¹In the beginning God created heaven and the earth. ²But the earth became desolate and deserted, and there was darkness over the surface of the deep. Now the spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the water, ³and God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light, ⁴and God saw that the light was good. Then God made a division between the light and the darkness, ⁵and God called the light day, whereas the darkness he called night. Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – day one. ⁶Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the water, and let it divide one mass of water from another mass of water”, ⁷and God made the expanse and divided the water which was below the expanse from the water which was above the expanse. And so it came about, ⁸and God called the expanse sky. Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the second day. ⁹Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And so it came about, ¹⁰and God called the dry land earth, whereas the accumulation of water he called seas. And God saw that it was good. ¹¹Then God said, “Let the earth produce grass, herbaceous vegetation bearing seed, and the fruit-bearing tree which produces fruit according to its species, which has its own intrinsic seed, on the earth.” And so it came about, ¹²and the earth produced grass, herbaceous vegetation bearing seed according to its species, and the tree producing fruit, which has its own intrinsic seed according to its species. And God saw that it was good. ¹³Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the third day. ¹⁴Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky, to divide the day from the night, and let them be as signs and for appointed times and for days and years, ¹⁵and they will serve as lights in the expanse of the sky, to shine on the earth.” And so it came about, ¹⁶and God made the two great lights, the greater light as a ruler of the day and the smaller light as a ruler of the night, and also the stars. ¹⁷And God put them in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, ¹⁸and to rule by day and by night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the fourth day. ²⁰Then God said, “Let the waters teem with aquatic animals, with living beings, and let birds fly above the earth, over the expanse of the sky”, ²¹and God created the great sea-monsters, and every living being that creeps, which the water teems with, according to their species, and all the winged fowl according to its species. And God saw that it was good. ²²And God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” ²³Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the fifth day. ²⁴Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their species, cattle and reptiles and beasts of the earth, according to their species.” And so it came about, ²⁵and God made the beasts of the earth according to their species, and the cattle after their species, and all the reptiles of the ground according to their species. And God saw that it was good. ²⁶Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and they will subdue the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky, and the cattle, and the whole earth, and every reptile that crawls on the earth.” ²⁷So God created man in his image. He created him in the image of God. Male and female he created them. ²⁸And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and subjugate it, and subdue the fish of the sea and the birds of the sky and every animal that creeps over the earth.” ²⁹Then God said, “Look, I have given you all vegetation bearing seed which is on the surface of the whole earth, and every tree which has fruit of the tree in it bearing seed. It will be for food for you, ³⁰and for every beast of the earth, and for all birds of the sky, and for every reptile on the earth which has the breath of life in it; all green vegetation is for food.” And so it came about. ³¹And God saw everything that he had made, and the result was that it was very good. Then evening came to pass, and morning came to pass – the sixth day.

Reference(s) in Chapter 1: v.1 ↔ Revelation 14:7 ● v.27 ↔ Mark 10:6.

¹So heaven and the earth were completed with all their array. ²And on the seventh day God had finished his workmanship which he executed. Now he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done, ³and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for on it he rested from all his workmanship which God had created in making it. ⁴These are the genealogies of heaven and the earth when they were created, on the day when the Lord God made the earth and heaven, ⁵and every wild shrub before it was on the earth, and all wild vegetation before it had sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain onto the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. ⁶But a vapour would come up from the earth, and it watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷So the Lord God formed man from the dust from the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living soul. ⁸Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and he put the man there whom he had formed. ⁹And the Lord God caused to grow up from the ground every tree that is attractive to look at and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰Now a river goes out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides itself and has become four spring sources. ¹¹The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which goes round the whole land of Havilah where there is gold. ¹²And the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and onyx there too. ¹³And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes round all the land of Cush. ¹⁴And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes east to Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. ¹⁵And the Lord God took the man and set him down in the garden of Eden to tend it and to keep it. ¹⁶And the Lord God commanded the man and said, “You can freely eat from every tree of the garden, ¹⁷but you shall not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for on the day that you eat from it, you will surely die.” ¹⁸And the Lord God said, “It is not right for man to be on his own. I will make him a helper as his counterpart.” ¹⁹Now the Lord God had formed from the ground every wild animal and all birds of the sky, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and whatever the man called each living being, that was its name. ²⁰And the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to every wild animal, but no helper was found for man as his counterpart. ²¹Then the Lord God caused a slumber to fall on the man, and he fell asleep, and he took one of his ribs and closed the flesh after it. ²²Then the Lord God built the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman, and he brought her to the man. ²³And the man said,

“This time it is bone from my bones

And flesh from my flesh.

This one will be called woman,

For from man she was taken.”

²⁴On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother, and he will cleave to his wife, and they will become one flesh. ²⁵Now the two of them were naked – the man and his wife – but they were not ashamed.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.2 ↔ Hebrews 4:4 ● v.7 ↔ 1 Corinthians 15:45 ● v.24 ↔ Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:7-8, 1 Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 5:31.

¹Now the serpent was more cunning than all the other wild animals which the Lord God had made, and he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” ²Then the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden, ³but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ” ⁴Then the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die. ⁵For God knows that on the day when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” ⁶Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was an object of pleasure to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable for imparting wisdom, and she took some of its fruit and ate it, and she gave some to her husband also, who was with her, and he ate it. ⁷And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they became aware that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together, and they made themselves aprons. ⁸Then they heard the voice of the Lord God as he was walking about in the garden in the breeze of the day. And the man hid himself, as did his wife, from the presence of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden. ⁹Then the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” ¹⁰And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself.” ¹¹Then he said, “Who has told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree which I commanded you not to eat from?” ¹²Then the man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me – she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” ¹³Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate it.” ¹⁴At this the Lord God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

You are more cursed than all the cattle

And than all the wild animals.

You will go on your belly

And eat dust all the days of your life.

¹⁵And I will put enmity between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her seed.

It will crush your head,

But you will crush it in the heel.”

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will greatly increase your labour pains

And your childbirth.

In pain you will give birth to sons,

And your desire will be to your husband,

And he will rule over you.”

¹⁷And to the man he said,

“Because you have heeded the voice of your wife

And eaten from the tree

About which I commanded you by saying,

‘You shall not eat from it’,

The ground is cursed because of you.

In sorrow you will eat from it

All the days of your life.

¹⁸And it will cause thorns and brambles to spring up to you,

And you will eat the vegetation of the field.

¹⁹By the sweat of your face you will eat bread,

Until you return to the ground,

For from it you were taken

– For you are dust –

And to dust you will return.”

²⁰And the man called his wife Eve, for she became the mother of everyone living. ²¹Then the Lord God made coats of skin for the man and for his wife, and he clothed them. ²²Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, in knowing good and evil, and now, lest he should stretch out his hand and also take anything from the tree of life, and eat it, and live age-abidingly ...” ²³And the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he had been taken. ²⁴So he drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and a flaming sword which rotated at the east of the Garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.16 ↔ 1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Timothy 2:15.

¹And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and she bore Cain, and she said, “I have got a man – the Lord.” ²Then she gave birth again, to his brother, Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of small cattle, whereas Cain became a tiller of the ground. ³And it came to pass, after a number of days, that Cain brought some fruit of the ground as an offering to the Lord. ⁴And Abel also brought an offering, from the firstlings of his small cattle, and from their fat. And the Lord looked upon Abel and his offering with favour. ⁵But he did not look upon Cain and his offering with favour, and it infuriated Cain greatly, and he became crestfallen. ⁶And the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you infuriated and why are you crestfallen? ⁷If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, a sin-offering is lying at the door, and its desire is towards you, and you may rule over it.” ⁸Then Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass while they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him. ⁹At this the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?” ¹⁰Whereupon he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. ¹¹So now you are more cursed than the ground which opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother at your hand. ¹²When you till the ground, it will not give you its vigour any more; a nomad and a fugitive you will be on the earth.” ¹³Then Cain said to the Lord, “My iniquity is too great to bear. ¹⁴Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and I will be hiding from your presence. And I have become a nomad and a fugitive on the earth, and it will come to pass that anyone who finds me will kill me.” ¹⁵Then the Lord said to him, “That is why anyone who kills Cain will have vengeance taken on him seven times over.” And the Lord put a sign on Cain so that no-one who found him should strike him. ¹⁶So Cain departed from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod to the east of Eden. ¹⁷And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and she bore Enoch, and he became a builder of a city, and he called the city after the name of his son, Enoch. ¹⁸Then Irad was born to Enoch, and Irad begot Mehujael, and Mehujael begot Methushael, and Methushael begot Lamech. ¹⁹Now Lamech took for himself two wives; the name of one was Adah and the name of the other was Zillah. ²⁰And Adah bore Jabal. He became the father of those who live in tents and have cattle. ²¹And the name of his brother was Jubal. He became the father of all those who play the harp and flute. ²²And Zillah also gave birth, to Tubal-Cain, a sharpener of all copper and iron cutters. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. ²³And Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah,

Hear my voice.

You wives of Lamech,

Listen to my saying,

For I have killed a man to my wounding,

And a youth to my scarring.

²⁴Inasmuch as Cain will be avenged seven times over,

So Lamech will be seventy-seven times.”

²⁵Then Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and she called him Seth, “For”, she said, “God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain killed him.” ²⁶And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enos. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.

Reference(s) in Chapter 4: v.8 ↔ 1 John 3:12.

¹This is the book of the genealogy of Adam, on the day God created Adam. In the likeness of God he made him. ²Male and female he created them, and he blessed them, and he called them Adam on the day of their being created. ³And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and he begot a son in his likeness, as an image of himself, and he called him Seth. ⁴Then the days of Adam after begetting Seth were eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ⁵So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. ⁶And Seth lived one hundred and five years and begot Enos. ⁷Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after begetting Enos, and he begot sons and daughters. ⁸So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. ⁹And Enos lived ninety years and begot Cainan. ¹⁰Then Enos lived eight hundred and fifteen years after begetting Cainan, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹¹So all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died. ¹²And Cainan lived seventy years and begot Mahalalel. ¹³Then Cainan lived eight hundred and forty years after begetting Mahalalel, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴So all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. ¹⁵And Mahalalel lived sixty-five years and begot Jared. ¹⁶Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after begetting Jared, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁷So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. ¹⁸And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years and begot Enoch. ¹⁹Then Jared lived eight hundred years after begetting Enoch, and he begot sons and daughters. ²⁰So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. ²¹And Enoch lived sixty-five years and begot Methuselah. ²²Now Enoch walked with God for three hundred years after begetting Methuselah, and he begot sons and daughters. ²³So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. ²⁴And Enoch walked with God, and he disappeared, for God had taken him. ²⁵And Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years and begot Lamech. ²⁶Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after begetting Lamech, and he begot sons and daughters. ²⁷So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. ²⁸And Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and he begot a son. ²⁹And he called him Noah and said, “This son will give us relief from our labour and from the toil of our hands – from the ground which the Lord cursed.” ³⁰Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after begetting Noah, and he begot sons and daughters. ³¹So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. ³²And Noah was five hundred years old when Noah begot Shem, Ham and Japheth.

¹And it came to pass when man began to increase on the surface of the ground that daughters were born to them, ²and the sons of God saw man's daughters – how good-looking they were – and they took wives to themselves from everyone they chose. ³And the Lord said, “My spirit will not strive with man age-abidingly in his waywardness. He is flesh, and his days will be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴There were Nephilim on the earth in those days, and after that too, when the sons of God went into the daughters of man who bore them offspring. They are the heroes who since antiquity have been men of renown. ⁵And the Lord saw that man's evil on the earth was great, and that every conception of the thoughts of his heart was nothing but evil all day long. ⁶And the Lord grieved over having made man on the earth, and he was distressed in his heart. ⁷And the Lord said, “I will wipe man that I created off the face of the earth – both man and beast, and reptile and birds of the sky, for I am grieved over having made them.” ⁸But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. ⁹This is the lineage of Noah. Noah was a righteous man; he was pure in his genealogy. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. ¹¹Now the earth became corrupt before God, and the earth became full of violence. ¹²And God looked at the earth and saw that it had become corrupt, for all flesh had gone a corrupt way on the earth. ¹³Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is full of violence because of them. So I am about to bring ruin on them with the earth. ¹⁴Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. You shall make the ark in cells, and you shall cover it inside and outside with pitch. ¹⁵And this is how you will make it: the length of the ark will be three hundred cubits. Its width will be fifty cubits, and its height will be thirty cubits. ¹⁶You will make a skylight for the ark and finish it one cubit projecting above, and you will make a door to the ark on the side of it. You will make it with a lower, a second and a third deck. ¹⁷And as for me, I am about to bring a flood of water on the earth, to bring to ruin all flesh on it that has the breath of life in it under heaven. Everything that is on the earth will expire. ¹⁸And I will set up my covenant with you, and you will go into the ark – you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁹And you will bring two of every species of every living thing of all flesh into the ark to preserve them alive with you – male and female they shall be – ²⁰of birds according to their species, and of cattle according to their species, and of all reptiles of the ground according to their species. Two of everything will come to you to preserve them alive. ²¹And you are to take with you all kinds of food that are eaten, and gather it up, and it will be food for you and for them.” ²²And Noah did it. Everything that God commanded him, he duly carried out.

Reference(s) in Chapter 6: v.5 ↔ James 4:5.

¹And the Lord said to Noah, “Go, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen you as righteous before me in this generation. ²From every clean beast, take along seven and seven, the male and its mate. And from the beasts which are not clean, a pair, the male and its mate. ³Also from the birds of the sky, take seven and seven, male and female, to preserve seed alive on the face of all the earth. ⁴For in seven days' time I will be sending rain over the earth, for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe out every living thing which I made from the face of the earth.” ⁵And Noah did everything that the Lord commanded him. ⁶Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood took place with water over the earth. ⁷And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went with him into the ark because of the water of the flood. ⁸Those from the clean beasts, and from the beasts which are not clean, and from the birds, and everything that creeps on the ground ⁹came two by two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had instructed Noah. ¹⁰And it came to pass after seven days that the floodwater came over the earth. ¹¹In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on this day – all the founts of the great deep were split open, and the floodgates of heaven were opened. ¹²And the rain came over the earth for forty days and forty nights. ¹³On this very day Noah went into the ark, as did Shem and Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them – ¹⁴they and all the wild animals according to their species, and all the cattle according to their species, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth according to their species, and all the birds according to their species – all fowl of every wing. ¹⁵So they came to Noah, to the ark, two by two, from all the kinds of flesh in which there is the breath of life. ¹⁶And those that came were male and female; from every kind of flesh they came, as God had instructed him. Then the Lord closed up after him. ¹⁷And the flood took place for forty days on the earth, and the water increased and bore up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. ¹⁸And the water gained strength and increased greatly over the earth, while the ark went on the surface of the water. ¹⁹And the water gained greater and greater strength over the earth, and all the high mountains which are below all the heavens were covered. ²⁰The water grew to fifteen cubits upwards, and it covered the mountains. ²¹And all flesh which creeps over the earth expired, with birds and with beasts and with animals, and with all aquatic life which teems on the earth, and all mankind. ²²Everything that had the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils – everything which was on dry land – died. ²³And he wiped out every living thing which was on the surface of the earth, both man and beast, and reptile and the birds of the sky. And they were wiped out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained. ²⁴And the water held sway over the earth for one hundred and fifty days.

¹And God remembered Noah and all the livestock and all the beasts that were with him in the ark, and God caused a spirit to pass over the earth, and the waters abated. ²And the founts of the deep were closed off, as were the floodgates of heaven, and the rain was held back from the heavens. ³And the water receded from the earth, and it kept receding, and the water diminished after one hundred and fifty days. ⁴Then the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. ⁵And the water kept on diminishing until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the summits of the mountains were seen. ⁶Then it came to pass after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made, ⁷and he sent out a raven, and it kept going out and coming back again until the water dried up on the earth. ⁸And he sent out a dove to see if the water had ebbed away on the surface of the ground. ⁹But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of its foot, and it came back to him – to the ark – for there was water over the surface of the whole earth. And he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it in, into the ark. ¹⁰And he waited for another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark. ¹¹And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, there was a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. So Noah knew that the water had ebbed away from the surface of the earth. ¹²And he waited for another seven days, and he sent out the dove, and it did not come back to him again. ¹³And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the water dried up from the earth, and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked around, and what he saw was that the surface of the ground had become dry. ¹⁴And in the second month on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth became dry. ¹⁵And God spoke to Noah and said, ¹⁶“Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. ¹⁷Bring out with you all the livestock which is with you, the specimens from all the kinds of flesh, on the birds and on the beasts and on all the reptiles which creep on the earth, so that they may teem on the earth, and be fruitful and increase on the earth.” ¹⁸So Noah came out, as did his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. ¹⁹All the livestock, all the reptiles and all the birds, everything that creeps on the earth, according to their families, came out of the ark. ²⁰Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and he took sacrificial victims from all the clean beasts and from all the clean birds, and he made burnt offerings on the altar. ²¹And the Lord smelled the sweet fragrance, and the Lord said in his heart,

“I will not curse the ground again because of man,

For the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth on,

And I will not strike everything living again,

As I have done,

²²As long as all the days of the earth

– Seed time and harvest time,

And cold and hot,

And summer and winter,

And day and night –

Do not cease.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 8: v.21 ↔ James 4:5.

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons, and he said to them, “Be fruitful and increase and fill the earth. ²And fear of you and dread of you will be innate to all the animals of the earth, and to all the birds of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the ground, and to all the fish of the sea. They have been delivered into your hand. ³Every reptile that lives will be food for you, like the green vegetables. I have given you everything. ⁴But you shall not eat flesh with its source of life – its blood. ⁵And I will surely require the blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it, and at the hand of man, at the hand of each man's brother, I will require the life of man.

⁶As for him who sheds the blood of man,

By man his blood will be shed,

For in the image of God

He made man.

⁷As for you,

Be fruitful and increase;

Teem on the earth

And increase on it.”

⁸Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, and he said, ⁹“As for me, I am about to set up my covenant with you and with your seed after you, ¹⁰and with every living thing which is with you, with birds, with cattle and with all earthly life, with you, both everything that came out of the ark and all earthly life. ¹¹And I will set up my covenant with you, that no more will all flesh be cut off by the water of a flood, and there will not be a flood any more bringing the earth to ruin.” ¹²And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I give between myself and you and with all living beings which are with you, for age-abiding generations: ¹³I put my bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of a covenant between myself and the earth. ¹⁴And it will come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will appear in the cloud. ¹⁵And I will remember my covenant which is between myself and you, and with all living beings – with all flesh – and there will not be any floodwater any more to bring all flesh to ruin. ¹⁶And the bow will be in the cloud, and I will see it, so as to remember the age-abiding covenant between God and all living beings with all flesh that is on the earth.” ¹⁷And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have set up between myself and all flesh which is on the earth.” ¹⁸Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. ¹⁹These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. ²⁰Then Noah took up being a cultivator of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. ²¹And he drank from the wine and became drunk, and he uncovered himself inside his tent. ²²Now Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. ²³So Shem and Japheth took a mantle and put it on both of their shoulders and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father, while their faces were directed backwards, and they did not see the nakedness of their father. ²⁴Then Noah awoke from his wine stupor and knew what his youngest son had done to him. ²⁵And he said,

“Cursed be Canaan.

He shall be a servant of servants

To his brothers.”

²⁶And he said,

“Blessed be the Lord God of Shem,

And may Canaan be his servant.

²⁷May God enlarge Japheth,

And may he dwell in the tents of Shem,

And may Canaan be his servant.”

²⁸And Noah lived for three hundred and fifty years after the flood. ²⁹So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Reference(s) in Chapter 9: v.6 ↔ Revelation 13:10.

¹Now this is the lineage of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and sons were born to them after the flood. ²The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. ³And the sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. ⁴And the sons of Javan were Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. ⁵From these the coastlands of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, each one according to his language, by their families in their nations. ⁶And the sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. ⁷And the sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabtechah. And the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. ⁸And Cush begot Nimrod. He started to become mighty in the land. ⁹He became a mighty hunter before the Lord. On account of that there is a saying, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.” ¹⁰And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar. ¹¹From that land Ashshur emerged, and he built Nineveh and Rehoboth City and Calah, ¹²and Resen between Nineveh and Calah. This is the great city. ¹³And Mizraim begot Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim, ¹⁴and Pathrusim, and Casluhim from whom the Philistines emerged, and the Caphtorites. ¹⁵And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn and Heth, ¹⁶and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite, ¹⁷and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, ¹⁸and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. Then afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread out. ¹⁹And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as one goes to Gerar as far as Gaza, as one goes to Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim, as far as Lasha. ²⁰These were the sons of Ham by their families, by their languages, in their territories, in their nations. ²¹And to Shem also offspring were born. He is the father of all the sons of Eber the brother of Japheth the elder. ²²The sons of Shem were Elam and Ashshur and Arphaxad and Lud and Aram. ²³And the sons of Aram were Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash. ²⁴And Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. ²⁵And by Eber two sons were begotten. The name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth became divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan. ²⁶And Joktan begot Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah, ²⁷and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah, ²⁸and Obal and Abimael and Sheba, ²⁹and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All of these were the sons of Joktan, ³⁰and their dwelling place was from Mesha as one goes to Sephar, the mountain of the east. ³¹These were the sons of Shem by their families, by their languages, in their territories, by their nations. ³²These were the families of the sons of Noah by their family histories in their nations, and from these the nations separated off on the earth after the flood.

¹Now the whole earth was of one language and one vocabulary. ²And it came to pass as they migrated eastwards that they found a valley in the land of Shinar and dwelt there. ³And they said to each other, “Come on, let's make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they had bricks for stone, and they had bitumen for mortar. ⁴And they said, “Come on, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the sky, and let's make ourselves a reputation, so that we are not scattered over the surface of all the earth.” ⁵Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built. ⁶And the Lord said, “Behold, there is one people and one language for all of them, and this is what they have undertaken to do. Now nothing that they devise will be infeasible for them to do. ⁷Come now, let us go down and confound their language there, so that one will not understand the language of another.” ⁸So the Lord scattered them from there over the surface of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. ⁹For that reason they called it Babel, because the Lord confounded the language of the whole earth there, and from there the Lord scattered them over the surface of the whole earth. ¹⁰This is the lineage of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, two years after the flood. ¹¹Then after he begot Arphaxad, Shem lived for five hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹²And Arphaxad lived for thirty-five years and begot Shelah. ¹³Then after he begot Shelah, Arphaxad lived for four hundred and three years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁴And Shelah lived for thirty years and begot Eber. ¹⁵Then after he begot Eber, Shelah lived for four hundred and three years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁶And Eber lived for thirty-four years and begot Peleg. ¹⁷Then after he begot Peleg, Eber lived for four hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters. ¹⁸And Peleg lived for thirty years and begot Reu. ¹⁹Then after he begot Reu, Peleg lived for two hundred and nine years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²⁰And Reu lived for thirty-two years and begot Serug. ²¹Then after he begot Serug, Reu lived for two hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²²And Serug lived for thirty years and begot Nahor. ²³Then after he begot Nahor, Serug lived for two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²⁴And Nahor lived for twenty-nine years and begot Terah. ²⁵Then after he begot Terah, Nahor lived for one hundred and nineteen years, and he begot sons and daughters. ²⁶And Terah lived for seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷This is the lineage of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor and Haran, and Haran begot Lot. ²⁸But Haran died before Terah his father in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldees. ²⁹And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. ³⁰Now Sarai was barren – she did not have any offspring. ³¹And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot Haran's son, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldees to go to the land of Canaan, and they went as far as Haran and dwelt there. ³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years. Then Terah died in Haran.

Reference(s) in Chapter 11: v.31 ↔ Acts 7:2.

¹Then the Lord said to Abram,

²And I will make you a great nation,

And I will bless you

And make your name great,

And you must become a blessing.

³And I will bless those who bless you,

But I will curse him who reviles you.

But all the families of the earth

Will be blessed through you.”

⁴Then Abram set off as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son, and all their property which they had accumulated, and the livestock which they had acquired in Haran, and they set off to go to the land of Canaan, and into the land of Canaan they came. ⁶And Abram crossed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh, but the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” At this he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. ⁸Then he moved from there to a mountain to the east of Beth-El and pitched his tent with Beth-El to the west and Ai to the east, and he built an altar there to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. ⁹Then Abram moved on, and he kept on moving southwards. ¹⁰Then there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to stay there, for the famine in the land was severe. ¹¹And it came to pass, as he got near entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I ask you, I know that you are a beautiful woman in appearance, ¹²and it will be the case that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’, and they will kill me and keep you alive. ¹³Say, would you, that you are my sister, so that it will go well with me on your account, and I myself will live because of you.” ¹⁴And it came to pass, when Abram went to Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. ¹⁵And Pharaoh's princes saw her, and they commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house. ¹⁶And it went well with Abram on her account, and he had sheep and cattle and donkeys and menservants and maidservants and she-asses and camels. ¹⁷Then the Lord afflicted Pharaoh with great plagues, along with his household, because of the matter of Sarai, Abram's wife. ¹⁸So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’, so that I took her for her to be my wife? So now, here is your wife. Take her and go.” ²⁰And Pharaoh gave his men instructions concerning him, and he sent him off with his wife and everything that was his.

Reference(s) in Chapter 12: v.1 ↔ Acts 7:3 ● v.3 ↔ Acts 3:25, Galatians 3:8.

¹So Abram went up from Egypt – he and his wife and everything that was his – as did Lot with him, to the south. ²Now Abram was well-endowed with cattle, with silver and with gold. ³And he went on his journeys from the south as far as to Beth-El, to the place where his tent was at the start, between Beth-El and Ai, ⁴to the place of the altar which he had made at the start, and Abram called on the name of the Lord there. ⁵And Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep and oxen and tents, ⁶and the land did not support them living together, for their property was considerable, and they could not live together. ⁷And there arose a dispute between the shepherds of Abram's livestock and the shepherds of Lot's livestock, while the Canaanite and the Perizzite were already dwelling in the land. ⁸Then Abram said to Lot, “Please don't let there be a dispute between me and you, or between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we are kinsmen. ⁹Is not all the land before you? Separate yourself from me, would you. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right, and if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.” ¹⁰At this Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole tract of the Jordan – that all of it was a well-watered area – (before the Lord had brought Sodom and Gomorrah to ruin) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as one goes to Zoar. ¹¹So Lot chose the whole tract of the Jordan for himself, and Lot moved eastwards, and they separated from each other. ¹²Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan whereas Lot dwelt among the cities of the tract of land and lived in tents as far as Sodom. ¹³Now the men of Sodom were evil and sinners against the Lord to a great degree. ¹⁴And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had been separated from him, “Raise your eyes now and look, from the place where you are, northwards and southwards and eastwards and westwards. ¹⁵For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed, age-abidingly. ¹⁶And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth, such that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your seed will be able to be counted too. ¹⁷Arise and walk about in the land, in its length and in its breadth, for I will give it to you.” ¹⁸And Abram lived in a tent, and he arrived at, and dwelt in, the oak woods of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.15 ↔ Acts 7:5.

¹Now it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of nations, ²that they made war on Bera king of Sodom, and Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. ³All these joined forces at the Valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea. ⁴For twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled. ⁵And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emites in Shaveh-Kiriathaim, ⁶and the Horites in their Mount Seir, up to El-Paran which is by the desert. ⁷Then they returned and came to En-Mishpat, which is Kadesh and attacked all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazezon-Tamar. ⁸And the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela, which is Zoar, came out and arrayed themselves in battle against them in the Valley of Siddim, ⁹against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar – four kings against five. ¹⁰Now the Valley of Siddim consisted of bitumen pit after bitumen pit, and the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and the rest fled to a mountain. ¹¹And they took all the property of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and they went away. ¹²And they took Lot, the son of Abram's brother who dwelt in Sodom, and his property, and they went their way. ¹³Now an escapee came and told Abram the Hebrew about it, while he was living in the oak woods of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner, and they were party to a covenant with Abram. ¹⁴And when Abram heard that his brother had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in the household – three hundred and eighteen of them – and he pursued them as far as Dan. ¹⁵And he divided himself against them at night – he and his servants – and he attacked them and pursued them to Hobah which is to the left of Damascus. ¹⁶And he recovered all the property, and he also recovered Lot his brother and his property, and also the women and the people. ¹⁷Then the king of Sodom came out to confront him, after he had returned from attacking Chedorlaomer and the kings with him, to the Valley of Shaveh, which is the Valley of the King. ¹⁸And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. Now he is a priest to the Most High God. ¹⁹And he blessed him and said,

“Blessed be Abram to the Most High God,

Who possesses heaven and earth.

²⁰And blessed be the Most High God,

Who has disarmed your adversaries by your hand.”

And he gave him a tithe of everything. ²¹And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people but keep the property.” ²²But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “As I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth, ²³I most certainly will not take as much as a thread or a shoe-latchet, or anything that is yours, so that you cannot say, ‘I made Abram rich’, ²⁴except for just what the lads have eaten, and the contingent of the men who went with me – Aner, Eshcol and Mamre – they may take their portion.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 14: v.18 ↔ Ps 110:4, Hebrews 5:6, Hebrews 7:1, Hebrews 7:17, Hebrews 7:21.

¹After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, and he said, “Do not fear, Abram. I am your shield and very much your reward.” ²Then Abram said, “My Lord the Lord, what will you give me, for I go childless, and the superintendent of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.” ³And Abram said, “Look, you have not given me any seed, and look, a member of my household staff will inherit from me.” ⁴Then what happened was that the word of the Lord came to him and said, “This man will not inherit from you, but it is rather he who will come out of your inward parts who will inherit from you.” ⁵And he brought him outside and said, “Just look up to the sky and count the stars, if you can count them.” And he said to him, “So shall your seed be.” ⁶And he believed the Lord, and he imputed it to him as righteousness. ⁷And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land, for you to inherit it.” ⁸At this he said, “My Lord the Lord, by what token will I know that I will inherit it?” ⁹And he said to him, “Take for me a three-year-old cow-calf and a three-year-old goat-kid, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtle-dove and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰So he took all these together and cut them in pieces down the middle, and he put each piece opposite its counterpart, but he did not cut the birds up. ¹¹Then the birds of prey descended on the carcases, but Abram drove them away. ¹²Now the sun was on the point of setting, and a slumber fell on Abram, and what happened was that dread – a great darkness – fell on him. ¹³And he said to Abram, “Know with certainty that your seed will be outsiders in a land which is not theirs, and they will serve them; and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. ¹⁴But also that I will judge the people whom they serve, and after that they will go out with considerable property. ¹⁵And you will go to your fathers in peace – you will be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶And the fourth generation will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not full so far.” ¹⁷Then as the sun set, a thick darkness came on, and then there appeared a furnace of smoke and a fiery flame which passed between these pieces. ¹⁸On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your seed I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates: ¹⁹the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites ²⁰and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim ²¹and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 15: v.5 ↔ Romans 4:18, Hebrews 11:12 ● v.6 ↔ Romans 4:3, Romans 4:22, Galatians 3:6, James 2:23 ● v.13 ↔ Acts 7:6 ● v.14 ↔ Acts 7:7.

¹Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth of anyone to him, and she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. ²And Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the Lord has prevented me from giving birth. So go into my maidservant. Perhaps I will be built up from her.” And Abram heeded Sarai. ³So Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, after the passing of ten years of Abram dwelling in the land of Canaan, and she gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. ⁴And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And she saw that she had conceived, and her mistress was made light of in her eyes. ⁵Then Sarai said to Abram, “My injuriousness be upon you. I gave my maidservant into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I am made light of in her eyes. May the Lord judge between me and you.” ⁶To this Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your maidservant is in your hand. Do to her what is right in your sight.” Then Sarai oppressed her, and she fled from her presence. ⁷But the angel of the Lord found her at a source of water in the desert, at the source on the road to Shur. ⁸And he said, “Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from Sarai my mistress.” ⁹Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Go back to your mistress and submit yourself under her hands.” ¹⁰Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will very much increase your seed, and they will not be able to be counted for their abundance.” ¹¹Then the angel of the Lord said to her,

“You see that you are pregnant,

And you will give birth to a son,

And you will call him Ishmael,

Because the Lord has heard your affliction.

¹²And he will be a wild ass of a man;

His hand will be against everyone,

And everyone's hand will be against him,

And he will dwell alongside all his brothers.”

¹³And she called the Lord who had been speaking to her, “You are the God of a vision.” For she said, “Can I still see, right here, after my vision?” ¹⁴That is why they call the well Beer-Lahai-Roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵And Hagar gave birth to a son to Abram, and Abram called his son whom Hagar had borne Ishmael. ¹⁶Now Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael to Abram.

¹And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me and be with integrity, ²and I will perform my covenant between myself and you, and I will increase you very greatly.” ³Then Abram fell face down, and God spoke with him and said, ⁴“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you will become the father of a multitude of nations. ⁵And you will no longer be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. ⁶And I will make you extremely fruitful, and I will constitute you as nations, and kings will come out of you. ⁷And I will set up my covenant between myself and you and your seed after you for their generations, as an age-abiding covenant, so as to be God to you, and to your seed after you. ⁸And I will give you and your seed after you the land in which you are resident – the whole of the land of Canaan – as an age-abiding possession, and I will be God to them.” ⁹Then God said to Abraham, “And you shall keep my covenant, you and your seed after you, for their generations. ¹⁰This is my covenant which you shall keep between myself and you, and with your seed after you: for all males among you to be circumcised. ¹¹And you will be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and you. ¹²And at eight days old, every male among you will be circumcised in your generations, whether born in the household or bought for money, including any foreigner who is not of your seed. ¹³He who is born in your household and he who is bought for your money absolutely must be circumcised, and my covenant will be in your flesh as an age-abiding covenant. ¹⁴And as for any uncircumcised male, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised – that person will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.” ¹⁵Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you will not call her Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. ¹⁶And I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her, and I will bless her, and she will give rise to nations; kings of peoples will spring up from her.” ¹⁷Then Abraham fell face down and laughed and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a one-hundred-year-old, and will Sarah who is ninety years old give birth?” ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael would live before you!” ¹⁹And God said, “Nevertheless, Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac, and I will set up my covenant with him, as an age-abiding covenant to his seed after him. ²⁰But as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and I will make him fruitful, and I will make him numerous to a very great degree. He will beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹But I will set up my covenant with Isaac whom Sarah will bear to you, at this time of year in another year.” ²²Then he finished speaking with him, and God went up away from Abraham. ²³So Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all those born in his household, and all those bought for his money – every male among the men of Abraham's household – and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, as God had told him. ²⁴And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶On that very day Abraham and Ishmael his son were circumcised, ²⁷as were all the men of his household – born in the household or bought for money from a foreigner – they were circumcised with him.

Reference(s) in Chapter 17: v.5 ↔ Romans 4:17.

