thou wilt not be able to perform it by thyself alone. 19 Now hearken unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and may God be with thee, Be thou for the people a mediator with God, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God. 20 And thou shalt explain to them the statutes and the laws; and thou shalt make them know the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover, thou shalt select out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating (their own) gain; and place these over them, as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 22 And let them judge the people at all times ; and it shall i be, that every great matter they : shall bring unto thee, but every . small matter they shall judge ; themselves: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shall bear with thee. ! 23 If thou wilt do this thing, ; and God commandeth it thee, s then wilt thou be able to endure; .and also the whole of this people will come to its place in peace.* ; 24 And Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, > and did all that he had said. 103 EXODUS XVIII. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and placed them as Leads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26 And they judged the peo- ple at all times; any difficult cause they brought unto Moses, but every small cause they judged themselves. 27 And Moses dismissed his father-in-law; and he went his way unto his own land.* CHAPTER XIX. 1 ®f[ In the third month, after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they had departed from Rephidim, and they came to the desert of Sinai, and encamped in the wilderness; and Israel encamped there opposite the mount. 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him from the mount, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel : 4 Ye have yourselves seen what I have done unto the Egyp- tians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine : 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation; these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before them all the?e words 104 XIX. YITHRO. which the Lord had commanded him. 8 And all the people answered unanimously, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken wi.l we do; and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, I will come unto thee in a thick cloud, for the sake that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and that also in thee they shall be- lieve for ever : and Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord. 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to- morrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And they shall be ready against the third day ; for on the third day will the Lord come down, before the eyes of all the people, upon Mount Sinai. 12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people, round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, nor touch the border of it; who- soever toucheth the mount shall surely be put to death. 13 Yet not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whe- ther it be beast or man, it shall not live; when the trumpet soundeth long, they may come up to the mount. 14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people: and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day; approach not unto a woman. 16 And it came to pass on the third day when it was morning, EXODUS XIX. that there were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud was upon the mount, and the voice of the cornet was exceed- ingly loud; so that all the peo- ple that were in the camp trem- hled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they placed themselves at the foot of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai smoked in every part, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And the voice of the cor- net went on, and waxed louder and louder : Moses spoke, and God answered him with a loud voice.* 20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount ; and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up. 21 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the peo- ple, lest they break through un- to the Lord to gaze, and many of them might perish. 22 And the priests also, who come near to the Lord, shall sanctify themselves : lest the Lord break forth among them. 23 And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai ; for thou hast charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount and sanctify it. 24 And the Lord said unto him, Go, get thee down, and then shalt thou come up, thou, and Aaron with thee ; but the priests and the people shall not break through to come unto the Lord, lest he break forth among them. 25 So Moses went down unto ihe people, and spoke unto them. 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CHAPTER XX. 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out r i the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not bow thyself down 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 gene- ration of them that hate me ; 6 And showing kindness unto the thousandth generation of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8 ^f Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God: on it thou shalt not do any work, neither 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 ; 11 For in six days the Lort made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12 Honour thy father and thy mother; in order that thy EXODUS XX. XXL MISHPAHTIM. days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adul- tery. Thou shalt not steal. 5[ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 14 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his man- servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. * 15 And all the people per- ceived the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the cornet, and the mount smok- ing ; and when the people saw it, they removed trembling, and stood afar off. 16 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear ; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 17 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not ; for in order to prove you, did God come, and in order that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 18 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.* 19 And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that from heaven I have spoken with you. 20 Ye shall not make any Ihing with me : gods of silver, and gods of gold ye shall not make unto yourselves. 21 An altar of earth shalt thou make unto me, and shalt sacri- fice thereon thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thyj sheep, and thy oxen: in every I place where I shall permit my I 106 name to be mentioned, I will •come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 22 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 23 Neither shalt thou go up by steps upon my altar, that thy nakedness be not laid open thereon. Haphtorah in Isaiah vi. 1 to 13. The Germans read to vii. 6, and add ix. 5 and 6. Sec. 18. MISHPAHTIM, Q'tocro. CHAPTER XXL 1 And these are the laws of justice which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy a Hebrew ser- vant, six years shall he serve ; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he was the husband of a woman, then shall his wife go out with him. 4 If his master should give him a wife, and she bear him sons and daughters : the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out by himself. 5 And if the servant should plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children ; I will not go out free : 6 Then shall his master bring him unto the judges, and he shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post ; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl ; and he shall serve him | till the jubilee. I 7 And if a man sell his I daughter for a maid-servant, she EXODUS XXL shall not go out as the men-ser- vants go out. 8 If she please not her master, to whom he hath assigned her, then shall he aid her to be re- deemed ; unto a strange nation he shall have no power to sell her, seeing he hath dealt faith- lessly with her. 9 And if he should assign her unto his son, then shall he do unto her after the right of the daughters. 