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And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

So she leaves the clothes by her, until the master came to his house.

And the hand of the Lord was upon them to destroy them out of the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

lest at any time thou make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call thee, and thou shouldest eat of their feasts,

And to Machir I gave Galaad.

And over the host of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, was Nathanael son of Sogar.

And he shall take away the crop with the feathers, and shall cast it forth by the altar toward the east to the place of the ashes.

And the Lord God spoke to Noe, saying,

And he says to him, If thou go not up with us thyself, bring me not up hence.

And thou shalt pour oil upon it, and shalt put frankincense on it: it is a sacrifice.

And Laban said to Jacob, Surely thou shalt not serve me for nothing, because thou art my brother; tell me what thy reward is to be.

And take good heed to your hearts, for ye saw no similitude in the day in which the Lord spoke to you in Choreb in the mountain out of the midst of the fire:

went in to Noe into the ark, pairs, male and female of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

And both the kidneys, and all the fat that is upon them, that which is upon the thighs, and the caul of the liver with the kidneys, shall he take away.

And the tables were the work of God, and the writing the writing of God written on the tables.

sending a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:)

So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.

And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbaths, to observe them throughout their generations.

And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, Abraam and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the calf before the Lord, and they shall slay the calf before the Lord.

And the sons of Gad; Saphon, and Angis, and Sannis, and Thasoban, and Aedis, and Aroedis, and Areelis.

And Lea said, not enough for thee that thou hast taken my husband, wilt thou also take my son's mandrakes? And Rachel said, Not so: let him lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand, and a high arm: therefore the Lord appointed thee to keep the sabbath day and to sanctify it.

They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.

On this day the Lord thy God charged thee to keep all the ordinances and judgments; and ye shall observe and do them, with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which he sware to them, he has overthrown them in the wilderness.

And if any one deceive a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her for a wife to himself.

Even if he should gather silver as earth, and prepare gold as clay;

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not.

Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt.

Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it out on the ground as water.

And on the back of the tabernacle at the part which is toward the west thou shalt make six posts.

For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.

And Judas said, What shall we answer to our lord, or what shall we say, or wherein should we be justified? whereas God has discovered the unrighteousness of thy servants; behold, we are slaves to our lord, both we and he with whom the cup has been found.

Now Laban had two daughters, the name of the elder was Lea, and the name of the younger, Rachel.

I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.

And Maleleel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And Isaac was amazed with very great amazement, and said, Who then is it that has procured venison for me and brought it to me? and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.

And to Ruben and to Gad I gave the land under Galaad as far as the brook of Arnon, the border between the brook and as far as Jaboc; the brook is the border to the children Amman.

then the waters that came down from above stopped; there stood one solid heap very far off, as far as the region of Kariathiarim, and the lower part came down to the sea of Araba, the salt sea, till it completely failed; and the people stood opposite Jericho.

until the morrow after the last week ye shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new meat-offering to the Lord.

and one kid of the goats for a sin-offering.

Therefore ye shall circumcise the hardness of your heart, and ye shall not harden your neck.

And we cried to the Lord, and the Lord heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt; and now we are in the city of Cades, at the extremity of thy coasts.

These were famous men of the congregation, heads of the tribes according to their families: these are heads of thousands in Israel.

And thou shalt say to him, The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to thee, saying, Send my people away, that they may serve me in the wilderness, and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.

And the priest of Madiam had seven daughters, feeding the flock of their father Jothor; and they came and drew water until they filled their pitchers, to water the flock of their father Jothor.

lest ye transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,

And the men having risen up from thence looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha. And Abraam went with them, attending them on their journey.

And they departed from the wilderness of Sina, and encamped at the Graves of Lust.

These the sons of Esau, and these are the chiefs; these are the sons of Edom.

And Pharao said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, Do this; fill your waggons, and depart into the land of Chanaan.

And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of first-fruits of thy labours, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy fruits out of thy field.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi.

It is a perpetual covenant with me and the children of Israel, it is a perpetual sign with me; for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and on the seventh day he ceased, and rested.

For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom ye came.

Then he saw it, and declared it: he prepared it and traced it out.

And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noe, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

and of the fullness of the land in season: and let the things pleasing to him that dwelt in the bush come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of him who was glorified above his brethren.

And Esau returned on that day on his journey to Seir.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their kindreds, Gedson, Caath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven.

And Jacob came in out of the field at even; and Lea went forth to meet him, and said, Thou shalt come in to me this day, for I have hired thee for my son's mandrakes; and he lay with her that night.

He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.

who fed thee with manna in the wilderness, which thou knewest not, and thy fathers knew not; that he might afflict thee, and thoroughly try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

the angel who delivers me from all evils, bless these boys, and my name shall be called upon them, and the name of my fathers, Abraam and Isaac; and let them be increased to a great multitude on the earth.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.

And he shall make compensation for that wherein he has sinned in the holy things; and he shall add the fifth part to it, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of transgression, and his sin shall be forgiven him.

And when I saw that ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;

And if a man should hallow to the Lord a part of the field of his possession, then the valuation shall be according to its seed, fifty didrachms of silver for a homer of barley.

The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer:

And the anointed priest shall bring in of the blood of the calf into the tabernacle of witness.

And whatever woman shall approach any beast, so as to have connexion with it, ye shall kill the woman and the beast: let them die the death, they are guilty.

And it came to pass when all the men of war dying out of the midst of the people had fallen,

But if the sound flesh be restored and changed to white, then shall he come to the priest;

And he shall break it off from the wings and shall not separate it, and the priest shall put it on the altar on the wood which is on the fire: it is a burnt-offering, a sacrifice, a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

And Abraam hearkened to Ephron, and Abraam rendered to Ephron the money, which he mentioned in the ears of the sons of Chet, four hundred didrachms of silver approved with merchants.

And the priest shall offer it upon the altar: it is a burnt-offering, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord. All the fat belongs to the Lord.

milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.

For they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.

And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people.

And these were the sons of Juda, according to their families: to Selom belonged the family of the Selonites; to Phares, the family of the Pharesites; to Zara, the family of the Zaraites.

And if it be a vow, or he offer his gift of his own will, on whatsoever day he shall offer his sacrifice, it shall be eaten, and on the morrow.

For with a secret hand the Lord wages war upon Amalec to all generations.

And the third row, a ligure, an agate, an amethyst:

Thus say ye to Joseph, Forgive them their injustice and their sin, forasmuch as they have done thee evil; and now pardon the injustice of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept while they spoke to him.

according to all things which thou didst desire of the Lord thy God in Choreb in the day of the assembly, saying, We will not again hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and we will not any more see this great fire, and so we shall not die.

And Moses said to Core, Sanctify thy company, and be ready before the Lord, thou and Aaron and they, to-morrow.

For whenever there is a dispute among them, and they come to me, I give judgment upon each, and I teach them the ordinances of God and his law.

thou shalt utterly destroy all the dwellers in that land with the edge of the sword; ye shall solemnly curse it, and all things in it.

And if he should say to thee, I will not go out from thee, because he continues to love thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

And if an unjust witness rise up against a man, alleging iniquity against him;

And every one who shall touch a man slain by violence, or a corpse, or human bone, or sepulchre, shall be unclean seven days.

then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions:

And if her husband should in any wise cancel them after the day in which he heard them, then he shall bear his iniquity.

surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.