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One witness shall not stand to testify against a man for any iniquity, or for any fault, or for any sin which he may commit; by the mouth of two witnesses, or by the mouth of three witnesses, shall every word be established.

And the men having taken these presents, and the double money, took in their hands also Benjamin; and they rose up and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

And the name of the Madianitish woman who was smitten, was Chasbi, daughter of Sur, a prince of the nation of Ommoth: it is a chief house among the people of Madiam.

This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is that which the Lord has appointed: gather of it each man for his family, a homer for each person, according to the number of your souls, gather each of you with his fellow-lodgers.

that the princes of Pharao saw her, and praised her to Pharao and brought her into the house of Pharao.

And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, the man who sees truly says,

Thus shalt thou do to all the cities that are very far off from thee, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit their land.

And Balaam said to Balac, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will go to enquire of God.

And let them be for light in the firmament of the heaven, so as to shine upon the earth, and it was so.

Then the princes of Edom, and the chiefs of the Moabites hasted; trembling took hold upon them, all the inhabitants of Chanaan melted away.

Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number ye them every male from a month old and upwards.

And the priest shall take of the cup of oil, and shall pour it upon his own left hand.

And she let them down by the window;

And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him children, and the son of the hated should be first-born;

and the Lord said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? speak to the children of Israel, and let them proceed.

And Balac yet again sent more princes and more honourable than they.

then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel's tokens of virginity to the elders of the city to the gate.

And a woman, if a man shall lie with her with seed of copulationthey shall both bathe themselves in water and shall be unclean until evening.

And when Pharao hardened his heart so as not to send us away, he slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man and the first-born of beast; therefore do I sacrifice every offspring that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every first-born of my sons I will redeem.

Because the Lord thy God walks in thy camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemy before thy face; and thy camp shall be holy, and there shall not appear in thee a disgraceful thing, and so he shall turn away from thee.

for all the land which thou seest, I will give it to thee and to thy seed for ever.

and Choddan, and Thaeman, and Jetur, and Naphes, and Kedma.

My mouth shall declare thy righteousness openly, and thy salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs of men.

Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.

but disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,

And he shall kill the goat for the sin-offering that is for the people, before the Lord; and he shall bring in of its blood within the veil, and shall do with its blood as he did with the blood of the calf, and shall sprinkle its blood on the mercy-seat, in front of the mercy-seat.

And he has appointed brooks to cause Er to dwell there; and it lies near to the coasts of Moab.

Thou shalt have a true and just weight, and a true and just measure, that thou mayest live long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day ye shall utterly remove leaven from your houses: whoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

And Esau said, I will leave with thee some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why so? it is enough that I have found favour before thee, lord.

And the report was carried into the house of Pharao, saying, Joseph's brethren are come; and Pharao was glad, and his household.

And how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we sojourned in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

I was the eye of the blind, and the foot of the lame.

And every soul which eats that which has died of itself, or is taken of beasts, either among the natives or among the strangers, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening: then shall he be clean.

And Aaron and his sons shall finish covering the holy things, and all the holy vessels, when the camp begins to move; and afterwards the sons of Caath shall go in to take up the furniture; but shall not touch the holy things, lest they die: these shall the sons of Caath bear in the tabernacle of witness.

And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured all the herbage of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbage of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

Look down from thy holy house, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given them, as thou didst swear to our fathers, to give to us a land flowing with milk and honey.

I will meditate on thy commandments, and consider thy ways.

Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if ye also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law, for she is thy son's wife, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.

And he came upon them by night, he and his servants, and he smote them and pursued them as far as Choba, which is on the left of Damascus.

And every open vessel which has not a covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.

One calf of the herd, one ram, one he-lamb of a year old for a whole-burnt-offering;

For now I will stretch forth my hand and smite thee and kill thy people, and thou shalt be consumed from off the earth.

Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.

So the charmers said to Pharao, This is the finger of God. But the heart of Pharao was hardened, and he hearkened not to them, as the Lord said.

Thou shalt not act unjustly in judgment: thou shalt not accept the person of the poor, nor admire the person of the mighty; with justice shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

And every thing that opens the womb of all flesh, whatsoever they bring to the Lord, whether man or beast, shall be thine: only the first-born of men shall be surely redeemed, and thou shalt redeem the first-born of unclean cattle.

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe all his commandments, as many as I charge thee this day, then all these curses shall come on thee, and overtake thee.