10 If he take himself another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 11 And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free, without money. 12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death. 13 And if he did not lie in wait, but God let it come into his hand, then will I appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come pre- sumptuously upon his neigh- bour, to slay him with guile, from my altar shalt thou take him, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, and he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 18 And if men strive to- gether, and one smite the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but keepeth his be 1 : 19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his crutch, then shall he that smote hbri be Quit ; only he shall pay for < of MISIIPAHTIM. his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.**' 20 ^ And if a man smite his servant or his maid, with a rod, and he die under bis hand, it shall be surely avenged. 21 Nevertheless, if he con- tinue alive a day or two, it shall not be avenged; for he is his money. 22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her children depart from her, and yet no farther mischief follow : he shall be surely punished (with a fine), according as the husband of the woman will lay upon him; and he shall pay this by the de- cision of the judges. 23 And if any mischief fol- low, then shalt thou give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. 26 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish, he shall let him go free for the sake of his eye. 27 And if he strike out his man-servant’s tooth, or his maid- servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for the sake of his tooth. 28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he die : then shall the ox be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 29 But if the ox were wont to gore in time past, and warning have been given to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, and he killeth a man or a woman : the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also should of right be put to death ; 30 But there shall be laid on him a sum of money in atone- 107 EXODUS XXL XXII. MISHPAHTIM. ment, and he shall give the ran- som of his life whatsoever may be laid upon him. 31 If he gore a son, or gore a daughter, according to this judg- ment shall be done unto him. 32 If the ox gore a man-ser- vant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall he give to bis master, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 And if a man open a pit, or if a man dig a pit, and do not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein : 34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, he shall make re- stitution in money unto the owner thereof ; and the dead beast shall be his. 35 *[[ And if one man’s ox hurt the ox of another, that he die : then shall they sell the live ox, and divide his money; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 36 But if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in : he shall surely pay ox for ox ; and the dead shall belong to him. 37 ^ If a man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it: five oxen shall he restore for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep. CHAPTER XXII. 1 Ip a thief be found while breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 2 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him ; he shall make full re- stitution; if he have nothing, then shall he be sold for his theft. 3 If the thing stolen be actu- ally found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.* 108 4 If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten off, and he let his beasts enter, and they feed in another man’s field : with the best of his own field, and with best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 5 If a fire break out, and meet with thorns, so that stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed thereby : he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 6 ^f If a man do deliver unto his neighbour money or ves- sels to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house : if the thief be found, he shall pay double. 7 If the thief be not found, then shall the master of the house be brought unto the judges, (to swear) that he have not stretched out his hand against his neigh- bour’s goods. 8 For all manner of trespass, for ox, for ass, for lamb, for rai- ment, or for .any manner of lost thing, of which he can say, This is it, before the judges shall come the cause of both parties, and he, whom the judges may condemn, shall pay double unto his neigh- bour. 9 f If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a lamb, or any beast to keep ; and it die, or be hurt, or driven aw a} 7 , no man seeing it : 10 Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he have not stretched out his hand against his neighbour’s goods ; and the owner of it shall accept this, and he shall not make it good. 11 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 12 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it as evidence ; that EXODUS XXII. 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MISHPAHTIM. which was torn he shall not make good. 13 % And if a man borrow aught of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner there- of not being with it, he shall surely make it good. 14 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good : if it be a hired thing, the loss is included in its hire. 15 And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely en- dow her to be his wife. 16 If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of vir- gins. 17 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 18 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 19 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto t.»e Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed. 20 And a stranger thou shalt not vex, and shalt not oppress him ; for strangers ye were in the land of Egypt. 21 Ye shall not afflict any wi- dow, or fatherless child. 22 If thou afflict him in any wise ; (for if he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry:) 23 My wrath shall wax hot, and I will slay you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fa- therless. 24 If thou lend money to my people, to the poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a lender of money; thou shalt not lay upon him usury. 25 If thou take at all thy neighbour’s raiment in pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by the time the sun goeth down ; 26 For it is his only covering, 10 it is his raiment for his skin ; wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear : for I am gracious.* 27 If The judges thou shalt not revile; and a ruler among thy people thou shalt not curse. 28 The first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors, shalt thou not delay to offer; the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 29 In like manner shalt thou do with thy ox, with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with its dam ; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 30 And holy men shall ye be unto me : and flesh that is torn of beasts in the field, shall ye not eat; to the dogs shall ye cast it. CHAPTER XXIII. 1 Thou shalt not receive a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an un- righteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause, to incline after many, to wrest judgment. 3 Neither shalt thou counte- nance a poor man in his cause. 4 ^f If thou meet thy 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 wouldst forbear to unload him, (thou must not do so, but) thou shalt surely unload with him.