Genesis 35 Cross References - BBE

¹ And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau. ² Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: ³ And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went. ⁴ Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem. ⁵ So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob. ⁶ And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan which is the same as Beth-el, he and all his people. ⁷ And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother. ⁸ And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth. ⁹ Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said, ¹⁰ Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel. ¹¹ And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring; ¹² And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land. ¹³ Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him. ¹⁴ And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil. ¹⁵ And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el. ¹⁶ So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time. ¹⁷ And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. ¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin. ¹⁹ So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath which is Beth-lehem. ²⁰ And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day. ²¹ And Israel went journeying on and put up his tents on the other side of the tower of the flock. ²² Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it. ²³ Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun; ²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali; ²⁶ The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram. ²⁷ And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living. ²⁸ And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old. ²⁹ Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.

¹⁶ To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

¹ And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

⁷ And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him. ⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

³ And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai; ⁴ To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

¹⁴ And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west: ¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever. ¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered. ¹⁷ Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you. ¹⁸ And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

¹³ And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

⁵ And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

¹⁵ As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

⁸ And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations. ⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring. ⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

¹⁵ And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah. ¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

²² And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

¹ Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

¹⁸ Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing? ¹⁹ For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

³³ And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

¹⁴ And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

² And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

¹⁹ Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.

¹⁹ Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

⁵⁹ So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.

⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five. ⁸ And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people. ⁹ And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;

¹⁷ And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.

²⁰ Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

² And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge: ³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham; ⁴ I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

¹ Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I. ² And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:

⁴¹ So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

⁴¹ So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death. ⁴² Then Rebekah, hearing what Esau had said, sent for Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, It seems that your brother Esau is purposing to put you to death. ⁴³ So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban; ⁴⁴ And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away; ⁴⁵ Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?

² But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother. ³ And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples. ⁴ And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage. ⁵ So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

¹⁰ So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran. ¹¹ And coming to a certain place, he made it his resting-place for the night, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones which were there, and putting it under his head he went to sleep in that place. ¹² And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.

¹² And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them. ¹³ And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

¹³ And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

¹³ And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping. ¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth. ¹⁵ And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

¹⁵ And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you. ¹⁶ And Jacob, awaking from his sleep, said, Truly, the Lord is in this place and I was not conscious of it. ¹⁷ And fear came on him, and he said, This is a holy place; this is nothing less than the house of God and the doorway of heaven. ¹⁸ And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.

¹⁸ And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it. ¹⁹ And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

¹⁹ And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

¹⁹ And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz. ²⁰ Then Jacob took an oath, and said, If God will be with me, and keep me safe on my journey, and give me food and clothing to put on, ²¹ So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God, ²² And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

²² And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

³¹ Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children. ³² And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me. ³³ Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. ³⁴ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi. ³⁵ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

¹ Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. ⁵ And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

⁵ And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son. ⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan. ⁷ And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son.

⁷ And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali.

⁸ And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali. ⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife.

⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son.

¹⁰ And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad.

¹¹ And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son.

¹² And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. ¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher. ¹⁴ Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits. ¹⁵ But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits. ¹⁶ In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night. ¹⁷ And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son. ¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.

¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar. ¹⁹ And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son.

¹⁹ And again Leah became with child, and she gave Jacob a sixth son. ²⁰ And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

²⁰ And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun. ²¹ After that she had a daughter, to whom she gave the name Dinah. ²² Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile. ²³ And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame. ²⁴ And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

²⁴ And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

³ Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.

¹¹ And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I. ¹² And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you. ¹³ I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

¹³ I am the God of Beth-el, where you put oil on the pillar and took an oath to me: now then, come out of this land and go back to the country of your birth.

¹⁸ And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan. ¹⁹ Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

⁴² If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.

⁴⁵ Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.

¹ And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.

⁷ Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;

¹² And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

²⁴ Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

²⁴ Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn. ²⁵ But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged. ²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing. ²⁷ Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

²⁷ Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome. ²⁹ Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing. ³⁰ And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

² He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.

²⁴ Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision. ²⁵ But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.

³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

¹ And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.

³ And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

⁷ And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.

⁹ Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,

¹⁴ And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

¹⁶ So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time. ¹⁷ And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son. ¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin. ¹⁹ So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath which is Beth-lehem. ²⁰ And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.

²² Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

² These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.

⁴ But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.

³⁸ And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.

¹⁴ And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

²⁷ And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons; ²⁸ The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him, ²⁹ If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld. ³⁰ If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one, ³¹ When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

² And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. ³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

⁸ And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;

⁸ And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son; ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;

⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi; ¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;

¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan; ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;

¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron;

¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron; ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel;

¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel; ¹⁵ All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.

¹⁵ All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number. ¹⁶ And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;

¹⁶ And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli; ¹⁷ And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

¹⁷ And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.

¹⁸ These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her. ¹⁹ The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

¹⁹ The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.

²⁰ And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. ²² All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons.

²² All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons. ²³ And the son of Dan was Hushim.

²³ And the son of Dan was Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. ²⁵ These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

²⁵ These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons. ²⁶ All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

²⁸ And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

³ And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing,

³ And Jacob said to Joseph, God, the Ruler of all, came to me in a vision at Luz in the land of Canaan, and gave me his blessing, ⁴ And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

⁴ And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

⁷ And as for me, when I came from Paddan, death overtook Rachel on the way, when we were still some distance from Ephrath; and I put her to rest there on the road to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.

¹ And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times. ² Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father. ³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power: ⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean. ⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs. ⁶ Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded. ⁷ A curse on their passion for it was bitter; and on their wrath for it was cruel. I will let their heritage in Jacob be broken up, driving them from their places in Israel. ⁸ To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you. ⁹ Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken? ¹⁰ The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule. ¹¹ Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes: ¹² His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk. ¹³ The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon. ¹⁴ Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks: ¹⁵ And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant. ¹⁶ Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall. ¹⁸ I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord. ¹⁹ Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight. ²⁰ Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings. ²¹ Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones. ²² Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain; ²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: ²⁴ But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel: ²⁵ Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body: ²⁶ Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers. ²⁷ Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken. ²⁸ These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.

³¹ There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.

³³ And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.

²⁶ So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

¹ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob. ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵ All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

⁸ And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

³ I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.

¹⁴ These are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of Reuben the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben. ¹⁵ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon. ¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

⁷ Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.

¹⁵ The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water. ¹⁶ Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.

¹⁵ Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:

¹⁰ And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.

¹⁴ Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and made the people holy; and their clothing was washed.

³ You are to have no other gods but me. ⁴ You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

¹³ Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

²⁷ I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

² Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. ³ And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. ⁴ And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.

²⁴ For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.

⁵ And anyone touching his bed is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

¹⁶ But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

⁸ And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, ² Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name; ³ All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron. ⁴ And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house. ⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;

⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab; ⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;

⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar; ⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon;

⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon; ¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, ¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni; ¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;

¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai; ¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran;

¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran; ¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;

¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel; ¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan.

¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan. ¹⁶ These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name; ¹⁸ And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over. ¹⁹ As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai. ²⁰ The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

²⁰ The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ²¹ Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.

²¹ Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered. ²² The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;

²² The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ²³ Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered.

²³ Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered. ²⁴ The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

²⁴ The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁵ Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

²⁵ Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered. ²⁶ The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

²⁶ The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁷ Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered. ²⁸ The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁹ Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered. ³⁰ The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³¹ Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered. ³² The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³³ Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered. ³⁴ The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁵ Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered. ³⁶ The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁷ Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered. ³⁸ The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war; ³⁹ Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered. ⁴⁰ The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴¹ Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered. ⁴² The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴³ Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered. ⁴⁴ These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe. ⁴⁵ So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war, ⁴⁶ Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

³ Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief. ⁴ The number of his army was seventy-four thousand, six hundred. ⁵ And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief. ⁶ The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred. ⁷ After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief. ⁸ The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred. ⁹ The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first. ¹⁰ On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief. ¹¹ The number of his army was forty-six thousand, five hundred. ¹² And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief. ¹³ The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred. ¹⁴ Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief. ¹⁵ The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty. ¹⁶ The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second. ¹⁷ Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag. ¹⁸ On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief. ¹⁹ The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred. ²⁰ And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief. ²¹ The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred. ²² Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief. ²³ The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred. ²⁴ The number of all the armies of Ephraim was a hundred and eight thousand, one hundred. They go forward third. ²⁵ On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief. ²⁶ The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven hundred. ²⁷ Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief. ²⁸ The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred; ²⁹ Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief. ³⁰ The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred. ³¹ The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags. ³² These are all who were numbered of the children of Israel, in the order of their fathers' families: all the armies in their tents together came to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ³³ But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.