And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.

Go to Pharao early in the morning: behold, he goes forth to the water; and thou shalt meet him on the bank of the river, and thou shalt take in thine hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.

but to those also who are here with you to-day before the Lord your God, and to those who are not here with you to-day.

Of Nephthali, Achire the son of Aenan.

And whosoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and ye shall kill the beast.

And the sons of Symeon, Jemuel and Jamin, and Aod, and Jachin and Saar, and Saul the son of a Phoenician woman, these are the families of the sons of Symeon.

And Moses was exceeding indignant, and said to the Lord, Do thou take no heed to their sacrifice: I have not taken away the desire of any one of them, neither have I hurt any one of them.

[] and it came to pass when he drew nigh to Chabratha, to enter into Ephratha, Rachel travailed; and in her travail she was in hard labour.

And Joseph said to them, What is this thing that ye have done? know ye not that a man such as I can surely divine?

Behold, I have set before thee this day life and death, good and evil.

And the accountants of the children of Israel went in and cried to Pharao, saying, Why dost thou act thus to thy servants?

And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I am the Lord that sanctifies him.

And Abessalom and all the men of Israel went into Jerusalem, and Achitophel with him.

There shall be one law for you and for the strangers abiding among you, a perpetual law for your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the Lord.

And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, the wife of Nachor, and the brother of Abraam, came forth, having a water-pot on her shoulders.

And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony; and the pillar of the cloud stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.

And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to the Lord.

And a man found him wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

And thou shalt speak to him; and thou shalt put my words into his mouth, and I will open thy mouth and his mouth, and I will instruct you in what ye shall do.

The voice of exultation and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord has wrought mightily.

So Jacob ate and was filled, and the beloved one kicked; he grew fat, he became thick and broad: then he forsook the God that made him, and departed from God his Saviour.

But Sarrha denied, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And he said to her, Nay, but thou didst laugh.

and a basket of unleavened bread of fine flour, even loaves kneaded with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and their meat-offering, and their drink-offering.

And God said again to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, The Lord God of our fathers, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and my memorial to generations of generations.

And these the sons of Olibema, wife of Esau; chief Jeus, chief Jeglom, chief Core. These the chiefs of Olibema, daughter of Ana, wife of Esau.

In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.

And ye shall number to yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which ye shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks:

And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

And an angel of the Lord called Abraam the second time out of heaven, saying, I have sworn by myself, says the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and on my account hast not spared thy beloved son,

And Pharao heard this matter, and sought to slay Moses; and Moses departed from the presence of Pharao, and dwelt in the land of Madiam; and having come into the land of Madiam, he sat on the well.

Of the tribe of Nephthali, Nabi the son of Sabi.

from the top of the ancient mountains, and from the top of the everlasting hills,

And if he that has sanctified it should redeem his house, he shall add to it the fifth part of the money of the valuation, and it shall be his.

And Mariam was separated without the camp seven days; and the people moved not forward till Mariam was cleansed.

And she departed and sat down opposite him at a distance, as it were a bow-shot, for she said, Surely I cannot see the death of my child: and she sat opposite him, and the child cried aloud and wept.

And he said, When ye do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and they are about to be delivered, if it be a male, kill it; but if a female, save it.

Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Nay, my lord, I have heard indeed, the land four hundred silver didrachms, but what can this be between me and thee? nay, do thou bury thy dead.

And the man who shall be pointed out, shall be burnt with fire, and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and has wrought wickedness in Israel.

And they came to Joseph, and said, Thy father adjured us before his death, saying,

And speak to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whosoever shall curse God shall bear his sin.

until the Lord your God shall have given your brethren rest, as also to you, and they also shall have inherited the land, which the Lord your God gives them; then ye shall depart each one to his inheritance, which Moses gave you beyond Jordan eastward.

then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring his gift for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal: he shall not pour oil upon it, neither shall he put frankincense upon it; for it is a sacrifice of jealousy, a sacrifice of memorial, recalling sin to remembrance.

For surely I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here I have done nothing, but they have cast me into this pit.

And having seen the resting place that it was good, and the land that it was fertile, he subjected his shoulder to labour, and became a husbandman.

According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to thee.

And Pharao spoke to Joseph, saying, In my dream methought I stood by the bank of the river;

And if thou doest thus to me, slay me utterly, if I have found favour with thee, that I may not see my affliction.