* 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 7 Keep thyself far from a false speech; and him who hath been 109 EXODUS XXIII. declared innocent and righteous thou shalt not slay; for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no bribe; for the bribe blindeth the clear-sighted, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know well the spirit of the stranger, seeing ye yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 And six years shalt thou sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof; 11 But the seventh year shalt thou let it rest and lie still; that the needy of thy people may eat (of it); and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat : in like manner shalt thou deal with thy vineyard, and wit*? thy olive-tree. 12 Six days shalt thou do thy work, and on the seventh day shalt thou rest; that thy ox and thy ass may repose, and the son of thy hand-maid, and the stran- ger, may be refreshed. 13 And in all things that I have said unto you be on your guard ; and of the name of other gods ye shall make no mention, it shall not be heard out of thy mouth. 14 Three times shalt thou keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month of Abib; for in it thou earnest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty. 16 And the feast of the har- vest, of the first-fruits of t^iy la- bours, which thou hast sown in thy field: and the feast of in- gathering, at the conclusion of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field. 110 MISHPAHTIM. 17 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord, the Eternal. 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leav- ened bread; neither shall the fat of my festive sacrifice remain until morning. 19 The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother’s milk.* 20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee on the way, and to bring thee unto the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, disobey him not; for he will not pardon your trans- gression, because my name is in him. 22 But if thou wilt carefully hearken to his voice, and do all that I shall speak: then will I be an enemy unto thy enemies, and afflict those that afflict thee. 23 For my angel shall go be- fore thee, and bring thee in unto the Emorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Ca- na'anites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and completely break down their statuary images. 25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will remove sickness from the midst of thee.'* 26 ^1 There shall be no one casting her children, nor a bar- ren woman, in thy land; the number of thy days will I make full. 27 My terror will I send be EXODUS XXIII. 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MISHPAHTIM. fore thee, and will bring in con- fusion all the people to which thou shalt come; and I will make all thy enemies turn their back untrNthee. 28 And I will send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hivite, the Cana’anite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multi- ply against thee. 30 Little by little will I drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased and canst pos- sess the land. 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river; for I will deliver into your hand the in- habitants of the land, and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt not make a covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me; for thou rnight- est (be led to) serve their gods, and this would surely be a snare unto thee. CHAPTER XXIV. 1 And unto Moses he said, Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and ye shall bow your- selves down afar off. 2 And Moses alone shall come near unto the Lord, but they shall not come nigh; and the people shall not go up with him. 3 And Moses came and told the people all the wmrds of the Lord, and all the laws of jus- tice; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath spo- ken will we do. 4 And Moses wrote down all the wurds of the Lord, and he rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he then sent the young men of the children of Israel, and they offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings un- to the Lord, of oxen. 6 And Moses took the half of the blood, and put it in basins; and the (other) half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hear- ing of the people ; and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken will we do and obey. 8 And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. 9 Then went up Moses, with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. 10 And they saw the God of Israel; and the place under his feet was like a paved work of brilliant sapphire, and like the colour of heaven in clearness^ 11 And against the nobles of the children of Israel he stretched not forth his hand; and they saw (the glory of) God, and did eat and drink. 12 And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me to the mount, and remain there : and I will give thee the tables of stone, with the law, and the command- ment which I have written to teach them. 13 And Moses rose up, and 111 EXODUS XXIV. XXV. THERUMAH. nis servant Joshua’; and Moses went up to the mount of God. 14 And unto the elders he said, Tarry ye for us here, until the time we come again unto you; and, behold, Aaron and Chur are with you, whoever may have any cause to be decided, let him cutne unto them. 15 And Moses went up to the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.* 16 And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and he called unto Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of tne cloud. 17 And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mount, before the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount; and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights. Uaphtorah in Jeremiah xxxiv. 8-22 and xxxiii. 25, 26. Sec. 19. THERUMAH, norm. CHAPTER XXV. 1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they may bring me an offering; from every man whose heart prompteth him thereto shall ye take my offer- ing. 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take from them: Gold, and silver, and copper, 4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and linen thread, and goats’ hair, 5 And rams’ skins died red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood, 6 Oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of spices, 7 Onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod, and for the breastplate. 8 And they shall make me a sanctuary; and I will dwell in the midst of them. 9 In accordance with all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it. 10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood : two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubic and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and with- out shalt thou overlay it; and thou shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. 12 And thou shalt cast for it four rings of gold, and put them on the four corners thereof: namely, two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. 14 And thou shalt place the staves into the rings, upon the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. 15 In the rings of the ark shall the staves remain; they shall not be removed therefrom. 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I will give unto thee.* 17 And thou shalt make a cover 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 112 EXODUS XXV. shalt thou make them, on the two ends of the cover. 19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other che- rub on the other end : from the cover itself shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof. 20 And the cherubim shall be, spreading forth their wings on high, overshadowing the cover with their wings, with their faces turned one to the other; toward the cover shall the faces of the cherubim be directed. 21 And thou shalt put the cover above upon the ark; and in the ark shalt thou put the testimony which 1 will give un- to thee. 22 And I will meet with thee there, and I will speak with thee from above the cover, from be- tween the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testi- mony, all that which I will com- mand thee unto the children of Israel. 23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim 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 there- to a crown of gold round about. 25 And thou shalt make unto it a rim of a hand’s breadth round about; and thou shalt make a golden crown on its rim round about. 