¹Then the Lord appeared to him in the oak woods of Mamre, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. ²And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and what he saw was three men standing in his vicinity, and when he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed down to the ground. ³And he said, “Lord^*, please, if I have found grace in your eyes, please do not pass by, away from your servant. ⁴Do let a little water be fetched and wash your feet and recline under the tree, ⁵and let me fetch a bit of food, and you refresh your hearts, and afterwards you can pass on, for that is why you came across to your servant.” Then they said, “Do so, as you have said.” ⁶So Abraham hurried to his tent, to Sarah, and he said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and make bread-cake.” ⁷Meanwhile Abraham ran to the cattle and took a calf that was tender and good and gave it to the servant-lad, and he quickly cooked it. ⁸Then he took butter and milk and the calf which he had cooked, and he set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree, while they ate. ⁹And they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “Here she is, in the tent.” ¹⁰Then he said, “I will certainly return to you at this time next year, and you will see that Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. ¹¹And Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah the way it is with women. ¹²And Sarah laughed inwardly and said, “Will I have the pleasure, having grown old, my lord being old too?” ¹³And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really give birth, when I am so old?’? ¹⁴Is anything too stupendous for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” ¹⁵Then Sarah spoke falsely and said, “I did not laugh”, for she was afraid. But he said, “No, you did laugh.” ¹⁶Then the men got up from there and peered down at the landscape of Sodom, and Abraham went with them to escort them on their way. ¹⁷Then the Lord said, “Do I conceal from Abraham what I do, ¹⁸considering Abraham will definitely be a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him? ¹⁹For I know him, in that he will command his sons and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, to exercise justice and judgment, in order that the Lord may bring over Abraham what he has told him.” ²⁰And the Lord said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very serious, ²¹I will just go down and see whether what they have done is completely in accordance with their cry which has come to me, and if it is not so, I will know.” ²²Then the men wended their way from there and went to Sodom, while the Lord was still standing in the presence of Abraham. ²³Then Abraham approached and said, “Will you really destroy the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴Suppose there are fifty righteous inside the city. Would you really destroy it and not bear with the place for the sake of fifty righteous inside it? ²⁵Far be it from you to do such a thing, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that it would be the same for the righteous and the wicked – far be it from you. Would the judge of the whole earth not execute justice?” ²⁶Then the Lord said, “If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, inside the city, then I will bear with the whole place for their sakes.” ²⁷Then Abraham responded and said, “Look, now that I have undertaken to speak to the Lord^*, although I am but dust and ashes, ²⁸suppose that fifty righteous should fall short by five, would you bring the whole city to ruin for want of five?” And he said, “I will not bring it to ruin if I find forty-five righteous there.” ²⁹Then he spoke yet again to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” And he said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.” ³⁰Then he said, “Oh, do not let the Lord^* be angry, and let me speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” And he said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” ³¹Then he said, “Look, now that I have undertaken to speak to the Lord^*, suppose twenty are found there.” And he said, “I will not bring it to ruin for the sake of the twenty.” ³²Then he said, “Oh, do not let the Lord^* be angry, and I will speak just this one time. Suppose ten are found there.” And he said, “I will not bring it to ruin for the sake of the ten.” ³³Then the Lord went away when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham went back to his place.

Reference(s) in Chapter 18: v.14 ↔ Romans 9:9.

¹Then two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at Sodom's gate, and Lot saw them and got up to meet them, and he bowed his face to the ground. ²And he said, “Look, if you would, my lords, turn aside, if you would, to the house of your servant and lodge here, and wash your feet and get up early and go your way.” But they said, “No, for we can lodge in the street.” ³But he urged them strongly, and they turned aside to him and came to his house, and he prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate it. ⁴But before they reclined, men from the city – men from Sodom – surrounded the house, both youths and old men: all the people from its limits. ⁵And they called out to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them.” ⁶Then Lot went out to them, to the entrance, and he shut the door after him. ⁷And he said, “My brothers, do not, please, do any wrong. ⁸Look now, I have my two daughters who have not known a man. Let me bring them out to you, would you, and you do to them what is right in your eyes, but do not do anything to these men, for there is a reason why they have come to the protection of my roof.” ⁹But they said, “Move away”, and they said, “This one came to stay and he is determined to judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed the man – Lot – greatly and drew near so as to break down the door. ¹⁰At this the men stretched out their hand and brought Lot in to them into the house, then they shut the door, ¹¹and they struck the men who were at the entrance to the house with blindness, both small and great, and they struggled to find the entrance. ¹²Then the men said to Lot, “Who else is with you here? Get any son-in-law, or sons or daughters of yours and everyone whom you have in the city out of the place, ¹³for we are about to bring this place to ruin, for their cry has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to bring it to ruin.” ¹⁴Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had taken his daughters in marriage, and said, “Get up and get out of this place, for the Lord is about to bring the city to ruin.” But he was regarded as a joker in the eyes of his sons-in-law. ¹⁵And as dawn arose, the angels urged Lot and said, “Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are present here so that you are not destroyed in the city's iniquity.” ¹⁶But he took his time, and the men took him by the hand, and his wife by the hand, and his two daughters by the hand, in the Lord's mercy to him, and they brought him out, and they set him down outside the city. ¹⁷And it came to pass as they took them outside that one said, “Escape to save your life; do not look behind you, and do not stay at any adjacent tract. Escape to the mountain so that you are not destroyed.” ¹⁸Then Lot said to them, “May it not be so, Lord^*. ¹⁹Look now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have been very kind in how you have dealt with me, in keeping me alive, but I cannot escape to the mountain, in case evil comes upon me and I die. ²⁰Look, please, this city is nearby to flee to, and it is small. Do let me escape there. Is it not small, so that I will live?” ²¹And he said to him, “Very well, I also grant you this by not overthrowing the city of which you have spoken. ²²Escape there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” This is why he called the city Zoar. ²³The sun had risen on the land when Lot arrived in Zoar. ²⁴Then the Lord rained sulphur and fire on Sodom and on Gomorrah, from the Lord from heaven. ²⁵And he overthrew those cities, and the whole adjacent tract, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the vegetation of the ground. ²⁶But his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham rose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood in the presence of the Lord. ²⁸And he peered out over the landscape of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the landscape of the adjacent tract, and he looked, and what he saw was the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹And it came to pass, after God had brought the cities of the tract of land to ruin, that God remembered Abraham, and he sent Lot from the scene of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived. ³⁰And Lot went up from Zoar and lived in the mountain, as did his two daughters with him, for he was afraid to live in Zoar, and he lived in a cave – he and his two daughters. ³¹Then the firstborn daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come into us after the manner of the whole earth. ³²Come, let us give our father wine to drink and lie with him, and we will preserve seed from our father.” ³³So they gave their father wine to drink on that night, and the firstborn came and lay with her father, while he was unaware that she was lying with him or of her getting up again. ³⁴And it came to pass on the next day that the firstborn daughter said to the younger, “Look, last night I lay with my father. Let us give him wine to drink tonight as well, and you come and lie with him, and we will preserve seed from our father.” ³⁵So that night too they gave their father wine to drink and the younger daughter got up and lay with him, while he was unaware that she was lying with him or of her getting up again. ³⁶And the two daughters of Lot conceived from their father, ³⁷and the firstborn daughter gave birth to a son, and she called him Moab. He is the father of Moab to this day. ³⁸And the younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she called him Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the sons of Ammon up to this day.

¹When Abraham moved on from there to the land of the south, he dwelt between Kadesh and Shur and stayed in Gerar. ²And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent servants, and he took Sarah. ³But God came to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “Look, you are as good as dead on account of the woman whom you have taken, for she is married to a husband.” ⁴But Abimelech had not come near to her, and he said, “Lord^*, will you kill a people even if it is righteous? ⁵Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister?’ And she herself also said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this in the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands.” ⁶At this God said to him in a dream, “I too know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, so I – my very self – restrained you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. ⁷So now, return the man's wife to him, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you shall live, but if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, along with everyone who is yours.” ⁸Then Abimelech got up early in the morning and called all his servants and related all these things in their audience, and the men became very fearful. ⁹And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us, and in what way have I sinned against you, that you should bring a great punishment for sin on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me which ought not to be done.” ¹⁰Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you have in view when you did this thing?” ¹¹And Abraham said, “It is because I said to myself, ‘There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’ ¹²And she really is my sister; she is the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife. ¹³And it came to pass when God made me move out of my father's house that I said to her, ‘This is a favour for you which you will do for me: in every place to which we go, say of me, «He is my brother.» ’ ” ¹⁴Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle and menservants and maidservants and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him. ¹⁵And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it is good in your sight.” ¹⁶And to Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother. Look, he is a covering of the eyes to all who are with you, and with everyone.” And so she was thoroughly reproved. ¹⁷Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed the breach with Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, and they gave birth. ¹⁸For the Lord had utterly shut up every womb in the house of Abimelech because of the case of Sarah the wife of Abraham.

¹Then the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken. ²And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the time of year which God had told him. ³And Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac. ⁴And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. ⁵Now Abraham was a hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him. ⁶And Sarah said, “God has made me a laughing matter. Everyone who hears will laugh about me.” ⁷And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah will suckle sons – for I have given birth to a son in his old age.” ⁸So the child grew up and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day when Isaac was weaned. ⁹Then Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian woman, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking, ¹⁰and she said to Abraham, “Drive this maidservant and her son out, for the son of this maidservant will not have any inheritance with my son – with Isaac.” ¹¹But the matter was very hurtful in Abraham's eyes, because of his son. ¹²But God said to Abraham, “Don't let it be hurtful in your eyes concerning the lad or your maidservant. As for everything that Sarah says to you, heed her, for your seed will be called in Isaac. ¹³But I will make the son of the maidservant a nation too, for he is your seed.” ¹⁴Then Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin-bottle of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and he took and gave her the child and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. ¹⁵Then the water from the skin-bottle ran out, and she threw the child under one of the shrubs. ¹⁶And she went and sat down by herself opposite at about a bow-shot's distance, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” And she sat opposite and raised her voice and wept. ¹⁷But God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the lad, where he is. ¹⁸Get up and take the lad up and take hold of him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.” ¹⁹Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled the skin-bottle with water, and she gave the lad some to drink. ²⁰And God was with the lad, and he grew up, and he dwelt in the desert, and he became great as an archer. ²¹And he dwelt in the Desert of Paran, and his mother took a wife from the land of Egypt for him. ²²And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech and Phichol the commander of his army spoke to Abraham and said, “God is with you in everything you do. ²³So now, swear to me by God here that you most certainly will not act falsely towards me or my progeny or my posterity, and that according to the kindness which I have shown you, you will show me the same, and with the land in which you dwelt.” ²⁴And Abraham said, “I swear it.” ²⁵Then Abraham reproved Abimelech on the issue of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized possession of. ²⁶And Abimelech said, “I don't know who did this thing, and you haven't told me either, and I didn't hear about it until today either.” ²⁷Then Abraham took sheep and cattle, and he gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. ²⁸And Abraham placed seven ewe-lambs of the flock on their own, ²⁹at which Abimelech said to Abraham, “What are they – these seven ewe-lambs which you have placed on their own?” ³⁰To which he said, “They are so that you may take the seven ewe-lambs from my hand in order for it to be a testimony to me that I dug this well.” ³¹For this reason he called the place Beersheba, because the two of them swore there. ³²And they made a covenant in Beersheba, and Abimelech and Phichol the commander of his army arose and returned to the land of the Philistines. ³³And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and he called on the name of the Lord there – the age-abiding God. ³⁴And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Reference(s) in Chapter 21: v.10 ↔ Galatians 4:30 ● v.12 ↔ Romans 9:7, Galatians 3:16, Hebrews 11:18.

¹Then it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and he said to him, “Abraham”, and he said, “Here I am.” ²And he said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and get going to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you.” ³So Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he took two servant-lads with him, and Isaac his son, and he chopped pieces of wood for the burnt offering, and he got up and went to the place which God had told him. ⁴On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance. ⁵Then Abraham said to his servant-lads, “You remain here with the donkey, but I and the lad will go over there and worship, and we will come back to you.” ⁶And Abraham took pieces of wood for the burnt offering and loaded them onto Isaac his son, and he took fire and a knife in his hand. And the two of them went together. ⁷Then Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father”, and he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Here are the fire and the pieces of wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” ⁸And Abraham said, “God will provide himself with the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went together. ⁹And they came to the place which God had said to him, and Abraham built an altar there, and he arrayed the pieces of wood, and he bound Isaac his son and put him on the altar, on top of the pieces of wood. ¹⁰And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. ¹¹Then the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham.” And he said, “Here I am.” ¹²And he said, “Do not stretch out your hand to the lad, and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you are a fearer of God, for you did not withhold your son – your only son – from me.” ¹³Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and there was a ram behind him caught in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴And Abraham called that place Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said today, “In the mountain of the Lord, provision will be made.” ¹⁵Then the angel of the Lord called out from heaven to Abraham a second time, ¹⁶and he said, “By myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing and did not withhold your son – your only son – ¹⁷that I will greatly bless you and greatly increase your seed, like the stars of the sky and like the sand which is on the sea-shore, and your seed will inherit the gate of its enemies. ¹⁸And all the nations of the earth will be blessed through your seed, because you have obeyed me.” ¹⁹Then Abraham returned to his servant-lads, and they got up, and they went together to Beersheba. And Abraham remained in Beersheba. ²⁰And it came to pass after these things that it was reported to Abraham as follows: “Behold, Milcah also has borne sons to Nahor your brother: ²¹Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, ²²and Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.” ²³Now Bethuel begot Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor the brother of Abraham, ²⁴and his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also gave birth, to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maachah.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.10 ↔ Hebrews 11:17 ● v.17 ↔ Hebrews 6:14, Hebrews 11:12 ● v.18 ↔ Acts 3:25, Galatians 3:8.

¹Now Sarah's life was for one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. ²And Sarah died in Kiriath-Arba, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. ³Then Abraham arose from looking at the sight of his deceased, and he spoke to the sons of Heth and said, ⁴“I am an outsider and a temporary resident with you. Give me a burial plot amid you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” ⁵At this the sons of Heth answered Abraham and said to him, ⁶“Hear us, my lord. You are a mighty prince in our midst. Bury your dead in a choice burial place of ours. No-one among us will withhold his burial place from you, stopping you from burying your dead.” ⁷Then Abraham arose and bowed to the people of the land – to the sons of Heth. ⁸And he spoke to them and said, “If you have the willingness to let me bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and make request on my behalf with Ephron the son of Zohar, ⁹for him to give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is at the end of his field, for him to give it to me against full payment – a burial place as a possession in your midst.” ¹⁰Now Ephron was dwelling among the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the sons of Heth – of all those who had come to the gate of his city – and he said, ¹¹“No, my lord; hear me. I will give you the field and the cave which is in it. I will give it to you. In the sight of the sons of my people I hereby give it to you to bury your dead.” ¹²And Abraham bowed before the people of the land. ¹³Then he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land and said, “If only you would hear me, I will give money for the field. Take it from me and let me bury my dead there.” ¹⁴Whereupon Ephron answered Abraham and said to him, ¹⁵“My lord, hear me. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between me and you? So bury your dead.” ¹⁶Then Abraham complied with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the money which he had specified, in the audience of the sons of Heth: four hundred shekels of silver, current to the merchant. ¹⁷So Ephron's field, which is at Machpelah, which is before Mamre – the field and the cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, which were within all its boundary around it – was confirmed ¹⁸as Abraham's, as his purchase, in the eyes of the sons of Heth, with all those who had come to the gate of his city. ¹⁹And after that, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. ²⁰And the field was confirmed, including the cave which is in it, as Abraham's, as a burial place, as an acquisition from the sons of Heth.

Reference(s) in Chapter 23: v.4 ↔ Hebrews 11:13.

¹Now Abraham was old – he was advanced in days – and the Lord blessed Abraham in everything. ²And Abraham said to his senior household servant who was in charge of everything that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh, ³and I will adjure you by the Lord God of heaven and God of the earth, not to get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I dwell, ⁴but rather that you will go to my land and my native place to get a wife for my son, for Isaac.” ⁵And the servant said to him, “What if the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land? Should I under any circumstances bring your son back to the land which you departed from?” ⁶Then Abraham said to him, “Be careful not to bring my son back there. ⁷The Lord God of heaven who took me from my father's house and from my native land, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, and who said, ‘To your seed I will give this land’ – he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there. ⁸And if the woman is not willing to follow you, you will be absolved from this oath of mine, only you shall not bring my son back there.” ⁹So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him on this matter. ¹⁰Then the servant took ten camels from his master's camels and departed, with all his master's wealth in his hand, and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor's city. ¹¹And he made the camels kneel outside the city at the water well at evening time, at the time when the women who draw water come out. ¹²And he said, “Lord God of my master Abraham, please bring it about before me today, that you act kindly with my master Abraham. ¹³Look, I am standing at a source of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. ¹⁴So let it come to pass that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please tilt your pitcher so that I may drink’, and she says, ‘Drink, and I will give your camels water to drink too’, that you will have appointed her for your servant, for Isaac, and that by that I will know that you have acted kindly towards my master.” ¹⁵And this came to pass before he had finished speaking, and what happened was that out came Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham, with her pitcher on her shoulder. ¹⁶And the girl was very good-looking, a virgin, for no man had known her, and she came down to the source and filled her pitcher and came up. ¹⁷Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink.” ¹⁸And she said, “Drink, my lord.” And she acted quickly and lowered her pitcher onto her hand and gave him water to drink. ¹⁹Then when she had finished giving him water to drink, she said, “I will draw water for your camels too, until they finish drinking.” ²⁰And she acted quickly and emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran to the well again to draw water, and she drew it for all his camels. ²¹And the man was astonished at her and was dumbfounded in knowing whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not. ²²And it came to pass, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets of gold of ten shekels in weight for her hands. ²³And he said, “Whose daughter are you? Do tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to lodge there?” ²⁴And she said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah whom she bore to Nahor.” ²⁵And she said to him, “We also have plenty of straw and fodder and also room to lodge.” ²⁶Then the man bowed his head and worshipped the Lord. ²⁷And he said, “Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and truth towards my master. As for me, the Lord has led me along the way to the house of my master's brothers.” ²⁸Then the girl ran and told her mother's household these things. ²⁹Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban, and Laban ran to the man outside, to the water-source. ³⁰And it came to pass, when he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the account of Rebekah his sister, who said, “The man spoke to me like this”, that he went to the man, and there he was, standing with the camels at the water-source. ³¹And he said, “Come, you who are blessed of the Lord. Why should you stand outside, when I have prepared the house, and there is a place for the camels.” ³²Then the man came to the house and untied the camels, and he gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. ³³And he set a meal before him to eat, and he said, “I will not eat until I have explained my mission.” And he said, “Explain it.” ³⁴And he said, “I am Abraham's servant. ³⁵And the Lord has blessed my master very much, and he has become great, and he has given him sheep and cattle and silver and gold and menservants and maidservants and camels and donkeys. ³⁶And Sarah my master's wife has given birth to a son to my master, after her old age, and he has given him everything he has. ³⁷And my master has made me swear, and he said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. ³⁸You absolutely must go to the house of my father and to my family to get a wife for my son.’ ³⁹Then I said to my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’ ⁴⁰And he said to me, ‘The Lord before whom I walk will send his angel with you and will make your journey successful, and you will get a wife for my son from my family and the household of my father. ⁴¹Then you will be absolved from my oath – when you go to my family. For if they do not give you a wife, you will be absolved from my oath.’ ⁴²When I came to the source today, I said, ‘Lord God of my master Abraham, if you would make my journey which I am going on successful, ⁴³when I am standing at a source of water, let it come to pass that the virgin who comes out to draw water, and I say to her, «Please give me a little water from your pitcher», ⁴⁴and she says to me, «Both you drink and I will also draw water for your camels», that she is the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master's son.’ ⁴⁵Then before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder, and she came down to the source and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me some water to drink.’ ⁴⁶And she quickly lowered her pitcher from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels water to drink’, so I drank, and she also gave the camels water to drink. ⁴⁷Then I asked her and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor whom Milcah bore to him.’ Then I put the earring on her face and the bracelets on her hands. ⁴⁸Then I bowed the head and worshipped the Lord, and I blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, who has led me along the way of truth to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son. ⁴⁹And now, if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me, and if not, tell me, and I will turn to the right or to the left accordingly.” ⁵⁰Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The matter has originated from the Lord. We cannot speak bad or good to you. ⁵¹Look, Rebekah is before you. Take her and go, and she shall be the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.” ⁵²And it came to pass, when Abraham's servant heard their words, that he worshipped the Lord facing the ground. ⁵³Then the servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothes, and he gave them to Rebekah, and he gave valuable items to her brother and to her mother. ⁵⁴Then they ate and drank – he and the men who were with him – and they lodged there, and they arose in the morning, and he said, “Send me off to my master.” ⁵⁵But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us for ten days or so, and after that she can go.” ⁵⁶Then he said to them, “Do not delay me, considering that the Lord has made my journey successful. Send me off and I will go to my master.” ⁵⁷Then they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.” ⁵⁸So they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.” ⁵⁹So they sent Rebekah their sister off, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. ⁶⁰And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,

“You are our sister.

Become thousands times ten thousand,

And may your seed inherit

The gate of those who hate it.”

⁶¹Then Rebekah arose, as did her maidservants, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed. ⁶²Now Isaac was coming back from a trip to Beer-Lahai-Roi, for he dwelt in the land of the south. ⁶³And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the approach of evening, and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and what he saw was camels coming. ⁶⁴And Rebekah lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac, and she dismounted from the camel. ⁶⁵Then she said to the servant, “Who is that man coming across in the field towards us?” And the servant said, “He is my master.” Then she took her veil and covered herself. ⁶⁶And the servant recounted to Isaac all the things that he had done. ⁶⁷Then Isaac brought her to the tent of his mother Sarah, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her, and Isaac was comforted after his mother had gone.

¹Then Abraham took a wife again, and her name was Keturah. ²And she bore him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. ³And Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan, and the sons of Dedan became the Ashshurim and the Letushim and Leummim. ⁴And the sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ⁵But Abraham gave everything he had to Isaac. ⁶Nevertheless, to the sons of Abraham's concubines Abraham gave presents, and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he was still alive, eastwards, to the land of the east. ⁷And these were the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. ⁸And Abraham expired and died at a good old age, old and satisfied, then he was gathered to his people. ⁹And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave at Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ¹⁰– the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, as was Sarah his wife. ¹¹And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac dwelt near Beer-Lahai-Roi. ¹²This is the lineage of Ishmael the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham. ¹³Now these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their genealogy: the firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam, ¹⁴and Mishma and Dumah and Massa, ¹⁵Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. ¹⁶These were the sons of Ishmael, and those were their names by their villages and by their castles – twelve princes of their nations. ¹⁷And these were the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred and thirty-seven years, and he expired and died, and he was gathered to his people. ¹⁸And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is alongside Egypt as you go to Assyria, and he fell alongside all his brothers. ¹⁹Now this is the lineage of Isaac the son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac, ²⁰and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean from Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramaean, as his wife. ²¹And Isaac entreated the Lord on behalf of his wife, for she was barren, and the Lord was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²²And the sons struggled together inside her, and she said, “If it is like this, why is it this way with me?” And she went to inquire of the Lord. ²³And the Lord said to her,

“There are two nations in your womb,

And two peoples will be separated from your belly.

And one people will prevail over the other people,

And the elder will serve the younger.”

²⁴And her days to when she should give birth were completed, and it was the case that there were twins in her womb. ²⁵And the first came out red-haired – all over him was a cloak of hair – and they called him Esau. ²⁶And after that his brother came out, and his hand was holding on to Esau's heel, and they called him Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them. ²⁷And the boys grew up, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the open land, whereas Jacob was a straightforward man, living in tents. ²⁸Now Isaac loved Esau because of his appetite for game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. ²⁹On an occasion Jacob had made a broth, when along came Esau from the open land, and he was tired, ³⁰and Esau said to Jacob, “Please give me some of that very red broth to eat, for I am weary”, which is why he is called Edom. ³¹Whereupon Jacob said, “Sell me today your birthright.” ³²Then Esau said, “Look, I am going to die. So what good is a birthright to me?” ³³And Jacob said, “Swear to me this day.” And he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil broth, and he ate and drank, and he got up and went off. So Esau despised his birthright.

Reference(s) in Chapter 25: v.23 ↔ Romans 9:12 ● v.33 ↔ Hebrews 12:16.

¹Then a famine came in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. ²And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the land which I tell you. ³Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and I will bless you, for I will give you and your seed all these lands, and I will establish my oath which I swore to Abraham your father. ⁴And I will make your seed numerous like the stars of the sky, and I will give your seed all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through your seed, ⁵because Abraham obeyed me and kept my ordinance, my commandments, my statutes and my laws.” ⁶So Isaac stayed in Gerar. ⁷Then the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister”, for he was afraid to say, “my wife”, in case, he thought, “the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, for she is good-looking.” ⁸Then it came to pass that a long time went by for him there, and Abimelech king of the Philistines peered out of a window and looked out, and what he saw was Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife. ⁹And Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “Surely it is the case that she is your wife. So how come you said, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said to myself, ‘In case I die because of her.’ ” ¹⁰Then Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people nearly lay with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.” ¹¹Then Abimelech gave commandment to all the people and said, “Anyone who touches this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.” ¹²Then Isaac sowed in that land and obtained in that year a hundredfold return, and the Lord blessed him. ¹³And the man became great, and he kept becoming greater, until he had become very great. ¹⁴And he had sheep in his possession, and cattle in his possession, and a large body of servants. And the Philistines envied him, ¹⁵and the Philistines blocked up all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they filled them with soil. ¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you have become much stronger than us.” ¹⁷So Isaac departed from there and encamped at the watercourse of Gerar and stayed there. ¹⁸Then Isaac again dug the wells of water which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father and which the Philistines had blocked up after the death of Abraham, to which he gave names, after the names which his father had given them. ¹⁹So Isaac's servants dug in the dry watercourse and found there a well of running water. ²⁰But the shepherds of Gerar quarrelled with Isaac's shepherds and said, “The water is ours”, and they called the well Esek, because they strove with him. ²¹And they dug another well, and they quarrelled over that one too, and they called it Sitnah. ²²Then he moved from there and dug another well, which they did not quarrel over, and he called it Rehoboth and said, “For now the Lord has given us room, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” ²³Then he went up from there to Beersheba. ²⁴And the Lord appeared to him that night, and he said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and I will increase your seed because of Abraham my servant.” ²⁵Then he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there, and Isaac's servants dug a well there. ²⁶Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol the commander of his army. ²⁷And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing you detest me, and you sent me away from you?” ²⁸To which they said, “We have clearly seen that the Lord was with you, and we said, ‘Let there be now an oath between us – between us and you – and let us make a covenant with you, ²⁹that you absolutely won't do us any harm, as when we did you no injury, and that you will act as when we only did you good and when we sent you off in peace’, and now you are blessed by the Lord.” ³⁰Then he held a banquet for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹And they got up early in the morning, and they swore to each other, and Isaac sent them off, and they departed from him in peace. ³²Then it came to pass on that day that Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and they said to him, “We have found water.” ³³And he called it Shibah, which is why the name of the town is Beersheba up to this day. ³⁴Now Esau was forty years old when he took as a wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bosmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵But they became a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Reference(s) in Chapter 26: v.4 ↔ Acts 3:25, Hebrews 11:12.

¹And it came to pass when Isaac was old that his eyesight was failing, and he called Esau his elder son and said to him, “My son”, and he said to him, “Here I am.” ²And he said, “Look now, I am old and I do not know the day of my death. ³So now, take up your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the countryside and hunt game for me. ⁴And make a tasty meal the way I like it and bring it to me for me to eat, so that my whole being can bless you before I die.” ⁵Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac was speaking to Esau his son. Then when Esau had gone to the countryside to hunt for game to bring, ⁶Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son and said, “Look, I have heard your father speaking to Esau your brother, saying, ⁷‘Bring me game and make a tasty meal for me to eat, and I will bless you before the Lord before my death.’ ⁸So now, my son, obey me with what I am commanding you. ⁹Go now to the flock and get me two good kids of the goats from there, and I will make from them a tasty meal for your father the way he likes it. ¹⁰Then you will bring it to your father, and he will eat, so that he blesses you before his death.” ¹¹Then Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, whereas I am a smooth man. ¹²Maybe my father will feel me, and I will be a mocker in his sight, and I will bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.” ¹³Then his mother said to him, “May your curse be on me, my son, but obey me and go and get me the goats.” ¹⁴So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the tasty meal the way his father liked it. ¹⁵Then Rebekah took the finest clothes which she had in the house of Esau her elder son and clothed Jacob her younger son with them. ¹⁶And she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his forearms and around the smoothness of his neck. ¹⁷And she put the tasty meal and bread, which she had made, in the hand of Jacob her son. ¹⁸And he went to his father and said, “My father”, and he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?” ¹⁹And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you told me. Get up now, and sit and eat my game, so that your whole being can bless me.” ²⁰Then Isaac said to his son, “How come you have been so quick in finding it, my son?” And he said, “Because the Lord your God made it happen before me.” ²¹Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Come near, would you, and I will feel you, my son, to see if you really are my son Esau or not.” ²²So Jacob came near to Isaac his father, and he felt him, and he said, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the forearms are Esau's forearms.” ²³And he did not recognize him, for his forearms were like the hairy forearms of Esau his brother, and he blessed him, ²⁴and he said, “Are you really my son Esau”, and he said, “Yes, I am.” ²⁵And he said, “Serve me some of my son's game, and I will eat it, so that my whole being can bless you.” So he served it to him, and he ate, and he brought him wine, and he drank. ²⁶And Isaac his father said to him, “Come close, would you, and kiss me, my son.” ²⁷So he came close and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his clothing, and he blessed him, and he said,

“See, the smell of my son

Is as the smell of countryside

Which the Lord has blessed.

²⁸So may God give you the dew of heaven

And the fatness of the earth,

And abundance of corn and new wine.

²⁹Nations will serve you,

And various peoples will bow down to you;

Be master over your brothers,

And the sons of your mother will bow down to you.

Those who curse you will be cursed,

And those who bless you will be blessed.”

³⁰And it came to pass, when Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had only just left the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came back from his hunting. ³¹And he also made a tasty meal and brought it to his father, and he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat his son's game, so that your whole being can bless me.” ³²Then Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.” ³³Then Isaac trembled, trembling very greatly, and he said, “Who was it then who hunted game and brought it to me, which I ate all of before you came, and I blessed him, and he will be duly blessed?” ³⁴When Esau heard his father's words, he let out a very loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father.” ³⁵But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.” ³⁶And he said, “Isn't this why he is called Jacob? For he has supplanted me twice now. He has taken my birthright, and now he has gone and taken my blessing.” And he said, “Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?” ³⁷Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Look, I have appointed him master over you, and I have assigned all his brothers as servants to him, and I have sustained him with corn and new wine. So then, what can I do for you, my son?” ³⁸At this Esau said to his father, “Is your blessing just a single one, my father? Bless me, me too, my father.” And Esau raised his voice and wept. ³⁹Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,

“Behold, your dwelling place will be the fatness of the land

And benefiting from the dew of heaven above.

⁴⁰And you will live by your sword,

And serve your brother,

But it will come to pass

That as you roam around,

You will break off his yoke from your neck.”

⁴¹At this Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching, and I will kill Jacob my brother.” ⁴²But the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah, so she sent for and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself over you, plotting to kill you. ⁴³So now, my son, obey me, and get up and flee to Laban my brother in Haran. ⁴⁴And stay with him for several days until your brother's fury subsides ⁴⁵– until your brother's anger recedes from you, and he forgets what you did to him – and I will send for you and take you back from there. Why should I be bereaved of the two of you on one day.” ⁴⁶Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am fed up with my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to take a wife from the daughters of Heth like these – from the daughters of the land – what purpose would my life have?”

¹Then Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him, and he gave him commandment, and he said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. ²Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

³And may God Almighty bless you,

And make you fruitful and increase you,

So that you become a people who are a convocation.

⁴And may he give the blessing of Abraham

To you and to your seed with you

So that you inherit the land you are staying in,

Which God gave to Abraham.”

⁵Then Isaac sent Jacob off, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah the mother of Jacob and Esau. ⁶And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan-Aram to get himself a wife from there, when he blessed him and commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan”, ⁷and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and went to Paddan-Aram. ⁸And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were considered bad in the eyes of Isaac his father, ⁹so Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael the son of Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife along with his other wives. ¹⁰So Jacob went out from Beersheba and went to Haran. ¹¹And he arrived at the place and lodged there, because the sun was setting, and he took some of the place's stones and placed them as his pillow, and he lay down in that place. ¹²And he had a dream, and what he saw was a ladder placed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and he also saw angels of God ascending and descending by it. ¹³And behold, the Lord was standing by it, and he said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I will give the land on which you are lying to you and to your seed. ¹⁴And your seed will become as the dust of the earth, and you will forge your way westwards and eastwards, and northwards and southwards, and through you all the families of the earth will be blessed, and through your seed. ¹⁵And look, I am with you, and I will guard you everywhere you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have carried out what I have told you.” ¹⁶Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “The Lord is certainly in this place, yet I did not know it.” ¹⁷And he was afraid, and he said, “How fearful this place is. This is nothing but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.” ¹⁸Then Jacob got up early in the morning and took the stone which he had placed as his pillow, and he set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. ¹⁹And he called that place Beth-El, but the name of the city was initially Luz. ²⁰Then Jacob made a vow and said, “If God will be with me and keep me on this way which I am going and give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, ²¹and I return in peace to the house of my father, then the Lord will be my God, ²²and this stone which I have set up as a pillar will be the house of God, and I will rigorously give you a tenth of everything you give me.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 28: v.14 ↔ Acts 3:25.

