Pentateuco
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In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The earth was void and empty, and
darkness was upon the deep, and the spirit of god moved upon the water. Then God
said: let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light that it was
good: and divided the light from the darkness, and called the light day, and the
darkness night: and so of the evening and morning was made the first day. And
God said: let there be a firmament between the waters, and let it divide the
waters asunder. Then God made the firmament and parted the waters which were
under the firmament, from the waters that were above the firmament: And it was
so. And God called the firmament heaven. And so of the evening and morning was
made the second day. And God said, let the waters that are under heaven gather
them selves unto one place, that the dry land may appear: And it came so to
pass. And God called the dry land the earth and the gathering together of waters
called he the sea. And God saw that it was good. And God said: let the earth
bring forth herb and grass that sow seed, and fruitful trees that bear fruit
every one in his kind, having their seed in themselves upon the earth. And it
came so to pass: And the earth brought forth herb and grass sowing seed every
one in his kind and trees bearing fruit and having their seed in them selves,
every one in his kind. And God saw that it was good: and then of the evening and
morning was made the third day. Then said God: let there be lights in the
firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night, that they may be unto
signs, seasons, days and years. And let them be lights in the firmament of
heaven, to shine upon the earth: and so it was. And God made two great lights: A
greater light to rule the day, and a less light to rule the night, and he made
stars also. And God put them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth,
and to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light from darkness. And
God saw that it was good: and so of the evening and morning was made the fourth
day. And God said, let the water bring forth creatures that move and have life,
and fowls for to flee {fly} over the earth under the firmament of heaven. And
God created great whales and all manner of creatures that live and move, which
the waters brought forth in their kinds, and all manner of feathered fowls in
their kinds. And God saw that it was good: and God blessed them saying: Grow and
multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let the fowls multiply upon the
earth. And so of the evening and morning was made the fifth day. And God said:
let the earth bring forth living creatures in their kinds: cattle and worms and
beasts of the earth in their kinds, and so it came to pass. And God made the
beasts of the earth in their kinds, and cattle in their kinds, and all manner
worms of the earth in their kinds: and God saw that it was good. And God said:
let us make man in our similitude and after our likeness: that he may have rule
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over cattle, and
over all the earth, and over all worms that creep on the earth. And God created
man after his likeness, after the likeness of God created he him: male and
female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them: Grow and
multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of
the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the
earth. And God said: see, I have given yow all herbs that sow seed which are on
all the earth, and all manner trees that have fruit in them and sow seed: to be
meat for yow and for all beasts of the earth, and unto all fowls of the air, and
unto all that creepeth on the earth where in is life, that they may have all
manner herbs and grass for to eat, and even so it was. And God beheld all that
he had made, and lo they were exceeding good: and so of the evening and morning
was made the sixth day.
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Thus was heaven and earth finished with all their apparel: and in the seventh
day God ended his work which he had made and rested in the seventh day from all
his works which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it,
for in it he rested from all his works which he had created and made. These are
the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the time when the
LORD God created heaven and earth and all the shrubs of the field before they
were in the earth. And all the herbs of the field before they sprang: for the
LORD God had yet sent no rain upon the earth, neither was there yet any man to
till the earth. But there arose a mist out of the ground and watered all the
face of the earth: Then the LORD God shope man, even of the mould of the earth
and breathed into his face the breath of life. So man was made a living soul.
The LORD God also planted a garden in Eden from the beginning, and there he set
man whom he had formed. And the LORD God made to spring out of the earth, all
manner trees beautiful to the sight and pleasant to eat, and the tree of life in
the midst {middes} of the garden: and also the tree of knowledge of good and
evil. And there sprong a river out of Eden to water the garden, and thence
divided itself, and grew into four principal waters. The name of the one is
Phison, he it is that compasseth all the land of Hevila, where gold groweth. And
the gold of that country is precious, there is found bedellion and a stone
called Onyx. The name of the second river is Gihon, which compasseth all the
land of Inde. And the name of the third river is Hidekell, which runneth on the
east side of the Assyrians; And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the LORD God
took Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it: And the
LORD God commanded Adam saying: Of all the trees of the garden see thou eat: But
of the tree of knowledge of good and bad see that thou eat not: For even the
same day thou eatest of it, thou shalt surely die. {die the death} And the LORD
God said: It is not good that man should be alone, I will make him an helper to
bear him company: And after that the LORD God had made of the earth all manner
beasts of the field, and all manner fowls of the air, he brought them unto Adam
to see what he would call them. And as Adam called all manner living beasts:
even so are their names. And Adam gave names unto all manner cattle, and unto
the fowls of the air, and unto all manner beasts of the field. But there was no
help found unto Adam to bear him company. Then the LORD God cast a slumber on
Adam, and he slept. And then he took out one of his ribs, and in stead thereof
he filled up the place with flesh. And the LORD God made of the rib which he
took out of Adam, a woman, and brought her unto Adam. Then said Adam: This is
once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman:
because she was taken of the man. For this cause shall a man leave father and
mother and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. And they were
either of them naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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But the serpent was subtler than all the beasts of the field which the LORD God
had made, and said unto the woman: Ah sir, {Yee} that God hath said, {[indeed]}
ye shall not eat of all manner trees in the garden. And the woman said unto the
serpent, of the fruit of the trees in the garden we may eat, but of the fruit of
the tree that {yt} is in the midst {myddes} of the garden (said God) see that ye
eat not, and see that ye touch it not: lest ye die. Then said the serpent unto
the woman: tush ye shall not die: but God doth know, that whensoever ye should
eat of it, your eyes should be opened and ye should be as God and know both good
and evil. And the woman saw that it was a good tree to eat of and lusty unto the
eyes and a pleasant tree for to make wise. And took of the fruit of it and ate,
and gave unto her husband also with her, and he ate. And the eyes of both them
were opened, that they understood how that they were naked. Then they sewed fig
leaves together and made them aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God
as he walked in the garden in the cool of the day. And Adam hid himself and his
wife also from the face of the LORD God, among the trees of the garden. And the
LORD God called Adam and said unto him where art thou? And he answered: Thy
voice I heard in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked, and therefore
hid myself. And he said: Who told thee that thou wast naked? hast thou eaten of
the tree, of which I bade thee that thou shouldest not eat? And Adam answered:
The woman which thou gavest to bear me company, she took me of the tree, and I
ate. And the LORD God said unto the woman: Wherefore didst thou so? And the
woman answered: The serpent deceived me and I ate. And the LORD God said unto
the serpent because thou hast so done most cursed be thou of all cattle and of
all beasts of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go: and earth shalt thou eat
all days of thy life. Moreover I will put hatred between thee and the woman, and
between thy seed and her seed. And that seed shall tread thee on the head, and
thou shalt tread it {hit} on the heel. And unto the woman he said: I will surely
increase thy sorrow and make thee oft with child, and with pain shalt thou be
delivered: And thy lusts shall pertain unto thy husband and he shall rule thee.
And unto Adam he said: Forasmuch as thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying: See thou eat not
thereof: cursed be the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat thereof all
days of thy life: And it shall bear thorns and thistles unto thee. And thou
shalt eat the herbs of the field: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
until thou return unto the earth whence thou wast take: for earth thou art, and
unto earth shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife Heva, because she was the
mother of all that liveth. And the LORD God made Adam and his wife garments of
skins, and put them on them. And the LORD God said: Lo, Adam is become as it
were one of us, in knowledge of good and evil. But now lest he stretch forth his
hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live ever. And the LORD God
cast him out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth whence he was taken. And
he cast Adam out, and set at the entering of the garden Eden, Cherubim with a
naked sword moving in and out, to keep the way to the tree of life.
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And Adam lay with Heva is wife, which conceived and bare Cain, and said: I have
gotten a man of the LORD. And she proceeded forth and bare his brother Abel: And
Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a plowman. And it fortuned in process of
time, that Cain brought of the fruit of the earth: an offering unto the LORD.
And Abel, he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them.
And the LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and unto his
offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered. And the
LORD said unto Cain: why art thou angry, and why lowerest thou? Wotest thou not
if thou dost well thou shalt receive it? But and if thou dost evil, by and by
thy sin lieth open in the door. Notwithstanding let it be subdued unto thee, and
see thou rule it. And Cain talked with Abel his brother. And as soon as they
were in the fields, Cain fell upon Abel his brother and slew him. And the LORD
said unto Cain: where is Abel thy brother? And he said: I can not tell, am I my
brother's keeper? And he said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's
blood cryeth unto me out of the earth. And now cursed be thou as pertaining to
the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.
For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto
thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth. And Cain said unto
the LORD: my sin is greater, than that it may be forgiven. Behold thou castest
me out this day from off the face of the earth, and from thy sight must I hide
myself, and I must be wandering and a vagabond upon the earth: Moreover
whosoever findeth me, will kill me. And the LORD said unto him: Not so, but
whosoever slayeth Cain shall be punished sevenfold. And the LORD put a mark upon
Cain that no man that found him should kill him. And Cain went out from the face
of the LORD, and dwelt in the land Nod, on the east side of Eden. And Cain lay
with his wife, which conceived and bare Henoch. And he was building a city and
called the name of it after the name of his son, Henoch. And Henoch begat Irad.
And Irad begat Mahuiael. And Mahuiael begat Mathusael. And Mathusael begat
Lamech. And Lamech took him two wives: the one was called Ada, and the other
Zilla: And Ada bare Iabal, of whom came they that dwell in tents and possess
cattle. And his brother's name was Iubal: of him came all that exercise them
selves on the harp and on the organs. And Zilla she also bare Tubalcain a worker
in metal and a father of all that grave in brass and iron. And Tubalcain's
sister was called Naema. Then said Lamech unto his wives Ada and Zilla: hear my
voice ye wives of Lamech and hearken unto my words, for I have slain a man and
wounded myself, and have slain a young man, and got myself stripes: For Cain
shall be avenged sevenfold: but Lamech seventy times sevenfold. Adam also lay
with his wife yet again, and she bare a son and called his name Seth For God (said
she) hath given me another son for Abel whom Cain slew. And Seth begat a son and
called his name Enos. And in that time began men to call on the name of the
LORD.
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This is the book of the generation of man, in the day when God created man and
made him after the similitude of God. Male and female made he them, and called
their names man, in the day when they were created. And when Adam was an hundred
and thirty years old, he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and
called his name Seth. And the days of Adam after he begat Seth, were eight
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Adam which he
lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died. And Seth lived an
hundred and five years, and begat Enos. And after he had begot Enos he lived
eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of
Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and died. And Enos lived ninety years,
and begat Kenan. And Enos after he begat Kenan, lived eight hundred and fifteen
years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enos were nine hundred
and five years, and then he died. And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat
Mahalaliel. And Kenan after he had begot Mahalaliel, lived eight hundred and
forty years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Kenan were nine
hundred and ten years, and then he died. And Mahalaliel lived sixty five years,
and begat Iared. And Mahalaliel after he had begot Iared lived eight hundred and
thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Mahalaliel were
eight hundred ninety and five years, and then he died. And Iared lived an
hundred and sixty two years, and begat Henoch: and Iared lived after he begat
Henoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of
Iared were nine hundred and sixty two years, and then he died. And Henoch lived
sixty five years, and begat Mathusala. And Henoch walked with God after he had
begot Mathusalah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the
days of Henoch were three hundred and sixty five years, and then Henoch lived a
godly life, and was no more seen, for God took him away. And Mathusala lived an
hundred and eighty seven years and begat Lamech: and Mathusala after he had
begot Lamech, lived seven hundred and eighty two years, and begat sons and
daughters. And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred sixty nine years, and
then he died. And Lamech lived an hundred eighty two years and begat a son, and
called him Noe saying: This same shall comfort us: as concerning our work and
sorrow of our hands which we have about the earth that the LORD hath cursed. And
Lamech lived after he had begot Noe, five hundred, ninety and five years, and
begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy
seven years, and then he died. And when Noe was five hundred years old, he begat
Sem, Ham and Iapheth.
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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply upon the earth and had begot
them daughters, the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair,
and took unto them wives, which they best liked among them all. And the LORD {LORd}
said: My spirit shall not alway strive with man, for they are flesh.
Nevertheless I will give them yet space, an hundred and twenty years. There were
tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone
in unto the daughters of men and had begotten them children, the same children
were the mightiest of the world and men of renown. And when the LORD saw that
the wickedness of man was increased upon the earth, and that all the imagination
and thoughts of his heart was only evil continually, he repented that he had
made man upon the earth and sorrowed in his heart. And said: I will destroy
mankind which I have made, from off the face of the earth: both man, beast, worm
and fowl of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But yet Noe
found grace in the sight of the LORD. These are the generations of Noe. Noe was
a righteous man and uncorrupt in his time, and walked with God. And Noe begat
three sons: Sem, Ham and Iapheth. And the earth was corrupt in the sight of God,
and was full of mischief. And God looked upon the earth, and lo it was corrupt:
for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. Then said God to Noe: the
end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is full of their mischief. And
lo, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of pine tree, and make
chambers in the ark, and pitch it within and without with pitch. And of this
fashion shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window
shalt thou make above in the ark. And within a cubit compass shalt thou finish
it. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side of it: and thou shalt
make it with three lofts one above an other. For behold I will bring in a flood
of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh from under heaven, wherein breath
of life is, so that all that is in the earth shall perish. But I will make mine
appointment with thee, that both thou shalt come in to the ark and thy sons, thy
wife and thy sons' wives with thee. And of all that liveth whatsoever flesh it
be, shalt thou bring into the ark, of every thing a pair, to keep them alive
with thee. And male and female see that they be, of birds in their kind, and of
beasts in their kind, and of all manner of worms of the earth in their kind: a
pair of every thing shall come unto thee to keep them alive. And take unto thee
of all manner of meat that may be eaten and lay it up in store by thee, that it
may be meat both for thee and for them: and Noe did according to all that God
commanded him.
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And the LORD said unto Noe: Go into the ark both thou and all thy household. For
thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of all clean beasts
take unto thee seven of every kind the male and his female, and of unclean
beasts a pair, the male and his female: likewise of the birds of the air seven
of every kind, male and female to save seed upon all the earth. For seven days
hence will I send rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and will
destroy all manner of things that I have made, from off the face of the earth.
And Noe did according to all that the LORD {lorde} commanded him: and Noe was
six hundred years old, when the flood of water came upon the earth: and Noe went
and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him, into the ark from the
waters of the flood. And of clean beasts and of beasts that were unclean and of
birds and of all that creepeth upon the earth, came in by couples of every kind
unto Noe into the ark: a male and a female: even as God commanded Noe. And the
seventh day the waters of the flood came upon the earth. In the six hundredth
year of Noe's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month,
that same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened, and there fell a rain upon the earth forty days
and forty nights. And the self same day went Noe, Sem, Ham and Iapheth, Noe's
sons, and Noe's wife and the three wives of his sons with them in to the ark:
both they and all manner of beasts in their kind, and all manner of cattle in
their kind and all manner of worms that creep upon the earth in their kind, and
all manner of birds in their kind, and all manner of fowls whatsoever had
feathers. And they came unto Noe into the ark by couples, of all flesh that had
breath of life in it. And they that came, came male and female of every flesh
according as God commanded him: and the LORD shut the door upon him. And the
flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth, and the water increased
and bare up the ark and it was lift up from off the earth. And the water
prevailed and increased exceedingly upon the earth: and the ark went upon he top
of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly above measure upon the earth,
so that all the high hills which are under all the parts of heaven, were covered:
even fifteen cubits high prevailed the waters, so that the hills were covered.
And all flesh that moved on the earth, both birds, cattle and beasts perished,
with all that crept on the earth and all men: so that all that had the breath of
life in the nostrils of it thorow out all that was on dry land died. Thus was
destroyed all that was upon the earth, both man, beasts, worms and fowls of the
air so that they were destroyed from the earth: save Noe was reserved only and
they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth, an
hundred and fifty days.
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And God remembered Noe and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him
in the ark; And God made a wind to blow upon the earth, and the waters ceased:
and the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the
rain of heaven was forbidden, and the waters returned from off the earth and
abated after the end of an hundred and fifty days. And the ark rested upon the
mountains of Ararat, the seventeenth day of the seventh month. And the waters
went away and decreased until the tenth month. And the first day of the tenth
month, the tops of the mountains appeared. And after the end of forty days, Noe
opened the window of the ark which he had made, and sent forth a raven, which
went out, ever going and coming again, until the waters were dried up upon the
earth. Then sent he forth a dove from him, to wete whether the waters were
fallen from off the earth. And when the dove could find no resting place for her
foot, she returned to him again unto the ark, for the waters were upon the face
of all the earth. And he put out his hand and took her and pulled her to him
into the ark. And he abode yet seven days mo, and sent out the dove again out of
the ark, and the dove came to him again about eventide, and behold: there was in
her mouth a leaf of an olive tree which she had plucked, whereby Noe perceived
that the waters were abated upon the earth. And he tarried yet seven other days,
and sent forth the dove, which from thence forth came no more again to him. And
it came to pass, the six hundred and one year and the first day of the first
month, that the waters were dried up upon the earth. And Noe took off the
hatches of the ark and looked: and behold, the face of the earth was dry. So by
the twenty seventh day of the second month the earth was dry. And God spake unto
Noe saying: Come out of the ark, both thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy
sons' wives with thee. And all the beasts that are with thee whatsoever flesh it
be, both fowl and cattle and all manner worms that creep on the earth, bring out
with thee, and let them move, grow and multiply upon the earth. And Noe came
out, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. And all the beasts,
and all the worms, and all the fowls, and all that moved upon the earth, came
also out of the ark, all of one kind together. And Noe made an altar unto the
LORD, {LORDE} and took of all manner of clean beasts and all manner of clean
fowls, and offered sacrifice upon the altar. And the LORD smelled a sweet savour
and said in his heart: I will henceforth no more curse the earth for man's sake,
for the imagination of man's heart is evil even from the very youth of him.
Moreover I will not destroy from henceforth all that liveth as I have done.
Neither shall sowing time and harvest, cold, and heat, summer and winter, day
and night cease, as long as the earth endureth.
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And God blessed Noe and his sons, and said unto them: Increase and multiply and
fill the earth. The fear also and dread of yow be upon all beasts of the earth,
and upon all fowls of the air, and upon all that creepeth on the earth, and upon
all fishes of the sea, which are given unto your hands. And all that moveth upon
the earth having life, shall be your meat: Even as the green herbs, so give I
yow all things. Only the flesh with his life which is his blood, see that ye eat
not. For verily the blood of yow wherein your lives are will I require: Even of
the hand of all beasts will I require it, and of the hand of man and of the hand
of every man's brother, will I require the life of man: so that he which
sheddeth man's blood, shall have his blood shed by man again: for God made man
after his own likeness. See that ye increase, and wax, and be occupied upon the
earth, and multiply therein. Furthermore God spake unto Noe and to his sons with
him saying: See, I make my bond with you and your seed after you, and with all
living things that is with you: both fowl and cattle, and all manner beast of
the earth that is with yow, of all that cometh out of the ark what soever beast
of the earth it be. I make my bond with yow, that henceforth all flesh shall not
be destroyed with the waters of any flood, and that henceforth there shall not
be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said: This is the token of my bond
which I make between me and yow, and between all living thing that is with yow
for ever: I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the
appointment made between me and the earth: so that when I bring in clouds upon
the earth, the bow shall appear in the clouds. And then will I think upon my
testament which I have made between me and yow, and all that liveth whatsoever
flesh it be. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a flood to
destroy all flesh. The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will look upon it, to
remember the everlasting testament between God and all that liveth upon the
earth, whatsoever flesh it be. And God said unto Noe: This is the sign of the
testament which I have made between me and all flesh that is on the earth. The
sons of Noe that came out of the ark were: Sem, Ham, and Iapheth. And Ham he is
the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noe, and of these was all the
world overspread. And Noe being an husbandman, went forth and planted a vineyard,
and drank of the wine and was drunk, and lay uncovered in the middest of his
tent. And Ham the father of Canaan saw his father's privates, {prevytees} and
told his two brethren that were without. And Sem and Iapheth took a mantle, and
put it on both their shoulders and went backward, and covered their father's
secrets, but their faces were backward, so that they saw not their father's
nakedness. As soon as Noe was awaked from his wine and wist what his youngest
son had done unto him, he said: Cursed be Canaan, and a servant, of all servants
be he to his brethren. And he said: Blessed be the LORD God of Sem, and Canaan
be his servant. God increase Iapheth that he may dwell in the tents of Sem. And
Canaan be their servant. And Noe lived after the flood three hundred and fifty
years: So that all the days of Noe were nine hundred and fifty years, and then
he died.
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These are the generations of the sons of Noe: of Sem, Ham and Iapheth, which
begat them children after the flood. The sons of Iapheth were: Gomir, Magog,
Madai, Iavan, Tuball, Mesech and Thyras. And the sons of Gomir were: Ascenas,
Riphat and Togarma. And the sons of Iavan were: Elisa, Tharsis, Cithim, and
Dodanim. Of these came the Isles of the gentiles in their countries, every man
in his speech, kindred and nation. The sons of Ham were: Chus, Misraim, Phut and
Canaan. The sons of Chus: were Seba, Hevila, Sabta, Raima and Sabtema. And the
sons of Raima were: Sheba, and Dedan. Chus also begot Nimrod, which began to be
mighty in the earth. He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD: Whereof
came the proverb: he is as Nimrod that mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babell, Erech, Achad, and Chalne in the
land of Sinear: Out of that land came Assur and builded Ninive, and the city
Rehoboth, and Calah, and Ressen between Nineve and Calah. That is a great city.
And Mizrim begat Ludim, Enanim, Leabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim and Casluhim: from
whence came the Philistins, and the Caphtherines. Canaan also begat Zidon his
eldest son and Heth, Iebusi, Emori, Girgosi, Hivi, Arki, Sini, Arvadi, Zemari
and Harmati. And afterward sprang the kindreds of the Cananites. And the coasts
of the Cananites were from Sidon till thou come to Gerara and to Asa, and till
thou come to Sodoma, Gomorra, Adama, Zeboim: even unto Lasa. These were the
children of Ham in their kindreds, tongues, lands and nations. And Sem the
father of all the children of Eber and the eldest brother of Iapheth, begat
children also. And his sons were: Elam Assur, Arphachsad, Lud and Aram. And the
children of Aram were: Ur, Hul, Gether and Mas. And Arphachsad begat Sala, and
Sala begat Eber. And Eber begat two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in
his time the earth was divided. And the name of his brother was Iaketan. Iaketan
begat Almodad, Saleph, Hizarmoneth, Iarah, Hadoram, Usal, Dikela, Obal, Abimael,
Seba, Ophir, Hevila and Iobab. All these are the sons of Iaketan. And the
dwelling of them was from Mesa until thou come unto Sephara a mountain of the
east land. These are the sons of Sem in their kindreds, languages, countries and
nations. These are the kindreds of the sons of Noe, in their generations and
nations. And of these came the people that were in the world after the flood.
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And all the world was of one tongue and one language. And as they came from the
east, they found a plain in the land of Sinear, and there they dwelled. And they
said one to another: come on, let us make brick and burn it with fire. So brick
was their stone and slime was their mortar. And they said: Come on, let us build
us a city and a tower, that the top may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a
name, for peradventure we shall be scattered abroad over all the earth. And the
LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had
builded. And the LORD said: See, the people is one and have one tongue among
them all: And this have they begun to do, and will not leave off from all that
they have purposed to do. Come on, let us descend and mingle their tongue even
there, that one understand not what another sayeth. Thus the LORD scattered them
from thence upon all the earth. And they left off to build the city. Wherefore
the name of it is called Babel, because that the LORD there confounded the
tongue of all the world. And because that the LORD from thence, scattered them
abroad upon all the earth. These are the generations of Sem: Sem was an hundred
year old and begat Arphachsad two years after the flood. And Sem lived after he
had beget Arphachsad five hundred years and begot sons and daughters. And
Arphachsad lived thirty five years and begat Sala, and lived after he had begot
Sala four hundred years and three and begat sons and daughters. And Sala was
thirty years old and begat Eber, and lived after he had begot Eber four hundred
and three years, and begat sons and daughters. When Eber was thirty four years
old, he begat Peleg, and lived after he had begot Peleg, four hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters. And Peleg when he was thirty years old
begat Regu, and lived after he had begot Regu two hundred and nine years, and
begat sons and daughters. And Regu when he had lived thirty two years begat
Serug, and lived after he had begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat
sons and daughters. And when Serug was thirty years old, he begat Nahor, and
lived after he had begot Nahot two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Nahor when he was twenty nine years old, begat Terah, and lived after he had
begot Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And
when Terah was seventy years old, he begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And these are
the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat
Lot. And Haran died before Terah his father in the land where he was born, at Ur
in Chaldea. And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai.
And Nahor's wife Milkah the daughter of Haran which was father of Milca and of
Iisca. But Sarai was barren and had no child. Then took Terah Abram his son and
Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And
they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Chanaan. And they
came to Haran and dwelled there. And when Terah was two hundred year old and
five he died in Haran.
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Then the LORD said unto Abram: Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred,
and out of thy father's house, into a land which I will shew thee. And I will
make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that
thou mayst be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them
that curse thee. And in thee shall be blessed all the generations of the earth.
And Abram went as the LORD bade him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy
five years old, when he went out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot
his brother's son, with all their goods which they had gotten and souls which
they had begotten in Haran. And they departed to go into the land of Chanaan.
And when they were come into the land of Chanaan, Abram went forth into the land
till he came unto a place called Sichem, and unto the oak of More. And the
Cananites dwelled then in the land. Then the LORD appeared unto Abram and said:
unto thy seed will I give this land. And he builded an altar there unto the LORD
which appeared to him. Then departed he thence unto a mountain that lieth on the
east side of BETHEL and pitched his tent: BETHEL being on the west side, and Ay
on the east: and he builded there an altar unto the LORD, and called on the name
of the LORD. And then Abram departed and took his journey southward. After this
there came a dearth in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there,
for the dearth was sore in the land. And when he was come nye for to enter into
Egypt, he said unto Sarai his wife. Behold, I know that thou art a fair woman to
look upon. It will come to pass therefore when the Egyptians see thee, that they
will say: she is his wife. And so shall they slay me and save thee. Say I pray
thee therefore that thou art my sister, that I may fare the better by reason of
thee, and that my soul may live for thy sake. As soon as he came into Egypt, the
Egyptians saw the woman that she was very fair. And Pharao's lords saw her also,
and praised her unto Pharao: So that she was taken into Pharao's house, which
entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he asses, men
servants, maid servants, she asses and camels. But GOD {|The LORDE|} plagued
Pharao and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abram's wife. Then
Pharao called Abram and said: Why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore
toldest thou me not that she was thy wife? Why saidest thou that she was thy
sister, and causedest me to take her to my wife? But now lo, there is thy wife,
take her and be walking. Pharao also gave a charge unto his men over Abram, to
lead him out, with his wife and all that he had.
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Then Abram departed out of Egypt, both he and his wife and all that he had, and
Lot with him unto the south. Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold. And
he went on his journey from the south even unto BETHEL, and unto the place where
his tent was at the first time between BETHEL and Ay, and unto the place of the
altar which he made before. And there called Abram upon the name, of the LORD.
Lot also which went with him had sheep, cattle and tents: so that the land was
not able to receive them that they might dwell together, for the substance of
their riches was so great, that they could not dwell together. And there fell a
strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle.
Moreover the Cananites and the Pherisites dwelled at that time in the land. Then
said Abram unto Lot: Let there be no strife I pray thee between thee and me and
between my herdmen and thine, for we be brethren. Is not all the hole land
before thee? Depart I pray thee from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, I will
take the right: or if thou take the right hand I will take the left. And Lot
lift up his eyes and beheld all the country about Iordan, which was a plenteous
country of water every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorra, even
as the garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt till thou come to Zoar. Then
Lot chose all the coasts of Iordan and took his journey from the east. And so
departed the one brother from the other. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan:
And Lot in the cities of the plain, and tented till he came to Sodom. But the
men of Sodom were wicked and sinned exceedingly against the LORD. And the LORD
said unto Abram, after that Lot was departed from him: Lift up thine eyes and
look from the place where thou art, northward, southward, eastward and westward,
for all the land which thou seest will I give unto thee and to thy seed for ever.
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. Arise and walk
about in the land, in the length of it and in the breadth for I will give it
unto thee. Then Abram took down his tent, and went and dwelled in the oak grove
of Mamre which is in Ebron and builded there an altar to the LORD.
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And it chanced within a while, that Amraphel king of Sinear, Arioch king of
Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Thydeall king of the nations: made war
with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsa king of Gomorra. And with Sineab king of
Adama, and with Semeaber king of Zeboim, and with the king of Bela which Bela is
called Zoar. All these came together unto the vale of Siddim, which is now the
salt sea. Twelve years were they subject to king Kedorlaomer, and in the
thirteenth year rebelled. Therefore in the fourteenth year came Kedorlaomer and
the kings that were with him, and smote the Raphaims in Astaroth Karnaim, and
the Susims in Ham, and the Emims in Sabe Kariathaim, and the Horims in their own
mount Seir unto the plain of Pharan, which bordereth upon the wilderness. And
then turned they and came to the well of judgement which is Cades, and smote all
the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwell in Hazezon
Thamar. Then went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorra, and the king
of Adama and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela now called Zoar. And set
their men in array to fight with them in the vale of Siddim, that is to say,
with Kedorlaomer the king of Elam and with Thydeall king of the Nations, and
with Amraphel king of Sinear. And with Arioch king of Ellasar: four kings
against five. And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of
Sodom and Gomorra fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorra and all their vitailles, and
went their way. And they took Lot also Abram's brother's son and his goods (for
he dwelled at Sodom) and departed. Then came one that had escaped, and told
Abram the Hebrew which dwelt in the oak grove of Mamre the Amorite, brother of
Eschol and Aner: which were confederate with Abram. When Abram heard that his
brother was taken, he harnessed his servants born in his own house three hundred
and eighteen, and followed till they came at Dan. And set himself and his
servants in array, and fell upon them by night, and smote them, and chased them
away unto Hoba: which lieth on the left hand of Damasco, and brought again all
the goods and also his brother Lot, and his goods, the women also and the people.
And as he returned again from the slaughter of Kedorlaomer and of the kings that
were with him, then came the king of Sodom against {to meet} him unto the vale
of Saue which now is called king's dale. Then Melchisedech king of Salem brought
forth bread and wine. And he being the priest of the most highest God, blessed
him saying: Blessed be Abram unto the most highest God, possessor of heaven and
earth. And blessed be God the most highest, which hath delivered thine enemies
into thy hands. And Abram gave him tithes of all. Then said the king of Sodom
unto Abram: Give me the souls, and take the goods to thy self. And Abram
answered the king of Sodom: I lift up my hand unto the LORD God most high
possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take of all that is thine, so
much as a thread or a shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say I have made Abram
rich. Save only that which the young men have eaten and the parts of the men
which went with me. Aner, Eschol and Mamre. Let them take their parts.
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After these deeds, the word of GOD {|the LORDE|} came unto Abram in a vision
saying fear not Abram, I am thy shield, and thy reward shall be exceeding great.
And Abram answered: Lord Iehouah what wilt thou give me: I go childless, and the
cater of mine house, this Eleasar of Damasco hath a son. And Abram said: See, to
me hast thou given to seed: lo, a lad born in my house shall be mine heir. And
behold, the word of the LORD spake unto Abram saying: He shall not be thine heir,
but one that shall come out of thine own body shall be thine heir. And he
brought him out at the doors and said: Look up unto heaven and tell the stars,
if thou be able to number them. And said unto him: Even so shall thy seed be.
And Abram believed the LORD, and it was counted to him for righteousness. And he
said unto him: I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur in Chaldea to give thee
this land to possess it. And he said: Lord GOD, {LORde God} whereby shall I know
that I shall possess it? And he said unto him: take an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a three year old ram, a turtle dove and a
young pigeon. And he took all these and divided them in the midst, and laid
every piece, one over against another. But the fowls divided he not. And the
birds fell on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. And when the sun was
down, there fell a slumber upon Abram. And lo, fear and great darkness came upon
him. And he said unto Abram: know this of a surety, that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that pertaineth not unto them. And they shall make bondmen of
them and entreat them evil four hundred years. But the nation whom they shall
serve, will I judge. And afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Nevertheless thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when
thou art of a good age: and in the fourth generation they shall come hither
again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full. When the sun was down
and it was waxed dark: behold, there was a smoking furnace and a fire brand that
went between the said pieces. And that same day the LORD made a covenant with
Abram saying: unto thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt, even
unto the great river Euphrates: the Kenites, the Kenizites, the Cadmonites, the
Hethites, the Pherezites, the Raphaims, the Amorites, the Cananites, the
Gergesites and the Iebusites.
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.xvi.
Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children. But she had an hand maid an Egyptian,
whose name was Hagar. Wherefore she said unto Abram: Behold the LORD hath closed
me, that I can not bear. I pray thee go in unto my maid, peradventure I shall be
multiplied by means of her; And Abram heard the voice of Sarai. Then Sarai
Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian (after Abram had dwelled ten years
in the land of Canaan) and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife. And he
went in unto Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived
her mistress was despised in her sight. Then said Sarai unto Abram: Thou dost me
unright, for I have given my maid into thy bosom: and now because she seeth that
she hath conceived, I am despised in her sight: the LORD judge between thee and
me. Then said Abram to Sarai: behold, thy maid is in thy hand, do with her as it
pleaseth thee. And because Sarai fared foul with her, she fled from her. And the
Angel of the LORD found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness: even
by a well in the way to Sur. And he said: Hagar Sarai's maid, whence comest thou
and whither wilt thou go? And she answered: I flee from my mistress Sarai. And
the Angel of the LORD said unto her: return to thy mistress again, and submit
thyself under her hands. And the angel of the LORD said unto her: I will so
increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. And the LORD's
angel said further unto her: see, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and
shalt call his name Ismael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation. He will
be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand
against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren. And she called the
name of the LORD that spake unto her: thou art the God that lookest on me, for
she said: I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me.
Wherefore she called the well, the well of the living that seeth me which well
is between Cades and Bared. And Hagar bare Abram a son, and Abram called his
son's name which Hagar bare Ismael. And Abram was eighty six years old, when
Hagar bare him Ismael.
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.xvij.
When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to him saying: I am
the almighty God: walk before me and be uncorrupt. And I will make my bond
between thee and me, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his
face. And God talked moreover with him saying: I am, behold my testament is with
thee, that thou shalt be a father of many nations. Therefore shalt thou no more
be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations
have I made thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly, and will make nations of
thee: yea and kings shall spring out of thee. Moreover I will make my bond
between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their times to be an
everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee and to thy seed after
thee. And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein
thou art a stranger: even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession,
and will be their God. And God said unto Abraham: See thou keep my testament,
both thou and thy seed after thee in their times: This is my testament which ye
shall keep between me and you and thy seed after thee, that ye circumcise all
your men children. Ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shall
be a token of the bond betwixt me and you. And every manchild when it is eight
days old, shall be circumcised among you in your generations, and all servants
also born at home or bought with money though they be strangers and not of thy
seed. The servant born in thy house, and he also that is bought with money, must
needs be circumcised, that my testament may be in your flesh, for an everlasting
bond. If there be any uncircumcised manchild, that hath not the foreskin of his
flesh cut off, his soul shall perish from his people: because he hath broken my
testament. And God said unto Abraham. Sarai thy wife shall no more be called
Sarai: but Sara shall her name be. For I will bless her and give thee a son of
her and will bless her: so that people, yea and kings of people shall spring of
her. And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart: shall a
child be born unto him that is an hundred year old, and shall Sara that is
ninety years old, bear: And Abraham said unto God. O that Ismael might live in
thy sight. Then said God: nay, Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou
shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my bond with him, that it shall be an
everlasting bond unto his seed after him. And as concerning Ismael also, I have
heard thy request: lo, I will bless him and increase him, and multiply him
exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he {be} beget, and I will make a great nation
of him. But my bond will I make with Isaac, which Sara shall bear unto thee:
even this time twelve month. And God left off talking with him, and departed up
from Abraham. And Abraham took Ismael his son and all the servants born in his
house and all that was bought with money as many as were men children among the
men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the foreskin of their flesh, even the
selfsame day, as God had said unto him. Abraham was ninety years old and nine
when he cut off the foreskin of his flesh. And Ismael his son was thirteen year
old, when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised. The self same day was
Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son. And all the men in his house, whether
they were born in his house or bought with money (though they were strangers)
were circumcised with him.
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And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent
door in the heat of the day. And he lift up his eyes and looked: and lo, three
men stood not far from him. And when he saw them, he ran against {to meet} them
from the tent door, and fell to the ground and said: Lord {LORde} if I have
found favour in thy sight, go not by thy servant. Let a little water be fetched,
and wash your feet, and rest your selves under the tree: And I will fetch a
morsel of bread, to comfort your hearts withal. And then go your ways, for even
therefore are ye come to your servant. And they answered: Do even so as thou
hast said. And Abraham went a pace into his tent unto Sara and said: make ready
at once three pecks of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. And Abraham ran unto
his beasts and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young
man which made it ready at once. And he took butter and milk and the calf which
he had prepared, and set it before them, and stood himself by them under the
tree: and they ate. And they said unto him: Where is Sara thy wife? And he said:
in the tent. And he said: I will come again unto thee as soon as the fruit can
live. And lo: Sara thy wife shall have a son. That heard Sara, out of the tent
door which was behind his back. Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken
in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wives. And
Sara laughed in her self saying: Now I am waxed old, shall I give my self to
lust, and my lord old also? Then said the LORD unto Abraha: wherefore doth Sara
laugh saying: shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I am old? is the thing
too hard for the LORD to do? In the time appointed will I return unto thee, as
soon as the fruit can have life. And Sara shall have a son. Then Sara denied it
saying: I laughed not, for she was afraid. But he said: yes thou laughtest. Then
the men stood up from thence and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them
to bring them on the way. And the LORD said: Can I hide from Abraham that thing
which I am about to do, seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people,
and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him that he
will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of
the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham
that he hath promised him. And the LORD said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorra is
great, and their sin is exceeding grievous. I will go down and see whether they
have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto me or not, that I
may know. And the men departed thence and went to Sodomward. But Abraham stood
yet before the LORD, and drew near and said Wilt thou destroy the righteous with
the wicked? If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy it
and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are therein? That
be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the
righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that
be far from thee. Should not the Iudge of all the world do according to right?
And the LORD said: If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, I will
spare all the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said: behold I
have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, {LORde} and yet am but dust and ashes.
What though there lack five of fifty righteous, wilt thou destroy all the city
for lack of five? And he said: If I find there forty and five I will not destroy
them. And he spake unto him yet again and said: what if there be forty found
there: And he said: I will not do it for forty's sake. And he said: O let not my
Lord {LORde} be angry, that I speak. What if there be found thirty there? And he
said: I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said: Oh, see, I have
begun to speak unto my Lord, {LORde} what if there be twenty found there? And he
said: I will not destroy them for twenty's sake. And he said: O let not my Lord
{LORde} be angry, that I speak yet, but even once more only. What if ten be
found there? And he said: I will not destroy them for ten's sake. And the LORD
went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned
unto his place.
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.xix.
And there came two angels to Sodom at even. And Lot sat at the gate of the city.
And Lot saw them, and rose up against {to meet} them, and he bowed himself to
the ground with his face. And he said: See lords, turn in I pray you in to your
servant's house and tarry all night and wash your feet, and rise up early and go
on your ways. And they said: nay, but we will bide in the streets all night. And
he compelled them exceedingly. And they turned in unto him and entered into his
house, and he made them a feast and did bake sweet cakes, and they ate. But
before they went to rest, the men of the city of Sodom compassed the house round
about both old and young, all the people from all quarters. And they called unto
Lot and said unto him: where are the men which came into thy house to night?
bring them out unto us that we may do our lust with them. And Lot went out at
doors unto them and shut the door after him and said: nay for god's {goddes}
sake brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold I have two daughters which have known
no man, them will I bring out unto you: do with them as it seemeth you good:
Only unto these men do nothing, for therefore came they under the shadow of my
roof. And they said: come hither. And they said: camest thou not in to sojourn,
and wilt thou be now a judge? we will surely deal worse with thee than with them.
And as they preased sore upon Lot and began to break up the door, the men put
forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door.
And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness both
small and great: so that they could not find the door. And the men said moreover
unto Lot: If thou have yet here any son-in-law or sons or daughters or
whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place: for we must
destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD. Wherefore
he hath sent us to destroy it. And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law
which should have married his daughters, and said: stond up and get yow out of
this place, for the LORD will destroy the city. But he seemed as though he had
mocked, unto his sons-in-law. And as the morning arose the angels caused Lot to
speed him saying. Stond up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is
at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city. And as he prolonged the time,
the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands, because
the LORD was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him without
the city. When they had brought them out, they said: Save thy life and look not
behind thee neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in
the mountain, lest thou perish. Then said Lot unto them: Oh nay my Lord: {lorde}
behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make thy
mercy great which thou shewest unto me in saving my life. For I can not save
myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die. Behold,
here is a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself
therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live? And he said to him: see
I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow
this city for the which thou hast spoken. Haste thee, and save thyself there,
for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither. And therefore the name of the
city is called Zoar. And the sun was upon the earth when Lot was entered into
Zoar. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorra, brimstone and fire from the
LORD out of heaven, and overthrew those cities and all the region, and all that
dwelled in the cities, and that that grew upon the earth. And Lot's wife looked
behind her, and was turned in to a pillar of salt. Abraham rose up early and got
him to the place where he stood before the LORD, and looked toward Sodom and
Gomorra and toward all the land of that country. And as he looked: behold, the
smoke of the country arose as it had been the smoke of a furnace. But yet when
God destroyed the cities of the region, he thought upon Abraha: and sent Lot out
from the danger of the overthrowing, when he overthrew the cities where Lot
dwelled. And Lot departed out of Zoar and dwelled in the mountains and his two
daughters with him for he feared to tarry in Zoar: he dwelt therefore in a cave,
both he and his two daughters also. Then said the elder unto the younger our
father is old, and there are no more men in the earth to come in unto us after
the manner of all the world. Come therefore, let us give our father wine to
drink, and let us lie with him that we may save seed of our father. And they
gave their father wine to drink that same night. And the elder daughter went and
lay with her father. And he perceived it not, neither when she lay down, neither
when she rose up. And on the morrow the elder said unto the younger: behold,
yesternight lay I with my father. Let us give him wine to drink this night also,
and go thou and lie with him, and let us save seed of our father. And they gave
their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose and lay with
him. And he perceived it not: neither when she lay down, neither when she rose
up. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the
elder bare a son and called him Moab, which is the father of the Moabites unto
this day. And the younger bare a son and called him Ben Ammi, which is the
father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
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And Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Cades
and Sur and sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sara his wife, that she was
his sister. Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent and fetched Sara away. And God
came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him: See, thou art but a dead
man for the woman's sake which thou hast taken away, for she is a man's wife.
But Abimelech had not yet come nye her, and therefore said: Lord {lorde} wilt
thou slay righteous people? said not he unto me, that she was his sister? yea
and said not she herself that he was her brother? with a pure heart and innocent
hands have I done this. And God said unto him in a dream. I wot it well that
thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart: And therefore I kept thee that thou
shouldest not sin against me, neither suffered I thee to come nigh her. Now
therefore deliver the man his wife again, for he is a prophet. And let him pray
for thee that thou mayst live. But and if thou deliver her not again, be sure
that thou shalt die the death, with all that thou hast. Then Abimelech rose up
be times in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things
in their ears, and the men were sore afraid. And Abimelech called Abraham and
said unto him: What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that
thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? thou hast done
deeds unto me that ought not to be done. And Abimelech said moreover unto
Abraham: What sawest thou that moved thee to do this thing? And Abraham answered.
I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they
should slay me for my wife's sake: yet in very deed she is my sister, the
daughter of my father, but not of my mother: and became my wife. And after God
caused me to wander out of my father's house, I said unto her: This kindness
shalt thou shew unto me in all places where we come, that thou say of me, how
that I am thy brother. Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen, menservants and
womenservants and gave them unto Abraham, and delivered him Sara his wife again.
And Abimelech said: behold the land lieth before thee, dwell where it pleaseth
thee best. And unto Sara he said: See I have given thy brother a thousand pieces
of silver, behold he {this thing} shall be a covering to thine eyes unto all
that are with thee and unto all men and an excuse. And so Abraham prayed unto
God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare.
For the LORD had closed to, all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because
of Sara Abraham's wife.
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The lord visited Sara as he had said and did unto her according as he had spoken.
{promised} And Sara was with child and bare Abraham a son in his old age even
the same season which the Lorde {|God|} had appointed. And Abraham called his
son's name that was born unto him which Sara bare him Isaac: and Abraham
circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God commanded him. And
Abraham was an hundred year old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. And Sara
said: God hath made me a laughing stock: for all that hear, will laugh at me.
She said also: who would have said unto Abraham, that Sara should have given
children suck, or that I should have borne him a son in his old age: The child
grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was
weaned. Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian which she had borne unto Abraham,
a mocking. Then she said unto Abraham: put away this bondmaid and her son: for
the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac: But the word
seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. Then the Lorde {|God|}
said unto Abraham: let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of
thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in
Isaac shall thy seed be called. Moreover of the son of the bondwoman will I make
a nation, because he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning and
took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her
shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up
and down in the wilderness of Berseba. When the water was spent that was in the
bottle, she cast the lad under a bush and went and sat her out of sight a great
way, as it were a bowshot off: For she said: I will not see the lad die. And she
sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept. And God heard the voice
of the child. And the angel of God called Hagar out of heaven and said unto her:
What aileth thee Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the child
where he lieth. Arise and lift up the lad, and take him in thy hand, for I will
make of him a great people. And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.
And she went and filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink. And God
was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Pharan. And his mother got him a wife out of
thee, land of Egypt. And it chanced the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol
his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying: God is with thee in all that thou
doest. Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me
nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me
and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I
have shewed thee. Then said Abraham: I will swear. And Abraham rebuked Abimelech
for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away. And Abimelech
answered I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it,
but this day. And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And
they made both of them a bond together. And Abraham set seven lambs by them
selves. And Abimelech said unto Abraham: what mean these seven lambs which thou
hast set by them selves. And he answered: seven lambs shalt thou take of my hand,
that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well: Wherefore the
place is called Berseba, because they sware both of them. Thus made they a bond
together at Berseba. Then Abimelech and Phicol his chief Captain rose up and
turned again unto the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a wood in
Berseba, and called there, on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God: and
dwelt in the Philistine land a long season.
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After these deeds, God did prove Abraham and said unto him: Abraham. And he
answered: here am I. And he said: take thy only son Isaac whom thou lovest, and
get thee unto the land of Moria, and sacrifice him there for a sacrifice upon
one of the mountains which I will shew thee. Then Abraham rose up early in the
morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his meiny with him, and Isaac his
sonne: and clove wood for the sacrifice, and rose up and got him to the place
which God had appointed him. The third day Abraham lift up his eyes and saw the
place afar off, and said unto his young men: bide here with the ass. I and the
lad will go yonder and worship and come again unto you. And Abraham took the
wood of the sacrifice and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took fire in his hand
and a knife. And they went both of them together. Then spake Isaac unto Abraham
his father and said: My father? And he answered here am I my son. And he said:
See here is fire and wood, but where is the sheep for sacrifice? And Abraham
said: my son, God will provide him a sheep for sacrifice. So went they both
together. And when they came unto the place which God shewed him, Abraham made
an altar there and dressed the wood, and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the
altar, above upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the
knife to have killed his son. Then the angel of the LORD called unto him from
heaven saying: Abraham, Abraham?. And he answered: here am I. And he said: lay
not thy hands upon the child, neither do anything at all unto him, for now I
know that thou fearest God, in that thou hast not kept thine only son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold, there was a ram
caught by the horns in a thicket. And he went and took the ram and offered him
up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the
place, the LORD will see: wherefore it is a common saying this day: in the mount
will the LORD be seen. And the angel of the LORD cried unto Abraham from heaven
the second time saying: by myself have I sworn (saith the LORD) because thou
hast done this thing and hast not spared thy only son, that I will bless thee
and multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the sea side.
And thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies. And in thy seed shall all
the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. So
turned Abraham again unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to
Berseba. And Abraham dwelt at Berseba. And it chanced after these things, that
one told Abraham saying: Behold, Milcha she hath also born children unto thy
brother Nachor: Hus his eldest son and Bus his brother, and Kemuel the father of
the Sirians, and Cesed, and Haso, and Pildas, and Iedlaph, and Bethuel. And
Bethuel begat Rebecca. These eight did Milcha bear to Nachor Abraham's brother.
And his concubine called Rheuma she bare also Tebah, Gaham, Thaas and Maacha.
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Sara was an hundred and twenty seven years old (for so long lived she) and then
died in a head city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to
mourn Sara and to weep for her. And Abraham stood up from the corpse, and talked
with the sons of Heth saying: I am a stranger and a foreigner among yow, give me
a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And
the children of Heth answered Abraham saying unto him: Hear us lord, thou art a
prince of God among us. In the chiefest of our sepulchers bury thy dead: None of
us shall forbid thee his sepulchre, that thou shouldest not bury thy dead
therein. Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land the
children of Heth. And he communed {comoned} with them saying: If it be your
minds that I shall bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and speak for me to
Ephron the son of Zoar: and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the
end of his field, for as much money as it is worth, let him give it me in the
presence of you, for a possession to bury in. For Ephron dwelled among the
children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham in the audience of
the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying:
Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I thee, and the cave that therein
is, give I thee also. And even in the presence of the sons of my people give I
it thee to bury thy dead in. Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the
land, and spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country saying:
I pray thee hear me, I will give silver for the field, take it of me, and so
will I bury my dead there. Ephron answered Abraham saying unto him: My lord,
hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is
that betwixt thee and me? bury thy dead. And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and
weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth.
Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants. Thus was the
field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre: even the field and the
cave that is therein and all the trees of the field which grow in all the
borders round about, made sure unto Abraham for a possession, in the sight of
the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the city. And then
Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before
Mamre, otherwise called Ebron in the land of Canaan. And so both the field and
the cave that is therein, was made unto Abraham, a sure possession to bury in,
of the sons of Heth.
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Abraham was old and stricken in days, and the LORD had blessed him in all things.
And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all
that he had: Put thy hand under my thigh that I may make thee swear by the LORD
that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto
my son, of the daughters of the Cananites, among which I dwell. But shalt go
unto my country and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son Isaac. Then
said the servant unto him: what and if the woman will not agree to come with me
unto this land, shall I bring thy son again unto the land which thou camest out
of? And Abraham said unto him: beware of that, that thou bring not my son
thither. The LORD God of heaven which took me from my father's house and from
the land where I was born, and which spake unto me and sware unto me saying:
unto thy seed will I give this land, he shall send his angel before thee, that
thou mayest take a wife unto my son from thence. Nevertheless if the woman will
not agree to come with thee then shalt thou be without danger of this oath. But
above all things bring not my son thither again. And the servant put his hand
under the thigh of Abraham and sware to him as concerning that matter. And the
servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, and had of all
manner goods of his master with him, and stood up and went to Mesopotamia, unto
the city of Nahor. And made his camels to lie down without the city by a well's
side of water, at even: about the time that women come out to draw water, and he
said: LORD God of my master Abraham, send me good speed this day, and shew mercy
unto my master Abraham. Lo I stond here by the well of water and the daughters
of the men of this city will come out to draw water: Now the damsel to whom I
say, stoop down thy pitcher, and let me drink. If she say: Drink, and I will
give thy camels drink also, the same is she that thou hast ordained for thy
servant Isaac: yea and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed mercy on my
master. And it came to pass yer he had left speaking, that Rebecca came out, the
daughter of Bethuel, son to Milkah the wife of Nahor Abraham's brother, and her
pitcher upon her shoulder: The damsel was very fair to look upon, and yet a maid
and unknown of man. And she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and
came up again. Then the servant ran unto her and said: let me sip a little water
of thy pitcher. And she said: drink my lord. And she hasted and let down her
pitcher upon her arm and gave him drink. And when she had given him drink, she
said: I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough. And
she poured out her pitcher into the trough hastily, and ran again unto the well,
to fetch water: and drew for all his camels. And the fellow wondered at her. But
held his peace, to wete whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
And as the camels had left drinking, he took an earing of half a sicle weight,
and two bracelets for her hands, of ten sicles weight of gold, and said unto her:
Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there room in thy father's house, for us to
lodge in? And she said unto him: I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milkah
which she bare unto Nahor: and said moreover unto him: we have litter and
provender enough and also room to lodge in. And the man bowed himself and
worshipped the LORD, and said: blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham
which ceaseth not to deal mercifully and truly with my master. And {|For the
LORDe|} hath brought me the way to my master's brother's house. And the damsel
ran and told them of her mother's house these things. And Rebecca had a brother
called Laban. And Laban ran out unto the man, to the well: for as soon as he had
seen the earings and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and heard the words
of Rebecca his sister saying thus said the man unto me, then he went out unto
the man. And lo, he stood yet with the camels by the well side. And Laban said:
come in thou blessed of the LORD. Wherefore stondest thou without? I have
dressed the house and made room for the camels. And then the man came in to the
house: and he unbridled the camels: and brought litter and provender for the
camels, and water to wash his feet and their feet that were with him, and there
was meat set before him to eat. But he said: I will not eat, until I have said
mine errand: And he said: say on; And he said: I am Abraham's servant, and the
LORD hath blessed my master out of measure that he is become great and hath
given him sheep, oxen, silver and gold, menservants, maidservants, camels and
asses. And Sara my master's wife bare him a son, when she was old: and unto him
hath he given all that he hath. And my master made me swear saying: Thou shalt
not take a wife to my son, among the daughters of the Cananites in whose land I
dwell. But thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred, and there
take a wife unto my son. And I said unto my master: What if the wife will not
follow me? And he said unto me: The LORD before whom I walk, will send his angel
with thee, and prosper thy journey that thou shalt take a wife for my son, of my
kindred and of my father's house. But and if (when thou comest unto my kindred)
they will not give thee one, then shalt thou bear no peril of mine oath. And I
came this day unto the well and said: O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if
it be so that thou makest my journey which I go, prosperous: behold, I stond by
this well of water, and when a virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to
her: give me a little water of thy pitcher to drink, and she say again to me:
drink thou, and I will also draw water for thy camels: that same is the wife,
whom the LORD hath prepared for my master's son. And before I had made an end of
speaking in mine heart: behold Rebecca came forth, and her pitcher on her
shoulder, and she went down unto the well and drew. And I said unto her give me
drink. And she made haste, and took down her pitcher from off her, and said:
drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. And I drank, and she gave the
camels drink also. And I asked her saying: whose daughter art thou? And she
answered: the daughter of Bathuel Nahor's son, whom Milkah bare unto him. And I
put the earing upon her face and the bracelets upon her hands. And I bowed
myself, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham
which had brought me the right way, to take my master's brother's daughter unto
his son. Now therefore if ye will deal mercifully and truly with my master, tell
me: And if not, tell me also: that I may turn me to the right hand or to the
left. Then answered Laban and Bathuel saying: The thing is proceeded even out of
the LORD, {lorde} we can not therefore say unto thee, either good or bad: Behold
Rebecca before thy face, take her and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife,
even as the LORD hath said. And when Abraham's servant heard their words, he
bowed himself unto the LORD, flat upon the earth. And the servant took forth
jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment, and gave them to Rebecca: But
unto her brother and to her mother, he gave spices. And then they ate and drank,
both he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night and rose up in the
morning. And he said: let me depart unto my master. But her brother and her
mother said: let the damsel abide with us a while, and it be but even ten days,
and then go thy ways. And he said unto them, hinder me not: for the LORD {lorde}
hath prospered my journey. Send me away that I may go unto my master. And they
said: let us call the damsel, and wit what she saith to the matter. And they
called forth Rebecca and said unto her: wilt thou go with this man? And she said:
Yea. Then they brought Rebecca their sister on the way and her nurse and
Abraham's servant, and the men that were with him. And they blessed Rebecca and
said unto her: Thou art our sister, grow into thousand thousands, and thy seed
possess the gates of their enemies. And Rebecca arose and her damsels, and sat
them up upon the camels and went their way after the man. And the servant took
Rebecca and went his way. And Isaac was a coming from the well of the living and
seeing, for he dwelt in the south country, and was gone out to walk in his
meditations before the even tide. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and behold
the camels were coming. And Rebecca lift up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac,
she lighted off the camel, and said unto the servant: what man is this that
cometh against us in the field? And the servant said: it is my master. And then
she took her mantle, and put it about her. And the servant told Isaac all that
he had done. Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took
Rebecca and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted
over his mother.
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Abraham took him another wife called Ketura, which bare him Simran, Iacksan,
Medan, Midian, Iesback and Suah. And Iacksan begat Seba and Dedan. And the sons
of Dedan were Assurim, Letusim and Leumim. And the sons of Midian were Epha,
Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Elda. All these were the children of Bethura. {Ketura}
But Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. And unto the sons of his concubines
he gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son (while he yet lived)
eastward, unto the east country. These are the days of the life of Abraham which
he lived: an hundred and seventy five year and then fell sick and died, in a
lusty age (when he had lived enough) and was put unto his people. And his sons
Isaac and Ismael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron son, of
Zoar the Hethite before Mamre. Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth:
There was Abraham buried and Sara his wife. And after the death of Abraham God
blessed Isaac his son, which dwelt by the well of the living and seeing. These
are the generations of Ismael Abraham's son, which Hagar the Egyptian Sara's
handmaid bare unto Abraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ismael, with
their names in their kindreds. The eldest son of Ismael, Nevatoth, then Redar,
Adbeel, Mibsam, Misma, Duma, Masa, Hadar, Thema, Ietur, Naphis and Kedma. These
are the sons of Ismael, and these are their names, in their towns and castles
twelve princes of nations. And these are the years of the life of Ismael: an
hundred and thirty seven years, and then he fell sick and died, and was laid
unto his people. And he dwelt from Evila unto Sur that is before Egypt, as men
go toward the Assyrians. And he died in the presence of all his brethren. And
these are the generations of Isaac Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac. And Isaac
was forty years old when he took Rebecca to wife the daughter of Bethuel the
Sirian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Sirian. And Isaac made
intercession unto the LORD for his wife: because she was barren: and the LORD
was entreated of him, and Rebecca his wife conceived: and the children strove
together within her. Then she said: if it should go so to pass, what helpeth it
that I am with child? And she went and asked the LORD. And the LORD said unto
her there are two manner of people in thy womb, and two nations shall spring out
of thy bowels, and the one nation shall be mightier than the other and the
eldest shall be servant unto the younger. And when her time was come to be
delivered: behold there were two twins in her womb. And he that came out first,
was red and rough over all as it were an hide: and they called his name Esau.
And afterward his brother came out and his hand holding Esau by the heel.
Wherefore his name was called Iacob. And Isaac was forty years old when she bare
them: and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But
Iacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents. Isaac loved Esau because he did
eat of his venison, but Rebecca loved Iacob. Iacob sod pottage, and Esau came
from the field and was fainty, and said to Iacob: let me sip of that red pottage,
for I am fainty. And therefore was his name called Edom. And Iacob said: sell me
this day thy birthright. And Esau answered: Lo I am at the point to die, and
what profit shall this birthright do me? And Iacob said, swear to me then this
day. And he swore to him and sold his birthright unto Iacob. Then Iacob gave
Esau bread and pottage of red rice. And he ate and drank and rose up and went
his way. And so Esau regarded not his birthright.
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And there fell a dearth in the land, passing the first dearth that fell in the
days of Abraham. Wherefore Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines
unto Gerar. Then the LORD appeared unto him and said: go not down into Egypt,
but bide in the land which I say unto thee: Sojourn in this land, and I will be
with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all
these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy
father, and will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto
thy seed all these countries. And thorow thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed, because that Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept mine
ordinances, commandments, statutes and laws. And Isaac dwelled in Gerar. And the
men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said that she was his sister: for
he feared to call her his wife lest the men of the place should have killed him
for her sake, because she was beautiful to the eye. And it happened after he had
been there long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a
window, and saw Isaac sporting with Rebecca his wife. And Abimelech sent for
Isaac and said: see, she is of a surety thy wife, and why saidest thou that she
was thy sister? And Isaac said unto him: I thought that I might peradventure
have died for her sake. Then said Abimelech: why hast thou done this unto us?
one of the people might lightly have lain by thy wife and so shouldest thou have
brought sin upon us. Then Abimelech charged all his people saying: he that
toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely die for it. And Isaac sowed in the
land, and found in the same year an hundred bushels: for the LORD blessed him,
and the man waxed mighty, and went forth and grew till he was exceeding great,
that he had possession of sheep, of oxen and a mighty household: so that the
Philistines had envy at him: Insomuch that they stopped and filled up with earth,
all the wells which his father's servants digged in his father Abraham's time.
Then said Abimelech unto Isaac: get thee from me, for thou art mightier than we
a great deal. Then Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley
Gerar and dwelt there. And Isaac digged again, the wells of water which they
digged in the days of Abraham his father which the Philistines had stopped after
the death of Abraham, and gave them the same names which his father gave them.
As Isaac's servants digged in the valley, they found a well of springing
{living} water. And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen saying:
the water is ours. Then called he the well Eseck because they strove with him.
Then digged they another well, and they strove for that also. Therefore called
he it Sitena. And then he departed thence, and digged another well for the which
they strove not: therefore called he it Rehoboth, saying: the LORD hath now made
us room, and we are increased upon the earth. Afterward departed he thence and
came to Berseba. And the LORD appeared unto him the same night and said: I am
the God of Abraham thy father, fear not for I am with thee, and will bless thee,
and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. And then he builded an
altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and there pitched his tent.
And there Isaac's servants digged a well. Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar
and Ahusath his friend and Phicoll his chief captain. And Isaac said unto them:
wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have put me away from you? Then
said they: we saw that the LORD was with thee, and therefore we said that there
should be an oath betwixt us and thee, and that we would make a bond with thee:
that thou shouldest do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and have done
unto thee nothing but good, and send thee away in peace: for thou art now the
blessed of the LORD. And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. And they
rose up by times in the morning and sware one to another. And Isaac sent them
away. And they departed from him in peace. And the same day came Isaac's
servants, and told him of a well which they had digged: and said unto him, that
they had found water. And he called it Seba, wherefore the name of the city is
called Berseba unto this day. When Esau was forty years old, he took to wife
Iudith the daughter of Bery an Hethite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon an
Hethite also, which were disobedient unto Isaac and Rebecca.
Chapter
.xxvij.
And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old and his eyes were dim, so that he could
not see. Then called he Esau his eldest son and said unto him: my son. And he
said unto him: here am I. And he said: behold, I am old and know not the day of
my death: Now therefore take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and get thee
to the fields, and take me some venison, and make me meat such as I love, and
bring it me and let me eat that my soul may bless thee before that I die. But
Rebecca heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And as soon as Esau was gone to
the field to catch venison, and to bring it, she spake unto Iacob her son saying:
Behold I have heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother and saying: bring
me venison and make me meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the LORD yer I
die. Now therefore my son hear my voice in that which I command thee: get thee
to the flock, and bring me thence two good kids, and I will make meat of them
for thy father, such as he loveth. And thou shalt bring it to thy father and he
shall eat, that he may bless thee before his death. Then said Iacob to Rebecca
his mother: Behold Esau my brother is rough and I am smooth. My father shall
peradventure feel me, and I shall seem unto him as though I went about to
beguile him, and so shall he bring a curse upon me and not a blessing: and his
mother said unto him. Upon me be thy curse my son, only hear my voice, and go
and fetch me them. And Iacob went and fetched them and brought them to his
mother. And his mother made meat of them, according as his father loved. And she
went and fetched goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau which she had in the
house with her, and put them upon Iacob her youngest son, and she put the skins
upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck. And she put the meat and bread
which she had made in the hand of her son Iacob. And he went in to his father
saying: my father. And he answered: here am I, who art thou my son? And Iacob
said unto his father: I am Esau thy eldest son, I have done according as thou
baddest me, up and sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. But
Isaac said unto his son: How cometh it that thou hast found it so quickly my
son? He answered: The LORD thy God brought it to my hand. Then said Isaac unto
Iacob: come near and let me feel thee my son, whether thou be my son Esau or not.
Then went Iacob to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said the voice is
Iacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he knew him not, because
his hands were rough as his brother Esau's hands and so he blessed him. And he
asked him, art thou my son Esau? And he said: that I am. Then said he: bring me
and let me eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought
him, and he ate. And he brought him wine also, and he drank. And his father
Isaac said unto him: come near and kiss me my son. And he went to him and kissed
him. And he smelled the savour of his raiment and blessed him, and said See, the
smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD {lorde} hath blessed.
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth and plenty
of corn and wine. People be thy servants and nations bow unto thee. Be lord over
thy brethren, and thy mother's children stoop unto thee. Cursed be he that
curseth thee, and blessed {lessed} be he that blesseth thee. As soon as Isaac
had made an end of blessing Iacob, and Iacob was scarce gone out from the
presence of Isaac his father: then came Esau his brother from his hunting: and
had made also meat, and brought it in unto his father and said unto him: Arise
my father and eat of thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. Then his
father Isaac said unto him: Who art thou? he answered I am thy eldest son Esau.
And Isaac was greatly astonied out of measure, and said: Where is he then that
hath hunted venison and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou
camest, and have blessed him, and he shall be blessed still. When Esau heard the
words of his father, he cried out greatly and bitterly above measure, and said
unto his father: bless me also my father. And he said thy brother came with
subtlety, and hath taken away thy blessing. Then said he: He may well be called
Iacob, for he hath undermined me now two times, first he took away my birthright:
and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also. And he said, hast thou kept
never a blessing for me? Isaac answered and said unto Esau: behold I have made
him thy lord, {LORde} and all his mother's children have I made his servants.
Moreover with corn and wine have I stablished him, what can I do unto thee now
my son? And Esau said unto his father: hast thou but that one blessing my father?
bless me also my father: so lifted up Esau his voice and wept. Then Isaac his
father answered and said unto him: Behold thy dwelling place shall have of the
fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. And with thy sword
shalt thou live and shalt be thy brother's servant; But the time will come, when
thou shalt get the mastery, and lowse his yoke from off thy neck. And Esau hated
Iacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in
his heart: The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my
brother Iacob. And these words of Esau her eldest son, were told to Rebecca. And
she sent and called Iacob her youngest son, and said unto him: behold thy
brother Esau threateneth to kill thee: Now therefore my son hear my voice, make
thee ready, and flee to Laban my brother at Haran: And tarry with him a while,
until thy brother's fierceness be swaged, and until thy brother's wrath turn
away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him. Then will I send
and fetch thee away from thence. Why should I lose you both in one day? And
Rebecca spake to Isaac: I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth.
If Iacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the
daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?
Chapter
.xxviij.
Then Isaac called Iacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto
him: see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan, but arise and get thee
to Mesopotamia to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father: and there take thee
a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. And God almighty bless
thee, increase thee, and multiply thee that thou mayest be a number of people,
and give thee the blessing of Abraham: both to thee and to thy seed with thee,
that thou mayest possess the land (wherein thou art a stranger) which God gave
unto Abraham. Thus Isaac sent forth Iacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son
of Bethuel the Sirien, and brother to Rebecca Iacob's and Esau's mother. When
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Iacob, and sent him to Mesopotamia, to fetch him
a wife thence, and that, as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying: see thou
take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan: and that Iacob had obeyed his father
and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia: and seeing also that the daughters of
Canaan pleased not Isaac his father: Then went he unto Ismael, and took unto the
wives which he had, Mahala the daughter of Ismael Abraham's son, the sister of
Nabaioth to be his wife. Iacob departed from Berseba and went toward Haran, and
came unto a place and tarried there all night, because the son was down. And
took a stone of the place, and put it under his head, and laid him down in the
same place to sleep. And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the
earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went
up and down upon it, yea and the LORD stood upon it and said: I am the LORD God
of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which thou sleepest upon
will I give thee and thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth:
And thou shalt spread abroad: west, east, north and south. And thorow thee and
thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. And see I am with thee,
and will be thy keeper in all places whother thou goest, and will bring thee
again into this land: Neither will I leave thee until I have made good, all that
I have promised thee. When Iacob was awaked out of his sleep, he said: surely
the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware. And he was afraid and said how
fearful is this place? it is none other, but even the house of God and the gate
of heaven. And Iacob stood up early in the morning and took the stone that he
had laid under his head, and pitched it up on end, and poured oil on the top of
it. And he called the name of the place Bethel, for indeed the name of the city
was called Lus before time. And Iacob vowed a vow, saying: If God will be with
me and will keep me in this journey which I go and will give me bread to eat,
and clothes to put on, so that I come again unto my father's house in safety:
then shall the LORD be my God, and this stone which I have set up an end, shall
be God's {godes} house. And of all that thou shalt give me, will I give the
tenth unto thee.