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and thou shalt put the rings on the four corners that are on its four feet. 27 Close under the rim shall the rings be; as receptacles for the staves, to bear the table. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and over- lay them with gold; and the table shall be borne with them. 10 * TIIERUMAH. 29 And thou shall make its dishes, and its spoons, and its supporters, and its purifying tubes, wherewith (the bread) is to be covered : of pure gold shalt thou make them. 30 And thou shalt set upon the table show-bread before me always.'* 31 ^ And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candle- stick be made; its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be out of one piece with it. 32 And six branches shall come out of its sides : three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side. 33 Three bowls, almond-shap- ed, shall be on one branch, with a knob and a flower; and three bowls almond-shaped on the other branch, with a knob and a flower: so on the six branches that come out of the candlestick. 34 And on the candlestick it- self shall be four bowls, almond- shaped, (with) its knobs and its flowers. 35 And there shall be a knob under the two branches that come out of the same, and a knob under the two branches that come out of the same, and a knob under the two branche-* that come out of the same: for the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick. 36 Their knobs and their branches shall be out of one piece with it: all of it shall be one piece of beaten work of pure gold. 37 And thou shalt make its seven lamps; and when they llight its lamps, it shall give light | toward the body of it. e2 113 EXODUS XXV. 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THERUMAH. 38 And its tongs, and its snuff- dishes shall be of pure gold. 39 Out of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. 40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which thou wast shown on the mount.* CHAPTER XXVI. 1 The tabernacle also shalt thou make of ten curtains, of twisted linen thread, and blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, with cherubim, of weaver’s work shalt thou make them. 2 The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits : there shall be one measure for all the curtains. 3 Five of the curtains shall be coupled together, one to an- other; and the other five curtains shall be coupled, one to another. 4 And thou shalt make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain which is on the outside in the (one) coupling; and the like shalt thou make on the edge of the curtain which is the out- most in the second coupling. 5 Fifty loops shalt thou make on the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling: the loops shall be fixed opposite each other. 6 And thou shalt make fifty hooks of gold; and thou shalt couple the curtains together one unto the other with the hooks, and the tabernacle shall thus be one piece. 7 And thou shalt make cur- taips of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven cur- tains shalt thou make the same. 8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four 114 cubits; there shall be one mea- sure for the eleven curtains. 9 And thou shalt couple five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by them- selves ; and thou shalt double the sixth curtain toward the front side of the tabernacle. 10 And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is the outmost in the (one) coupling, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second coupling. 11 And thou shalt make fifty hooks of copper; and thou shalt put the hooks into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one piece. 12 And the part hanging over in the excess of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain which is over, shall hang down over the back part of the tabernacle. 13 And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side in the excess in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall be hanging down over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14 And thou shalt make a cover for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a cover of badgers’ skins above.'* 15 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of each board, and a cu- bit and a half shall be the breadth of each one board. 17 There shall be two tenons for every board, fitted in, one against the other: the like shalt thou make for all the boards of 'the tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle : twenty boards for the south side, on the j right. EXODUS XXVI. XXVII. THERUMAH. 19 And forty sockets of silver shalt thou make under the twenty j boards : two sockets under the one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under the other board for its two tenons. 20 And for the other side of the tabernacle, for the north side, there shall be twenty boards ; 21 And their forty sockets of silver: two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board. 22 And for the back wall of the tabernacle, westward, thou shalt make six boards. 23 And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the taber- nacle in the back wall. 24 And they shall be closely fitting together beneath, and they shall be closely joined to- gether on the top by means of one ring : thus shall it be for both of them ; for the two cor- ners shall they be. 25 And so they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of sil- ver, sixteen sockets : two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board. 26 And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood : five, for the boards of the one side of the ta- bernacle; 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the taberna- cle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the back wall, westward ; 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards, passing from the one end to the other end. 29 And the boards thou shalt overlay wi-th gold, and their rings thou shalt make of gold, as receptacles for the bars ; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold. 30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle, according to the fash- jion thereof, which thou hast been shown on the mount.* 31 And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen, of weavers' work shall it be made, with cherubim. 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold ; their hooks also shall be of gold ; upon four sockets of silver. 33 And thou shalt hang up the vail under the hooks ; and thou shalt bring in thither with- in the vail the ark of the testi- mony ; and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the holy of holies. 34 And thou shalt put the cover upon the ark of the testi- mony in the holy of holies. 35 And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candle- stick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle, toward the south ; and the table thou shalt put it on the north side. 36 And thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen : the work of the embroiderer. 37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, their hooks also shall be of gold ; and thou shalt cast for them five sockets of copper.* CHAPTER XXVII. 1 And thou shalt make the altar of shittim wood : five cubits long, and five cubits broad, a foursquare shall the altar be, and three cubits shall be its height. 2 And thou shalt make its horns on its four corners, from itself shall its horns be ; and thou shalt overlay it with copper. 3 And thou shalt make its pots 115 EXODUS XXVII. 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THETZAVVEH. to receive its ashes, and its sho- vels, and its basins, and its forks, and its fire-pans: all its vessels thou shalt make of copper. 4 And thou shalt make for it a grating, of a network of cop- per ; and thou shalt make ypon the net four rings of copper, on its four corners. 5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, and the net shall reach even to the half of the altar. 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with copper. 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, when they bear it. 8 Hollow, of boards, shalt thou make it : as it was shown to thee on the mount, so shall they make it.