¹Then Jacob got going and went to the land of the easterners. ²And he looked, and what he saw was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep there lying by it, because it was from that well that they gave the flocks to drink, and there was a large stone on the opening of the well. ³When all the flocks had gathered there, the shepherds rolled away the stone from the opening of the well and gave the sheep drink, then they put the stone back on the opening of the well in its place. ⁴And Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Haran.” ⁵Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” And they said, “Yes, we know him.” ⁶He then said, “Is he well?” And they said, “Yes, he is well. And look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep.” ⁷But he said, “Look, it is still high day. It is not the time for gathering the cattle. Give the sheep drink and go to tend them.” ⁸They then said, “We can't do that until all the flocks have been gathered, and they roll away the stone on the opening of the well; then we give the sheep drink.” ⁹While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which her father had, for she was a shepherdess. ¹⁰And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob approached and rolled the stone away from the opening of the well, and he gave drink to the sheep of Laban the brother of his mother. ¹¹Then Jacob kissed Rachel and raised his voice and wept, ¹²and when Jacob told Rachel that he was the brother of her father, and that he was Rebekah's son, she ran and told her father. ¹³And it came to pass when Laban heard the report of Jacob his sister's son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him, and he brought him into his house. And he told Laban all these things. ¹⁴Then Laban said to him, “You are simply my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a full month. ¹⁵Then Laban said to Jacob, “Are you not my brother? So should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” ¹⁶Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder one was Leah and the name of the younger one was Rachel. ¹⁷And Leah's eyes were pale, but Rachel was of an attractive figure and beautiful in appearance. ¹⁸Now Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, “I will serve you for seven years, for Rachel your younger daughter.” ¹⁹And Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I give her to another man. Remain with me.” ²⁰So Jacob worked for seven years for Rachel, and they were only like a few days in his sight, with his love for her. ²¹Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, so that I may go in to her.” ²²Then Laban gathered all the men of the place and gave a banquet. ²³And it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her. ²⁴And Laban had given her Zilpah his maidservant – to Leah his daughter, as a maidservant. ²⁵Then it transpired in the morning that she was in fact Leah. And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not work for you for Rachel? So why have you deceived me?” ²⁶To which Laban said, “It is not done like that in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷Fulfil seven years and we will give you her as well in return for the work you will do for me, for another seven years besides.” ²⁸So Jacob did so, and he fulfilled these seven years for her, and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife. ²⁹Then Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maidservant, as a maidservant for her. ³⁰And he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel too, more than Leah, and he worked another seven years besides for him. ³¹Now when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. ³²And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called him Reuben, for, she said, “Because the Lord has considered my affliction, for now my husband will love me.” ³³And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, and he has given me this one too.” And she called him Simeon. ³⁴And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, “Now this time my husband will bond with me because I have borne him three sons”, which is why she called him Levi. ³⁵And she conceived again and bore a son, and she said, “This time I will thank the Lord”, which is why she called him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

¹And Rachel saw that she had not borne to Jacob, and Rachel became jealous of her sister, and she said to Jacob, “Give me sons, and if there aren't any, I am dead.” ²At this Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in place of God, who has held back fruit of the womb from you?” ³Then she said, “Look, here is my maidservant Bilhah. Go in to her, and she shall bear on my knees, and I too will obtain sons through her.” ⁴And she gave him Bilhah her maidservant as a wife, and Jacob went in to her, ⁵and Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. ⁶And Rachel said, “God has judged me and also heard my voice and given me a son”, which is why she called him Dan. ⁷Then Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, conceived again and bore a second son to Jacob. ⁸And Rachel said, “I have wrestled with mighty wrestlings with my sister, and I have also prevailed”, so she called him Naphtali. ⁹Then when Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰And Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, bore Jacob a son. ¹¹And Leah said, “This is by good fortune.” And she called him Gad. ¹²Then Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, bore a second son to Jacob. ¹³And Leah said, “This is with my happiness, for the daughters will pronounce me happy.” And she called him Asher. ¹⁴Now Reuben went out in the days of the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in a field and brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.” ¹⁵But she said to her, “Is it a small thing that you should take my husband and then take my son's mandrakes too?” And Rachel said, “Here is why he will lie with you tonight: in return for your son's mandrakes.” ¹⁶Then Jacob came back from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and she said, “You will go in to me, for I have expressly hired you with my son's mandrakes.” And he lay with her that night. ¹⁷And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob her fifth son. ¹⁸And Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my maidservant to my husband.” And she called him Issachar. ¹⁹Then Leah conceived again, and she bore her sixth son to Jacob. ²⁰And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. This time my husband will dwell with me because I have borne him six sons.” And she called him Zebulun. ²¹And after that she bore a daughter, whom she called Dinah. ²²Then God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her and opened her womb. ²³And she conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has taken my reproach away.” ²⁴And she called him Joseph, and she said, “The Lord will add another son to me.” ²⁵And it came to pass, when Rachel bore Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me off, and I will go to my place and my land. ²⁶Give me my wives and my children for whom I worked for you, and I will go, for you know the work I did for you.” ²⁷Then Laban said to him, “If now I have found grace in your eyes, stay, for I have observed how the Lord has blessed me because of you.” ²⁸Then he said, “Specify your wages to me, and I will give them.” ²⁹And he said to him, “You know how I have worked for you, and how your cattle was with me. ³⁰For it was little that you had before my time, but it increased greatly, and the Lord blessed you in my tracks, but now, when will I for my part gain anything for my household?” ³¹Then he said, “What shall I give you.” And Jacob said, “Don't give me anything except do this thing for me, and I will again tend your sheep and guard them: ³²I will go through all your small cattle today, removing from them all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled ones among the goats, and they will be my wages. ³³And what is my right will give its testimony to me in the future, when it comes before you concerning my wages. Everything that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen by me.” ³⁴To this Laban said, “Agreed. Let it be according to your word.” ³⁵Then on that day he removed the striped and spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and spotted she-goats, and every one that had some white on it, and all brown ones among the lambs, and he put them under his sons' care. ³⁶Then he fixed a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob tended Laban's sheep which were left over. ³⁷Then Jacob got himself a moist white-poplar rod, and an almond tree one, and a plane tree one, and he peeled off the white strippings from them, making the white part on the rods bare. ³⁸And he placed the rods which he had peeled in the channels, in the water-troughs, where the sheep came to drink, in front of the sheep, so that they would become ruttish when they came to drink. ³⁹So the sheep became ruttish at the rods, and the sheep gave birth to striped and speckled and spotted young. ⁴⁰And Jacob separated the lambs, and he matched the sheep with a view to striped young, and he matched all the brown ones with white sheep, and he put his own flocks on their own, and he did not put them with Laban's sheep. ⁴¹And it came to pass, whenever the strong sheep were to become ruttish, that Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the channels, for them to become ruttish by the rods. ⁴²But with the sheep that were weak, he did not put them out, and the weak sheep were for Laban and the strong ones for Jacob. ⁴³So the man gained wealth most exceedingly, and he acquired many sheep and maidservants and menservants and camels and donkeys.

¹Then he heard the words of Laban's sons, who said, “Jacob has taken everything that our father had, and he has acquired all this glory from what our father had.” ²And when Jacob saw Laban's face, it was clear that he was not favourable to him as he had been in the past. ³And the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your native land, and I will be with you.” ⁴Then Jacob sent a messenger and called for Rachel and Leah to come to the field, to his sheep. ⁵And he said to them, “I can see from your father's face that he is not favourable to me, as in the past, but the God of my father has been with me. ⁶And you know that I have served your father with all my might, ⁷but your father deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to be to my detriment. ⁸If he said this: ‘Your wages will be the speckled ones’, then all the small cattle gave birth to speckled ones, and if he said this: ‘Your wages will be the striped ones’, then all the small cattle gave birth to striped ones. ⁹So God delivered your father's cattle and gave it to me. ¹⁰And it came to pass at the time of the small cattle becoming ruttish that I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and what I saw was that the he-goats mounting the flock were striped, speckled and dappled. ¹¹And the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob’, and I said, ‘Here I am.’ ¹²And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes now and look. All the he-goats mounting the flock are striped, speckled and dappled, for I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you. ¹³I am the God of Beth-El where you anointed a pillar – where you made a vow to me. Now arise and depart from this land and return to your native land.’ ” ¹⁴Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Do we still have a portion or inheritance in our father's house? ¹⁵Aren't we considered foreigners to him, for he has sold us and has completely spent our money. ¹⁶But all the wealth which God has transferred from our father is ours and our sons', so now, do everything which God said to you.” ¹⁷So Jacob arose and lifted his sons and his wives onto the camels. ¹⁸And he drove all his cattle and all his property that he had acquired – his acquisition of cattle which he acquired in Paddan-Aram – so as to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. ¹⁹Now when Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the amulets which belonged to her father. ²⁰Then Jacob broke Laban the Aramaean's heart by not telling him that he was fleeing. ²¹So he fled, with all that were his, and he arose and crossed the river and made for Mount Gilead. ²²And it was reported to Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled, ²³at which he took his brothers with him and pursued him on a journey of seven days, and he caught up with him at Mount Gilead. ²⁴Then God came to Laban the Aramaean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful in speaking with Jacob, whether what you say is good or bad.” ²⁵And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent at the mountain, and Laban pitched his with his brothers, at Mount Gilead. ²⁶And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, breaking my heart by making off with my daughters like captives of the sword? ²⁷Why did you flee secretly and act furtively towards me and not tell me, so that I could send you off in joy and with songs and with drum- and harp-music? ²⁸And you did not let me kiss my sons and daughters. Now you have acted foolishly in so doing. ²⁹It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, ‘Take care in speaking good or bad with Jacob.’ ³⁰But as it is, you have gone off without more ado, because you really longed for your father's household. But why have you stolen my gods?” ³¹Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, “I fled secretly because I was afraid, for I said to myself, ‘I'll flee so that you don't snatch away your daughters from me.’ ³²Whoever you find your gods with shall not live. Ascertain for yourself before our brothers what I have here and take what is yours.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. ³³And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find anything. Then he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent. ³⁴Now Rachel had taken the amulets and put them in the saddle of the camel, and she sat on them, and Laban rummaged through the whole tent, but he did not find them. ³⁵And she said to her father, “Do not let my lord be angry because I cannot rise in your presence, for it is the way of women with me.” And he searched, but he did not find the amulets. ³⁶Then Jacob became angry, and he quarrelled with Laban, and Jacob reacted and said to Laban, “What is my transgression, and what is my sin that you should pursue me so ardently? ³⁷When you rummaged through all my baggage, what did you find of any of your household items? Put it here before my brothers and your brothers so they can arbitrate between the two of us. ³⁸For twenty years I was with you. Your ewes and your goats did not miscarry, and I did not eat the rams of your flock. ³⁹I didn't bring you anything savaged by wild animals – I suffered the loss of it. You demanded it of me, whether anything with me got stolen by day or stolen by night. ⁴⁰My circumstances were that by day dryness consumed me, and cold by night, and my sleep eluded my eyes. ⁴¹This was my lot for twenty years in your house. I worked for you for fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your small cattle, and you changed my wages ten times. ⁴²If I had not had the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, then you would have sent me away empty-handed now. God has seen my affliction and the weariness of my hands, and he censured you last night.” ⁴³Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters and the sons are my sons, and the small cattle is my small cattle, and everything you see is mine. Now what can I do for these daughters of mine today, or for their sons whom they have borne? ⁴⁴So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and it will be a testimony between you and me.” ⁴⁵Then Jacob took a stone and erected it as a pillar. ⁴⁶And Jacob said to his brothers, “Gather some stones”, and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there on the heap. ⁴⁷And Laban called it Jegar-Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. ⁴⁸And Laban said, “This heap is a testimony between you and me today.” That is why he called it Galeed, ⁴⁹and Mizpah, in that he said, “May the Lord keep watch between you and me, for we shall be hidden from one another, ⁵⁰that you most certainly will not oppress my daughters, and that you most certainly will not take wives in addition to my daughters. There is no man with us. See, God is a witness between you and me.” ⁵¹Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap and here is the pillar, which I hereby set between you and me. ⁵²This heap is a testimony, and the pillar is a testimony, that I will not cross this heap to you and that you will not cross this heap to me, nor this pillar, with harmful intentions. ⁵³The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor judge between us – the God of their father.” And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and he invited his brothers to eat bread, and they ate bread and spent the night on the mountain.

¹Then Laban got up early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Laban then departed and returned to his place. ²And Jacob went his way, and the angels of God met him. ³And when he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God's encampment”, and he called that place Mahanaim. ⁴Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom. ⁵And he instructed them and said, “Here is what you will say to my lord, to Esau: ‘This is what your servant Jacob says: «I have dwelt with Laban and I stayed there until now. ⁶And I have acquired oxen and donkeys, sheep and menservants and maidservants. And I have sent to inform my lord, to find grace in your eyes.» ’ ” ⁷Then the messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother, to Esau, and he also is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.” ⁸At this Jacob was very afraid, and he was in a strait, and he divided the people who were with him into two, and also the sheep and the oxen and the camels, into two detachments. ⁹And he said, “If Esau comes against one detachment and attacks it, then the remaining detachment will be in a position to escape.” ¹⁰And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your native country, and I will deal well with you’, ¹¹I am of little account compared to all the acts of kindness and all the faithfulness which you have shown to your servant, for with my staff I have crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two detachments. ¹²Please deliver me from the hand of my brother – from the hand of Esau – for I am afraid of him, that he comes and attacks me, and a mother with her sons. ¹³And you have said, ‘I will certainly deal well with you, and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea which cannot be counted for its abundance.’ ” ¹⁴And he lodged there that night, then he took from what he could afford as a gift to Esau his brother: ¹⁵two hundred goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, ¹⁶thirty milk-giving camels and their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten ass-colts. ¹⁷And he handed them over to his servants, each herd apart, and he said to his servants, “Cross over before me and leave a space between one herd and another.” ¹⁸And when he instructed the first, he said, “When Esau my brother meets you and questions you, saying, ‘Who do you belong to and where are you going, and whose are these animals in front of you?’ – ¹⁹you will say, ‘They are your servant's, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, to Esau. And look, he himself is behind us.’ ” ²⁰Then he instructed the second one too, and the third, and all those following the flocks, and he said, “With these words you will speak to Esau, when you encounter him. ²¹And you will say, ‘Here is your servant Jacob too, behind us.’ ” For he said, “I will appease him with the gift going ahead of me, and after that I will see his face; maybe he will treat me benevolently.” ²²So the gift went across ahead of him, while he lodged that night in the encampment. ²³Then he got up that night and took his two wives and his two maidservants and his eleven boys and crossed the ford of Jabbok. ²⁴And he took them and brought them across the brook, and he took what he had across. ²⁵But Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him, until dawn arose. ²⁶And he saw that he could not prevail over him; and he touched his hip-bone socket, so Jacob's hip-bone became dislocated as he wrestled with him. ²⁷And he said, “Let me go, for dawn has arisen.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” ²⁸And he said to him, “What is your name?” To this he said, “Jacob.” ²⁹He then said, “You shall not be called Jacob any more, but Israel, for you have wrestled with God, and with men, and you have prevailed.” ³⁰Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” To this he said, “Why are you asking my name like this?” And he blessed him there. ³¹And Jacob called the place Peniel, “For”, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.” ³²Then the sun rose on him, as he crossed through Penuel, and he limped on his thigh, ³³which is why the sons of Israel do not eat the thigh sinew which is on the thigh joint, up to this day, because he struck Jacob on the thigh joint in the thigh sinew.

¹Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and what he saw was Esau coming, and with him were four hundred men, and he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maidservants. ²And he put the maidservants and their children in front and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind them. ³And he crossed over before them, and he bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. ⁴And Esau ran to meet him, and he embraced him and fell around his neck and kissed him, and they wept. ⁵And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and he said, “Who are these of yours?” And he said, “The children whom God has been so gracious as to give your servant.” ⁶Then the maidservants approached – they and their children – and they bowed down. ⁷Then Leah approached too, with her children, and they bowed down, and after that Joseph and Rachel approached, and they bowed down. ⁸And he said, “Who are all this troop of yours which I have met?” And he said, “They are to find grace in the eyes of my lord.” ⁹Then Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.” ¹⁰But Jacob said, “No, please, if now I have found grace in your eyes, then take my gift from my hand, for it is because of it that I saw your face as if I saw the face of God, when you were pleased with me. ¹¹Do take my blessing which has been brought to you, for God has been gracious to me, and because I have everything.” And he pressed him, and he accepted it. ¹²And he said, “Let us move on and get going, and I will go in front of you.” ¹³Then he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and dairy cattle are with me, and if they overdrive them for just one day, all the flocks will die. ¹⁴Do let my lord go in front of his servant, and I will proceed at a gentle pace, at the speed of the cattle which are in front of me, and at the speed of the children, until I have come to my lord in Seir.” ¹⁵And Esau said, “Let me station some of the people who are with me with you.” And he said, “Why have I found grace in the eyes of my lord like this?” ¹⁶Then Esau returned on that day, taking the road back to Seir, ¹⁷while Jacob moved to Succoth and built himself a house there, and he made booths there for his cattle, which is why he called the place Succoth. ¹⁸Then Jacob arrived safely in the city of Shechem which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-Aram. And he encamped in front of the city. ¹⁹And he bought a parcel of land where he had pitched his tent, from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem, for one hundred kesitahs. ²⁰And he erected an altar there and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Reference(s) in Chapter 33: v.19 ↔ Acts 7:16.

¹Now Dinah, Leah's daughter, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ²And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, saw her, and he took her and lay with her and violated her. ³And his desire was fixed on Dinah, Jacob's daughter, and he was in love with the girl, and he spoke kindly to the girl. ⁴And Shechem spoke to Hamor his father and said, “Get me this girl for a wife.” ⁵And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter while his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob kept silence until they came in. ⁶Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. ⁷Then Jacob's sons came back from the field when they heard about it, and the men were aggrieved, and they became very much incensed that he had done a dishonourable thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing is not done. ⁸And Hamor spoke with them and said, “About Shechem my son – his whole being craves for your daughter. Be so good as to give her to him as a wife. ⁹And let us exchange in marriage. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves. ¹⁰And dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live in it and trade in it and have your interest in it.” ¹¹Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and her brothers, “If I find grace in your eyes, then I will give you whatever you say to me. ¹²Specify a large dowry and gift for me to give, and I will give it according to what you say to me, but give me the girl as a wife.” ¹³Then Jacob's sons answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they spoke so because he had defiled Dinah their sister. ¹⁴And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, giving our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it is a contemptible thing to us. ¹⁵But we can agree on this with you: if you become like us, in every male among you being circumcised, ¹⁶then we will give you our daughters, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. ¹⁷But if you do not comply with us in being circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go our way.” ¹⁸And their words were pleasing in Hamor's sight, and the sight of Shechem the son of Hamor. ¹⁹And the lad did not delay in doing the thing, because he took delight in Jacob's daughter. Now he was held in more honour than all the household of his father. ²⁰Then Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city and said, ²¹“These men are peaceable towards us, and they will dwell in the land and trade in it. And as for the land, behold, it is very wide before them. We will take their daughters to ourselves as wives, and we will give our daughters to them. ²²But the men have agreed this with us: to dwell with us, to become one people, if we have ourselves circumcised – every male – as they are circumcised. ²³Their cattle and their possessions and all their livestock, are they not then ours? Just let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.” ²⁴And all those who went out to the gate of his city heeded Hamor and Shechem his son, and all the males were circumcised – everyone who went out to the gate of his city. ²⁵And it came to pass on the third day, while they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and went to the city confidently, and they killed every male. ²⁶And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah out of Shechem's house and left. ²⁷The sons of Jacob went to the slain men and stripped the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸And they took their sheep and their oxen and their donkeys and whatever was in the city, and they took whatever was in the field. ²⁹And they captured and stripped all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their women, and everything that was in the house. ³⁰But Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have caused me trouble, by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, to the Canaanite and the Perizzite, whereas I am few in number, and they could gather together against me and attack me, and I and my household would be destroyed.” ³¹But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”

¹Then God said to Jacob, “Arise and go up to Beth-El and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from Esau your brother.” ²Then Jacob said to his household and to everyone who was with him, “Remove the foreign gods which are in your midst and cleanse yourselves and change your garments. ³Then let us arise and go up to Beth-El, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me on the day when I was in a strait, but he was with me on the way I went.” ⁴So they gave Jacob all the strange gods which were in their possession, and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was near Shechem. ⁵And they moved on, and a fear of God came upon the cities which were around them, so they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. ⁶Then Jacob arrived at Luz, which is in the land of Canaan – it is Beth-El – he and all the people who were with him. ⁷And he built an altar there and called the place El-Beth-El, for God had revealed himself to him there when he was fleeing from his brother. ⁸Then Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under Beth-El, under the oak tree, and he called it Allon-Bachuth. ⁹Now God had appeared to Jacob again as he was coming from Paddan-Aram, and he had blessed him. ¹⁰And God had said to him, “Your name is Jacob; your name will no longer be Jacob, but your name will be Israel.” And he called him Israel. ¹¹And God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and increase. A nation and a convocation of nations will come from you, and kings will come out of your loins. ¹²I will give you the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, and I will give the land to your seed after you.” ¹³Then God ascended away from him, at the place where he spoke with him. ¹⁴Jacob then erected a pillar at the place where he spoke with him, a stone pillar, and he poured out a libation on it, and he poured oil on it. ¹⁵And Jacob called the place where God had spoken to him Beth-El. ¹⁶Then they moved on from Beth-El, and there was just a small stretch of land to go to arrive at Ephrath when Rachel gave birth, and she had difficulty in her labour. ¹⁷And it came to pass, as she was having difficulty in her labour, that the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for this is also a son of yours.” ¹⁸And it came to pass, as her life was departing – for she was dying – that she called him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin. ¹⁹Then Rachel died, and she was buried at the road to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. ²⁰And Jacob erected a pillar at her grave; it is the pillar of Rachel's grave to this day. ²¹Then Israel moved on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. ²²And it came to pass, while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard it. Now Jacob's sons were twelve in number. ²³Leah's sons were Jacob's firstborn, Reuben, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun. ²⁴Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, were Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, were Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. ²⁷Then Jacob came to Isaac his father in Mamre at Kiriath-Arba – that is Hebron – where Abraham and Isaac dwelt. ²⁸And the days of Isaac amounted to one hundred and eighty years. ²⁹When Isaac expired and died, he was gathered to his people, being old and full of days, and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.

¹This is the lineage of Esau. He is Edom. ²Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ³and Bosmath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. ⁴And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz, and Bosmath bore Reuel. ⁵And Aholibamah bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. Those were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan. ⁶And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the people of his household, and his cattle and all his livestock and all his property which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he went to a land away from Jacob his brother. ⁷For their property was too much for them to live together, and the land of their residence could not support them because of their cattle. ⁸And Esau dwelt at Mount Seir. Esau is Edom. ⁹Now this is the lineage of Esau, the father of Edom in Mount Seir. ¹⁰These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Adah the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Bosmath the wife of Esau. ¹¹And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz. ¹²And Timna was a concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son, and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. Those were the sons of Adah the wife of Esau. ¹³And these were the sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. Those were the sons of Bosmath, Esau's wife. ¹⁴And these were the sons of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife. And she bore Jeush and Jaalam and Korah to Esau. ¹⁵These were the chieftains of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, Esau's firstborn, were Chieftain Teman, Chieftain Omar, Chieftain Zepho, Chieftain Kenaz, ¹⁶Chieftain Korah, Chieftain Gatam, Chieftain Amalek. Those were the chieftains descending from Eliphaz in the land of Edom; those were Adah's sons. ¹⁷And these were the sons of Reuel the son of Esau: Chieftain Nahath, Chieftain Zerah, Chieftain Shammah, Chieftain Mizzah. Those were the chieftains descending from Reuel in the land of Edom; those were the sons of Bosmath the wife of Esau. ¹⁸And these were the sons of Aholibamah, Esau's wife: Chieftain Jeush, Chieftain Jaalam, Chieftain Korah. Those were the chieftains descending from Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife. ¹⁹Those were the sons of Esau, and those were their chieftains. He is Edom. ²⁰These were the sons of Seir the Horite – the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah, ²¹and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. Those were the chieftains of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. ²²And Lotan's sons were Hori and Hemam, and Lotan's sister was Timna. ²³These were Shobal's sons: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam. ²⁴And these were Zibeon's sons: Veajah and Anah – he is Anah who found the hot springs in the desert when he was tending the donkeys for Zibeon his father. ²⁵And these were the sons of Anah: Dishon; and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah. ²⁶And these were the sons of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran. ²⁷These were the sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan. ²⁸These were the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹These were the chieftains of the Horites: Chieftain Lotan, Chieftain Shobal, Chieftain Zibeon, Chieftain Anah, ³⁰Chieftain Dishon, Chieftain Ezer, Chieftain Dishan. Those were the chieftains descending from Hori, constituting their chieftains in the land of Seir. ³¹And these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the sons of Israel. ³²Now Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. ³³Then Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in place of him. ³⁴Then Jobab died, and Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in place of him. ³⁵Then Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian down in the countryside of Moab, reigned in place of him, and the name of his city was Avith. ³⁶Then Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned in place of him. ³⁷Then Samlah died, and Saul from Rehoboth-upon-the-River reigned in place of him. ³⁸Then Saul died, and Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in place of him. ³⁹Then Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in place of him, and the name of his city was Pau, and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab. ⁴⁰And these are the names of the chieftains of Esau by their families and by their places, by their names: Chieftain Timna, Chieftain Alvah, Chieftain Jetheth, ⁴¹Chieftain Aholibamah, Chieftain Elah, Chieftain Pinon, ⁴²Chieftain Kenaz, Chieftain Teman, Chieftain Mibzar, ⁴³Chieftain Magdiel, Chieftain Iram. Those were the chieftains of Edom by their dwelling places in the land of their possession, which is Esau, the father of Edom.

¹And Jacob dwelt in the place of residence of his father in the land of Canaan. ²This is the genealogy of Jacob. Joseph was seventeen years old and was tending the flock with his brothers, and he was just a lad with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. ³Now Israel loved Joseph the most of all his sons because he was the son of his old age to him, and he made him a long-sleeved gown. ⁴And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and they could not speak peaceably to him. ⁵Then Joseph had a dream and told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. ⁶And he said to them, “Do listen to this dream which I have had. ⁷There we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and what happened was that my sheaf arose and stood up even, and there were your sheaves encircling it, and they bowed down to my sheaf.” ⁸At which his brothers said to him, “Are you really going to reign over us, or really going to rule over us?” And they hated him still more because of his dreams and because of his words. ⁹Then he dreamt again and had another dream, and he told it to his brothers and said, “Look, I have had a dream again, and there were the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowing down to me.” ¹⁰And he told it to his father and to his brothers, and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream you have had? Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to bow down to you to the ground?” ¹¹And his brothers were envious of him, but his father kept the account under consideration. ¹²Then his brothers went to tend their father's flocks in Shechem. ¹³And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers tending flocks in Shechem? Come, and I'll send you to them.” And he said, “Here I am.” ¹⁴And he said to him, “Please go and see how your brothers are doing, and how the flock are doing and report back to me.” And he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem. ¹⁵And a man came across him seeing that he was wandering in a field, and the man asked him and said, “What are you looking for?” ¹⁶And he said, “I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, would you, where are they tending the flocks?” ¹⁷And the man said, “They have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, ‘Let's go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan. ¹⁸And they saw him from a distance, and before he approached them, they plotted against him to kill him. ¹⁹And they said to each other, “Look, Mister Dreamer himself is coming. ²⁰So now, come on, let's kill him and throw him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘A wild animal has eaten him’, and we will see what becomes of his dreams.” ²¹But Reuben heard, and he delivered him from their hands and said, “Let us not fatally strike him.” ²²And Reuben said to them, “Do not shed blood. Throw him in this pit which is in the desert, and do not lay hands on him”, so as to deliver him from their hands, to take him back to his father. ²³And it came to pass when Joseph came to his brothers that they stripped Joseph of his gown – his long-sleeved gown which was on him – ²⁴and they took hold of him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty – there was no water in it. ²⁵And they sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked around, and what they saw was a company of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying spices and balsam and fine myrrh on their way to take it down to Egypt. ²⁶And Judah said to his brothers, “What good is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let our hand not be on him, for he is our brother – he is our flesh.” And his brothers acquiesced. ²⁸And the Midianite merchants passed by, and they hauled him up and brought Joseph up out of the pit. And they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They then brought Joseph to Egypt. ²⁹Then Reuben returned to the pit, and when he saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit, he tore his clothes. ³⁰And he returned to his brothers and said, “The lad isn't there. And as for me, where can I go?” ³¹Then they took Joseph's gown, and they killed a buck of the goats and dipped the gown in the blood. ³²And they took the long-sleeved gown with them and brought it to their father and said, “We found this. So examine whether the gown is your son's or not.” ³³And he identified it and said, “It is my son's gown. A wild animal has eaten him. Joseph must have been torn apart.” ³⁴And Jacob tore his clothes, and he put sackcloth on his loins and, he mourned for his son for many days. ³⁵Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, “I will go down to my son – to the grave – mourning.” And his father wept for him. ³⁶And the Medanites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh's courtier, the head executioner.

¹And it came to pass at that time that Judah went down leaving his brothers, and he turned aside to an Adullamite man whose name was Hirah. ²And Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man there, his name being Shua. And he took her and went in to her, ³and she conceived and bore a son, and he called him Er. ⁴And she conceived again and bore a son, and she called him Onan. ⁵And she conceived yet again and bore a son, and she called him Shelah, and he was in Chezib when she bore him. ⁶And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar. ⁷Now Er Judah's firstborn was evil in the sight of the Lord and the Lord killed him. ⁸And Judah said to Onan, “Go into your brother's wife and marry her as brother-in-law of the deceased and raise up seed to your brother.” ⁹But Onan knew that the seed would not be counted as his, and it came to pass, when he went to his brother's wife, that he spilt it on the ground, so as not to give seed to his brother. ¹⁰And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, and he killed him too. ¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in the house of your father until my son Shelah is grown up”, for he said, “I am concerned that he too may die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father. ¹²And many days went by, and the daughter of Shua, Judah's wife, died. And Judah was comforted, and he went up to those who shear his sheep – he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite – to Timnah. ¹³And it was reported to Tamar as follows: “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.” ¹⁴And she took off her widow's clothes which were on her, and she screened herself with a veil and covered herself, and she sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah, for she had seen that Shelah had grown up but that she had not been given to him as a wife. ¹⁵And Judah saw her, and he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. ¹⁶And he turned aside to her on the way and said, “Come on now, I will go in to you”, for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, “What will you give me if you go in to me.” ¹⁷And he said, “I will send you a kid from the flock.” Then she said, “All right if you give me security until you have sent it.” ¹⁸And he said, “What is the security that I should give you?” And she said, “Your seal and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him. ¹⁹Then she got up and went back and took off her veil that was on her and put her widow's clothes on. ²⁰And Judah sent the kid of the goats via his friend the Adullamite, to recover the security from the woman. But he could not find her. ²¹And he asked the men of her place and said, “Where is the prostitute who was in Enaim by the road?” And they said, “There hasn't been a prostitute around here.” ²²So he returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and moreover the local men said, ‘There hasn't been a prostitute around here.’ ” ²³Then Judah said, “Let her take it any time, so that we do not come to be held in disdain. After all, I sent this kid, but you could not find her.” ²⁴Then it came to pass after three months that it was reported to Judah as follows: “Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot, and moreover we have seen that she has become pregnant with her harlotry.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burnt.” ²⁵She was brought out, and she sent for her father-in-law and said, “I became pregnant by the man to whom these belong.” And she said, “Please identify whose this seal and cords and staff are.” ²⁶And Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I am, for this is because I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And Judah did not know her any more. ²⁷And it came to pass at the time when she gave birth that there were twins in her womb. ²⁸And it came to pass, when she gave birth, that one put out a hand, and the midwife took hold of it and tied a scarlet band round his hand and said, “This came out first.” ²⁹Then it came to pass as he withdrew his hand that what happened was that his brother came out, and she said, “How you broke out! May the breaking out be upon you!” And he called him Perez. ³⁰And afterwards his brother came out, on whose hand the scarlet band was, and he called him Zerah.

¹So Joseph was brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, Pharaoh's official, the head executioner, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. ²And the Lord was with Joseph, and he became a prosperous man, and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and how the Lord made everything he did prosper in his hand. ⁴So Joseph found grace in his eyes, and he served him, and he appointed him over his household, and he put everything he had under his charge. ⁵And it came to pass, from when he had appointed him in his house and over everything he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's household because of Joseph, and the blessing of the Lord was on everything that he had in the house and in the field. ⁶And he left everything he had in Joseph's hand, and he did not know anything about his personal affairs except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-proportioned and good-looking, ⁷and it came to pass after these things that his master's wife raised her eyes to Joseph and said, “Lie with me.” ⁸But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Look, my master does not know what is in the house delegated to me, and he has put everything he has under my authority. ⁹There is no-one greater in this house than me, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife, so how can I do this great evil and sin against God?” ¹⁰And it kept happening that when she spoke to Joseph day by day, he would not consent with her to lie with her and to be with her. ¹¹And it came to pass around this time that he went to the house to carry out his business, and there were none of the men of the household there in the house. ¹²And she took hold of him by a garment of his and said, “Lie with me.” And he left his garment in her hand and fled and went outside. ¹³Then it came to pass when she saw that he had left a garment of his in her hand and had fled outside, ¹⁴that she called the men of her household and spoke to them and said, “Look, he has brought a Hebrew man to us to mock us. He came to me to lie with me, and I shouted with a loud voice, ¹⁵and it happened that when he heard that I was raising my voice and calling out, that he left his garment with me and fled and went outside.” ¹⁶And she kept his garment at her side until his master returned to his house. ¹⁷And she spoke to him with these words and said, “The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us came to me to mock me. ¹⁸And it came to pass when I raised my voice and called out that he left his garment with me and fled outside.” ¹⁹And it came to pass, when his master heard his wife's words which she spoke to him, when she said, “These are the things which your servant did to me”, that he became angry. ²⁰And Joseph's master took hold of him and put him in prison – a place where the king's prisoners were imprisoned – and he was there in the prison. ²¹But the Lord was with Joseph, and he extended kindness to him, and he gave him grace in the eyes of the chief prison officer. ²²And the chief prison officer put all the prisoners who were in the prison under Joseph's authority. He was in control of everything that they did there. ²³The chief prison officer didn't oversee anything that was in his charge, because the Lord was with him, and the Lord made whatever he did prosper.

¹And it came to pass after these things that the king of Egypt's butler and baker did wrong to their master, to the king of Egypt. ²And Pharaoh became angry with his two courtiers, with the head butler and with the head baker. ³And he put them under guard, in the house of the head executioner, in the prison – the place where Joseph was imprisoned. ⁴And the head executioner put Joseph in charge of them. And he officiated over them, and they were under guard for many days. ⁵And the two of them had a dream – each his own dream, on one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream – the king of Egypt's butler and baker who were imprisoned in the prison. ⁶When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw them, and there they were, looking gloomy. ⁷And he questioned Pharaoh's courtiers who were with him under guard in the house of his master, and he said, “Why are your expressions so downcast today?” ⁸And they said to him, “We have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Are not interpretations a matter for God? Please tell me them.” ⁹And the head butler told Joseph his dream and said to him, “In my dream, there was a vine before me. ¹⁰And on the vine were three branches, and as it bloomed, its blossom arose and its fruit ripened into grapes. ¹¹And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, and I pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh's hand.” ¹²Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days. ¹³In three days' time, Pharaoh will lift your head and reinstate you in your office, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand as was the former custom when you were his butler. ¹⁴Nevertheless, remember me who was with you, when it is going well for you, and do me a favour, would you, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. ¹⁵For I was brought here most insidiously from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have not done anything warranting that they should put me in the pit.” ¹⁶And when the chief baker saw that he had correctly interpreted it, he said to Joseph, “I too was in a dream of mine, and there were three baskets of white bread on my head. ¹⁷In the upper basket were all kinds of food for Pharaoh – baker's fare – and the birds were eating them from the basket on my head.” ¹⁸Then Joseph responded and said, “This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days. ¹⁹In three days' time Pharaoh will lift your head off you and hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat away at your flesh on you.” ²⁰And it came to pass on the third day, Pharaoh's birthday, that he held a banquet for all his servants, and he lifted the head of the head butler and of the head baker among his servants. ²¹And he restored the head butler to his office of butler, who put the cup in Pharaoh's hand. ²²But he hanged the head baker, as Joseph had interpreted for them. ²³But the head butler did not remember Joseph but forgot him.

