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THE OLD TESTAMENT
GENESIS
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2 Now the earth was formless and void,
and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of
God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,”
and there was light.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw that the light was good,
and He separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day,” and the
darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was
morning—the first day.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, “Let there be an
expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the
waters.”
Genesis 1:7 So God made the expanse and
separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was
so.
Genesis 1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” And
there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, “Let the waters under
the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may
appear.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:10 God called the dry land “earth,”
and the gathering of waters He called “seas.” And God saw that it
was good.
Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring
forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each
bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:12 The earth produced vegetation:
seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing
fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was
good.
Genesis 1:13 And there was evening, and there
was morning—the third day.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights
in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the
night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and
years.
Genesis 1:15 And let them serve as lights in the
expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:16 God made two great lights: the
greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the
night. And He made the stars as well.
Genesis 1:17 God set these lights in the expanse
of the sky to shine upon the earth,
Genesis 1:18 to preside over the day and the
night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw
that it was good.
Genesis 1:19 And there was evening, and there
was morning—the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters teem
with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the
open expanse of the sky.”
Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea
creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters
teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after
its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:22 Then God blessed them and said, “Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let
birds multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 1:23 And there was evening, and there
was morning—the fifth day.
Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring
forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land
crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And
it was so.
Genesis 1:25 God made the beasts of the earth
according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds,
and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in
Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the
earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in His own
image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He
created them.
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule
over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every
creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Behold, I have
given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth,
and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for
food.
Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth and
every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the
earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given
every green plant for food.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:31 And God looked upon all that He had
made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and
there was morning—the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were
completed in all their vast array.
Genesis 2:2 And by the seventh day God had
finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from
all His work.
Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and
sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of
creation that He had accomplished.
Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens
and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God
made them.
Genesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field had yet
appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted;
for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there
was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 2:6 But springs welled up from the earth
and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from
the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his
nostrils, and the man became a living being.
Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden in
Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave
growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for
food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to
water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:
Genesis 2:11 The name of the first river is
Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is
gold.
Genesis 2:12 And the gold of that land is pure,
and bdellium and onyx are found there.
Genesis 2:13 The name of the second river is
Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.
Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is
Hiddekel; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth
river is the Euphrates.
Genesis 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and
placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2:16 And the LORD God commanded him,
“You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of
it, you will surely die.”
Genesis 2:18 The LORD God also said, “It is not
good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable
helper.”
Genesis 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God
formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He
brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And
whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 2:20 The man gave names to all the
livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the
field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
Genesis 2:21 So the LORD God caused the man to
fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the
man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.
Genesis 2:22 And from the rib that the LORD God
had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.
Genesis 2:23 And the man said: “This is now bone
of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’
for out of man she was taken.”
Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave
his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will
become one flesh.
Genesis 2:25 And the man and his wife were both
naked, and they were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than
any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to
the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in
the garden?’”
Genesis 3:2 The woman answered the serpent, “We
may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:3 but about the fruit of the tree in
the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or
touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:4 “You will not surely die,” the
serpent told her.
Genesis 3:5 “For God knows that in the day you
eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was
good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable
for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave
some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of both of them were
opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together
fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the
voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the
day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God
among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9 But the LORD God called out to the
man, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:10 “I heard Your voice in the garden,”
he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid
myself.”
Genesis 3:11 “Who told you that you were naked?”
asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I
commanded you not to eat?”
Genesis 3:12 And the man answered, “The woman
whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Genesis 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the
woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,”
she replied, “and I ate.”
Genesis 3:14 So the LORD God said to the
serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all
livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go,
and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you
and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush
your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said: “I will
sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring
forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will
rule over you.”
Genesis 3:17 And to Adam He said: “Because you
have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the
tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground
because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of
your life.
Genesis 3:18 Both thorns and thistles it will
yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:19 By the sweat of your brow you will
eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it
were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:20 And Adam named his wife Eve,
because she would be the mother of all the living.
Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made garments of
skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold,
the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now,
lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life,
and eat, and live forever...”
Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God banished him
from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been
taken.
Genesis 3:24 So He drove out the man and
stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along
with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of
life.
Genesis 4:1 And Adam had relations with his wife
Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of
the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
Genesis 4:2 Later she gave birth to Cain’s
brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, while Cain was a
tiller of the soil.
Genesis 4:3 So in the course of time, Cain
brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
Genesis 4:4 while Abel brought the best portions
of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on
Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:5 but He had no regard for Cain and
his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
Genesis 4:6 “Why are you angry,” said the LORD
to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:7 If you do what is right, will you
not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is
crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
Genesis 4:8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel,
“Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field,
Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is
your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my
brother’s keeper?”
Genesis 4:10 “What have you done?” replied the
LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the
ground.
Genesis 4:11 Now you are cursed and banished
from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your
brother’s blood from your hand.
Genesis 4:12 When you till the ground, it will
no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a
wanderer on the earth.”
Genesis 4:13 But Cain said to the LORD, “My
punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4:14 Behold, this day You have driven me
from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I
will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds
me will kill me.”
Genesis 4:15 “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If
anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the
LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would
kill him.
Genesis 4:16 So Cain went out from the presence
of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Genesis 4:17 And Cain had relations with his
wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a
city and named it after his son Enoch.
Genesis 4:18 Now to Enoch was born Irad, and
Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of
Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.
Genesis 4:19 And Lamech married two women, one
named Adah and the other Zillah.
Genesis 4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was
the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
Genesis 4:21 And his brother’s name was Jubal;
he was the father of all who play the harp and flute.
Genesis 4:22 And Zillah gave birth to
Tubal-cain, a forger of every implement of bronze and iron. And
the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Genesis 4:23 Then Lamech said to his wives:
“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my
speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for
striking me.
Genesis 4:24 If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then
Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
Genesis 4:25 And Adam again had relations with
his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying,
“God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain
killed him.”
Genesis 4:26 And to Seth also a son was born,
and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the
name of the LORD.
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations
of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own
likeness.
Genesis 5:2 Male and female He created them, and
He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them
“man.”
Genesis 5:3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had
a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him
Seth.
Genesis 5:4 And after he had become the father
of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:5 So Adam lived a total of 930 years,
and then he died.
Genesis 5:6 When Seth was 105 years old, he
became the father of Enosh.
Genesis 5:7 And after he had become the father
of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8 So Seth lived a total of 912 years,
and then he died.
Genesis 5:9 When Enosh was 90 years old, he
became the father of Kenan.
Genesis 5:10 And after he had become the father
of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:11 So Enosh lived a total of 905
years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:12 When Kenan was 70 years old, he
became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5:13 And after he had become the father
of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and
daughters.
Genesis 5:14 So Kenan lived a total of 910
years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:15 When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he
became the father of Jared.
Genesis 5:16 And after he had become the father
of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and
daughters.
Genesis 5:17 So Mahalalel lived a total of 895
years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:18 When Jared was 162 years old, he
became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:19 And after he had become the father
of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:20 So Jared lived a total of 962
years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:21 When Enoch was 65 years old, he
became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22 And after he had become the father
of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons
and daughters.
Genesis 5:23 So Enoch lived a total of 365
years.
Genesis 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and then he
was no more, because God had taken him away.
Genesis 5:25 When Methuselah was 187 years old,
he became the father of Lamech.
Genesis 5:26 And after he had become the father
of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and
daughters.
Genesis 5:27 So Methuselah lived a total of 969
years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:28 When Lamech was 182 years old, he
had a son.
Genesis 5:29 And he named him Noah, saying, “May
this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by
the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
Genesis 5:30 And after he had become the father
of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:31 So Lamech lived a total of 777
years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:32 After Noah was 500 years old, he
became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:1 Now when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2 the sons of God saw that the
daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever
they chose.
Genesis 6:3 So the LORD said, “My Spirit will
not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be
120 years.”
Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in
those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had
relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children
who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the
wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every
inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all
the time.
Genesis 6:6 And the LORD regretted that He had
made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, “I will blot out
man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and
beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved
that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:8 Noah, however, found favor in the
eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 6:9 This is the account of Noah. Noah
was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with
God.
Genesis 6:10 And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham,
and Japheth.
Genesis 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in the
sight of God, and full of violence.
Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth and
saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had
corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6:13 Then God said to Noah, “The end of
all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the
earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them
and the earth.
Genesis 6:14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher
wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
Genesis 6:15 And this is how you are to build
it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30
cubits high.
Genesis 6:16 You are to make a roof for the ark,
finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of
the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
Genesis 6:17 And behold, I will bring
floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the
heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will
perish.
Genesis 6:18 But I will establish My covenant
with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your
wife and your sons’ wives with you.
Genesis 6:19 And you are to bring two of every
living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive
with you.
Genesis 6:20 Two of every kind of bird and
animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 6:21 You are also to take for yourself
every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for
yourselves and for the animals.”
Genesis 6:22 So Noah did everything precisely as
God had commanded him.
Genesis 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into
the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you
righteous in this generation.
Genesis 7:2 You are to take with you seven pairs
of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of
every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;
Genesis 7:3 and seven pairs of every kind of
bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on
the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:4 For seven days from now I will send
rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe
from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Genesis 7:5 And Noah did all that the LORD had
commanded him.
Genesis 7:6 Now Noah was 600 years old when the
floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:7 And Noah and his wife, with his sons
and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the
flood.
Genesis 7:8 The clean and unclean animals, the
birds, and everything that crawls along the ground
Genesis 7:9 came to Noah to enter the ark, two
by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:10 And after seven days the
floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s
life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the
fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the
heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12 And the rain fell upon the earth
for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:13 On that very day Noah entered the
ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and
the three wives of his sons—
Genesis 7:14 they and every kind of wild animal,
livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.
Genesis 7:15 They came to Noah to enter the ark,
two by two of every creature with the breath of life.
Genesis 7:16 And they entered, the male and
female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the
LORD shut him in.
Genesis 7:17 For forty days the flood kept
coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high
above the earth.
Genesis 7:18 So the waters continued to surge
and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface
of the waters.
Genesis 7:19 Finally, the waters completely
inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the
heavens were covered.
Genesis 7:20 The waters rose and covered the
mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
Genesis 7:21 And every living thing that moved
upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature
that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
Genesis 7:22 Of all that was on dry land,
everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
Genesis 7:23 And every living thing on the face
of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures
and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and
only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.
Genesis 7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the
earth for 150 days.
Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the
animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent
a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
Genesis 8:2 The springs of the deep and the
floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky
was restrained.
Genesis 8:3 The waters receded steadily from the
earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
Genesis 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the
seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
Genesis 8:5 And the waters continued to recede
until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the
tops of the mountains became visible.
Genesis 8:6 After forty days Noah opened the
window he had made in the ark
Genesis 8:7 and sent out a raven. It kept flying
back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.
Genesis 8:8 Then Noah sent out a dove to see if
the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
Genesis 8:9 But the dove found no place to rest
her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters
were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached
out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
Genesis 8:10 Noah waited seven more days and
again sent out the dove from the ark.
Genesis 8:11 And behold, the dove returned to
him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak.
So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
Genesis 8:12 And Noah waited seven more days and
sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Genesis 8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first
year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up
from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw
that the surface of the ground was dry.
Genesis 8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the
second month, the earth was fully dry.
Genesis 8:15 Then God said to Noah,
Genesis 8:16 “Come out of the ark, you and your
wife, along with your sons and their wives.
Genesis 8:17 Bring out all the living creatures
that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls
upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be
fruitful and multiply upon it.”
Genesis 8:18 So Noah came out, along with his
sons and his wife and his sons’ wives.
Genesis 8:19 Every living creature, every
creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the
earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.
Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the
LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird,
he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing
aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground
because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil
from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living
creatures as I have done.
Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and
night shall never cease.”
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons
and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:2 The fear and dread of you will fall
on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air,
every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the
sea. They are delivered into your hand.
Genesis 9:3 Everything that lives and moves will
be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give
you all things.
Genesis 9:4 But you must not eat meat with its
lifeblood still in it.
Genesis 9:5 And surely I will require the life
of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will
demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow
man:
Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by
man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made
mankind.
Genesis 9:7 But as for you, be fruitful and
multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”
Genesis 9:8 Then God said to Noah and his sons
with him,
Genesis 9:9 “Behold, I now establish My covenant
with you and your descendants after you,
Genesis 9:10 and with every living creature that
was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the
earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.
Genesis 9:11 And I establish My covenant with
you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a
flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Genesis 9:12 And God said, “This is the sign of
the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living
creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
Genesis 9:13 I have set My rainbow in the
clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the
earth.
Genesis 9:14 Whenever I form clouds over the
earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
Genesis 9:15 I will remember My covenant between
Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again
will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
Genesis 9:16 And whenever the rainbow appears in
the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the
earth.”
Genesis 9:17 So God said to Noah, “This is the
sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every
creature on the earth.”
Genesis 9:18 The sons of Noah who came out of
the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of
Canaan.
Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah,
and from them the whole earth was populated.
Genesis 9:20 Now Noah, a man of the soil,
proceeded to plant a vineyard.
Genesis 9:21 But when he drank some of its wine,
he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw
his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.
Genesis 9:23 Then Shem and Japheth took a
garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking
backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were
turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.
Genesis 9:24 When Noah awoke from his
drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
Genesis 9:25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A
servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Genesis 9:26 He also declared: “Blessed be the
LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
Genesis 9:27 May God expand the territory of
Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his
servant.”
Genesis 9:28 After the flood, Noah lived 350
years.
Genesis 9:29 So Noah lived a total of 950 years,
and then he died.
Genesis 10:1 This is the account of Noah’s sons
Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.
Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog,
Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz,
Riphath, and Togarmah.
Genesis 10:4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah,
Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.
Genesis 10:5 From these, the maritime peoples
separated into their territories, according to their languages, by
clans within their nations.
Genesis 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim,
Put, and Canaan.
Genesis 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah,
Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and
Dedan.
Genesis 10:8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who
began to be a mighty one on the earth.
Genesis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the
LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the
LORD.”
Genesis 10:10 His kingdom began in Babylon,
Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:11 From that land he went forth into
Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10:12 and Resen, which is between
Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
Genesis 10:13 Mizraim was the father of the
Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
Genesis 10:14 the Pathrusites, the Casluhites
(from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
Genesis 10:15 And Canaan was the father of Sidon
his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
Genesis 10:16 the Jebusites, the Amorites, the
Girgashites,
Genesis 10:17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the
Sinites,
Genesis 10:18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and
the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,
Genesis 10:19 and the borders of Canaan extended
from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom,
Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Genesis 10:20 These are the sons of Ham
according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10:21 And sons were also born to Shem,
the older brother of Japheth; Shem was the forefather of all the
sons of Eber.
Genesis 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur,
Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether,
and Mash.
Genesis 10:24 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,
and Shelah was the father of Eber.
Genesis 10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One
was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and
his brother was named Joktan.
Genesis 10:26 And Joktan was the father of
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Genesis 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Genesis 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Genesis 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All
these were sons of Joktan.
Genesis 10:30 Their territory extended from
Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
Genesis 10:31 These are the sons of Shem,
according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Genesis 10:32 All these are the clans of Noah’s
sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the
nations of the earth spread out after the flood.
Genesis 11:1 Now the whole world had one
language and a common form of speech.
Genesis 11:2 And as people journeyed eastward,
they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:3 And they said to one another,
“Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used
brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build
for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens,
that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over
the face of all the earth.”
Genesis 11:5 Then the LORD came down to see the
city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, “If they have
begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then
nothing they devise will be beyond them.
Genesis 11:7 Come, let Us go down and confuse
their language, so that they will not understand one another’s
speech.”
Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them from
there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building
the city.
Genesis 11:9 That is why it is called Babel, for
there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from
that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:10 This is the account of Shem. Two
years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the
father of Arphaxad.
Genesis 11:11 And after he had become the father
of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and
daughters.
Genesis 11:12 When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he
became the father of Shelah.
Genesis 11:13 And after he had become the father
of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and
daughters.
Genesis 11:14 When Shelah was 30 years old, he
became the father of Eber.
Genesis 11:15 And after he had become the father
of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:16 When Eber was 34 years old, he
became the father of Peleg.
Genesis 11:17 And after he had become the father
of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:18 When Peleg was 30 years old, he
became the father of Reu.
Genesis 11:19 And after he had become the father
of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:20 When Reu was 32 years old, he
became the father of Serug.
Genesis 11:21 And after he had become the father
of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:22 When Serug was 30 years old, he
became the father of Nahor.
Genesis 11:23 And after he had become the father
of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24 When Nahor was 29 years old, he
became the father of Terah.
Genesis 11:25 And after he had become the father
of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:26 When Terah was 70 years old, he
became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 11:27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran
became the father of Lot.
Genesis 11:28 During his father Terah’s
lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
Genesis 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for
themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was
named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of
both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 11:30 But Sarai was barren; she had no
children.
Genesis 11:31 And Terah took his son Abram, his
grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife
of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land
of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 11:32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died
in Haran.
Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave
your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to
the land I will show you.
Genesis 12:2 I will make you into a great
nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that
you will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:3 I will bless those who bless you
and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth
will be blessed through you.”
Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had
directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years
old when he left Haran.
Genesis 12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his
nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired
in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to
the land of Canaan,
Genesis 12:6 Abram traveled through the land as
far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time
the Canaanites were in the land.
Genesis 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and
said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an
altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:8 From there Abram moved on to the
hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to
the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD,
and he called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 12:9 And Abram journeyed on toward the
Negev.
Genesis 12:10 Now there was a famine in the
land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while
because the famine was severe.
Genesis 12:11 As he was about to enter Egypt, he
said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful
woman,
Genesis 12:12 and when the Egyptians see you,
they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will
let you live.
Genesis 12:13 Please say you are my sister, so
that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you
my life will be spared.”
Genesis 12:14 So when Abram entered Egypt, the
Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Genesis 12:15 When Pharaoh’s officials saw
Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the
palace of Pharaoh.
Genesis 12:16 He treated Abram well on her
account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female
donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Genesis 12:17 The LORD, however, afflicted
Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s
wife Sarai.
Genesis 12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and
asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was
your wife?
Genesis 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my
sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your
wife. Take her and go!”
Genesis 12:20 Then Pharaoh gave his men orders
concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his
possessions.
Genesis 13:1 So Abram went up out of Egypt into
the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with
him.
Genesis 13:2 And Abram had become extremely
wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
Genesis 13:3 From the Negev he journeyed from
place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between
Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
Genesis 13:4 to the site where he had built the
altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:5 Now Lot, who was traveling with
Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
Genesis 13:6 But the land was unable to support
both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many
possessions that they were unable to coexist.
Genesis 13:7 And there was discord between the
herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the
Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
Genesis 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let
there be no contention between you and me, or between your
herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before you?
Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to
the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that
the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well
watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This
was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose the whole plain of
the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and
Lot parted company.
Genesis 13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan,
but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent
toward Sodom.
Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked,
sinning greatly against the LORD.
Genesis 13:14 After Lot had departed, the LORD
said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you
are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
Genesis 13:15 for all the land that you see, I
will give to you and your offspring forever.
Genesis 13:16 I will make your offspring like
the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the
earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Genesis 13:17 Get up and walk around the land,
through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
Genesis 13:18 So Abram moved his tent and went
to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar
to the LORD.
Genesis 14:1 In those days Amraphel king of
Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
Tidal king of Goiim
Genesis 14:2 went to war against Bera king of
Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber
king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).
Genesis 14:3 The latter five came as allies to
the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Genesis 14:4 For twelve years they had been
subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Genesis 14:5 In the fourteenth year,
Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated
the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites
in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in the area of
Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
Genesis 14:7 Then they turned back to invade
En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole
territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in
Hazazon-tamar.
Genesis 14:8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of
Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of
Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle
in the Valley of Siddim
Genesis 14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam,
Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of
Ellasar—four kings against five.
Genesis 14:10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full
of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men
fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
Genesis 14:11 The four kings seized all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on
their way.
Genesis 14:12 They also carried off Abram’s
nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
Genesis 14:13 Then an escapee came and reported
this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of
Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were
bound by treaty to Abram.
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his
relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born
in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
Genesis 14:15 During the night, Abram divided
his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as
Hobah, north of Damascus.
Genesis 14:16 He retrieved all the goods, as
well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the
women and the rest of the people.
Genesis 14:17 After Abram returned from
defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of
Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the
King’s Valley).
Genesis 14:18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem
brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—
Genesis 14:19 and he blessed Abram and said:
“Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who
has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave
Melchizedek a tenth of everything.
Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram,
“Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”
Genesis 14:22 But Abram replied to the king of
Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator
of heaven and earth,
Genesis 14:23 that I will not accept even a
thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you,
lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
Genesis 14:24 I will accept nothing but what my
men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner,
Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion.”
Genesis 15:1 After these events, the word of the
LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am
your shield, your very great reward.”
Genesis 15:2 But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD,
what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my
house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Genesis 15:3 Abram continued, “Behold, You have
given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my
heir.”
Genesis 15:4 Then the word of the LORD came to
Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes
from your own body will be your heir.”
Genesis 15:5 And the LORD took him outside and
said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are
able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Genesis 15:6 Abram believed the LORD, and it was
credited to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:7 The LORD also told him, “I am the
LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this
land to possess.”
Genesis 15:8 But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how
can I know that I will possess it?”
Genesis 15:9 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me
a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a
turtledove and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 15:10 So Abram brought all these to Him,
split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite
each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
Genesis 15:11 And the birds of prey descended on
the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell
into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness
overwhelmed him.
Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know
for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that
is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four
hundred years.
Genesis 15:14 But I will judge the nation they
serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many
possessions.
Genesis 15:15 You, however, will go to your
fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation your
descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is
not yet complete.”
Genesis 15:17 When the sun had set and darkness
had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared
and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
Genesis 15:18 On that day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given
this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
Genesis 15:19 the land of the Kenites,
Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Genesis 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
Genesis 15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites,
and Jebusites.”
Genesis 16:1 Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne
him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
Genesis 16:2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now,
the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my
maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram
listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:3 So after he had lived in Canaan for
ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and
gave her to Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 16:4 And he slept with Hagar, and she
conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she
began to despise her mistress.
Genesis 16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the
wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your
arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has
treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Genesis 16:6 “Here,” said Abram, “your servant
is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai
treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
Genesis 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found
Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road
to Shur.
Genesis 16:8 “Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said,
“where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running
away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
Genesis 16:9 So the angel of the LORD told her,
“Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
Genesis 16:10 Then the angel added, “I will
greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous
to count.”
Genesis 16:11 The angel of the LORD proceeded:
“Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall
name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man,
and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against
him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
Genesis 16:13 So Hagar gave this name to the
LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she
said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
Genesis 16:14 Therefore the well was called
Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and
Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
Genesis 16:16 Abram was eighty-six years old
when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years
old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk
before Me and be blameless.
Genesis 17:2 I will establish My covenant
between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.”
Genesis 17:3 Then Abram fell facedown, and God
said to him,
Genesis 17:4 “As for Me, this is My covenant
with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram,
but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of
many nations.
Genesis 17:6 I will make you exceedingly
fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from
you.
Genesis 17:7 I will establish My covenant as an
everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after
you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:8 And to you and your descendants I
will give the land where you are residing—all the land of
Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:9 God also said to Abraham, “You must
keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after
you.
Genesis 17:10 This is My covenant with you and
your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male
among you must be circumcised.
Genesis 17:11 You are to circumcise the flesh of
your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me
and you.
Genesis 17:12 Generation after generation, every
male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including
those born in your household and those purchased from a
foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
Genesis 17:13 Whether they are born in your
household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in
your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:14 But if any male is not
circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My
covenant.”
Genesis 17:15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for
Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be
Sarah.
Genesis 17:16 And I will bless her and will
surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be
the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell facedown. Then he
laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is
a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
Genesis 17:18 And Abraham said to God, “O that
Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
Genesis 17:19 But God replied, “Your wife Sarah
will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will
establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his
descendants after him.
Genesis 17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you,
and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply
him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I
will make him into a great nation.
Genesis 17:21 But I will establish My covenant
with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
Genesis 17:22 When He had finished speaking with
Abraham, God went up from him.
Genesis 17:23 On that very day Abraham took his
son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with
his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and
he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
Genesis 17:24 So Abraham was ninety-nine years
old when he was circumcised,
Genesis 17:25 and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
Genesis 17:26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were
circumcised on the same day.
Genesis 17:27 And all the men of Abraham’s
household—both servants born in his household and those purchased
from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
Genesis 18:1 Then the LORD appeared to Abraham
by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting
at the entrance of his tent.
Genesis 18:2 And Abraham looked up and saw three
men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of
his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
Genesis 18:3 “My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have
found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
Genesis 18:4 Let a little water be brought, that
you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 18:5 And I will bring a bit of bread so
that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your
servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,”
they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
Genesis 18:6 So Abraham hurried into the tent
and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour,
knead it, and bake some bread.”
Genesis 18:7 Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd,
selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who
hurried to prepare it.
Genesis 18:8 Then Abraham brought curds and milk
and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the
men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.
Genesis 18:9 “Where is your wife Sarah?” they
asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
Genesis 18:10 Then the LORD said, “I will surely
return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will
have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance
to the tent.
Genesis 18:11 And Abraham and Sarah were already
old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of
childbearing.
Genesis 18:12 So she laughed to herself, saying,
“After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this
pleasure?”
Genesis 18:13 And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why
did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am
old?’
Genesis 18:14 Is anything too difficult for the
LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a
year—and Sarah will have a son.”
Genesis 18:15 But Sarah was afraid, so she
denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD,
“but you did laugh.”
Genesis 18:16 When the men got up to leave, they
looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see
them off.
Genesis 18:17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide
from Abraham what I am about to do?
Genesis 18:18 Abraham will surely become a great
and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth
will be blessed.
Genesis 18:19 For I have chosen him, so that he
will command his children and his household after him to keep the
way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the
LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
Genesis 18:20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry
against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so
grievous,
Genesis 18:21 I will go down to see if their
actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I
will find out.”
Genesis 18:22 And the two men turned away and
went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.
Genesis 18:23 Abraham stepped forward and said,
“Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
Genesis 18:24 What if there are fifty righteous
ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the
place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?
Genesis 18:25 Far be it from You to do such a
thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous
and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the
Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
Genesis 18:26 So the LORD replied, “If I find
fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I
will spare the whole place.”
Genesis 18:27 Then Abraham answered, “Now that I
have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
Genesis 18:28 suppose the fifty righteous ones
lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?”
He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
Genesis 18:29 Once again Abraham spoke to the
LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of
the forty, I will not do it.”
Genesis 18:30 Then Abraham said, “May the Lord
not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found
there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”
Genesis 18:31 And Abraham said, “Now that I have
ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He
answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”
Genesis 18:32 Finally, Abraham said, “May the
Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are
found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not
destroy it.”
Genesis 18:33 When the LORD had finished
speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
Genesis 19:1 Now the two angels arrived at Sodom
in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city.
When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,
Genesis 19:2 and said, “My lords, please turn
aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the
night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they
answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
Genesis 19:3 But Lot insisted so strongly that
they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and
baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 19:4 Before they had gone to bed, all
the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the
house.
Genesis 19:5 They called out to Lot, saying,
“Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so
we can have relations with them!”
Genesis 19:6 Lot went outside to meet them,
shutting the door behind him.
Genesis 19:7 “Please, my brothers,” he pleaded,
“don’t do such a wicked thing!
Genesis 19:8 Look, I have two daughters who have
never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do
to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for
they have come under the protection of my roof.”
Genesis 19:9 “Get out of the way!” they replied.
And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is
already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than
them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the
door.
Genesis 19:10 But the men inside reached out,
pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
Genesis 19:11 And they struck the men at the
entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied
themselves trying to find the door.
Genesis 19:12 Then the two men said to Lot, “Do
you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or
anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
Genesis 19:13 because we are about to destroy
this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so
great that He has sent us to destroy it.”
Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out and spoke to the
sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get
up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to
destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Genesis 19:15 At daybreak the angels hurried Lot
along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who
are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the
city.”
Genesis 19:16 But when Lot hesitated, the men
grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters.
And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s
compassion for them.
Genesis 19:17 As soon as the men had brought
them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back,
and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or
you will be swept away!”
Genesis 19:18 But Lot replied, “No, my lords,
please!
Genesis 19:19 Your servant has indeed found
favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by
sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster
will overtake me, and I will die.
Genesis 19:20 Look, there is a town nearby where
I can flee, and it is a small place. Please let me flee there—is
it not a small place? Then my life will be saved.”
Genesis 19:21 “Very well,” he answered, “I will
grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you
indicate.
Genesis 19:22 Hurry! Run there quickly, for I
cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was
called Zoar.
Genesis 19:23 And by the time the sun had risen
over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur
and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
Genesis 19:25 Thus He destroyed these cities and
the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and
everything that grew on the ground.
Genesis 19:26 But Lot’s wife looked back, and
she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:27 Early the next morning, Abraham
got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the
LORD.
Genesis 19:28 He looked down toward Sodom and
Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke
rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29 So when God destroyed the cities
of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the
catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Genesis 19:30 Lot and his two daughters left
Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in
Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to
the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land
to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Genesis 19:32 Come, let us get our father drunk
with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
Genesis 19:33 So that night they got their
father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with
her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:34 The next day the older daughter
said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let
us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and
sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Genesis 19:35 So again that night they got their
father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept
with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
Genesis 19:36 Thus both of Lot’s daughters
became pregnant by their father.
Genesis 19:37 The older daughter gave birth to a
son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today.
Genesis 19:38 The younger daughter also gave
birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of
the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 20:1 Now Abraham journeyed from there to
the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While
he was staying in Gerar,
Genesis 20:2 Abraham said of his wife Sarah,
“She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought
to him.
Genesis 20:3 One night, however, God came to
Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead
because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Genesis 20:4 Now Abimelech had not gone near
her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though
it is innocent?
Genesis 20:5 Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my
sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done
this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
Genesis 20:6 Then God said to Abimelech in the
dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and
so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not
let you touch her.
Genesis 20:7 Now return the man’s wife, for he
is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you
do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all
who belong to you.”
Genesis 20:8 Early the next morning Abimelech
got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to
them all that had happened, the men were terrified.
Genesis 20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham and
asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you,
that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my
kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
Genesis 20:10 Abimelech also asked Abraham,
“What prompted you to do such a thing?”
Genesis 20:11 Abraham replied, “I thought to
myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will
kill me on account of my wife.’
Genesis 20:12 Besides, she really is my sister,
the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and
she became my wife.
Genesis 20:13 So when God had me journey from my
father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your
loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 20:14 So Abimelech brought sheep and
cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham
and restored his wife Sarah to him.
Genesis 20:15 And Abimelech said, “Look, my land
is before you. Settle wherever you please.”
Genesis 20:16 And he said to Sarah, “See, I am
giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your
vindication before all who are with you; you are completely
cleared.”
Genesis 20:17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and
God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that
they could again bear children—
Genesis 20:18 for on account of Abraham’s wife
Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s
household.
Genesis 21:1 Now the LORD attended to Sarah as
He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
Genesis 21:2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son
to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
Genesis 21:3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to
the son Sarah bore to him.
Genesis 21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days
old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 21:5 Abraham was a hundred years old
when his son Isaac was born to him.
Genesis 21:6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me
laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
Genesis 21:7 She added, “Who would have told
Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a
son in his old age.”
Genesis 21:8 So the child grew and was weaned,
and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Genesis 21:9 But Sarah saw that the son whom
Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
Genesis 21:10 and she said to Abraham, “Expel
the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never
share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
Genesis 21:11 Now this matter distressed Abraham
greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
Genesis 21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not
be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to
everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring
will be reckoned.
Genesis 21:13 But I will also make a nation of
the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 21:14 Early in the morning, Abraham got
up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders,
and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the
Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:15 When the water in the skin was
gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Genesis 21:16 Then she went off and sat down
nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to
watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice
and wept.
Genesis 21:17 Then God heard the voice of the
boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is
wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the
boy where he lies.
Genesis 21:18 Get up, lift up the boy, and take
him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
Genesis 21:19 Then God opened her eyes, and she
saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water
and gave the boy a drink.
Genesis 21:20 And God was with the boy, and he
grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
Genesis 21:21 And while he was dwelling in the
Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land
of Egypt.
Genesis 21:22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol
the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all
that you do.
Genesis 21:23 Now, therefore, swear to me here
before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children
or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside
the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
Genesis 21:24 And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
Genesis 21:25 But when Abraham complained to
Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
Genesis 21:26 Abimelech replied, “I do not know
who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about
it until today.”
Genesis 21:27 So Abraham brought sheep and
cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a
covenant.
Genesis 21:28 Abraham separated seven ewe lambs
from the flock,
Genesis 21:29 and Abimelech asked him, “Why have
you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
Genesis 21:30 He replied, “You are to accept the
seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
Genesis 21:31 So that place was called
Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an
oath.
Genesis 21:32 After they had made the covenant
at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got
up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk
tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD,
the Eternal God.
Genesis 21:34 And Abraham resided in the land of
the Philistines for a long time.
Genesis 22:1 Some time later God tested Abraham
and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
Genesis 22:2 “Take your son,” God said, “your
only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer
him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I
will show you.”
Genesis 22:3 So Abraham got up early the next
morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants
and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set
out for the place God had designated.
Genesis 22:4 On the third day Abraham looked up
and saw the place in the distance.
Genesis 22:5 “Stay here with the donkey,”
Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to
worship, and then we will return to you.”
Genesis 22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt
offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the
fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on
together.
Genesis 22:7 Then Isaac said to his father
Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire
and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the
burnt offering?”
Genesis 22:8 Abraham answered, “God Himself will
provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two
walked on together.
Genesis 22:9 When they arrived at the place God
had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the
wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the
wood.
Genesis 22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand
and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Genesis 22:11 Just then the angel of the LORD
called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he
replied.
Genesis 22:12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy or
do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear
God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
Genesis 22:13 Then Abraham looked up and saw
behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and
took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his
son.
Genesis 22:14 And Abraham called that place The
LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of
the LORD it will be provided.”
Genesis 22:15 And the angel of the LORD called
to Abraham from heaven a second time,
Genesis 22:16 saying, “By Myself I have sworn,
declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not
withheld your only son,
Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I
will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the
sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of
their enemies.
Genesis 22:18 And through your offspring all
nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My
voice.”
Genesis 22:19 Abraham went back to his servants,
and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham
settled in Beersheba.
Genesis 22:20 Some time later, Abraham was told,
“Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
Genesis 22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz,
Kemuel (the father of Aram),
Genesis 22:22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph,
and Bethuel.”
Genesis 22:23 And Bethuel became the father of
Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Genesis 22:24 Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose
name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Genesis 23:1 Now Sarah lived to be 127 years
old.
Genesis 23:2 She died in Kiriath-arba (that is,
Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and
to weep for her.
Genesis 23:3 Then Abraham got up from beside his
dead wife and said to the Hittites,
Genesis 23:4 “I am a foreigner and an outsider
among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my
dead.”
Genesis 23:5 The Hittites replied to Abraham,
Genesis 23:6 “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s
chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs.
None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”
Genesis 23:7 Then Abraham rose and bowed down
before the people of the land, the Hittites.
Genesis 23:8 “If you are willing for me to bury
my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son
of Zohar on my behalf
Genesis 23:9 to sell me the cave of Machpelah
that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell
it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a
burial site.”
Genesis 23:10 Now Ephron was sitting among the
sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come
to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:11 “No, my lord. Listen to me. I give
you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to
you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23:12 Again Abraham bowed down before
the people of the land
Genesis 23:13 and said to Ephron in their
presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the
price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead
there.”
Genesis 23:14 Ephron answered Abraham,
Genesis 23:15 “Listen to me, my lord. The land
is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between
you and me? Bury your dead.”
Genesis 23:16 Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms
and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of
the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the
standard of the merchants.
Genesis 23:17 So Ephron’s field at Machpelah
near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the
boundaries of the field were deeded over
Genesis 23:18 to Abraham’s possession in the
presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:19 After this, Abraham buried his
wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that
is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 23:20 So the field and its cave were
deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
Genesis 24:1 By now Abraham was old and well
along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
Genesis 24:2 So Abraham instructed the chief
servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your
hand under my thigh,
Genesis 24:3 and I will have you swear by the
LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not
take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among
whom I am dwelling,
Genesis 24:4 but will go to my country and my
kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Genesis 24:5 The servant asked him, “What if the
woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take
your son back to the land from which you came?”
Genesis 24:6 Abraham replied, “Make sure that
you do not take my son back there.
Genesis 24:7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who
brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to
me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give
this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take
a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 24:8 And if the woman is unwilling to
follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do
not take my son back there.”
Genesis 24:9 So the servant placed his hand
under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him
concerning this matter.
Genesis 24:10 Then the servant took ten of his
master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from
his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in
Aram-naharaim.
Genesis 24:11 As evening approached, he made the
camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when
the women went out to draw water.
Genesis 24:12 “O LORD, God of my master
Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show
kindness to my master Abraham.
Genesis 24:13 Here I am, standing beside the
spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to
draw water.
Genesis 24:14 Now may it happen that the girl to
whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who
responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be
the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will
know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Genesis 24:15 Before the servant had finished
praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was
the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s
brother Nahor.
Genesis 24:16 Now the girl was very beautiful, a
virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to
the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
Genesis 24:17 So the servant ran to meet her and
said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
Genesis 24:18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and
she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Genesis 24:19 After she had given him a drink,
she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have
had enough to drink.”
Genesis 24:20 And she quickly emptied her jar
into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she
had drawn water for all his camels.
Genesis 24:21 Meanwhile, the man watched her
silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a
success.
Genesis 24:22 And after the camels had finished
drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold
bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Genesis 24:23 “Whose daughter are you?” he
asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for
us to spend the night?”
Genesis 24:24 She replied, “I am the daughter of
Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
Genesis 24:25 Then she added, “We have plenty of
straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
Genesis 24:26 Then the man bowed down and
worshiped the LORD,
Genesis 24:27 saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the
God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and
faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the
journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Genesis 24:28 The girl ran and told her mother’s
household about these things.
Genesis 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother named
Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Genesis 24:30 As soon as he saw the ring, and
the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words,
“The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by
the camels near the spring.
Genesis 24:31 “Come, you who are blessed by the
LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared
the house and a place for the camels.”
Genesis 24:32 So the man came to the house, and
the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the
camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions.
Genesis 24:33 Then a meal was set before the
man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I
came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
Genesis 24:34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he
replied.
Genesis 24:35 “The LORD has greatly blessed my
master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle,
silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
Genesis 24:36 My master’s wife Sarah has borne
him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything
he owns.
Genesis 24:37 My master made me swear an oath
and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters
of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
Genesis 24:38 but you shall go to my father’s
house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
Genesis 24:39 Then I asked my master, ‘What if
the woman will not come back with me?’
Genesis 24:40 And he told me, ‘The LORD, before
whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your
journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my
kindred and from my father’s house.
Genesis 24:41 And when you go to my kindred, if
they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my
oath.’
Genesis 24:42 So when I came to the spring
today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You
would make my journey a success!
Genesis 24:43 Here I am, standing beside this
spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her,
‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
Genesis 24:44 and she replies, ‘Drink, and I
will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the
LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
Genesis 24:45 And before I had finished praying
in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her
shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I
said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
Genesis 24:46 She quickly lowered her jar from
her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as
well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
Genesis 24:47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter
are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom
Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the
bracelets on her wrists.
Genesis 24:48 Then I bowed down and worshiped
the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham,
who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my
master’s brother for his son.
Genesis 24:49 Now if you will show kindness and
faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so
that I may go elsewhere.”
Genesis 24:50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “This
is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
Genesis 24:51 Rebekah is here before you. Take
her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just
as the LORD has decreed.”
Genesis 24:52 When Abraham’s servant heard their
words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
Genesis 24:53 Then he brought out jewels of
silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to
Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her
mother.
Genesis 24:54 Then he and the men with him ate
and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next
morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
Genesis 24:55 But her brother and mother said,
“Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may
go.”
Genesis 24:56 But he replied, “Do not delay me,
since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so
that I may go to my master.”
Genesis 24:57 So they said, “We will call the
girl and ask her opinion.”
Genesis 24:58 They called Rebekah and asked her,
“Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.
Genesis 24:59 So they sent their sister Rebekah
on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his
men.
Genesis 24:60 And they blessed Rebekah and said
to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon
thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Genesis 24:61 Then Rebekah and her servant girls
got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the
servant took Rebekah and left.
Genesis 24:62 Now Isaac had just returned from
Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
Genesis 24:63 Early in the evening, Isaac went
out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels
approaching.
Genesis 24:64 And when Rebekah looked up and saw
Isaac, she got down from her camel
Genesis 24:65 and asked the servant, “Who is
that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the
servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Genesis 24:66 Then the servant told Isaac all
that he had done.
Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into the
tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac
loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 25:1 Now Abraham had taken another wife,
named Keturah,
Genesis 25:2 and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan,
Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and
Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites,
and the Leummites.
Genesis 25:4 The sons of Midian were Ephah,
Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of
Keturah.
Genesis 25:5 Abraham left everything he owned to
Isaac.
Genesis 25:6 But while he was still alive,
Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them
away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Genesis 25:7 Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
Genesis 25:8 And at a ripe old age he breathed
his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his
people.
Genesis 25:9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried
him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron
son of Zohar the Hittite.
Genesis 25:10 This was the field that Abraham
had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his
wife Sarah.
Genesis 25:11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed
his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Genesis 25:12 This is the account of Abraham’s
son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to
Abraham.
Genesis 25:13 These are the names of the sons of
Ishmael in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of
Ishmael, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Genesis 25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and
Kedemah.
Genesis 25:16 These were the sons of Ishmael,
and these were their names by their villages and
encampments—twelve princes of their tribes.
Genesis 25:17 Ishmael lived a total of 137
years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his
people.
Genesis 25:18 Ishmael’s descendants settled from
Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go
toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their
brothers.
Genesis 25:19 This is the account of Abraham’s
son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
Genesis 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when
he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from
Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 25:21 Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on
behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his
prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
Genesis 25:22 But the children inside her
struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to
me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
Genesis 25:23 and He declared to her: “Two
nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be
separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the
older will serve the younger.”
Genesis 25:24 When her time came to give birth,
there were indeed twins in her womb.
Genesis 25:25 The first one came out red,
covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.
Genesis 25:26 After this, his brother came out
grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty
years old when the twins were born.
Genesis 25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became
a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man
who stayed at home.
Genesis 25:28 Because Isaac had a taste for wild
game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25:29 One day, while Jacob was cooking
some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
Genesis 25:30 He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some
of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also
called Edom.)
Genesis 25:31 “First sell me your birthright,”
Jacob replied.
Genesis 25:32 “Look,” said Esau, “I am about to
die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
Genesis 25:33 “Swear to me first,” Jacob said.
So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
Genesis 25:34 Then Jacob gave some bread and
lentil stew to Esau, who ate and drank and then got up and went
away. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Genesis 26:1 Now there was another famine in the
land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time.
And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Genesis 26:2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and
said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell
you.
Genesis 26:3 Stay in this land as a foreigner,
and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these
lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that
I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4 I will make your descendants as
numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these
lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be
blessed,
Genesis 26:5 because Abraham listened to My
voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My
laws.”
Genesis 26:6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
Genesis 26:7 But when the men of that place
asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was
afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The
men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she
is so beautiful.”
Genesis 26:8 When Isaac had been there a long
time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the
window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:9 Abimelech sent for Isaac and said,
“So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my
sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account
of her.”
Genesis 26:10 “What is this you have done to
us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept
with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Genesis 26:11 So Abimelech warned all the
people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be
put to death.”
Genesis 26:12 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land,
and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed
him,
Genesis 26:13 and he became richer and richer,
until he was exceedingly wealthy.
Genesis 26:14 He owned so many flocks and herds
and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:15 So the Philistines took dirt and
stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the
days of his father Abraham.
Genesis 26:16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac,
“Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
Genesis 26:17 So Isaac left that place and
encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
Genesis 26:18 Isaac reopened the wells that had
been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines
had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the
same names his father had given them.
Genesis 26:19 Then Isaac’s servants dug in the
valley and found a well of fresh water there.
Genesis 26:20 But the herdsmen of Gerar
quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So
he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26:21 Then they dug another well and
quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
Genesis 26:22 He moved on from there and dug
another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it
Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we
will be fruitful in the land.”
Genesis 26:23 From there Isaac went up to
Beersheba,
Genesis 26:24 and that night the LORD appeared
to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be
afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your
descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
Genesis 26:25 So Isaac built an altar there and
called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His
servants also dug a well there.
Genesis 26:26 Later, Abimelech came to Isaac
from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of
his army.
Genesis 26:27 “Why have you come to me?” Isaac
asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
Genesis 26:28 “We can plainly see that the LORD
has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should
now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
Genesis 26:29 that you will not harm us, just as
we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you
on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
Genesis 26:30 So Isaac prepared a feast for
them, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 26:31 And they got up early the next
morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on
their way, and they left him in peace.
Genesis 26:32 On that same day, Isaac’s servants
came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found
water!” they told him.
Genesis 26:33 So he called it Shibah, and to
this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he
took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and
Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35 And they brought grief to Isaac
and Rebekah.
Genesis 27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes
were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son
Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
Genesis 27:2 “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old,
and I do not know the day of my death.
Genesis 27:3 Take your weapons—your quiver and
bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.
Genesis 27:4 Then prepare a tasty dish that I
love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I
die.”
Genesis 27:5 Now Rebekah was listening to what
Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt
game and bring it back,
Genesis 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob,
“Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
Genesis 27:7 ‘Bring me some game and prepare me
a tasty dish to eat, so that I may bless you in the presence of
the LORD before I die.’
Genesis 27:8 Now, my son, listen to my voice and
do exactly as I tell you.
Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me
two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish
for your father—the kind he loves.
Genesis 27:10 Then take it to your father to
eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”
Genesis 27:11 Jacob answered his mother Rebekah,
“Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
Genesis 27:12 What if my father touches me? Then
I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon
myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Genesis 27:13 His mother replied, “Your curse be
on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
Genesis 27:14 So Jacob went and got two goats
and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father
loved.
Genesis 27:15 And Rebekah took the finest
clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she
put them on her younger son Jacob.
Genesis 27:16 She also put the skins of the
young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Genesis 27:17 Then she handed her son Jacob the
tasty food and bread she had made.
Genesis 27:18 So Jacob went to his father and
said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you,
my son?”
Genesis 27:19 Jacob said to his father, “I am
Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up
and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:20 But Isaac asked his son, “How did
you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God
brought it to me,” he replied.
Genesis 27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please
come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son
Esau, or not?”
Genesis 27:22 So Jacob came close to his father
Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob,
but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
Genesis 27:23 Isaac did not recognize him,
because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he
blessed him.
Genesis 27:24 Again he asked, “Are you really my
son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
Genesis 27:25 “Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let
me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob
brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he
drank.
Genesis 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him,
“Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
Genesis 27:27 So he came near and kissed him.
When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the
smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has
blessed.
Genesis 27:28 May God give to you the dew of
heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new
wine.
Genesis 27:29 May peoples serve you and nations
bow down to you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may
the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you
be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
Genesis 27:30 As soon as Isaac had finished
blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother
Esau returned from the hunt.
Genesis 27:31 He too made some tasty food,
brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and
eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
Genesis 27:32 But his father Isaac replied, “Who
are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
Genesis 27:33 Isaac began to tremble violently
and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to
me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed,
he will be blessed!”
Genesis 27:34 When Esau heard his father’s
words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father,
“Bless me too, O my father!”
Genesis 27:35 But Isaac replied, “Your brother
came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
Genesis 27:36 So Esau declared, “Is he not
rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my
birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked,
“Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
Genesis 27:37 But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I
have made him your master and given him all his relatives as
servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is
left that I can do for you, my son?”
Genesis 27:38 Esau said to his father, “Do you
have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!”
Then Esau wept aloud.
Genesis 27:39 His father Isaac answered him:
“Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of
the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Genesis 27:40 You shall live by the sword and
serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke
from your neck.”
Genesis 27:41 Esau held a grudge against Jacob
because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in
his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I
will kill my brother Jacob.”
Genesis 27:42 When the words of her older son
Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob
and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by
plotting to kill you.
Genesis 27:43 So now, my son, obey my voice and
flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
Genesis 27:44 Stay with him for a while, until
your brother’s fury subsides—
Genesis 27:45 until your brother’s rage against
you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will
send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both
of you in one day?”
Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am
weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a
Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
Genesis 28:1 So Isaac called for Jacob and
blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he
commanded.
Genesis 28:2 “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the
house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among
the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
Genesis 28:3 May God Almighty bless you and make
you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of
peoples.
Genesis 28:4 And may He give the blessing of
Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the
land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to
Abraham.”
Genesis 28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram,
to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who
was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:6 Now Esau learned that Isaac had
blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there,
commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
Genesis 28:7 and that Jacob had obeyed his
father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Genesis 28:8 And seeing that his father Isaac
disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Genesis 28:9 Esau went to Ishmael and married
Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son
Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
Genesis 28:10 Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and
set out for Haran.
Genesis 28:11 On reaching a certain place, he
spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of
the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down
to sleep.
Genesis 28:12 And Jacob had a dream about a
ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to
heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
Genesis 28:13 And there at the top the LORD was
standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father
Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants
the land on which you now lie.
Genesis 28:14 Your descendants will be like the
dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east
and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed
through you and your offspring.
Genesis 28:15 Look, I am with you, and I will
watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this
land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have
promised you.”
Genesis 28:16 When Jacob woke up, he thought,
“Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
Genesis 28:17 And he was afraid and said, “How
awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God;
this is the gate of heaven!”
Genesis 28:18 Early the next morning, Jacob took
the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a
pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
Genesis 28:19 and he called that place Bethel,
though previously the city had been named Luz.
Genesis 28:20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If
God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He
will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
Genesis 28:21 so that I may return safely to my
father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.
Genesis 28:22 And this stone I have set up as a
pillar will be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will
surely give You a tenth.”
Genesis 29:1 Jacob resumed his journey and came
to the land of the people of the east.
Genesis 29:2 He looked and saw a well in the
field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep
were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth
of the well.
Genesis 29:3 When all the flocks had been
gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the
mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the
stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Genesis 29:4 “My brothers,” Jacob asked the
shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they
answered.
Genesis 29:5 “Do you know Laban the grandson of
Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
Genesis 29:6 “Is he well?” Jacob inquired.
“Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his
sheep.”
Genesis 29:7 “Look,” said Jacob, “it is still
broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water
the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
Genesis 29:8 But they replied, “We cannot, until
all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled
away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
Genesis 29:9 While he was still speaking with
them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a
shepherdess.
Genesis 29:10 As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the
daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he
went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and
watered his uncle’s sheep.
Genesis 29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept
aloud.
Genesis 29:12 He told Rachel that he was
Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her
father.
Genesis 29:13 When Laban heard the news about
his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him
and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him
all that had happened.
Genesis 29:14 Then Laban declared, “You are
indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a
month,
Genesis 29:15 Laban said to him, “Just because
you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what
your wages should be.”
Genesis 29:16 Now Laban had two daughters; the
older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
Genesis 29:17 Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was
shapely and beautiful.
Genesis 29:18 Since Jacob loved Rachel, he
answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter
Rachel.”
Genesis 29:19 Laban replied, “Better that I give
her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
Genesis 29:20 So Jacob served seven years for
Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
Genesis 29:21 Finally Jacob said to Laban,
“Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep
with her.”
Genesis 29:22 So Laban invited all the men of
that place and prepared a feast.
Genesis 29:23 But when evening came, Laban took
his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and he slept with her.
Genesis 29:24 And Laban gave his servant girl
Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
Genesis 29:25 When morning came, there was Leah!
“What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for
Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
Genesis 29:26 Laban replied, “It is not our
custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the
older.
Genesis 29:27 Finish this week’s celebration,
and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven
years of work.”
Genesis 29:28 And Jacob did just that. He
finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter
Rachel as his wife.
Genesis 29:29 Laban also gave his servant girl
Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
Genesis 29:30 Jacob slept with Rachel as well,
and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban
another seven years.
Genesis 29:31 When the LORD saw that Leah was
unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Genesis 29:32 And Leah conceived and gave birth
to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has
seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
Genesis 29:33 Again she conceived and gave birth
to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am
unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him
Simeon.
Genesis 29:34 Once again Leah conceived and gave
birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become
attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was
named Levi.
Genesis 29:35 And once more she conceived and
gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.”
So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
Genesis 30:1 When Rachel saw that she was not
bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me
children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Genesis 30:2 Jacob became angry with Rachel and
said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from
you?”
Genesis 30:3 Then she said, “Here is my
maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for
me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
Genesis 30:4 So Rachel gave Jacob her servant
Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,
Genesis 30:5 and Bilhah conceived and bore him a
son.
Genesis 30:6 Then Rachel said, “God has
vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she
named him Dan.
Genesis 30:7 And Rachel’s servant Bilhah
conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
Genesis 30:8 Then Rachel said, “In my great
struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named
him Naphtali.
Genesis 30:9 When Leah saw that she had stopped
having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 30:10 And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore
Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:11 Then Leah said, “How fortunate!”
So she named him Gad.
Genesis 30:12 When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore
Jacob a second son,
Genesis 30:13 Leah said, “How happy I am! For
the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
Genesis 30:14 Now during the wheat harvest,
Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he
brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me
some of your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30:15 But Leah replied, “Is it not
enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take
my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may
sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
Genesis 30:16 When Jacob came in from the field
that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come
with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he
slept with her that night.
Genesis 30:17 And God listened to Leah, and she
conceived and bore a fifth son to Jacob.
Genesis 30:18 Then Leah said, “God has rewarded
me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him
Issachar.
Genesis 30:19 Again Leah conceived and bore a
sixth son to Jacob.
Genesis 30:20 “God has given me a good gift,”
she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have
borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.
Genesis 30:21 After that, Leah gave birth to a
daughter and named her Dinah.
Genesis 30:22 Then God remembered Rachel. He
listened to her and opened her womb,
Genesis 30:23 and she conceived and gave birth
to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
Genesis 30:24 She named him Joseph, and said,
“May the LORD add to me another son.”