* 9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side, on the right, the hangings for the court, of twisted linen, shall be a hundred cubits in length, for the one side. 10 And its pillars shall be twenty, with their twenty sockets of copper : the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 11 And likewise for the north side in the length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits in length, and its pillars twenty with their twenty sockets of cop- per : the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver. 12 And (for) the breadth of the court on the west side shall be fifty cubits of hangings : their pillars shall be ten, and their sockets ten. 13 And the breadth of the court on the front side, east- ward, shall be fifty cubits. 14 And fifteen cubits of hang- 116 ings shall be on the one wing: their pillars shall be three and their sockets three. 1 5 And on the other wing shall be fifteen cubits of hangings: their pillars shall be. three, and their sockets three. 16 And for the gate of the court shall be a hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and pur- ple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen, the work of the embroid- erer ; w T ith four pillars for the same, and their four sockets,* 17 All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver : their hooks shall be of sil- ver, and their sockets of copper. 18 The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, of twisted linen, and the sockets for the same of copper. 19 All the vessels of the taber- nacle in all the service thereof, and all its pins, and all the pins of the court, shall be of copper. Haphtorah in 1 Kings v. 26 to vi. 13. Sec. 20. THETZAVVEH, rmn. 20 And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure olive oil, beaten out, for the lighting, to cause a light to burn always. 21 In the tabernacle of the congregation, without the vail, which is before the testimony, shall Aaron with his sons arrange it (for) from the evening to the morning, before the Lord : as a statute for ever unto their gene- rations, on behalf of the chil- dren of Israel. CHAPTER XXVIII. 1 And thou shalt let come near unto thee Aaron thy bro- EXODUS XXVIII. ther, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may be a priest unto me : Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,El’axar, and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. 2 And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for ornament. 3 And thou shalt speak unto all that are wisehearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wis- dom, that they may make gar- ments for Aaron, to sanctify him, that he may be a priest unto me. 4 And these are the garments which they shall make : A breast- plate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a checkered coat, a mitre, and a girdle ; and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy bro- ther, and for his sons, to be a priest unto me. 5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and the linen. 6 And they shall make the ephod, of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet yarn, and twisted linen, of weavers’ work. 7 Two shoulder-pieces shall it have joined at the two edges thereof ; by which it shall be joined together. 8 And the belt for girding, which is upon it, shall be of the same make, out of the same piece with itself, of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and twisted linen. 9 And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel: 10 Six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to the order of their birth. 11 With the work of an en- graver in stone, like the engrav- ing of a signet, shalt thou en- THETZAVVEH. grave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel . fitted in settings of gold shalt thou make them. 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as stones of memo- rial unto the children of Israel ; and Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.* 13 And thou shalt make casings of gold; 14 And two chains of pure gold, with knots at the ends, of wreathed work shalt thou make them, and thou shalt fasten the wreathed chains to the casings. 15 And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment, of weav- er’s work ; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it: of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, and of twisted linen, shalt thou make it. 16 Four-square shall it be, double, a span in length, and a span in breadth. 17 And thou shalt set in it set- tings of stones, even four rows of stones : the first row, a sar- dius, a topaz, and an emerald; this shall be the first row. 18 And the second row, a car- buncle, a sapphire, and a dia- mond. 1 9 And the third row, an opal, a turquoise, and an amethyst. 20 And the fourth row, a chry- solite, and an onyx, and a jasper : they shall be fitted in golden casings when they are set in. 21 And the stones shall be ac- cording to the names of the chil- dren of Israel, twelve, according to their names : (engraved) with the engraving of a signet, every one according to his name, shall they be for the twelve tribes. 22 And thou shalt make on the breastplate chains with knots 117 EXODUS XXVIII. THETZAVVEII. at the ends, wreathed work, of pure gold. 23 And thou shalt make on the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathed chains of gold in the two rings, on the ends of the breastplate. 25 And the (other) two ends of the two wreathed chains thou shalt fasten on the two casings, and put them on the shoulder- pieces of the ephod on the out- side thereof. 26 And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them on the two ends of the breastplate on its border, which is on the opposite side of the ephod, inward. 27 And thou shalt make two more rings of gold, and shalt put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, toward its front part, close by its seam, above the girdle of the ephod. 28 And they shall fasten the breastplate by its rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may remain on the girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod. 29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upm his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a me- morial before the Lord continu- ally. 30 And thou shalt put into tl ic breastplate the Uriin 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 con- tinually.* 118 31 And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod altogether of blue woollen yarn. 32 And there shall be an open- ing in the top of it, in the midst thereof : it shall have a binding of woven work, round about its opening, as it is on the open- ing of an habergeon, so shall it be thereon, that it be not rent. 33 And thou shalt make on its lower hem pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet yarn, round about its lower hem ; and bells of gold between them round about : 34 A golden bell and a pome- granate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the lower hem of the robe round about. 35 And it shall be upon Aaron when he ininistercth ; and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place be- fore the Lord, and when he com- eth out, that he die not. 36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engraving of a signet, Holy unto the Lord. 37 And thou shalt fasten it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre : upon the front of the mitre shall it be. 38 And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead; and Aaron shall atone for the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall be upon his forehead always, that they may be received in favour before the Lord. 39 And thou shalt make the coat of linen checkered, and thou shalt make a mitre of linen, and a girdle shalt thou make of em- broiderer’s work. 40 And for Aaron’s sons shalt thou make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles; and bon- EXODUS XXVIII. XXIX. THETZAVVEH. nets thou shalt make for them, for glory and for ornament. 41 And thou shalt clothe there- with Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him ; and thou shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may be priests unto me. 42 And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their na- kedness: from the loins even un- to the thighs shall they reach. 