Chapter
.xxix.
Then Iacob lift up his feet, and went toward the east country. And as he looked
about, behold there was a well in the field, and three flocks of sheep lay
thereby (for at that well were the flocks watered) and there lay a great stone
at the well mouth. And the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll
the stone from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone
again upon the well's mouth unto his place. And Iacob said unto them: brethren,
whence be ye? And they said: of Haran are we. And he said unto them: Know ye
Laban the son of Nahor. And they said: We know him. And he said unto them: is he
in good health? And they said: he is in good health: and behold, his daughter
Rahel cometh with the sheep. And he said: lo, it is yet a great while to night,
neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water the sheep
and go and feed them. And they said: we may not, until all the flocks be brought
together, and the stone be rolled from the well's mouth, and so we water our
sheep. While he yet talked with them, Rahel came with her father's sheep, for
she kept them. As soon as Iacob saw Rahel, the daughter of Laban his mother's
brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, he went and rolled the
stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.
And Iacob kissed Rahel, and lift up his voice and wept: and told her also that
he was her father's brother and Rebecca's son. Then Rahel ran and told her
father. When Laban heard tell of Iacob his sister's son, he ran against him, and
embraced him and kissed him and brought him into his house. And then Iacob told
Laban all the matter. And then Laban said: well, thou art my bone and my flesh.
Abide with me the space of a month. And afterward Laban said unto Iacob: though
thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me what
shall thy wages be? And Laban had two daughters, the eldest called Lea and the
youngest Rahel. Lea was tender eyed, but Rahel was beautiful and well favored.
And Iacob loved her well, and said: I will serve thee seven years for Rahel thy
youngest daughter. And Laban answered: it is better that I give her thee, than
to another man: bide therefore with me. And Iacob served seven years for Rahel,
and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And Iacob
said unto Laban: give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time
appointed me is come. Then Laban bade all the men of that place, and made a
feast. And when even was come, he took Lea his daughter and brought her to him
and he went in unto her. And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea, Zilpha his maid,
to be her servant. And when the morning was come, behold it was Lea. Than said
he to Laban: wherefore hast thou played thus with me? did not I serve thee for
Rahel, wherefore then hast thou beguiled me? Laban answered: it is not the
manner of this place, to marry the youngest before the eldest. Pass out this
week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt
serve me yet seven years more. And Iacob did even so, and passed out that week,
and then he gave him Rahel his daughter to wife also. And Laban gave to Rahel
his daughter, Bilha his handmaid to be her servant. So lay he by Rahel also, and
loved Rahel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more. When the LORD
saw that Lea was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rahel was barren. And Lea
conceived and bare a son, and called his name Ruben, for she said: the LORD hath
looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me. And she conceived
again and bare a son, and said: the LORD hath heard that I am despised, and hath
therefore given me this son also, and she called him Simeon. And she conceived
yet and bare a son, and said: now this once will my husband keep me company,
because I have borne him three sons: and therefore she called his name Levi. And
she conceived yet again, and bare a son saying: Now will I praise the LORD:
therefore she called his name Iuda, and left bearing.
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.xxx.
When Rahel saw that she bare Iacob no children, she envied her sister and said
unto Iacob: give me children, or else I am but dead. Then was Iacob wroth with
Rahel saying: Am I in God's {godes} stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of
thy womb? Then she said: here is my maid Bilha: go in unto her, that she may
bear upon my lap, that I may be increased by her. And she gave him Bilha her
handmaid to wife. And Iacob went in unto her: And Bilha conceived and bare Iacob
a son. Then said Rahel: God hath given sentence on my side, and hath also heard
my voice, and hath given me a son. Therefore called she him Dan. And Bilha
Rahel's maid conceived again, and bare Iacob another son. And Rahel said. God is
turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the upper hand.
And she called his name Naphtali. When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she
took Silpha her maid, and gave her Iacob to wife. And Silpha Lea's maid bare
Iacob a son. Then said Lea: Good luck: and called his name Gad. And Silpha Lea's
maid bare Iacob another son. Then said Lea: happy am I, for the daughters will
call me blessed. And called his name Asser. And Ruben went out in the wheat
harvest and found mandragoras in the fields, and brought them unto his mother
Lea. Then said Rahel to Lea give me of thy son's mandragoras. And Lea answered:
Is it not enough, that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away
my son's mandragoras also? Then said Rahel well, let him sleep with thee this
night, for thy son's mandragoras. And when Iacob came from the fields at even,
Lea went out to meet him, and said: come in to me, for I have bought thee with
my son's mandragoras. And he slept with her that night. And God heard Lea, that
she conceived and bare unto Iacob the fifth son. Then said Lea: God hath given
me my reward, because I gave my maiden to my husband, and she called him Isachar.
And Lea conceived yet again and bare Iacob the sixth son. Then said she: God
hath endued me with a good dowry. Now will my husband dwell with me, because I
have borne him six sons: and called his name Zabulon. After that she bare a
daughter, and called her Dina. And God remembered Rahel, heard her, and made her
fruitful: so that she conceived and bare a son, and said God hath taken away my
rebuke. And she called his name Ioseph saying: The LORD {lorde} give me yet
another son. As soon as Rahel had borne Ioseph, Iacob said to Laban: Send me
away that I may go unto mine own place and country, give me my wives and my
children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what
service I have done thee. Then said Laban unto him: If I have found favour in
thy sight (for I suppose that the LORD {|God|} hath blessed me for thy sake)
appoint what thy reward shall be, and I will give it thee. But he said unto him,
thou knowest what service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have
been under me: For it was but little that thou hadst before I came, and now it
is increased into a multitude, and the LORD hath blessed thee for my sake. But
now when shall I make provision for mine own house also? And he said: what shall
I give thee? And Iacob answered: thou shalt give me nothing at all, if thou wilt
do this one thing for me: And then will I turn again and feed thy sheep and keep
them. I will go about all thy sheep this day, and separate from them all the
sheep that are spotted and of divers colours, and all black sheep among the
lambs and the party and spotted among the kids: And then such shall be my reward.
So shall my righteousness answer for me: when the time cometh that I shall
receive my reward of thee: So that whatsoever is not speckled and party among
the goats and black among the lambs, let that be theft with me. Then said Laban:
Lo, I am content, that it be according as thou hast said. And he took out that
same day the he goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats
that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in them, and all
the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons, and set
three days' journey betwixt himself and Iacob. And so Iacob kept the rest of
Laban's sheep. Iacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and of chestnut trees,
and pilled white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves: And he
put the staves which he had pilled, even before the sheep, in the gutters and
watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink: that they should conceive when
they came to drink. And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth
streaked, spotted and party. Then Iacob parted the lambs, and turned the faces
of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black things thorow
out the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by them self, which
he put not unto the flocks of Laban. And alway in the first bucking time of the
sheep, Iacob put the staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might
conceive before the staves: But in the latter bucking time, he put them not
there: so the last brood was Laban's and the first Iacob's. And the man became
exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.
Chapter
.xxxj.
And Iacob heard the words of Laban's sons how they said: Iacob hath taken away
all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this
honour. And Iacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as
it was in times past. And the LORD said unto Iacob: turn again into the land of
thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. Then Iacob sent and
called Rahel and Lea to the field unto his sheep, and said unto them: I see your
father's countenance, that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the
God of my father hath been with me. And ye know how that I have served your
father with all my might. And your father hath deceived {disceaved} me and
changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me. When he said
the spotted shall be thy wages, then all the sheep bare spotted. If he said, the
streaked shall be thy reward, then bare all the sheep streaked: thus hath God
taken away your father's cattle and given them me. For in bucking time, I lifted
up mine eyes and saw in a dream: and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were
streaked, spotted and party. And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream
saying: Iacob?. And I answered: here am I. And he said: lift up thine eyes and
see how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are streaked, spotted and party:
for I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee. I am the God of Bethel where thou
anointedest the stone and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get
thee out of this country, and return unto the land where thou wast born. Then
answered Rahel and Lea and said unto him: we have no part nor inheritance in our
father's house: he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath
even eaten up the price of us. Moreover all the riches which God hath taken from
our father, that is ours and our children's. Now therefore whatsoever God hath
said unto thee, that do. Then Iacob rose up and set his sons and wives up upon
camels, and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had
gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan
Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rahel had stolen her father's images. And
Iacob went away unknowing to {Iacob stale away the heart of} Laban the Sirian,
and told him not that he fled. So fled he and all that he had, and made himself
ready, and passed over the rivers, and set his face straight toward the mount
Gilead. Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Iacob was fled. Then he
took his brethren with him and followed after him seven days' journey, and
overtook him at the mount Gilead. And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by
night, and said unto him: take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Iacob
ought save good. And Laban overtook Iacob: and Iacob had pitched his tent in
that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount
Gilead. Then said Laban to Iacob: why hast thou this done unknowing to me, {done
to steal away my heart} and hast carried away my daughters as though they had
been taken captive with sword? Wherefore wentest thou away secretly unknown to
me and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth,
singing, timbrels and harps, and hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my
daughters?. Thou wast a fool to do it, for I am able to do you evil. But the God
of your father spake unto me yesterday saying take heed that thou speak not to
Iacob ought save good. And now though thou wentest thy way because thou longest
after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods? Iacob answered
and said to Laba: because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have
taken away thy daughters from me. But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let
him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee:
for Iacob wist not that Rahel had stolen them. Then went Laban into Iacob's tent,
and into Lea's tent, and into two maidens' tents: but found them not. Then went
he out of Lea's tent, and entered into Rahel's tent. And Rahel took the images,
and put them in the camel's straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched
all the tent: but found them not. Then said she to her father: my lord, be not
angry that I can not rise up before thee, for the disease of women is come upon
me. So searched he, but found them not. Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban:
Iacob also answered and said to him: what have I trespassed or what have I
offended, that thou followedest after me? Thou hast searched all my stuff, and
what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? put it here before thy brethren
and mine, and let them judge betwixt us both. This twenty years that I have been
with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not been barren, and the rams of thy
flock have I not eaten. Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee,
but made it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen
by day or night. Moreover by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night,
and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house,
and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy
sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times. And except the God of my
father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me:
surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and
the labour of my, hands: and rebuked thee yesterday. Laban answered and said
unto Iacob: the daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children,
and the sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest is mine. And what can I do
this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
Now therefore come on, let us make a bond, I and thou together, and let it be a
witness between thee and me. Then took Iacob a stone and set it up on end, and
said unto his brethren, gather stones. And they took stones, and made an heap,
and they ate there, upon the heap. And Laban called it Zegar Sahadutha, but
Iacob called Gilead. Then said Laban: this heap be witness between thee and me
this day (therefore is it called Gilead) and this toot hill which the LORD {lorde}
seeth (said he) be witness between me and thee when we are departed one from
another: that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives
unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me.
And Laban said moreover to Iacob: behold, this heap and this mark which I have
set here, betwixt me and thee: this heap be witness and also this mark, that I
will not come over this heap to thee, and thou shalt not come over this heap and
this mark, to do any harm. The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor and the God of
their fathers, be judge betwixt us. And Iacob sware by him that his father Isaac
feared. Then Iacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat
bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill. And early in the
morning Laban rose up and kissed his children and his daughters, and blessed
them and departed and went unto his place again.
Chapter
.xxxij.
But Iacob went forth on his journey. And the angels of God came and met him. And
when Iacob saw them, he said: this is God's {godes} host: and called the name of
that same place Mahanaim. Iacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother,
unto the land of Seir and the field of Edom. And he commanded them saying: see
that ye speak after this manner to my lord Esau: thy servant, Iacob sayeth thus;
I have sojourned and been a stranger with Laban unto this time: and have gotten
oxen, asses and sheep, menservants and womenservants, and have sent to shew it
my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight. And the messengers came again to
Iacob saying: we came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee and four
hundred men with him. Then was Iacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to
turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and
camels, into two companies, and said: If Esau come to the one part and smite it,
the other may save itself. And Iacob said: O God of my father Abraham, and God
of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, return unto thy country and to
thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee. I am not worthy of the least of all
the mercies and truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant. For with my staff
came I over this Iordan, and now have I gotten two droves. Deliver me from the
hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him: lest he will come and smite the mother
with the children. Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and
wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for
multitude. And he tarried there that same night, and took of that which came to
hand, a present, unto Esau his brother: Two hundred she goats and twenty he
goats: two hundred sheep and twenty rams: thirty milch camels with their colts:
forty kine and ten bulls: twenty she asses and ten foals and delivered them unto
his servants, every drove by them selves, and said unto them: go forth before me
and put a space betwixt every drove. And he commanded the foremost, saying: When
Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee saying: whose servant art thou and
whither goest thou, and whose are these that go before thee: thou shalt say,
they be thy servant Iacob's, and are a present sent unto my lord Esau, and
behold, he himself cometh after us. And so commanded he the second, and even so
the third, and likewise all that followed the droves saying, of this manner see
that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him, and say moreover. Behold thy servant
Iacob cometh after us, for he said. I will pease his wrath with the present that
goeth before me and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will
receive me to grace. So went the present before him and he tarried all that
night in the tent, and rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two
maidens and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Iabok. And he took them and
sent them over the river, and sent over that he had and tarried behind himself
alone. And there wrestled a man with him unto the breaking of the day. And when
he saw that he could not prevail against him, he smote him under the thigh, and
the sinew of Iacob's thigh shrank as he wrestled with him. And he said: let me
go, for the day breaketh. And he said: I will not let thee go, except thou bless
me. And he said unto him: what is thy name? He answered: Iacob. And he said:
thou shalt be called Iacob no more, but Israel. For thou hast wrestled with God
and with men and hast prevailed. And Iacob asked him saying, tell me thy name.
And he said, wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.
And Iacob called the name of the place Pheniel, for I have seen God face to face,
and yet is my life reserved. And as he went over Peniel, the sun rose upon him,
and he halted upon his thigh: wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the
sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Iacob
under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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.xxxiij.
Iacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four hundred
men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rahel and unto the two
maidens. And he put the maidens and their children foremost, and Lea and her
children after, and Rahel and Ioseph hindermost. And he went before them and
fell on the ground seven times, until he came unto his brother. Esau ran against
{to meet} him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they
wept. And he lift up his eyes and saw the wives and their children, and said:
what are these which thou there hast? And he said: they are the children which
God hath given thy servant. Then came the maidens forth, and did their obeisance.
Lea also and her children came and did their obeisance. And last of all came
Ioseph and Rahel and did their obeisance. And he said: what meanest thou with
all the droves which I met? And he answered: to find grace in the sight of my
lord. And Esau said: I have enough my brother, keep that thou hast unto thyself.
Iacob answered: oh nay but if I have found grace in thy sight, receive my
present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of
God: wherefore receive me to grace and take my blessing that I have brought thee,
for God hath given it me freely. And I have enough of all things. And so he
compelled him to take it. And he said: let us take our journey and go, and I
will go in thy company. And he said unto him: my lord knoweth that I have tender
children, ewes and kine with young, under mine hand, which if men should
overdrive but even one day, the whole flock would die. Let my lord therefore go
before his servant and I will drive fair and softly, according as the cattle
that goeth before me and the children, be able to endure: until I come to my
lord unto Seir. And Esau said: let me yet leave some of my folk with thee. And
he said: what needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord. So Esau
went his way again that same day unto Seir. And Iacob took his journey toward
Sucoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: whereof the name
of the place is called Sucoth. And Iacob went to Salem {came peaceably in} to
the city of Sichem in the land of Canaan, after that he was come from
Mesopotamia, and pitched before the city, and bought a parcel of ground where he
pitched his tent, of the children of Hemor Sichem's father, for an hundred lambs;
And he made there an altar, and there called upon the mighty God of Israel.
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.xxxiiij.
Dina the daughter of Lea which she bare unto Iacob, went out to see the
daughters of the land. And Sichem the son of Hemor the Hevite lord of the
country, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and forced her: and his heart
lay unto Dina the daughter of Iacob. And he loved the damsel and spake kindly
unto her, and spake unto his father Hemor saying, get me this maiden unto my
wife. And Iacob heard that he had defiled Dina his daughter, but his sons were
with the cattle in the field, and therefore he held his peace, until they were
come. Then Hemor the father of Sichem went out unto Iacob, to commune with him.
And the sons of Iacob came out of the field as soon as they heard it, for it
grieved them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in
Israel, in that he had lain with Iacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be
done. And Hemor communed with them saying: the soul of my son Sichem longeth for
your daughter: give her him to wife, and make marriages with us: give your
daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you, and dwell with us, and the
land shall be at your pleasure, dwell and do your business, and have your
possessions therein. And Sichem said unto her father and her brethren: let me
find grace in your eyes, and whatsoever ye appoint me, that will I give. Ask
freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto
me, and give me the damsel to wife. Then the sons of Iacob answered to Sichem
and Hemor his father deceitfully, because he had defiled Dina their sister. And
they said unto them, we can not do this thing, that we should give our sister to
one that is uncircumcised, for that were a shame unto us. Only in this will we
consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that all the men children among you be
circumcised, then will we give our daughter to you and take yours to us, and
will dwell with you and be one people. But and if ye will not hearken unto us to
be circumcised, than will we take our daughter and go our ways. And their words
pleased Hemor and Sichem his son. And the young man deferred not for to do the
thing, because he had a lust to Iacob's daughter: he was also most set by of all
that were in his father's house. Then Hemor and Sichem went unto the gate of
their city, and communed with the men of their city saying: These men are
peaceable with us, and will dwell in the land and do their occupation therein;
And in the land is room enough for them, let us take their daughters to wives
and give them ours: only herein will they consent unto us for to dwell with us
and to be one people: if all the men children that are among us be circumcised
as they are. Their goods and their substance and all their cattle are ours, only
let us consent unto them, that they may dwell with us. And unto Hemor and Sichem
his son hearkened all that went out at the gate of his city. And all the men
children were circumcised whatsoever went out at the gates of his city. And the
third day when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Iacob, Simeon and Levi
Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly,
and slew all that was male, and slew also Hemor and Sichem his son with the edge
of the sword, and took Dina their sister out of Sichem's house, and went their
way. Then came the sons of Iacob upon the deed, and spoiled the city, because
they had defiled their sister: and took their sheep, oxen, asses and whatsoever
was in the city and also in the fields. And all their goods, all their children
and their wives took they captive, and made havoc of all that was in the houses.
And Iacob said to Simeon and Levi: ye have troubled me and made me stink unto
the inhabiters of the land, both to the Cananites and also unto the Pherezites.
And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather them selves together against
me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed. And they answered:
should they deal with our sister as with an whore?
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.xxxv.
And God said unto Iacob, arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And
make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from
Esau thy brother. Then said Iacob unto his household and to all that were with
him, put away the strange gods that are among you and make your selves clean,
and change your garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make
an altar there, unto God which heard me in the day of my tribulation and was
with me in the way which I went. And they gave unto Iacob all the strange gods
which were under their hands, and all their earings which were in their ears,
and Iacob hid them under an oak at Sichem. And they departed. And the fear of
God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that they durst not follow
after the sons of Iacob. So came Iacob to Lus in the land of Canaan, otherwise
called Bethel, with all the people that was with him. And he builded there an
altar, and called the place Elbethel: because that God {|the LORDe|} appeared
unto him there, when he fled from his brother. Then died Debora Rebecca's nurse,
and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the
oak of lamentation. And God appeared unto Iacob again after he came out of
Mesopotamia, and blessed him and said unto him: Thy name is Iacob.
Notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Iacob, but Israel shall be thy name.
And so was his name called Israel. And God said unto him: I am God allmighty,
grow and multiply: for people and a multitude of people shall spring of thee,
yea and kings shall come out of thy loins. And the land which I gave Abraham and
Isaac, will I give unto thee, and unto thy seed after thee will I give it also.
And God departed from him in the place where he talked with him. And Iacob set
up a mark in the place where he talked with him: even a pillar of stone, and
poured drink offering thereon and poured also oil thereon, and called the name
of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. And they departed from Bethel,
and when he was but a field brede from Ephrath, Rahel began to travail. And in
travailing she was in peril. And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife
said unto her: fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. Then as her soul was
departing, that she must die: she called his name Ben Oni. But his father called
him Ben Iamin. and thus died Rahel and was buried in the way to Ephrath which
now is called Bethlehem. And Iacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is
called Rahel's grave pillar unto this day. And Israel went thence and pitched up
his tent beyond the tower of Eder. And it chanced as Israel dwelt in that land,
that Ruben went and lay with Bilha his father's concubine, and it came to
Israel's ear. The sons of Iacob were twelve in number. The sons of Lea: Ruben,
Iacob's eldest son, and Simeon, Levi, Iuda, Isachar, and Zabulon. The sons of
Rahel: Ioseph and Ben Iamin. The sons of Bilha Rahel's maid: Dan and Nephtali.
The sons of Zilpha Lea's maid Gad and Asser. These are the sons which were born
him in Mesopotamia. Then Iacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre a principal
city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and eighty years: and then fell he sick
and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons
Esau and Iacob buried him.
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.xxxvi.
These are the generations of Esau which is called Edom. Esau took his wives of
the daughters of Canaan Ada the daughter of Elon an Hethite, and Ahalibama the
daughter of Ana, which Ana was the son of Zibeon an Hevite; And Basmath Ismael's
daughter and sister of Nebaioth. And Ada bare unto Esau, Eliphas: and Basmath
bare Reguel: And Ahalibama bare Ieus, Iaelam and Korah. These are the sons of
Esau which were born him in the land of Canaan. And Esau took his wives, his
sons and daughters and all the souls of his house: his goods and all his cattle
and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan, and went into a
country away from his brother Iacob: for their riches was so much, that they
could not dwell together, and that the land wherein they were strangers, could
not receive them: because of their cattle. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir, which
Esau is called Edom. These are the generations of Esau father of the Edomites in
mount Seir, and these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphas the son of Ada the
wife of Esau, and Reguel the son of Basmath the wife of Esau also. And the sons
of Eliphas were: Theman, Omar, Zepho, Gaetham and Kenas. And Thimna was
concubine to Eliphas Esau's son, and bare unto Eliphas, Amalek. And these, be
the sons of Ada Esau's wife. And these are the sons of Reguel: Nahath, Serah,
Samma and Misa: these were the sons of Basmath Esau's wife. And these were the
sons of Ahalibama Esau's wife the daughter of Ana son of Zebeon, which she bare
unto Esau: Ieus, Iaelam and Korah. These were dukes of the sons of Esau. The
children of Eliphas the first son of Esau were these: duke Theman, duke Omar,
duke Zepho, duke Kenas, duke Korah, duke Gaetham and duke Amaleck: these are the
dukes that came of Eliphas in the land of Edom, and these were the sons of Ada.
These were the children of Reguel Esau's sonne: duke Nahath, duke Serah, duke
Samma, duke Misa. These are the dukes that came of Reguel in the land of Edom,
and these were the sons of Basmath Esau's wife. These were the children of
Ahalibama Esau's wife: duke Ieus, duke Gaelam, duke Korah these dukes came of
Ahalibama the daughter of Ana Esau's wife. These are the children of Esau, and
these are the dukes of them: which Esau is called Edom: These are the children
of Seir the Horite, the inhabiter of the land: Lothan, Sobal, Zibeon, Ana, Dison,
Eser and Disan. These are the dukes of the Horites the children of Seir in the
land of Edom. And the children of Lothan were: Hori and Hemam. And Lothan's
sister was called Thimna. The children of Sobal were these: Alvan, Manahath,
Ebal, Sepho and Onam. These were the children of Zibeon. Aia and Ana, this was
that Ana that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed his father Zibeon's
asses. The children of Ana were these. Dison and Ahalibama the daughter of Ana.
These are the children of Dison. Hemdan, Esban, Iethran, and Cheran. The
children of Ezer were these, Bilhan, Seavan and Akan. The children of Disan were:
Ur and Aran. These are the dukes that came of Hori: duke Lothan, duke Sobal,
duke Zibeon, duke Ana, duke Dison, duke Ezer, duke Disan. These be the dukes
that came of Hori in their dukedoms in the land of Seir. These are the kings
that reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king among the
children of Israel. Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edomea, and the name of his
city was Dinhaba. And when Bela died, Iobab the son of Serah out of Bezara,
reigned in his stead. When Iobab was dead, Husam of the land of Themany reigned
in his stead. And after the death of Husam, Hadad the son of Bedad which slew
the Madianites in the field of the Moabites, reigned in his stead, and the name
of his city was Avith. When Hadad was dead, Samla of Masreka reigned in his
stead. When Samla was dead, Saul of the river Rehoboth reigned in his stead.
When Saul was dead, Baal Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. And after
the death of Baal Hanan the son of Achbor, Hadad reigned in his stead, and the
name of his city was Pagu. And his wife's name Mehetabeel the daughter of Matred
the daughter of Mesaab. These are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, in
their kindreds, places and names: Duke Thimma, duke Alua, duke Ietheth, duke
Ahalibama, duke Ela, duke Pinon, duke Kenas, duke Theman, duke Mibzar, duke
Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Edomea in their habitations, in the
land of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the Edomites.
Chapter
.xxxvij.
And Iacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, that is to say in
the land of Canaan. And these are the generations of Iacob: when Ioseph was
seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the lad was with the
sons of Bilha and of Zilpha his father's wives. And he brought unto their father
an evil saying that was of them. And Israel loved Ioseph more than all his
children, because he begat him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many
colours. When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his
brethren, they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him. Moreover
Ioseph dreamed a dream and told it his brethren: wherefore they hated him yet
the more. And he said unto them hear I pray yow this dream which I have dreamed:
Behold we were making sheaves in the field: and lo, my sheaf arose and stood
upright, and yours stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf. Then said
his brethren unto him: what, shalt thou be our king or shalt thou reign over us?
And they hated him yet the more, because of his dream and of his words. And he
dreamed yet another dream and told it his brethren saying: behold, I have had
one dream more: me thought the sonne and the moon and eleven stars made
obeisance to me. And when he had told it unto his father and his brethren, his
father rebuked him and said unto him: what meaneth this dream which thou hast
dreamed: shall I and thy mother and thy brethren come and fall on the ground
before thee? And his brethren hated him, but his father noted the saying. His
brethren went to keep their father's sheep in Sichem, and Israel said unto
Ioseph: do not thy brethren keep in Sichem? come that I may send thee to them.
And he answered here am I. And he said unto him: go and see whether it be well
with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again: And sent him out of
the vale of Hebron, for to go to Sichem. And a certain man found him wandering
out of his way in the field, and asked him what he sought. And he answered: I
seek my brethren, tell me I pray thee where they keep sheep. And the man said,
they are departed hence, for I heard them say, let us go unto Dothan. Thus went
Ioseph after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. And when they saw him afar
off before he came at them, they took counsel {councell} against him, for to
slay him, and said one to another: Behold this dreamer cometh, come now and let
us slay him and cast him into some pit, and let us say that sonne wicked beast
hath devoured him, and let us see what his dreams will come to. When Ruben heard
that, he went about to rid him out of their hands and said, let us not kill him.
And Ruben said moreover unto them, shed not his blood, but cast him into this
pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hands upon him: for he would have rid
him out of their hands and delivered him to his father again. And as soon as
Ioseph was come unto his brethren, they stripped him out, of his gay coat that
was upon him, and they took him and cast him into a pit. But the pit was empty
and had no water therein. And they sat them down to eat bread. And as they lift
up their eyes and looked about, there came a company of Ismaelites from Gilead,
and their camels laden with spicery, balm, and myrrh, and were going down into
Egypt. Then said Iuda to his brethren, what availeth it that we slay our brother,
and keep his blood secret? come on, let us sell him to the Ismaelites, and let
not our hands be defiled upon him: for he is our brother and our flesh. And his
brethren were content. Then as the Madianites merchant men passed by, they drew
Ioseph out of the pit and sold him unto the Ismaelites for twenty pieces of
silver. And they brought him into Egypt. And when Ruben came again unto the pit
and found not Ioseph there, he rent his clothes and went again unto his brethren
saying: the lad is not yonder, and whither shall I go? And they took Ioseph's
coat and killed a goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. And they sent that gay
coat and caused it to be brought unto their father and said: This have we found:
see, whether it be thy son's coat or no. And he knew it saying: it is my son's
coat: a wicked beast hath devoured him, and Ioseph is rent in pieces. And Iacob
rent his clothes, and put sack cloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a
long season. Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he
would not be comforted, but said: I will go down into the grave unto my son,
mourning. And thus his father wept for him. And the Madianites sold him in Egypt
unto Putiphar a lord of Pharao's: and his chief marshal.
Chapter
.xxxviij.
And it fortuned at that time that Iudas went from his brethren and gat him to a
man called Hira of Odollam, and there he saw the daughter of a man called Sua a
Cananite. And he took her and went in unto her. And she conceived and bare a son
and called his name Er. And she conceived again and bare a son and called him
Onan. And she conceived the third time and bare a son, whom she called Sela: and
he was at Chesib when she bare him. And Iudas gave Er his eldest son, a wife
whose name was Thamar. But this Er Iuda's eldest son was wicked in the sight of
the LORD, wherefore the LORD slew him. Then said Iudas unto Onan: go in to thy
brother's wife and marry her, and stir up seed unto thy brother. And when Onan
perceived that the seed should not be his: therefore when he went in to his
brother's wife, he spilled it on the ground, because he would not give seed unto
his brother. And the thing which he did, displeased the LORD, wherefore he slew
him also. Then said Iuda to Thamar his daughter-in-law: remain a widow at thy
father's house, till Sela my son be grown: for he feared lest he should have
died also, as his brethren did. Thus went Thamar and dwelt in her father's house.
And in process of time, the daughter of Sua Iuda's wife died. Then Iudas when he
had left mourning, went unto his sheep shearers to Thimnath with his friend Hira
of Odollam. And one told Thamar saying: behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to
Thimnath, to shear his sheep. And she put her widow's garments off from her and
covered her with a cloak, and disguised herself: And sat her down at the
entering of Enaim which is by the high way's side to Thimnath, for because she
saw that Sela was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. When Iuda saw
her he thought it had been an whore, because she had covered her face. And
turned to her unto the way and said, come I pray thee, let me lie with thee, for
he knew not that it was his daughter-in-law. And she said what wilt thou give
me, for to lie with me? Then said he, I will send thee a kid from the flock. She
answered: Then give me a pledge till thou send it. Then said he, what pledge
shall I give thee? And she said: thy signet, thy necklace, and thy staff that is
in thy hand. And he gave it her and lay by her, and she was with child by him.
And she gat her up and went and put her mantle from her, and put on her widow's
raiment again. And Iudas sent the kid by his neighbour of Odollam, for to fetch
out his pledge again from the wife's hand. But he found her not. Then asked he
the men of the same place saying: where is the whore that sat at Enaim in the
way? And they said: there was no whore here. And he came to Iuda again saying: I
can not find her, and also the men of the place said: that there was no whore
there. And Iuda said: let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: for I sent the
kid and thou couldest not find her. And it came to pass that after three months,
one told Iuda saying: Thamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and with
playing the whore is become great with child. And Iuda said: bring her forth and
let her be brent. And when they brought her forth, she sent to her father-in-law
saying: by the man unto whom these things pertain, am I with child. And said
also: look whose are this seal, necklace, and staff. And Iuda knew them saying:
she is more righteous than I, because I gave her not to Sela my son. But he lay
with her no more. When time was come that she should be delivered, behold there
was two twins in her womb. And as she travailed, the one put out his hand and
the midwife took and bound a red thread about it saying: this will come out
first. But he plucked his hand back again, and his brother came out. And she
said: wherefore hast thou rent a rent upon thee? and called him Pharez. And
afterward came out his brother that had the red thread about his hand, which was
called Zarah.
Chapter
.xxxix.
Ioseph was brought unto Egypt, and Putiphar a lord of Pharao's: and his chief
marshal an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites which brought him thither. And
the LORD was with Ioseph, and he was a lucky fellow and continued in the house
of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him and
that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand: Wherefore he found grace
in his master's sight, and served him. And his master made him ruler of his
house, and put all that he had in his hand. And as soon as he had made him ruler
over his house and over all that he had, the LORD blessed this Egyptian's house
for Ioseph's sake, and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had: both
in the house and also in the fields. And therefore he left all that he had in
Ioseph's hand, and looked upon nothing that was with him, save only on the bread
which he ate. And Ioseph was a goodly person and a well favored. And it fortuned
after this, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Ioseph and said come lie
with me. But he denied and said to her: Behold, my master woteth not what he
hath in the house with me, but hath committed all that he hath to my hand. He
himself is not greater in the house than I, and hath kept nothing from me, but
only thee because thou art his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness,
for to sin against God? And after this manner spake she to Ioseph day by day:
but he hearkened not unto her, to sleep near her or to be in her company. And it
fortuned about the same season, that Ioseph entered into the house, to do his
business: and there was none of the household by, in the house. And she caught
him by the garment saying: come sleep with me. And he left his garment in her
hand and fled and got him out. When she saw that he had left his garment in her
hand, and was fled out, she called unto the men of the house, and told them
saying: See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to do us shame: for he came in
to me, for to have slept with me. But I cried with a loud voice. And when he
heard, that I lift up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me and fled
away and got him out. And she laid up his garment by her, until her lord came
home. And she told him according to these words saying. This Hebrews' servant
which thou hast brought unto us came in to me to do me shame. But as soon as I
lift up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me and fled out. When his
master heard the words of his wife which she told him saying: after this manner
did thy servant to me, he waxed wroth. And he took Ioseph and put him in prison:
even in the place where the king's prisoners lay bound. And there continued he
in prison, but the LORD was with Ioseph and shewed him mercy, and got him favour
in the sight of the keeper of the prison which committed to Ioseph's hand all
the prisoners that were in the prison house. And whatsoever was done there, that
did he. And the keeper of the prison looked unto nothing that was under his hand,
because the LORD was with him, and because that whatsoever he did, the LORD made
it come luckily to pass.
Chapter
.xl.
And it chanced after this, that the chief butler of the king of Egypt and his
chief baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt. And Pharao was angry with
them and put them in ward in his chief marshal's house: even in the prison where
Ioseph was bound. And the chief marshal gave Ioseph a charge with them, and he
served them. And they continued a season in ward. And they dreamed either of
them in one night: both the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt which were
bound in the prison house, either of them his dream, and each man's dream of a
sundry interpretation. When Ioseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked
upon them: behold, they were sad. And he asked them saying, wherefore look ye so
sadly today? They answered him, we have dreamed a dream, and have no man to
declare it. And Ioseph said unto them. Interpreting belongeth to God, but tell
me yet. And the chief butler told his dream to Ioseph and said unto him: In my
dream me thought there stood a vine before me, and in the vine were three
branches, and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth: and the
grapes thereof waxed ripe. And I had Pharao's cup in my hand, and took of the
grapes and wrung them into Pharao's cup, and delivered Pharao's cup into his
hand. And Ioseph said unto him, this is the interpretation of it. The three
branches are three days: for within three days shall Pharao lift up thine head,
and restore thee unto thine office again, and thou shalt deliver Pharao's cup
into his hand, after the old manner, even as thou didst when thou wast his
butler. But think on me with thee, when thou art in good case, and shew mercy
unto me. And make mention of me to Pharao, and help to bring me out of this
house: for I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I
done nothing at all wherefore they should have put me into this dungeon. When
the chief baker saw that he had well interpreted it, he said unto Ioseph, me
thought also in my dream, that I had three wicker baskets on my head? And in the
uppermost basket, of all manner bakemeats for Pharao. And the birds ate them out
of the basket upon my head. Ioseph answered and said: this is the interpretation
thereof. The three baskets are three days, for this day three days shall Pharao
take thy head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall eat
thy flesh from off thee. And it came to pass the third day which was Pharao's
birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants. And he lifted up the head
of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. And restored the
chief butler unto his butlership again, and he reached the cup into Pharao's
hand, and hanged the chief baker: even as Ioseph had interpreted unto them.
Notwithstanding the chief butler remembered not Ioseph, but forgot him.
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And it fortuned at two years' end, that Pharao dreamed, and thought that he
stood by a river's side, and that there came out of the river seven goodly kine
and fat fleshed, and fed in a meadow. And him thought that seven other kine came
up after them out of the river evil favored and lean fleshed and stood by the
other upon the brink of the river. And the evil favored and lean fleshed kine:
ate up the seven well favored and fat kine: and he awoke therewith. And he slept
again and dreamed the second time, that seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk
rank and goodly. And that seven thin ears blasted with the wind, sprang up after
them: and that the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And
then Pharao awaked: and see, here is his dream. When the morning came, his
spirit was troubled; And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypt and
all the wise men thereof, and told them his dream: but there was none of them
that could interpret it unto Pharao. Then spake the chief butler unto Pharao
saying. I do remember my fault this day. Pharao was angry with his servants, and
put in ward in the chief marshal's house both me and the chief baker. And we
dreamed both of us in one night and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation.
And there was with us a young man, an Hebrew born, servant unto the chief
marshal. And we told him, and he declared our dreams to us according to either
of our dreams. And as he declared them unto us, even so it came to pass. I was
restored to mine office again, and he was hanged. Then Pharao sent and called
Ioseph. And they made him haste out of prison. And he shaved himself and changed
his raiment, and went in to Pharao. And Pharao said unto Ioseph: I have dreamed
a dream and no man can interpretate it, but I have heard say of thee that as
soon as thou hearest a dream, thou dost interpretate it. And Ioseph answered
Pharao saying: God shall give Pharao an answer of peace without me. Pharao said
unto Ioseph: in my dream me thought I stood by a river's side, and there came
out of the river seven fat fleshed and well favored kine, and fed in the meadow.
And then seven other kine came up after them, poor and very evil favored and
lean fleshed: so that I never saw their like in all the land of Egypt in evil
favoredness. And the seven lean and evil favored kine ate up the first seven fat
kine. And when they had eaten them up, a man could not perceive that they had
eaten them: for they were still as evil favored as they were at the beginning.
And I awoke. And I saw again in my dream seven ears spring out of one stalk full
and good, and seven other ears withered, thin and blasted with wind, spring up
after them. And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I have told it
unto the soothsayers, but no man can tell me what it meaneth. Then Ioseph said
unto Pharao: both Pharao's dreams are one. And God doth shew Pharao what he is
about to do. The seven good kine are seven years: and the seven good ears are
seven years also, and is but one dream. Likewise, the seven thin and evil
favored kine that came out after them, are seven years: and the seven empty and
blasted ears shall be seven years of hunger. This is that which I said unto
Pharao, that God doth shew Pharao what he is about to do. Behold there shall
come seven year of great plenteousness throughout all the land of Egypt. And
there shall arise after them seven years of hunger. So that all the
plenteousness shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt. And the hunger shall
consume the land: so that the plenteousness shall not be once a seen in the land
by reason of that hunger that shall come after, for it shall be exceeding great.
And as concerning that the dream was doubled unto Pharao the second time, it
betokeneth that the thing is certainly prepared of God, and that God will
shortly bring it to pass. Now therefore let Pharao provide for a man of
understanding and wisdom, and set him over the land of Egypt. And let Pharao
make officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in
the seven plenteous years and let them gather all the food of these good years
that come, and lay up corn under the power of Pharao: that there may be food in
the cities, and there let them keep it: that there may be food in store in the
land, against the seven years of hunger which shall come in the land of Egypt,
and that the land perish not thorow hunger. And the saying pleased Pharao and
all his servants. Then said Pharao unto his servants: where shall we find such a
man as this is, that hath the spirit of God in him? wherefore Pharao said unto
Ioseph: forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is no man of
understanding nor of wisdom like unto thee. Thou therefore shalt be over my
house, and according to thy word shall all my people obey: only in the king's
seat will I be above thee. And he said unto Ioseph: behold, I have set thee over
all the land of Egypt. And he took off his ring from his finger, and put it upon
Ioseph's finger, and arrayed him in raiment of byss, and put a golden chain
about his neck and set him upon the best chariot that he had save one. And they
cried before him Abrech, and that Pharao had made him ruler over all the land of
Egypt. And Pharao said unto Ioseph: I am Pharao, without thy will, shall no man
lift up either his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. And he called Ioseph's
name Zaphnath Paenea. And he gave him to wife Asnath the daughter of Potiphar
priest of On. Then went Ioseph abroad in the land of Egypt. And he was thirty
years old when he stood before Pharao king of Egypt. And then Ioseph departed
from Pharao, and went thorow out all the land of Egypt. And in the seven
plenteous years they made sheaves and gathered up all the food of the seven
plenteous years which were in the land of Egypt and put it into the cities. And
he put the food of the fields that grew round about every city: even in the same.
And Ioseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out
of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number. And unto Ioseph
were born two sons before the years of hunger came, which Asnath the daughter of
Potiphar priest of On, bare unto him. And he called the name of the first son
Manasse, for God (said he) hath made me forget all my labour and all my father's
household. The second called he Ephraim, for God (said he) hath caused me to
grow in the land of my trouble. And when the seven years of plenteousness that
was in the land of Egypt were ended, then came the seven years of dearth,
according as Ioseph had said. And the dearth was in all lands: but in the land
of Egypt was there yet food. When now all the land of Egypt began to hunger,
then cried the people to Pharao for bread. And Pharao said unto all Egypt: go
unto Ioseph, and what he saith to you that do. And when the dearth was thorow
out all the land, Ioseph opened all that was in the cities, and sold unto the
Egyptians. And hunger waxed sore in the land of Egypt. And all countries came to
Egypt to Ioseph for to buy corn: because that the hunger was so sore in all
lands.
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When Iacob saw that there was corn to be sold in Egypt, he said unto his sons:
why are ye negligent? behold, I have heard that there is corn to be sold in
Egypt. Get you thither and buy us corn from thence, that we may live and not die.
So went Ioseph's ten brethren down to buy corn in Egypt, for Ben Iamin Ioseph's
brother would not Iacob send with his other brethren: for he said: some
misfortune might happen him. And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among other
that came, for there was dearth also in the land of Canaan. And Ioseph was
governor in the land, and sold corn to all the people of the land. And his
brethren came, and fell flat on the ground before him. When Ioseph saw his
brethren, he knew them: But made strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them
saying: Whence come ye? and they said: out of the land of Canaan, to buy
vitaille. Ioseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. And Ioseph remembered
his dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them: ye are spies, and to
see where the land is weak is your coming. And they said unto him: nay, my lord:
but to buy vitaille thy servants are come. We are all one man's sons, and mean
truly, and thy servants are no spies. And he said unto them: nay verily, but
even to see where the land is weak is your coming. And they said: we thy
servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The
youngest is yet with our father, and one no man woteth where he is. Ioseph said
unto them, that is it that I said unto you, that ye are surely spies. Here by ye
shall be proved. For by the life of Pharao, ye shall not go hence, until your
youngest brother be come hither. Send therefore one of you and let him fetch
your brother, and ye shall be in prison in the mean season. And thereby shall
your words be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of
Pharao, ye are but spies. And he put them in ward three days. And Ioseph said
unto the third day: This do and live, for I fear God. {Gode} If ye mean no hurt,
let one of your brethren be bound in the prison, and go ye and bring the
necessary food unto your households, and bring your youngest brother unto me:
that your words may be believed, and that ye die not; And they did so. Then they
said one to another: we have verily sinned against our brother, in that we saw
the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and would not hear him: therefore
is this trouble come upon us. Ruben answered them saying: said I not unto you
that ye should not sin against the lad? but ye would not hear; And now verily
see, his blood is required. They were not aware that Ioseph understood them, for
he spake unto them by an interpreter. And he turned from them and wept, and then
turned to them again and communed with them, and took out Simeon from among them
and bound him before their eyes, and commanded to fill their sacks with corn,
and to put every man's money in his sack, and to give them vitaille to spend by
the way. And so it was done to them. And they laded their asses with the corn
and departed thence. And as one of them opened his sack, for to give his ass
provender in the Inn, he spied his money in his sack's mouth. And he said unto
his brethren: my money is restored me again, and is even in my sack's mouth.
Then their hearts failed them, and were astonied and said one to another: how
cometh it that God dealeth thus with us? And they came unto Iacob their father
unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened them saying: The
lord of the land spake roughly to us, and took us for spies to search the
country. And we said unto him: we mean truly and are no spies. We be twelve
brethren sons of our father, one is away, and the youngest is now with our
father in the land of Canaan. And the lord of the country said unto us: hereby
shall I know if ye mean truly: leave one of your brethren here with me, and take
food necessary for your households and get you away, and bring your youngest
brother unto me; And thereby shall I know that ye are no spies, but mean truly:
So will I deliver you your brother again, and ye shall occupy in the land. And
as they emptied their sacks, behold: every man's bundle of money was in his sack.
And when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
And Iacob their father said unto them: Me have ye robbed of my children: Ioseph
is away, and Simeon is away, and ye will take Ben Iamin away. All these things
fall upon me. Ruben answered his father saying: Slay my two sons, if I bring him
not to thee again. Deliver him therefore to my hand, and I will bring him to
thee again: And he said: my son shall not go down with you. For his brother is
dead, and he is left alone. Moreover some misfortune might happen upon him by
the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the
grave.
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And the dearth waxed sore in the land. And when they had eaten up that corn
which they brought out of the land of Egypt, their father said unto them: go
again and buy us a little food. Then said Iuda unto him: the man did testify
unto us saying: look that ye see not my face except your brother be with you.
Therefore if thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go and buy the food.
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go: for the man said unto us: look
that ye see not my face, except your brother be with you. And Israel said:
wherefore dealt ye so cruelly with me, as to tell the man that ye had yet
another brother? And they said: The man asked us of our kindred saying: is your
father yet alive? have ye not another brother? And we told him according to
these words. How could we know that he would bid us bring our brother down with
us? Then said Iuda unto Israel his father: Send the lad with me, and we will
rise and go, that we may live and not die: both we, thou and also our children.
I will be surety for him, and of my hands require him. If I bring him not to
thee and set him before thine eyes, then let me bear the blame for ever. For
except we had made this tarrying: by this we had been there twice and come again.
Then their father Israel said unto them: if it must needs be so now: then do
thus, take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring the man a
present, a courtesy balm, and a courtesy of honey, spices and myrrh, dates and
almonds. And take as much money more with you. And the money that was brought
again in your sacks, take it again with you in your hands, peradventure it was
some oversight. Take also your brother with you, and arise and go again to the
man. And God almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man and send you your
other brother and also Ben Iamin, and I will be as a man robbed of his children.
Thus took they the present and twice so much more money with them, and Ben Iamin.
And rose up, went down to Egypt, and presented themself to Ioseph. When Ioseph
saw Ben Iamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house: bring these men home,
and slay and make ready: for they shall dine with me at noon. And the man did as
Ioseph bade, and brought them in to Ioseph's house. When they were brought to
Ioseph's house, they were afraid, and said: because of the money that came in
our sacks' mouths at the first time, are we brought, to pick a quarrel with us
and to lay some thing to our charge: to bring us in bondage and our asses also.
Therefore came they to the man that was the ruler over Ioseph's house, and
communed with him at the door and said: Sir, we came hither at the first time to
buy food, and as we came to an inn and opened our sacks: behold, every man's
money was in his sack with full weight: But we have brought it again with us,
and other money have we brought also in our hands, to buy food, but we can not
tell who put our money in our sacks. And he said: be of good cheer, fear not:
Your God and the God of your fathers hath put you that treasure in your sacks,
for I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to them and led them into
Ioseph's house, and gave them water to wash their feet, and gave their asses
provender: And they made ready their present against Ioseph came at noon, for
they heard say that they should dine there. When Ioseph came home, they brought
the present into the house to him, which they had in their hands, and fell flat
on the ground before him. And he welcomed them courteously saying: is your
father that old man which ye told me of, in good health? and is he yet alive?
they answered: thy servant our father is in good health, and is yet alive. And
they bowed them selves and fell to the ground. And he lift up his eyes and
beheld his brother Ben Iamin his mother's son, and said: is this your youngest
brother of whom ye said unto me? And said: God be merciful unto thee my son. And
Ioseph made haste (for his heart did melt upon his brother) and sought for to
weep, and entered into his chamber, for to weep there. And he washed his face
and came out and refrained himself, and bade set bread on the table. And they
prepared for him by himself, and for them by them selves, and for the Egyptians
which ate with him by them selves, because the Egyptians may not eat bread with
the Hebrews, for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians. And they sat before
him: the eldest according unto his age, and the youngest according unto his
youth. And the men marvelled among them selves. And they brought rewards unto
them from before him: but Ben Iamin's part was five times so much as any of
theirs. And they ate and they drank, and were drunk with him.
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And he commanded the ruler of his house saying: fill the men's sacks with food,
as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his bag mouth, and put
my silver cup in the sack's mouth of the youngest and his corn money also. And
he did as Ioseph had said. And in the morning as soon as it was light, the men
were let go with their asses. And when they were out of the city and not yet far
away, Ioseph said unto the ruler of his house: up and follow after the men and
overtake them, and say unto them: wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? is
that not the cup of which my lord drinketh, and doth he not prophesy therein? ye
have evil done that ye have done. And he overtook them and said the same words
unto them. And they answered him: wherefore saith my lord such words? God forbid
that thy servants should do so. Behold, the money which we found in our sack's
mouths, we brought again unto thee, out of the land of Canaa: how then should we
steal out of my lord's house, either silver or gold? with whosoever of thy
servants it be found let him die, and let us also be my lord's bondmen. And he
said: Now therefore according unto your words, he with whom it is found, shall
be my servant: but ye, shall be harmless. And at once every man took down his
sack to the ground, and every man opened his sack. And he searched, and began at
the eldest and left at the youngest. And the cup was found in Ben Iamin's sack.
Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass and went again unto
the city. And Iuda and his brethren came to Ioseph's house, for he was yet there,
and they fell before him on the ground. And Ioseph said unto them: what deed is
this which ye have done? wist ye not that such a man as I can prophesy? Then
said Iuda: what shall we say unto my lord, what shall we speak or what excuse
can we make? God hath found out the wickedness of thy servants. Behold, both we
and he with whom the cup is found, are thy servants. And he answered: God forbid
that I should do so, the man with whom the cup is found, he shall be my servant:
but go ye in peace unto your father. Then Iuda went unto him and said: oh my
lord, let thy servant speak a word in my lord's audience, {ear} and be not wroth
with thy servant: for thou art even as Pharao. My lord asked his servant saying:
have ye a father or a brother? And we answered my lord, we have a father that is
old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad
is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.
Then said my lord unto his servants bring him unto me, that I may set mine eyes
upon him. And we answered my lord, that the lad could not go from his father,
for if he should leave his father, he were but a dead man. Then saidest thou
unto thy servants: except your youngest brother come with you, look that ye see
my face no more. And when we came unto thy servant our father, we shewed him
what my lord had said. And when our father said unto us, go again and buy us a
little food: we said, that we could not go. Nevertheless if our youngest brother
go with us then will we go, for we may not see the man's face, except our
youngest brother be with us. Then said thy servant our father unto us. Ye know
that my wife bare me two sons. And the one went out from me and it is said of a
surety that he is torn in pieces of wild beasts, and I saw him not since. If ye
shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then
shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave. Now therefore when I
come to thy servant my father, if the lad be not with me: seeing that his life
hangeth by the lad's life, then as soon as he seeth that the lad is not come, he
will die. So shall we thy servants bring the gray head of thy servant our father
with sorrow unto the grave. For I thy servant became surety for the lad unto my
father and said: if I bring him not unto thee again. I will bear the blame all
my life long. Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my
lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren. For how can I go unto
my father, and the lad not with me: lest I should see the wretchedness that
shall come on my father.
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And Ioseph could no longer refrain before all them that stood about him, but
commanded that they should go all out from him, and that there should be no man
with him, while he uttered himself unto his brethren. And he wept aloud, so that
the Egyptians and the house of Pharao heard it. And he said unto his brethren: I
am Ioseph: doth my father yet live? But his brethren could not answer him, for
they were abashed at his presence. And Ioseph said unto his brethren: come near
to me, and they came near. And he said: I am Ioseph your brother whom ye sold
into Egypt. And now be not grieved therewith, neither let it seem a cruel thing
in your eyes, that ye sold me hither. For God did send me before you to save
life. For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are
behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. Wherefore God sent me
before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save
your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not ye that sent me hither, but
God: and he hath made me father unto Pharao and lord over all his house, and
ruler in all the land of Egypt. Haste you and go to my father and tell him, this
sayeth thy son Ioseph: God hath made me lord over all Egypt. Come down unto me
and tarry not. And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gosan and be by me: both thou
and thy children, and thy children's children: and thy sheep, and beasts and all
that thou hast. There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet five
years of dearth, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.
Behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes also of my brother Ben Iamin, that I
speak to you by mouth. Therefore tell my father of all my honour which I have in
Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and make haste and bring in father hither.
And he fell on his brother Ben Iamin's neck and wept, and Ben Iamin wept on his
neck. Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that,
his brethren talked with him. And when the tidings was come unto Pharao's house
that Ioseph's brethren were come, it pleased Pharao well and all his servants.
And Pharao spake unto Ioseph: say unto thy brethren, this do ye: lade your
beasts and get you hence. And when ye be come unto the land of Canaan, 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. And commanded also. This do
ye: take chariots with you out of the land of Egypt, for your children and for
your wives: and bring your father and come. Also, regard not your stuff, for the
goods of all the land of Egypt shall be yours. And the children of Israel did
even so. And Ioseph gave them chariots at the commandment of Pharao, and gave
them vitaille also to spend by the way. And he gave unto each of them change of
raiment: but unto Ben Iamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five
changes of raiment. And unto his father he sent after the same manner: ten he
asses laden with goods out of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn, bread
and meat: to serve his father by the way. So sent he his brethren away, and they
departed. And he said unto them: see that ye fall not out by the way. And they
departed from Egypt and came into the land of Canaan unto Iacob their father,
and told him saying. Ioseph is yet alive and is governor over all the land of
Egypt. And Iacob's heart wavered, for he believed them not. And they told him
all the words of Ioseph which he had said unto them. But when he saw the
chariots which Ioseph had sent to carry him, then his spirits revived. And
Israel said: I have enough, if Ioseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him,
yer that I die.
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Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came unto Berseba and offered
offerings unto the God of his father Isaac. And God said unto Israel in a vision
by night, and called unto him: Iacob, Iacob. And he answered: here am I. And he
said: I am that mighty God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt. For I
will make of thee there a great people. I will go down with thee into Egypt, and
I will also bring thee up again, and Ioseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
And Iacob rose up from Berseba. And the sons of Israel carried Iacob their
father, and their children and their wives in the chariots which Pharao had sent
to carry him. And they took their cattle and the goods which they had gotten in
the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt: both Iacob and all his seed with him,
his sons and his sons' sons with him: his daughters and his sons daughters and
all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. These are the names of the children
of Israel which came into Egypt, both Iacob and his sons: Ruben Iacob's first
son. The children of Ruben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron and Charmi. The children of
Simeon: Iemuel, Iami, Ohad, Iachin, Zohar and Saul the son of a Cananitish woman.
The children of Levi: Gerson, Kahath and Merari. The children of Iuda: Er, Onan,
Sela, Pharez and Zerah, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The children
of Pharez, Hezron, and Hamul. The children of Isachar: Tola, Phua, Iob and
Semnon. The children of Zabulon: Sered, Elon and Iaheleel. These be the children
of Lea which she bare unto Iacob in Mesopotamia with his daughter Dina. All
these souls of his sons and daughters make thirty and six. {.xxx. and .iij.} The
children of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Suni, Ezbon, Eri Arodi and Areli. The children
of Asser: Iemna, Iesua, Iesui, Bria and Serah their sister. And the children of
Bria were Heber and Malchiel. These are the children of Silpha whom Laban gave
to Lea his daughter. And these she bare unto Iacob in number sixteen souls. The
children of Rahel Iacob's wife: Ioseph and Ben Iamin. And unto Ioseph in the
land of Egypt were borne: Manasses and Ephraim which Asnath the daughter of
Putiphar priest of On bare unto him. The children of Ben Iamin: Bela, Becher,
Asbel, Gera, Naeman, Ehi, Ros, Mupim, Hupim and Ard. These are the children of
Rahel which were born unto Iacob: fourteen souls altogether. The children of
Dan: Husim. The children Nepthali: Iahezeel, Guni, Iezer and Sillem. These are
the sons of Bilha which Laban gave unto Rahel his daughter, and she bare these
unto Iacob, altogether seven souls. All the souls that came with Iacob into
Egypt which came out of his loins (beside his son's wives) were all together
sixty and six souls. And the sons of Ioseph, which were born him in Egypt were:
two souls. So that all the souls of the house of Iacob which came into Egypt are
seventy. And he sent Iuda before him unto Ioseph that the way might be shewed
him unto Gosan, and they came into the land of Gosan. And Ioseph made ready his
chariot and went against {to meet} Israel his father unto Gosan, and presented
himself unto him, and fell on his neck and wept upon his neck a good while. And
Israel said unto Ioseph: Now I am content to die, insomuch I have seen thee,
that thou art yet alive. And Ioseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's
house: I will go and shew Pharao and tell him: that my brethren and my father's
house which were in the land of Canaan are come unto me, and how they are
shepherds (for they were men of cattle) and they have brought their sheep and
their oxen and all that they have with them. If Pharao call you and ask you what
your occupation is, say: thy servants have been occupied about cattle, from our
childhood unto this time: both we and our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land
of Gosan. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that feed sheep. {For
the Egyptians abhor all shepherds.}
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And Ioseph went and told Pharao and said: my father and my brethren their sheep
and their beasts and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan and
are in the land of Gosan. And Ioseph took a part of his brethren: even five of
them, and presented them unto Pharao. And Pharao said unto his brethren: what is
your occupation? And they said unto Pharao: feeders of sheep {shepherds} are thy
servants, both we and also our fathers. They said moreover unto Pharao: for to
sojourn in the land are we come, for thy servants have no pasture for their
sheep so sore is the famishment in the land of Canaan. Now therefore let thy
servants dwell in the land of Gosan. And Pharao said unto Ioseph: thy father and
thy brethren are come unto thee. The land of Egypt is open before thee: In the
best place of the land make both thy father and thy brethren dwell: And even in
the land of Gosan let them dwell. Moreover if thou know any men of activity
among them, make them rulers over my cattle. And Ioseph brought in Iacob his
father and set him before Pharao. And Iacob blessed Pharao. And Pharao asked
Iacob, how old art thou? And Iacob said unto Pharao: the days of my pilgrimage
are an hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and
have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their
pilgrimages. And Iacob blessed Pharao and went out from him. And Ioseph prepared
dwellings for his father and his brethren, and gave them possessions in the land
of Egypt, in the best of the land: even in the land of Rameses, as Pharao
commanded. And Ioseph made provision for his father, his brethren and all his
father's household, as young children are fed with bread. There was no bread in
all the land, for the dearth was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt and
the land of Canaan, were famished by the reason of the dearth. And Ioseph
brought together all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and of Canaan,
for the corn which they bought: and he laid up the money in Pharao's house. When
money failed in the land of Egypt and of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto
Ioseph and said: give us sustenance: wherefore sufferest thou us to die before
thee: for our money is spent. Then said Ioseph: bring your cattle, and I will
give yow for your cattle, if ye be without money. And they brought their cattle
unto Ioseph. And he gave them bread for horses and sheep, and oxen and asses: so
he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year. When that year was ended,
they came unto him the next year and said unto him: we will not hide it from my
lord, how that we have neither money nor cattle for my lord: there is no more
left for my lord, but even our bodies and our lands. Wherefore lettest thou us
die before thine eyes, and the land to go to nought? buy us and our lands for
bread: and let both us and our lands be bond to Pharao. Give us seed, that we
may live and not die, and that the land go not to waste. And Ioseph bought all
the land of Egypt for Pharao. For the Egyptians sold every man his land because
the dearth was sore upon them: and so the land became Pharao's. And he appointed
the people unto the cities, from one side of Egypt unto the other: only the land
of the Priests bought he not. For there was an ordinance made by Pharao for the
priests, that they should eat that which was appointed unto them: which Pharao
had given them wherefore they sold not their lands. Then Ioseph said unto the
folk: behold I have bought you this day and your lands for Pharao. Take there
seed and go sow the land. And of the increase, ye shall give the fifth part unto
Pharao, and four parts shall be your own, for seed to sow the field: and for you,
and them of your households, and for your children, to eat. And they answered:
Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and let us
be Pharao's servants. And Ioseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this
day: that men must give Pharao the fifth part, except the land of the priests
only, which was not bond unto Pharao. And Israel dwelt in Egypt: even in the
country of Gosan. And they had their possessions therein, and they grew and
multiplied exceedingly. Moreover Iacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years, so that the hole age of Iacob was an hundred and forty seven years. When
the time drew nye, that Israel must die: he sent for his son Ioseph and said
unto him: If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and
deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt: but let me
lie by my fathers, and carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial. And
he answered: I will do as thou hast said. And he said: swear unto me: and he
sware unto him. And then Israel bowed him unto the bed's head.
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After these deeds, tidings were brought unto Ioseph, that his father was sick.
And he took with him his two sons, Manasse and Ephraim. Then was it said unto
Iacob: behold, thy son Ioseph cometh unto thee. And Israel took his strength
unto him, and sat up on the bed, and said unto Ioseph: God all mighty appeared
unto me at Lus in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, and said unto me: behold,
I will make thee grow and will multiply thee, and will make a great number of
people of thee, and will give this land unto thee and unto thy seed after thee
unto an everlasting possession. Now therefore thy two sons Manasse and Ephraim
which were born unto thee before I came to thee, into Egypt, shall be mine: even
as Ruben and Simeon shall they be unto me. And the children which thou gettest
after them, shall be thine own: but shall be called with the names of their
brethren in their inheritances. And after I came from Mesopotamia, Rahel died
upon my hand in the land of Canaan, by the way: when I had but a field's brede
to go unto Ephrat. And I buried her there in the way to Ephrat which is now
called Bethlehem. And Israel beheld Ioseph's sons and said: what are these? And
Ioseph said unto his father: they are my sons, which God hath given me here. And
he said: bring them to me, and let me bless them. And the eyes of Israel were
dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed
them and embraced them. And Israel said unto Ioseph: I had not thought to have
seen thy face, and yet lo, God hath shewed it me and also thy seed. And Ioseph
took them away from his lap, and they fell on the ground before him. Then took
Ioseph them both: Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand and
Manasse in his left hand, toward Israel's right hand, and brought them unto him.
And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head which
was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasse's head, crossing his hands, for
Manasse was the elder. And he blessed Ioseph saying: God before whom my fathers
Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto
this day; And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads:
that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac,
and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth. When Ioseph saw that his
father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. And he
lift up his father's hand, to have removed it from Ephraim's head unto Manasse's
head, and said unto his father: Not so my father, for this is the eldest. Put
thy right hand upon his head. And his father would not, but said: I know it well
my son, I know it well. He shall be also a people and shall be great. But of a
troth his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be full
of people. And he blessed them saying: At the example of these, the Israelites
shall bless and say: God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasse. Thus set he
Ephraim before Manasse. And Israel said unto Ioseph: behold, I die. And God
shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. Moreover I
give unto thee, a portion of land above thy brethren which I gat out of the
hands of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.
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And Iacob called for his sons and said: come together, that I may tell you what
shall happen you in the last days. Gather you together and hear ye sons of Iacob,
and hearken unto Israel your father. Ruben, thou art mine eldest son, my might
and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power. As
unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou
wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going
up. The brethren Simeon and Levi, wicked instruments are their weapons. Into
their secrets come not my soul, and unto their congregation be my honour not
coupled: for in their wrath they slew a man, and in their self will they houghed
an ox. Cursed be their wrath for it was strong, and their fierceness for it was
cruel. I will therefore divide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel. Iuda,
thy brethren shall praise thee, and thine hand shall be in the neck of thine
enemies, and thy father's children shall stoop unto thee. Iuda is a lion's whelp.
From spoil my son thou art come on high: {an hye} he laid him down and couched
himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up? The sceptre shall not
depart from Iuda, nor a ruler from between his legs, until Silo come, unto whom
the people shall hearken. He shall bind his foal unto the vine, and his ass's
colt unto the vine branch, and shall wash his garment in wine and his mantle in
the blood of grapes: his eyes are roudier than wine, and his teeth whiter then
milk. Zabulon shall dwell in the haven of the sea and in the port of ships, and
shall reach unto Sidon. Isachar is a strong ass, he couched him down between two
borders, and saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant, and bowed
his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute. Dan shall judge his
people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent in the way, and
an adder in the path, and bite the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall
backward. After thy saving look I, LORD. Gad, men of war shall invade him. And
he shall turn them to flight. Of Asser cometh fat bread, and he shall give
pleasures for a king. Nephtali is a swift hind, and giveth goodly words. That
flourishing child Ioseph, that flourishing child and goodly unto the eye: the
daughters come forth to bear rule. {ran upon the wall.} The shooters have envied
him and chide with him and hated him, and yet his bow bode fast, and his arms
and his hands were strong, by the hands of the mighty God of Iacob: out of him
shall come an herdman, a stone in Israel. Thy father's God shall help thee, and
the almighty shall bless thee with blessings from heaven above, and with
blessings of the water that lieth under, and with blessings of the breasts and
of the womb. The blessings of thy father were strong: even as the blessings of
my elders, after the desire of the highest {hiest} in the world, and these
blessings shall fall on the head of Ioseph, and on the top of the head of him
that was separated from his brethren. Ben Iamin is a ravishing wolf. In the
morning he shall devour his prey, and at night he shall divide his spoil. All
these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is that which their father spake
unto them when he blessed them, every man with a several blessing. And he
charged them and said unto them. I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury
me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hethite, in
the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which
field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in. There
they buried Abraham and Sara his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his
wife. And there I buried Lea: which field and the cave that is therein, was
bought of the children of Heth. When Iacob had commanded all that he would unto
his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed and died, and was put unto his
people;
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And Ioseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And
Ioseph commanded his servants that were Physicians, to embalm his father, and
the Physicians embalmed Israel forty days long, for so long doth the embalming
last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days. And when the days of weeping
were ended, Ioseph spake unto the house of Pharao saying: If I have found favour
in your eyes, speak unto Pharao and tell him, how that my father made me swear
and said: lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in
the land of Canaan. Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I
come again. And Pharao said, go and bury thy father, according as he made thee
swear. And Ioseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants
of Pharao that were the elders of his house, and all the elders of Egypt, and
all the house of Ioseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their
children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of
Gosan. And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an
exceeding great company. And when they came to the field of Atad beyond Iordan,
there they made great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his
father seven days. When the inhabiters of the land the Cananites saw the
mourning in the field of Atad, they said: this is a great mourning which the
Egyptians make. Wherefore the name of the place is called Abel mizraim, which
place lieth beyond Iordan. And his sons did unto him according as he had
commanded them. And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him
in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury
in, of Ephron the Hethite before Mamre. And Ioseph returned to Egypt again and
his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, as soon as he
had buried him. When Ioseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said:
Ioseph might fortune to hate us and reward us again all the evil which we did
unto him. They did therefore a commandment unto Ioseph saying: thy father
charged before his death saying: This wise say unto Ioseph, forgive I pray thee
the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they rewarded thee evil. Now
therefore we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of thy father's God.
And Ioseph wept when they spake unto him. And his brethren came and fell before
him and said: behold we be thy servants. And Ioseph said unto them: fear not,
for am not I under God? Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to
bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive. Fear not
therefore, for I will care for you and for your children, and he spake kindly
unto them. Ioseph dwelt in Egypt and his father's house also, and lived an
hundred and ten years. And Ioseph saw Ephraim's children, even unto the third
generation. And unto Machir the son of Manasse were children born, and sat on
Ioseph's knees. And Ioseph said unto his brethren: I die; And God will surely
visit you and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto
Abraham, Isaac and Iacob. And Ioseph took an oath of the children of Israel and
said: God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones
hence. And so Ioseph died, when he was an hundred and ten years old. And they
embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
The end of the first book of Moses.
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.j.