Genesis 30:25 Now after Rachel had given birth
to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return
to my homeland.
Genesis 30:26 Give me my wives and children for
whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard
I have worked for you.”
Genesis 30:27 But Laban replied, “If I have
found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by
divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
Genesis 30:28 And he added, “Name your wages,
and I will pay them.”
Genesis 30:29 Then Jacob answered, “You know how
I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my
care.
Genesis 30:30 Indeed, you had very little before
my arrival, but now your wealth has increased many times over. The
LORD has blessed you wherever I set foot. But now, when may I also
provide for my own household?”
Genesis 30:31 “What can I give you?” Laban
asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If
you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and
keeping your flocks.
Genesis 30:32 Let me go through all your flocks
today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every
dark-colored lamb, and every spotted or speckled goat. These will
be my wages.
Genesis 30:33 So my honesty will testify for me
when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any
goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not
dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
Genesis 30:34 “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be
as you have said.”
Genesis 30:35 That very day Laban removed all
the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted
female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every
dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
Genesis 30:36 Then he put a three-day journey
between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of
Laban’s flocks.
Genesis 30:37 Jacob, however, took fresh
branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark,
exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
Genesis 30:38 Then he set the peeled branches in
the watering troughs in front of the flocks coming in to drink. So
when the flocks were in heat and came to drink,
Genesis 30:39 they mated in front of the
branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or
spotted.
Genesis 30:40 Jacob set apart the young, but
made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s
flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with
Laban’s animals.
Genesis 30:41 Whenever the stronger females of
the flock were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the
troughs, in full view of the animals, so that they would breed in
front of the branches.
Genesis 30:42 But if the animals were weak, he
did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban
and the stronger ones to Jacob.
Genesis 30:43 Thus Jacob became exceedingly
prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants,
and camels and donkeys.
Genesis 31:1 Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons
were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father
and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
Genesis 31:2 And Jacob saw from the countenance
of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
Genesis 31:3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go
back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will
be with you.”
Genesis 31:4 So Jacob sent word and called
Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were,
Genesis 31:5 and he told them, “I can see from
your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed;
but the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:6 You know that I have served your
father with all my strength.
Genesis 31:7 And although he has cheated me and
changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Genesis 31:8 If he said, ‘The speckled will be
your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he
said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore
streaked offspring.
Genesis 31:9 Thus God has taken away your
father’s livestock and given them to me.
Genesis 31:10 When the flocks were breeding, I
saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were
mating with the females.
Genesis 31:11 In that dream the angel of God
said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
Genesis 31:12 ‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that
all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked,
spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to
you.
Genesis 31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where you
anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and
leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
Genesis 31:14 And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do
we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
Genesis 31:15 Are we not regarded by him as
outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly
squandered what was paid for us.
Genesis 31:16 Surely all the wealth that God has
taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So
do whatever God has told you.”
Genesis 31:17 Then Jacob got up and put his
children and his wives on camels,
Genesis 31:18 and he drove all his livestock
before him, along with all the possessions he had acquired in
Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.
Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing
his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 31:20 Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the
Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
Genesis 31:21 So he fled with all his
possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill
country of Gilead.
Genesis 31:22 On the third day Laban was
informed that Jacob had fled.
Genesis 31:23 So he took his relatives with him,
pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country
of Gilead.
Genesis 31:24 But that night God came to Laban
the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say
anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
Genesis 31:25 Now Jacob had pitched his tent in
the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and
his relatives camped there as well.
Genesis 31:26 Then Laban said to Jacob, “What
have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters
like captives of war!
Genesis 31:27 Why did you run away secretly and
deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away
with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Genesis 31:28 But you did not even let me kiss
my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a
foolish thing.
Genesis 31:29 I have power to do you great harm,
but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not
to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
Genesis 31:30 Now you have gone off because you
long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
Genesis 31:31 “I was afraid,” Jacob answered,
“for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
Genesis 31:32 If you find your gods with anyone
here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for
yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did
not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
Genesis 31:33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent,
then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but
he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s
tent.
Genesis 31:34 Now Rachel had taken Laban’s
household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was
sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but
found nothing.
Genesis 31:35 Rachel said to her father, “Sir,
do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having
my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household
idols.
Genesis 31:36 Then Jacob became incensed and
challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of
mine have you so hotly pursued me?
Genesis 31:37 You have searched all my goods!
Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my
brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
Genesis 31:38 I have been with you for twenty
years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I
eaten the rams of your flock.
Genesis 31:39 I did not bring you anything torn
by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment
from me for what was stolen by day or night.
Genesis 31:40 As it was, the heat consumed me by
day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
Genesis 31:41 Thus for twenty years I have
served in your household—fourteen years for your two daughters and
six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times!
Genesis 31:42 If the God of my father, the God
of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by
now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my
affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered
judgment.”
Genesis 31:43 But Laban answered Jacob, “These
daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these
flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I
do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have
borne?
Genesis 31:44 Come now, let us make a covenant,
you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”
Genesis 31:45 So Jacob picked out a stone and
set it up as a pillar,
Genesis 31:46 and he said to his relatives,
“Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and
there by the mound they ate.
Genesis 31:47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha,
and Jacob called it Galeed.
Genesis 31:48 Then Laban declared, “This mound
is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was
called Galeed.
Genesis 31:49 It was also called Mizpah, because
Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we
are absent from each other.
Genesis 31:50 If you mistreat my daughters or
take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is
a witness between you and me.”
Genesis 31:51 Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is
the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and
me.
Genesis 31:52 This mound is a witness, and this
pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm
you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.
Genesis 31:53 May the God of Abraham and the God
of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob
swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on
the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after
they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
Genesis 31:55 Early the next morning, Laban got
up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them.
Then he left to return home.
Genesis 32:1 Jacob also went on his way, and the
angels of God met him.
Genesis 32:2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This
is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 32:3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him
to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
Genesis 32:4 He instructed them, “You are to say
to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying
with Laban and have remained there until now.
Genesis 32:5 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks,
menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform
my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
Genesis 32:6 When the messengers returned to
Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is
coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
Genesis 32:7 In great fear and distress, Jacob
divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds
and camels.
Genesis 32:8 He thought, “If Esau comes and
attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
Genesis 32:9 Then Jacob declared, “O God of my
father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go
back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you
prosper,’
Genesis 32:10 I am unworthy of all the kindness
and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my
staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Genesis 32:11 Please deliver me from the hand of
my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me
and the mothers and children with me.
Genesis 32:12 But You have said, ‘I will surely
make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of
the sea, too numerous to count.’”
Genesis 32:13 Jacob spent the night there, and
from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his
brother Esau:
Genesis 32:14 200 female goats, 20 male goats,
200 ewes, 20 rams,
Genesis 32:15 30 milk camels with their young,
40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.
Genesis 32:16 He entrusted them to his servants
in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some
distance between the herds.”
Genesis 32:17 He instructed the one in the lead,
“When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong,
where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
Genesis 32:18 then you are to say, ‘They belong
to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And
behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
Genesis 32:19 He also instructed the second, the
third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet
Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
Genesis 32:20 You are also to say, ‘Look, your
servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will
appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I
can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
Genesis 32:21 So Jacob’s gifts went on before
him, while he spent the night in the camp.
Genesis 32:22 During the night Jacob got up and
took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and
crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
Genesis 32:23 He took them and sent them across
the stream, along with all his possessions.
Genesis 32:24 So Jacob was left all alone, and
there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Genesis 32:25 When the man saw that he could not
overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and
dislocated it as they wrestled.
Genesis 32:26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for
it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless
you bless me.”
Genesis 32:27 “What is your name?” the man
asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will
no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with
God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
Genesis 32:29 And Jacob requested, “Please tell
me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he
blessed Jacob there.
Genesis 32:30 So Jacob named the place Peniel,
saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was
spared.”
Genesis 32:31 The sun rose above him as he
passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
Genesis 32:32 Therefore to this day the
Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the
hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that
tendon.
Genesis 33:1 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau
coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the
children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
Genesis 33:2 He put the maidservants and their
children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and
Joseph at the rear.
Genesis 33:3 But Jacob himself went on ahead and
bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Genesis 33:4 Esau, however, ran to him and
embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And
they both wept.
Genesis 33:5 When Esau looked up and saw the
women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob
answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your
servant.”
Genesis 33:6 Then the maidservants and their
children approached and bowed down.
Genesis 33:7 Leah and her children also
approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached
and bowed down.
Genesis 33:8 “What do you mean by sending this
whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your
sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
Genesis 33:9 “I already have plenty, my
brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
Genesis 33:10 But Jacob insisted, “No, please!
If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from
my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing
the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
Genesis 33:11 Please accept my gift that was
brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all
I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.
Genesis 33:12 Then Esau said, “Let us be on our
way, and I will go ahead of you.”
Genesis 33:13 But Jacob replied, “My lord knows
that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle
that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a
day, all the animals will die.
Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord go ahead of his
servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the
livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
Genesis 33:15 “Let me leave some of my people
with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find
favor in the sight of my lord.”
Genesis 33:16 So that day Esau started on his
way back to Seir,
Genesis 33:17 but Jacob went on to Succoth,
where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock;
that is why the place was called Succoth.
Genesis 33:18 After Jacob had come from
Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land
of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.
Genesis 33:19 And the plot of ground where he
pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s
father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Genesis 33:20 There he set up an altar and
called it El-Elohe-Israel.
Genesis 34:1 Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had
borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Genesis 34:2 When Shechem son of Hamor the
Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay
with her by force.
Genesis 34:3 And his soul was drawn to Dinah,
the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her
tenderly.
Genesis 34:4 So Shechem told his father Hamor,
“Get me this girl as a wife.”
Genesis 34:5 Jacob heard that Shechem had
defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his
livestock in the field, he remained silent about it until they
returned.
Genesis 34:6 Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor
came to speak with Jacob.
Genesis 34:7 When Jacob’s sons heard what had
happened, they returned from the field. They were filled with
grief and fury, because Shechem had committed an outrage in Israel
by lying with Jacob’s daughter—a thing that should not be done.
Genesis 34:8 But Hamor said to them, “My son
Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his
wife.
Genesis 34:9 Intermarry with us; give us your
daughters, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Genesis 34:10 You may settle among us, and the
land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and
acquire your own property.”
Genesis 34:11 Then Shechem said to Dinah’s
father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you
whatever you ask.
Genesis 34:12 Demand a high dowry and an
expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me
the girl as my wife!”
Genesis 34:13 But because Shechem had defiled
their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor
deceitfully.
Genesis 34:14 “We cannot do such a thing,” they
said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a
disgrace to us.
Genesis 34:15 We will consent to this on one
condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your
males.
Genesis 34:16 Then we will give you our
daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell
among you and become one people.
Genesis 34:17 But if you will not agree to be
circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
Genesis 34:18 Their offer seemed good to Hamor
and his son Shechem.
Genesis 34:19 The young man, who was the most
respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to
fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s
daughter.
Genesis 34:20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went
to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
Genesis 34:21 “These men are at peace with us.
Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough
for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our
daughters to them.
Genesis 34:22 But only on this condition will
the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men
are circumcised as they are.
Genesis 34:23 Will not their livestock, their
possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let us
consent to them, and they will dwell among us.”
Genesis 34:24 All the men who went out of the
city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of
the city was circumcised.
Genesis 34:25 Three days later, while they were
still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and
Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and
slaughtered every male.
Genesis 34:26 They killed Hamor and his son
Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and
went away.
Genesis 34:27 Jacob’s other sons came upon the
slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been
defiled.
Genesis 34:28 They took their flocks and herds
and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
Genesis 34:29 They carried off all their
possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything
in their houses.
Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and
Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to
the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few
in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my
household will be destroyed.”
Genesis 34:31 But they replied, “Should he have
treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Genesis 35:1 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go
up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God
who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Genesis 35:2 So Jacob told his household and all
who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among
you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
Genesis 35:3 Then let us arise and go to Bethel.
I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of
distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
Genesis 35:4 So they gave Jacob all their
foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under
the oak near Shechem.
Genesis 35:5 As they set out, a terror from God
fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue
Jacob’s sons.
Genesis 35:6 So Jacob and everyone with him
arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 35:7 There Jacob built an altar, and he
called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had
revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
Genesis 35:8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died
and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it
Allon-bachuth.
Genesis 35:9 After Jacob had returned from
Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
Genesis 35:10 And God said to him, “Though your
name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your
name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
Genesis 35:11 And God told him, “I am God
Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of
nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
Genesis 35:12 The land that I gave to Abraham
and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your
descendants after you.”
Genesis 35:13 Then God went up from the place
where He had spoken with him.
Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the
place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured
out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
Genesis 35:15 Jacob called the place where God
had spoken with him Bethel.
Genesis 35:16 Later, they set out from Bethel,
and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began
to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Genesis 35:17 During her severe labor, the
midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another
son.”
Genesis 35:18 And with her last breath—for she
was dying—she named him Ben-oni. But his father called him
Benjamin.
Genesis 35:19 So Rachel died and was buried on
the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
Genesis 35:20 Jacob set up a pillar on her
grave; it marks Rachel’s tomb to this day.
Genesis 35:21 Israel again set out and pitched
his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.
Genesis 35:22 While Israel was living in that
region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine
Bilhah, and Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons:
Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah were Reuben the
firstborn of Jacob, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 35:24 The sons of Rachel were Joseph and
Benjamin.
Genesis 35:25 The sons of Rachel’s maidservant
Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 35:26 And the sons of Leah’s maidservant
Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were
born to him in Paddan-aram.
Genesis 35:27 Jacob returned to his father Isaac
at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and
Isaac had stayed.
Genesis 35:28 And Isaac lived 180 years.
Genesis 35:29 Then he breathed his last and died
and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his
sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 36:1 This is the account of Esau (that
is, Edom).
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives from the
daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah
daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Genesis 36:3 and Basemath daughter of Ishmael
and sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36:4 And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau,
Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
Genesis 36:5 and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush,
Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to
him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36:6 Later, Esau took his wives and sons
and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his
livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had
acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his
brother Jacob.
Genesis 36:7 For their possessions were too
great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could
not support them because of their livestock.
Genesis 36:8 So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in
the area of Mount Seir.
Genesis 36:9 This is the account of Esau, the
father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.
Genesis 36:10 These are the names of Esau’s
sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esau’s
wife Basemath.
Genesis 36:11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman,
Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
Genesis 36:12 Additionally, Timna, a concubine
of Esau’s son Eliphaz, gave birth to Amalek. These are the
grandsons of Esau’s wife Adah.
Genesis 36:13 These are the sons of Reuel:
Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of
Esau’s wife Basemath.
Genesis 36:14 These are the sons of Esau’s wife
Oholibamah (daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon) whom she
bore to Esau: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
Genesis 36:15 These are the chiefs among the
sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: Chiefs
Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
Genesis 36:16 Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They are
the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and they are the
grandsons of Adah.
Genesis 36:17 These are the sons of Esau’s son
Reuel: Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the
chiefs descended from Reuel in the land of Edom, and they are the
grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
Genesis 36:18 These are the sons of Esau’s wife
Oholibamah: Chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. They are the chiefs
descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
Genesis 36:19 All these are the sons of Esau
(that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
Genesis 36:20 These are the sons of Seir the
Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Genesis 36:21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are
the chiefs of the Horites, the descendants of Seir in the land of
Edom.
Genesis 36:22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and
Hemam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.
Genesis 36:23 These are the sons of Shobal:
Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
Genesis 36:24 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah
and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the
wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
Genesis 36:25 These are the children of Anah:
Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
Genesis 36:26 These are the sons of Dishon:
Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
Genesis 36:27 These are the sons of Ezer:
Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
Genesis 36:28 These are the sons of Dishan: Uz
and Aran.
Genesis 36:29 These are the chiefs of the
Horites: Chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Genesis 36:30 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. They are
the chiefs of the Horites, according to their divisions in the
land of Seir.
Genesis 36:31 These are the kings who reigned in
the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
Genesis 36:32 Bela son of Beor reigned in Edom;
the name of his city was Dinhabah.
Genesis 36:33 When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah
from Bozrah reigned in his place.
Genesis 36:34 When Jobab died, Husham from the
land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
Genesis 36:35 When Husham died, Hadad son of
Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his
place. And the name of his city was Avith.
Genesis 36:36 When Hadad died, Samlah from
Masrekah reigned in his place.
Genesis 36:37 When Samlah died, Shaul from
Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.
Genesis 36:38 When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of
Achbor reigned in his place.
Genesis 36:39 When Baal-hanan son of Achbor
died, Hadad reigned in his place. His city was named Pau, and his
wife’s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of
Me-zahab.
Genesis 36:40 These are the names of Esau’s
chiefs, according to their families and regions, by their names:
Chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
Genesis 36:41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
Genesis 36:42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
Genesis 36:43 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the
chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they
possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.
Genesis 37:1 Now Jacob lived in the land where
his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
Genesis 37:2 This is the account of Jacob. When
Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his
brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he
brought their father a bad report about them.
Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than
his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old
age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
Genesis 37:4 When Joseph’s brothers saw that
their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and
could not speak a kind word to him.
Genesis 37:5 Then Joseph had a dream, and when
he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.
Genesis 37:6 He said to them, “Listen to this
dream I had:
Genesis 37:7 We were binding sheaves of grain in
the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while
your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”
Genesis 37:8 “Do you intend to reign over us?”
his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him
even more because of his dream and his statements.
Genesis 37:9 Then Joseph had another dream and
told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream,
and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down
to me.”
Genesis 37:10 He told his father and brothers,
but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you
have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and
bow down to the ground before you?”
Genesis 37:11 And his brothers were jealous of
him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
Genesis 37:12 Some time later, Joseph’s brothers
had gone to pasture their father’s flocks near Shechem.
Genesis 37:13 Israel said to him, “Are not your
brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending
you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
Genesis 37:14 Then Israel told him, “Go now and
see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word
back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And
when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
Genesis 37:15 a man found him wandering in the
field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
Genesis 37:16 “I am looking for my brothers,”
Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing
their flocks?”
Genesis 37:17 “They have moved on from here,”
the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So
Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Genesis 37:18 Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in
the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.
Genesis 37:19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they
said to one another.
Genesis 37:20 “Come now, let us kill him and
throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal
has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
Genesis 37:21 When Reuben heard this, he tried
to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he
said.
Genesis 37:22 “Do not shed his blood. Throw him
into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.”
Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands
and return him to his father.
Genesis 37:23 So when Joseph came to his
brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the robe of many colors he
was wearing—
Genesis 37:24 and they took him and threw him
into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.
Genesis 37:25 And as they sat down to eat a
meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from
Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on
their way down to Egypt.
Genesis 37:26 Then Judah said to his brothers,
“What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his
blood?
Genesis 37:27 Come, let us sell him to the
Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our
own flesh.” And they agreed.
Genesis 37:28 So when the Midianite traders
passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him
for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to
Egypt.
Genesis 37:29 When Reuben returned to the pit
and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,
Genesis 37:30 returned to his brothers, and
said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
Genesis 37:31 Then they took Joseph’s robe,
slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
Genesis 37:32 They sent the robe of many colors
to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see
whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
Genesis 37:33 His father recognized it and said,
“It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph
has surely been torn to pieces!”
Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put
sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
Genesis 37:35 All his sons and daughters tried
to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I
will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for
him.
Genesis 37:36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold
Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of
the guard.
Genesis 38:1 About that time, Judah left his
brothers and settled near a man named Hirah, an Adullamite.
Genesis 38:2 There Judah saw the daughter of a
Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with
her.
Genesis 38:3 So she conceived and gave birth to
a son, and Judah named him Er.
Genesis 38:4 Again she conceived and gave birth
to a son, and she named him Onan.
Genesis 38:5 Then she gave birth to another son
and named him Shelah; it was at Chezib that she gave birth to him.
Genesis 38:6 Now Judah acquired a wife for Er,
his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38:7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was
wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.
Genesis 38:8 Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep
with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law
and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Genesis 38:9 But Onan knew that the offspring
would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his
brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he
would not produce offspring for his brother.
Genesis 38:10 What he did was wicked in the
sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.
Genesis 38:11 Then Judah said to his
daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house
until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too,
like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
Genesis 38:12 After a long time Judah’s wife,
the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he
and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers
at Timnah.
Genesis 38:13 When Tamar was told, “Your
father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
Genesis 38:14 she removed her widow’s garments,
covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the
entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that
although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a
wife.
Genesis 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought she
was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
Genesis 38:16 Not realizing that she was his
daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me
sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?”
she inquired.
Genesis 38:17 “I will send you a young goat from
my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me
something as a pledge until you send it.”
Genesis 38:18 “What pledge should I give you?”
he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in
your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she
became pregnant by him.
Genesis 38:19 Then Tamar got up and departed.
And she removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments again.
Genesis 38:20 Now when Judah sent his friend
Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he
had left with the woman, he could not find her.
Genesis 38:21 He asked the men of that place,
“Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”
“No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
Genesis 38:22 So Hirah returned to Judah and
said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that
place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
Genesis 38:23 “Let her keep the items,” Judah
replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I
did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
Genesis 38:24 About three months later, Judah
was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and
now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be
burned to death!”
Genesis 38:25 As she was being brought out,
Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the
man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine
them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
Genesis 38:26 Judah recognized the items and
said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to
my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
Genesis 38:27 When the time came for Tamar to
give birth, there were twins in her womb.
Genesis 38:28 And as she was giving birth, one
of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and
tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she
announced.
Genesis 38:29 But when he pulled his hand back
and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!”
So he was named Perez.
Genesis 38:30 Then his brother came out with the
scarlet thread around his wrist, and he was named Zerah.
Genesis 39:1 Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken
down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of
Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites
who had taken him there.
Genesis 39:2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and
he became a successful man, serving in the household of his
Egyptian master.
Genesis 39:3 When his master saw that the LORD
was with him and made him prosper in all he did,
Genesis 39:4 Joseph found favor in his sight and
became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his
household and entrusted him with everything he owned.
Genesis 39:5 From the time that he put Joseph in
charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the
Egyptian’s household on account of him. The LORD’s blessing was on
everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.
Genesis 39:6 So Potiphar left all that he owned
in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except
the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
Genesis 39:7 and after some time his master’s
wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
Genesis 39:8 But he refused. “Look,” he said to
his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern
himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted
everything he owns to my care.
Genesis 39:9 No one in this house is greater
than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you
are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against
God?”
Genesis 39:10 Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to
Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be
near her.
Genesis 39:11 One day, however, Joseph went into
the house to attend to his work, and not a single household
servant was inside.
Genesis 39:12 She grabbed Joseph by his cloak
and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he
escaped and ran outside.
Genesis 39:13 When she saw that he had left his
cloak in her hand and had run out of the house,
Genesis 39:14 she called her household servants.
“Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make
sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I
screamed as loud as I could.
Genesis 39:15 When he heard me scream for help,
he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
Genesis 39:16 So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s
cloak beside her until his master came home.
Genesis 39:17 Then she told him the same story:
“The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
Genesis 39:18 but when I screamed for help, he
left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”
Genesis 39:19 When his master heard the story
his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he
burned with anger.
Genesis 39:20 So Joseph’s master took him and
had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were
confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Genesis 39:21 the LORD was with him and extended
kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison
warden.
Genesis 39:22 And the warden put all the
prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all
that was done in the prison.
Genesis 39:23 The warden did not concern himself
with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with
Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
Genesis 40:1 Some time later, the king’s
cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
Genesis 40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two
officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
Genesis 40:3 and imprisoned them in the house of
the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was
confined.
Genesis 40:4 The captain of the guard assigned
them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they
had been in custody for some time,
Genesis 40:5 both of these men—the Egyptian
king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had
a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
Genesis 40:6 When Joseph came to them in the
morning, he saw that they were distraught.
Genesis 40:7 So he asked the officials of
Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why
are your faces so downcast today?”
Genesis 40:8 “We both had dreams,” they replied,
“but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them,
“Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Genesis 40:9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph
his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
Genesis 40:10 and on the vine were three
branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters
ripened into grapes.
Genesis 40:11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and
I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup
in his hand.”
Genesis 40:12 Joseph replied, “This is the
interpretation: The three branches are three days.
Genesis 40:13 Within three days Pharaoh will
lift up your head and restore your position. You will put
Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his
cupbearer.
Genesis 40:14 But when it goes well for you,
please remember me and show me kindness by mentioning me to
Pharaoh, that he might bring me out of this prison.
Genesis 40:15 For I was kidnapped from the land
of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they
should have put me in this dungeon.”
Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a
dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
Genesis 40:17 In the top basket were all sorts
of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of
the basket on my head.”
Genesis 40:18 Joseph replied, “This is the
interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
Genesis 40:19 Within three days Pharaoh will
lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat
the flesh of your body.”
Genesis 40:20 On the third day, which was
Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in
their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and
the chief baker.
Genesis 40:21 Pharaoh restored the chief
cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in
Pharaoh’s hand.
Genesis 40:22 But Pharaoh hanged the chief
baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
Genesis 40:23 The chief cupbearer, however, did
not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
Genesis 41:1 After two full years had passed,
Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
Genesis 41:2 when seven cows, sleek and
well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the
reeds.
Genesis 41:3 After them, seven other cows,
sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the
well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
Genesis 41:4 And the cows that were sickly and
thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke
up,
Genesis 41:5 but he fell back asleep and dreamed
a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on
one stalk.
Genesis 41:6 After them, seven other heads of
grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.
Genesis 41:7 And the thin heads of grain
swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and
realized it was a dream.
Genesis 41:8 In the morning his spirit was
troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt.
Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for
him.
Genesis 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer said to
Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
Genesis 41:10 Pharaoh was once angry with his
servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the
captain of the guard.
Genesis 41:11 One night both the chief baker and
I had dreams, and each dream had its own meaning.
Genesis 41:12 Now a young Hebrew was there with
us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams
and he interpreted them for us individually.
Genesis 41:13 And it happened to us just as he
had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man
was hanged.”
Genesis 41:14 So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who
was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and
changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a
dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of
you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
Genesis 41:16 “I myself cannot do it,” Joseph
replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”
Genesis 41:17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In
my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
Genesis 41:18 when seven cows, well-fed and
sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
Genesis 41:19 After them, seven other
cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly
cows in all the land of Egypt!
Genesis 41:20 Then the thin, ugly cows devoured
the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
Genesis 41:21 When they had devoured them,
however, no one could tell that they had done so; their appearance
was as ugly as it had been before. Then I awoke.
Genesis 41:22 In my dream I also saw seven heads
of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
Genesis 41:23 After them, seven other heads of
grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
Genesis 41:24 And the thin heads of grain
swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the
magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
Genesis 41:25 At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh,
“The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to
Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Genesis 41:26 The seven good cows are seven
years, and the seven ripe heads of grain are seven years. The
dreams have the same meaning.
Genesis 41:27 Moreover, the seven thin, ugly
cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven
worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven
years of famine.
Genesis 41:28 It is just as I said to Pharaoh:
God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Genesis 41:29 Behold, seven years of great
abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
Genesis 41:30 but seven years of famine will
follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be
forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
Genesis 41:31 The abundance in the land will not
be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
Genesis 41:32 Moreover, because the dream was
given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by
God, and He will carry it out shortly.
Genesis 41:33 Now, therefore, Pharaoh should
look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of
Egypt.
Genesis 41:34 Let Pharaoh take action and
appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest
of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
Genesis 41:35 Under the authority of Pharaoh,
let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that
they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the
cities.
Genesis 41:36 This food will be a reserve for
the land during the seven years of famine to come upon the land of
Egypt. Then the country will not perish in the famine.”
Genesis 41:37 This proposal pleased Pharaoh and
all his officials.
Genesis 41:38 So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we
find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
Genesis 41:39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,
“Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as
discerning and wise as you.
Genesis 41:40 You shall be in charge of my
house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with
regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”
Genesis 41:41 Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I
hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”
Genesis 41:42 Then Pharaoh removed the signet
ring from his finger, put it on Joseph’s finger, clothed him in
garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
Genesis 41:43 He had Joseph ride in his second
chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he
placed him over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:44 And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I
am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of
Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
Genesis 41:45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name
Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera,
priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the
land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:46 Now Joseph was thirty years old
when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph
left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:47 During the seven years of
abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
Genesis 41:48 During those seven years, Joseph
collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it
in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields
around it.
Genesis 41:49 So Joseph stored up grain in such
abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track
of it; for it was beyond measure.
Genesis 41:50 Before the years of famine
arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of
Potiphera, priest of On.
Genesis 41:51 Joseph named the firstborn
Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all
my father’s household.”
Genesis 41:52 And the second son he named
Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my
affliction.”
Genesis 41:53 When the seven years of abundance
in the land of Egypt came to an end,
Genesis 41:54 the seven years of famine began,
just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every
country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:55 When extreme hunger came to all
the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he
told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells
you.”
Genesis 41:56 When the famine had spread over
all the land, Joseph opened up all the storehouses and sold grain
to the Egyptians; for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:57 And every nation came to Joseph in
Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the
earth.
Genesis 42:1 When Jacob learned that there was
grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one
another?”
Genesis 42:2 “Look,” he added, “I have heard
that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us,
so that we may live and not die.”
Genesis 42:3 So ten of Joseph’s brothers went
down to buy grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42:4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s
brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that
harm might befall him.”
Genesis 42:5 So the sons of Israel were among
those who came to buy grain, since the famine had also spread to
the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:6 Now Joseph was the ruler of the
land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his
brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to
the ground.
Genesis 42:7 And when Joseph saw his brothers,
he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke
harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the
land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
Genesis 42:8 Although Joseph recognized his
brothers, they did not recognize him.
Genesis 42:9 Joseph remembered his dreams about
them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is
vulnerable.”
Genesis 42:10 “Not so, my lord,” they replied.
“Your servants have come to buy food.
Genesis 42:11 We are all sons of one man. Your
servants are honest men, not spies.”
Genesis 42:12 “No,” he told them. “You have come
to see if our land is vulnerable.”
Genesis 42:13 But they answered, “Your servants
are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan.
The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
Genesis 42:14 Then Joseph declared, “Just as I
said, you are spies!
Genesis 42:15 And this is how you will be
tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place
unless your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:16 Send one of your number to get
your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth
of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as
Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
Genesis 42:17 So Joseph imprisoned them for
three days,
Genesis 42:18 and on the third day he said to
them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live:
Genesis 42:19 If you are honest, leave one of
your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back
grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
Genesis 42:20 Then bring your youngest brother
to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.”
And to this they consented.
Genesis 42:21 Then they said to one another,
“Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his
anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is
why this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 42:22 And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I
tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now
we must account for his blood!”
Genesis 42:23 They did not realize that Joseph
understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
Genesis 42:24 And he turned away from them and
wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from
them and had him bound before their eyes.
Genesis 42:25 Then Joseph gave orders to fill
their bags with grain, to return each man’s silver to his sack,
and to give them provisions for their journey. This order was
carried out,
Genesis 42:26 and they loaded the grain on their
donkeys and departed.
Genesis 42:27 At the place where they lodged for
the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey,
and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.
Genesis 42:28 “My silver has been returned!” he
said to his brothers. “It is here in my sack.” Their hearts sank,
and trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this
that God has done to us?”
Genesis 42:29 When they reached their father
Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had
happened to them:
Genesis 42:30 “The man who is lord of the land
spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
Genesis 42:31 But we told him, ‘We are honest
men, not spies.
Genesis 42:32 We are twelve brothers, sons of
one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our
father in the land of Canaan.’
Genesis 42:33 Then the man who is lord of the
land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest:
Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your
households, and go.
Genesis 42:34 But bring your youngest brother
back to me so I will know that you are not spies but honest men.
Then I will give your brother back to you, and you can trade in
the land.’”
Genesis 42:35 As they began emptying their
sacks, there in each man’s sack was his bag of silver! And when
they and their father saw the bags of silver, they were dismayed.
Genesis 42:36 Their father Jacob said to them,
“You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no
more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against
me!”
Genesis 42:37 Then Reuben said to his father,
“You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put
him in my care, and I will return him.”
Genesis 42:38 But Jacob replied, “My son will
not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone
is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring
my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
Genesis 43:1 Now the famine was still severe in
the land.
Genesis 43:2 So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all
the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them,
“Go back and buy us a little more food.”
Genesis 43:3 But Judah replied, “The man
solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your
brother is with you.’
Genesis 43:4 If you will send our brother with
us, we will go down and buy food for you.
Genesis 43:5 But if you will not send him, we
will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again
unless your brother is with you.’”
Genesis 43:6 “Why did you bring this trouble
upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another
brother?”
Genesis 43:7 They replied, “The man questioned
us in detail about ourselves and our family: ‘Is your father still
alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him
accordingly. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring
your brother here’?”
Genesis 43:8 And Judah said to his father
Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we
may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
Genesis 43:9 I will guarantee his safety. You
may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and
set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my
life.
Genesis 43:10 If we had not delayed, we could
have come and gone twice by now.”
Genesis 43:11 Then their father Israel said to
them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best
products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift
for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh,
pistachios and almonds.
Genesis 43:12 Take double the silver with you so
that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths
of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.
Genesis 43:13 Take your brother as well, and
return to the man at once.
Genesis 43:14 May God Almighty grant you mercy
before the man, that he may release your other brother along with
Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”
Genesis 43:15 So the men took these gifts, along
with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they
hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
Genesis 43:16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with his
brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to
my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine
with me at noon.”
Genesis 43:17 The man did as Joseph had
commanded and took the brothers to Joseph’s house.
Genesis 43:18 But the brothers were frightened
that they had been taken to Joseph’s house. “We have been brought
here because of the silver that was returned in our bags the first
time,” they said. “They intend to overpower us and take us as
slaves, along with our donkeys.”
Genesis 43:19 So they approached Joseph’s
steward and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.
Genesis 43:20 “Please, sir,” they said, “we
really did come down here the first time to buy food.
Genesis 43:21 But when we came to the place we
lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us
found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount
of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.
Genesis 43:22 We have brought additional silver
with us to buy food. We do not know who put our silver in our
sacks.”
Genesis 43:23 “It is fine,” said the steward.
“Do not be afraid. Your God, the God of your father, gave you the
treasure that was in your sacks. I received your silver.” Then he
brought Simeon out to them.
Genesis 43:24 And the steward took the men into
Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided
food for their donkeys.
Genesis 43:25 Since the brothers had been told
that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift
for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
Genesis 43:26 When Joseph came home, they
presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to
the ground before him.
Genesis 43:27 He asked if they were well, and
then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is
he still alive?”
Genesis 43:28 “Your servant our father is well,”
they answered. “He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor
him.
Genesis 43:29 When Joseph looked up and saw his
brother Benjamin, his own mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your
youngest brother, the one you told me about?” Then he declared,
“May God be gracious to you, my son.”
Genesis 43:30 Joseph hurried out because he was
moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to
weep.
Genesis 43:31 Then he washed his face and came
back out. Regaining his composure, he said, “Serve the meal.”
Genesis 43:32 They separately served Joseph, his
brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the
Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was
detestable to them.
Genesis 43:33 They were seated before Joseph in
order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men
looked at one another in astonishment.
Genesis 43:34 When the portions were served to
them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger
than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with
Joseph.
Genesis 44:1 Then Joseph instructed his steward:
“Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put
each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.
Genesis 44:2 Put my cup, the silver one, in the
mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his
grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.
Genesis 44:3 At daybreak, the men were sent on
their way with their donkeys.
Genesis 44:4 They had not gone far from the city
when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when
you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
Genesis 44:5 Is this not the cup my master
drinks from and uses for divination? What you have done is
wicked!’”
Genesis 44:6 When the steward overtook them, he
relayed these words to them.
Genesis 44:7 “Why does my lord say these
things?” they asked. “Your servants could not possibly do such a
thing.
Genesis 44:8 We even brought back to you from
the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks.
Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
Genesis 44:9 If any of your servants is found to
have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
Genesis 44:10 “As you say,” replied the steward.
“But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and
the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
Genesis 44:11 So each one quickly lowered his
sack to the ground and opened it.
Genesis 44:12 The steward searched, beginning
with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found
in Benjamin’s sack.
Genesis 44:13 Then they all tore their clothes,
loaded their donkeys, and returned to the city.
Genesis 44:14 When Judah and his brothers
arrived at Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell to
the ground before him.
Genesis 44:15 “What is this deed you have done?”
Joseph declared. “Do you not know that a man like me can surely
divine the truth?”
Genesis 44:16 “What can we say to my lord?”
Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves?
God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my
lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”
Genesis 44:17 But Joseph replied, “Far be it
from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my
slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
Genesis 44:18 Then Judah approached Joseph and
said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord.
Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh
himself.
Genesis 44:19 My lord asked his servants, ‘Do
you have a father or a brother?’
Genesis 44:20 And we answered, ‘We have an
elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age.
The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons
left, and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44:21 Then you told your servants,
‘Bring him down to me so that I can see him for myself.’
Genesis 44:22 So we said to my lord, ‘The boy
cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would
die.’
Genesis 44:23 But you said to your servants,
‘Unless your younger brother comes down with you, you will not see
my face again.’
Genesis 44:24 Now when we returned to your
servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
Genesis 44:25 Then our father said, ‘Go back and
buy us some food.’
Genesis 44:26 But we answered, ‘We cannot go
down there unless our younger brother goes with us. So if our
younger brother is not with us, we cannot see the man.’
Genesis 44:27 And your servant my father said to
us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.
Genesis 44:28 When one of them was gone, I said:
“Surely he has been torn to pieces.” And I have not seen him
since.
Genesis 44:29 Now if you also take this one from
me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to
Sheol in sorrow.’
Genesis 44:30 So if the boy is not with us when
I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped
up in the boy’s life,
Genesis 44:31 sees that the boy is not with us,
he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of
your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
Genesis 44:32 Indeed, your servant guaranteed
the boy’s safety to my father, saying, ‘If I do not return him to
you, I will bear the guilt before you, my father, all my life.’
Genesis 44:33 Now please let your servant stay
here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with
his brothers.
Genesis 44:34 For how can I go back to my father
without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would
overwhelm him.”
Genesis 45:1 Then Joseph could no longer control
himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send
everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he
made himself known to his brothers.
Genesis 45:2 But he wept so loudly that the
Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
Genesis 45:3 Joseph said to his brothers, “I am
Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But they were unable to answer
him, because they were terrified in his presence.
Genesis 45:4 Then Joseph said to his brothers,
“Please come near me.” And they did so. “I am Joseph, your
brother,” he said, “the one you sold into Egypt!
Genesis 45:5 And now, do not be distressed or
angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it
was to save lives that God sent me before you.
Genesis 45:6 For the famine has covered the land
these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing
or harvesting.
Genesis 45:7 God sent me before you to preserve
you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great
deliverance.
Genesis 45:8 Therefore it was not you who sent
me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all
his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 45:9 Now return quickly to my father and
tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord
of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
Genesis 45:10 You shall settle in the land of
Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren,
your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
Genesis 45:11 And there I will provide for you,
because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you
and your household and everything you own will come to
destitution.’
Genesis 45:12 Behold! You and my brother
Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.
Genesis 45:13 Tell my father about all my
splendor in Egypt and everything you have seen. And bring my
father down here quickly.”
Genesis 45:14 Then Joseph threw his arms around
his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
Genesis 45:15 Joseph kissed each of his brothers
as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.
Genesis 45:16 When the news reached Pharaoh’s
house that Joseph’s brothers had come, Pharaoh and his servants
were pleased.
Genesis 45:17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your
brothers, ‘Do as follows: Load your animals and return to the land
of Canaan.
Genesis 45:18 Then bring your father and your
families and return to me. I will give you the best of the land of
Egypt, and you shall eat from the fat of the land.’
Genesis 45:19 You are also directed to tell
them: ‘Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your young children
and your wives, and bring your father and come back.
Genesis 45:20 But pay no regard to your
belongings, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”
Genesis 45:21 So the sons of Israel did as they
were told. Joseph gave them wagons as Pharaoh had instructed, and
he also gave them provisions for their journey.
Genesis 45:22 He gave new garments to each of
them, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and
five sets of clothes.
Genesis 45:23 And he sent to his father the
following: ten donkeys loaded with the best of Egypt, and ten
female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provisions for his
father’s journey.
Genesis 45:24 Then Joseph sent his brothers on
their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Do not
quarrel on the way!”
Genesis 45:25 So the brothers went up out of
Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 45:26 “Joseph is still alive,” they
said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was
stunned, for he did not believe them.
Genesis 45:27 However, when they relayed all
that Joseph had told them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph
had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob was
revived.
Genesis 45:28 “Enough!” declared Israel. “My son
Joseph is still alive! I will go to see him before I die.”
Genesis 46:1 So Israel set out with all that he
had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the
God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 46:2 And that night God spoke to Israel
in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
Genesis 46:3 “I am God,” He said, “the God of
your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make
you into a great nation there.
Genesis 46:4 I will go down with you to Egypt,
and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will
close your eyes.”
Genesis 46:5 Then Jacob departed from Beersheba,
and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons
Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and
wives.
Genesis 46:6 They also took the livestock and
possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and
all his offspring went to Egypt.
Genesis 46:7 Jacob took with him to Egypt his
sons and grandsons, and his daughters and granddaughters—all his
offspring.
Genesis 46:8 Now these are the names of the sons
of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben,
Jacob’s firstborn.
Genesis 46:9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis 46:10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin,
Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Genesis 46:11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath,
and Merari.
Genesis 46:12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan,
Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of
Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46:13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah,
Job, and Shimron.
Genesis 46:14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon,
and Jahleel.
Genesis 46:15 These are the sons of Leah born to
Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total
number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.
Genesis 46:16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi,
Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46:17 The children of Asher: Imnah,
Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah:
Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46:18 These are the sons of Jacob born
to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
Genesis 46:19 The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel:
Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46:20 Manasseh and Ephraim were born to
Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera,
priest of On.
Genesis 46:21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela,
Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Genesis 46:22 These are the sons of Rachel born
to Jacob—fourteen in all.
Genesis 46:23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46:24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel,
Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46:25 These are the sons of Jacob born
to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
Genesis 46:26 All those belonging to Jacob who
came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s
sons—numbered sixty-six persons.
Genesis 46:27 And with the two sons who had been
born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to
Egypt were seventy in all.
Genesis 46:28 Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of
him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob’s family
arrived in the land of Goshen,
Genesis 46:29 Joseph prepared his chariot and
went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to
him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
Genesis 46:30 Then Israel said to Joseph,
“Finally I can die, now that I have seen your face and know that
you are still alive!”
Genesis 46:31 Joseph said to his brothers and to
his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My
brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have
come to me.
Genesis 46:32 The men are shepherds; they raise
livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all
that they own.’
Genesis 46:33 When Pharaoh summons you and asks,
‘What is your occupation?’
Genesis 46:34 you are to say, ‘Your servants
have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our
fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of
Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”
Genesis 47:1 So Joseph went and told Pharaoh:
“My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all
they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in
Goshen.”
Genesis 47:2 And he chose five of his brothers
and presented them before Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:3 “What is your occupation?” Pharaoh
asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they
replied, “both we and our fathers.”
Genesis 47:4 Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have
come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture
for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of
Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to
settle in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 47:5 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that
your father and brothers have come to you,
Genesis 47:6 the land of Egypt is before you;
settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They
may dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any talented
men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”
Genesis 47:7 Then Joseph brought in his father
Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:8 “How many years have you lived?”
Pharaoh asked.
Genesis 47:9 “My travels have lasted 130 years,”
Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not
matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Genesis 47:10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and
departed from his presence.
Genesis 47:11 So Joseph settled his father and
brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best
part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had
commanded.
Genesis 47:12 Joseph also provided his father
and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their
families.
Genesis 47:13 There was no food, however, in all
that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt
and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
Genesis 47:14 Joseph collected all the money to
be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange
for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s
palace.
Genesis 47:15 When the money from the lands of
Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and
said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our
funds have run out!”
Genesis 47:16 “Then bring me your livestock,”
said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in
exchange for your livestock.”
Genesis 47:17 So they brought their livestock to
Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their
flocks and herds, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he
provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.
Genesis 47:18 When that year was over, they came
to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord
that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There
is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Genesis 47:19 Why should we perish before your
eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange
for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh.
Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may
not become desolate.”
Genesis 47:20 So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all
the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields
because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became
Pharaoh’s,
Genesis 47:21 and Joseph reduced the people to
servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
Genesis 47:22 However, he did not acquire the
priests’ portion of the land, for it had been given to them by
Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did
not sell their land.
Genesis 47:23 Then Joseph said to the people,
“Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day,
here is seed for you to sow in the land.
Genesis 47:24 At harvest time, you are to give a
fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for
the field and food for yourselves and your households and
children.”
Genesis 47:25 “You have saved our lives,” they
said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be
Pharaoh’s servants.”
Genesis 47:26 So Joseph established a law that a
fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in
the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not
belong to Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:27 Now the Israelites settled in the
land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property
there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.
Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of
Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
Genesis 47:29 When the time drew near for Israel
to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found
favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to
show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Genesis 47:30 but when I lie down with my
fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me with them.” Joseph
answered, “I will do as you have requested.”
Genesis 47:31 “Swear to me,” Jacob said. So
Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of
his bed.
Genesis 48:1 Some time later Joseph was told,
“Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh
and Ephraim.
Genesis 48:2 When Jacob was told, “Your son
Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in
bed.
Genesis 48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty
appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed
me
Genesis 48:4 and told me, ‘Behold, I will make
you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of
peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as
an everlasting possession.’
Genesis 48:5 And now your two sons born to you
in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine;
Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are
mine.
Genesis 48:6 Any children born to you after them
shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their
brothers in the territory they inherit.
Genesis 48:7 Now as for me, when I was returning
from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of
Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside
the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
Genesis 48:8 When Israel saw the sons of Joseph,
he asked, “Who are these?”
Genesis 48:9 Joseph said to his father, “They
are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said,
“Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
Genesis 48:10 Now Israel’s eyesight was poor
because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons
to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
Genesis 48:11 “I never expected to see your face
again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your
children as well.”
Genesis 48:12 Then Joseph removed his sons from
his father’s knees and bowed facedown.
Genesis 48:13 And Joseph took both of them—with
Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh
in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand—and brought them close
to him.
Genesis 48:14 But Israel stretched out his right
hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing
his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh
was the firstborn.
Genesis 48:15 Then he blessed Joseph and said:
“May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the
God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,
Genesis 48:16 the angel who has redeemed me from
all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my
name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they
grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
Genesis 48:17 When Joseph saw that his father
had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he was displeased and
took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to
Manasseh’s.
Genesis 48:18 “Not so, my father!” Joseph said.
“This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”
Genesis 48:19 But his father refused. “I know,
my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he
too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be
greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of
nations.”
Genesis 48:20 So that day Jacob blessed them and
said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make
you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before
Manasseh.
Genesis 48:21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look,
I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to
the land of your fathers.
Genesis 48:22 And to you, as one who is above
your brothers, I give the ridge of land that I took from the
Amorites with my sword and bow.”
Genesis 49:1 Then Jacob called for his sons and
said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to
you in the days to come:
Genesis 49:2 Come together and listen, O sons of
Jacob; listen to your father Israel.
Genesis 49:3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my
might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor,
excelling in power.
Genesis 49:4 Uncontrolled as the waters, you
will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed,
onto my couch, and defiled it.
Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; their
swords are weapons of violence.
Genesis 49:6 May I never enter their council;
may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger,
and hamstring oxen on a whim.
Genesis 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it is
strong, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will disperse them in
Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49:8 Judah, your brothers shall praise
you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your
father’s sons shall bow down to you.
Genesis 49:9 Judah is a young lion—my son, you
return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like
a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Genesis 49:10 The scepter will not depart from
Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and
the allegiance of the nations is his.
Genesis 49:11 He ties his donkey to the vine,
his colt to the choicest branch. He washes his garments in wine,
his robes in the blood of grapes.
Genesis 49:12 His eyes are darker than wine, and
his teeth are whiter than milk.
Genesis 49:13 Zebulun shall dwell by the
seashore and become a harbor for ships; his border shall extend to
Sidon.
Genesis 49:14 Issachar is a strong donkey, lying
down between the sheepfolds.
Genesis 49:15 He saw that his resting place was
good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to
the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
Genesis 49:16 Dan shall provide justice for his
people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Genesis 49:17 He will be a snake by the road, a
viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider
tumbles backward.
Genesis 49:18 I await Your salvation, O LORD.
Genesis 49:19 Gad will be attacked by raiders,
but he will attack their heels.
Genesis 49:20 Asher’s food will be rich; he
shall provide royal delicacies.
Genesis 49:21 Naphtali is a doe set free that
bears beautiful fawns.
Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful vine—a
fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
Genesis 49:23 The archers attacked him with
bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.
Genesis 49:24 Yet he steadied his bow, and his
strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
Genesis 49:25 by the God of your father who
helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of
the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with
blessings of the breasts and womb.
Genesis 49:26 The blessings of your father have
surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of
the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the
brow of the prince of his brothers.
Genesis 49:27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in
the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the
plunder.”
Genesis 49:28 These are the tribes of Israel,
twelve in all, and this was what their father said to them. He
blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.
Genesis 49:29 Then Jacob instructed them, “I am
about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the
cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Genesis 49:30 The cave is in the field of
Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field
Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Genesis 49:31 There Abraham and his wife Sarah
are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there
I buried Leah.
Genesis 49:32 The field and the cave that is in
it were purchased from the Hittites.”
Genesis 49:33 When Jacob had finished
instructing his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed and breathed
his last, and he was gathered to his people.
Genesis 50:1 Then Joseph fell upon his father’s
face, wept over him, and kissed him.
Genesis 50:2 And Joseph directed the physicians
in his service to embalm his father Israel. So they embalmed him,
Genesis 50:3 taking the forty days required to
complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy
days.
Genesis 50:4 When the days of mourning had
passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in
your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that
Genesis 50:5 my father made me swear an oath
when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb
that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and
bury my father, and then return.”
Genesis 50:6 Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury
your father, as he made you swear to do.”
Genesis 50:7 Then Joseph went to bury his
father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders
of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—
Genesis 50:8 along with all of Joseph’s
household, and his brothers, and his father’s household. Only
their children and flocks and herds were left in Goshen.
Genesis 50:9 Chariots and horsemen alike went up
with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.
Genesis 50:10 When they reached the threshing
floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and
wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
Genesis 50:11 When the Canaanites of the land
saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This
is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place
across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.
Genesis 50:12 So Jacob’s sons did as he had
charged them.
Genesis 50:13 They carried him to the land of
Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near
Mamre, which Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a
burial site.
Genesis 50:14 After Joseph had buried his
father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had
gone with him to bury his father.
Genesis 50:15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that
their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge?
Then he will surely repay us for all the evil that we did to him.”
Genesis 50:16 So they sent word to Joseph,
saying, “Before he died, your father commanded,
Genesis 50:17 ‘This is what you are to say to
Joseph: I beg you, please forgive the transgression and sin of
your brothers, for they did you wrong.’ So now, Joseph, please
forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your
father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.
Genesis 50:18 His brothers also came to him,
bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”
Genesis 50:19 But Joseph replied, “Do not be
afraid. Am I in the place of God?
Genesis 50:20 As for you, what you intended
against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish
a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
Genesis 50:21 Therefore do not be afraid. I will
provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his
brothers and spoke kindly to them.
Genesis 50:22 Now Joseph and his father’s
household remained in Egypt, and Joseph lived to the age of 110.
Genesis 50:23 He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third
generation, and indeed the sons of Machir son of Manasseh were
brought up on Joseph’s knees.
Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers,
“I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up
from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob.”
Genesis 50:25 And Joseph made the sons of Israel
take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then
you must carry my bones up from this place.”
Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died at the age of 110.
And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
EXODUS
Exodus 1:1 These are the names of the sons of
Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;
Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
Exodus 1:4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
Exodus 1:5 The descendants of Jacob numbered
seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
Exodus 1:6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and
all that generation died,
Exodus 1:7 but the Israelites were fruitful and
increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly
numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:8 Then a new king, who did not know
Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
Exodus 1:9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the
Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.
Exodus 1:10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with
them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out,
they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the
country.”
Exodus 1:11 So the Egyptians appointed
taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.
As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for
Pharaoh.
Exodus 1:12 But the more they were oppressed,
the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to
dread the Israelites.
Exodus 1:13 They worked the Israelites
ruthlessly
Exodus 1:14 and made their lives bitter with
hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the
fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
Exodus 1:15 Then the king of Egypt said to the
Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
Exodus 1:16 “When you help the Hebrew women give
birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son,
kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
Exodus 1:17 The midwives, however, feared God
and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the
boys live.
Exodus 1:18 So the king of Egypt summoned the
midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let
the boys live?”
Exodus 1:19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The
Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are
vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
Exodus 1:20 So God was good to the midwives, and
the people multiplied and became even more numerous.
Exodus 1:21 And because the midwives feared God,
He gave them families of their own.
Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his
people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the
Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi
married a daughter of Levi,
Exodus 2:2 and she conceived and gave birth to a
son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for
three months.
Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide
him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and
pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among
the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Exodus 2:4 And his sister stood at a distance to
see what would happen to him.
Exodus 2:5 Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went
down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along
the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she
sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
Exodus 2:6 When she opened it, she saw the
child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had
compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
Exodus 2:7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s
daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse
the child for you?”
Exodus 2:8 “Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told
her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
Exodus 2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take
this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So
the woman took the boy and nursed him.
Exodus 2:10 When the child had grown older, she
brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She
named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
Exodus 2:11 One day, after Moses had grown up,
he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He
saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus 2:12 After looking this way and that and
seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the
sand.
Exodus 2:13 The next day Moses went out and saw
two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you
attacking your companion?”
Exodus 2:14 But the man replied, “Who made you
ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed
the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I
have done has surely become known.”
Exodus 2:15 When Pharaoh heard about this
matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and
settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven
daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to
water their father’s flock.
Exodus 2:17 And when some shepherds came along
and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their
flock.
Exodus 2:18 When the daughters returned to their
father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early
today?”
Exodus 2:19 “An Egyptian rescued us from the
shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered
the flock.”