43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity and die : a statute for ever shall it be for him and for his seed after him.* CHAPTER XXIX. 1 And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hal- low them, to become priests unto me : Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish, 2 And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes, mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers, anointed with oil ; of fine wheat- en flour shalt thou make them. 3 And thou shalt put them in- to one basket, and bring them near in the basket, with the bul- lock and the two rams. 4 And Aaron and his sons shalt thou bring near unto the door of the tabernacle of the con- gregation, and shalt wash them with water. 5 And thou shalt take the gar- ments, and clothe Aaron with the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the girdle of the ephod ; 6 And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and thou shalt fasten the holy crown upon the mitre. 7 Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. 8 And his sons shalt thou bring near, and clothe them with coats. 9 And thou shalt gird them with the girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind the bonnets on them; and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thus shalt thou consecrate Aaron and his sons. 10 And thou shalt cause the bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation : and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock. 11 And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the con- gregation. 12 And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and all the (remain- ing) blood shalt thou pour out beside the bottom of the altar. 13 And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the midriff above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire, without the camp : it is a sin-offering. 15 And the one ram shalt thou take; and Aaron and his sone shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. 16 And thou shalt slay the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it upon the altar round about. 17 And the ram shalt thou cut in pieces, and wash his in- 119 EXODUS XXIX. wards, and his legs, and put them with his pieces, and with his head. 18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar, it is a burnt-offering unto the Lord: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.* 19 And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram. 20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle them upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him : and he shall be hallowed, together with his gar- ments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him. 22 And thou shalt take from the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the midriff above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration ; 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of the oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is be- fore the Lord. 24 And thou shalt put all this upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons; and thou shalt make with them a waving before the Lord. 25 And thou shalt then take 120 THETZAVVEH. them from their hands, and burii them upon the altar upon the burnt-offering; for a sweet sa- vour before the Lord, it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 26 And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of the conse- cration that belongeth to Aaron, and make therewith a waving before the Lord; and it shall belong to thee as thy portion. 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast which hath been waved, and the shoulder which hath been lifted up, which was waved, and which was heaved up, of the ram of the consecra- tion, of that which belongeth to Aaron, and of that which be- longeth to his sons: 28 That they shall belong to Aaron and to his sons, as a sta- tute forever, from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offer- ing; and a heave-offering it shall remain from the children of Is- rael, from the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, as their heave- offering unto the Lord. 29 And the holy garments be- longing to Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to anoint them therein, and to consecrate them therein. 30 Seven days shall that one of his sons put them on who is to be priest in his place, who is to go into the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the sanctuary. 31 And the ram of the conse- cration shalt thou take, and seethe his flesh in a holy place. 32 And Aaron with his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the taber- nacle of the congregation. 33 And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement EXODUS XXIX. XXX. THETZAVVEH. was made, to consecrate them and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy. 34 And if aught of the flesh of the consecration sacrifice, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then shalt thou burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy 35 And thou shalt do unto Aaron, and to his sons thus, all as I have commanded thee seven days shalt thou consecrate them. 36 And a bullock shalt thou offer every da} r for a sin-offering as an atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, in as much as thou makest an atonement upon it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. 37 Seven days shalt thou make an atonement upon the altar and sanctify it; and the altar shall be most holy ; what- soever toucheth the altar shall be holy.* 38 And this is what thou shalt offer upon the altar: Two sheep of the first year for every day, continually. 39 The one sheep shalt thou offer in the morning; and the other sheep shalt thou offer to- ward evening. 40 And a tenth part (of an ephah) of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering, shall be for the one sheep. 41 And the other sheep shalt thou offer toward evening; ac- cording to the meat-offering of the morning, and according to its drink-offering shalt thou do unto it, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 42 A continual burnt-offering 11 i throughout your generations (shall this be) at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord; where I will meet with you, to speak unto thee there. 43 And I will meet there with the children of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glorj^. 44 And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: and both Aaron and his sons will I sanctify, that they may be priests unto me. 45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I will be to them for a God. 46 And they shall know that I am the Eternal, their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them : I am the Lord their God. CHAPTER XXX. 1 And thou shalt make an altar to b-arn incense upon, of shittim wood shalt thou make it. 2 A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, four- square shall it be; and two cubits shall be its height; from itself shall its horns be. 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 crown of gold round about. 4 And two rings of gold shalt thou make for it beneath its crown, on its two corners shalt thou make them, upon both its sides ; and they shall be as re- ceptacles for the staves to bear it by means of them. 5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and over- lay them with gold. 6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is before the ark of the testimony, before the r/ jrcy- 121 EXODUS XXX. KI THISSA. Beat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. 7 And Aaron shall burn there- on incense of spices: every morn- ing when he dresseth the lamps, shall he burn it.* 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps toward evening, shall he burn it: a perpetual incense before the Lord, throughout your generations. 9 Ye shall not offer thereon any strange incense, or burnt- sacrifice, or meat-offering; and a drink-offering shall ye not pour thereon. 