¹² And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah: ¹³ And his offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ¹⁴ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning; ¹⁵ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ¹⁶ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ¹⁷ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab. ¹⁸ On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, made his offering: ¹⁹ He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ²⁰ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ²¹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ²² One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ²³ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethanel, the son of Zuar. ²⁴ On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun: ²⁵ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ²⁶ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ²⁷ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ²⁸ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ²⁹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab, the son of Helon. ³⁰ On the fourth day Elizur, the son of Shedeur, chief of the children of Reuben: ³¹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ³² One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ³³ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ³⁴ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ³⁵ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur. ³⁶ On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon: ³⁷ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ³⁸ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ³⁹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁴⁰ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴¹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai. ⁴² On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad: ⁴³ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁴⁴ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁴⁵ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁴⁶ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁴⁷ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph, the son of Reuel ⁴⁸ On the seventh day Elishama, the son of Ammihud, chief of the children of Ephraim: ⁴⁹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁵⁰ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁵¹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁵² One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵³ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama, the son of Ammihud. ⁵⁴ On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief of the children of Manasseh: ⁵⁵ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁵⁶ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁵⁷ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁵⁸ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁵⁹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur. ⁶⁰ On the ninth day Abidan, the son of Gideoni, chief of the children of Benjamin: ⁶¹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁶² One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁶³ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year for a burned offering; ⁶⁴ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁶⁵ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Abidan, the son of Gideoni. ⁶⁶ On the tenth day Ahiezer; the son of Ammishaddai, chief of the children of Dan: ⁶⁷ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁶⁸ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁶⁹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁷⁰ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷¹ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai. ⁷² On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the children of Asher: ⁷³ His offering was one silver plate; a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁷⁴ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁷⁵ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁷⁶ One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁷⁷ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel, the son of Ochran. ⁷⁸ On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the children of Naphtali: ⁷⁹ His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering; ⁸⁰ One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice; ⁸¹ One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering; ⁸² One male of the goats for a sin-offering; ⁸³ And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira, the son of Enan. ⁸⁴ These were the offerings given for the altar by the chiefs of Israel, when the holy oil was put on it: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold spoons; ⁸⁵ The weight of every silver plate was a hundred and thirty shekels, and of every basin seventy; the weight of all the silver of the vessels was two thousand and four hundred shekels, by the scale of the holy place; ⁸⁶ The weight of the twelve gold spoons of spice for burning was ten shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place; all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels; ⁸⁷ All the oxen, for the burned offering were twelve, the male sheep twelve, the he-lambs of the first year twelve, with their meal offering; and the males of the goats for sin-offering twelve; ⁸⁸ And all the oxen for the peace-offerings, twenty-four oxen, the male sheep sixty, and the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs of the first year sixty. This was given for the altar after the holy oil was put on it. ⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.

⁵ Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: ⁶ Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ⁷ These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty. ⁸ And the sons of Pallu, Eliab ⁹ And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord: ¹⁰ And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign. ¹¹ But death did not overtake the sons of Korah. ¹² The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: ¹³ Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. ¹⁴ These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred. ¹⁵ The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: ¹⁶ Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: ¹⁷ Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. ¹⁸ These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred. ¹⁹ The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. ²¹ And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. ²² These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred. ²³ The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites: ²⁴ Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. ²⁵ These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred. ²⁶ The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. ²⁷ These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred. ²⁸ The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹ The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. ³⁰ These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: ³¹ And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: ³² And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. ³³ And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred. ³⁵ These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. ³⁶ And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites: ³⁷ These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families. ³⁸ The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: ³⁹ Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. ⁴⁰ And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. ⁴¹ These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred. ⁴² These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families. ⁴³ All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred. ⁴⁴ The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites: of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. ⁴⁵ Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites: ⁴⁶ And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ⁴⁷ These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred. ⁴⁸ The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: ⁴⁹ Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. ⁵⁰ These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred. ⁵¹ Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

⁵⁷ These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. ⁵⁸ These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹ Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam. ⁶⁰ Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁶¹ Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord. ⁶² Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.