Exodus 2:20 “So where is he?” their father
asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have
something to eat.”
Exodus 2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man,
and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
Exodus 2:22 And she gave birth to a son, and
Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a
foreign land.”
Exodus 2:23 After a long time, the king of Egypt
died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of
slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to
God.
Exodus 2:24 So God heard their groaning, and He
remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Exodus 2:25 God saw the Israelites and took
notice.
Exodus 3:1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the
flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led
the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the
mountain of God.
Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared
to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush
ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
Exodus 3:3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and
see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
Exodus 3:4 When the LORD saw that he had gone
over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses,
Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
Exodus 3:5 “Do not come any closer,” God said.
“Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is
holy ground.”
Exodus 3:6 Then He said, “I am the God of your
father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at
God.
Exodus 3:7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen
the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out
because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from
the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to
a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the
home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites.
Exodus 3:9 And now the cry of the Israelites has
reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are
oppressing them.
Exodus 3:10 Therefore, go! I am sending you to
Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
Exodus 3:11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that
I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
Exodus 3:12 “I will surely be with you,” God
said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When
you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship
God on this mountain.”
Exodus 3:13 Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go
to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has
sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should
I tell them?”
Exodus 3:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.
This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me
to you.’”
Exodus 3:15 God also told Moses, “Say to the
Israelites, ‘The LORD, the 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 forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every
generation.
Exodus 3:16 Go, assemble the elders of Israel
and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have
surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in
Egypt.
Exodus 3:17 And I have promised to bring you up
out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites,
Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land
flowing with milk and honey.’
Exodus 3:18 The elders of Israel will listen to
what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and
tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now
please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so
that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
Exodus 3:19 But I know that the king of Egypt
will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
Exodus 3:20 So I will stretch out My hand and
strike the Egyptians with all the wonders I will perform among
them. And after that, he will release you.
Exodus 3:21 And I will grant this people such
favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will
not go away empty-handed.
Exodus 3:22 Every woman shall ask her neighbor
and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and
clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you
will plunder the Egyptians.”
Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered, “What if they do
not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD
has not appeared to you.’”
Exodus 4:2 And the LORD asked him, “What is that
in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.
Exodus 4:3 “Throw it on the ground,” said the
LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and
he ran from it.
Exodus 4:4 “Stretch out your hand and grab it by
the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and
caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
Exodus 4:5 “This is so that they may believe
that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
Exodus 4:6 Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses,
“Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his
cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as
snow.
Exodus 4:7 “Put your hand back inside your
cloak,” said the LORD. So Moses put his hand back inside his
cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of
his skin.
Exodus 4:8 And the LORD said, “If they refuse to
believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may
believe that of the second.
Exodus 4:9 But if they do not believe even these
two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile
and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the
Nile will become blood on the ground.”
Exodus 4:10 “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I
have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have
spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
Exodus 4:11 And the LORD said to him, “Who gave
man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or
the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Exodus 4:12 Now go! I will help you as you
speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
Exodus 4:13 But Moses replied, “Please, Lord,
send someone else.”
Exodus 4:14 Then the anger of the LORD burned
against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother?
I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet
you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Exodus 4:15 You are to speak to him and put the
words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will
teach you what to do.
Exodus 4:16 He will speak to the people for you.
He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to
him.
Exodus 4:17 But take this staff in your hand so
you can perform signs with it.”
Exodus 4:18 Then Moses went back to his
father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my
brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,”
Jethro replied.
Exodus 4:19 Now the LORD had said to Moses in
Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you
are dead.”
Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put
them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff
of God in his hand.
Exodus 4:21 The LORD instructed Moses, “When you
go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the
wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his
heart so that he will not let the people go.
Exodus 4:22 Then tell Pharaoh that this is what
the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,
Exodus 4:23 and I told you to let My son go so
that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go,
behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”
Exodus 4:24 Now at a lodging place along the
way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
Exodus 4:25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut
off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you
are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
Exodus 4:26 So the LORD let him alone. (When she
said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the
circumcision.)
Exodus 4:27 Meanwhile, the LORD had said to
Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met
Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.
Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron everything the
LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him
to perform.
Exodus 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and
assembled all the elders of the Israelites,
Exodus 4:30 and Aaron relayed everything the
LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the
people,
Exodus 4:31 and they believed. And when they
heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen
their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.
Exodus 5:1 After that, Moses and Aaron went to
Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the
wilderness.’”
Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD
that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the
LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
Exodus 5:3 “The God of the Hebrews has met with
us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into
the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike
us with plagues or with the sword.”
Exodus 5:4 But the king of Egypt said to them,
“Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work?
Get back to your labor!”
Exodus 5:5 Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people
of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from
their labor.”
Exodus 5:6 That same day Pharaoh commanded the
taskmasters of the people and their foremen:
Exodus 5:7 “You shall no longer supply the
people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their
own straw.
Exodus 5:8 But require of them the same quota of
bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why
they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
Exodus 5:9 Make the work harder on the men so
they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”
Exodus 5:10 So the taskmasters and foremen of
the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says:
‘I am no longer giving you straw.
Exodus 5:11 Go and get your own straw wherever
you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
Exodus 5:12 So the people scattered all over the
land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
Exodus 5:13 The taskmasters kept pressing them,
saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw
was provided.”
Exodus 5:14 Then the Israelite foremen, whom
Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and
asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday
or today, as you did before?”
Exodus 5:15 So the Israelite foremen went and
appealed to Pharaoh: “Why are you treating your servants this way?
Exodus 5:16 No straw has been given to your
servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are
being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
Exodus 5:17 “You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied.
“Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice
to the LORD.’
Exodus 5:18 Now get to work. You will be given
no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
Exodus 5:19 The Israelite foremen realized they
were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your
daily quota of bricks.”
Exodus 5:20 When they left Pharaoh, they
confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.
Exodus 5:21 “May the LORD look upon you and
judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench
before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a
sword to kill us!”
Exodus 5:22 So Moses returned to the LORD and
asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is
this why You sent me?
Exodus 5:23 Ever since I went to Pharaoh to
speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You
have not delivered Your people in any way.”
Exodus 6:1 But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you
will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand
he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive
them out of his land.”
Exodus 6:2 God also told Moses, “I am the LORD.
Exodus 6:3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make
Myself known to them.
Exodus 6:4 I also established My covenant with
them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as
foreigners.
Exodus 6:5 Furthermore, I have heard the
groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and
I have remembered My covenant.
Exodus 6:6 Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am
the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the
Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you
with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
Exodus 6:7 I will take you as My own people, and
I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
Exodus 6:8 And I will bring you into the land
that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it
to you as a possession. I am the LORD!’”
Exodus 6:9 Moses relayed this message to the
Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel
bondage, they did not listen to him.
Exodus 6:10 So the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 6:11 “Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt
to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
Exodus 6:12 But in the LORD’s presence Moses
replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would
Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
Exodus 6:13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and
Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and
Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of
Egypt.
Exodus 6:14 These were the heads of their
fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were
Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These were the clans of
Reuben.
Exodus 6:15 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel,
Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite
woman. These were the clans of Simeon.
Exodus 6:16 These were the names of the sons of
Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi
lived 137 years.
Exodus 6:17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and
Shimei, by their clans.
Exodus 6:18 The sons of Kohath were Amram,
Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.
Exodus 6:19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and
Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites according to their
records.
Exodus 6:20 And Amram married his father’s
sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137
years.
Exodus 6:21 The sons of Izhar were Korah,
Nepheg, and Zichri.
Exodus 6:22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael,
Elzaphan, and Sithri.
Exodus 6:23 And Aaron married Elisheba, the
daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him
Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Exodus 6:24 The sons of Korah were Assir,
Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clans of the Korahites.
Exodus 6:25 Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of
the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These were the
heads of the Levite families by their clans.
Exodus 6:26 It was this Aaron and Moses to whom
the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by
their divisions.”
Exodus 6:27 Moses and Aaron were the ones who
spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites
out of Egypt.
Exodus 6:28 Now on the day that the LORD spoke
to Moses in Egypt,
Exodus 6:29 He said to him, “I am the LORD; tell
Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I say to you.”
Exodus 6:30 But in the LORD’s presence Moses
replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen
to me?”
Exodus 7:1 The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have
made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your
prophet.
Exodus 7:2 You are to speak all that I command
you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the
Israelites go out of his land.
Exodus 7:3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart,
and though I will multiply My signs and wonders in the land of
Egypt,
Exodus 7:4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then
I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will
bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of
Egypt.
Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians will know that I am
the LORD, when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the
Israelites out from among them.”
Exodus 7:6 So Moses and Aaron did just as the
LORD had commanded them.
Exodus 7:7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron
was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Exodus 7:8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Exodus 7:9 “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a
miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it
down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
Exodus 7:10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh
and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down
before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
Exodus 7:11 But Pharaoh called the wise men and
sorcerers and magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same
things by their magic arts.
Exodus 7:12 Each one threw down his staff, and
it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other
staffs.
Exodus 7:13 Still, Pharaoh’s heart was hardened,
and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Exodus 7:14 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
Exodus 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you
see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to
meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a
snake.
Exodus 7:16 Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God
of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that
they may worship Me in the wilderness. But you have not listened
until now.
Exodus 7:17 This is what the LORD says: By this
you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my
hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to
blood.
Exodus 7:18 The fish in the Nile will die, the
river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its
water.’”
Exodus 7:19 And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell
Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters
of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and
reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood
throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and
stone.”
Exodus 7:20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD
had commanded; in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials, Aaron
raised the staff and struck the water of the Nile, and all the
water was turned to blood.
Exodus 7:21 The fish in the Nile died, and the
river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water.
And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
Exodus 7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the
same things by their magic arts. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened,
and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had
said.
Exodus 7:23 Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went
into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
Exodus 7:24 So all the Egyptians dug around the
Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water
from the river.
Exodus 7:25 And seven full days passed after the
LORD had struck the Nile.
Exodus 8:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to
Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My
people go, so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 8:2 But if you refuse to let them go, I
will plague your whole country with frogs.
Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and
they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto
your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and
into your ovens and kneading bowls.
Exodus 8:4 The frogs will come up on you and
your people and all your officials.’”
Exodus 8:5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell
Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and
canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of
Egypt.’”
Exodus 8:6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over
the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of
Egypt.
Exodus 8:7 But the magicians did the same thing
by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land
of Egypt.
Exodus 8:8 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and
said, “Pray to the LORD to take the frogs away from me and my
people. Then I will let your people go, that they may sacrifice to
the LORD.”
Exodus 8:9 Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have
the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials
and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may
be taken away from you and your houses?”
Exodus 8:10 “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May
it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there
is no one like the LORD our God.
Exodus 8:11 The frogs will depart from you and
your houses and your officials and your people; they will remain
only in the Nile.”
Exodus 8:12 After Moses and Aaron had left
Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the LORD for help with the frogs that
He had brought against Pharaoh.
Exodus 8:13 And the LORD did as Moses requested,
and the frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields died.
Exodus 8:14 They were piled into countless
heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.
Exodus 8:15 When Pharaoh saw that there was
relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to
Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
Exodus 8:16 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell
Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth,
that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of
Egypt.’”
Exodus 8:17 This they did, and when Aaron
stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the
earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth
turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.
Exodus 8:18 The magicians tried to produce gnats
using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained
on man and beast.
Exodus 8:19 “This is the finger of God,” the
magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and
he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Exodus 8:20 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up
early in the morning, and when Pharaoh goes out to the water,
stand before him and tell him that this is what the LORD says:
‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 8:21 But if you will not let My people
go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and
your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even
the ground where they stand will be full of flies.
Exodus 8:22 But on that day I will give special
treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms
of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I,
the LORD, am in the land.
Exodus 8:23 I will make a distinction between My
people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”
Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so. Thick swarms of
flies poured into Pharaoh’s palace and into the houses of his
officials. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined by swarms of
flies.
Exodus 8:25 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and
Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within this land.”
Exodus 8:26 But Moses replied, “It would not be
right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our
God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices
that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?
Exodus 8:27 We must make a three-day journey
into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He
commands us.”
Exodus 8:28 Pharaoh answered, “I will let you go
and sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must
not go very far. Now pray for me.”
Exodus 8:29 “As soon as I leave you,” Moses
said, “I will pray to the LORD, so that tomorrow the swarms of
flies will depart from Pharaoh and his officials and his people.
But Pharaoh must not act deceitfully again by refusing to let the
people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”
Exodus 8:30 Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed
to the LORD,
Exodus 8:31 and the LORD did as Moses requested.
He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh and his officials and
his people; not one fly remained.
Exodus 8:32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this
time as well, and he would not let the people go.
Exodus 9:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to
Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the
Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 9:2 But if you continue to restrain them
and refuse to let them go,
Exodus 9:3 then the hand of the LORD will bring
a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses,
donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
Exodus 9:4 But the LORD will make a distinction
between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so
that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
Exodus 9:5 The LORD set a time, saying,
“Tomorrow the LORD will do this in the land.”
Exodus 9:6 And the next day the LORD did just
that. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one animal
belonging to the Israelites died.
Exodus 9:7 Pharaoh sent officials and found that
none of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But Pharaoh’s
heart was hardened, and he would not let the people go.
Exodus 9:8 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the furnace; in the sight of
Pharaoh, Moses is to toss it into the air.
Exodus 9:9 It will become fine dust over all the
land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast
throughout the land.”
Exodus 9:10 So they took soot from the furnace
and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and
festering boils broke out on man and beast.
Exodus 9:11 The magicians could not stand before
Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the
Egyptians.
Exodus 9:12 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s
heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said
to Moses.
Exodus 9:13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up
early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this
is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go,
so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 9:14 Otherwise, I will send all My
plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may
know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
Exodus 9:15 For by this time I could have
stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague
to wipe you off the earth.
Exodus 9:16 But I have raised you up for this
very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My
name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
Exodus 9:17 Still, you lord it over My people
and do not allow them to go.
Exodus 9:18 Behold, at this time tomorrow I will
rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the
day it was founded until now.
Exodus 9:19 So give orders now to shelter your
livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast
that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when
the hail comes down upon them.’”
Exodus 9:20 Those among Pharaoh’s officials who
feared the word of the LORD hurried to bring their servants and
livestock to shelter,
Exodus 9:21 but those who disregarded the word
of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
Exodus 9:22 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all
the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field
throughout the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 9:23 So Moses stretched out his staff
toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning
struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of
Egypt.
Exodus 9:24 The hail fell and the lightning
continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing
like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time
it became a nation.
Exodus 9:25 Throughout the land of Egypt, the
hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it
beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.
Exodus 9:26 The only place where it did not hail
was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
Exodus 9:27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and
Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous,
and I and my people are wicked.
Exodus 9:28 Pray to the LORD, for there has been
enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not
need to stay any longer.”
Exodus 9:29 Moses said to him, “When I have left
the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will
cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that
the earth is the LORD’s.
Exodus 9:30 But as for you and your officials, I
know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”
Exodus 9:31 (Now the flax and barley were
destroyed, since the barley was ripe and the flax was in bloom;
Exodus 9:32 but the wheat and spelt were not
destroyed, because they are late crops.)
Exodus 9:33 Then Moses departed from Pharaoh,
went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The
thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the
land.
Exodus 9:34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain and
hail and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his
heart—he and his officials.
Exodus 9:35 So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and
he would not let the Israelites go, just as the LORD had said
through Moses.
Exodus 10:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to
Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his
officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among
them,
Exodus 10:2 and that you may tell your children
and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I
performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know
that I am the LORD.”
Exodus 10:3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh
and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews,
says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let
My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Exodus 10:4 But if you refuse to let My people
go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
Exodus 10:5 They will cover the face of the land
so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after
the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.
Exodus 10:6 They will fill your houses and the
houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither
your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they
came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s
presence.
Exodus 10:7 Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How
long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that
they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that
Egypt is in ruins?”
Exodus 10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back
to Pharaoh. “Go, worship the LORD your God,” he said. “But who
exactly will be going?”
Exodus 10:9 “We will go with our young and old,”
Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with
our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
Exodus 10:10 Then Pharaoh told them, “May the
LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones.
Clearly you are bent on evil.
Exodus 10:11 No, only the men may go and worship
the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting.” And Moses
and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh’s presence.
Exodus 10:12 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts
may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything
that the hail has left behind.”
Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff
over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD
sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had
brought the locusts.
Exodus 10:14 The locusts swarmed across the land
and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had
there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
Exodus 10:15 They covered the face of all the
land until it was black, and they consumed all the plants on the
ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left
behind. Nothing green was left on any tree or plant in all the
land of Egypt.
Exodus 10:16 Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and
Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and
against you.
Exodus 10:17 Now please forgive my sin once more
and appeal to the LORD your God, that He may remove this death
from me.”
Exodus 10:18 So Moses left Pharaoh’s presence
and appealed to the LORD.
Exodus 10:19 And the LORD changed the wind to a
very strong west wind that carried off the locusts and blew them
into the Red Sea. Not a single locust remained anywhere in Egypt.
Exodus 10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s
heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.
Exodus 10:21 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread
over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Exodus 10:22 So Moses stretched out his hand
toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt
for three days.
Exodus 10:23 No one could see anyone else, and
for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had
light in their dwellings.
Exodus 10:24 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and
said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your little ones may go with
you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”
Exodus 10:25 But Moses replied, “You must also
provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the
LORD our God.
Exodus 10:26 Even our livestock must go with us;
not a hoof will be left behind, for we will need some of them to
worship the LORD our God, and we will not know how we are to
worship the LORD until we arrive.”
Exodus 10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s
heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.
Exodus 10:28 “Depart from me!” Pharaoh said to
Moses. “Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you
see my face, you will die.”
Exodus 10:29 “As you say,” Moses replied, “I
will never see your face again.”
Exodus 11:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will
bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will
allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will
drive you out completely.
Exodus 11:2 Now announce to the people that men
and women alike should ask their neighbors for articles of silver
and gold.”
Exodus 11:3 And the LORD gave the people favor
in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, Moses himself was highly
regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.
Exodus 11:4 So Moses declared, “This is what the
LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
Exodus 11:5 and every firstborn son in the land
of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his
throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill,
as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
Exodus 11:6 Then a great cry will go out over
all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before
and will never be heard again.
Exodus 11:7 But among all the Israelites, not
even a dog will snarl at man or beast.’ Then you will know that
the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
Exodus 11:8 And all these officials of yours
will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people
who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger,
Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.
Exodus 11:9 The LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh
will not listen to you, so that My wonders may be multiplied in
the land of Egypt.”
Exodus 11:10 Moses and Aaron did all these
wonders before Pharaoh, but the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart so
that he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.
Exodus 12:1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt,
Exodus 12:2 “This month is the beginning of
months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
Exodus 12:3 Tell the whole congregation of
Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a
lamb for his family, one per household.
Exodus 12:4 If the household is too small for a
whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on
the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb must be an unblemished
year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
Exodus 12:6 You must keep it until the
fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
Exodus 12:7 They are to take some of the blood
and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses
where they eat the lambs.
Exodus 12:8 They are to eat the meat that night,
roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs.
Exodus 12:9 Do not eat any of the meat raw or
cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head
and legs and inner parts.
Exodus 12:10 Do not leave any of it until
morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left
over.
Exodus 12:11 This is how you are to eat it: You
must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet
and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the
LORD’s Passover.
Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through
the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man
and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of
Egypt. I am the LORD.
Exodus 12:13 The blood on the houses where you
are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will
pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I
strike the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:14 And this day will be a memorial for
you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a
permanent statute for the generations to come.
Exodus 12:15 For seven days you must eat
unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven
from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first
day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:16 On the first day you are to hold a
sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do
any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all
you may do.
Exodus 12:17 So you are to keep the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions
out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent
statute for the generations to come.
Exodus 12:18 In the first month you are to eat
unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the
evening of the twenty-first day.
Exodus 12:19 For seven days there must be no
leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened,
that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be
cut off from the congregation of Israel.
Exodus 12:20 You are not to eat anything
leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
Exodus 12:21 Then Moses summoned all the elders
of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a
lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Exodus 12:22 Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it
into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and
sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his
house until morning.
Exodus 12:23 When the LORD passes through to
strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and
sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will
not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Exodus 12:24 And you are to keep this command as
a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
Exodus 12:25 When you enter the land that the
LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
Exodus 12:26 When your children ask you, ‘What
does this service mean to you?’
Exodus 12:27 you are to reply, ‘It is the
Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the
Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared
our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
Exodus 12:28 And the Israelites went and did
just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 12:29 Now at midnight the LORD struck
down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn
of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the
prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the
livestock.
Exodus 12:30 During the night Pharaoh got up—he
and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud
wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
Exodus 12:31 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and
Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and
the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
Exodus 12:32 Take your flocks and herds as well,
just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”
Exodus 12:33 And in order to send them out of
the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For
otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
Exodus 12:34 So the people took their dough
before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading
bowls wrapped in clothing.
Exodus 12:35 Furthermore, the Israelites acted
on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and
gold, and for clothing.
Exodus 12:36 And the LORD gave the people such
favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their
request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
Exodus 12:37 The Israelites journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women
and children.
Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude also went up
with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and
herds.
Exodus 12:39 Since their dough had no leaven,
the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into
unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt,
they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for
themselves.
Exodus 12:40 Now the duration of the Israelites’
stay in Egypt was 430 years.
Exodus 12:41 At the end of the 430 years, to the
very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:42 Because the LORD kept a vigil that
night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is
to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites
for the generations to come.
Exodus 12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to
eat of it.
Exodus 12:44 But any slave who has been
purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
Exodus 12:45 A temporary resident or hired hand
shall not eat the Passover.
Exodus 12:46 It must be eaten inside one house.
You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may
not break any of the bones.
Exodus 12:47 The whole congregation of Israel
must celebrate it.
Exodus 12:48 If a foreigner resides with you and
wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the
household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate
it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no
uncircumcised man may eat of it.
Exodus 12:49 The same law shall apply to both
the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
Exodus 12:50 Then all the Israelites did
this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 12:51 And on that very day the LORD
brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their
divisions.
Exodus 13:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 13:2 “Consecrate to Me every firstborn
male. The firstborn from every womb among the Israelites belongs
to Me, both of man and beast.”
Exodus 13:3 So Moses told the people, “Remember
this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His
hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
Exodus 13:4 Today, in the month of Abib, you are
leaving.
Exodus 13:5 And when the LORD brings you into
the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and
Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give
you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this
service in this month.
Exodus 13:6 For seven days you are to eat
unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to
the LORD.
Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten
during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you,
nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.
Exodus 13:8 And on that day you are to explain
to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I
came out of Egypt.’
Exodus 13:9 It shall be a sign for you on your
hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is
to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you
out of Egypt.
Exodus 13:10 Therefore you shall keep this
statute at the appointed time year after year.
Exodus 13:11 And after the LORD brings you into
the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He swore to you
and your fathers,
Exodus 13:12 you are to present to the LORD the
firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your
livestock belong to the LORD.
Exodus 13:13 You must redeem every firstborn
donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break
its neck. And every firstborn of your sons you must redeem.
Exodus 13:14 In the future, when your son asks
you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty
hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery.
Exodus 13:15 And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused
to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD
the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn
of my sons.’
Exodus 13:16 So it shall serve as a sign on your
hand and a symbol on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the
LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
Exodus 13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God
did not lead them along the road through the land of the
Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people
face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”
Exodus 13:18 So God led the people around by the
way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left
the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
Exodus 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with
him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath
when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must
carry my bones with you from this place.”
Exodus 13:20 They set out from Succoth and
camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
Exodus 13:21 And the LORD went before them in a
pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire
to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or
night.
Exodus 13:22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day
nor the pillar of fire by night left its place before the people.
Exodus 14:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 14:2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back
and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. You are
to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal-zephon.
Exodus 14:3 For Pharaoh will say of the
Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the
wilderness has boxed them in.’
Exodus 14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so
that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of
Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am
the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.
Exodus 14:5 When the king of Egypt was told that
the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds
about them and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel
from serving us.”
Exodus 14:6 So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and
took his army with him.
Exodus 14:7 He took 600 of the best chariots,
and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of
them.
Exodus 14:8 And the LORD hardened the heart of
Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were
marching out defiantly.
Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses
and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and
overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi-hahiroth, opposite
Baal-zephon.
Exodus 14:10 As Pharaoh approached, the
Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them,
and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
Exodus 14:11 They said to Moses, “Was it because
there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the
wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of
Egypt?
Exodus 14:12 Did we not say to you in Egypt,
‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would
have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the
wilderness.”
Exodus 14:13 But Moses told the people, “Do not
be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which
He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today,
you will never see again.
Exodus 14:14 The LORD will fight for you; you
need only to be still.”
Exodus 14:15 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why
are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
Exodus 14:16 And as for you, lift up your staff
and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the
Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
Exodus 14:17 And I will harden the hearts of the
Egyptians so that they will go in after them. Then I will gain
honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army and chariots and
horsemen.
Exodus 14:18 The Egyptians will know that I am
the LORD when I am honored through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his
horsemen.”
Exodus 14:19 And the angel of God, who had gone
before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The
pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
Exodus 14:20 so that it came between the camps
of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it
lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the
other.
Exodus 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with
a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters
were divided,
Exodus 14:22 and the Israelites went through the
sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their
left.
Exodus 14:23 And the Egyptians chased after
them—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen—and followed
them into the sea.
Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD
looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire
and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
Exodus 14:25 He caused their chariot wheels to
wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the
Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for
them against Egypt!”
Exodus 14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow
back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
Exodus 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal
state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into
the sea.
Exodus 14:28 The waters flowed back and covered
the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had
chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Exodus 14:29 But the Israelites had walked
through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right
and on their left.
Exodus 14:30 That day the LORD saved Israel from
the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on
the shore.
Exodus 14:31 When Israel saw the great power
that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared
the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang
this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly
exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and my song,
and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise
Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is
His name.
Exodus 15:4 Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has
cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the
Red Sea.
Exodus 15:5 The depths have covered them; they
sank there like a stone.
Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic
in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
Exodus 15:7 You overthrew Your adversaries by
Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed
them like stubble.
Exodus 15:8 At the blast of Your nostrils the
waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths
congealed in the heart of the sea.
Exodus 15:9 The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue,
I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on
them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
Exodus 15:10 But You blew with Your breath, and
the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Exodus 15:11 Who among the gods is like You, O
LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises,
performing wonders?
Exodus 15:12 You stretched out Your right hand,
and the earth swallowed them up.
Exodus 15:13 With loving devotion You will lead
the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide
them to Your holy dwelling.
Exodus 15:14 The nations will hear and tremble;
anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.
Exodus 15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom will be
dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who
dwell in Canaan will melt away,
Exodus 15:16 and terror and dread will fall on
them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone
until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have
bought pass by.
Exodus 15:17 You will bring them in and plant
them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You
have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands
have established.
Exodus 15:18 The LORD will reign forever and
ever!”
Exodus 15:19 For when Pharaoh’s horses,
chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the
waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked
through the sea on dry ground.
Exodus 15:20 Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s
sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed
her with tambourines and dancing.
Exodus 15:21 And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing
to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has
thrown into the sea.”
Exodus 15:22 Then Moses led Israel from the Red
Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days
they walked in the desert without finding water.
Exodus 15:23 And when they came to Marah, they
could not drink the water there because it was bitter. (That is
why it was named Marah.)
Exodus 15:24 So the people grumbled against
Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
Exodus 15:25 And Moses cried out to the LORD,
and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the
waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a
statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
Exodus 15:26 saying, “If you will listen
carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right
in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His
statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I
inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there
were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they
camped there by the waters.
Exodus 16:1 On the fifteenth day of the second
month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole
congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of
Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.
Exodus 16:2 And there in the desert they all
grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
Exodus 16:3 “If only we had died by the LORD’s
hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of
meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this
desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the
people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I
will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
Exodus 16:5 Then on the sixth day, when they
prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they
gather on the other days.”
Exodus 16:6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the
Israelites, “This evening you will know that it was the LORD who
brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Exodus 16:7 and in the morning you will see the
LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For
who are we that you should grumble against us?”
Exodus 16:8 And Moses added, “The LORD will give
you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning,
for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your
grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
Exodus 16:9 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the
whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has
heard your grumbling.’”
Exodus 16:10 And as Aaron was speaking to the
whole congregation of Israel, they looked toward the desert, and
there in a cloud the glory of the LORD appeared.
Exodus 16:11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 16:12 “I have heard the grumbling of the
Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the
morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I
am the LORD your God.’”
Exodus 16:13 That evening quail came and covered
the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the
camp.
Exodus 16:14 When the layer of dew had
evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as
frost on the ground.
Exodus 16:15 When the Israelites saw it, they
asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it
was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given
you to eat.
Exodus 16:16 This is what the LORD has
commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may
take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
Exodus 16:17 So the Israelites did this. Some
gathered more, and some less.
Exodus 16:18 When they measured it by the omer,
he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had
no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
Exodus 16:19 Then Moses said to them, “No one
may keep any of it until morning.”
Exodus 16:20 But they did not listen to Moses;
some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested
with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
Exodus 16:21 Every morning each one gathered as
much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
Exodus 16:22 On the sixth day, they gathered
twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the
congregation came and reported this to Moses.
Exodus 16:23 He told them, “This is what the
LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy
Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what
you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it
until morning.’”
Exodus 16:24 So they set it aside until morning
as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any
maggots.
Exodus 16:25 “Eat it today,” Moses said,
“because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find
anything in the field.
Exodus 16:26 For six days you may gather, but on
the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”
Exodus 16:27 Yet on the seventh day some of the
people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.
Exodus 16:28 Then the LORD said to Moses, “How
long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
Exodus 16:29 Understand that the LORD has given
you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you
bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where
he is; no one may leave his place.”
Exodus 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh
day.
Exodus 16:31 Now the house of Israel called the
bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like
wafers made with honey.
Exodus 16:32 Moses said, “This is what the LORD
has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come,
so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I
brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
Exodus 16:33 So Moses told Aaron, “Take a jar
and fill it with an omer of manna. Then place it before the LORD
to be preserved for the generations to come.”
Exodus 16:34 And Aaron placed it in front of the
Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 16:35 The Israelites ate manna forty
years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate
manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
Exodus 16:36 (Now an omer is a tenth of an
ephah.)
Exodus 17:1 Then the whole congregation of
Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the
LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water
for the people to drink.
Exodus 17:2 So the people contended with Moses,
“Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses
replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
Exodus 17:3 But the people thirsted for water
there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us
out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of
thirst?”
Exodus 17:4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD,
“What should I do with these people? A little more and they will
stone me!”
Exodus 17:5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Walk on
ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with
you. Take along in your hand the staff with which you struck the
Nile, and go.
Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand there before
you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will
come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the
sight of the elders of Israel.
Exodus 17:7 He named the place Massah and
Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested
the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Exodus 17:8 After this, the Amalekites came and
attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
Exodus 17:9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose
some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I
will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”
Exodus 17:10 Joshua did as Moses had instructed
him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur
went up to the top of the hill.
Exodus 17:11 As long as Moses held up his hands,
Israel prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalek prevailed.
Exodus 17:12 When Moses’ hands grew heavy, they
took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron
and Hur held his hands up, one on each side, so that his hands
remained steady until the sun went down.
Exodus 17:13 So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and
his army with the sword.
Exodus 17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write
this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I
will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar and named
it The LORD Is My Banner.
Exodus 17:16 “Indeed,” he said, “a hand was
lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against
Amalek from generation to generation.”
Exodus 18:1 Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the
priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and
His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of
Egypt.
Exodus 18:2 After Moses had sent back his wife
Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
Exodus 18:3 along with her two sons. One son was
named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a
foreign land.”
Exodus 18:4 The other son was named Eliezer, for
Moses had said, “The God of my father was my helper and delivered
me from the sword of Pharaoh.”
Exodus 18:5 Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along
with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was
encamped at the mountain of God.
Exodus 18:6 He sent word to Moses, “I, your
father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two
sons.”
Exodus 18:7 So Moses went out to meet his
father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each
other and went into the tent.
Exodus 18:8 Then Moses recounted to his
father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the
Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had
encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
Exodus 18:9 And Jethro rejoiced over all the
good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from
the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus 18:10 Jethro declared, “Blessed be the
LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of
Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the
Egyptians.
Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater
than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with
arrogance.”
Exodus 18:12 Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro
brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came
with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’
father-in-law in the presence of God.
Exodus 18:13 The next day Moses took his seat to
judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until
evening.
Exodus 18:14 When his father-in-law saw all that
Moses was doing for the people, he asked, “What is this that you
are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, with all
the people standing around you from morning till evening?”
Exodus 18:15 “Because the people come to me to
inquire of God,” Moses replied.
Exodus 18:16 “Whenever they have a dispute, it
is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make
known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
Exodus 18:17 But Moses’ father-in-law said to
him, “What you are doing is not good.
Exodus 18:18 Surely you and these people with
you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for
you. You cannot handle it alone.
Exodus 18:19 Now listen to me; I will give you
some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s
representative before God and bring their causes to Him.
Exodus 18:20 Teach them the statutes and laws,
and show them the way to live and the work they must do.
Exodus 18:21 Furthermore, select capable men
from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse
to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of
thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Exodus 18:22 Have these men judge the people at
all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor
cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be
lightened as they share it with you.
Exodus 18:23 If you follow this advice and God
so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these
people can go home in peace.”
Exodus 18:24 Moses listened to his father-in-law
and did everything he said.
Exodus 18:25 So Moses chose capable men from all
Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of
thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Exodus 18:26 And they judged the people at all
times; they would bring the difficult cases to Moses, but any
minor issue they would judge themselves.
Exodus 18:27 Then Moses sent his father-in-law
on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.
Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day
of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they
came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
Exodus 19:2 After they had set out from
Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped
there in front of the mountain.
Exodus 19:3 Then Moses went up to God, and the
LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to
tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:
Exodus 19:4 ‘You have seen for yourselves what I
did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought
you to Myself.
Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice
and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of
all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom
of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to
speak to the Israelites.”
Exodus 19:7 So Moses went back and summoned the
elders of the people and set before them all these words that the
LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered
together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So
Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
Exodus 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I
will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear
when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in
you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
Exodus 19:10 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to
the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash
their clothes
Exodus 19:11 and be prepared by the third day,
for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the
sight of all the people.
Exodus 19:12 And you are to set up a boundary
for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not
to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the
mountain shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 19:13 No hand shall touch him, but he
shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast,
he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast
may they approach the mountain.”
Exodus 19:14 When Moses came down from the
mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their
clothes.
Exodus 19:15 “Be prepared for the third day,” he
said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
Exodus 19:16 On the third day, when morning
came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the
mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so
that all the people in the camp trembled.
Exodus 19:17 Then Moses brought the people out
of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the
mountain.
Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was completely
enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire.
And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole
mountain quaked violently.
Exodus 19:19 And as the sound of the ram’s horn
grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the
thunder.
Exodus 19:20 The LORD descended to the top of
Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
Exodus 19:21 and the LORD said to him, “Go down
and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD, lest
many of them perish.
Exodus 19:22 Even the priests who approach the
LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out
against them.”
Exodus 19:23 But Moses said to the LORD, “The
people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us,
‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
Exodus 19:24 And the LORD replied, “Go down and
bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not
break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against
them.”
Exodus 19:25 So Moses went down to the people
and spoke to them.
Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words:
Exodus 20:2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before
Me.
Exodus 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an
idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth
below, or in the waters beneath.
Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or
worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and
fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Exodus 20:6 but showing loving devotion to a
thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My
commandments.
Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the
LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone
unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day by keeping
it holy.
Exodus 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all
your work,
Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to
the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you,
nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or
livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the
heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on
the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath
day and set it apart as holy.
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother, so
that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is
giving you.
Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder.
Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
Exodus 20:15 You shall not steal.
Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness
against your neighbor.
Exodus 20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor’s
house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant
or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to
your neighbor.”
Exodus 20:18 When all the people witnessed the
thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ram’s horn, and the
mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a
distance.
Exodus 20:19 “Speak to us yourself and we will
listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or
we will die.”
Exodus 20:20 “Do not be afraid,” Moses replied.
“For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be
before you, to keep you from sinning.”
Exodus 20:21 And the people stood at a distance
as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
Exodus 20:22 Then the LORD said to Moses, “This
is what you are to tell the Israelites: ‘You have seen for
yourselves that I have spoken to you from heaven.
Exodus 20:23 You are not to make any gods
alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or
gold.
Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of
earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace
offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I
cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
Exodus 20:25 Now if you make an altar of stones
for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if
you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.
Exodus 20:26 And you must not go up to My altar
on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’
Exodus 21:1 “These are the ordinances that you
are to set before them:
Exodus 21:2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is
to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go
free without paying anything.
Exodus 21:3 If he arrived alone, he is to leave
alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.
Exodus 21:4 If his master gives him a wife and
she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall
belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
Exodus 21:5 But if the servant declares, ‘I love
my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
Exodus 21:6 then his master is to bring him
before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost
and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for
life.
Exodus 21:7 And if a man sells his daughter as a
servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
Exodus 21:8 If she is displeasing in the eyes of
her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her
to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since
he has broken faith with her.
Exodus 21:9 And if he chooses her for his son,
he must deal with her as with a daughter.
Exodus 21:10 If he takes another wife, he must
not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first
wife.
Exodus 21:11 If, however, he does not provide
her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary
payment.
Exodus 21:12 Whoever strikes and kills a man
must surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:13 If, however, he did not lie in
wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a
place where he may flee.
Exodus 21:14 But if a man schemes and acts
willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away
from My altar to be put to death.
Exodus 21:15 Whoever strikes his father or
mother must surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:16 Whoever kidnaps another man must be
put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his
possession.
Exodus 21:17 Anyone who curses his father or
mother must surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:18 If men are quarreling and one
strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but
is confined to bed,
Exodus 21:19 then the one who struck him shall
go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around
outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man
for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
Exodus 21:20 If a man strikes his manservant or
maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall
surely be punished.
Exodus 21:21 However, if the servant gets up
after a day or two, the owner shall not be punished, since the
servant is his property.
Exodus 21:22 If men who are fighting strike a
pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no
further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband
demands and as the court allows.
Exodus 21:23 But if a serious injury results,
then you must require a life for a life—
Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot,
Exodus 21:25 burn for burn, wound for wound, and
stripe for stripe.
Exodus 21:26 If a man strikes and blinds the eye
of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free
as compensation for the eye.
Exodus 21:27 And if he knocks out the tooth of
his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as
compensation for the tooth.
Exodus 21:28 If an ox gores a man or woman to
death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be
eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.
Exodus 21:29 But if the ox has a habit of
goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it,
and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its
owner must also be put to death.
Exodus 21:30 If payment is demanded of him
instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded
of him.
Exodus 21:31 If the ox gores a son or a
daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.
Exodus 21:32 If the ox gores a manservant or
maidservant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the
master of that servant, and the ox must be stoned.
Exodus 21:33 If a man opens or digs a pit and
fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
Exodus 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make
restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be
his.
Exodus 21:35 If a man’s ox injures his
neighbor’s ox and it dies, they must sell the live one and divide
the proceeds; they also must divide the dead animal.
Exodus 21:36 But if it was known that the ox had
a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall
pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.
Exodus 22:1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep
and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and
four sheep for a sheep.
Exodus 22:2 If a thief is caught breaking in and
is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
Exodus 22:3 But if it happens after sunrise,
there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full
restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his
theft.
Exodus 22:4 If what was stolen is actually found
alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay
back double.
Exodus 22:5 If a man grazes his livestock in a
field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in
someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of
his own field or vineyard.
Exodus 22:6 If a fire breaks out and spreads to
thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the
whole field, the one who started the fire must make full
restitution.
Exodus 22:7 If a man gives his neighbor money or
goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s
house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
Exodus 22:8 If the thief is not found, the owner
of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he
has taken his neighbor’s property.
Exodus 22:9 In all cases of illegal possession
of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that
someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their
cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must
pay back double to his neighbor.
Exodus 22:10 If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a
sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it
dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching,
Exodus 22:11 an oath before the LORD shall be
made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has
taken his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept the oath and
require no restitution.
Exodus 22:12 But if the animal was actually
stolen from the neighbor, he must make restitution to the owner.
Exodus 22:13 If the animal was torn to pieces,
he shall bring it as evidence; he need not make restitution for
the torn carcass.
Exodus 22:14 If a man borrows an animal from his
neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present,
he must make full restitution.
Exodus 22:15 If the owner was present, no
restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers
the loss.
Exodus 22:16 If a man seduces a virgin who is
not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full
dowry for her to be his wife.
Exodus 22:17 If her father absolutely refuses to
give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to
the bridal price of a virgin.
Exodus 22:18 You must not allow a sorceress to
live.
Exodus 22:19 Whoever lies with an animal must
surely be put to death.
Exodus 22:20 If anyone sacrifices to any god
other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
Exodus 22:21 You must not exploit or oppress a
foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land
of Egypt.
Exodus 22:22 You must not mistreat any widow or
orphan.
Exodus 22:23 If you do mistreat them, and they
cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
Exodus 22:24 My anger will be kindled, and I
will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows
and your children will be fatherless.
Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to one of My
people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to
him; you are not to charge him interest.
Exodus 22:26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak
as collateral, return it to him by sunset,
Exodus 22:27 because his cloak is the only
covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if
he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Exodus 22:28 You must not blaspheme God or curse
the ruler of your people.
Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings
from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of
your sons.
Exodus 22:30 You shall do likewise with your
cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven
days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
Exodus 22:31 You are to be My holy people. You
must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you
are to throw it to the dogs.
Exodus 23:1 “You shall not spread a false
report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow the crowd in
wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice
by siding with the crowd.
Exodus 23:3 And do not show favoritism to a poor
man in his lawsuit.
Exodus 23:4 If you encounter your enemy’s stray
ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
Exodus 23:5 If you see the donkey of one who
hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must
help him with it.
Exodus 23:6 You shall not deny justice to the
poor in their lawsuits.
Exodus 23:7 Stay far away from a false
accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not
acquit the guilty.
Exodus 23:8 Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe
blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
Exodus 23:9 Do not oppress a foreign resident,
since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you
were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23:10 For six years you are to sow your
land and gather its produce,
Exodus 23:11 but in the seventh year you must
let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may
eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they
leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.
Exodus 23:12 For six days you are to do your
work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and
your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be
refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
Exodus 23:13 Pay close attention to everything I
have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods;
they must not be heard on your lips.
Exodus 23:14 Three times a year you are to
celebrate a feast to Me.
Exodus 23:15 You are to keep the Feast of
Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the
month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days,
because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may
appear before Me empty-handed.
Exodus 23:16 You are also to keep the Feast of
Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in
the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the
year, when you gather your produce from the field.
Exodus 23:17 Three times a year all your males
are to appear before the Lord GOD.
Exodus 23:18 You must not offer the blood of My
sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast
remain until morning.
Exodus 23:19 Bring the best of the firstfruits
of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook
a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Exodus 23:20 Behold, I am sending an angel
before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the
place I have prepared.
Exodus 23:21 Pay attention to him and listen to
his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion,
since My Name is in him.
Exodus 23:22 But if you will listen carefully to
his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your
enemies and a foe to your foes.
Exodus 23:23 For My angel will go before you and
bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,
Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
Exodus 23:24 You must not bow down to their gods
or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to
demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.
Exodus 23:25 So you shall serve the LORD your
God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take
away sickness from among you.
Exodus 23:26 No woman in your land will miscarry
or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Exodus 23:27 I will send My terror ahead of you
and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make
all your enemies turn and run.
Exodus 23:28 I will send the hornet before you
to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out before
you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and
wild animals would multiply against you.
Exodus 23:30 Little by little I will drive them
out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
Exodus 23:31 And I will establish your borders
from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the
desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into
your hand, and you will drive them out before you.
Exodus 23:32 You shall make no covenant with
them or with their gods.
Exodus 23:33 They must not remain in your land,
lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their
gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Exodus 24:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come
up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of
Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
Exodus 24:2 Moses alone shall approach the LORD,
but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up
with him.”
Exodus 24:3 When Moses came and told the people
all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with
one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote down all the words
of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar
at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the
twelve tribes of Israel.
Exodus 24:5 Then he sent out some young men of
Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young
bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
Exodus 24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put
it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
Exodus 24:7 Then he took the Book of the
Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the
LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
Exodus 24:8 So Moses took the blood, sprinkled
it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant
that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these
words.”
Exodus 24:9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab
and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel.
Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as
clear as the sky itself.
Exodus 24:11 But God did not lay His hand on the
nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.
Exodus 24:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come
up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the
tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for
their instruction.”
Exodus 24:13 So Moses set out with Joshua his
attendant and went up on the mountain of God.
Exodus 24:14 And he said to the elders, “Wait
here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with
you. Whoever has a dispute can go to them.”
Exodus 24:15 When Moses went up on the mountain,
the cloud covered it,
Exodus 24:16 and the glory of the LORD settled
on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the
seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
Exodus 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the
LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of
the Israelites.
Exodus 24:18 Moses entered the cloud as he went
up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and
forty nights.
Exodus 25:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 25:2 “Tell the Israelites to bring Me an
offering. You are to receive My offering from every man whose
heart compels him.
Exodus 25:3 This is the offering you are to
accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
Exodus 25:4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine
linen and goat hair;
Exodus 25:5 ram skins dyed red and fine leather;
acacia wood;
Exodus 25:6 olive oil for the light; spices for
the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
Exodus 25:7 and onyx stones and gemstones to be
mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
Exodus 25:8 And they are to make a sanctuary for
Me, so that I may dwell among them.
Exodus 25:9 You must make the tabernacle and
design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.
Exodus 25:10 And they are to construct an ark of
acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide,
and a cubit and a half high.
Exodus 25:11 Overlay it with pure gold both
inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
Exodus 25:12 Cast four gold rings for it and
fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the
other.
Exodus 25:13 And make poles of acacia wood and
overlay them with gold.
Exodus 25:14 Insert the poles into the rings on
the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
Exodus 25:15 The poles are to remain in the
rings of the ark; they must not be removed.
Exodus 25:16 And place inside the ark the
Testimony, which I will give you.
Exodus 25:17 And you are to construct a mercy
seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a
half wide.
Exodus 25:18 Make two cherubim of hammered gold
at the ends of the mercy seat,
Exodus 25:19 one cherub on one end and one on
the other, all made from one piece of gold.
Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim are to have wings
that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are
to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
Exodus 25:21 Set the mercy seat atop the ark,
and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
Exodus 25:22 And I will meet with you there
above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the
ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I
command you regarding the Israelites.
Exodus 25:23 You are also to make a table of
acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half
high.
Exodus 25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and make
a gold molding around it.
Exodus 25:25 And make a rim around it a
handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
Exodus 25:26 Make four gold rings for the table
and fasten them to the four corners at its four legs.
Exodus 25:27 The rings are to be close to the
rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.
Exodus 25:28 Make the poles of acacia wood and
overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with
them.
Exodus 25:29 You are also to make the plates and
dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink
offerings. Make them out of pure gold.
Exodus 25:30 And place the Bread of the Presence
on the table before Me at all times.
Exodus 25:31 Then you are to make a lampstand of
pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its
base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
Exodus 25:32 Six branches are to extend from the
sides of the lampstand—three on one side and three on the other.
Exodus 25:33 There are to be three cups shaped
like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and
petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six
branches that extend from the lampstand.
Exodus 25:34 And on the lampstand there shall be
four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
Exodus 25:35 For the six branches that extend
from the lampstand, a bud must be under the first pair of
branches, a bud under the second pair, and a bud under the third
pair.
Exodus 25:36 The buds and branches are to be all
of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
Exodus 25:37 Make seven lamps and set them up on
the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.
Exodus 25:38 The wick trimmers and their trays
must be of pure gold.
Exodus 25:39 The lampstand and all these
utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.
Exodus 25:40 See to it that you make everything
according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
Exodus 26:1 “You are to construct the tabernacle
itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue,
purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into
them.
Exodus 26:2 Each curtain shall be twenty-eight
cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
Exodus 26:3 Five of the curtains are to be
joined together, and the other five joined as well.
Exodus 26:4 Make loops of blue material on the
edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the
end curtain in the second set.
Exodus 26:5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and
fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the
loops line up opposite one another.
Exodus 26:6 Make fifty gold clasps as well, and
join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle
will be a unit.
Exodus 26:7 You are to make curtains of goat
hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
Exodus 26:8 Each of the eleven curtains is to be
the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
Exodus 26:9 Join five of the curtains into one
set and the other six into another. Then fold the sixth curtain
over double at the front of the tent.
Exodus 26:10 Make fifty loops along the edge of
the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge
of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Exodus 26:11 Make fifty bronze clasps and put
them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.
Exodus 26:12 As for the overlap that remains of
the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over shall hang
down over the back of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:13 And the tent curtains will be a
cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the
sides of the tabernacle to cover it.
Exodus 26:14 Also make a covering for the tent
out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine
leather.
Exodus 26:15 You are to construct upright frames
of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:16 Each frame is to be ten cubits long
and a cubit and a half wide.
Exodus 26:17 Two tenons must be connected to
each other for each frame. Make all the frames of the tabernacle
in this way.
Exodus 26:18 Construct twenty frames for the
south side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:19 with forty silver bases under the
twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
Exodus 26:20 For the second side of the
tabernacle, the north side, make twenty frames
Exodus 26:21 and forty silver bases—two bases
under each frame.
Exodus 26:22 Make six frames for the rear of the
tabernacle, the west side,
Exodus 26:23 and two frames for the two back
corners of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:24 coupled together from bottom to top
and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two
corners.
Exodus 26:25 So there are to be eight frames and
sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
Exodus 26:26 You are also to make five crossbars
of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 26:27 five for those on the other side,
and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the
west.
Exodus 26:28 The central crossbar in the middle
of the frames shall extend from one end to the other.
Exodus 26:29 Overlay the frames with gold and
make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars
with gold.
Exodus 26:30 So you are to set up the tabernacle
according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
Exodus 26:31 Make a veil of blue, purple, and
scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully
worked into it.
Exodus 26:32 Hang it with gold hooks on four
posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four
silver bases.
Exodus 26:33 And hang the veil from the clasps
and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil
will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 26:34 Put the mercy seat on the ark of
the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 26:35 And place the table outside the
veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand
opposite the table, on the south side.
Exodus 26:36 For the entrance to the tent, you
are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet
yarn, and finely spun linen.
Exodus 26:37 Make five posts of acacia wood for
the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze
bases for them.
Exodus 27:1 “You are to build an altar of acacia
wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits
wide, and three cubits high.
Exodus 27:2 Make a horn on each of its four
corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with
bronze.
Exodus 27:3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its
pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its
meat forks, and its firepans.
Exodus 27:4 Construct for it a grate of bronze
mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the
mesh.
Exodus 27:5 Set the grate beneath the ledge of
the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
Exodus 27:6 Additionally, make poles of acacia
wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
Exodus 27:7 The poles are to be inserted into
the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it
is carried.
Exodus 27:8 Construct the altar with boards so
that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the
mountain.
Exodus 27:9 You are also to make a courtyard for
the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains
of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
Exodus 27:10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze
bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
Exodus 27:11 Likewise there are to be curtains
on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and
twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
Exodus 27:12 The curtains on the west side of
the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten
bases.
Exodus 27:13 The east side of the courtyard,
toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
Exodus 27:14 Make the curtains on one side
fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
Exodus 27:15 and the curtains on the other side
fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
Exodus 27:16 The gate of the courtyard shall be
twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple,
and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts
and four bases.
Exodus 27:17 All the posts around the courtyard
shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
Exodus 27:18 The entire courtyard shall be a
hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely
spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
Exodus 27:19 All the utensils of the tabernacle
for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of
the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.
Exodus 27:20 And you are to command the
Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light,
to keep the lamps burning continually.
Exodus 27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the
veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to
tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is
to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations
to come.
Exodus 28:1 “Next, have your brother Aaron
brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons
Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.
Exodus 28:2 Make holy garments for your brother
Aaron, to give him glory and splendor.
Exodus 28:3 You are to instruct all the skilled
craftsmen, whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom, to make
garments for Aaron’s consecration, so that he may serve Me as
priest.
Exodus 28:4 These are the garments that they
shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a
turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your
brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.
Exodus 28:5 They shall use gold, along with
blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
Exodus 28:6 They are to make the ephod of finely
spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and
scarlet yarn.
Exodus 28:7 It shall have two shoulder pieces
attached at two of its corners, so it can be fastened.
Exodus 28:8 And the skillfully woven waistband
of the ephod must be of one piece, of the same workmanship—with
gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun
linen.
Exodus 28:9 Take two onyx stones and engrave on
them the names of the sons of Israel:
Exodus 28:10 six of their names on one stone and
the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.
Exodus 28:11 Engrave the names of the sons of
Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal.
Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.
Exodus 28:12 Fasten both stones on the shoulder
pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel.
Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial
before the LORD.
Exodus 28:13 Fashion gold filigree settings
Exodus 28:14 and two chains of pure gold, made
of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.
Exodus 28:15 You are also to make a breastpiece
of judgment with the same workmanship as the ephod. Construct it
with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely
spun linen.
Exodus 28:16 It must be square when folded over
double, a span long and a span wide.
Exodus 28:17 And mount on it a setting of
gemstones, four rows of stones: In the first row there shall be a
ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
Exodus 28:18 in the second row a turquoise, a
sapphire, and a diamond;
Exodus 28:19 in the third row a jacinth, an
agate, and an amethyst;
Exodus 28:20 and in the fourth row a beryl, an
onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
Exodus 28:21 The twelve stones are to correspond
to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with
the name of one of the twelve tribes.
Exodus 28:22 For the breastpiece, make braided
chains like cords of pure gold.
Exodus 28:23 You are also to make two gold rings
and fasten them to the two corners of the breastpiece.
Exodus 28:24 Then fasten the two gold chains to
the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
Exodus 28:25 and fasten the other ends of the
two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the
shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
Exodus 28:26 Make two more gold rings and attach
them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside
edge next to the ephod.
Exodus 28:27 Make two additional gold rings and
attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod,
on its front, near its seam just above its woven waistband.
