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Let them be confounded and ashamed together that rejoice at my afflictions: let them be clothed with shame and confusion that speak great swelling words against me.

And the child Samuel advanced, and was in favour with God and with men.

And she said, I pray thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, I am the woman that stood in thy presence with thee while praying to the Lord.

And the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Baethel; and they wept, and sat there before the Lord; and they fasted on that day until evening, and offered whole-burnt-offerings and perfect sacrifices, before the Lord,

For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

when Israel dwelt in Esebon and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by Jordan, three hundred years? and wherefore didst thou not recover them in that time?

And now rise up by night, thou and the people with thee, and lay wait in the field.

And thou shalt build an altar to the Lord thy God on the top of this Maozi in the orderingit, and thou shalt take the second bullock, and shalt offer up whole-burnt-offerings with the wood of the grove, which thou shalt destroy.

She stretched forth her left hand to the nail, and her right to the hand workman's hammer, and she smote Sisara with it, she nailed through his head and smote him; she nailed through his temples.

And they set up over him a great heap of stones; and the Lord ceased from his fierce anger. Therefore he called the place Emecachor until this day.

And Aod escaped while they were in a tumult, and no one paid attention to him; and he passed the quarries, and escaped to Setirotha.

And the man went into the land of Chettin, and built there a city, and called the name of it Luza; this is its name until this day.

And we gave orders to do thus, to build this altar, not for burnt-offerings, nor for meat-offerings;

In all were given ten cities, and the suburbs of each belonging to them, to the families of the sons of Caath that remained.

and Elimelech, and Amiel, and Maasa, and the lot will border on Carmel westward, and on Sion, and Labanath.

and Massema, and Miron, and Amoke;

The princes went first, next before the players on instruments, in the midst of damsels playing on timbrels.

Let their habitation be made desolate; and let there be no inhabitant in their tents:

and Sen, and Salmaa, and Molada,

And from Esebon to Araboth by Massepha, and Botanim, and Maan to the borders of Daebon,

My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.

And it came to pass toward the setting of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and cast them into the cave into which they had fled for refuge, and rolled stones to the cave, which remain till this day.

Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?

Howbeit do thou learn, Job: no longer make answer as the foolish:

Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the families of the congregation.

And the man being well pleased, worshipped the Lord,

And there were two men left in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Modad; and the spirit rested upon them, and these were of the number of them that were enrolled, but they did not come to the tabernacle; and they prophesied in the camp.

And all the curtains of the court which were upon the tabernacle of witness, and the appendages, and all the vessels of service that they minister with they shall attend to.

And Laban answered, It is not done thus in our country, to give the younger before the elder.

And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Separate yourselves from the tents of these stubborn men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, lest ye be consumed with them in all their sin.

And our cattle shall go with us, and we will not leave a hoof behind, for of them we will take to serve the Lord our God: but we know not in what manner we shall serve the Lord our God, until we arrive there.

And if thou take thy neighbour's garment for a pledge, thou shalt restore it to him before sunset.

And ye shall be holy to me; because I the Lord your God am holy, who separated you from all nations, to be mine.

But they spoke to him all the words uttered by Joseph, whatsoever he said to them; and having seen the chariots which Joseph sent to take him up, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shalt thou do to the Levites in their charges.

And these the chiefs of Chorri; chief Lotan, chief Sobal, chief Sebegon, chief Ana,

And the Lord because of you did not regard me, and hearkened not to me; and the Lord said to me, Let it suffice thee, speak not of this matter to me any more.

And whichever among the beasts divides the hoof and makes claws, and does not chew the cud, shall be unclean to you; every one that touches their dead bodies shall be unclean till evening.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

the blessings of thy father and thy motherit has prevailed above the blessing of the lasting mountains, and beyond the blessings of the everlasting hills; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the head of the brothers of whom he took the lead.

But thou shalt take thy holy things, if thou hast any, and thy vowed-offerings, and come to the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to have his name named upon it.

and they went and served other gods, which they knew not, neither did he assign them to them.

And we said, We shall not be able to go down; but if our younger brother go down with us, we will go down; for we shall not be able to see the man's face, our younger brother not being with us.

And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Herein shall I know that ye are peaceable; leave one brother here with me, and having taken the corn ye have purchased for your family, depart.