¹And it came to pass after two years' time that Pharaoh had a dream, and there he was, standing at the river. ²And what he saw was seven cows coming up out of the river, of fine appearance and with healthy flesh, and they grazed on the reeds. ³And he then saw seven other cows coming up out of the river after them, of bad appearance and lean in flesh, and they stood alongside the other cows on the bank of the river. ⁴Then the cows of bad appearance and lean in flesh ate the seven cows which were of fine appearance and healthy. Then Pharaoh awoke. ⁵Then he fell asleep and dreamt a second time, and what he saw was seven ears of corn coming up on one stalk, healthy and good. ⁶Then what he saw was seven lean ears of corn which were blighted by the east wind, growing up after them. ⁷And the lean ears of corn swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears of corn. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized that it was a dream. ⁸And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was disturbed, and he sent for and called all the sacred scribes of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh related his dreams to them, but there was no interpreter of them to Pharaoh. ⁹Then the head butler spoke with Pharaoh and said, “I do call to remembrance my sins today. ¹⁰Pharaoh became angry with his servants, and he put me under guard in the house of the head executioner – me and the head baker. ¹¹And we had a dream one night, I and he. Each of us dreamt according to the interpretation of his dream. ¹²And there was with us there a Hebrew youth, a servant of the head executioner, and we told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us. He gave the interpretation of each one's dream. ¹³And it came to pass, after he had interpreted for us, that so it came about. Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he hanged the head baker.” ¹⁴Then Pharaoh sent for and called for Joseph, and he whisked him out of the pit. Then he shaved himself and changed his clothes, and he went to Pharaoh. ¹⁵And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream and there is no interpreter of it, and I have heard about you, that you know how to interpret a dream.” ¹⁶Then Joseph answered Pharaoh and said, “It is outside my competence. God will answer Pharaoh with peace.” ¹⁷Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, there I was standing on the bank of the river, ¹⁸and what I saw was seven cows coming up out of the river, with healthy flesh and of fine appearance, and they grazed on the reeds. ¹⁹Then what I saw was seven other cows coming up after them, weak and of very bad appearance and lean in flesh – I have never seen anything like them in the whole land of Egypt for badness. ²⁰Then the lean and bad cows ate the seven former and healthy cows. ²¹And they went inside them, but it could not be perceived that they had gone inside them, and their appearance was as bad as it was at first. Then I awoke. ²²And I saw in my dream that there were seven ears of corn coming up on one stalk, full and good. ²³Then what I saw was seven hard and lean ears of corn which were blighted by the east wind growing up after them. ²⁴And the lean ears of corn ate the seven good ears of corn. And I told it to the sacred scribes, but there was no-one who could explain it to me.” ²⁵Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh's dream is a unity. God has told Pharaoh what he is about to do. ²⁶The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears of corn are seven years. The dream is a unity. ²⁷The seven lean and bad cows coming up after them are seven years, and the seven lean ears of corn which were blighted by the east wind will be seven years of famine. ²⁸This is the account which I have spoken to Pharaoh. What God is about to do, he has shown Pharaoh. ²⁹Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in the whole land of Egypt. ³⁰Then seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land. ³¹And the abundance will not be felt in the land on account of that famine afterwards, for it will be very severe. ³²And as for the dream being repeated to Pharaoh, with him dreaming twice, that is because the matter is fixed with God, and God is making haste to carry it out. ³³So now let Pharaoh discern a wise and prudent man and appoint him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴Let Pharaoh do this and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the yield of the land in the seven years of abundance. ³⁵And let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming and store corn under Pharaoh's administration – food in the cities – and guard it. ³⁶And the food will be a stockpile for the land, for the seven years of famine which will take place in the land of Egypt, so that the land is not cut down in the famine.” ³⁷And the procedure was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants. ³⁸And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can anyone else like this be found – a man in whom the spirit of God is?” ³⁹And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Consequent to God making all this known to you, there cannot be a prudent and wise man like you. ⁴⁰You will be over my house, and at your behest the whole of my people will be regulated. Only in the throne will I be greater than you.” ⁴¹And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have appointed you over the whole land of Egypt.” ⁴²Then Pharaoh took his ring off his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he clothed him in garments of fine linen, and he put a golden chain round his neck. ⁴³And he had him ride in his second chariot, and they cried out before him, “Bow the knee.” And he appointed him over the whole land of Egypt. ⁴⁴And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent, no man in the whole land of Egypt will lift his hand or his foot.” ⁴⁵And Pharaoh called Joseph Zaphenath-Paneah, and he gave him Asenath the daughter of Poti-Phera the priest of On as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. ⁴⁶Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and passed through the whole land of Egypt. ⁴⁷And the land yielded produce by handfuls in the seven years of abundance. ⁴⁸And he gathered all the food of the seven years which elapsed in the land of Egypt, and he put food in the cities. He put the food of the city fields, which were around it, inside the city itself. ⁴⁹And Joseph stored corn like the sand of the sea, a very large amount, until he stopped counting, for there was no counting it. ⁵⁰And before the years of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph, sons whom Asenath the daughter of Poti-Phera the priest of On bore to him. ⁵¹And Joseph called the first one Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has caused me to forget all my sorrow and the whole household of my father.” ⁵²And he called the second one Ephraim, “For”, he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” ⁵³Then the seven years of abundance which came to pass in the land of Egypt came to an end. ⁵⁴And the seven years of famine started to come, as Joseph had said, and there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵And when all the land of Egypt was hungry, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to the whole of Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.” ⁵⁶And the famine came over the whole face of the land, and Joseph opened up everything in it, and he sold it to Egypt. And the famine became severe in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷And the whole continent came to Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, for the famine was severe in the whole continent.

¹When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you staring at each other?” ²And he said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy us some from there, so we live and don't die.” ³So Joseph's brothers went down, ten of them, to buy corn from Egypt. ⁴But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he said, “I am concerned in case misfortune should befall him.” ⁵So Israel's sons came to buy grain among those who came, for the famine came to the land of Canaan. ⁶Now Joseph was the governor over the land; he was the seller of grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and they bowed down to him with the face to the ground. ⁷And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but he feigned not recognizing them, and he spoke harshly with them, and he said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.” ⁸And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. ⁹And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had had about them, and he said to them, “You are spies. You have come to look at the vulnerability of the land.” ¹⁰And they said to him, “Not so, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. ¹¹We are all the sons of one man; we are upright – your servants are not spies.” ¹²Then he said to them, “No, for you have come to look at the vulnerability of the land.” ¹³Then they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers; we are the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan, and actually the youngest is with our father today, and one of us is not to be found.” ¹⁴Then Joseph said to them, “As for what I said to you when I said, ‘You are spies’, ¹⁵this is the means by which you will be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you certainly will not depart from here unless your youngest brother comes here. ¹⁶Send one of you to bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison, and your words will be put to the test to see if you are truthful, and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, it will show that you are spies.” ¹⁷And he rounded them up under guard for three days. ¹⁸And Joseph said this to them on the third day: “Do this and live, for I fear God. ¹⁹If you are upright, let one of your brothers be kept imprisoned in the prison building you are in, while you go and take grain for the famine of your households. ²⁰And bring your youngest brother to me, and your words will be proved true, and you will not die.” And they did so. ²¹And they said to one another, “Doubtless we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw his impassioned distress when he pleaded with us, and we did not take any notice. That is why this distress has come upon us.” ²²Then Reuben answered them and said, “Did I not say this to you when I said, ‘Do not sin against the lad’? But you did not listen, and look, his blood is duly required.” ²³And they did not know that Joseph was listening, for there was an interpreter between them. ²⁴And he turned aside from them and wept, then he returned to them and spoke to them, and he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. ²⁵And Joseph gave orders to fill their vessels with corn, and to restore each one's money in his sack, and to give them provision for the journey. This is what he did with them. ²⁶So they lifted their grain onto their donkeys and departed from there. ²⁷Then when one opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at an inn, he saw his money, and there it was at the opening of his bag, ²⁸and he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned to me, and here it really is, in my bag.” And their heart fainted, and they trembled and said to each other, “What is this that God has done to us?” ²⁹And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and they told him everything that had happened to them and said, ³⁰“The man who is the lord of the land spoke harshly with us and considered us spies on the land. ³¹And we said to him, ‘We are upright; we are not spies. ³²We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One of us is not to be found, and the youngest is with our father in the land of Canaan today.’ ³³Then the man who is the lord of the land said to us, ‘Here is how I will know that you are upright. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take relief for the famine of your households and go, ³⁴and bring your youngest brother to me so that I know that you are not spies – that you are upright. Then I will give you back your brother, and you can trade in the land.’ ” ³⁵And it came to pass when they emptied their sacks that for each one there was his money-purse in his sack, and they saw their money-purses, they and their father, and they were afraid. ³⁶Then Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me: Joseph is not to be found, and Simeon is not around, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.” ³⁷Then Reuben spoke to his father and said, “You can kill my two sons if I do not bring him to you. Put him in my charge, and I will bring him back to you.” ³⁸But he said, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains, and if misfortune were to befall him on the way you are going, then you would bring my old age down to the grave in grief.”

¹And the famine was severe in the land. ²And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little food.” ³Then Judah spoke to him and said, “The man solemnly testified to us and said, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ⁴If you let our brother go with us, we will go down and buy you food. ⁵But if you don't let him go, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’ ” ⁶Then Israel said, “Why have you treated me so badly by telling the man that you had another brother?” ⁷And they said, “The man persistently asked about us and our family and said, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you got a brother?’ And we answered him in accordance with these things. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?” ⁸Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the lad with me, and we will get up and go, and we will live and not die, neither us, nor you, nor our little ones. ⁹I will be security for him. You can require it from my hand if I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, for I would be in sin before you all my days. ¹⁰For if it wasn't for us delaying, then we would have been back by now twice over.” ¹¹Then Israel their father said to them, “If it is like this, then do this: take some of the select produce of the land in your vessels and take a gift down to the man – a little balsam and a little honey, spicery and fine myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds. ¹²And take double money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was restored in the opening of your bags – perhaps it was a mistake. ¹³And take your brother and get up and go back to the man. ¹⁴And may God Almighty give you favour before the man, and may he let you go with your other brother and with Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.” ¹⁵So the men took this present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin, and they got up and went down to Egypt, and they stood before Joseph. ¹⁶And Joseph saw Benjamin with them, and he said to him who was over his house, “Bring the men into the house, and butcher meat and prepare it, for the men will dine with me at noon.” ¹⁷Then the man did what Joseph had said, and the man brought the men into Joseph's house. ¹⁸And the men were afraid when they were brought into Joseph's house, and they said, “It is because of the matter of the money which was restored in our bags at the start that we have been brought in, to rush upon us and fall upon us and take us as slaves, and our donkeys.” ¹⁹And they approached the man who was over Joseph's house and spoke to him at the door of the house, ²⁰and they said, “Please, my lord, we really only came down from the start to buy food. ²¹And we came to an inn, and we opened our bags, and what we saw was that each man's money was in the opening of his bag – our money in full weight – and we have brought it back in our hand. ²²And we have brought more money down in our hand to buy food. We don't know who put our money in our bags.” ²³And he said, “Peace to you. Do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your bags. Your money was brought to me.” Then he brought Simeon out to them. ²⁴Then the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and he gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave their donkeys fodder. ²⁵Meanwhile they prepared their gift, until Joseph came out at noon, for they had heard that they would eat bread there. ²⁶Then when Joseph came home, they brought the present for him which was in their hand into the house, and they bowed down to him to the ground. ²⁷And he asked them how they were and said, “Is your elderly father whom you spoke of well? Is he still alive?” ²⁸And they said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they bowed the head and bowed down. ²⁹And he raised his eyes, and he saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother, and he said, “Is this your youngest brother about whom you spoke to me?” And he said, “God be gracious to you, my son.” ³⁰Then Joseph made haste, for he burned with feelings of compassion towards his brother, and he needed to weep, and he went into a room and wept there. ³¹Then he washed his face and went out, and he restrained himself and said, “Serve bread.” ³²And they served him on his own, and them on their own, and the Egyptians who ate with him on their own, for the Egyptians cannot eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians. ³³And they sat before him, the firstborn in the firstborn's place, and the youngest in the youngest's place, and the men looked at each other with astonishment. ³⁴And he had helpings served to them in his presence, and Benjamin's helping was five times bigger than the helping of any of them, and they drank and became inebriated with him.

¹Then he instructed him who was over his house, and he said, “Fill the men's bags with food, as much as they can carry, and put money in each one's opening of his bag. ²But put my goblet, the silver goblet, in the opening of the bag of the youngest, and the money for his grain.” And he acted according to the words which Joseph had spoken. ³The morning dawned and the men were sent off – they and their donkeys. ⁴They went out of the city, and they had not gone far, when Joseph said to him who was over his house, “Get up and pursue the men, and when you have caught up with them, say to them, ‘Why have you requited me bad for good? ⁵Is not this what my master drinks from? And doesn't he keenly divine with it? You have done wrong in what you have done.’ ” ⁶So he caught up with them and said these things to them. ⁷And they said to him, “Why does my lord say these things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing as this. ⁸Look, we brought the money which we found in the opening of our bags back to you from the land of Canaan, so how could we steal silver or gold from the house of your lord? ⁹Let him among your servants who is found with it die, and let the rest of us too become servants to my lord.” ¹⁰And he said, “Let it duly be so now, according to your words. He who is found with it will be my servant, but the rest of you will be clear.” ¹¹Then they made haste and each one brought his bag down to the ground, and each one opened his bag. ¹²And he searched, starting with the oldest, and finishing with the youngest, and the goblet was found in Benjamin's bag. ¹³And they tore their clothes, and each loaded his luggage on his donkey, and they returned to the city. ¹⁴And Judah and his brothers returned to Joseph's house, and he was still there, and they fell down to the ground before him. ¹⁵And Joseph said to them, “What is this deed you have done? Were you not aware that a man like me keenly divines?” ¹⁶And Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak and how can we justify ourselves? God has found the iniquity of your servants. Here we are as servants to my lord, both we and he in whose hand the goblet was found.” ¹⁷Then he said, “Far be it from me to do that. The man in whose hand the goblet was found – he will be my servant, but you go up in peace to your father.” ¹⁸Then Judah approached him and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears. Do not become angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh. ¹⁹My lord asked his servants and said, ‘Have you got a father or brother?’ ²⁰And we said to our lord, ‘We have an elderly father, and a small child of his old age, but his brother is dead, and he alone remains to his mother, and his father loves him.’ ²¹And you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, and let me set my eye on him.’ ²²And we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father will die.’ ²³But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’ ²⁴So it was that we went up to your servant our father and told him the words of my lord. ²⁵And our father said, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’ ²⁶And we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down, because we cannot see the man's face if our youngest brother is not with us.’ ²⁷And your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore two sons to me. ²⁸And one went out from me, and I said, «He must have been torn apart», and I have not seen him up to now. ²⁹And you have taken this one too from my presence, and if any misfortune should befall him, you would bring my old age down to the grave in a bad way.’ ³⁰So now, if I go to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, while one's life is bound up with the other's life, ³¹it would happen that when he saw that the lad was not there, he would die, and your servants would bring the old age of your servant our father down to the grave in grief, ³²for your servant became security for the lad with my father and said, ‘If I do not bring him to you, I will be in sin to my father all my days.’ ³³So now, please let your servant stay instead of the lad, as a servant to my lord, and may the lad go up with his brothers. ³⁴For how can I go up to my father if the lad is not with me? Otherwise, I would see the harm that would come upon my father.”

¹Then Joseph could not restrain himself regarding all those standing around him, and he called out, “Have everyone go out from my presence.” Then no-one was standing with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. ²Then he raised his voice with weeping, and the Egyptians heard it, and Pharaoh's household heard it. ³And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?” And his brothers could not answer him, for they were alarmed at his presence. ⁴Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” And they came close. Then he said, “I am Joseph your brother whom you sold to Egypt. ⁵So now, do not be grieved, and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, for God sent me here ahead of you as a means of preserving life. ⁶For it has been two years of famine in the land, and there are still five years to go in which there is no ploughing or harvest. ⁷And God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant in the land and to preserve you alive with great deliverance. ⁸So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God, and he appointed me to be a father to Pharaoh, and a master over all his house, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt. ⁹Make haste and go up to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: «God has appointed me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not stay around. ¹⁰And you will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you and your sons and your grandsons, and your sheep and your cattle and everything that is yours. ¹¹And I will sustain you there, for there are still five years of famine, so that you don't become destitute – you and your household and everyone belonging to you.» ’ ¹²And look, your eyes see, as do my brother Benjamin's eyes, that it is my mouth that is speaking to you. ¹³And tell my father about all my glory in Egypt, and everything you have seen, and make haste to bring my father down here.” ¹⁴And he fell around the neck of Benjamin his brother and wept, and Benjamin wept around his neck. ¹⁵And he kissed all his brothers, and he wept against them, and after that his brothers spoke with him. ¹⁶And the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, where they said, “Joseph's brothers have come.” And it was a good thing in Pharaoh's eyes and in the eyes of his servants. ¹⁷And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers to do this: ‘Load your beasts of burden and do a round trip to the land of Canaan, ¹⁸and take your father, and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the goodness of the land of Egypt, and eat the fat of the land.’ ¹⁹And you are commanded to do this: get yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt, for your little ones, and your wives, and bring your father, and come here. ²⁰And don't let your eye grieve over your goods, for the goodness of all the land of Egypt is yours.” ²¹So the sons of Israel did this, and Joseph gave them wagons according to Pharaoh's bidding, and he gave them provisions for the journey. ²²He gave all of them individually changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing. ²³And this is what he sent to his father: ten donkeys carrying some of the goodness of Egypt, ten she-asses carrying corn and bread and food for his father for the journey. ²⁴So he sent his brothers off, and they departed, and he said to them, “Do not be perturbed on the way.” ²⁵And they went up from Egypt, and they came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father. ²⁶And they told him about it and said, “Joseph is still alive”, and that he was ruler over all the land of Egypt. At this his heart became frigid, for he did not believe them. ²⁷And they told him all Joseph's words which he had spoken to them, and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. ²⁸And Israel said, “It is great that my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

¹So Israel travelled with all his belongings, and he arrived at Beersheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. ²And God spoke to Israel in nightly visions, and he said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.” ³And he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid of going down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. ⁴I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will bring you up again without fail. And Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.” ⁵Then Jacob arose from Beersheba, and Israel's sons lifted Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives into the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to transport him. ⁶And they took their cattle and their property which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they came to Egypt – Jacob and all his seed with him. ⁷He brought with him his sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his seed, to Egypt. ⁸And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt – of Jacob and his sons. Jacob's firstborn was Reuben. ⁹Reuben's sons were Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi. ¹⁰And Simeon's sons were Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul the son of the Canaanite woman. ¹¹And Levi's sons were Gershon, Kohath and Merari. ¹²And Judah's sons were Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³And Issachar's sons were Tola and Puvvah and Job and Shimron. ¹⁴And Zebulun's sons were Sered and Elon and Jahleel. ¹⁵Those were Leah's sons whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, with Dinah his daughter. The total headcount of his sons and daughters was thirty-three. ¹⁶And Gad's sons were Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli. ¹⁷And Asher's sons were Jimnah and Jishvah and Jishvi and Beriah, and Serah was their sister. And Beriah's sons were Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸Those were the sons of Zilpah whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. And she bore these to Jacob – sixteen people. ¹⁹The son's of Rachel, Jacob's wife, were Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰And progeny were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt, where Asenath the daughter of Poti-Phera the priest of On bore Manasseh and Ephraim to him. ²¹And Benjamin's sons were Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. ²²Those were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob. The total headcount was fourteen. ²³And Dan's sons were Hushim and his line. ²⁴And Naphtali's sons were Jahzeel and Guni, and Jezer and Shillem. ²⁵Those were the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore those to Jacob. The total headcount was seven. ²⁶The total headcount of Jacob's family which came to Egypt – who issued from his thighs – excluding the wives of Jacob's sons – the total headcount – was sixty-six. ²⁷And Joseph's sons who were born to him in Egypt were two people. The total headcount of the house of Jacob that came to Egypt was seventy. ²⁸And he sent Judah on ahead of him to Joseph, so as to direct him to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. ²⁹Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father at Goshen, and he presented himself to him and fell around his neck, and he wept while still around his neck. ³⁰And Israel said to Joseph, “I could die now, after seeing your face, for you are still alive.” ³¹Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say to him, ‘My brothers and the house of my father who were in the land of Canaan have come to me. ³²And the men are shepherds, for they are cattle-farmers, and they have brought their sheep and their cattle and everything of theirs with them.’ ³³And it will come to pass when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What are your occupations?’ ³⁴– that you will say, ‘Your servants have been cattle-farmers from our youth up to now, both we and our fathers’, so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

¹So Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, “My father and my brothers and their flocks and the oxen and all their belongings have arrived from the land of Canaan, and here they are in the land of Goshen.” ²And he took five men from his collection of brothers, and he presented them to Pharaoh. ³And Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What are your occupations?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.” ⁴And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to stay temporarily in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan, so now, please, let your servants stay in the land of Goshen.” ⁵Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph and said, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. ⁶The land of Egypt is before you. Install your father and your brothers in the best part of the land and let them stay in the land of Goshen, and if you know of any suitable men among them, appoint them as officials over the cattle that is mine.” ⁷Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” ⁹And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my course of life are one hundred and thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and bad, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in comparison with the days of their course of life.” ¹⁰Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from Pharaoh's presence. ¹¹And Joseph installed his father and his brothers, and he gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. ¹²So Joseph sustained his father and his brothers and the whole household of his father, with bread, taking account of the number of little ones. ¹³And there was no bread in the whole of the land, for the famine was very severe, and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan became weary because of the famine. ¹⁴And Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain which they bought, and Joseph brought the money to Pharaoh's house. ¹⁵Then the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan came to an end, and all of Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence, when money has run out?” ¹⁶And Joseph said, “Give me your cattle, and I will give you bread in exchange for your cattle, if the money has run out.” ¹⁷So they brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for horses and for small cattle and for bovine cattle and for donkeys, and he sustained them with bread in exchange for all their cattle in that year. ¹⁸Then that year came to an end, and they came to him in the second year and said to him, “We will not hide the fact from our lord that our money has run out, as have our stocks of cattle which have gone to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our body and our land. ¹⁹Why should we die in your sight, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for bread so that we and our land become subservient to Pharaoh, and give us seed so that we live and do not die and the land does not become desolate.” ²⁰Then Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each man in Egypt sold his field, for the famine was severe over them, and the land became Pharaoh's. ²¹And as for the people, he moved them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other end, ²²except that he did not buy the priests' land, for the priests had a statute from Pharaoh, and they ate by virtue of their statute which Pharaoh had given them, which is why they did not sell their land. ²³Then Joseph said to the people, “Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you, so sow the land. ²⁴And it will be the case that you will give one fifth of the produce to Pharaoh, whilst four fifths will be for yourselves, as seed for the field, and for your food, and for those in your houses, and for your little ones to eat.” ²⁵And they said, “You have kept us alive. May we find grace in the eyes of our lord, and we will be servants to Pharaoh.” ²⁶So Joseph made it a statute up to this day over the land of Egypt: a fifth part is for Pharaoh, except that the priests' land alone was not Pharaoh's. ²⁷And Israel remained in the land of Egypt in the land of Goshen, and they had their interest in it, and they were fruitful, and they increased greatly. ²⁸And Jacob lived for seventeen years in the land of Egypt, and the days of Jacob – the years of his life – were one hundred and forty-seven years. ²⁹And when Israel's days were approaching when he would die, he called for his son, for Joseph, and he said to him, “If now I have found grace in your sight, put your hand now under my thigh and do with me what is kind and true: please do not bury me in Egypt. ³⁰And I will lie with my fathers, so bring me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb.” And he said, “I will act according to your words.” ³¹And he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him, and Israel bowed on the head of his bed.

¹And it came to pass after these things that they said to Joseph, “Look, your father is ill.” And he took his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim. ²And they told Jacob and said, “Look, your son Joseph has come to you.” And Israel perked up and sat up on his bed. ³Then Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me in Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, ⁴and he said to me, ‘I am about to make you fruitful, and I will increase you and make you a convocation of people, and I will give this land to your seed after you as an age-abiding possession.’ ⁵And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt, before I came to you in Egypt – Ephraim and Manasseh – are mine. They will be mine like Reuben and Simeon. ⁶And your offspring that you beget after them will be yours. They will be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. ⁷And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died when with me in the land of Canaan on the journey when there was just a little way to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.” ⁸Then when Israel saw Joseph's sons, he said, “Who are these?” ⁹And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Please bring them to me and I will bless them.” ¹⁰Now Israel's eyes had become dim with old age, and he could not see, so he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. ¹¹And Israel said to Joseph, “I didn't think I would see your face, but look, God has shown me your seed too.” ¹²Then Joseph took them off his knees and Jacob bowed with his face to the ground. ¹³Joseph then took the two of them, Ephraim on his right, to the left of Israel, and Manasseh on his left, to the right of Israel, and he brought them near him. ¹⁴And Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on Ephraim's head, he being the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, acting discerningly with his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. ¹⁵And he blessed Joseph and said,

“God, before whom my fathers walked,

Abraham and Isaac,

The God who has been a shepherd to me

From since ever I was

Up to this day

¹⁶– The angel who redeems me from all evil –

May he bless the lads,

And may my name and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac

Be what they are called after,

And may they teem for abundance

In the heart of the land.”

¹⁷And Joseph saw that he had put his right hand on Ephraim's head, and it was wrong in his sight, and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. ¹⁸And Joseph said to his father, “Not like that, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.” ¹⁹But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He too will become a people, and he too will become great, and yet his younger brother will become greater than him, and his seed will become the fulness of the nations.” ²⁰And he blessed them on that day, and he said, “Through you, Israel will give blessing and say, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’ ” And he put Ephraim before Manasseh. ²¹And Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am dying, but God will be with you, and he will bring you back to the land of your fathers. ²²And I have given you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

¹Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather round and I will tell you what will happen to you in the last days.

²Assemble and listen,

You sons of Jacob,

And listen to Israel your father.

³Reuben, you are my firstborn,

My strength and the beginning of my vigour

– A profusion of high-standing

And a profusion of power.

⁴As unrestrained as water,

Do not overflow,

For you went up to your father's bed,

Then you defiled it.

He went up to my couch.

⁵Simeon and Levi are brothers

– Vessels of violence by their swords.

⁶Let my being not enter into their counsel.

Let my honour not be united with their convocation,

For in their anger they killed a man,

And for their pleasure they hamstrung an ox.

⁷Cursed be their anger,

For it was fierce,

And their wrath,

For it was harsh.

I will divide them in Jacob

And scatter them in Israel.

⁸Judah, as for you,

Your brothers will praise you.

Your hand will be on your enemies' neck,

And the sons of your father will bow down to you.

⁹Judah is a lion's cub.

From the prey, my son, you went up.

He crouched,

He lay like a lion,

And like a great lion

– Who dares to arouse him?

¹⁰The sceptre will not depart from Judah,

Nor the statute maker from between his legs,

Until Shiloh comes,

And obedience of the nations

Will be to him.

¹¹Binding his ass-colt to the vine,

And his young of a she-ass to the choice vine,

He washed his clothes in wine

And his garment in the juice of grapes.

¹²The red of his eyes will be from wine,

And the white of his teeth will be from milk.

¹³Zebulun will dwell at the coast of the sea,

And he will be a coast-line for ships.

And his border will be up to Sidon.

¹⁴Issachar is a well-built ass

Lying between two folds.

¹⁵And he saw that the resting place was good,

And that the land was pleasant.

So he set his shoulder to bear the burden

And became a tribute-paying servant.

¹⁶Dan will judge his people,

As one of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁷Dan will become a serpent on the way

– An adder on the road –

That bites the heels of a horse,

So the rider falls off backwards.

¹⁸O Lord,

I have put my hope in your salvation.

¹⁹As for Gad,

A troop will press on him,

But he will press on the heel.

²⁰From Asher comes his rich bread,

And he will supply royal delicacies.

²¹Naphtali is a hind let loose,

Who bears words of beauty.

²²Joseph is a fruitful bough,

A fruitful bough at a water-source,

With branches where each shoots over a wall.

²³The archers provoked him

And shot at him

And hated him.

²⁴But his bow remained in place firmly,

And the strength of his hands was with agility,

From the hands of the mighty one of Jacob,

From where the shepherd comes

– The stone of Israel.

²⁵This is from the God of your father,

Who will help you,

And with the Almighty,

Who will bless you with heavenly blessings above,

Blessings from the deep which lies below

– Blessings of the breasts and womb.

²⁶The blessings of your father

Have been mightier than the blessings of my parents,

Extending to the limits of the age-old hills.

They will be for Joseph's head

And for the crown of the head of the Nazarite

Among his brothers.

²⁷Benjamin is a wolf

Which will tear quarry apart.

In the morning he will eat prey

And in the evening he will divide spoil.”

²⁸All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them. And he blessed them. He blessed them individually, each according to his blessing. ²⁹And he instructed them, and he said to them, “I am being gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰in the cave which is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as an acquisition for a burial ground. ³¹That is where they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. That is where they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And that is where I buried Leah. ³²It is the field, and the cave which is in it, which were acquired from the sons of Heth.” ³³Then Jacob finished instructing his sons, and he drew back his feet into the bed, and he expired and was gathered to his people.

Reference(s) in Chapter 49: v.9 ↔ Revelation 5:5.

¹And Joseph fell on his father's face and wept for him and kissed him. ²Then Joseph instructed his servants the doctors to embalm his father. So the doctors embalmed Israel. ³And his forty days were fulfilled, for so the days of embalming are fulfilled, and the Egyptians wept for him for seventy days. ⁴Then when the days of his being wept for had passed, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh and said, “If I have now found grace in your eyes, please have a word in Pharaoh's ear and say, ⁵‘My father adjured me and said, «Look, I am dying. Bury me over there in my tomb which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.» So now let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’ ” ⁶Then Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he adjured you.” ⁷So Joseph went up to bury his father, and all Pharaoh's servants went up with him – the elders of his household – and all the elders of the land of Egypt, ⁸as did all the household of Joseph, and his brothers, and the household of his father. They only left their little ones and their small cattle and their bovine cattle behind in the land of Goshen. ⁹And both chariots and horsemen went up with him, and the company was very large. ¹⁰And they came to the threshing floor in Atad, which is across the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very grave mourning, and he held lamentation for his father for seven days. ¹¹And the inhabitants of the land – the Canaanites – saw the lamentation at the threshing floor of Atad, and they said, “This is a great lamentation for Egypt.” That is why they called it Abel-Mizraim, which is across the Jordan. ¹²So his sons did for him as he had instructed them. ¹³And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham had bought with the field as an acquisition for a burial place, from Ephron the Hittite, opposite Mamre. ¹⁴Then Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers, and all those who had gone up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. ¹⁵Then when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph hates us, and fully requites us for all the evil which we did to him?” ¹⁶And they sent messengers to Joseph with a commission to say, “Your father gave a command before his death and said, ¹⁷‘Say this to Joseph: «Please forgive now the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong.» ’ So now, do forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. ¹⁸And his brothers also went and fell down before him and said, “Here we are as your servants.” ¹⁹Then Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? ²⁰While you were devising evil against me, God devised that it should be for good, so as to make it a means of preserving a great people alive, as it is this day. ²¹So now, do not be afraid. I will sustain you and your little ones.” Then he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. ²²Then Joseph dwelt in Egypt – he and his father's household – and Joseph lived for one hundred and ten years. ²³And Joseph saw the sons of the third generation of Ephraim. Also, the sons of Machir, Manasseh's son, were born at Joseph's knees. ²⁴And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will assuredly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which he swore about to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.” ²⁵And Joseph charged the sons of Israel solemnly and said, “God will assuredly visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.” ²⁶Then Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

¹Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt. Each man and his household came with Jacob: ²Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, ³Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin, ⁴Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵And the number of all the people who came out of Jacob's thighs was seventy people, while Joseph was in Egypt. ⁶And Joseph died, as did all his brothers and all that generation, ⁷but the sons of Israel were fruitful, and they abounded and increased and became strong in number to a very great extent, and the land was filled with them. ⁸And a new king arose over Egypt, who had not known Joseph, ⁹and he said to his people, “Look, the people of the sons of Israel is more numerous and stronger than we are. ¹⁰Come on, let us act wisely with them so that they don't increase, for it might be that a war befalls us, and they might for their part be a reinforcement to those that hate us, and that fight us and go up from the land.” ¹¹And they appointed tribute-masters over them in order to afflict them with their burdens, and they built cities of storehouses for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses. ¹²But the more they afflicted them, the more they increased and the more they expanded, and they felt revulsion at the sons of Israel. ¹³Then the Egyptians made the sons of Israel serve with rigour, ¹⁴and they made their lives bitter with hard work, work with mortar and bricks and all kinds of outdoor work. All their work which they imposed on them was with rigour. ¹⁵Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, the name of one of whom was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah, ¹⁶and he said, “When you deliver the Hebrew women, you will see the sex by the presence or absence of the testicles. If it is a son, you will kill him, but if it is a daughter, she will live.” ¹⁷But the midwives feared God, and they did not do what the king of Egypt said to them, and they let the children live. ¹⁸Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing and let the children live?” ¹⁹And the midwives said to Pharaoh, “It is because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are lively, and before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth.” ²⁰And God treated the midwives well, and the people increased and became very strong. ²¹Then it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he built up the people into family house lines. ²²Then Pharaoh commanded all his people and said, “As for every son born, cast him into the river, but let every daughter live.”