10 And Aaron shall make an atonement upon its horns once in a year: with the blood of the sin-offering of the day of atone- ment, once in the year, shall he make atonement upon it, throughout your generations; it is most holy unto the Lord. Haphtorah in Ezekiel xliii. 10 to 27. Sec. 21. KI THISSA, o. 11 And the Lord spoke un- to Moses, saying, 12 When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel of those who are to be numbered of them : then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when they number them; that there be no plague among them, when they number them. 13 This shall they give, every one that passeth among those that are numbered: Haifa shekel after the shekel of the sanctu- ary; twenty gerahs to the she- kel; the half of the shekel shall be the tribute to the Lord. 14 Every one that passeth among those that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give the tribute unto the Lord. 15 The rich shall not give 122 more, and the poor shall not give less than the half of a she- kel, as a tribute unto the Lori*, to make an atonement for your souls. 16 And thou shalt take the money of the atonement from the children of Israel, and shalt employ it for the service of the tabernacle of the congrega,.. ,n; and it shall be unto the children of Israel as a memorial before the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls. 17 ^ And the Lord spoke un- to Moses, saying, 18 Thou shalt also make a laver of copper, with its foot of copper, to wash withal: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put therein water. 19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash out of it their hands and their feet. 20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, shall they wash themselves with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 21 And they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not; and it shall be to them a statute for ever, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations. . 22 And the Lord spoke un- to Moses, saying, 23 And thou, take unto thy- self principal spices: Of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon, its half shall be two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hun- dred and fifty shekels. 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of tbt EXODUS XXX. XXXI. KI THISSA. sanctuary, and of olive-oil one hin. 25 And thou shalt make of it an oil of holy anointing, a mix- ture, compounded after the art of the apothecary : an oil of holy anointing shall it be. 26 And thou shalt anoint therewith the tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony. 27 And the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of in- cense. 28 And the altar of burnt- offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its foot. 29 And thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be most holy : whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. 30 And - Aaron and his sons shalt thou anoint, and conse- crate them to be priests unto me. 31 And unto the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, An oil of holy anointing shall this be unto me throughout your generations. 32 Upon the flesh of roan shall it not be poured, and after its proportion shall ye not make any thing like it: it is holy, and holy shall it be unto you. 33 Whosoever compoundeth the like of it, or whosoever put- teth any of it upon a stranger, shall be cut off from his people. 34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee spices, balm, and onycha, and galba- nurn, spices, with pure frankin- cense : of each shall there be an equal weight. 35 And thou shalt make it an incense, a mixture after the art of the apothecary, well mingled together, pure and holy. 36 And thou shalt pound some of it fine, and offer of it before | the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee : most holy shall it be unto you. 37 And as for the incense which thou shalt make, accord- ing to its proportion, shall ye not make any unto yourselves: holy shall it be unto thee for the Lord. 38 Whosoever shall make the like of it, to smell thereon, shall be cut off from his people. CHAPTER XXXI. 1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, 2 See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Chur, of the tribe of Judah : 3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship. 4 To devise works of art, to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper, 5 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in the carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship. 6 And behold, I have also given with him Aholiab, the son of Achissamach, of the tribe of Dan, and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted have I put wis- dom,* and they shall make all that I have commanded thee ; 7 The tabernacle of the con- gregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the cover that is thereupon, and all the vessels of the tabernacle; 8 And the table and its ves- sels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the altar of incense; 9 And the altar of burnt- offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its foot; 123 EXODUS XXXI. XXXII. KI THISSA. 10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister therein; 11 And the anointing oil, and the incense of spices for the holy place: all as I have commanded thee shall they do. 12 If And the Lord said unto Moses as followeth, 13 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Above all, my sabbaths shall ye keep ; for a sign it is between me and you throughout your gene- rations; that ye may know that I am the Lord who doth sanc- tify you. 14 And ye shall keep the sab- bath, for it is holy unto you: every dne that defileth it shall surely be put to death ; for who- soever doth any work thereon, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days may work be done; but on the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord : whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath-day, shall surely be put to death. 16 And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to ob- serve the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 Between me and the chil- dren of Israel it shall be a sign forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'* 18 ^f And he gave unto Moses, when he had finished speaking with him upon mount Sinai, the fcwo tables of the testimony, tables of stone, inscribed with the finger of God. CHAPTER XXXII. 1 And when the people saw 124 that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people assem- bled themselves together around Aaron, and they said unto him, Up, make us gods, that shall go before us; for of this man Moses, who hath brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know noi what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said unto them. Take out the golden ear-rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 And all the people took out the golden ear-rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. 4 And he took them from their hand, and fashioned it in a mould, and he made of it a molt- en calf ; and they said, These are thy gods, 0 Israel, that have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron called out, and said, A feast unto the Lord is to-morrow. 6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt- offerings, and brough t near peace- offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. 7 And the Lord spoke unto Moses, Go, get thee down ; for thy people, which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, hath become corrupt: 8 They have turned aside quickly from the way which I ha>e commanded them; they have made themselves a molten calf; and they have bowed them- selves to it, and have sacrificed unto it, and have said, These are thy gods, 0 Israel, that have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. EXODUS XXXII. KI THISSA. 9 And the Lord said unto Mo- ses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people. 10 And now let me alone, and my wrath shall wax hot against them, and I will make an end of them ; and I will make of thee a great nation. 