²⁴ And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.

¹⁴ For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers' families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been given their heritage: ¹⁵ The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east looking to the dawn. ¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ These are the names of the men who are to make the distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun. ¹⁸ And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land. ¹⁹ And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ²⁰ And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud. ²¹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon. ²² And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli. ²³ Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel, the son of Ephod: ²⁴ And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chief, Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan. ²⁵ And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach. ²⁶ And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel, the son of Azzan. ²⁷ And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi. ²⁸ And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.

⁷ You are to have no other gods but me.

¹⁴ Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

⁵ But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

²⁵ The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

²⁵ All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

²⁸ And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.

¹⁶ The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

³⁶ For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.

¹ Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death. ² He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. ³ All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings. ⁴ Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob. ⁵ And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together. ⁶ Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small. ⁷ And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and be his help against his attackers. ⁸ And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah; ⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement. ¹⁰ They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar. ¹¹ Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again. ¹² And of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of the Lord, he will be kept safe at all times; he will be covered by the Most High, resting between his arms. ¹³ And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth, ¹⁴ And the good things of the fruits of the sun, and the good things of the growth of the moons, ¹⁵ And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills, ¹⁶ The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers. ¹⁷ He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. ¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said, Be glad, Zebulun, in your going out; and, Issachar, in your tents. ¹⁹ They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand. ²⁰ Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head. ²¹ He kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel. ²² And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan. ²³ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, made glad with grace and full of the blessing of the Lord: the sea and its fishes will be his. ²⁴ And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil. ²⁵ Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be. ²⁶ No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies. ²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them. ²⁸ And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens. ²⁹ Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

⁹ And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us; ¹⁰ For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse. ¹¹ And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.

¹ Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

¹ Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in. ² And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war. ³ Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days. ⁴ And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns. ⁵ And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward. ⁶ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord. ⁷ And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord. ⁸ So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven priests with their seven horns went forward before the Lord, blowing on their horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement went after them. ⁹ And the armed men went before the priests who were blowing the horns, and the mass of the people went after the ark, blowing their horns. ¹⁰ And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry. ¹¹ So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night. ¹² And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. ¹³ And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns. ¹⁴ The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days. ¹⁵ Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times. ¹⁶ And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town. ¹⁷ And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent. ¹⁸ And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel. ¹⁹ But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord. ²⁰ So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town. ²¹ And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

¹ Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken. ² This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; ³ From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim; ⁴ On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites: ⁵ And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath: ⁶ All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; them will I send out from before the children of Israel: only make division of it to Israel for a heritage, as I have given you orders to do. ⁷ So now make division of this land for a heritage to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁸ With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given their heritage, which Moses gave them, on the east side of Jordan, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them; ⁹ From Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba to Dibon; ¹⁰ And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, to the limits of the children of Ammon; ¹¹ And Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; ¹² All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who was ruling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei he was one of the last of the Rephaim; these did Moses overcome, driving them out of their country. ¹³ However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day. ¹⁴ Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him. ¹⁵ And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families. ¹⁶ Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba; ¹⁷ Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon; ¹⁸ And Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath; ¹⁹ And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the valley; ²⁰ And Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; ²¹ And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land.

¹² So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said. ¹³ And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage. ¹⁴ So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁵ In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

¹³ And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak which is Hebron.

¹⁵ And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

¹¹ They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands.

⁷ Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

² And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

²⁰ If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

²³ Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

²⁵ So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.

²² And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them. ²³ So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz. ²⁴ And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the way into the town, we will be kind to you. ²⁵ So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe. ²⁶ And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its name to this day.

¹ Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, (OMITTED TEXT) I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:

⁵ And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

²¹ Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.

²⁴ Then Gideon made an altar there to the Lord, and gave it the name Yahweh-shalom; to this day it is in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

²⁴ Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites. ²⁵ And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken. ²⁶ The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks. ²⁷ And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.

⁶ And all the townsmen of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together and went and made Abimelech their king, by the oak of the pillar in Shechem.

¹⁶ So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

²⁰ And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.

² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.