¹Now a man from the house of Levi went out and took Levi's daughter as a wife, ²and the woman conceived and bore a son, and she saw that he was fair, and she hid him for three months. ³But when she could no longer keep him hidden, she took a reed ark for him and impregnated it with bitumen and pitch, and she put the child in it, and she put it in the bulrushes by the bank of the river, ⁴while his sister stood at a distance to see what would be done to him. ⁵Then Pharaoh's daughter came down to wash at the riverside, and her maidservants went to the riverside, and she saw the ark in among the bulrushes, and she sent a maidservant of hers to get it. ⁶And she opened it and saw the child, and what she saw was a boy crying, and she had compassion on him, and she said, “This is one of the Hebrews' children.” ⁷Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, “Shall I go and call for a nurse for you from the Hebrew women to suckle the child for you?” ⁸And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Yes, go.” So the maiden went and called for the child's mother. ⁹And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this child away and suckle him for me, and I will give you your recompense.” So the woman took the child and suckled him. ¹⁰And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he was a son to her, and she called him Moses and said, “For I drew him out of the water.” ¹¹And it came to pass in those days that Moses grew up and went out to his brothers, and he saw their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man – one of his brothers. ¹²Then he looked to one side and to the other side, and when he saw that there was no man there, he struck the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. ¹³Then he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men quarrelling, and he said to the one in the wrong, “Why are you striking your colleague?” ¹⁴To which he said, “Who appointed you a commander and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” At this Moses was afraid, and he said to himself, “Obviously, the incident has become well-known.” ¹⁵When Pharaoh heard about this incident, he wanted to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh's presence, and he dwelt in the land of Midian, and he dwelt by the well. ¹⁶Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to give their father's flocks drink. ¹⁷Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses arose and saved them, and he gave their flocks drink. ¹⁸And they went to Reuel their father, and he said, “How come you have come so quickly today?” ¹⁹And they said, “An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also went so far as to draw water for us, and he gave our flocks water.” ²⁰Then he said to his daughters, “So where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite the man to eat bread.” ²¹And Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses as a wife. ²²And she bore him a son, and he called him Gershom, for he said, “I was a foreigner in a foreign land.” ²³And it came to pass in that long period that the king of Egypt died, but the sons of Israel sighed with the workload, and they cried out, and their outcry went up to God because of the workload. ²⁴And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. ²⁵And God looked to the interests of the sons of Israel, and God acknowledged the situation.

Reference(s) in Chapter 2: v.14 ↔ Acts 7:27, Acts 7:28, Acts 7:35 ● v.22 ↔ Hebrews 11:13.

¹Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, when he drove the flock to the hinder part of the desert and came to the mountain of God, Horeb, ²and the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a fiery flame from the middle of the bush. And he looked, and what he saw was a bush burning in the fire, but the bush was not being consumed. ³And Moses said, “I will just turn aside and look at this great spectacle, so as to see why the bush isn't burnt up.” ⁴And the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, and God called out to him from within the bush and said, “Moses, Moses.” And he said, “Here I am.” ⁵Then he said, “Do not come near here. Take your shoes off your feet, for the place which you are standing on is holy ground.” ⁶And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid of looking at God. ⁷And the Lord said, “I have clearly seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and heard their cry on account of their taskmasters, for I know their pains. ⁸And I have come down to deliver them from Egypt's grip, to bring them up from that land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. ⁹So now, what has happened is that the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. ¹⁰So now, go, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” ¹¹Then Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” ¹²And he said, “Be assured that I will be with you, and this will be a sign to you, that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain.” ¹³Then Moses said to God, “Look, when I go to the sons of Israel and I say to them, ‘The God of your fathers sent me to you’, they will say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I say to them?” ¹⁴And God said to Moses, “I am what I am”, and he said, “This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ” ¹⁵Then God spoke again to Moses: “This is what you will say to the sons of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob has sent me to you.’ This is my name age-abidingly, and this is my memorial from generation to generation. ¹⁶Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord God of your fathers appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and he said, «I will certainly visit you and that which has been done to you in Egypt. ¹⁷And I have said, ‹I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.› » ’ ¹⁸And they will comply with you, and both you and the elders of Israel will go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has met up with us, so now, kindly let us go three days' journey into the desert so we can sacrifice to the Lord our God.’ ¹⁹And I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, and not so with a strong hand. ²⁰But I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go. ²¹And I will give this people grace in the eyes of Egypt, and it will be the case that when you go, you will not go empty-handed. ²²And a woman will ask from her neighbour, and from her that is staying in her house, for items of silver and items of gold, and clothes, and you will put them on your sons and on your daughters, and you will despoil Egypt.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 3: v.5 ↔ Acts 7:33 ● v.6 ↔ Matthew 22:32, Mark 12:26, Luke 20:37, Acts 7:32 ● v.7 ↔ Acts 7:34 ● v.8 ↔ Acts 7:34 ● v.10 ↔ Acts 7:34 ● v.12 ↔ Acts 7:7 ● v.14 ↔ Luke 22:70, John 4:26, John 6:20, John 18:5, Revelation 1:4, Revelation 1:8.

¹Then Moses answered and said, “But what if they do not believe me, and they do not comply with me? For they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’ ” ²Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A rod.” ³He then said, “Throw it onto the ground.” So he threw it onto the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from its presence. ⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and seize it by its tail.” So he stretched out his hand and seized it, and it became a rod in his palm. ⁵“Do this so that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers – the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob – has appeared to you.” ⁶And the Lord said furthermore to him, “Just put your hand in your bosom.” So he put his hand in his bosom, and he took it out, and what he saw was that his hand was leprous like snow. ⁷And he said, “Put your hand back in your bosom.” So he put his hand back in his bosom, and he took it out of his bosom, and what he saw was that it was restored like his flesh. ⁸“And it will come to pass, if they do not believe you, and they do not heed the first sign, then they will believe the last sign. ⁹And it will come to pass that if they don't even believe these two signs, and they do not comply with you, that you will take some water from the river and pour it on dry land, and the water which you took from the river will become blood on the dry land.” ¹⁰Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord^*, I am not eloquent, nor was I yesterday or the day before, nor have I been since you spoke to your servant, for I am inarticulate and tongue-tied.” ¹¹But the Lord said to him, “Who put a mouth in man? Or who makes a man mute or deaf or sighted or blind? Do not I, the Lord? ¹²So now, go, and I will be with your mouth, and I will instruct you as to what you will say.” ¹³Then he said, “Please, Lord^*, send, would you, someone suitable for you to send.” ¹⁴At this the Lord's anger was kindled against Moses, and he said, “Is not Aaron your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak fluently, and moreover here he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. ¹⁵And you will speak to him, and you will put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will instruct you as to what you are to do. ¹⁶And he will speak to the people for you, and he will be a mouth for you, and you will be to him as if you are God. ¹⁷Now take this rod in your hand, with which you will perform the signs.” ¹⁸Then Moses departed and returned to Jether his father-in-law, and he said to him, “Let me go, would you, and I will return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Then Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” ¹⁹Then the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go and return to Egypt, for all the men who tried to kill you have died.” ²⁰Then Moses took his wife and his sons, and he mounted them on a donkey and returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand. ²¹And the Lord said to Moses, “As you go to return to Egypt, have in view all the miracles which I have put in your power and perform them before Pharaoh, and I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go. ²²And you will say to Pharaoh, ‘This is what the Lord says: «Israel is my son, my firstborn. ²³And I say to you, ‹Let my son go so that he can serve me.› And if you refuse to let him go, be aware that I will kill your son, your firstborn.» ’ ” ²⁴And it came to pass, on the journey, at the inn, that the Lord met him and purposed to kill him. ²⁵But Zipporah took a sharp stone and excised her son's foreskin and flung it at his feet, and she said, “What a bridegroom of blood you are to me!” ²⁶Then the Lord left off from him. Then she said, “A bridegroom of blood in matters of circumcision.” ²⁷Then the Lord said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the desert.” So he went, and he met him at the mount of God, and he kissed him. ²⁸And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, who had sent him, and all the signs with which he had commissioned him. ²⁹So Moses went, as did Aaron, and they gathered all the elders of the sons of Israel together. ³⁰And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and he performed the signs in the sight of the people. ³¹And the people believed, and they heard that the Lord had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, and they bowed down and worshipped.

¹And afterwards Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Let my people go so that they may celebrate a festival to me in the desert.’ ” ²To this Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should take notice of him in letting Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go either.” ³Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has come into contact with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the desert for us to sacrifice to the Lord our God, so that he does not assail us with pestilence or with the sword.” ⁴Whereupon the king of Egypt said to them, “Why should Moses and Aaron disrupt the people from their works? Go back to your tasks.” ⁵And Pharaoh said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you have made them stop their tasks.” ⁶And on that day Pharaoh gave orders to the taskmasters over the people, and his foremen, and he said, ⁷“You will no longer give the people straw for making the bricks as previously. They must go and gather straw for themselves. ⁸But you will impose on them the same quantity of bricks which they were making previously. Do not reduce it, for they are lazy, which is why they are shouting out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ ⁹Let the workload on the men be heavy, and let them work on it, and do not let them pay attention to vain words.” ¹⁰Then the taskmasters of the people went out, as did their foremen, and they spoke to the people and said, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am not giving you straw. ¹¹You must go and get straw for yourselves from wherever you can find it, yet none of your work is to be reduced at all.’ ” ¹²Then the people dispersed all over the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. ¹³And the taskmasters pressed them and said, “Complete your work – the daily routine – as when there was straw.” ¹⁴And the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had appointed over them, were beaten, while they said, “Why have you not completed your assignment to make bricks today in the same way as previously?” ¹⁵Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh and said, “Why are you dealing this way with your servants? ¹⁶Straw is not given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks’, and look, your servants are beaten, but it is your people's fault.” ¹⁷And he said, “You are lazy, lazy, which is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ ¹⁸So now, go and work, but straw will not be given to you, but you will deliver the required quantity of bricks.” ¹⁹And the foremen of the sons of Israel saw that they were in a bad light when they said, “You will not reduce the quantity of your bricks in the daily routine.” ²⁰Then they confronted Moses and Aaron, who were standing where they would meet them as they departed from Pharaoh, ²¹and they said to them, “May the Lord look into you and judge you, in that you have made us odious in Pharaoh's sight, and his servants' sight, with him putting a sword in their hand to kill us.” ²²Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “O Lord^*, why have you brought harm on this people? Why have you sent me like this? ²³For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought harm on this people, and you haven't by any means delivered your people.”

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “You will now see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” ²And God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord, ³and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, and my name is the Lord, but I was not known to them in that character. ⁴And I will also set up my covenant with them, by giving them the land of Canaan – the land of their domicile where they were resident. ⁵And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians are forcing to work, and I have remembered my covenant. ⁶Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their works, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. ⁷And I will take you to myself as a people, and I will be God to you, and you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from being under the burdens of Egypt. ⁸And I will bring you to the land where I raised my hand swearing to give it to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession, as I am the Lord.’ ” ⁹So Moses spoke like that to the sons of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses on account of their impatience and the harsh work. ¹⁰Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹¹“Go and speak to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and say that he is to let the sons of Israel go from his land.” ¹²Then Moses spoke in the presence of the Lord and said, “Look, the sons of Israel have not listened to me, so how will Pharaoh listen to me, and I have an impediment in my speech.” ¹³Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he gave them instructions regarding the sons of Israel and Pharaoh the king of Egypt, so as to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁴These are the heads of the households of their fathers. The sons of Reuben Israel's firstborn were Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. Those were the families of Reuben. ¹⁵And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul the son of the Canaanite woman. Those were the families of Simeon. ¹⁶And these are the names of the sons of Levi, by their genealogy: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven years. ¹⁷The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei according to their families. ¹⁸And the sons of Kohath were Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel. And the years of Kohath's life were one hundred and thirty-three years. ¹⁹And the sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. Those were the families of the Levites by their genealogies. ²⁰And Amram took Jochebed his aunt as his wife, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of Amram's life were one hundred and thirty-seven years. ²¹And the sons of Izhar were Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. ²²And the sons of Uzziel were Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. ²³And Aaron took Elisheba the daughter of Amminadab, Nahshon's sister as his wife, and she bore him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ²⁴And the sons of Korah were Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. Those were the families of the Korhites. ²⁵And Eleazar the son of Aaron took one of Putiel's daughters as his wife, and she bore him Phinehas. Those were the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families. ²⁶They are the Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.” ²⁷They are the ones who told Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt. They are Moses and Aaron. ²⁸And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, ²⁹that the Lord spoke to Moses and said, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh the king of Egypt everything that I say to you.” ³⁰Then Moses said before the Lord, “Look, I have an impediment in my speech, so how will Pharaoh listen to me?”

¹And the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I have appointed you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ²You will speak everything that I command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will let the sons of Israel go from his land. ³And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will increase my signs and miracles in the land of Egypt, ⁴but Pharaoh will not hearken to you, and I will place my hand on Egypt, and I will bring my companies out – my people the sons of Israel – from the land of Egypt, with great judgments. ⁵And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand over Egypt, and I bring the sons of Israel out from their midst.” ⁶And Moses and Aaron did this. What the Lord commanded them, they did. ⁷Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh. ⁸And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron and said, ⁹“When Pharaoh speaks to you and says, ‘Produce a miracle for yourselves’, you will say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and throw it in front of Pharaoh’, and it will become a serpent.” ¹⁰So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and did so – as the Lord had commanded – and Aaron threw his rod in front of Pharaoh and in front of his servants, and it became a serpent. ¹¹Then Pharaoh for his part called for the wise men and the sorcerers, and they did this too – the magicians of Egypt with their enchantments – likewise. ¹²And they each threw their rod, and they became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. ¹³And Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said. ¹⁴And the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is unimpressionable – he refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵Go to Pharaoh in the morning and you will see that he is going out to the water, and you will stand where you will meet him on the bank of the river, and take in your hand the rod which changed into a serpent. ¹⁶And you will say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews sent me to you to say, «Let my people go so they can serve me in the desert», but look, you have not complied up to now. ¹⁷This is what the Lord says: «Here is how you will know that I am the Lord. I am about to strike the water which is in the river with the rod which is in my hand so that it turns to blood, ¹⁸and the fish that are in the river will die, and the river will stink, and Egypt will be at a loss to drink water from the river.» ’ ” ¹⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your rod and stretch out your hand over the water of Egypt, over their rivers, over their channels, and over their pools and over every accumulation of their water, and they will become blood, and there will be blood in all the land of Egypt, and in vessels of wood and in channels of stone.’ ” ²⁰And Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord had commanded, and he raised his rod and struck the water which was in the river, in Pharaoh's sight, and his servants' sight, and all the water which was in the river turned to blood. ²¹And the fish which were in the river died, and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river, and there was blood in all the land of Egypt. ²²But the magicians of Egypt did likewise with their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord had said. ²³Pharaoh then turned and went back to his house, and he did not pay attention to this either. ²⁴And all Egypt dug around the river for water to drink, because they could not drink from the river-water. ²⁵And seven days passed after the Lord struck the river. ²⁶Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: «Let my people go so that they can serve me. ²⁷And if you refuse to let them go, look, I will strike all your territory with frogs. ²⁸And the river will teem with frogs, and they will come up and come into your house and into your bedroom and into your bed and into the house of your servants and to your people and into your ovens and into your kneading-basins. ²⁹And the frogs will come up to you and to your people and to all your servants.» ’ ”

Reference(s) in Chapter 7: v.20 ↔ Revelation 16:3.

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the channels and over the pools and bring up frogs over the land of Egypt.’ ” ²So Aaron stretched out his hand over the water of Egypt and the frogs came up and they covered the land of Egypt. ³And the magicians did likewise with their secret arts, and they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt. ⁴Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, “Entreat the Lord to remove the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, and they can sacrifice to the Lord.” ⁵Moses then said to Pharaoh, “Specify to me when I should entreat for you and for your servants and for your people, to eliminate the frogs from you and from your houses. Only in the river will they remain.” ⁶And he said, “Tomorrow.” And he said, “It will be according to your word so that you will know that there is no-one like the Lord our God. ⁷And the frogs will depart from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people. Only in the river will they remain.” ⁸Then Moses and Aaron departed from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to the Lord about the matter of the frogs which he had imposed on Pharaoh. ⁹And the Lord acted according to Moses' words, and the frogs died off in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. ¹⁰And they piled them up in heaps and heaps, and the land stank. ¹¹But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not hearken to them, as the Lord had said. ¹²And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become lice over all the land of Egypt.’ ” ¹³So they did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the ground, and it became lice, on man and on the cattle. All the dust of the earth became lice over all the land of Egypt. ¹⁴Then the magicians acted likewise with their secret arts, to produce lice, but they could not. And the lice were on man and on the cattle. ¹⁵Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “It is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord had said. ¹⁶And the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh – you will see that he is going out to the water – and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: «Let my people go so they can serve me. ¹⁷For if you don't let my people go, I am ready to send the gadfly on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses, and the houses of Egypt will be full with the gadfly, and also the ground they are on. ¹⁸But on that day I will set the land of Goshen apart, on which my people stand, so that there will be no gadfly there, so that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the land. ¹⁹And I will put a sign of redemption between my people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.» ’ ” ²⁰And the Lord did so, and a heavy swarm of gadflies came on Pharaoh's house and on his servants' house and all over the land of Egypt. The land was ravaged because of the gadfly. ²¹Then Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, “Go. Sacrifice to your God in the land.” ²²But Moses said, “It is not right to do it like that, for we will sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians to the Lord our God. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians in their sight, will they not stone us? ²³We will go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God according to what he says to us.” ²⁴Then Pharaoh said, “I will let you go so you can sacrifice to the Lord your God in the desert, but do not go all that far away. And entreat on my behalf.” ²⁵Then Moses said, “Behold, I am about to depart from you, and I will entreat the Lord and the gadfly will depart from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people tomorrow, but don't let Pharaoh be deceptive any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.” ²⁶Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, and he entreated the Lord. ²⁷And the Lord acted according to Moses' word, and the gadfly departed from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people. Not one remained. ²⁸But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time too, and he did not let the people go.

¹And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews says: «Let my people go so that they may serve me. ²For if you refuse to let them go, and you still hold on to them, ³you will see the hand of the Lord on your cattle which is in the field – on the horses and on the donkeys, on the camels and on the oxen and on the sheep – a very severe pestilence. ⁴And the Lord will distinguish between Israel's cattle and Egypt's cattle, and nothing at all of what belongs to the sons of Israel will die.» ’ ” ⁵And the Lord fixed a time and said, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” ⁶And the Lord did this thing on the next day, and all the cattle of Egypt died, but of the sons of Israel's cattle, not one animal died. ⁷And Pharaoh sent out observers, who saw that not as much as one animal of Israel's cattle had died. But Pharaoh's heart became hardened, and he did not let the people go. ⁸And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take along handfuls of furnace soot and Moses will sprinkle it towards the sky in Pharaoh's sight. ⁹And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become festering boil pustules on man and on the cattle in all the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰So they took the furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it towards the sky, and it became festering boil pustules on man and on the cattle. ¹¹And the magicians could not stand in Moses' presence on account of the boils, because there were boils on the magicians and on all Egypt. ¹²Then the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't hearken to them, as the Lord has said to Moses. ¹³And the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews says: «Let my people go so that they may serve me. ¹⁴For this time I am about to send all my plagues into your heart and on your servants, and on your people, in order that you may know that there is no-one like me in all the world. ¹⁵For now I will put my hand out and strike you and your people with a pestilence, and you will be cut off from the earth. ¹⁶But it is for this purpose that I have put you in place, in order to show you my power, and in order to declare my name in all the earth. ¹⁷Do you still set yourself in opposition to my people in not letting them go? ¹⁸Look, at this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as there has never been in Egypt from the day when it was founded up to now. ¹⁹So now, send servants and bring your cattle to safety, and everything you have in the field. It will hail on every man and animal that is found in the field and is not gathered in, indoors, and they will die.» ’ ” ²⁰He who feared the word of the Lord among Pharaoh's servants made his own servants and his cattle take refuge in the houses, ²¹whereas he who did not heed the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. ²²And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand towards the sky, and there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and on the cattle and on all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt.” ²³So Moses stretched out his rod towards the sky, and the Lord sent noises and hail, and fire came to the ground, and the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴And there was hail, and fire taking hold in the hail. It was very heavy, and there had never been anything like it in all the land of Egypt since when it became a nation. ²⁵And the hail struck all the land of Egypt – everything in the field, both man and cattle – and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field, and it broke every tree of the countryside. ²⁶Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel were, was there no hail. ²⁷And Pharaoh sent servants and called for Moses and for Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are the wicked ones. ²⁸Entreat the Lord that it should be enough of almighty noises and hail, and I will let you go, and you will not stay any longer.” ²⁹Then Moses said to him, “When I go out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The noises will cease and the hail will be no more, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord's. ³⁰But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.” ³¹And the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was showing green ears of corn and the flax was in flower, ³²but the wheat and spelt were not struck, for they were late in growing. ³³Then Moses departed from Pharaoh and the city, and he stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the noises and the hail stopped, and the rain was not poured down onto the earth. ³⁴But when Pharaoh saw that the raining down had stopped, both the hail and the noises, he sinned again, and he hardened his heart – he and his servants. ³⁵So Pharaoh's heart became hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, as the Lord had said, through the intermediacy of Moses.

Reference(s) in Chapter 9: v.9 ↔ Revelation 16:2 ● v.16 ↔ Romans 9:17.

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and his servants' hearts in order that I may show these signs of mine in his full view, ²and in order that you may relate in your son's and your grandson's ear what I have undertaken against Egypt, and my signs which I showed among them, so that you may know that I am the Lord.” ³So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go so that they may serve me. ⁴For if you refuse to let my people go, you will find me bringing locusts into your territory tomorrow. ⁵And they will cover the landscape, and one will not be able to see the land, and they will devour the remainder of the remnant that remains to you from the hail, and they will devour every tree springing up to you in the countryside. ⁶And they will fill your houses and all your servants' houses and the houses of the whole of Egypt, such as your fathers and your grandfathers never saw from the day they came into being on the earth up to this day.’ ” Then he turned and departed from Pharaoh. ⁷Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, “How long will we have this as a snare to us? Let the men go and serve the Lord their God. Do you still not acknowledge that Egypt is being destroyed?” ⁸Then Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go. Serve the Lord your God. But who exactly are those that are to go?” ⁹Then Moses said, “We will go with our young ones and with our old ones, with our sons and with our daughters. With our sheep and with our cattle we will go, for we have a festival to the Lord.” ¹⁰Then he said to them, “Let it be so. The Lord be with you when I let you and your little ones go. Look out, for evil is ahead of you. ¹¹But it will not be quite like that. Just let the men go and serve the Lord, for that is what you are requesting.” Then he drove them out from Pharaoh's presence. ¹²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch your hand out over the land of Egypt for the locusts so that they come up over the land of Egypt and devour all the vegetation of the land – everything that the hail has left.” ¹³So Moses stretched his rod out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord set an east wind in motion in the land, all that day and all night. Then morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts. ¹⁴And the locusts came up over the whole land of Egypt, and they settled on all the territory of Egypt. It was very severe; before it there had never been such a locust plague as this, and after it there never will be such a one. ¹⁵And they covered the landscape of the whole land, and the land became dark, and they devoured all the vegetation of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and no greenery remained on the trees at all, nor on the vegetation of the countryside in all the land of Egypt. ¹⁶Then Pharaoh hastened to call for Moses and for Aaron, and he said, “I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. ¹⁷So now, forgive my sin, just this time, and entreat the Lord your God that he removes just this deadly thing from me.” ¹⁸And he departed from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord. ¹⁹At which the Lord turned it to a very strong westerly wind, and it carried away the locusts and drove them to the Red Sea. Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt. ²⁰Then the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go. ²¹And the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand towards the sky and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt, and they will have to grope in the dark.” ²²So Moses stretched out his hand towards the sky and a thick darkness came over all the land of Egypt for three days. ²³One person could not see another, and no-one could get up from the spot where he was for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwelling places. ²⁴Then Pharaoh called for Moses and said, “Go. Serve the Lord, but let your sheep and oxen be left behind, but your little ones can also go with you.” ²⁵Then Moses said, “You must also hand our animals over to us for sacrifices and burnt offerings for us to perform them to the Lord our God. ²⁶And our cattle must also go with us: not a hoof shall remain, for we must take some from it to serve the Lord our God, and we won't know what to serve the Lord with until we arrive there.” ²⁷Then the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to let them go. ²⁸And Pharaoh said to him, “Go away from me. Watch out: do not see my face any more, for on the day when you see my face, you will die.” ²⁹To this Moses said, “Thus you have spoken. I will not see your face any more.”

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will completely drive you right out from here. ²Now speak in the audience of the people to the intent that every man asks from his neighbour, and every woman from her neighbour, for items of silver and items of gold.” ³And the Lord put an attitude of grace towards the people in Egypt's sight. Moreover Moses was a very great man in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of Pharaoh's servants and in the eyes of the people. ⁴And Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘At about midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt, ⁵and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from Pharaoh's firstborn, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the maidservant, who sits at the millstones, and every firstborn of the cattle. ⁶And there will be a great outcry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been in the past, and such as will not take place again. ⁷But with all the sons of Israel, not a dog will point its tongue at anything whether man or cattle, in order that you may know that the Lord has made a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’ ⁸And all these servants of yours will come down to me and pay homage to me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who are under your authority.’ Then after that I will go out.” Then he departed from Pharaoh in furious anger. ⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not hearken to you, in order that my miracles may be increased in the land of Egypt.” ¹⁰So Moses and Aaron performed all these miracles in Pharaoh's presence, and the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the sons of Israel go from his land.

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt and said, ²“This month is the start of months to you. It is the first of the months of the year to you. ³Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and say that on the tenth day of this month they must each take their lamb – one per house of their fathers – a lamb per house. ⁴And if the house is too small to afford a lamb, then it and its neighbour which is most like that house in headcount will take a lamb, and you will each be attributed to the shared lamb in accordance with those eating from it. ⁵It shall be a perfect one-year-old male of yours. You will take it from the lambs or from the goats. ⁶And it will be an animal kept for you until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole convocation of the congregation of Israel will slaughter it in the evening. ⁷And they will take some of its blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they will eat it. ⁸And they will eat the meat on that night, roasted on a fire, and unleavened bread, and they will eat it with bitter herbs. ⁹Do not eat any of it raw, or boiled in water at all, but rather roasted on a fire, its head with its legs and with its innards. ¹⁰Do not leave any of it remaining until the morning, and whatever of it would remain until morning, burn up in a fire. ¹¹And this is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded and with your shoes on your feet, and with your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it with haste. It is the Lord's Passover. ¹²And I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and cattle, and I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt, as I am the Lord. ¹³And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be any destructive blow on you when I strike in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And this day will be a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout your generations. You will celebrate it as an age-abiding statute. ¹⁵You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. Right on the first day you will remove leaven from your houses, for if anyone eats leavened bread, then that person will be cut off from Israel, this being in force from the first day to the seventh day. ¹⁶On the first day you will hold a holy convocation and on the seventh day you will hold a holy convocation. No work will be done on them, except that food needs to be eaten by everyone; that alone is what can be done by you. ¹⁷And you will keep the days of the unleavened bread, for on this very day I will have brought your companies out of the land of Egypt, and you will keep this day throughout your generations, as an age-abiding statute. ¹⁸In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening. ¹⁹For seven days no leaven will be found in your houses, for if anyone eats anything leavened, then that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, this applying to the foreigner and the native of the land. ²⁰You will eat nothing leavened; in all of the places where you live, you will eat unleavened bread.” ²¹Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, “Select and take a lamb for yourselves according to your families, and slaughter the Passover. ²²And take a bundle of hyssop, and dip it in the blood which is in the drain pan, and apply some of the blood which is in the drain pan to the lintel and to the two doorposts. And not one of you will go out of the door of his house until the morning. ²³And the Lord will pass through so as to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike there. ²⁴And you will observe this injunction as a statute of yours and of your sons, age-abidingly. ²⁵And it will come to pass, when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, as he has said, that you will keep this service. ²⁶And it will come to pass, when your sons say to you, ‘What is this service of yours?’ – ²⁷that you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he struck Egypt but saved our houses.’ ” Then the people bowed and worshipped. ²⁸Then the sons of Israel departed and did this. As the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they carried it out. ²⁹And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from Pharaoh's firstborn, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the captive, who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle. ³⁰And Pharaoh got up at night – he and all his servants and all of Egypt – and there was loud shouting in Egypt, for there was no house where there wasn't someone dead. ³¹Then he called for Moses and for Aaron at night and said, “Get up and go away from my people, both you and the sons of Israel, and go and serve the Lord according to what you said. ³²Take also your sheep and your cattle as you said, and go, and bless me too.” ³³And Egypt was resolved concerning the people to be quick in sending them out of the land, for they said, “Otherwise, we are all dead.” ³⁴And the people carried their dough before it was leavened in their kneading-troughs, on their shoulder, bound up in their clothes. ³⁵And when the sons of Israel acted according to Moses' word, and they asked Egypt for items of silver and items of gold, and clothes, ³⁶the Lord put favour towards the people in Egypt's sight, and they granted their requests, and they plundered Egypt. ³⁷And the sons of Israel moved from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, excluding children. ³⁸But a large number of mixed camp followers also went up with them, as did sheep and cattle – livestock in a very considerable quantity. ³⁹And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it was not leavened, for they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay, and they had not prepared any provisions for themselves either. ⁴⁰Now the time of the stay of the sons of Israel when they stayed in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years, ⁴¹and it came to pass, after four hundred and thirty years, and it was on the very same day, that all the companies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴²It is a night of observance to the Lord when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. This very night of the Lord's is an observance to all the sons of Israel throughout their generations. ⁴³And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover. No foreigner will partake of it. ⁴⁴But as for every servant who was bought for money, and whom you have circumcised, in that case he shall partake of it. ⁴⁵No temporary resident or hired servant shall partake of it. ⁴⁶It will be eaten in one house. You shall not bring any meat out from the house outside, and you shall not break any bone in it. ⁴⁷Every congregation of Israel will celebrate it. ⁴⁸And if a foreigner should stay with you and celebrate the Lord's Passover, every male belonging to him must be circumcised, and then he shall approach to celebrate it, and he will be like a native of the land, but no uncircumcised person shall partake of it. ⁴⁹There will be one law for the native and the foreigner staying with you. ⁵⁰And all the sons of Israel did what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron – so they did.” ⁵¹And it came to pass on this very day that the Lord brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt in their companies.

Reference(s) in Chapter 12: v.46 ↔ John 19:36.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Sanctify to me every firstborn, that opens any womb, among the sons of Israel, among man and among cattle; he is for me.” ³So Moses said to the people, “Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, from a house of slavery, for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from there. And nothing leavened is to be eaten. ⁴Today you are coming out, in the month of Abib. ⁵And it will come to pass that the Lord will bring you to the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land about which he swore to your fathers that he would give it to you – a land flowing with milk and honey – and you will perform this service in this month. ⁶You will eat unleavened bread for seven days, and on the seventh day it is a festival to the Lord. ⁷Unleavened bread will be eaten for seven days, and nothing leavened will be seen in your possession, and no leaven will be seen in your possession in all your territory. ⁸And you will explain it to your son on that day and say, ‘It is for this reason: the Lord did this for me when I came out of Egypt.’ ⁹And it will be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, so that the Lord's law may be in your mouth, for the Lord brought you out of Egypt with a strong hand. ¹⁰So you will keep this statute in its due time on these days when they occur. ¹¹And it will come to pass that the Lord will bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and he will give it to you. ¹²And you will set everyone who opens the womb aside for the Lord, and every first offspring from cattle which you will have. The males are the Lord's. ¹³You will redeem every first offspring from a donkey with a lamb. If you do not redeem it, you will break its neck. And you will redeem every human firstborn among your sons. ¹⁴And it will come to pass when your son asks you in the future and says, ‘What is this?’ that you will say to him, ‘With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of a house of slavery. ¹⁵And it came to pass that he hardened Pharaoh about letting us go, and the Lord killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of cattle, which is why I sacrifice to the Lord everything that opens the womb – the males – but I redeem every firstborn of my sons.’ ¹⁶And it will be as a sign on your hand, and as phylacteries between your eyes, for the Lord brought us out of Egypt by the strength of his hand.” ¹⁷And it came to pass, when Pharaoh let the people go, that God did not lead them through the way of the Philistines (for that was nearby), but God said, “No, in case the people have regrets when they see war, and they return to Egypt.” ¹⁸So God led the people round through the way in the desert – the Red Sea – and the sons of Israel went up from the land of Egypt armed. ¹⁹And Moses took Joseph's bones with him, for he had made a point of adjuring the sons of Israel, when he said, “God will definitely visit you, and you will bring my bones with you from here.” ²⁰Then they moved from Succoth and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the desert. ²¹And the Lord would go in front of them, by day in a column of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a column of fire to give them light, for going by day and by night. ²²He did not withdraw the column of cloud by day, nor the column of fire by night, in front of the people.

Reference(s) in Chapter 13: v.2 ↔ Luke 2:23.

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Say to the sons of Israel that they must turn and encamp before Pi-Hahiroth between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-Zephon. You will encamp opposite it by the sea. ³And Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are confused in the land; the desert has cut them off.’ ⁴And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, and I will be glorified through Pharaoh and through all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so. ⁵And it was reported to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, and Pharaoh's heart and that of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, “What is this that we have done? For we have let Israel go from serving us.” ⁶So he harnessed his chariot and took his people with him, ⁷and he took six hundred choice chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, with crews of three on each of them. ⁸And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the sons of Israel, while the sons of Israel were going out by a high hand. ⁹And the Egyptians pursued them, and they caught up with them when they were encamping by the sea. Every horse and chariot of Pharaoh and its riders and his army was in Pi-Hahiroth before Baal-Zephon. ¹⁰And Pharaoh approached, and the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and what they saw was the Egyptians coming after them, and they were very afraid, and the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord. ¹¹And they said to Moses, “Is it for want of graves in Egypt that you have taken us to die in the desert? What is this you have done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? ¹²Isn't this the concern which we told you in Egypt, when we said, ‘Leave us alone and let us serve Egypt, for it is better for us to serve Egypt than that we die in the desert.’ ” ¹³At this Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand up and observe the Lord's salvation, which he will effect for you today, for as for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again. ¹⁴And the Lord will fight for you, and you will keep quiet.” ¹⁵And the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Say to the sons of Israel that they should move on. ¹⁶And you lift up your rod, and stretch your hand out over the sea, and divide it, so that the sons of Israel can go through the middle of the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷And as for me, I am about to harden the Egyptians' hearts, and they will come after them, and I will be glorified by means of Pharaoh and all his army, his chariot fleet and his horsemen. ¹⁸And Egypt will know that I am the Lord when I am glorified by means of Pharaoh, his chariot fleet and his horsemen.” ¹⁹Then the angel of God, who goes ahead of Israel's camp, moved and went behind them, and the column of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them, ²⁰and it went between Egypt's camp and Israel's camp, and it became cloud and darkness, but it lit up the night. And one did not approach the other all night. ²¹Then Moses stretched his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to recede with a strong east wind all night, and he made the sea dry land. And the water was divided, ²²and the sons of Israel went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, and the water was a wall to them on their right and on their left. ²³Meanwhile the Egyptians pursued them and came after them – every horse of Pharaoh's, his chariot fleet and his horsemen – into the middle of the sea. ²⁴And it came to pass in the morning watch that the Lord peered at the Egyptian troops through the column of fire and cloud, and he routed the Egyptian troops. ²⁵And he caused their chariot-wheels to come off, so that they drove them with difficulty, and Egypt said, “I will flee from Israel's presence, for the Lord is fighting for them in Egypt.” ²⁶Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch your hand out over the sea, and the water will return over Egypt, over its chariot fleet and over its horsemen.” ²⁷So Moses stretched his hand out over the sea, and the sea returned at the break of morning to its normal state, while the Egyptians were fleeing towards it, and the Lord tossed the Egyptians about in the middle of the sea. ²⁸Then the water returned and covered the chariot fleet and the horsemen in all Pharaoh's forces which came after them in the sea. Not a single one of them remained. ²⁹But the sons of Israel went on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the water was a wall to them on their right and on their left. ³⁰So the Lord saved Israel from Egypt's grip on that day, and Israel saw Egypt dead on the sea-shore. ³¹And Israel saw the great power which the Lord exerted in Egypt, and the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in Moses his servant.