Exodus 28:28 The rings of the breastpiece shall
be tied to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so
that the breastpiece is above the waistband of the ephod and does
not swing out from the ephod.
Exodus 28:29 Whenever Aaron enters the Holy
Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his
heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder
before the LORD.
Exodus 28:30 And place the Urim and Thummim in
the breastpiece of judgment, so that they will also be over
Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the LORD. Aaron will
continually carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his
heart before the LORD.
Exodus 28:31 You are to make the robe of the
ephod entirely of blue cloth,
Exodus 28:32 with an opening at its top in the
center. Around the opening shall be a woven collar with an opening
like that of a garment, so that it will not tear.
Exodus 28:33 Make pomegranates of blue, purple,
and scarlet yarn all the way around the lower hem, with gold bells
between them,
Exodus 28:34 alternating the gold bells and
pomegranates around the lower hem of the robe.
Exodus 28:35 Aaron must wear the robe whenever
he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he enters or exits
the sanctuary before the LORD, so that he will not die.
Exodus 28:36 You are to make a plate of pure
gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
Exodus 28:37 Fasten to it a blue cord to mount
it on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban.
Exodus 28:38 And it will be worn on Aaron’s
forehead, so that he may bear the iniquity of the holy things that
the sons of Israel consecrate with regard to all their holy gifts.
It shall always be on his forehead, so that they may be acceptable
before the LORD.
Exodus 28:39 You are to weave the tunic with
fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an
embroidered sash.
Exodus 28:40 Make tunics, sashes, and headbands
for Aaron’s sons, to give them glory and splendor.
Exodus 28:41 After you put these garments on
your brother Aaron and his sons, anoint them, ordain them, and
consecrate them so that they may serve Me as priests.
Exodus 28:42 Make linen undergarments to cover
their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.
Exodus 28:43 Aaron and his sons must wear them
whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting or approach the altar to
minister in the Holy Place, so that they will not incur guilt and
die. This is to be a permanent statute for Aaron and his
descendants.
Exodus 29:1 “Now this is what you are to do to
consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve Me as priests: Take a young
bull and two rams without blemish,
Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread,
unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed
with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Exodus 29:3 put them in a basket, and present
them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
Exodus 29:4 Then present Aaron and his sons at
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
Exodus 29:5 Take the garments and clothe Aaron
with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the
breastplate. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.
Exodus 29:6 Put the turban on his head and
attach the holy diadem to the turban.
Exodus 29:7 Then take the anointing oil and
anoint him by pouring it on his head.
Exodus 29:8 Present his sons as well and clothe
them with tunics.
Exodus 29:9 Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his
sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by
a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his
sons.
Exodus 29:10 You are to present the bull at the
front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay
their hands on its head.
Exodus 29:11 And you shall slaughter the bull
before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 29:12 Take some of the blood of the bull
and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour
out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
Exodus 29:13 Take all the fat that covers the
entrails and the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with the fat
on them, and burn them on the altar.
Exodus 29:14 But burn the flesh of the bull and
its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Exodus 29:15 Take one of the rams, and Aaron and
his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
Exodus 29:16 You are to slaughter the ram, take
its blood, and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.
Exodus 29:17 Cut the ram into pieces, wash the
entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
Exodus 29:18 Then burn the entire ram on the
altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an
offering made by fire to the LORD.
Exodus 29:19 Take the second ram, and Aaron and
his sons are to lay their hands on its head.
Exodus 29:20 Slaughter the ram, take some of its
blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on
the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their
right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the
altar.
Exodus 29:21 And take some of the blood on the
altar and some of the anointing oil and sprinkle it on Aaron and
his garments, as well as on his sons and their garments. Then he
and his garments will be consecrated, as well as his sons and
their garments.
Exodus 29:22 Take the fat from the ram, the fat
tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both
kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a
ram for ordination),
Exodus 29:23 along with one loaf of bread, one
cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of
unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
Exodus 29:24 Put all these in the hands of Aaron
and his sons and wave them before the LORD as a wave offering.
Exodus 29:25 Then take them from their hands and
burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma
before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Exodus 29:26 Take the breast of the ram of
Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering,
and it will be your portion.
Exodus 29:27 Consecrate for Aaron and his sons
the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the
heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.
Exodus 29:28 This will belong to Aaron and his
sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is the heave
offering the Israelites will make to the LORD from their peace
offerings.
Exodus 29:29 The holy garments that belong to
Aaron will belong to his sons after him, so they can be anointed
and ordained in them.
Exodus 29:30 The son who succeeds him as priest
and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must
wear them for seven days.
Exodus 29:31 You are to take the ram of
ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
Exodus 29:32 At the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the
bread that is in the basket.
Exodus 29:33 They must eat those things by which
atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no
outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
Exodus 29:34 And if any of the meat of
ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn
up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.
Exodus 29:35 This is what you are to do for
Aaron and his sons based on all that I have commanded you, taking
seven days to ordain them.
Exodus 29:36 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering
each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for
it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
Exodus 29:37 For seven days you shall make
atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will
become most holy; whatever touches the altar will be holy.
Exodus 29:38 This is what you are to offer
regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
Exodus 29:39 Offer one lamb in the morning and
the other at twilight.
Exodus 29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth
of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from
pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
Exodus 29:41 And offer the second lamb at
twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the
morning, as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the
LORD.
Exodus 29:42 For the generations to come, this
burnt offering shall be made regularly at the entrance to the Tent
of Meeting before the LORD, where I will meet you to speak with
you.
Exodus 29:43 I will also meet with the
Israelites there, and that place will be consecrated by My glory.
Exodus 29:44 So I will consecrate the Tent of
Meeting and the altar, and I will consecrate Aaron and his sons to
serve Me as priests.
Exodus 29:45 Then I will dwell among the
Israelites and be their God.
Exodus 29:46 And they will know that I am the
LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt so that
I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
Exodus 30:1 “You are also to make an altar of
acacia wood for the burning of incense.
Exodus 30:2 It is to be square, a cubit long, a
cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.
Exodus 30:3 Overlay with pure gold the top and
all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
Exodus 30:4 And make two gold rings below the
molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
Exodus 30:5 Make the poles of acacia wood and
overlay them with gold.
Exodus 30:6 Place the altar in front of the veil
that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the mercy seat that
is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.
Exodus 30:7 And Aaron is to burn fragrant
incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
Exodus 30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at
twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for
the generations to come.
Exodus 30:9 On this altar you must not offer
unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor
are you to pour a drink offering on it.
Exodus 30:10 Once a year Aaron shall make
atonement on the horns of the altar. Throughout your generations
he shall make atonement on it annually with the blood of the sin
offering of atonement. The altar is most holy to the LORD.”
Exodus 30:11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 30:12 “When you take a census of the
Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for
his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them
when they are numbered.
Exodus 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those
counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel,
which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the
LORD.
Exodus 30:14 Everyone twenty years of age or
older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.
Exodus 30:15 In making the offering to the LORD
to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half
shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
Exodus 30:16 Take the atonement money from the
Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It
will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to
make atonement for your lives.”
Exodus 30:17 And the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 30:18 “You are to make a bronze basin
with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of
Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,
Exodus 30:19 with which Aaron and his sons are
to wash their hands and feet.
Exodus 30:20 Whenever they enter the Tent of
Meeting or approach the altar to minister by presenting an
offering made by fire to the LORD, they must wash with water so
that they will not die.
Exodus 30:21 Thus they are to wash their hands
and feet so that they will not die; this shall be a permanent
statute for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to
come.”
Exodus 30:22 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 30:23 “Take the finest spices: 500
shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of
fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
Exodus 30:24 500 shekels of cassia—all according
to the sanctuary shekel—and a hin of olive oil.
Exodus 30:25 Prepare from these a sacred
anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will
be a sacred anointing oil.
Exodus 30:26 Use this oil to anoint the Tent of
Meeting, the ark of the Testimony,
Exodus 30:27 the table and all its utensils, the
lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,
Exodus 30:28 the altar of burnt offering and all
its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
Exodus 30:29 You are to consecrate them so that
they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
Exodus 30:30 Anoint Aaron and his sons and
consecrate them to serve Me as priests.
Exodus 30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites,
‘This will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.
Exodus 30:32 It must not be used to anoint an
ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same
formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.
Exodus 30:33 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or
puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
Exodus 30:34 The LORD also said to Moses, “Take
fragrant spices—gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure
frankincense—in equal measures,
Exodus 30:35 and make a fragrant blend of
incense, the work of a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and
holy.
Exodus 30:36 Grind some of it into fine powder
and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting,
where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you.
Exodus 30:37 You are never to use this formula
to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the
LORD.
Exodus 30:38 Anyone who makes something like it
to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
Exodus 31:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 31:2 “See, I have called by name Bezalel
son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the
Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of
craftsmanship,
Exodus 31:4 to design artistic works in gold,
silver, and bronze,
Exodus 31:5 to cut gemstones for settings, and
to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.
Exodus 31:6 Moreover, I have selected Oholiab
son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, as his assistant. I have
also given skill to all the craftsmen, that they may fashion all
that I have commanded you:
Exodus 31:7 the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the
Testimony and the mercy seat upon it, and all the other
furnishings of the tent—
Exodus 31:8 the table with its utensils, the
pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, the altar of incense,
Exodus 31:9 the altar of burnt offering with all
its utensils, and the basin with its stand—
Exodus 31:10 as well as the woven garments, both
the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his
sons to serve as priests,
Exodus 31:11 in addition to the anointing oil
and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them
according to all that I have commanded you.”
Exodus 31:12 And the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you
must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you
for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the
LORD who sanctifies you.
Exodus 31:14 Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to
you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever
does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31:15 For six days work may be done, but
the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD.
Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to
death.
Exodus 31:16 The Israelites must keep the
Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the
generations to come.
Exodus 31:17 It is a sign between Me and the
Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and
the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
Exodus 31:18 When the LORD had finished speaking
with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the
Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Exodus 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses
was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around
Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for
this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not
know what has happened to him!”
Exodus 32:2 So Aaron told them, “Take off the
gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and
bring them to me.”
Exodus 32:3 Then all the people took off their
gold earrings and brought them to Aaron.
Exodus 32:4 He took the gold from their hands,
and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And
they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt!”
Exodus 32:5 When Aaron saw this, he built an
altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast
to the LORD.”
Exodus 32:6 So the next day they arose, offered
burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat
down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.
Exodus 32:7 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go
down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land
of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
Exodus 32:8 How quickly they have turned aside
from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves
a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to
it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up
out of the land of Egypt.’”
Exodus 32:9 The LORD also said to Moses, “I have
seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Exodus 32:10 Now leave Me alone, so that My
anger may burn against them and consume them. Then I will make you
into a great nation.”
Exodus 32:11 But Moses sought the favor of the
LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against
Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great
power and a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians declare,
‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the
mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from
Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
Exodus 32:13 Remember Your servants Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You
declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars
in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I
have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
Exodus 32:14 So the LORD relented from the
calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
Exodus 32:15 Then Moses turned and went down the
mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They
were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
Exodus 32:16 The tablets were the work of God,
and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Exodus 32:17 When Joshua heard the sound of the
people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the
camp.”
Exodus 32:18 But Moses replied: “It is neither
the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of
singing!”
Exodus 32:19 As Moses approached the camp and
saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the
tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the
mountain.
Exodus 32:20 Then he took the calf they had
made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered
the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the
Israelites to drink it.
Exodus 32:21 “What did this people do to you,”
Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
Exodus 32:22 “Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron
replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
Exodus 32:23 They told me, ‘Make us gods who
will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the
land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’
Exodus 32:24 So I said to them, ‘Whoever has
gold, let him take it off,’ and they gave it to me. And when I
threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
Exodus 32:25 Moses saw that the people were out
of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a
laughingstock to their enemies.
Exodus 32:26 So Moses stood at the entrance to
the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come to me.” And all
the Levites gathered around him.
Exodus 32:27 He told them, “This is what the
LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his
sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to
gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”
Exodus 32:28 The Levites did as Moses commanded,
and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.
Exodus 32:29 Afterward, Moses said, “Today you
have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went
against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a
blessing on you this day.”
Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the
people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the
LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
Exodus 32:31 So Moses returned to the LORD and
said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have
made gods of gold for themselves.
Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if You would only forgive
their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You
have written.”
Exodus 32:33 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever
has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.
Exodus 32:34 Now go, lead the people to the
place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on
the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
Exodus 32:35 And the LORD sent a plague on the
people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had
made.
Exodus 33:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave
this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of
Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
Exodus 33:2 And I will send an angel before you,
and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 33:3 Go up to a land flowing with milk
and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a
stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”
Exodus 33:4 When the people heard these bad
tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his
jewelry.
Exodus 33:5 For the LORD had said to Moses,
“Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should
go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off
your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
Exodus 33:6 So the Israelites stripped
themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
Exodus 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and
pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of
Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of
Meeting outside the camp.
Exodus 33:8 Then, whenever Moses went out to the
tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own
tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.
Exodus 33:9 As Moses entered the tent, the
pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and
the LORD would speak with Moses.
Exodus 33:10 When all the people saw the pillar
of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up
and worship, each one at the entrance to his own tent.
Exodus 33:11 Thus the LORD would speak to Moses
face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would
return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun
would not leave the tent.
Exodus 33:12 Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look,
You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not
let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know
you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
Exodus 33:13 Now if indeed I have found favor in
Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and
find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your
people.”
Exodus 33:14 And the LORD answered, “My Presence
will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Exodus 33:15 “If Your Presence does not go with
us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.
Exodus 33:16 For how then can it be known that
Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go
with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other
people on the face of the earth?”
Exodus 33:17 So the LORD said to Moses, “I will
do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My
sight, and I know you by name.”
Exodus 33:18 Then Moses said, “Please show me
Your glory.”
Exodus 33:19 “I will cause all My goodness to
pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My
name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have
mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Exodus 33:20 But He added, “You cannot see My
face, for no one can see Me and live.”
Exodus 33:21 The LORD continued, “There is a
place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,
Exodus 33:22 and when My glory passes by, I will
put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I
have passed by.
Exodus 33:23 Then I will take My hand away, and
you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
Exodus 34:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel
out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them
the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Exodus 34:2 Be ready in the morning, and come up
on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
Exodus 34:3 No one may go up with you; in fact,
no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or
herds may graze in front of the mountain.”
Exodus 34:4 So Moses chiseled out two stone
tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and
taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai
as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 34:5 And the LORD descended in a cloud,
stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
Exodus 34:6 Then the LORD passed in front of
Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate
and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and
faithfulness,
Exodus 34:7 maintaining loving devotion to a
thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin.
Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit
the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to
the third and fourth generations.”
Exodus 34:8 Moses immediately bowed down to the
ground and worshiped.
Exodus 34:9 “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed
found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although
this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and
take us as Your inheritance.”
Exodus 34:10 And the LORD said, “Behold, I am
making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders
that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the
people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an
awesome thing that I am doing with you.
Exodus 34:11 Observe what I command you this
day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites,
Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Exodus 34:12 Be careful not to make a treaty
with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they
become a snare in your midst.
Exodus 34:13 Rather, you must tear down their
altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah
poles.
Exodus 34:14 For you must not worship any other
god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Exodus 34:15 Do not make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to
their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you
will eat their sacrifices.
Exodus 34:16 And when you take some of their
daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute
themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
Exodus 34:17 You shall make no molten gods for
yourselves.
Exodus 34:18 You are to keep the Feast of
Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the
month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you.
For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
Exodus 34:19 The first offspring of every womb
belongs to Me, including all the firstborn males among your
livestock, whether cattle or sheep.
Exodus 34:20 You must redeem the firstborn of a
donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break
its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one
shall appear before Me empty-handed.
Exodus 34:21 Six days you shall labor, but on
the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and
harvesting, you must rest.
Exodus 34:22 And you are to celebrate the Feast
of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast
of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
Exodus 34:23 Three times a year all your males
are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus 34:24 For I will drive out the nations
before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your
land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD
your God.
Exodus 34:25 Do not offer the blood of a
sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any
of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
Exodus 34:26 Bring the best of the firstfruits
of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook
a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Exodus 34:27 The LORD also said to Moses, “Write
down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a
covenant with you and with Israel.”
Exodus 34:28 So Moses was there with the LORD
forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking
water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten
Commandments.
Exodus 34:29 And when Moses came down from Mount
Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was
unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the
LORD.
Exodus 34:30 Aaron and all the Israelites looked
at Moses, and behold, his face was radiant. And they were afraid
to approach him.
Exodus 34:31 But Moses called out to them; so
Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and
Moses spoke to them.
Exodus 34:32 And after this all the Israelites
came near, and Moses commanded them to do everything that the LORD
had told him on Mount Sinai.
Exodus 34:33 When Moses had finished speaking
with them, he put a veil over his face.
Exodus 34:34 But whenever Moses went in before
the LORD to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came
out. And when he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he
had been commanded,
Exodus 34:35 and the Israelites would see that
the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back
over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.
Exodus 35:1 Then Moses assembled the whole
congregation of Israel and said to them, “These are the things
that the LORD has commanded you to do:
Exodus 35:2 For six days work may be done, but
the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest
to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to
death.
Exodus 35:3 Do not light a fire in any of your
dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
Exodus 35:4 Moses also told the whole
congregation of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
Exodus 35:5 Take from among you an offering to
the LORD. Let everyone whose heart is willing bring an offering to
the LORD: gold, silver, and bronze;
Exodus 35:6 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine
linen and goat hair;
Exodus 35:7 ram skins dyed red and fine leather;
acacia wood;
Exodus 35:8 olive oil for the light; spices for
the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
Exodus 35:9 and onyx stones and gemstones to be
mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
Exodus 35:10 Let every skilled craftsman among
you come and make everything that the LORD has commanded:
Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle with its tent and
covering, its clasps and frames, its crossbars, posts, and bases;
Exodus 35:12 the ark with its poles and mercy
seat, and the veil to shield it;
Exodus 35:13 the table with its poles, all its
utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;
Exodus 35:14 the lampstand for light with its
accessories and lamps and oil for the light;
Exodus 35:15 the altar of incense with its
poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the
doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
Exodus 35:16 the altar of burnt offering with
its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with
its stand;
Exodus 35:17 the curtains of the courtyard with
its posts and bases, and the curtain for the gate of the
courtyard;
Exodus 35:18 the tent pegs for the tabernacle
and for the courtyard, along with their ropes;
Exodus 35:19 and the woven garments for
ministering in the holy place—both the holy garments for Aaron the
priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.”
Exodus 35:20 Then the whole congregation of
Israel withdrew from the presence of Moses.
Exodus 35:21 And everyone whose heart stirred
him and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to
the LORD for the work on the Tent of Meeting, for all its
services, and for the holy garments.
Exodus 35:22 So all who had willing hearts, both
men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and
necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented
their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
Exodus 35:23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or
scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or
articles of fine leather, brought them.
Exodus 35:24 And all who could present an
offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the
LORD. Also, everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the
service brought it.
Exodus 35:25 Every skilled woman spun with her
hands and brought what she had spun: blue, purple, or scarlet
yarn, or fine linen.
Exodus 35:26 And all the skilled women whose
hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.
Exodus 35:27 The leaders brought onyx stones and
gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,
Exodus 35:28 as well as spices and olive oil for
the light, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
Exodus 35:29 So all the men and women of the
Israelites whose hearts prompted them brought a freewill offering
to the LORD for all the work that the LORD through Moses had
commanded them to do.
Exodus 35:30 Then Moses said to the Israelites,
“See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel son of Uri, the son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Exodus 35:31 And He has filled him with the
Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of
craftsmanship,
Exodus 35:32 to design artistic works in gold,
silver, and bronze,
Exodus 35:33 to cut gemstones for settings, and
to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.
Exodus 35:34 And the LORD has given both him and
Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to
teach others.
Exodus 35:35 He has filled them with skill to do
all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue,
purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as
artistic designers of every kind of craft.
Exodus 36:1 “So Bezalel, Oholiab, and every
skilled person are to carry out everything commanded by the LORD,
who has given them skill and ability to know how to perform all
the work of constructing the sanctuary.”
Exodus 36:2 Then Moses summoned Bezalel,
Oholiab, and every skilled person whom the LORD had
gifted—everyone whose heart stirred him to come and do the work.
Exodus 36:3 They received from Moses all the
contributions that the Israelites had brought to carry out the
service of constructing the sanctuary. Meanwhile, the people
continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning,
Exodus 36:4 so that all the skilled craftsmen
who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work
Exodus 36:5 and said to Moses, “The people are
bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD has
commanded us to do.”
Exodus 36:6 After Moses had given an order, they
sent a proclamation throughout the camp: “No man or woman should
make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.” So the
people were restrained from bringing more,
Exodus 36:7 since what they already had was more
than enough to perform all the work.
Exodus 36:8 All the skilled craftsmen among the
workmen made the ten curtains for the tabernacle. They were made
of finely spun linen, as well as blue, purple, and scarlet yarn,
with cherubim skillfully worked into them.
Exodus 36:9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits
long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
Exodus 36:10 And he joined five of the curtains
together, and the other five he joined as well.
Exodus 36:11 He made loops of blue material on
the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end
curtain in the second set.
Exodus 36:12 He made fifty loops on one curtain
and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the
loops lined up opposite one another.
Exodus 36:13 He also made fifty gold clasps to
join the curtains together, so that the tabernacle was a unit.
Exodus 36:14 He then made curtains of goat hair
for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
Exodus 36:15 Each of the eleven curtains was the
same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
Exodus 36:16 He joined five of the curtains into
one set and the other six into another.
Exodus 36:17 He made fifty loops along the edge
of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the
edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
Exodus 36:18 He also made fifty bronze clasps to
join the tent together as a unit.
Exodus 36:19 Additionally, he made for the tent
a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine
leather.
Exodus 36:20 Next, he constructed upright frames
of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
Exodus 36:21 Each frame was ten cubits long and
a cubit and a half wide.
Exodus 36:22 Two tenons were connected to each
other for each frame. He made all the frames of the tabernacle in
this way.
Exodus 36:23 He constructed twenty frames for
the south side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36:24 with forty silver bases to put
under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each
tenon.
Exodus 36:25 For the second side of the
tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames
Exodus 36:26 and forty silver bases—two bases
under each frame.
Exodus 36:27 He made six frames for the rear of
the tabernacle, the west side,
Exodus 36:28 and two frames for the two back
corners of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36:29 coupled together from bottom to top
and fitted into a single ring. He made both corners in this way.
Exodus 36:30 So there were eight frames and
sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
Exodus 36:31 He also made five crossbars of
acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
Exodus 36:32 five for those on the other side,
and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the
west.
Exodus 36:33 He made the central crossbar to run
through the center of the frames, from one end to the other.
Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the frames with
gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. He also overlaid
the crossbars with gold.
Exodus 36:35 Next, he made the veil of blue,
purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim
skillfully worked into it.
Exodus 36:36 He also made four posts of acacia
wood for it and overlaid them with gold, along with gold hooks;
and he cast four silver bases for the posts.
Exodus 36:37 For the entrance to the tent, he
made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn,
and finely spun linen,
Exodus 36:38 together with five posts and their
hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with
gold, and their five bases were bronze.
Exodus 37:1 Bezalel went on to construct the ark
of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half
wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exodus 37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold, both
inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.
Exodus 37:3 And he cast four gold rings for its
four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
Exodus 37:4 Then he made poles of acacia wood
and overlaid them with gold.
Exodus 37:5 He inserted the poles into the rings
on the sides of the ark in order to carry it.
Exodus 37:6 He constructed a mercy seat of pure
gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Exodus 37:7 He made two cherubim of hammered
gold at the ends of the mercy seat,
Exodus 37:8 one cherub on one end and one on the
other, all made from one piece of gold.
Exodus 37:9 And the cherubim had wings that
spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced
each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
Exodus 37:10 He also made the table of acacia
wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exodus 37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold and
made a gold molding around it.
Exodus 37:12 And he made a rim around it a
handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
Exodus 37:13 He cast four gold rings for the
table and fastened them to the four corners at its four legs.
Exodus 37:14 The rings were placed close to the
rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.
Exodus 37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood
for carrying the table and overlaid them with gold.
Exodus 37:16 He also made the utensils for the
table out of pure gold: its plates and dishes, as well as its
bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.
Exodus 37:17 Then he made the lampstand out of
pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its
cups, and its buds and petals.
Exodus 37:18 Six branches extended from the
sides, three on one side and three on the other.
Exodus 37:19 There were three cups shaped like
almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals,
three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that
extended from the lampstand.
Exodus 37:20 And on the lampstand were four cups
shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.
Exodus 37:21 A bud was under the first pair of
branches that extended from the lampstand, a bud under the second
pair, and a bud under the third pair.
Exodus 37:22 The buds and branches were all of
one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
Exodus 37:23 He also made its seven lamps, its
wick trimmers, and trays of pure gold.
Exodus 37:24 He made the lampstand and all its
utensils from a talent of pure gold.
Exodus 37:25 He made the altar of incense out of
acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two
cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.
Exodus 37:26 And he overlaid with pure gold the
top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold
around it.
Exodus 37:27 He made two gold rings below the
molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
Exodus 37:28 And he made the poles of acacia
wood and overlaid them with gold.
Exodus 37:29 He also made the sacred anointing
oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
Exodus 38:1 Bezalel constructed the altar of
burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long,
five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
Exodus 38:2 He made a horn at each of its four
corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he
overlaid the altar with bronze.
Exodus 38:3 He made all the altar’s utensils of
bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and
firepans.
Exodus 38:4 He made a grate of bronze mesh for
the altar under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.
Exodus 38:5 At the four corners of the bronze
grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.
Exodus 38:6 And he made the poles of acacia wood
and overlaid them with bronze.
Exodus 38:7 Then he inserted the poles into the
rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar
with boards so that it was hollow.
Exodus 38:8 Next he made the bronze basin and
its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance
to the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 38:9 Then he constructed the courtyard.
The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had
curtains of finely spun linen,
Exodus 38:10 with twenty posts and twenty bronze
bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
Exodus 38:11 The north side was also a hundred
cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks
and bands of the posts were silver.
Exodus 38:12 The west side was fifty cubits long
and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and
bands of the posts were silver.
Exodus 38:13 And the east side, toward the
sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.
Exodus 38:14 The curtains on one side of the
entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three
bases.
Exodus 38:15 And the curtains on the other side
were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as
well.
Exodus 38:16 All the curtains around the
courtyard were made of finely spun linen.
Exodus 38:17 The bases for the posts were
bronze, the hooks and bands were silver, and the plating for the
tops of the posts was silver. So all the posts of the courtyard
were banded with silver.
Exodus 38:18 The curtain for the entrance to the
courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and
finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the
curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
Exodus 38:19 with four posts and four bronze
bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the
plating of their tops.
Exodus 38:20 All the tent pegs for the
tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.
Exodus 38:21 This is the inventory for the
tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’
command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron
the priest.
Exodus 38:22 Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur,
of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD had commanded
Moses.
Exodus 38:23 With him was Oholiab son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and
embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.
Exodus 38:24 All the gold from the wave offering
used for the work on the sanctuary totaled 29 talents and 730
shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
Exodus 38:25 The silver from those numbered
among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels,
according to the sanctuary shekel—
Exodus 38:26 a beka per person, that is, half a
shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty
years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total
of 603,550 men.
Exodus 38:27 The hundred talents of silver were
used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the
veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
Exodus 38:28 With the 1,775 shekels of silver he
made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied
bands for them.
Exodus 38:29 The bronze from the wave offering
totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.
Exodus 38:30 He used it to make the bases for
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the bronze altar and its
bronze grating, all the utensils for the altar,
Exodus 38:31 the bases for the surrounding
courtyard and its gate, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle
and its surrounding courtyard.
Exodus 39:1 From the blue, purple, and scarlet
yarn they made specially woven garments for ministry in the
sanctuary, as well as the holy garments for Aaron, just as the
LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:2 Bezalel made the ephod of finely
spun linen embroidered with gold, and with blue, purple, and
scarlet yarn.
Exodus 39:3 They hammered out thin sheets of
gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue,
purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen—the work of a skilled
craftsman.
Exodus 39:4 They made shoulder pieces for the
ephod, which were attached at two of its corners, so it could be
fastened.
Exodus 39:5 And the skillfully woven waistband
of the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, of the same
workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and
with finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:6 They mounted the onyx stones in gold
filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons
of Israel.
Exodus 39:7 Then they fastened them on the
shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of
Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:8 He made the breastpiece with the
same workmanship as the ephod, with gold, with blue, purple, and
scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
Exodus 39:9 It was square when folded over
double, a span long and a span wide.
Exodus 39:10 And they mounted on it four rows of
gemstones: The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald;
Exodus 39:11 the second row had a turquoise, a
sapphire, and a diamond;
Exodus 39:12 the third row had a jacinth, an
agate, and an amethyst;
Exodus 39:13 and the fourth row had a beryl, an
onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree
settings.
Exodus 39:14 The twelve stones corresponded to
the names of the sons of Israel. Each stone was engraved like a
seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
Exodus 39:15 For the breastpiece they made
braided chains like cords of pure gold.
Exodus 39:16 They also made two gold filigree
settings and two gold rings, and fastened the two rings to the two
corners of the breastpiece.
Exodus 39:17 Then they fastened the two gold
chains to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
Exodus 39:18 and they fastened the other ends of
the two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the
shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
Exodus 39:19 They made two more gold rings and
attached them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the
inside edge next to the ephod.
Exodus 39:20 They made two additional gold rings
and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the
ephod, on its front, near the seam just above its woven waistband.
Exodus 39:21 Then they tied the rings of the
breastpiece to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so
that the breastpiece was above the waistband of the ephod and
would not swing out from the ephod, just as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
Exodus 39:22 They made the robe of the ephod
entirely of blue cloth, the work of a weaver,
Exodus 39:23 with an opening in the center of
the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening
so that it would not tear.
Exodus 39:24 They made pomegranates of blue,
purple, and scarlet yarn and finely spun linen on the lower hem of
the robe.
Exodus 39:25 They also made bells of pure gold
and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates,
Exodus 39:26 alternating the bells and
pomegranates around the lower hem of the robe to be worn for
ministry, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:27 For Aaron and his sons they made
tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver,
Exodus 39:28 as well as the turban of fine
linen, the ornate headbands and undergarments of finely spun
linen,
Exodus 39:29 and the sash of finely spun linen,
embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the LORD
had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:30 They also made the plate of the
holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an
inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
Exodus 39:31 Then they fastened to it a blue
cord to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
Exodus 39:32 So all the work for the tabernacle,
the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:33 Then they brought the tabernacle to
Moses: the tent with all its furnishings, its clasps, its frames,
its crossbars, and its posts and bases;
Exodus 39:34 the covering of ram skins dyed red,
the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;
Exodus 39:35 the ark of the Testimony with its
poles and the mercy seat;
Exodus 39:36 the table with all its utensils and
the Bread of the Presence;
Exodus 39:37 the pure gold lampstand with its
row of lamps and all its utensils, as well as the oil for the
light;
Exodus 39:38 the gold altar, the anointing oil,
the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the
tent;
Exodus 39:39 the bronze altar with its bronze
grating, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its
stand;
Exodus 39:40 the curtains of the courtyard with
its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard,
its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of
the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;
Exodus 39:41 and the woven garments for
ministering in the sanctuary, both the holy garments for Aaron the
priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests.
Exodus 39:42 The Israelites had done all the
work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Exodus 39:43 And Moses inspected all the work
and saw that they had accomplished it just as the LORD had
commanded. So Moses blessed them.
Exodus 40:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month
you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 40:3 Put the ark of the Testimony in it
and screen off the ark with the veil.
Exodus 40:4 Then bring in the table and set out
its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its
lamps.
Exodus 40:5 Place the gold altar of incense in
front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the
entrance to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:6 Place the altar of burnt offering in
front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 40:7 And place the basin between the Tent
of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it.
Exodus 40:8 Set up the surrounding courtyard and
hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.
Exodus 40:9 Take the anointing oil and anoint
the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all
its furnishings, and it shall be holy.
Exodus 40:10 Anoint the altar of burnt offering
and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most
holy.
Exodus 40:11 Anoint the basin and its stand and
consecrate them.
Exodus 40:12 Then bring Aaron and his sons to
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
Exodus 40:13 And you are to clothe Aaron with
the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he may
serve Me as a priest.
Exodus 40:14 Bring his sons forward and clothe
them with tunics.
Exodus 40:15 Anoint them just as you anointed
their father, so that they may also serve Me as priests. Their
anointing will qualify them for a permanent priesthood throughout
their generations.”
Exodus 40:16 Moses did everything just as the
LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the
first day of the first month of the second year.
Exodus 40:18 When Moses set up the tabernacle,
he laid its bases, positioned its frames, inserted its crossbars,
and set up its posts.
Exodus 40:19 Then he spread the tent over the
tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD
had commanded him.
Exodus 40:20 Moses took the Testimony and placed
it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the
mercy seat atop the ark.
Exodus 40:21 Then he brought the ark into the
tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the
ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:22 Moses placed the table in the Tent
of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
Exodus 40:23 He arranged the bread on it before
the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:24 He also placed the lampstand in the
Tent of Meeting opposite the table on the south side of the
tabernacle
Exodus 40:25 and set up the lamps before the
LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:26 Moses placed the gold altar in the
Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,
Exodus 40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on
it, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:28 Then he put up the curtain at the
entrance to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:29 He placed the altar of burnt
offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting,
and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just
as the LORD had commanded him.
Exodus 40:30 He placed the basin between the
Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing;
Exodus 40:31 and from it Moses, Aaron, and his
sons washed their hands and feet.
Exodus 40:32 They washed whenever they entered
the Tent of Meeting or approached the altar, just as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:33 And Moses set up the courtyard
around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for
the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
Exodus 40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of
Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:35 Moses was unable to enter the Tent
of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of
the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:36 Whenever the cloud was lifted from
above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the
stages of their journey.
Exodus 40:37 If the cloud was not lifted, they
would not set out until the day it was taken up.
Exodus 40:38 For the cloud of the LORD was over
the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the
sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
LEVITICUS
Leviticus 1:1 Then the LORD called to Moses and
spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
Leviticus 1:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may
bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.
Leviticus 1:3 If one’s offering is a burnt
offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He
must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its
acceptance before the LORD.
Leviticus 1:4 He is to lay his hand on the head
of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make
atonement for him.
Leviticus 1:5 And he shall slaughter the young
bull before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to present
the blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 1:6 Next, he is to skin the burnt
offering and cut it into pieces.
Leviticus 1:7 The sons of Aaron the priest shall
put a fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.
Leviticus 1:8 Then Aaron’s sons the priests are
to arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, atop the
burning wood on the altar.
Leviticus 1:9 The entrails and legs must be
washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the
altar as a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing
aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 1:10 If, however, one’s offering is a
burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to
present an unblemished male.
Leviticus 1:11 He shall slaughter it on the
north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the
priests are to sprinkle its blood against the altar on all sides.
Leviticus 1:12 He is to cut the animal into
pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and
fat, atop the burning wood that is on the altar.
Leviticus 1:13 The entrails and legs must be
washed with water, and the priest shall bring all of it and burn
it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire,
a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 1:14 If, instead, one’s offering to
the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a
turtledove or a young pigeon.
Leviticus 1:15 Then the priest shall bring it to
the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood
should be drained out on the side of the altar.
Leviticus 1:16 And he is to remove the crop with
its contents and throw it to the east side of the altar, in the
place for ashes.
Leviticus 1:17 He shall tear it open by its
wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to
burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt
offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 2:1 “When anyone brings a grain
offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He
is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
Leviticus 2:2 and bring it to Aaron’s sons the
priests. The priest shall take a handful of the flour and oil,
together with all the frankincense, and burn this as a memorial
portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma
to the LORD.
Leviticus 2:3 The remainder of the grain
offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy
part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 2:4 Now if you bring an offering of
grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either
unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with
oil.
Leviticus 2:5 If your offering is a grain
offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made
of fine flour mixed with oil.
Leviticus 2:6 Crumble it and pour oil on it; it
is a grain offering.
Leviticus 2:7 If your offering is a grain
offering cooked in a pan, it must consist of fine flour with oil.
Leviticus 2:8 When you bring to the LORD the
grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to
the priest, and he shall take it to the altar.
Leviticus 2:9 The priest is to remove the
memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar
as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 2:10 But the remainder of the grain
offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy
part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 2:11 No grain offering that you
present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to
burn any leaven or honey as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 2:12 You may bring them to the LORD as
an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the
altar as a pleasing aroma.
Leviticus 2:13 And you shall season each of your
grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the
covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add
salt to each of your offerings.
Leviticus 2:14 If you bring a grain offering of
firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer crushed heads of new
grain roasted on the fire.
Leviticus 2:15 And you are to put oil and
frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.
Leviticus 2:16 The priest shall then burn the
memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with
all its frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 3:1 “If one’s offering is a peace
offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or
female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
Leviticus 3:2 He is to lay his hand on the head
of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood on
all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 3:3 From the peace offering he is to
bring an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers
the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
Leviticus 3:4 both kidneys with the fat on them
near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove
with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:5 Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it
on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the burning wood,
as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 3:6 If, however, one’s peace offering
to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female
without blemish.
Leviticus 3:7 If he is presenting a lamb for his
offering, he must present it before the LORD.
Leviticus 3:8 He is to lay his hand on the head
of his offering and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting.
Then Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the
altar.
Leviticus 3:9 And from the peace offering he
shall bring an offering made by fire to the LORD consisting of its
fat: the entire fat tail cut off close to the backbone, the fat
that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
Leviticus 3:10 both kidneys with the fat on them
near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove
with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:11 Then the priest is to burn them
on the altar as food, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 3:12 If one’s offering is a goat, he
is to present it before the LORD.
Leviticus 3:13 He must lay his hand on its head
and slaughter it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s
sons shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 3:14 And from his offering he shall
present an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers
the entrails, all the fat that is on them,
Leviticus 3:15 both kidneys with the fat on them
near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove
with the kidneys.
Leviticus 3:16 Then the priest is to burn the
food on the altar as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma.
All the fat is the LORD’s.
Leviticus 3:17 This is a permanent statute for
the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any
fat or any blood.”
Leviticus 4:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 4:2 “Tell the Israelites to do as
follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the
LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them:
Leviticus 4:3 If the anointed priest sins,
bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young
bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has
committed.
Leviticus 4:4 He must bring the bull to the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting before the LORD, lay his hand on
the bull’s head, and slaughter it before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:5 Then the anointed priest shall
take some of the bull’s blood and bring it into the Tent of
Meeting.
Leviticus 4:6 The priest is to dip his finger in
the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in
front of the veil of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 4:7 The priest must then put some of
the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is
before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. And he is to pour out the
rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt
offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 4:8 Then he shall remove all the fat
from the bull of the sin offering—the fat that covers the
entrails, all the fat that is on them,
Leviticus 4:9 both kidneys with the fat on them
near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove
with the kidneys—
Leviticus 4:10 just as the fat is removed from
the ox of the peace offering. Then the priest shall burn them on
the altar of burnt offering.
Leviticus 4:11 But the hide of the bull and all
its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
Leviticus 4:12 all the rest of the bull—he must
take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the
ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on
the ash heap.
Leviticus 4:13 Now if the whole congregation of
Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of
the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments
and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,
Leviticus 4:14 when they become aware of the sin
they have committed, then the assembly must bring a young bull as
a sin offering and present it before the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 4:15 The elders of the congregation
are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD, and it
shall be slaughtered before the LORD.
Leviticus 4:16 Then the anointed priest is to
bring some of the bull’s blood into the Tent of Meeting,
Leviticus 4:17 and he is to dip his finger in
the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of
the veil.
Leviticus 4:18 He is also to put some of the
blood on the horns of the altar that is before the LORD in the
Tent of Meeting, and he must pour out the rest of the blood at the
base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting.
Leviticus 4:19 And he is to remove all the fat
from it and burn it on the altar.
Leviticus 4:20 He shall offer this bull just as
he did the bull for the sin offering; in this way the priest will
make atonement on their behalf, and they will be forgiven.
Leviticus 4:21 Then he is to take the bull
outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It
is the sin offering for the assembly.
Leviticus 4:22 When a leader sins
unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the
commandments of the LORD his God, he incurs guilt.
Leviticus 4:23 When he becomes aware of the sin
he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his
offering.
Leviticus 4:24 He is to lay his hand on the head
of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering
is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:25 Then the priest is to take some
of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the
horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the
blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 4:26 He must burn all its fat on the
altar, like the fat of the peace offerings; thus the priest will
make atonement for that man’s sin, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 4:27 And if one of the common people
sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the
LORD’s commandments, he incurs guilt.
Leviticus 4:28 When he becomes aware of the sin
he has committed, he must bring an unblemished female goat as his
offering for that sin.
Leviticus 4:29 He is to lay his hand on the head
of the sin offering and slaughter it at the place of the burnt
offering.
Leviticus 4:30 Then the priest is to take some
of its blood with his finger, put it on the horns of the altar of
burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of
the altar.
Leviticus 4:31 Then he is to remove all the fat,
just as it is removed from the peace offering, and the priest is
to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. In this
way the priest will make atonement for him, and he will be
forgiven.
Leviticus 4:32 If, however, he brings a lamb as
a sin offering, he must bring an unblemished female.
Leviticus 4:33 And he is to lay his hand on the
head of the sin offering and slaughter it as a sin offering at the
place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.
Leviticus 4:34 Then the priest is to take some
of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, put it on the
horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of its
blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 4:35 And he shall remove all the fat,
just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the peace offerings,
and he shall burn it on the altar along with the offerings made by
fire to the LORD. In this way the priest will make atonement for
him for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:1 “If someone sins by failing to
testify when he hears a public charge about something he has
witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear
the iniquity.
Leviticus 5:2 Or if a person touches anything
unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or
livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is
unclean and guilty.
Leviticus 5:3 Or if he touches human
uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is
unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty.
Leviticus 5:4 Or if someone swears thoughtlessly
with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man
may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he
realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.
Leviticus 5:5 If someone incurs guilt in one of
these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,
Leviticus 5:6 and he must bring his guilt
offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb
or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make
atonement for him concerning his sin.
Leviticus 5:7 If, however, he cannot afford a
lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two
turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the
other as a burnt offering.
Leviticus 5:8 He is to bring them to the priest,
who shall first present the one for the sin offering. He is to
twist its head at the front of its neck without severing it;
Leviticus 5:9 then he is to sprinkle some of the
blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest
of the blood is drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin
offering.
Leviticus 5:10 And the priest must prepare the
second bird as a burnt offering according to the ordinance. In
this way the priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has
committed, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:11 But if he cannot afford two
turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah
of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or
frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 5:12 He is to bring it to the priest,
who shall take a handful from it as a memorial portion and burn it
on the altar atop the offerings made by fire to the LORD; it is a
sin offering.
Leviticus 5:13 In this way the priest will make
atonement for him for any of these sins he has committed, and he
will be forgiven. The remainder will belong to the priest, like
the grain offering.”
Leviticus 5:14 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 5:15 “If someone acts unfaithfully and
sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s holy things, he
must bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from
the flock, of proper value in silver shekels according to the
sanctuary shekel; it is a guilt offering.
Leviticus 5:16 Regarding any holy thing he has
harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to
it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his
behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:17 If someone sins and violates any
of the LORD’s commandments even though he was unaware, he is
guilty and shall bear his punishment.
Leviticus 5:18 He is to bring to the priest an
unblemished ram of proper value from the flock as a guilt
offering. Then the priest will make atonement on his behalf for
the wrong he has committed in ignorance, and he will be forgiven.
Leviticus 5:19 It is a guilt offering; he was
certainly guilty before the LORD.”
Leviticus 6:1 And the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 6:2 “If someone sins and acts
unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard
to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he
extorts his neighbor
Leviticus 6:3 or finds lost property and lies
about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a
man might commit—
Leviticus 6:4 once he has sinned and becomes
guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion,
or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,
Leviticus 6:5 or anything else about which he
has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth
of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges
his guilt.
Leviticus 6:6 Then he must bring to the priest
his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value
from the flock.
Leviticus 6:7 In this way the priest will make
atonement for him before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for
anything he may have done to incur guilt.”
Leviticus 6:8 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 6:9 “Command Aaron and his sons that
this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to
remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and
the fire must be kept burning on the altar.
Leviticus 6:10 And the priest shall put on his
linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the
altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed
and place them beside it.
Leviticus 6:11 Then he must take off his
garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the
camp to a ceremonially clean place.
Leviticus 6:12 The fire on the altar shall be
kept burning; it must not be extinguished. Every morning the
priest is to add wood to the fire, arrange the burnt offering on
it, and burn the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.
Leviticus 6:13 The fire shall be kept burning on
the altar continually; it must not be extinguished.
Leviticus 6:14 Now this is the law of the grain
offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front
of the altar.
Leviticus 6:15 The priest is to remove a handful
of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense
from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the
altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 6:16 Aaron and his sons are to eat the
remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they
are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 6:17 It must not be baked with leaven;
I have assigned it as their portion of My offerings made by fire.
It is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.
Leviticus 6:18 Any male among the sons of Aaron
may eat it. This is a permanent portion from the offerings made by
fire to the LORD for the generations to come. Anything that
touches them will become holy.”
Leviticus 6:19 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 6:20 “This is the offering that Aaron
and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a
tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half
of it in the morning and half in the evening.
Leviticus 6:21 It shall be prepared with oil on
a griddle; you are to bring it well-kneaded and present it as a
grain offering broken in pieces, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 6:22 The priest, who is one of Aaron’s
sons and will be anointed to take his place, is to prepare it. As
a permanent portion for the LORD, it must be burned completely.
Leviticus 6:23 Every grain offering for a priest
shall be burned completely; it is not to be eaten.”
Leviticus 6:24 And the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons that
this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt
offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered
before the LORD; it is most holy.
Leviticus 6:26 The priest who offers it shall
eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the
Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 6:27 Anything that touches its flesh
will become holy, and if any of the blood is spattered on a
garment, you must wash it in a holy place.
Leviticus 6:28 The clay pot in which the sin
offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze
pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.
Leviticus 6:29 Any male among the priests may
eat it; it is most holy.
Leviticus 6:30 But no sin offering may be eaten
if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make
atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.
Leviticus 7:1 “Now this is the law of the guilt
offering, which is most holy:
Leviticus 7:2 The guilt offering must be
slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered,
and the priest shall sprinkle its blood on all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 7:3 And all the fat from it shall be
offered: the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,
Leviticus 7:4 both kidneys with the fat on them
near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed
with the kidneys.
Leviticus 7:5 The priest shall burn them on the
altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD; it is a guilt
offering.
Leviticus 7:6 Every male among the priests may
eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:7 The guilt offering is like the sin
offering; the same law applies to both. It belongs to the priest
who makes atonement with it.
Leviticus 7:8 As for the priest who presents a
burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to
him.
Leviticus 7:9 Likewise, every grain offering
that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle
belongs to the priest who presents it,
Leviticus 7:10 and every grain offering, whether
dry or mixed with oil, belongs equally to all the sons of Aaron.
Leviticus 7:11 Now this is the law of the peace
offering that one may present to the LORD:
Leviticus 7:12 If he offers it in thanksgiving,
then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer
unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated
with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
Leviticus 7:13 Along with his peace offering of
thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened
bread.
Leviticus 7:14 From the cakes he must present
one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It
belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace
offering.
Leviticus 7:15 The meat of the sacrifice of his
peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers
it; none of it may be left until morning.
Leviticus 7:16 If, however, the sacrifice he
offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the
day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on
the next day.
Leviticus 7:17 But any meat of the sacrifice
remaining until the third day must be burned up.
Leviticus 7:18 If any of the meat from his peace
offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It
will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an
abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 7:19 Meat that touches anything
unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other
meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
Leviticus 7:20 But if anyone who is unclean eats
meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person
must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:21 If one touches anything unclean,
whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean,
detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace
offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off
from his people.”
Leviticus 7:22 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 7:23 “Speak to the Israelites and say,
‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.
Leviticus 7:24 The fat of an animal found dead
or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but
you must not eat it.
Leviticus 7:25 If anyone eats the fat of an
animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the
LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:26 You must not eat the blood of any
bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 7:27 If anyone eats blood, that person
must be cut off from his people.’”
Leviticus 7:28 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 7:29 “Speak to the Israelites and say,
‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as
his sacrifice to the LORD.
Leviticus 7:30 With his own hands he is to bring
the offerings made by fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat,
together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering
before the LORD.
Leviticus 7:31 The priest is to burn the fat on
the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
Leviticus 7:32 And you are to give the right
thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.
Leviticus 7:33 The son of Aaron who presents the
blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as
a portion.
Leviticus 7:34 I have taken from the sons of
Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the
contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to
Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons
of Israel.’”
Leviticus 7:35 This is the portion of the
offerings made by fire to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since
the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.
Leviticus 7:36 On the day they were anointed,
the LORD commanded that this be given them by the sons of Israel.
It is a permanent portion for the generations to come.
Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt
offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt
offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,
Leviticus 7:38 which the LORD gave Moses on
Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present
their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus 8:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 8:2 “Take Aaron and his sons, their
garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two
rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
Leviticus 8:3 and assemble the whole
congregation at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.”
Leviticus 8:4 So Moses did as the LORD had
commanded him, and the assembly gathered at the entrance to the
Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 8:5 And Moses said to them, “This is
what the LORD has commanded to be done.”
Leviticus 8:6 Then Moses presented Aaron and his
sons and washed them with water.
Leviticus 8:7 He put the tunic on Aaron, tied
the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod
on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and
fastened it to him.
Leviticus 8:8 Then he put the breastpiece on him
and placed the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece.
Leviticus 8:9 Moses also put the turban on
Aaron’s head and set the gold plate, the holy diadem, on the front
of the turban, as the LORD had commanded him.
Leviticus 8:10 Next, Moses took the anointing
oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it; and so he
consecrated them.
Leviticus 8:11 He sprinkled some of the oil on
the altar seven times, anointing the altar and all its utensils,
and the basin with its stand, to consecrate them.
Leviticus 8:12 He also poured some of the
anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Leviticus 8:13 Then Moses presented Aaron’s
sons, put tunics on them, wrapped sashes around them, and tied
headbands on them, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Leviticus 8:14 Moses then brought the bull near
for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on
its head.
Leviticus 8:15 Moses slaughtered the bull, took
some of the blood, and applied it with his finger to all four
horns of the altar, purifying the altar. He poured out the rest of
the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that
atonement could be made on it.
Leviticus 8:16 Moses also took all the fat that
was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys and
their fat, and burned it all on the altar.
Leviticus 8:17 But the bull with its hide,
flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had
commanded him.
Leviticus 8:18 Then Moses presented the ram for
the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its
head.
Leviticus 8:19 Moses slaughtered the ram and
sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 8:20 He cut the ram into pieces and
burned the head, the pieces, and the fat.
Leviticus 8:21 He washed the entrails and legs
with water and burned the entire ram on the altar as a burnt
offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD,
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 8:22 After that, Moses presented the
other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid
their hands on its head.
Leviticus 8:23 Moses slaughtered the ram and
took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the
thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 8:24 Moses also presented Aaron’s sons
and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs
of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet.
Then he sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 8:25 And Moses took the fat—the fat
tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver,
and both kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.
Leviticus 8:26 And from the basket of unleavened
bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened
bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he
placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
Leviticus 8:27 He put all these in the hands of
Aaron and his sons and waved them before the LORD as a wave
offering.
Leviticus 8:28 Then Moses took these from their
hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This
was an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by
fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 8:29 He also took the breast—Moses’
portion of the ram of ordination—and waved it before the LORD as a
wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.
Leviticus 8:30 Next, Moses took some of the
anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar and
sprinkled them on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and
their garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, as well
as Aaron’s sons and their garments.
Leviticus 8:31 And Moses said to Aaron and his
sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and
eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination
offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat
it.’
Leviticus 8:32 Then you must burn up the
remainder of the meat and bread.
Leviticus 8:33 You must not go outside the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of
your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to
ordain you.
Leviticus 8:34 What has been done today has been
commanded by the LORD in order to make atonement on your behalf.
Leviticus 8:35 You must remain at the entrance
to the Tent of Meeting day and night for seven days and keep the
LORD’s charge so that you will not die, for this is what I have
been commanded.”
Leviticus 8:36 So Aaron and his sons did
everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Leviticus 9:1 On the eighth day Moses summoned
Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel.
Leviticus 9:2 He said to Aaron, “Take for
yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt
offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.
Leviticus 9:3 Then speak to the Israelites and
say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both
a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,
Leviticus 9:4 an ox and a ram for a peace
offering to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed
with oil. For today the LORD will appear to you.’”
Leviticus 9:5 So they took what Moses had
commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting, and the whole
congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
Leviticus 9:6 And Moses said, “This is what the
LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may
appear to you.”
Leviticus 9:7 Then Moses said to Aaron,
“Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt
offering to make atonement for yourself and for the people. And
sacrifice the people’s offering to make atonement for them, as the
LORD has commanded.”
Leviticus 9:8 So Aaron approached the altar and
slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself.
Leviticus 9:9 The sons of Aaron brought the
blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and applied it
to the horns of the altar. And he poured out the rest of the blood
at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 9:10 On the altar he burned the fat,
the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as
the LORD had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 9:11 But he burned up the flesh and
the hide outside the camp.
Leviticus 9:12 Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt
offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on
all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 9:13 They brought him the burnt
offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on
the altar.
Leviticus 9:14 He washed the entrails and the
legs and burned them atop the burnt offering on the altar.
Leviticus 9:15 Aaron then presented the people’s
offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering,
slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.
Leviticus 9:16 He presented the burnt offering
and offered it according to the ordinance.
Leviticus 9:17 Next he presented the grain
offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in
addition to the morning’s burnt offering.
Leviticus 9:18 Then he slaughtered the ox and
the ram as the people’s peace offering. His sons brought him the
blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
Leviticus 9:19 They also brought the fat
portions from the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the fat covering
the entrails, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver—
Leviticus 9:20 and placed these on the breasts.