These are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egypt with Iacob,
every man with his household: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Iuda, Isachar, Zabulon, Ben
Iamin, Dan, Nephtali, Gad and Aser. All the souls that came out of the loins of
Iacob, were seventy, and Ioseph was in Egypt already. When Ioseph was dead and
all his brethren and all that generation: the children of Israel grew, increased,
multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them. Then
there rose up a new king in Egypt which knew not Ioseph. And he said unto his
folk: behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Come on, let us play wisely with them: lest they multiply, and then (if there
chance any war) they join them selves unto our enemies and fight against us, and
so get them out of the land. And he set taskmasters over them, to keep them
under with burthens. And they built unto Pharao treasure cities: Phiton and
Raamses. But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so
that they abhorred the children of Israel. And the Egyptians held the children
of Israel in bondage without mercy, and made their lives bitter unto them with
cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all
manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly. And the king of Egypt
said unto the midwives of the Hebrews' women, of which the one's name was
Sephora and the other Phua: when ye midwife the women of the Hebrews and see in
the birth time that it is a boy, kill it. But if it be a maid, let it live.
Notwithstanding the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt
commanded them: but saved the men children. Then the king of Egypt called for
the midwives and said unto them: why have ye dealt on this manner and have saved
the men children? And the midwives answered Pharao, that the Hebrews' women were
not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the
midwives came at them. And God therefore dealt well with the midwives. And the
people multiplied and waxed very mighty. And because the midwives feared God, he
made them houses. Then Pharao charged all his people saying: All the men
children that are born, cast into the river and save the maid children alive.
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And there went a man of the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi. And the
wife conceived and bare a son. And when she saw that it was a proper child, she
hid him three months long. And when she could no longer hide him, she took a
basket of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child
therein, and put it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar
off, to wete what would come of it. And the daughter of Pharao came down to the
river to wash herself, and her maidens walked along by the river's side. And
when she saw the basket among the flags, she sent one of her maids and caused it
to be fetched. And when she had opened it she saw the child, and behold, the
babe wept. And she had compassion on it and said: it is one of the Hebrew's
children. Then said his sister unto Pharao's daughter: shall I go and call unto
thee a nurse of the Hebrew's women, to nurse the child? And the maid ran and
called the child's mother. Then Pharao's daughter said unto her. Take this child
away and nurse it for me, and I will reward thee for thy labour. And the woman
took the child and nursed it up. And when the child was grown, she brought it
unto Pharao's daughter, and it was made her son, and she called it Moses,
because (said she) I took him out of the water. And it happened in these days
when Moses was waxed great, that he went out unto his brethren and looked on
their burthens, and spied an Egyptian smiting one of his brethren an Hebrew. And
he looked round about: and when he saw that there was no man by, he slew the
Egyptian and hid him in the sand. And he went out another day: and behold, two
Hebrews strove together. And he said unto him that did the wrong: wherefore
smitest thou thine neighbour? And he answered: who hath made thee a ruler or a
judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Then
Moses feared and said: of a surety the thing is known. And Pharao heard of it
and went about to slay Moses: but he fled from Pharao and dwelt in the land of
Madian, and he sat down by a well's side. The priest of Madian had seven
daughters which came and drew water and filled the troughs, for to water their
father's sheep. And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up
and helped them and watered their sheep. And when they came to Raguel their
father, he said: how happeneth it that ye are come so soon today? And they
answered: there was an Egyptian that delivered us from the shepherds, and so
drew us water and watered the sheep. And he said unto his daughters: where is
he? why have ye left the man? Go call him that he may eat bread. And Moses was
content to dwell with the man. And he gave Moses Zephora his daughter which bare
a son, and he called him Gerson: for he said. I have been a stranger in a
strange land. [And she bare yet another son, whom he called Elieser saying: the
God of my father is mine helper, and hath rid me out of the hands of Pharao.]
And it chanced in process of time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children
of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried. And their complaint came up
unto God from the labour. And God remembered his promise with Abraham, Isaac and
Iacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel and knew them.
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Moses kept the sheep of Iethro his father-in-law priest of Madian, and he drove
the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of a bush.
And he perceived that the bush burned with fire, and consumed not. Then Moses
said: I will go hence and see this great sight, how it cometh that the bush
burneth not. And when the LORD saw that he came for to see, he called unto him
out of the bush and said: Moses Moses; And he answered: here am I. And he said:
come not hither, but put thy shoes off thy feet: for the place whereon thou
stondest is holy ground. And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob. And Moses hid his face, for he
was afraid to look upon God. Then the LORD said: I have surely seen the trouble
of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of
their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow, and am come down to deliver them out
of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good
land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto
the place of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Hevites, and of the
Iebusites. Now therefore behold, the complaint of the children of Israel is come
unto me and I have also seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians oppress
them. But come, I will send thee unto Pharao, that thou mayst bring my people
the children of Israel out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God: what, am I to go
to Pharao and to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said: I will
be with thee. And this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: after
that thou hast brought the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this
mountain. Then said Moses unto God: when I come unto the children of Israel and
say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they say unto
me, what is his name, what answer shall I give them? Then said God unto Moses: I
will be what I will be: and he said, this shalt thou say unto the children of
Israel: I will be did send me to you. And God spake further unto Moses: thus
shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: the LORD God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob hath sent me unto you:
this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial thorowout all generations. Go
therefore and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them: the LORD
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob,
appeared unto me and said: I have been and seen both you and that which is done
to you in Egypt. And I have said it, that I will bring you out of the
tribulation of Egypt unto the land of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites,
Pherezites, Hevites and Iebusites: even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
If it come to pass that they hear thy voice, then go, both thou and the elders
of Israel unto the king of Egypt, and say unto him: The LORD God of the Hebrews
hath met with us: Let us go therefore three days' journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. Notwithstanding I am sure that the
king of Egypt will not let you go, except it be with a mighty hand: yea and I
will therefore stretch out mine hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which
I will do therein. And after that he will let you go. And I will get this people
favour in the sight of the Egyptians: so that when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
but every wife shall borrow of her neighbouress and of her that sojourneth in
her house, jewels of silver and of gold and raiment. And ye shall put them on
your sons and daughters, and shall rob the Egyptians.
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Moses answered and said: See, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice:
but will say, the LORD hath not appeared unto thee. Then the LORD said unto him:
what is that in thine hand? and he said, a rod. And he said, cast it on the
ground, and it turned unto a serpent. And Moses ran away from it. And the LORD
said unto Moses: put forth thine hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth
his hand and caught it, and it became a rod again in his hand, that they may
believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac
and the God of Iacob hath appeared unto thee. And the LORD said furthermore unto
him: thrust thine hand into thy bosom. And he thrust his hand into his bosom and
took it out. And behold, his hand was leprous even as snow. And he said: put
thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and
plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
If they will not believe thee neither hear the voice of the first token: yet
will they believe the voice of the second token. But and if they will not
believe the two signs neither hearken unto thy voice, then take of the water of
the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which thou takest out of
the river shall turn to blood upon the dry land. And Moses said unto the LORD:
Oh my Lord. {the Lorde: oh my Lorde.} I am not eloquent, no not in times past
and namely since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and
slow tongued. And the LORD said unto him: who hath made man's mouth, or who hath
made the dumb or the deaf, the seeing or the blind? have not I the LORD? Go
therefore and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say. And
he said: Oh my Lord, {Lorde} {|LORDE|} send I pray thee whom thou wilt. And the
LORD was angry with Moses and said: I know Aaron thy brother the Levite that he
can speak. And moreover behold, he cometh out against {to meet} thee, and when
he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 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
will teach you what ye shall do. And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people:
he shall be thy mouth, and thou shalt be his God: and take this rod in thy hand,
wherewith thou shalt do miracles. And Moses went and returned to Iethro his
father-in-law again and said unto him: let me go (I pray thee) and turn again
unto my brethren which are in Egypt, that I may see whether they be yet alive.
And Iethro said to Moses: go in peace. And the LORD said unto Moses in Madian:
return again into Egypt for they are dead which went about to kill thee. And
Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass, and went again to Egypt,
and took the rod of God in his hand. And the LORD said unto Moses: when thou art
come into Egypt again, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharao which I
have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the
people go. And tell Pharao, thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son, and
therefore sayeth unto thee: let my son go, that he may serve me. If thou wilt
not let him go: behold, I will slay thine eldest son. And it chanced by the way
in the inn, that the LORD met him and would have killed him. Then Zepora took a
stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said: a bloody husband
art thou unto me. And he let him go. She said a bloody husband, because of the
circumcision. Then said the LORD unto Aaron: go meet Moses in the wilderness.
And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron
all the words of the LORD which he had sent by him, and all the tokens which he
had charged him withal. So went Moses and Aaron and gathered all the elders of
the children of Israel. And Aaron told all the words which the LORD had spoken
unto Moses, and did the miracles in the sight of the people, and the people
believed. And when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel
and had looked upon their tribulation, they bowed them selves, and worshipped.
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Then Moses and Aaron went and told Pharao, thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel.
Let my people go, that they may keep holy day unto me in the wilderness. And
Pharao answered: what fellow is the LORD, that I should hear his voice for to
let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will let Israel go. And they said:
the God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go (we pray thee) three days'
journey into the desert, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God: lest he
smite us either with pestilence or with sword. Then said the king of Egypt unto
them: wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their work, get you
unto your labour. And Pharao said furthermore: behold, there is much people in
the land, and ye make them play and let their work stond. And Pharao commanded
the same day unto the taskmasters over the people and unto the officers saying:
see that ye give the people no more straw to make brick withal, as ye did in
time past: let them go and gather them straw them selves, and the number of
bricks which they were wont to make in time past, lay unto their charge also,
and minish nothing thereof. For they be idle and therefore cry saying: let us go
and do sacrifice unto our God. They must have more work laid upon them, that
they may labour therein, and then will they not turn them selves to false words.
Then went the taskmasters of the people and the officers out and told the people
saying: Thus sayeth Pharao: I will give you no more straw, but go your selves
and gather you straw where ye can find it, yet shall none of your labour be
minished. Then the people scattered abroad thorowout all the land of Egypt for
to gather them stubble to be instead of straw. And the taskmasters hasted them
forward saying: fulfil your work day by day, even as when straw was given you.
And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharao's taskmasters had set
over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them: wherefore have ye not
fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in
times past? Then went the officers of the children of Israel and complained unto
Pharao saying: wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? there is no straw
given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us: make brick. And lo, thy
servants are beaten, and thy people is foul entreated. And he answered: idle are
ye idle, and therefore ye say: let us go and do sacrifice unto the LORD. Go
therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye
deliver the hole tale of brick. When the officers of the children of Israel saw
themself in shrewd case (in that he said ye shall minish nothing of your daily
making of brick) then they met Moses and Aaron stonding in their way as they
came out from Pharao, and said unto them: The LORD look unto you and judge, for
ye have made the savour of us stink in the sight of Pharao and of his servants,
and have put a sword into their hands to slay us. Moses returned unto the LORD {Lorde}
{|LORDE|} and said: Lord {|LORDE|} wherefore dealest thou cruelly with this
people: and wherefore hast thou sent me? For since I came to Pharao to speak in
thy name, he hath fared foul with this folk, and yet thou hast not delivered thy
people at all;
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Then the LORD said unto Moses. Now shalt thou see what I will do unto Pharao,
for with a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a mighty hand shall he
drive them out of his land. And God spake unto Moses saying unto him: I am the
LORD, and I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob an almighty God: but in my
name Iehouah was I not known unto them. Moreover I made an appointment with them
to give them the land of Canaa: the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were
strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, because
the Egyptians keep them in bondage, and have remembered my promise. Wherefore
say unto the children of Israel: I am the LORD, and will bring you out from
under the burdens of the Egyptians, and will rid you out of their bondage, and
will deliver you with a stretched out arm and with great judgements. And I will
take you for my people and will be to you a God. And ye shall know that I am the
LORD your God which brings you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians. And
I will bring you unto the land over the which I did lift up my hand to give it
unto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, and will give it unto you for a possession: even
I the LORD. And Moses told the children of Israel even so: But they hearkened
not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. And the LORD spake
unto Moses saying: Go and bid Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land. And Moses spake before the LORD saying: behold, the
children of Israel hearken not unto me, how then shall Pharao hear me: seeing
that I have uncircumcised lips. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron and gave
them a charge unto the children of Israel and unto Pharao king of Egypt: to
bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. These be the heads of
their father's houses. The children of Ruben the eldest son of Israel are these:
Hanoh, Pallu, Hezron, Charmi, these be the householders of Ruben. The children
of Simeon are these: Gemuel, Iamin, Ohad, Iachin, Zohar, and Saul the son of a
Cananitish wife: these are the kindreds of Simeon. These are the names of the
children of Levi in their generations: Gerson, Kahath and Merari. And Levi lived
an hundred and thirty seven years. The sons of Gerson: Libni and Semei in their
kindreds. The children of Kahath: Amram, Iesear, Hebron and Usiel. And Kahath
lived an hundred and thirty three years. The children of Merari are these:
Maheli and Musi: these are the kindreds of Levi in their generations. And Amram
took Iochebed his niece to wife which bare him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived
an hundred and thirty seven years. The children of Iezear: Korah, Nepheg and
Sichri. The children of Usiel: Misael, Elzaphan and Sithri. And Aaron took
Elizaba daughter of Aminadab and sister of Nahason, to wife: which bare him
Nadab, Abehu, Eleazar and Ithamar. The children of Korah: Assir, Elkana and
Abiassaph: these are the kindreds of the Korahites. And Eleazar Aaron's son took
him one of the daughters of Putuel to wife: which bare him Pinehas: these be the
principal fathers of the Levites in their kindreds. These are that Aaron and
Moses to whom the LORD said: carry the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt, with their armies. These are that Moses and Aaron which spake to Pharao
king of Egypt, that they might bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. And in
the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, he spake unto him
saying, I am the LORD, see that thou speak unto Pharao the king of Egypt all
that I say unto thee. And Moses answered before the LORD: I am of uncircumcised
lips, how shall Pharao then give me audience?
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And the LORD said unto Moses: behold, I have made thee Pharao's God, and Aaron
thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee and
Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharao: that he send the children of Israel
out of his land. But I will harden Pharao's heart, that I may multiply my
miracles and my wonders in the land of Egypt. And yet Pharao shall not hearken
unto you, that I may set mine hand upon Egypt and bring out mine armies, even my
people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with great judgements.
And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have stretched forth my
hand upon Egypt, and have brought out the children of Israel from among them.
Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them. And Moses was eighty years old
and Aaron eighty three when they spake unto Pharao. And the LORD spake unto
Moses and Aaron saying: when Pharao speaketh unto you and sayeth: shew a wonder,
then shalt thou say unto Aaron, take the rod and cast it before Pharao, and it
shall turn to a serpent. Then went Moses and Aaron in unto Pharao, and did even
as the LORD had commanded. And Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharao and before
his servants, and it turned to a serpent. Then Pharao called for the wise men,
and enchanters of Egypt did in like manner with their sorcery. And they cast
down every man his rod, and they turned to serpents: but Aaron's rod ate up
their rods: and yet for all that Pharao's heart was hardened, so that he
hearkened not unto them, even as the LORD had said. Then said the LORD unto
Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened, and he refuseth to let the people go. Get
thee unto Pharao in the morning, for he will come unto the water, and stond {stode}
thou upon the river's brink against he come, and the rod which turned to a
serpent take in thine hand. And say unto him: the LORD God of the Hebrews hath
sent me unto thee saying: let my people go, that they may serve me in the
wilderness: but hitherto thou wouldest not hear. Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD:
hereby thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will smite with the staff
that is in mine hand upon the waters that are in the river, and they shall turn
to blood. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink:
so that it shall grieve the Egyptians to drink of the water of the river. And
the LORD spake unto Moses, say unto Aaron: take thy staff and stretch out thine
hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, rivers, ponds and all pools
of water, that they may be blood, and that there may be blood in all the land of
Egypt: both in vessels of wood and also of stone. And Moses and Aaron did even
as the LORD commanded. And he lift up the staff and smote the waters that were
in the river, in the sight of Pharao and in the sight of his servants, and all
the water that was in the river, turned into blood. And the fish that was in the
river died, and the river stank: so that the Egyptians could not drink of the
water of the river. And there was blood thorowout all the land of Egypt. And the
enchanters of Egypt did likewise with their enchantments, so that Pharao's heart
was hardened and did not regard them as the LORD had said. And Pharao turned
himself and went into his house, and set not his heart thereunto. And the
Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink, for they could not
drink of the water of the river. And it continued a week after that the LORD had
smote the river.
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The LORD spake unto Moses: Go unto Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the LORD:
let my people go, that they may serve me. If thou wilt not let them go: behold I
will smite all thy land with frogs. And the river shall scrale with frogs, and
they shall come up and go into thine house and into thy chamber where thou
sleepest and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and upon thy vitailles which thou hast in store.
And the frogs shall come upon thee and on thy people and upon all thy servants.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, say unto Aaron: stretch forth thine hand with thy
rod over the streams, rivers, and ponds. And bring up frogs upon the land of
Egypt. And Aaron stretched his hand over the water of Egypt, and the frogs came
up and covered the land of Egypt. And the sorcerers did likewise with their
sorcery, and the frogs came up upon the land of Egypt. Then Pharao called for
Moses and Aaron and said, pray ye unto the LORD that he may take away the frogs
from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may
sacrifice unto the LORD. And Moses said unto Pharao: Appoint thou the time unto
me, when I shall pray for thee and thy servants and thy people, to drive away
the frogs from thee and thy house, so that they shall remain but in the river
only. And he said tomorrow. And he said: even as thou hast said, that thou mayst
know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. And the frogs shall depart
from thee and from thine houses, and from thy servants and from thy people, and
shall remain in the river only. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharao, and
Moses cried unto the LORD upon the appointment of frogs which he had made unto
Pharao. And the LORD did according to the saying of Moses. And the frogs died
out of the houses, courts and fields. And they gathered them together upon heaps:
so that the land stank of them. But when Pharao saw that he had rest given him,
he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them, as the LORD had said. And the
LORD said unto Moses: Say unto Aaron: stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of
the land that it may turn to lice in all the land of Egypt. And they did so. And
Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth, and
it turned to lice both in man and beast, so that all the dust of the land turned
to lice, thorowout all the land of Egypt. And the enchanters assayed likewise
with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And the lice
were both upon man and beast. Then said the enchanters unto Pharao: it is the
finger of God. Neverthelater Pharao's heart was hardened and he regarded them
not, as the LORD had said. And the LORD said unto Moses: rise up early in the
morning and stond before Pharao, for he will come unto the water: and say unto
him, thus sayeth the LORD: let my people go, that they may serve me. If thou
wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send all manner flies both upon thee
and thy servants, and thy people, and into thy houses. And the houses of the
Egyptians shall be full of flies, and the ground whereon they are. But I will
separate the same day the land of Gosan where my people are, so that there shall
no flies be there: that thou mayest know that I am the LORD upon the earth. And
I will put a division between my people and thine. And even tomorrow shall this
miracle be done. And the LORD did even so: and there came noisome flies into the
house of Pharao, and into his servants' houses and into all the land of Egypt:
so that the land was marred with flies. Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and
said: Go and do sacrifice unto your God in the land. And Moses answered: it is
not mete so to do. For we must offer unto the LORD our God, that which is an
abomination unto the Egyptians: behold shall we sacrifice that which is an
abomination unto the Egyptians before their eyes, and shall they not stone us?
we will therefore go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the
LORD our God as he hath commanded us. And Pharao said: I will let you go, that
ye may sacrifice unto the LORD your God in the wilderness: only go not far away,
and see that ye pray for me. And Moses said: behold, I will go out from thee and
pray unto the LORD, and the flies shall depart from Pharao and from his servants
and from his people tomorrow. But let Pharao from henceforth deceive no more,
that he would not let the people go to sacrifice unto the LORD. And Moses went
out from Pharao and prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD did as Moses had said,
and took away the flies from Pharao and from his servants and from his people,
so that there remained not one. But for all that, Pharao hardened his heart even
then also and would not let the people go.
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And the LORD said unto Moses: go unto Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the LORD
God of the Hebrews: send out my people that they may serve me. If thou wilt not
let them go but wilt hold them still: behold, the hand of the LORD shall be upon
thy cattle which thou hast in the field, upon horses, asses, camels, oxen, and
sheep, with a mighty great murrain. But the LORD shall make a division between
the beasts of the Israelites, and the beasts of the Egyptians: so that there
shall nothing die of all that pertaineth to the children of Israel. And the LORD
appointed a time saying: tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land. And
the LORD did the thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of
the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. And Pharao sent to wete: but
there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. Notwithstanding the
heart of Pharao hardened, and he would not let the people go. And the LORD said
unto Moses and Aaron: take your hands full of ashes out of the furnace, and let
Moses sprinkle it up into the air in the sight of Pharao, and it shall turn to
dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall make swelling sores with blains both on
man and beast in all the land of Egypt. And they took ashes out of the furnace,
and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it up into the air: And there brake
out sores with blains both in man and beast: so that the sorcerers could not
stond before Moses, by the reason of botches on the enchanters and upon all the
Egyptians. But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharao, that he hearkened not unto
them, as the LORD had said unto Moses. And the LORD said unto Moses: rise up
early in the morning and stond before Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the LORD
God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me, or else I will at
this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and on thy
people, that you mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth. For now
I will stretch out my hand and will smite thee and thy people with pestilence:
so that thou shalt perish from the earth. Yet in very deed for this cause have I
stirred thee up, for to shew my power in thee, and to declare my name thorowout
all the world. If it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let
them go: behold, tomorrow this time, I will send down a mighty great hail: even
such one as was not in Egypt since it was grounded unto this time. Send
therefore and fetch home thy beasts and all that thou hast in the field. For
upon all the men and beasts which are found in the field and not brought home,
shall the hail fall, and they shall die. And as many as feared the word of the
LORD among the servants of Pharao made their servants and their beasts flee to
house: and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and
their beasts in the field. And the LORD said unto Moses: stretch forth thine
hand unto heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt: upon man and
beast, and upon all the herbs of the field in the field of Egypt. And Moses
stretched out his rod unto heaven, and the LORD thundered and hailed, so that
the fire ran along upon the ground. And the LORD so hailed in the land of Egypt,
that there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, so grievous, that there was
none such in all the land of Egypt, since people inhabited it. And the hail
smote in the land of Egypt all that was in the field both man and beast. And the
hail smote all the herbs of the field and broke all the trees of the field: only
in the land of Gosan where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. And
Pharao sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: I have now
sinned, the LORD is righteous and I and my people are wicked. Pray ye unto the
LORD, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye
shall tarry no longer. And Moses said unto him: as soon as I am out of the city,
I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD, and the thunder shall cease,
neither shall there be any more hail: that thou mayst know, how that the earth
is the LORD's. But I know that thou and thy servants yet fear not the LORD God.
The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was shot up and the flax
was bolled: but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were late sown.
And Moses went out of the city from Pharao and spread abroad his hands unto the
LORD, and the thunder and hail ceased, neither rained it any more upon the earth.
When Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and thunder were ceased, he sinned
again and hardened his heart: both he and his servants. So was the heart of
Pharao hardened, that he would not let the children of Israel go, as the LORD
had said by Moses.
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The LORD said unto Moses: go unto Pharao, nevertheless I have hardened his heart
and the hearts of his servants, that I might shew these my signs amongst them,
and that thou tell in the audience of thy son and of thy son's son, the pageants
which I have played in Egypt, and the miracles which I have done among them:
that ye may know how that I am the LORD. Then Moses and Aaron went in unto
Pharao, and said unto him: Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: how long
shall it be, or thou wilt submit thyself unto me? Let my people go that they may
serve me. If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring
grasshoppers into thy land, and they shall cover the face of the earth that it
can not be seen, and they shall eat the residue which remaineth unto you and
escaped the hail, and they shall eat all your green trees upon the field, and
they shall fill thy houses and all thy servants' houses, and the houses of all
the Egyptians after such a manner: as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers
fathers have seen, since the time they were upon the earth unto this day. And he
turned himself about, and went out from Pharao. And Pharao's servants said unto
him: How long shall this fellow thus plague us? {How long shall we be thus
evilly entreated?} Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God, or
else wilt thou see Egypt first destroyed? And then Moses and Aaron were brought
again unto Pharao, and he said unto them: Go and serve the LORD your God but who
are they that shall go? And Moses answered: we must go with young and old: yea
and with our sons and with our daughters, and with our sheep and oxen must we go.
For we must hold a feast unto the LORD. And he said unto them: shall it be so?
The LORD be with you, should I let you go, and your children also? Take heed,
for ye have some mischief in hand. Nay not so: but go ye that are men and serve
the LORD, for that was your desire. And they thrust them out of Pharao's
presence. And the LORD said unto Moses: Stretch out thine hand over the land of
Egypt for grasshoppers, that they come upon the land of Egypt and eat all the
herbs of the land, and all that the hail left untouched. And Moses stretched
forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the
land, all that day and all night. And in the morning the east wind brought the
grasshoppers, and the grasshoppers went up over all the land of Egypt and
lighted in all quarters of Egypt very grievously: so that before them were there
no such grasshoppers, neither after them shall be. And they covered all the face
of the earth, so that the land was dark therewith. And they ate all the herbs of
the land and all the fruits of the trees which the hail had left: so that there
was no green thing left in the trees and herbs of the field thorow all the land
of Egypt. Then Pharao called for Moses and Aaron in haste and said: I have
sinned against the LORD your God and against you. Forgive me yet my sin only
this once, and pray unto the LORD your God that he may take away from me this
death only. And he went out from Pharao and prayed unto the LORD, and the LORD
turned the wind into a mighty strong west wind, and it took away the
grasshoppers and cast them into the reed sea: so that there was not one
grasshopper left in all the coasts of Egypt. But the LORD hardened Pharao's
heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go. And the LORD said
unto Moses: Stretch out thy hand unto heaven, and let there be darkness upon the
land of Egypt: even that they may feel the darkness. And Moses stretched forth
his hand unto heaven, and there was a dark mist {thick darkness} upon all the
land of Egypt three days long, so that no man saw another, neither rose up from
the place where he was by the space of three days, but all the children of
Israel had light where they dwelled. Then Pharao called for Moses and said: go
and serve the LORD, only let your sheep, and your oxen abide, but let your
children go with you. And Moses answered: thou must give us also offerings and
burnt offerings for to sacrifice unto the LORD our God. Our cattle therefore
shall go with us, and there shall not one hoof be left behind, for thereof must
we take to serve the LORD our God. Moreover we can not know wherewith we shall
serve the LORD, until we come thither. But the LORD hardened Pharao's heart, so
that he would not let them go. And Pharao said unto him: get thee from me and
take heed to thyself that thou see my face no more. For whensoever thou comest
in my sight, thou shalt die. And Moses said: Let it be as thou hast said: I will
see thy face no more.
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And the LORD said unto Moses: yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharao and
upon Egypt, and after that he will let you go hence. And when he letteth you go,
he shall utterly drive you hence. But bid the people that every man borrow of
his neighbour and every woman of her neighbouress: jewels of silver and jewels
of gold. And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians.
Moreover Moses was very great in the land of Egypt: both in the sight of Pharao,
and also in the sight of the people. And Moses said: thus sayeth the LORD. About
midnight will I go out among the Egyptians, and all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt shall die: even from the firstborn of Pharao that sitteth on his seat,
unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is in the mill, and all the firstborn
of the cattle. And there shall be a great cry thorowout all the land of Egypt:
so that there was never none like nor shall be. And among all the children of
Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, nor yet man or beast: that ye may know,
how the LORD putteth a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. And all
these thy servants shall come down unto me, and fall before me and say: get thee
out and all the people that are under thee, and then will I depart. And he went
out from Pharao in a great anger. And the LORD said unto Moses: Pharao shall not
regard you, that many wonders may be wrought in the land of Egypt. And Moses and
Aaron did all these wonders before Pharao. But the LORD hardened Pharao's heart,
so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying: This month
shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you.
Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel saying: that they take the tenth day
of this month to every household, a sheep. If the household be too few for a
sheep, then let him and his neighbour that is next unto this house, take
according to the number of souls, and count unto a sheep according to every
man's eating. A sheep without spot and a male of one year old shall it be, and
from among the lambs and the goats shall ye take it. And ye shall keep him in
ward, until the fourteenth day of the same month. And every man of the multitude
of Israel shall kill him about even. And they shall take of the blood and strike
on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses, wherein they eat
him. And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with
unleavened bread, and with sour herbs they shall eat it. See that ye eat not
thereof sodden in water, but roast with fire: both head, feet, and purtenance
together. And see that ye let nothing of it remain unto the morning: if ought
remain burn it with fire. Of this manner shall ye eat it: with your loins girded,
and shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And ye shall eat it in
haste, for it is the LORD's passover, for I will go about in the land of Egypt
this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of
man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution. And
the blood shall be unto you a token upon the houses wherein ye are, for when I
see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you a
remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even thorowout your
generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom for ever.
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that even the first day ye shall
put away leaven out of your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread from the
first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be plucked out from Israel. The
first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the seventh also. There shall be
no manner of work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat:
that only may ye do. And see that ye keep you to unleavened bread. For upon that
same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt, therefore ye shall
observe this day and all your children after you, that it be a custom for ever.
The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet
bread unto the twenty first day of the month at even again. Seven days see that
there be no leavened bread found in your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened
bread, that soul shall be rooted out from the multitude of Israel: whether he be
a stranger or born in the land. Therefore see that ye eat no leavened bread, but
in all your habitations eat sweet bread. And Moses called for the elders of
Israel and said unto them: choose out and take to every household a sheep, and
kill passover. And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the basin, and strike it upon the upper post and on the two side posts, and see
that none of you go out at the door of his house until the morning. For the LORD
will go about and smite Egypt. And when he seeth the blood upon the upper door
post and on the two side posts, he will pass over the door and will not suffer
the destroyer to come into your house to plague you. Therefore see that thou
observe this thing, that it be an ordinance to thee, and thy sons for ever. And
when ye be come into the land which the LORD will give you according as he hath
promised, see that ye keep this service. And when your children ask you what
manner of service is this ye do. Ye shall say: it is the sacrifice of the LORD's
passover, which passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, as he
smote the Egyptians and saved our houses. Then the people bowed them selves and
worshipped. And the children of Israel went and did as the LORD had commanded
Moses and Aaron. And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt: from the firstborn of Pharao that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of
the captive that was in prison, and all firstborn of the cattle. Then Pharao
arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a
great crying thorowout Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one
dead. And he called unto Moses and Aaron by night saying: Rise up, and get you
out from among my people: both ye and also the children of Israel, and go and
serve the LORD as ye have said. And take your sheep and your oxen with you as ye
have said, and depart and bless me also. And the Egyptians were fierce upon the
people and made haste to send them out of the land: for they said: we be all
dead men. And the people took the dough before it was soured which they had in
store, and bound it in cloths, and put it upon their shoulders. And the children
of Israel did according to the saying of Moses: and they borrowed of the
Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. And the LORD gat
the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and so they borrowed and robbed
the Egyptians. Thus took the children of Israel their journey from Rameses to
Sucoth six hundred thousand men of foot, beside children. And much common people
went also with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle exceeding much. And they
baked sweet cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt, for it was not
soured: because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had
they prepared them any other provision of meat. And the time of the dwelling of
the children of Israel which they dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty
years. And when the four hundred and thirty years were expired, even the self
same day departed all the hosts of the LORD out of the land of Egypt. This is a
night to be observed to the LORD, because he brought them out of the land of
Egypt. This is a night of the LORD, to be kept of all the children of Israel and
of their generations after them. And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: this is
the manner of passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof, but all the
servants that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat
thereof. A stranger and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. In one house
shall it be eaten. Ye shall carry none of the flesh out at the doors: moreover,
see that ye break not a bone thereof. All the multitude of the children of
Israel shall observe it. If a stranger dwell among you, and will hold Passover
unto the LORD, let him circumcise all that be males, and then let him come and
observe it, and be taken as one that is born in the land. No uncircumcised
person shall eat thereof. One manner of law shall be unto them that are born in
the land, and unto the strangers that dwell among you. And all the children of
Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. And even the self same day did
the LORD bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their armies.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Sanctify unto me all the firstborn that
open all manner matrices among the children of Israel, as well of men as of
beasts: for they are mine. And Moses said unto the people: think on this day in
which ye came out of Egypt and out of the house of bondage: for with a mighty
hand the LORD brought you out from thence. See therefore that ye eat no leavened
bread. This day come ye out of Egypt in the month of Abib. When the LORD hath
brought thee in to the land of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Hevites and
Iebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers that he would give thee: a land
wherein milk and honey floweth, then see that thou keep this service in this
same month. Seven days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day shall be
feastful unto the LORD. Therefore thou shalt eat sweet bread seven days, and see
that there be no leavened bread seen nor yet leaven among you in all your
quarters. And thou shalt shew thy son at that time saying: this is done, because
of that which the LORD did unto me when I came out of Egypt. Therefore it shall
be a sign unto thee upon thine hand and a remembrance between thine eyes, that
the LORD's law may be in thy mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD brought thee
out of Egypt, see thou keep therefore this ordinance in his season from year to
year. Moreover when the LORD hath brought thee into the land of the Cananites,
as he hath sworn unto thee and to thy fathers, and hath given it thee, then thou
shalt appoint unto the LORD all that openeth the matrice, and all the firstborn
among the beasts which thou hast if they be males. And all the firstborn of the
asses, thou shalt redeem with a sheep: if thou redeem him not, then break his
neck. But all the firstborn among thy children shalt thou buy out. And when thy
son asketh thee in time to come saying: what is this? thou shalt say unto him:
with a mighty hand and LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And when Pharao was loth to let us go, the LORD slew all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt: as well the firstborn of men as of beasts. And therefore I
sacrifice unto the LORD all the males that open the matrice, but all the
firstborn of my children I must redeem. And this shall be as a token in thine
hand, and as a thing hanged up between thine eyes: because the LORD brought us
out of Egypt with a mighty hand. When Pharao had let the people go, God carried
them not thorow the land of the Philistines, though it were a nye way. For God
said: the people might haply repent when they see war, and so turn again to
Egypt: therefore God led thee about thorow the wilderness that bordereth on the
red sea. The children of Israel went harnessed out of the land of Egypt. And
Moses took the bones of Ioseph with him: for he made the children of Israel
swear saying: God will surely visit you, take my bones therefore away hence with
you. And they took their journey from Sucoth: and pitched their tents in Etham
in the edge of the wilderness. And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar
of a cloud to lead them the way: and by night in a pillar of fire to give them
light: that they might go both by day and night. And the pillar of the cloud
never departed by day nor the pillar of fire by night out of the people's sight.
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Then the LORD spake unto Moses saying: bid the children of Israel that they turn
and pitch their tents before the entering of Hiroth between Migdol and the sea
toward Baal Zephon: even before that shall ye pitch upon the sea. For Pharao
will say of the children of Israel: they are tangled in the land, the wilderness
hath shut them in. And I will harden his heart, that he shall follow after them,
that I may get me honour upon Pharao and upon all his host, that the Egyptians
may know that I am the LORD. And they did even so. And when it was told the king
of Egypt that the people fled, then Pharao's heart and all his servants turned
unto the people and said: why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out
of our service? and he made ready his chariots and took his people with him and
took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and captains upon
all his people. For the LORD hardened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt, that he
followed after the children of Israel which for all that went out thorow an high
hand. And the Egyptians followed after them and overtook them where they pitched
by the sea, with all the horsses and chariots of Pharao and with his horsemen
and his host: even fast by the entering of Hiroth before Baal Zephon. And Pharao
drew nye, and when the children of Israel lift up their eyes and saw how the
Egyptians followed after them, they were sore afraid and cried out unto the
LORD. Then said they unto Moses: were there no graves for us in Egypt, but thou
must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou served us
thus, for to carry us out of Egypt? Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying,
let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to have
served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness. And Moses said unto the
people: fear ye not but stond still and behold how the LORD shall save you this
day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall ye see them no more for ever
till the world's end. The LORD shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace.
The LORD said unto Moses: wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children
of Israel that they go forward. But lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thy
hand over the sea and divide it asunder, that the children of Israel may go on
dry ground thorow the middest thereof. And behold I will harden the hearts of
the Egyptians that they may follow you. And I will get me honour upon Pharao and
upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen. And the Egyptians
shall know that I am the LORD when I have gotten me honour upon Pharao, upon his
chariots and upon his horsemen. And the angel of God which went before the host
of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the clouden pillar that was before
them removed and stood behind them and went between the host of the Egyptians
and the host of Israel. It was a dark cloud, and gave light by night: so that
all the night long the one could not come at the other. When now Moses stretched
forth his hand over the sea, the LORD carried away the sea with a strong east
wind that blew all night, and made the sea dry land and the water divided itself.
And the children of Israel went in thorow the middest of the sea upon the dry
ground. And the water was a wall unto them, both on their right hand and on
their left hand. And the Egyptians followed and went in after them to the
middest of the sea, with all Pharao's horses, and his chariots and his horsemen.
And in the morning watch, the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of
the fiery and cloudy pillar, and troubled their host and smote off their chariot
wheels and cast them down to the ground. Then said the Egyptians: Let us flee
from Israel, for the LORD fighteth for them against us. Then said the LORD unto
Moses: stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the water may come again upon
the Egyptians upon their chariots and horsemen. Then stretched forth Moses his
hand over the sea, and it came again to his course early in the morning, and the
Egyptians fled against it. Thus the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middest
of the sea, and the water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen: so
that of all the host of Pharao that came into the sea after them, there remained
not one. But the children of Israel went upon dry land in the middest of the
sea, and the water was a wall unto them: both on the right hand of them and also
on the left. Thus the LORD delivered Israel the self same day out of the hand of
the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea side. And when
Israel saw that mighty hand which the LORD had shewed upon the Egyptians, they
feared the LORD: and believed both the LORD and also his servant Moses.
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Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song unto the LORD and said: Let
us sing unto the LORD, for he is become glorious, the horse and him that rode
upon him hath he overthrown in the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song, and
is become my salvation. He is my God and I will glorify him, he is my father's
God and I will lift him up on high. {an hie} The LORD is a man of war, Iehouah
is his name: Pharao's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea. His jolly
captains are drowned in the redde {reed} sea, the deep waters have covered them:
they sank to the bottom as a stone. Thine hand LORD is glorious in power, thine
hand LORD hath all to dashed the enemy. And with thy great glory thou hast
destroyed thine adversaries, thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them,
even as stubble. With the breath of thine anger the water gathered together and
the floods stood still as a rock, and the deep water congealed together in the
middest of the sea. The enemy said: I will follow and overtake them, and will
divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword, and
mine hand shall destroy them. Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered
them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto thee o LORD
among gods: who is like thee, so glorious in holiness, fearful, laudable and
that shewest wonders? Thou stretchedest out thy right hand, and in the earth
swallowed them. And thou carriedest with thy mercy this people which thou
deliveredest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
The nations heard, and were afraid, pangs came upon the Philistines. Then the
dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the
Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint hearted. Let fear and
dread fall upon them thorow the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still
as a stone, while thy people pass thorow o LORD, while the people pass thorow,
which thou hast gotten. Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine
inheritance, the place LORD {Lorde} which thou hast made for to dwell in, the
sanctuary Lord, which thy hands have prepared. The LORD reign ever and allway.
For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and
the LORD brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel
went on dry land thorow the middest of the sea. And Miriam a prophetess the
sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women came out after her
with timbrels in a dance. And Miriam sang before them: sing ye unto the LORD,
for he is become glorious indeed: the horse and his rider hath he overthrown in
the sea. Moses brought Israel from the redde {reed} sea, and they went out into
the wilderness of Sur. And they went three days long in the wilderness, and
could find no water. At the last they came to Mara: but they could not drink of
the waters for bitterness, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of the place
was called Mara. Then the people murmured against Moses, saying: what shall we
drink? And Moses cried unto the LORD, and he shewed him a tree: {tre} and he
cast it into the water, and they waxed sweet. There he made them an ordinance
and a law, and there he tempted them and said: If ye will hearken unto the voice
of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight and will give
an ear unto his commandments, and keep all his ordinances: then will I put none
of these diseases upon thee which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the
LORD thy surgeon. And they came to Elim where were twelve wells of water and
seventy date trees, and they pitched there by the water.
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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the whole company of the children
of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which lieth between Elim and Sinai: the
fifteenth day of the second month after that they were come out of the land of
Egypt. And the hole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses
and Aaron in the wilderness, and said unto them: would to God we had died by the
hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and ate
bread our bellies' full for ye have brought us out into this wilderness to kill
this hole multitude for hunger. Then said the LORD unto Moses: behold, I will
rain bread from heaven down to you, and let the people go out, and gather day by
day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no. The sixth day
let them prepare that which they will bring in, and let it be twice as much as
they gather in daily. And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel:
at even ye shall know that it is the LORD, which brought you out of the land of
Egypt, and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the LORD: because he hath
heard your grudgings against the LORD: for what are we that ye should murmur
against us? And moreover spake Moses: At evening the LORD will give you flesh to
eat, and in the morning bread enough, because the LORD hath heard your murmur
which ye murmur against him: for what are we? your murmuring is not against us,
but against the LORD. And Moses spake unto Aaron: Say unto all the company of
the children of Israel, come forth before the LORD, for he hath heard your
grudgings. And as Aaron spake unto the hole multitude of the children of Israel,
they looked toward the wilderness: and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in
a cloud. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: I have heard the murmuring of the
children of Israel, tell them therefore and say that at evening they shall eat
flesh, and in the morning they shall be filled with bread, and ye shall know
that I am the LORD your God. And at evening the quails came and covered the
ground where they lay. And in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And
when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small
and round and thin as the hoar frost on the ground. When the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another: what is this? for they wist not what it was;
And Moses said: this is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat. This is
the thing which the LORD hath commanded, that ye gather every man enough for him
to eat: a gomer full for a man according to the number of you, and gather every
man for them which are in his tent. And the children of Israel did even so, and
gathered some more some less, and did mete it with a gomer. And unto him that
had gathered much remained nothing over, and unto him that had gathered little
was there no lack: but every man had gathered sufficient for his eating. And
Moses said unto them: See that no man let ought remain of it till the morning.
Notwithstonding they hearkened not unto Moses: but some of the left of it until
the mornynge, and it waxed full of worms and stank, and Moses was angry with
them. And they gathered it all mornings: every man as much as sufficed for his
eating, for as soon as the heat of the sonne came it melted. And the sixth day
they gathered twice so much bread, two gomers for one man, and the rulers of the
multitude came and told Moses. And he said unto them: this is that which the
LORD hath said: tomorrow is the Sabbath of the holy rest of the LORD: bake that
which ye will bake and fetch that ye will fetch, and that which remaineth lay up
for you, and keep it till the morning. And they laid it up till the morning as
Moses bade, and it stank not, neither was there any worms therein. And Moses
said: that eat this day: for today it is the LORD's Sabbath: today ye shall find
none in the field. Six days ye shall gather it, for the seventh is the Sabbath:
there shall be none therein. Notwithstanding there went out of the people in the
seventh day for to gather: but they found none. Then the LORD said unto Moses:
how long shall it be, yer ye will keep my commandments and laws? See because the
LORD hath given you a Sabbath, therefore he giveth you the sixth day bread for
two days. Bide therefore every man at home, and let no man go out of his place
the seventh day. And the people rested the seventh day. And the house of Israel
called it Man. And it was like unto Coriander seed and white, and the taste of
it was like unto wafers made with honey. And Moses said: this is that which the
LORD commandeth: fill a gomer of it, that it may be kept for your children after
you: that they may see the bread wherewith he fed you in wilderness, when he had
brought you out of the land of Egypt. And Moses spake unto Aaron: take a cruse
and put a gomer full of Man therein, and lay it up before the LORD to be kept
for your children after you, as the LORD commanded Moses. And Aaron laid it up
before the testimony there to be kept. And the children of Israel ate man forty
years until they came unto a land inhabited. And so they ate Man, even until
they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan, and a gomer is the tenth part
of an Epha.
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And all the company of the children of Israel went on their journeys from the
wilderness of Sin at the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Raphidim: where
was no water for the people to drink. And the people chode with Moses and said:
give us water to drink. And Moses said unto them: why chide ye with me, and
wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? There the people thirsted for water, and
murmured against Moses and said: wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, to
kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the
LORD saying, what shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.
And the LORD said unto Moses: go before the people, and take with thee of the
elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine
hand and go. Behold, I will stond there before thee upon a rock in Horeb: and
thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out thereof, that the
people may drink. And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel. And he
called the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the chiding of the
children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD saying: is the LORD among
us or not? Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Raphidim. And Moses said
unto Iosua: choose out men and go fight with Amelech. Tomorrow I will stond on
the top of the hill and the rod of God in mine hand. And Iosua did as Moses bade
him, and fought with the Amalekites. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top
of the hill. And when Moses held up his hand, Israel had the better. And when he
let his hand down, Amelech had the better. When Moses' hands were weary, they
took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down there on. And Aaron and Hur
stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side.
And his hands were steady until the son was down. And Iosua discomfited Amalek
and his people with the edge of his sword. And the LORD said unto Moses: write
this for a remembrance in a book and tell it unto Iosua, for I will put out the
remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses made an altar and called the
name of it Iehouah Nissi, {The LORD is he that exalteth, or worketh miracles for
me.} for he said: the hand is on the seat of the LORD, that the LORD will have
war with Amalek thorowout all generations.
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Iethro the priest of Madian Moses' father-in-law heard of all that God had done
unto Moses and to Israel his people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of
Egypt. And he took Zippora Moses' wife, after she was sent back, and her two
sons, of which the one was called Gerson, for he said: I have been an alien {alient}
in a strange land. And the other was called Eliesar: for the God of my father
was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharao. And Iethro Moses'
father-in-law came with his two sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness:
where he had pitched his tent by the mount of God. And he sent word to Moses: I
thy father-in- law Iethro am come to thee, and thy wife also, and her two sons
with her. And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and
kissed him, and they saluted each other and came into the tent. And Moses told
his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharao and to the Egyptians
for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had happened them by the way, and
how the LORD had delivered them. And Iethro rejoiced over all the good which the
LORD had done to Israel, and because he had delivered them out of the hand of
the Egyptians. And Iethro said: blessed be the LORD which hath delivered you out
of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao, which hath delivered
his people from under the power of the Egyptians. Now I know that the LORD is
greater than all gods, for because that they dealt proudly with them. And Iethro
Moses' father-in-law offered burnt offerings and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron
and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before
God. And it chanced on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the
people stood about Moses from morning unto evening. When his father-in- law saw
all that he did unto the people, he said: what is this that thou doest unto the
people? why sittest thou thyself and lettest all the people stond about thee
from morning unto even? And Moses said unto his father-in-law: because the
people came unto me to seek counsel, {councell} of God. For when they have a
matter, they come unto me, and I must judge between every man and his neighbour,
and must shew them the ordinances of God and his laws. And his father-in-law
said unto him: it is not well that thou doest. Thou doest unwisely and also this
people that is with thee: because the thing is too grievous for thee, and thou
art not able to do it thy self alone. But hear my voice, and I will give thee
counsel, {councell} and God shall be with thee. Be thou unto the people to
Godward, and bring the causes unto God and provide them ordinances and laws, and
shew them the way wherein they must walk and the works that they must do.
Moreover seek out among all the people, men of activity which fear God, and men
that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people,
captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten. And let them
judge the people at all seasons: If there be any great matter, let them bring
that unto thee, and let them judge all small causes them selves, and ease thy
self, and let them bear with thee. If thou shalt do this thing, then thou shalt
be able to endure that which God chargeth thee with all, and all this people
shall go to their places quietly. And Moses heard the voice of his father-in-law,
and did all that he had said, and chose active men out of all Israel and made
them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty
and over ten. And they judged the people at all seasons, and brought the hard
causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters them selves. And then Moses let
his father-in-law depart, and he went in to his own land.
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The third month after the children of Israel were gone out of Egypt: the same
day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Raphidim,
and were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched their tents in the
wilderness. And there Israel pitched before the mount. And Moses went up unto
God. And the LORD called to him out of the mountain saying: thus say unto the
house of Iacob, and tell the children of Israel: Ye have seen what I did unto
the Egyptians and how I took you up upon Eagles' wings, and have brought you
unto myself. Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine appointment:
ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine. Ye shall be
unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy people: these are the words which thou
shalt say unto the children of Israel. And Moses came and called for the elders
of Israel, and laid before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.
And the people answered all together and said: All that the LORD hath said, we
will do. And Moses brought the words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD
said unto Moses: Lo, I will come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may
hear when I talk with thee, and also believe thee for ever. And Moses shewed the
words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Moses: Go unto the
people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes:
that they may be ready against the third day. For the third day the LORD will
come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And set marks round
about the people and say: beware that ye go not up into the mount, and that ye
twich not the borders of it, for whosoever twicheth the mount, shall surely die.
There shall not an hand twich it, but that he shall either be stoned or else
shot thorow: whether it be beast or man, it shall not live, when the horn
bloweth: then let them come up in to the mountain. And Moses went down from the
mount unto the people and sanctified them, and they washed their clothes: And he
said unto the people: be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not
at your wives. And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning
and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud,
and all the people that was in the host was afraid. And Moses brought the people
out of the tents to meet with God, and they stood under the hill. And mount
Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire.
And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all
the mount was exceeding fearful. And the voice of the horn blew and waxed louder,
and louder. Moses spake, and God answered him and that with a voice. And the
LORD came down upon mount Sinai, even in the top of the hill, and called Moses
up into the top of the hill. And Moses went up. And the LORD said unto Moses: go
down and charge the people that they prease not up unto the LORD for to see him,
and so many of them perish. And let the priests also which come to the LORD's
presence, sanctify them selves: lest the LORD smite them. Then Moses said unto
the LORD: the people can not come up in to mount Sinai, for thou chargedest us
saying: set marks about the hill and sanctify it. And the LORD said unto him:
away, and get thee down: and come up both thou and Aaron with thee. But let not
the priests and the people presume for to come up unto the LORD: lest he smite
them. And Moses went down unto the people and told them.
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And God spake all these words and said: I am the LORD thy God, which have
brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage. Thou
shalt have none other gods in my sight. Thou shalt make thee no graven image,
neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or
in the water that is beneath the earth. See that thou neither bow thyself unto
them neither serve them: for I the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the
sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me: and yet shew mercy unto thousands among them that love me and
keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain,
for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember
the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it. Six days mayst thou labour and do all
that thou hast to do: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God, in
it thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
neither thy manservant nor thy maidservant, neither thy cattle neither yet the
stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the LORD made both heaven and
earth and the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day: wherefore
the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy
mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not break wedlock. Thou shalt not steal. Thou
shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's house: neither shalt covet thy neighbour's wife, his manservant, his
maid, his ox, his ass or ought that is his. And all the people saw the thunder
and the lightning and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked. And
when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off and said unto Moses:
talk thou with us and we will hear, but let not God talk with us, lest we die.
And Moses said unto the people fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that
his fear may be among you that ye sin not. And the people stood afar off, and
Moses went into the thick cloud where God was. And the LORD said unto Moses:
thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye have seen how that I have
talked with you from out of heaven. Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of
silver nor gods of gold: in no wise shall ye do it. An altar of earth thou shalt
make unto me and thereon offer thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, and
thy sheep and thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remembrance of
my name, thither I will come unto thee and bless thee. But and if thou wilt make
me an altar of stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou lift up
thy tool upon it, thou shalt pollute it. Moreover thou shalt not go up with
steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not shewed thereon.
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These are the laws which thou shalt set before them. If thou buy a servant that
is an Hebrew, six years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free
paying nothing. If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came married, his
wife shall go out with him. And if his master have given him a wife and she have
borne him sons or daughters: then the wife and her children shall be her
master's and he shall go out alone. But and if the servant say I love my master
and my wife and my children, I will not go out free. Then let his master bring
him unto the Gods and set him to the door or the doorpost, and bore his ear
thorow with an nawl, and let him be his servant forever. If a man sell his
daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she
please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to wife, then shall
he let her go free: to sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power,
because he despised her. If he have promised her unto his son to wife, he shall
deal with her as men do with their daughters. If he take him another wife, yet
her food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish. If he do not these
three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money. He that smiteth a
man that he die, shall be slain for it. If a man lay not await but God deliver
him into his hand, then I will point thee a place whither he shall flee. If a
man come presumptuously upon his neighbour and slay him with guile, thou shalt
take him from mine altar that he die. And he that smiteth his father or his
mother, shall die for it. He that stealeth a man and selleth him (if it be
proved upon him) shall be slain for it. And he that curseth his father or mother,
shall be put to death for it. If men strive together and one smite another with
a stone or with his fist, so that he die not, but lieth in bed: if he rise again
and walk without upon his staff, then shall he that smote him go quite: save
only he shall bear his charges while he lay in bed and pay for his healing. If a
man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they die under his hand, it
shall be avenged. But and if they continue a day or two, it shall not be avenged
for they are his money. When men strive and smite a woman with child so that her
fruit depart from her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be merced,
according as the woman's husband will lay to his charge, and he shall pay as the
daysmen appoint him. But and if any misfortune follow, then shall he pay life
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning
for burning, wound for wound and stripe for stripe. If a man smite his servant
or his maid in the eye and put it out, he shall let them go free for the eye's
sake. Also if he smite out his servant's or his maid's tooth, he shall let them
go out free for the tooth's sake. If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die,
then the ox shall be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: and his master
shall go quite. If the ox were wont to run at men in time past and it hath been
told his master, and he hath not kept him, but that he hath killed a man or a
woman: then the ox shall be stoned and his master shall die also. If he be set
to a sum of money, then he shall give for the deliverance of his life, according
to all that is put unto him. And whether he hath gored a son or a daughter, he
shall be served after the same manner. But if it be a servant or a maid that the
ox hath gored, then he shall give unto their master the sum of thirty sicles,
and the ox shall be stoned. If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not,
but that an ox or an ass fall therein, the owner of the pit shall make it good
and give money unto their master, and the dead beast shall be his. If one man's
ox hurt another's that he die: then they shall sell the live ox and divide the
money, and the dead ox also they shall divide. But and if it be known that the
ox hath used to push in time's past, then because his master hath not kept him,
he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.
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If a man steal an ox or sheep and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen
for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief be found breaking up and be
smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him: except the sonne be
up when he is found, then there shall be blood shed for him. A thief shall make
restitution: If he have not wherewith, he shall be sold for his theft. If the
theft be found in his hand alive (whether it be ox, ass or sheep) he shall
restore double. If a man do hurt field or vineyard, so that he put in his beast
to feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of
his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. If fire break out and catch in the
thorns, so that the stacks {stoukes} of corn or the stonding corn or field be
consumed therewith: he that kindled the fire shall make restitution. If a man
deliver his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of his house:
If the thief be found, he shall pay double. If the thief be not found, then the
goodman of the house shall be brought unto the gods and swear, whether he have
put his hand unto his neighbour's good. And in all manner of trespass, whether
it be ox, ass, sheep, raiment or any manner lost thing which another challengeth
to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the gods. And whom the
gods condemn: the same shall pay double unto his neighbour. If a man deliver
unto his neighbour to keep, ass, ox, sheep or whatsoever beast it be and it die
or be hurt or driven away and no man see it: then shall an oath of the LORD go
between them, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's good, and the
owner of it shall take the oath, and the other shall not make it good. If it be
stolen from him, then he shall make restitution unto the owner: If it be torn
with wild beasts, then let him bring record of the tearing: and he shall not
make it good. When a man borroweth ought of his neighbour if it be hurt or else
die, and if the owner thereof be not by, he shall make it good: If the owner
thereof be by, he shall not make it good, namely if it be an hired thing and
came for hire. If a man beguile a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her,
he shall endote her and take her to his wife: If her father refuse to give her
unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live. Whosoever lieth with a beast, shall be slain for it. He
that offereth unto any gods save unto the LORD only, let him die without
redemption. Vex not a stranger neither oppress him for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt. Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child: If ye shall
trouble them: they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry and then
will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be
widows and your children fatherless. If thou lend money to any of my people that
is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress
him with usury. If thou take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, see that thou
deliver it unto him again by that the sonne go down. For that is his coverlet
only: even the raiment for his skin wherein he sleepeth: or else he will cry
unto me and I will hear him, for I am merciful. Thou shalt not rail upon the
gods, neither curse the ruler of thy people. Thy fruits (whether they be dry or
moist) see thou keep not back. Thy firstborn son thou shalt give me: likewise
shalt thou do of thine oxen and of thy sheep. Seven days it shall be with the
dam, and the eighth day thou shalt give it me. Ye shall be holy people unto me,
and therefore shall ye eat no flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. But
shall cast it to dogs.
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Thou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither shalt put thine hand with the wicked
to be an unrighteous witness. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil:
neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest to follow many turn aside
from the truth, neither shalt thou paint a poor man's cause. When thou meetest
thine enemy's ox or ass going astray, thou shalt bring them to him again. If
thou see thine enemy's ass sink under his burthen, thou shalt not pass by and
let him alone: but shalt help him to lift him up again. Thou shalt not hinder
the right of the poor that are among you in their suit. Keep thee far from a
false matter, and the Innocent and righteous see thou slay not, for I will not
justify the wicked. Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and
pervert the words of the righteous. Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I
know the heart of stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt. Six years thou
shalt sow thy land and gather in the fruits thereof: and the seventh year thou
shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what
they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat: In like manner thou shalt do with
thy vineyard and thine olive trees. Six days thou shalt do thy work and the
seventh day thou shalt keep holy day, that thine ox and thine ass may rest and
the son of thy maid and the stranger may be refreshed. And in all things that I
have said unto you be circumspect. And make no rehearsal of the names of strange
gods, neither let any man hear them out of your mouths. Three feasts thou shalt
hold unto me in a year. Thou shalt keep the feast of sweet bread, that thou eat
unleavened bread seven days long as I commanded thee in the time appointed of
the month of Abib, for in that month thou camest out of Egypt: and see that no
man appear before me empty. And the feast of Harvest, when thou reapest the
first fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field. And the feast of
ingathering, in the end of the year: when thou hast gathered in thy labours out
of the field. Three times in a year shall all thy men children appear before the
Lord Iehouah. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened
bread: neither shall the fat of my feast remain until the morning. The first of
the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God
thou shalt also not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. Behold, I send mine angel
before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I
have prepared. Beware of him and hear his voice and anger him not: for he will
not spare your misdeeds, yea and my name is in him. But and if thou shalt
hearken unto his voice and keep all that I shall tell thee, then I will be an
enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary unto thine adversaries. When mine
angel goeth before thee and hath brought thee in unto the Amorites, Hethites,
Pherezites, Cananites, Hevites and Iebusites, and I shall have destroyed them,
see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works
of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them. And see that ye
serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water, and I will
take all sicknesses away from among you. Moreover there shall be no woman
childless or unfruitful in thy land, and the number of thy days I will fulfill.
I will send my fear before thee and will kill all the people whither thou shalt
go. And I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee, and I will
send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hevites, the Cananites
and the Hethites before thee. I will not cast them out in one year, lest the
land grow to a wilderness: and the beasts of the field multiply upon thee. But a
little and a little I will drive them out before thee, until thou be increased
that thou mayst inherit the land. And I will make thy coasts from the red sea
unto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert unto the river. I will
deliver the inhabiters of the land into thine hand, and thou shalt drive them
out before thee. And thou shalt make none appointment with them nor with their
gods. Neither shall they dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me:
for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be thy decay.
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And he said unto Moses: come unto the LORD: both thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
and the seventy elders of Israel, and worship afar off. And Moses went himself
alone unto the LORD, but they came not nye, neither came the people up with him.
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the laws.
And all the people answered with one voice and said: all the words which the
LORD hath said, will we do. Then Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose
up early and made an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the
number of the twelve tribes of Israel, and sent young men of the children of
Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings and to offer peace offerings of oxen unto
the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other
half he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the appointment and read
it in the audience of the people. And they said: All that the LORD hath said, we
will do and hear. And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and
said: behold, this is the blood of the appointment which the LORD hath made with
you upon all these words. Then went Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the
seventy elders of Israel up, and saw the God of Israel, and under his feet as it
were a brick work of Saphir and as it were the fashion of heaven when is clear,
and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he set not his hand. And when they
had seen God they ate and drank. And the LORD said unto Moses: come up to me in
to the hill and be there, and I will give thee tables of stone and a law and
commandments, which I have written to teach them. Then Moses rose up and his
minister Iosua, and Moses went up into the hill of God, and said unto the elders:
tarry ye here until we come again unto you: And behold here is Aaron and Hur
with you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come to them. When Moses
was come up into the mount, a cloud covered the hill, and the glory of the LORD
abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day
he called unto Moses out of the cloud. And the fashion of the glory of the LORD
was like consuming fire on the top of the hill in the sight of the children of
Israel. And Moses went into the mountain. And Moses was in the mount forty days
and forty nights.
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And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel that
they give me an heave offering, and of every man that giveth it willingly with
his heart, ye shall take it. And this is the heave offering which ye shall take
of them: gold, silver and brass: and Iacinth colour, scarlet, purple, byss and
goat's hair: ram's skins that are red, and the skins of taxus and sethim wood,
oil for lights, and spices for anointing oil and for sweet cense: Onyx stones
and set stones for the Ephod and for the breastlap. And they shall make me a
sanctuary that I may dwell among them. And as I have shewed {And i shall shew}
thee the fashion of the habitation and of all the ornaments thereof, even so see
that ye make it in all things. And they shall make an ark of sethim wood two
cubits and an half long, a cubit and an half broad and a cubit and an half high.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold: both within and without, and shalt
make an high {hye} upon it a crown of gold round about. And thou shalt cast four
rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners thereof, two rings on the
one side of it and two on the other. And thou shalt make staves of sethim wood
and cover them with gold, and put the staves in the rings along by the sides of
the ark, to bear it withal. And the staves shall abide in the rings of the ark,
and shall not be taken away. And thou shalt put in the ark, the witness which I
shall give thee. And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold two cubits and an
half long and a cubit and an half broad. And make two cherubins of thick gold on
the two ends of the mercy seat: and set the one cherub on the one end and the
other on the other end of the mercy seat: so see that thou make them on the two
ends thereof. And the cherubins shall stretch their wings abroad over on high,
{an hye} and cover the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look
one to another: even to the mercy seat ward, shall the faces of the cherubins
be. And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou
shalt put the witness which I will give thee. There I will meet thee and will
commune {common} with thee from upon the mercy seat from between the two
cherubins which are upon the ark of witness, of all things which I will give
thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. Thou shalt also make a table of
sethim wood of two cubits long and one cubit broad and a cubit and an half high.
And cover it with pure gold and make thereto a crown of gold round about. And
make unto that an hoop of four fingers broad, round about. And make a golden
crown also to the hoop round about. And make for it four rings of gold and put
them in the corners that are on the four feet thereof: even hard under the hoop
shall the rings be, to put in staves to bear the table withal. And thou shalt
make staves of sethim wood and overlay them with gold, that the table may be
borne with them. And thou shalt make his dishes, spoons, pots and flatpieces to
pour out withal, of fine gold. And thou shalt set upon the table, shewbread
before me alway. And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure thick gold with his
shaft, branches, bowls, knops and flowers proceeding thereout. Six branches
shall proceed out of the sides of the candlestick, three out of the one side and
three out of the other. And there shall be three cups like unto almonds with
knops and flowers upon every one of the six branches that proceed out of the
candlestick: and in the candlestick self four cups like unto almonds with their
knops and flowers: that there be a knop under every two branches of the six that
proceed out of the candlestick. And the knops and the branches shall be
altogether, one piece of pure thick gold. And thou shalt make seven lamps and
put them an high {hye} there on, to give light unto the other side that is over
against it: with snuffers and firepans of pure gold. An hundred pound weight of
fine gold shall make it with all the apparel. And see that thou make them after
the fashion that was shewed thee in the mount.
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And thou shalt make an habitation with ten curtains of twined byss, Iacinth,
scarlet and purple, and shalt make them with cherubins of broidered work. The
length of a curtain shall be twenty eight cubits, and the breadth four and they
shall be all of one measure: five curtains shall be coupled together one to
another: and the other five likewise shall be coupled together one to another.
Then shalt thou make loops of Iacinth colour, along by the edge of the one
curtain even in the selvedge of the coupling curtain. And likewise shalt thou
make in the edge of the utmost curtain that is coupled therewith on the other
side. Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty in the edge of
the other that is coupled therewith on the other side: so that the loops be one
over against another. And thou shalt make fifty buttons of gold, and couple the
curtain together with the buttons: that it may be an habitation. And thou shalt
make eleven curtains of goat's hair, to be a tent to cover the habitation. The
length of a curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth four and they shall
be all eleven of one measure. And thou shalt couple five by them selves, and the
other six by them selves, and shalt double the sixth in the forefront of the
tabernacle. And thou shalt make fifty loops in the edge of the utmost curtain on
the one side: even in the coupling curtain, and as many in the edge of the
coupling curtain on the other side. And thou shalt make fifty buttons of brass
and put them on the loops, and couple the tent together withal: that there may
be one tabernacle. {covering} And the remnant that resteth in the curtains of
the tent: even the breadth of half a curtain that resteth, shall be left on the
back sides of the habitation: a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other
side, of that, that remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tabernacle,
which shall remain of either side of the habitation to cover it withal. And thou
shalt make another covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red: and yet
another above all of taxus' skins. And thou shalt make boards for the habitation
of sethim wood to stond upright: ten cubits long shall every board be, and a
cubit and an half broad. Two feet shall one board have to couple them together
withal, and so thou shalt make unto all the boards of the habitation. And thou
shalt make twenty boards for the habitation on the south side, and thou shalt
make forty sockets of silver and put them under the twenty boards: two sockets
under every board, for their two feet. In like manner in the north side of the
habitation there shall be twenty boards and forty sockets of silver: two sockets
under every board. And for the west end of the habitation, shalt thou make six
boards, and two boards more for the two west corners of the habitation: so that
these two boards be coupled together beneath and likewise above with clamps. And
so shall it be in both the corners. And so there shall be eight boards in all,
and sixteen sockets of silver: two sockets under every board. And thou shalt
make bars of sethim wood five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
and five for the other side, and five for the boards of the west end. And the
middle bar shall go along thorow the midst {mydddes} of the boards and bar them
together from the one end unto the other. And thou shalt cover the boards with
gold and make golden rings for them to put the bars thorow, and shalt cover the
bars with gold also. And rear up the habitation according to the fashion thereof
that was shewed thee in the mount. And thou shalt make a vail of Iacinth, of
scarlet, purple and twined byss, and shalt make it of broidered work and full of
cherubins. And hang it upon four pillars of sethim wood covered with gold and
that their knops be covered with gold also, and stond upon four sockets of
silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail with rings, and shall bring in within
the vail, the ark of witness. And the vail shall divide the holy from the most
holy. And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of witness in the holiest
place. And thou shalt put the table without the vail and candlestick over
against the table, upon the south side of the habitation. And put the table on
the north side. And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tabernacle:
of Iacinth, of scarlet, of purple and of twined byss, wrought with needle work.
And thou shalt make for the hanging, five pillars of sethim wood, and cover both
them and their knops with gold, and shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
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And thou shalt make an altar of sethim wood: five cubits long and five cubits
broad, that it be foursquare, and three cubits high. And make it horns
proceeding out in the four corners of it, and cover it with brass. And make his
ashpans, shovels, basins, fleshhooks, firepans and all the apparel thereof, of
brass: after the fashion of a net, and put upon the net four rings: even in the
four corners of it, and put it beneath under the compass of the altar, and let
the net reach unto the one half of the altar; And make staves for the altar of
sethim wood, and cover them with brass, and let them be put in rings along by
the sides of the altar, to bear it withal. And make the altar hollow with
boards: even as it was shewed thee in the mount, so let them make it. And thou
shalt make a court unto the habitation, which shall have in the south side
hangings of twined byss, being an hundred cubits long, and twenty pillars
thereof with their twenty sockets of brass: but the knops of the pillars and
their hoops shall be silver. In like wise on the north side there shall be
hangings of an hundred cubits long and twenty pillars with their sockets of
brass, and the knops and the hoops of silver. And in the breadth of the court
westward, there shall be hangings of fifty cubits long, and ten pillars with
their ten sockets. And in the breadth of the court eastward toward the rising of
the son, shall be hangings of fifty cubits. Hangings of fifteen cubits in the
one side of it with three pillars, and three sockets: and likewise on the other
side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.
And in the gate of the court shall be a vail of twenty cubits: of jacinth,
scarlet, purple and twined byss wrought with needle work, and four pillars with
their four sockets. All the pillars round about the court shall be hooped with
silver, and their knops of silver, and their sockets of brass. The length of the
court, shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty, and the height five,
and the hangings shall be of twined byss and the sockets of brass. And all the
vessels of the habitation to all manner service and the pins thereof: yea and
the pins also of the court, shall be brass. And command the children of Israel
that they give the pure oil olive beaten for the lights to pour alway into the
lamps. In the tabernacle of witness without the vail which is before the
witness, shall Aaron and his sons dress it both even and morning before the
LORD: And it shall be a duty for ever unto your generations after you: to be
given of the children of Israel.