¹Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and they spoke and said,

“I will sing to the Lord,

For he is highly exalted.

He has thrown horse and its rider into the sea.

²The Lord is my strength and my melody,

And he became salvation to me.

This is my God,

And I will prepare a dwelling for him

– The God of my father –

And I will extol him.

³The Lord is a man of war;

The Lord is his name.

⁴He cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea,

And the elite of his crews of three

Sank in the Red Sea.

⁵The depths covered them;

They descended into the depths like a stone.

⁶Your right hand, O Lord,

Has become glorious by power.

Your right hand, O Lord,

Has crushed the enemy.

⁷And in the wealth of your splendour

You demolished those rising up against you.

You sent your fury

Which consumed them like stubble.

⁸And by the breath of your nostrils

The water heaped up,

The liquid stood like a mound;

The depths solidified in the heart of the sea.

⁹The enemy said, ‘I will pursue;

I will catch up with them.

I will share out the spoil;

My fervour will be satisfied on them.

I will draw my sword;

My hand will disinherit them.’

¹⁰You blew with your wind;

The sea covered them.

They sank like lead

In mighty waters.

¹¹Who is like you

Among the gods, O Lord?

Who is like you?

Glorious in holiness,

Fearfully praiseworthy,

Performing wondrously.

¹²You stretched out your right hand;

The earth swallowed them up.

¹³In your kindness you have led the people

Whom you redeemed.

You have guided them by your strength

To your holy dwelling place.

¹⁴The nations will hear about it

And will be awestruck.

Writhing has seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

¹⁵Then the chieftains of Edom will be terrified;

As for the mighty ones of Moab,

Trembling will seize them.

All the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away.

¹⁶Dread and fear will descend on them;

By the magnificence of your arm

They will be dumbfounded like a stone,

Until your people cross over, O Lord,

Until the people you have purchased cross over.

¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them

At the mountain of your inheritance,

A place established for you to dwell in,

Which you, O Lord, have made,

A sanctuary, O Lord^*,

Which your hands have established.

¹⁹For Pharaoh's cavalry with his chariot fleet and his riders went into the sea, but the Lord caused the water of the sea to return over them, whereas the sons of Israel went on dry land in the middle of the sea.” ²⁰Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a drum in her hand, and all the women went out following her with drums and dancing. ²¹And Miriam intoned to them,

“Sing to the Lord

For he is most exalted.

He cast horse and its rider

Into the sea.”

²²Then Moses moved Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Desert of Shur, and they went for three days in the desert, but they did not find water. ²³And they came to Marah, but they could not drink the water of Marah, for it was bitter, which is why it is called Marah. ²⁴The people then complained about Moses, and they said, “What will we drink?” ²⁵And he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord pointed out a piece of wood to him, which he threw into the water, and the water became freshwater. He established for them a statute and a law there, and he tested them there, ²⁶and he said, “If you carefully obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and hearken to his commandments and keep all his statutes, then I will not lay on you any of the diseases which I laid on Egypt, for I am the Lord your healer.” ²⁷Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy date palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.

Reference(s) in Chapter 15: v.18 ↔ Revelation 11:15.

¹Then they moved from Elim, and the whole congregation of the sons of Israel came to the Desert of Sin which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month, after they had come out of the land of Egypt. ²And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel complained about Moses and Aaron in the desert. ³And the sons of Israel said to them, “If only we could die at the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat at the meat pot, when we ate bread to our fill, for you have brought us out into this desert to kill the whole of this convocation by starvation.” ⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “You will see how I rain down bread for you from heaven, and the people will go out and collect a day's worth per day so that I may test them as to whether they walk in my law or not. ⁵And it will come to pass on the sixth day that they will prepare what they bring back, and it will be double what they collect on an ordinary day.” ⁶Then Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “When evening comes, you will know that the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt. ⁷And in the morning you will see the Lord's glory, because he has heard your complaining about the Lord. But as for us, what are we that you should complain about us?” ⁸And Moses said, “You will see this when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning to your fill, because the Lord has heard your complaints which you bring against him, but what are we? Your complaints are not against us, but against the Lord.” ⁹Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your complaints.’ ” ¹⁰Then it came to pass, when Aaron was speaking to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, that they turned their gaze to the desert, and they saw that the glory of the Lord had appeared in the cloud. ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹²“I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel. Speak to them and say, ‘In the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have your fill of bread, and you will know that I am the Lord your God.’ ” ¹³And it came to pass in the evening that quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. ¹⁴Then the layer of dew evaporated and revealed a flaky dust on the surface of the desert, dust like a hoarfrost on the ground. ¹⁵And when the sons of Israel saw it, they said one to another, “It is manna”, for they did not know what it was. Then Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is what the Lord commands: ‘Collect it – each one according his nutritional requirement – an omer per head for the number of people you are. Everyone is to take what is needed for those in his tent.’ ” ¹⁷So the sons of Israel did this and collected it – some a lot and some a little. ¹⁸And they measured it in omers, and he who had gathered a lot had no surplus, and he who had gathered a little had no lack. Each man gathered according to his nutritional requirement. ¹⁹Then Moses said to them, “Let no-one keep any of it over until the morning.” ²⁰But they did not heed Moses, and some men kept some of it over until the morning, and it harboured worms, and it stank, and Moses became angry with them. ²¹So they collected it every morning, each man according to his nutritional requirement, then the sun would become hot, and it would melt. ²²And it came to pass on the sixth day that they collected double the amount of bread – two omers for one. And all the leading people of the congregation came and told Moses. ²³And he said to them, “This is what the Lord has spoken: ‘Tomorrow is a high Sabbath – a holy Sabbath to the Lord.’ Bake what you want to bake; cook what you want to cook, and store up until morning everything that is left over as a stock.” ²⁴So they stored it until the morning, as Moses instructed them, and it did not become foul-smelling, nor were there worms in it. ²⁵And Moses said, “Eat it today, for it is the Lord's Sabbath. Today you will not find it in the countryside. ²⁶You will collect it for six days, but on the seventh day – the Sabbath – there will not be any there.” ²⁷And it came to pass on the seventh day that some people went out to collect it, but they did not find any. ²⁸Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? ²⁹See that the Lord has given you the Sabbath, which is why he is giving you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let everyone stay in his place; let no-one go from his place on the seventh day.” ³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day. ³¹And the house of Israel called it manna, and it is like coriander seed, being white, and its taste is like cake kneaded with honey. ³²Then Moses said, “This is what the Lord commanded: ‘Fill an omer of it, as a stock for your future generations so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the desert, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” ³³And Moses said to Aaron, “Take an urn and put a full omer of manna in it, and place it before the Lord as a preserved item for your future generations.” ³⁴As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony as a preserved item. ³⁵And the sons of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they came to inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. ³⁶An omer is a tenth of an ephah.

Reference(s) in Chapter 16: v.18 ↔ 2 Corinthians 8:15.

¹Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel moved from the Desert of Sin in their moves at the instruction of the Lord, and they encamped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. ²And the people argued with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink”, whereupon Moses said to them, “Why are you arguing with me? Why are you testing the Lord?” ³So the people thirsted for water there, and the people complained to Moses and said, “Why is it that you have brought us up out of Egypt to kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?” ⁴And Moses cried out to the Lord and said, “What should I do with this people? A little longer and they will be stoning me.” ⁵And the Lord said to Moses, “Go across in front of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you, and take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river. So go. ⁶You will see that I am standing before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. ⁷And he called the place Massah and Meribah, on account of the arguing of the sons of Israel and on account of their testing the Lord, when they said, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?” ⁸Then Amalek came and fought against Israel in Rephidim. ⁹And Moses said to Joshua, “Select men for us and go out to fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will be standing on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.” ¹⁰And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight against Amalek, while Moses and Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. ¹¹And it was the case that when Moses lifted up his hand, Israel prevailed, but when he let his hand drop, Amalek prevailed. ¹²And Moses' hands became heavy, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, and Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other side, so his hands were steady until the sun set. ¹³So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people by the blade of the sword. ¹⁴And the Lord said to Moses, “Write this down as a memorial in a book, and recite it in Joshua's ears, for I will thoroughly wipe out the memory of Amalek under heaven.” ¹⁵Then Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. ¹⁶And he said, “Because there is a hand on the throne of the Lord, the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”

¹When Jethro the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard everything that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people – that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt – ²Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, then took Zipporah Moses' wife back, after her being sent back, ³and her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom, because he had said, “I was a foreigner in a foreign land”, ⁴and the name of the other was Eliezer, because he had said, “The God of my father is present as my help, and he delivered me from Pharaoh's sword.” ⁵Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the desert where he was encamped at the mountain of God, ⁶and he said to Moses, “I, Jethro your father-in-law, have come to you, as have your wife and her two sons with her.” ⁷And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed and kissed him, and each asked how the other was, and they went to the tent. ⁸And Moses told his father-in-law everything the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for the sake of Israel, and all the hardship which they had met with on the way and how the Lord had delivered them. ⁹And Jethro rejoiced at all the good which the Lord had done to Israel in delivering them from Egypt's grip. ¹⁰And Jethro said, “Blessed is the Lord, who delivered you from Egypt's grip and from Pharaoh's grip – who delivered the people from being in the grip of Egypt. ¹¹Now I know that the Lord is greater than any of the gods, for it is apparent in the matter where they acted insolently against them.” ¹²And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came, as did all the elders of Israel, to eat bread before God with Moses' father-in-law. ¹³And it came to pass on the next day that Moses sat down to judge the people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the evening. ¹⁴And Moses' father-in-law saw everything that he was doing with the people, and he said, “What is this business that you are doing with the people? Why are you sitting on your own while all the people are standing opposite you from morning to evening?” ¹⁵And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people have come to me to consult God. ¹⁶If they have an issue, they come to me and I judge between a man and his neighbour, and I make God's statutes and his laws known.” ¹⁷Then Moses' father-in-law said to him, “The thing you are doing isn't right. ¹⁸You will utterly exhaust yourself, both you and this people which is with you, for the procedure is too burdensome for you; you cannot do it on your own. ¹⁹So now listen to me. I will advise you, and may God be with you. Be in the service of the people yourself opposite God, and bring the cases to God, ²⁰and instruct them in the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way which they should go, and the things which they should do. ²¹But select from all the people men of valour, who fear God, men of truth who hate dishonest gain, and appoint over the people men in charge of a thousand, men in charge of a hundred, men in charge of fifty and men in charge of ten. ²²And they will judge the people all the time, and it will be the case that they will bring every major issue to you, but these men will judge every minor matter, and it will relieve you, and they will bear the burden with you. ²³If you do this thing, and God so instructs you, you will be able to cope, and also all this people will be able to go to their place in peace.” ²⁴And Moses concurred with his father-in-law, and he did everything he said. ²⁵So Moses selected men of valour from the whole of Israel and appointed them as heads over the people: men in charge of a thousand, men in charge of a hundred, men in charge of fifty and men in charge of ten. ²⁶And they judged the people all the time, but they brought any difficult matter to Moses, whereas they judged every minor matter themselves. ²⁷Then Moses let his father-in-law go, and he went his way to his land.

¹In the third month after the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Sinai Desert. ²And they travelled from Rephidim and came to the Sinai Desert, and they encamped in the desert. And Israel encamped there opposite the mountain. ³Then Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you will say to the house of Jacob and what you will tell the sons of Israel: ⁴‘You have seen what I did to Egypt, when I lifted you up on the wings of eagles and brought you to me. ⁵So now, if you will rigorously obey me and keep my covenant, you will be a special acquisition of mine above all the nations, for the whole earth is mine. ⁶And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation.’ Those are the things which you will speak to the sons of Israel.” ⁷Then Moses came back and called the elders of the people, and he set before them all these things which the Lord had commanded him. ⁸Then all the people answered together and said, “We will do everything that the Lord has said.” Moses then reported the words of the people to the Lord. ⁹And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to come to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you, and that they may believe you age-abidingly.” Moses then told the words of the people to the Lord. ¹⁰And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and they must wash their clothes. ¹¹And be prepared for the third day, for on the third day, the Lord will descend in the sight of all the people to Mount Sinai. ¹²And restrict the people round about and say, ‘Be careful not to go up into the mountain or to touch its edge. Everyone who touches the mountain will certainly be put to death. ¹³Let no hand touch it, otherwise he will certainly be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the horn is sounded then they will go up into the mountain.” ¹⁴Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people, and he sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵And he said to the people, “Be prepared; do not approach your wife for three days.” ¹⁶And it came to pass on the third day while it was morning that there were sounds and lightning flashes and a dense cloud at the mountain, and a very loud sound of a ramshorn, and all the people who were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷Then Moses brought the people out from the camp to meet God, and they stood at the bottom of the mountain. ¹⁸And Mount Sinai was smoke all over, because the Lord had descended onto it with fire, and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. ¹⁹And when the sound of the ramshorn resounded very loudly, Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice. ²⁰And the Lord descended onto Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. ²¹And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and testify to the people not to break through to the Lord to see him, whereby many of them would fall down dead. ²²And let the priests who also approach the Lord sanctify themselves, in case the Lord breaks out against them.” ²³Then Moses said to the Lord, “The people will not be able to come up to Mount Sinai, for you testified to us and said, ‘Delimit the mountain and sanctify it.’ ” ²⁴And the Lord said to him, “Go, go down and come up, you and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, in case he breaks out against them.” ²⁵So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.

Reference(s) in Chapter 19: v.6 ↔ Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, Revelation 20:6 ● v.13 ↔ Hebrews 12:20.

¹Then God spoke all these things and said, ²“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of slavery. ³You shall not have any other gods besides me. ⁴You shall not make yourself any engraved image or any image of what is in heaven above or of what is on the earth below, or of what is in the water below the surface of the earth. ⁵You shall not worship them, and you shall not serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, and on those of the third generation, and on those of the fourth generation, of those who hate me, ⁶and showing kindness to thousands, to those who love me and to those who keep my commandments. ⁷You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him who takes his name in vain innocent. ⁸Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it. ⁹For six days you shall work and carry out all your business, ¹⁰but the seventh day is the Lord your God's Sabbath. You shall not do any work on it – neither you nor your son nor your daughter, neither your manservant nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your foreigner who is within your gates. ¹¹For in six days the Lord made heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them, and on the seventh day he rested, which is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it. ¹²Honour your father and your mother, in order that your days may be long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹³You shall not commit murder. ¹⁴You shall not commit adultery. ¹⁵You shall not steal. ¹⁶You shall not give a false testimony against your neighbour. ¹⁷You shall not covet your neighbour's house; you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything which is your neighbour's.” ¹⁸And all the people experienced the thunderings and the flames with the sound of the ramshorn and the mountain smoking, and when the people saw it, they were perturbed, and they stood at a distance. ¹⁹And they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will listen, but don't let God speak with us, so that we don't die.” ²⁰Then Moses said to the people, “Don't be afraid, for God has come in order to test you, and so that fear of him should be prominent in your minds, so that you do not sin.” ²¹So the people stood at a distance, but Moses approached the thick cloud where God was. ²²And the Lord said to Moses, “This is what you will say to the sons of Israel: ‘You have seen that I spoke with you from heaven. ²³You shall not make gods of silver competing with me, nor shall you make yourselves gods of gold. ²⁴You shall make me an altar of earth, and you shall sacrifice your burnt offerings on it, and your peace-offerings, and your sheep, and your oxen. Everywhere where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you. ²⁵And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it with hewn stones, for if you apply your cutting blade to it, you defile it. ²⁶And you shall not go up to my altar by steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed at it.’

Reference(s) in Chapter 20: v.7 ↔ Matthew 5:33 ● v.12 ↔ Matthew 15:4, Matthew 19:19, Mark 7:10, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Ephesians 6:2, Ephesians 6:3 ● v.13 ↔ Matthew 5:21, Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9, James 2:11 ● v.14 ↔ Matthew 5:27, Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9, James 2:11 ● v.15 ↔ Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9 ● v.16 ↔ Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, Romans 13:9^RP‑marg,TR ● v.17 ↔ Romans 7:7, Romans 13:9.

¹And these are the principles of justice which you will set out before them. ²If you acquire a Hebrew servant, he will serve for six years, then in the seventh year, he will go out free, without any claim on him. ³If he comes on his own, he will go out on his own; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife will go out with him. ⁴If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master's, and he will go out on his own. ⁵If the servant positively says, ‘I love my master, my wife and my sons; I will not go out free’, ⁶then his master will bring him to the representatives of God, then he will bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will bore through his ear with an awl, and he will serve him indefinitely. ⁷And if a man sells his daughter as a maidservant, she will not go out as menservants go out. ⁸If she is bad in the sight of her master who appointed her to himself, then he will have her redeemed. He shall not have authority to sell her to a foreign nation in his deceitful dealing with her. ⁹And if he appoints her for his son, he will deal with her according to the custom for daughters. ¹⁰If he takes another woman to wife, he shall not diminish her food and clothing and marital rights. ¹¹If he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out without claim on her, without financial consequences. ¹²He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death. ¹³But if he did not deliberately kill him, but God caused him to cross paths with him, then I will appoint you a place to which he can flee. ¹⁴But when a man is incensed against his neighbour to the point of deliberately killing him, you will take him from my altar to be put to death. ¹⁵And he who strikes his father or his mother will certainly be put to death. ¹⁶And he who abducts a man and sells him, or if the man is found in his power, he will certainly be put to death. ¹⁷And he who curses his father or his mother will certainly be put to death. ¹⁸And if men argue, and a man strikes his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but becomes bed-ridden, ¹⁹then if he recovers and can walk about outside with his stick, then he who struck him will be acquitted, except that he will compensate him for his time recovering, and he will see to a complete recovery. ²⁰And if a man strikes his manservant or his maidservant with a stick, and he or she dies when under his charge, he will certainly be avenged. ²¹But if after a day or two he can stand, he will not be avenged, because he is his source of income. ²²And if men quarrel and strike a pregnant woman and her unborn baby miscarries, but there is no further injury, he will certainly be punished according to what the husband of the woman imposes on him, and he will pay in the presence of the judges. ²³If there is further injury, you will impose life for life, ²⁴an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, ²⁵a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, scarring for scarring. ²⁶If a man strikes his manservant's eye or his maidservant's eye and ruins it, he shall let him go free as compensation for his eye. ²⁷If he knocks out a tooth of his manservant's or a tooth of his maidservant's, he will let him go free as compensation for his tooth. ²⁸And if an ox butts a man or a woman and he or she dies, the ox will certainly be stoned and its flesh will not be eaten, and the owner of the ox will be innocent. ²⁹But if the ox had been prone to butting for some time, and it had been solemnly stated to its owner, but he did not keep it securely, and the ox killed a man or a woman, it shall be stoned, and also its owner shall be put to death. ³⁰If bail is imposed on him, then he must make the bail payment for his life according to everything that was imposed on him. ³¹Whether it butts a son or butts a daughter, the matter will be dealt with for him according to this law. ³²If the ox butts a manservant or a maidservant, the owner shall give thirty shekels of silver to the servant's master and the ox will be stoned. ³³And if a man opens up a pit or a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or donkey falls into it, ³⁴the owner of the pit shall pay money in compensation to its owner, and the dead animal will be his. ³⁵And if a man's ox butts a neighbour's ox, and it dies, they shall sell the ox that is alive, and they will divide the proceeds of it, and they will also share the dead animal. ³⁶But if it was known that the ox had been prone to butting for some time, and its owner had not kept it securely, he shall certainly pay an ox for an ox, and the dead ox will be his. ³⁷If a man steals an ox or sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

Reference(s) in Chapter 21: v.17 ↔ Matthew 15:4, Mark 7:10 ● v.24 ↔ Matthew 5:38.

¹If a burglar is caught breaking in and is struck down and dies, the striker has no guilt of bloodshed. ²If the striker does it in broad daylight, he is guilty of bloodshed. Otherwise, the burglar must certainly repay, and if he does not have the means, he will be sold for his burglary. ³If the stolen goods are plainly found in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, alive, he shall repay double. ⁴If a man consumes the produce of a field or vineyard, or sends his cattle in, and it feeds in the fields of another person, on the best part of his field or on the best part of his vineyard, he shall pay compensation. ⁵If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorns, and a stack of corn or the standing corn or the field is consumed, he who lit the fire will certainly pay compensation for the fire-damage. ⁶If a man gives his neighbour money or goods to keep for him, and they are stolen from the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall repay double. ⁷If the thief cannot be found, the owner of the house will approach the representatives of God to see whether he laid his hand on his neighbour's property or not. ⁸For every criminal matter, for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for an item of clothing, for any lost item which someone claims to be his, the dispute between the two of them will come to the representatives of God. The one the representatives of God condemn will pay double to his neighbour. ⁹If a man gives his neighbour a donkey or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle to keep for him, and it dies or is wounded, or it is rustled with no-one seeing it, ¹⁰an oath to the Lord will be made between the two of them, that he did not lay his hand on his neighbour's property, and its owner will accept it, and the other will not have to pay. ¹¹But if it was evidently stolen from him, he will compensate its owner. ¹²If it has been badly mauled, let him bring the mauled animal as evidence, and he will not have to pay. ¹³And if a man borrows anything from his neighbour, and it becomes wounded or dies, when the owner of it is not present, he will certainly pay compensation. ¹⁴If the owner of it is present, he shall not pay; if he is a hired labourer, it is a matter of his hire arrangements. ¹⁵If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he will certainly purchase her as his wife with a dowry. ¹⁶If her father resolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh out silver according to the dowry of virgins. ¹⁷You shall not let a sorceress live. ¹⁸Everyone who lies with cattle will certainly be put to death. ¹⁹He who sacrifices to any gods except the Lord alone will be solemnly executed. ²⁰You shall not maltreat a foreigner or oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. ²¹You shall not ill-treat any widow or orphan. ²²If you nevertheless ill-treat him, considering how he would doubtlessly cry out to me, I will certainly hear his crying out, ²³and my anger will be kindled, and I will kill you by the sword, and your wives will become widows, and your sons orphans. ²⁴If you lend money to my people – to the poor in your society – you shall not be as it were a lender at interest to him; you shall not impose interest on him. ²⁵If you take your neighbour's clothing in a pledge at all, you shall return it to him by sunset. ²⁶For it is his only covering. It is his clothing for his skin. Otherwise, with what can he lie down? And it will be the case that if he cries out to me, I will hear him, for I am gracious. ²⁷You shall not despise the representatives of God, nor curse a leader among your people. ²⁸You shall not be late in offering your full produce or your extracted liquids. You shall give me the firstborn of your sons. ²⁹This is what you shall do with your ox and your sheep: it shall be seven days with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me. ³⁰And you will be holy men to me, and you shall not eat flesh mauled in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.27 ↔ Acts 23:5.

¹You shall not raise a false report. Do not join the wicked in being a false witness. ²You shall not be a follower of the powerful in wicked deeds, and you shall not testify in a dispute by leaning towards the powerful, so perverting the course of justice. ³Neither shall you favour the needy in his dispute. ⁴If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey which is straying, you shall return it to him without fail. ⁵If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its burden, and you would decline to help it, you shall certainly help it. ⁶You shall not pervert the course of justice for the poor man among you in his dispute. ⁷Avoid false statements, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not pronounce the wicked righteous. ⁸And you shall not accept a bribe, for the bribe blinds the sighted and subverts the words of the righteous. ⁹And you shall not oppress the foreigner, for you know the feelings of the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. ¹⁰Now for six years you shall sow your land and gather its produce, ¹¹but in the seventh year you shall leave it uncultivated and leave it fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat, and the wild animals can eat what they leave. So shall you also do with your vineyard and your olive grove. ¹²For six days you can do your business, but on the seventh day you shall rest, in order that your ox and your donkey should rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner should be refreshed. ¹³And you shall take heed of everything that I have said to you, and you shall not make mention of the name of other gods – it shall not be heard from your mouth. ¹⁴Three times per year you shall hold a festival to me. ¹⁵You shall keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, at the set time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt, and none shall see my face empty-handed; ¹⁶and the Festival of the Harvest, the firstfruits of your labours, that which you sow in the field; and the Festival of the Ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. ¹⁷Three times per year all your male population shall appear in the presence of the Lord, the Lord. ¹⁸You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, and the fat of my festival shall not remain until the morning. ¹⁹You shall bring the prime firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a goat-kid in its mother's milk. ²⁰Behold, I am sending an angel out before you to keep you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. ²¹Be circumspect with him and obey him. Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is central to him. ²²But if you diligently obey him and do everything that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will be an adversary to your adversaries. ²³For my angel will go in front of you and bring you to the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and I will annihilate them. ²⁴You shall not worship their gods, and you shall not serve them, and you shall not do what they do, but you will utterly demolish them and thoroughly shatter their idolatrous statues. ²⁵Rather, you will serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove any sickness from your community. ²⁶You will not miscarry or be infertile in your land; I will fill the number of your days. ²⁷I will send dread of myself ahead of you, and I will rout all of any nation which you come to, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. ²⁸And I will send wasps in front of you, and they will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite and the Hittite before you. ²⁹I will not drive them out before you in one year, so that the land does not become a desolation, and wild animals increase against you. ³⁰Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you increase in number and inherit the land. ³¹And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines and from the desert up to the river, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. ³²You shall not make a covenant with them or with their gods. ³³They will not dwell in your land, so that they do not make you sin against me, for if you were to serve their gods, it would be a snare to you.”

¹Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance. ²And Moses alone shall approach the Lord, but they shall not approach. And the people shall not go up with him.” ³Moses then came and told the people all the Lord's words and all the injunctions, and all the people answered unanimously and said, “We will do all the things which the Lord has said.” ⁴And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars to the twelve tribes of Israel. ⁵And he sent youths of the sons of Israel to offer burnt offerings and to offer peace-sacrifices of bulls to the Lord. ⁶Then Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and he sprinkled half of the blood on the altar. ⁷And he took the book of the covenant, and he read it in the audience of the people. And they said, “We will do and obey everything the Lord has said.” ⁸Then Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you concerning all these things.” ⁹Then Moses went up, as did Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. ¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel, and under his feet was a kind of artefact of clear sapphire, and like the sky itself in purity. ¹¹And he did not lay his hand on the noble men of the sons of Israel, and they beheld God, and they ate and drank. ¹²Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up the mountain to me and be there, and I will give you the slabs of stone and the law and the commandments which I have written so as to instruct them.” ¹³And Moses arose, as did his servant Joshua, and Moses went up the mountain of God. ¹⁴But he said to the elders, “Wait for us here until we return to you, and look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Let whoever has an issue approach them.” ¹⁵Then Moses went up the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. ¹⁶And the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days, then he called to Moses on the seventh day from within the cloud. ¹⁷And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as a consuming fire on the summit of the mountain, in the sight of the sons of Israel. ¹⁸And Moses went inside the cloud, and he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Reference(s) in Chapter 24: v.8 ↔ Hebrews 9:20.

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Tell the sons of Israel to bring me a heave-offering. You shall take my heave-offering from every man whose heart wills it. ³And this is the heave-offering which you shall take from them: gold and silver and copper, ⁴and blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine linen and goat's hair, ⁵and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins and acacia wood, ⁶and lamp-oil, fragrances for anointing oil and for aromatic incense, ⁷onyx gemstones, and stones for setting in the ephod and the breastplate. ⁸And they shall make me a sanctuary so that I may dwell in their midst, ⁹according to everything that I am about to show you – the model of the tabernacle and the model of all its equipment – and that is how you shall make it. ¹⁰And make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits in length and one and a half cubits in width and one and a half cubits in height. ¹¹And you will overlay it with pure gold; you will overlay it inside and outside, and you will make a golden edge on it all around. ¹²And you will cast four golden rings for it, and you will put them on its four corner-posts, with two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. ¹³And you shall make poles from acacia wood and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴And you will pass the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark by means of them. ¹⁵The poles will be through the rings of the ark; they shall not be removed from it. ¹⁶And you will put the testimony which I will give you in the ark. ¹⁷And you will make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits in length and one and a half cubits in width. ¹⁸And you will make two cherubim of gold; you will make them as beaten work at the two ends of the atonement cover. ¹⁹And make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. Make the cherubim from the atonement cover at its two ends. ²⁰And the cherubim will be with wings spread upwards, covering the atonement cover with their wings, and they will face each other. The faces of the cherubim will be directed towards the atonement cover. ²¹And you will put the atonement cover on the ark from above, and you will put the testimony which I will give you in the ark. ²²And I will be known to you there, and I will speak with you from above the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, and I will tell you everything that I command you for the sons of Israel. ²³And you shall make a table from acacia wood, two cubits in length and a cubit in width, and one and a half cubits in height, ²⁴and you will overlay it with pure gold, and you will make a golden edge for it to go around it. ²⁵And you will make it a rim a handbreadth wide, all around, and you will make a golden edge for the rim all around. ²⁶And you will make four golden rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners which are at its four legs. ²⁷And the rings will be joined to the rim, as receptacles for the poles by which to carry the table. ²⁸And you will make the poles from acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried by means of them. ²⁹And you will make its dishes and spoons and bowls and vials by which libations are poured. You will make them of pure gold. ³⁰And you will place showbread on the table before me always. ³¹And you will make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand will be made as beaten work – its main stem and its branches. Its cups, its knobs and its flowers will diverge from it. ³²And there will be six branches coming out of its sides – three branches of the lampstand from one of its sides and three lampstand branches from the other side. ³³There will be three almond-shaped cups on one branch, with a knob and a flower, and three almond-shaped cups on another branch, with a knob and a flower. This is how it will be for the six branches coming out of the lampstand. ³⁴And in the main stem of the lampstand there will be four almond-shaped cups with its knobs and its flowers. ³⁵And there will be a knob under the two branches where they diverge from it and a knob under the two branches where they diverge from it and a knob under the two branches where they diverge from it, this being for the six branches which come out of the lampstand. ³⁶Their knobs and their branches will be integral to it. All of it will be work beaten from one piece of pure gold. ³⁷And you will make its seven lamps, and the lamps will be lit, and it will give light straight forwards. ³⁸And its snuffing-tongs and snuff-dishes shall be of pure gold. ³⁹From a talent of gold he shall make it, with all these accessories. ⁴⁰And see that you make them according to the model of them which you were shown on the mountain.

Reference(s) in Chapter 25: v.9 ↔ Acts 7:44, Hebrews 8:5 ● v.40 ↔ Acts 7:44, Hebrews 8:5.

¹And you will make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, with blue and purple and scarlet dye; you will make them with cherubim, as the work of a damask weaver. ²The length of one curtain will be twenty-eight cubits, and the width will be four cubits per curtain. There will be one size for all the curtains. ³There will be five curtains joined one to another, then five curtains joined one to another. ⁴And you will make loops of blue material on the hem of one curtain, at the edge with the adjoining one, and you will do likewise on the hem of the last curtain, at the second join. ⁵You will make fifty loops on one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is at the second join, so that the loops hold each other together. ⁶And you will make fifty clasps of gold, and you will join the curtains to each other by the clasps so that the tabernacle becomes a unity. ⁷And you will make curtains of goat's hair, as a tent over the tabernacle. You will make eleven such curtains. ⁸The length of one curtain will be thirty cubits, and the width will be four cubits per curtain. There will be one size for the eleven curtains. ⁹And you will join five curtains separately, and six curtains separately, and you will fold the sixth curtain double towards the front of the tent. ¹⁰And you will make fifty loops on the hem of one curtain – the last one to the adjoining one – and fifty loops on the hem of the other adjoining curtain. ¹¹And you will make fifty copper clasps, and you will bring the clasps through the loops so that you join the tent up so that it becomes a unity. ¹²And the superfluous part of the curtains of the tent which remains – the half curtain which remains – will be draped over at the back of the tabernacle. ¹³And the cubit on one side and the cubit on the other side of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent will be draped over at the side of the tabernacle on each side to cover it. ¹⁴And you will make the covering for the tent from rams' skins dyed red, with a covering from badgers' skins above it. ¹⁵And you will make the boards for the tabernacle from acacia wood, to be standing vertically. ¹⁶The length of one board will be ten cubits, and the width of one board will be one and a half cubits. ¹⁷Two tenons per board will each be joined to its counterpart. This is how you shall make it for all the boards of the tabernacle. ¹⁸And you will make twenty boards for the tabernacle on the south side, south-facing. ¹⁹And you will make forty silver sockets to go under the twenty boards – two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ²⁰And the second side of the tabernacle – the north side – will have twenty boards. ²¹And you will make forty silver sockets for them, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²²And for the flank of the tabernacle to the west you will make six boards. ²³And you will make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle on its flanks, ²⁴and they will be coupled from below, and they will be perfectly aligned up to the top of it, to a ring. The two of them will be made this way; they will be at the two corners. ²⁵And there will be eight boards and their silver sockets – sixteen sockets – two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²⁶And you will make bolts of acacia wood: five bolts for the boards of one side of the tabernacle, ²⁷and five bolts for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bolts for the boards of the side of the tabernacle on the west flank. ²⁸And the middle bolt inside the boards will pass from end to end. ²⁹You will overlay the boards with gold, and you will make their rings from gold, as receptacles for the bolts, and you will overlay the bolts with gold. ³⁰So you will set up the tabernacle according to its blueprint which you were shown on the mountain. ³¹And you will make a veil of blue, purple and scarlet thread and fine twined linen – the work of a damask weaver. It will be made with cherubim. ³²And you will put it on four acacia wood columns, overlaid with gold, with their golden hooks on four silver sockets. ³³And you will put the veil under the clasps, and you will bring the ark of the testimony there inside the veil, and the veil will be a demarcation for you between the holy place and the holy of holies. ³⁴And you will put the atonement cover on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies. ³⁵And you will put the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and you will put the table on the north side. ³⁶And you will make a screen for the door of the tent from blue and purple and scarlet thread, and fine twined linen, the workmanship of an embroiderer. ³⁷And you will make five columns of acacia wood for the screen, and you will overlay them with gold, and their hooks will be of gold, and you will cast five copper sockets for them.

Reference(s) in Chapter 26: v.30 ↔ Acts 7:44, Hebrews 8:5.