Aaron burned the fat portions on the altar,
Leviticus 9:21 but he waved the breasts and the
right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had
commanded.
Leviticus 9:22 Aaron lifted up his hands toward
the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the
burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down.
Leviticus 9:23 Moses and Aaron then entered the
Tent of Meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and
the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
Leviticus 9:24 Fire came out from the presence
of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions
on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy
and fell facedown.
Leviticus 10:1 Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu
took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and
offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His
command.
Leviticus 10:2 So fire came out from the
presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the
presence of the LORD.
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This
is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I
will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will
reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.
Leviticus 10:4 Moses summoned Mishael and
Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come
here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from
the front of the sanctuary.”
Leviticus 10:5 So they came forward and carried
them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses had
directed.
Leviticus 10:6 Then Moses said to Aaron and his
sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled
and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD
will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the
whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the
LORD has ignited.
Leviticus 10:7 You shall not go outside the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting, or you will die, for the LORD’s
anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses instructed.
Leviticus 10:8 Then the LORD said to Aaron,
Leviticus 10:9 “You and your sons are not to
drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or
else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations
to come.
Leviticus 10:10 You must distinguish between the
holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
Leviticus 10:11 so that you may teach the
Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through
Moses.”
Leviticus 10:12 And Moses said to Aaron and his
remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that
remains from the offerings made by fire to the LORD and eat it
without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.
Leviticus 10:13 You shall eat it in a holy
place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the
offerings made by fire to the LORD; for this is what I have been
commanded.
Leviticus 10:14 And you and your sons and
daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of
the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these
portions have been assigned to you and your children from the
peace offerings of the sons of Israel.
Leviticus 10:15 They are to bring the thigh of
the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together
with the fat portions of the offerings made by fire, to wave as a
wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you
and your children, as the LORD has commanded.”
Leviticus 10:16 Later, Moses searched carefully
for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned
up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons,
and asked,
Leviticus 10:17 “Why didn’t you eat the sin
offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to
you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement
for them before the LORD.
Leviticus 10:18 Since its blood was not brought
inside the holy place, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary
area, as I commanded.”
Leviticus 10:19 But Aaron replied to Moses,
“Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their
burnt offering before the LORD. Since these things have happened
to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been
acceptable in the sight of the LORD?”
Leviticus 10:20 And when Moses heard this
explanation, he was satisfied.
Leviticus 11:1 The LORD spoke again to Moses and
Aaron, telling them,
Leviticus 11:2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘Of all
the beasts of the earth, these ones you may eat:
Leviticus 11:3 You may eat any animal that has a
split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.
Leviticus 11:4 But of those that only chew the
cud or only have a divided hoof, you are not to eat the following:
The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof;
it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:5 The rock badger, though it chews
the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:6 The rabbit, though it chews the
cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:7 And the pig, though it has a
split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is
unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:8 You must not eat their meat or
touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:9 Of all the creatures that live in
the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat
anything with fins and scales.
Leviticus 11:10 But the following among all the
teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you:
everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and
scales.
Leviticus 11:11 They shall be an abomination to
you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their
carcasses.
Leviticus 11:12 Everything in the water that
does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:13 Additionally, you are to detest
the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are
detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Leviticus 11:14 the kite, any kind of falcon,
Leviticus 11:15 any kind of raven,
Leviticus 11:16 the ostrich, the screech owl,
the gull, any kind of hawk,
Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant,
the great owl,
Leviticus 11:18 the white owl, the desert owl,
the osprey,
Leviticus 11:19 the stork, any kind of heron,
the hoopoe, and the bat.
Leviticus 11:20 All flying insects that walk on
all fours are detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:21 However, you may eat the
following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those
having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
Leviticus 11:22 Of these you may eat any kind of
locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper.
Leviticus 11:23 All other flying insects that
have four legs are detestable to you.
Leviticus 11:24 These creatures will make you
unclean. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until
evening,
Leviticus 11:25 and whoever picks up one of
their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean
until evening.
Leviticus 11:26 Every animal with hooves not
completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for
you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.
Leviticus 11:27 All the four-footed animals that
walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their
carcasses will be unclean until evening,
Leviticus 11:28 and anyone who picks up a
carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until
evening. They are unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:29 The following creatures that
move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse,
any kind of great lizard,
Leviticus 11:30 the gecko, the monitor lizard,
the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
Leviticus 11:31 These animals are unclean for
you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when
they are dead shall be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:32 When one of them dies and falls
on something, that article becomes unclean; any article of wood,
clothing, leather, sackcloth, or any implement used for work must
be rinsed with water and will remain unclean until evening; then
it will be clean.
Leviticus 11:33 If any of them falls into a clay
pot, everything in it will be unclean; you must break the pot.
Leviticus 11:34 Any food coming into contact
with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a
container will be unclean.
Leviticus 11:35 Anything upon which one of their
carcasses falls will be unclean. If it is an oven or cooking pot,
it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless, a spring or
cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a
carcass in it will be unclean.
Leviticus 11:37 If a carcass falls on any seed
for sowing, the seed is clean;
Leviticus 11:38 but if water has been put on the
seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
Leviticus 11:39 If an animal that you may eat
dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until
evening.
Leviticus 11:40 Whoever eats from the carcass
must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and
anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be
unclean until evening.
Leviticus 11:41 Every creature that moves along
the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.
Leviticus 11:42 Do not eat any creature that
moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on
four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.
Leviticus 11:43 Do not defile yourselves by any
crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.
Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God;
consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy.
You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along
the ground.
Leviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD, who brought
you up out of the land of Egypt so that I would be your God;
therefore be holy, because I am holy.
Leviticus 11:46 This is the law regarding
animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and
all creatures that crawl along the ground.
Leviticus 11:47 You must distinguish between the
unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those
that may not.’”
Leviticus 12:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 12:2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman
who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for
seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation.
Leviticus 12:3 And on the eighth day the flesh
of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
Leviticus 12:4 The woman shall continue in
purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not
touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of
her purification are complete.
Leviticus 12:5 If, however, she gives birth to a
daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during
her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her
bleeding for sixty-six days.
Leviticus 12:6 When the days of her purification
are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring
to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old
lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a
sin offering.
Leviticus 12:7 And the priest will present them
before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be
ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for
a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.
Leviticus 12:8 But if she cannot afford a lamb,
she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a
burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest
will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
Leviticus 13:1 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Leviticus 13:2 “When someone has a swelling or
rash or bright spot on his skin that could become an infectious
skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of
his sons who is a priest.
Leviticus 13:3 The priest is to examine the
infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned
white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a
skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him
unclean.
Leviticus 13:4 If, however, the spot on his skin
is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the
hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the
infected person for seven days.
Leviticus 13:5 On the seventh day the priest is
to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged
and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for
another seven days.
Leviticus 13:6 The priest will examine him again
on the seventh day, and if the sore has faded and has not spread
on the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a rash.
The person must wash his clothes and be clean.
Leviticus 13:7 But if the rash spreads further
on his skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his
cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.
Leviticus 13:8 The priest will reexamine him,
and if the rash has spread on the skin, the priest must pronounce
him unclean; he has a skin disease.
Leviticus 13:9 When anyone develops a skin
disease, he must be brought to the priest.
Leviticus 13:10 The priest will examine him, and
if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair
white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
Leviticus 13:11 it is a chronic skin disease and
the priest must pronounce him unclean. He need not isolate him,
for he is unclean.
Leviticus 13:12 But if the skin disease breaks
out all over his skin so that it covers all the skin of the
infected person from head to foot, as far as the priest can see,
Leviticus 13:13 the priest shall examine him,
and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce
the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is
clean.
Leviticus 13:14 But whenever raw flesh appears
on someone, he will be unclean.
Leviticus 13:15 When the priest sees the raw
flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; it
is a skin disease.
Leviticus 13:16 But if the raw flesh changes and
turns white, he must go to the priest.
Leviticus 13:17 The priest will reexamine him,
and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce
the infected person clean; then he is clean.
Leviticus 13:18 When a boil appears on someone’s
skin and it heals,
Leviticus 13:19 and a white swelling or a
reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, he must present
himself to the priest.
Leviticus 13:20 The priest shall examine it, and
if it appears to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned
white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased
infection that has broken out in the boil.
Leviticus 13:21 But when the priest examines it,
if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin
and has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
Leviticus 13:22 If it spreads any further on the
skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.
Leviticus 13:23 But if the spot remains
unchanged and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil,
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
Leviticus 13:24 When there is a burn on
someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white
or white,
Leviticus 13:25 the priest must examine it. If
the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be
deeper than the skin, it is a disease that has broken out in the
burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased
infection.
Leviticus 13:26 But if the priest examines it
and there is no white hair in the spot, and it is not beneath the
skin but has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
Leviticus 13:27 On the seventh day the priest is
to reexamine him, and if it has spread further on the skin, the
priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection.
Leviticus 13:28 But if the spot is unchanged and
has not spread on the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from
the burn, and the priest is to pronounce him clean; for it is only
the scar from the burn.
Leviticus 13:29 If a man or woman has an
infection on the head or chin,
Leviticus 13:30 the priest shall examine the
infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the
hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him
unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head
or chin.
Leviticus 13:31 But if the priest examines the
scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,
and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the
infected person for seven days.
Leviticus 13:32 On the seventh day the priest is
to reexamine the infection, and if the scaly outbreak has not
spread and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not appear
to be deeper than the skin,
Leviticus 13:33 then the person must shave
himself except for the scaly area. Then the priest shall isolate
him for another seven days.
Leviticus 13:34 On the seventh day the priest
shall examine the scaly outbreak, and if it has not spread on the
skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is
to pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be
clean.
Leviticus 13:35 If, however, the scaly outbreak
spreads further on the skin after his cleansing,
Leviticus 13:36 the priest is to examine him,
and if the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest need
not look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.
Leviticus 13:37 If, however, in his sight the
scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then
it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him
clean.
Leviticus 13:38 When a man or a woman has white
spots on the skin,
Leviticus 13:39 the priest shall examine them,
and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has
broken out on the skin; the person is clean.
Leviticus 13:40 Now if a man loses his hair and
is bald, he is still clean.
Leviticus 13:41 Or if his hairline recedes and
he is bald on his forehead, he is still clean.
Leviticus 13:42 But if there is a reddish-white
sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease
breaking out on it.
Leviticus 13:43 The priest is to examine him,
and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead
is reddish-white like a skin disease,
Leviticus 13:44 the man is diseased; he is
unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the
infection on his head.
Leviticus 13:45 A diseased person must wear torn
clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth
and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’
Leviticus 13:46 As long as he has the infection,
he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the
camp.
Leviticus 13:47 If any fabric is contaminated
with mildew—any wool or linen garment,
Leviticus 13:48 any weave or knit of linen or
wool, or any article of leather—
Leviticus 13:49 and if the mark in the fabric,
leather, weave, knit, or leather article is green or red, then it
is contaminated with mildew and must be shown to the priest.
Leviticus 13:50 And the priest is to examine the
mildew and isolate the contaminated fabric for seven days.
Leviticus 13:51 On the seventh day the priest
shall reexamine it, and if the mildew has spread in the fabric,
weave, knit, or leather, then regardless of how it is used, it is
a harmful mildew; the article is unclean.
Leviticus 13:52 He is to burn the fabric, weave,
or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or
leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned
up.
Leviticus 13:53 But when the priest reexamines
it, if the mildew has not spread in the fabric, weave, knit, or
leather article,
Leviticus 13:54 the priest is to order the
contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven
days.
Leviticus 13:55 After it has been washed, the
priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not
changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has
not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or
back.
Leviticus 13:56 If the priest examines it and
the mildew has faded after it has been washed, he must cut the
contaminated section out of the fabric, leather, weave, or knit.
Leviticus 13:57 But if it reappears in the
fabric, weave, or knit, or on any leather article, it is
spreading. You must burn the contaminated article.
Leviticus 13:58 If the mildew disappears from
the fabric, weave, or knit, or any leather article after washing,
then it is to be washed again, and it will be clean.
Leviticus 13:59 This is the law concerning a
mildew contamination in wool or linen fabric, weave, or knit, or
any leather article, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.”
Leviticus 14:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 14:2 “This is the law for the one
afflicted with a skin disease on the day of his cleansing, when he
is brought to the priest.
Leviticus 14:3 The priest is to go outside the
camp to examine him, and if the skin disease of the afflicted
person has healed,
Leviticus 14:4 the priest shall order that two
live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought
for the one to be cleansed.
Leviticus 14:5 Then the priest shall command
that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay
pot.
Leviticus 14:6 And he is to take the live bird
together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip
them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the
fresh water.
Leviticus 14:7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the
one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce
him clean and release the live bird into the open field.
Leviticus 14:8 The one being cleansed must wash
his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he
will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but
he must remain outside his tent for seven days.
Leviticus 14:9 On the seventh day he must shave
off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest
of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with
water, and he will be clean.
Leviticus 14:10 On the eighth day he is to bring
two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a
grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed
with olive oil, and one log of olive oil.
Leviticus 14:11 The priest who performs the
cleansing shall present the one to be cleansed, together with
these offerings, before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting.
Leviticus 14:12 Then the priest is to take one
of the male lambs and present it as a guilt offering, along with
the log of olive oil; and he must wave them as a wave offering
before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:13 Then he is to slaughter the lamb
in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering
are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs
to the priest; it is most holy.
Leviticus 14:14 The priest is to take some of
the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe
of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on
the big toe of his right foot.
Leviticus 14:15 Then the priest shall take some
of the log of olive oil, pour it into his left palm,
Leviticus 14:16 dip his right forefinger into
the oil in his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his
finger seven times before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:17 And the priest is to put some of
the oil remaining in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to
be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of
his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
Leviticus 14:18 The rest of the oil in his palm,
the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to
make atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:19 Then the priest is to sacrifice
the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed
from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the
burnt offering
Leviticus 14:20 and offer it on the altar, with
the grain offering, to make atonement for him, and he will be
clean.
Leviticus 14:21 If, however, the person is poor
and cannot afford these offerings, he is to take one male lamb as
a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for him, along with
a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain
offering, a log of olive oil,
Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young
pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the
other a burnt offering.
Leviticus 14:23 On the eighth day he is to bring
them for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the Tent
of Meeting before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:24 The priest shall take the lamb
for the guilt offering, along with the log of olive oil, and wave
them as a wave offering before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:25 And after he slaughters the lamb
for the guilt offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of
the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to
be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of
his right foot.
Leviticus 14:26 Then the priest is to pour some
of the oil into his left palm
Leviticus 14:27 and sprinkle with his right
forefinger some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the
LORD.
Leviticus 14:28 The priest shall also put some
of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be
cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of
his right foot—on the same places as the blood of the guilt
offering.
Leviticus 14:29 The rest of the oil in his palm,
the priest is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed, to
make atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:30 Then he must sacrifice the
turtledoves or young pigeons, whichever he can afford,
Leviticus 14:31 one as a sin offering and the
other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In
this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the
one to be cleansed.
Leviticus 14:32 This is the law for someone who
has a skin disease and cannot afford the cost of his cleansing.”
Leviticus 14:33 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Leviticus 14:34 “When you enter the land of
Canaan, which I am giving you as your possession, and I put a
contamination of mildew into a house in that land,
Leviticus 14:35 the owner of the house shall
come and tell the priest, ‘Something like mildew has appeared in
my house.’
Leviticus 14:36 The priest must order that the
house be cleared before he enters it to examine the mildew, so
that nothing in the house will become unclean. After this, the
priest shall go in to inspect the house.
Leviticus 14:37 He is to examine the house, and
if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions
that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,
Leviticus 14:38 the priest shall go outside the
doorway of the house and close it up for seven days.
Leviticus 14:39 On the seventh day the priest is
to return and inspect the house. If the mildew has spread on the
walls,
Leviticus 14:40 he must order that the
contaminated stones be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place
outside the city.
Leviticus 14:41 And he shall have the inside of
the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off
dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
Leviticus 14:42 So different stones must be
obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional
mortar to replaster the house.
Leviticus 14:43 If the mildew reappears in the
house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been
scraped and replastered,
Leviticus 14:44 the priest must come and inspect
it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive
mildew; the house is unclean.
Leviticus 14:45 It must be torn down with its
stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the
city to an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:46 Anyone who enters the house
during any of the days that it is closed up will be unclean until
evening.
Leviticus 14:47 And anyone who sleeps in the
house or eats in it must wash his clothes.
Leviticus 14:48 If, however, the priest comes
and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has
been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the
mildew is gone.
Leviticus 14:49 He is to take two birds, cedar
wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house;
Leviticus 14:50 and he shall slaughter one of
the birds over fresh water in a clay pot.
Leviticus 14:51 Then he shall take the cedar
wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in
the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and
sprinkle the house seven times.
Leviticus 14:52 And he shall cleanse the house
with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar
wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
Leviticus 14:53 Finally, he is to release the
live bird into the open fields outside the city. In this way he
will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
Leviticus 14:54 This is the law for any
infectious skin disease, for a scaly outbreak,
Leviticus 14:55 for mildew in clothing or in a
house,
Leviticus 14:56 and for a swelling, rash, or
spot,
Leviticus 14:57 to determine when something is
clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and
mildew.”
Leviticus 15:1 And the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Leviticus 15:2 “Say to the Israelites, ‘When any
man has a bodily discharge, the discharge is unclean.
Leviticus 15:3 This uncleanness is from his
discharge, whether his body allows the discharge to flow or blocks
it. So his discharge will bring about uncleanness.
Leviticus 15:4 Any bed on which the man with the
discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits
will be unclean.
Leviticus 15:5 Anyone who touches his bed must
wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean
until evening.
Leviticus 15:6 Whoever sits on furniture on
which the man with the discharge was sitting must wash his clothes
and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:7 Whoever touches the body of the
man with a discharge must wash his clothes and bathe with water,
and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:8 If the man with the discharge
spits on one who is clean, that person must wash his clothes and
bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:9 Any saddle on which the man with
the discharge rides will be unclean.
Leviticus 15:10 Whoever touches anything that
was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries
such things must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he
will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:11 If the man with the discharge
touches anyone without first rinsing his hands with water, the one
who was touched must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he
will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:12 Any clay pot that the man with
the discharge touches must be broken, and any wooden utensil must
be rinsed with water.
Leviticus 15:13 When the man has been cleansed
from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his
cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and
he shall be clean.
Leviticus 15:14 On the eighth day he is to take
two turtledoves or two young pigeons, come before the LORD at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and give them to the priest.
Leviticus 15:15 The priest is to sacrifice them,
one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this
way the priest will make atonement for the man before the LORD
because of his discharge.
Leviticus 15:16 When a man has an emission of
semen, he must bathe his whole body with water, and he will be
unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:17 Any clothing or leather on which
there is an emission of semen must be washed with water, and it
will remain unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:18 If a man lies with a woman and
there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and
they will remain unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:19 When a woman has a discharge
consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her
menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be
unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:20 Anything on which she lies or
sits during her menstruation will be unclean,
Leviticus 15:21 and anyone who touches her bed
must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean
until evening.
Leviticus 15:22 Whoever touches any furniture on
which she was sitting must wash his clothes and bathe with water,
and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:23 And whether it is a bed or
furniture on which she was sitting, whoever touches it will be
unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:24 If a man lies with her and her
menstrual flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days, and
any bed on which he lies will become unclean.
Leviticus 15:25 When a woman has a discharge of
her blood for many days at a time other than her menstrual period,
or if it continues beyond her period, she will be unclean all the
days of her unclean discharge, just as she is during the days of
her menstruation.
Leviticus 15:26 Any bed on which she lies or any
furniture on which she sits during the days of her discharge will
be unclean, like her bed during her menstrual period.
Leviticus 15:27 Anyone who touches these things
will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water,
and he will be unclean until evening.
Leviticus 15:28 When a woman is cleansed of her
discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will
be ceremonially clean.
Leviticus 15:29 On the eighth day she is to take
two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest
at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Leviticus 15:30 The priest is to sacrifice one
as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way
the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her
unclean discharge.
Leviticus 15:31 You must keep the children of
Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by
defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.
Leviticus 15:32 This is the law of him who has a
discharge, of the man who has an emission of semen whereby he is
unclean,
Leviticus 15:33 of a woman in her menstrual
period, of any male or female who has a discharge, and of a man
who lies with an unclean woman.’”
Leviticus 16:1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses after
the death of two of Aaron’s sons when they approached the presence
of the LORD.
Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell
your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place
behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he
will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
Leviticus 16:3 This is how Aaron is to enter the
Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a
burnt offering.
Leviticus 16:4 He is to wear the sacred linen
tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around
him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he
must bathe himself with water before he wears them.
Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take from the
congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one
ram for a burnt offering.
Leviticus 16:6 Aaron is to present the bull for
his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.
Leviticus 16:7 Then he shall take the two goats
and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting.
Leviticus 16:8 After Aaron casts lots for the
two goats, one for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat,
Leviticus 16:9 he shall present the goat chosen
by lot for the LORD and sacrifice it as a sin offering.
Leviticus 16:10 But the goat chosen by lot as
the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make
atonement by sending it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.
Leviticus 16:11 When Aaron presents the bull for
his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his
household, he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
Leviticus 16:12 Then he must take a censer full
of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls
of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
Leviticus 16:13 He is to put the incense on the
fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the
mercy seat above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
Leviticus 16:14 And he is to take some of the
bull’s blood and sprinkle it with his finger on the east side of
the mercy seat; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger
seven times before the mercy seat.
Leviticus 16:15 Aaron shall then slaughter the
goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood
behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the
bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in
front of it.
Leviticus 16:16 So he shall make atonement for
the Most Holy Place because of the impurities and rebellious acts
of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to do the
same for the Tent of Meeting which abides among them, because it
is surrounded by their impurities.
Leviticus 16:17 No one may be in the Tent of
Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most
Holy Place until he leaves, after he has made atonement for
himself, his household, and the whole assembly of Israel.
Leviticus 16:18 Then he shall go out to the
altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it. He is to
take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put
it on all the horns of the altar.
Leviticus 16:19 He is to sprinkle some of the
blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and
consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.
Leviticus 16:20 When Aaron has finished
purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar,
he is to bring forward the live goat.
Leviticus 16:21 Then he is to lay both hands on
the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities
and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins.
He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the
wilderness by the hand of a man appointed for the task.
Leviticus 16:22 The goat will carry on itself
all their iniquities into a solitary place, and the man will
release it into the wilderness.
Leviticus 16:23 Then Aaron is to enter the Tent
of Meeting, take off the linen garments he put on before entering
the Most Holy Place, and leave them there.
Leviticus 16:24 He is to bathe himself with
water in a holy place and put on his own clothes. Then he must go
out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people’s burnt
offering to make atonement for himself and for the people.
Leviticus 16:25 He is also to burn the fat of
the sin offering on the altar.
Leviticus 16:26 The man who released the goat as
the scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water;
afterward he may reenter the camp.
Leviticus 16:27 The bull for the sin offering
and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into
the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the
camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.
Leviticus 16:28 The one who burns them must wash
his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may
reenter the camp.
Leviticus 16:29 This is to be a permanent
statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall
humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the
foreigner who resides among you—
Leviticus 16:30 because on this day atonement
will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from
all your sins before the LORD.
Leviticus 16:31 It is a Sabbath of complete rest
for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent
statute.
Leviticus 16:32 The priest who is anointed and
ordained to succeed his father as high priest shall make
atonement. He will put on the sacred linen garments
Leviticus 16:33 and make atonement for the Most
Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, and for the
priests and all the people of the assembly.
Leviticus 16:34 This is to be a permanent
statute for you, to make atonement once a year for the Israelites
because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
Leviticus 17:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 17:2 “Speak to Aaron, his sons, and
all the Israelites and tell them this is what the LORD has
commanded:
Leviticus 17:3 ‘Anyone from the house of Israel
who slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat in the camp or outside of
it
Leviticus 17:4 instead of bringing it to the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to
the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He
has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:5 For this reason the Israelites
will bring to the LORD the sacrifices they have been offering in
the open fields. They are to bring them to the priest at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting and offer them as sacrifices of
peace to the LORD.
Leviticus 17:6 The priest will then sprinkle the
blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting and burn the fat as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 17:7 They must no longer offer their
sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted
themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the
generations to come.’
Leviticus 17:8 Tell them that if anyone from the
house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt
offering or a sacrifice
Leviticus 17:9 but does not bring it to the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to the LORD, that
man must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 17:10 If anyone from the house of
Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set
My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in
the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for your
souls upon the altar; for it is the blood that makes atonement for
the soul.
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I say to the
Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner
living among you eat blood.’
Leviticus 17:13 And if any Israelite or
foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that
may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
Leviticus 17:14 For the life of all flesh is its
blood. Therefore I have told the Israelites, ‘You must not eat the
blood of any living thing, because the life of all flesh is its
blood; whoever eats it must be cut off.’
Leviticus 17:15 And any person, whether native
or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild
beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be
unclean until evening; then he will be clean.
Leviticus 17:16 But if he does not wash his
clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”
Leviticus 18:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 18:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:3 You must not follow the practices
of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not
follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am
bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
Leviticus 18:4 You are to practice My judgments
and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:5 Keep My statutes and My
judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I
am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:6 None of you are to approach any
close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:7 You must not expose the nakedness
of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is
your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.
Leviticus 18:8 You must not have sexual
relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
Leviticus 18:9 You must not have sexual
relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your
mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or
elsewhere.
Leviticus 18:10 You must not have sexual
relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter,
for that would shame your family.
Leviticus 18:11 You must not have sexual
relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your
father; she is your sister.
Leviticus 18:12 You must not have sexual
relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close
relative.
Leviticus 18:13 You must not have sexual
relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s
close relative.
Leviticus 18:14 You must not dishonor your
father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations
with her; she is your aunt.
Leviticus 18:15 You must not have sexual
relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you
are not to have sexual relations with her.
Leviticus 18:16 You must not have sexual
relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
Leviticus 18:17 You must not have sexual
relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry
her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual
relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.
Leviticus 18:18 You must not take your wife’s
sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while
your wife is still alive.
Leviticus 18:19 You must not approach a woman to
have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.
Leviticus 18:20 You must not lie carnally with
your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.
Leviticus 18:21 You must not give any of your
children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the
name of your God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 18:22 You must not lie with a man as
with a woman; that is an abomination.
Leviticus 18:23 You must not lie carnally with
any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand
before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
Leviticus 18:24 Do not defile yourselves by any
of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am
driving out before you have defiled themselves.
Leviticus 18:25 Even the land has become
defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit
out its inhabitants.
Leviticus 18:26 But you are to keep My statutes
and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these
abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives
among you.
Leviticus 18:27 For the men who were in the land
before you committed all these abominations, and the land has
become defiled.
Leviticus 18:28 So if you defile the land, it
will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
Leviticus 18:29 Therefore anyone who commits any
of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 18:30 You must keep My charge not to
practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before
you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD
your God.”
Leviticus 19:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 19:2 “Speak to the whole congregation
of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am
holy.
Leviticus 19:3 Each of you must respect his
mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD
your God.
Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for
yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:5 When you sacrifice a peace
offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
Leviticus 19:6 It shall be eaten on the day you
sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third
day must be burned up.
Leviticus 19:7 If any of it is eaten on the
third day, it is tainted and will not be accepted.
Leviticus 19:8 Whoever eats it will bear his
iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That
person must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 19:9 When you reap the harvest of your
land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or
gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Leviticus 19:10 You must not strip your vineyard
bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the
foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:11 You must not steal. You must not
lie or deceive one another.
Leviticus 19:12 You must not swear falsely by My
name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your
neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages
due a hired hand.
Leviticus 19:14 You must not curse the deaf or
place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your
God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:15 You must not pervert justice;
you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the
rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
Leviticus 19:16 You must not go about spreading
slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your
neighbor. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:17 You must not harbor hatred
against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor,
so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.
Leviticus 19:18 Do not seek revenge or bear a
grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as
yourself. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:19 You are to keep My statutes. You
shall not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock; you shall
not sow your fields with two kinds of seed; and you shall not wear
clothing made of two kinds of material.
Leviticus 19:20 If a man lies carnally with a
slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed
or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are
not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
Leviticus 19:21 The man, however, must bring a
ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering
to the LORD.
Leviticus 19:22 The priest shall make atonement
on his behalf before the LORD with the ram of the guilt offering
for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven the sin he
has committed.
Leviticus 19:23 When you enter the land and
plant any kind of tree for food, you shall regard the fruit as
forbidden. For three years it will be forbidden to you and must
not be eaten.
Leviticus 19:24 In the fourth year all its fruit
must be consecrated as a praise offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 19:25 But in the fifth year you may
eat its fruit; thus your harvest will be increased. I am the LORD
your God.
Leviticus 19:26 You must not eat anything with
blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
Leviticus 19:27 You must not cut off the hair at
the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Leviticus 19:28 You must not make any cuts in
your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am
the LORD.
Leviticus 19:29 You must not defile your
daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be
prostituted and filled with depravity.
Leviticus 19:30 You must keep My Sabbaths and
have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:31 You must not turn to mediums or
spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them.
I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:32 You are to rise in the presence
of the elderly, honor the aged, and fear your God. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:33 When a foreigner resides with
you in your land, you must not oppress him.
Leviticus 19:34 You must treat the foreigner
living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you
were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:35 You must not use dishonest
measures of length, weight, or volume.
Leviticus 19:36 You shall maintain honest scales
and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:37 You must keep all My statutes
and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 20:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 20:2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any
Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his
children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land
are to stone him.
Leviticus 20:3 And I will set My face against
that man and cut him off from his people, because by giving his
offspring to Molech, he has defiled My sanctuary and profaned My
holy name.
Leviticus 20:4 And if the people of the land
ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives
one of his children to Molech,
Leviticus 20:5 then I will set My face against
that man and his family and cut off from among their people both
him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves with Molech.
Leviticus 20:6 Whoever turns to mediums or
spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My
face against that person and cut him off from his people.
Leviticus 20:7 Consecrate yourselves, therefore,
and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:8 And you shall keep My statutes
and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 20:9 If anyone curses his father or
mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or
mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with
another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the
adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 20:11 If a man lies with his father’s
wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be
put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 20:12 If a man lies with his
daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted
perversely; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a man as with
a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely
be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 20:14 If a man marries both a woman
and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in
the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
Leviticus 20:15 If a man lies carnally with an
animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the
animal.
Leviticus 20:16 If a woman approaches any animal
to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They
must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Leviticus 20:17 If a man marries his sister,
whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have
sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the
sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his
sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 20:18 If a man lies with a
menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has
exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source
of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their
people.
Leviticus 20:19 You must not have sexual
relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is
exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
Leviticus 20:20 If a man lies with his uncle’s
wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear
their sin; they shall die childless.
Leviticus 20:21 If a man marries his brother’s
wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of
his brother; they shall be childless.
Leviticus 20:22 You are therefore to keep all My
statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you
to live will not vomit you out.
Leviticus 20:23 You must not follow the statutes
of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all
these things, I abhorred them.
Leviticus 20:24 But I have told you that you
will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an
inheritance—a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your
God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
Leviticus 20:25 You are therefore to distinguish
between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become
contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on
the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
Leviticus 20:26 You are to be holy to Me because
I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to
be My own.
Leviticus 20:27 A man or a woman who is a medium
or spiritist must surely be put to death. They shall be stoned;
their blood is upon them.’”
Leviticus 21:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest
is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people,
Leviticus 21:2 except for his immediate
family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,
Leviticus 21:3 or his unmarried sister who is
near to him, since she has no husband.
Leviticus 21:4 He is not to defile himself for
those related to him by marriage, and so profane himself.
Leviticus 21:5 Priests must not make bald spots
on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts
in their bodies.
Leviticus 21:6 They must be holy to their God
and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the
LORD the offerings made by fire, the food of their God, they must
be holy.
Leviticus 21:7 A priest must not marry a woman
defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest
is holy to his God.
Leviticus 21:8 You are to regard him as holy,
since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you,
because I the LORD am holy—I who set you apart.
Leviticus 21:9 If a priest’s daughter defiles
herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must
be burned in the fire.
Leviticus 21:10 The priest who is highest among
his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and
has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his
hair hang loose or tear his garments.
Leviticus 21:11 He must not go near any dead
body; he must not defile himself, even for his father or mother.
Leviticus 21:12 He must not leave or desecrate
the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing
oil of his God is on him. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 21:13 The woman he marries must be a
virgin.
Leviticus 21:14 He is not to marry a widow, a
divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a
virgin from his own people,
Leviticus 21:15 so that he does not defile his
offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”
Leviticus 21:16 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 21:17 “Say to Aaron, ‘For the
generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical
defect may approach to offer the food of his God.
Leviticus 21:18 No man who has any defect may
approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;
Leviticus 21:19 no man who has a broken foot or
hand,
Leviticus 21:20 or who is a hunchback or dwarf,
or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed
testicle.
Leviticus 21:21 No descendant of Aaron the
priest who has a defect shall approach to present the offerings
made by fire to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come
near to offer the food of his God.
Leviticus 21:22 He may eat the most holy food of
his God as well as the holy food,
Leviticus 21:23 but because he has a defect, he
must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to
desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
Leviticus 21:24 Moses told this to Aaron and his
sons and to all the Israelites.
Leviticus 22:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 22:2 “Tell Aaron and his sons to treat
with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have
consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am
the LORD.
Leviticus 22:3 Tell them that for the
generations to come, if any of their descendants in a state of
uncleanness approaches the sacred offerings that the Israelites
consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from My
presence. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 22:4 If a descendant of Aaron has a
skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings
until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or
by a man who has an emission of semen,
Leviticus 22:5 or whoever touches a crawling
creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the
uncleanness may be—
Leviticus 22:6 the man who touches any of these
will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred
offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.
Leviticus 22:7 When the sun has set, he will
become clean, and then he may eat from the sacred offerings, for
they are his food.
Leviticus 22:8 He must not eat anything found
dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am
the LORD.
Leviticus 22:9 The priests must keep My charge,
lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the
LORD who sanctifies them.
Leviticus 22:10 No one outside a priest’s family
may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his
hired hand eat it.
Leviticus 22:11 But if a priest buys a slave
with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that
slave may eat his food.
Leviticus 22:12 If the priest’s daughter is
married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the
sacred contributions.
Leviticus 22:13 But if a priest’s daughter with
no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her
father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth.
But no outsider may share it.
Leviticus 22:14 If anyone eats a sacred offering
in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred
offering to the priest.
Leviticus 22:15 The priests must not profane the
sacred offerings that the Israelites present to the LORD
Leviticus 22:16 by allowing the people to eat
the sacred offerings and thus to bear the punishment for guilt.
For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”
Leviticus 22:17 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 22:18 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and
all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel
or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering
to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,
Leviticus 22:19 must offer an unblemished male
from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on
your behalf.
Leviticus 22:20 You must not present anything
with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
Leviticus 22:21 When a man presents a peace
offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as
a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be
acceptable.
Leviticus 22:22 You are not to present to the
LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything
with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put
any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 22:23 You may present as a freewill
offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but
it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.
Leviticus 22:24 You are not to present to the
LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut;
you are not to sacrifice them in your land.
Leviticus 22:25 Neither you nor a foreigner
shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not
be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and
flawed.’”
Leviticus 22:26 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 22:27 “When an ox, a sheep, or a goat
is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the
eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire
to the LORD.
Leviticus 22:28 But you must not slaughter an ox
or a sheep on the same day as its young.
Leviticus 22:29 When you sacrifice a thank
offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on
your behalf.
Leviticus 22:30 It must be eaten that same day.
Do not leave any of it until morning. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 22:31 You are to keep My commandments
and practice them. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 22:32 You must not profane My holy
name. I must be acknowledged as holy among the Israelites. I am
the LORD who sanctifies you,
Leviticus 22:33 who brought you out of the land
of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 23:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 23:2 “Speak to the Israelites and say
to them, ‘These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD
that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.
Leviticus 23:3 For six days work may be done,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred
assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a
Sabbath to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:4 These are the LORD’s appointed
feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their
appointed times.
Leviticus 23:5 The Passover to the LORD begins
at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Leviticus 23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same
month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven
days you must eat unleavened bread.
Leviticus 23:7 On the first day you are to hold
a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:8 For seven days you are to present
an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there
shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
Leviticus 23:9 And the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 23:10 “Speak to the Israelites and
say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap
its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the
firstfruits of your harvest.
Leviticus 23:11 And he shall wave the sheaf
before the LORD so that it may be accepted on your behalf; the
priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.
Leviticus 23:12 On the day you wave the sheaf,
you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt
offering to the LORD,
Leviticus 23:13 along with its grain offering of
two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil—an offering
made by fire to the LORD, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering
of a quarter hin of wine.
Leviticus 23:14 You must not eat any bread or
roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this
offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the
generations to come, wherever you live.
Leviticus 23:15 From the day after the Sabbath,
the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to
count off seven full weeks.
Leviticus 23:16 You shall count off fifty days
until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an
offering of new grain to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:17 Bring two loaves of bread from
your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an
ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the
LORD.
Leviticus 23:18 Along with the bread you are to
present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull,
and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together
with their grain offerings and drink offerings—an offering made by
fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:19 You shall also prepare one male
goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace
offering.
Leviticus 23:20 The priest is to wave the lambs
as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the
firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD
for the priest.
Leviticus 23:21 On that same day you are to
proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work.
This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the
generations to come.
Leviticus 23:22 When you reap the harvest of
your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or
gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and
the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
Leviticus 23:23 The LORD also said to Moses,
Leviticus 23:24 “Speak to the Israelites and
say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day
of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
Leviticus 23:25 You must not do any regular
work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the
LORD.’”
Leviticus 23:26 Again the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 23:27 “The tenth day of this seventh
month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly
and humble yourselves, and present an offering made by fire to the
LORD.
Leviticus 23:28 On this day you are not to do
any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made
for you before the LORD your God.
Leviticus 23:29 If anyone does not humble
himself on this day, he must be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 23:30 I will destroy from among his
people anyone who does any work on this day.
Leviticus 23:31 You are not to do any work at
all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come,
wherever you live.
Leviticus 23:32 It will be a Sabbath of complete
rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of
the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to
keep your Sabbath.”
Leviticus 23:33 And the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 23:34 “Speak to the Israelites and
say, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Feast of
Tabernacles to the LORD begins, and it continues for seven days.
Leviticus 23:35 On the first day there shall be
a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.
Leviticus 23:36 For seven days you are to
present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day
you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by
fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any
regular work.
Leviticus 23:37 These are the LORD’s appointed
feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for
presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain
offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated
day.
Leviticus 23:38 These offerings are in addition
to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your
gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill
offerings you give to the LORD.
Leviticus 23:39 On the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land,
you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There
shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth
day.
Leviticus 23:40 On the first day you are to
gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees,
and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you
are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.
Leviticus 23:41 You are to celebrate this as a
feast to the LORD for seven days each year. This is a permanent
statute for the generations to come; you are to celebrate it in
the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:42 You are to dwell in booths for
seven days. All the native-born of Israel must dwell in booths,
Leviticus 23:43 so that your descendants may
know that I made the Israelites dwell in booths when I brought
them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’”
Leviticus 23:44 So Moses announced to the
Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.
Leviticus 24:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 24:2 “Command the Israelites to bring
you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps
burning continually.
Leviticus 24:3 Outside the veil of the Testimony
in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually
before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a
permanent statute for the generations to come.
Leviticus 24:4 He shall tend the lamps on the
pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually.
Leviticus 24:5 You are also to take fine flour
and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each
loaf,
Leviticus 24:6 and set them in two rows—six per
row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
Leviticus 24:7 And you are to place pure
frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial
portion for the bread, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Leviticus 24:8 Every Sabbath day the bread is to
be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a
permanent covenant.
Leviticus 24:9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons,
who are to eat it in a holy place; for it is to him a most holy
part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD—his portion
forever.”
Leviticus 24:10 Now the son of an Israelite
mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a
fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.
Leviticus 24:11 The son of the Israelite woman
blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses.
(His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe
of Dan.)
Leviticus 24:12 They placed him in custody until
the will of the LORD should be made clear to them.
Leviticus 24:13 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 24:14 “Take the blasphemer outside the
camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then
have the whole assembly stone him.
Leviticus 24:15 And you are to tell the
Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the
consequences of his sin.
Leviticus 24:16 Whoever blasphemes the name of
the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must
surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if
he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.
Leviticus 24:17 And if a man takes the life of
anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 24:18 Whoever kills an animal must
make restitution—life for life.
Leviticus 24:19 If anyone injures his neighbor,
whatever he has done must be done to him:
Leviticus 24:20 fracture for fracture, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the
same must be inflicted on him.
Leviticus 24:21 Whoever kills an animal must
make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
Leviticus 24:22 You are to have the same
standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am
the LORD your God.’”
Leviticus 24:23 Then Moses spoke to the
Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and
stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 25:1 Then the LORD said to Moses on
Mount Sinai,
Leviticus 25:2 “Speak to the Israelites and say
to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land
itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
Leviticus 25:3 For six years you may sow your
field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
Leviticus 25:4 But in the seventh year there
shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the
LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
Leviticus 25:5 You are not to reap the
aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended
vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
Leviticus 25:6 Whatever the land yields during
the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your
manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays
with you,
Leviticus 25:7 and for your livestock and the
wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
Leviticus 25:8 And you shall count off seven
Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven
Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
Leviticus 25:9 Then you are to sound the horn
far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of
Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
Leviticus 25:10 So you are to consecrate the
fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its
inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to
return to his property and to his clan.
Leviticus 25:11 The fiftieth year will be a
Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its
aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
Leviticus 25:12 For it is a Jubilee; it shall be
holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the
field.
Leviticus 25:13 In this Year of Jubilee, each of
you shall return to his own property.
Leviticus 25:14 If you make a sale to your
neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of
each other.
Leviticus 25:15 You are to buy from your
neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee;
he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years
remaining.
Leviticus 25:16 You shall increase the price in
proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in
proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a
given number of harvests.
Leviticus 25:17 Do not take advantage of each
other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 25:18 You are to keep My statutes and
carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in
the land.
Leviticus 25:19 Then the land will yield its
fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the
land.
Leviticus 25:20 Now you may wonder, ‘What will
we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our
produce?’
Leviticus 25:21 But I will send My blessing upon
you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop
sufficient for three years.
Leviticus 25:22 While you are sowing in the
eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until
the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
Leviticus 25:23 The land must not be sold
permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and
residents with Me.
Leviticus 25:24 Thus for every piece of property
you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
Leviticus 25:25 If your brother becomes
impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin
may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Leviticus 25:26 Or if a man has no one to redeem
it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his
land,
Leviticus 25:27 he shall calculate the years
since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it,
and return to his property.
Leviticus 25:28 But if he cannot obtain enough
to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer
until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be
released, so that he may return to his property.
Leviticus 25:29 If a man sells a house in a
walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year
after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
Leviticus 25:30 If it is not redeemed by the end
of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently
transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be
released in the Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:31 But houses in villages with no
walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be
redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:32 As for the cities of the
Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses
in the cities they possess.
Leviticus 25:33 So whatever belongs to the
Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and
must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities
of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
Leviticus 25:34 But the open pastureland around
their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent
possession.
Leviticus 25:35 Now if your countryman becomes
destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to
help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can
continue to live among you.
Leviticus 25:36 Do not take any interest or
profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live
among you.
Leviticus 25:37 You must not lend him your
silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
Leviticus 25:38 I am the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of
Canaan and to be your God.
Leviticus 25:39 If a countryman among you
becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not
force him into slave labor.
Leviticus 25:40 Let him stay with you as a hired
worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year
of Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:41 Then he and his children are to
be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of
his fathers.
Leviticus 25:42 Because the Israelites are My
servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to
be sold as slaves.
Leviticus 25:43 You are not to rule over them
harshly, but you shall fear your God.
Leviticus 25:44 Your menservants and
maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you
may purchase them.
Leviticus 25:45 You may also purchase them from
the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you
who are born in your land. These may become your property.
Leviticus 25:46 You may leave them to your sons
after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for
life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule
harshly over his brother.
Leviticus 25:47 If a foreigner residing among
you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes
destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his
clan,
Leviticus 25:48 he retains the right of
redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may
redeem him:
Leviticus 25:49 either his uncle or cousin or
any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he
prospers, he may redeem himself.
Leviticus 25:50 He and his purchaser will then
count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of
Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of
years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
Leviticus 25:51 If many years remain, he must
pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
Leviticus 25:52 If only a few years remain until
the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption
according to his remaining years.
Leviticus 25:53 He shall be treated like a man
hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over
him harshly in your sight.
Leviticus 25:54 Even if he is not redeemed in
any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the
Year of Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:55 For the Israelites are My
servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of
Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 26:1 “You must not make idols for
yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not
place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am
the LORD your God.
Leviticus 26:2 You must keep My Sabbaths and
have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Leviticus 26:3 If you follow My statutes and
carefully keep My commandments,
Leviticus 26:4 I will give you rains in their
season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the
field will bear their fruit.
Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing will continue
until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until
sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell
securely in your land.
Leviticus 26:6 And I will give peace to the
land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the
land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your
land.
Leviticus 26:7 You will pursue your enemies, and
they will fall by the sword before you.
Leviticus 26:8 Five of you will pursue a
hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your
enemies will fall by the sword before you.
Leviticus 26:9 I will turn toward you and make
you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant
with you.
Leviticus 26:10 You will still be eating the old
supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the
new.
Leviticus 26:11 And I will make My dwelling
place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
Leviticus 26:12 I will walk among you and be
your God, and you will be My people.
Leviticus 26:13 I am the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer
be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and
enabled you to walk in uprightness.
Leviticus 26:14 If, however, you fail to obey Me
and to carry out all these commandments,
Leviticus 26:15 and if you reject My statutes,
despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My
commandments, and so break My covenant,
Leviticus 26:16 then this is what I will do to
you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and
fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will
sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Leviticus 26:17 And I will set My face against
you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate
you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
Leviticus 26:18 And if after all this you will
not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:19 I will break down your stubborn
pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Leviticus 26:20 and your strength will be spent
in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees
of the land will not bear their fruit.
Leviticus 26:21 If you walk in hostility toward
Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven
times, according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:22 I will send wild animals against
you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and
reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
Leviticus 26:23 And if in spite of these things
you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility
toward Me,
Leviticus 26:24 then I will act with hostility
toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword against
you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw
into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be
delivered into the hand of the enemy.
Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of
bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole
out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be
satisfied.
Leviticus 26:27 But if in spite of all this you
do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
Leviticus 26:28 then I will walk in fury against
you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:29 You will eat the flesh of your
own sons and daughters.
Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places,
cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the
lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
Leviticus 26:31 I will reduce your cities to
rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell
the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
Leviticus 26:32 And I will lay waste the land,
so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
Leviticus 26:33 But I will scatter you among the
nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes
desolate and your cities are laid waste.
Leviticus 26:34 Then the land shall enjoy its
Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land
of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its
Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35 As long as it lies desolate, the
land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths
when you lived in it.
Leviticus 26:36 As for those of you who survive,
I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their
enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them
to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall
when no one pursues them.
Leviticus 26:37 They will stumble over one
another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you
will not be able to stand against your enemies.
Leviticus 26:38 You will perish among the
nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who survive in the
lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will
decay in the sins of their fathers.
Leviticus 26:40 But if they will confess their
iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they
practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility
toward Me—
Leviticus 26:41 and I acted with hostility
toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if
their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make
amends for their iniquity,
Leviticus 26:42 then I will remember My covenant
with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with
Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Leviticus 26:43 For the land will be abandoned
by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without
them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because
they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Leviticus 26:44 Yet in spite of this, when they
are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise
them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I
am the LORD their God.
Leviticus 26:45 But for their sake I will
remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of
the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be
their God. I am the LORD.”
Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes,
ordinances, and laws that the LORD established between Himself and
the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
Leviticus 27:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Leviticus 27:2 “Speak to the Israelites and say
to them, ‘When someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving
the value of persons,
Leviticus 27:3 if the valuation concerns a male
from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be
fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
Leviticus 27:4 Or if it is a female, then your
valuation shall be thirty shekels.
Leviticus 27:5 And if the person is from five to
twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be
twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:6 Now if the person is from one
month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall
be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of
silver.
Leviticus 27:7 And if the person is sixty years
of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for
the male and ten shekels for the female.
Leviticus 27:8 But if the one making the vow is
too poor to pay the valuation, he is to present the person before
the priest, who shall set the value according to what the one
making the vow can afford.
Leviticus 27:9 If he vows an animal that may be
brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the
LORD shall be holy.
Leviticus 27:10 He must not replace it or
exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does
substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its
substitute will be holy.
Leviticus 27:11 But if the vow involves any of
the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the
LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
Leviticus 27:12 The priest shall set its value,
whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be
set.
Leviticus 27:13 If, however, the owner decides
to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.
Leviticus 27:14 Now if a man consecrates his
house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall value it either
as good or bad. The price will stand just as the priest values it.
Leviticus 27:15 But if he who consecrated his
house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and
it will belong to him.
Leviticus 27:16 If a man consecrates to the LORD
a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to
the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer
of barley seed.
Leviticus 27:17 If he consecrates his field
during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your
valuation.
Leviticus 27:18 But if he consecrates his field
after the Jubilee, the priest is to calculate the price in
proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so
that your valuation will be reduced.
Leviticus 27:19 And if the one who consecrated
the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the
assessed value, and it shall belong to him.
Leviticus 27:20 If, however, he does not redeem
the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer
be redeemed.
Leviticus 27:21 When the field is released in
the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the
LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
Leviticus 27:22 Now if a man consecrates to the
LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own
property,
Leviticus 27:23 then the priest shall calculate
for him the value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the man shall pay
the assessed value on that day as a sacred offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 27:24 In the Year of Jubilee the field
shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner
of the land.
Leviticus 27:25 Every valuation will be
according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
Leviticus 27:26 But no one may consecrate a
firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the
LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.
Leviticus 27:27 But if it is among the unclean
animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add
a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold
according to your valuation.
Leviticus 27:28 Nothing that a man sets apart to
the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his
inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is
most holy to the LORD.
Leviticus 27:29 No person set apart for
destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
Leviticus 27:30 Thus any tithe from the land,
whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees,
belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
Leviticus 27:31 If a man wishes to redeem part
of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.
Leviticus 27:32 Every tenth animal from the herd
or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the
LORD.
Leviticus 27:33 He must not inspect whether it
is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he
does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall
become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
Leviticus 27:34 These are the commandments that
the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
NUMBERS
Numbers 1:1 On the first day of the second month
of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land
of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the
Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
Numbers 1:2 “Take a census of the whole
congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every
man by name, one by one.
Numbers 1:3 You and Aaron are to number those
who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone
who can serve in Israel’s army.
Numbers 1:4 And one man from each tribe, the
head of each family, must be there with you.
Numbers 1:5 These are the names of the men who
are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of
Shedeur;
Numbers 1:6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of
Zurishaddai;
Numbers 1:7 from Judah, Nahshon son of
Amminadab;
Numbers 1:8 from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;
Numbers 1:9 from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon;
Numbers 1:10 from the sons of Joseph: from
Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel son
of Pedahzur;
Numbers 1:11 from Benjamin, Abidan son of
Gideoni;
Numbers 1:12 from Dan, Ahiezer son of
Ammishaddai;
Numbers 1:13 from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
Numbers 1:14 from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
Numbers 1:15 and from Naphtali, Ahira son of
Enan.”
Numbers 1:16 These men were appointed from the
congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their
fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel.
Numbers 1:17 So Moses and Aaron took these men
who had been designated by name,
Numbers 1:18 and on the first day of the second
month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their
ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of
those twenty years of age or older,
Numbers 1:19 just as the LORD had commanded
Moses. So Moses numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Numbers 1:20 From the sons of Reuben, the
firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and
families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years
of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:21 those registered to the tribe of
Reuben numbered 46,500.
Numbers 1:22 From the sons of Simeon, according
to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one
the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could
serve in the army,
Numbers 1:23 those registered to the tribe of
Simeon numbered 59,300.
Numbers 1:24 From the sons of Gad, according to
the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all
those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:25 those registered to the tribe of
Gad numbered 45,650.
Numbers 1:26 From the sons of Judah, according
to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of
all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the
army,
Numbers 1:27 those registered to the tribe of
Judah numbered 74,600.
Numbers 1:28 From the sons of Issachar,
according to the records of their clans and families, counting the
names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in
the army,
Numbers 1:29 those registered to the tribe of
Issachar numbered 54,400.
Numbers 1:30 From the sons of Zebulun, according
to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of
all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the
army,
Numbers 1:31 those registered to the tribe of
Zebulun numbered 57,400.
Numbers 1:32 From the sons of Joseph: From the
sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and
families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or
older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:33 those registered to the tribe of
Ephraim numbered 40,500.
Numbers 1:34 And from the sons of Manasseh,
according to the records of their clans and families, counting the
names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in
the army,
Numbers 1:35 those registered to the tribe of
Manasseh numbered 32,200.
Numbers 1:36 From the sons of Benjamin,
according to the records of their clans and families, counting the
names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in
the army,
Numbers 1:37 those registered to the tribe of
Benjamin numbered 35,400.
Numbers 1:38 From the sons of Dan, according to
the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all
those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:39 those registered to the tribe of
Dan numbered 62,700.
Numbers 1:40 From the sons of Asher, according
to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of
all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the
army,
Numbers 1:41 those registered to the tribe of
Asher numbered 41,500.
Numbers 1:42 From the sons of Naphtali,
according to the records of their clans and families, counting the
names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in
the army,
Numbers 1:43 those registered to the tribe of
Naphtali numbered 53,400.
Numbers 1:44 These were the men numbered by
Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of
Israel, each one representing his family.
Numbers 1:45 So all the Israelites twenty years
of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted
according to their families.
Numbers 1:46 And all those counted totaled
603,550.