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And take thou unto thee, Aaron thy brother and his sons with him, from among the
children of Israel, that he may minister unto me: both Aaron, Nadab, Abihu,
Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. And thou shalt make holy raiment for Aaron
thy brother, both honourable and glorious. Moreover speak unto all that are wise
hearted, which I have filled with the spirit of wisdom: that they make Aaron's
raiment to consecrate him with, that he may minister unto me. These are the
garments which they shall make: a breastlap, Ephod, a tunicle, a strait coat, a
mitre and a girdle. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and
his sons, that he may minister unto me. And they shall take thereto, gold,
jacinth, scarlet, purple and byss. And they shall make the Ephod of gold,
jacinth, scarlet, purple and white twined byss with broidered work. The two
sides shall come together, closed up in the edges thereof. And the girdle of the
Ephod shall be of the same workmanship and of the same stuff: even of gold,
jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss. And thou shalt take two onyx stones
and grave in them the names of the children of Israel: fix in the one stone, and
the other fix in the other stone: according to the order of their birth. After
the work of a stone graver, even as signets are graven, shalt thou grave the two
stones with the names of the children of Israel, and shalt make them to be set
in ouches of gold. And thou shalt put the two stones upon the two shoulders of
the Ephod, and they shall be stones of remembrance unto the children of Israel.
And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a
remembrance. And thou shalt make hooks of gold and two chains of fine gold: link
work and wreathed, and fasten the wreathed chains to the hooks. And thou shalt
make the breastlap of ensample {judgement} with broidered work: even after the
work of the Ephod shalt thou make it: of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and
twined byss shalt thou make it. Foursquare it shall be and double, an hand
breadth long and an hand breadth broad. And thou shalt fill it with four rows of
stones. In the first row shall be a Sardius, a Topas and Smaragdus. The second
row, a Ruby, Sapphire and Diamond. The third: Ligurius, an Achat and Amethyst.
The fourth: a Turcois Onyx and Iasper. And they shall be set in gold in their
enclosures. And the stones shall be graven as signets be graven: with the names
of the children of Israel, even with twelve names every one with his name
according to the twelve tribes. And thou shalt make upon the breastlap two
fastening chains of pure gold and wreathen work. And thou shalt make likewise
upon the breastlap two rings of gold and put them on the edges of the breastlap,
and put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are in the edges
of the breastlap. And the two ends of the two chains thou shalt fasten in the
two rings, and put them upon the shoulders of the Ephod: on the foreside of it.
And thou shalt yet make two rings of gold, and put them in the two edges of the
breastlap even in the borders thereof toward the inside of the Ephod that is
over against it. And yet two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and put them
on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath over against the breastlap, alow where
the sides are joined together upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod. And they
shall bind the breastlap by his rings unto the rings of the Ephod with a lace of
jacinth, that it may lie close unto the broidered girdle of the Ephod, that the
breastlap be not lowsed from the Ephod. And Aaron shall bear the names of the
children Israel in the breastlap of ensample upon his heart, when he goeth into
the holy place, for a remembrance before the LORD alway. And thou shalt put in
the breastlap of ensample light and perfectness: that they be even upon Aaron's
heart when he goeth in before the LORD and Aaron shall bear the example of the
children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD alway. And thou shalt make the
tunicle unto the Ephod, altogether of Iacinth. And there shall be an hole for
the head in the midst of it, and let there be a bond of woven work round about
the collar of it: as it were the collar of a partlet, that it rend not. And
beneath upon the hem, thou shalt make pomegranates of Iacincth, of scarlet, and
of purple round about the hem, and bells of gold between them round about: that
there be ever a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate
round about upon the hem of the tunicle. And Aaron shall have it upon him when
he ministereth, that the sound may be heard when he goeth into the holy place
before the LORD and when he cometh out, that he die not. And thou shalt make a
plate of pure gold, and grave thereon (as signets are graven) The holiness of
the LORD, and put it on a lace of Iacincth and tie it unto the mitre, upon the
forefront of it, that it be upon Aaron's forehead: that Aaron bear the sin of
the holy things which the children of Israel have hallowed in all their holy
gifts. And it shall be always upon Aaron's forehead, that they may be accepted
before the LORD. And thou shalt make an alb of byss, and thou shalt make a mitre
of byss and a girdle of needle work. And thou shalt make for Aaron's sons also
coats, girdles and bonnets honourable and glorious, and thou shalt put them upon
Aaron thy brother and on his sons with him and shalt anoint them and fill their
hands and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me. And thou shalt make
them linen breeches to cover their privates: {privities} from the loins unto the
thighs shall they reach. And they shall be upon Aaron and his sons, when they go
into the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister in
holiness, that they bear no sin and so die. And it shall be a law for ever unto
Aaron and his seed after him.
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This is the thing that thou shalt do unto them when thou hallowest them to be my
priests. Take one ox and two rams that are without blemish, and unleavened bread
and cakes of sweet bread tempered with oil and wafers of sweet bread anointed
with oil (of wheaten flour shalt thou make them) and put them in a maund and
bring them in the maund with the oil and the two rams. And bring Aaron and his
sons unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and wash them with water, and
take the garments, and put upon Aaron: the strait coat, and the tunicle of the
Ephod, and the Ephod and the breastlap: and girth them to him with the broidered
girdle of the Ephod. And put the mitre upon his head and put the holy crown upon
the mitre. Then take the anointing oil and pour it upon his head and anoint him.
And bring his sons and put albes upon them, and girth them with girdles: as well
Aaron as his sons. And put the bonnets on them that the priest's office may be
theirs for a perpetual law. And fill the hands of Aaron and of his sons, and
bring the ox before the tabernacle of witness. And let Aaron and his sons put
their hands upon his head and kill him before the LORD in the door of the
tabernacle of witness. And take of the blood of the ox and put it upon the horns
of the altar with thy finger and pour all the blood upon the bottom of the
altar, and take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is on
the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is upon them: and burn them
upon the altar. But the flesh of the ox and his skin and his dung, shalt thou
burn with fire, without the host. For it is a sin offering. Then take one of the
rams, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram, and
cause him to be slain, and take of his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon
the altar, and cut the ram in pieces and wash the inwards of him and his legs,
and put them unto the pieces and unto his head, and burn the whole ram upon the
altar. For it is a burnt offering unto the LORD, and a sweet savour of the
LORD's sacrifice. And take the other ram and let Aaron and his sons, put their
hands upon his head and let him then be killed. And take of his blood and put it
upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon the thumb of
their right hands, and upon the great toe of their right feet and sprinkle the
blood upon the altar round about. Then take of the blood that is upon the altar
and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his vestments, and upon
his sons and upon their garments also. Then is he and his clothes holy and his
sons and their clothes holy also. Then take the fat of the ram and his rump and
the fat that covereth the inwards and the caul of the liver and, the two
kidneys, and the fat that is upon them and the right shoulder (for that ram is a
full offering) and a simnel of bread and a cake of oiled bread and a wafer out
of the basket of sweet bread that is before the LORD, and put all upon the hands
of Aaron and on the hands of his sons: and wave them in and out a wave offering
unto the LORD. Then take it from off their hands and burn it upon the altar:
even upon the burnt offering, to be a savour of sweetness before the LORD. For
it is a sacrifice unto the LORD. Then take the breast of the ram that is Aaron's
full offering and wave it a wave offering before the LORD, and let that be thy
part. And sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the shoulder of the heave
offering which is waved and heaved up of the ram which is the full offering of
Aaron and of his sons. And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' duty for ever, of
the children of Israel, for it is an heave offering. And the heave offering
shall be the LORD's duty of the children of Israel: even of the sacrifice of
their peace offerings which they heave unto the LORD. And the holy garments of
Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to anoint them therein, and to fill their
hands therein. And that son that is priest in his stead after him, shall put
them on seven days: that he go into the tabernacle of witness, to minister in
the holy place. Then take the ram that is the full offering and seethe his flesh
in an holy place. And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of him, and the
bread that is in the basket: even in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And
they shall eat them, because the atonement was made therewith to fill their
hands and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they
are holy. If ought of the flesh of the full offerings, or of the bread remain
unto the morning, thou shalt burn it with fire: for it shall not be eaten,
because it is holy. And see thou do unto Aaron and his sons, even so in all
things as I have commanded thee: that thou fill their hands seven days and offer
every day an ox for a sin offering for to reconcile with all. And thou shalt
hallow the altar when thou reconcilest it, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it.
Seven days thou shalt reconcile the altar and sanctify it, that it may be an
altar most holy: so that no man may twich it but they that be consecrate. This
is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs of one year old day by
day for ever, the one thou shalt offer in the morning and the other at even. And
unto the one lamb take a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an
hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of an hin of wine, for a drink offering.
And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even and shalt do thereto according to
the meat offering and drink offering in the morning, to be an odour of a sweet
savour of the sacrifice of the LORD. And it shall be a continual burnt offering
among your children after you, in the door of the tabernacle of witness before
the LORD, where I will meet you to speak unto you there. There I will meet with
the children of Israel, and will be sanctified in mine honour. And I will
sanctify the tabernacle of witness and the altar: and I will sanctify also both
Aaron and his sons to be my priests. And moreover I will dwell among the
children of Israel and will be their God. And they shall know that I am the LORD
their God that brought them out of the land of Egypt for to dwell among them:
even I the LORD their God.
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And thou shalt make an altar to burn cense therein, of sethim wood: a cubit
long, and a cubit broad, even foursquare shall it be and two cubits, high: with
horns proceeding out of it, and thou shalt overlay it with fine gold both the
roof and the walls round about, and his horns also, and shalt make unto it a
crown of gold round about, and two golden rings on either side, even under the
crown, to put staves therein for to bear it withal. And thou shalt make the
staves of sethim wood and cover them with gold. And thou shalt put it before the
vail that hangeth before the ark of witness, and before the mercy seat that is
before the witness, where I will meet thee. And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet
cense every morning when he dresseth the lamps: and likewise at even when he
setteth up the lamps he shall burn cense perpetually before the LORD thorowout
your generations. Ye shall put no strange cense thereon, neither burnt sacrifice
nor meat offering, neither pour any drink offering thereon. And Aaron shall
reconcile his horns once in a year, with the blood of the sin offering of
reconciling: even once in the year shall he reconcile it thorow your
generations. And so is it most holy unto the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses
saying: when thou takest the sum of the children of Israel and tellest them,
they shall give every man a reconciling of his soul unto the LORD, that there be
no plague among them when thou tellest them. And thus much shall every man give
that goeth in the number: half a sicle, after the holy sicle: a sicle is twenty
geras: and an half sicle shall be the heave offering unto the LORD. And all that
are numbered of them that are twenty years old and above shall give an heave
offering unto the LORD. The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not go under
half a sicle, when they give an heave offering unto the LORD for the atonement
of their souls. And thou shalt take the reconciling money of the children of
Israel and shalt put it unto the use of the tabernacle of witness, and it shall
be a memorial of the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for
their souls. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: thou shalt make a laver of
brass and his foot also of brass to wash withal, and shalt put it between the
tabernacle of witness and the altar and put water therein: that Aaron and his
sons may wash both their hands and their feet thereout, when they go into the
tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister and to burn
the LORD's offering, lest they die. And it shall be an ordinance for ever unto
him and his seed among your children after you. And the LORD spake unto Moses
saying: take principal spices: of pure myrrh five hundred sicles, of sweet
cinnamon half so much, two hundred and fifty sicles: of sweet calamite, two
hundred and fifty. Of cassia, two hundred and fifty after the holy sicle, and of
oil olive an hin. And make of them holy anointing oil even an oil compound after
the craft of the apothecary. And anoint the tabernacle of witness therewith, and
the ark of witness, and the table with all his apparel, and the candlestick with
all his ordinance, and the altar of incense, and the altar of burnt sacrifice
and all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. And sacrify them that they may
be most holy: so that no man twich them but they that be hallowed. And anoint
Aaron and his sons and consecrate them to minister unto me. And thou shalt speak
unto the children of Israel saying: this shall be an holy anointing oil unto me,
thorowout your generations. No man's flesh shall be anointed therewith: neither
shall ye make any other after the making of it for it is holy, see therefore
that ye take it for holy: Whosoever maketh like that, or whosoever putteth any
of it upon a stranger, shall perish from among his people. And the LORD said
unto Moses: take unto thee sweet spices: stacte, onycha, sweet galbanum and pure
frankincense, of each like much: and make cense of them compounded after the
craft of the apothecary, mingled together, that it may be made pure and holy.
And beat it to powder and put it before the witness in the tabernacle of
witness, where I will meet thee, but let it be unto you holy. And see that ye
make none after the making of that, but let it be unto you holy for the LORD.
And whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall perish from
among his people.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: behold, I have called by name, Bezaleel
the son of Uri son to Hur of the tribe of Iuda. And I have filled him with the
spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge: even in all manner
work, to find out subtle feats, to work in gold, silver and brass and with the
craft to grave stones, to set and to carve in timber, and to work in all manner
workmanship. And behold, I have given him to be his companion Ahaliab the son of
Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I
have put wisdom to make all that I have commanded thee: the tabernacle of
witness, and the ark of witness, and the mercyseat that is there upon, all the
ornaments of the tabernacle, and the table with his ordinance, and the pure
candlestick with all his apparel, and the altar of incense, and the altar of
burnt offerings with all his vessels, and the laver with his foot, and the
vestments to minister in, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the
garments of his sons to minister in, and the anointing oil and the sweet cense
for the sanctuary: according to all as I have commanded thee shall they do. And
the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say: in
any wise see that ye keep my Sabbath, for it shall be a sign between me and you
in your generations for to know, that I the LORD do sanctify you. Keep my
Sabbath therefore, that it be an holy thing unto you. He that defileth it, shall
be slain therefore. For whosoever worketh therein, the same soul shall be rooted
out from among his people. Six days shall men work, but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the holy rest of the LORD: so that whosoever doeth any work in the
Sabbath day, shall die for it. Wherefore let the children of Israel keep the
Sabbath, that they observe it thorowout their generations, that it be an
appointment for ever. For it shall be a sign between me, and the children of
Israel for ever. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and the seventh
day he rested and was refreshed. And when he {|the LORDe|} had made an end of
communing with Moses upon the mount Sinai, he gave him two tables of witness:
which were of stone and written with the finger of God.
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And when the people saw that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountain,
they gathered them selves together and came unto Aaron and said unto him: Up and
make us a god to go before us: for of this Moses the fellow that brought us out
of the land of Egypt, we wote not what is become. And Aaron said unto them:
pluck off the golden earings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and
of your daughters: and bring them unto me. And all the people plucked off the
golden earings that were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he
received them of their hands and fashioned it with a graver and made it a calf
of molten metal. And they said: This is thy God, O Israel, which brought thee
out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw that, he made an altar before it,
and made a proclamation saying tomorrow shall be holy day unto the LORD. And
they rose up in the morning and offered burnt offerings, and brought offerings
of atonement also. And then they sat them down to eat and drink, and rose up
again to play. Then the LORD said unto Moses: go get thee down, for thy people
which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have marred all they are turned
at once out of the way which I commanded them, and have made them a calf of
molten metal, and have worshipped it and have offered thereto and have said:
This is thy God thou Israel, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses: behold, I see this people, that it is a
stiffnecked people, and now therefore suffer me that my wrath may wax hot upon
them, and that I may consume them: and then will I make of thee a mighty people.
Then Moses besought the LORD his God and said: O LORD, why should thy wrath wax
hot upon thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great
power and with a mighty hand? wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say: For
a mischief did he bring them out: even for to slay them in the mountains, and to
consume them from the face of the earth. Turn from thy fierce wrath, and have
compassion over the wickedness of thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel
thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thine own self and saidest unto them: I
will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I have
said, I will give unto your seed: and they shall inherit it for ever. And the
LORD refrained himself from that evil, which he said he would do unto his
people. And Moses turned his back and went down from the hill, and the two
tables of witness in his hand: which were written on both the leaves and were
the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables.
And when Iosua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto
Moses: there is a noise of war in the host. And he said: it is not the cry of
them that have the mastery, nor of them that have the worse: but I do hear the
noise of singing. And as soon as he came nye unto the host and saw the calf and
the dancing, his wrath waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hand, and
brake them even at the hill foot. And the took the calf which they had made and
burned it with fire, and stamped it unto powder and strowed it in the water, and
made the children of Israel drink. And then Moses said unto Aaron: what did this
people unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? And Aaron
said: let not the wrath of my lord wax fierce, thou knowest the people that they
are even set on mischief: they said unto me: make us a god to go before us, for
we wote not what is become of Moses the fellow that brought us out of the land
of Egypt. And I said unto them: let them that have gold, take and bring it me:
and I cast it into the fire, and thereof came out this calf. When Moses saw that
the people were naked (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame when they
made insurrection) he went and stood in the gate of the host and said: If any
man pertain unto the LORD, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered
them selves together and came unto him. And he said unto them, thus sayeth the
LORD of Israel: put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate
to gate thorowout the host: and slay every man his brother, every man his friend
and every man his neighbour. And the children of Levi did as Moses had said. And
there were slain of the people the same day, about three thousand men. Then
Moses said: fill your hands unto the LORD this day, every man upon his son and
upon his brother: to bring upon you a blessing this day. And on the morrow,
Moses said unto the people: Ye have sinned a great sin. But now I will go up
unto the LORD, to wit whether I can make an atonement for your sin. And Moses
went again unto the LORD and said: Oh, this people have sinned a great sin and
have made them a god of gold: Yet forgive them their sin I pray thee: If not
wipe me out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses: I
will put him out of my book that hath sinned against me. But go and bring the
people unto the land which I said unto thee: behold, mine angel shall go before
thee. Neverthelater in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.
And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.
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And the LORD said unto Moses: depart and go hence: both thou and the people
which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I swore
unto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, saying: unto thy seed I will give it. And I will
send an angel before thee, and will cast out the Cananites, the Amorites, the
Hethites, the Pherezites, the Hevites, and the Iebusites: that thou mayst go in
to a land that floweth with milk and honey. But I will not go among you myself,
for ye are a stiffnecked people: lest I consume you by the way. And when the
people heard this evil tidings, they sorrowed: and no man did put on his best
raiment. And the LORD spake unto Moses, say unto the children of Israel: ye are
a stiffnecked people: I must come once suddenly upon you, and make an end of
you. But now put your goodly raiment from you, that I may wete what to do unto
you. And the children of Israel laid their goodly raiment from them even under
the mount Horeb. And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it without the host,
afar off from the host, and called it the tabernacle of witness. And all that
would ask any question of the LORD, went out unto the tabernacle of witness
which was without the host. And when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, all the
people rose up and stood every man in his tent door and looked after Moses,
until he was gone in to the tabernacle. And as soon as Moses was entered into
the tabernacle, the clouden pillar descended and stood in the door of the
tabernacle, and he talked with Moses. And when all the people saw the clouden
pillar stond in the tabernacle door, they rose up and worshipped: every man in
his tent door. And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh
unto his friend. And when Moses turned again in to the host, the lad Iosua his
servant the son of Nun departed not out of the tabernacle. And Moses said unto
the LORD: see, thou saidest unto me: lead this people forth, but thou shewest me
not whom thou wilt send with me. And hast said moreover: I know thee by name and
thou hast also found grace in my sight: Now therefore, if I have found favour in
thy sight, then shew me thy way and let me know thee: that I may find grace in
thy sight. And look on this also, how that this nation is thy people. And he
said: my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said: If
thy presence go not with me, carry us not hence, for how shall it be known now
that both I and thy people have found favour in thy sight, but in that thou
goest with us: that both I and thy people have a preeminence before all the
people that are upon the face of the earth. And the LORD said unto Moses: I will
do this also that thou hast said, for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I
know thee by name. And he said: I beseech thee, shew me thy glory: And he said:
I will make all my good go before thee, and I will be called in this name
Iehouah before thee, and will shew mercy to whom I shew mercy, and will have
compassion on whom I have compassion. And he said furthermore: thou mayst not
see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. And the LORD said: behold,
there is a place by me, and thou shalt stond upon a rock, and while my glory
goeth forth I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will put mine hand upon
thee while I pass by. And then I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my
back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
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And the LORD said unto Moses: hew the two tables of stone like unto the first
that I may write in them the words which were in the first two tables, which
thou brakest. And be ready against the morning that thou mayst come up early
unto the mount of Sinai and stond {stode} me there upon the top of the mount.
But let no man come up with thee, neither let any man be seen thorowout all the
mount, neither let sheep nor oxen feed before the hill. And Moses hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first and rose up early in the morning and went up
unto the mount of Sinai as the LORD commanded him: and took in his hand the two
tables of stone. And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there:
and he called upon the name of the LORD. And when the LORD walked before him, he
cried: LORD LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry
but abundant in mercy and truth, and keepest mercy in store for thousands, and
forgivest wickedness, trespass and sin (for there is no man innocent before
thee) and visitest the wickedness of the fathers upon the children and upon
children's children, even unto the third and fourth generation. And Moses bowed
himself to the earth quickly, and worshipped and said: If I have found grace in
thy sight o Lord, then let my Lord go with us (for it is a stubborn people) and
have mercy upon our wickedness and our sin, and let us be thine enheritance. And
he said: behold, I make an appointment before all this people, that I will do
marvels: such as have not been done in all the world, neither among any nation.
And all the people among which thou art, shall see the work of the LORD: for it
is a terrible thing that I will do with thee: keep all that I command thee this
day, and behold: I will cast out before thee: the Amorites, Cananites, Hethites,
Pherezites, Hevites and Iebusites. Take heed to thyself, that thou make no
compact with the inhabiters of the land whither thou goest lest it be cause of
ruin among you. But overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and cut down
their groves, for thou shalt worship no strange god. For the LORD is called
jealous, because he is a jealous God: lest if thou make any agreement with the
inhabiters of the land, when they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice
unto their gods, they call thee and thou eat of their sacrifice: And thou take
of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go a whoring after
their gods, they make thy sons go a whoring after their gods also. Thou shalt
make thee no gods of metal. The feast of sweet bread shalt thou keep, and seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread (as I commanded thee) in the time appointed
in the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou camest out of Egypt. All
that breaketh up the matrice shall be mine, and all that breaketh the matrice
among thy cattle, if it be male: whether it be ox or sheep. But the first of the
ass thou shalt buy out with a sheep, or if thou redeem him not: see thou break
his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou must needs redeem. And see that no
man appear before me empty. Six days thou shalt work, and the seventh thou shalt
rest: both from earing and reaping. Thou shalt observe the feast of weeks with
the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's
end. Thrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord Iehouah
God of Israel: for I will cast out the nations before thee and will enlarge thy
coasts, so that no man shall desire thy land, while thou goest up to appear
before the face of the LORD thy God, thrice in the year. Thou shalt not offer
the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread: neither shall ought of the
sacrifice of the feast of Passover, be left unto the morning. The first of the
first fruits of thy land, thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
And see, that thou seethe not a kid in his mother's milk. And the LORD said unto
Moses: write these words, for upon these words I have made a covenant with thee
and with the children of Israel. And he was there with the LORD forty days and
forty nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote in the tables
the words of the covenant: even ten verses. And Moses came down from mount Sinai
and the two tables of witness in his hand, and yet he wist not that the skin of
his face shone with beams of his communing with him. And when Aaron and all the
children of Israel looked upon Moses and saw that the skin of his face shone
with beams, they were afraid to come nye him. But he called them to him, and
then Aaron and all the chief of the company came unto him, and Moses talked with
them. And at the last all the children of Israel came unto him, and he commanded
them all that the LORD had said unto him in mount Sinai. And as soon as he had
made an end of communing with them, he put a covering upon his face. But when he
went before the LORD to speak with him, he took the covering off until he came
out. And he came out and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was
commanded. And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of
his face shone with beams: but Moses put a covering upon his face, until he went
in, to commune with him.
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And Moses gathered all the company of the children of Israel together, and said
unto them: these are the things which the LORD hath commanded to do: Six days ye
shall work, but the seventh day shall be unto you the holy Sabbath of the LORD's
rest: so that whosoever doth any work therein, shall die. Moreover ye shall
kindle no fire thorowout all your habitations upon the Sabbath day. And Moses
spake unto all the multitude of the children of Israel saying: this is the thing
which the LORD commanded saying: Give from among you an heave offering, unto the
LORD. All that are willing in their hearts, shall bring heave offerings unto the
LORD: gold, silver, brass: Iacinth, scarlet, purple, byss and goats' hair: rams'
skins red and taxus' skins and Sethim wood: and oil for lights and spices for
the anointing oil and for the sweet cense: and Onyx stones and stones to be set
for the Ephod and for the breastlap. And let all them that are wise hearted
among you, come and make all that the LORD hath commanded: the habitation and
the tent thereof with his covering and his rings, boards, bars, pillars and
sockets: the ark and the staves thereof with the mercy seat and the vail that
covereth it: the table and his staves with all that pertaineth thereto and the
shewbread: the candlestick of light with his apparel and his lamps and the oil
for the lights: the cense altar and his staves, the anointing oil and the sweet
cense and the hanging before the tabernacle door: the altar of burnt sacrifices
and his brazen gridiron that longeth thereto with his staves and all his
ordinance and the laver and his foot: the hangings of the court with his pillars
and their sockets, and the hanging to the door of the court: the pins of the
habitation and the pins of the court with their boards: the ministering garments
to minister with in holiness, and the holy vestments of Aaron the priest and the
vestments of his sons to minister in. And all the company of the children of
Israel departed from the presence of Moses. And they went (as many as their
hearts couraged them and as many as their spirits made them willing) and brought
heave offerings unto the LORD, to the making of the tabernacle of witness and
for all his uses and for the holy vestments. And the men came with the women
(even as many as were willing hearted) and brought bracelets, earings, rings and
girdles and all manner Iewels of gold. And all the men that waved wave offerings
of gold unto the LORD and every man with whom was found Iacinth, scarlet,
purple, byss or goats' hair or red skins of rams' or taxus' skins, brought it.
And all that hove up gold or brass, brought an heave offering unto the LORD. And
all men with whom was found sethim wood meet for any manner work or service,
brought it. And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands,
span, and brought the spun work, both of Iacinth, scarlet, purple and byss. And
all the women that excelled in wisdom of heart, span the goats' hair. And the
lords brought Onyx stones and setstones for the Ephod, and for the breastlap,
and spice and oil: both for the lights and for the anointing oil and for the
sweet cense. And the children of Israel brought willing offerings unto the LORD,
both men and women: as many as their hearts made them willing to bring, for all
manner works which the LORD had commanded to make by the hand of Moses. And
Moses said unto the children of Israel: behold, the LORD hath called by name
Bezaleel the son of Uri the son of Hur of the tribe of Iuda, and hath filled him
with the spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge, even in all
manner work, and to find out curious works, to work in gold, silver and brass:
and with graving of stones to set, and with carving in wood, and to work in all
manner of subtle works. And he hath put in his heart the grace to teach: both
him and Ahaliab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan hath he filled with
wisdom of heart, to work all manner of graven work: they are also broiderers and
workers with needle, in Iacinth, scarlet, purple and byss, and are weavers that
can make all manner work, and can devise subtle works.
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And Bezaleel wrought and Ahaliab and all wise hearted men to whom the LORD had
given wisdom and understanding, to know how to work all manner work for the holy
service, in all that the LORD commanded. And Moses called for Bezaleel, Ahaliab
and all the wise hearted men in whose hearts the LORD had put wisdom, even as
many as their hearts couraged to come unto the work to work it. And they
received of Moses all the heave offerings which the children of Israel had
brought for the work of the holy service to make it withal. And they brought
beside that, willing offerings every morning. And all the wise men that wrought
all the holy work, came every man from his work which they made, and spake unto
Moses saying: the people bring too much and above that is enough to serve for
the work which the LORD hath commanded to make. And then Moses gave a
commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed thorowout the host saying: see
that neither man nor woman prepare any more work for the holy heave offering,
and so the people were forbidden to bring: for the stuff they had, was
sufficient for them unto all the work, to make it and too much. And all the wise
hearted men among them that wrought in the work of the habitation made: even ten
curtains of twined byss, Iacinth, scarlet and purple, and made them full of
Cherubins with broidered work. The length of one curtain was twenty eight cubits
and the breadth four and were all of one size. And they coupled five curtains by
them selves, and other five by them selves. And they made fifty loops of Iacinth
along by the edge of the utmost curtain, even in the selvedge of the coupling
curtain: and likewise they made on the side of the utmost coupling curtain on,
the other side, fifty loops they made in the one curtain, and fifty in the edge
of the coupling curtain on the other side: so that the loops were one over
against another. And they made fifty rings of gold, and coupled the curtains one
to another with the rings: and so was it made a dwelling place. And they made
eleven curtains of goats' hair to be a tent over the tabernacle thirty cubits
long apiece and four cubits broad, and they all eleven of one sise, and they
coupled five by them selves, and six by them selves, and they made fifty loops
along by the border of the utmost coupling courtain on the one side, and fifty
in the edge of the coupling curtain on the other side. And they made fifty rings
of brass to couple the tent together that it might be one. And they made a
covering unto the tent of rams' skins red, and yet another of taxus' skins above
all. And they made boards for the dwelling place of sethim wood that stood
upright, every board ten cubits long and a cubit and an half broad. And they
made two feet to every board of the dwelling place joining one to another. And
they made twenty boards for the south side of the habitation, and forty sockets
of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under every board, even for the
two feet of them. And for the other side of the dwelling toward the north, they
made other twenty boards with forty sockets of silver two sockets under every
board. And behind in the end of the tabernacle toward the west, they made six
boards and two other boards for the corners of the habitation behind, and they
were joined close both beneath and also above with clamps, and thus they did to
both the corners: so they were in all eight boards and sixteen sockets, under
every board two sockets. And they made bars of Sethim wood five for the boards
of the one side of the habitation and five for the other, and five for the
boards of the west end of the habitation. And they made the middle bar to shoot
thorow the boards: even from the one end to the other, and overlaid the boards
with gold, and made them rings of gold to thrust the bars thorow, and covered
the bars with gold. And they made an hanging of Iacinth, of scarlet, purple and
twined byss with Cherubins of broidered work. And made thereunto four pillars of
Sethim wood and overlaid them with gold. Their knops were also of gold, and they
cast for them four sockets of silver. And they made an hanging for the
tabernacle door: of Iacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss of needle work, and
the pillars of it were five with their knops, and overlaid the heads of them and
the hoops with gold, with their five sockets of brass.
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And Bezaleel made the ark of sethim wood two cubits and an half long and a cubit
and a half broad, and a cubit and a half high: and overlaid it with fine gold
both within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about, and cast
for it four rings of gold for the four corners of it: two rings for the one side
and two for the other, and made staves of Sethim wood, and covered them with
gold, and put the staves in the rings along by the side of the ark to bear it
withal. And he made the mercyseat of pure gold two cubits and a half long and
one cubit and a half broad, and made two Cherubins of thick gold upon the two
ends of the mercy seat: One Cherub on the one end, and another Cherub on the
other end of the mercyseat. And the Cherubins spread out their wings above on
high, {an hye} and covered the mercyseat therewith. And their faces were one to
another: even to the mercyseat ward, were the faces of the Cherubins. And he
made the table of sethim wood two cubits long and a cubit broad, and a cubit and
an half high, and overlaid it with fine gold, and made thereto a crown of gold
round about, and made thereto an hoop of an hand breadth round about, and made
unto the hoop a crown of gold round about, and cast for it four rings of gold
and put the rings in the four corners by the feet: even under the hoop to put
staves in to bear the table withal. And he made staves of Sethim wood and
covered them with gold to bear the table withal, and made the vessels that were
on the table of pure gold, the dishes, spoons, flat pieces and pots to pour
withal. And he made the candlestick of pure thick gold: both the candlestick and
his shaft: with branches, bowls, knops and flowers proceeding out of it. Six
branches proceeding out of the sides thereof, three out of the one side and
three out of the other. And on every branch were three cups like unto almonds,
with knops and flowers thorowout the six branches that proceeded out of the
candlestick. And upon the candlestick self, were four cups after the fashion of
almonds with knops and flowers: under every two branches a knop. And the knops
and the branches proceeded out of it, and were all one piece of pure thick gold.
And he made seven lamps thereto, and the snuffers thereof, and firepans of pure
gold. An hundred weight of pure gold, made both it and all that belonged
thereto. And he made the cense altar of Sethim wood of a cubit long and a cubit
broad: even four square, and two cubits high with horns proceeding out of it.
And he covered it with pure gold both the top and the sides round about and the
horns of it, and made unto it a crown of gold round about. And he made two rings
of gold unto it, even under the crown upon either side of it, to put staves in
for to bear it withal: and made staves of Sethim wood, and overlaid them with
gold. And he made the holy anointing oil and the sweet pure incense after the
apothecary's craft.
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And he made the burnt offering altar of Sethim wood, five cubits long and five
cubits broad: even four square, and three cubits high. And he made horns in the
four corners of it proceeding out of it, and overlaid it with brass. And he made
all the vessels of the altar: the cauldrons, shovels, basins, fleshhooks and
coalpans all of brass. And he made a brazen gridiron of network unto the altar
round about alow beneath, under the compass of the altar: so that it reached
unto half the altar, and cast four rings of brass for the four ends of the
gridiron to put staves in. And he made staves of sethim wood and covered them
with brass, and put the staves in the rings along by the altar side to bear it
withal, and made the altar hollow with boards. And he made the laver of brass
and the foot of it also of brass, in the sight of them that did watch before the
door of the tabernacle of witness. And he made the court with hangings of twined
byss of an hundred cubits long upon the south side, and twenty pillars with
twenty sockets of brass: but the knops of the pillars, and the hoops were
silver. And on the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits long with
twenty pillars and twenty sockets of brass, but the knops and the hoops of the
pillars were of silver. And on the west side, were hangings of fifty cubits
long, and ten pillars with their ten sockets, and the knops and the hoops of the
pillars were silver. And on the east side toward the son rising, were hangings
of fifty cubits: the hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits
long, and their pillars three with their three sockets. And of the other side of
the court gate, were hangings also of fifteen cubits long, and their pillars
three with three sockets. Now all the hangings of the court round about, were of
twined byss, and the sockets of the pillars were brass: but the knops and the
hoops of the pillars were silver, and the heads were overlaid with silver, and
all the pillars of the court were hooped about with silver. And the hanging of
the gate of the court was needlework: of jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined
byss twenty cubits long and five in the breadth, according to the hangings of
the court. And the pillars were four with four sockets of brass, and the knops
of silver, and the heads overlaid with silver and hooped about with silver, and
all the pins of the tabernacle and of the court round about were brass. This is
the sum of the habitation of witness, which was counted at the commandment of
Moses: and was the office of the Levites by the hand of Ithamar son to Aaron the
priest. And Bezaleel son of Uri son to Hur of the tribe of Iuda, made all that
the LORD commanded Moses, and with him Ahaliab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of
Dan, a cunning graver and a worker of needle work in jacinth, scarlet, purple
and byss. All the gold that was occupied upon all the work of the holy place
(which was the gold of the wave offering) was, twenty nine hundred weight and
seven hundred and thirty sicles, according to the holy sicle. And the sum of
silver that came of the multitude, was five score hundred weight and a thousand
seven hundred and seventy five sicles of the holy sicle. Every man offering half
a sicle after the weight of the holy sicle among them that went to be numbered
from twenty years old and above, among six hundred thousand and three thousand
and five hundred and fifty men. And the five score hundred weight of silver went
to the casting of the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the vail: an
hundred sockets of the five score hundred weight, an hundred weight to every
socket. And the thousand seven hundred and seventy five sicles, made knops to
the pillars and overlaid the heads and hooped them. And the brass of the wave
offering was seventy hundred weight and two thousand, and four hundred sicles.
And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and
the brazen altar, and the brazen gridiron that longeth thereto, and all the
vessels of the altar, and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets
of the court gate, and all the pins of the habitation, and all the pins of the
court round about.
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And of the jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined byss, they made the vestments of
ministration to do service {[in]} in that holy place, and made the holy garments
that pertained to Aaron, as the LORD commanded Moses. And they made the Ephod of
gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined byss. And they did beat the gold into
thin plates, and cut it into wires: to work it in the jacinth, scarlet, purple,
and the byss, with broidered work. And they made the sides come together, and
closed them up by the two edges. And the broidering of the girdle that was upon
it, was of the same stuff and after the same work of gold, jacinth, scarlet,
purple and twined byss, as the LORD commanded Moses. And they wrought Onyx
stones closed in ouches of gold and graved as signets are graven with the names
of the children of Israel, and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod that they
should be a remembrance of the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they made the brestlap of cunning work, after the work of the Ephod: even of
gold, Iacinct, scarlet, purple and twined byss And they made it four square and
double, an hand breadth long and an hand breadth broad. And they filled it with
four rows of stones (the first row: Sardios, a Topas and Smaragdus: the second
row: a Ruby, a Sapphire and a Diamond. The third row: Ligurius, an Achat and an
Amethyst. The fourth row: a Turquoise, an onyx and a Iasper) closed in ouches of
gold in their inclosures. And the twelve stones were graven as signets with the
names of the children of Israel: every stone with his name, according to the
twelve tribes. And they made upon the breastlap, two fastening chains of
wreathen work and pure gold. And they made two hooks of gold and two gold rings,
and put the two rings upon the two corners of the breastlap. And they put the
two chains of gold in the two rings, in the corners of the breastlap. And the
two ends of the two chains they fastened in the two hooks, and put them on the
shoulders of the Ephod upon the forefront of it. And they made two other rings
of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastlap along upon the
edge of it, toward the inside of the Ephod that is over against it. And they
made yet two other gold rings, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod,
beneath on the fore side of it: even where the sides go together, above upon the
broidering of the Ephod, and they strained the breastlap by his rings unto the
rings of the Ephod, with laces of jacinth, that it might lie fast upon the
broidering of the Ephod, and should not be lowsed from of the Ephod: as the LORD
commanded Moses. And he made the tunicle unto the Ephod of woven work and all
together of jacinth, and the head of the tunicle was in the middest of it as the
collar of a partlet, with a band round about the collar, that it should not
rent. And they made beneath upon the hem of the tunicle: pomegranates of
jacinth, scarlet, purple, and twined byss. And they made little bells of pure
gold, and put them among the pomegranates round about upon the edge of the
tunicle, a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about the hems
of the tunicle to minister in, as the LORD commanded Moses. And they made coats
of byss of woven work for Aaron and his sons, and a mitre of byss, and goodly
bonnets of byss, and linen breeches of twined byss, and a girdle of twined byss,
jacinth, scarlet and purple: even of needle work, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they made the plate of the holy crown of fine gold, and wrote upon it with
graven work: the holiness of the LORD, and tied it to a lace of jacinth to
fasten it on high {an hye} upon the mitre, as the LORD commanded Moses. Thus was
all the work of the habitation of the tabernacle of witness, finished. And the
children of Israel did, according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses. And
they brought the habitation unto Moses: the tent and all his apparel thereof:
the buttons, boards, bars, pillars and sockets: and the covering of rams' skins
red, and the covering of taxus' skins, and the hanging vail, and the ark of
witness with the staves thereof, and the mercyseat: the table and all the
ordinance thereof, and the shewbread, and the pure candlestick, and the lamps
prepared thereunto with all the vessels thereof, and the oil for lights, and the
golden altar, and the anointing oil and the sweet cense, and the hanging of the
tabernacle door, and the brasen altar, and the gridiron of brass longing
thereunto with his bars and all his vessels, and the laver with his foot, and
the hangings of the court with his pillars and sockets, and the hanging to the
court gate, his boards and pins, and all the ordinance that serveth to the
habitation of the tabernacle of witness, and the ministering vestments to serve
in the holy place, and the holy vestments of Aaron the priest and his sons'
raiments to minister in: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: even so
the children of Israel made all the work. And Moses beheld all the work: and
see, they had done it even as the LORD commanded: and then Moses blessed them.
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.xl.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: In the first day of the first month shalt
thou set up the habitation of the tabernacle of witness, and put therein the ark
of witness, and cover the ark with the vail, and bring in the table and apparel
it, and bring in the candlestick and put on his lamps, and set the cense altar
of gold before the ark of witness, and put the hanging of the door unto the
habitation. And set the burnt offering altar before the door of the tabernacle
of witness, and set the laver between the tabernacle of witness, and the altar,
and put water therein, and make the court round about, and set up the hanging of
the court gate. And take the anointing oil and anoint the habitation and all
that is therein, and hallow it and all that belong thereto: that it may be holy.
And anoint the altar of the burnt offerings and all his vessels, and sanctify
the altar that it may be most holy. And anoint also the laver and his foot, and
sanctify it. Then bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of
witness, and wash them with water. And put upon Aaron the holy vestments. And
anoint him and sanctify him that he may minister unto me, that their anointing
may be an everlasting priesthood unto them thorowout their generations. And
Moses did according to all that the LORD commanded him. Thus was the tabernacle
reared up the first month in the second year. And Moses reared up the tabernacle
and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards and put in their bars, and
reared up the pillars, and spread abroad the tent over the habitation and put
the covering of the tent on high {an hye} above it: as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he took and put the testimony in the ark, and set the staves to the ark and
put the mercy seat on high {an hye} upon the ark, and brought the ark into the
habitation and hanged up the vail and covered the ark of witness, as the LORD
commanded Moses. And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness in the north
side of the habitation without the vail, and set the bread in order before the
LORD, even as the LORD had commanded Moses. And he put the candlestick in the
tabernacle of witness over against the table in the south side of the
habitation, and set up the lamps before the LORD: as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he put the golden altar in the tabernacle of witness before the vail, and
brent sweet cense there on as the LORD commanded Moses. And set up the hanging
in the door of the habitation, and set the burnt offering altar before the door
of the tabernacle of witness, and offered burnt offerings and meat offerings
there on as the LORD commanded Moses. And he set the laver between the
tabernacle of witness and the altar, and poured water therein to wash with all.
And both Moses Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat:
both when they went into the tabernacle of witness, or when they went to the
altar, as the LORD commanded Moses. And he reared up the court round about the
habitation and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate: and so Moses
finished the work. And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the
glory of the LORD filled the habitation: so that Moses could not enter into the
tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode therein, and the glory of the
LORD filled the habitation. When the cloud was taken up from off the habitation,
the children of Israel took their journeys as oft as they journeyed. And if the
cloud departed not, they journeyed not till it departed: for the cloud of the
LORD was upon the habitation by day, and fire by night: in the sight of all the
house of Israel in all their journeys.
The end of the second book of Moses.
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And the LORD called Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of witness
saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: Whosoever of you
shall bring a gift unto the LORD, shall bring it of the cattle: even of the oxen
and of the sheep. If he bring a burntoffering of the oxen he shall offer a male
without blemish, and shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of witness,
that he may be accepted before the LORD. And let him put his hand upon the head
of the burntsacrifice, and favour shall be given him to make an atonement for
him, and let him kill the ox before the LORD. And let the priests Aaron's sons
bring the blood and let them sprinkle it round about upon the altar that is
before the door of the tabernacle of witness. And let the burntofferings be
stripped and hewed in pieces. And then let the sons of Aaron the priest put fire
upon the altar, and put wood upon the fire, and let them lay the pieces with the
head and the fat, upon the wood that is on the fire in the altar. But the
inwards and the legs they shall wash in water, and the priest shall burn
altogether upon the altar, that it be a burnt sacrifice, and an offering of a
sweet odour unto the LORD. If he will offer a burnt sacrifice of the sheep
whether it be of the lambs or of the goats: he shall offer a male without
blemish. And let him kill it on the north side of the altar, before the LORD.
And let the priests Aaron's sons sprinkle the blood of it, round about upon the
altar. And let it be cut in pieces: even with his head and his fat, and let the
priest put them upon the wood that lieth upon the fire in the altar. But let him
wash the inwards and the legs with water, and then bring altogether and burn it
upon the altar: that is a burntoffering and a sacrifice of sweet savour unto the
LORD. If he will offer a burntoffering of the fowls {|[unto the LORD]|} he shall
offer either of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons. And the priest shall
bring it unto the altar, and wring the neck asunder of it, and burn it on the
altar, and let the blood run out upon the sides of the altar, and pluck away his
crop and his feathers, and cast them beside the altar on the east part upon the
heap of ashes, and break his wings, but pluck them not asunder. And then let the
priest burn it upon the altar, even upon the wood that lieth upon the fire, a
burnt sacrifice and an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
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If any soul will offer a meatoffering unto the LORD, his offering shall be fine
flour, and he shall pour thereto oil, and put frankincense thereon, and shall
bring it unto Aaron's sons the priests. And one of them shall take thereout his
handful of the flour, and of the oil with all the frankincense, and burn it for
a memorial upon the altar: an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And the
remnant of the meatoffering shall be Aaron's and his sons, as a thing most holy
of the sacrifices of the LORD. If any man bring a meatoffering that is baken in
the oven, let him bring sweet cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil. If thy meatoffering be baken in the frying
pan, then it shall be of sweet flour mingled with oil. And thou shalt mince it
small, and pour oil thereon: and so is it a meatoffering. If thy meatoffering be
a thing broiled upon the gridiron, of flour mingled with oil it shall be. And
thou shalt bring the meatoffering that is made of these things unto the LORD,
and shalt deliver it unto the priest, and he shall bring it unto the altar, and
shall heave up part of the meatoffering for a memorial, and shall burn it upon
the altar: an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And that which is left
of the meatoffering shall be Aaron's and his sons, as a thing that is most holy
of the offerings of the LORD. All the meatofferings which ye shall bring unto
the LORD, shall be made without leaven. For ye shall neither burn leaven nor
honey in any offering of the LORD: Notwithstanding ye shall bring the firstlings
of them unto the LORD: But they shall not come upon the altar to make a sweet
savour. All thy meatofferings thou shalt salt with salt: neither shalt thou
suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meatoffering:
but upon all thine offerings thou shalt bring salt. If thou offer a meatoffering
of the first ripe fruits unto the LORD, then take of that which is yet green,
and dry it by the fire and beat it small, and so offer the meatoffering of thy
first ripe fruits. And then pour oil thereto, and put frankincense thereon: and
so it is a meatoffering. And the priest shall burn part of the beaten corn and
part of that oil, with all the frankincense, for a remembrance. That is an
offering unto the LORD.
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.iij.
If any man bring a peaceoffering of the oxen: whether it be male or female, he
shall bring such as is without blemish, before the LORD, and let him put his
hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the door of the
tabernacle of witness. And Aaron's sons the priests, shall sprinkle the blood
upon the altar round about. And they shall offer of the peaceoffering to be a
sacrifice unto the LORD: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that
is upon the inwards: and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon the loins:
and the caul that is on the liver, they shall take away with the kidneys. And
Aaron's sons shall burn them upon the altar with the burntsacrifice which is
upon the wood on the fire. That is a sacrifice of a sweet favour unto the LORD.
If a man bring a peaceoffering unto the LORD from of the flock: whether it be
male, or female, it shall be without blemish. If he offer a lamb, he shall bring
it before the LORD, and put his hand upon his offering's head, and kill it in
the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood
thereof round about the altar. And of the peaceoffering they shall bring a
sacrifice unto the LORD: the fat thereof and the rump altogether, which they
shall take off hard by the back bone: and the fat that covereth the inwards and
all the fat that is upon the inwards and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth
upon them and upon the loins, and the caul that is upon the liver he shall take
away with the kidneys. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar to feed the
LORD's offering withall. If the offering be a goat, he shall bring it before the
LORD and put his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tabernacle of
witness, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar
round about. And he shall bring thereof his offering unto the LORD's sacrifice:
the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards and
the two kidneys and the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the
caul that is upon the liver he shall take away with the kidneys. And the priest
shall burn them upon the alter to feed the LORD's sacrifice with all and to make
a sweet savour. And thus shall all the fat be the LORD's, and it shall be a law
forever among your generations after you in your dwelling places: that ye eat
neither fat nor blood.
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.iiij.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and
say: when a soul sinneth thorow ignorance, and hath done any of those things
which the LORD hath forbidden in his commandments to be done: If the priest that
is anointed sin and make the people to do amiss, he shall bring for his sin
which he hath done: an ox without blemish unto the LORD for a sinoffering. And
he shall bring the ox unto the door of the tabernacle of witness before the
LORD, and shall put his hand upon the ox's head and kill him before the LORD.
And the priest that is anointed shall take of the ox's blood, and bring it into
the tabernacle of witness, and shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle
thereof seven times before the LORD: even before the hanging of the holy place.
And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet cense
before the LORD which is in the tabernacle of witness, and shall pour all the
blood of the ox upon the bottom of the altar of burntofferings which is by the
door of the tabernacle of witness. And he shall take away all the fat of the ox
that is the sinoffering: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that
is about them, and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon them and upon
the loins, and the caul upon the liver let them take away also with the kidneys:
as it was taken from the ox of the peaceoffering, and let the priest burn them
upon the altar of burntofferings. But the skin of the ox and all his flesh with
his head, his legs, his inwards with his dung, shall he carry altogether out of
the host unto a clean place: even where the ashes are poured out, and burn him
on wood with fire: even upon the heap of ashes. If the whole commonalty of the
children of Israel sin thorow ignorance, and the thing be hid from their eyes:
so that they have committed any of these things which the LORD hath forbidden to
be done in his commandments and have offended, and the sin which they have
sinned be afterward known, then shall they offer an ox for a sinoffering and
shall bring him before the tabernacle of witness, and the elders of the
multitude shall put their hands upon his head before the LORD. And the priest
that is anointed shall bring of his blood into the tabernacle of witness, and
shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD:
even before the vail. And shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar
which is before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness, and shall pour all the
blood upon the bottom of the altar of burntofferings which is by the door of the
tabernacle of witness, and shall take all his fat from him and burn it upon the
altar, and shall do with his ox as he did with the sinoffering ox. And the
priest shall make an atonement for them, and so it shall be forgiven them. And
he shall bring the ox without the host, and burn him as he burned the first, so
is this the sinoffering of the commonalty. When a lord sinneth and committeth
thorow ignorance any of these things which the LORD his God hath forbidden to be
done in his commandments and hath so offended: when his sin is shewed unto him
which he hath sinned, he shall bring for his offering an hegoat without blemish
and lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it in the place where the
burntofferings are killed before the LORD: this is a sinoffering. Then let the
priest take of the blood of the sinoffering with his finger, and put it upon the
horns of the burntoffering altar, and pour his blood upon the bottom of the
burntoffering altar and burn all his fat upon the altar, as he doth the fat of
the peaceofferings. And the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning
his sin, and so it shall be forgiven him. If one of the common people of the
land sin thorow ignorance and commit any of the things which the LORD hath
forbidden, in his commandments to be done and so hath trespassed, when his sin
which he hath sinned is come to his knowledge, he shall bring for his offering,
a she goat without blemish for his sin which he hath sinned, and lay his hand
upon the head of the sinoffering, and slay it in the place of burntofferings.
And the priest shall take of the blood with his finger, and put it upon the
horns of the burntoffering altar, and pour all the blood upon the bottom of the
altar, and shall take away all his fat as the fat of the peaceofferings is taken
away. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the
LORD, and the priest shall make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven
him. If he bring a sheep {lamb} and offer it for a sinoffering, he shall bring a
ewe {female} without blemish, and lay his hand upon the head of the sinoffering,
and slay it in the place where the burntofferings are slain. And the priest
shall take of the blood of the sinoffering with his finger, and put it upon the
horns of the burntoffering altar, and shall pour all the blood thereof unto the
bottom of the altar. And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of
the sheep of the peaceofferings was taken away. And the priest shall burn it
upon the altar for the LORD's {lordes} sacrifice, and the priest shall make an
atonement for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
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When a soul hath sinned and heard the voice of cursing and is a witness: whether
he hath seen or known of it if he have not uttered it, he shall bear his sin.
Either when a man toucheth any unclean thing: whether it be the carrion of an
unclean beast or of unclean cattle or unclean worm and is not ware of it, he is
also unclean and hath offended. Either when he toucheth any uncleanness of man
(whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man is defiled with all) and is not ware of
it and afterward cometh to the knowledge of it, he is a trespasser. Either when
a soul sweareth: so that he pronounceth with his lips to do evil or to do good
(whatsoever it be that a man pronounceth with an oath) and the thing be out of
his mind and afterward cometh to the knowledge of it, then he hath offended in
one of these. Then when he hath sinned in one of these things, he shall confess
that wherein that he hath sinned, and shall bring his trespassoffering unto the
LORD for his sin which he hath sinned. A female from the flock, whether it be an
ewe {lamb} or a she goat, for a sinoffering. And the priest shall make an
atonement for him for his sin. But if he be not able to bring a sheep, then let
him bring for his trespass which he hath sinned, two turtle doves or two young
pigeons unto the LORD, one for a sinoffering and another for a burntoffering.
And he shall bring them unto the priest, which shall offer the sinoffering first
and wring the neck asunder of it, but pluck it not clean off. And let him
sprinkle of the blood of the sinoffering upon the side of the altar, and let the
rest of the blood bleed upon the bottom of the altar, and then it is a
sinoffering. And let him offer the second for a burntoffering as the manner is:
and so shall the priest make an atonement for him for the sin which he hath
sinned, and it shall be forgiven him. And yet if he be not able to bring two
turtle doves or two young pigeons, then let him bring his offering for his sin:
the tenth part of an Epha of fine flour for a sinoffering, but put none oil
thereto neither put any frankincense thereon, for it is a sinoffering. And let
him bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it and burn
it upon the altar for a remembrance to be a sacrifice for the LORD: that is a
sinoffering. And let the priest make an atonement for him for his sin
(whatsoever of these he hath sinned) and it shall be forgiven. And the remnant
shall be the priest's, as it is in the meatoffering. And the LORD communed with
Moses saying: when a soul trespasseth and sinneth thorow ignorance in any of the
holy things of the LORD, he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD, a ram
without blemish out of the flock valued at two sicles after the holy sicle, {[of
the sanctuary,]} for a trespassoffering. And he shall make amends for the harm
that he hath done in the holy thing, and put the fifth part more thereto, and
give it unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the
ram of the trespassoffering, and it shall be forgiven him. When a soul sinneth
and committeth any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the
commandments of the LORD: though he wist it not, he hath yet offended and is in
sin, and shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock that is esteemed to
be worth a sinoffering, unto the priest. And the priest shall make an atonement
for him for the ignorance which he did, and was not ware, and it shall be
forgiven him. This is a trespassoffering, for he trespassed against the LORD.
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.vi.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: when a soul sinneth and trespasseth
against the LORD, and denied unto his neighbour that which was taken him to
keep, or that was put under his hand, or that which he hath violently taken
away, or that which he hath deceived his neighbour of with subtlety, or hath
found that which was lost and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, in whatsoever
thing it be that a man doth and sinneth therein; Then when he hath sinned or
trespassed, he shall restore again that he took violently away, or the wrong
which he did, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which
he found, or whatsoever it be about which he hath sworn falsely, he shall
restore it again in the whole sum, and shall add the fifth part more thereto and
give it unto him to whom it pertaineth, the same day that he offereth for his
trespass, and shall bring for his trespassoffering unto the LORD, a ram without
blemish out of the flock, that is esteemed worth a trespassoffering unto the
priest. And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD, and it
shall be forgiven him in whatsoever thing it be that a man doth and trespasseth
therein. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Command Aaron and his sons
saying: this is the law of the burntoffering. The burntoffering shall be upon
the hearth of the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar
shall burn therein. And the priest shall put on his linen alb and his linen
breeches upon his flesh, and take away the ashes which the fire of the
burntsacrifice in the altar hath made, and put them beside the altar, and then
put off his raiment and put on other and carry the ashes out without the host
unto a clean place. The fire that is upon the altar shall burn therein and not
go out. And the priest shall put wood on the fire every morning, and put the
burntsacrifice upon it, and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peaceofferings.
The fire shall ever burn upon the altar, and never go out. This is the law of
the meatoffering: Aaron's sons shall bring it before the LORD, unto the altar:
and one of them shall take his handful of the flour of the meatoffering and of
the oil with all the frankincense which is thereon, and shall burn it unto a
remembrance upon the altar to be a sweet savour of the memorial of it unto the
LORD. And the rest thereof, Aaron and his sons shall eat: unleavened it shall be
eaten in the holy place: even in the court of the tabernacle of witness they
shall eat it. Their part which I have given them of my sacrifice, shall not be
baken with leaven, for it is most holy, as is the sinoffering, and trespass
offering. All the males among the children of Aaron, shall eat of it: and it
shall be a duty for ever unto your generations of the sacrifices of the LORD,
neither shall any man twitch it, but he that is hallowed. And the LORD spake
unto Moses saying: this is the offering of Aaron and of his sons which he shall
offer unto the LORD in the day when they are anointed: the tenth part of an Epha
of flour, which is a daily meatoffering perpetually: half in the morning and
half at night: and in the frying pan it shall be made with oil. And when it is
fried, thou shalt bring it in as a baken meatoffering minced small, and shalt
offer it for a sweet savour unto the LORD. And that priest of his sons that is
anointed in his stead, shall offer it: and it shall be the LORD's {lordes} duty
for ever, and it shall be burnt altogether. For all the meatofferings of the
priests shall be burnt altogether, and shall not be eaten. And the LORD talked
with Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and say: This is the law
of the sinoffering. In the place where the burntoffering is killed, shall the
sinoffering be killed also before the LORD, for it is most holy. The priest that
offereth it shall eat it in the holy place: even in the court of the tabernacle
of witness. No man shall touch the flesh thereof, save he that is hallowed. And
if any raiment be sprinkled therewith, it shall be washed in an holy place, and
the earthen pot that it is sodden in shall be broken. If it be sodden in brass,
then the pot shall be scoured and plunged {rinsed} in the water. All the males
among the children of Aaron {the priests} shall eat thereof, for it is most
holy. Notwithstanding no sinoffering that hath his blood brought into the
tabernacle of witness to reconcile with all in the holy place, shall be eaten:
but shall be burnt in the fire.
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.vij.
This is the law of the trespassoffering which is most holy. In the place where
the burntoffering is killed, the trespassoffering shall be killed also: and his
blood shall be sprinkled round about upon the altar. And all the fat thereof
shall be offered: the rump and the fat that covered the inwards, and the two
kidneys with the fat that lieth on them and upon the loins: and the caul on the
liver shall be taken away with the kidneys: And the priest shall burn them upon
the altar, to be an offering unto the LORD: this is a trespass offering. All the
males among the priests shall eat thereof in the holy place, for it is most
holy. As the sinoffering is, so is the trespass offering, one law serveth for
both: and it shall be the priests that reconcileth therewith. And the priest
that offered a man's burntoffering, shall have the skin of the burntoffering
which he hath offered. And all the meatofferings that are baken in the oven, and
all that is dressed upon the gridiron and in the frying pan, shall be the
priests that offereth them. And all the meatofferings that are mingled with oil
or dry, shall pertain unto all the sons of Aaron, and one shall have as much as
another. This is the law of the peaceofferings which shall be offered unto the
LORD. If he offer to give thanks, he shall bring unto his thankoffering: sweet
cakes mingled with oil and sweet wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled
with oil of fine flour fried, and he shall bring his offering upon cakes made of
leavened bread unto the thankoffering of his peaceofferings, and of them all he
shall offer one to be an heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the
priests that sprinkleth the blood of the peaceofferings. And the flesh of the
thankoffering of his peaceofferings shall be eaten the same day that it is
offered, and there shall none of it be laid up until the morning. If it be a vow
or a freewill offering that he bringeth, the same day that he offereth it, it
shall be eaten, and that which remaineth may be eaten on the morrow: but as much
of the offered flesh as remaineth unto the third day shall be burned with fire.
For if any of the flesh of the peaceofferings be eaten the third day then shall
he that offered it obtain no favour, neither shall it be reckoned unto him: but
shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear the sin
thereof. The flesh that twicheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten, but burnt
with fire: and all that be clean in their flesh, may eat flesh. If any soul eat
of the flesh of the peaceofferings, that pertain unto the LORD, and his
uncleanness yet upon him, the same soul shall perish from among his people.
Moreover if a soul twich any unclean thing, whether it be the uncleanness of man
or of any unclean beast or any abomination that is unclean: and then eat of the
flesh of the peaceofferings which pertain unto the LORD, that soul shall perish
from his people. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and say: Ye shall eat no manner fat of oxen, sheep or goats:
neverthelater the fat of the beast that dieth alone and the fat of that which is
torn with wild beasts, may be occupied in all manner uses: but ye shall in no
wise eat of it. For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast of which men bring an
offering unto the LORD, that soul that eateth it shall perish from his people.
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, wheresoever ye dwell, whether it be of
fowl or of beast. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood the same
soul shall perish from his people. And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak
unto the children of Israel and say: He that offereth his peaceoffering unto the
LORD, shall bring his gift unto the LORD of his peaceofferings: his own hands
shall bring the offering of the LORD: even the fat upon the breast he shall
bring with the breast to wave it a waveoffering before the LORD. And the priest
shall burn the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons.
And the right shoulder they shall give unto the priest, to be an heave offering,
of their peaceofferings. And the same that offereth the blood of the
peaceofferings and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right
shoulder unto his part, for the wavebreast and the heaveshoulder I have taken of
the children of Israel, even of their peaceofferings, and have given it unto
Aaron the priest and unto his sons: to be a duty for ever of the children of
Israel. This is the anointing of Aaron and of the sacrifices of the LORD, in the
day when they were offered to be priests unto the LORD, which the LORD commanded
to be given them in the day when he anointed them, of the children of Israel,
and to be a duty for ever among their generations. This is the law of
burntofferings, of meatofferings, of sinofferings, of trespassofferings, of
fullofferings, of peaceofferings, which the LORD commanded Moses in the mount of
Sinai, in the day when he commanded the children of Israel to offer their
offerings unto the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter
.viij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take Aaron and his sons with him, and the
vestures and the anointing oil, and an ox for a sinoffering and two rams and a
basket of sweet bread: and gather all the community together unto the door of
the tabernacle of witness. And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the
people gathered them selves together unto the door of the tabernacle of witness.
And Moses said unto the people: this is the thing which the LORD commanded to
do. And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water, and put
upon him the alb and gird him with a girdle, and put upon him the tunicle, and
put the Ephod thereon, and girded him with the broidered girdle of the Ephod,
and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastlap thereon, and put in
the breastlap light and perfectness. And he put the mitre upon his head, and put
upon the mitre even upon the forefront of it, the golden plate of the holy
crown, as the LORD commanded Moses. And Moses took the anointing oil and
anointed the habitation and all that was therein and sanctified them, and
sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his
vessels, and the laver with his foot, to sanctify them. And he poured of the
anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him to sanctify him. And he
brought Aaron's sons and put albs upon them, and girded them with girdles, and
put bonnets upon their heads: as the LORD commanded Moses. And the sinoffering
was brought. And Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ox of
the sinoffering. And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood, and put it upon
the horns of the altar round about with his finger and purified it, and poured
the blood unto the bottom of the altar and sanctified it and reconciled it. And
he took all the fat that was upon the inwards and the caul that was on the liver
and the two kidneys with their fat and burned it upon the altar. But the ox, the
hide, his flesh and his dung, he burnt with fire without the host, as the LORD
commanded Moses. And he brought the ram of the burntoffering, and Aaron and his
sons put their hands upon the head of the ram, and it was killed. And Moses
sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about, and cut the ram in pieces and
burnt the head, the pieces and the fat, and washed the inwards and the legs in
water, and burn the ram every whit upon the altar. That was a burnt sacrifice of
a sweet savour, and an offering unto the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. And
he brought the other ram that was the fulloffering, and Aaron and his sons put
their hands upon the head of the ram: And when it was slain, Moses took of the
blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of
his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. Then were Aaron's sons
brought, and Moses put of the blood on the tip of the right ear of them, and
upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right
feet, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about. And he took the fat
and the rump and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the
liver, and the two kidneys with their fat and their right shoulder. And out of
the basket of sweet bread that was before the LORD, he took one sweet cake of
oiled bread and one wafer, and put them on the fat and upon the right shoulder,
and put altogether upon Aaron's hands and upon his sons' hands, and waved it a
waveoffering before the LORD. And then Moses took them from of their hands
again, and burnt them upon the altar, even upon the burntoffering: These are the
fullofferings of a sweet savour and a sacrifice unto the LORD. And Moses took
the breast and waved it a waveoffering before the LORD, of the ram of the
fullofferings: and it was Moses' part, as the LORD commanded Moses. And Moses
took of the anointing oil and of the blood which was upon the altar, and
sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his vestments and upon his sons and on their
vestments with him, and sanctified Aaron and his vestures and his sons and his
sons' vestures also. Then Moses said unto Aaron and his sons: boil the flesh in
the door of the tabernacle of witness, and there eat it with the bread that is
in the basket of fullofferings, as the Lord commanded saying: Aaron and his sons
shall eat it: and that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread, burn with
fire. And see that ye depart not from the door of the tabernacle of witness
seven days long: until the days of your fullofferings be at an end. For seven
days must your hands be filled, as they were this day: even so the LORD hath
commanded to do, to reconcile you with all. See therefore that ye abide in the
door of the tabernacle of witness day and night seven days long: and keep the
watch of the LORD that ye die not: for so I am commanded. And Aaron and his sons
did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Chapter
.ix.
And the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel,
and said unto Aaron: take a calf for a sinoffering, and a ram for a
burntoffering: both without blemish, and bring them before the LORD. And unto
the children of Israel he spake saying: take ye an he goat for a sinoffering,
and a calf and a lamb both two of a year old, and without blemish for a burnt
sacrifice, and an ox and a ram for peaceofferings, to offer before the LORD, and
a meatoffering mingled with oil, for today the LORD will appear unto you. And
they brought that which Moses commanded unto the tabernacle of witness, and all
the people came and stood before the LORD. And Moses said: this is the thing
which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and then the glory of the LORD shall
appear unto you. And Moses said unto Aaron: go unto the altar and offer thy
sinoffering, and make an atonement for thee and for the people: and then offer
the offering of the people and reconcile them also, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And Aaron went unto the altar, and slew the calf that was his sinoffering. And
the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him, and he dipped his finger in the
blood and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured the blood unto the
bottom of the altar. And the fat and the two kidneys with the caul of the liver
of the sinoffering, he burnt upon the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses: but
the flesh and the hide, he burnt with fire without the host. Afterward he slew
the burntoffering, and Aaron's sons brought the blood unto him, and he sprinkled
it round about upon the altar. And they brought the burntoffering unto him in
pieces and the head also, and he burnt it upon the altar, and did wash the
inwards and the legs, and burnt them also upon the burntoffering in the altar.
And then he brought the people's offering and took the goat that was the
people's sinoffering, and slew it and offered it for a sinoffering: as he did
the first. And then brought the burntoffering and offered it as the manner was,
and brought the meatoffering and filled his hand thereof, and burnt it upon the
altar, besides the burnt sacrifice in the morning. Then he slew the ox and the
ram that were the people's peaceofferings, and Aaron's sons brought the blood
unto him, and he sprinkled it upon the altar round about, and took the fat of
the ox and of the ram: the rump and the fat that covereth the inwards and the
kidneys and the caul of the liver: and put them upon the breasts and burnt it
upon the altar: but the breasts and the right shoulders Aaron waved before the
LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. And Aaron lift up his hand over the people
and blessed them, and came down from offering of sinofferings, burntofferings
and peaceofferings. Then Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness and
came out again and blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared unto
all the people. And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed
upon the altar: the burntoffering and the fat. And all the people saw it and
shouted, and fell on their faces.
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.x.
And Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron took either of them his censor, and put
fire therein, and put cense upon, and brought strange fire before the LORD:
which he commanded them not, and there went a fire out from the LORD, and
consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron: this
is it that the LORD spake saying: I will be sanctified in them that come nye me,
and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And
Moses called Misael and Elisaphan the sons of Uriel the uncle of Aaron, and said
unto them: go to and carry your brethren from the holy place out of the host.