¹And you will make an altar of acacia wood, five cubits in length and five cubits in width. The altar will be square, and its height will be three cubits. ²And you shall make its horns on its four corners. The horns will be integral to it, and you will overlay it with copper. ³And you shall make its pans for removing ashes from it, and its shovels, and its basins, and its forks, and its firepans. You shall make all its equipment from copper. ⁴And you will make it a grate, a meshed artefact of copper, and you shall make four copper rings on the mesh at its four corners. ⁵And you shall put it below the ledge of the altar, underneath, and the mesh will extend up to half the size of the altar. ⁶And you shall make poles for the altar – poles of acacia wood – and you will overlay them with copper. ⁷And its poles will be brought through the rings so that the poles will be at the two sides of the altar for carrying it. ⁸You shall make it hollow with panels. As it was shown to you on the mountain, so they shall make it. ⁹And you will make the courtyard of the tabernacle. On the south side, facing south, the courtyard will have drapes of fine twined linen. It will be one hundred cubits in length for one side. ¹⁰And you will make its twenty columns and their twenty copper sockets, and hooks for the columns and their silver connectors. ¹¹And similarly you shall make for the northern side over its length drapes for a length of one hundred cubits, and its twenty columns, and their twenty copper sockets, and the hooks for the columns, and their silver connectors. ¹²And the width of the courtyard on the western side with drapes will be fifty cubits, with their ten columns and their ten sockets. ¹³And the width of the courtyard on the eastern side will be fifty cubits. ¹⁴And there will be fifteen cubits of drapes on the side with their three columns and their three sockets. ¹⁵And on the other side there will be fifteen cubits of drapes with their three columns and their three sockets. ¹⁶And for the gate of the courtyard there will be a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, and their four columns and their four sockets. ¹⁷All the columns around the courtyard will be connected by silver. Their hooks will be of silver but their sockets will be of copper. ¹⁸The length of the courtyard will be one hundred cubits, and its width will be fifty throughout, and its height will be five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets will be of copper. ¹⁹All the equipment of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the courtyard will be of copper. ²⁰And you will command the sons of Israel, and they will bring you pure beaten olive oil for the lamp, to be offered up as a perpetual light. ²¹In the tent of contact outside the veil which is at the ark of the testimony, Aaron and his sons will attend to it from evening to morning before the Lord. It is an age-abiding statute for their generations with the sons of Israel.

¹Have Aaron your brother join you, and his sons with him, coming from the sons of Israel, for him to serve as a priest to me: Aaron with Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons. ²And you will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for splendour. ³And you will speak to all the skilled men whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, and they will make Aaron's garments, to sanctify him for him to serve as a priest to me. ⁴And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate and an ephod and a robe and a chequered tunic, a turban and a girdle. So they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother and for his sons, for him to serve as a priest to me. ⁵And they will take the gold, and the blue and purple and scarlet thread, and the fine linen, ⁶and they will make the ephod from the gold and blue and purple and scarlet thread and the fine twined linen, the work of a damask weaver. ⁷It will have two shoulder-pieces joined to its two ends, so it will be joined up. ⁸And the embroidered belt of his ephod, which goes over it, will be of similar workmanship to it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet thread and fine twined linen. ⁹And you will take two onyx gemstones, and you will engrave the names of the sons of Israel on them, ¹⁰– six of their names on one gemstone and the six remaining names on the second gemstone according to their lineage. ¹¹You will engrave the two gemstones with the work of a gemstone engraver, with the engravings of a signet, with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in golden bezels. ¹²And you shall put the two gemstones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod as memorial gemstones to the sons of Israel, and Aaron will wear their names in the presence of the Lord on his two shoulder-pieces as a memorial. ¹³And you shall make bezels of gold, ¹⁴and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them as edgings, as wreathed work, and you will put the wreathed chains on the bezels. ¹⁵And you will make a breastplate of judgment, the work of a damask weaver. You shall make it like the work of the ephod. You shall make it of gold and blue and purple and scarlet thread, and fine twined linen. ¹⁶It shall be square and doubled; its length will be a span and its breadth will be a span. ¹⁷And in it you will set the gemstones to be inserted as four rows of gemstones; there will be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald. That is the first row. ¹⁸And the second row will consist of chrysoprase, sapphire and diamond. ¹⁹And the third row will consist of ligure, agate and amethyst. ²⁰And the fourth row will consist of chrysolite, onyx and jasper. They will be set in gold when they are set. ²¹And the gemstones will be with the names of the sons of Israel – twelve of them with their names – the engravings being as a signet. Each one will be with its name for the twelve tribes. ²²You will make edging chains on the breastplate, wreathed work of pure gold. ²³And you will make two golden rings on the breastplate, and you will put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate. ²⁴And you will put the two golden wreaths on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ²⁵And you will put the two ends – the two wreaths – in the two bezels, and you will put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod on the front of it. ²⁶And you will make two golden rings and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on its hem which is on the side of the ephod facing inwards. ²⁷And you will make two golden rings and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, at the front of it, opposite its join, above the embroidered belt of the ephod. ²⁸And they shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue yarn, to be above the embroidered belt of the ephod, so the breastplate does not become displaced from the ephod. ²⁹And Aaron will wear the names of the sons of Israel on the breastplate of judgment, over his heart, when he goes into the holy place, as a memorial before the Lord continually. ³⁰And you will put the Urim and the Thummim on the breastplate of judgment, and they will be over Aaron's heart when he comes before the Lord, and Aaron will bear the judgment of the sons of Israel on his heart before the Lord continually. ³¹And you will make the robe of the ephod entirely from blue material. ³²And there will be an opening for his head in the middle of it. There will be a hem to its opening around it, the workmanship of a weaver. It will be like the opening of a coat of mail, so that it does not tear. ³³And you will make on its edges pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet thread, on its edges all around, and golden bells inside them all around. ³⁴A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the edges of the robe all around. ³⁵And it will be on Aaron for him to minister in, and his voice will be heard when he comes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he goes out, he will not die. ³⁶And you will make a shining plate of pure gold, and you will engrave on it an engraving as for a signet, ‘Holiness to the Lord.’ ³⁷And you will display it with a blue thread so that it is on the turban, and it will be on the front of the turban. ³⁸And it will be on Aaron's forehead, and Aaron will carry away the iniquity of the holy things which the sons of Israel will sanctify with all their holy gifts, and it will always be on his forehead, so that they may be pleasing before the Lord. ³⁹And you will weave the fine linen tunic, and you will make a fine linen turban, and you will make a girdle, the workmanship of an embroiderer. ⁴⁰And you will make tunics for Aaron's sons, and you will make them girdles, and you will make them high headgear for glory and splendour. ⁴¹And you will put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and you will anoint them and consecrate them, and you will sanctify them so that they may serve as priests to me. ⁴²And make them fine linen trousers to cover naked flesh. They will be from the loins to the thighs. ⁴³And they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tent of contact, or when they approach the altar to serve in the holy place, so that they do not bear iniquity and die. It will be an age-abiding statute for him and his seed after him.

¹And this is the procedure which you will carry out for them to sanctify them for serving as priests to me. Take a bull-calf of the oxen and two rams without blemish, ²and unleavened bread and unleavened thin cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers basted with oil. You shall make them from fine wheat flour. ³And you will put them in one basket, and you will offer them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams. ⁴And you will have Aaron and his sons approach the entrance to the tent of contact, and you will wash them with water. ⁵And you will take the garments, and you will clothe Aaron in the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod itself, and the breastplate, and you will gird it on him, with the embroidered belt of the ephod. ⁶And you will put the turban on his head, and you will put the holy crown on the turban. ⁷And you will take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. ⁸And you will have his sons approach, and you will clothe them in tunics, ⁹and you will gird them with a girdle – Aaron and his sons – and you will bind high headgear on them, and it will be for their priesthood, as an age-abiding statute. So you will consecrate Aaron and his sons. ¹⁰And you will bring up the bull in front of the tent of contact, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the bull's head. ¹¹And you will slaughter the bull before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of contact. ¹²And you will take some of the blood of the bull, and you will put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you will pour all the blood onto the base of the altar. ¹³And you will take all the fat covering the innards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat which is on them, and you will burn them on the altar. ¹⁴And you will burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and its dung with fire outside the camp. It is a sin-offering. ¹⁵And you will take the first ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁶And you will slaughter the ram, and you will take its blood, and you will sprinkle it on the altar all around, ¹⁷and you will divide the ram into its sections, and you will wash its innards and its legs, and you will put them on its sections and on its head. ¹⁸And you will burn the whole of the ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord – a sweet fragrance. It is a fire-offering to the Lord. ¹⁹And you will take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. ²⁰And you will slaughter the ram, and you will take some of its blood and put it on Aaron's right ear lobe and on the right ear lobe of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and you will sprinkle the blood on the altar all around. ²¹And you will take some of the blood which is on the altar, and some anointing oil, and you will sprinkle it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on the garments of his sons with him, so that he, and his garments, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him become holy. ²²And you will take from the ram the fat and the tail and the fat covering the innards and the caul of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the right front leg, for it is a ram for the sacrifice of consecration, ²³and one loaf of bread, and one thin cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, from the basket of unleavened breadstuff which is before the Lord, ²⁴and you will put it all in the palms of Aaron's hands and the palms of his sons' hands, and you will wave them as a wave-offering before the Lord. ²⁵And you will take them from their hands, and you will burn them on the altar with the burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance before the Lord. It is a fire-offering to the Lord. ²⁶And you will take the breast of the consecrated ram which Aaron has, and you will wave it as a wave-offering before the Lord, and it will be a portion for you. ²⁷And you will sanctify the breast of the wave-offering and the leg of the heave-offering, which will be waved and which will be heaved, taken from the consecrated ram – what is Aaron's and what is his sons'. ²⁸And it will be an age-abiding statute to Aaron and his sons, an offering from the sons of Israel, for it is a heave-offering, so there will be a heave-offering from the sons of Israel among their peace-sacrifices – their heave-offering to the Lord. ²⁹And Aaron's holy garments will be for his sons after him, in which to be anointed and in which his sons are to be consecrated. ³⁰For seven days the priest will wear them – after him it being one of his sons – when he goes into the tent of contact to serve in the holy place. ³¹And you will take the consecrated ram and cook its flesh in a holy place. ³²And Aaron and his sons will eat the ram's flesh and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance to the tent of contact. ³³And they will eat them, because atonement is made by them, to consecrate the priests – to sanctify them – and no foreigner will eat these things, for they are holy. ³⁴And if any flesh is left over from what is consecrated or from the bread by the morning, then you will burn what is left in fire. It shall not be eaten, for it is holy. ³⁵And you will do this for Aaron and for his sons – according to everything that I have commanded you. You will consecrate them for seven days. ³⁶And you will offer a bull as a sin-offering each day for atonement, and you will expiate sin on the altar as you make atonement on it, and you will anoint it to sanctify it. ³⁷For seven days you will make atonement on the altar, and you will sanctify it, and the altar will be a holy of holies. Anyone who touches the altar will be holy. ³⁸And this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs per day perpetually. ³⁹One lamb you will offer in the morning and the second lamb you will offer in the evening, ⁴⁰with a tenth measure of fine flour mixed with beaten oil – a quarter of a hin – and a libation of a quarter of a hin of wine for the first lamb, ⁴¹and you will offer the second lamb in the evening, in the same way as the offering of the morning, and you will offer it in accordance with its libation as a sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to the Lord. ⁴²It is a perpetual burnt offering for your generations at the entrance to the tent of contact before the Lord, which is where I will meet you to speak to you there. ⁴³And I will meet the sons of Israel there, and it will be sanctified by my glory. ⁴⁴And I will sanctify the tent of contact and the altar, and I will sanctify Aaron and his sons for serving as priests to me. ⁴⁵And I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and I will be their God. ⁴⁶And they will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, for me to dwell in their midst. I am the Lord their God.

Reference(s) in Chapter 29: v.45 ↔ 2 Corinthians 6:16.

¹And you will make an altar for burning incense. You will make it from acacia wood. ²Its length will be one cubit, and its width will be one cubit; it will be square, and its height will be two cubits. Its horns will be integral to it. ³And you will overlay it with pure gold – its top and its walls around it, and its horns – and you will make a golden edge for it all around. ⁴And you will make two golden rings for it below its edge on the two flanks. You will make them on the two sides, and they will be receptacles for the poles with which to carry it. ⁵And you will make poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold. ⁶And you will put it in front of the veil which is at the ark of the testimony, before the atonement cover which is on the ark of the testimony, which is where I will meet you. ⁷And Aaron will burn aromatic incense on it; every morning when he adjusts the lamps, he will burn it. ⁸When Aaron lights the lamps in the evening, he will burn incense on it. It is a perpetual incense ordinance before the Lord for your generations. ⁹You shall not offer extraneous incense, nor such a burnt offering or meal-offering, and you shall not pour a libation on it. ¹⁰And Aaron will make atonement on its horns once per year, with the blood of the sin-offering for atonements. Once per year he will make atonement on it for your generations. It is a holy of holies to the Lord.” ¹¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹²“When you hold a census of the sons of Israel according to the counting of them, let each one give an atonement-offering for his life to the Lord when they are counted, so that there is no plague among them when they are counted. ¹³This is what everyone who passes through the counting will give: half a shekel according to the holy shekel. A shekel is twenty gerahs. The half shekel will be a heave-offering to the Lord. ¹⁴Everyone who passes through the counting from twenty years old and above will give the Lord's heave-offering. ¹⁵The rich man will not give more – and the poor man will not give less – than half a shekel, when you give the Lord's heave-offering to atone for your lives. ¹⁶And you will receive the atonement money from the sons of Israel, and you will put it towards the work of the tent of contact, and it will be a memorial to the sons of Israel before the Lord to atone for your lives.” ¹⁷Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹⁸“And you will make a copper laver and its copper pedestal for washing, and you will put it between the tent of contact and the altar, and you will put water there. ¹⁹And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet in it. ²⁰When they go to the tent of contact, they will wash with water so that they don't die, or when they approach the altar to serve by burning incense as a fire-offering to the Lord. ²¹So they will wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die, and it will be an age-abiding statute to them – to him and to his seed – in their generations.” ²²Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²³“And take some prime spices: five hundred shekels of fine myrrh, and half as much of cinnamon spice, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of calamus fragrance, ²⁴and five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the holy shekel, and a hin of olive oil. ²⁵And you will make it as a holy anointing oil, a formulated ointment, the pharmacist's product. It will be a holy anointing oil. ²⁶And you will anoint the tent of contact with it, and the ark of the testimony, ²⁷and the table and all its equipment, and the lampstand and its equipment, and the incense altar, ²⁸and the burnt offering altar and all its equipment, and the laver and its pedestal. ²⁹And you will sanctify them, and they will be a holy of holies. Anyone who touches them will be holy. ³⁰And you will anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them for officiating as priests to me. ³¹And you will speak to the sons of Israel and say, ‘This will be a holy anointing oil to me for your generations. ³²It shall not be poured on man's flesh, and you shall not make anything like it in its composition; it is holy; it will be holy to you. ³³Anyone who prepares anything like it, or who puts any of it on a foreigner, will be cut off from his people.’ ” ³⁴Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get yourself some spices: resin and onycha and galbanum spices, and pure frankincense. They will be in equal parts. ³⁵And you will make it as unctuous incense, the product of the pharmacist, salted, pure, and holy. ³⁶And you will grind some of it very fine, and you will put some of it in front of the ark of the testimony in the tent of contact where I will meet you. It will be a holy of holies to you. ³⁷And the incense which you will make, you will not make in its composition for yourselves. It will be your holiness to the Lord. ³⁸Anyone who makes anything like it to produce a scent with it will be cut off from his people.”

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Look, I have called Bezalel by name, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, ³and I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge, and in all craftsmanship, ⁴to make designs, to work in gold and in silver and in copper, ⁵and in lapidary work, in setting gemstones, and in wood-sculpting, to make all kinds of artisanry. ⁶And as for me, look, I have appointed with him Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of every skilled person, and they will make everything that I have commanded you to make – ⁷the tent of contact and the ark for the testimony and the atonement cover which goes on it, and all the equipment of the tent, ⁸and the table and its equipment and the pure lampstand and all its equipment and the incense altar, ⁹and the burnt offering altar and all its equipment, and the laver and its pedestal, ¹⁰and the garments for officiating, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for officiating as priest, ¹¹and the anointing oil and the aromatic incense for the holy place. They will do according to everything that I have commanded you.” ¹²Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹³“And speak to the sons of Israel and say, ‘You will be sure to keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you for your generations, to know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. ¹⁴So you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. He who profanes it will surely be put to death, for as for anyone who does work on it, that person will be cut off from the midst of his people. ¹⁵For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day, it is a Sabbath of holy sabbatic observance to the Lord. Anyone who does work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.’ ¹⁶So the sons of Israel will keep the Sabbath, in celebrating the Sabbath, in their generations as an age-abiding covenant, ¹⁷between me and the sons of Israel. It is an age-abiding sign, for in six days the Lord made heaven and the earth, then on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.” ¹⁸Then when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony – tablets of stone – written on by the finger of God.

¹But when people saw that Moses had delayed in coming down from the mountain, the people assembled to Aaron and said to him, “Get up and make us gods which will go before us. For as for this man Moses – who brought us up out of the land of Egypt – we do not know what has become of him.” ²Then Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are on the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters, and bring them to me.” ³So all the people broke off the golden rings which were on their ears, and they brought them to Aaron. ⁴And he took them from their hands, and he fashioned them with an engraving tool, and he had them make them into a cast calf, and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” ⁵And Aaron saw it, and he built an altar in front of it, and Aaron called out and said, “Tomorrow is a festival to the Lord.” ⁶Then they got up early on the next day and made burnt offerings and presented peace-offerings, and the people sat to eat and to drink, and they arose to make sport. ⁷And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, go down, for your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt have acted perversely. ⁸They have quickly departed from the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a cast calf and have worshipped it and sacrificed to it, and they have said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ” ⁹Then the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and the conclusion is that it is a stiff-necked people. ¹⁰So now, leave me, and my anger will be kindled against them, and I will consume them, but I will make you a great people.” ¹¹But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God and said, “Why, O Lord, should your anger be kindled against your people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? ¹²Why should the Egyptians speak and say, ‘He brought them out malevolently, to kill them in the mountains and to obliterate them from the face of the earth’? Relent from the fury of your anger and forbear about the evil to your people. ¹³Remember Abraham, Isaac and Israel your servants to whom you swore by yourself and said to them, ‘I will increase your seed like the stars of the sky, and I will give to your seed all this land of which I have spoken, and they will inherit it age-abidingly.’ ” ¹⁴At this the Lord forbore about the evil which he had said he would do to his people. ¹⁵Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand – the tablets inscribed on both sides – on each side they were inscribed. ¹⁶And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. ¹⁷Meanwhile Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, and he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.” ¹⁸And he said,

“It is not the sound of shouting in bravery,

And it is not the sound of shouting in defeat;

I hear the sound of singing.”

¹⁹Then it came to pass as he was approaching the camp that he saw the calf and dancing, and Moses' anger was kindled, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and he broke them below the mountain. ²⁰And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in fire, and he ground it to fine dust, and he sprinkled it on the surface of the water, and he gave it to the sons of Israel to drink. ²¹And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you? For you have brought a great sin on them.” ²²And Aaron said, “Do not let your anger be kindled, my lord. You know the people, how they walk in wickedness. ²³And they said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us, for as for this man Moses – who brought us up out of the land of Egypt – we don't know what has become of him.’ ²⁴And I said to them, ‘Whoever has got gold, let them break it off.’ And they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and this calf came out.” ²⁵And Moses saw the people, how they were unrestrained, for Aaron had left them to their devices, to the detriment caused by those of them who rose up. ²⁶Then Moses stood at the camp gate and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered round him. ²⁷And he said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Let every man put his sword to his thigh, and pass through and come back, from gate to gate in the camp, and let every man kill his brother, and let every man kill his neighbour, and let every man kill his kin.’ ” ²⁸Then the sons of Levi acted according to Moses' word, and on that day about three thousand men of the people fell. ²⁹Then Moses said, “Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, for a man is against his son and against his brother, so that he gives you a blessing today.” ³⁰And it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin, so now I will go up to the Lord – perhaps I can atone for your sin.” ³¹So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Please, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made themselves gods of gold. ³²And now, if you will forgive their sin ... ; but if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.” ³³Then the Lord said to Moses, “It is he who sins against me whom I will blot out of my book. ³⁴And now, go, lead the people to where I have told you. Behold, my angel will go before you, and on the day of my visitation, I will visit their sin on them.” ³⁵And the Lord struck the people because they had made the calf which Aaron had let be made.

Reference(s) in Chapter 32: v.1 ↔ Acts 7:40 ● v.6 ↔ 1 Corinthians 10:7 ● v.13 ↔ Hebrews 11:12 ● v.32 ↔ Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 17:8, Revelation 20:12, Revelation 20:15, Revelation 21:27.

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Depart, move up from here, you and the people which you brought up out of the land of Egypt to the land about which I swore to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob and said, ‘I will give it to your seed.’ ²And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive the Canaanite, the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite ³into a land flowing with milk and honey, for I will not go up in your midst, for you are a stiff-necked people, so that I do not obliterate you on the way.” ⁴When the people heard this bad piece of news, they mourned, and no-one put any ornament on. ⁵Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. In one moment I will come up into your midst and obliterate you. So now, take your ornaments off, and I will know what I will do to you.’ ” ⁶So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount Horeb. ⁷And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and he called it the tent of contact, and it came to pass that everyone who was seeking the Lord would come out to the tent of contact, which was outside the camp. ⁸And it came to pass, when Moses came out to the tent, that all the people arose, and everyone stood at the entrance to his own tent, and they watched Moses until he had gone into the tent. ⁹And it came to pass, when Moses had gone into the tent, that the column of cloud descended and stood at the entrance to the tent, and he spoke with Moses. ¹⁰And all the people saw the column of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, and all the people arose and worshipped – each one at the entrance to his tent. ¹¹And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbour, and he returned to the camp, but his attendant Joshua the son of Nun, a lad, did not move from the inside of the tent. ¹²Then Moses said to the Lord, “Look, you say to me, ‘Bring this people up’, but you have not made known to me whom you will send with me, yet you said, ‘I know you by name, and also you have found grace in my sight.’ ¹³So now, please, if I have found grace in your sight, please make your way known to me so that I may know you, in order that I may find grace in your sight. And have in view that this nation is your people.” ¹⁴And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” ¹⁵And he said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here, ¹⁶for by what means would it be known then that I have found grace in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in that you go with us, and we are distinguished – I and your people – from every other people which is on the face of the earth?” ¹⁷And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do this thing also, which you have said, for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.” ¹⁸Then he said, “Please show me your glory.” ¹⁹And he said, “I will bring all my goodness upon you, and I will make proclamation in the name of the Lord before you, and I will show grace to whom I will show grace, and I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.” ²⁰But he said, “You will not be able to see my face, for man does not see me and live.” ²¹And the Lord said, “Here is a place with me, and you shall stand on the rock. ²²And it will come to pass, when my glory passes across, that I will place you on a cleft in the rock, and I will cover you with my hand, until I have passed through. ²³Then I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen.”

Reference(s) in Chapter 33: v.19 ↔ Romans 9:15.

¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Hew out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets, which you broke. ²And be ready in the morning and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the summit of the mountain. ³And no-one shall go up with you, and moreover let no-one be seen anywhere on the mountain, nor shall sheep or cattle graze near that mountain.” ⁴So he hewed out two stone tablets like the first ones, and Moses got up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took the two stone tablets in his hand. ⁵Then the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and made proclamation in the name of the Lord. ⁶And the Lord passed by alongside him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and abundant in kindness and truth, ⁷maintaining kindness to thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who certainly does not pronounce innocent, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on sons and grandsons up to the third and fourth generations.” ⁸Then Moses was quick to bow down to the ground, and he worshipped. ⁹And he said, “Please, if I have found grace in your sight, O Lord^*, please let the Lord^* go in our midst, for it is a stiff-necked people, but pardon our iniquity and our sin and acquire us as an inheritance.” ¹⁰Then he said, “Look, I am about to make a covenant. In the presence of all your people, I will perform wonders which have not been produced in all the earth or among any of the nations, and all the people in whose midst you are will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing which I am about to do with you. ¹¹Observe what I am about to command you today, and you will see that I will drive out the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite away from you. ¹²Beware that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land which you are going into, in case it becomes a snare in your midst. ¹³For you will demolish their altars and break up their idolatrous statues, and you will cut down their phallic parks. ¹⁴For you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord has the name ‘Jealous’. He is a jealous God. ¹⁵Beware that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, or someone invites you, and you eat from his sacrifice, ¹⁶or you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and they make your sons go whoring after their gods. ¹⁷You shall not make yourself cast gods. ¹⁸You shall observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, at the fixed time in the month of Abib, for you came out of Egypt in the month of Abib. ¹⁹Everyone who opens the womb is mine, as is all male cattle of yours which opens the womb, whether ox or sheep. ²⁰And you will redeem a donkey which opens the womb with a sheep, and if you do not redeem it, you will break its neck. You will redeem every firstborn of your sons, so that none shall see my face empty-handed. ²¹For six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you will desist; whether in time of ploughing or in time of harvest, you will desist. ²²And you will observe the Festival of Weeks, at the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of the Ingathering in the cycle of the year. ²³Three times a year all your males will see the face of the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴For I will dispossess nations before you, and I will broaden your border, and no-one will want your land when you go up to see the face of the Lord your God three times per year. ²⁵You shall not slaughter anything for the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and the sacrifice of the Festival of the Passover shall not remain until the morning. ²⁶You shall bring the beginning of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not cook a goat-kid in its mother's milk.” ²⁷Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write these things down for yourself, because it is according to these things that I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.” ²⁸And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread and he did not drink water, and he wrote the words of the covenant on the tablets – the ten commandments. ²⁹And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand as he came down from the mountain, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face was shining from talking with him. ³⁰And Aaron, and all the sons of Israel, saw Moses, and it was apparent that the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to approach him. ³¹And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders in the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. ³²And after that, all the sons of Israel approached, and he commanded them everything that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. ³³Then Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a covering over his face. ³⁴Then when Moses came before the Lord to speak with him, he removed the covering until he went out. Then he went out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded. ³⁵And the sons of Israel saw Moses' face, for the skin of Moses' face was shining. Then Moses put the cover back over his face, until he went to speak with him.

¹Then Moses convened the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, and he said to them, “These are the words which the Lord commanded us to do. ²For six days you shall do work, but on the seventh day you will have a holy Sabbath of sabbatic observance to the Lord. Everyone who does work on it will be put to death. ³You shall not light a fire in any of your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.” ⁴Then Moses spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel and said, “This is what the Lord commanded and said: ⁵‘Take from your company a heave-offering to the Lord; let everyone who is willing in his heart bring it – the Lord's heave-offering – gold and silver and copper, ⁶and blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine linen and goat's hair, ⁷and rams' skins dyed red and badgers' skins and acacia wood, ⁸and oil for the lamp, and fragrances for anointing oil and for aromatic incense, ⁹and onyx gemstones and set gemstones for the ephod and for the breastplate. ¹⁰And let every skilled man among you come and make everything that the Lord commanded: ¹¹the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bolts, its columns and its sockets, ¹²the ark and its poles, the atonement cover and the screening veil, ¹³the table and its poles and all its equipment, and the showbread, ¹⁴the lampstand for illumination and its equipment and its lamps, and the oil for light, ¹⁵and the incense altar and its poles, and the anointing oil, and the aromatic incense, and the screen at the entrance, for the entrance to the tabernacle, ¹⁶the altar for the burnt offering and the copper grate which goes with it, its poles and all its equipment, the laver and its pedestal, ¹⁷the drapes for the courtyard, its columns and its sockets and the screen to the gate of the courtyard, ¹⁸the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the courtyard and their guylines, ¹⁹the garments of office so as to serve in the holy place – the holy garments of Aaron the priest and his sons' garments – so as to officiate as a priest.’ ” ²⁰Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel left Moses' presence, ²¹and every man who so felt moved in his heart and everyone whose spirit so impelled him brought the Lord's heave-offering for the artisanry of the tent of contact and for all its work and for the holy garments. ²²And the men came with the women – everyone who was willing in his heart – and brought a nosering or an earring or a finger-ring or a brooch or any item of gold. And as for every man who made a wave-offering of gold to the Lord, ²³and every man with whom blue, purple and scarlet material, and fine linen, and goat's hair and rams' skins dyed red and badgers' skins was available, he brought these things. ²⁴Everyone who made a heave-offering of silver or copper brought the Lord's heave-offering, and everyone with whom acacia wood was available for any artisanry in the work brought it. ²⁵And every woman skilled in handiwork spun and brought yarn – the blue and purple and scarlet yarn and the fine linen. ²⁶And all the women who felt moved in their heart with skill spun the goat's hair. ²⁷And the leaders brought the onyx gemstones and the gemstones to be set, for the ephod and the breastplate, ²⁸and the fragrances, and the oil for the lamp, and the anointing oil, and the aromatic incense. ²⁹Every man and woman whose heart impelled them to bring any of the materials which the Lord had commanded to make, through the intermediacy of Moses – all such sons of Israel brought a freewill-offering to the Lord. ³⁰Then Moses said to the sons of Israel, “Look, the Lord has called Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, by name, ³¹and he has filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and in understanding and in competence, and these in every kind of craftsmanship, ³²and to devise designs to make in gold and in silver and in copper, ³³and in shaping of gemstones to set and in carving wood to use in any craftsmanship by design. ³⁴And he has put it in his heart to teach, in his and in that of Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan. ³⁵He has filled them with skill to make all the artisanry – of the engraver and the damask weaver and the embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet material and fine linen, and the weaver – the makers of all the artisanry and the producers of designs.”

¹Then Bezalel and Aholiab started work, as did every skilful man in whom the Lord had put wisdom and understanding, so that they would know how to make all the artisanry of the work of the holy place, according to everything that the Lord had commanded. ²And Moses called for Bezalel and for Aholiab and for every skilful man in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom – everyone whose heart had impelled him to launch into the artisanry and to make it. ³And they took from Moses all the heave-offering which the sons of Israel had brought for the artisanry of the work of the holy place, with which to make it, and they brought an additional freewill-offering to him each morning. ⁴And all the skilled men who were making all the artisanry of the holy place came, each one from his work which they were doing. ⁵And they spoke with Moses and said, “The people are bringing more than enough for the work of the artisanry which the Lord commanded them to make.” ⁶Then Moses gave the commandment, and they caused word to be passed around in the camp and said, “Don't let any man or woman make any more contribution to the heave-offering of the holy place.” So the people were restrained from bringing anything more. ⁷And the materials were sufficient for them, for all the artisanry, to make it, and there was surplus. ⁸And all the skilled men among those making the artisanry made the tabernacle, ten curtains, fine twined linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material. As for the cherubim, it was with the work of a damask weaver that he made them. ⁹The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width was four cubits for one curtain. There was one size for all the curtains. ¹⁰Then he joined the five curtains one to another, and he joined another five curtains one to another. ¹¹And he made loops of blue material on the hem of one curtain at the joining edge, and he did so at the hem of the last curtain, at the second join. ¹²He made fifty loops in one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was at the second join, and the loops held each other together. ¹³And he made fifty golden clasps, and he joined one curtain to another with the clasps, and the tabernacle became a unity. ¹⁴And he made curtains of goat's hair for the tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven of these curtains. ¹⁵The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of one curtain was four cubits, and the eleven curtains were of one size. ¹⁶And he joined the five curtains separately, and the six curtains separately. ¹⁷And he made fifty loops on the hem of the last curtain at the join, and he made fifty loops on the hem of the other adjoining curtain. ¹⁸And he made fifty copper clasps to join the tent up into a unity. ¹⁹And he made a covering for the tent from rams' skins dyed red, and a covering from badgers' skins above it. ²⁰And he made the boards for the tabernacle from acacia wood, standing vertically. ²¹The length was ten cubits per board, and the width of one board was one and a half cubits. ²²Two tenons per board were each joined to its counterpart. That is how he made it for all the boards of the tabernacle. ²³So he made the boards for the tabernacle – twenty boards – on the south side, south-facing. ²⁴And he made forty silver sockets to go under the twenty boards – two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. ²⁵And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards, ²⁶and their forty silver sockets, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. ²⁷And he made six boards for the flanks of the tabernacle on the west. ²⁸And he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle on the flanks. ²⁹And they were coupled from below, and they were perfectly aligned up to the top of it, to a ring. He made the two of them this way for the two corners. ³⁰And there were eight boards and their silver sockets – sixteen sockets – two sockets each time under one board. ³¹And he made bolts of acacia wood – five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, ³²and five bolts for the boards on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bolts for the boards of the tabernacle on the western flank. ³³And he made the middle bolt to pass inside the boards from end to end. ³⁴And he overlaid the boards with gold, and he made their rings of gold, as receptacles for the bolts, and he overlaid the bolts with gold. ³⁵And he made the veil in blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen – the work of a damask weaver. He made it with cherubim. ³⁶And he made four acacia columns for it, and he overlaid them with gold, and he made their golden hooks, and he cast four silver sockets for them. ³⁷And he made a screen for the entrance to the tent, from blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer, ³⁸and its five columns and their hooks, and he overlaid their capitals and their connecting rods with gold, and he made their five sockets of copper.

¹And Bezalel made the ark from acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width was one and a half cubits, and its height was one and a half cubits. ²And he overlaid it with pure gold on the inside and on the outside, and he made an edge around it from gold. ³And he cast four golden rings for it at its four corners, with two rings for one of its sides, and two rings for its second side. ⁴And he made poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. ⁵And he brought the poles through the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. ⁶And he made the atonement cover from pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width was one and a half cubits. ⁷And he made two cherubim of gold; he made them as beaten work at the two ends of the atonement cover. ⁸He made one cherub on one end and one cherub on the other end. He made the cherubim coming from the atonement cover at its two ends. ⁹And the cherubim were with wings spread upwards, covering the atonement cover with their wings, and they faced each other. The faces of the cherubim were directed towards the atonement cover. ¹⁰And he made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was one cubit, and its height was one and a half cubits. ¹¹And he overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a golden edge around it. ¹²And he made a rim a handbreadth high around it, and he made a golden edge to the rim around it. ¹³And he cast four golden rings for it, and he put the rings on the four corners which were at its four legs. ¹⁴The rings were joined to the rim as receptacles for the poles by which to carry the table. ¹⁵And he made the poles of acacia wood and he overlaid them with gold, by which to carry the table. ¹⁶And he made the equipment which goes on the table – its dishes and its spoons and its vials and the bowls by which libations are poured. They were of pure gold. ¹⁷And he made the lampstand from pure gold; as beaten work he made the lampstand – its main stem and its branches. Its cups, its knobs and its flowers diverged from it. ¹⁸And six branches came out of its sides – three branches of the lampstand from one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it. ¹⁹There were three almond-shaped cups on one branch, with a knob and a flower, and three almond-shaped cups on another branch with a knob and a flower. That is how it was for the six branches coming out of the lampstand. ²⁰And in the main stem of the lampstand there were four almond-shaped cups with its knobs and its flowers. ²¹And he made a knob under the two branches where they diverge from it, and a knob under the two branches where they diverge from it, and a knob under the two branches where they diverge from it, this being for the six branches which come out of it. ²²Their knobs and branches were integral to it; all of it was one piece of beaten work of pure gold. ²³And he made its seven lamps and its snuffing-tongs and its snuff-dishes of pure gold. ²⁴From a talent of pure gold he made it, with all its accessories. ²⁵And he made the incense altar from acacia wood. Its length was one cubit, and its width was one cubit. It was square, and its height was two cubits. Its horns were integral to it. ²⁶And he overlaid it with pure gold – its top and its walls around it and its horns. And he made a golden edge for it all around. ²⁷And he made two golden rings for it below its edge on its two flanks, on its two sides, as receptacles for the poles by which to carry it. ²⁸And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. ²⁹And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure aromatic incense, the product of a pharmacist.