And it shall be forgiven as respects all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that is abiding among you, because it is involuntary to all the people.

And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done? wherefore didst thou run away secretly, and pillage me, and lead away my daughters as captives taken with the sword?

I said, I will scatter them, and I will cause their memorial to cease from among men.

And his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were nine souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob who came with Joseph into Egypt, were seventy-five souls.

On the fifth day nine calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without spot.

And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth tine hand over the sea, and let the water be turned back to its place, and let it cover the Egyptians coming both upon the chariots and the riders.

and he departed from him, because she said, The blood of the circumcision of my son is staunched.

And it came to pass on the seventh day that some of the people went forth to gather, and found none.

to Aroadi, the family of the Aroadites; to Ariel, the family of the Arielites.

And Joshua adjured them on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest surviving son.

And on the day of the new corn, when ye shall offer a new sacrifice at the festival of weeks to the Lord, there shall be to you a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work,

the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

and put them all on the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and offered them up for a wave-offering before the Lord.

Behold, I set before you this day the blessing and the curse;

And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

Only in the land of Gesem where the children of Israel were, the hail was not.

And after this came forth his brother, and his hand took hold of the heel of Esau; and she called his name Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when Rebecca bore them.

And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Aser, was Phageel the son of Echran.

Our store, and our wives, and all our cattle shall be in the cities of Galaad.

And Judas said to his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

And Jektan begot Elmodad, and Saleth, and Sarmoth, and Jarach,

And he called it, Oath: therefore he called the name of that city, the Well of Oath, until this day.

And the priest shall pour of the oil on his own left hand.

And thou shalt put the veil on the posts, and thou shalt carry in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a separation for you between the holy and the holy of holies.

And under the fringe of the robe below thou shalt make as it were pomegranates of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun, under the fringe of the robe round about: golden pomegranates of the same shape, and bells round about between these.

And the damsel has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbour, and slay him, so is this thing;

For the sons of Issachar according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,

And they judged the people at all times; and every too burdensome matter they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.

And every first-born which shall be produced among thy cattle shall be the Lord's, and no man shall sanctify it: whether calf or sheep, it is the Lord's.

For what flesh is there which has heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have heard, and shall live?

Ye shall eat no blood in all your habitations, either of beasts or of birds.

And the angel of the Lord went farther, and came and stood in a narrow place where it was impossible to turn to the right or the left.

And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thine house, so shouldest thou be an accursed thing like it; thou shalt utterly hate it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

And they departed from Makeloth, and encamped in Kataath.

I declared my ways, and thou didst hear me: teach me thine ordinances.

And thou shalt take the breast from the ram of consecration which is Aaron's, and thou shalt separate it as a separate offering before the Lord, and it shall be to thee for a portion.

Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say, So be it.

And concerning the repetition of the dream to Pharao twice, because the saying which is from God shall be true, and God will hasten to accomplish it.

Thou shalt not go up to my altar by steps, that thou mayest not uncover thy nakedness upon it.

This is the law of the man who has an issue, and if one discharge seed of copulation, so that he should be polluted by it.

But if the priest should look, and, behold, there is not in the bright spot any white hair, and it should not be lower than the skin, and it should be dark, then the priest shall separate him seven days.

And Moses went out from Pharao, and prayed to God.

And Joseph entered into the house, and they brought him the gifts which they had in their hands, into the house; and they did him reverence with their face to the ground.

And he said, Blessed the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shall be his bond-servant.

And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, even his ransom;

And Balaam answered and said to Balac, Spoke I not to thee, saying, Whatsoever thing God shall speak to me, that will I do?

For Esebon is the city of Seon king of the Amorites; and he before fought against the king of Moab, and they took all his land, from Aroer to Arnon.

And Mathusala lived after his begetting Lamech eight hundred and two years, and begot sons and daughters.

Take the book of this law, and ye shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God; and it shall be there among you for a testimony.

When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Now then, my son, hear my voice, and rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia to Laban my brother into Charran.

And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob's thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him.

And he that sends forth the goat that has been set apart to be let go, shall wash his garments, and bathe his body in water, and afterwards shall enter into the camp.

Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, the prince was Phaltiel the son of Oza.

and take Aaron's apparel from off him, and put it on Eleazar his son: and let Aaron die there and be added to his people.