1 1 Thereupon Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Why, 0 Lord, shall thy wrath wax hot against thy people, that thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Wherefore should the Egyp- tians say thus, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them! in the mountains, and to destroy them from the face of the earth ? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent thee of the evil decreed against thy people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thy own self, and speak unto them, I will mul- tiply your seed as the stars of heaven ; and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. 14 And the Lord bethought himself of the evil which he had spoken to do unto his people. 15 And Moses turned about, and went down from the mount with the two tables of the testi- mony in his hand : tables in- scribed on both their sides ; on the one side and on the other were they inscribed. 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tables. 17 And Joshua’ heard thenoise of the people in its shouting an.d he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. 18 And he said, It is not the 11 * voice of a shout for mastery neither is it the voice of a cry foi defeat ; the noise of singing do I hear. 19 And it came to pass, when he came nigh unto the camp, and he saw the calf, and the dancing : that the anger of Moses waxed hot, and he cast from his hands the tables, and broke them at the foot of the mount. 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in fire, and ground it to a powder, and he strewed it upon the wa- ter, and made the children of Is- rael drink of it. 21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What hath this people done unto thee, that thou hast brought upon it so great a sin ? 22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that it is bent on mischief. 23 And they said unto me, Make us gods that shall go be- fore us; for of this man Moses, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath become of him. 24 And I said unto them, Who hath any gold ? They took it off themselves and gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. 25 And Moses saw the people that it had become unruly ; for Aaron had made it unruly, for a disgrace among their opponents. 26 Moses then placed himself in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoever is on the Lord’s side, let him come unto me ! and there assembled themselves unto him all the sons of Levi. 27 And he said unto them, Thus hath said the Eternal, the God of Israel, Put ye, every man his sword by his side, and go ye hither and thither, from gate to 125 EXODUS XXXII. XXXIII. KI THISSA. gate in the camp, and slay ye every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his relative. 28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the peo- ple on that day about three thou- sand men. 29 And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves to-day to the Lord, yea even every man on his son, and on his brother ; and to bestow upon you this day a blessing. 30 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin : and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I may obtain an atonement for your sin. 31 And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this peo- ple hath sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves gods of gold. 32 Yet now, if thou wilt for- give their sin — ; but if not, blot me out, I pray thee, from thy book which thou hast written. 33 And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out from my book. 34 And now go, lead the peo- ple unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee ; behold, ! my angel shall go before thee ; but on the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. 35 And the Lord sent a plague among the people, because they had made the calf which Aaron made. CHAPTER XXXIII. 1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, go up from here, thou and the people that thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I 126 I swore unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it; — 2 And I will send before thee an angel ; and I will drive out the Cana’anite, the Emorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;-— 3 Unto a land flowing with milk and honey ; for I will not go up in the midst of thee, be- cause thou art a stiffnecked peo- ple ; lest I consume thee on the way. 4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put his orna- ments on him. 5 For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked peo- ple ; should I go up one moment, in the midst of thee, I would consume thee ; now therefore put off thy ornaments from thee, and I shall know what I will do un- to thee. 6 The children of Israel then stripped themselves of their or- naments (they wore) from (the time they were at) Mount Horeb. 7 And Moses took the tent, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it, Tabernacle of the congrega- tion ; and it came to pass, that [every one who sought (instruc- tion of) the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congre- gation, which was without the camp. 8 And it came to pass, that when Moses went out .unto the tent, all the people would rise up, and stand every man at the door of his tent, and look after Moses, until he was gone into the tent. 9 And it came to pass, that as Moses entered into the tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and EXODUS XXXIII. 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KI TIIISSA. stood at the door of the tent, and spoke with Moses. 10 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the tent: then all the people rose up and prostrated themselves, every man at the door of his tent. 11 And the Loan spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speak eth unto his friend ; and then he returned into the camp; but his servant, Joshua’ the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tent. 12 And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people; but thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me : and yet thou hast said, I have chosen thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my eyes. 13 Now, therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy eyes, do make me know thy way, that I may know thee, in order that I may find grace in thy eyes; and consider that this nation is thy people. 14 And he said, My presence shall go in advance, and I will give thee rest. 15 And he said unto him, If thy presence go not (with us), carry us not up from here. 16 For wherein shall it be known in any wise that I have found grace in thy eyes, I with thy people ? is it not in that thou goest with us ? so shall we be distinguished, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.* 17 And the Lord said unto Moses, Also this thing that thou hast spoken will I do; for thou hast found grace in my eyes, and] I have chosen thee by name. 18 And he said, Let me see, 1 1 beseech tnee, thy glory. 19 And he said, I will cause all my goodness to pass before thy face, and I will proclaim, by name, the Lord before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy. 20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for no man can see me, and live. 21 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock : 22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in the cleft of the rock, and I will cover thee with my hand, until I have passed by. 23 And then will I take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts ; but my face shall not be seen.* CHAPTER XXXIV. 1 5[ And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thyself two tables of stone like unto the first; and I will write upon these tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou didst break. 2 And be ready by the morn- ing, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount. 3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughoutall the mount; neither let the flocks or herds feed near this mount. 4 And he hewed two table* of stone like unto the first, and Moses rose up early in the morn- ing, and went up unto mount Si- nai, as the Lord had commanded !him; and he took in his hand I the two tables of stone. I 5 And the Lord descended | in the cloud, and stood with him EXODUS XXXIV. KI THISSA. there ; and proclaimed, by name, the Lord. 6 And the Lord passed