And they went to them and carried them in their albs out of the host, as Moses
bade. And Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his eldest sons:
uncover not your head neither rent your clothes, lest ye die and wrath come upon
all the people, let your brethren the hole house of Israel, beweep the burning
which the LORD hath burnt. But go ye not out from the door of the tabernacle of
witness, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they
did as Moses bade. And the LORD spake unto Aaron saying: drink no wine nor
strong drink, neither thou nor thy sons with thee: when ye go into the
tabernacle of witness, lest ye die. And let it be a law forever unto your
children after you: that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and
between unclean and clean, and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the
ordinances which the LORD hath commanded them by the hands of Moses. And Moses
said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that were left: take the
meatoffering that remaineth of the sacrifices of the LORD, and eat it without
leaven beside the altar, for it is most holy: eat it therefore in the holy
place, because it is thy duty and thy sons' duty of the sacrifice of the LORD:
for so I am commanded. And the wavebreast and heaveshoulder eat in a clean
place: both thou and thy sons and thy daughters with thee. For it is thy duty,
and thy sons' duty with thee, of the peaceofferings of the children of Israel.
For the heaveshoulder and the wavebreast which they bring with the sacrifices of
the fat, to wave it before the LORD, shall be thine and thy sons' with thee, and
be a law for ever, as the LORD hath commanded. And Moses sought for the goat
that was the sinoffering, and see, it was burnt. And he was angry with Eleazar
and Ithamar the sons of Aaron, which were left alive saying: wherefore have ye
not eaten the sinoffering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy: and
forasmuch as it is given you to bear the sin of the people, and make agreement
for them before the LORD? Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the
holy place, therefore should ye have eaten it in the holy place as I commanded.
And Aaron said unto Moses: behold, this day have they offered their sinoffering
and their burntoffering before the LORD, and it is chanced me after this manner.
If I should eat of the sinoffering today, would the LORD be content with all?
And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Chapter
.xi.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: speak unto the children of
Israel and say: these are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts
that are on the earth: whatsoever hath hoof and divideth it into two claws and
cheweth cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Nevertheless, these shall ye
not eat of them that chew cud and have hoofs. The camel, for he cheweth cud but
he divideth not the hoof into two claws, therefore he shall be unclean unto you.
And the cony, for he cheweth the cud but divideth not the hoof into two claws,
therefore he is unclean to you. And the hare, for he likewise cheweth the cud,
but divideth not the hoof into two claws, he is therefore unclean to you. And
the swine, for though he divide the hoof into two claws, yet he cheweth not the
cud and therefore is unclean to you. Of their flesh see that ye eat not, and
their carcasses see that ye twich not for they are unclean to you. These shall
ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the
waters, seas and rivers, that shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and
scales in the seas and rivers of all that move and live in the waters, shall ye
abhor. See that ye eat not of their flesh, and also that ye abhor their
carcasses: for all that have no fins nor scales in the waters, shall be
abomination unto you. These are the fowls which ye shall abhor and which shall
not be eaten, for they are an abomination. The eagle, the goshawk, the
cormorant, the kite, the vulture and all his kind and all kind of ravens, the
ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk, and all the kind: the
little owl, the stork, the great owl, the back, the pelican, the pye, the heron,
the jay with the kind, the lapwing and the swallow. And all fowls that creep and
go upon all fours shall be an abomination unto you. Yet these may ye eat of all
the fowls that move and go upon four feet: even those that have no knees above
upon their feet to leap withal upon the earth, even these of them ye may eat:
the arb and all his kind: the Soleam with all his kind: the Hargol and all the
kind, and the Hagab and all his kind. All other fowls that move and have four
feet, shall be abomination unto you. In such ye shall be unclean whosoever touch
the carcass of the shall be unclean unto the even, and whosoever beareth the
carcass of them, shall wash his clothes and shall be unclean until even. Among
all manner beasts, they that have hoofs and divide them not into two claws or
that chew not the cud, shall be unclean unto you: and all that twicheth them
shall be unclean. And all that goeth upon his hands among all manner beasts that
go on all fours, are unclean unto you: and as many as twich their carcasses,
shall be unclean until the evening. And he that beareth the carcass of them,
shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even, for such are unclean unto
you. And these are also unclean to you among the things that creep upon the
earth: the weasel, the mouse, the toad and all his kind, the hedgehog, stellio,
the lizard, the snail and the mole: These are unclean to you among all that
move, and all that twich them when they be dead, shall be unclean until the
evening. And whatsoever any of the dead carcasses of them fall upon, shall be
unclean: whatsoever vessel of wood it be, or raiment, or skin, or bag or
whatsoever thing it be that any work is wrought with all. And they shall be
plunged in the water and be unclean until the even, and then they shall be clean
again. All manner of earthen vessel whereinto any of them falleth, is unclean
with all that therein is: and ye shall break it. All manner meat that is eaten,
if any such water come upon it, it shall be unclean. And all manner drink that
is drunk in all manner such vessels, shall be unclean. And whether it be oven or
kettle, it shall be broken. For they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you:
Neverthelater, yet the fountains and wells and ponds of water, shall be clean
still. But whosoever twicheth their carcasses, shall be unclean. If the dead
carcass of any such fall upon any seed used to sow, it shall yet be clean still:
but and if any water be poured upon the seed and afterward the dead carcass of
them fall thereon, then it shall be unclean unto you. If any beast of which ye
eat die, he that twicheth the dead carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
And he that eateth of any such dead carcass, shall wash his clothes and remain
unclean until the evening. And he also that beareth the carcass of it, shall
wash his clothes and be unclean until even. All that crawleth upon the earth, is
an abomination and shall not be eaten. And whatsoever goeth upon the breast, and
whatsoever goeth upon four or more feet among all that crawleth upon the earth,
of that see ye eat not: for they are abominable. Make not your souls abominable.
Make not your souls abominable with nothing that creepeth, neither make your
souls unclean with them: that ye should be defiled thereby. For I am the LORD
your God, be sanctified therefore that ye may be holy, for I am holy: and defile
not your souls with any manner thing that creepeth upon the earth. For I am the
LORD that brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: be holy
therefore, for I am holy. This is the law of beast and fowl and of all manner
thing that liveth and moveth in the water and of all things that creep upon the
earth, that ye may put difference between unclean and clean, and between the
beasts that are eaten and the beasts that are not eaten.
Chapter
.xij.
And the LORD spake Unto Moses and said: speak unto the children of Israel and
say: when a woman hath conceived and hath borne a man child, she shall be
unclean seven days: even in like manner as when she is put apart in time of her
natural disease. And in the eighth day the flesh of the child's foreskin shall
be cut away. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying thirty three
days, she shall twitch no hallowed thing nor come in to the sanctuary, until the
time of her purifying be out. If she bear a maidchild, then she shall be unclean
two weeks, as when she hath her natural disease. And she shall continue in the
blood of her purifying sixty six days. And when the days of her purifying are
out: whether it be a son or a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of one year old
for a burntoffering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sinoffering unto
the door of the tabernacle of witness unto the priest: which shall offer them
before the LORD, and make an atonement for her, and so she shall be purged of
her issue of blood. This is the law of her that hath borne a child, whether it
be male or female. But and if she be not able to bring a sheep, then let her
bring two turtles or two young pigeons: the one for the burntoffering, and the
other for the sinoffering. And the priest shall make an atonement for her, and
she shall be clean.
Chapter
.xiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying: when there appeareth a
rising in any man's flesh either a scab or a glistering white: as though the
plague of leprosy were in the skin of his flesh, then let him be brought unto
Aaron the priest or unto one of his sons the priests, and let the priest look on
the sore that is in the skin of his flesh. If the hair in the sore be turned
unto white, and the sore also seem to be lower than the skin of his flesh, then
it is surely a leprosy, and let the priest look on him and make him unclean. If
there be but a white pleck in the skin of his flesh, and seem not to be lower
than the other skin nor the hair thereof is turned unto white: then let the
priest shut him up seven days. And let the priest look upon him the seventh day:
if the sore seem to him to abide still and to go no further in the skin, then
let the priest shut him up yet seven days more. {mo} And let the priest look on
him again the seventh day. Then if the sore be waxed blackish, and is not grown
abroad in the skin, let the priest make him clean, for it is but a scurf. And
let him wash his clothes, and then he is clean. But and if the scab grow in the
skin after that he is seen of the priest again. If the priest see that the scab
be grown abroad in the skin, let him make him unclean: for it is surely a
leprosy. If the plague of leprosy be in a man, let him be brought unto the
priest, and let the priest see him. If the rising appear white in the skin, and
have also made the hair white, and there be raw flesh in the sore also: then it
is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh. And the priest shall make him
unclean, and shall not shut him up for he is unclean. If a leprosy break out in
the skin and cover all the skin from the head to the foot over all wheresoever
the priest looketh, then let the priest look upon him. If the leprosy have
covered all his flesh, let him make {judge} the disease clean: for inasmuch as
he is altogether white he is therefore clean. But and if there be raw flesh on
him when he is seen, then he shall be unclean. Therefore when the priest seeth
the raw flesh, let him make him unclean. For inasmuch as his flesh is raw, he is
unclean and it is surely a true leprosy. But and if the raw flesh depart again
and change unto white, then let him come to the priest and let the priest see
him: If the sore be changed unto white, let the priest make {judge} the disease
clean, and then he is clean. When there is a beal in the skin of any man's flesh
and is healed and after in the place of the beal there appear a white rising
either a shining white somewhat reddish, let him be seen of the priest. If when
the priest seeth him it appear lower than the other skin and the hair thereof be
changed unto white, let the priest make {judge} him unclean: for it is a very
leprosy, that is broken out in the place of the beal. But and if when the priest
looketh on it there be no white hairs therein neither the scab lower than the
other skin and be somewhat blackish, then the priest shall shut him apart seven
days. If it spread abroad in the mean season, then let the priest make {judge}
him unclean: for it is a leprosy. But and if the glistering white abide still in
one place and go no further, then it is but the print of the beal, and the
priest shall make {judge} him clean. When the skin of any man's flesh is burnt
with fire that it be raw and there appear in the burning a glistering white that
is somewhat reddish or altogether white, let the priest look upon it. If the
hair in that brightness be changed to white and it also appear lower than the
other skin, then it is a leprosy that is broken out in the place of the burning.
And the priest shall make {judge} him unclean, for it is a leprosy. But and if
(when the priest looketh on it) he see that there is no white hair in the
brightness, and that it is no lower than the other skin, and that it is also
blackish, then let the priest shut him up seven days. And if (when the priest
looketh on him the seventh day) it be grown abroad in the skin, let him make
{judge} him unclean: for it is a leprosy. But and if that brightness abide still
in one place and go no further in the skin and be blackish, then it is but a
rising in the place of the burning, and the priest shall make him clean: for it
is but the print of the burning only. When either man or woman hath a breaking
out upon the head or the beard, let the priest see it. And if it appear lower
than the other skin, and there be therein golden hairs and thin, let the priest
make {judge} him unclean, for it is a breaking out of leprosy upon the head or
beard. If (when the priest looketh on the breaking out) he see that it is no
lower than the other skin and that there are black hairs therein, let him shut
him up seven days. And let the priest look on the disease the seventh day: and
if the breaking out be gone no further neither be any golden hairs therein
neither the scab be lower than the other skin, then let him be shaven, but let
him not shave the scab, and let the priest shut him up seven days more. And let
the priest look on the breaking out the seventh day again: If the breaking out
be gone no further in the skin nor more lower than the other skin, then let the
priest make {judge} him clean, and let him wash his clothes and then he is
clean. If the breaking out grow in the skin after that he is once made {judged}
clean, let the priest see him. If it be grown abroad indeed in the skin, let the
priest seek no further for any golden hairs, for he is unclean. But and if he
see that the scab stond still, and that there is black hair grown up therein,
then the scab is healed and he is clean: and the priest shall make {judge} him
clean. If there be found in the skin of the flesh of man or woman a glistering
white, let the priest see it. If there appear in their flesh a glistering white
somewhat blackish, then it is but freckles grown up in the skin: and he is
clean. If a man's hair fall off his head, then he is headbald and clean. If his
hair fall before in his forehead, then he is foreheadbald and clean. If there be
in the bald head or bald forehead a reddish white scab, then there is leprosy
sprung up in his bald head or bald forehead. And let the priest see it: and if
the rising of the sore be reddish white in his bald head or forehead after the
manner of a leprosy in the skin of the flesh, then he is a leper and unclean:
and the priest shall make {judge} him unclean, for the plague of his head. And
the leper in whom the plague is, shall have his clothes rent and his head bare
and his mouth muffled and shall be called unclean. And as long as the disease
lasteth upon him, he shall be unclean: for he is unclean, and shall therefore
dwell alone, and even without the host shall his habitation be. When the plague
of leprosy is in a cloth: whether it be linen or woollen, yea and whether it be
in the warp or woof of the linen or of the woollen: either in a skin or any
thing made of skin, if the disease be pale or somewhat reddish in the cloth or
skin: whether it be in the warp or the woof or any thing that is made of skin,
then it is a very leprosy, and must be shewed unto the priest. And when the
priest seeth the plague, let him shut it up seven days, and let him look on the
plague the seventh day. If it be increased in the cloth: whether it be in the
warp or woof or in a skin or in anything that is made of skin, then the plague
is a fretting leprosy, and it is unclean: And that cloth shall be burnt, either
warp or woof, whether it be woollen or linen or any thing that is made of skin
wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy, and shall be burnt in the
fire. If the priest see that the plague hath fretten no further in the cloth:
either in the warp or woof or in whatsoever thing of skin it be, then let the
priest command then to wash the thing wherein the plague is, and let him shut it
up seven days more. And let the priest look on it again after that the plague is
washed. If the plague have not changed his fashion though it be spread no
further abroad, it is yet unclean. And see that ye burn it in the fire, for it
is fretten inward: whether in part or in all together. But and if the priest see
that it is somewhat blackish after that it is washed, let him rent it out of the
cloth, or out of the skin or out of the warp or woof. But and if it appear any
more in the cloth either in the warp or in the woof or in anything made of skin,
then it is a waxing plague. And see that ye burn that with fire, wherein the
plague is. Moreover the cloth either warp or woof or whatsoever thing of skin it
be which thou hast washed and the plague be departed from it, shall be washed
once again: and then it is clean. This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a
cloth whether it be woollen or linen: either whether it be in the warp or woof,
or in anything made of skins, to make {judge} it clean or unclean.
Chapter
.xiiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: this is the law of a leper when he shall
be cleansed: He shall be brought unto the priest, and the priest shall go out
without the host and look upon him. If the plague of leprosy be healed in the
leper, then shall the priest command that there be brought for him that shall be
cleansed two living birds that are clean, and cypress {cedar} wood, and a piece
of purple cloth and hyssop. And the priest shall command that one of the birds
be killed over {in} an earthen vessel of running water. And the priest shall
take the living bird and the cypress {cedar} wood and the purple and the hyssop,
and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird, and in
the running water and sprinkle it upon him that must be cleansed of his leprosy
seven times and cleanse him, and shall let the living bird go free into the
fields. And he that is cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his
hair, and wash himself in water, and then he is clean. And after that he shall
come into the host, but shall tarry without his tent seven days. When the
seventh day is come, he shall shave off all his hair both upon his head and his
beard and on his brows: and even all the hair that is on him, shall be shaven
off. And he shall wash his clothes and his flesh in water, and then he shall be
clean. And when the eighth day is come, let him take two lambs without blemish
and a ewe lamb of a year old without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine
flour for a meatoffering mingled with oil, and a log of oil. Then let the priest
that maketh him clean, bring the man that is made clean with those things before
the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And let the priest take one
of the lambs and offer him for a trespassoffering, and the log of oil: and wave
them before the LORD. And then let him slay the lamb in the place where the
sinoffering and the burntoffering are slain: even in the holy place. For as the
sinoffering is, even so is the trespassoffering the priest's: for it is most
holy. Then let the priest take of the blood of the trespassoffering, and put it
upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. Then let the priest take
of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his left hand and dip his right
finger in the oil that is in the palm of his left hand, and let him sprinkle it
with his finger seven times before the LORD. And of the rest of the oil that is
in his hand, shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his
right foot: even upon the blood of the trespass offering. And the remnant of the
oil that is in the priest's hand, he shall pour upon the head of him that is
cleansed: and so shall be priest make an atonement for him before the LORD. Then
let the priest offer the sinoffering, and make an atonement for him that is
cleansed for his uncleanness. And then let the burntoffering be slain, and let
the priest put both the burntoffering and the meatoffering upon the altar; and
make an atonement for him, and then he shall be clean. If he be poor and can not
get so much, then let him bring one lamb for a trespassoffering to wave it and
to make an atonement for him, and a tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meatoffering, and a log of oil, and two turtle doves or two young pigeons
which he is able to get, and let the one be a sinoffering and the other a
burntoffering. And let him bring them the eighth day for his cleansing unto the
priest to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the LORD. And let the
priest take the lamb that is the trespassoffering and the log of oil, and wave
them before the LORD. And when the lamb of the trespassoffering is killed, the
priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip
of his right ear that is cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and
upon the great toe of his right foot. And the priest shall pour of the oil into
his right hand, and shall sprinkle with his finger of the oil that is in his
left hand seven times before the LORD. And the priest shall put of the oil that
is in his hand, upon the tip of the right ear of him that is cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: even in
the place where the blood of the trespassoffering was put. And the rest of the
oil that is in his hand, he shall pour upon the head of him that is cleansed: to
make an atonement for him before the LORD. And he shall offer one of the turtle
doves or of the young pigeons, such as he can get: the one for a sin offering
and the other for a burntoffering upon the altar. And so shall the priest make
an atonement for him that is cleansed before the LORD. This is the law of him
that hath the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which
pertaineth to his cleansing. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying:
when ye be come unto the land of Canaan which I give you to possess: if I put
the plague of leprosy in any house of the land of your possession, let him that
owneth the house go and tell the priest saying: me think that there is as it
were a leprosy in the house. And the priest shall command them to rid all things
out of the house, before the priest go in to see the plague: that he make not
all that is in the house unclean, and then the priest shall go in and see the
house. If the priest see that the plague is in the walls of the house, and that
there be hollow streaks pale or red which seem to be lower than the other parts
of the wall, then let the priest go out at the house doors, and shut up the
house for seven days. And let the priest come again the seventh day and see it:
if the plague be increased in the walls of the house, let the priest command
them to take away the stones in which the plague is, and let them cast them in a
foul place without the city, and scrape the house within round about, and pour
out the dust without the city in a foul place. And let them take other stones
and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar, and plaster the
house withal. If now the plague come again and break out in the house, after
that they have taken away the stones and scraped the house, and after that the
house is plastered anew: let the priest come and see it. And if then he perceive
that the plague hath eaten further in the house, then it is a fretting leprosy
that is in the house, and it is unclean. Then they shall break down the house:
both stones, timber and all the mortar of the house, and carry it out of the
city unto a foul place. Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that
it is shut up, shall be unclean until night. And he that sleepeth in the house
shall wash his clothes, and he also that eateth in the house shall wash his
clothes. But and if the priest come and see that the plague hath spread no
further in the house after that it is new plastered, then let him make it clean
for the plague is healed. And let him take to cleanse the house withal: two
birds, cypress wood, and purple cloth and hyssop. And let him kill one of the
birds over {in} an earthen vessel of {with} running water: and take the cypress
{cedar} wood, the hyssop, the purple and the living bird, and dip them in the
blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and sprinkle upon the house
seven times, and cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the
running water, and with the living bird, and with the cypress wood, and the
hyssop, and the purple cloth. And he shall let the living bird flee out of the
town into the wild fields, and so make an atonement for the house, and it shall
be clean. This is the law of all manner plague of leprosy and breaking out, and
of the leprosy of cloth and house: and of risings, scabs and glistering white,
to teach when a thing is unclean or clean. This is the law of leprosy.
Chapter
.xv.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: Speak unto the children of
Israel and say unto them: every man that hath a running issue in his flesh, is
unclean by the reason of his issue. And hereby shall it be known when he is
unclean. If his flesh run, or if his flesh congeal by the reason of his issue,
then he is unclean. Every couch whereon he lieth and every thing whereon he
sitteth shall be unclean. He that twicheth his couch, shall wash his clothes and
bathe himself with water, and be unclean until the even. He that sitteth on that
whereon he sat, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water and be
unclean until the evening. And he that twicheth his flesh shall wash his clothes
and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto the evening. If any such spit
upon him that is clean, he must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and
be unclean until even. And whatsoever saddle that he rideth upon, shall be
unclean. And whosoever twicheth anything that was under him, shall be unclean
unto the evening. And he that beareth any such things shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto the even, and whosoever he
twicheth (if he have not first washed his hands in water) must wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean unto the evening. And if he twich a
vessel of earth, it shall be broken: and all vessels of wood shall be rinsed in
the water. When he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, let him number
seven days after he is clean, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
running water, and then he is clean. And the eighth day let him take two turtle
doves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the
tabernacle of witness, and give them unto the priest. And the priest shall offer
them: the one for a sinoffering, and the other for a burntoffering: and make an
atonement for him before the LORD, as concerning his issue. If any man's seed
depart from him in his sleep, he shall wash his flesh in water and be unclean
until evening. And all the clothes or furs whereon such seed chanceth shall be
washed with water and be unclean unto the evening. And if a woman lie with such
a one, they shall wash them selves with water and be unclean until even. When a
woman's natural course of blood runneth, she shall be put apart seven days: and
whosoever twicheth her shall be unclean unto the evening. And all that she lieth
{[or sitteth]} upon as long as she is put apart shall be unclean. And whosoever
twicheth her couch shall wash his clothes and bathe himself with water and be
unclean unto the evening. And whosoever twicheth anything that she sat upon,
shall wash his clothes and wash himself also in water, and be unclean unto the
even: so that whether he twich her couch or anything whereon she hath sitten, he
shall be unclean unto the evening. And if a man lie with her in the mean time,
he shall be put apart as well as she and shall be unclean seven days, and all
his couch wherein he sleepeth shall be unclean. When a woman's blood runneth
long time: whether out of the time of her natural course: as long as her
uncleanness runneth, she shall be unclean after the manner as when she is put
apart. All her couches whereon she lieth (as long as her issue lasteth) shall be
unto her as her couch when she is put apart. And whatsoever she sitteth upon,
shall be unclean, as is her uncleanness when she is put apart. And whosoever
twicheth them, shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in
water and be unclean unto evening. And when {But if} she is cleansed {be clean}
of her issue, let her count her seven days, after that she is clean. And the
eighth day let her take two turtles or two young pigeons and bring them unto the
priest unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the priest shall offer
the one for a sinoffering, and the other for a burntoffering: and so make an
atonement for her before the LORD, as concerning her unclean issue. Make the
children of Israel to keep them selves from their uncleanness, that they die not
in their uncleanness: when they have defiled my habitation that is among them.
This is the law of him that hath a running sore, and of him whose seed runneth
from him in his sleep and is defiled therewith, and of her that hath an issue of
blood as long as she is put apart, and of whosoever hath a running sore whether
it be man or woman, and of him that sleepeth with her that is unclean.
Chapter
.xvi.
And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when
they had offered before the LORD and died: And he said unto Moses: speak unto
Aaron thy brother that he go not at all times into the holy place, that is
whithin the vail that hangeth before the mercy seat which is upon the ark that
he die not. For I will appear in a cloud upon the mercy seat. But of this manner
shall Aaron go in into the holy place: with a young ox {bullock} for a
sinoffering, and a ram for a burntoffering. And he shall put the holy linen alb
upon him, and shall have a linen breech upon his flesh, and shall gird him with
a linen girdle, and put the linen mitre upon his head: for they are holy
raiments. And he shall wash his flesh with water, and put them on. And he shall
take of the multitude of the children of Israel two goats for a sinoffering and
a ram for a burntoffering. And Aaron shall offer the ox for his sinoffering and
make an atonement for him and for his house. And he shall take the two goats and
present them before the LORD in the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron
cast lots over the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and another for a scapegoat.
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, and offer him for
a sinoffering. But the goat on which the lot fell to scape, he shall set alive
before the LORD to reconcile with and to let him go free into the wilderness.
And Aaron shall bring the ox of his sinoffering, and reconcile for himself and
for his household, and kill him. And then he shall take a censer full of burning
coals out of the altar that is before the LORD, and his handful of sweet cense
beaten small, and bring them within the vail and put the cense upon the fire
before the LORD: that the cloud of the cense may cover the mercy seat that is
upon the witness, that he die not. And he shall take of the blood of the ox and
sprinkle it with his finger before the mercy seat eastward: even seven times.
Then shall he kill the goat that is the people's sinoffering, and bring his
blood within the vail, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the ox,
and let him sprinkle it toward the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: and
reconcile the holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and
from their trespasses and all their sins. And so let him do also unto the
tabernacle of witness that dwelleth with them, even among their uncleannesses.
And there shall be nobody in the tabernacle of witness, when he goeth in to make
an atonement in the holy place, until he come out again. And he shall make an
atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the multitude of
Israel. Then he shall go out unto the altar that stondeth before the LORD, and
reconcile it, and shall take of the blood of the ox and of the blood of the
goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about, and sprinkle of the
blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from
the uncleannesses of the children of Israel. And when he hath made an end of
reconciling the holy place and the tabernacle of witness and the altar, let him
bring the live goat and let Aaron put both his hands upon the head of the live
goat, and confess over him all the misdeeds of the children of Israel, and all
their trespasses, and all their sins: and let him put them upon the head of the
goat and send him away by the hands of one that is acquainted in the wilderness.
And the goat shall bear upon him all their misdeeds unto the wilderness, and he
shall let the goat go free in the wilderness. And let Aaron go in to the
tabernacle of witness and put off the line clothes which he put on when he went
in into the holy place, and leave them there. And let him wash his flesh with
water in the holy place, and put on his own raiment, and then come out and offer
his burntoffering and the burntoffering of the people, and make an atonement for
himself and for the people, and the fat of the sinoffering let him burn upon the
altar. And let him that carried forth the scapegoat, wash his clothes and bathe
his flesh in water, and then come into the host again. And the ox of the
sinoffering and the goat of the sinoffering (whose blood was brought in to make
an atonement in the holy place) let one carry out without the host and burn with
fire: both their skins, their flesh and their dung. And let him that burneth
them, wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and then come into the host
again. And it {this} shall be an ordinance for ever unto you. And even in the
tenth day of the seventh month, ye shall humble your souls and shall do no work
at all: whether it be one of your selves or a stranger that sojourneth among
you, for that day shall an atonement be made for you to cleanse you from all
your sins before the LORD, and ye shall be clean. It shall be a Sabbath of rest
unto you, and ye shall humble your souls, and it shall be an ordinance for ever.
And the priest that is anointed and whose hand was filled to minister in his
father's stead, shall make the atonement and shall put on the holy linen
{[clothes and holy]} vestments, and reconcile the holy sanctuary and the
tabernacle of witness and the altar, and shall make an atonement also for the
priests and for all the people of the congregation. And this shall be an
everlasting ordinance unto you to make an atonement for the children of Israel
for all their sins once a year: and it was done even as the LORD commanded
Moses.
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.xvij.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and unto his sons and
unto all the children of Israel and say unto them, this is the thing which the
LORD charged saying: whatsoever he be of the house of Israel that killeth an ox,
lamb or goat in the host or out of the host and bringeth them not unto the door
of the tabernacle of witness, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the
dwelling place of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man, as though he
had shed blood, and that man shall perish from among his people. Wherefore let
the children of Israel bring their offerings they offer in the wide field, unto
the LORD: even unto the door of the tabernacle of witness and unto the priest,
and offer them for peaceofferings unto the LORD. And the priest shall sprinkle
the blood upon the altar of the LORD in the door of the tabernacle of witness,
and burn the fat to be a sweet savour unto the LORD. And let them no more offer
their offerings unto devils, after whom they go an whoring. And this shall be an
ordinance for ever unto you thorowout your generations. And thou shalt say unto
them: whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that
sojourn among you that offereth a burntoffering or any other offering, and
bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness to offer unto the
LORD, that fellow shall perish from among his people. And whatsoever man it be
of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that eateth
any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and
will destroy him from among his people, for the life of the flesh is in the
blood, and I have given it unto you upon the altar, to make an atonement for
your souls, for blood shall make an atonement for the soul. And therefore I said
unto the children of Israel: see that no soul of you eat blood, nor yet any
stranger that sojourneth among you. Whatsoever man it be of the children of
Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that hunteth and catcheth any
beast or fowl that may be eaten, he shall pour out the blood and cover it with
earth. For the life of all flesh is in the blood, therefore I said unto the
children of Israel, ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life
of all flesh is in his blood, and whosoever therefore eateth it shall perish.
And whatsoever soul it be that eateth that which died alone or that which was
torn with wild beasts: whether it be one of your selves or a stranger, he shall
wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean unto the even,
and then is he clean. But and if he wash them not nor wash his flesh he shall
bear his sin.
Chapter
.xviij.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, I am the LORD your God. Wherefore after the doings of the land of
Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not: neither after the doings of the land
of Canaan, whether I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances, but do
after my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: for I am the LORD
your God. Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which if a man do he
shall live thereby: for I am the LORD. See that ye go to none of your nyest
kindred for to uncover their secrets, for I am the LORD. The secrets of thy
father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt
thou not discover her secrets. The secrets of thy father's wife shalt thou not
discover, for they are thy father's secrets. Thou shalt not discover the privity
of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born
at home or without. Thou shalt not discover the secrets of thy son's daughter or
thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity: Thou shalt not discover
the secrets of thy father's wife's daughter, which she bare to thy father, for
she is thy sister: thou shalt therefore not discover her secrets. Thou shalt not
uncover the secrets of thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin.
{kinswoman.} Thou shalt not discover the secrets of thy mother's sister, for she
is thy mother's next kin. {kinswoman.} Thou shalt not open {uncover} the secrets
of thy father's brother: that is thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is
thine aunt. Thou shalt not discover {privities} the secrets of thy
daughter-in-law she is thy son's wife: therefore uncover not her secrets. Thou
shalt not unhele the secrets of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's
privity. Thou shalt not discover the privates of the wife and her daughter also,
neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover
their secrets, they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness. Thou shalt
not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her
secrets as long as she liveth. Thou shalt not go unto a woman to open her
secrets, {uncover her privity} as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. Thou
shalt not give of thy seed to offer it unto Moloch, that thou defile not the
name of thy God, for I am the LORD. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with
womankind, for that is abomination. Thou shalt lie with no manner of beast to
defile thyself therewith, neither shall any woman stond before a beast to lie
down thereto, for that is abomination. Defile not your selves in any of these
things, for with all these things are these nations defiled which I cast out
before you: and the land is defiled, and I will visit the wickedness thereof
upon it. And the land shall spew out her inhabiters. Keep ye therefore mine
ordinances and judgements, and see that ye commit none of these abominations:
neither any of you nor any stranger that sojourneth among you (for all these
abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the
land is defiled) lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it
spewed out the nations that were there before you. For whosoever shall commit
any of these abominations, the same souls that commit them shall perish from
among their people. Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit
none of these abominable customs which were committed before you: that ye defile
not your selves therewith for I am the LORD your God.
Chapter
.xix.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto all the multitude of the
children of Israel, and say unto them. Be holy for I the LORD your God am holy.
See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my
Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God. Ye shall not turn unto idols nor make you
gods of metal: I am the LORD your God. When ye offer your peaceofferings unto
the LORD, ye shall offer them that ye may be accepted. And it shall be eaten the
same day ye offer it and on the morrow, but whatsoever is left on the third day
shall be burnt in the fire. If it be eaten the third day, it shall be unclean
and not accepted. And he that eateth it shall bear his sin, because he hath
defiled the hallowed things of the LORD, and that soul shall perish from among
his people. When ye reap down the ripe corn of your land, ye shall not reap down
the utmost borders of your fields, neither shalt thou gather that which is left
behind in thy harvest. Thou shalt not pluck in all thy vineyard clean, neither
gather in the grapes that are overscaped. But thou shalt leave them for the poor
and stranger. I am the LORD your God. Ye shall not steal neither lie, neither
deal falsely one with another. Ye shall not swear by my name falsely: that thou
defilest not the name of thy God, I am the LORD. Thou shalt not beguile thy
neighbour with cavillations, neither rob him violently, neither shall the
workman's labour abide with thee until the morning. Thou shalt not curse the
deaf, neither put a stumbling block before the blind: but shalt fear thy God. I
am the LORD. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement. Thou shalt not favour
the poor nor honour the mighty, but shalt judge thy neighbour righteously. Thou
shalt not go up and down a privy accuser among thy people, neither shalt thou
help to shed the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. Thou shalt not hate thy
brother in thine heart but shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour: that thou
bear not sin for his sake. Thou shalt not avenge thyself nor bear hate in thy
mind against the children of thy people, but shalt love thy neighbour even as
thyself. I am the LORD. Keep mine ordinances. Let none of thy cattle gender with
a contrary kind, neither sow thy field with mingled seed, neither shalt thou put
on any garment of linen and woollen. If a man have to do with a woman that is
bond and hath been meddled with all of another man which neither is bought nor
freedom given her, there shall be a pain upon it: but they shall not die,
because she was not made free. And he shall bring for his trespassoffering unto
the LORD: even unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, a ram for a trespass
offering. And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the
trespassoffering before the LORD, for his sin which he hath done: and it shall
be forgiven him, as concerning the sin which he hath done. And when ye come to
the land and have planted all manner of trees whereof men eat, ye shall hold
them uncircumcised as concerning their fruit: even three years shall they be
uncircumcised unto you and shall not be eaten of, and the fourth year all the
fruit of them shall be holy and acceptable to the LORD. And the fifth year may
ye eat of the fruit of them, and gather in the increase of them: I am the LORD
your God. Ye shall eat nothing with the blood, ye shall use no witchcraft, nor
observe dismal days, ye shall not round the locks of your heads, neither shalt
thou mar the tufts of thy beard. Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's
sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Thou shalt not pollute thy
daughter, that thou wouldest maintain her to be an whore: lest the land fall to
whoredom, and wax full of wickedness. See that ye keep my Sabbaths and fear my
sanctuary: I am the LORD. Turn not to them that work with spirits, neither
regard them that observe dismal days: that ye be not defiled by them, for I am
the LORD your God. Thou shalt rise up before the hoarhead, and reverence the
face of the old man and dread thy God, for I am the LORD. If a stranger sojourn
by thee in your land, see that ye vex him not: But let the stranger that
dwelleth with you, be as one of your selves, and love him as thy self, for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. Ye shall do no
unrighteousness in judgement neither in meteyard, weight or measure. But ye
shall have true balances, true weights, a true Epha and a true hin. I am the
LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should observe
all mine ordinances and judgments and that ye should keep them: I am the LORD.
Chapter
.xx.
And the LORD talked with Moses saying: tell the children of Israel, whosoever he
be of the children of Israel or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, that
giveth of his seed unto Moloch he shall die for it: the people of the land shall
stone him with stones. And I will set my face upon that fellow, and will destroy
him from among his people: because he hath given of his seed unto Moloch, for to
defile my sanctuary and to pollute mine holy name. And though that the people of
the land hide their eyes from that fellow, when he giveth of his seed unto
Moloch, so that they kill him not: yet I will put my face upon that man and upon
his household, {generation} and will destroy him and all that go a whoring with
him and commit whoredom with Moloch from among their people. If any soul turn
unto them that work with spirits or makers of dismal days {turn him to
enchanters or expounders of tokens} and go a whoring after them, I will put my
face upon that soul and will destroy him from among his people. Sanctify your
selves therefore and be holy, for I am the LORD your God. And see that ye keep
mine ordinances and do them. For I am the LORD which sanctify you. Whosoever
curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because
he hath cursed his father or mother. He that breaketh wedlock with another man's
wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife,
and so shall she likewise. If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his
father's secrets, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.
If a man lie with his daughter- in-law they shall die both of them: they have
wrought abomination, their blood upon their heads. If a man lie with the mankind
after the manner as with womankind, they have both committed an abomination and
shall die for it. Their blood be upon their heads. If a man take a wife and her
mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them,
that there be no wickedness among you. If a man lie with a beast he shall die,
and ye shall slay the beast. If a woman go unto a beast and lie down thereto:
thou shalt kill the woman and the beast also they shall die, and their blood be
upon their heads. If a man take his sister, his father's daughter or his
mother's daughter, and see her secrets, and she see his secrets also: it is a
wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their people; he hath
seen his sister's secretness, he shall therefore bear his sin. If a man lie with
a woman in time of her natural disease and unheal {uncover} her secrets and
uncover {open} her fountain, and she also open the fountain of her blood, they
shall both perish from among their people. Thou shalt not uncover the secrets of
thy mother's sister nor of thy father's sisters, for he that doth so, uncovereth
his next kin: and they shall bear their misdoing. If a man lie with his uncle's
wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's secrets: they shall bear their sin, and
shall die childless. If a man take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing,
he hath uncovered his brother's secrets, they shall be childless therefore. See
that ye keep therefore all mine ordinances and all my judgements, and that ye do
them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out. And
see that ye walk not in the manners of the nations which I cast out before you:
For they committed all these things, and I abhorred them. But I have said unto
you that ye shall enjoy their land, and that I will give it unto you to possess
it: even a land that floweth with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, which
have separated you from other nations: that ye should put difference between
clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and them that are clean.
Make not your souls therefore abominable with beasts and fowls, and with all
manner thing that creepeth upon the ground, which I have separated unto you to
hold them unclean. Be holy unto me, for I the LORD am holy and have severed you
from other nations: that ye should be mine. If there be man or woman that
worketh with a spirit or a maker of dismal days, {expoundeth tokens} they shall
die for it. Men shall stone them with stones, and their blood shall be upon
them.
Chapter
.xxj.
And the LORD said unto Moses: speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron and say
unto them: A priest shall defile himself at the death of none of his people, but
upon his kin that is nye unto him: as his mother, father, son, daughter and
brother: and on his sister as long as she is a maid and dwelleth nye him and was
never given to man: on her he may defile himself. But he shall not make himself
unclean upon a ruler of his people to pollute himself withal. They shall make
them no baldness upon their heads or shave off the locks of their beards, nor
make any marks in their flesh. They shall be holy unto their God, and not
pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the bread of
their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy. They shall take no wife
that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy
unto his God. Sanctify him therefore, for he offereth up the bread of God: he
shall therefore be holy unto thee, for I the LORD which sanctify you, am holy.
If a priest's daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father:
therefore she shall be burnt with fire. He that is the high priest among his
brethren upon whose head the anointing oil was poured and whose hand was filled
to put on the vestments, shall not uncover his head nor rent his clothes,
neither shall go to any dead body nor make himself unclean: no not on his father
or mother, neither shall go out of the sanctuary, that he pollute not the holy
place of his God, for the crown of the anointing oil of God, is upon him. I am
the LORD. He shall take a maiden unto his wife: but no widow nor divorced nor
polluted whore. But he shall take a maiden of his own people to wife, that he
defile not his seed upon his people. For I am the LORD which sanctify him. And
the LORD spake unto Moses saying, speak unto Aaron and say: No man of thy seed
in their generations that hath any deformity upon him, shall prease for to offer
the bread of his God: For none that hath any blemish shall come near: whether he
be blind, lame, snoutnosed, or that hath any monstrous member, or broken footed,
or broken handed, or crook backed, or perleyed, or goggle eyed, or mangy or
skald, or hath his stones broken. No man that is deformed of the seed of Aaron
the priest, shall come nye to offer the sacrifices of the LORD. If he have a
deformity, he shall not prese to offer the bread of his God. Notwithstanding he
shall eat of the bread of his God: even as well of the most holy, as of the
holy: but shall not go in unto the vail nor come nye the altar, because he is
deformed, that he pollute not my sanctuary, for I am the LORD that sanctify
them. And Moses told it unto Aaron and to his sons, and unto all the children of
Israel.
Chapter
.xxij.
And the LORD communed with Moses saying: bid Aaron and his sons that they
abstain from the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have
hallowed unto me, that they pollute not mine holy name: for I am the LORD. Say
unto them: whosoever he be of all your seed among your generation after you,
that goeth unto the hallowed things which the children of Israel shall have
hallowed unto the LORD, his uncleanness shall be upon him: and that soul shall
perish from out of my sight. I am the LORD. None of the seed of Aaron that is a
leper or that hath a running sore, shall eat of the hallowed things until he be
clean. And whosoever twitcheth any unclean soul or man whose seed runneth from
him by night, or whosoever twicheth any worm that is unclean to him, or man that
is unclean to him, whatsoever uncleanness he hath: the same soul that hath
twiched any such thing, shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the
hallowed things until he have washed his flesh with water. And then when the son
is down he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the hallowed things: for
they are his food. Of a beast that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he
shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. But let them keep
therefore mine ordinance, lest they lade sin upon them and die therein when they
have defiled them selves: for I am the LORD which sanctify them. There shall no
stranger eat of the hallowed things, neither a guest of the priests, or an hired
servant. But if the priest buy any fowl with money he may eat of it, and he also
that is born in his house may eat of his bread. If the priest's daughter be
married unto a stranger, she may not eat of the hallowed heave offerings.
Notwithstanding if the priest's daughter be a widow or divorced and have no
child but is returned unto her father's house again, she shall eat of her
father's bread as well as she did in her youth. But there shall no stranger eat
thereof. If a man eat of the hallowed things unwittingly, he shall put the fifth
part thereunto, and make good unto the priest the hallowed thing. And let the
priests see, that they defile not the hallowed things of the children of Israel
which they have offered unto the LORD, lest they lade them selves with misdoing
and trespass in eating their hallowed things, for I am the LORD which hallow
them. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and his sons and
unto all the children of Israel and say unto them, whatsoever he be of the house
of Israel or stranger in Israel that will offer his offering: whatsoever vow or
freewill offering it be which they will offer unto the LORD for a burntoffering
to reconcile them selves, it must be a male without blemish of the oxen, sheep
or goats, let them offer nothing that is deformed for they shall get no favour
therewith. If a man will offer a peaceoffering unto the LORD and separate a vow
or a freewill offering of the oxen or the flock, it must be without deformity,
that it may be accepted. There may be no blemish therein: whether it be blind,
broken, wounded or have a wen, or be mangy or scabbed; see that ye offer no such
unto the LORD, nor put an offering of any such upon the altar unto the LORD. An
ox or a sheep that hath any member out of proportion, mayst thou offer for a
freewill offering: but in a vow it shall not be accepted. Thou shalt not offer
unto the LORD that which hath his stones bruised, broken, plucked out or cut
away, neither shalt make any such in your land, neither of a stranger's hand
shall ye offer an offering to your God of any such. For they mar all in that
they have deformities in them, and therefore can not be accepted for you. And
the LORD spake unto Moses saying: when an ox, a sheep or a goat is brought
forth, it shall be seven days under the dam. And from the eighth day forth, it
shall be accepted unto a gift in the sacrifice of the LORD. And whether it be ox
or sheep, ye shall not kill it, and her young: both in one day. When ye will
offer a thankoffering unto the LORD, ye shall so offer it that ye may be
accepted. And the same day it must be eaten up, so that ye leave none of it
until the morrow. For I am the LORD, keep now my commandments and do them, for I
am the LORD. And pollute not my holy name, that I may be hallowed among the
children of Israel. For I am the LORD which hallow you, and brought you out of
the land of Egypt, to be your God: for I am the LORD.
Chapter
.xxiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them: These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall call holy feasts. Six
days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest an holy feast: so
that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever
ye dwell. These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim holy in their
seasons. The fourteenth day of the first month at evening is the LORD's
Passover. And the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of sweet bread
unto the LORD, seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. The first day shall be
an holy feast unto you, so that ye may do no laborious work therein. But ye
shall offer sacrifices unto the LORD seven days, and the seventh day also shall
be an holy feast, so that ye may do no laborious work therein. And the LORD
spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them:
when ye be come into the land which I give unto you and reap down your harvest,
ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest, and
he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be accepted for you: and even the
morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer the day
when he waveth the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a
burntoffering unto the LORD: and the meatoffering thereof, two tenth deals of
fine flour mingled with oil to be a sacrifice unto the LORD of a sweet savour:
and the drink offering thereto, the fourth deal of an hin of wine. And ye shall
eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor frumenty of new corn: until the self
same day that ye have brought an offering unto your God. And this shall be a law
for ever unto your children after you, wheresoever ye dwell. And ye shall count
from the morrow after the Sabbath: even from the day that ye brought the sheaf
of the waveoffering, seven weeks complete: even unto the morrow after the
seventh week ye shall number fifty days. And then ye shall bring a new
meatoffering unto the LORD. And ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave
loaves made of two tenth deals of fine flour leavened and baken, for first
fruits unto the LORD. And ye shall bring with the bread seven lambs without
deformity of one year of age, and one young ox, and two rams, which shall serve
for burntofferings unto the LORD, with meatofferings and drink offerings longing
to the same, to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And ye shall
offer an he goat for a sinoffering: and two lambs of one year old for
peaceofferings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first
fruits before the LORD, and with the two lambs. And they shall be holy unto the
LORD, and be the priest's. And ye shall make a proclamation the same day that it
be an holy feast unto you, and ye shall do no laborious work therein. And it
shall be a law for ever thorowout all your habitations unto your children after
you. When ye reap down your harvest, thou shalt not make clean riddance of thy
field, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of thy harvest: but shalt
leave them unto the poor and the stranger. I am the LORD your God. And the LORD
spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say: The first
day of the seventh month shall be a rest of remembrance unto you, to blow horns
in an holy feast it shall be, and ye shall do no laborious work therein, and ye
shall offer sacrifice unto the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: also
the tenth day of the self seventh month, is a day of atonement, and shall be on
holy feast unto you, and ye shall humble your souls and offer sacrifice unto the
LORD. Moreover ye shall do no work the same day, for it is a day of atonement to
make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. For whatsoever soul it be
that humbleth not himself that day, he shall be destroyed from among his people.
And whatsoever soul do any manner work that day, the same I will destroy from
among his people. See that ye do no manner work therefore. And it shall be a law
for ever unto your generations after you in all your dwellings. A Sabbath of
rest it shall be unto you, and ye shall humble your souls. The ninth day of the
month at evening and so forth from evening to evening again, ye shall keep your
Sabbath. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel
and say: the fifteenth day of the same seventh month shall be the feast of
tabernacles seven days unto the LORD. The first day shall be an holy feast, so
that ye shall do no laborious work therein. Seven days ye shall offer sacrifice
unto the LORD, and the eighth day shall be an holy feast unto you, and ye shall
offer sacrifice unto the LORD. It is the end of the feast, and ye shall do no
laborious work therein. These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim
holy feasts, for to offer sacrifice unto the LORD, burntofferings,
meatofferings, and drinkofferings every day: beside the Sabbaths of the LORD,
and beside your gifts, and all your vows, and all your freewill offerings which
ye shall give unto the LORD. Moreover in the fifteenth day of the seventh month
after that ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep holy day
unto the LORD seven days long. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the
eighth day shall be a day of rest. And ye shall take you the first day, the
fruits of goodly trees and the branches of palm trees and the boughs of thick
trees, and willows of the brook, and shall rejoice before the LORD seven days.
And ye shall keep it holy day unto the LORD seven days in the year. And it shall
be a law for ever unto your children after you, that ye keep that feast in the
seventh month. And ye shall dwell in booths seven days: even all that are
Israelites born, shall dwell in booths, that your children after you may know
how that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths, when I brought them out
of the land of Egypt: for I am the LORD your God. And Moses told all the feasts
of the LORD unto the children of Israel.
Chapter
.xxiiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel that they
bring unto thee, pure oil olive beaten for lights to pour into the lamps always,
without the vail of testimony {witness} within the tabernacle of witness. And
Aaron shall dress them both evening and morning before the LORD always. And if
shall be a law for ever among your children after you. And he shall dress the
lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD perpetually. And thou shalt take
fine flour and bake twelve wastels thereof, two tenth deals shall every wastel
be. And make two rows of them, six on a row upon the pure table before the LORD,
and put pure frankincense upon the rows. And it shall be bread of remembrance,
and an offering to the LORD. Every Sabbath he shall put them in rows before the
LORD evermore, given of the children of Israel, that it be an everlasting
covenant. And they shall be Aaron's and his sons, and they shall eat them in the
holy place. For they are most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD, and
shall be a duty for ever. And the son of an Israelitish wife whose father was an
Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel. And this son of the Israelitish
wife and a man of Israel, strove together in the host. And the Israelitish
woman's son blasphemed the name and cursed, and they brought him unto Moses. And
his mother's name was Selamith, the daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan: and
they put him in ward, that Moses should declare unto them what the LORD said
thereto. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying, bring him that cursed
{blasphemed} without the host, and let all that heard him, put their hands upon
his head, and let all the multitude stone him. And speak unto the children of
Israel saying: Whosoever curseth his God, shall bear his sin: And he that
blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall die for it: all the multitude shall
stone him to death. And the stranger as well as the Israelite if he curse the
name, shall die for it. He that killeth any man, shall die for it, but he that
killeth a beast shall pay for it, beast for beast. If a man maim his neighbour,
as he hath done, so shall it be done to him again: broke for broke, eye for eye
and tooth for tooth: even as he hath maimed a man, so shall he be maimed again.
So now he that killeth a beast, shall pay for it: but he that killeth a man,
shall die for it. Ye shall have one manner of law among you: even for the
stranger as well as for one of your selves, for I am the LORD your God. And
Moses told the children of Israel, that they should bring him that had cursed,
out of the host, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as
the LORD commanded Moses.
Chapter
.xxv.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai saying, speak unto the children of
Israel and say unto them: When ye be come in to the land which I give you, let
the land rest a Sabbath unto the LORD. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and
six years thou shalt cut thy vines and gather in thy fruits. But the seventh
year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. The LORD's Sabbath it shall be,
and thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vines. The corn that groweth
by itself thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that grow without thy
dressing: but it shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land. Nevertheless the
Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you: even for thee and thy servant and for
thy maid and for thy hired servant and for the stranger that dwelleth with thee:
and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the
increase thereof be meat. Then number seven weeks of years, that is, seven times
seven years: and the space of the seven weeks of years will be unto thee forty
nine years. And then thou shalt make an horn blow: even in the tenth day of the
seventh month, which is the day of atonement. And then shall ye make the horn
blow, even thorowout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and
proclaim liberty thorowout the land unto all the inhabiters thereof. It shall be
a year of horns blowing unto you and ye shall return: every man unto his
possession and every man unto his kindred again. A year of horns blowing shall
that fiftieth year be unto you. Ye shall not sow neither reap the corn that
groweth by itself, nor gather the grapes that grow without thy labour. For it is
a year of horns blowing and shall be holy unto you: how be it, yet ye shall eat
of the increase of the field. And in this year of horns blowing ye shall return,
every man unto his possession again. When thou sellest ought unto thy neighbour
or buyest of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: but
according to the number of years after the trompet year, thou shalt buy of thy
neighbour, and according unto the number of fruit years, he shall sell unto
thee. According unto the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price
thereof and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt minish the price: for
the number of fruit he shall sell unto thee. And see that no man oppress his
neighbour, but fear thy God. For I am the LORD your God. Wherefore do after mine
ordinances and keep my laws and do them, that ye may dwell in the land in
safety. And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell
therein in safety. If ye shall say, what shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch
as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase?. I will send my blessing upon
you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years: and ye
shall sow the eighth year and eat of old fruit until the ninth year, and even
until her fruits come, ye shall eat of old store. Wherefore the land shall not
be sold for ever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and
sojourners with me: and ye shall thorowout all the land of your possession, let
the land go home free again. When thy brother is waxed poor and hath sold away
of his possession: if any of his kin come to redeem it, he shall buy out that
which his brother sold. And though he have no man to redeem it for him, yet if
his hand can get sufficient to buy it out again, then let him count how long it
hath been sold, and deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he
shall return unto his possession again. But and if his hand can not get
sufficient to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in
the hand of him that hath bought it, until the horn year: {jubilee} and in the
horn year {of Jubilee} it shall come out, and he shall return unto his
possession again. If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it
out again any time within a whole year after it is sold: and that shall be the
space in which he may redeem it again. But and if it be not bought out again
within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall be
stablished for ever unto him that bought it and to his successors after him and
shall not go out in the trompet year. {of jubilee} But the houses in villages
which have no walls round about them, shall be counted like unto the fields of
the country, and may be bought out again at any season, and shall go out free in
the trompet year. {of jubilee} Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites and the
houses in the cities of their possessions the Levites may redeem at all seasons.
And if a man purchase ought of the Levites: whether it be house or city that
they possess, the bargain shall go out in the trompet year {of jubilee} for the
houses of the cities of the Levites, are their possessions among the children of
Israel. But the fields that lie round about their cities, shall not be bought:
for they are their possessions for ever. If thy brother be waxed poor and fallen
in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or a sojourner, and let him live
by thee. And thou shalt take none usury of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear
thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money
upon usury, nor lend him of thy food to have advantage by it for I am the LORD
your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan and to be your God. If thy brother that dwelleth by thee wax poor and
sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not let him labour as a bondservant doeth:
but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall
serve thee unto the trompet year, {of jubilee} and then shall he depart from
thee: both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own kindred
again and unto the possessions of his fathers; for they are my servants which I
brought out of the land of Egypt, and shall not be sold as bondmen. See
therefore that thou reign not over him cruelly, but fear thy God. If thou wilt
have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round
about you, and of the children of the strangers that are sojourners among you,
and of their generations that are with you, which they begat in your land. And
ye shall possess them and give them unto your children after you, to possess
them for ever: and they shall be your bond men. But over your brethren the
children of Israel, ye shall not reign one over another cruelly. When a stranger
and a sojourner waxeth rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him waxeth
poor and sell himself unto the stranger that dwelleth by thee or to any of the
stranger's kin: after that he is sold he may be redeemed again: one of his
brethren may buy him out: whether it be his uncle or his uncle's son, or any
that is nye of kin unto him of his kindred: either if his hand can get so much
he may be loosed. And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year
that he was sold in unto the trompet year, and the price of his buying shall be
according unto the number of years, and he shall be with him as a hired servant.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again for
his deliverance, of the money that he was sold for. If there remain but few
years unto the trompet year, he shall so count with him, and according unto his
years give him again for his redemption, and shall be with him year by year as
an hired servant, and the other shall not reign cruelly over him in thy sight.
If he be not bought free in the meantime, then he shall go out in the trompet
year and his children with him; for the children of Israel are my servants which
I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Chapter
.xxvi.
Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar,
neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow your selves
thereto: for I am the LORD your God; keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. For
I am the LORD. If ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my commandments and
do them, then I will send you rain in the right season and your land shall yield
her increase and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. And the
threshing shall reach unto wine harvest, and the wine harvest shall reach unto
sowing time, and ye shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and shall dwell in
your land peaceably. And I will send peace in your land, that ye shall sleep,
and no man shall make you afraid. And I will rid evil beasts out of your land,
and there shall no sword go thorowout your land. And ye shall chase your
enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the sword. And five of you shall
chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and
your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword. And I will turn unto you and
increase you and multiply you, and set up my testament with you. And ye shall
eat old store, and cast out the old for plenteousness of the new. I will make my
dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loathe you. And I will walk
among you and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. For I am the LORD
your God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not
be their bondmen, and I brake the bows of your yokes, and made you go up right.
But and if ye will not hearken unto me, nor will do all these my commandments,
or if ye shall despise mine ordinances either if your souls refuse my laws, so
that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine appointment: then
I will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling and
fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle, and with sorrows of heart. And ye
shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. And I will set my
face against you and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you
shall reign over you, and ye shall flee when no man followeth you. And if ye
will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then will I punish you seven times
more for your sins, and will break the pride of your strength. For I will make
the heaven over you as hard as iron, and your land as hard as brass. And so your
labour shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase,
neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits. And if ye walk contrary
unto me and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon
you according to your sins. I will send in wild beasts upon you, which shall rob
you of your children and destroy your cattle, and make you so few in number that
your high ways shall grow unto a wilderness. And if ye will not be learned yet
for all this but shall walk contrary unto me, then will I also walk contrary
unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. I will send a sword
upon you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled unto
your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, ye shall be delivered into
the hands of your enemies. And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that
ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread
again by weight, then shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied. And if ye will
not yet for all this hearken unto me, but shall walk contrary unto me, then I
will walk contrary unto you also wrathfully, and will also chastise you seven
times for your sins: so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh
of your daughters. And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and
overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols,
and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities desolate, and bring
your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet
odours. And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which
dwell therein shall wonder at it. And I will straw you among the heathen, and
will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities
desolate. Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void
and ye in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice
in her Sabbaths. And as long as it lieth void it shall rest, for that it could
not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein. And upon them that are left
alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their
enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they
shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them.
And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword even no man
following them, and ye shall have no power to stond before your enemies: And ye
shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their unrighteousness, even in
their enemies' land, and also in the misdeeds of their fathers shall they
consume. And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers
in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also
that they have walked contrary unto me. Therefore I also will walk contrary unto
them, and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And then at the least
way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they shall make an
atonement for their misdeeds. And I will remember my bond with Iacob and my
testament with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham, and will think on the land.
For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths,
while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their
misdeeds, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances.
And yet for all that when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not so
cast them away nor my soul shall not so abhor them, that I will utterly destroy
them and break mine appointment with them: for I am the LORD their God. I will
therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I brought them out of
the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen to be their God: for I am the
LORD. These are the ordinances, judgements, and laws which the LORD made between
him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
Chapter
.xxvij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say
unto them: If any man will give a singular vow unto the LORD according to the
value of his soul, then shall the male from twenty years unto forty be set at
fifty sicles of silver, after the sicle of the sanctuary, and the female at
thirty sicles. And from five years to twenty the male shall be set at twenty
sicles, and the female at ten sicles. And from a month unto five years, the male
shall be set at five sicles of silver, and the female at three. And the man that
is forty and above, shall be valued at fifteen sicles, and the woman at ten. If
he be too poor so to be set, then let him come before the priest: and let the
priest value him, according as the hand of him that vowed is able to get. If it
be of the beasts of which men bring an offering unto the LORD: all that any man
giveth of such unto the LORD, shall be holy. He may not alter it nor change it:
a good for a bad or a bad for good. If he change beast for beast, then both the
same beast and it also wherewith it was changed shall be holy. If it be any
manner of unclean beast of which men may not offer unto the LORD, let him bring
the beast before the priest and let the priest value it. And whether it be good
or bad as the priest setteth it, so shall it be. And if he will buy it again,
let him give the fifth part more to that it was set at. If any man dedicate his
house, it shall be holy unto the LORD. And the priest shall set it; whether it
be good or bad, and as the priest hath set it, so it shall be. If he that
sanctified it will redeem his house, let him give the fifth part of the money
that it was judged at thereto, and it shall be his. If a man hallow a piece of
his inherited land unto the LORD, it shall be set according to that it beareth.
If it bear an homer of barley, it shall be set at fifty sicles of silver. If he
hallow his field immediately from the trompet year, it shall be worth according
as it is esteemed. But and if he hallow his field after the trumpet year, the
priest shall reckon the price with him according to the years that remain unto
the trumpet year, and thereafter it shall be lower set. If he that sanctified
the field will redeem it again, let him put the fifth part of the price that it
was set at, thereunto, and it shall be his: if he will not it shall be redeemed
no more. But when the field goeth out in the trompet year, it shall be holy unto
the LORD: even as a thing dedicated, and it shall be the priest's possession. If
a man sanctify unto the LORD a field, which he hath bought and is not of his
inheritance, then the priest shall reckon with him what it is worth unto the
trompet year, {year of jubilee} and he shall give the price that it is set at
the same day, and it shall be holy unto the LORD. But in the trompet year, the
field shall return unto him of whom he bought it, whose inheritance of land it
was. And all setting shall be according to the holy sicle. One sicle maketh
twenty geras. But the firstborn of the beasts that pertain unto the LORD, may no
man sanctify: whether it be ox or sheep, for they are the LORD's already. If it
be an unclean beast, then let him redeem it as it is set at, and give the fifth
part more thereto. If it be not redeemed, then let it be sold as it is rated.
Notwithstanding no dedicated thing that a man dedicateth unto the LORD, of all
his goods, whether it be man or beast or land of his inheritance, shall be sold
or redeemed: for all dedicate things are most holy unto the LORD. No dedicated
thing therefore that is dedicate of man, may be redeemed, but must needs die.
All these tithes of the land, whether it be of the corn of the field or fruit of
the trees, shall be holy unto the LORD. If any man will redeem ought of his
tithes, let him add the fifth part more thereto. And the tithes of oxen and
sheep and of all that goeth under the herdman's keeping, shall be holy tithes
unto the LORD. Men shall not look if it be good or bad nor shall change it. If
any man change it then both it and that it was changed withall, shall be holy
and may not be redeemed. These are the commandments which the LORD gave Moses in
charge to give unto the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
The end of the third book of Moses.
Chapter
.j.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of
witness, the first day of the second month, and in the second year after they
were come out of the land of Egypt saying: take ye the sum of all the multitude
of the children of Israel, in their kindreds and households of their fathers and
number them by name all that are males, poll by poll, from twenty years and
above: even all that are able to go forth in to war in Israel, thou and Aaron
shall number them in their armies, and with you shall be of every tribe a head
man in the house of his father. And these are the names of the men that shall
stond with you: in Ruben, Elizur the son of Sedeur: In Simeon, Selumiel: the son
of Zuri Sadai: In the tribe of Iuda, Nahesson the son of Aminadab: In Isachar,
Nathaneel the son of Zuar: In Zabulon, Eliab the son of Helon. Among the
children of Ioseph: In Ephraim, Elisama the son of Amihud: In Manasse, Gamaliel
the son of Pedazur: In BenIamin, Abidan the son of Gedeoni: In Dan, Ahiezer the
son of Ammi Sadai: In Aser, Pagiel the son of Ochran: In Gad, Elisaph the son of
Deguel: In Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan. These were councillors of the
congregation and lords in the tribes of their fathers and captains over
thousands in Israel. And Moses and Aaron took these men above named and gathered
all the congregation together, the first day of the second month, and reckoned
them after their birth and kindreds and houses of their fathers by name from
twenty years and above head by head, as the LORD commanded Moses, even so he
numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. And the children of Ruben Israel's
eldest son in their generations, kindreds and houses of their fathers, when they
were numbered every man by name, all that were males from twenty years and
above, as many as were able to go forth in war: were numbered in the tribe of
Ruben, forty six thousand and five hundred. Among the children of Simeon: their
generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when every man's name
was told) of all the males from twenty years and above, whatsoever was meet for
the war: were numbered in the tribe of Simeon forty nine thousand and three
hundred. Among the children of Gad: their generation in their kindreds and
households of their fathers, when they were told by name, from twenty years and
above, all that were mete for the war: were numbered in the tribe of Gad forty
five thousand, six hundred and fifty. Among the children of Iuda: their
generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (by the number of
names) from twenty years and above, all that were able to war, were told in the
tribe of Iuda seventy four thousand and six hundred. Among the children of
Isachar: their generation, in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when
their names were counted) from twenty years and above, whatsoever was apt for
war, were numbered in the tribe of Isachar fifty four thousand and four hundred.
Among the children of Zabulon: their generation, in their kindreds and houses of
their fathers (after the number of names) from twenty years and above, whosoever
was mete for the war: were counted in the tribe of Zabulon fifty seven thousand
and four hundred. Among the children of Ioseph: first among the children of
Ephraim: their generation, in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when
the names of all that were apt to the war were told) from twenty years and
above: were in number in the tribe of Ephraim, forty thousand, and six hundred.
Among the children of Manasse: their generation, in their kindreds and houses of
their fathers (when the names of all that were apt to war were told) from twenty
and above were numbered in the tribe of Manasse thirty two thousand and two
hundred. Among the children of BenIamin: their generation, in their kindreds and
houses of their fathers (by the tale of names) from twenty years and above of
all that were mete for war, were numbered in the tribe of BenIamin thirty five
thousand and four hundred. Among the children of Dan: their generation in their
kindreds and houses of their fathers (in the sum of names) of all that was apt
to war from twenty years and above, were numbered in the tribe of Dan fifty
seven thousand and seven hundred. Among the children of Asser: their generation,
in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when they were summed by name)
from twenty years and above, all that were apt to war were numbered in the tribe
of Asser forty one thousand and five hundred. Among the children of Naphtali:
their generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers (when their names
were told) from twenty years and above, whatsoever was mete to war: were
numbered in the tribe of Naphtali fifty three thousand and four hundred. These
are the numbers which Moses and Aaron numbered with the twelve princes of
Israel: of every house of their fathers a man. And all the numbers of the
children of Israel, in the houses of their fathers, from twenty years and above,
whatsoever was mete for the war in Israel, drew unto the sum of six hundred [and
three] thousand, five hundred and fifty. But the Levites in the tribe of their
fathers were not numbered among them. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: only
see that thou number not the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among
the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint the Levites unto the habitation
of witness, and to all the apparel thereof and unto all that longeth thereto.
For they shall bear the tabernacle and all the ordinance thereof, and they shall
minister it and shall pitch their tents round about it. And when the tabernacle
goeth forth the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is pitched,
they shall set it up: for if any stranger come near, he shall die. And the
children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man in his own company and
every man by his own standard thorowout all their hosts. But the Levites shall
pitch round about the habitation of witness, that there fall no wrath upon the
congregation of the children of Israel, and the Levites shall wait upon the
habitation of witness. And the children of Israel did according to all that the
LORD commanded Moses.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: The children of Israel shall
pitch: every man by his own standard with the arms of their father's houses, a
way from the presence of the tabernacle of witness. On the eastside toward the
rising of the son, shall they of the standard of the host of Iuda pitch with
their arms: And Nahesson the son of Aminadab shall be captain over the sons of
Iuda. And his host and the number of them seventy four thousand and six hundred.
And next unto him shall the tribe of Isachar pitch and Nathaneel the son of Zuar
captain over the children of Isachar: his host and the number of them fifty four
thousand and four hundred. And then the tribe of Zabulon: with Eliab the son of
Helon, captain over the children of Zabulon, and his host in the number of them:
fifty seven thousand and four hundred. So that all they that pertain unto the
host of Iuda, are an hundred thousand eighty six thousand and four hundred in
their companies: and these shall go in the forefront, when they journey. And on
the south side, the standard of the host of Ruben shall lie with their companies
and the captain over the sons of Ruben, Elizur the son of Sedeur, and his host
and the number of them forty six thousand, and five hundred. And fast by him
shall the tribe of Simeon pitch, and the captain over the sons of Simeon.
Salumiel the son of Zuri Sadai, and his host and the number of them forty nine
thousand and three hundred. And the tribe of Gad also: And the captain over the
sons of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deguel and his host and the number of them
forty five thousand six hundred and fifty. So that all the number that pertain
unto the host of Ruben, are an hundred thousand, fifty one thousand, four
hundred and fifty, with their companies, and they shall be the second in the
journey. And the tabernacle of witness with the host of the Levites, shall go in
the midst of the hosts: as they lie in their tents, even so shall they proceed
in the journey, every man in his quarter about their standards. On the west
side, the standard and the host of Ephraim shall lie with their companies. And
the captain over the sons of Ephraim, Elisama the son of Amihud: and his host
and the number of them forty thousand and five hundred. And fast by him, the
tribe of Manasse, and the captain over the sons of Manasse, Gamaliel the son of
Peda Zur and his host and the number of them thirty two thousand and two
hundred. And the tribe of BenIamin also: and the captain over the sons of
BenIamin, Abidan the son of Gedeoni, and his host and the number of them thirty
five thousand and four hundred. All the number that pertained unto the host of
Ephraim, were an hundred thousand eight thousand and an hundred in their hosts:
and they shall be the third in the journey. And the standard and the host of Dan
shall lie on the north side with their companies: and the captain over the
children of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammi Sadai: and his host and the number of
them sixty two thousand and seven hundred. And fast by him shall the tribe of
Asser pitch: and the captain over the sons of Asser, Pagiel the son of Ochran:
and his host and the number of them forty one thousand and five hundred. And the
tribe of Naphtali also, and the captain over the children of Naphtali: Ahira the
son of Enan: and his host and the number of them fifty three thousand and four
hundred. So that the whole number of all that pertained unto the host of Dan,
was an hundred thousand fifty seven thousand and six hundred. And they shall be
the last in the journey with their standards. These are the sums of the children
of Israel in the houses of their fathers: even all the numbers of the hosts with
their companies six hundred thousand three thousand five hundred and fifty. And
yet the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the LORD
commanded Moses. And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses, and so they pitched with their standards, and so they
journeyed: every man in his kindred, and in the household of his father.