¹⁵ And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the public place, and the responsible men, said, We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is about to come into your house, like Rachel and Leah, which two were the builders of the house of Israel: and may you have wealth in Ephrathah, and be great in Beth-lehem;

¹ Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: ² And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children. ³ Now this man went up from his town every year to give worship and to make offerings to the Lord of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there. ⁴ And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast: ⁵ But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children. ⁶ And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children; ⁷ And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food. ⁸ Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons? ⁹ So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord. ¹⁰ And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord. ¹¹ And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut. ¹² Now while she was a long time in prayer before the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth. ¹³ For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine. ¹⁴ And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you. ¹⁵ And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord. ¹⁶ Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain. ¹⁷ Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him. ¹⁸ And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad. ¹⁹ And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind. ²⁰ Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him. ²¹ And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath. ²² But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever. ²³ And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast. ²⁴ Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young. ²⁵ And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli. ²⁶ And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side: ²⁷ My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request: ²⁸ So I have given him to the Lord; for all his life he is the Lord's. Then he gave the Lord worship there.

¹⁹ And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth. ²⁰ And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it. ²¹ And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

³ Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

¹² Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

² When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son?

⁷ And he took two oxen and, cutting them up, sent them through all the land of Israel by the hand of runners, saying, If any man does not come out after Saul and Samuel, this will be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord came on the people and they came out like one man.

¹⁵ And there was great fear in the tents and in the field and among all the men of the armed force, and the attackers were shaking with fear; even the earth was moved with a great shaking and there was a fear as from God.

¹³ And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.

¹ Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron.

³ And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron.

¹¹ And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months.

¹ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

³ So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.

⁵ Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

²³ And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

²¹ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong. ²² So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

¹⁷ And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent. ¹⁸ Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

³ And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:

¹⁰ And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.

¹² Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath. ¹³ Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?

¹⁹ And he said to him, Go in peace. And he went from him some distance.

²⁹ And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

³⁴ So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun; ² Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

¹⁹ And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur.

⁹ And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.

¹ And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, {\I for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

²³ These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said. ²⁴ There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war; ²⁵ Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war; ²⁶ Of the children of Levi, four thousand, six hundred. ²⁷ And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men; ²⁸ And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people. ²⁹ And of the children of Benjamin, the brothers of Saul, three thousand; for up to that time the greater part of them had been true to Saul. ³⁰ And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families. ³¹ And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king. ³² And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders. ³³ Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men. ³⁴ And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven thousand spearmen. ³⁵ And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight. ³⁶ And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight. ³⁷ From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war. ³⁸ All these men of war, expert in ordering the fight, came to Hebron with the full purpose of making David king over all Israel; and all the rest of Israel were united in their desire to make David king. ³⁹ For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them. ⁴⁰ And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.

²⁶ For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

¹⁶ And over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer, the son of Zichri; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah, the son of Maacah; ¹⁷ Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok; ¹⁸ Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael; ¹⁹ Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth, the son of Azriel; ²⁰ Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel, the son of Pedaiah; ²¹ Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo, the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel, the son of Abner; ²² Of Dan, Azarel, the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁴ And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

¹⁰ And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

¹ On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God; ² Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God. ³ So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people. ⁴ Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God, being a friend of Tobiah, ⁵ Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests. ⁶ But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go, ⁷ And I came to Jerusalem; and it was clear to me what evil Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making ready for him a room in the buildings of the house of God. ⁸ And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room. ⁹ Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume. ¹⁰ And I saw that the Levites had not been given what was needed for their support; so that the Levites and the music-makers, who did the work, had gone away, everyone to his field. ¹¹ Then I made protests to the chiefs, and said, Why has the house of God been given up? And I got them together and put them in their places. ¹² Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses. ¹³ And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers. ¹⁴ Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely. ¹⁵ In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food. ¹⁶ And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil which you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy? ¹⁸ Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy. ¹⁹ And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day. ²⁰ So the traders in all sorts of goods took their night's rest outside Jerusalem once or twice. ²¹ Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath. ²² And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy. ²³ And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: ²⁴ And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. ²⁵ And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. ²⁶ Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women. ²⁷ Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives? ²⁸ And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me. ²⁹ Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites. ³⁰ So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work; ³¹ And for the wood offering, at fixed times, and for the first fruits. Keep me in mind, O my God, for good.