Numbers 1:47 The Levites, however, were not
numbered along with them by the tribe of their fathers.
Numbers 1:48 For the LORD had said to Moses:
Numbers 1:49 “Do not number the tribe of Levi in
the census with the other Israelites.
Numbers 1:50 Instead, you are to appoint the
Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings,
and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its
articles, care for it, and camp around it.
Numbers 1:51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move,
the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched,
the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must
be put to death.
Numbers 1:52 The Israelites are to camp by their
divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.
Numbers 1:53 But the Levites are to camp around
the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no
wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are
responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”
Numbers 1:54 Thus the Israelites did everything
just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 2:1 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron:
Numbers 2:2 “The Israelites are to camp around
the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his
standard, with the banners of his family.
Numbers 2:3 On the east side, toward the
sunrise, the divisions of Judah are to camp under their standard:
The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of
Amminadab,
Numbers 2:4 and his division numbers 74,600.
Numbers 2:5 The tribe of Issachar will camp next
to it. The leader of the Issacharites is Nethanel son of Zuar,
Numbers 2:6 and his division numbers 54,400.
Numbers 2:7 Next will be the tribe of Zebulun.
The leader of the Zebulunites is Eliab son of Helon,
Numbers 2:8 and his division numbers 57,400.
Numbers 2:9 The total number of men in the
divisions of the camp of Judah is 186,400; they shall set out
first.
Numbers 2:10 On the south side, the divisions of
Reuben are to camp under their standard: The leader of the
Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur,
Numbers 2:11 and his division numbers 46,500.
Numbers 2:12 The tribe of Simeon will camp next
to it. The leader of the Simeonites is Shelumiel son of
Zurishaddai,
Numbers 2:13 and his division numbers 59,300.
Numbers 2:14 Next will be the tribe of Gad. The
leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,
Numbers 2:15 and his division numbers 45,650.
Numbers 2:16 The total number of men in the
divisions of the camp of Reuben is 151,450; they shall set out
second.
Numbers 2:17 In the middle of the camps, the
Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They
are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place
under his standard.
Numbers 2:18 On the west side, the divisions of
Ephraim are to camp under their standard: The leader of the
Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud,
Numbers 2:19 and his division numbers 40,500.
Numbers 2:20 The tribe of Manasseh will be next
to it. The leader of the Manassites is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur,
Numbers 2:21 and his division numbers 32,200.
Numbers 2:22 Next will be the tribe of Benjamin.
The leader of the Benjamites is Abidan son of Gideoni,
Numbers 2:23 and his division numbers 35,400.
Numbers 2:24 The total number of men in the
divisions of the camp of Ephraim is 108,100; they shall set out
third.
Numbers 2:25 On the north side, the divisions of
Dan are to camp under their standard: The leader of the Danites is
Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai,
Numbers 2:26 and his division numbers 62,700.
Numbers 2:27 The tribe of Asher will camp next
to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ocran,
Numbers 2:28 and his division numbers 41,500.
Numbers 2:29 Next will be the tribe of Naphtali.
The leader of the Naphtalites is Ahira son of Enan,
Numbers 2:30 and his division numbers 53,400.
Numbers 2:31 The total number of men in the camp
of Dan is 157,600; they shall set out last, under their
standards.”
Numbers 2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered
according to their families. The total of those counted in the
camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.
Numbers 2:33 But the Levites were not counted
among the other Israelites, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 2:34 So the Israelites did everything
the LORD commanded Moses; they camped under their standards in
this way and set out in the same way, each man with his clan and
his family.
Numbers 3:1 This is the account of Aaron and
Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.
Numbers 3:2 These are the names of the sons of
Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Numbers 3:3 These were Aaron’s sons, the
anointed priests, who were ordained to serve as priests.
Numbers 3:4 Nadab and Abihu, however, died in
the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire
before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no
sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the
lifetime of their father Aaron.
Numbers 3:5 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 3:6 “Bring the tribe of Levi and present
them to Aaron the priest to assist him.
Numbers 3:7 They are to perform duties for him
and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting,
attending to the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:8 They shall take care of all the
furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the
Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:9 Assign the Levites to Aaron and his
sons; they have been given exclusively to him from among the
Israelites.
Numbers 3:10 So you shall appoint Aaron and his
sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider
who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”
Numbers 3:11 Again the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying,
Numbers 3:12 “Behold, I have taken the Levites
from among the children of Israel in place of every firstborn
Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to Me,
Numbers 3:13 for all the firstborn are Mine. On
the day I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I
consecrated to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and
beast. They are Mine; I am the LORD.”
Numbers 3:14 Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the
Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Numbers 3:15 “Number the Levites by their
families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or
more.”
Numbers 3:16 So Moses numbered them according to
the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.
Numbers 3:17 These were the sons of Levi by
name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Numbers 3:18 These were the names of the sons of
Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
Numbers 3:19 The sons of Kohath by their clans
were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
Numbers 3:20 And the sons of Merari by their
clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites,
according to their families.
Numbers 3:21 From Gershon came the Libnite clan
and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
Numbers 3:22 The number of all the males a month
old or more was 7,500.
Numbers 3:23 The Gershonite clans were to camp
on the west, behind the tabernacle,
Numbers 3:24 and the leader of the families of
the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
Numbers 3:25 The duties of the Gershonites at
the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering,
the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
Numbers 3:26 the curtains of the courtyard, the
curtain for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the
tabernacle and altar, and the cords—all the service for these
items.
Numbers 3:27 From Kohath came the clans of the
Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites;
these were the clans of the Kohathites.
Numbers 3:28 The number of all the males a month
old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the
sanctuary.
Numbers 3:29 The clans of the Kohathites were to
camp on the south side of the tabernacle,
Numbers 3:30 and the leader of the families of
the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.
Numbers 3:31 Their duties were the ark, the
table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary
used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.
Numbers 3:32 The chief of the leaders of the
Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; he oversaw those
responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:33 From Merari came the clans of the
Mahlites and Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.
Numbers 3:34 The number of all the males a month
old or more was 6,200.
Numbers 3:35 The leader of the families of the
Merarites was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the
north side of the tabernacle.
Numbers 3:36 The duties assigned to the sons of
Merari were the tabernacle’s frames, crossbars, posts, bases, and
all its equipment—all the service for these items,
Numbers 3:37 as well as the posts of the
surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.
Numbers 3:38 Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were
to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before
the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the
sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any
outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.
Numbers 3:39 The total number of Levites that
Moses and Aaron counted by their clans at the LORD’s command,
including all the males a month old or more, was 22,000.
Numbers 3:40 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or
more, and list their names.
Numbers 3:41 You are to take the Levites for
Me—I am the LORD—in place of all the firstborn of Israel, and the
livestock of the Levites in place of all the firstborn of the
livestock of the Israelites.”
Numbers 3:42 So Moses numbered all the firstborn
of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.
Numbers 3:43 The total number of the firstborn
males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.
Numbers 3:44 Again the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying,
Numbers 3:45 “Take the Levites in place of all
the firstborn of Israel, and the livestock of the Levites in place
of their livestock. The Levites belong to Me; I am the LORD.
Numbers 3:46 To redeem the 273 firstborn
Israelites who outnumber the Levites,
Numbers 3:47 you are to collect five shekels for
each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.
Numbers 3:48 Give the money to Aaron and his
sons as the redemption price for the excess among the Israelites.”
Numbers 3:49 So Moses collected the redemption
money from those in excess of the number redeemed by the Levites.
Numbers 3:50 He collected the money from the
firstborn of the Israelites: 1,365 shekels, according to the
sanctuary shekel.
Numbers 3:51 And Moses gave the redemption money
to Aaron and his sons in obedience to the word of the LORD, just
as the LORD had commanded him.
Numbers 4:1 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Numbers 4:2 “Take a census of the Kohathites
among the Levites by their clans and families,
Numbers 4:3 men from thirty to fifty years
old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of
Meeting.
Numbers 4:4 This service of the Kohathites at
the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things.
Numbers 4:5 Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron
and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and
cover the ark of the Testimony with it.
Numbers 4:6 They are to place over this a
covering of fine leather, spread a solid blue cloth over it, and
insert its poles.
Numbers 4:7 Over the table of the Presence they
are to spread a blue cloth and place the plates and cups on it,
along with the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The
regular bread offering is to remain on it.
Numbers 4:8 And they shall spread a scarlet
cloth over them, cover them with fine leather, and insert the
poles.
Numbers 4:9 They are to take a blue cloth and
cover the lampstand used for light, together with its lamps, wick
trimmers, and trays, as well as the jars of oil with which to
supply it.
Numbers 4:10 Then they shall wrap it and all its
utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the
carrying frame.
Numbers 4:11 Over the gold altar they are to
spread a blue cloth, cover it with fine leather, and insert the
poles.
Numbers 4:12 They are to take all the utensils
for serving in the sanctuary, place them in a blue cloth, cover
them with fine leather, and put them on the carrying frame.
Numbers 4:13 Then they shall remove the ashes
from the bronze altar, spread a purple cloth over it,
Numbers 4:14 and place on it all the vessels
used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and
sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to
spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.
Numbers 4:15 When Aaron and his sons have
finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as
soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and
do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they
will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites
regarding the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:16 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest
shall oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the
daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of
the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including the holy
objects and their utensils.”
Numbers 4:17 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Numbers 4:18 “Do not allow the Kohathite tribal
clans to be cut off from among the Levites.
Numbers 4:19 In order that they may live and not
die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them:
Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and
what he is to carry.
Numbers 4:20 But the Kohathites are not to go in
and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will
die.”
Numbers 4:21 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 4:22 “Take a census of the Gershonites
as well, by their families and clans,
Numbers 4:23 from thirty to fifty years old,
counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of
Meeting.
Numbers 4:24 This is the service of the
Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:
Numbers 4:25 They are to carry the curtains of
the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine
leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting,
Numbers 4:26 the curtains of the courtyard, and
the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that
surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all
the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that
needs to be done with these items.
Numbers 4:27 All the service of the
Gershonites—all their transport duties and other work—is to be
done at the direction of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to
them all that they are responsible to carry.
Numbers 4:28 This is the service of the
Gershonite clans at the Tent of Meeting, and their duties shall be
under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 4:29 As for the sons of Merari, you are
to number them by their clans and families,
Numbers 4:30 from thirty to fifty years old,
counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of
Meeting.
Numbers 4:31 This is the duty for all their
service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the
tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,
Numbers 4:32 and the posts of the surrounding
courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all
their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall
assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
Numbers 4:33 This is the service of the Merarite
clans according to all their work at the Tent of Meeting, under
the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
Numbers 4:34 So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of
the congregation numbered the Kohathites by their clans and
families,
Numbers 4:35 everyone from thirty to fifty years
old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:36 And those numbered by their clans
totaled 2,750.
Numbers 4:37 These were counted from the
Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the Tent of Meeting.
Moses and Aaron numbered them according to the command of the LORD
through Moses.
Numbers 4:38 Then the Gershonites were numbered
by their clans and families,
Numbers 4:39 everyone from thirty to fifty years
old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:40 And those numbered by their clans
and families totaled 2,630.
Numbers 4:41 These were counted from the
Gershonite clans who served at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and
Aaron counted at the LORD’s command.
Numbers 4:42 And the Merarites were numbered by
their clans and families,
Numbers 4:43 everyone from thirty to fifty years
old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:44 The men registered by their clans
numbered 3,200.
Numbers 4:45 These were counted from the
Merarite clans, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the LORD’s
command through Moses.
Numbers 4:46 So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of
Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites
Numbers 4:47 from thirty to fifty years old who
came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:48 And the number of men was 8,580.
Numbers 4:49 At the LORD’s command they were
numbered through Moses and each one was assigned his work and
burden, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 5:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 5:2 “Command the Israelites to send away
from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily
discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
Numbers 5:3 You must send away male and female
alike; send them outside the camp so they will not defile their
camp, where I dwell among them.”
Numbers 5:4 So the Israelites did this, sending
such people outside the camp. They did just as the LORD had
instructed Moses.
Numbers 5:5 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 5:6 “Tell the Israelites that when a man
or woman acts unfaithfully against the LORD by committing any sin
against another, that person is guilty
Numbers 5:7 and must confess the sin he has
committed. He must make full restitution, add a fifth to its
value, and give all this to the one he has wronged.
Numbers 5:8 But if the man has no relative to
whom restitution can be made for the wrong, the restitution
belongs to the LORD and must be given to the priest along with the
ram of atonement, by which the atonement is made for him.
Numbers 5:9 Every sacred contribution the
Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.
Numbers 5:10 Each man’s sacred gifts are his
own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the
priest.”
Numbers 5:11 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 5:12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him
Numbers 5:13 by sleeping with another man, and
it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected
(since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in
the act),
Numbers 5:14 and if a feeling of jealousy comes
over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled
herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects
her even though she has not defiled herself—
Numbers 5:15 then he is to bring his wife to the
priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an
ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put
frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy,
an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.
Numbers 5:16 The priest is to bring the wife
forward and have her stand before the LORD.
Numbers 5:17 Then he is to take some holy water
in a clay jar and put some of the dust from the tabernacle floor
into the water.
Numbers 5:18 After the priest has the woman
stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her
hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering
for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a
curse.
Numbers 5:19 And he is to put the woman under
oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you
have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s
authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a
curse.
Numbers 5:20 But if you have gone astray while
under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain
carnally with a man other than your husband’—
Numbers 5:21 and the priest shall have the woman
swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an
attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and
your belly swell.
Numbers 5:22 May this water that brings a curse
enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to
shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
Numbers 5:23 And the priest shall write these
curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
Numbers 5:24 He is to have the woman drink the
bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause
her bitter suffering.
Numbers 5:25 The priest shall take from her hand
the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and
bring it to the altar.
Numbers 5:26 Then the priest is to take a
handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on
the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.
Numbers 5:27 When he has made her drink the
water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her
husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and
cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will
shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
Numbers 5:28 But if the woman has not defiled
herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive
children.
Numbers 5:29 This is the law of jealousy when a
wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s
authority,
Numbers 5:30 or when a feeling of jealousy comes
over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman
stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this
entire law.
Numbers 5:31 The husband will be free from
guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”
Numbers 6:1 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 6:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them that if a man or woman makes a special vow, the vow of a
Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
Numbers 6:3 he is to abstain from wine and
strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong
drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes
or raisins.
Numbers 6:4 All the days of his separation, he
is not to eat anything that comes from the grapevine, not even the
seeds or skins.
Numbers 6:5 For the entire period of his vow of
separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy
until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must
let the hair of his head grow long.
Numbers 6:6 Throughout the days of his
separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body.
Numbers 6:7 Even if his father or mother or
brother or sister should die, he is not to defile himself, because
the crown of consecration to his God is upon his head.
Numbers 6:8 Throughout the time of his
separation, he is holy to the LORD.
Numbers 6:9 If someone suddenly dies in his
presence and defiles his consecrated head of hair, he must shave
his head on the day of his cleansing—the seventh day.
Numbers 6:10 On the eighth day he must bring two
turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to
the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 6:11 And the priest is to offer one as a
sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to make atonement
for him, because he has sinned by being in the presence of the
dead body. On that day he must consecrate his head again.
Numbers 6:12 He must rededicate his time of
separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt
offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his
separation was defiled.
Numbers 6:13 Now this is the law of the Nazirite
when his time of separation is complete: He must be brought to the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
Numbers 6:14 and he is to present an offering to
the LORD of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering,
an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an
unblemished ram as a peace offering—
Numbers 6:15 together with their grain offerings
and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from
fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
Numbers 6:16 The priest is to present all these
before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.
Numbers 6:17 He shall also offer the ram as a
peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened
bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering
and drink offering.
Numbers 6:18 Then at the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting, the Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head, take the
hair, and put it on the fire under the peace offering.
Numbers 6:19 And the priest is to take the
boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket,
and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the
Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.
Numbers 6:20 The priest shall then wave them as
a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the
priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the
thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
Numbers 6:21 This is the law of the Nazirite who
vows his offering to the LORD for his separation, in addition to
whatever else he can afford; he must fulfill whatever vow he
makes, according to the law of his separation.”
Numbers 6:22 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 6:23 “Tell Aaron and his sons: This is
how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:
Numbers 6:24 ‘May the LORD bless you and keep
you;
Numbers 6:25 may the LORD cause His face to
shine upon you and be gracious to you;
Numbers 6:26 may the LORD lift up His
countenance toward you and give you peace.’
Numbers 6:27 So they shall put My name on the
Israelites, and I will bless them.”
Numbers 7:1 On the day Moses finished setting up
the tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its
furnishings, along with the altar and all its utensils.
Numbers 7:2 And the leaders of Israel, the heads
of their families, presented an offering. These men were the
tribal leaders who had supervised the registration.
Numbers 7:3 They brought as their offering
before the LORD six covered carts and twelve oxen—an ox from each
leader and a cart from every two leaders—and presented them before
the tabernacle.
Numbers 7:4 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 7:5 “Accept these gifts from them, that
they may be used in the work of the Tent of Meeting. And give them
to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”
Numbers 7:6 So Moses took the carts and oxen and
gave them to the Levites.
Numbers 7:7 He gave the Gershonites two carts
and four oxen, as their service required,
Numbers 7:8 and he gave the Merarites four carts
and eight oxen, as their service required, all under the direction
of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 7:9 But he did not give any to the
Kohathites, since they were to carry on their shoulders the holy
objects for which they were responsible.
Numbers 7:10 When the altar was anointed, the
leaders approached with their offerings for its dedication and
presented them before the altar.
Numbers 7:11 And the LORD said to Moses, “Each
day one leader is to present his offering for the dedication of
the altar.”
Numbers 7:12 On the first day Nahshon son of
Amminadab from the tribe of Judah drew near with his offering.
Numbers 7:13 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:14 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:15 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:16 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:17 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.
Numbers 7:18 On the second day Nethanel son of
Zuar, the leader of Issachar, drew near.
Numbers 7:19 The offering he presented was one
silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one
silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the
sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a
grain offering;
Numbers 7:20 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:21 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:22 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:23 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.
Numbers 7:24 On the third day Eliab son of
Helon, the leader of the Zebulunites, drew near.
Numbers 7:25 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:26 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:27 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:28 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:29 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Eliab son of Helon.
Numbers 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur son of
Shedeur, the leader of the Reubenites, drew near.
Numbers 7:31 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:32 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:33 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:34 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:35 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.
Numbers 7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel son of
Zurishaddai, the leader of the Simeonites, drew near.
Numbers 7:37 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:38 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:39 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:40 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:41 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.
Numbers 7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph son of
Deuel, the leader of the Gadites, drew near.
Numbers 7:43 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:44 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:45 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:46 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:47 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.
Numbers 7:48 On the seventh day Elishama son of
Ammihud, the leader of the Ephraimites, drew near.
Numbers 7:49 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:50 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:51 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:52 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:53 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud.
Numbers 7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel son of
Pedahzur, the leader of the Manassites, drew near.
Numbers 7:55 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:56 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:57 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:58 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:59 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
Numbers 7:60 On the ninth day Abidan son of
Gideoni, the leader of the Benjamites, drew near.
Numbers 7:61 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:62 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:63 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:64 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:65 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni.
Numbers 7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer son of
Ammishaddai, the leader of the Danites, drew near.
Numbers 7:67 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:68 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:69 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:70 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:71 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
Numbers 7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel son of
Ocran, the leader of the Asherites, drew near.
Numbers 7:73 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:74 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:75 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:76 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:77 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran.
Numbers 7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira son of
Enan, the leader of the Naphtalites, drew near.
Numbers 7:79 His offering was one silver platter
weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl
weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel
and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
Numbers 7:80 one gold dish weighing ten shekels,
filled with incense;
Numbers 7:81 one young bull, one ram, and one
male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
Numbers 7:82 one male goat for a sin offering;
Numbers 7:83 and a peace offering of two oxen,
five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This
was the offering of Ahira son of Enan.
Numbers 7:84 So these were the offerings from
the leaders of Israel for the dedication of the altar when it was
anointed: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, and twelve
gold dishes.
Numbers 7:85 Each silver platter weighed a
hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver bowl seventy shekels.
The total weight of the silver articles was two thousand four
hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
Numbers 7:86 The twelve gold dishes filled with
incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary
shekel. The total weight of the gold dishes was a hundred and
twenty shekels.
Numbers 7:87 All the livestock for the burnt
offering totaled twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve male lambs
a year old—together with their grain offerings—and twelve male
goats for the sin offering.
Numbers 7:88 All the livestock sacrificed for
the peace offering totaled twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty
male goats, and sixty male lambs a year old. This was the
dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
Numbers 7:89 When Moses entered the Tent of
Meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him
from between the two cherubim above the mercy seat on the ark of
the Testimony. Thus the LORD spoke to him.
Numbers 8:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 8:2 “Speak to Aaron and tell him: ‘When
you set up the seven lamps, they are to light the area in front of
the lampstand.’”
Numbers 8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the
lamps facing toward the front of the lampstand, just as the LORD
had commanded Moses.
Numbers 8:4 This is how the lampstand was
constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its
blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown
Moses.
Numbers 8:5 Again the LORD spoke to Moses,
saying,
Numbers 8:6 “Take the Levites from among the
Israelites and make them ceremonially clean.
Numbers 8:7 This is what you must do to cleanse
them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them
shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify
themselves.
Numbers 8:8 Then have them take a young bull
with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are
to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
Numbers 8:9 Bring the Levites before the Tent of
Meeting and assemble the whole congregation of Israel.
Numbers 8:10 You are to present the Levites
before the LORD and have the Israelites lay their hands upon them.
Numbers 8:11 Aaron is to present the Levites
before the LORD as a wave offering from the sons of Israel, so
that they may perform the service of the LORD.
Numbers 8:12 And the Levites are to lay their
hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to the LORD one as a
sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement
for the Levites.
Numbers 8:13 You are to have the Levites stand
before Aaron and his sons and then present them before the LORD as
a wave offering.
Numbers 8:14 In this way you shall separate the
Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will
belong to Me.
Numbers 8:15 After you have cleansed them and
presented them as a wave offering, they may come to serve at the
Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 8:16 For the Levites have been wholly
given to Me from among the sons of Israel. I have taken them for
Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, the firstborn
of all the sons of Israel.
Numbers 8:17 For every firstborn male in Israel
is Mine, both man and beast. I set them apart for Myself on the
day I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.
Numbers 8:18 But I have taken the Levites in
place of all the firstborn among the sons of Israel.
Numbers 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a
gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform
the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make
atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the
Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”
Numbers 8:20 So Moses, Aaron, and the whole
congregation of Israel did with the Levites everything that the
LORD had commanded Moses they should do.
Numbers 8:21 The Levites purified themselves and
washed their clothes, and Aaron presented them as a wave offering
before the LORD. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse
them.
Numbers 8:22 After that, the Levites came to
perform their service at the Tent of Meeting in the presence of
Aaron and his sons. Thus they did with the Levites just as the
LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 8:23 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 8:24 “This applies to the Levites: Men
twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the
service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 8:25 But at the age of fifty, they must
retire from performing the work and no longer serve.
Numbers 8:26 After that, they may assist their
brothers in fulfilling their duties at the Tent of Meeting, but
they themselves are not to do the work. This is how you are to
assign responsibilities to the Levites.”
Numbers 9:1 In the first month of the second
year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD
spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Numbers 9:2 “The Israelites are to observe the
Passover at its appointed time.
Numbers 9:3 You are to observe it at the
appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month,
in accordance with its statutes and ordinances.”
Numbers 9:4 So Moses told the Israelites to
observe the Passover,
Numbers 9:5 and they did so in the Wilderness of
Sinai, at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The
Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 9:6 But there were some men who were
unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover
on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day
Numbers 9:7 and said to Moses, “We are unclean
because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from
presenting the LORD’s offering with the other Israelites at the
appointed time?”
Numbers 9:8 “Wait here until I find out what the
LORD commands concerning you,” Moses replied.
Numbers 9:9 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 9:10 “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any one
of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or
is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the
LORD.
Numbers 9:11 Such people are to observe it at
twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to
eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
Numbers 9:12 they may not leave any of it until
morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover
according to all its statutes.
Numbers 9:13 But if a man who is ceremonially
clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover,
he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the
LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the
consequences of his sin.
Numbers 9:14 If a foreigner dwelling among you
wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so
according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to
apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the
land.’”
Numbers 9:15 On the day that the tabernacle, the
Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and
appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until
morning.
Numbers 9:16 It remained that way continually;
the cloud would cover the tabernacle by day, and at night it would
appear like fire.
Numbers 9:17 Whenever the cloud was lifted from
above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the
cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp.
Numbers 9:18 At the LORD’s command the
Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long
as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped.
Numbers 9:19 Even when the cloud lingered over
the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s
charge and did not set out.
Numbers 9:20 Sometimes the cloud remained over
the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the
LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.
Numbers 9:21 Sometimes the cloud remained only
from evening until morning, and when it lifted in the morning,
they would set out. Whether it was by day or by night, when the
cloud was taken up, they would set out.
Numbers 9:22 Whether the cloud lingered for two
days, a month, or longer, the Israelites camped and did not set
out as long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle; but when it
was lifted, they would set out.
Numbers 9:23 They camped at the LORD’s command,
and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the
LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.
Numbers 10:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 10:2 “Make two trumpets of hammered
silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the
camps set out.
Numbers 10:3 When both are sounded, the whole
congregation is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent
of Meeting.
Numbers 10:4 But if only one is sounded, then
the leaders, the heads of the clans of Israel, are to gather
before you.
Numbers 10:5 When you sound short blasts, the
camps that lie on the east side are to set out.
Numbers 10:6 When you sound the short blasts a
second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out.
The blasts are to signal them to set out.
Numbers 10:7 To convene the assembly, you are to
sound long blasts, not short ones.
Numbers 10:8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, are
to sound the trumpets. This shall be a permanent statute for you
and the generations to come.
Numbers 10:9 When you enter into battle in your
land against an adversary who attacks you, sound short blasts on
the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God
and saved from your enemies.
Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your
appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow
the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to
serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your
God.”
Numbers 10:11 On the twentieth day of the second
month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the
tabernacle of the Testimony,
Numbers 10:12 and the Israelites set out from
the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the
cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 10:13 They set out this first time
according to the LORD’s command through Moses.
Numbers 10:14 First, the divisions of the camp
of Judah set out under their standard, with Nahshon son of
Amminadab in command.
Numbers 10:15 Nethanel son of Zuar was over the
division of the tribe of Issachar,
Numbers 10:16 and Eliab son of Helon was over
the division of the tribe of Zebulun.
Numbers 10:17 Then the tabernacle was taken
down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting
it.
Numbers 10:18 Then the divisions of the camp of
Reuben set out under their standard, with Elizur son of Shedeur in
command.
Numbers 10:19 Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was
over the division of the tribe of Simeon,
Numbers 10:20 and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over
the division of the tribe of Gad.
Numbers 10:21 Then the Kohathites set out,
transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up
before their arrival.
Numbers 10:22 Next, the divisions of the camp of
Ephraim set out under their standard, with Elishama son of Ammihud
in command.
Numbers 10:23 Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over
the division of the tribe of Manasseh,
Numbers 10:24 and Abidan son of Gideoni was over
the division of the tribe of Benjamin.
Numbers 10:25 Finally, the divisions of the camp
of Dan set out under their standard, serving as the rear guard for
all units, with Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai in command.
Numbers 10:26 Pagiel son of Ocran was over the
division of the tribe of Asher,
Numbers 10:27 and Ahira son of Enan was over the
division of the tribe of Naphtali.
Numbers 10:28 This was the order of march for
the Israelite divisions as they set out.
Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son
of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out
for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’
Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has
promised good things to Israel.”
Numbers 10:30 “I will not go,” Hobab replied.
“Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
Numbers 10:31 “Please do not leave us,” Moses
said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and
you can serve as our eyes.
Numbers 10:32 If you come with us, we will share
with you whatever good things the LORD gives us.”
Numbers 10:33 So they set out on a three-day
journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the
covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days
to seek a resting place for them.
Numbers 10:34 And the cloud of the LORD was over
them by day when they set out from the camp.
Numbers 10:35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses
would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may
those who hate You flee before You.”
Numbers 10:36 And when it came to rest, he would
say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
Numbers 11:1 Soon the people began to complain
about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard
them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among
them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
Numbers 11:2 And the people cried out to Moses,
and he prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.
Numbers 11:3 So that place was called Taberah,
because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.
Numbers 11:4 Meanwhile, the rabble among them
had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept
and said, “Who will feed us meat?
Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish we ate freely
in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and
garlic.
Numbers 11:6 But now our appetite is gone; there
is nothing to see but this manna!”
Numbers 11:7 Now the manna resembled coriander
seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin.
Numbers 11:8 The people walked around and
gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar,
then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted
like pastry baked with fine oil.
Numbers 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp at
night, the manna would fall with it.
Numbers 11:10 Then Moses heard the people of
family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and
the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also
displeased.
Numbers 11:11 So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have
You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found
favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all
these people?
Numbers 11:12 Did I conceive all these people?
Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in
your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You
swore to give their fathers?
Numbers 11:13 Where can I get meat for all these
people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Numbers 11:14 I cannot carry all these people by
myself; it is too burdensome for me.
Numbers 11:15 If this is how You are going to
treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your
eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Numbers 11:16 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders
and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and
have them stand there with you.
Numbers 11:17 And I will come down and speak
with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you
and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of
the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
Numbers 11:18 And say to the people: Consecrate
yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have
cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us
meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will
give you meat, and you will eat.
Numbers 11:19 You will eat it not for one or two
days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,
Numbers 11:20 but for a whole month—until it
comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have
rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before
Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
Numbers 11:21 But Moses replied, “Here I am
among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat,
and they will eat for a month.’
Numbers 11:22 If all our flocks and herds were
slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish
in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
Numbers 11:23 The LORD answered Moses, “Is the
LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will
come to pass.”
Numbers 11:24 So Moses went out and relayed to
the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the
elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
Numbers 11:25 Then the LORD came down in the
cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on
Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit
rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
Numbers 11:26 Two men, however, had remained in
the camp—one named Eldad and the other Medad—and the Spirit rested
on them. They were among those listed, but they had not gone out
to the tent, and they prophesied in the camp.
Numbers 11:27 A young man ran and reported to
Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
Numbers 11:28 Joshua son of Nun, the attendant
to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop
them!”
Numbers 11:29 But Moses replied, “Are you
jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were
prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
Numbers 11:30 Then Moses returned to the camp,
along with the elders of Israel.
Numbers 11:31 Now a wind sent by the LORD came
up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp,
about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s
journey in every direction around the camp.
Numbers 11:32 All that day and night, and all
the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one
gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around
the camp.
Numbers 11:33 But while the meat was still
between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD
burned against the people, and the LORD struck them with a severe
plague.
Numbers 11:34 So they called that place
Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had
craved other food.
Numbers 11:35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people
moved on to Hazeroth, where they remained for some time.
Numbers 12:1 Then Miriam and Aaron criticized
Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had
taken a Cushite wife.
Numbers 12:2 “Does the LORD speak only through
Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the
LORD heard this.
Numbers 12:3 Now Moses was a very humble man,
more so than any man on the face of the earth.
Numbers 12:4 And suddenly the LORD said to
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of
Meeting.” So the three went out,
Numbers 12:5 and the LORD came down in a pillar
of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron
and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,
Numbers 12:6 He said, “Hear now My words: If
there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to
him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
Numbers 12:7 But this is not so with My servant
Moses; he is faithful in all My house.
Numbers 12:8 I speak with him face to face,
clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then
were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
Numbers 12:9 So the anger of the LORD burned
against them, and He departed.
Numbers 12:10 As the cloud lifted from above the
Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned
toward her, saw that she was leprous,
Numbers 12:11 and said to Moses, “My lord,
please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly
committed.
Numbers 12:12 Please do not let her be like a
stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of
his mother’s womb.”
Numbers 12:13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O
God, please heal her!”
Numbers 12:14 But the LORD answered Moses, “If
her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in
disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for
seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
Numbers 12:15 So Miriam was confined outside the
camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she was
brought in again.
Numbers 12:16 After that, the people set out
from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:1 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 13:2 “Send out for yourself men to spy
out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From
each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among
them.”
Numbers 13:3 So at the consent of the LORD,
Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were
leaders of the Israelites,
Numbers 13:4 and these were their names: From
the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur;
Numbers 13:5 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat
son of Hori;
Numbers 13:6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son
of Jephunneh;
Numbers 13:7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal
son of Joseph;
Numbers 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea
son of Nun;
Numbers 13:9 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti
son of Raphu;
Numbers 13:10 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel
son of Sodi;
Numbers 13:11 from the tribe of Manasseh (a
tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;
Numbers 13:12 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son
of Gemalli;
Numbers 13:13 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur
son of Michael;
Numbers 13:14 from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi
son of Vophsi;
Numbers 13:15 and from the tribe of Gad, Geuel
son of Machi.
Numbers 13:16 These were the names of the men
Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of
Nun the name Joshua.
Numbers 13:17 When Moses sent them to spy out
the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and
into the hill country.
Numbers 13:18 See what the land is like and
whether its people are strong or weak, few or many.
Numbers 13:19 Is the land where they live good
or bad? Are the cities where they dwell open camps or
fortifications?
Numbers 13:20 Is the soil fertile or
unproductive? Are there trees in it or not? Be courageous, and
bring back some of the fruit of the land.” (It was the season for
the first ripe grapes.)
Numbers 13:21 So they went up and spied out the
land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward
Lebo-hamath.
Numbers 13:22 They went up through the Negev and
came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants
of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in
Egypt.
Numbers 13:23 When they came to the Valley of
Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes,
which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some
pomegranates and figs.
Numbers 13:24 Because of the cluster of grapes
the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of
Eshcol.
Numbers 13:25 After forty days the men returned
from spying out the land,
Numbers 13:26 and they went back to Moses,
Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of
Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole
congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
Numbers 13:27 And they gave this account to
Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it
is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
Numbers 13:28 Nevertheless, the people living in
the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We
even saw the descendants of Anak there.
Numbers 13:29 The Amalekites live in the land of
the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill
country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”
Numbers 13:30 Then Caleb quieted the people
before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the
land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
Numbers 13:31 But the men who had gone up with
him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are
stronger than we are!”
Numbers 13:32 So they gave the Israelites a bad
report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we
explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there
are great in stature.
Numbers 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim there—the
descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like
grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to
them!”
Numbers 14:1 Then the whole congregation lifted
up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
Numbers 14:2 All the Israelites grumbled against
Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only
we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this
wilderness!
Numbers 14:3 Why is the LORD bringing us into
this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become
plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:4 So they said to one another, “Let
us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
Numbers 14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown
before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.
Numbers 14:6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of
Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore
their clothes
Numbers 14:7 and said to the whole congregation
of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an
exceedingly good land.
Numbers 14:8 If the LORD delights in us, He will
bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and
He will give it to us.
Numbers 14:9 Only do not rebel against the LORD,
and do not be afraid of the people of the land, for they will be
like bread for us. Their protection has been removed, and the LORD
is with us. Do not be afraid of them!”
Numbers 14:10 But the whole congregation
threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD
appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 14:11 And the LORD said to Moses, “How
long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they
refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed
among them?
Numbers 14:12 I will strike them with a plague
and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and
mightier than they are.”
Numbers 14:13 But Moses said to the LORD, “The
Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this
people from among them.
Numbers 14:14 And they will tell it to the
inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O
LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been
seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You
go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by
night.
Numbers 14:15 If You kill this people as one
man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
Numbers 14:16 ‘Because the LORD was unable to
bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has
slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
Numbers 14:17 So now I pray, may the power of my
Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
Numbers 14:18 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and
abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and
transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty
unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their
children to the third and fourth generation.’
Numbers 14:19 Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of
this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving
devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left
Egypt.”
Numbers 14:20 “I have pardoned them as you
requested,” the LORD replied.
Numbers 14:21 “Yet as surely as I live and as
surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD,
Numbers 14:22 not one of the men who have seen
My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the
wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Numbers 14:23 not one will ever see the land
that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated
Me with contempt will see it.
Numbers 14:24 But because My servant Caleb has a
different spirit and has followed Me wholeheartedly, I will bring
him into the land he has entered, and his descendants will inherit
it.
Numbers 14:25 Now since the Amalekites and
Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and head
for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Numbers 14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Numbers 14:27 “How long will this wicked
congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that
the Israelites are making against Me.
Numbers 14:28 So tell them: As surely as I live,
declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
Numbers 14:29 Your bodies will fall in this
wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty
years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Numbers 14:30 Surely none of you will enter the
land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh
and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 14:31 But I will bring your children,
whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have
rejected—and they will enjoy it.
Numbers 14:32 As for you, however, your bodies
will fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:33 Your children will be shepherds in
the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your
unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the
wilderness.
Numbers 14:34 In keeping with the forty days you
spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year
for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
Numbers 14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I
will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation,
which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the
wilderness, and there they will die.”
Numbers 14:36 So the men Moses had sent to spy
out the land, who had returned and made the whole congregation
grumble against him by bringing out a bad report about the land—
Numbers 14:37 those men who had brought out the
bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the
LORD.
Numbers 14:38 Of those men who had gone to spy
out the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh
remained alive.
Numbers 14:39 And when Moses relayed these words
to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
Numbers 14:40 Early the next morning they got up
and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed
sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has
promised.”
Numbers 14:41 But Moses said, “Why are you
transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
Numbers 14:42 Do not go up, lest you be struck
down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.
Numbers 14:43 For there the Amalekites and
Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because
you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
Numbers 14:44 But they dared to go up to the
ridge of the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the
covenant of the LORD moved from the camp.
Numbers 14:45 Then the Amalekites and Canaanites
who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked
them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
Numbers 15:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 15:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
Numbers 15:3 and you present an offering made by
fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing
aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a
special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—
Numbers 15:4 then the one presenting his
offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a
tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive
oil.
Numbers 15:5 With the burnt offering or
sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine
as a drink offering.
Numbers 15:6 With a ram you are to prepare a
grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with
a third of a hin of olive oil,
Numbers 15:7 and a third of a hin of wine as a
drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Numbers 15:8 When you prepare a young bull as a
burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace
offering to the LORD,
Numbers 15:9 present with the bull a grain
offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half
a hin of olive oil.
Numbers 15:10 Also present half a hin of wine as
a drink offering. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma
to the LORD.
Numbers 15:11 This is to be done for each bull,
ram, lamb, or goat.
Numbers 15:12 This is how you must prepare each
one, no matter how many.
Numbers 15:13 Everyone who is native-born shall
prepare these things in this way when he presents an offering made
by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Numbers 15:14 And for the generations to come,
if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants
to prepare an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the
LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.
Numbers 15:15 The assembly is to have the same
statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a
permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the
foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
Numbers 15:16 The same law and the same
ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing
with you.”
Numbers 15:17 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 15:18 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
Numbers 15:19 and you eat the food of the land,
you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
Numbers 15:20 From the first of your dough, you
are to lift up a cake as a contribution; offer it just like an
offering from the threshing floor.
Numbers 15:21 Throughout your generations, you
are to give the LORD an offering from the first of your dough.
Numbers 15:22 Now if you stray unintentionally
and do not obey all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to
Moses—
Numbers 15:23 all that the LORD has commanded
you through Moses from the day the LORD gave them and continuing
through the generations to come—
Numbers 15:24 and if it was done unintentionally
without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole
congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a
pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink
offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin
offering.
Numbers 15:25 The priest is to make atonement
for the whole congregation of Israel, so that they may be
forgiven; for the sin was unintentional and they have brought to
the LORD an offering made by fire and a sin offering, presented
before the LORD for their unintentional sin.
Numbers 15:26 Then the whole congregation of
Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven,
since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
Numbers 15:27 Also, if one person sins
unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin
offering.
Numbers 15:28 And the priest shall make
atonement before the LORD on behalf of the person who erred by
sinning unintentionally; and when atonement has been made for him,
he will be forgiven.
Numbers 15:29 You shall have the same law for
the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite
or a foreigner residing among you.
Numbers 15:30 But the person who sins defiantly,
whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person
shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 15:31 He shall certainly be cut off,
because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His
commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
Numbers 15:32 While the Israelites were in the
wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
Numbers 15:33 Those who found the man gathering
wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,
Numbers 15:34 and because it had not been
declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
Numbers 15:35 And the LORD said to Moses, “The
man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to
stone him outside the camp.”
Numbers 15:36 So the whole congregation took the
man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had
commanded Moses.
Numbers 15:37 Later, the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 15:38 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for
themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue
cord on each tassel.
Numbers 15:39 These will serve as tassels for
you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of
the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by
following your own heart and your own eyes.
Numbers 15:40 Then you will remember and obey
all My commandments, and you will be holy to your God.
Numbers 15:41 I am the LORD your God who brought
you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your
God.”
Numbers 16:1 Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of
Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram,
sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted
Numbers 16:2 a rebellion against Moses, along
with 250 men of Israel renowned as leaders of the congregation and
representatives in the assembly.
Numbers 16:3 They came together against Moses
and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves!
For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is
in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the
assembly of the LORD?”
Numbers 16:4 When Moses heard this, he fell
facedown.
Numbers 16:5 Then he said to Korah and all his
followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to
Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to
Himself. The one He chooses, He will bring near to Himself.
Numbers 16:6 You, Korah, and all your followers
are to do as follows: Take censers,
Numbers 16:7 and tomorrow you are to place fire
and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the
LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi
who have taken too much upon yourselves!”
Numbers 16:8 Moses also said to Korah, “Now
listen, you sons of Levi!
Numbers 16:9 Is it not enough for you that the
God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel
and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s
tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to
them?
Numbers 16:10 He has brought you near, you and
all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as
well.
Numbers 16:11 Therefore, it is you and all your
followers who have conspired against the LORD! As for Aaron, who
is he that you should grumble against him?”
Numbers 16:12 Then Moses summoned Dathan and
Abiram, the sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come!
Numbers 16:13 Is it not enough that you have
brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us
in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over
us?
Numbers 16:14 Moreover, you have not brought us
into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance
of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men?
No, we will not come!”
Numbers 16:15 Then Moses became very angry and
said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken
one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
Numbers 16:16 And Moses said to Korah, “You and
all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow—you and
they and Aaron.
Numbers 16:17 Each man is to take his censer,
place incense in it, and present it before the LORD—250 censers.
You and Aaron are to present your censers as well.”
Numbers 16:18 So each man took his censer, put
fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 16:19 When Korah had gathered his whole
assembly against them at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, the
glory of the LORD appeared to the whole congregation.
Numbers 16:20 And the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Numbers 16:21 “Separate yourselves from this
congregation so that I may consume them in an instant.”
Numbers 16:22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown
and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one
man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”
Numbers 16:23 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 16:24 “Tell the congregation to move
away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
Numbers 16:25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan
and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.
Numbers 16:26 And he warned the congregation,
“Move away now from the tents of these wicked men. Do not touch
anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because
of all their sins.”
Numbers 16:27 So they moved away from the
dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and
Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with
their wives and children and infants.
Numbers 16:28 Then Moses said, “This is how you
will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things, for it
was not my own doing:
Numbers 16:29 If these men die a natural death,
or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent
me.
Numbers 16:30 But if the LORD brings about
something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and
swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down
alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated
the LORD with contempt.”
Numbers 16:31 As soon as Moses had finished
saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
Numbers 16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them and their households—all Korah’s men and all their
possessions.
Numbers 16:33 They went down alive into Sheol
with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished
from the assembly.
Numbers 16:34 At their cries, all the people of
Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow
us too!”
Numbers 16:35 And fire came forth from the LORD
and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
Numbers 16:36 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 16:37 “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the
priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the
coals far away, because the censers are holy.
Numbers 16:38 As for the censers of those who
sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to
overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and
so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
Numbers 16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the
bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had
them hammered out to overlay the altar,
Numbers 16:40 just as the LORD commanded him
through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no
outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer
incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his
followers.
Numbers 16:41 The next day the whole
congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying,
“You have killed the LORD’s people!”
Numbers 16:42 But when the congregation gathered
against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the Tent of Meeting,
and suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD
appeared.
Numbers 16:43 Then Moses and Aaron went to the
front of the Tent of Meeting,
Numbers 16:44 and the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 16:45 “Get away from this congregation
so that I may consume them in an instant.” And Moses and Aaron
fell facedown.
Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your
censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go
quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because
wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
Numbers 16:47 So Aaron took the censer as Moses
had ordered and ran into the midst of the assembly. And seeing
that the plague had begun among the people, he offered the incense
and made atonement for the people.
Numbers 16:48 He stood between the living and
the dead, and the plague was halted.
Numbers 16:49 But those who died from the plague
numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of
Korah.
Numbers 16:50 Then Aaron returned to Moses at
the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, since the plague had been
halted.
Numbers 17:1 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 17:2 “Speak to the Israelites and take
from them twelve staffs, one from the leader of each tribe. Write
each man’s name on his staff,
Numbers 17:3 and write Aaron’s name on the staff
of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each
tribe.
Numbers 17:4 Place the staffs in the Tent of
Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I meet with you.
Numbers 17:5 The staff belonging to the man I
choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant
grumbling of the Israelites against you.”
Numbers 17:6 So Moses spoke to the Israelites,
and each of their leaders gave him a staff—one for each of the
leaders of their tribes, twelve staffs in all. And Aaron’s staff
was among them.
Numbers 17:7 Then Moses placed the staffs before
the LORD in the Tent of the Testimony.
Numbers 17:8 The next day Moses entered the Tent
of the Testimony and saw that Aaron’s staff, representing the
house of Levi, had sprouted, put forth buds, blossomed, and
produced almonds.
Numbers 17:9 Then Moses brought out all the
staffs from the LORD’s presence to all the Israelites. They saw
them, and each man took his own staff.
Numbers 17:10 The LORD said to Moses, “Put
Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony, to be kept as a sign
for the rebellious, so that you may put an end to their grumbling
against Me, lest they die.”
Numbers 17:11 So Moses did as the LORD had
commanded him.
Numbers 17:12 Then the Israelites declared to
Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
Numbers 17:13 Anyone who comes near the
tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”
Numbers 18:1 So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and
your sons and your father’s house must bear the iniquity involving
the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity
involving your priesthood.
Numbers 18:2 But bring with you also your
brothers from the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that
they may join you and assist you and your sons before the Tent of
the Testimony.
Numbers 18:3 And they shall attend to your
duties and to all the duties of the Tent; but they must not come
near to the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar, or both
they and you will die.
Numbers 18:4 They are to join you and attend to
the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent;
but no outsider may come near you.
Numbers 18:5 And you shall attend to the duties
of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on
the Israelites again.
Numbers 18:6 Behold, I Myself have selected your
fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift to you, dedicated to
the LORD to perform the service for the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 18:7 But only you and your sons shall
attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and
what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am
giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider
who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”
Numbers 18:8 Then the LORD said to Aaron,
“Behold, I have put you in charge of My offerings. As for all the
sacred offerings of the Israelites, I have given them to you and
your sons as a portion and a permanent statute.
Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy
offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the
offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain
offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs
to you and your sons.
Numbers 18:10 You are to eat it as a most holy
offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy.
Numbers 18:11 And this is yours as well: the
offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the
Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters
as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your
household may eat it.
Numbers 18:12 I give you all the freshest olive
oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give
to the LORD as their firstfruits.
Numbers 18:13 The firstfruits of everything in
their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every
ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.
Numbers 18:14 Every devoted thing in Israel
belongs to you.
Numbers 18:15 The firstborn of every womb,
whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you.
But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn
male of unclean animals.
Numbers 18:16 You are to pay the redemption
price for a month-old male according to your valuation: five
shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is
twenty gerahs.
Numbers 18:17 But you must not redeem the
firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to
sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an
offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Numbers 18:18 And their meat belongs to you,
just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to
you.
Numbers 18:19 All the holy offerings that the
Israelites present to the LORD I give to you and to your sons and
daughters as a permanent statute. It is a permanent covenant of
salt before the LORD for you and your offspring.”
Numbers 18:20 Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You
will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any
portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among
the Israelites.
Numbers 18:21 Behold, I have given to the
Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for
the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 18:22 No longer may the Israelites come
near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.
Numbers 18:23 The Levites are to perform the
work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity.
This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The
Levites will not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.
Numbers 18:24 For I have given to the Levites as
their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the
LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would
not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”
Numbers 18:25 And the LORD instructed Moses,
Numbers 18:26 “Speak to the Levites and tell
them: ‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have
given you as your inheritance, you must present part of it as an
offering to the LORD—a tithe of the tithe.
Numbers 18:27 Your offering will be reckoned to
you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
Numbers 18:28 So you are to present an offering
to the LORD from all the tithes you receive from the Israelites,
and from these you are to give the LORD’s offering to Aaron the
priest.
Numbers 18:29 You must present the offering due
the LORD from all the best of every gift, the holiest part of it.’
Numbers 18:30 Therefore say to the Levites,
‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you
as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.
Numbers 18:31 And you and your households may
eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work
at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 18:32 Once you have presented the best
part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must
not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you
will die.’”
Numbers 19:1 Then the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron,
Numbers 19:2 “This is the statute of the law
that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you
an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been
placed under a yoke.
Numbers 19:3 Give it to Eleazar the priest, and
he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his
presence.
Numbers 19:4 Eleazar the priest is to take some
of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the
front of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 19:5 Then the heifer must be burned in
his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned,
along with its dung.
Numbers 19:6 The priest is to take cedar wood,
hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
Numbers 19:7 Then the priest must wash his
clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may enter the
camp, but he will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:8 The one who burned the heifer must
also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will
be ceremonially unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:9 Then a man who is ceremonially
clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a
ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by
the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of
purification; this is for purification from sin.
Numbers 19:10 The man who has gathered up the
ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be
ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute
for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.
Numbers 19:11 Whoever touches any dead body will
be unclean for seven days.
Numbers 19:12 He must purify himself with the
water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be
clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh
days, he will not be clean.
Numbers 19:13 Anyone who touches a human corpse
and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD.
That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean,
because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him,
and his uncleanness is still on him.
Numbers 19:14 This is the law when a person dies
in a tent: Everyone who enters the tent and everyone already in
the tent will be unclean for seven days,
Numbers 19:15 and any open container without a
lid fastened on it is unclean.
Numbers 19:16 Anyone in the open field who
touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of
natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave,
will be unclean for seven days.
Numbers 19:17 For the purification of the
unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering,
put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
Numbers 19:18 Then a man who is ceremonially
clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle
the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He
is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a
person who has died or been slain.
Numbers 19:19 The man who is ceremonially clean
is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the
seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh
day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in
water, and that evening he will be clean.
Numbers 19:20 But if a person who is unclean
does not purify himself, he will be cut off from the assembly,
because he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. The water of
purification has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.
Numbers 19:21 This is a permanent statute for
the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must
wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification
will be unclean until evening.
Numbers 19:22 Anything the unclean person
touches will become unclean, and anyone who touches it will be
unclean until evening.”
Numbers 20:1 In the first month, the whole
congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in
Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
Numbers 20:2 Now there was no water for the
congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 20:3 The people quarreled with Moses and
said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
Numbers 20:4 Why have you brought the LORD’s
assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die
here?
Numbers 20:5 Why have you led us up out of Egypt
to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain,
figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
Numbers 20:6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the
presence of the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
Numbers 20:7 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 20:8 “Take the staff and assemble the
congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock
while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring
out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and
their livestock.”
Numbers 20:9 So Moses took the staff from the
LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.
Numbers 20:10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the
assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen
now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
Numbers 20:11 Then Moses raised his hand and
struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of
water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were
able to drink.
Numbers 20:12 But the LORD said to Moses and
Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the
sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the
land that I have given them.”
Numbers 20:13 These were the waters of Meribah,
where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His
holiness among them.
Numbers 20:14 From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers
to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says:
You know all the hardship that has befallen us,
Numbers 20:15 how our fathers went down to
Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and
our fathers,
Numbers 20:16 and when we cried out to the LORD,
He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt.
Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
Numbers 20:17 Please let us pass through your
land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink
water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will
not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through
your territory.”
Numbers 20:18 But Edom answered, “You may not
travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with
the sword.”
Numbers 20:19 “We will stay on the main road,”
the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water,
we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass
through on foot.”
Numbers 20:20 But Edom insisted, “You may not
pass through.” And they came out to confront the Israelites with a
large army and a strong hand.
Numbers 20:21 So Edom refused to allow Israel to
pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.
Numbers 20:22 After they had set out from
Kadesh, the whole congregation of Israel came to Mount Hor.
Numbers 20:23 And at Mount Hor, near the border
of the land of Edom, the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 20:24 “Aaron will be gathered to his
people; he will not enter the land that I have given the
Israelites, because both of you rebelled against My command at the
waters of Meribah.
Numbers 20:25 Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and
bring them up Mount Hor.
Numbers 20:26 Remove Aaron’s priestly garments
and put them on his son Eleazar. Aaron will be gathered to his
people and will die there.”
Numbers 20:27 So Moses did as the LORD had
commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole
congregation.
Numbers 20:28 After Moses had removed Aaron’s
garments and put them on his son Eleazar, Aaron died there on top
of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the
mountain.
Numbers 20:29 When the whole congregation saw
that Aaron had died, the entire house of Israel mourned for him
thirty days.
Numbers 21:1 When the Canaanite king of Arad,
who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the
road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.
Numbers 21:2 So Israel made a vow to the LORD:
“If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote
their cities to destruction.”
Numbers 21:3 And the LORD heard Israel’s plea
and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their
cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
Numbers 21:4 Then they set out from Mount Hor
along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of
Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
Numbers 21:5 and spoke against God and against
Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the
wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this
wretched food!”
Numbers 21:6 So the LORD sent venomous snakes
among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
Numbers 21:7 Then the people came to Moses and
said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against
you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from
us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
Numbers 21:8 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make
a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten
looks at it, he will live.”
Numbers 21:9 So Moses made a bronze snake and
mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the
bronze snake, he would live.
Numbers 21:10 Then the Israelites set out and
camped at Oboth.
Numbers 21:11 They journeyed from Oboth and
camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.