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These are the generations of Aaron and Moses, when the LORD spake unto Moses in
Mount Sinai, and these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the eldest son,
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. These are the names of the sons of Aaron which
were priests anointed and their hands filled to minister, but Nadab and Abihu
died before the LORD, as they brought strange fire before the LORD in the
wilderness of Sinai, and had no children. And Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in
the sight of Aaron their father. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: bring the
tribe of Levi, and set them before Aaron the priest, and let them serve him and
wait upon him, and upon all the multitude, before the tabernacle of witness, to
do the service of the habitation. And they shall wait upon all the apparel of
the tabernacle of witness, and upon the children of Israel, to do the service of
the habitation. And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and his sons, for
they are given unto him of the children of Israel. And thou shalt appoint Aaron
and his sons to wait on their priests' office: and the stranger that cometh nye,
shall die for it. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: behold, I have taken the
Levites from among the children of Israel, for all the firstborn that openeth
the matrice among the children of Israel, so that the Levites shall be mine:
because all the firstborn are mine: for the same day that I smote all the first
born in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both
man and beast, and mine they shall be: for I am the LORD. And the LORD spake
unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai saying: Number the children of Levi in the
houses of their fathers and kindreds, all that are males from a month old and
above. And Moses numbered them at the word of the LORD, as he was commanded. And
these are the names of the children of Levi: Gerson, Cahath, and Merari. And
these are the names of the children of Gerson in their kindreds: Libni and
Semei. And the sons of Cahath in their kindred were Amram, Iezehar, Hebron and
Usiel. And the sons of Merari in their kindreds were Maheli and Musi. These are
the kindreds of Levi in the houses of their fathers. And of Gerson came the
kindred of the Libnites and the Semeites, which are the kindreds of the
Gersonites. And the sum of them (when all the males were told) from a month old
and above, were seven thousand and five hundred. And the kindreds of the
Gersonites pitched behind the habitation westward. And the captain of the most
ancient house among the Gersonites, was Eliasaph the son of Lael. And the office
of the children of Gerson in the tabernacle of witness was the habitation and
the tent with the covering thereof and the hanging of the door of the tabernacle
of witness, and the hangings of the court, and the curtain of the door of the
court: which court went round about the dwelling, and the altar, and the cords
that pertained unto all the service thereof. And of Cahath came the kindred of
the Amramites and the kindred of the Iezeharites and of the Hebronites and of
the Usielites: And these are the kindreds of the Cahathites. And the number of
all the males from a month old and above, was eight thousand and six hundred:
which waited on the holy place. And the kindred of the children of Cahath,
pitched on the south side of the dwelling. And the captain in the most ancient
house of the kindreds of the Cahathites, was Elizaphan the son of Usiel, and
their office was: [to keep] the ark, the table, the candlestick, and the altar,
and the holy vessels to minister with and the vail with all that served thereto.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, was captain over all the captains of
the Levites, and had the oversight of them that waited upon the holy things. And
of Merari came the kindreds of the Mahelites and of the Musites: and these are
the kindreds of the Merarites. And the number of them (when all the males from a
month old and above was told) drew unto six thousand and two hundred. And the
captain of the most ancient house among the kindreds of the Merarites, was
Zuriel the son of Abihail which pitched on the north side of the dwelling. And
the office of the sons of Merari was: the boards of the dwelling and the bars,
pillars with the sockets thereof, and all the instruments there of and all that
served thereto: and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets, with
their pins and cords. But on the forefront of the habitation and before the
tabernacle of witness eastward, shall Moses and Aaron and his sons pitch and
wait on the sanctuary in the stead of the children of Israel. And the stranger
that cometh nye, shall die for it. And the whole sum of the Levites which Moses
and Aaron numbered, at the commandment of the LORD thorowout their kindreds
even, of all the males of a month old and above, was twenty two thousand. And
the LORD said unto Moses: Number all the first born that are males among the
children of Israel, from a month old and above, and take the number of their
names. And thou shalt appoint the Levites to me the LORD, for all the firstborn
among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for the firstborn of
the children of Israel. And Moses numbered as the LORD commanded him, all the
firstborn of the children of Israel. And all the firstborn males, in the sum of
names, from a month old and above, were numbered twenty two thousand two hundred
and seventy three. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take the Levites for
all the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for
their cattle: and the Levites shall be mine which am the LORD. And for the
redeeming of the two hundred and seventy three which are more than the Levites
in the firstborn of the children of Israel, take five sicles of every piece,
after the sicles of the holy place, twenty geras the sicles. And give the money
wherewith the odd number of them is redeemed, unto Aaron and his sons. And Moses
took the redemption money of the overplus that were more than the Levites, among
the firstborn of the children of Israel: and it came to a thousand three hundred
and sixty five sicles, of the holy sicle. And he gave that redemption money unto
Aaron and his sons at the word of the LORD, even as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, and bade them take the sum of the
children of Cahath from among the sons of Levi, in their kindreds and houses of
their fathers from thirty years and above until fifty, all that were able to
war, for to do the work in the tabernacle of witness: even in the most holy
place. {[This shall be the office of the Kahath in the tabernacle of witness
which is most holy.]} And when the host removeth, Aaron and his sons shall come
and take down the vail, and cover the ark of witness therewith, and shall put
thereon a covering of taxus' skins, and shall spread a cloth that is altogether
of jacinth above all, and put the staves thereof in. And upon the shew table,
they shall spread a cloth of jacinth, and put thereon, the dishes, spoons, flat
pieces and pots to pour with, and the daily bread shall be thereon: and they
shall spread upon them a covering of purple, and cover the same with a covering
of taxus' skins, and put the staves thereof in. And they shall take a cloth of
jacinth and cover the candlestick of light and her lamps and her snuffers, and
firepans, and all her oil vessels which they occupy about it, and shall put upon
her and on all her instruments, a covering of taxus' skins, and put it upon
staves. And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of Iacinth, and put
on her staves. And they shall take all the things which they occupy to minister
with in the holy place, and put a cloth of Iacinth upon them and cover them with
a covering of taxus' skins and put them on staves. And they shall take away the
ashes out of the altar, and spread a scarlet cloth thereon: and put about it,
the firepans, the fleshhooks, the shovels, the basins, and all that belongeth
unto the altar, and they shall spread upon it a covering of taxus' skins, and
put on the staves of it. And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of
covering the sanctuary and all things of the sanctuary, against that the host
remove, then the sons of Cahath shall come in for to bear, and so let them not
twich the sanctuary lest they die. And this is the charge of the sons of Cahath
in the tabernacle of witness. And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, shall
have the charge to prepare oil for the lights and sweet cense, and the daily
meatoffering and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the dwelling and of
all that therein is, both over the sanctuary and over all that pertaineth
thereto. And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: destroy not the tribe
of the kindreds of the Cahathites, from among the Levites. But thus do unto them
that they may live and not die, when they go unto the most holy place. Aaron and
his sons shall go in and put them, every man unto his service and unto his
burthen. But let them not go in to see when they cover the sanctuary, lest they
die. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Take the sum of the children of
Gerson, in the houses of their fathers and in their kindreds: from thirty years
and above, until fifty, all that are able to go forth in war, for to do service
in the tabernacle of witness. And this is the service of the kindred of the
Gersonites, to serve and to bear. They shall bear the curtains of the dwelling
and the roof of the tabernacle of witness and his covering and the covering of
taxus' skins that is on high {an hye} above upon it, and the hanging of the door
of the tabernacle of witness: and the hanging of the court and the hanging of
the gate of the court that is round about the dwelling and the altar, and the
cords of them, and all the instruments that serve unto them and all that is made
for them. And at the mouth of Aaron and his sons, shall all the service of the
children of the Gersonites be done, in all their charges and in all their
service, and ye shall appoint them unto all their charges that they shall wait
upon. And this is the service of the kindred of the children of the Gersonites
in the tabernacle of witness, and their wait shall be in the hand of Ithamar the
son of Aaron the priest. And thou shalt number the sons of Merari in their
kindreds and in the houses of their fathers, from thirty years and above unto
fifty. All that is able to go forth in war, to do the service of the tabernacle
of witness. And this is the charge that they must wait upon in all that they
must serve in the tabernacle of witness: The boards of the dwelling, and the
bars, pillars, and sockets thereof, and the pillars of the court round about,
and their sockets, pins and cords with all that pertaineth and serveth unto
them. And by name ye shall reckon the things that they must wait upon to bear.
This is the service of the kindreds of the sons of Merari in all their service
in the tabernacle of witness by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the multitude numbered the sons of the
Cahathites in their kindreds and houses of their fathers, from thirty years and
above unto fifty, and that were able to go forth in the host and to do service
in the tabernacle of witness. And the number of them in their kindreds were two
thousand, seven hundred and fifty. These are the numbers of the kindreds of the
Cahathites, of all that did service in the tabernacle of witness, which Moses
and Aaron did number at the commandment of the LORD of by the hand of Moses. And
the sons of Gerson were numbered in their kindreds and in the houses of their
fathers, from thirty years up unto fifty, all that were able to go forth in the
host for to do service in the tabernacle of witness. And the number of them in
their kindreds, and in the houses of their fathers, was two thousand, six
hundred and thirty. This is the number of the kindreds of the sons of Gerson, of
all that did service in the tabernacle of witness, which Moses and Aaron did
number at the commandment of the LORD. And the kindreds of the sons of Merari
were numbered in their kindreds and in the houses of their fathers, from thirty
years up unto fifty. All that were able to go forth with the host, to do service
in the tabernacle of witness. And the number of them was in their kindreds,
three thousand and two hundred. This is the number of the kindreds of the sons
of Merari, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the bidding of the LORD, by the
hand of Moses. The whole sum which Moses, Aaron and the lords of Israel numbered
among the Levites in their kindreds and households of their fathers, from thirty
years up unto fifty every man to do his office and service and to bear his
burthen in the tabernacle of witness: was eight thousand, five hundred and
eighty which they numbered at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses
every man unto his service and burthen: as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel that they
put out of the host, all the lepers and all that have issues and all that are
defiled upon the dead, whether they be males or females ye shall put them out of
the host, that they defile not the tents among which I {ye} dwell. And the
children of Israel did so, and put them out of the host: even as the LORD
commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. And the LORD spake unto Moses
saying: speak unto the children of Israel: whether it be man or woman, when they
have sinned any manner of sin which a man doeth wherewith a man trespasseth
against the LORD, so that the soul hath done amiss: then they shall knowledge
their sins which they have done, and restore again the hurt that they have done
in the whole, and put the fifth part of it more thereto, and give it unto him
whom he hath trespassed against. But and if he that maketh the amends have no
man to do it to, then the amends that is made shall be the LORD's and the
priest's, beside the ram of the atonement offering wherewith he maketh an
atonement for himself. And all heave offerings of all the hallowed things which
the children of Israel bring unto the priest, shall be the priest's, and every
man's hallowed things shall be his own, but whatsoever any man giveth the
priest, it shall be the priest's. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: If any man's wife go aside and
trespass against him, so that another man lie with her fleshly and the thing be
hid from the eyes of her husband and is not come to light that she is defiled
(for there is no witness against her) in as much as she was not taken with the
manner, and the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him and he is jealous over his
wife and she defiled, or happily the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he
is jealous over his wife and she yet undefiled. Then let her husband bring her
unto the priest and bring an offering for her: the tenth part of an Epha of
barley meal, but shall pour none oil thereunto, nor put frankincense thereon:
for it is an offering of jealousy, and an offering that maketh remembrance of
sin. And let the priest bring her and set her before the LORD, and let him take
holy water in an earthen vessel and of the dust that is in the floor of the
habitation, and put it into the water. And the priest shall set the wife before
the LORD and uncover her head, and put the memorial of the offering in her hands
which is the jealousy offering, and the priest shall have bitter and cursing
water in his hand, and he shall conjure her and shall say unto her: If no man
have lien with thee neither hast gone aside, and defiled thyself behind thy
husband, then have thou no harm of this bitter cursing water. But and if thou
hast gone aside behind thine husband and art defiled and some other man hath
lien with thee beside thine husband (and let the priest conjure her with the
conjuration of the curse and say unto her) the LORD make thee a curse and a
conjuration among thy people: so that the LORD make thy thigh rot, and thy belly
swell and this bitter cursing water go into the bowels of thee, that thy belly
swell and thy thigh rot, and the wife shall say: Amen Amen. And the priest shall
write this curse in a bill and wash it out in the bitter water. And when the
cursing water is in her that it is bitter, then let the priest take the jealousy
offering out of the wife's hand, and wave it before the LORD, and bring it unto
the altar: and he shall take an handful of the memorial offering and burn it
upon the altar, and then make her drink the water and when he hath made her
drink the water. If she be defiled and have trespassed against her husband, then
shall the cursing water go into her and be so bitter, that her belly shall swell
and her thigh shall rot, and she shall be a curse among her people. And if she
be not defiled but is clean, then she shall have no harm, but that she may
conceive. This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goeth a side behind her
husband and is defiled, or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, so
that he is jealous over his wife: then he shall bring her before the LORD, and
the priest shall minister all this law unto her, and the man shall be guiltless,
and the wife shall bear her sin.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto children of Israel and say unto
them: when either man or woman appointeth to vow a vow of abstinence for to
abstain unto the LORD, he shall abstain from wine and strong drink, and shall
drink no vinegar of wine or of strong drink, nor drink whatsoever is pressed out
of grapes: and shall eat no fresh grapes neither yet dried, as long as his
abstinence endureth. Moreover he shall eat nothing that is made of the vine
tree, no not so much as the kernels or the husk of the grape. And as long as the
vow of his abstinence endureth, there shall no razor nor shears come upon his
head, until his days be out which he fasteth unto the LORD, and he shall be holy
and shall let the locks of his hair grow. As long as he abstaineth unto the LORD
he shall come at no dead body: he shall not make himself unclean at the death of
his father, mother, brother or sister: For the abstinence of his God is upon his
head. And therefore as long as his abstinence lasteth, he shall be holy unto the
LORD. And if it fortune that any man by chance die suddenly before him, and
defile the head of his abstinence, then must he shave his head the day of his
cleansing: even the seventh day he shall shave it. And the eighth day he shall
bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest, unto the door of the
tabernacle of witness. And the priest shall offer the one for a sinoffering and
the other for a burntoffering and make an atonement for him, as concerning that
he sinned upon the dead, and shall also hallow his head the same day and he
shall abstain unto the LORD the time of his abstinency, and shall bring a lamb
of an year old for a trespass offering: but the days that were before are lost,
because his abstinence was defiled. This is the law of the abstainer, when the
time of his abstinence is out; he shall be brought unto the door of the
tabernacle of witness and he shall bring his offering unto the LORD: an he lamb
of a year old without blemish for a burntoffering and a she lamb of a year old
without blemish for a sinoffering, a ram without blemish also for a
peaceoffering, and a basket of sweet bread of fine flour mingled with oil and
wafers of sweet bread anointed with oil with meatofferings and drinkofferings
that long thereto. And the priest shall bring him before the LORD and offer his
sinoffering and his burntoffering, and shall offer the ram for a peaceoffering
unto the LORD with the basket of sweet bread, and the priest shall offer also
his meatoffering and his drinkoffering. And the abstainer shall shave his head
in the door of the tabernacle of witness and shall take the hair of his sober
head and put it in the fire which is under the peaceoffering. Then the priest
shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram and one sweet cake out of the basket
and one sweet wafer also and put them in the hand of the abstainer after he hath
shaven his abstinence off, and the priest shall wave them unto the LORD, which
offering shall be holy unto the priest with the wavebreast and heave shoulder:
and then the abstainer may drink wine. This is the law of the abstainer which
hath vowed his offering unto the LORD for his abstinence, besides that his hand
can get. And according to the vow which he vowed, even so he must do in the law
of his abstinence. And the LORD talked with Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and
his sons saying: of this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel saying unto
them. The LORD {lorde} bless thee and keep thee. The LORD {lorde} make his face
shine upon thee and be merciful unto thee. The LORD {lorde} lift up his
countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. For ye shall put my name upon the
children of Israel, that I may bless them.
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And when Moses had full set up the habitation and anointed it and sanctified it
and all the apparel thereof, and had anointed and sanctified the altar also and
all the vessels thereof: then the princes of Israel, heads over the houses of
their fathers which were the lords of the tribes that stood and numbered,
offered and brought their gifts before the LORD six covered chariots and twelve
oxen: two and two a chariot and an ox every man, and they brought them before
the habitation. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take it of them and let
them be to do the service of the tabernacle of witness, and give them unto the
Levites, every man according unto his office. And Moses took the chariots and
the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites: two chariots and four oxen he gave
unto the sons of Gerson according unto their office. And four chariots and eight
oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari according unto their offices, under the
hands of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. But unto the sons of Cahath he
gave none, for the office that pertained to them was holy, and therefore they
must bear upon shoulders. And the princes offered unto the dedicating of the
altar in the day that it was anointed, and brought their gifts before the altar.
And the LORD said unto Moses: let the princes bring their offerings, every day
one prince, unto the dedicating of the altar. He that offered his offering the
first day, was Nahesson the son of Aminadab of the tribe of Iuda. And his
offering was: a silver charger, of an hundred and thirty sicles weight: and a
silver bowl of seventy sicles of the holy sicle, both of them full of fine
wheaten flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and a spoon of ten sicles of
gold full of cense: and an ox, {bullock} a ram and a lamb of a year old for
burntofferings, and an he goat for a sinoffering: and for peace offerings two
oxen, five rams, five he goats and five lambs of a year old. And this was the
gift of Nahesson the son of Aminadab. The second day, did Nathaneel offer, the
son of Zuar, captain over Isachar. And his offering which he brought was: a
silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles weight, and a silver bowl of
seventy sicles, of the holy sicle: both full of fine wheaten flour mingled with
oil for a meat offering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles, full of cense: And an
ox, a ram and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and for peaceofferings
two oxen five rams, five he goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was
the offering of Nathaneel the son of Zuar. The third day, Eliab the son of Helon
the chiefest among the children of Zabulon, brought his offering. And his
offering was, a silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles weight, and a
silver bowl of seventy sicles of the holy sicle, and both full of fine flour
mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles full of
cense: and an ox and a ram and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and an
he goat for a sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he
goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Eliab the son
of Helon. The fourth day, Elizur the son of Sedeur, chief lord among the
children of Ruben, brought his offering. And his gift was: a silver charger of
an hundred and thirty sicles weight, and, a silver bowl of seventy sicles of the
holy sicle, and both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and
a golden spoon of ten sicles full of cense: and an ox, a ram and a lamb of a
year old for burntofferings, and an he goat for a sinoffering: and for
peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he goats and five lambs of one year old.
And this was the offering of Elizur the son of Sedeur. The fifth day, Selumiel
the son of Zuri Sadai, chief lord among the children of Simeon, offered: whose
gift was: a silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles weight: and a silver
bowl of seventy sicles the holy sicle: and both full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles full of cense. And an
ox, a ram, and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and an he goat for a
sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he goats and five
lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Selumiel the son of Zuri
Sadai. The sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deguel the chief lord among the
children of Gad, offered: whose gift was: a silver charger of an hundred and
thirty sicles weight, and a silver bowl of seventy sicles of the holy sicle, and
both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon
of ten sicles full of cense. And an ox, a ram and a lamb of a year old for
burntofferings, and an he goat for a sinoffering. And for peaceofferings two
oxen five rams five he goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the
offering of Eliasaph the son of Deguel. The seventh day, Elisama the son of
Amihud, the chief lord of the children of Ephraim, offered. And his gift was: a
silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles weight, and a silver bowl of
seventy sicles, of the holy sicle: and both full of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meat offering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles, full of cense. And an ox,
a ram and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and an he goat for a
sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he goats and five
lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Elisama the son of Amihud.
The eighth day, offered Gamaliel the son of Pedazur, the chief lord of the
children of Manasse. And his gift was: a silver charger of an hundred and thirty
sicles weight, and a silver bowl of seventy sicles of the holy sicle, and both
full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon of
ten sicles full of cense: And an ox, a ram and a lamb of a year old for
burntofferings, and an he goat for a sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two
oxen five rams five he goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the
offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedazur. The ninth day, Abidan the son of
Gedeoni the chief lord among the children of BenIamin offered. And his gift was:
a silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles weight, and a silver bowl of
seventy sicles of the holy sicle, and both full of fine flour mingled with oil
for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles full of cense: and an ox, a
ram and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and an he goat for a
sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he goats and five
lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Abidan the son of Gedeoni.
The tenth day, Ahiezer the son of Ammi Sadai, chief lord among the children of
Dan offered. And his gift was: a silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles
weight, and a silver bowl of seventy sicles, of the holy sicle: and both full of
fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles
full of cense: and an ox, a ram and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and
an he goat for a sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he
goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Ahiezer the
son of Ammi Sadai. The eleventh day, Pagiel the son of Ocran the chief lord
among the children of Asser offered: And his gift was: a silver charger of an
hundred and thirty sicles weight, and a silver bowl of seventy sicles of the
holy sicle, and both full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meatoffering: and
a golden spoon of ten sicles full of cense: And an ox, a ram and a lamb of a
year old for burntofferings, and an he goat for a sinoffering: and for
peaceofferings two oxen, five rams five he goats and five lambs of one year old.
And this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran. The twelfth day, Ahira the
son of Enan, chief lord among the children of Naphtali offered. And his gift
was: a silver charger of an hundred and thirty sicles weight, and a silver bowl
of seventy sicles of the holy sicle, and both full of fine flour mingled with
oil for a meatoffering: and a golden spoon of ten sicles full of cense: and an
ox, a ram and a lamb of a year old for burntofferings, and an he goat for a
sinoffering: and for peaceofferings two oxen five rams five he goats and five
lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Ahira, the son of Enan. Of
this manner was the dedication of the altar, when it was anointed: unto the
which was brought of the princes of Israel twelve chargers of silver twelve
silver bowls and twelve spoons of gold: every charger containing an hundred and
thirty sicles of silver, and every bowl seventy so that all the silver of all
the vessels, was two thousand and four hundred sicles of the holy sicle. And the
twelve golden spoons which were full of cense, contained ten sicles apiece of
the holy sicle: so that all the gold of the spoons, was an hundred and twenty
sicles. All the oxen that were brought for the burntofferings were twelve and
the rams twelve and the lambs twelve of a year old apiece, with the
meatofferings: with he goats for sinofferings. And all the oxen of the
peaceofferings were twenty four the rams sixty the goats sixty and lambs of a
year old apiece sixty and this was the dedication of the altar, after that it
was anointed. And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of witness to speak
with him, he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from of the mercy seat
that was upon the ark of witness: even from between the two cherubins he spake
unto him.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto Aaron and say unto him: when
thou puttest on the lamps see that they light all seven upon the forefront of
the candlestick. And Aaron did even so, and put the lamps upon the forefront of
the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses, and the work of the candlestick
was of stiff gold: both the shaft and the flowers thereof. And according unto
the vision which the LORD had shewed Moses even so he made the candlestick. And
the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take the Levites from among the children of
Israel, and cleanse them. And this do unto them when thou cleansest them,
sprinkle water of purifying upon them and make a razor to run along upon all the
flesh of them, and let them wash their clothes, and then they shall be clean.
And let them take a bullock and his meatoffering, fine flour mingled with oil:
and another bullock shalt thou take to be a sinoffering. Then bring the Levites
before the tabernacle of witness and gather the hole multitude of the children
of Israel together. And bring the Levites before the LORD, and let the children
of Israel put their hands upon the Levites. And let Aaron heave the Levites
before the LORD, for an heaveoffering given of the children of Israel, and then
let them be appointed to wait upon the service of the LORD. And let the Levites
put their hands upon the heads of the bullocks, and then offer them: the one for
a sinoffering and the other for a burntoffering unto the LORD, to make an
atonement for the Levites. And make the Levites stond before Aaron and his sons,
and have them to be a heaveoffering unto the LORD. And thou shalt separate the
Levites, from among the children of Israel, that they be mine: and after that
let them go and do the service of the tabernacle of witness. Cleanse them and
wave them, for they are given unto me from among the children of Israel: for I
have taken them unto me for all the firstborn that open any matrice among the
children of Israel. For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine
both man and beast: because the same time that I smote the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself: and I have taken the Levites for all the
firstborn among the children of Israel, and have given them unto Aaron and his
sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of
Israel in the tabernacle of witness and to make an atonement for the children of
Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel, if they come nye
unto the sanctuary. And Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the children
of Israel did unto the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses.
And the Levites purified them selves, and washed their clothes. And Aaron waved
them before the LORD, and made an atonement for them to cleanse them. And after
that they went in to do their service in the tabernacle of witness, before Aaron
and his sons. And according as the LORD had commanded Moses as concerning the
Levites, even so they did unto them. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: this
shall be the manner of the Levites: from twenty five years upward they shall go
in to wait upon the service in the tabernacle of witness, and at fifty they
shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall labour no more: but
shall minister unto their brethren in the tabernacle of witness, and there wait,
but shall do no more service. And see that thou do after this manner unto the
Levites in their waiting times.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of
the second year, after they were come out of the land of Egypt saying: let the
children of Israel offer Passover in his season: even the fourteenth day of this
month at even they shall keep it in his season, according to all the ordinances
and manners thereof. And Moses bade the children of Israel that they should
offer Passover, and they offered Passover the fourteenth day of the first month
at even in the wilderness of Sinai: and did according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses. And it chanced that certain men which were defiled with a dead
corpse that they might not offer Passover the same day, came before Moses and
Aaron the same day, {time} and said: we are defiled upon a dead corpse,
wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering unto the LORD in
the due season, among the children of Israel? And Moses said unto them: tarry,
that I may hear what the LORD will command you. And the LORD spake unto Moses
saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say: If any man among you or your
children after you be unclean by the reason of a corpse or is in the way far
off, then let him offer Passover unto the LORD: the fourteenth day of the second
month at even, and eat it with sweet bread and sour herbs, and let them leave
none of it unto the morning nor break any bone of it. And according to all the
ordinance of the Passover let them offer it. But if a man be clean and not let
in a journey, and yet was negligent to offer Passover, the same soul shall
perish from his people, because he brought not an offering unto the LORD in his
due season: and he shall bear his sin. And when a stranger dwelleth among you
and will offer Passover unto the LORD, according to the ordinance of Passover
and manner thereof shall he offer it. And ye shall have one law both for the
stranger and for him that was born at home in the land. And the same day that
the habitation was reared up, a cloud covered it on high {an hye} upon the
tabernacle of witness: and at even there was upon the habitation, as it were the
similitude of fire until the morning. And so it was alway, that the cloud
covered it by day, and the similitude of fire by night. And when the cloud was
taken up from of the tabernacle, then the children of Israel journeyed: and
where the cloud abode there the children of Israel pitched their tents. At the
mouth of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the mouth of the LORD
they pitched. And as long as the cloud abode upon the habitation, they lay
still, and when the cloud tarried still upon the habitation long time, the
children of Israel waited upon the LORD and journeyed not. If it chanced that
the cloud abode any space of time upon the habitation, then they kept their
tents at the mouth of the LORD: and they journeyed also at the commandment of
the LORD. And if it happened that the cloud was upon the habitation from evening
unto morning and was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed. Whether it
was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. But when the
cloud tarried two days or a month or a long season upon the habitation, as long
as it tarried thereon, the children of Israel kept their tents and journeyed
not. And as soon as the cloud was taken up, they journeyed. At the mouth of the
LORD they rested, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. And thus
they kept the wait {watch} of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the
hand of Moses.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Make thee two trumpets of hard {beaten}
silver, that thou mayst use them to call the congregation together, and when the
host shall journey. When they blow with them, all the multitude shall resort to
thee, unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. If but one trumpet blow only,
then the princes which are heads over the thousands of Israel shall come unto
thee. And when ye trump the first time, the hosts that lie on the east parts
shall go forward. And when ye trump the second time, then the hosts that lie on
the south side shall take their journey: for they shall trump when they take
their journeys. And in gathering the congregation together, ye shall blow and
not trump. And the sons of Aaron the priests shall blow the trumpets and shall
have them and it shall be a law unto you for ever and among your children after
you. And when ye shall go to war in your land against your enemies that vex you,
ye shall trump with the trumpets and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your
God and saved from your enemies. Also when ye be merry in your feast days and in
the first days of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt
sacrifices and peaceofferings, that it may be a remembrance of you before your
God. I am the LORD {lorde} your God. And it came to pass the twentieth day of
the second month in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the
habitation of witness. And the children of Israel took their journey out of the
desert of Sinai, and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Pharan. And the first
took their journey at the mouth of the LORD, by the hand of Moses: even the
standard of the host of Iuda removed first with their armies, whose captain was
Nahesson the son of Aminadab. And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Isachar, was Nathanael the son of Zuar. And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Zabulon, was Eliab the son of Helon. And the habitation was taken
down: and the sons of Gerson and Merari went forth bearing the habitation. Then
the standard of the host of Ruben went forth with their armies, whose captain
was Elizur the son of Sedeur. And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Simeon, was Salamiel [the son of Zuri saddai. And over the host of the tribe of
the children of Gad was Eliasaph] the son of Deguel. Then the Cahathites went
forward and bare the holy things, and the other did set up the habitation
against they came. Then the standard of the host of the children of Ephraim went
forth with their armies, whose captain was Elisama the son of Amiud. And over
the host of the tribe of the sons of Manasse, was Gamaliel the son of Pedazur.
And over the host of the tribe of the sons of BenIamin, was Abidan the son of
Gedeoni. And hindmost of all the host came the standard of the host of the
children of Dan with their armies: whose captain was, Ahiezar the son of Ammi
Saddai. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asser, was Pagiel the
son of Ochran. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Nephthali, was
Ahira the son of Enan, of this manner were the journeys of the children of
Israel, with their armies when they removed. And Moses said unto Hobab the son
of Raguel the Madianite, Moses' father-in-law: we go unto the place of which the
LORD said I will give it you. Go with us and we will do thee good, for the LORD
hath promised good unto Israel. And he said unto him: I will not: but will go to
mine own land and to my kindred. And Moses said, oh nay, leave us not, for thou
knowest where is best for us to pitch in the wilderness: and thou shalt be our
eyes. And if thou go with us, look what goodness the LORD sheweth upon us, the
same we will shew upon thee. And they departed from the mount of the LORD three
days' journey, and the ark of the testament of the LORD went before them in the
three days' journey to search out a resting place for them. And the cloud of the
LORD was over them by day, when they went out of the tents. And when the ark
went forth, Moses said: Rise up LORD and let thine enemies be scattered, and let
them that hate thee flee before thee. And when the ark rested, he said: return
LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
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And the people waxed unpatient, {complained} and it displeased the ears of the
LORD. And when the LORD heard it he was wroth, and the fire of the LORD burnt
among them and consumed the uttermost of the host. And the people cried unto
Moses, and he made intercession unto the LORD and the fire quenched. And they
called the name of the place Tabera because the fire of the LORD burnt among
them. And the rascal people that was among them fell a lusting. And the children
of Israel also went to and wept and said: who shall give us flesh to eat? we
remember the fish which we should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the Cucumbers
and melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now our souls are dried away, for our
eyes look on nothing else, save upon Manna. The Manna was as it had been
coriander seed, and to see to like Bedellion. And the people went about and
gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars and boke it in pans
and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like unto the taste of an oilcake.
And when the dew fell about the host in the night, the manna fell therewith. And
when Moses heard the people weep in their households every man in the door of
his tent, then the wrath of the LORD waxed hot exceedingly: and it grieved Moses
also. And Moses said unto the LORD: wherefore dealest thou so cruelly with thy
servant? wherefore do I not find favour in thy sight, seeing that thou puttest
the weight of this people upon me? have I conceived all this people, or have I
begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, carry them in thy bosom (as a
nurse beareth the sucking child) unto the land which thou swarest unto their
fathers? where should I have flesh to give unto all this people? For they weep
unto me saying: give us flesh that we may eat. I am not able to bear all this
people alone, for it is too heavy for me. Wherefore if thou deal thus with me,
kill me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight: and let me not see my
wretchedness. And the LORD said unto Moses: gather unto me seventy of the elders
of Israel, which thou knowest that they are the elders of the people and
officers over them, and bring them unto the tabernacle of witness, and let them
stond there with thee. And I will come down and talk with thee there, and take
of the spirit which is upon thee and put upon them, and they shall bear with
thee in the burthen of the people, and so shalt thou not bear alone. And say
unto the people: hallow your selves against tomorrow, that ye may eat flesh, for
ye have whined in the ears of the LORD saying: who shall give us flesh to eat,
for we were happy when we were in Egypt? therefore the LORD will give you flesh,
and ye shall eat: Ye shall not eat one day only either two or five days, either
ten or twenty days: but even a month long, and until it come out at the nostrils
of you, that ye be ready to parbreak: because that ye have cast the LORD aside
which is among you, and have wept before him saying: why came we out of Egypt.
And Moses said: six hundred thousand footmen are there of the people, among
which I am. And thou hast said: I will give them flesh and they shall eat a
month long. Shall the sheep and the oxen be slain for them to find them, either
shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together to serve them? And the LORD
{Lorde} said unto Moses: is the LORD's {lordes} hand waxed short? Thou shalt see
whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. And Moses went out and told
the people the saying of the LORD, and gathered the seventy elders of the
people, and set them round about the tabernacle. And the LORD came down in a
cloud and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it
upon the seventy elders. And as the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and
did nought else. But there remained two of the men in the host: the one called
Eldad, and the other Medad. And the spirit rested upon them for they were of
them that were written, but they went not out unto the tabernacle: and they
prophesied in the host. And there ran a young man and told Moses and said: Eldad
and Medad do prophesy in the host. And Iosua the son of Nun the servant of Moses
which he had chosen out, answered and said: master Moses, forbid them. And Moses
said unto him: enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD's people
could prophesy, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them. And then both
Moses and the elders of Israel, gat them into the host. And there went forth a
wind from the LORD and brought quails from the sea and let them fall about the
host, even a day's journey round about on every side of the host, and two cubits
high upon the earth. And the people stood up all that night and on the morrow,
and gathered quails. And he that gathered the least, gathered ten homers full.
And they killed them round about the host. And while the flesh was yet between
their teeth, yer it was chewed up, the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon the
people, and the LORD slew of the people an exceeding mighty slaughter. And they
called the name of the place, the graves of lust: because they buried the people
that lusted there. And the people took their journey from the graves of lust
{kibrath hathavah} unto Hazeroth, and bode at Hazeroth.
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And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, because of his wife of Inde which he
had taken: for he had taken to wife one of India. And they said: doth the LORD
speak only thorow Moses? doth he not speak also by us? And the LORD heard it.
But Moses was a very meek man above all the men of the earth. And the LORD spake
at once unto Moses unto Aaron and Miriam: come out ye three unto the tabernacle
of witness: and they came out all three. And the LORD came down in the pillar of
the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam.
And they went out both of them. And he said: hear my words. If there be a
prophet of the LORD's among you, I will shew myself unto him in a vision and
will speak unto him in a dream: But my servant Moses is not so, which is
faithful in all mine house. Unto him I speak mouth to mouth and he seeth the
sight and the fashion of the LORD, and not thorow riddles. Wherefore then were
ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? And the LORD was angry with
them and went his way, and the cloud departed from the tabernacle. And behold,
Miriam was become leprous, as it were snow. And when Aaron looked upon Miriam
and saw that she was leprous, he said unto Moses: Oh I beseech thee my lord, put
not the sin upon us which we have foolishly committed and sinned. Oh, let her
not be as one that came dead out of his mother's womb: for half her flesh is
eaten away. And Moses cried unto the LORD saying: Oh God, heal her. And the LORD
said unto Moses: If her father had spit in her face, should she not be ashamed
seven days? let her be shut out of the host seven days, and after that let her
be received in again. And Miriam was shut out of the host seven days: and the
people removed not, till she was brought in again. And afterward they removed
from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Pharan.
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.xiij.
And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Send men out to search the land of Canaan,
which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers a man
and let them all be such as are rulers among them. And Moses at the commandment
of the LORD sent forth out of the wilderness of Pharan: such men as were all
heads among the children of Israel, whose names are these: In the tribe of
Ruben, Sammua the son of Zacur: In the tribe of Simeon, Saphat the son of Hori.
In the tribe of Iuda, Caleph the son of Iephune. In the tribe of Isachar, Igeal
the son of Ioseph. In the tribe of Ephraim, Hosea the son of Nun. In the tribe
of BenIamin, Palti the son of Raphu. In the tribe of Zabulon, Gadiel the son of
Sodi. In the tribe of Ioseph: In the tribe of Manasse, Gaddi the son of Susi. In
the tribe of Dan, Amiel the son of Gemali. In the tribe of Asser, Sethur the son
of Micheel. In the tribe of Nephtali, Nahebi the son of Uaphsi. In the tribe of
Gad, Guel the son of Machi. These are the names of the men which Moses sent to
spy out the land. And Moses called the name of Hosea the son of Nun, Iosua. And
Moses sent them forth to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them: get you
southward and go up into the high country, and see the land what manner thing it
is and the people that dwelleth therein: whether they be strong or weak, either
few or many, and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad,
and what manner of cities they dwell in: whether they dwell in tents or walled
towns, and what manner of land it is: whether it be fat or lean, and whether
there be trees therein or not. And be of a good courage, and bring of the fruits
of the land. And it was about the time that grapes are first ripe. And they went
up and searched out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob as men go to
Hemath, and they ascended unto the south and came unto Hebron, where Ahiman was
and Sefai and Thalmani the sons of Enack. Hebron was built seven years before
Zoan in Egypt. And they came unto the river of Escol and they cut down there a
branch with one cluster of grapes and bare it upon a staff between twain, and
also of the pomegranates and of the figs of the place. The river was called
Escol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down
there. And they turned back again from searching the land, at forty days' end.
And they went and came to Moses and Aaron and unto all the multitude of the
children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Pharan: even unto Cades, and brought
them word and also unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the
land. And they told him saying: we came unto the land whither thou sendedst us,
and surely it is a land that floweth with milk and honey and here is of the
fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the
cities are walled and exceeding great, and moreover we saw the children of Enack
there. The Amaleks dwell in the south country, and the Hethites, Iebusites and
the Amorites dwell in the mountains, and the Cananites dwell by the sea and
along by the coast of Iordan. And Caleb stilled the murmur of the people against
Moses saying: let us go up and conquer it, for we be able to overcome it. But
the men that went up with him, said: We be not able to go up against the people,
for they are stronger than we: And they brought up an evil report of the land
which they had searched, unto the children of Israel saying: The land which we
have gone thorow to search it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabiters
thereof, and the people that we saw in it are men of stature. And there we saw
also giants, the children of Enack which are of the giants. And we seemed in our
sight as it were grasshoppers and so we did in their sight.
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And the multitude cried out, and the people wept thorowout that night, and all
the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole
congregation said unto them: would God that we had died in the land of Egypt,
either we would that we had died in this wilderness. Wherefore hath the LORD
brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword, that both our wives, and also
our children should be a prey? is it not better that we return unto Egypt again?
And they said one to another: let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again.
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the
multitude of the children of Israel. And Iosua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son
of Iephune which were of them that searched the land rent their clothes and
spake unto all the company of the children of Israel saying: The land which we
walked thorow to search it, is a very good land. If the LORD have lust to us, he
will bring us into this land and give it us, which is a land that floweth with
milk and honey. But in any wise rebel not against the LORD. Moreover fear ye not
the people of the land, for they are but bread for us. Their shield is departed
from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not therefore. And all the whole
multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the
tabernacle of witness, unto all the children of Israel. And the LORD said unto
Moses: How long shall this people rail upon me, and how long will it be, yer
they believe me, for all my signs which I have shewed among them? I will smite
them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make of thee a greater
nation and a mightier than they. And Moses said unto the LORD: then the
Egyptians shall hear it, for thou broughtest this people with thy might from
among them. And it will be told to the inhabiters of this land also, for they
have heard likewise, that thou the LORD art among this people, and that thou art
seen face to face, and that thy cloud stondeth over them and that thou goest
before them by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
If thou shalt kill all this people as they were but one man then the nations
which have heard the fame of thee, will speak saying: because the LORD was not
able to bring in this people into the land which he swore unto them, therefore
he slew them in the wilderness. So now let the power of my Lord {|LORDE|} be
great, according as thou hast spoken saying: the LORD is long yer he be angry,
and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent,
and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the
third and fourth generation, be merciful I beseech ye therefore, unto the sin of
this people according unto thy great mercy, and according as thou hast forgiven
this people from Egypt even unto this place. And the LORD said: I have forgiven
it, according to thy request. But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be
filled with my glory. For of all those men which have seen my glory and my
miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now
this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice, there shall not one see the
land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that railed
upon me, see it. But my servant Caleb, because there is another manner spirit
with him, and because he hath followed me unto the utmost: him I will bring into
the land which he hath walked in, and his seed shall conquer it, and also the
Amalekites and Cananites which dwell in the low countries. Tomorrow turn you and
get you into the wilderness: even the way toward the Red Sea. And the LORD spake
unto Moses and Aaron saying: how long shall this evil multitude murmur against
me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel which they murmur
against me. Tell them, that the LORD sayeth: As truly as I live, I will do unto
you even as ye have spoken in mine ears. Your carcasses shall lie in this
wilderness, neither shall any of these numbers which were numbered from twenty
years and above of you which have murmured against me come in to the land over
which I lifted mine hand to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of
Iephune, and Iosua the son of Nun. And your children which ye said should be a
prey, them I will bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have refused,
and your carcases shall lie in this wilderness And your children shall wander in
this wilderness forty years and suffer for your whoredom until your carcases be
wasted in the wilderness, after the number of the days in which ye searched out
the land forty days, and every day a year: so that they shall bear your
unrighteousness forty years, and ye shall feel my vengeance I the LORD have said
that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together
against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die.
And the men which Moses sent to search the land, and which (when they came
again) made all the people to murmur against it in that they brought up a
slander upon the land: died for their bringing up that evil slander upon it, and
were plagued before the LORD. But Iosua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of
Iephune which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. And
Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel, and the people took
great sorrow. And they rose up early in the morning and gat them up into the top
of the mountain saying: lo we be here, and will go up unto the place of which
the LORD said, for we have sinned. And Moses said: wherefore will ye go on this
manner beyond the word of the LORD? it will not come well to pass: go not up for
the LORD is not among you that ye be not slain before your enemies. For the
Amalekites and the Cananites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the
sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, and therefore the LORD will not
be with you. But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Never the later,
the ark of the testament of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the host.
Then the Amalekites and the Cananites which dwelt in that hill, came down and
smote them and hewed them: even unto Horma.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say
unto them: when ye be come into the land of your habitation which I give unto
you, and will offer an offering upon the fire unto the LORD, whether it be a
burntoffering or a special vow or freewill offering or if it be in your
principal feasts to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the oxen or of the
flock. Then, let him that offereth his offering unto the LORD, bring also a
meatoffering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of
oil, and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drinkoffering, and offer with
the burntoffering or any other offering when it is a lamb. And unto a ram thou
shalt offer a meatoffering of two tenth deals of flour, mingled with the third
part of an hin of oil, and to a drinkoffering thou shalt offer the third part of
an hin of wine, to be a sweet savour unto the LORD. When thou offerest an ox to
a burntoffering or in any special vow or peaceoffering unto the LORD, then thou
shalt bring unto an ox, a meatoffering of three tenth deals of flour mingled
with half an hin of oil. And thou shalt bring for a drinkoffering half an hin of
wine, that is an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD. This is the manner
that shall be done unto one ox, one ram, a lamb or a kid. And according to the
number of such offerings, thou shalt increase the meatofferings and the
drinkofferings. All that are of your selves shall do these things after this
manner, when he offereth an offering of sweet savour unto the LORD. And if there
be a stranger with you or be among you in your generations, and will offer an
offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: even as ye do, so he shall do. One
ordinance shall serve both for you of the congregation, and also for the
stranger. And it shall be an ordinance for ever among your children after you,
that the stranger and ye shall be like before the LORD. One law and one manner
shall serve, both for you and for the stranger that dwelleth with you. And the
LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto
them: when ye be come in to the land whither I will bring you, then when ye will
eat of the bread of the land, ye shall give an heaveoffering unto the LORD. Ye
shall give a cake of the first of your dough unto an heave offering: as ye do
the heaveoffering of the barn, even so ye shall heave it. Of the first of your
dough ye must give unto the LORD an heaveoffering, thorowout your generations.
If ye oversee your selves and observe not all these commandments which the LORD
hath spoken unto Moses, and all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of
Moses, from the first day forward that the LORD commanded among your generation:
when ought is committed ignorantly before the eyes of the congregation, then all
the multitude shall offer a calf for a burntoffering to be a sweet savour unto
the LORD, and the meatoffering and the drinkoffering thereto, according to the
manner: and an he goat for a sinoffering. And the priest shall make an atonement
for all the multitude of the children of Israel, and it shall be forgiven them
for it was ignorance. And they shall bring their gifts unto the offering of the
LORD, and their sinoffering before the LORD for their ignorance. And it shall be
forgiven unto all the multitude of the children of Israel, and unto the stranger
that dwelleth among you: for the ignorance pertaineth unto all the people. If
any one soul sin thorow ignorance he shall bring a she goat of a year old for a
sinoffering. And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinned
ignorantly with the sinoffering before the LORD and reconcile him, and it shall
be forgiven him. And both thou that art born one of the children of Israel and
the stranger that dwelleth among you shall have both one law, if ye sin thorow
ignorance. And the soul that doth ought presumptuously, whether he be an
Israelite or a stranger, the same hath despised the LORD. And that soul shall be
destroyed from among his people, because he hath despised the word of the LORD
and hath broken his commandments, that soul therefore shall perish and his sin
shall be upon him. And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day. And they that found him
gathering sticks, brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the
congregation: and they put him in ward, for it was not declared what should be
done unto him. And the LORD said unto Moses: the man shall die: let all the
multitude stone him with stones without the host. And all the multitude brought
him without the host and stoned him with stones, and he died as the LORD
commanded Moses. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children
of Israel and bid them, that they make them guards upon the quarters of their
garments thorowout their generations, and let them make the guards of ribbons of
Iacinth. And the guard shall be unto you to look upon it, that ye remember all
the commandments of the LORD and do them: that ye seek not a way after your own
hearts and after your own eyes, for to go a whoring after them: but that ye
remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God, for I am the LORD
your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the
LORD God.
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And Corah the son of Iezehar the son of Cahath the son of Levi: and Dathan and
Abiram the son of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, the son of Ruben: stood up
before Moses, with other of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty, heads
of the congregation, and councillors, and men of fame, and they gathered them
selves together against Moses and Aaron and said unto them: ye have done enough.
For all the multitude are holy every one of them, and the LORD is among them.
Why therefore heave ye your selves up above the congregation of the LORD. When
Moses heard it, he fell upon his face and spake unto Corah and unto all his
company saying: tomorrow the LORD will shew who is his and who is holy, and will
take them unto him, and whom soever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to
him. This do: take firepans, thou Corah and all thy company, and do fire therein
and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD
doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do ye children of Levi. And
Moses said unto Corah: hear ye children of Levi, Seemeth it but a small thing
unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel
to bring you to him, to do the service of the dwelling place of the LORD, and to
stond before the people to minister unto them? he hath taken thee to him and all
thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and ye seek the office of the priest
also. For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together
against the LORD: for what is Aaron, that ye should murmur against him. And
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they answered: we
will not come. Seemeth it a small thing unto thee that thou hast brought us out
of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness. But
that thou shouldest reign over us also? More over thou hast brought us unto no
land that floweth with milk and honey, neither hast given us possessions of
fields or of vines. Either wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men? we will not
come. And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the LORD: Turn not unto their
offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them, neither have vexed any
of them. Then Moses said unto Corah: Be thou and all thy company before the
LORD: both thou, they and Aaron tomorrow. And take every man his censer and put
cense in them, and come before the LORD every man with his censer: two hundred
and fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer. And they took every man his censer
and put fire in them and laid cense thereon, and stood in the door of the
tabernacle of witness, and Moses and Aaron also. And Corah gathered all the
congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the
glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation. And the LORD spake unto
Moses and Aaron saying: separate your selves from this congregation, that I may
consume them at once. And they fell upon their faces and said: O most mighty God
of the spirits of all flesh, one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with
all the multitude? And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the
congregation and say: Get you away from about the dwelling of Corah, Dathan and
Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of
Israel followed him. And he spake unto the congregation saying: depart from the
tents of these wicked men and twich nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all
their sins. And they gat them from the dwelling of Corah, Dathan and Abiram, on
every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents
with their wives, their sons and their children. And Moses said: Hereby ye shall
know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done
them of mine own mind: If these men die the common death of all men or if they
be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent me. But
and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them
and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye
shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD. And as soon as he
had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was
under them, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses
and all the men that were with Corah and all their goods. And they and all that
pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them,
and they perished from among the congregation. And all Israel that were about
them, fled at the cry of them. For they said: The earth might happily swallow us
also. And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and
fifty men that offered cense. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Speak unto
Eleazer the son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the
burning and scatter the fire here and there, for the censers of these sinners
are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be beaten into thin plates and
fastened upon the altar. For they offered them before the LORD, and therefore
they are holy and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. And Eleazar
the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and
beat them and fastened them upon the altar, to be a remembrance unto the
children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come
near to offer cense before the LORD, that he be not made like unto Corah and his
company: as the LORD said unto him by the hand of Moses. And on the morrow all
the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron saying:
ye have killed the people of the LORD. And when the multitude was gathered
against Moses and Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of witness; And
behold, the cloud had covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared. And Moses
and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness. And the LORD spake unto Moses
saying: Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quickly. And
they fell upon their faces. And Moses said unto Aaron: take a censer and put
fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the
congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from
the LORD, and there is a plague begun. And Aaron took as Moses commanded him,
and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the
people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people. And he stood
between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased. And the
number of them that died in the plague, were fourteen thousand and seven
hundred: beside them that died about the business of Corah. And Aaron went again
unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and take
of them, for every principal house a rod, of their princes over the houses of
their fathers: even twelve rods, and write every man's name upon his rod. And
write Aaron's name upon the staff of Levi: for every headman over the houses of
their fathers shall have a rod. And put them in the tabernacle of witness where
I will meet you. And his rod whom I chose, shall blossom: So I will make cease
from me the grudgings of the children of Israel which they grudge against you.
And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and all the princes gave him for
every prince over their fathers' houses, a rod: even twelve rods, and the rod of
Aaron was among the rods. And Moses put the rods before the LORD in the
tabernacle of witness: And on the morrow, Moses went in to the tabernacle: and
behold, the rod of Aaron of the house of Levi was budded and bare blossoms and
almonds. And Moses brought out all the staves from before the LORD, unto all the
children of Israel, and they looked upon them, and took every man his staff. And
the LORD said unto Moses: bring Aaron's rod again before the witness to be kept
for a token unto the children of rebellion, that their murmurings may cease from
me, that they die not. And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. And the children
of Israel spake unto Moses saying: behold, we are destroyed and all come to
nought: for whosoever cometh nye the dwelling of the LORD, dieth. Shall we
utterly consume away?
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.xviij.
And the LORD said unto Aaron: Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with
thee, shall bear the fault of that which is done amiss in the holy place. And
thou and thy sons with thee, shall bear the fault of that which is done amiss in
your priesthood. And thy brethren also the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy
father take with thee, and let them be joined unto thee and minister unto thee.
And thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness.
And let them wait upon thee and upon all the tabernacle: only let them not come
nye the holy vessels and the altar, that both they and ye also die not. And let
them be by thee and wait on the tabernacle of witness, and on all the service of
the tabernacle, and let no stranger come nye unto you. Wait therefore upon the
holy place and upon the altar, that there fall no more wrath upon the children
of Israel: behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among children of
Israel, to be yours, as gifts given unto the LORD to do the service of the
tabernacle of witness. And see that both thou and thy sons with thee take heed
unto your priests' office, in all things that pertain unto the altar and within
the vail. And see that ye serve, for I have given your priests' office unto you
for a gift to do service: and the stranger that cometh nye, shall die. And the
LORD spake unto Aaron: behold, I have given thee the keeping of mine heave
offerings in all the hallowed things of the children of Israel. And unto thee I
have given them unto anointing and to thy sons: to be a duty for ever. This
shall be thine of most holy sacrifices: All their gifts, thorowout all their
meatofferings, sinofferings and trespassofferings which they bring unto me. They
shall be most holy unto thee and unto thy sons. And ye shall eat it in the most
holy place: all that are males shall eat of it, for it shall be holy unto thee.
And this shall be thine: the heaveoffering of their gifts, thorowout all the
waveofferings of the children of Israel, for I have given them unto thee and thy
sons, and thy daughters with thee, to be a duty for ever: and all that are clean
in thy house, shall eat of it, all the fat of the oil, of the wine and of the
corn: their first fruits which they give unto the LORD that have I given unto
thee. The first fruits of all that is in their lands which they bring unto the
LORD, shall be thine: and all that are clean in thine house, shall eat of it.
All dedicate things in Israel, shall be thine. All that breaketh the matrice of
all flesh that men bring unto the LORD, both of man and beast, shall be thine.
Neverthelater the firstborn of man shall be redeemed, and the firstborn of
unclean beasts shall be redeemed. And their redemptions shall be at a month old,
valued at five sicles of silver, of the holy sicle. A sicle maketh twenty Geras.
But the firstborn of oxen, sheep and goats shall not be redeemed. For they are
holy, and thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their
fat to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And the flesh of them
shall be thine, as the wavebreast and all the right shoulder is thine. All the
holy heave offerings which the children of Israel heave unto the LORD, I give
thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee to be a duty for ever. And it
shall be a salted covenant for ever, before the LORD: unto thee and to thy seed
with thee. And the LORD spake unto Aaron: thou shalt have none inheritance in
their land, nor part among them. For I am thy part and thy inheritance among the
children of Israel. And behold I have given the children of Levi, the tenth in
Israel to inherit, for the service which they serve in the tabernacle of
witness, that the children of Israel henceforth come not nye the tabernacle of
witness, and bear sin and die. And the Levites shall do the service in the
tabernacle of witness and bear their sin, and it shall be a law for ever unto
your children after you: But among the children of Israel they shall inherit
none inheritance. For the tithes of the children of Israel which they heave unto
the LORD, I have given the Levites to inherit. Wherefore I have said unto them:
Among the children of Israel ye shall inherit none inheritance. And the LORD
spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the Levites and say unto them: when ye take
of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you of them to your
inheritance, ye shall take an heaveoffering of that same for the LORD: even the
tenth of that tithe. And it shall be reckoned unto you for your heaveoffering,
even as though ye gave corn out of the barn or a full offering from the wine
press. And of this manner ye shall heave an heaveoffering unto the LORD, of all
your tithes which ye receive of the children of Israel, and ye shall give there
of the LORD's heave offering unto Aaron the priest. Of all your gifts, ye shall
take out the LORD's heaveoffering: even the fat of all their hallowed things.
And thou shalt say unto them: when ye have taken away the fat of it from it, it
shall be counted unto the Levites, as the increase of corn and wine. And ye
shall eat it in all places both ye and your households, for it is your rewards
for your service in the tabernacle of witness. And ye shall bear no sin by the
reason of it, when ye have taken from it the fat of it: neither shall ye
unhallow the hallowed things of the children of Israel, and so shall ye not die.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying: this is the ordinance of the law
which the LORD commandeth saying: speak unto the children of Israel and let them
take thee a red cow without spot wherein is no blemish, and which never bare
yoke upon her. And ye shall give her unto Eleazer the priest, and he shall bring
her without the host and cause her to be slain before him. And Eleazar the
priest shall take of her blood upon his finger, and sprinkle it straight toward
the tabernacle of witness seven times. And he shall cause the cow to be burnt in
his sight: both skin, flesh and blood, with the dung also. And let the priest
take cypress wood, and Hyssop and purple cloth, and cast it upon the cow as she
burneth. And let the priest wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in water, and
then come into the host, and the priest shall be unclean unto the evening. And
he that burneth her, shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his flesh also in
water, and be unclean until evening. And one that is clean, shall go and take up
the ashes of the cow, and put them without the host in a clean place, where they
shall be kept to make sprinkling water for the multitude of the children of
Israel: for it is a sinoffering. And let him that gathereth the ashes of the
cow, wash his clothes, and remain unclean until evening. And this shall be unto
the children of Israel and unto the stranger that dwelleth among them, a manner
for ever. He that twicheth any dead person, shall be unclean seven days. And he
shall purify himself with the ashes the third day and then he shall be clean the
seventh day. And if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day,
he shall not be clean. Whosoever twicheth any person that dieth and sprinkleth
not himself, defileth the dwelling of the LORD: and therefore that soul shall be
rooted out of Israel, because he hath not sprinkled the sprinkling water upon
him, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him. This is the
law of the man that dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent and all that is
in the tent, shall be unclean seven days. And all the vessels that be open which
have no lid nor covering upon them, are unclean. And whosoever twicheth one that
is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man,
or a grave: shall be unclean seven days. And they shall take for an unclean
person, of the burnt ashes of the sinoffering, and put running water thereto
into a vessel. And a clean person shall take Hyssop and dip it in the water, and
sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the souls that were
there, and upon him that twiched a bone or a slain person or a dead body or a
grave. And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean the third day and
the seventh day. And the seventh day he shall purify himself and wash his
clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening. If any be
unclean and sprinkle not himself, the same soul shall be destroyed from among
the congregation: for he hath defiled the holy place of the LORD. And he that
sprinkleth the sprinkling water, shall wash his clothes. And he that twicheth
the sprinkling water, shall be unclean until even. And whatsoever the unclean
person twicheth, shall be unclean. And the soul that twiched it, shall be
unclean until the evening.
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And the whole multitude of the children of Israel, came into the desert of Sin
in the first month, and the people dwelt at Cades. And there died MirIam, and
was buried there. Moreover there was no water for the multitude, wherefore they
gathered them selves together against Moses and against Aaron. And the people
chode with Moses and spake saying: would God that we had perished when our
brethren perished before the LORD. Why have ye brought the congregation of the
LORD unto this wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die here?
Wherefore brought ye us out of Egypt, to bring us into this ungracious place,
which is no place of seed nor of figs nor vines nor of pomegranates, neither is
there any water to drink? And Moses and Aaron went from the congregation unto
the door of the tabernacle of witness, and fell upon their faces. And the glory
of the LORD appeared unto them. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take the
staff, and gather thou and thy brother Aaron the congregation together, and say
unto the rock before their eyes, that he give forth his water. And thou shalt
bring them water out of the rock and shalt give the company drink, and their
beasts also. And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him
And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he
said unto them: hear ye rebellious, must we fetch you water out of this rock?
And Moses lift up his hand with his staff and smote the rock two times, and the
water came out abundantly, and the multitude drank and their beasts also. And
the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron: Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me
in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this
congregation into the land which I have given them. This is the water of strife,
because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified upon
them. And Moses sent messengers from Cades unto the king of Edom. Thus sayeth
thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath happened us, how our
fathers went down into Egypt, and how we have dwelt in Egypt a long time, and,
how the Egyptians vexed both us and our fathers. Then we cried unto the LORD and
he heard our voices, and sent an angel and hath fetched us out of Egypt. And
behold, we are in Cades, a city hard by the borders of thy country: let us go a
good fellowship thorow thy country: we will not go thorow the fields nor thorow
the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the fountains: but we will
go by the highway and neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left, until we
be past thy country. And Edom answered him: See thou come not by me, lest I come
out against thee with the sword. And the children of Israel said unto him: we
will go by the beaten way: and if either we or our cattle drink of thy water, we
will pay for it, we will do no more but pass thorow by foot only. And he said:
ye shall not go thorow. And Edom came out against him with much people and with
a mighty power. And thus Edom denied to give Israel passage thorow his country;
And Israel turned away from him. And the children of Israel removed from Cades
and went unto mount Hor with all the congregation. And the LORD spake unto Moses
and Aaron in mount Hor, hard upon the coasts of the land of Edom saying: let
Aaron be put unto his people, for he shall not come into the land which I have
given unto the children of Israel: because ye disobeyed my mouth at the water of
strife. Take Aaron and Eleazer his son, and bring them up into mount Hor, and
strip Aaron out of his vestments and put them upon Eleazer his son, and let
Aaron be put unto his people and die there. And Moses did as the LORD commanded:
and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the multitude. And Moses
took off Aaron's clothes and put them upon Eleazer his son, and Aaron died there
in the top of the mount. And Moses and Eleazer came down out of the mount. And
all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days
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And when king Arad the Cananite which dwelt in the south parts, heard tell that
Israel came by the way that the spies had found out: he came and fought with
Israel and took some of them prisoners. Then Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD
and said: If thou wilt give this people into our hands, we will destroy their
cities. And the LORD heard the voice of Israel, and delivered them the
Cananites. And they destroyed both them and their cities, and called the place
Horma. Then they departed from mount Hor toward the red sea: to compass the land
of Edom. And the souls of the people fainted by the way. And the people spake
against God and against Moses: wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, for
to die in the wilderness, for here is neither bread nor water, and our souls
loatheth this light bread. Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people,
which stung them: so that much people died in Israel. And the people came to
Moses and said: we have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against
thee: make intercession to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And
Moses made intercession for the people. And the LORD said unto Moses: make thee
a serpent and hang it up for a sign, and let as many as are bitten look upon it
and they shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass and set it up for a sign.
And when the serpents had bitten any man, he went and beheld the serpent of
brass and recovered. And the children of Israel removed and pitched in Oboth.
And they departed from Oboth and lay at Egebarim in the wilderness which is
before Moab on the east side. And they removed thence, and pitched upon the
river of Zarad. And they departed thence and pitched on the other side of Arnon,
which river is in the wilderness, and cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites:
for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. Wherefore it is
spoken in the book of the war of the LORD: go with a violence, both on the river
of Arnon and on the river's head, which shooteth down to dwell at Ar, and
leaneth upon the coasts of Moab. And from thence they came to Bear, which is the
well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses: gather the people together, that I may
give them water. Then Israel sang this song: Arise up well, sing thereto: The
well which the rulers digged and the captains of the people with the help of the
lawgiver and with their staves. And from this wilderness they went to Matana,
and from Matana to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, and from Bamoth to the
valley that is in the field of Moab in the top of Phasgah which boweth toward
the wilderness. {Iesimon} And Israel sent messengers unto Sehon, king of the
Amorites, saying: let us go thorow thy land: We will not turn into thy fields
nor into thy vineyards, neither drink of the water of the wells: but we will go
along by the common way, until we be past thy country. And Sehon would give
Israel no licence to pass thorow his country, but gathered all his people
together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. And he came to Iaheza
and fought with Israel. And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword and
conquered his land, from Arnon unto Iabock: even unto the children of Ammon. For
the borders of the children of Ammon, are strong. And Israel took all these
cities and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites: in Hesbon and in all the
towns that long thereto. For Hesbon was the city of Sehon the king of the
Amorites which Sehon had fought before with the king of the Moabites, and had
taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. Wherefore it is a proverb:
go to Hesbon and let the city of Sehon be built and made ready for there is a
fire gone out of Hesbon and a flame from the city of Sehon and hath consumed Ar
of the Moabites and the men of the hills of Arnon. Woe be to thee Moab: O people
of Chamos ye are forloren. {undone} His sons are put to flight and his daughters
brought captive unto Sehon king of the Amorites. Their light is out from Hesbon
unto Dibon and we made a wilderness even unto Nopha which reacheth unto Mediba.
And thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. And Moses sent to search out
Iaezer, and they took the towns belonging thereto and conquered the Amorites
that were there. And then they turned and went up toward Bason. And Og the king
of Bason came out against them, both he and all his people, to war at Edrei. And
the LORD said unto Moses: fear him not, for I have delivered him into thy hands
with all his people and his land. And thou shalt do with him as thou didst with
Sehon the king of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And they smote him and his
sons and all his people, until there was nothing left him. And they conquered
his land.
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And the children of Israel removed and pitched in the fields of Moab, on the
other side of Iordan, by Iericho. And Balac the son of Ziphor saw all that
Israel had done to the Amorites, and the Moabites were sore afraid of the
people, because they were many, and abhorred the children of Israel: And Moab
said unto the elders of Madian, now this company hath licked up all that are
round about us, as an ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balac the son of
Ziphor was king of the Moabites at that time. And he sent messengers unto Balam
the son of Beor, the interpreter which dwelt upon the river of the land of the
children of his folk, to call him saying: behold, there is a people come out of
Egypt which covereth the face of the earth and lie even hard by me. Come now a
fellowship and curse me this people. For they are too mighty for me, so
peradventure I might be able to smite them and to drive them out of the land.
For I wot that whom thou blessest shall be blessed, and whom thou cursest shall
be cursed. And the elders of Moab went with the elders of Madian, and the reward
of the soothsaying in their hands. And they came unto Balam and told him the
words of Balac. And he said unto them: tarry here all night and I will bring you
word, even as the LORD shall say unto me. And the lords of Moab abode with
Balam. And God came unto Balam and said: what men are these which are with thee?
And Balam said unto God: Balac the son of Ziphor king of Moab hath sent unto me
saying: behold, there is a people come out of Egypt and covereth the face of the
earth: come now therefore and curse me them, that so peradventure I may be able
to overcome them in battle, and to drive them out. And God said unto Balam: thou
shalt not go with them, neither curse the people, for they are blessed. And
Balam rose up in the morning and said unto the lords of Balac: get you unto your
land, for the LORD will not suffer me to go with you. And the lords of Moab rose
up and went unto Balac and said, Balam would not come with us. And Balac sent
again a greater company of lords and more honourable than they. And they came to
Balam and told him: Thus sayeth Balac the son of Ziphor: oh, let nothing let
thee to come unto me, for I will greatly promote thee unto great honour, and
will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me, come therefore I pray thee, curse me
this people. And Balam answered and said unto the servants of Balac: If Balac
would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can go no further than the
word of the LORD my God, to do less or more. Nevertheless tarry ye here all
night: that I may wete, what the LORD will say unto me once more. And God came
to Balam by night and said unto him: If the men come to fetch thee, rise up and
go with them: but what I say unto thee, that only thou shalt do. And Balam rose
up early and saddled his ass and went with the lords of Moab. But God was angry
because he went. And the angel of the LORD stood in the way against him. And he
rid upon his ass and two servants with him. And when the ass saw the angel of
the LORD stond in the way and his sword drawn in his hand, she turned aside out
of the way and went out into the field. And Balam smote the ass, to turn her
into the way. And the angel of the LORD went and stood in a path between the
vineyards, where was a wall on the one side and another on the other. When the
ass saw the angel of the LORD, she wrenched unto the wall and thrust Balam's
foot unto the wall, and he smote her again. And the angel of the LORD went
further and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn, either to the
right hand or to the left. And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell
down under Balam: and Balam was wroth and smote the ass with a staff. And the
LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balam: what have I done unto
thee, that thou smitest me thus three times? And Balam said unto the Ass:
because thou hast mocked me? I would that I had a sword in mine hand, that I
might now kill thee. And the ass said unto Balam: am not I thine Ass which thou
hast ridden upon since thou wast born unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so
unto thee? And he said, nay. And the LORD {lorde} opened the eyes of Balam that
he saw the angel of the LORD {Lorde} stonding in the way, with his sword drawn
in his hand. And he bowed himself and fell flat on his face. And the angel of
the LORD said unto him: Wherefore smitest thou thine ass this three times?
behold, I came out to resist thee, for the way is contrary unto me, and the ass
saw me and avoided me three times: or else (had she not turned from me) I had
surely slain thee and saved her alive. And Balam said unto the angel of the
LORD: I have sinned: for I wist not that thou stoodest in the way against me.
Now therefore if it displease thine eyes, I will turn again. And the angel said
unto Balam, go with the men: but in any wise, what I say unto thee, that say.
And Balam went with the lords of Balac. And when Balac heard that Balam was come
he went out against him unto a city of Moab that stood in the border of Arnon,
which was the utmost part of his country. And Balac said unto Balam: did I not
send for thee, to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? thinkest thou
that I am not able to promote thee unto honour? And Balam said unto Balac: Lo I
am come unto thee. But I can say nothing at all save what God putteth in my
mouth that must I speak. And Balam went with Balac, and they came unto the city
of Huzoth. {large city} And Balac offered oxen and sheep and sent for Balam and
for the lords that were with him. And on the morning Balac took Balam and
brought him up into the high place of Baal, and thence he saw unto the utmost
part of the people.
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.xxiij.