⁵ And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

²⁶ You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

⁵ Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

¹⁰ For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

⁴ He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. Selah.

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

² Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

⁷ Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

¹³ I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you, ¹⁴ Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.

¹⁷ Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

² I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart. ³ I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me. ⁴ The false heart I will send away from me: I will not have an evil-doer for a friend. ⁵ I will put to death anyone who says evil of his neighbour secretly; the man with a high look and a heart of pride is disgusting to me. ⁶ My eyes will be on those of good faith in the land, so that they may be living in my house; he who is walking in the right way will be my servant. ⁷ The worker of deceit will not come into my house; the false man will have no place before my eyes.

¹ Of David. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name. ² Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory. ³ He has forgiveness for all your sins; he takes away all your diseases; ⁴ He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace. ⁵ He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

⁶ Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles;

⁸ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

¹ I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer. ² He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken. ¹⁷ I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord. ¹⁸ I will make the offerings of my oath, even before all his people;

¹⁹ Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord. ²⁰ This is the door of the Lord's house; the workers of righteousness will go in through it. ²¹ I will give you praise, for you have given me an answer, and have become my salvation. ²² The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.

⁶ We had news of it at Ephrathah: we came to it in the fields of the wood.

⁶ In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

¹ Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.

⁴ When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.

⁴ When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken. ⁵ It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

⁵ It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it. ⁶ Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

⁵ And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets; ⁶ Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole; ⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹⁶ Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

²⁰ In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

¹⁹ O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.

²² And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

² When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

¹¹ Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

⁷ How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

²⁷ I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?

²⁰ Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

³ From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.

¹² They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.

³¹ Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?

⁷ And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

¹ Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part. ² And on the limit of Dan, from the east side to the west side: Asher, one part. ³ And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part. ⁴ And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part. ⁵ And on the limit of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side: Ephraim, one part. ⁶ And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part. ⁷ And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part. ⁸ And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it. ⁹ The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide. ¹⁰ And for these, that is the priests, the holy offering is to be twenty-five thousand long to the north, ten thousand wide to the west, ten thousand wide to the east and twenty-five thousand long to the south; and the holy place of the Lord will be in the middle of it. ¹¹ For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did, ¹² Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites. ¹³ And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide. ¹⁴ And they are not to let any of it go for a price, or give it in exchange; and the part of the land given to the Lord is not to go into other hands: for it is holy to the Lord. ¹⁵ And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it. ¹⁶ And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred. ¹⁷ And the town will have a free space on the north of two hundred and fifty, on the south of two hundred and fifty, on the east of two hundred and fifty, and on the west of two hundred and fifty. ¹⁸ And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town. ¹⁹ It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel. ²⁰ The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town. ²¹ And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it. ²² And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince. ²³ And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part. ²⁴ And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part. ²⁵ And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part. ²⁶ And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part. ²⁷ And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part. ²⁸ And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea. ²⁹ This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord. ³⁰ And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure; ³¹ And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi; ³² And at the east side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Joseph, one for Benjamin, one for Dan; ³³ And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun; ³⁴ At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali. ³⁵ It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

³⁵ It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.

⁴ They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.

¹³ And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

⁴ He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;

⁸ And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

² And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

² Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.

¹⁵ See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

¹ Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

⁶ You Beth-lehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men. ¹⁷ Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true, ¹⁸ In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

¹⁸ In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

⁸ And in the same country there were keepers of sheep in the fields, watching over their flock by night.

²⁰ But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

⁴⁶ And Jesus gave a loud cry and said, Father, into your hands I give my spirit: and when he had said this, he gave up his spirit.

³¹ And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.

¹⁰ Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you. ¹¹ He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.

² And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,

⁸ And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

⁵⁹ And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.

²⁶ And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

¹ It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

⁷ Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

¹⁵ And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not? ¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself, ¹⁸ And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.

¹ Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

⁸ But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:

¹⁵ But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

²² Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

¹ So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, ² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

²³ And to some give salvation, pulling them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the clothing which is made unclean by the flesh.

⁴ And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel. ⁵ Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand: ⁶ Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand: of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand: of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand: ⁷ Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand: ⁸ Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand.

¹⁴ And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.