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By little and little I will cast them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the earth.

Lo! are not these beyond Jordan, behind, westward in the land of Chanaan, which lies westward near Golgol, by the high oak?

So shalt thou do with thy calf and thy sheep and thine ass; seven days shall it be under the mother, and the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.

take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before thee, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise.

Now then go on thy way, for thou hast earnestly desired to depart to the house of thy father; wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

And if a ransom should be imposed on him, he shall pay for the ransom of his soul as much as they shall lay upon him.

And Joseph was troubled, for his bowels yearned over his brother, and he sought to weep; and he went into his chamber, and wept there.

And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so.

And the children of Israel called the name of it Man; and it was as white coriander seed, and the taste of it as a wafer with honey.

And Balac did as Balaam told him, and offered a calf and a ram on every altar.

So the Lord delivered Israel in that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead by the shore of the sea.

And Jacob asked and said, Tell me thy name; and he said, Wherefore dost thou ask after my name? and he blessed him there.

And Pharao rose up by night, and his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt, for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.

But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye have not yet feared the Lord.

And he returned to his brethren and said, The boy is not; and I, whither am I yet to go?

thou shalt take a wife, and another man shall have her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it.

And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am not able in speech, and how shall Pharao hearken to me?

And Aaron spoke all these words, which God spoke to Moses, and wrought the miracles before the people.

How should one pursue a thousand, and two rout tens of thousands, if God had not sold them, and the Lord delivered them up?

And Balac died; and Jobab, son of Zara, from Bosorrha reigned in his stead.

in the double cave which is opposite Mambre, in the land of Chanaan, the cave which Abraam bought of Ephron the Chettite, for a possession of a sepulchre.

And he mounted him on the second of his chariots, and a herald made proclamation before him; and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.

I have chosen the way of truth; and have not forgotten thy judgments.

His forces that were numbered were fifty-three thousand and four hundred.

For the sons of Joseph, the sons of Ephraim, 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 out with the host,

And the chief of the house of the families of the divisions of Caath, was Elisaphan the son of Oziel.

And I will lay your cities waste, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of your sacrifices.

and the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshipped.

Ye shall not attend to those who have in them divining spirits, nor attach yourselves to enchanters, to pollute yourselves with them: I am the Lord your God.

Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your habitations.

And my master caused me to swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Chananites, among whom I sojourn in their land.

And Chaleb stayed the people from speaking before Moses, and said to him, Nay, but we will go up by all means, and will inherit it, for we shall surely prevail against them.

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Lest at any time thou shouldest take away thy daughters from me, and all my possessions.

But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.

the one for a sin-offering, the other for a whole-burnt-offering with the meat-offering, and the priest shall make an atonement before the Lord for him that is under purification.

the numbering of them of the tribe of Ephraim, was forty thousand and five hundred.

And ye shall not accept ransoms for life from a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall be surely put to death.

And he shall take away all the fat, as the fat is taken away from the sacrifice of peace-offering, and the priest shall offer it on the altar for a smell of sweet savour to the Lord; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and his sin shall be forgiven him.

And their charge was the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and all the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they do holy service, and the veil, and all their works.

And if the bull gore a son or daughter, let them do to him according to this ordinance.

and in this wilderness which ye saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord thy God will bear thee as a nursling, as if any man should nurse his child, through all the way which ye have gone until ye came to this place.

And ye shall keep my commandments and do them.

These are the families of Aser according to their numbering, forty-three thousand and four hundred.

And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and for what good does this birthright to me?

And Jacob called the name of that place, the Face of God; for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life was preserved.

And if the priest should see the plague of the scurf, and, behold, the appearance of it be not beneath the skin, and there is no yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall set apart him that has the plague of the scurf seven days.

And he said, Leave us not, because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, and thou shalt be an elder among us.

And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and thou shalt boil the flesh in the holy place.

And the men are shepherds; for they have been feeders of cattle, and they have brought with them their cattle, and their kine, and all their property.