Numbers 21:12 From there they set out and camped
in the Valley of Zered.
Numbers 21:13 From there they moved on and
camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that
extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border
between the Moabites and the Amorites.
Numbers 21:14 Therefore it is stated in the Book
of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the
Arnon,
Numbers 21:15 even the slopes of the wadis that
extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
Numbers 21:16 From there they went on to Beer,
the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that
I may give them water.”
Numbers 21:17 Then Israel sang this song:
“Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
Numbers 21:18 The princes dug the well; the
nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with
their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to
Mattanah,
Numbers 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and
from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
Numbers 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley in
Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
Numbers 21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to
Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Numbers 21:22 “Let us pass through your land. We
will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from
any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed
through your territory.”
Numbers 21:23 But Sihon would not let Israel
pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army
and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to
Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
Numbers 21:24 And Israel put him to the sword
and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but
only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
Numbers 21:25 Israel captured all the cities of
the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its
villages.
Numbers 21:26 Heshbon was the city of Sihon king
of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab
and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
Numbers 21:27 That is why the poets say: “Come
to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
Numbers 21:28 For a fire went out from Heshbon,
a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers
of Arnon’s heights.
Numbers 21:29 Woe to you, O Moab! You are
destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees,
and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
Numbers 21:30 But we have overthrown them;
Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as
Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
Numbers 21:31 So Israel lived in the land of the
Amorites.
Numbers 21:32 After Moses had sent spies to
Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who
were there.
Numbers 21:33 Then they turned and went up the
road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out
to meet them in battle at Edrei.
Numbers 21:34 But the LORD said to Moses, “Do
not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with
all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of
the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
Numbers 21:35 So they struck down Og, along with
his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they
took possession of his land.
Numbers 22:1 Then the Israelites traveled on and
camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.
Numbers 22:2 Now Balak son of Zippor saw all
that Israel had done to the Amorites,
Numbers 22:3 and Moab was terrified of the
people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the
Israelites.
Numbers 22:4 So the Moabites said to the elders
of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox
licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was
king of Moab at that time,
Numbers 22:5 he sent messengers to Balaam son of
Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his
people. “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt,” said Balak.
“They cover the face of the land and have settled next to me.
Numbers 22:6 So please come now and put a curse
on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may
be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know
that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
Numbers 22:7 The elders of Moab and Midian
departed with the fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam
and relayed to him the words of Balak.
Numbers 22:8 “Spend the night here,” Balaam
replied, “and I will give you the answer that the LORD speaks to
me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
Numbers 22:9 Then God came to Balaam and asked,
“Who are these men with you?”
Numbers 22:10 And Balaam said to God, “Balak son
of Zippor, king of Moab, sent me this message:
Numbers 22:11 ‘Behold, a people has come out of
Egypt, and they cover the face of the land. Now come and put a
curse on them for me. Perhaps I may be able to fight against them
and drive them away.’”
Numbers 22:12 But God said to Balaam, “Do not go
with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are
blessed.”
Numbers 22:13 So Balaam got up the next morning
and said to Balak’s princes, “Go back to your homeland, because
the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”
Numbers 22:14 And the princes of Moab arose,
returned to Balak, and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”
Numbers 22:15 Then Balak sent other princes,
more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.
Numbers 22:16 They came to Balaam and said,
“This is what Balak son of Zippor says: ‘Please let nothing hinder
you from coming to me,
Numbers 22:17 for I will honor you richly and do
whatever you say. So please come and put a curse on this people
for me!’”
Numbers 22:18 But Balaam replied to the servants
of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and
gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the
command of the LORD my God.
Numbers 22:19 So now, please stay here overnight
as the others did, that I may find out what else the LORD has to
tell me.”
Numbers 22:20 That night God came to Balaam and
said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with
them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
Numbers 22:21 So in the morning Balaam got up,
saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers 22:22 Then God’s anger was kindled
because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in
the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two
servants were with him.
Numbers 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of
the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she
turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to
return her to the path.
Numbers 22:24 Then the angel of the LORD stood
in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either
side.
Numbers 22:25 And the donkey saw the angel of
the LORD and pressed herself against the wall, crushing Balaam’s
foot against it. So he beat her once again.
Numbers 22:26 And the angel of the LORD moved on
ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn
to the right or left.
Numbers 22:27 When the donkey saw the angel of
the LORD, she lay down under Balaam, and he became furious and
beat her with his staff.
Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s
mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you
have beaten me these three times?”
Numbers 22:29 Balaam answered the donkey, “You
have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill
you right now!”
Numbers 22:30 But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am
I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I
ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.
Numbers 22:31 Then the LORD opened Balaam’s
eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a
drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
Numbers 22:32 The angel of the LORD asked him,
“Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have
come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
Numbers 22:33 The donkey saw me and turned away
from me these three times. If she had not turned away, then by now
I would surely have killed you and let her live.”
Numbers 22:34 “I have sinned,” Balaam said to
the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were
standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is
displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
Numbers 22:35 But the angel of the LORD said to
Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to speak only what I tell
you.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Numbers 22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam was
coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon
border, at the edge of his territory.
Numbers 22:37 And he said to Balaam, “Did I not
send you an urgent summons? Why did you not come to me? Am I
really not able to richly reward you?”
Numbers 22:38 “See, I have come to you,” Balaam
replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word
that God puts in my mouth.”
Numbers 22:39 So Balaam accompanied Balak, and
they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
Numbers 22:40 Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep,
and he gave portions to Balaam and the princes who were with him.
Numbers 22:41 The next morning, Balak took
Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see
the outskirts of the camp of the people.
Numbers 23:1 Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build
for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven
rams.”
Numbers 23:2 So Balak did as Balaam had
instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each
altar.
Numbers 23:3 “Stay here by your burnt offering
while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will
meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So
Balaam went off to a barren height,
Numbers 23:4 and God met with him. “I have set
up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a
bull and a ram.”
Numbers 23:5 Then the LORD put a message in
Balaam’s mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and give him this
message.”
Numbers 23:6 So he returned to Balak, who was
standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of
Moab.
Numbers 23:7 And Balaam lifted up an oracle,
saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the
mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for
me; come and denounce Israel!’
Numbers 23:8 How can I curse what God has not
cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23:9 For I see them from atop the rocky
cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling
apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob or
number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the
righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Numbers 23:11 Then Balak said to Balaam, “What
have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, and
behold, you have only blessed them!”
Numbers 23:12 But Balaam replied, “Should I not
speak exactly what the LORD puts in my mouth?”
Numbers 23:13 Then Balak said to him, “Please
come with me to another place where you can see them. You will
only see the outskirts of their camp—not all of them. And from
there, curse them for me.”
Numbers 23:14 So Balak took him to the field of
Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and
offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:15 Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here
beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”
Numbers 23:16 And the LORD met with Balaam and
put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak
what I tell you.”
Numbers 23:17 So he returned to Balak, who was
standing there by his burnt offering with the princes of Moab.
“What did the LORD say?” Balak asked.
Numbers 23:18 Then Balaam lifted up an oracle,
saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of
Zippor.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should
lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He
speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Numbers 23:20 I have indeed received a command
to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
Numbers 23:21 He considers no disaster for
Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with
them, and the shout of the King is among them.
Numbers 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt with
strength like a wild ox.
Numbers 23:23 For there is no spell against
Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of
Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’
Numbers 23:24 Behold, the people rise like a
lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they
devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 23:25 Now Balak said to Balaam, “Then
neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!”
Numbers 23:26 But Balaam replied, “Did I not
tell you that whatever the LORD says, I must do?”
Numbers 23:27 “Please come,” said Balak, “I will
take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you
curse them for me from there.”
Numbers 23:28 And Balak took Balaam to the top
of Peor, which overlooks the wasteland.
Numbers 23:29 Then Balaam said, “Build for me
seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
Numbers 23:30 So Balak did as Balaam had
instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased
the LORD to bless Israel, he did not resort to sorcery as on
previous occasions, but he turned his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 24:2 When Balaam looked up and saw
Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came upon him,
Numbers 24:3 and he lifted up an oracle, saying:
“This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man
whose eyes are open,
Numbers 24:4 the prophecy of one who hears the
words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down
with eyes wide open:
Numbers 24:5 How lovely are your tents, O Jacob,
your dwellings, O Israel!
Numbers 24:6 They spread out like palm groves,
like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted,
like cedars beside the waters.
Numbers 24:7 Water will flow from his buckets,
and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater
than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
Numbers 24:8 God brought him out of Egypt with
strength like a wild ox, to devour hostile nations and crush their
bones, to pierce them with arrows.
Numbers 24:9 He crouches, he lies down like a
lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those
who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
Numbers 24:10 Then Balak’s anger burned against
Balaam, and he struck his hands together and said to Balaam, “I
summoned you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted
in blessing them these three times.
Numbers 24:11 Therefore, flee at once to your
home! I said I would richly reward you, but instead the LORD has
denied your reward.”
Numbers 24:12 Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not
already tell the messengers you sent me
Numbers 24:13 that even if Balak were to give me
his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my
own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I
will speak whatever the LORD says.
Numbers 24:14 Now I am going back to my people,
but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people
in the days to come.”
Numbers 24:15 Then Balaam lifted up an oracle,
saying, “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy
of a man whose eyes are open,
Numbers 24:16 the prophecy of one who hears the
words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a
vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
Numbers 24:17 I see him, but not now; I behold
him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a
scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab
and strike down all the sons of Sheth.
Numbers 24:18 Edom will become a possession, as
will Seir, his enemy; but Israel will perform with valor.
Numbers 24:19 A ruler will come from Jacob and
destroy the survivors of the city.”
Numbers 24:20 Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted
up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his
end is destruction.”
Numbers 24:21 Next he saw the Kenites and lifted
up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your
nest is set in a cliff.
Numbers 24:22 Yet Kain will be destroyed when
Asshur takes you captive.”
Numbers 24:23 Once more Balaam lifted up an
oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
Numbers 24:24 Ships will come from the coasts of
Cyprus; they will subdue Asshur and Eber, but they too will perish
forever.”
Numbers 24:25 Then Balaam arose and returned to
his homeland, and Balak also went on his way.
Numbers 25:1 While Israel was staying in
Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the
daughters of Moab,
Numbers 25:2 who also invited them to the
sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to
these gods.
Numbers 25:3 So Israel joined in worshiping Baal
of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.
Numbers 25:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take
all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight
before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from
Israel.”
Numbers 25:5 So Moses told the judges of Israel,
“Each of you must kill all of his men who have joined in
worshiping Baal of Peor.”
Numbers 25:6 Just then an Israelite man brought
to his family a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses and the
whole congregation of Israel while they were weeping at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 25:7 On seeing this, Phinehas son of
Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly,
took a spear in his hand,
Numbers 25:8 followed the Israelite into his
tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the
Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague
against the Israelites was halted,
Numbers 25:9 but those who died in the plague
numbered 24,000.
Numbers 25:10 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son
of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites;
for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not
consume the Israelites in My zeal.
Numbers 25:12 Declare, therefore, that I am
granting him My covenant of peace.
Numbers 25:13 It will be a covenant of permanent
priesthood for him and his descendants, because he was zealous for
his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”
Numbers 25:14 The name of the Israelite who was
slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader
of a Simeonite family.
Numbers 25:15 And the name of the slain
Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal chief of
a Midianite family.
Numbers 25:16 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 25:17 “Attack the Midianites and strike
them dead.
Numbers 25:18 For they assailed you deceitfully
when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister
Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was
killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”
Numbers 26:1 After the plague had ended, the
LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
Numbers 26:2 “Take a census of the whole
congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those
twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
Numbers 26:3 So on the plains of Moab by the
Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued
the instruction,
Numbers 26:4 “Take a census of the men twenty
years of age or older, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” And these
were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:
Numbers 26:5 Reuben was the firstborn of Israel.
These were the descendants of Reuben: The Hanochite clan from
Hanoch, the Palluite clan from Pallu,
Numbers 26:6 the Hezronite clan from Hezron, and
the Carmite clan from Carmi.
Numbers 26:7 These were the clans of Reuben, and
their registration numbered 43,730.
Numbers 26:8 Now the son of Pallu was Eliab,
Numbers 26:9 and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel,
Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the
congregation, who fought against Moses and Aaron with the
followers of Korah who rebelled against the LORD.
Numbers 26:10 And the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the
fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.
Numbers 26:11 However, the line of Korah did not
die out.
Numbers 26:12 These were the descendants of
Simeon by their clans: The Nemuelite clan from Nemuel, the
Jaminite clan from Jamin, the Jachinite clan from Jachin,
Numbers 26:13 the Zerahite clan from Zerah, and
the Shaulite clan from Shaul.
Numbers 26:14 These were the clans of Simeon,
and there were 22,200 men.
Numbers 26:15 These were the descendants of Gad
by their clans: The Zephonite clan from Zephon, the Haggite clan
from Haggi, the Shunite clan from Shuni,
Numbers 26:16 the Oznite clan from Ozni, the
Erite clan from Eri,
Numbers 26:17 the Arodite clan from Arod, and
the Arelite clan from Areli.
Numbers 26:18 These were the clans of Gad, and
their registration numbered 40,500.
Numbers 26:19 The sons of Judah were Er and
Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 26:20 These were the descendants of
Judah by their clans: The Shelanite clan from Shelah, the Perezite
clan from Perez, and the Zerahite clan from Zerah.
Numbers 26:21 And these were the descendants of
Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron and the Hamulite clan from
Hamul.
Numbers 26:22 These were the clans of Judah, and
their registration numbered 76,500.
Numbers 26:23 These were the descendants of
Issachar by their clans: The Tolaite clan from Tola, the Punite
clan from Puvah,
Numbers 26:24 the Jashubite clan from Jashub,
and the Shimronite clan from Shimron.
Numbers 26:25 These were the clans of Issachar,
and their registration numbered 64,300.
Numbers 26:26 These were the descendants of
Zebulun by their clans: The Seredite clan from Sered, the Elonite
clan from Elon, and the Jahleelite clan from Jahleel.
Numbers 26:27 These were the clans of Zebulun,
and their registration numbered 60,500.
Numbers 26:28 The descendants of Joseph included
the clans of Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers 26:29 These were the descendants of
Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead,
and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.
Numbers 26:30 These were the descendants of
Gilead: the Iezerite clan from Iezer, the Helekite clan from
Helek,
Numbers 26:31 the Asrielite clan from Asriel,
the Shechemite clan from Shechem,
Numbers 26:32 the Shemidaite clan from Shemida,
and the Hepherite clan from Hepher.
Numbers 26:33 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had
no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were
Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Numbers 26:34 These were the clans of Manasseh,
and their registration numbered 52,700.
Numbers 26:35 These were the descendants of
Ephraim by their clans: The Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah, the
Becherite clan from Becher, and the Tahanite clan from Tahan.
Numbers 26:36 And the descendants of Shuthelah
were the Eranite clan from Eran.
Numbers 26:37 These were the clans of Ephraim,
and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the
descendants of Joseph.
Numbers 26:38 These were the descendants of
Benjamin by their clans: The Belaite clan from Bela, the Ashbelite
clan from Ashbel, the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram,
Numbers 26:39 the Shuphamite clan from Shupham,
and the Huphamite clan from Hupham.
Numbers 26:40 And the descendants of Bela from
Ard and Naaman were the Ardite clan from Ard and the Naamite clan
from Naaman.
Numbers 26:41 These were the clans of Benjamin,
and their registration numbered 45,600.
Numbers 26:42 These were the descendants of Dan
by their clans: The Shuhamite clan from Shuham. These were the
clans of Dan.
Numbers 26:43 All of them were Shuhamite clans,
and their registration numbered 64,400.
Numbers 26:44 These were the descendants of
Asher by their clans: The Imnite clan from Imnah, the Ishvite clan
from Ishvi, and the Beriite clan from Beriah.
Numbers 26:45 And these were the descendants of
Beriah: the Heberite clan from Heber and the Malchielite clan from
Malchiel.
Numbers 26:46 And the name of Asher’s daughter
was Serah.
Numbers 26:47 These were the clans of Asher, and
their registration numbered 53,400.
Numbers 26:48 These were the descendants of
Naphtali by their clans: The Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel, the
Gunite clan from Guni,
Numbers 26:49 the Jezerite clan from Jezer, and
the Shillemite clan from Shillem.
Numbers 26:50 These were the clans of Naphtali,
and their registration numbered 45,400.
Numbers 26:51 These men of Israel numbered
601,730 in all.
Numbers 26:52 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 26:53 “The land is to be divided among
the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
Numbers 26:54 Increase the inheritance for a
large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to
receive its inheritance according to the number of those
registered.
Numbers 26:55 Indeed, the land must be divided
by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the
names of the tribes of their fathers.
Numbers 26:56 Each inheritance is to be divided
by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”
Numbers 26:57 Now these were the Levites
numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the
Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
Numbers 26:58 These were the families of the
Levites: The Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan,
the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Now Kohath was the father
of Amram,
Numbers 26:59 and Amram’s wife was named
Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt.
To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
Numbers 26:60 Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar
were born to Aaron,
Numbers 26:61 but Nadab and Abihu died when they
offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
Numbers 26:62 The registration of the Levites
totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not
numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was
given to them among the Israelites.
Numbers 26:63 These were the ones numbered by
Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on
the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
Numbers 26:64 Among all these, however, there
was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest
when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 26:65 For the LORD had told them that
they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except
Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 27:1 Now the daughters of Zelophehad son
of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. These
were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and
Tirzah. They approached
Numbers 27:2 the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting, stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders, and
the whole congregation, and said,
Numbers 27:3 “Our father died in the wilderness,
but he was not among the followers of Korah who gathered together
against the LORD. Instead, he died because of his own sin, and he
had no sons.
Numbers 27:4 Why should the name of our father
disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property
among our father’s brothers.”
Numbers 27:5 So Moses brought their case before
the LORD,
Numbers 27:6 and the LORD answered him,
Numbers 27:7 “The daughters of Zelophehad speak
correctly. You certainly must give them property as an inheritance
among their father’s brothers, and transfer their father’s
inheritance to them.
Numbers 27:8 Furthermore, you shall say to the
Israelites, ‘If a man dies and leaves no son, you are to transfer
his inheritance to his daughter.
Numbers 27:9 If he has no daughter, give his
inheritance to his brothers.
Numbers 27:10 If he has no brothers, give his
inheritance to his father’s brothers.
Numbers 27:11 And if his father has no brothers,
give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may
take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the
Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
Numbers 27:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go
up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have
given the Israelites.
Numbers 27:13 After you have seen it, you too
will be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was;
Numbers 27:14 for when the congregation
contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against
My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the
waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in Kadesh, in the
Wilderness of Zin.
Numbers 27:15 So Moses appealed to the LORD,
Numbers 27:16 “May the LORD, the God of the
spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation
Numbers 27:17 who will go out and come in before
them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the
congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a
shepherd.”
Numbers 27:18 And the LORD replied to Moses,
“Take Joshua son of Nun, a man with the Spirit in him, and lay
your hands on him.
Numbers 27:19 Have him stand before Eleazar the
priest and the whole congregation, and commission him in their
sight.
Numbers 27:20 Confer on him some of your
authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.
Numbers 27:21 He shall stand before Eleazar the
priest, who will seek counsel for him before the LORD by the
judgment of the Urim. At his command, he and all the Israelites
with him—the entire congregation—will go out and come in.”
Numbers 27:22 Moses did as the LORD had
commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the
priest and the whole congregation,
Numbers 27:23 and laid his hands on him and
commissioned him, as the LORD had instructed through Moses.
Numbers 28:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 28:2 “Command the Israelites and say to
them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food
for My offerings by fire, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
Numbers 28:3 And tell them that this is the
offering made by fire you are to present to the LORD as a regular
burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
Numbers 28:4 Offer one lamb in the morning and
the other at twilight,
Numbers 28:5 along with a tenth of an ephah of
fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil
from pressed olives.
Numbers 28:6 This is a regular burnt offering
established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, an offering made
by fire to the LORD.
Numbers 28:7 The drink offering accompanying
each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of
fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.
Numbers 28:8 And offer the second lamb at
twilight, with the same grain offering and drink offering as in
the morning. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to
the LORD.
Numbers 28:9 On the Sabbath day, present two
unblemished year-old male lambs, accompanied by a grain offering
of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, as well as
a drink offering.
Numbers 28:10 This is the burnt offering for
every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its
drink offering.
Numbers 28:11 At the beginning of every month,
you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young
bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 28:12 along with three-tenths of an
ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each
bull, two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a
grain offering with the ram,
Numbers 28:13 and a tenth of an ephah of fine
flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each lamb. This is a
burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the
LORD.
Numbers 28:14 Their drink offerings shall be
half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram,
and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt
offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.
Numbers 28:15 In addition to the regular burnt
offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented
to the LORD as a sin offering.
Numbers 28:16 The fourteenth day of the first
month is the LORD’s Passover.
Numbers 28:17 On the fifteenth day of this
month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is
to be eaten.
Numbers 28:18 On the first day there is to be a
sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Numbers 28:19 Present to the LORD an offering
made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and
seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished.
Numbers 28:20 The grain offering shall consist
of fine flour mixed with oil; offer three-tenths of an ephah with
each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Numbers 28:21 and a tenth of an ephah with each
of the seven lambs.
Numbers 28:22 Include one male goat as a sin
offering to make atonement for you.
Numbers 28:23 You are to present these in
addition to the regular morning burnt offering.
Numbers 28:24 Offer the same food each day for
seven days as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the
LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular
burnt offering.
Numbers 28:25 On the seventh day you shall hold
a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Numbers 28:26 On the day of firstfruits, when
you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast
of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any
regular work.
Numbers 28:27 Present a burnt offering of two
young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old as a
pleasing aroma to the LORD,
Numbers 28:28 together with their grain
offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah
with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Numbers 28:29 and a tenth of an ephah with each
of the seven lambs.
Numbers 28:30 Include one male goat to make
atonement for you.
Numbers 28:31 Offer them with their drink
offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain
offering. The animals must be unblemished.
Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh
month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any
regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Numbers 29:2 As a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
you are to present a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram,
and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:3 together with their grain offerings
of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the
bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Numbers 29:4 and a tenth of an ephah with each
of the seven male lambs.
Numbers 29:5 Include one male goat as a sin
offering to make atonement for you.
Numbers 29:6 These are in addition to the
monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain
offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, an
offering made by fire to the LORD.
Numbers 29:7 On the tenth day of this seventh
month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble
yourselves; you must not do any work.
Numbers 29:8 Present as a pleasing aroma to the
LORD a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram, and seven male
lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:9 together with their grain offerings
of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with the
bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Numbers 29:10 and a tenth of an ephah with each
of the seven lambs.
Numbers 29:11 Include one male goat for a sin
offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the
regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink
offerings.
Numbers 29:12 On the fifteenth day of the
seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do
any regular work, and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for
seven days.
Numbers 29:13 As a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
you are to present an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of
thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year
old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:14 along with the grain offering of
three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil with each of
the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah with each of the two
rams,
Numbers 29:15 and a tenth of an ephah with each
of the fourteen lambs.
Numbers 29:16 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:17 On the second day you are to
present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a
year old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:18 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:19 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:20 On the third day you are to
present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year
old, all unblemished,
Numbers 29:21 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:22 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:23 On the fourth day you are to
present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old,
all unblemished,
Numbers 29:24 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:25 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:26 On the fifth day you are to
present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old,
all unblemished,
Numbers 29:27 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:28 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:29 On the sixth day you are to
present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old,
all unblemished,
Numbers 29:30 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:31 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:32 On the seventh day you are to
present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old,
all unblemished,
Numbers 29:33 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:34 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:35 On the eighth day you are to hold
a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Numbers 29:36 As a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
you are to present an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of
one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all
unblemished,
Numbers 29:37 along with the grain and drink
offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number
prescribed.
Numbers 29:38 Include one male goat as a sin
offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain
offering and drink offering.
Numbers 29:39 You are to present these offerings
to the LORD at your appointed times, in addition to your vow and
freewill offerings, whether burnt offerings, grain offerings,
drink offerings, or peace offerings.”
Numbers 29:40 So Moses spoke all this to the
Israelites just as the LORD had commanded him.
Numbers 30:1 Then Moses said to the heads of the
tribes of Israel, “This is what the LORD has commanded:
Numbers 30:2 If a man makes a vow to the LORD or
swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break
his word; he must do everything he has promised.
Numbers 30:3 And if a woman in her father’s
house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates
herself by a pledge,
Numbers 30:4 and her father hears about her vow
or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by
which she has bound herself shall stand.
Numbers 30:5 But if her father prohibits her on
the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by
which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her
because her father has prohibited her.
Numbers 30:6 If a woman marries while under a
vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,
Numbers 30:7 and her husband hears of it but
says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which
she has bound herself shall stand.
Numbers 30:8 But if her husband prohibits her
when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the
rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
Numbers 30:9 Every vow a widow or divorced woman
pledges to fulfill is binding on her.
Numbers 30:10 If a woman in her husband’s house
has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,
Numbers 30:11 and her husband hears of it but
says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows
or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.
Numbers 30:12 But if her husband nullifies them
on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips,
whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has
nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
Numbers 30:13 Her husband may confirm or nullify
any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.
Numbers 30:14 But if her husband says nothing to
her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges
that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to
her on the day he heard about them.
Numbers 30:15 But if he nullifies them after he
hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”
Numbers 30:16 These are the statutes that the
LORD commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and
his wife, and between a father and a young daughter still in his
home.
Numbers 31:1 And the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 31:2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites
for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your
people.”
Numbers 31:3 So Moses told the people, “Arm some
of your men for war, that they may go against the Midianites and
execute the LORD’s vengeance on them.
Numbers 31:4 Send into battle a thousand men
from each tribe of Israel.”
Numbers 31:5 So a thousand men were recruited
from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers 31:6 And Moses sent the thousand from
each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the
priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the
trumpets for signaling.
Numbers 31:7 Then they waged war against Midian,
as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
Numbers 31:8 Among the slain were Evi, Rekem,
Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed
Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
Numbers 31:9 The Israelites captured the
Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their
herds, flocks, and goods.
Numbers 31:10 Then they burned all the cities
where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
Numbers 31:11 and carried away all the plunder
and spoils, both people and animals.
Numbers 31:12 They brought the captives, spoils,
and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the
congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the
Jordan across from Jericho.
Numbers 31:13 And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and
all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the
camp.
Numbers 31:14 But Moses was angry with the
officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of
hundreds—who were returning from the battle.
Numbers 31:15 “Have you spared all the women?”
he asked them.
Numbers 31:16 “Look, these women caused the sons
of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully
against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the
congregation of the LORD.
Numbers 31:17 So now, kill all the boys, as well
as every woman who has had relations with a man,
Numbers 31:18 but spare for yourselves every
girl who has never had relations with a man.
Numbers 31:19 All of you who have killed a
person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for
seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify
both yourselves and your captives.
Numbers 31:20 And purify every garment and
leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of
wood.”
Numbers 31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to
the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the
law which the LORD has commanded Moses:
Numbers 31:22 Only the gold, silver, bronze,
iron, tin, and lead—
Numbers 31:23 everything that can withstand the
fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it
must still be purified with the water of purification. And
everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the
water.
Numbers 31:24 On the seventh day you are to wash
your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the
camp.”
Numbers 31:25 The LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest and
the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what
was captured, both of man and beast.
Numbers 31:27 Then divide the captives between
the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the
congregation.
Numbers 31:28 Set aside a tribute for the LORD
from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of
every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.
Numbers 31:29 Take it from their half and give
it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
Numbers 31:30 From the Israelites’ half, take
one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep,
or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of
the tabernacle of the LORD.”
Numbers 31:31 So Moses and Eleazar the priest
did as the LORD had commanded Moses,
Numbers 31:32 and this plunder remained from the
spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,
Numbers 31:33 72,000 cattle,
Numbers 31:34 61,000 donkeys,
Numbers 31:35 and 32,000 women who had not slept
with a man.
Numbers 31:36 This was the half portion for
those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,
Numbers 31:37 including a tribute to the LORD of
675,
Numbers 31:38 36,000 cattle, including a tribute
to the LORD of 72,
Numbers 31:39 30,500 donkeys, including a
tribute to the LORD of 61,
Numbers 31:40 and 16,000 people, including a
tribute to the LORD of 32.
Numbers 31:41 Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar
the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded
Moses.
Numbers 31:42 From the Israelites’ half, which
Moses had set apart from the men who had gone to war,
Numbers 31:43 this half belonged to the
congregation: 337,500 sheep,
Numbers 31:44 36,000 cattle,
Numbers 31:45 30,500 donkeys,
Numbers 31:46 and 16,000 people.
Numbers 31:47 From the Israelites’ half, Moses
took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to
the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the
LORD had commanded him.
Numbers 31:48 Then the officers who were over
the units of the army—the commanders of thousands and of
hundreds—approached Moses
Numbers 31:49 and said, “Your servants have
counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is
missing.
Numbers 31:50 So we have brought to the LORD an
offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets,
bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for
ourselves before the LORD.”
Numbers 31:51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest
received from them all the articles made out of gold.
Numbers 31:52 All the gold that the commanders
of thousands and of hundreds presented as an offering to the LORD
weighed 16,750 shekels.
Numbers 31:53 Each of the soldiers had taken
plunder for himself.
Numbers 31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds
and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the
Israelites before the LORD.
Numbers 32:1 Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who
had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and
Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
Numbers 32:2 So the Gadites and Reubenites came
to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation,
and said,
Numbers 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah,
Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
Numbers 32:4 which the LORD conquered before the
congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock—and your
servants have livestock.”
Numbers 32:5 “If we have found favor in your
sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a
possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
Numbers 32:6 But Moses asked the Gadites and
Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
Numbers 32:7 Why are you discouraging the
Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given
them?
Numbers 32:8 This is what your fathers did when
I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
Numbers 32:9 For when your fathers went up to
the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the
Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
Numbers 32:10 So the anger of the LORD was
kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
Numbers 32:11 ‘Because they did not follow Me
wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older
who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
Numbers 32:12 not one except Caleb son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did
follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’
Numbers 32:13 The anger of the LORD burned
against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty
years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight
was gone.
Numbers 32:14 Now behold, you, a brood of
sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke
the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.
Numbers 32:15 For if you turn away from
following Him, He will once again leave this people in the
wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”
Numbers 32:16 Then the Gadites and Reubenites
approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for
our livestock and cities for our little ones.
Numbers 32:17 But we will arm ourselves and be
ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them
into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the
fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
Numbers 32:18 We will not return to our homes
until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.
Numbers 32:19 Yet we will not have an
inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our
inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
Numbers 32:20 Moses replied, “If you will do
this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,
Numbers 32:21 and if every one of your armed men
crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His
enemies out before Him,
Numbers 32:22 then when the land is subdued
before the LORD, you may return and be free of obligation to the
LORD and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a
possession before the LORD.
Numbers 32:23 But if you do not do this, you
will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin
will find you out.
Numbers 32:24 Build cities for your little ones
and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
Numbers 32:25 The Gadites and Reubenites said to
Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.
Numbers 32:26 Our children, our wives, our
livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of
Gilead.
Numbers 32:27 But your servants are equipped for
war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD,
just as our lord says.”
Numbers 32:28 So Moses gave orders about them to
Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the family
leaders of the tribes of Israel.
Numbers 32:29 And Moses said to them, “If the
Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man
armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before
you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
Numbers 32:30 But if they do not arm themselves
and go across with you, then they must accept their possession
among you in the land of Canaan.”
Numbers 32:31 The Gadites and Reubenites
replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.
Numbers 32:32 We will cross over into the land
of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance
on this side of the Jordan.”
Numbers 32:33 So Moses gave to the Gadites, to
the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph
the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og
king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory
surrounding them.
Numbers 32:34 And the Gadites built up Dibon,
Ataroth, Aroer,
Numbers 32:35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as
fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
Numbers 32:37 The Reubenites built up Heshbon,
Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
Numbers 32:38 as well as Nebo and Baal-meon
(whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the
cities they rebuilt.
Numbers 32:39 The descendants of Machir son of
Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites
who were there.
Numbers 32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to the clan
of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there.
Numbers 32:41 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh,
went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
Numbers 32:42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath
and its villages and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the
Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their
divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 33:2 At the LORD’s command, Moses
recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed
by their starting points:
Numbers 33:3 On the fifteenth day of the first
month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from
Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the
Egyptians,
Numbers 33:4 who were burying all their
firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; for the LORD
had executed judgment against their gods.
Numbers 33:5 The Israelites set out from Rameses
and camped at Succoth.
Numbers 33:6 They set out from Succoth and
camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
Numbers 33:7 They set out from Etham and turned
back to Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped near
Migdol.
Numbers 33:8 They set out from Pi-hahiroth and
crossed through the sea, into the wilderness, and they journeyed
three days into the Wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
Numbers 33:9 They set out from Marah and came to
Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and
they camped there.
Numbers 33:10 They set out from Elim and camped
by the Red Sea.
Numbers 33:11 They set out from the Red Sea and
camped in the Desert of Sin.
Numbers 33:12 They set out from the Desert of
Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Numbers 33:13 They set out from Dophkah and
camped at Alush.
Numbers 33:14 They set out from Alush and camped
at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers 33:15 They set out from Rephidim and
camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Numbers 33:16 They set out from the Wilderness
of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers 33:17 They set out from
Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
Numbers 33:18 They set out from Hazeroth and
camped at Rithmah.
Numbers 33:19 They set out from Rithmah and
camped at Rimmon-perez.
Numbers 33:20 They set out from Rimmon-perez and
camped at Libnah.
Numbers 33:21 They set out from Libnah and
camped at Rissah.
Numbers 33:22 They set out from Rissah and
camped at Kehelathah.
Numbers 33:23 They set out from Kehelathah and
camped at Mount Shepher.
Numbers 33:24 They set out from Mount Shepher
and camped at Haradah.
Numbers 33:25 They set out from Haradah and
camped at Makheloth.
Numbers 33:26 They set out from Makheloth and
camped at Tahath.
Numbers 33:27 They set out from Tahath and
camped at Terah.
Numbers 33:28 They set out from Terah and camped
at Mithkah.
Numbers 33:29 They set out from Mithkah and
camped at Hashmonah.
Numbers 33:30 They set out from Hashmonah and
camped at Moseroth.
Numbers 33:31 They set out from Moseroth and
camped at Bene-jaakan.
Numbers 33:32 They set out from Bene-jaakan and
camped at Hor-haggidgad.
Numbers 33:33 They set out from Hor-haggidgad
and camped at Jotbathah.
Numbers 33:34 They set out from Jotbathah and
camped at Abronah.
Numbers 33:35 They set out from Abronah and
camped at Ezion-geber.
Numbers 33:36 They set out from Ezion-geber and
camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
Numbers 33:37 They set out from Kadesh and
camped at Mount Hor, on the outskirts of the land of Edom.
Numbers 33:38 At the LORD’s command, Aaron the
priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the
fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come
out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 33:39 Aaron was 123 years old when he
died on Mount Hor.
Numbers 33:40 Now the Canaanite king of Arad,
who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the
Israelites were coming.
Numbers 33:41 And the Israelites set out from
Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Numbers 33:42 They set out from Zalmonah and
camped at Punon.
Numbers 33:43 They set out from Punon and camped
at Oboth.
Numbers 33:44 They set out from Oboth and camped
at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.
Numbers 33:45 They set out from Iyim and camped
at Dibon-gad.
Numbers 33:46 They set out from Dibon-gad and
camped at Almon-diblathaim.
Numbers 33:47 They set out from Almon-diblathaim
and camped in the mountains of Abarim facing Nebo.
Numbers 33:48 They set out from the mountains of
Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from
Jericho.
Numbers 33:49 And there on the plains of Moab
they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
Numbers 33:50 On the plains of Moab by the
Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 33:51 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 33:52 you must drive out before you all
the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and
cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
Numbers 33:53 You are to take possession of the
land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
Numbers 33:54 And you are to divide the land by
lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger
clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to
each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance
according to the tribes of your fathers.
Numbers 33:55 But if you do not drive out the
inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will
become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will
harass you in the land where you settle.
Numbers 33:56 And then I will do to you what I
had planned to do to them.”
Numbers 34:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 34:2 “Command the Israelites and say to
them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to
you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
Numbers 34:3 Your southern border will extend
from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east,
your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
Numbers 34:4 cross south of the Ascent of
Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it
will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,
Numbers 34:5 where it will turn from Azmon, join
the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
Numbers 34:6 Your western border will be the
coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the
west.
Numbers 34:7 Your northern border will run from
the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,
Numbers 34:8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath,
then extend to Zedad,
Numbers 34:9 continue to Ziphron, and end at
Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
Numbers 34:10 And your eastern border will run
straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
Numbers 34:11 then go down from Shepham to
Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east
of the Sea of Chinnereth.
Numbers 34:12 Then the border will go down along
the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land,
defined by its borders on all sides.”
Numbers 34:13 So Moses commanded the Israelites,
“Apportion this land by lot as an inheritance. The LORD has
commanded that it be given to the nine and a half tribes.
Numbers 34:14 For the tribes of the Reubenites
and Gadites, along with the half-tribe of Manasseh, have already
received their inheritance.
Numbers 34:15 These two and a half tribes have
received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward
the sunrise.”
Numbers 34:16 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 34:17 “These are the names of the men
who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the
priest and Joshua son of Nun.
Numbers 34:18 Appoint one leader from each tribe
to distribute the land.
Numbers 34:19 These are their names: Caleb son
of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;
Numbers 34:20 Shemuel son of Ammihud from the
tribe of Simeon;
Numbers 34:21 Elidad son of Chislon from the
tribe of Benjamin;
Numbers 34:22 Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from
the tribe of Dan;
Numbers 34:23 Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader
from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph;
Numbers 34:24 Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader
from the tribe of Ephraim;
Numbers 34:25 Eli-zaphan son of Parnach, a
leader from the tribe of Zebulun;
Numbers 34:26 Paltiel son of Azzan, a leader
from the tribe of Issachar;
Numbers 34:27 Ahihud son of Shelomi, a leader
from the tribe of Asher;
Numbers 34:28 and Pedahel son of Ammihud, a
leader from the tribe of Naphtali.”
Numbers 34:29 These are the ones whom the LORD
commanded to apportion the inheritance to the Israelites in the
land of Canaan.
Numbers 35:1 Again the LORD spoke to Moses on
the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
Numbers 35:2 “Command the Israelites to give,
from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to
live in and pasturelands around the cities.
Numbers 35:3 The cities will be for them to live
in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks,
and all their other livestock.
Numbers 35:4 The pasturelands around the cities
you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the
wall on every side.
Numbers 35:5 You are also to measure two
thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the
south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north,
with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger
pasturelands for the cities.
Numbers 35:6 Six of the cities you give the
Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a
manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites
forty-two other cities.
Numbers 35:7 The total number of cities you give
the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding
pasturelands.
Numbers 35:8 The cities that you apportion from
the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in
proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger
tribe and less from a smaller one.”
Numbers 35:9 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 35:10 “Speak to the Israelites and tell
them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 35:11 designate cities to serve as your
cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone
unintentionally may flee there.
Numbers 35:12 You are to have these cities as a
refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until
he stands trial before the assembly.
Numbers 35:13 The cities you select will be your
six cities of refuge.
Numbers 35:14 Select three cities across the
Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
Numbers 35:15 These six cities will serve as a
refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among
them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee
there.
Numbers 35:16 If, however, anyone strikes a
person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the
murderer must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:17 Or if anyone has in his hand a
stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a
murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:18 If anyone has in his hand a deadly
object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a
murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:19 The avenger of blood is to put the
murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
Numbers 35:20 Likewise, if anyone maliciously
pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills
him,
Numbers 35:21 or if in hostility he strikes him
with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be
put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds
the murderer, he is to kill him.
Numbers 35:22 But if anyone pushes a person
suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him
unintentionally,
Numbers 35:23 or without looking drops a heavy
stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend
to harm him,
Numbers 35:24 then the congregation must judge
between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these
ordinances.
Numbers 35:25 The assembly is to protect the
manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly
will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he
must live there until the death of the high priest, who was
anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:26 But if the manslayer ever goes
outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
Numbers 35:27 and the avenger of blood finds him
outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will
not be guilty of bloodshed
Numbers 35:28 because the manslayer must remain
in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only
after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he
owns.
Numbers 35:29 This will be a statutory ordinance
for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.
Numbers 35:30 If anyone kills a person, the
murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses.
But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone
witness.
Numbers 35:31 You are not to accept a ransom for
the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put
to death.
Numbers 35:32 Nor should you accept a ransom for
the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return
and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
Numbers 35:33 Do not pollute the land where you
live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be
made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood
of the one who shed it.
Numbers 35:34 Do not defile the land where you
live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the
Israelites.”
Numbers 36:1 Now the family heads of the clan of
Gilead son of Machir son of Manasseh, one of the clans of Joseph,
approached Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the
Israelite families and addressed them,
Numbers 36:2 saying, “When the LORD commanded my
lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot,
He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother
Zelophehad to his daughters.
Numbers 36:3 But if they marry any of the men
from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be
withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe
into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken
away.
Numbers 36:4 And when the Jubilee for the
Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe
into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our
fathers.”
Numbers 36:5 So at the word of the LORD, Moses
commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks
correctly.
Numbers 36:6 This is what the LORD has commanded
concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they
please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their
father.
Numbers 36:7 No inheritance in Israel may be
transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is
to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Numbers 36:8 Every daughter who possesses an
inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of
the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the
inheritance of his fathers.
Numbers 36:9 No inheritance may be transferred
from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain
its inheritance.”
Numbers 36:10 So the daughters of Zelophehad did
as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 36:11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah,
and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on
their father’s side.
Numbers 36:12 They married within the clans of
the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance
remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and
ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the
plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses
spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the
Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth,
and Dizahab.
Deuteronomy 1:2 It is an eleven-day journey from
Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.
Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, on the
first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the
Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
Deuteronomy 1:4 This was after he had defeated
Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at
Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
Deuteronomy 1:5 On the east side of the Jordan
in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying:
Deuteronomy 1:6 The LORD our God said to us at
Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.
Deuteronomy 1:7 Resume your journey and go to
the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring
peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in
the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites
and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
Deuteronomy 1:8 See, I have placed the land
before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He
would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their
descendants after them.”
Deuteronomy 1:9 At that time I said to you, “I
cannot carry the burden for you alone.
Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God has
multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in
the sky.
Deuteronomy 1:11 May the LORD, the God of your
fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He
has promised.
Deuteronomy 1:12 But how can I bear your
troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
Deuteronomy 1:13 Choose for yourselves wise,
understanding, and respected men from each of your tribes, and I
will appoint them as your leaders.”
Deuteronomy 1:14 And you answered me and said,
“What you propose to do is good.”
Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took the leaders of your
tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over
you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of
tens, and as officers for your tribes.
Deuteronomy 1:16 At that time I charged your
judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly
between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
Deuteronomy 1:17 Show no partiality in judging;
hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone,
for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too
difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
Deuteronomy 1:18 And at that time I commanded
you all the things you were to do.
Deuteronomy 1:19 And just as the LORD our God
had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill
country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying
wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
Deuteronomy 1:20 I said: “You have reached the
hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
Deuteronomy 1:21 See, the LORD your God has
placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the
LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or
discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 1:22 Then all of you approached me
and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and
bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
Deuteronomy 1:23 The plan seemed good to me, so
I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
Deuteronomy 1:24 They left and went up into the
hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the
land.
Deuteronomy 1:25 They took some of the fruit of
the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us
word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Deuteronomy 1:26 But you were unwilling to go
up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 1:27 You grumbled in your tents and
said, “Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the
land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be
annihilated.
Deuteronomy 1:28 Where can we go? Our brothers
have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and
taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the
heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Deuteronomy 1:29 So I said to you: “Do not be
terrified or afraid of them!
Deuteronomy 1:30 The LORD your God, who goes
before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in
Egypt
Deuteronomy 1:31 and in the wilderness, where
the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the
way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
Deuteronomy 1:32 But in spite of all this, you
did not trust the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 1:33 who went before you on the
journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out
a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
Deuteronomy 1:34 When the LORD heard your words,
He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,
Deuteronomy 1:35 “Not one of the men of this
evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your
fathers,
Deuteronomy 1:36 except Caleb son of Jephunneh.
He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land
on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD
wholeheartedly.”
Deuteronomy 1:37 The LORD was also angry with me
on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
Deuteronomy 1:38 Joshua son of Nun, who stands
before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable
Israel to inherit the land.
Deuteronomy 1:39 And the little ones you said
would become captives—your children who on that day did not know
good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they
will possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:40 But you are to turn back and
head for the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea.”
Deuteronomy 1:41 “We have sinned against the
LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God
has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war,
thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 1:42 But the LORD said to me, “Tell
them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you
from defeat by your enemies.”
Deuteronomy 1:43 So I spoke to you, but you
would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and
presumptuously went up into the hill country.
Deuteronomy 1:44 Then the Amorites who lived in
the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of
bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
Deuteronomy 1:45 And you returned and wept
before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear
to you.
Deuteronomy 1:46 For this reason you stayed in
Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.
Deuteronomy 2:1 Then we turned back and headed
for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had
instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.
Deuteronomy 2:2 At this time the LORD said to
me,
Deuteronomy 2:3 “You have been wandering around
this hill country long enough; turn to the north
Deuteronomy 2:4 and command the people: ‘You
will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants
of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must
be very careful.
Deuteronomy 2:5 Do not provoke them, for I will
not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I
have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.
Deuteronomy 2:6 You are to pay them in silver
for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”
Deuteronomy 2:7 Indeed, the LORD your God has
blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over
your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has
been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 2:8 So we passed by our brothers,
the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the
Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and
traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 2:9 Then the LORD said to me, “Do
not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not
give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the
descendants of Lot as their possession.”
Deuteronomy 2:10 (The Emites used to live there,
a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
Deuteronomy 2:11 Like the Anakites, they were
also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
Deuteronomy 2:12 The Horites used to live in
Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed
the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as
Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their
possession.)
Deuteronomy 2:13 “Now arise and cross over the
Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.
Deuteronomy 2:14 The time we spent traveling
from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was
thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men
had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Deuteronomy 2:15 Indeed, the LORD’s hand was
against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all
perished.
Deuteronomy 2:16 Now when all the fighting men
among the people had died,
Deuteronomy 2:17 the LORD said to me,
Deuteronomy 2:18 “Today you are going to cross
the border of Moab at Ar.
Deuteronomy 2:19 But when you get close to the
Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give
you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the
descendants of Lot as their possession.”
Deuteronomy 2:20 (That too was regarded as the
land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites
called them Zamzummites.
Deuteronomy 2:21 They were a people great and
many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from
before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their
place,
Deuteronomy 2:22 just as He had done for the
descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the
Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in
their place to this day.
Deuteronomy 2:23 And the Avvim, who lived in
villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who
came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)
Deuteronomy 2:24 “Arise, set out, and cross the
Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the
Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession
of it and engage him in battle.
Deuteronomy 2:25 This very day I will begin to
put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven.
They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because
of you.”
Deuteronomy 2:26 So from the Wilderness of
Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of
Heshbon, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:27 “Let us pass through your land;
we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to
the left.
Deuteronomy 2:28 You can sell us food to eat and
water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on
foot,
Deuteronomy 2:29 just as the descendants of Esau
who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until
we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving
us.”
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would
not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit
stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into
your hand, as is the case this day.
Deuteronomy 2:31 Then the LORD said to me, “See,
I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin
to conquer and possess his land.”
Deuteronomy 2:32 So Sihon and his whole army
came out for battle against us at Jahaz.
Deuteronomy 2:33 And the LORD our God delivered
him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole
army.
Deuteronomy 2:34 At that time we captured all
his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city,
including women and children. We left no survivors.
Deuteronomy 2:35 We carried off for ourselves
only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer on the rim of the
Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as
Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God
gave us all of them.
Deuteronomy 2:37 But you did not go near the
land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok
River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the
LORD our God had forbidden.
Deuteronomy 3:1 Then we turned and went up the
road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out
to meet us in battle at Edrei.
Deuteronomy 3:2 But the LORD said to me, “Do not
fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all
his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
Deuteronomy 3:3 So the LORD our God also
delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We
struck them down until no survivor was left.
Deuteronomy 3:4 At that time we captured all
sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to
take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Deuteronomy 3:5 All these cities were fortified
with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more
unwalled villages.
Deuteronomy 3:6 We devoted them to destruction,
as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the
men, women, and children of every city.
Deuteronomy 3:7 But all the livestock and
plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
Deuteronomy 3:8 At that time we took from the
two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the
Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
Deuteronomy 3:9 which the Sidonians call Sirion
but the Amorites call Senir—
Deuteronomy 3:10 all the cities of the plateau,
all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah
and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.
Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan had
remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine
cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the
Ammonites.)
Deuteronomy 3:12 So at that time we took
possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the
land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill
country of Gilead, along with its cities.
Deuteronomy 3:13 To the half-tribe of Manasseh I
gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The
entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be
called the land of the Rephaim.)
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh,
took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the
Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself,
Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
Deuteronomy 3:15 To Machir I gave Gilead,
Deuteronomy 3:16 and to the Reubenites and
Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the
middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River,
the border of the Ammonites.
Deuteronomy 3:17 The Jordan River in the Arabah
bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt
Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
Deuteronomy 3:18 At that time I commanded you:
“The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your
men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your
brothers, the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 3:19 But your wives, your children,
and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain
in the cities I have given you,
Deuteronomy 3:20 until the LORD gives rest to
your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession
of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the
Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given
you.”
Deuteronomy 3:21 And at that time I commanded
Joshua: “Your own eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has
done to these two kings. The LORD will do the same to all the
kingdoms you are about to enter.
Deuteronomy 3:22 Do not be afraid of them, for
the LORD your God Himself will fight for you.”
Deuteronomy 3:23 At that time I also pleaded
with the LORD:
Deuteronomy 3:24 “O Lord GOD, You have begun to
show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in
heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as
Yours?
Deuteronomy 3:25 Please let me cross over and
see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as
well as Lebanon!”
Deuteronomy 3:26 But the LORD was angry with me
on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is
enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this
matter.
Deuteronomy 3:27 Go to the top of Pisgah and
look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with
your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
Deuteronomy 3:28 But commission Joshua,
encourage him, and strengthen him, for he will cross over ahead of
the people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.”
Deuteronomy 3:29 So we stayed in the valley
opposite Beth-peor.
Deuteronomy 4:1 Hear now, O Israel, the statutes
and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live
and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the
God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:2 You must not add to or subtract
from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of
the LORD your God that I am giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the
LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among
you all who followed Baal of Peor.
Deuteronomy 4:4 But you who held fast to the
LORD your God are alive to this day, every one of you.
Deuteronomy 4:5 See, I have taught you statutes
and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that
you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and
possess.
Deuteronomy 4:6 Observe them carefully, for this
will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the
peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this
great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
Deuteronomy 4:7 For what nation is great enough
to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us
whenever we call on Him?
Deuteronomy 4:8 And what nation is great enough
to have righteous statutes and ordinances like this entire law I
set before you today?
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only be on your guard and
diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things
your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart
as long as you live. Teach them to your children and
grandchildren.
Deuteronomy 4:10 The day you stood before the
LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people
before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all
the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to
their children.”
Deuteronomy 4:11 You came near and stood at the
base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens,
with black clouds and deep darkness.
Deuteronomy 4:12 And the LORD spoke to you out
of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form;
there was only a voice.
Deuteronomy 4:13 He declared to you His
covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments
that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:14 At that time the LORD commanded
me to teach you the statutes and ordinances you are to follow in
the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
Deuteronomy 4:15 So since you saw no form of any
kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be
careful
Deuteronomy 4:16 that you do not act corruptly
and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in
the likeness of a male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:17 of any beast that is on the
earth or bird that flies in the air,
Deuteronomy 4:18 or of any creature that crawls
on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
Deuteronomy 4:19 When you look to the heavens
and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not
be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has
apportioned to all the nations under heaven.
Deuteronomy 4:20 Yet the LORD has taken you and
brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the
people of His inheritance, as you are today.
Deuteronomy 4:21 The LORD, however, was angry
with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the
Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you
as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 4:22 For I will not be crossing the
Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over
and take possession of that good land.
Deuteronomy 4:23 Be careful that you do not
forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do
not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has
forbidden you.
Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a
consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:25 After you have children and
grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you
then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the
sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth as
witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from
the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not
live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
Deuteronomy 4:27 Then the LORD will scatter you
among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the
nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve
man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat
or smell.
Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you will seek
the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your
heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4:30 When you are in distress and
all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will
return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
Deuteronomy 4:31 For the LORD your God is a
merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the
covenant with your fathers, which He swore to them by oath.
Deuteronomy 4:32 Indeed, ask now from one end of
the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you,
from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great
as this ever happened or been reported?
Deuteronomy 4:33 Has a people ever heard the
voice of God speaking out of the fire, as you have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as
his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders,
and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great
terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your
eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:35 You were shown these things so
that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other
besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:36 He let you hear His voice from
heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great
fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
Deuteronomy 4:37 Because He loved your fathers,
He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt
by His presence and great power,
Deuteronomy 4:38 to drive out before you nations
greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land
and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 4:39 Know therefore this day and
take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the
earth below; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:40 Keep His statutes and
commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your
children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the
land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Deuteronomy 4:41 Then Moses set aside three
cities across the Jordan to the east
Deuteronomy 4:42 to which a manslayer could flee
after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice.
To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
Deuteronomy 4:43 Bezer in the wilderness on the
plateau belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to
the Gadites, or Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 4:44 This is the law that Moses set
before the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 4:45 These are the testimonies,
statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they
had come out of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 4:46 while they were in the valley
across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of
the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and
the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 4:47 They took possession of the
land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite
kings across the Jordan to the east—
Deuteronomy 4:48 extending from Aroer on the rim
of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
Deuteronomy 4:49 including all the Arabah on the
east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below
the slopes of Pisgah.
Deuteronomy 5:1 Then Moses summoned all Israel
and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that
I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them
carefully.