And Balam said unto Balac: build me here seven altars and provide here seven
oxen and seven rams. And Balac did as Balam said. And Balac and Balam offered on
every altar an ox and a ram. And Balam said unto Balac: stond by the sacrifice,
while I go to wete whether the LORD will come and meet me, and whatsoever he
sheweth me, I will tell thee, and he went forthwith. And God came unto Balam,
and Balam said unto him: I have prepared seven altars, and have offered upon
every altar, an ox and a ram. And the LORD put a saying in Balam's mouth and
said: go again to Balac and say on this wise. And he went again unto him and lo,
he stood by his sacrifice, both he and all the lords of Moab. And he began his
parable and said: Balac the king of Moab hath fetched me from Mesopotamia out of
the mountains of the east saying: come and curse me Iacob, come and defy me
Israel. How shall I curse whom God curseth not and how shall I defy whom the
LORD defieth not? from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I
behold him: Lo, the people shall dwell by himself and shall not be reckoned
among other nations. Who can tell the dust of Iacob and the number of the fourth
part of Israel. I pray God that my soul, may die the death of the righteous, and
that my last end may be like his. And Balac said unto Balam, what hast thou done
unto me? I fetched thee to curse mine enemies: and behold, thou blessest them.
And he answered and said: must I not keep that and speak it, which the LORD hath
put in my mouth? And Balac said unto him: Come I pray thee with me unto another
place, whence thou shalt see them, and shalt see but the utmost part of them and
shalt not see them all and curse me them there. And he brought him into a plain
field where men might see far, even to the top of Pisga, and built seven altars
and offered an ox and a ram on every altar. And he said unto Balac: stond here
by thy sacrifice while I go yonder. And the LORD met Balam and put words in his
mouth and said: go again unto Balac and thus say. And when he came to him:
behold, he stood by his sacrifice and the lords of Moab with him; And Balac said
unto him: what sayeth the LORD? And he took up his parable and said: rise up
Balac and hear, and hearken unto me thou son of Ziphor. The Lorde {|God|} is not
a man, that he can lie, neither the son of a man that he can repent: should he
say and not do, or should he speak and not make it good? behold, I have begun to
bless and have blessed, and can not go back therefrom. He beheld no wickedness
in Iacob nor saw Idolatry in Israel: The LORD his God is with him, and the tromp
{triumph} of a king among them. God that brought them out of Egypt, is as the
strength of an unicorn unto them, for there is no sorcerer, in Iacob, nor
soothsayer in Israel. When the time cometh, it will be said of Iacob and of
Israel, what God hath wrought. Behold, the people shall rise up as a lioness and
heave up himself as a lion, and shall not lie down again, until he have eaten of
the prey and drunk of the blood of them that are slain. And Balac said unto
Balam: neither curse them nor bless them. And Balam answered and said unto
Balac: told not I thee saying, all that the LORD biddeth me, that I must do? And
Balac said unto Balam: come I pray thee, I will bring thee yet unto another
place: so peradventure it shall please God, that thou mayst curse them there.
And Balac brought Balam unto the top of Peor, that boweth toward the wilderness.
And Balam said unto Balac: make me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven
bullocks and seven rams. And Balac did as Balam had said, and offered a bullock
and a ram on every altar.
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.xxiiij.
When Balam saw that it pleased the LORD that he should bless Israel, he went not
as he did twice before to fetch soothsaying, but set his face toward the
wilderness, and lift up his eyes and looked upon Israel as he lay with his
tribes, and the spirit of God came upon him. And he took up his parable and
said: Balam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eye is open hath said:
he hath said which heareth the words of God and seeth the visions of the
almighty, which falleth down and his eyes are opened. How goodly are the tents
of Iacob and thine habitations Israel, even as the broad valleys and as gardens
by the river's side, as the tents which the LORD hath pitched and as cypress
trees upon the water. The water shall flow out of his bucket and his seed shall
be many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag; And his kingdom shall be
exalted. God that brought him out of Egypt is as the strength of an unicorn unto
him, and he shall eat the nations that are his enemies and break their bones and
pierce them thorow with his arrows. He couched himself and lay down as a lion
and as a lioness, who shall stir him up? blessed is he that blesseth thee, and
cursed is he that curseth thee. And Balac was wroth with Balam and smote his
hands together, and said unto him: I sent for thee to curse mine enemies: and
behold, thou hast blessed them this three times, and now get thee quickly unto
thy place. I thought that I would promote thee unto honour, but the LORD hath
kept thee back from worship. And Balam said unto Balac: told I not thy
messengers which thou sentest unto me saying: If Balac would give me his house
full of silver and gold, I can not pass the mouth of the LORD, to do either good
or bad of mine own mind. What the LORD sayeth, that must I speak. And now
behold, I go unto my people: come let me shew thee, what this people shall do to
thy folk in the latter days. And he began his parable and said: Balam the son of
Beor hath said, and the man that hath his eye open hath said, and he hath said
that heareth the words of God and hath the knowledge of the most high and
beholdeth the vision of the almighty, and when he falleth down hath his eyes
opened. I see him but not now, I behold him but not nye. There shall come a star
of Iacob and rise a scepter of Israel, which shall smite the coasts of Moab and
undermine all the children of Seth. And Edom shall be his possession, and the
possession of Seir shall be their enemies, and Israel shall do manfully. And out
of Iacob shall come he that shall destroy the remnant of the cities. And he
looked on Amalek and began his parable and said: Amalek is the first of the
nations, but his latter end shall perish utterly. And he looked on the Kenites,
and took his parable and said: strong is thy dwelling place and put thy nest
upon a rock. Neverthelater thou shalt be a burning to Kain, until Assur take
thee prisoner. And he took his parable and said: Alas, who shall live when God
doeth this? The ships shall come out of the coast of Cittim and subdue Assur and
subdue Eber, and he himself shall perish at the last. And Balam rose up and went
and dwelt in his place: and Balac also went his way.
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.xxv.
And Israel dwelt in Sittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the
daughters of Moab, which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And
the people ate and worshipped their gods, and Israel coupled himself unto Baal
Peor. Then the LORD was angry with Israel, and said unto Moses: take all the
heads of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD against the son, that the
wrath of the LORD may turn away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of
Israel: go and slay those men that joined them selves unto Baal Peor. And
behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren, a
Madianitish wife even in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the
multitude of the children of Israel, as they were weeping in the door of the
tabernacle of witness. And when Phineas the son of Eleazer the son of Aaron the
priest saw it, he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand, and
went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them thorow: both
the man of Israel and also the woman even thorow the belly of her. And the
plague ceased from the children of Israel. And there died in the plague twenty
four thousand. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: Phineas the son of Eleazer
the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned mine anger away from the children of
Israel, because he was jealous for my sake among them, that I had not consumed
the children of Israel in my jealousy. Wherefore say: behold, I give unto him my
covenant of peace, and he shall have it and his seed after him, even the
covenant of the priest's office for ever, because he was jealous for his God's
{goddes} sake and made an atonement for the children of Israel. The name of the
Israelite which was smitten with the Madianitish wife, was Simri the son of
Salu, a lord of an ancient house among the Simeonites. And the name of the
Madianitish wife, was Cosbi the daughter of Zur and head over the people of an
ancient house in Madian. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: vex the
Madianites and smite them, for they have troubled you with their wiles with thee
which they have beguiled you, thorow Peor and thorow their sister Cosbi the
daughter of a lord in Madian, which was slain in the day of the plague for
Peor's sake.
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.xxvi.
And after the plague, the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazer saying: take
the number of all the multitude of the children of Israel from twenty years and
above thorowout their fathers' houses, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
And Moses and Eleazer the priest told them in the fields of Moab, by Iordan fast
by Iericho, from twenty years and above, as the LORD commanded Moses. And the
children of Israel that came of Egypt were: Ruben the eldest son of Israel. The
children of Ruben were, Hanoch, of whom cometh the kindred of the Hanochites:
and of Palu, cometh the kindred of the Paluites: And of Hesron, cometh the
kindred of the Hesronites: and of Carmi, cometh the kindred of the Carmites.
These are the kindreds of the Rubenites, which were in number forty three
thousand seven hundred and thirty. And the sons of Palu were Eliab. And the sons
of Eliab were: Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram
councillors in the congregation, which strove against Moses and Aaron in the
company of Corah, when they strove against the LORD. And the earth opened her
mouth and swallowed them and Corah also, when the multitude died, what time the
fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign:
Notwithstanding, the children of Corah died not. And the children of Simeon in
their kindreds were: Nemuel, of whom cometh the kindred of the Nemuelites:
Iamin, of whom cometh the kindred of the Iaminites: Iachin, of whom cometh the
kindred of the Iachinites: Serah of whom cometh the kindred of the Serahites:
Saul of whom cometh the kindred of the Saulites. These are the kindreds of the
Simeonites: in number twenty two thousand and two hundred. And the children of
Gad in their kindreds were: Zephon, of whom cometh the kindred of the
Zephonites: and of Haggi, cometh the kindred of the Haggites: and of Suni,
cometh the kindred of the Sunites: and of Aseni, cometh the kindred of the
Asenites: and of Eri cometh the kindred of the Erites: and of Arod cometh the
kindred of the Arodites: and of Ariel cometh the kindred of the Arielites. These
are the kindreds of the children of Gad, in number forty thousand and five
hundred. The children of Iuda: Er and Onan, which died in the land of Canaan.
But the children of Iuda in their kindred were: Sela of whom cometh the kindred
of the Selamites: and of Phares cometh the kindred of the Pharesites: and of
Serah cometh the kindred of the Serahites. And the children of Phares were
Hesron, of whom cometh the kindred of the Hesronites: and of Hamul cometh the
kindred of the Hamulites. These are the kindreds of Iuda, in number seventy six
thousand and five hundred. And the children of Isachar in their kindreds were:
Tola, of whom cometh the kindred of the Tolaites: and Phuva, of whom cometh the
kindred of the Phuvaites: and of Iasub cometh the kindred of the Iasubites: and
of Simron cometh the kindred of the Simronites. These are the kindreds of
Isachar in number sixty four thousand and three hundred. The children of Zabulon
in their kindreds were: Sered, of whom cometh the kindred of the Seredites: and
Elon, of whom cometh the kindred of the Elonites: and of Iaheliel, cometh the
kindred of the Iahelelites. These are the kindreds of Zabulon: in number sixty
thousand and five hundred. The children of Ioseph in their kindreds were:
Manasse and Ephraim. The children of Manasse: Machir, of whom cometh the kindred
of the Machirites. And Machir begat Gilead, of whom cometh the kindred of the
Gileadites. And these are the children of Gilead: Hieser, of whom cometh the
kindred of the Hieserites: and of Helech cometh the kindred of the Helechites:
and of Asriel the kindred of the Asrielites: and of Sichem cometh the kindred of
the Sichemites: and of Simida cometh the kindred of the Simidites: and of Hepher
cometh the kindred of the Hepherites. And Zelaphead the son of Hepher had no
sons but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelaphead were: Mahela,
Noa, Hagla, Milcha and Thirza. These are the kindreds of Manasse, in number
fifty two thousand and seven hundred. These are the children of Ephraim in their
kindreds: Suthelah, of whom cometh the kindred of the Suthelahites: and Becher,
of whom cometh the kindred of the Becherites: and of Thaha cometh the kindred of
the Thahanites. And these are the children of Suthelah: Eran, of whom cometh the
kindred of the Eranites. These are the kindreds of the children of Ephraim in
number thirty two thousand and five hundred. And these are the children of
Ioseph in their kindreds. These are the children of BenIamin in their kindreds:
Bela, of whom cometh the kindred of the Belaites: and of Asbel cometh the
kindred of the Asbelites: and of Ahiram, the kindred of the Ahiramites: and of
Supham the kindred of the Suphamites: and of Hupham the kindred of the
Huphamites. And the children of Bela were Ard and Naaman from whence come the
kindreds of the Ardites and of the Naamites. These are the children of BenIamin
in their kindreds, and in number forty five thousand and six hundred. These are
the children of Dan in their kindreds: Suham, of whom cometh the kindred of the
Suhamites. These are the kindreds of Dan in their generations. And all the
kindreds of the Suhamites were in number sixty four thousand and four hundred.
The children of Asser in their kindreds were: Iemna, of whom cometh the kindred
of the Iemnites: and Iesui, of whom cometh the kindred of the Iesuites: and of
Bria cometh the kindred of Brites. And the children of Bria were Heber, of whom
cometh the kindred of the Heberites: and of Malchiel came the kindred of the
Malchielites. And the daughter of Aser was called Sarah. These are the kindreds
of Aser in number fifty three thousand and four hundred. The children of
Nephthali in their kindreds were: Iaheziel, of whom came the kindred of the
Iahezielites: and Guni, of whom came the kindred of the Gunites: and of Iezer,
came the kindred of the Iezerites: and of Selem the kindred of Selemites. These
are the kindreds of Naphthali in their generations in number forty five thousand
and four hundred. These are the numbers of the children of Israel: six hundred
thousand, and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. And the LORD spake unto Moses
saying: unto these the land shall be divided to inherit, according to the number
of names: to many thou shalt give the more inheritance and to few the less: to
every tribe shall the inheritance be given according to the number thereof.
Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot, and according to the names of
the tribes of their fathers, they shall inherit: and according to their lot thou
shalt divide their land, both to the many and to the few. These are the sums of
the Levites in their kindreds: of Gerson, came the kindred of the Gersonites:
and of Cahath came the kindred of the Cahathites: and of Merari came the kindred
of the Merarites. These are the kindreds of Levi: the kindred of the Libnites,
the kindred of the Hebronites, the kindred of the Mahelites, the kindred of the
Musites, the kindred of the Karahites. Kahath begat Amram, and Amram's wife was
called Iochebed a daughter of Levi, which was born him in Egypt. And she bare
unto Amram, Aaron, Moses and Miriam their sister. And unto Aaron were born,
Nadab, Abihu, Eleazer and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died, as they offered
strange fire before the LORD. And the number of them was twenty three thousand,
of all the males from a month old and above. For they were not numbered among
the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the
children of Israel. These are the numbers of the children of Israel which Moses
and Eleazer the priest numbered in the fields of Moab, fast by Iordan nye to
Iericho. And among these there was not a man of the number of the children of
Israel which Moses and Aaron told in the wilderness of Sinai. For the LORD said
unto them, that they should die in the wilderness and that there should not be
left a man of them: save Caleb the son of Iephune and Iosua the son of Nun.
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And the daughters of Zelaphead the son of Heber the son of Gilead, the son of
Machir the son of Manasse, of the kindreds of Manasse the son of Ioseph (whose
names were Mahela, Noha, Hagla, Melcha and Thirza) came and stood before Moses
and Eleazer the priest and before the lords and all the multitude in the door of
the tabernacle of witness saying: our father died in the wilderness, and was not
among the company of them that gathered them selves together against the LORD in
the congregation of Corah: But died in his own sin, and had no sons. Wherefore
should the name of our father's be taken away from among his kindred, because he
had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father. And
Moses brought their cause before the LORD. And the LORD spake unto Moses saying:
The daughters of Zelaphead speak right: thou shalt give them a possession to
inherit among their father's brethren, and shalt turn the inheritance of their
father unto them. And speak unto the children of Israel saying: If a man die and
have no son, ye shall turn his inheritance unto his daughter. If he have no
daughter, ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren. If he have no
brethren, ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren. If he have
no father's brethren, ye shall give his inheritance unto him that is next to him
of his kindred, and let him possess it. And this shall be unto the children of
Israel an ordinance, and a law, as the LORD hath commanded Moses. And the LORD
said unto Moses: get thee up into this mount Abarim, and behold, the land which
I have given unto the children of Israel. And when thou hast seen it, thou shalt
be gathered unto thy people also, as Aaron thy brother was gathered unto his
people. For ye were disobedient unto my mouth in the desert of Zin in the strife
of the congregation, that ye sanctified me not in the water before their eyes.
That is the water of strife in Cades in the wilderness of Zin. And Moses spake
unto the LORD saying: let the LORD God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man
over the congregation, which may go in and out before them, and to lead them in
and out, that the congregation of the LORD be not as a flock of sheep without a
shepherd. And the LORD said unto Moses: take Iosua the son of Nun in whom there
is spirit, and put thine hands upon him, and set him before Eleazer the priest
and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight. And put of
thy praise upon him that all the company of the children of Israel may hear. And
he shall stond before Eleazar the priest which shall ask counsel {councell} for
him after the manner of the light {judgement of Urim} before the LORD: And at
the mouth of Eleazer shall both he and all the children of Israel with him and
all the congregation, go in and out. And Moses did as the LORD commanded him,
and he took Iosua and set him before Eleazer the priest and before all the
congregation, and put his hands upon him and give him a charge, as the LORD
commanded thorow the hand of Moses.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: give the children of Israel a charge and
say unto them, that they take heed to offer unto me the offering of my bread in
the sacrifice of sweet savour, in his due season. And say unto them. This is the
offering which ye shall offer unto the LORD: two lambs of a year old without
spot day by day to be a burntoffering perpetually. One lamb thou shalt offer in
the morning, and the other at even. And thereto the tenth part of an Epha of
flour for a meatoffering mingled with beaten oil, the fourth part of an hin:
which is a daily offering ordained in the mount Sinai unto a sweet savour in the
sacrifice of the LORD. And the drinkoffering of the same: the fourth part of an
hin unto one lamb, and pour the drinkoffering in the holy place, to be good
drink unto the LORD. And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, with the
meatoffering and the drinkoffering after the manner of the morning: a sacrifice
of a sweet savour unto the LORD. And on the Sabbath day two lambs of a year old
apiece and without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meatoffering mingled
with oil, and the drinkoffering thereto. This is the burntoffering of every
Sabbath, besides the daily burntoffering and his drinkoffering. And in the first
day of your months, ye shall offer a burntoffering unto the LORD: two young
bullocks, and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old without spot, and three tenth
deals of flour for a meatoffering mingled with oil unto one bullock, and two
tenth deals of flour for a meatoffering mingled with oil unto one ram. And ever
more, a tenth deal of flour mingled with oil, for a meatoffering unto one lamb.
That is a burntoffering of a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the LORD. And
their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto one bullock, and the
third part of an hin of wine unto a ram and the fourth part of an hin unto a
lamb. This is the burntoffering of every month thorowout all the months of the
year: and one he goat for a sinoffering unto the LORD, which shall be offered
with the daily burntoffering and his drinkoffering. And the fourteenth day of
the first month shall be passover unto the LORD. And the fifteenth day of the
same month shall be a feast, in which seven days men must eat unleavened bread.
The first day shall be an holy feast, so that ye shall do no manner of laborious
work therein. And ye shall offer a burntoffering unto the LORD two bullocks, one
ram, and seven lambs of a year old without spot, and their meatoffering of flour
mingled with oil three tenth deals unto a bullock, and two tenth deals unto a
ram, and ever more one tenth deal unto a lamb, thorowout the seven lambs: and an
he goat for a sinoffering to make an atonement for you. And ye shall offer
these, beside the burntoffering in the morning that is always offered. And after
this manner ye shall offer thorowout the seven days, the food of the sacrifice
of sweet favour unto the LORD. And it shall be done beside the daily
burntoffering and his drinkoffering. And the seventh day shall be an holy feast
unto you, so that ye shall do no laborious work therein. And the day of your
first fruits when ye bring a new meatoffering unto the LORD in your weeks, shall
be an holy feast unto you: so that ye shall do no labourious work therein. And
ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: two young
bullocks, and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old apiece, with their
meatofferings of flour mingled with oil three tenth deals unto a bullock two
tenth deals to a ram, and ever more one tenth deal unto a lamb thorowout the
seven lambs, and an he goat to make an atonement for you. And this ye shall do
besides the daily burntoffering, and his meatoffering: and they shall be without
spot, with their drinkofferings.
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Also {and} the first day of the seventh month shall be an holy feast unto you,
and ye shall do no labourious work therein. It shall be a day of trumpet blowing
unto you. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
one young bullock and one ram and seven lambs of a year old apiece that are
pure. And their meatofferings of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals unto
the bullock, and two unto the ram, and one tenth deal unto one lamb thorow the
seven lambs. And an he goat for a sinoffering to make an atonement for you,
beside the burntoffering of the month and his meatoffering and beside the daily
burntoffering and his meatoffering, and the drinkofferings of the same:
according unto the manner of them for a savour of sweetness in the sacrifice of
the LORD. And the tenth day of that same seventh month shall be an holy feast
unto you, and ye shall humble your souls and shall do no manner work therein.
And ye shall offer a burntoffering unto the LORD of a sweet savour: one bullock,
and a ram, and seven lambs of a year old apiece, without fault and their
meatofferings of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals to a bullock, and two
to a ram and always a tenth deal unto a lamb, thorowout the seven lambs. And one
he goat for a sinoffering, beside the sinoffering of atonement and the daily
burntoffering, and the meat and drinkofferings that long to the same. And the
fifteenth day of the seventh month shall be holy day and ye shall do no
laborious work therein, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD of seven days
long. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
thirteen bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs which are yearlings and pure, with
oil, three tenth deals unto every one of the thirteen bullocks: two tenth deals
to either of the rams, and one tenth deal unto each of the fourteen lambs. And
one he goat unto a sinoffering, beside the daily burntoffering with his meat and
drinkofferings. And the second day twelve young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen
yearling lambs without spot: and their meatofferings and drinkofferings unto the
bullocks, rams and lambs, according to the number of them and after the manner.
And an he goat for a sinoffering, beside the daily burntoffering and his meat
and drinkofferings. And the third day eleven bullocks two rams and fourteen
yearling lambs without spot: and their meat and drinkofferings unto the
bullocks, rams and lambs, after the number of them and according to the manner.
And an he goat for a sinoffering, beside the daily burntoffering and his meat
and drinkofferings. And the fourth day ten bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs,
yearlings and pure: and their meat and drinkofferings unto the bullocks, rams
and lambs, according to their number and after the manner. And an he goat for a
sinoffering, beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drinkofferings. And
the fifth day nine bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs of one year old apiece
without spot. And their meat and drinkofferings unto the bullocks, rams and
lambs, according to the number of them and after the manner. And an he goat for
a sinoffering, beside the daily burntoffering and his meat and drinkofferings.
And the sixth day eight bullocks two rams and fourteen yearling lambs without
spot. And their meat and drinkofferings unto the bullocks, rams and lambs,
according to the manner. And an he goat for a sinoffering, beside the daily
burntoffering and his meat and drinkofferings. And the seventh day seven
bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs that are yearlings and pure. And their meat
and drinkofferings unto the bullocks, rams and lambs, according to their number
and to the manner. And an hegoat for a sinoffering, beside the daily
burntoffering and his meat and drinkofferings. And the eighth day shall be the
conclusion of the feast unto you, and ye shall do no manner laborious work
therein. And ye shall offer a burntoffering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one
bullock, one ram and seven yearling lambs without spot. And the meat and
drinkofferings unto the bullock, ram and lambs, according to their numbers and
according to the manner. And an he goat for a sinoffering beside the daily
burntoffering and his meat and drinkofferings. These things ye shall do unto the
LORD in your feasts: beside your vows and freewill offerings, in your
burntofferings, meatofferings, drinkofferings and peaceofferings. And Moses told
the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD commanded him.
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And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel saying:
this is the thing which the LORD commandeth. If a man vow a vow unto the LORD or
swear an oath and bind his soul, he shall not go back with his word: but shall
fulfil all that proceedeth out of his mouth. If a damsel vow a vow unto the LORD
and bind herself being in her father's house and unmarried: If her father hear
her vow and bond which she hath made upon her soul, and hold his peace thereto:
then all her vows and bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall stond in
effect. But and if her father forbid her the same day that he heareth it, none
of her vows nor bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall be of value, and
the LORD shall forgive her, because her father forbade her. If she had an
husband when she vowed or pronounced ought out of her lips wherewith she bound
her soul, and her husband heard it and held his peace thereat the same day he
heard it: Then her vows and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul, shall stond
in effect. But and if her husband forbade her the same day that he heard it,
then hath he made her vow which she had upon her of none effect, and that also
which she pronounced with her lips wherewith she bound her soul, and the LORD
shall forgive her. The vow of a widow and of her that is divorced, and all that
they have bound their souls withal, shall stond in effect with them. If she
vowed in her husband's house or bound her soul with an oath, and her husband
heard it and held his peace and forbade her not: then all her vows and bonds
wherewith she bound her soul, shall stond. But if her husband disannulled them
the same day that he heard them, then nothing that proceeded out of her lips in
vows and bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stond in effect: for her
husband hath lowsed them, and the LORD shall forgive her. All vows and oaths
that bind to humble the soul, may her husband stablish or break. But if her
husband hold his peace from one day unto another, then he stablisheth all her
vows and bonds which she had upon her, because he held his peace the same day
that he heard them. And if he afterward break them, he shall bear her sin
himself. These are the ordinances which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man
and his wife, and between the father and his daughter, being a damsel in her
father's house.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: avenge the children of Israel of the
Madianites, and afterward be gathered unto thy people. And Moses spake unto the
folk saying: Harness some of you unto war, and let them go upon the Madianites
and avenge the LORD of the Madianites. Ye shall send unto the war a thousand of
every tribe thorowout all the tribes of Israel. And there were taken out of the
thousands of Israel twelve thousand prepared unto war, of every tribe a
thousand. And Moses sent them a thousand of every tribe, with Phineas the son of
Eleazer the priest to war, and the holy vessels and the trumpets to blow with in
his hand. And they warred against the Madianites, as the LORD commanded Moses,
and slew all the males. And they slew the kings of Madian among other that were
slain: Eui, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba: five kings of Madian. And they slew Balam
the son of Beor with the sword. And the children of Israel took all the women of
Madian prisoners and their children, and spoiled all their cattle, their
substance and their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt,
and all their castles with fire. And they took all the spoil and all they could
catch, both of men and beasts. And they brought the captives and that which they
had taken and all the spoil unto Moses and Eleazer the priest and unto the
company of the children of Israel, even unto the host, in the fields of Moab by
Iordan nye to Iericho. And Moses and Eleazer the priest and all the lords of the
congregation went out of the host against them. And Moses was angry with the
officers of the host, with the captains over thousands and over hundreds, which
came from war and battle, and said unto them: Have ye saved the women alive?
behold, these caused the children of Israel thorow Balam, to commit trespass
against the LORD, by the reason of Peor, and there followed a plague among the
congregation of the LORD. Now therefore slay all the men children and the women
that have lien with men fleshly: But all the women children that have not lien
with men, keep alive for your selves. And lodge without the host seven days all
that have killed any person and all that have twiched any dead body, and purify
both your selves and your prisoners the third day and the seventh. And sprinkle
all your raiments and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair,
and all things made of wood. And Eleazer the priest said unto all the men of war
which went out to battle: this is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
commanded Moses: Gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead, and all that may abide
the fire, ye shall make it go thorow the fire, and then it is clean.
Neverthelater, it shall be sprinkled with sprinkling water. And all that
suffereth not the fire, ye shall make go thorow the water. And wash your clothes
the seventh day, and then ye are clean. And afterward come into the host. And
the LORD spake unto Moses saying: take the sum of the prey that was taken, both
of the women and of cattle, thou and Eleazer the priest and the ancient heads of
the congregation. And divide it into two parts, between them that took the war
upon them and went out to battle and all the congregation. And take a portion
unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle one of five hundred, of
the women and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep and ye shall take it
of their half and give it unto Eleazer the priest, an heave offering unto the
LORD. And of the half of the children of Israel, take one of fifty, of the
women, of the oxen, of the asses and of the sheep, and of all manner of beasts,
and give them unto the Levites which wait upon the habitation of the LORD. And
Moses and Eleazer the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. And the booty and
the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy
five thousand sheep: and seventy two thousand oxen: and sixty one thousand
asses: and thirty two thousand women that had lien by no man. And the half which
was the part of them that went out to war, was three hundred thousand and thirty
seven thousand and five hundred sheep: And the LORD's part of the sheep was six
hundred and seventy five. And the oxen were thirty six thousand, of which the
LORD's part was seventy two. And the asses were thirty thousand and five
hundred, of which the LORD's part was sixty one. And the women were sixteen
thousand, of which the LORD's part was thirty two souls. And Moses gave that sum
which was the LORD's heave offering unto Eleazer the priest: as the LORD
commanded Moses. And the other half of the children of Israel which Moses
separated from the men of war (that is to wete, the half that pertained unto the
congregation) was three hundred thousand and thirty seven thousand and five
hundred sheep: and thirty six thousand oxen: and thirty thousand asses and five
hundred: and sixteen thousand women. And Moses took of this half that pertained
unto the children of Israel: one of every fifty, both of the women and of the
cattle, and gave them unto the Levites which waited upon the habitation of the
LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses. And the officers of thousands of the host,
the captains over the thousands and the captains over the hundreds came forth
and said unto Moses: Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war, which
were under our hand, and there lacked not one man of them. We have therefore
brought a present unto the LORD what every man found of Iewels of gold, chains,
bracelets, rings, earrings and spangles, to make an atonement for our souls
before the LORD. And Moses and Eleazer took the gold of them: Iewels of all
manner fashions. And all the gold of the heave offering of the LORD, of the
captains over thousands and hundreds was sixteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty sicles, which {for} the men of war had spoiled, every man for himself. And
Moses and Eleazer the priest took the gold of the captains over the thousands
and over the hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of witness: to be a
memorial unto the children of Israel, before the LORD.
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The children of Ruben and the children of Gad, had an exceeding great multitude
of cattle. And when they saw the land of Iaeser and the land of Gilead that it
was an apt place for cattle, they came and spake unto Moses and Eleazer the
priest and unto the lords of the congregation saying. The land of Ataroth, Dibo
and Beon, which country the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel: is a
land for cattle and we thy servants have cattle wherefore (said they) if we have
found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants to possess,
and bring us not over Iordan. And Moses said unto the children of Gad and of
Ruben: shall your brethren go to war and ye tarry here? Wherefore discourage ye
the hearts of the children of Israel for to go over into the land which the LORD
hath given them? This did your fathers, when I sent them from Cades bernea to
see the land. And they went up even unto the river of Escol and saw the land,
and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go
into the land which the LORD had given them. And the LORD was wroth the same
time and sware saying: None of the men that came out of Egypt from twenty years
old and above, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob,
because they have not continually followed me: save Caleb the son of Iephune the
Kenesite, and Iosua the son of Nun, for they have followed me continually. And
the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty
years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were
consumed. And behold, ye are risen up in your father's stead, the increase of
sinful men, to augment the fierce wrath of the LORD to Israelward. For if ye
turn away from after him, he will yet again leave the people in the wilderness,
so shall ye destroy all this folk. And they went near him and said: we will
build sheepfolds here for our sheep and for our cattle, and cities for our
children: But we our selves will go ready armed before the children of Israel,
until we have brought them unto their place. And our children shall dwell in the
strong {fenced} cities, because of the inhabiters of the land. And we will not
return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited: every man
his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Iordan
forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Iordan eastward.
And Moses said unto them: If ye will do this thing, that ye will go all
harnessed before the LORD to war, and will go all of you in harness over Iordan
before the LORD, until he have cast out his enemies before him, and until the
land be subdued before the LORD, then ye shall return and be without sin against
the LORD and against Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the
LORD. But and if ye will not do so, behold, ye sin against the LORD: and be sure
your sin will find you out. Build your cities for your children and folds for
your sheep, and see ye do that ye have spoken. And the Children of Gad and of
Ruben spake unto Moses saying: thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. Our
children, our wives, substance and all our cattle shall remain here in the
cities of Gilead. But we thy servants will go all harnessed for the war unto
battle before the LORD, as my lord hath said. And Moses commanded Eleazer the
priest: and Iosua the son of Nun and the ancient heads of the tribes of the
children of Israel, and said unto them: If the children of Gad and Ruben will go
with you over Iordan, all prepared to fight before the LORD: then when the land
is subdued unto you, give them the land of Gilead to possess, but and if they
will not go over with you in harness, then they shall have their possessions
among you in the land of Canaan. And the children of Gad and Ruben answered
saying: that which the LORD hath said unto thy servants we will do. We will go
harnessed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our
inheritance shall be on this side the Iordan. And Moses gave unto the children
of Gad and of Ruben and unto half the tribe of Manasse the son of Ioseph, the
kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the
land that longed unto the cities thereof in the coasts of the country round
about. And the children of Gad built Dibo, ataroth Aroer, Atroth, Sophan,
Iaeser, Iegabea, Bethnimra and Betharan strong {fenced} cities, and they built
folds for their sheep. And the children of Ruben built Hesebon, Elalea,
Kiriathaim, Nebo, Baal Meon and turned their names, and Sibama also: and gave
names unto the cities which they built. And the children of Machir the son of
Manasse went to Gilead and took it, and put out the Amorites that were therein.
And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasse and he dwelt therein. And
Iahir the son of Manasse went and took the small towns thereof, and called them
the towns of Iair. And Nobah went and took kenath with the towns longing
thereto, and called it Nobah after his own name.
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These are the journeys of the children of Israel which went out of the land of
Egypt with their armies under Moses and Aaron. And Moses wrote their going out
by their journeys at the commandment of the LORD: even these are the journeys of
their going out. The children of Israel departed from Rameses the fifteenth day
of the first month, on the morrow after Passover and went out with an high hand
in the sight of all Egypt, while the Egyptians buried all their firstborn which
the LORD had smoten among them. And upon their gods also the LORD did execution.
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses and pitched in Sucoth. And they
departed from Sucoth and pitched their tents in Ethan, which is in the edge of
the wilderness. And they removed from Ethan and turned unto the entering of
Hiroth which is before Baal Zephon, and pitched before Migdol. And they departed
from before Hiroth and went thorow the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and
went three days journey in the wilderness of Ethan, and pitched in Marah. And
they removed from Marah and went unto Elim where were twelve fountains and
seventy date {palm} trees and they pitched there. And they removed from Elim and
lay fast by the red sea. And they removed from the red sea and lay in the
wilderness of Zin. And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Zin, and
set up their tents in Daphka. And they departed from Daphka, and lay in Alus.
And they removed from Alus, and lay at Raphedim, where was no water for the
people to drink. And they departed from Raphedim, and pitched in the wilderness
of Sinai. And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and lodged at the graves of
lust. And they departed from the sepulchres of lust, and lay at Hazeroth. And
they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithma. And departed from Rithma and
pitched at Rimon Parez. And they departed from Rimon Parez, and pitched in
Libna. And they removed from Libna, and pitched at Rissa. And they journeyed
from Rissa and pitched at Kehelatha. And they went from Kehelatha, and pitched
in mount Sapher. And they removed from mount Sapher, and lay in Harada. And they
removed from Harada, and pitched in Makeheloth. And they removed from
Makeheloth, and lay at Tahath, and they departed from Tahath and pitched at
Tharath. And they removed from Tharath, and pitched in Mithca. And they went
from Mithca, and lodged in Hasmona. And they departed from Hasmona, and lay at
Moseroth. And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched among the children of
Iaken. And they removed from the children of [Bane] Iaken, and lay at Horgadgad.
And they went from Horgadgad, and pitched in Iathbatha. And they removed from
Iathbatha, and lay at Abrona. And they departed from Abrona, and lay at Ezeon
gaber. And they removed from Ezeon gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin,
which is Cades. And they removed from Cades, and pitched in mount Hor, in the
edge of the land of Moab. {Edom} And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at
the commandment of the LORD and died there, even in the fortieth year, after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and in the first day of
the fifth month. And Aaron was an hundred and thirty three years old when he
died in mount Hor. And king Erad the Cananite which dwelt in the south of the
land of Canaan, heard that the children of Israel were come. And they departed
from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmona. And they departed from Zalmona, and
pitched in Phimon, and they departed from Phimon, and pitched in Oboth. And they
departed from Oboth, and pitched in Igim Abarim {Iehabarim} in the borders of
Moab. And they departed from Igim, {Iehabarim} and pitched in Dibon Gad. And
they removed from Dibon Gad, and lay in Almon Diblathama. And they removed from
Almon Diblathama, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim before Nibo. And they
departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the fields of Moab fast by
Iordan nye to Iericho. And they pitched upon Iordan, from Beth Haiesmoth unto
the plain of Sitim {Abelsatim} in the fields of Moab. And the LORD spake unto
Moses in the fields of Moab by Iordan nye unto Iericho, saying: speak unto the
children of Israel and say unto them: when ye are come over Iordan into the land
of Canaan, see that ye drive out all the inhabiters of the land before you, and
destroy their imaginations {chapels} and all their Images of Metal, and pluck
down all their altars built on hills: And possess the land and dwell therein,
for I have given you the land to enjoy it. And ye shall divide the inheritance
of the land by lot among your kindreds, and give to the more the more
inheritance, and to the fewer the less inheritance. And your inheritance shall
be in the tribes of your fathers, in the place where every man's lot falleth.
But and if ye will not drive out the inhabiters of the land before you, then
these {those} which ye let remain of them, shall be thorns in your eyes and
darts in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. Moreover it
will come to pass, that I shall do unto you as I thought to do unto them.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses saying: command the children of Israel and say
unto them: when ye come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall
fall unto your inheritance, the land of Canaan with all her coasts. And your
south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, so
that your south quarter shall be from the side of the salt sea eastward, and
shall fetch a compass from the south up to Acrabim, and reach to Zinna. And it
shall go out on the south side of Cades Bernea, and go out also at Hazar Adar,
and go along to Azmon. And shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of
Egypt, and shall go out at the sea. And your west quarter shall be the great
sea, which coast shall be your west coast. And this shall be your north quarter:
ye shall compass from the great sea unto mount Hor. And from mount Hor, ye shall
compass and go unto Hemath, and the end of the coast shall be at Zedada, and the
coast shall reach out to Ziphron and go out at Hazor enan. And this shall be
your north quarter. And ye shall compass your east quarter from Hazar Enan to
Sepham. And the coast shall go down from Sepham to Ribla on the east side of
Ain. And then descend and go out at the side of the sea of Cenereth eastward.
And then go down along by Iordan, and leave at the salt sea. And this shall be
your land with all the coasts thereof round about. And Moses commanded the
children of Israel, saying: this is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, and
which the LORD commanded to give unto nine tribes and an half: for the tribe of
the children of Ruben, have received, in the households of their fathers, and
the tribe of the children of Gad in their fathers' households, and half the
tribe of Manasse, have received their inheritance, that is to wete two tribes
and a half have received their inheritance on the other side of Iordan by
Iericho eastward, toward the son rising. And the LORD spake to Moses saying:
These are the names of the men, which shall divide you the land to inherit.
Eleazer the priest, and Iosua the son of Nun. And ye shall take also a lord of
every tribe to divide the land, whose names are these: in the tribe of Iuda,
Caleb the son of Iephune. And in the tribe of the children of Simeon, Semuel the
son of Amiud, and in the tribe of BenIamin, Elidad the son of Cislon. And in the
tribe of the children of Dan, the lord Bucki the son of Iagli. And among the
children of Ioseph: in the tribe of the children of Manasse, the lord Haniel the
son of Ephod. And in the tribe of the children of Ephraim, the lord Cemuel the
son of Siphtan. And in the tribe of the sons of Zabulon, the lord Elizaphan the
son of Parnac. And in the tribe of the children of Isachar, the lord Palthiel
the son of Asan. And in the tribe of the sons of Aser, the lord Ahihud the son
of Selomi. And in the tribe of the children of Naphthali, the lord Pada El the
son of Ammihud. These are they which the LORD commanded to divide the
inheritance unto the children of Israel, in the land of Canaan.
Chapter
.xxxv.
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the fields of Moab by Iordan Iericho saying:
command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the
inheritance of their possession: cities to dwell in. And ye shall give also unto
the cities of the Levites, suburbs round about them. The cities shall be for
them to dwell in, and the suburbs for their cattle, possession and all manner
beasts of theirs. And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the
Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward, a thousand cubits round
about. And ye shall measure without the city, and make the utmost border of the
east side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the south side: two
thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the west side: two thousand cubits.
And the utmost border of the north side: two thousand cubits also: and the city
shall be in the midst. And these shall be the suburbs of their cities. And among
the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities of
franchise which ye shall give to that intent that he which killeth, may fly
thither. And to them ye shall add forty two cities more: {mo} so that all the
cities which ye shall give the Levites shall be forty eight with their suburbs.
And of the cities which ye shall give out of the possessions of the children of
Israel, ye shall give many out of their possessions that have much and few out
of their possessions that have little: so that every tribe shall give of his
cities unto the Levites, according to the inheritance which he inheriteth. And
the LORD spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel and say unto
them: when ye be come over Iordan into the land of Canaan, ye shall build cities
which shall be privileged towns for you: that he which slayeth a man unawares,
may fly thither. And the cities shall be to flee from the executer of blood,
that he which killed die not, until he stond before the congregation in
judgement. And of these six free cities which ye shall give three ye shall give
on this side Iordan and three in the land of Canaan. And these six free cities
shall be for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for him that
dwelleth among you, that all they which kill any person unawares, may flee
thither. If any man smite another with a weapon of iron that he die, then he is
a murderer, and shall die for it. If he smite him with a throwing stone that he
die therewith, then he shall die: For he is a murderer and shall be slain
therefore. If he smite him with a hand weapon of wood that he die therewith,
then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore. The judge
{justice} of blood shall slay the murderer, as soon as he findeth him: If he
thrust him of hate, or hurl at him with laying of wait that he die or smite him
with his hand of envy that he die, he that smote him shall die, for he is a
murderer. The justice of blood shall slay him as soon as he findeth him. But and
if he pushed him by chance and not of hate or cast at him with any manner of
thing and not of laying of wait: or cast any manner of stone at him that he die
therewith, and saw him not: And he cast it upon him and he died, but was not his
enemy, neither sought him any harm: Then the congregation shall judge between
the slayer and the executer of blood in such cases. And the congregation shall
deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of blood, and shall restore him
again unto the franchised city, whither he was fled. And he shall bide there
unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with holy oil. But and if
he came without the borders of his privileged city whither he was fled, if the
blood avenger find him without the borders of his free town, he shall slay the
murderer and be guiltless, because he should have bidden in his free town until
the death of the high priest, and after the death of the high priest, he shall
return again unto the land of his possession. And this shall be an ordinance and
a law unto you, among your children after you in all your habitations. Whosoever
slayeth, shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not
answer against one person to put him to death. Moreover ye shall take none
amends for the life of the murderer which is worthy to die: But he shall be put
to death. Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free city,
that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death of the high
priest. And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth
the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed
therein, but by the blood of it that shed it. Defile not therefore the land
which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell, for I am, the LORD
which dwell among the children of Israel.
Chapter
.xxxvi.
And the ancient heads of the children of Gilead the son of Machir the son of
Manasse of the kindred of the children of Ioseph, came forth and spake before
Moses and the princes which were ancient heads among the children of Israel and
said: The LORD commanded my lord to give the land to inherit by lot to the
children of Israel. And then my lord commanded in the name of the LORD to give
the inheritance of Zelaphead our brother unto his daughters. Now when any of the
sons of the tribes of Israel take them to wives, then shall their inheritance be
taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put unto the inheritance
of the tribe in which they are and shall be taken from the lot of our
inheritance. And when the free year {of jubilee} cometh unto the children of
Israel, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe
where they are in, and so shall their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers. And Moses commanded the children of
Israel at the mouth of the LORD saying: the tribe of the children of Ioseph have
said well. This therefore doeth the LORD: command the daughters of Zelaphead
saying: let them be wives to whom they themself think best, but in the kindred
of the tribe of their fathers shall they marry, that the inheritance of the
children of Israel roll not from tribe to tribe. But that the children of Israel
may abide, every man in the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. And every
daughter that possesseth any inheritance among the tribes of the children of
Israel, shall be wife unto one of the kindred of the tribe of her father, that
the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father, and
that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of
the children of Israel, may abide every man in his own inheritance. And as the
LORD commanded Moses even so did the daughters of Zelaphead: Mahela, Thirza,
Hagla, Milcha and Noa, and were married unto their fathers' brothers' sons, of
the kindred of the children of Manasse the son of Ioseph: and so they had their
inheritance in the tribe of the kindred of their father. These are the
commandments and laws which the LORD commanded thorow Moses, unto the children
of Israel in the fields of Moab upon Iordan nye unto Iericho.
The end of the .iiij. book of Moses.
Chapter
.j.
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel, on the other side Iordan
in the wilderness and in the fields by the red sea, between Pharan and Tophel,
Laban, Hazeroth and Disahab twelve days journey from Horeb unto Cades barne, by
the way that leadeth unto mount Seir. And it fortuned the first day of the
eleventh month in the fortieth year, that Moses spake unto the children of
Israel according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them,
after that he had smote Sehon the king of the Amorites which dwelt in Hesbon,
and Og king of Basan which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei. On the other side Iordan
in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law saying: the LORD our God
spake unto us in Horeb saying: Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: depart
therefore and take your journey and go unto the hills of the Amorites and unto
all places nye there unto: both fields, hills and dales: and unto the south and
unto the sea's side in the land of Canaan, and unto Libanon: even unto the great
river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in therefore and
possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers Abraham, Isaac and
Iacob, to give unto them and their seed after them. And I said unto you the same
season: I am not able to bear you myself alone. For the LORD your God hath
multiplied you: so that ye are this day as the stars of heaven in number (the
LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and
bless you as he hath promised you) how (said I) can I myself alone, bear the
cumbrance, charge and strife that is among you: bring therefore men of wisdom
and of understanding and expert, known among your tribes, that I may make them
rulers over you. And ye answered me and said: that which thou hast spoken is
good to be done. And then I took the heads of your tribes, men of wisdom and
that were expert, and made them rulers over you: captains over thousands and
over hundreds, over fifty and over ten, and officers among your tribes. And I
charged your judges the same time saying: hear your brethren and judge
righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him.
See that ye know no man in judgement: but hear the small as well as the great
and be afraid of no man, for the law is God's. {judgment is Gods} And the cause
that is too hard for you, bring unto me and I will hear it. And I commanded you
the same season, all the things which ye should do. And then we departed from
Horeb and walked thorow all that great and terrible wilderness as ye have seen
along by the way that leadeth unto the hills of the Amorites, as the LORD our
God commanded us, and came to Cades barne. And there I said unto you: Ye are
come unto the hills of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
Behold the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee, go up and conquer it, as
the LORD God of thy fathers sayeth unto thee: fear not, neither be discouraged.
And then ye came unto me every one and said: Let us send men before us, to
search us out the land and to bring us word again, both what way we shall go up
by, and unto what cities we shall come. And the saying pleased me well, and I
took twelve men of you, of every tribe one. And they departed and went up into
the high country and came unto the river Escol, and searched it out, and took of
the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down unto us and brought us
word again and said: it is a good land which the LORD our God doeth give us.
Notwithstanding ye would not consent to go up, but were disobedient unto the
mouth of the LORD your God, and murmured in your tents and said: because the
LORD hateth us, therefore he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to
deliver us into the hands of the Amorites and to destroy us. How shall we go up?
Our brethren have discouraged our hearts saying: the people is greater and
taller than we, and the cities are great and walled even up to heaven, and
moreover we have seen the sons of the Enakims there. And I said unto you: dread
not nor be afraid of them: The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall
fight for you, according to all that he did unto you in Egypt before your eyes
and in the wilderness: as thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee as
a man should bear his son, thorowout all the way which ye have gone, until ye
came unto this place. And yet for all this saying ye did not believe the LORD
your God which goeth the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your
tents in, in fire by night, that ye might see what way to go and in a cloud by
day. And the LORD heard the voice of your words and was wroth and swore saying,
there shall not one of these men of this froward generation see that good land
which I sware to give unto your fathers, save Caleb the son of Iephune, he shall
see it, and to him I will give the land which he hath walked in and to his
children, because he hath continually followed the LORD. Likewise the LORD was
angry with me for your sakes saying: thou also shalt not go in thither. But
Iosua the son of Nun which stondeth before thee, he shall go in thither. Bold
him therefore for he shall divide it unto Israel. Moreover your children which
ye said should be a prey, and your sons which know neither good nor bad this
day, they shall go in thither and unto them I will give it, and they shall enjoy
it. But as for you, turn back and take your journey into the wilderness: even
the way to the red sea. Then ye answered and said unto me: We have sinned
against the LORD: we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our
God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war and
were ready to go up into the hills, the LORD said unto me: say unto them, see
that ye go not up and that ye fight not, for I am not among you: lest ye be
plagued before your enemies. And when I told you ye would not hear: but
disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hills. Then
the Amorites which dwelt in those hills, came out against you and chased you as
bees do, and hewed you in Seir, even unto Horma. And ye came again and wept
before the LORD: but the LORD would not hear your voice nor give you audience.
And so ye abode in Cades a long season, according unto the time that ye there
dwelt.
Chapter
.ij.
Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness, even the way to the red
sea as the LORD commanded me. And we compassed the mountains of Seir a long
time. Then the LORD spake unto me saying: Ye have compassed these mountains long
enough, turn you northward. And warn the people saying: Ye shall go thorow the
coasts of your brethren the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and they shall
be afraid of you: But take good heed unto your selves that ye provoke them not,
for I will not give you of their land, no not so much as a foot breadth: because
I have given mount Seir unto Esau to possess. Ye shall buy meat of them for
money to eat, and ye shall buy water of them for money to drink. For the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hand, and knew thee as thou
wentest thorow this great wilderness. Moreover the LORD thy God hath been with
thee this forty years, so that thou hast lacked nothing. And when we were
departed from our brethren the children of Esau which dwelt in Seir by the field
way from Elath and Ezion Gaber, we turned and went the way to the wilderness of
Moab. Then the LORD said unto me: see that thou vex not the Moabites, neither
provoke them to battle for I will not give thee of their land to possess:
because I have given Ar unto the children of loth to possess. The Emims dwelt
therein in times past, a people great, many and tall, as the Enakims: which also
were taken for giants as the Enakims: And the Moabites called them Emims. In
like manner the Horims dwelt in Seir before time which the children of Esau cast
out, and destroyed them before them and dwelt there in their stead: as Israel
did in the land of his possession which the LORD gave them. Now rise up (said I)
and get you over the river Zared: and we went over the river Zared. The space in
which we came from Cades barne until we were come over the river Zared was
thirty eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out
of the host as the LORD sware unto them. For indeed the hand of the LORD was
against them, to destroy them out of the host, till they were consumed. And as
soon as all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, then
the LORD spake unto me saying: Thou shalt go thorow Ar the coast of Moab this
day, and shalt come nye unto the children of Ammon: see that thou vex them not,
nor yet provoke them. For I will not give thee of the land of the children of
Ammon to possess, because I have given it unto the children of Loth to possess.
That also was taken for a land of giants and giants dwelt therein in old time,
and the Ammonites called them Zamzumims. A people that was great, many and tall,
as the Enakims. But the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they cast
them out and they dwelt there in their stead: as he did for the children of Esau
which dwell in Seir: even as he destroyed the Horims before them, and they cast
them out and dwell in their stead unto this day. And the Avims which dwelt in
Hazarim even unto Aza, the Caphthorims which came out of Caphthor destroyed them
and dwelt in their rooms. Rise up, take your journey and go over the river
Arnon. Behold, I have given into thy hand Sehon the Amorite king of Hesbon, and
his land. Go to and conquer and provoke him to battle. This day I will begin to
send the fear and dread of thee upon all nations that are under all ports of
heaven: so that when they hear speak of thee, they shall tremble and quake for
fear of thee. Then I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto
Sihon king of Hesbon, with words of peace saying: Let me go thorow thy land. I
will go always along by the high way and will neither turn unto the right hand
nor to the left. Sell me meat for money for to eat, and give me drink for money
for to drink: I will go thorow by foot only (as the children of Esau did unto me
which dwell in Seir and the Moabites which dwell in Ar) until I be come over
Iordan, into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. But Sihon the king of
Hesbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD thy God had hardened his
spirit and made his heart tough because he would deliver him into thy hands as
it is come to pass this day. And the LORD said unto me: behold, I have begun to
set Sihon and his land before thee: go to and conquer, that thou mayst possess
his land. Then both Sihon and all his people came out against us unto battle at
Iahab. And the LORD set him before us, and we smote him and his sons and all his
people. And we took all his cities the same season, and destroyed all the cities
with men, women, and children and let nothing remain, save the cattle only we
caught unto our selves and the spoil of the cities which we took, from Aroer
upon the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead:
there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all unto
us: only unto the land of the children of Ammon ye came not, nor {ner} unto all
the coast of the river Iabock nor {ner} unto the cities in the mountains, nor
unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us.
Chapter
.iij.
Then we turned and went up the way to Basan. And Og the king of Basan came out
against us: both he and all his people to battle at Edrei. And the LORD said
unto me: fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land
into thy hand and thou shalt deal with him as thou dealest with Sihon king of
the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon. And so the LORD our God delivered into our
hands, Og also the king of Basan and all his folk. And we smote him until nought
was left him. And we took all his cities the same season (for there was not a
city which we took not from them) even three score cities, all the region of
Argob, the kingdom of Og in Basan. All these cities were made strong with high
walls, gates and bars, beside unwalled towns a great many. And we utterly
destroyed them, as we played with Sihon king of Hesbon: bringing to nought all
the cities with men, women and children. But all the cattle and the spoil of the
cities, we caught for ourselves. And thus we took the same season, the land out
of the hand of two kings of the Amorites on the other side Iordan, from the
river of Arnon unto mount Hermon (which Hermon the Sidons call Sirion, but the
Amorites call it Senir) all the cities in the plain and all Gilead and all Basan
unto Salcha and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan. For only Og king of
Basan remained of the remnant of the giants: behold, his iron bed is yet at
Rabath among the children of Ammon nine cubits long and, four cubits broad, of
the cubits of a man. And when we had conquered this land the same time, I gave
from Aroer which is upon the river of Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the
cities thereof unto the Rubenites, and Gadites. And the rest of Gilead and all
Basan the kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Manasse: all the region
of Argob with all Basan was called the land of giants. Iair the son of Manasse
took all the region of Argob unto the coasts of Gesuri and Maachati, and called
the towns of Basan after his own name: the towns of [Havoth] Iair unto this day.
And I gave half Gilead unto Machir. And unto Ruben and Gad, I gave from Gilead
unto the river of Arnon and half the valley and the coast, even unto the river
Iabock which is the border of the children of Ammon, and the fields and Iordan
with the coast, from Cenereth even unto the sea in the field which is the salt
sea under the springs of Pisga eastward. And I commanded you the same time (ye
Ruben and Gad) saying: the LORD your God hath given you this land to enjoy it:
see that ye go harnessed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that
are men of war among you. Your wives only, your children and your cattle (for I
wot that ye have much cattle) shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you, and until
they also have conquered the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond
Iordan: and then return again every man unto his possession which I have given
you. And I warned Iosua the same time saying: thine eyes have seen all that the
LORD your God hath done unto these two kings, even so the LORD will do unto all
kingdoms whither thou goest. Fear them not, for the LORD your God he it is that
fighteth for you. And I besought the LORD the same time saying: O Lord Iehoua,
thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand, for there
is no God in heaven nor in earth that can do after thy works and after thy
power: let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Iordan, that goodly
high country and Libanon. But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and
would not hear me, but said unto me, be content, and speak henceforth no more
unto me of this matter; Get thee up into the top of Pisga and lift up thine eyes
west, north, south and east, and behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go
over this Iordan. Moreover, charge Iosua and courage him and bold him. For he
shall go over before his people, and he shall divide the land which thou shalt
see unto them. And so we abode in the valley beside Beth Peor.
Chapter
.iiij.
And now hearken Israel unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you, for to do
them, that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the LORD God of your
fathers giveth you. Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you
neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your
God which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal Peor:
for all the men that followed Baal Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from
among you. But ye that clave unto the LORD your God, are alive every one of you
this day. Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the LORD my God
commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in
the sight of the nations: which when they have heard all these ordinances, shall
say: O what a wise and understanding people is this great nation. For what
nation is so great that hath Gods {Goddes} so nye unto him: as the LORD our God
is nye unto us, in all things, when we call unto him? Yea, and what nation is so
great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set
before you this day. Take heed to thy self therefore only and keep thy soul
diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that
they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them
thy sons, and thy sons son's. The day that I stood before the LORD your God in
Horeb, when he said unto me, gather me the people together, that I may make them
hear my words that they may learn to fear me as long as they live upon the earth
and that they may teach their children: ye came and stood also under the hill,
and the hill burnt with fire: even unto the midst of heaven, and there was
darkness, clouds and mist. And the LORD spake unto you out of the fire and ye
heard the voice of the words: But saw no image, save heard a voice only. And he
declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, even ten verses
and wrote them in two tables of stone. And the LORD commanded me the same season
to teach you ordinances and laws, for to do them in the land whither ye go to
possess it. Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls,
for ye saw no manner of image the day when the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out
of the fire: lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever
likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman or any manner beast
that is on the earth or of any manner feathered fowl that flyeth in the air, or
of any manner worm that creepeth on the earth or of any manner fish that is in
the water beneath the earth: Yea and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven,
and when thou seest the son and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is
contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them
and serve the things which the LORD thy God hath distributed unto all nations
that are under all quarters of heaven. For the LORD took you and brought you out
of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as it is
come to pass this day. Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes
and sware, that I should not go over Iordan and that I should not go unto that
good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inheritance. For I must die in
this land, and shall not go over Iordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that
good land. Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the
appointment of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no
graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. For
the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. If after thou hast
gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye
shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it
be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him.
I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly
perish from off the land whither ye go over Iordan to possess it: Ye shall not
prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. And the LORD shall
scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people
whither the LORD shall bring you: and there ye shall serve gods which are the
works of man's hand, wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor
smell. Neverthelater ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find
him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul. In thy
tribulation and when all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter
days, thou shalt turn unto the LORD thy God, and shalt hearken unto his voice.
For the LORD thy God is a pitiful God: he will not forsake thee neither destroy
thee, nor forget the appointment made with thy fathers which he sware unto them.
For ask I pray thee of the days that are past which were before thee, since the
day that God created man upon the earth and from the one side of heaven unto the
other, whether anything hath been like unto this great thing or whether any such
thing hath been heard as it is, that a nation hath heard the voice of God
speaking out of fire as thou hast heard, and yet lived? either whether God
assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, thorow temptations and
signs and wonders and thorow war and with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm
and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the LORD your God did
unto you in Egypt before your eyes. Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest
know, how that the LORD he is God and that there is none but he. Out of heaven
he made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he shewed thee his
great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire. And because he loved
thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out with
his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt: to thrust out nations greater
and mightier than thou before thee, to bring thee in and to give thee their land
to inheritance: as it is come to pass this day. Understand therefore this day
and turn it to thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the
earth beneath, there is no more: keep therefore his ordinances, and his
commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee and
with thy children after thee and that thou mayst prolong thy days upon the earth
which the LORD thy God giveth thee for ever. {thy life long.} Then Moses severed
three cities on the other side Iordan toward the son rising, that he should flee
thither which had killed his neighbour unwares and hated him not in time past,
and therefore should flee unto one of the same cities and live: Bezer in the
wilderness even in the plain country among the Rubenites: and Ramoth in Gilead
among the Gadites and Solan in Basan among the Manassites. This is the law which
Moses set before the children of Israel, and these are the witness, ordinances
and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of
Egypt, on the other side Iordan in the valley beside Beth Peor in the land of
Sehon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Hesbon, whom Moses and the children of
Israel smote after they were come out of Egypt, and conquered his land and the
land of Og king of Basan two kings of the Amorites on the other side Iordan
toward the son rising: from Aroer upon the bank of the river Arnon, unto mount
Sion which is called Hermon and all the fields on the other side Iordan
eastward: even unto the sea in the field under the springs of Pisga.
Chapter
.v.
And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them: Hear Israel the ordinances
and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that
ye do them. The LORD {Loode} our God made an appointment with us in Horeb. The
LORD made not this bond with our fathers, but with us: we are they, which are
all here alive this day. The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out
of the fire. And I stood between the LORD and you the same time, to shew you the
saying of the LORD. For ye were afraid of the fire and therefore went not up
into the mount and he said. I am the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the
land of Egypt the house of bondage. Thou shalt have therefore none other gods in
my presence. Thou shalt make thee no graven Image of any manner likeness that is
in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth.
Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God,
am a jealous God, visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even
in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me: and shew mercy
upon thousands among them that love me and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not
take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him
guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Keep the Sabbath day that thou sanctify
it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour and do
all that thou hast to do, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy
God: thou shalt do no manner work, neither thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor
thy servant nor thy maid nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle, nor
the stranger that is within thy city, that thy servant and thy maid may rest as
well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt and how
that the LORD God, brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched
out arm. For which cause the LORD thy God commandeth thee to keep the Sabbath
day. Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
that thou mayst prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not slee. Thou shalt not break
wedlock. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour. Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbour's wife: thou shalt not covet
thy neighbour's house, field, servant, maid, ox, ass nor ought that is thy
neighbour's. These words the LORD spake unto all your multitude in the mount out
of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and added no more thereto,
and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me. But as soon as
ye heard the voice out of the darkness and saw the hill burn with fire, ye came
unto me all the heads of your tribes and your elders: and ye said: behold, the
LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his
voice out of the fire, and we have seen this day that God may talk with a man
and he yet live. And now wherefore should we die that this great fire should
consume us: If we should hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we should
die. For what is any flesh that he should hear the voice of the living God
speaking out of the fire as we have done and should yet live: Go thou and hear
all that the LORD our God sayeth, and tell thou unto us all that the LORD our
God sayeth unto thee, and we will hear it and do it. And the LORD heard the
voice of your words when ye spake unto me, and he said unto me: I have heard the
voice of the words of this people which they have spoke unto thee, they have
well said all that they have said. Oh that they had such an heart with them to
fear me and keep all my commandments alway, that it might go well with them and
with their children for ever. Go and say unto them: get you into your tents
again, but stond thou here before me and I will tell thee all the commandments,
ordinances and laws which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the
land which I give them to possess. Take heed therefore that ye do as the LORD
your God hath commanded you, and turn not aside: either to the right hand or to
the left: but walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you,
that ye may live and that it may go well with you and that ye may prolong your
days in the land which ye shall possess.
Chapter
.vi.
These are the commandments, ordinances and laws which the LORD your God
commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to
possess it: that thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his ordinances
and his commandments which I command thee, both thou and thy son and thy son's
son all days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore Israel
and take heed that thou do thereafter, that it may go well with thee and that ye
may increase mightily: even as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, a
land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear Israel, the LORD thy God is LORD
onely, and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, with all thy
soul and with all thy might. And these words which I command thee this day,
shall be in thine heart and thou shalt whet them on thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou walkest by the way, and
when thou liest down and when thou risest up: and thou shalt bind them for a
sign upon thine hand. And they shall be papers of remembrance between thine
eyes, and shalt write them upon the posts of thy house and upon thy gates. And
when the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy
fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to give thee with great and goodly cities
which thou buildest not, and houses full of all manner goods which thou filledst
not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, and vines and olive trees which
thou planted not, and when thou hast eaten, and art full: Then beware lest thou
forget the LORD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt the house of
bondage. But fear the LORD thy God and serve him, and swear by his name, and see
that ye walk not after strange gods {goddes} off the gods of the nations which
are about you. For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you, lest the wrath
of the LORD thy God wax hot upon thee and destroy thee from the earth. Ye shall
not tempt the LORD your God as ye did at Masa. But see that ye keep the
commandments of the LORD your God, his witnesses and his ordinances which he
hath commanded thee, and see thou do that which is right and good in the sight
of the LORD: that thou mayst prosper and that thou mayst go and conquer that
good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, and that the LORD may cast out
all thine enemies before thee as he hath said. When thy son asketh thee in time
to come saying: What meaneth the witnesses, ordinances and laws which the LORD
our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son: We were bondmen
unto Pharao in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
And the LORD shewed signs and wonders both great and evil upon Egypt, Pharao and
upon all his household, before our eyes, and brought us from thence: to bring us
in and to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. And therefore
commanded us to do all these ordinances and for to fear the LORD our God, for
our wealth always and that he might save us, as it is come to pass this day.
Moreover it shall be righteousness unto us before the LORD our God, if we take
heed to keep all these commandments as he hath commanded us.
Chapter
.vij.
When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou goest to
possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee: the Hethites, the
Girgosites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pheresites, the Hevites and the
Iebusites. Seven nations more in number and mightier than thou: and when the
LORD thy God hath set them before thee that thou shouldest smite them, see that
thou utterly destroy them and make no covenant with them nor have compassion on
them. Also thou shalt make no marriages with them, neither give thy daughter
unto his son nor take his daughter unto thy son. For they will make your sons
depart from me and serve strange gods, and then will the wrath of the LORD wax
hot upon you and destroy you shortly. But thus ye shall deal with them:
overthrow their altars, break down their pillars, cut down their groves and burn
their images with fire. For thou art an holy nation unto the LORD thy God: the
LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a several people unto himself of all nations
that are upon the earth. It was not because of the multitude of you above all
nations, that the LORD had lust unto you and chose you. For ye were fewest of
all nations: But because the LORD loved you and because he would keep the oath
which he had sworn unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of Egypt with
a mighty hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage: even from the hand
of Pharao king of Egypt. Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God he is God
and that a true God, which keepeth appointment and mercy unto them that love him
and keep his commandments, even thorowout a thousand generations and rewardeth
them that hate him before his face so that he bringeth them to nought, and will
not defer the time unto him that hateth him but will reward him before his face.
Keep therefore the commandments, ordinances and laws which I command you this
day, that ye do them. If ye shall hearken unto these laws and shall observe and
do them, then shall the LORD thy God keep appointment with thee and the mercy
which he sware unto thy fathers and will love thee, bless thee and multiply
thee: he will bless the fruit of thy womb and the fruit of thy field, thy corn,
thy wine and thy oil, the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep in the
land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be blessed above
all nations, there shall be neither man nor woman unfruitful among you, nor
anything unfruitful among your cattle. Moreover the LORD will turn from thee all
manner infirmities, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou
knowest) upon thee, but will send them upon them that hate thee. Thou shalt
bring to nought all nations which the LORD thy God delivereth thee, thine eye
shall have no pity upon them neither shalt thou serve their gods, for that shall
be thy decay. If thou shalt say in thine heart: these nations are more than I,
how can I cast them out? Fear them not, but remember what the LORD thy God did
unto Pharao and unto all Egypt, and the great temptations which thine eyes saw,
and the signs and wonders and mighty hand and stretched out arm wherewith the
LORD thy God brought thee out: even so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the
nations of which thou art afraid. Thereto, the LORD thy God will send hornets
among them until they that are left, and hide them selves from thee, be
destroyed. See thou fear them not for the LORD {lord} thy God is among you a
mighty God and a terrible. The LORD thy God will put out these nations before
thee a little and a little: thou mayst not consume them at once lest the beasts
of the field increase upon thee. And the LORD {lorde} thy God shall deliver them
unto thee and stir up a mighty tempest among them, until they be brought to
nought. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy
their names from under heaven. There shall no man stond before thee, until thou
have destroyed them. The images of their gods thou shalt burn with fire, and see
that thou covet not the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee,
lest thou be snared therewith. For it is an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Bring not therefore the Abomination to thine house, lest thou be a damned thing
as it is: but utterly defy it and abhor it, for it is a thing that must be
destroyed.
Chapter
.viij.
All the commandments which I command thee this day ye shall keep for to do them,
that ye may live and multiply and go and possess the land which the LORD sware
unto your fathers. And think on all the way which the LORD thy God led thee this
forty years in the wilderness, for to humble thee and to prove thee, to wete
what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or no. He
humbled thee and made thee hunger and fed thee with manna which neither thou nor
thy father knew of, to make thee know that a man must not live by bread only:
but by all that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD must a man live. Thy
raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy feet swell this forty years.
Understand therefore in thine heart, that as a man nurtureth his son, even so
the LORD thy God nurtureth thee. Keep therefore the commandments of the LORD thy
God that thou walk in his ways and that thou fear him. For the LORD thy God
bringeth thee into a good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of
springs that spring out both in valleys and hills: a land of wheat and of
barley, of vines, fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees with oil and
of honey: a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness, and where thou
shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou
shalt dig brass. When thou hast eaten therefore and filled thyself, then bless
the LORD for the good land which he hath given thee. But beware that thou forget
not the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not keep his commandments, laws and
ordinances which I command thee this day: yea and when thou hast eaten and
filled thyself and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein, and when thy
beasts and thy sheep are waxed many and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied
and all that thou hast increased, then beware lest thine heart rise and thou
forget the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt the house of
bondage, and which led thee in the wilderness both great and terrible with fiery
serpents and scorpions and thirst {drouth} where was no water, which brought the
water out of the rock of flint: which fed thee in the wilderness with Man
whereof thy fathers knew not, for to humble thee and to prove thee, that he
might do thee good at thy latter end. And beware that thou say not in thine
heart, my power and the might of mine own hand hath done me all these acts: But
remember the LORD thy God, how that it is he which gave thee power to do
manfully, for to make good the promise which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is
come to pass this day. For if thou shalt forget the LORD thy God and shalt walk
after strange gods and serve them and worship them, I testify unto you this day,
that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before
thee, even so ye shall perish, because ye would not hearken unto the voice of
the LORD your God.