And I will set thy borders from the Red Sea, to the sea of the Phylistines, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates; and I will give into your hand those that dwell in the land, and will cast them out from thee.

And having taken the coat of Joseph, they slew a kid of the goats, and stained the coat with the blood.

And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails over from the sea; and it brought them down upon the camp a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on that side, round about the camp, as it were two cubits from the earth.

If thou let him alone, he will altogether remain barren and covered with weeds; and he becomes destitute, and his stone walls are broken down.

These are unclean to you of all the reptiles which are on the earth; every one who touches their carcases shall be unclean till evening.

But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which ye go, then ye shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades.

And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth.

And it shall be on the forehead of Aaron; and Aaron shall bear away the sins of their holy things, all that the children of Israel shall sanctify of every gift of their holy things, and it shall be on the forehead of Aaron continually acceptable for them before the Lord.

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died.

ye shall offer to me their meat-offering. They shall be to you unblemished, and ye shall offer their drink-offerings.

it shall even come to pass, when he sees the boy is not with us, he will die, and thy servants will bring down the old age of thy servant, and our father, with sorrow to the grave.

for he has set at nought the word of the Lord and broken his commands: that soul shall be utterly destroyed, his sin is upon him.

And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clave asunder beneath them.

And Pharao called Moses and Aaron by night, and said to them, Rise and depart from my people, both ye and the children of Israel. Go and serve the Lord your God, even as ye say.

And one kid of the goats for a sin-offering; beside the perpetual whole-burnt-offering; there shall be their meat-offerings and their drink-offerings.

And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, which ye rejected.

And Israel saw the mighty hand, the things which the Lord did to the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord, and they believed God and Moses his servant.

And he laid the rods which he had peeled, in the hollows of the watering-troughs, that whensoever the cattle should come to drink, as they should have come to drink before the rods, the cattle might conceive at the rods.

And Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites.

This shall be to you a most holy sabbath, a rest, and ye shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.

These were the sons of Sem in their tribes, according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

For their gods are not as our God, but our enemies are void of understanding.

And the flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was advanced, and the flax was seeding.

And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh in the tent of the tabernacle of witness in the holy place; and there ye shall eat it and the loaves in the basket of consecration, as it has been appointed me, the Lord saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat them.

Because the Lord thy God is a God of pity: he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers, which the Lord sware to them.

And now if thou wilt forgive their sin, forgive it; and if not, blot me out of thy book, which thou hast written.

And Jobab died; and Asom, from the land of the Thaemanites, reigned in his stead.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Pharao said to Joseph, I am Pharao; without thee no one shall lift up his hand on all the land of Egypt.

but stand thou here with me, and I will tell thee all the commands, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, and let them do so in the land which I give them for an inheritance.

And he washed his face and came out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

Then the man shall be clear from sin, and that woman shall bear her sin.

And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Phylistines.

There they buried Abraam and Sarrha his wife; there they buried Isaac, and Rebecca his wife; there they buried Lea;

And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever the Lord says to his servants, that will we do.

And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Fill an homer with manna, to be laid up for your generations; that they may see the bread which ye ate in the wilderness, when the Lord led you forth out of the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

And ye shall eat it in any place, ye and your families; for this is your reward for your services in the tabernacle of witness.

Thy calf shall be slain before thee, and thou shalt not eat of it; thine ass shall be violently taken away from thee, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given to thine enemies, and thou shalt have no helper.

And when the Lord God saw that Lea was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

I have cleaved to thy testimonies, O Lord; put me not to shame.

And if a man should at all redeem his tithe, he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his.

And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.

For ye are passing over Jordan, to go in and inherit the land, which the Lord our God gives you to inherit always, and ye shall dwell in it.

All that were numbered of the camp of Dan, were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand and six hundred: they shall set out last according to their order.

And the priest shall offer the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons,

He brought his gift, one silver charger, its weight a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels according to the holy shekel; both full of fine flour kneaded with oil for a meat-offering.

And they departed from Masuruth, and encamped in Banaea.