Deuteronomy 5:2 The LORD our God made a covenant
with us at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 5:3 He did not make this covenant
with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
Deuteronomy 5:4 The LORD spoke with you face to
face out of the fire on the mountain.
Deuteronomy 5:5 At that time I was standing
between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD,
because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the
mountain. And He said:
Deuteronomy 5:6 “I am the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 5:7 You shall have no other gods
before Me.
Deuteronomy 5:8 You shall not make for yourself
an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth
below, or in the waters beneath.
Deuteronomy 5:9 You shall not bow down to them
or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the
third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Deuteronomy 5:10 but showing loving devotion to
a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My
commandments.
Deuteronomy 5:11 You shall not take the name of
the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone
unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Deuteronomy 5:12 Observe the Sabbath day by
keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
Deuteronomy 5:13 Six days you shall labor and do
all your work,
Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a
Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any
work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or
maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor
the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and
maidservant may rest as you do.
Deuteronomy 5:15 Remember that you were a slave
in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out
of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why
the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your
mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days
may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the
LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 5:17 You shall not murder.
Deuteronomy 5:18 You shall not commit adultery.
Deuteronomy 5:19 You shall not steal.
Deuteronomy 5:20 You shall not bear false
witness against your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 5:21 You shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or
field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or
anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Deuteronomy 5:22 The LORD spoke these
commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the
fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added
nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave
them to me.
Deuteronomy 5:23 And when you heard the voice
out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all
the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
Deuteronomy 5:24 and you said, “Behold, the LORD
our God has shown us His glory and greatness, and we have heard
His voice out of the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live
even if God speaks with him.
Deuteronomy 5:25 But now, why should we die? For
this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the
voice of the LORD our God any longer.
Deuteronomy 5:26 For who of all flesh has heard
the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have,
and survived?
Deuteronomy 5:27 Go near and listen to all that
the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD
our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
Deuteronomy 5:28 And the LORD heard the words
you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that
these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that
they have spoken.
Deuteronomy 5:29 If only they had such a heart
to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might
be well with them and with their children forever.
Deuteronomy 5:30 Go and tell them: ‘Return to
your tents.’
Deuteronomy 5:31 But you stand here with Me,
that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and
ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am
giving them to possess.”
Deuteronomy 5:32 So be careful to do as the LORD
your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right
or to the left.
Deuteronomy 5:33 You must walk in all the ways
that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and
prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
Deuteronomy 6:1 These are the commandments and
statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me
to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and
possess,
Deuteronomy 6:2 so that you and your children
and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your
lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give
you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
Deuteronomy 6:3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful
to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a
land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of
your fathers, has promised you.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our
God, the LORD is One.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your
God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
strength.
Deuteronomy 6:6 These words I am commanding you
today are to be upon your hearts.
Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them
diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home
and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you
get up.
Deuteronomy 6:8 Tie them as reminders on your
hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Deuteronomy 6:9 Write them on the doorposts of
your houses and on your gates.
Deuteronomy 6:10 And when the LORD your God
brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and
splendid cities that you did not build,
Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good
thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did
not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not
plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
Deuteronomy 6:12 be careful not to forget the
LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery.
Deuteronomy 6:13 Fear the LORD your God, serve
Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
Deuteronomy 6:14 Do not follow other gods, the
gods of the peoples around you.
Deuteronomy 6:15 For the LORD your God, who is
among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your
God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face
of the earth.
Deuteronomy 6:16 Do not test the LORD your God
as you tested Him at Massah.
Deuteronomy 6:17 You are to diligently keep the
commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes
He has given you.
Deuteronomy 6:18 Do what is right and good in
the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that
you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God
swore to give your fathers,
Deuteronomy 6:19 driving out all your enemies
before you, as the LORD has said.
Deuteronomy 6:20 In the future, when your son
asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and
ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
Deuteronomy 6:21 then you are to tell him, “We
were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of
Egypt with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 6:22 Before our eyes the LORD
inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on
Pharaoh, and on all his household.
Deuteronomy 6:23 But He brought us out from
there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our
fathers.
Deuteronomy 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to
observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we
may always be prosperous and preserved, as we are to this day.
Deuteronomy 6:25 And if we are careful to
observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God,
as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings
you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives
out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites,
Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations
larger and stronger than you—
Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has
delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote
them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show
them no mercy.
Deuteronomy 7:3 Do not intermarry with them. Do
not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for
your sons,
Deuteronomy 7:4 because they will turn your sons
away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the
LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
Deuteronomy 7:5 Instead, this is what you are to
do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars,
cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the
LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for
His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set His
affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous
than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
Deuteronomy 7:8 But because the LORD loved you
and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out
with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD
your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving
devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep
His commandments.
Deuteronomy 7:10 But those who hate Him He
repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to
repay to his face the one who hates Him.
Deuteronomy 7:11 So keep the commandments and
statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
Deuteronomy 7:12 If you listen to these
ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will
keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your
fathers.
Deuteronomy 7:13 He will love you and bless you
and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the
produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of
your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore
to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 7:14 You will be blessed above all
peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or
livestock.
Deuteronomy 7:15 And the LORD will remove from
you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible
diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who
hate you.
Deuteronomy 7:16 You must destroy all the
peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them
with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to
you.
Deuteronomy 7:17 You may say in your heart,
“These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them
out?”
Deuteronomy 7:18 But do not be afraid of them.
Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all
Egypt:
Deuteronomy 7:19 the great trials that you saw,
the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by
which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do
the same to all the peoples you now fear.
Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover, the LORD your God
will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding
from you have perished.
Deuteronomy 7:21 Do not be terrified by them,
for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome
God.
Deuteronomy 7:22 The LORD your God will drive
out these nations before you little by little. You will not be
enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would
multiply around you.
Deuteronomy 7:23 But the LORD your God will give
them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they
are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:24 He will hand their kings over
to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No
one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
Deuteronomy 7:25 You must burn up the images of
their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or
take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is
detestable to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 7:26 And you must not bring any
detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set
apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it,
because it is set apart for destruction.
Deuteronomy 8:1 You must carefully follow every
commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and
multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to
give your fathers.
Deuteronomy 8:2 Remember that these forty years
the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that
He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your
heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your
hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your
fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not
live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth
of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 8:4 Your clothing did not wear out
and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
Deuteronomy 8:5 So know in your heart that just
as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines
you.
Deuteronomy 8:6 Therefore you shall keep the
commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing
Him.
Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD your God is
bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and
springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
Deuteronomy 8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines,
fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
Deuteronomy 8:9 a land where you will eat food
without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks
are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
Deuteronomy 8:10 When you eat and are satisfied,
you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has
given you.
Deuteronomy 8:11 Be careful not to forget the
LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances
and statutes, which I am giving you this day.
Deuteronomy 8:12 Otherwise, when you eat and are
satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
Deuteronomy 8:13 and when your herds and flocks
grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have
is multiplied,
Deuteronomy 8:14 then your heart will become
proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 8:15 He led you through the vast and
terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a
thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of
flint.
Deuteronomy 8:16 He fed you in the wilderness
with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you
and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
Deuteronomy 8:17 You might say in your heart,
“The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”
Deuteronomy 8:18 But remember that it is the
LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to
confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this
day.
Deuteronomy 8:19 If you ever forget the LORD
your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them,
I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
Deuteronomy 8:20 Like the nations that the LORD
has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey
the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 9:1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are
about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater
and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Deuteronomy 9:2 The people are strong and tall,
the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have
heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
Deuteronomy 9:3 But understand that today the
LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He
will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive
them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised
you.
Deuteronomy 9:4 When the LORD your God has
driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of
my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.”
Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because
of their wickedness.
Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your
righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to
possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the
LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the
promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 9:6 Understand, then, that it is not
because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you
this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember this, and never forget
how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day
you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have
been rebelling against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 9:8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD,
and He was angry enough to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:9 When I went up on the mountain
to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that
the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and
forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
Deuteronomy 9:10 Then the LORD gave me the two
stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words
that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the
day of the assembly.
Deuteronomy 9:11 And at the end of forty days
and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the
tablets of the covenant.
Deuteronomy 9:12 And the LORD said to me, “Get
up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you
brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they
have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have
made for themselves a molten image.”
Deuteronomy 9:13 The LORD also said to me, “I
have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Deuteronomy 9:14 Leave Me alone, so that I may
destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I
will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
Deuteronomy 9:15 So I went back down the
mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of
the covenant in my hands.
Deuteronomy 9:16 And I saw how you had sinned
against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten
calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had
commanded you.
Deuteronomy 9:17 So I took the two tablets and
threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
Deuteronomy 9:18 Then I fell down before the
LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first
time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin
you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD
and provoking Him to anger.
Deuteronomy 9:19 For I was afraid of the anger
and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to
destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
Deuteronomy 9:20 The LORD was angry enough with
Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
Deuteronomy 9:21 And I took that sinful thing,
the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed
it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the
stream that came down from the mountain.
Deuteronomy 9:22 You continued to provoke the
LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Deuteronomy 9:23 And when the LORD sent you out
from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I
have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD
your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
Deuteronomy 9:24 You have been rebelling against
the LORD since the day I came to know you.
Deuteronomy 9:25 So I fell down before the LORD
for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He
would destroy you.
Deuteronomy 9:26 And I prayed to the LORD and
said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance,
whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt
with a mighty hand.
Deuteronomy 9:27 Remember Your servants Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the
wickedness of their sin.
Deuteronomy 9:28 Otherwise, those in the land
from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not
able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because
He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the
wilderness.’
Deuteronomy 9:29 But they are Your people, Your
inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and
outstretched arm.”
Deuteronomy 10:1 At that time the LORD said to
me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to
Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
Deuteronomy 10:2 And I will write on the tablets
the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you
are to place them in the ark.”
Deuteronomy 10:3 So I made an ark of acacia
wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went
up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
Deuteronomy 10:4 And the LORD wrote on the
tablets what had been written previously, the Ten Commandments
that He had spoken to you on the mountain out of the fire on the
day of the assembly. The LORD gave them to me,
Deuteronomy 10:5 and I went back down the
mountain and placed the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD
had commanded me; and there they have remained.
Deuteronomy 10:6 The Israelites traveled from
Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah, where Aaron died and was buried,
and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest.
Deuteronomy 10:7 From there they traveled to
Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with streams of
water.
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD set apart
the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to
stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in
His name, as they do to this day.
Deuteronomy 10:9 That is why Levi has no portion
or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as
the LORD your God promised him.
Deuteronomy 10:10 I stayed on the mountain forty
days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD
again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.
Deuteronomy 10:11 Then the LORD said to me, “Get
up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter
and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, O Israel, what does
the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by
walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God
with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 10:13 and to keep the commandments
and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your
own good?
Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, to the LORD your God
belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and
everything in it.
Deuteronomy 10:15 Yet the LORD has set His
affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you,
their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this
day.
Deuteronomy 10:16 Circumcise your hearts,
therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God
of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God,
showing no partiality and accepting no bribe.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He executes justice for the
fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food
and clothing.
Deuteronomy 10:19 So you also must love the
foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of
Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:20 You are to fear the LORD your
God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His
name.
Deuteronomy 10:21 He is your praise and He is
your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders
that your eyes have seen.
Deuteronomy 10:22 Your fathers went down to
Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as
numerous as the stars in the sky.
Deuteronomy 11:1 You shall therefore love the
LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His
ordinances, and His commandments.
Deuteronomy 11:2 Know this day that it is not
your children who have known and seen the discipline of the LORD
your God: His greatness, His mighty hand, and His outstretched
arm;
Deuteronomy 11:3 the signs and works He did in
Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his land;
Deuteronomy 11:4 what He did to the Egyptian
army and horses and chariots when He made the waters of the Red
Sea engulf them as they pursued you, and how He destroyed them
completely, even to this day;
Deuteronomy 11:5 what He did for you in the
wilderness until you reached this place;
Deuteronomy 11:6 and what He did in the midst of
all the Israelites to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the
Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them,
their households, their tents, and every living thing that
belonged to them.
Deuteronomy 11:7 For it is your own eyes that
have seen every great work that the LORD has done.
Deuteronomy 11:8 You shall therefore keep every
commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the
strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the
Jordan to possess,
Deuteronomy 11:9 and so that you may live long
in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them and
their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 11:10 For the land that you are
entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you
have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a
vegetable garden.
Deuteronomy 11:11 But the land that you are
crossing the Jordan to possess is a land of mountains and valleys
that drinks in the rain from heaven.
Deuteronomy 11:12 It is a land for which the
LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on
it, from the beginning to the end of the year.
Deuteronomy 11:13 So if you carefully obey the
commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and
to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:14 then I will provide rain for
your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may
gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
Deuteronomy 11:15 And I will provide grass in
the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 11:16 But be careful that you are
not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
Deuteronomy 11:17 or the anger of the LORD will
be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there
will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will
soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
Deuteronomy 11:18 Fix these words of mine in
your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and
bind them on your foreheads.
Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach them to your children,
speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along
the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 11:20 Write them on the doorposts of
your houses and on your gates,
Deuteronomy 11:21 so that as long as the heavens
are above the earth, your days and those of your children may be
multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if you carefully keep all
these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your
God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
Deuteronomy 11:23 then the LORD will drive out
all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations
greater and stronger than you.
Deuteronomy 11:24 Every place where the sole of
your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from
the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the
Western Sea.
Deuteronomy 11:25 No man will be able to stand
against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you
upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
Deuteronomy 11:26 See, today I am setting before
you a blessing and a curse—
Deuteronomy 11:27 a blessing if you obey the
commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you today,
Deuteronomy 11:28 but a curse if you disobey the
commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I
command you today by following other gods, which you have not
known.
Deuteronomy 11:29 When the LORD your God brings
you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim
the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 11:30 Are not these mountains across
the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the
Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of
Moreh?
Deuteronomy 11:31 For you are about to cross the
Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is
giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
Deuteronomy 11:32 be careful to follow all the
statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the statutes and
ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in
the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to
possess.
Deuteronomy 12:2 Destroy completely all the
places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their
gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green
tree.
Deuteronomy 12:3 Tear down their altars, smash
their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the
idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
Deuteronomy 12:4 You shall not worship the LORD
your God in this way.
Deuteronomy 12:5 Instead, you must seek the
place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to
establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
Deuteronomy 12:6 To that place you are to bring
your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave
offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as
the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
Deuteronomy 12:7 There, in the presence of the
LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in
all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you.
Deuteronomy 12:8 You are not to do as we are
doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own
eyes.
Deuteronomy 12:9 For you have not yet come to
the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is
giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:10 When you cross the Jordan and
live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an
inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you
and you dwell securely,
Deuteronomy 12:11 then the LORD your God will
choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring
everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices,
your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you
vow to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:12 And you shall rejoice before
the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants
and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has
no portion or inheritance among you.
Deuteronomy 12:13 Be careful not to offer your
burnt offerings in just any place you see;
Deuteronomy 12:14 you must offer them only in
the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories,
and there you shall do all that I command you.
Deuteronomy 12:15 But whenever you want, you may
slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the
blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially
clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
Deuteronomy 12:16 but you must not eat the
blood; pour it on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:17 Within your gates you must not
eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of
your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to
give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.
Deuteronomy 12:18 Instead, you must eat them in
the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God
will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and
maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the
LORD your God in all you do,
Deuteronomy 12:19 and be careful not to neglect
the Levites as long as you live in your land.
Deuteronomy 12:20 When the LORD your God expands
your territory as He has promised, and you crave meat and say, “I
want to eat meat,” you may eat it whenever you want.
Deuteronomy 12:21 If the place where the LORD
your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may
slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have
commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you
want.
Deuteronomy 12:22 Indeed, you may eat it as you
would eat a gazelle or deer; both the ceremonially unclean and the
clean may eat it.
Deuteronomy 12:23 Only be sure not to eat the
blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the
life with the meat.
Deuteronomy 12:24 You must not eat the blood;
pour it on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 12:25 Do not eat it, so that it may
go well with you and your children after you, because you will be
doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 12:26 But you are to take your holy
things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will
choose.
Deuteronomy 12:27 Present the meat and blood of
your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood
of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of
the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
Deuteronomy 12:28 Be careful to obey all these
things I command you, so that it may always go well with you and
your children after you, because you will be doing what is good
and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD your God cuts
off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you
drive them out and live in their land,
Deuteronomy 12:30 be careful not to be ensnared
by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not
inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve
their gods? I will do likewise.”
Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD
your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every
abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and
daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:32 See that you do everything I
command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
Deuteronomy 13:1 If a prophet or dreamer of
dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
Deuteronomy 13:2 and if the sign or wonder he
has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other
gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”
Deuteronomy 13:3 you must not listen to the
words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing
you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with
all your soul.
Deuteronomy 13:4 You are to follow the LORD your
God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice;
serve Him and hold fast to Him.
Deuteronomy 13:5 Such a prophet or dreamer must
be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and
redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you
from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk.
So you must purge the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 13:6 If your very own brother, or
your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest
friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other
gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Deuteronomy 13:7 the gods of the peoples around
you, whether near or far, whether from one end of the earth or the
other),
Deuteronomy 13:8 you must not yield to him or
listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield
him.
Deuteronomy 13:9 Instead, you must surely kill
him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death,
and then the hands of all the people.
Deuteronomy 13:10 Stone him to death for trying
to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Deuteronomy 13:11 Then all Israel will hear and
be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
Deuteronomy 13:12 If, regarding one of the
cities the LORD your God is giving you to inhabit, you hear it
said
Deuteronomy 13:13 that wicked men have arisen
from among you and have led the people of their city astray,
saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not
known),
Deuteronomy 13:14 then you must inquire,
investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established
with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
Deuteronomy 13:15 you must surely put the
inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all
its people and livestock.
Deuteronomy 13:16 And you are to gather all its
plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn
the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD
your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to
be rebuilt.
Deuteronomy 13:17 Nothing devoted to destruction
shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His
fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply
you as He swore to your fathers,
Deuteronomy 13:18 because you obey the LORD your
God, keeping all His commandments I am giving you today and doing
what is right in the eyes of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 14:1 You are sons of the LORD your
God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of
the dead,
Deuteronomy 14:2 for you are a people holy to
the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His
prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 14:3 You must not eat any detestable
thing.
Deuteronomy 14:4 These are the animals that you
may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,
Deuteronomy 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe
deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain
sheep.
Deuteronomy 14:6 You may eat any animal that has
a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
Deuteronomy 14:7 But of those that chew the cud
or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the
following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although
they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are
unclean for you,
Deuteronomy 14:8 as well as the pig; though it
has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for
you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.
Deuteronomy 14:9 Of all the creatures that live
in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,
Deuteronomy 14:10 but you may not eat anything
that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
Deuteronomy 14:11 You may eat any clean bird,
Deuteronomy 14:12 but these you may not eat: the
eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Deuteronomy 14:13 the red kite, the falcon, any
kind of kite,
Deuteronomy 14:14 any kind of raven,
Deuteronomy 14:15 the ostrich, the screech owl,
the gull, any kind of hawk,
Deuteronomy 14:16 the little owl, the great owl,
the white owl,
Deuteronomy 14:17 the desert owl, the osprey,
the cormorant,
Deuteronomy 14:18 the stork, any kind of heron,
the hoopoe, or the bat.
Deuteronomy 14:19 All flying insects are unclean
for you; they may not be eaten.
Deuteronomy 14:20 But you may eat any clean
bird.
Deuteronomy 14:21 You are not to eat any
carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your
gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For
you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not
cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 14:22 You must be sure to set aside
a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your
fields.
Deuteronomy 14:23 And you are to eat a tenth of
your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and
flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will
choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear
the LORD your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:24 But if the distance is too
great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has
blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose
to put His Name is too far away,
Deuteronomy 14:25 then exchange it for money,
take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God
will choose.
Deuteronomy 14:26 Then you may spend the money
on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or
anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the
LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
Deuteronomy 14:27 And do not neglect the Levite
within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among
you.
Deuteronomy 14:28 At the end of every three
years, bring a tenth of all your produce for that year and lay it
up within your gates.
Deuteronomy 14:29 Then the Levite (because he
has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the
fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and
be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work
of your hands.
Deuteronomy 15:1 At the end of every seven years
you must cancel debts.
Deuteronomy 15:2 This is the manner of
remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his
neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or
brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.
Deuteronomy 15:3 You may collect something from
a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
Deuteronomy 15:4 There will be no poor among
you, however, because the LORD will surely bless you in the land
that the LORD your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance,
Deuteronomy 15:5 if only you obey the LORD your
God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving
you today.
Deuteronomy 15:6 When the LORD your God blesses
you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow
from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
Deuteronomy 15:7 If there is a poor man among
your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD
your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or
shut your hand from your poor brother.
Deuteronomy 15:8 Instead, you are to open your
hand to him and freely loan him whatever he needs.
Deuteronomy 15:9 Be careful not to harbor this
wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of
release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother
begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD
against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 15:10 Give generously to him, and do
not let your heart be grieved when you do so. And because of this
the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in
everything to which you put your hand.
Deuteronomy 15:11 For there will never cease to
be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide
your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.
Deuteronomy 15:12 If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a
woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the
seventh year you must set him free.
Deuteronomy 15:13 And when you release him, do
not send him away empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 15:14 You are to furnish him
liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your
winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed
you.
Deuteronomy 15:15 Remember that you were slaves
in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is
why I am giving you this command today.
Deuteronomy 15:16 But if your servant says to
you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your
household and is well off with you,
Deuteronomy 15:17 then take an awl and pierce it
through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for
life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
Deuteronomy 15:18 Do not regard it as a hardship
to set your servant free, because his six years of service were
worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will
bless you in all you do.
Deuteronomy 15:19 You must set apart to the LORD
your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks.
You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you
to shear the firstborn of your flock.
Deuteronomy 15:20 Each year you and your
household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the
LORD will choose.
Deuteronomy 15:21 But if an animal has a defect,
is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice
it to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 15:22 Eat it within your gates; both
the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a
gazelle or a deer.
Deuteronomy 15:23 But you must not eat the
blood; pour it on the ground like water.
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Abib and
celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month
of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.
Deuteronomy 16:2 You are to offer to the LORD
your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the
place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.
Deuteronomy 16:3 You must not eat leavened bread
with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread,
the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in
haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day
you left the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:4 No leaven is to be found in all
your land for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in
the evening of the first day shall remain until morning.
Deuteronomy 16:5 You are not to sacrifice the
Passover animal in any of the towns that the LORD your God is
giving you.
Deuteronomy 16:6 You must only offer the
Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a
dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at
the same time you departed from Egypt.
Deuteronomy 16:7 And you shall roast it and eat
it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning
you shall return to your tents.
Deuteronomy 16:8 For six days you must eat
unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn
assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
Deuteronomy 16:9 You are to count off seven
weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing
grain.
Deuteronomy 16:10 And you shall celebrate the
Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that
you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
Deuteronomy 16:11 and you shall rejoice before
the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for
His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and
maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the
foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
Deuteronomy 16:12 Remember that you were slaves
in Egypt, and carefully follow these statutes.
Deuteronomy 16:13 You are to celebrate the Feast
of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce
of your threshing floor and your winepress.
Deuteronomy 16:14 And you shall rejoice in your
feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and
maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the
fatherless, and the widows among you.
Deuteronomy 16:15 For seven days you shall
celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will
choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your
produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will
be complete.
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your
men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will
choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and
the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD
empty-handed.
Deuteronomy 16:17 Everyone must appear with a
gift as he is able, according to the blessing the LORD your God
has given you.
Deuteronomy 16:18 You are to appoint judges and
officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is
giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
Deuteronomy 16:19 Do not deny justice or show
partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of
the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
Deuteronomy 16:20 Pursue justice, and justice
alone, so that you may live, and you may possess the land that the
LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 16:21 Do not set up any wooden
Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your
God,
Deuteronomy 16:22 and do not set up for
yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
Deuteronomy 17:1 You shall not sacrifice to the
LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw,
for that is detestable to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 17:2 If a man or woman among you in
one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing
evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His
covenant
Deuteronomy 17:3 and going to worship other
gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host
of heaven—which I have forbidden—
Deuteronomy 17:4 and if it is reported and you
hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report
is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,
Deuteronomy 17:5 you must bring out to your
gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must
stone that person to death.
Deuteronomy 17:6 On the testimony of two or
three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be
executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
Deuteronomy 17:7 The hands of the witnesses
shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the
hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among
you.
Deuteronomy 17:8 If a case is too difficult for
you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is
regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the
place the LORD your God will choose.
Deuteronomy 17:9 You are to go to the Levitical
priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of
them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
Deuteronomy 17:10 You must abide by the verdict
they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do
everything they instruct you,
Deuteronomy 17:11 according to the terms of law
they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the
right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
Deuteronomy 17:12 But the man who acts
presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands
there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to
death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:13 Then all the people will hear
and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.
Deuteronomy 17:14 When you enter the land that
the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it
and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like
all the nations around us,”
Deuteronomy 17:15 you are to appoint over
yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a
king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves
a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
Deuteronomy 17:16 But the king must not acquire
many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to
acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go
back that way again.’
Deuteronomy 17:17 He must not take many wives
for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for
himself large amounts of silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 17:18 When he is seated on his royal
throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a
scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
Deuteronomy 17:19 It is to remain with him, and
he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may
learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the
words of this instruction and these statutes.
Deuteronomy 17:20 Then his heart will not be
exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the
commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his
sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
Deuteronomy 18:1 The Levitical priests—indeed
the whole tribe of Levi—shall have no portion or inheritance with
Israel. They are to eat the offerings made by fire to the LORD;
that is their inheritance.
Deuteronomy 18:2 Although they have no
inheritance among their brothers, the LORD is their inheritance,
as He promised them.
Deuteronomy 18:3 This shall be the priests’
share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether a bull or a
sheep: the priests are to be given the shoulder, the jowls, and
the stomach.
Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the
firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool
sheared from your flock.
Deuteronomy 18:5 For the LORD your God has
chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and
minister in His name for all time.
Deuteronomy 18:6 Now if a Levite moves from any
town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness
to the place the LORD will choose,
Deuteronomy 18:7 then he shall serve in the name
of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there
before the LORD.
Deuteronomy 18:8 They shall eat equal portions,
even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s
estate.
Deuteronomy 18:9 When you enter the land that
the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable
ways of the nations there.
Deuteronomy 18:10 Let no one be found among you
who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices
divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
Deuteronomy 18:11 casts spells, consults a
medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead.
Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things
is detestable to the LORD. And because of these detestable things,
the LORD your God is driving out the nations before you.
Deuteronomy 18:13 You must be blameless before
the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 18:14 Though these nations, which
you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD
your God has not permitted you to do so.
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD your God will raise
up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must
listen to him.
Deuteronomy 18:16 This is what you asked of the
LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said,
“Let us not hear the voice of the LORD our God or see this great
fire anymore, so that we will not die!”
Deuteronomy 18:17 Then the LORD said to me,
“They have spoken well.
Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up for them a
prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in
his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
Deuteronomy 18:19 And I will hold accountable
anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in
My name.
Deuteronomy 18:20 But if any prophet dares to
speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak,
or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to
death.”
Deuteronomy 18:21 You may ask in your heart,
“How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
Deuteronomy 18:22 When a prophet speaks in the
name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come
true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has
spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 19:1 When the LORD your God has cut
off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have
driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
Deuteronomy 19:2 then you are to set apart for
yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is
giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:3 You are to build roads for
yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD
your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer
can flee to these cities.
Deuteronomy 19:4 Now this is the situation
regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save
his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without
intending to harm him:
Deuteronomy 19:5 If he goes into the forest with
his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree,
but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his
neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
Deuteronomy 19:6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood
might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance
is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die,
since he did not intend any harm.
Deuteronomy 19:7 This is why I am commanding you
to set apart for yourselves three cities.
Deuteronomy 19:8 And if the LORD your God
enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives
you all the land He promised them,
Deuteronomy 19:9 and if you carefully keep all
these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God
and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three
more cities to these three.
Deuteronomy 19:10 Thus innocent blood will not
be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an
inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
Deuteronomy 19:11 If, however, a man hates his
neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then
flees to one of these cities,
Deuteronomy 19:12 the elders of his city must
send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of
blood to die.
Deuteronomy 19:13 You must show him no pity. You
are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood,
that it may go well with you.
Deuteronomy 19:14 You must not move your
neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to
mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD
your God is giving you to possess.
Deuteronomy 19:15 A lone witness is not
sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man,
regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be
established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.
Deuteronomy 19:16 If a false witness testifies
against someone, accusing him of a crime,
Deuteronomy 19:17 both parties to the dispute
must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and
judges who are in office at that time.
Deuteronomy 19:18 The judges shall investigate
thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has
falsely accused his brother,
Deuteronomy 19:19 you must do to him as he
intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from
among you.
Deuteronomy 19:20 Then the rest of the people
will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so
evil among you.
Deuteronomy 19:21 You must show no pity: life
for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot
for foot.
Deuteronomy 20:1 When you go out to war against
your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than
yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
Deuteronomy 20:2 When you are about to go into
battle, the priest is to come forward and address the army,
Deuteronomy 20:3 saying to them, “Hear, O
Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not
be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because
of them.
Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God goes with
you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the
victory.”
Deuteronomy 20:5 Furthermore, the officers are
to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and
not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and
another man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:6 Has any man planted a vineyard
and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may
die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 20:7 Has any man become pledged to a
woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in
battle and another man marry her.”
Deuteronomy 20:8 Then the officers shall speak
further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted?
Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not
melt like his own.”
Deuteronomy 20:9 When the officers have finished
addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
Deuteronomy 20:10 When you approach a city to
fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
Deuteronomy 20:11 If they accept your offer of
peace and open their gates, all the people there will become
forced laborers to serve you.
Deuteronomy 20:12 But if they refuse to make
peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
Deuteronomy 20:13 When the LORD your God has
delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, children,
livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may
take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that
the LORD your God gives you.
Deuteronomy 20:15 This is how you are to treat
all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the
nations nearby.
Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the
nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance,
you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Deuteronomy 20:17 For you must devote them to
complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has
commanded you,
Deuteronomy 20:18 so that they cannot teach you
to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so
cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 20:19 When you lay siege to a city
for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you
must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you
can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of
the field human, that you should besiege them?
Deuteronomy 20:20 But you may destroy the trees
that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works
against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Deuteronomy 21:1 If one is found slain, lying in
a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to
possess, and it is not known who killed him,
Deuteronomy 21:2 your elders and judges must
come out and measure the distance from the victim to the
neighboring cities.
Deuteronomy 21:3 Then the elders of the city
nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked
or used for work,
Deuteronomy 21:4 bring the heifer to a valley
with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its
neck there by the stream.
Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests, the sons of
Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to
serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling
in every dispute and case of assault.
Deuteronomy 21:6 Then all the elders of the city
nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the
heifer whose neck has been broken,
Deuteronomy 21:7 and they shall declare, “Our
hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
Deuteronomy 21:8 Accept this atonement, O LORD,
for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the
shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will
be atoned for.
Deuteronomy 21:9 So you shall purge from among
you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what
is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 21:10 When you go to war against
your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand
and you take them captive,
Deuteronomy 21:11 if you see a beautiful woman
among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,
Deuteronomy 21:12 then you shall bring her into
your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
Deuteronomy 21:13 and put aside the clothing of
her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and
mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and
be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deuteronomy 21:14 And if you are not pleased
with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must
not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have
dishonored her.
Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man has two wives, one
beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the
unloved wife has the firstborn son,
Deuteronomy 21:16 when that man assigns his
inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved
wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
Deuteronomy 21:17 Instead, he must acknowledge
the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double
portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his
father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man has a stubborn and
rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does
not listen to them when disciplined,
Deuteronomy 21:19 his father and mother are to
lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the
gate of his hometown,
Deuteronomy 21:20 and say to the elders, “This
son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is
a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his city
will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among
you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Deuteronomy 21:22 If a man has committed a sin
worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a
tree,
Deuteronomy 21:23 you must not leave the body on
the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day,
because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You
must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as
an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 22:1 If you see your brother’s ox or
sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to
your brother.
Deuteronomy 22:2 If your brother does not live
near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the
animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking
it; then you can return it to him.
Deuteronomy 22:3 And you shall do the same for
his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you
have found. You must not ignore it.
Deuteronomy 22:4 If you see your brother’s
donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must
help him lift it up.
Deuteronomy 22:5 A woman must not wear men’s
clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever
does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 22:6 If you come across a bird’s
nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along
the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you
must not take the mother along with the young.
Deuteronomy 22:7 You may take the young, but be
sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and
that you may prolong your days.
Deuteronomy 22:8 If you build a new house, you
are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not
bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
Deuteronomy 22:9 Do not plant your vineyard with
two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be
defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
Deuteronomy 22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a
donkey yoked together.
Deuteronomy 22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool
and linen woven together.
Deuteronomy 22:12 You are to make tassels on the
four corners of the cloak you wear.
Deuteronomy 22:13 Suppose a man marries a woman,
has relations with her, and comes to hate her,
Deuteronomy 22:14 and he then accuses her of
shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this
woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a
virgin.”
Deuteronomy 22:15 Then the young woman’s father
and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city
elders at the gate
Deuteronomy 22:16 and say to the elders, “I gave
my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
Deuteronomy 22:17 And now he has accused her of
shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not
a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall
spread out the cloth before the city elders.
Deuteronomy 22:18 Then the elders of that city
shall take the man and punish him.
Deuteronomy 22:19 They are also to fine him a
hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s
father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name.
And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as
he lives.
Deuteronomy 22:20 If, however, this accusation
is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
Deuteronomy 22:21 she shall be brought to the
door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will
stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by
being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the
evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:22 If a man is found lying with
another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman
must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:23 If there is a virgin pledged
in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city
and sleeps with her,
Deuteronomy 22:24 you must take both of them out
to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman
because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he
has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from
among you.
Deuteronomy 22:25 But if the man encounters a
betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and
lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
Deuteronomy 22:26 Do nothing to the young woman,
because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is
just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
Deuteronomy 22:27 When he found her in the
field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save
her.
Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man encounters a virgin
who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with
her, and they are discovered,
Deuteronomy 22:29 then the man who lay with her
must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she
must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not
divorce her as long as he lives.
Deuteronomy 22:30 A man is not to marry his
father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage
bed.
Deuteronomy 23:1 No man with crushed or severed
genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:2 No one of illegitimate birth
may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his
descendants, even to the tenth generation.
Deuteronomy 23:3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any
of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to
the tenth generation.
Deuteronomy 23:4 For they did not meet you with
food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son
of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.
Deuteronomy 23:5 Yet the LORD your God would not
listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a
blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
Deuteronomy 23:6 You are not to seek peace or
prosperity from them as long as you live.
Deuteronomy 23:7 Do not despise an Edomite, for
he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived
as a foreigner in his land.
Deuteronomy 23:8 The third generation of
children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 23:9 When you are encamped against
your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked
thing.
Deuteronomy 23:10 If any man among you becomes
unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp
and stay outside.
Deuteronomy 23:11 When evening approaches, he
must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the
camp.
Deuteronomy 23:12 You must have a place outside
the camp to go and relieve yourself.
Deuteronomy 23:13 And you must have a digging
tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can
dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God walks
throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to
you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among
you and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 23:15 Do not return a slave to his
master if he has taken refuge with you.
Deuteronomy 23:16 Let him live among you
wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress
him.
Deuteronomy 23:17 No daughter or son of Israel
is to be a shrine prostitute.
Deuteronomy 23:18 You must not bring the wages
of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the
LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to
the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 23:19 Do not charge your brother
interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
Deuteronomy 23:20 You may charge a foreigner
interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may
bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land
that you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 23:21 If you make a vow to the LORD
your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely
require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 23:22 But if you refrain from making
a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 23:23 Be careful to follow through
on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the
LORD your God with your own mouth.
Deuteronomy 23:24 When you enter your neighbor’s
vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put
any in your basket.
Deuteronomy 23:25 When you enter your neighbor’s
grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but
you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
Deuteronomy 24:1 If a man marries a woman, but
she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in
her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her,
and send her away from his house.
Deuteronomy 24:2 If, after leaving his house,
she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
Deuteronomy 24:3 and the second man hates her,
writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends
her away from his house, or if he dies,
Deuteronomy 24:4 then the husband who divorced
her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that
is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the
land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 24:5 If a man is newly married, he
must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year
he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has
married.
Deuteronomy 24:6 Do not take a pair of
millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt,
because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man is caught kidnapping
one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or
sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from
among you.
Deuteronomy 24:8 In cases of infectious skin
diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical
priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what the LORD your God
did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 24:10 When you lend anything to your
neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
Deuteronomy 24:11 You are to stand outside while
the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
Deuteronomy 24:12 If he is a poor man, you must
not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
Deuteronomy 24:13 be sure to return it to him by
sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and
this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your
God.
Deuteronomy 24:14 Do not oppress a hired hand
who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner
residing in one of your towns.
Deuteronomy 24:15 You are to pay his wages each
day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them.
Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be
guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 24:16 Fathers shall not be put to
death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is
to die for his own sin.
Deuteronomy 24:17 Do not deny justice to the
foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as
security.
Deuteronomy 24:18 Remember that you were slaves
in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place.
Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
Deuteronomy 24:19 If you are harvesting in your
field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to
be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that
the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 24:20 When you beat the olives from
your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains
will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:21 When you gather the grapes of
your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains
will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Deuteronomy 24:22 Remember that you were slaves
in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
Deuteronomy 25:1 If there is a dispute between
men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent
may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
Deuteronomy 25:2 If the guilty man deserves to
be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his
presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
Deuteronomy 25:3 He may receive no more than
forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and
be degraded in your sight.
Deuteronomy 25:4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is
treading out the grain.
Deuteronomy 25:5 When brothers dwell together
and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry
outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his
wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
Deuteronomy 25:6 The first son she bears will
carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not
be blotted out from Israel.
Deuteronomy 25:7 But if the man does not want to
marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city
gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his
brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of
a brother-in-law for me.”
Deuteronomy 25:8 Then the elders of his city
shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I
do not want to marry her,”
Deuteronomy 25:9 his brother’s widow shall go up
to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in
his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will
not maintain his brother’s line.”
Deuteronomy 25:10 And his family name in Israel
will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
Deuteronomy 25:11 If two men are fighting, and
the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one
striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
Deuteronomy 25:12 you are to cut off her hand.
You must show her no pity.
Deuteronomy 25:13 You shall not have two
differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
Deuteronomy 25:14 You shall not have two
differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
Deuteronomy 25:15 You must maintain accurate and
honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land
that the LORD your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 25:16 For everyone who behaves
dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD
your God.
Deuteronomy 25:17 Remember what the Amalekites
did to you along your way from Egypt,
Deuteronomy 25:18 how they met you on your
journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your
stragglers; they had no fear of God.
Deuteronomy 25:19 When the LORD your God gives
you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving
you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory
of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
Deuteronomy 26:1 When you enter the land that
the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take
possession of it and settle in it,
Deuteronomy 26:2 you are to take some of the
firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the
LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to
the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His
Name,
Deuteronomy 26:3 to the priest who is serving at
that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God
that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to
give us.”
Deuteronomy 26:4 Then the priest shall take the
basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD
your God,
Deuteronomy 26:5 and you are to declare before
the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went
down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great
nation, mighty and numerous.
Deuteronomy 26:6 But the Egyptians mistreated us
and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.
Deuteronomy 26:7 So we called out to the LORD,
the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our
affliction, toil, and oppression.
Deuteronomy 26:8 Then the LORD brought us out of
Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great
terror, signs, and wonders.
Deuteronomy 26:9 And He brought us to this place
and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 26:10 And now, behold, I have
brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given
me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and
bow down before Him.
Deuteronomy 26:11 So you shall rejoice—you, the
Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good
things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.
Deuteronomy 26:12 When you have finished laying
aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of
the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the
fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within
your gates.
Deuteronomy 26:13 Then you shall declare in the
presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the
sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the
fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You
have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your
commandments.
Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten any of the
sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while
unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD
my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
Deuteronomy 26:15 Look down from Your holy
habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land
You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with
milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 26:16 The LORD your God commands you
this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be
careful to follow them with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 26:17 Today you have proclaimed that
the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His
statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
Deuteronomy 26:18 And today the LORD has
proclaimed that you are His people and treasured possession as He
promised, that you are to keep all His commandments,
Deuteronomy 26:19 that He will set you high in
praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and
that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has
promised.
Deuteronomy 27:1 Then Moses and the elders of
Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am
giving you today.
Deuteronomy 27:2 And on the day you cross the
Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up
large stones and coat them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27:3 Write on them all the words of
this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the
LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
Deuteronomy 27:4 And when you have crossed the
Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am
commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27:5 Moreover, you are to build
there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must
not use any iron tool on them.
Deuteronomy 27:6 You shall build the altar of
the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt
offerings to the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:7 There you are to sacrifice your
peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the
LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:8 And you shall write distinctly
upon these stones all the words of this law.”
Deuteronomy 27:9 Then Moses and the Levitical
priests spoke to all Israel: “Be silent, O Israel, and listen!
This day you have become the people of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 27:10 You shall therefore obey the
voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and
statutes I am giving you today.”
Deuteronomy 27:11 On that day Moses commanded
the people:
Deuteronomy 27:12 “When you have crossed the
Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the
people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Deuteronomy 27:13 And these tribes shall stand
on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun,
Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy 27:14 Then the Levites shall
proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:
Deuteronomy 27:15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a
carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work
of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all
the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors
his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:17 ‘Cursed is he who moves his
neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:18 ‘Cursed is he who lets a blind
man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:19 ‘Cursed is he who withholds
justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let
all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:20 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with
his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’
And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:21 ‘Cursed is he who lies with
any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:22 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with
his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his
mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:23 ‘Cursed is he who sleeps with
his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes down
his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:25 ‘Cursed is he who accepts a
bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say,
‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:26 ‘Cursed is he who does not put
the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say,
‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now if you faithfully obey the
voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His
commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you
high above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:2 And all these blessings will
come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the
LORD your God:
Deuteronomy 28:3 You will be blessed in the city
and blessed in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:4 The fruit of your womb will be
blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of
your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your
flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:5 Your basket and kneading bowl
will be blessed.
Deuteronomy 28:6 You will be blessed when you
come in and blessed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD will cause the enemies
who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march
out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
Deuteronomy 28:8 The LORD will decree a blessing
on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the
LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:9 The LORD will establish you as
His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the
commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
Deuteronomy 28:10 Then all the peoples of the
earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and
they will stand in awe of you.
Deuteronomy 28:11 The LORD will make you prosper
abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your
livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD
swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD will open the
heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in
season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to
many nations, but borrow from none.
Deuteronomy 28:13 The LORD will make you the
head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never
downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the
LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
Deuteronomy 28:14 Do not turn aside to the right
or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do
not go after other gods to serve them.
Deuteronomy 28:15 If, however, you do not obey
the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and
statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon
you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 28:16 You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:17 Your basket and kneading bowl
will be cursed.
Deuteronomy 28:18 The fruit of your womb will be
cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your
herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
Deuteronomy 28:19 You will be cursed when you
come in and cursed when you go out.
Deuteronomy 28:20 The LORD will send curses upon
you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand,
until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the
wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.
Deuteronomy 28:21 The LORD will make the plague
cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you
are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:22 The LORD will strike you with
wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat
and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you
until you perish.
Deuteronomy 28:23 The sky over your head will be
bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
Deuteronomy 28:24 The LORD will turn the rain of
your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the
sky until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:25 The LORD will cause you to be
defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in
one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object
of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Deuteronomy 28:26 Your corpses will be food for
all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to
scare them away.
Deuteronomy 28:27 The LORD will afflict you with
the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you
cannot be cured.
Deuteronomy 28:28 The LORD will afflict you with
madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
Deuteronomy 28:29 and at noon you will grope
about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in
your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with
no one to save you.
Deuteronomy 28:30 You will be pledged in
marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will
build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard
but will not enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:31 Your ox will be slaughtered
before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will
be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to
your enemies, and no one will save you.
Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and daughters will
be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for
them day after day, with no power in your hand.
Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you do not know will
eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days
you will be oppressed and crushed.
Deuteronomy 28:34 You will be driven mad by the
sights you see.
Deuteronomy 28:35 The LORD will afflict you with
painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles
of your feet to the top of your head.
Deuteronomy 28:36 The LORD will bring you and
the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have
known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and
stone.
Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of
horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the
LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:38 You will sow much seed in the
field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:39 You will plant and cultivate
vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes,
because worms will eat them.
Deuteronomy 28:40 You will have olive trees
throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil,
because the olives will drop off.
Deuteronomy 28:41 You will father sons and
daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go
into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28:42 Swarms of locusts will consume
all your trees and the produce of your land.
Deuteronomy 28:43 The foreigner living among you
will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower
and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:44 He will lend to you, but you
will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the
tail.
Deuteronomy 28:45 All these curses will come
upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are
destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the
commandments and statutes He gave you.
Deuteronomy 28:46 These curses will be a sign
and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because you did not serve the
LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your
abundance,
Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies
the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and
destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has
destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD will bring a nation
from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like
an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
Deuteronomy 28:50 a ruthless nation with no
respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the offspring of
your livestock and the produce of your land until you are
destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no
calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have
caused you to perish.
Deuteronomy 28:52 They will besiege all the
cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in
which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities
throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 28:53 Then you will eat the fruit of
your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your
God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will
inflict on you.
Deuteronomy 28:54 The most gentle and refined
man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and
the rest of his children who have survived,
Deuteronomy 28:55 refusing to share with any of
them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing
left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you
within all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:56 The most gentle and refined
woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to
set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband
she embraces and her son and daughter
Deuteronomy 28:57 the afterbirth that comes from
between her legs and the children she bears, because she will
secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and
distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:58 If you are not careful to
observe all the words of this law which are written in this book,
that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your
God—
Deuteronomy 28:59 He will bring upon you and
your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting
plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
Deuteronomy 28:60 He will afflict you again with
all the diseases you dreaded in Egypt, and they will cling to you.
Deuteronomy 28:61 The LORD will also bring upon
you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the
Law, until you are destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:62 You who were as numerous as
the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would
not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as it pleased the LORD to
make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to
annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the
land you are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you
among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and
there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which
neither you nor your fathers have known.
Deuteronomy 28:65 Among those nations you will
find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your
foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing
eyes, and a despairing soul.
Deuteronomy 28:66 So your life will hang in
doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never
certain of survival.
Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning you will say,
‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If
only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the
terrifying sights you will see.
Deuteronomy 28:68 The LORD will return you to
Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again.
There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female
slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Deuteronomy 29:1 These are the words of the
covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelites
in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant He had made with
them at Horeb.
Deuteronomy 29:2 Moses summoned all Israel and
proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything
the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all
his land.
Deuteronomy 29:3 You saw with your own eyes the
great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet to this day the LORD has
not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
Deuteronomy 29:5 For forty years I led you in
the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
Deuteronomy 29:6 You ate no bread and drank no
wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD
your God.
Deuteronomy 29:7 When you reached this place,
Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in
battle, but we defeated them.
Deuteronomy 29:8 We took their land and gave it
as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh.
Deuteronomy 29:9 So keep and follow the words of
this covenant, that you may prosper in all you do.
Deuteronomy 29:10 All of you are standing today
before the LORD your God—you leaders of tribes, elders, officials,
and all the men of Israel,
Deuteronomy 29:11 your children and wives, and
the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your
water—
Deuteronomy 29:12 so that you may enter into the
covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today,
and into His oath,
Deuteronomy 29:13 and so that He may establish
you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you
and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 29:14 I am making this covenant and
this oath not only with you,
Deuteronomy 29:15 but also with those who are
standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God,
as well as with those who are not here today.
Deuteronomy 29:16 For you yourselves know how we
lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations
on the way here.
Deuteronomy 29:17 You saw the abominations and
idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
Deuteronomy 29:18 Make sure there is no man or
woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from
the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make
sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and
bitter fruit,
Deuteronomy 29:19 because when such a person
hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself,
saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness
of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as
well as the dry.
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will never be willing
to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against
that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him.
The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Deuteronomy 29:21 and single him out from all
the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of
the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
Deuteronomy 29:22 Then the generation to
come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a
distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses
the LORD has inflicted on it.
Deuteronomy 29:23 All its soil will be a burning
waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant
growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah,
Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
Deuteronomy 29:24 So all the nations will ask,
‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great
outburst of anger?’
Deuteronomy 29:25 And the people will answer,
‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of
their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of
the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 29:26 They went and served other
gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—gods that the
LORD had not given to them.
Deuteronomy 29:27 Therefore the anger of the
LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse
written in this book.
Deuteronomy 29:28 The LORD uprooted them from
their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them
into another land, where they are today.’
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to
the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our
children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 30:1 “When all these things come
upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you
call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God
has banished you,
Deuteronomy 30:2 and when you and your children
return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart
and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today,
Deuteronomy 30:3 then He will restore you from
captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the
nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:4 Even if you have been banished
to the farthest horizon, He will gather you and return you from
there.
Deuteronomy 30:5 And the LORD your God will
bring you into the land your fathers possessed, and you will take
possession of it. He will cause you to prosper and multiply more
than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:6 The LORD your God will
circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you
will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that
you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:7 Then the LORD your God will put
all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.
Deuteronomy 30:8 And you will again obey the
voice of the LORD and follow all His commandments I am giving you
today.
Deuteronomy 30:9 So the LORD your God will make
you abound in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your
womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your
land. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your goodness, as He
delighted in that of your fathers,
Deuteronomy 30:10 if you obey the LORD your God
by keeping His commandments and statutes that are written in this
Book of the Law, and if you turn to Him with all your heart and
with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 30:11 For this commandment I give
you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
Deuteronomy 30:12 It is not in heaven, that you
should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us
and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
Deuteronomy 30:13 And it is not beyond the sea,
that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for
us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
Deuteronomy 30:14 But the word is very near you;
it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.
Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before you
today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.
Deuteronomy 30:16 For I am commanding you today
to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His
commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and
increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you
are entering to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:17 But if your heart turns away
and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other
gods and worship them,
Deuteronomy 30:18 I declare to you today that
you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the
land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as
witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and
death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you
and your descendants may live,
Deuteronomy 30:20 and that you may love the LORD
your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and
He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give
to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Deuteronomy 31:1 When Moses had finished
speaking these words to all Israel,
Deuteronomy 31:2 he said to them, “I am now a
hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go,
and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
Deuteronomy 31:3 The LORD your God Himself will
cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you,
and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as
the LORD has said.
Deuteronomy 31:4 And the LORD will do to them as
He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He
destroyed them along with their land.
Deuteronomy 31:5 The LORD will deliver them over
to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and courageous; do
not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God
who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:7 Then Moses called for Joshua
and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and
courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that
the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give
it to them as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 31:8 The LORD Himself goes before
you; He will be with you. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 31:9 So Moses wrote down this law
and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:10 Then Moses commanded them, “At
the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of
remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,
Deuteronomy 31:11 when all Israel comes before
the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read
this law in the hearing of all Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:12 Assemble the people—men,
women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they
may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow
carefully all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 31:13 Then their children who do not
know the law will listen and learn to fear the LORD your God, as
long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to
possess.”
Deuteronomy 31:14 Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present
yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.”
So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of
Meeting.
Deuteronomy 31:15 Then the LORD appeared at the
tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance
to the tent.
Deuteronomy 31:16 And the LORD said to Moses,
“You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise
up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land
they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I
have made with them.
Deuteronomy 31:17 On that day My anger will burn
against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them,
so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions
will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these
disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
Deuteronomy 31:18 And on that day I will surely
hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to
other gods.
Deuteronomy 31:19 Now therefore, write down for
yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them
recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
Deuteronomy 31:20 When I have brought them into
the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with
milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they
will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me
and break My covenant.
Deuteronomy 31:21 And when many troubles and
afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against
them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their
descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring
them into the land that I swore to give them.”
Deuteronomy 31:22 So that very day Moses wrote
down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 31:23 Then the LORD commissioned
Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you
will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them,
and I will be with you.”
Deuteronomy 31:24 When Moses had finished
writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,
Deuteronomy 31:25 he gave this command to the
Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD:
Deuteronomy 31:26 “Take this Book of the Law and
place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, so
that it may remain there as a witness against you.
Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know how rebellious and
stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the
LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my
death!
Deuteronomy 31:28 Assemble before me all the
elders of your tribes and all your officers so that I may speak
these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness
against them.
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death
you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have
commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you
because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him
to anger by the work of your hands.”
Deuteronomy 31:30 Then Moses recited aloud to
the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning
to end:
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will
speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching fall like rain
and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like
showers on tender plants.
Deuteronomy 32:3 For I will proclaim the name of
the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!
Deuteronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, His work is
perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without
injustice, righteous and upright is He.
Deuteronomy 32:5 His people have acted corruptly
toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a
perverse and crooked generation.
Deuteronomy 32:6 Is this how you repay the LORD,
O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator?
Has He not made you and established you?
Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell
you, your elders, and they will inform you.
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave the
nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set
the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons
of God.
Deuteronomy 32:9 But the LORD’s portion is His
people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land,
in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed
him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and
carried them on His pinions.
Deuteronomy 32:12 The LORD alone led him, and no
foreign god was with him.
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the
heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He
nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty
crag,
Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and
milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan,
and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of
the finest grapes you drank the wine.
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat and
kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who
made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked His jealousy
with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Deuteronomy 32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not
to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which
your fathers did not fear.
Deuteronomy 32:18 You ignored the Rock who
brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32:19 When the LORD saw this, He
rejected them, provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 32:20 He said: “I will hide My face
from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a
perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked My jealousy
by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their
worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not
a people; I will make them angry by a nation without
understanding.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire has been kindled by
My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the
earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the
mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap disasters upon
them; I will spend My arrows against them.
Deuteronomy 32:24 They will be wasted from
hunger and ravage