Chapter
.ix.
Hear Israel, thou goest over Iordan this day, to go and conquer nations greater
and mightier than thyself: and cities great and walled up to heaven, and people
great and tall, even the children of the Enakims, which thou knowest and of whom
thou hast heard say who is able to stond before the children of Enack? But
understand this day that the LORD thy God which goeth over before thee a
consuming fire, he shall destroy them and he shall subdue them before thee. And
thou shalt cast them out, and bring them to nought quickly as the LORD hath said
unto thee. Speak not in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them
out before thee saying: for my righteousness the LORD hath brought me into
possess this land. Nay, but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth
cast them out before thee. It is not for thy righteousness' sake and right heart
that thou goest to possess their land: But partly for the wickedness of these
nations, the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform
that which the LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob.
Understand therefore that it is not for thy righteousness' sake, that the LORD
thy God doth give thee this good land to possess it, for thou art a stiffnecked
people. Remember and forget not how thou provokedest the LORD thy God in the
wilderness: for since the day that thou camest out of the land of Egypt until ye
came unto this place, ye have rebelled against the LORD. Also in Horeb ye
angered the LORD so that the LORD was wroth with you, even to have destroyed
you, after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the
tables of appointment which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill
forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water. And the LORD
delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and in them was
according to all the words which the LORD said unto you in the mount out of the
fire in the day when the people were gathered together. And when the forty days
and forty nights were ended, the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the
tables of the testament, and said unto me: Up, and get thee down quickly from
hence, for thy people which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have marred them
selves. They are turned at once out of the way, which I commanded them, and have
made them a god of metal. Furthermore the LORD spake unto me saying: I see this
people how that it is a stiffnecked people, let me alone that I may destroy them
and put out the name of them from under heaven, and I will make of thee a nation
both greater and more than they. And I turned away and came down from the hill
(and the hill burnt with fire) and had the two tables of the appointment in my
hands. And when I looked and saw that ye had sinned against the LORD your God
and had made you a calf of metal and had turned at once out of the way which the
LORD had commanded you. Then I took the two tables and cast them out of my two
hands, and brake them before your eyes. And I fell before the LORD: even as at
the first time forty days and nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water,
over all your sins which ye had sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the
LORD and in provoking him. For I was afraid of the wrath and fierceness
wherewith the LORD was angry with you, even for to have destroyed you; But the
LORD heard my petition at that time also. The LORD was very angry with Aaron
also, even for to have destroyed him: But I made intercession for Aaron also the
same time. And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made and burnt him with
fire and stamped him and ground him a good, even unto small dust. And I cast the
dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount. Also at Thabeera
and at Masa and at the sepulchres of lust ye angered the LORD, yea and when the
LORD sent you from Cades Barnea saying: go up and conquer the land which I have
given you, ye disobeyed the mouth of the LORD your God, and neither believed him
nor hearkened unto his voice. Thus ye have been disobedient unto the LORD, since
the day that I knew you. And I fell before the LORD forty days and forty nights
which I lay there, for the LORD was minded to have destroyed you. But I made
intercession unto the LORD {Lorde} and said: O Lord Iehoua, destroy not thy
people and thine inheritance which thou hast delivered thorow thy greatness and
which thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Remember thy servants
Abraham, Isaac and Iacob and look not unto the stubbornness of this people nor
unto their wickedness and sin: lest the land whence thou broughtest them say:
Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them
and because he hated them, therefore he carried them out to destroy them in the
wilderness. Moreover they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out with thy mighty power and with thy stretched out arm.
Chapter
.x.
In the same season the LORD said unto me: hew thee two tables of stone like unto
the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an Ark of wood, and I
will write in the table, the words that were in the first tables which thou
brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of sethim wood
and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mountain
and the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote in the tables, according to the
first writing (the ten verses which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of
the fire in the day when the people were gathered) {[together]} and gave them
unto me. And I departed and came down from the hill and put the tables in the
ark which I had made: and there they remained, as the LORD commanded me. And the
children of Israel took their journey from Beroth Ben {of the children of} Iaken
to Mosera, where Aaron died and where he was buried, and Eleazer his son became
priest in his stead. And from thence they departed unto Gudgod: and from Gudgod
to Iathbath, a land of rivers of water. And the same season the LORD separated
the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the appointment of the LORD and to stond
before the LORD, and to minister unto him and to bless in his name unto this
day. Wherefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance with their brethren. The
LORD he is their inheritance, as the LORD thy God hath promised them. And I
tarried in the mount, even as at the first time forty days and forty nights, and
the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, so that the LORD would not destroy
thee. And the LORD said unto me: up and go forth in the journey before the
people and let them go in and conquer the land which I sware unto their fathers
to give unto them. And now Israel what is it that the LORD thy God requireth of
thee, but to fear the LORD thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him
and to serve the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, that
thou keep the commandments of the LORD and his ordinances which I command thee
this day, for thy wealth. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's
thy God, and the earth with all that therein is: only the LORD had a lust unto
thy fathers to love them, and therefore chose you their seed after them of all
nations, as it is come to pass this day Circumcise therefore the foreskin of
your hearts, and be no longer stiffnecked. For the LORD your God, he is God of
gods {God of goddes} and Lord of lords, {lorde of lordes} a great God, a mighty
and a terrible which regardeth no man's person nor taketh gifts: but doeth right
unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and
raiment. Love therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers your selves in the
land of Egypt. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God and serve him and cleave unto
him and swear by his name, for he is thy praise and he is thy God that hath done
these great and terrible things for thee, which thine eyes have seen. Thy
fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God hath
made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.
Chapter
.xi.
Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his
commandments alway. And call to mind this day that which your children have
neither known nor seen: even the nurture of the LORD your God, his greatness,
his mighty hand and his stretched out arm: his miracles and his acts which he
did among the Egyptians, even unto Pharao the king of Egypt and unto all his
land: and what he did unto the host of the Egyptians, unto their horses and
chariots, how he brought the water of the red sea upon them as they chased you,
and how the LORD hath brought them to nought unto this day: and what he did unto
you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place: and what he did unto
Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Ruben, how the earth opened her
mouth and swallowed them with their households and their tents, and all their
substance that was in their possession, in the midst of Israel. For your eyes
have seen all the great deeds of the LORD which he did. Keep therefore all the
commandments which I command thee this day that ye may be strong and go and
conquer the land whither ye go to possess it, and that ye may prolong your days
in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to
their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. For the land whither thou
goest to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt whence thou camest out, where
thou sowedest thy seed and wateredest it with thy labour as a garden of herbs:
but the land whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys
and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, and a land which the LORD thy God
careth for. The eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning
of the year unto the latter end of the year. If thou shalt hearken therefore
unto my commandments which I command you this day, that ye love the LORD your
God and serve him with all your hearts and with all your souls: then he will
give rain unto your land in due season, both the first rain and the latter, and
thou shalt gather in thy corn, thy wine and thine oil. And he will send grass in
thy fields for thy cattle: and thou shalt eat and fill thyself. But beware that
your hearts deceive {disceave} you not that ye turn aside and serve strange gods
and worship them, and then the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you and shut up
the heaven that there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and
that ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Put up
therefore these my words in your hearts and in your souls, and bind them for a
sign unto your hands, and let them be as papers of remembrance between your
eyes, and teach them your children: so that thou talk of them when thou sittest
in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and
when thou risest up: yea and write them upon the doorposts of thine house and
upon thy gates, that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children
upon the earth which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as long as
the days of heaven last upon the earth. For if ye shall keep all these
commandments which I command you, so that ye do them and love the LORD your God
and walk in all his ways and cleave unto him. Then will the LORD cast out all
these nations {[and ye shall conquer them which are]} both greater and mightier
than your selves. All the places whereon the soles of your feet shall tread,
shall be yours: even from the wilderness and from Libanon and from the river
Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coasts be. There shall no man
be able to stond before you: the LORD your God shall cast the fear and dread of
you upon all lands whither ye shall come, as he hath said unto you. Behold, I
set before you this day, a blessing and a curse: a blessing: if ye hearken unto
the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day: And a curse:
if ye will not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God: but turn out
of the way which I command you this day to go after strange gods which ye have
not known. When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, then put the blessing upon mount Garizim and the curse upon
mount Ebal, which are on the other side Iordan on the back side of the way
toward the going down of the son in the land of the Cananites which dwell in the
fields over against Gilgal beside Moreh grove. For ye shall go over to go and
possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and shall conquer it and
dwell therein. Take heed therefore that ye do all the commandments and laws,
which I set before you this day.
Chapter
.xij.
These are the ordinances and laws which ye shall observe to do in the land which
the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, as long as ye live upon
the earth. See that ye destroy all places where the nations which ye conquer
serve their gods, upon high mountains and on high {an hye} hills and under every
green tree. Overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves
with fire and hew down the images of their gods, and bring the names of them to
nought out of that place. See ye do not so unto the LORD your God but ye shall
enquire the place which the LORD your God shall have chosen out of all your
tribes to put his name there and there to dwell. And thither thou shalt come,
and thither ye shall bring your burnt sacrifices and your offerings, your tithes
and heave offerings of your hands, your vows and free will offerings and thy
first born of your oxen and of your sheep. And there ye shall eat before the
LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye lay your hands on, both ye
and your households, because the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. Ye shall do
after nothing that we do here this day, every man what seemeth him good in his
own eyes. For ye are not yet come to rest nor unto the inheritance which the
LORD your God giveth you. But ye shall go over Iordan and dwell in the land
which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and he shall give you rest from
all your enemies round about: and ye shall dwell in safety. Therefore when the
LORD your God hath chosen a place to make his name dwell there, thither ye shall
bring all that I command you, your burntsacrifices and your offerings, your
tithes and the heaveofferings of your hands and all your godly vows which ye vow
unto the LORD. And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, both ye, your sons
and your daughters, your servants and your maids and the Levite that is within
your gates for he hath neither part nor inheritance with you. Take heed that
thou offer not thy burntofferings in whatsoever place thou seest: but in the
place which the LORD shall have chosen among one of thy tribes, there thou shalt
offer thy burnt offerings and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.
Notwithstanding thou mayst kill and eat flesh in all thy cities, whatsoever thy
soul lusteth after according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath
given thee both the unclean and the clean mayst thou eat, even as the roe and
the hart: only eat not the blood, but pour it upon the earth as water. Thou
mayst not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thy
oil, either the firstborn of thine oxen or of thy sheep, neither any of thy vows
which thou vowest, nor thy freewillofferings or heave offerings of thine hands:
but thou must eat them before the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD thy
God hath chosen: both thou thy son and thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid
and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD
thy God, in all that thou puttest thine hand to. And beware that thou forsake
not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth. If (when the LORD thy God
hath enlarged thy coasts as he hath promised thee) thou say: I will eat flesh,
because thy soul longeth to eat flesh: then thou shalt eat flesh, whatsoever thy
soul lusteth. If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name
there be too far from thee, then thou mayst kill of thy oxen and of thy sheep
which the LORD hath given thee as I have commanded thee, and thou mayst eat in
thine own city whatsoever thy soul lusteth. Neverthelater, as the roe and the
hart is eaten, even so thou shalt eat it: the unclean and the clean
indifferently thou shalt eat. But be strong that thou eat not the blood. For the
blood, that is the life: and thou mayst not eat the life with the flesh: thou
mayst not eat it: but must pour it upon the earth as water. See thou eat it not
therefore that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee, when
thou shalt have done that which is right in the sight of the LORD. But thy holy
things which thou hast and thy vows, thou shalt take and go unto the place which
the LORD hath chosen, and thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, both flesh and
blood upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and the blood of thine offerings thou
shalt pour out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and shalt eat the flesh. Take
heed and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go well with thee
and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good
and right in the sight of the LORD thy God. When the LORD thy God hath destroyed
the nations before thee, whither thou goest to conquer them, and when thou hast
conquered them, and dwelt in their lands: Beware that thou be not taken in a
snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask
not after their gods saying: how did these nations serve their gods, that I may
do so likewise? Nay, thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for all
abominations which the LORD hated did they unto their gods. For they burnt both
their sons and their daughters with fire unto their gods. But whatsoever I
command you that take heed ye do: and put nought thereto, nor take ought there
from.
Chapter
.xiij.
If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and give thee a sign
or a wonder, and that sign or wonder which he hath said come to pass, and then
say: let us go after strange gods which thou hast not known, and let us serve
them: hearken not unto the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams. For the
LORD thy God tempteth you, to wete whether ye love the LORD your God with all
your hearts and with all your souls. For ye must walk after the LORD your God
and fear him and keep his commandments and hearken unto his voice and serve him
and cleave unto him. And that prophet or dreamer of dreams shall die for it,
because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God which brought you
out of the land of Egypt and delivered you out of the house of bondage, to
thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in: and
so thou shalt put evil away from thee. If thy brother the son of thy mother or
thine own son or thy daughter or the wife that lieth in thy bosom or thy friend
which is as thine own soul unto thee, entice thee secretly saying: let us go and
serve strange gods which thou hast not known nor yet thy fathers, of the gods of
the people which are round about thee, whether they be nye unto thee or far off
from thee, from the one end of the land unto the other. See thou consent not
unto him nor hearken unto him: no, let not thine eye pity him nor have
compassion on him, nor keep him secret, but cause him to be slain: Thine hand
shall be first upon him to kill him: and then the hands of all the people. And
thou shalt stone him with stones that he die, because he hath gone about to
thrust thee away from the LORD thy God which brought thee out of Egypt the house
of bondage. And all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more and such
wickedness as this is, among them. If thou shalt hear say of one of thy cities
which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell in, that certain being the
children of Belial are gone out from among you and have moved the inhabiters of
their city saying: let us go and serve strange gods which ye have not known.
Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true and the thing of
a surety that such abomination is wrought among you: then thou shalt smite the
dwellers of that city with the edge of the sword, and destroy it merciless and
all that is therein, and even the very cattle thereof with the edge of the
sword. And gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the streets thereof, and
burn with fire: both the city and all the spoil thereof every whit unto the LORD
thy God. And it shall be an heap for ever and shall not be built again. And see
that there cleave nought of the damned thing in thine hand, that the LORD may
turn from his fierce wrath and shew thee mercy and have compassion on thee and
multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers: when thou hast hearkened unto
the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee
this day so that thou do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Chapter
.xiiij.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God, cut not your selves nor make you any
baldness between the eyes for any man's death. For thou art an holy people unto
the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a several people unto
himself, of all the nations that are upon the earth. Ye shall eat no manner of
abomination. These are the beasts which ye shall eat of: oxen, sheep and goats,
hart, roe and bugle, hart {wild} goat, unicorn, origen and Camelion. And all
beasts that cleave the hoof, and slit it into two claws and chew the cud, them
ye shall eat. Nevertheless, these ye shall not eat of them that chew cud and of
them that divide and cleave the hoof: the camel, the hare and the coney. For
they chew cud, but divide not the hoof: and therefore are unclean unto you: and
also the swine, for though he divide the hoof, yet he cheweth not cud, and
therefore is unclean unto you: Ye shall not eat of the flesh of them nor touch
the dead carcasses of them. These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters:
All that have fins and scales. And whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of that
ye may not eat, for that is unclean unto you. Of all clean birds ye shall eat,
but these are they of which ye may not eat: the eagle, the goshawk, the
cormorant, the ixion, the vultur, the kite and her kind, and all kind of ravens,
the Ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk and all her kind, the
little owl, the great owl, the back, the bittern, the pye, the stork, the heron,
the Iay in his kind, the lapwing, the swallow. And all creeping fowls are
unclean unto you and may not be eaten of: but of all clean fowls ye may well
eat. Ye shall eat of nothing that dieth alone: But thou mayest give it unto the
stranger that is in thy city that he eat it, or mayst sell it unto an Alien. For
thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in
his mother's milk. Thou shalt tithe all the increase of thy seed that cometh out
of the field year by year. And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God in the
place, which he hath chosen to make his name dwell there the tithe of thy corn,
of thy wine and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thine oxen and of thy flock
that thou mayst learn to fear the LORD thy God alway. If the way be too long for
thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from
the which the LORD thy God hath chosen to set his name there (for the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee) then make it in money and take the money in thine hand,
and go unto the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen, and bestow that money
on whatsoever thy soul lusteth after: on oxen, sheep, wine and good drink, and
on whatsoever thy soul desireth, and eat there before the LORD thy God and be
merry: both thou and thine household and the Levite that is in thy city. See
thou forsake not the Levite, for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee.
At the end of three years, thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thine
increase the same year and lay it up within thine own city, and the Levite shall
come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger
and the fatherless and the widow which are whithin thy city and shall eat and
fill them selves: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the works of thine
hand which thou doest.
Chapter
.xv.
At the end of seven years thou shalt make a free year. And this is the manner of
the free year, whosoever lendeth ought with his hand unto his neighbour, may not
ask again that which he hath lent, of his neighbour or of his brother: because
it is called the LORD's {lordes} free year, yet of a stranger thou mayst call it
home again. But that which thou hast with thy brother thine hand shall remit,
and that in any wise, that there be no beggar among you. For the LORD shall
bless the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, an heritance to possess it:
so that thou hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and do all
these commandments which I command you this day: yea and then the LORD thy God
shall bless thee as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt lend unto many
nations, and shalt borrow of no man, and shalt reign over many nations, but none
shall reign over thee. When one of thy brethren among you is waxed poor in any
of thy cities within thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou
harden not thine heart nor shut to thine hand from thy poor brother: But open
thine hand unto him and lend him sufficient for his need which he hath. And
beware that there be not a point of Belial in thine heart, that thou wouldest
say: The seventh year, the year of freedom is at hand, and therefore it grieve
thee to look on thy poor brother and givest him nought and he then cry unto the
LORD against thee and it be sin unto thee: But give him, and let it not grieve
thine heart to give. Because that for that thing, the LORD thy God shall bless
thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand to. For the land
shall never be without poor. Wherefore I command thee saying: open thine hand
unto thy brother that is needy and poor in thy land. If thy brother an Hebrew
sell himself to thee, or an Hebrewess, he shall serve thee six years and the
seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out
free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: but shalt give him of thy
sheep and of thy corn and of thy wine, and give him of that wherewith the LORD
thy God hath blessed thee. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of
Egypt, and the LORD thy God delivered thee thence: wherefore I command thee this
thing today. But and if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, because
he loveth thee and thine house and is well at ease with thee. Then take an awl
and nail his ear to the door therewith and let him be thy servant forever, and
unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. And let it not grieve thine eyes to
let him go out from thee, for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee
in his service six years. And the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou
doest. All the firstborn that come of thine oxen and of thy sheep that are
males, thou shalt hallow unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt do no service with
the firstborn of thy sheep: but shalt eat them before the LORD thy God year by
year in the place which the LORD hath chosen both thou and thine household. If
there be any deformity therein, whether it be lame or blind or whatsoever evil
favouredness it hath, thou shalt not offer it unto the LORD thy God: But shalt
eat it in thine own city, the unclean and the clean indifferently, as the roe
and the hart. Only eat not the blood thereof, but pour it upon the ground as
water.
Chapter
.xvi.
Observe the month of Abib, and offer passover unto the LORD thy God. For in the
month of Abib, the LORD thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night: Thou shalt
therefore offer passover unto the LORD thy God, and sheep and oxen in the place
which the LORD shall choose to make his name dwell there. Thou shalt eat no
leavened bread therewith: but shalt eat therewith the bread of tribulation seven
days long. For thou camest out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayst
remember the day when thou camest out of the land of Egypt, all days of thy
life. And see that there be no leavened bread seen in all thy coasts seven days
long, and that there remain nothing of the flesh which thou hast offered the
first day at evening, until the morning. Thou mayst not offer passover in any of
thy cities which the LORD thy God giveth thee: But in the place which the LORD
thy God shall choose to make his name dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passover
at evening about the going down of the son, even in the season that thou camest
out of Egypt. And thou shalt seethe and eat {[it]} in the place which the LORD
thy God hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get thee unto thy tent. Six
days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day is for the people to come
together to the LORD thy God, that thou mayst do no work. Then reckon the seven
weeks, and begin to reckon the seven weeks when the sicle beginneth in the corn,
and keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God, that thou give a
freewilloffering of thine hand unto the LORD thy God according as the LORD thy
God hath blessed thee. And rejoice before the LORD thy God both thou, thy son,
thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates,
and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place
which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there. And remember
that thou was a servant in Egypt, that thou observe and do these ordinances.
Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days long, after that thou
hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. And thou shalt rejoice in that thy
feast, both thou and thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the Levite,
the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities. Seven days
thou shalt keep holy day unto the LORD thy God, in the place which the LORD
shall choose: for the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy fruits and in all
the works of thine hands, and thou shalt be all together gladness. Three times
in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD thy God in the place
which he shall choose: In the feast of sweet bread, in the feast of weeks and in
the booth feast. {feast of the tabernacles.} And they shall not appear before
the LORD empty: but every man with the gift of his hand, according to the
blessing of the LORD thy God, which he hath given thee. Iudges and officers thou
shalt make thee in all thy cities {gates} which the LORD thy God giveth thee
thorowout thy tribes: And let them judge the people righteously. Wrest not the
law nor know any person neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and
pervert the words of the righteous. But in all things follow righteousness, that
thou mayst live and enjoy the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou
shalt plant no grove of whatsoever trees it be, nye unto the altar of the LORD
thy God which thou shalt make thee. Thou shalt set thee up no pillar, which the
LORD thy God hateth.
Chapter
.xvij.
Thou shalt offer unto the LORD thy God no ox or sheep wherein is any deformity,
whatsoever evil favouredness it be: for that is an abomination unto the LORD thy
God. If there be found among you in any of thy cities which the LORD thy God
giveth thee man or woman that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD
thy God, that they have gone beyond his appointment, so that they have gone and
served strange gods and worshipped them, whether it be the son or moon or
anything contained in heaven which I forbade, and it was told thee and thou hast
heard of it: Then thou shalt enqui:re diligently. And if it be true and the
thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought in Israel, then thou shalt
bring forth that man or that woman which have committed that wicked thing, unto
thy gates and shalt stone them with stones and they shall die. At the mouth of
two or three witnesses shall he that is worthy of death, die: but at the mouth
of one witness he shall not die. And the hands of the witnesses shall be first
upon him to kill him, and afterward the hands of all the people: so shalt thou
put wickedness away from thee. If a matter be too hard for thee in judgement
between blood and blood, plea and plea, plage and plage in matters of strife
within thy cities: Then arise and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy
God hath chosen, and go unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that
shall be in those days, and ask, and they shall shew thee how to judge. And see
that thou do according to that which they of that place(which the LORD hath
chosen shew thee, and see that thou observe to do according to all that they
inform thee. According to the law which they teach thee and manner of judgement
which they tell thee, see that thou do and that thou bow not from that which
they shew thee, neither to the right hand nor to the left. And that man that
will do presumptuously, so that he will not hearken unto the priest that
stondeth there to minister unto the LORD thy God or unto the judge, shall die:
and so thou shalt put away evil from Israel. And all the people shall hear and
shall fear, and shall do no more presumptuously. When thou art come unto the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee and enjoyest it and dwellest therein: If
thou shalt say, I will set a king over me, like unto all the nations that are
about me: Then thou shalt make him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall
choose. One of thy brethren must thou make king over thee, and mayst not set a
stranger over thee which is not of thy brethren. But in any wise let him not
hold too many horses, that he bring not the people again to Egypt thorow the
multitude of horses, forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you: ye shall
henceforth go no more again that way. Also he shall not have too many wives,
lest his heart turn away, neither shall he gather him silver and gold too much.
And when he is sitten upon the seat of his kingdom, he shall write him out this
second law in a book taking a copy of the priests' the Levites'. And it shall be
with him and he shall read there in all days of his life that he may learn to
fear the LORD his God for to keep all the words of this law and these ordinances
for to do them: that his heart arise not above his brethren and that he turn not
from the commandment: either to the right hand or to the left: that both he and
his children may prolong their days in his kingdom in Israel.
Chapter
.xviij.
The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi shall have no part nor
inheritance with Israel. The offerings of the LORD and his inheritance they
shall eat, but shall have no inheritance among their brethren: the LORD he is
their inheritance, as he hath said unto them. And this is the duty of the
priests, of the people and of them that offer, whether it be ox or sheep: They
must give unto the priest, the shoulder and the two cheeks and the maw, the
first fruits of thy corn, wine and oil, and the first of thy sheep shearing must
thou give him. For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to
stond and to minister in the name of the LORD: both him and his sons for ever.
If a Levite come out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a
sojourner, and come with all the lust of his heart unto the place which the LORD
hath chosen: he shall there minister in the name of the LORD his God as all his
brethren the Levites do which stond there before the LORD. And they shall have
like portions to eat, beside that which cometh to him of the patrimony of his
elders. When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see
that thou learn not to do after the abominations of these nations. Let there not
be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go thorow fire, either a
bruterar or a maker of dismal days or that useth witchcraft {or that useth
withcraft, or a chooser out of days or that regardeth the flyeng of souls} or a
sorcerer, or a charmer, or that speaketh {counseleth} with a spirit, or a
soothsayer or that talketh with them that are dead. {prophesiar or that asketh
the advise of the dead.} For all that do such things are abomination unto the
LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doeth cast them out
before thee, be pure therefore with the LORD thy God. For these nations which
thou shalt conquer, hearken unto makers {choosers out} of dismal days and
bruterars. {prophesyars, or profit-seers} But the LORD thy God permitteth not
that to thee. The LORD thy God will stir up a Prophet among you: even of thy
brethren like unto me: and unto him ye shall hearken according to all that thou
desiredest of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day when the people were gathered
saying: Let me hear the voice of my LORD God no more, nor see this great fire
any more, that I die not. And the LORD said unto me: they have well spoken, I
will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee and will
put my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command him. And whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he shall speak
in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet which shall presume to
speak ought in my name which I commanded him not to speak, and he that speaketh
in the name of strange gods, the same prophet shall die. And if thou say in
thine heart, how shall I know that which the LORD hath not spoken? When a
prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not nor come to
pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken. But the prophet hath
spoken it presumptuously: be not afeared therefore of him.
Chapter
.xix.
When the LORD thy God hath destroyed the nations whose land the LORD thy God
giveth thee, and thou hast conquered them and dwellest in their cities and in
their houses: thou shalt appoint three cities in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to possess it: thou shalt prepare the way and divide the coasts of
thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it: thou shalt prepare
the way and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit, into three parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither. And
this is the cause of the slayer that shall flee thither and be saved: If he
smite his neighbour ignorantly and hated him not in time past: As when a man
goeth unto the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and as his hand fetcheth a
stroke with the axe, the head slippeth from the helve and smiteth his neighbour
that he die: the same shall flee unto one of the same cities and be saved. Lest
the executer of blood follow after the slayer while his heart is hot and
overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, and yet there is no cause
worthy of death in him, inasmuch as he hated not his neighbour in time past.
Wherefore I command thee saying: see that thou appoint out three cities. And if
the LORD thy God enlarge thy coasts as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and give
thee all the land which he said he would give unto thy fathers (so that thou
keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, that thou
love the LORD thy God and walk in his ways ever) then thou shalt add three
cities more unto those three, that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee. But and if
there be any man that hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth
against him and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities.
Then let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him into
the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die. Let thine eye have no pity
on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art
thou. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set
in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee to enjoy it. One witness shall not rise against a man in any manner
trespass or sin, whatsoever sin a man sinneth: But at the mouth of two witnesses
or of three witnesses shall all matters be tried. If an unrighteous witness rise
up against a man to accuse him of trespass: then let both the men which strive
together stond before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be
in those days, and let the judges enquire a good. And if the witness be found
false and that he hath given false witness against his brother then shall ye do
unto him as he had thought to do unto his brother, and so thou shalt put evil
away from thee. And other shall hear and fear and shall henceforth commit no
more any such wickedness among you. And let thine eye have no compassion, but
life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Chapter
.xx.
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses and
chariots and people more than thou, be not afeared of them, for the LORD thy God
is with thee which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. And when ye are come
nye unto battle, let the priest come forth and speak unto the people and say
unto them: Hear Israel, ye are come unto battle against your enemies, let not
your hearts faint, neither fear nor be amazed nor a dread of them. For the LORD
thy God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.
And let the officers speak unto the people saying: If any man have built a new
house and have not dedicate it, let him go and return to his house lest he die
in the battle, and another dedicate it. And if any man have planted a vineyard
and have not made it common, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he
die in the battle and another make it common. And if any man be betrothed unto a
wife and have not taken her, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he
die in the battle and another take her. And let the officers speak further unto
the people and say. If any man fear and be fainthearted, let him go and return
unto his house, lest his brother's heart be made faint as well as his. And when
the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, let them make
captains of war over them. When thou comest nye unto a city to fight against it,
offer them peace. And if they answer thee again peaceably, and open unto thee,
then let all the people that is found therein be tributaries unto thee and serve
thee. But and if they will make no peace with thee, then make war against the
city and besiege it. And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine
hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sword, save the women
and the children and the cattle and all that is in the city and all the spoil
thereof take unto thyself and eat the spoil of thine enemies which the LORD thy
God giveth thee. Thus thou shalt do unto all the cities which are a great way
off from thee and not of the cities of these nations. But in the cities of these
nations which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, thou shalt save alive
nothing that breatheth. But shalt destroy them without redemption, both the
Hethites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pherezites, the Hevites and the
Iebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee, that they teach you not to
do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin
against the LORD your God. When thou hast besieged a city long time in making
war against it to take it, destroy not the trees thereof, that thou wouldest
thrust an axe unto them. For thou mayst eat of them, and therefore destroy them
not. For the trees of the fields are no men that they might come against thee to
besiege thee. Neverthelater those trees which thou knowest that men eat not of
them, thou mayst destroy and cut them down and make bulwarks against the city
that maketh war with thee, until it be overthrown.
Chapter
.xxj.
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess
it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him: Then let thine
elders and thy judges come forth and meet unto the cities that are round about
the slain. And let the elders of that city which is next unto the slain man,
take an heifer that is not laboured with nor hath drawn in the yoke, and let
them bring her unto a valley where is neither earing nor sowing, and strike off
her head there in the valley. Then let the priests the sons of Levi come forth
(for the LORD thy God hath chosen them to minister and to bless in the name of
the LORD and therefore at their mouth shall all strife and plague be tried.) And
all the elders of the city that is next to the slain man shall wash their hands
over the heifer that is beheaded in the plain, and shall answer and say: our
hands have not shed this blood neither have our eyes seen it. Be merciful LORD
unto thy people Israel which thou hast delivered and put not innocent blood unto
thy people Israel: and the blood shall be forgiven them. And so shalt thou put
innocent blood from thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the
sight of the LORD. When thou goest to war against thine enemies and the LORD thy
God hath delivered them into thine hands and thou hast take them captive, and
seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a fantasy unto her that thou
wouldest have her to thy wife. Then bring her home to thine house and let her
shave her head and pare her nails and put her raiment that she was taken in from
her, and let her remain in thine house and beweep her father and her mother a
month long and after that go in unto her and marry her and let her be thy wife.
And if thou have no favour unto her, then let her go whither she lusteth: for
thou mayst not sell her for money nor make chevisance of her, because thou hast
humbled her. If a man have two wives, one loved and another hated, and they have
borne him children, both the loved and also the hated. If the firstborn be the
son of the hated: then when he dealeth his goods among his children, he may not
make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated which is
indeed the firstborn: But he shall know the son of the hated for his firstborn,
that he give him double of all that he hath. For he is the first of his
strength, and to him belongeth the right of the firstbornship. If any man have a
son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice
of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he
would not hearken unto them: Then let his father and his mother take him and
bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place,
and say unto the elders of the city. This our son is stubborn and disobedient
and will not hearken unto our voice, he is a rioter and a drunkard. Then let all
the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put
evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear. If a man have committed
a trespass worthy of death and is put to death for it and hanged on tree: let
not his body remain all night upon the tree, but bury him the same day. For the
curse of God is on him that is hanged. Defile not thy land therefore, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit.
Chapter
.xxij.
If thou see thy brother's ox or sheep go astray, thou shalt not withdraw thyself
from them: But shalt bring them home again unto thy brother. If thy brother be
not nye unto thee or if thou know him not, then bring them unto thine own house
and let them be with thee, until thy brother ask after them, and then deliver
him them again. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, with his raiment and
with all lost things of thy brother which he hath lost and thou hast found, and
thou mayst not withdraw thyself. If thou see that thy brother's ass or ox is
fallen down by the way, thou shalt not withdraw thyself from them: but shalt
help him to heave them up again. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth
unto the man, neither shall a man put on woman's raiment. For all that do so,
are abomination unto the LORD thy God. If thou chance upon a bird's nest by the
way, in whatsoever tree it be or on the ground, whether they be young or eggs,
and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take the
mother with the young. But shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young,
that thou mayst prosper and prolong thy days. When thou buildest a new house,
thou shalt make a battlement unto the roof, that thou lade not blood upon thine
house, if any man fall thereof. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers
seed: lest thou hallow the seed which thou hast sown with the fruit of thy
vineyard. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not
wear a garment made of wool and flax together. Thou shalt put ribbons upon the
four quarters of thy vesture wherewith thou coverest thyself. If a man take a
wife and when he hath lien with her hate her and lay shameful things unto her
charge and bring up an evil name upon her and say: I took this wife, and when I
came to her, I found her not a maid: Then let the father of the damsel and the
mother bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity, unto the elders of the
city, even unto the gate. And let the damsel's father say unto the elders, I
gave my daughter unto this man to wife and he hateth her: and lo, he layeth
shameful things unto her charge saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet
these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And let them spread the vesture
before the elders of the city. Then let the elders of that city take that man
and chastise him and merce him in an hundred sicles of silver and give them unto
the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a maid in
Israel. And she shall be his wife, and he may not put her away all his days. But
and if the thing be of a surety that the damsel be not found a virgin, let them
bring her unto the door of her father's house, and let the men of that city
stone her with stones to death, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to
play the whore in her father's house. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee.
If a man be found lying with a woman, that hath a wedded husband, then let them
die either other of them: both the man that lie with the wife and also the wife:
so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If a maid be handfasted unto an
husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay with her, then ye shall
bring them both out unto the gates of that same city and shall stone them with
stones to death: The damsel because she cried not being in the city: And the
man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife, and thou shalt put away evil
from thee. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and
lie with her: Then the man that lay with her shall die alone, and unto the
damsel thou shalt do no harm: because there is in the damsel no cause of death.
For as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him, even so is this
matter. For he found her in the fields and the betrothed damsel cried: but there
was no man to succour her. If a man find a maid that is not betrothed and take
her and lie with her and be found: Then the man that lay with her shall give
unto the damsel's father fifty sicles of silver. And she shall be his wife,
because he hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days. No man
shall take his father's wife, nor unhele his father's covering.
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.xxiij.
None that is gelded or hath his privy members cut off, shall come into the
congregation of the LORD. And he that is born of a common woman shall not come
in the congregation of the LORD, no in the tenth generation he shall not enter
into the congregation of the LORD. The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come
into the congregation of the LORD, no not in the tenth generation, no they shall
never come in to the congregation of the LORD, because they met you not with
bread and water in the way when ye came out of Egypt, and because they hired
against thee Balaam the son of Beor the interpreter of Mesopotamia, to curse
thee. Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balam, but turned the
curse to a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. Thou shalt
never therefore seek that which is prosperous or good for them all thy days for
ever. Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: neither shalt thou
abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. The children that
are begotten of them shall come into the congregation of the LORD in the third
generation. When thou goest out with the host against thine enemies, keep thee
from all wickedness for the LORD is among you. If there be any man that is
unclean by the reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, let him go out
of the host and not come in again until he have washed himself with water before
the evening: and then when the son is down, let him come into the host again.
Thou shalt have a place without the host whither thou shalt resort to and thou
shalt have a sharp point at the end of thy weapon: and when thou wilt ease
thyself, dig therewith and turn and cover that which is departed from thee. For
the LORD thy God walketh in thine host, to rid thee and to set thine enemies
before thee. Let thine host be pure that he see no unclean thing among you and
turn from you. Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
escaped from his master unto thee. Let him dwell with thee, even among you in
what place he himself liketh best, in one of thy cities where it is good for
him, and vex him not. There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor
whorekeeper of the sons of Israel. Thou shalt neither bring the hire of an whore
nor the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God, in no manner of vow:
for even both of them are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt be no
usurer unto thy brother, neither in money nor in food, nor in any manner thing
that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayst lend upon usury, but not
unto thy brother, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest
thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to conquer it. When thou hast vowed
a vow unto the LORD thy God, see thou be not slack to pay it. For he will surely
require it of thee, and it shall be sin unto thee. If thou shalt leave vowing,
it shall be no sin unto thee: but that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou
must keep and do, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God a freewill
offering which thou hast spoken with thy mouth. When thou comest into thy
neighbour's vineyard, thou mayst eat grapes thy bellyful at thine own pleasure:
but thou shalt put none in thy bag. When thou goest into thy neighbour's corn,
thou mayst pluck the ears with thine hand, but thou mayst not move a sicle unto
thy neighbour's corn.
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.xxiiij.
When a man hath taken a wife and married her, if she find no favour in his eyes,
because he hath spied some uncleanness in her: Then let him write her a bill of
divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house. If when she is
departed out of his house, she go and be another man's wife and the second
husband hate her and write her a letter of divorcement and put it in her hand
and send her out of his house, or if the second man die which took her to wife;
Her first man which sent her away may not take her again to be his wife,
inasmuch as she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the LORD:
that thou defile not the land with sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to
inherit. When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go a warfare neither shall
be charged with any business: but shall be free at home one year and rejoice
with his wife which he hath taken. No man shall take the nether or the upper
millstone to pledge, for then he taketh a man's life to pledge. If any man be
found stealing any of his brethren the children of Israel, and maketh chevisance
of him or selleth him, the thief shall die. And thou shalt put evil away from
thee. Take heed to thyself as concerning the plague of leprosy, that thou
observe diligently to do according to all that the priests the Levites shall
teach thee, as I commanded them so ye shall observe to do. Remember what the
LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come out of Egypt.
If thou lend thy brother any manner succour, thou shalt not go into his house to
fetch a pledge: but shalt stond without and the man to whom thou lendest, shall
bring thee the pledge out at the door. Furthermore if it be a poor body, go not
to sleep with his pledge: but deliver him the pledge again by that the son go
down, and let him sleep in his own raiment and bless thee. And it shall be
righteousness unto thee, before the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not defraud an
hired servant that is needy and poor, whether he be of thy brethren or a
stranger that is in thy land within thy cities. Give him his hire the same day,
and let not the son go down thereon. For he is needy and therewith sustaineth
his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin unto thee. The
fathers shall not die for the children nor the children for the fathers: but
every man shall die for his own sin. Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of
the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge. But remember that thou wast
a servant in Egypt, and how the LORD thy God delivered thee thence. Wherefore I
command thee to do this thing. When thou cuttest down thine harvest in the field
and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again and fetch it:
But it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, that the LORD
thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand. When thou beatest down
thine olive trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be
for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And when thou gatherest thy
vineyard, thou shalt not gather clean after thee: but it shall be for the
stranger, the fatherless and the widow. And remember that thou wast a servant in
the land of Egypt: wherefore I command thee to do this thing.
Chapter
.xxv.
When {If} there is strife between men, let them come unto the law, and let the
judges justify the righteous and condemn the trespasser. And if the trespasser
be worthy of stripes, then let the judge cause to take him down and to beat him
before his face according to his trespass, unto a certain number. Forty stripes
he shall give him and not pass: lest if he should exceed and beat him above that
with many stripes, thy brother should appear ungodly before thine eyes. Thou
shalt not muzzle {mosell} the ox that treadeth out the corn. When brethren dwell
together and one of them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not
be given out unto a stranger: but her brotherinlaw shall go in unto her and take
her to wife and marry her. And the eldest son which she beareth, shall stond up
in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out in
Israel. But and if the man will not take his sisterinlaw, then let her go to the
gate unto the elders and say: My brotherinlaw refuseth to stir up unto his
brother a name in Israel, he will not marry me. Then let the elders of his city
call unto him and commune with him. If he stond and say: I will not take her,
then let his sister-in-law go unto him in the presence of the elders and loose
his shoe off his foot and spit in his face and answer and say: So shall it be
done unto that man that will not build his brother's house. And his name shall
be called in Israel, the unshoed house. If when men strive together, one with
another, the wife of the one run to, for to rid her husband out of the hands of
him that smiteth him and put forth her hand and take him by the secrets: cut off
her hand, and let not thine eye pity her. Thou shalt not have in thy bag two
manner weights, a great and a small: neither shalt thou have in thine house
divers measures, a great and a small. But thou shalt have a perfect and a just
measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee. For all that do such things and all that do unright, are
abomination unto the LORD thy God. Remember what Amalech did unto thee by the
way after thou camest out of Egypt, he met thee by the way and smote the
hindmost of you, all that were over laboured and dragged behind, when thou wast
fainted and weary, and he feared not God. Therefore when the LORD thy God hath
given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee to inherit and possess: see that thou put out the name of
Amalech from under heaven, and forget not.
Chapter
.xxvi.
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit
and hast enjoyed it and dwellest therein: take of the first of all the fruit of
the earth, which thou hast brought in out of the land that the LORD thy God
giveth thee and put it in a maund and go unto the place which the LORD thy God
shall choose to make his name dwell there. And thou shalt come unto the priest
that shall be in those days and say unto him: I knowledge this day unto the LORD
thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers
for to give us. And the priest shall take the maund out of thine hand, and set
it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. And thou shalt answer and say
before the LORD thy God: The Sirians would have destroyed my father, and he went
down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation
great, mighty and full of people. And the Egyptians vexed us and troubled us,
and laded us with cruel bondage. And we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers,
and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression.
And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm
and with great terribleness and with signs and wonders. And he hath brought us
into this place and hath given us this land that floweth with milk and honey.
And now lo, I have brought the first fruits of the land which the LORD hath
given me. And set it before the LORD thy God and worship before the LORD thy God
and rejoice over all the good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee
and unto thine house, both thou the Levite and the stranger that is among you.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third
year, the year of tithing: and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless and the widow, and they have eaten in thy gates and filled them
selves. Then say before the LORD thy God: I have brought thee hallowed things
out of mine house: and have given them unto the Levite, the stranger, the
fatherless and the widow according to all the commandments which thou commandest
me: I have not overskipped thy commandments, nor forgotten them. I have not
eaten thereof in my mourning nor taken away thereof unto any uncleanness, nor
spent thereof about any dead corpse: but have hearkened unto the voice of the
LORD my God, and have done after all that he commanded me, look down from thy
holy habitation heaven and bless thy people Israel and the land which thou hast
given us (as thou swearest unto our fathers) a land that floweth with milk and
honey. This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these ordinances and
laws. Keep them therefore and do them with all thine heart and all thy soul.
Thou hast set up the LORD this day to be thy God and to walk in his ways and to
keep his ordinances, his commandments and his laws, and to hearken unto his
voice. And the LORD hath set thee up this day, to be a several people unto him
(as he hath promised thee) and that thou keep his commandments, and to make thee
high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, in name and honour: that
thou mayst be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath said.
Chapter
.xxvij.
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people saying: keep all the
commandments which I command you this day. And when ye be come over Iordan unto
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster
them with plaster, and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art
come over: that thou mayst come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers
hath promised thee. When ye be come over Iordan, see that ye set up these stones
which I command you this day in mount Ebal, and plaster them with plaster. And
there build unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones and see thou lift up no
iron upon them: But thou shalt make the altar of the LORD thy God of rough
stones and offer burntofferings thereon unto the LORD thy God. And thou shalt
offer peaceofferings and shalt eat there and rejoice before the LORD thy God.
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and
well. And Moses with the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel saying: take
heed and hear Israel, this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
Hearken therefore unto the voice of the LORD thy God and do his commandments and
his ordinances which I command you this day. And Moses charged the people the
same day saying: These shall stond upon mount Grisim to bless the people, when
ye are come over Iordan: Simeon, Levi, Iuda, Isachar, Ioseph and BenIamin. And
these shall stond upon mount Ebal to curse: Ruben, Gad, Asser, Zabulon, Dan and
Nephthali. And the Levites shall begin and say unto all the men of Israel with a
loud voice: Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal (an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman) and putteth
it in a secret place: And all the people shall answer and say Amen. Cursed be he
that curseth his father or his mother, and all the people shall say Amen. Cursed
be he that removeth his neighbour's mark, and all the people shall say Amen.
Cursed be he that maketh the blind go out of his way, and all the people shall
say Amen. Cursed be he that hindreth the right of the stranger, fatherless and
widow, and all the people shall say Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his
father's wife because he hath opened his father's covering, and all the people
shall say Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with any manner beast, and all the
people shall say Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister whether she be
the daughter of his father or of his mother, and all the people shall say Amen.
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law, and all the people shall say
Amen. Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly, and all the people shall
say Amen. Cursed be he that taketh a reward to slay innocent blood, and all the
people shall say Amen. Cursed be he that maintaineth not all the words of this
law to do them, and all the people shall say Amen.
Chapter
.xxviij.
If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe
and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day. The LORD will set
thee on high {an hye} above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings
shall come on thee and over take thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of
the LORD thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the town and blessed in the fields,
blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of
thy cattle, the fruit of thine oxen, and thy flocks of sheep, blessed shall
thine almery be and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be, both when thou goest out,
and blessed when thou comest in. The LORD shall smite thine enemies that rise
against thee before thy face. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee
before thee seven ways. The LORD shall command the blessing to be with thee in
thy store houses and in all that thou settest thine hand to, and will bless the
in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. The LORD shall make thee an holy
people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee: if thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God and walk in his ways. And all nations of the
earth shall see that thou art called after the name of the LORD, and they shall
be afeared of thee. And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the
fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground, in
the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. The LORD shall open
unto thee his good treasure, even the heaven, to give rain unto thy land in due
season and to bless all the labours of thine hand. And thou shalt lend unto many
nations, but shalt not need to borrow thyself. And the LORD shall set thee
before and not behind, and thou shalt be above only and not beneath: if that
thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God which I command thee this
day to keep and to do them. And see that thou bow not from any of these words
which I command thee this day either to the right hand or to the left, that thou
wouldest go after strange gods to serve them. But and if thou wilt not hearken
unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep and to do all his commandments and
ordinances which I command thee this day: then all these curses shall come upon
thee and overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed in the
field, cursed shall thine almery be and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of
thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks
of thy sheep. And cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in, and when thou goest
out. And the LORD shall send upon thee cursing, going to nought and complaining
in all that thou settest thine hand to, whatsoever thou doest: until thou be
destroyed and brought to nought quickly, because of the wickedness of thine
inventions in that thou hast forsaken the LORD. And the LORD shall make the
pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from the land whither
thou goest to enjoy it. And the LORD shall smite thee with swelling, with
fevers, heat, burning, weathering, with smiting and blasting. And they shall
follow thee, until thou perish. And the heaven that is over thy head shall be
brass, and the earth that is under thee, iron. And the LORD shall turn the rain
of the land unto powder and dust: even from heaven they shall come down upon
thee, until thou be brought to nought. And the LORD shall plague thee before
thine enemies: Thou shalt come out one way against them, and flee seven ways
before them, and shalt be scattered among all the kingdoms of the earth. And thy
carcass shall be meat unto all manner fowls of the air and unto the beasts of
the earth, and no man shall fray them away. And the LORD will smite thee with
the botches of Egypt and the emerods, scall and manginess, that thou shalt not
be healed thereof. And the LORD shall smite thee with madness, blindness and
dazing of heart. And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in
darkness, and shalt not come to the right way. And thou shalt suffer wrong only
and be polled evermore, and no man shall succour thee: thou shalt be betrothed
unto a wife, and another shall lie with her. Thou shalt build an house and
another shall dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not make it
common. Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof. Thine ass shall be violently taken away even before thy face, and shall
not be restored thee again. Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and no
man shall help thee. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another
nation, and thine eyes shall see and daze upon them all day long, but shalt have
no might in thine hand. The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation
which thou knowest not, eat, and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be
oppressed alway: that thou shalt be clean beside thyself for the sight of thine
eyes which thou shalt see. The LORD shall smite thee with a mischievous botch in
the knees and legs, so that thou canst not be healed: even from the sole of the
foot unto the top of the head. The LORD shall bring both thee and thy king which
thou hast set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have
known, and there thou shalt serve strange gods: even wood and stone. And thou
shalt go to waste and be made an example and a jesting stock unto all nations
whither the LORD shall carry thee. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the
field, and shalt gather but little in: for the locusts {grasshoppers} shall
destroy it. Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it, but shalt neither drink of
the wine neither gather of the grapes, for the worms shall eat it. Thou shalt
have olive trees in all thy coasts, but shalt not be anointed with the oil, for
thine olive trees shall be rooted out. Thou shalt get sons and daughters, but
shalt not have them: for they shall be carried away captive. All thy trees and
fruit of thy land shall be marred with blasting. The strangers that are among
you shall climb above thee up on high, {an hye} and thou shalt come down beneath
alow. He shall lend thee and thou shalt not lend him, he shall be before and
thou behind. Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall follow
thee and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed: because thou hearkenedest not
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and ordinances
which he commanded thee, and they shall be upon thee as miracles and wonders and
upon thy seed for ever. And because thou servedest not the LORD thy God with
joyfulness and with a good heart for the abundance of all things, therefore thou
shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and
thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron
upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought. And the LORD shall bring
a nation upon thee from afar, even from the end of the world, as swift as an
eagle fleeth: {flyeth} a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand: a hard
favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion
on the young. And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle
until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine,
nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until
he have brought thee to nought. And he shall keep thee in all thy cities, until
thy high and strong walls be come down wherein thou trustedest, thorow all thy
land. And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities thorowout all thy land which
the LORD thy God hath given thee. And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own
body: the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath
given thee, in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege
thee: so that it shall grieve the man that is tender and exceeding delicate
among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife that lieth in his bosom and
on the remnant of his children, which he hath yet left, for fear of giving unto
any of them of the flesh of his children, which he eateth, because he hath
nought left him in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege
thee in all thy cities. Yea and the woman that is so tender and delicate among
you that she dare not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for
softness and tenderness, shall be grieved to look on the husband that lieth in
her bosom and on her son and on her daughter: even because of the afterbirth,
that is come out from between her legs, and because of her children which she
hath borne, because she would eat them for need of all things secretly, in the
straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in thy cities. If
thou wilt not be diligent to do all the words of this law that are written in
this book, for to fear this glorious and fearful name of the LORD thy God: the
LORD will smite both thee and thy seed with wonderful plagues and with great
plagues and of long continuance, and with evil sicknesses and of long durance.
Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou wast
afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee. Thereto all manner sicknesses and
all manner plagues which are not written in the book of this law, will the LORD
bring upon thee until thou be come to nought. And ye shall be left few in
number, wheretofore ye were as the stars of heaven in multitude: because thou
wouldest not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. And as the LORD
rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice
over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shall be wasted from
off the land whither thou goest to enjoy it. And the LORD shall scatter thee
among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou
shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even
wood and stone. And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet
shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there
a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind. And thy life shall hang
before thee, and thou shalt fear both day and night and shalt have no trust in
thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, would God it were night. And at night
thou shalt say, would God it were morning. For fear of thine heart which thou
shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. And the LORD
shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way which I bade thee that
thou shouldst see it no more. And there ye shall be sold unto your enemies, for
bondmen and bondwomen: and yet no man shall buy you.
Chapter
.xxix.
These are the words of the appointment which the LORD commanded Moses to make
with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the appointment which he
made with them in Horeb. And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them: Ye
have seen all, that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, unto
Pharao and unto all his servants, and unto all his land, and the great
temptations which thine eyes have seen and those great miracles and wonders: And
yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears
to hear unto this day. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: and
your clothes are not waxed old upon you, nor are thy shoes waxed old upon thy
feet. Ye have eaten no bread nor drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know,
how that he is the LORD your God. And at the last ye came unto this place, and
Sihon the king of Hesbon and Og king of Basan came out against you unto battle,
and we smote them and took their land and gave it an heritance unto the
Rubenites and Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasse. Keep therefore the word
of this appointment and do them, that ye may understand all that ye ought to do.
Ye stond here this day every one of you before the LORD your God: both the heads
of your tribes, your elders, your officers and all the men of Israel: your
children, your wives and the strangers that are in thine host, from the hewer of
thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: that thou shouldst come under the
appointment of the LORD thy God, and under his oath which the LORD thy God
maketh with thee this day. For to make thee a people unto himself, and that he
may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob. Also I make not this bond and this oath with
you only: but both with him that stoodeth here with us this day before the LORD
our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day. For ye know how we
have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came thorow the midst of the nations
which we passed by. And ye have seen their abominations and their idols: wood,
stone, silver, gold, which they had. Lest there be among you man or woman
kindred or tribe that turneth away in his heart this day from the LORD our God,
to go and serve the gods of these nations: and lest there be among you some root
{|rote|} that beareth gall and wormwood, so that when he heareth the words of
this curse, he bless himself in his heart saying: I fear it not, {shall have
peace} I will therefore walk {work} after the lust of mine own heart, that the
drunken destroy {may perish with} the thirsty. And so the LORD will not be
merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke
against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon
him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven, and separate him unto evil
out of all the tribes of Israel according unto all the curses of the appointment
that is written in the book of this law. So that the generation to come of your
children that shall rise up after you and the stranger that shall come from a
far land, say when they see the plagues of that land, and the diseases wherewith
the LORD hath smitten it, how all the land is burnt up with brimstone and salt,
that it is neither sown nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, after the
overthrowing of Sodom, Gomor, Adama and Zeboim: which the LORD overthrew in his
wrath and anger. And then all nations also say: wherefore hath the LORD done of
this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath? And men shall
say: because they left the testament of the LORD God of their fathers which he
made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. And they went and
served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had
given them nought. And therefore the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon that land
to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. And the LORD cast
them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into
a strange land, as it is come to pass this day. The secrets pertain unto the
LORD our God and the things that are opened pertain unto us and our children for
ever, that we do all the words of this law.
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.xxx.
When all these words are come upon thee, whether it be the blessing or the curse
which I have set before thee, yet if thou turn unto thine heart among all the
nations whither the LORD thy God hath thrust thee, and come again unto the LORD
thy God and hearken unto his voice according to all that I command thee this
day: both thou and thy children with all thine heart and all thy soul: Then the
LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and go and
fetch thee again from all the nations, among which the LORD thy God shall have
scattered thee. Though thou wast cast unto the extreme parts of heaven: even
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee and from thence fetch thee and
bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt enjoy it.
And he will shew thee kindness and multiply thee above thy fathers. And the LORD
thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed for to love the
LORD thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul, that thou mayst live. And
the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that
hate thee and persecute thee. But thou shalt turn and hearken unto the voice of
the LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day. And the LORD
thy God will make thee plenteous in all the works of thine hand and in the fruit
of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and fruit of thy land and in riches. For
the LORD will turn again and rejoice over thee to do thee good, as he rejoiced
over thy fathers: If thou hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
his commandments and ordinances which are written in the book of this law, if
thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul. For the
commandment which I command thee this day, is not separated from thee neither
far off. It is not in heaven, that thou needest to say: who shall go up for us
into heaven, and fetch it us, that we may hear it and do it: Neither is it
beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say: who shall go over sea for us and fetch
it us that we may hear it and do it. But the word is very nye unto thee: even in
thy mouth and in thine heart, that thou do it. Behold I have set before you this
day life and good, death and evil: in that I command thee this day to love the
LORD thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his
ordinances and his laws: that thou mayst live and multiply, and that the LORD
thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But and if
thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear: but shalt go astray and
worship strange gods and serve them, I pronounce unto you this day, that ye
shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land
whither thou passest over Iordan to go and possess it. I call to record this day
unto you, heaven and earth, that I have set before you life and death, blessing
and cursing: but choose life, that thou and thy seed may live, in that thou
lovest the LORD thy God, hearkenest unto his voice and cleavest unto him. For he
is thy life and the length of thy days, that thou mayst dwell upon the earth
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers: Abraham, Isaac and Iacob to give them.
Chapter
.xxxj.
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel and said unto them: I am an
hundred and twenty years old this day, and can no more go out and in. Also the
LORD hath said unto me, thou shalt not go over this Iordan. The LORD your God he
will go over before thee and he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou
shalt conquer them. And Iosua he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath
said. And the LORD shall do {go} unto them, as he did to Sehon and Og kings of
the Amorites and unto their lands which kings he destroyed. And when the LORD
hath delivered them to thee, see that ye do unto them according unto all the
commandments which I have commanded you. Pluck up your hearts and be strong,
dread not nor be afeared of them: for the LORD thy God himself will go with
thee, and will neither let thee go nor forsake thee. And Moses called unto Iosua
and said unto him in the sight of all Israel. Be strong and bold, for thou must
go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers
to give them, and thou shalt give it them to inherit. And the LORD he shall go
before thee and he shall be with thee, and will not let thee go nor forsake
thee, fear not therefore nor be discomforted. And Moses wrote this law and
delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi which bare the ark of the
testament of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel, and commanded them
saying: At the end of seven years, in the time of the free year, in the feast of
the tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God, in
the place which he hath chosen: see that thou read this law before all Israel in
their ears. Gather the people together: both men, women and children and the
strangers that are in thy cities, that they may hear, learn and fear the LORD
your God, and be diligent to keep all the words of this law, and that their
children which know nothing may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as
long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Iordan to possess it. And the
LORD said unto Moses: Behold thy days are come, that thou must die. Call Iosua
and come and stond in the tabernacle of witness, that I may give him a charge.
And Moses and Iosua went and stood in the tabernacle of witness. And the LORD
appeared in the tabernacle: even in the pillar of the cloud. And the pillar of
the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. And the LORD said unto Moses:
behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring
after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the
appointment which I have made with them. And then my wrath will wax hot against
them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shall be
consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, then they
will say: because our God is not among us, these tribulations are come upon us.
But I will hide my face that same time for all the evil's sake which they shall
have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods. Now therefore write ye
this song, and teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouths that
this song may be my witness unto the children of Israel. For when I have brought
them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that runneth with milk and
honey, then they will eat and fill them selves and wax fat and turn unto strange
gods and serve them and rail on me and break my testament. And then when much
mischief and tribulation is come upon them, this song shall answer before them,
and be a witness. It shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for
I know their imagination which they go about even now before I have brought them
into the land which I sware. And Moses wrote this song the same season, and
taught it the children of Israel. And the Lord {|LORDE|} gave Iosua the son of
Nun a charge and said: be bold and strong for thou shalt bring the children of
Israel into the land which I sware unto them, and I will be with thee. When
Moses had made an end of writing out the words of this law in a book unto the
end of them he commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the testament of the
LORD saying: take the book of this law and put it by the side of the ark of the
testament of the LORD your God, and let it be there for a witness unto thee. For
I know thy stubbornness and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with
you this day, ye have been disobedient unto the LORD: and how much more after my
death. Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I
may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against
them. For I am sure that after my death, they will utterly mar them selves and
turn from the way which I commanded you, and tribulation will come upon you in
the latter days, when ye have wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD to
provoke him with the works of your hands. And Moses spake in the ears of all the
congregation of Israel the words of this song, unto the end of them.
Chapter
.xxxij.
Hear o heaven, what I shall speak and hear o earth the words of my mouth. My
doctrine drop as doeth the rain, and my speech flow as doeth the dew, as the
mizzling upon the herbs, and as the drops upon the grass. For I will call on the
name of the LORD: Magnify the might of our God. He is a Rocke and perfect are
his deeds, for all his ways are with discretion. God is faithful and without
wickedness, both righteous and just is he. The froward and overthwart generation
hath marred them selves to himward, and are not his sons for their deformities'
sake. Dost thou so reward the LORD? O foolish nation and unwise. Is not he thy
father and thine owner? hath he not made thee and ordained thee? Remember the
days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he
will shew thee, thine elders and they will tell thee. When the most highest gave
the nations an inheritance, and divided the sons of Adam, he put the borders of
the nations, fast by the multitude of the children of Israel. For the LORD's
part is his folk, and Israel is the portion of his inheritance. He found him in
a desert land, in a void ground and a roaring wilderness. He led him about and
gave him understanding, and kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle that
stirreth up her nest and fluttereth over her young, he stretched out his wings
and took him up and bare him on his shoulders. The LORD alone was his guide, and
there was no strange god with him. He set him up upon an high land, and he ate
the increase of the fields. And he gave him honey to suck out of the rock, and
oil out of the hard stone. With butter of the kine and milk of the sheep, with
fat of the lambs and fat rams and he goats with fat kidneys and with wheat. And
of the blood of grapes thou drunkest wine. And Israel waxed fat and kicked. Thou
wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go that made him and despised the
rock that saved him. They angered him with strange gods and with abominations
provoked him. They offered unto field devils and not to God, and to gods which
they knew not and to new gods that came newly up which their fathers feared not.
Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgot God that made
thee. And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his
sons and daughters. And he said: I will hide my face from them and will see what
their end shall be. For they are a froward generation and children in whom is no
faith. They have angered me with that which is no god, and provoked me with
their vanities; And I again will anger them with them which are no people, and
will provoke them with a foolish nation. For fire is kindled in my wrath, and
shall burn unto the bottom of hell. And shall consume the earth with her
increase, and set afire the bottoms of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon
thee and will spend all mine arrows at them. Burnt with hunger and consumed with
heat and with bitter pestilence. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them
and poison serpents. Without forth, the sword shall rob them of their children:
and within in the chamber, fear: both young men and young women and the
sucklings with the men of gray heads. I have determined to scatter them
thorowout the world, and to make away the remembrance of them from among men.
Were it not that I feared the railing of their enemies, lest their adversaries
would be proud and say: our high hand hath done all these works and not the
LORD. For it is a nation that hath an unhappy forecast, and hath no
understanding in them: I would they were wise and understood this and would
consider their latter end. How it cometh that one shall chase a thousand, and
two put ten thousand of them to flight?: except their rock had sold them, and
because the LORD had delivered them. For our rock is not as their rock, no
though our enemies be judge. But their vines are of the vines of Sodom, and of
the fields of Gomorra. Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters be
bitter. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps. Are not
such things laid in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? Vengeance
is mine and I will reward: their feet shall slide, when the time cometh. For the
time of their destruction is at hand, and the time that shall come upon them
maketh haste. For the LORD will do justice unto his people, and have compassion
on his servants. For it shall be seen that their power shall fail, and at the
last they shall be prisoned and forsaken. And it shall be said: where are their
gods and their rock wherein they trusted? The fat of whose sacrifices they ate,
and drank the wine of their drinkofferings, let them rise up and help you and be
your protection. See now how that I, I am he, and that there is no God but I. I
can kill and make alive, and what I have smitten that I can heal: neither is
there that can deliver any man out of my hand. For I will lift up my hand to
heaven, and will say: I live ever. If I whet the lightning of my sword, and mine
hand take in hand to do justice, I will shew vengeance on mine enemies and will
reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunken with blood, and my
sword shall eat flesh of the blood of the slain and of the captive and of the
bare head of the enemy. Rejoice {Praise ye} heathen with his people, for he will
avenge the blood of his servants, and will avenge him of his adversaries, and
will be merciful unto the land of his people. And Moses went and spake all the
words of this song in the ears of the people, both he and Iosua the son of Nun.
And when Moses had spoken all these words unto the end to all Israel, then he
said unto them. Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify unto you this
day: that ye command them unto your children, to observe and do all the words of
this law. For it is not a vain word unto you: but it is your life, and thorow
this word ye shall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over Iordan to
conquer it. And the LORD spake unto Moses the self same day saying: get thee up
into this mountain Abarim unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over
against Iericho. And behold the land of Canaan which I give unto the children of
Israel to possess. And die in the mount which thou goest upon, and be gathered
unto thy people: As Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor and was gathered unto
his people. For ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the
waters of strife, at Cades in the wilderness of Zin: because ye sanctified me
not among the children of Israel. Thou shalt see the land before thee, but shall
not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Chapter
.xxxiij.
This is the blessing wherewith Moses God's {gods} man blessed the children of
Israel before his death saying: The LORD came from Sinai and shewed his beams
from Seir unto them, and appeared gloriously from mount Pharan, and he came with
thousands of saints, and in his right hand a law of fire for them. How loved he
the people? All his saints are in his hand. They joined them selves unto thy
foot and received thy words. Moses gave us a law which is the inheritance of the
congregation of Iacob. And he was in Israel king when he gathered the heads of
the people and the tribes of Israel together. Ruben shall live and shall not
die: but his people shall be few in number. This is the blessing of Iuda. And he
said: hear LORD the voice of Iuda and bring him unto his people: let his hands
fight for him: but be thou his help against his enemies. And unto Levi he said:
thy perfectness and thy light be after thy merciful man whom thou temptest at
Masa and with whom thou strivedest at the waters of strife. He that sayeth unto
his father and mother: I saw him not, and unto his brethren I knew not, and to
his son I wot not: for they have observed thy words and kept thy testament. They
shall teach Iacob thy judgements and Israel thy laws. They shall put cense
before thy nose and whole sacrifices upon thine altar. Bless LORD their power
and accept the works of their hands: smite the backs of them that rise against
them and of them that hate them: that they rise not again. Unto Ben Iamin he
said: The LORD's darling shall dwell in safety by him and keep himself in the
haven by him continually, and shall dwell between his shoulders. And unto Ioseph
he said: blessed of the LORD is his land with the goodly fruits of heaven, with
dew and with springs that lie beneath: and with fruits of the increase of the
son and with ripe fruit of the months, and with the tops of mountains that were
from the beginning and with the dainties of hills that last ever, and with
goodly fruit of the earth and of the fulness thereof. And the goodwill of him
that dwelleth in the bush shall come upon the head of Ioseph and upon the top of
the head of him that was separated from among his brethren, his beauty is as a
firstborn ox and his horns as the horns of an unicorn. And with them he shall
push the nations together, even unto the ends of the world. These are the many
thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasse. And unto Zabulon he said:
Rejoice Zabulon in thy going out, and thou Isachar in thy tents. They shall call
the people unto the hill, and there they shall offer offerings of righteousness.
For they shall suck of the abundance of the sea and of treasure hid in the sand.
And unto Gad he said: blessed is the rowmmaker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion and
caught the arm and also the top of the head. He saw his beginning, that a part
of the teachers were {teacher was} hid there and come with the heads of the
people, and executed the righteousness of the LORD and his judgements with
Israel. And unto Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, he shall flow from Basan.
And unto Nephthali, he said: Nephthali he shall have abundance of pleasure and
shall be filled with the blessing of the LORD and shall have his possessions in
the southwest. And of Asser he said: Asser shall be blessed with children: he
shall be acceptable unto his brethren and shall dip his foot in oil: Iron and
brass shall hang on thy shoes and thine age shall be as thy youth. There is none
like unto the God of thee of Israel: he that sitteth upon heaven shall be thine
help, whose glory is in the clouds, that is the dwelling place of God from the
beginning and from under the arms of the world: he hath cast out thine enemies
before thee and said: destroy. And Israel shall dwell in safety alone. And the
eyes of Iacob shall look upon a land of corn and wine, moreover his heaven shall
drop with dew. Happy art thou Israel, who is like unto thee? A people that art
saved by the LORD thy shield and helper and sword of thy glory. And thine
enemies shall hide them selves from thee, and thou shalt walk upon their high
hills.
Chapter
.xxxiiij.
And Moses went from the fields of Moab up into mount Nebo which is the top of
Pisga, that is over against Iericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of
Gilead even unto Dan, and all Naphthali and the land of Ephraim and Manasse, and
all the land of Iuda: even unto the utmost sea, and the south and the region of
the plain of Iericho the city of datetrees {palm trees} even unto Zoar. And the
LORD said unto him. This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob
saying: I will give it unto thy seed. I have shewed it thee before thine eyes:
but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the LORD died there
in the land of Moab at the commandment of the LORD. And he buried him in a
valley in the land of Moab beside Beth Peor: but no man wist of his sepulchre
unto this day. And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died, and
yet his eyes were not dim nor his cheeks abated. And the children of Israel wept
for Moses in the fields of Moab thirty days. And the days of weeping and
mourning for Moses were ended. And Iosua the son of Nun was full of the spirit
of wisdom: for Moses had put his hand upon him. And all the children of Israel
hearkened unto him and did as the LORD commanded Moses. But there arose not a
prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all
the miracles and wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt,
unto Pharao and all his servants and unto all his land: and in all the mighty
deeds and great terrible things which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
The end of the fifth book of Moses.