¹And he made the burnt offering altar from acacia wood. Its length was five cubits, and its width was five cubits. It was square, and its height was three cubits. ²And he made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were integral to it, and he overlaid it with copper. ³And he made all the equipment for the altar – the pans and the shovels and the basins and the forks and the firepans. He made all its equipment from copper. ⁴And he made a grate for the altar – a meshed copper artefact – under its ledge, underneath, extending up to half way. ⁵And he cast four rings on the four ends of the copper grate, as receptacles for the poles. ⁶And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with copper. ⁷And he brought the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar in order to carry it by them. He made it hollow with panels. ⁸And he made the copper laver and its copper pedestal, from the mirrors of the women-servants who served at the entrance to the tent of contact. ⁹And he made the courtyard on the southern side, facing south. The drapes of the courtyard were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits long. ¹⁰Their columns were twenty in number, and their twenty sockets were of copper, and the hooks of the columns and their connecting rods were of silver. ¹¹And on the northern side, for one hundred cubits, there were their twenty columns and their twenty sockets of copper, and the hooks of the columns and their connecting rods were of silver. ¹²And on the western side there were drapes for fifty cubits, and their ten columns and their ten sockets. And the hooks of the columns and their connecting rods were of silver. ¹³And the eastern side, facing east, was fifty cubits long. ¹⁴There were fifteen cubits of drapes on the side, and their three columns and their three sockets. ¹⁵And on the second side, on each side of the gate of the courtyard, were fifteen cubits of drapes and their three columns and their three sockets. ¹⁶All the drapes around the courtyard were of fine twined linen. ¹⁷And the sockets of the columns were of copper, and the hooks of the columns and their connecting rods were of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals was of silver, and all the columns of the courtyard were connected by silver. ¹⁸And the screen at the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen. And its length was twenty cubits, and the height across its width was five cubits, agreeing with the drapes of the courtyard. ¹⁹And as for their four columns, their four sockets were of copper, and their hooks were of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their connecting rods was of silver. ²⁰And all the pegs of the tabernacle and of the courtyard around it were of copper. ²¹These are the things appointed for the tabernacle – the tabernacle of the testimony – which was appointed through Moses' instruction for the work of the Levites, through the authority of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest. ²²And Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the Lord commanded Moses. ²³And with him was Aholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and a damask weaver and an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen. ²⁴As for all the gold that was used for the artisanry, in all the artisanry of the holy place, the gold of the wave-offering was twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels according to the holy shekel. ²⁵And the silver of those who were counted in the congregation amounted to one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels according to the holy shekel. ²⁶A beka per head – half a shekel – according to the holy shekel, for everyone who passes through to be counted, from twenty years old and above, for the six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty of them. ²⁷And the one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the holy place and the sockets of the veil – one hundred sockets for one hundred talents – a talent per socket. ²⁸And from the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, he made hooks for the columns, and he overlaid their capitals, and he connected them together. ²⁹And the copper for the wave-offering amounted to seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels. ³⁰And from it he made the sockets of the entrance to the tent of contact and the copper altar and the copper grate which belonged to it, and all the equipment of the altar, ³¹and the sockets of the courtyard round about, and the sockets of the gate of the courtyard, and all the pegs for the tabernacle, and all the pegs for the courtyard round about.

¹And from the blue and purple and scarlet material they made the garments of office so as to serve in the holy place, and they made the holy garments which were for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²And they made the ephod from gold, and from blue and purple and scarlet material and from fine twined linen. ³And they beat the plates of gold thin, and they cut lengths of thread to work into the blue material, and into the purple material, and into the scarlet material, and into the fine linen. It was the work of a damask weaver. ⁴They made joined up shoulder-pieces for it. At its two ends it was joined up. ⁵And they made the embroidered belt of his ephod with which it went, with similar workmanship to it, of gold, and of blue and purple and scarlet thread and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ⁶And they made the onyx gemstones enclosed in golden bezels, engraved with the engravings of a signet, with the names of the sons of Israel. ⁷And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as memorial gemstones to the sons of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ⁸And he made the breastplate, the work of a damask weaver, like the workmanship of the ephod, in gold and blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twined linen. ⁹It was square; they made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width was a span, folded double. ¹⁰And they set four rows of gemstones in it: a row of ruby, topaz and emerald. That was the first row. ¹¹And the second row consisted of chrysoprase, sapphire and diamond. ¹²And the third row consisted of ligure, agate and amethyst. ¹³And the fourth row consisted of chrysolite, onyx and jasper, enclosed in golden bezels for setting them. ¹⁴And the gemstones were with the names of the sons of Israel – twelve of them with their names – the engravings being as on a signet, each one with its name for the twelve tribes. ¹⁵And they made edging chains on the breastplate – wreathed work of pure gold. ¹⁶And they made two golden insets, and two golden rings, and they put the two rings at the two ends of the breastplate, ¹⁷and they put the two golden wreaths on the two rings at the ends of the breastplate. ¹⁸And they put the two ends – the two wreaths – on the two insets, and they put them on the shoulders of the ephod on the front of it. ¹⁹And they made two golden rings, and they put them on the two ends of the breastplate on its edge which was on the side of the ephod facing inwards. ²⁰And they made two golden rings, and they put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the ephod underneath, at the front of it, opposite its join, above the embroidered belt of the ephod. ²¹And they bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a thread of blue yarn so that it was above the embroidered belt of the ephod and so that the breastplate would not become displaced from the ephod, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²²And he made the robe of the ephod – the workmanship of a weaver – entirely from blue material. ²³And the opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a coat of mail, with a hem to the opening all around, so that it would not tear. ²⁴And at the edges of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet thread, finely twined. ²⁵And they made bells of pure gold, and they put the bells inside the pomegranates on the edges of the robe all around inside the pomegranates. ²⁶A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate on the edges of the robe all around, to serve with, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁷And they made the tunics of fine linen – the workmanship of a weaver – for Aaron and his sons, ²⁸and the turban of fine linen, and the ornamental high headgear of fine linen, and the linen trousers of fine twined linen, ²⁹and the girdle of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet material – the workmanship of an embroiderer – as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁰And they made the shining plate of the holy crown, of pure gold, and they wrote on it in the engraved writing of a signet, “Holiness to the Lord”. ³¹And they put a blue thread on it to go on the turban, high up, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³²And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of contact was finished, and the sons of Israel made it according to everything that the Lord had commanded Moses – so they made it. ³³And they brought the tabernacle to Moses – the tent and all its equipment – its clasps, its boards, its bolts, and its columns and its sockets, ³⁴and its covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins and the screening veil, ³⁵the ark of the testimony and its poles and the atonement cover, ³⁶the table and all its equipment, and the showbread, ³⁷the pure lampstand and its lamps – lamps in their arrangement – and all its equipment and oil for the light, ³⁸and the golden altar and anointing oil, and the aromatic incense, and the screen at the entrance to the tent, ³⁹the copper altar and the copper grate which belongs to it, its poles and all its equipment, and the laver and its pedestal, ⁴⁰the drapes for the courtyard, its columns and its sockets, and the screen to the gate of the courtyard, and its guylines and its pegs and all the equipment for the work of the tabernacle for the tent of contact, ⁴¹the garments of office so as to serve in the holy place – the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to officiate as priests. ⁴²The sons of Israel did all the work according to everything that the Lord had commanded Moses. ⁴³And Moses saw all the artisanry, and the result was that they had made it as the Lord had commanded – so they had made it. And Moses blessed them.

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“On the first day of the first month, you will set up the tabernacle of the tent of contact, ³and you will put the ark of the testimony there, and you will cover the ark with the veil. ⁴And you will bring the table and arrange it in its proper arrangement, and you will bring the lampstand, and you will light its lamps. ⁵And you will put the golden incense altar in front of the ark of the testimony, and you will put the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle in place. ⁶And you will put the burnt offering altar in front of the entrance to the tabernacle of the tent of contact. ⁷And you will put the laver between the tent of contact and the altar, and you will put water in it. ⁸And you will lay the courtyard out all around, and you will put up the screen at the gate of the courtyard. ⁹And you will take the anointing oil, and you will anoint the tabernacle and everything that is in it, and you will sanctify it and all its equipment, and it will become holy. ¹⁰And you will anoint the burnt offering altar and all its equipment, and you will sanctify the altar, and the altar will become a holy of holies. ¹¹And you will anoint the laver and its pedestal, and you will sanctify it. ¹²And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of contact, and you will wash them with water. ¹³And you will clothe Aaron in the holy garments, and you will anoint him and sanctify him, and he will officiate as a priest to me. ¹⁴And you will bring his sons and clothe them in tunics. ¹⁵And you will anoint them as you anointed their father, and they will officiate as priests to me, and their anointing will be for them to have an age-abiding priesthood in their generations.” ¹⁶And Moses did everything that the Lord commanded him – so he did. ¹⁷And it came to pass in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was set up. ¹⁸So Moses set up the tabernacle, and he installed its sockets, and he inserted its boards and inserted its bolts, and he erected its columns. ¹⁹And he pitched the tent over the tabernacle, and he put the covering of the tent over it – on top – as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁰And he took the testimony and put it in the ark, and he inserted the poles alongside the ark, and he put the atonement cover over the ark, on top. ²¹And he brought the ark to the tabernacle, and he put the screening veil in place, and he covered the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²²And he put the table in the tent of contact on the side of the tabernacle to the north, outside the veil. ²³And he arranged bread on it in its proper arrangement before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁴And he placed the lampstand in the tent of contact opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle to the south. ²⁵And he lit the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁶And he placed the golden altar in the tent of contact in front of the veil. ²⁷And he burnt aromatic incense on it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²⁸And he put the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle. ²⁹And he put the burnt offering altar at the entrance to the tabernacle of the tent of contact, and he offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁰And he placed the laver between the tent of contact and the altar, and he put water in it for washing. ³¹And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet with it. ³²When they came to the tent of contact and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³³And he set up the courtyard round about the tabernacle and the altar, and he put the screen at the gate of the courtyard in place, and Moses finished the work. ³⁴Then a cloud covered the tent of contact, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁵And Moses could not go into the tent of contact, because the cloud stayed on it. And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. ³⁶And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the sons of Israel moved in all their journeyings. ³⁷But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not move, until the day when it was taken up. ³⁸For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of the whole house of Israel, in all their journeyings.

Reference(s) in Chapter 40: v.34 ↔ Revelation 15:8.

¹And the Lord called out to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of contact and said, ²“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any of you bring an oblation to the Lord, you can bring your oblation from your cattle, from your oxen, or from your flock. ³If a man's oblation is a burnt offering from the oxen, he will offer a male without blemish; he will offer it at the entrance to the tent of contact, willingly before the Lord. ⁴And he will lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on his behalf to atone for him. ⁵And he will slaughter the bull-calf before the Lord. And the sons of Aaron – the priests – will offer the blood, and they will sprinkle the blood all around on the altar which is at the entrance to the tent of contact. ⁶Then he will skin the burnt offering and cut it in pieces. ⁷And the sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar, and they will arrange wood on the fire. ⁸And the sons of Aaron – the priests – will arrange the pieces, the head and the fat, on the wood which is on the fire, which is on the altar. ⁹And he will wash the innards and the legs with water, and the priest will burn the whole on the altar, as a burnt offering, a fire-offering of a sweet fragrance to the Lord. ¹⁰And if his oblation is from the flock, from the lambs or from the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish. ¹¹And he shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. ¹²And he will cut it in pieces, including its head and its fat, and the priest will arrange them on the wood which is on the fire which is on the altar. ¹³And he will wash the innards and the legs with water, and the priest will offer the whole, and he will burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering – a fire-offering of a sweet fragrance to the Lord. ¹⁴And if the burnt offering for his oblation to the Lord is from birds, he will make his oblation from turtle-doves or from young pigeons. ¹⁵And the priest will bring it to the altar, and he will wring its head off and burn it on the altar, and its blood will be wrung out on the wall of the altar. ¹⁶And he will remove its crop with its feathers and cast it to the side of the altar on the east, to the place of the ashes. ¹⁷And he will split it at its wings, but he will not separate the parts, and the priest will burn it on the altar, on the wood which is on the fire. It is a burnt offering – a fire-offering of a sweet fragrance to the Lord.

¹And if anyone brings an oblation of a meal-offering to the Lord, his oblation shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it, and he shall put frankincense on it. ²And he will bring it to Aaron's sons – the priests – and he will take a handful of it, of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest will burn it as a memorial of it on the altar – a fire-offering of a sweet fragrance to the Lord. ³And the residue of the meal-offering is for Aaron and for his sons. It is a holy of holies of the Lord's fire-offerings. ⁴And if you bring an oblation of a meal-offering baked in an oven, unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers coated with oil, ⁵or if your oblation is a meal-offering on the baking tray, it shall be of unleavened fine flour mixed with oil. ⁶You will break it into pieces, and you will pour oil on it. It is a meal-offering. ⁷And if your oblation is a meal-offering of the frying pan, it will be made from fine flour with oil. ⁸And you will bring the meal-offering which is made from these things to the Lord, and you will bring it to the priest, and he will bring it up to the altar. ⁹And the priest will take up the memorial-offering from the meal-offering, and he will burn it on the altar. It is a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance to the Lord. ¹⁰And the residue of the meal-offering is for Aaron and his sons. It is a holy of holies of the Lord's fire-offerings. ¹¹No meal-offering which you offer to the Lord may be made leavened, for you will not burn any fire-offering to the Lord with any leaven or any honey. ¹²As regards the oblation of the firstfruits, you shall offer them to the Lord, but they will not be burnt on the altar as a sweet fragrance. ¹³And every oblation of your meal-offering will be seasoned with salt. For you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking in your meal-offering. You shall offer salt in every oblation of yours. ¹⁴And if you bring an offering of the firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer green ears of corn roasted in the fire, ground corn of the choice plantation, as the offering of your firstfruits. ¹⁵And you will put oil on it, and you will put frankincense on it; it is a meal-offering. ¹⁶And the priest will burn a memorial of it, from its ground corn and from its oil, with all its frankincense – a fire-offering to the Lord.

¹And if his oblation is a peace-sacrifice, or if he is offering from the oxen, whether it is male or female, he will offer a specimen without blemish before the Lord. ²And he will lay his hand on the head of his oblation, and he will slaughter it at the entrance to the tent of contact, and Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle the blood on the altar round about. ³And he will make an offering from the peace-sacrifice – a fire-offering to the Lord. As for the fat which covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, ⁴and the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, which is at the loins, and the caul which is on the liver and on the kidneys, he will remove them. ⁵And Aaron's sons will burn it on the altar, on top of the burnt offering which is on the wood which is on the fire – a fire-offering of a sweet fragrance to the Lord. ⁶And if his oblation is from the flock, as a peace-sacrifice to the Lord, he will offer a male or female without blemish. ⁷If it is a lamb that he offers as his oblation, he shall offer it before the Lord. ⁸And he will lay his hand on the head of his oblation, and he will slaughter it in front of the tent of contact, and Aaron's sons will sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. ⁹And he will make an offering from the peace-sacrifice – a fire-offering to the Lord. As for its fat and the whole of its tail at its spine, he will remove them and the fat covering the innards and all the fat that is on the innards, ¹⁰and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the caul on the liver and on the kidneys. He will remove them. ¹¹And the priest will burn it on the altar – the bread of a fire-offering to the Lord. ¹²And if his oblation is a goat, he will offer it before the Lord. ¹³And he will lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of contact, and Aaron's sons will sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. ¹⁴And he will offer his oblation from it – a fire-offering to the Lord. As for the fat covering the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards, ¹⁵and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the caul on the liver and on the kidneys, he will remove them. ¹⁶And the priest will burn them on the altar – the bread of a fire-offering – as a sweet fragrance. All fat is the Lord's. ¹⁷It is an age-abiding statute for your generations, in all your dwellings; you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

¹And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Speak to the sons of Israel and say, ‘Anyone who commits sin in a sin of ignorance in any of the Lord's commandments which are prohibitions, but he does it, in respect of any one of them, ³or if the anointed priest sins, incurring the guilt of the people, then he shall make an offering for his sin which he has committed, of a bull-calf of the oxen without blemish, to the Lord as a sin-offering, ⁴and he will bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of contact before the Lord, and he will lay his hand on the head of the bull, and he will slaughter the bull before the Lord. ⁵And the anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of contact. ⁶And the priest will dip his finger in the blood, and he will sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil of the holy place. ⁷And the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the aromatic incense altar before the Lord which is at the tent of contact, and he will pour all the blood of the bull onto the base of the burnt offering altar which is at the entrance to the tent of contact. ⁸And as for all the fat of the bull of the sin-offering, he will remove from the bull the fat covering the innards and all the fat that is on the innards. ⁹And as for the two kidneys, and the fat which is on them, and which is on the loins, and the caul on the liver and on the kidneys, he will remove it. ¹⁰As they are removed from the ox of the peace-sacrifice, so the priest will burn them on the burnt offering altar. ¹¹And as for the hide of the bull and all its flesh, on its head and on its legs, and its innards and its dung, ¹²he will bring the whole bull out to outside the camp, to a clean place, to the deposition site for ashes, and he will burn it on wood with fire. It is at the deposition site for ashes that it shall be burned. ¹³And if the whole congregation of Israel commits a sin of ignorance, and the matter is kept hidden from the eyes of the convocation, and they commit any one of all the prohibited acts of the Lord – things which are not to be done – and they become guilty, ¹⁴and the sin by which they have sinned becomes known, then the convocation will offer a bull-calf of the oxen as a sin-offering, and they will bring it before the tent of contact. ¹⁵And the elders of the congregation will lay their hands on the bull's head before the Lord, and the priest will slaughter the bull before the Lord. ¹⁶And the anointed priest will bring some of the bull's blood to the tent of contact. ¹⁷And the priest will dip his finger in some of the blood, and he will sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil. ¹⁸And he will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord, which is in the tent of contact, and he will pour all the blood onto the base of the altar of the burnt offering which is at the entrance to the tent of contact. ¹⁹And he will remove all its fat from it and burn it on the altar. ²⁰And he will deal with the bull. As he deals with the bull of the sin-offering, so he will deal with it. And the priest will atone for them, and it will be forgiven them. ²¹And he will take the bull outside the camp, and he will burn it as he burns the first bull. It is the sin-offering for the convocation. ²²If a leading man sins through ignorance and commits any one of all the prohibited acts of the Lord his God – things which are not to be done – and he becomes guilty, ²³or his sin which he committed is made known to him, then he will bring as his oblation a kid of the goats, a male without blemish, ²⁴and he will lay his hand on the head of the goat, and he will slaughter it in the place where one slaughters the burnt offering before the Lord. It is a sin-offering. ²⁵And the priest will take some of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and he will put it on the horns of the burnt offering altar, and he will pour its blood onto the base of the burnt offering altar. ²⁶And he will burn all its fat on the altar like the fat of the peace-sacrifice, and the priest will atone for it – for his sin – and it will be forgiven him. ²⁷And if anyone from the people of the land sins with a sin of ignorance by him committing any one of the prohibited acts of the Lord – things which are not to be done – and he becomes guilty, ²⁸or his sin by which he sinned is made known to him, then he will bring as his oblation a female kid of the goats without blemish, for his sin by which he sinned, ²⁹and he will lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and he will slaughter the sin-offering in the place of the burnt offering. ³⁰And the priest will take some of its blood on his finger, and he will put it on the horns of the burnt offering altar, and he will pour all its blood onto the base of the altar. ³¹And he will remove all its fat, as the fat is removed from the peace-sacrifice, and the priest will burn it on the altar as a sweet fragrance to the Lord, and the priest will atone for him, and it will be forgiven him. ³²And if he brings a lamb as his oblation, as a sin-offering, he will bring a female without blemish. ³³And he will lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and he will slaughter it as a sin-offering in the place where he slaughters the burnt offering. ³⁴And the priest will take some of the blood of the sin-offering on his finger, and he will put it on the horns of the burnt offering altar, and he will pour all its blood onto the base of the altar. ³⁵And he will remove all its fat, as the fat is removed from the lamb of the peace-sacrifice, and the priest will burn it on the altar with the Lord's fire-offerings. So the priest will atone for him – for his sin which he committed – and it will be forgiven him.

¹And a person who sins in that he hears the sound of cursing, and he is a witness, or he sees it, or he learns of it, if he does not report it, he shall bear his iniquity. ²Or a person who touches any unclean thing, either a carcase of an unclean animal, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of an unclean reptile, and it has escaped his notice, then he is unclean and guilty, ³or if he touches a man's uncleanness, in any uncleanness of his by which he is defiled, and it has escaped his notice, then he comes to know that he is guilty, ⁴or if a person who swears by speaking rashly with his lips about doing wrong or doing good, according to everything man rashly speaks with an oath, and he is unaware of it, then he comes to know that he is guilty of any one of these offences, ⁵then it shall come to pass when he is consciously guilty of one of these things and confesses that he has sinned against it, ⁶that he shall bring his guilt-offering to the Lord for his sin whereby he sinned: a female from the flock, a ewe or a she-goat kid, as a sin-offering, and the priest will make atonement for him regarding his sin. ⁷And if the expense of a lamb is out of his reach, then he shall bring for his guilt which he incurred two turtle-doves or two young pigeons to the Lord: one for a sin-offering and one for a burnt offering. ⁸And he will bring them to the priest, and he will offer the one which is a sin-offering first, and he will wring its head at its neck, and he will not divide it. ⁹He will then sprinkle some of the blood of the sin-offering on the wall of the altar, and the remainder of the blood will be wrung out onto the base of the altar. It is a sin-offering. ¹⁰And he will perform the burnt offering with the second one according to the prescribed way, and the priest will make atonement for him, for his sin which he committed, and it will be forgiven him. ¹¹And if his means do not extend to two turtle-doves or to two young pigeons, then he that sinned will bring as his oblation a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, as a sin-offering. He shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin-offering. ¹²And he will bring it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it, as a memorial of it, and he will burn it on the altar, with the Lord's fire-offerings. It is a sin-offering. ¹³And the priest will make atonement for him, for the sin which he committed against one of these things, and it will be forgiven him, and it will be for the priest as a meal-offering.’ ” ¹⁴And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹⁵“If anyone commits a trespass and sins through ignorance against the Lord's holy things, then he will bring his guilt-offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your valuation, in silver shekels according to the holy shekel, as the guilt-offering. ¹⁶And he will pay for having sinned in respect of the holy thing, and he will add a fifth to it, and he will give it to the priest, and the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt-offering, and it will be forgiven him. ¹⁷And if a person sins and does any one of all the Lord's prohibited acts – things which are not to be done – and he did not know, and he becomes consciously guilty, then he will bear his iniquity. ¹⁸And he will bring a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your valuation for a guilt-offering, to the priest, and the priest will make atonement for him, for his sin of ignorance which he committed in ignorance, and he was not aware of it, and it will be forgiven him. ¹⁹It is a guilt-offering for whoever has in any way incurred guilt with the Lord.” ²⁰Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²¹“If a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord, and he lies about something to his neighbour in a matter of safe deposit or safe keeping with a pledge, or in a matter of plunder, or if he has oppressed his neighbour, ²²or if he finds a lost item and lies about it, or if he swears falsely about any one of all the things that a man does, so as to sin in them, ²³then it shall come to pass, in that he sinned and is guilty, that he will return the booty which he plundered, or the gain which he gained by oppression, or the item in safe deposit which was deposited with him, or the lost item which he found. ²⁴Or in any matter where he swore falsely, he will repay it, the original sum, adding a fifth to it, and he will give it to him whose it is, on the day of his guilt-offering. ²⁵And he will bring his guilt-offering to the Lord, a ram without blemish from the flock, by your valuation, as a guilt-offering, to the priest. ²⁶And the priest will make atonement for him before the Lord, and it will be forgiven him, for anything at all that he does by which he incurs guilt.”

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Command Aaron and his sons, and say, ‘This is the procedure for the burnt offering. It is the burnt offering on the hearth of the altar, kept alight all night until the morning, as the fire of the altar burns on it. ³And the priest will wear a fine linen garment, and he will wear fine linen trousers on his flesh. And he will take up the ashes produced when the fire consumes the burnt offering on the altar, and he will put them alongside the altar. ⁴Then he will take his clothes off and put other clothes on, and he will take the ashes outside the camp to a clean place. ⁵And the fire of the altar will be kept burning on it – it will not be extinguished – and the priest will burn wood on it every morning, and he will arrange the burnt offering on it, and he will burn the fat of the peace-offering on it. ⁶A continual fire will burn on the altar; it shall not be extinguished. ⁷And this is the procedure for the meal-offering: that Aaron's sons should offer it before the Lord, in front of the altar. ⁸And he will take up a handful of it – of the fine flour of the meal-offering including its oil – and all the frankincense, which are to go with the meal-offering, and he will burn them on the altar, a sweet fragrance, a memorial of it, to the Lord. ⁹And Aaron and his sons will eat the remainder of it. It will be eaten as unleavened loaves in a holy place; they will eat it in the courtyard of the tent of contact. ¹⁰It will not be baked leavened. I have given it as their portion of my fire-offerings. It is a holy of holies like the sin-offering and the guilt-offering. ¹¹Every male among Aaron's children will eat it. It is an age-abiding statute for your generations concerning the Lord's fire-offerings. Everyone who touches them shall be holy.’ ” ¹²And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹³“This is the oblation of Aaron and his sons which they will offer to the Lord, on the day when the man is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour of the meal-offering, perpetually, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. ¹⁴It will be made on a baking tray with oil; you will bring it when it has been mixed. You will offer baked items of the meal-offering baked in pieces as a sweet fragrance to the Lord. ¹⁵And the anointed priest in place of him, from his sons, will make it. It is an age-abiding statute of the Lord. It shall be completely burnt. ¹⁶And every meal-offering of the priest will be a complete burnt offering; it shall not be eaten.” ¹⁷Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ¹⁸“Speak to Aaron and his sons and say, ‘This is the procedure for the sin-offering. At the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin-offering will be slaughtered before the Lord. It is a holy of holies. ¹⁹The priest who offers it as a sin-offering will eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the tent of contact. ²⁰Everyone who touches its flesh will be holy. And when any of its blood is splashed on the garment, you will wash that which was splashed on in a holy place. ²¹And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled will be broken, or if it is boiled in a copper vessel, then it will be thoroughly scoured and thoroughly rinsed with water. ²²Every male among the priests will eat it. It is a holy of holies. ²³But no sin-offering of which blood is brought to the tent of contact to make atonement in the holy place will be eaten; it will be burned by fire.

¹And this is the procedure for the guilt-offering. It is a holy of holies. ²In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering, they will slaughter the guilt-offering, and he will sprinkle its blood on the altar round about. ³And he will offer all its fat – the tail and the fat covering the innards. ⁴And as for the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the caul that is on the liver, and on the kidneys, he will remove them. ⁵And the priest will burn them on the altar as a fire-offering to the Lord. It is a guilt-offering. ⁶Every male among the priests will eat it. It will be eaten in a holy place. It is a holy of holies. ⁷As the sin-offering is, so is the guilt-offering. They have one procedure. The priest who makes atonement with it will have it. ⁸And the priest who offers any man's burnt offering will have the skin of the burnt offering which he offers. It is for the priest. ⁹And every meal-offering that is baked in an oven, and everything prepared in a frying pan or on a baking tray will be for the priest who offers it. ¹⁰And every meal-offering mixed with oil, or dry, will be for all Aaron's sons, one as another. ¹¹And this is the procedure for the sacrifice of the peace-offering which he will offer to the Lord. ¹²If he offers it as a thank-offering, he will offer with the thank-sacrifice unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil, and fine flour well stirred for cakes mixed with oil. ¹³He will make his oblation with cakes of leavened bread with the sacrifice of his thankful peace-offering. ¹⁴And out of this he will offer one particular part of the whole oblation: a heave-offering to the Lord. It will be for the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace-offering. ¹⁵And the meat of his sacrifice of the thankful peace-offering will be eaten on the day of his oblation – he shall not save any of it until the morning. ¹⁶And if the sacrifice of his oblation is a vow or freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day when he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day, when the remainder of it shall be eaten. ¹⁷And the remainder of the meat of the sacrifice will be burned by fire on the third day. ¹⁸And if any of the meat of his sacrifice of a peace-offering is eaten at all on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be imputed to the one offering it – it will be an abomination, and any person eating any of it will bear his iniquity. ¹⁹And any meat that comes into contact with any unclean thing will not be eaten; it will be burned with fire. And as for meat in general, every clean person may eat meat. ²⁰But as for anyone who eats any of the meat of the peace-sacrifice which is the Lord's, while in a state of uncleanness, that person will be cut off from his people. ²¹And anyone who touches anything unclean, by the uncleanness of man, or unclean cattle, or any unclean abomination, and then eats any of the meat of the peace-sacrifice which is the Lord's, that person will be cut off from his people.’ ” ²²And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²³“Speak to the sons of Israel and say, ‘You shall not eat any fat of an ox or a lamb or a goat. ²⁴But the fat of a carcase and the fat of a savaged animal can be used for any purpose, but you certainly will not eat it. ²⁵For anyone who eats fat from the animal which he offered as a fire-offering to the Lord – that person who so eats will be cut off from his people. ²⁶And you will not eat any blood in any of your dwellings, either of birds or of cattle. ²⁷As for any person who eats any blood – that person will be cut off from his people.’ ” ²⁸And the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²⁹“Speak to the sons of Israel and say, ‘He who offers his peace-sacrifice to the Lord shall bring his oblation to the Lord from his peace-sacrifice animal stock. ³⁰His hands shall bring the Lord's fire-offerings; he will bring the fat on the breast with the breast in order to wave it as a wave-offering before the Lord. ³¹And the priest will burn the fat on the altar, and the breast will be for Aaron and his sons. ³²And you will give the right leg to the priest as a heave-offering from your peace-sacrifices. ³³He of the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace-sacrifice and the fat will have the right leg as a portion. ³⁴For as regards the breast of the wave-offering and the leg of the heave-offering, from the peace-sacrifices, I have made an election from the sons of Israel and given these things to Aaron the priest and his sons, as an age-abiding statute with the sons of Israel. ³⁵That is the anointing of Aaron and the anointing of his sons, by the Lord's fire-offerings on the day when he had them approach, to serve as priests to the Lord, ³⁶which the Lord commanded, that they should be given an age-abiding statute for their generations, on the day when he anointed them, chosen from the sons of Israel. ³⁷That is the procedure for the burnt offering, the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the guilt-offering, and the consecration, and the sacrifice of the peace-offering, ³⁸which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day when he commanded the sons of Israel to offer their oblations to the Lord in the Sinai Desert.’ ”

¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses and said, ²“Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the clothes, and the anointing oil, and a bull for the sin-offering, and two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread, ³and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance to the tent of contact.” ⁴And Moses did as the Lord had commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance to the tent of contact. ⁵Then Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing which the Lord commanded us to do.” ⁶And Moses brought Aaron and his sons forward and washed them with water. ⁷And he put the tunic on him, and he girded him with the girdle, and he clothed him with the robe, and he put the ephod on him, and he girded him with the embroidered belt of the ephod, and he bound it on to him. ⁸And he placed the breastplate on him, and he put the Urim and the Thummim on the breastplate. ⁹And he put the turban on his head, and on the turban facing forwards he put the shining plate of gold – the holy crown – as the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁰And Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything that was in it, and he sanctified those things. ¹¹And he sprinkled some of it on the altar, seven times, and he anointed the altar and all its equipment, and the laver, and its pedestal, so as to sanctify them. ¹²And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and he anointed him, so as to sanctify him. ¹³And Moses brought Aaron's sons forward and clothed them with tunics, and he girded them with girdles, and he bound high headgear on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁴And he presented the bull of the sin-offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin-offering. ¹⁵And he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and he expiated the altar, and he poured the blood onto the base of the altar, and he sanctified it to atone for it. ¹⁶And he took all the fat which is on the innards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burnt it on the altar. ¹⁷And he burnt the bull, and its hide, and its flesh, and its dung, with fire, outside the camp, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ¹⁸And he brought the ram of the burnt offering forward, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ¹⁹And Moses slaughtered it and sprinkled its blood on the altar round about. ²⁰And he cut the ram up into pieces, and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat, ²¹and he washed the innards and the legs with water, and Moses burnt the whole of the ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering as a sweet fragrance. It is a fire-offering to the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ²²And he brought the second ram forward, the ram of the consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. ²³And Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear and on his right thumb and on his right hand big toe. ²⁴And he brought Aaron's sons forward, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ears and on their right thumbs and on their right hand big toes, and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar round about. ²⁵And he took the fat and the tail, and all the fat that is on the innards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat and the right hand front leg. ²⁶And he took one unleavened cake and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, from the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord, and he put them on the items of fat and on the right hand front leg, ²⁷and he put it all in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and he waved them as a wave-offering before the Lord. ²⁸And Moses took them from their hands and burnt them on the altar with the burnt offering. They were a consecration as a sweet fragrance. It was a fire-offering to the Lord. ²⁹And Moses took the breast, and he waved it as a wave-offering before the Lord. Moses' portion was from the ram of consecration, as the Lord had commanded Moses. ³⁰And Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood which was on the altar, and he sprinkled it on Aaron and on his garments, and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him, and he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. ³¹And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of contact, and there you will eat it, and the bread which is in the consecration basket, as I commanded, when I said, ‘Aaron and his sons will eat it.’ ³²And you will burn the remainder of the meat and bread with fire. ³³And you will not go out of the entrance of the tent of contact for seven days, until the day of fulfilment of your consecration days, because for seven days he will consecrate you.” ³⁴The way he acted on this day was what the Lord had commanded to be done, so as to atone for you. ³⁵“And you will stay at the entrance to the tent of contact day and night for seven days, and you will keep the Lord's charge, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.” ³⁶And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the Lord had commanded through the intermediacy of Moses.