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And they departed from Etebatha, and encamped in Ebrona.

And the children of Israel did all things that the Lord commanded Moses; thus they encamped in their order, and thus they began their march in succession each according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families.

And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel in mount Sina.

For I have taken the wave-breast and shoulder of separation from the children of Israel from the sacrifices of your peace-offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons, a perpetual ordinance due from the children of Israel.

And thou shalt be distracted, because of the sights of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know that thou wert standing opposite in the way to meet me; and now if it shall not be pleasing to thee for me to go on, I will return.

And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.

And the sons of Gad built Daebon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

And he said to me, The Lord God to whom I have been acceptable in his presence, himself shall send out his angel with thee, and shall prosper thy journey, and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my tribe, and of the house of my father.

The mustering of them according to number, every male from a month old and upwards, was six thousand and fifty.

And she conceived yet again, and bore a son, and said, In the present time my husband will be with me, for I have born him three sons; therefore she called his name, Levi.

And the land produced, in the seven years of plenty, handfuls .

And the people took their dough before their meal was leavened, bound up as it was in their garments, on their shoulders.

And the name of that place was called the Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people that lusted.

And if aught be left of the flesh of the sacrifice of consecration and of the loaves until the morning, thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, for it is a holy thing.

And the Lord smote the people for the making the calf, which Aaron made.

and asses, sixty-one thousand.

as he did in this day on which the Lord commanded me to do so, to make an atonement for you.

And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the year, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Whensoever ye shall enter into the land of the Chananites, which I give you for a possession, and I shall put the plague of leprosy in the houses of the land of your possession;

if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt in thy sight.

And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.

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

And thou shalt put them on Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, and thou shalt anoint them and fill their hands: and thou shalt sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.

And all food that is eaten, on which water shall come from such a vessel, shall be unclean; and every beverage which is drunk in any such vessel, shall be unclean.

And the Lord said to Moses, Fear him not; for I have delivered him and all his people, and all his land, into thy hands; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon.

Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths all the days of its desolation.

And the priest shall see the scurf on the seventh day; and, behold, if the scurf is not spread in the skin after the man's being shaved, and the appearance of the scurf is not hollow beneath the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he shall wash his garments, and be clean.

And the cloud overshadowed them by day, when they departed from the camp.

Samada died; and Saul of Rhooboth by the river reigned in his stead.

Lo! are not these things stored up by me, and sealed among my treasures?

The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

And they placed him in custody, for they did not determine what they should do to him.

And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and being greatly provoked he sware, saying,

the owner of the pit shall make compensation; he shall give money to their owner, and the dead shall be his own.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the elder said to the younger, Behold, I slept yesternight with our father, let us make him drink wine in this night also, and do thou go in and sleep with him, and let us raise up seed of our father.

And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and shall put it on the horns of the altar of whole-burnt-offerings, and he shall pour out all its blood by the bottom of the altar of whole-burnt-offering.

And ye shall not defile the land whereon ye dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camel's packs, and sat upon them.

And when Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders ceased, he continued to sin; and he hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants.

For the sons of Benjamin 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, every male from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes forth with the host,

And these are the sons of Galaad; to Achiezer, the family of the Achiezerites; to Cheleg, the family of the Chelegites.

But if thou do this, thy poverty will come speedily; and thy want like a swift courier.

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

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.

Sing to God that rides on the heaven of heaven, eastward: lo, he will utter a mighty sound with his voice.

For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.

And this which shall come upon thy two sons Ophni and Phinees shall be a sign to thee; in one day they shall both die.

and if I ate its strength alone without price, and if I too grieved the heart of the owner of the soil, by taking aught from him:

They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them to destroy;

And Joshua gave a name to the altar of the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse; and said, It is a testimony in the midst of them, that the Lord is their God.

And the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gedeon, and he blew with the horn, and Abiezer came to help after him.

And Abessalom escaped: and the young man the watchman, lifted up his eyes, and looked; and, behold, much people went in the way behind him from the side of the mountain in the descent: and the watchman came and told the king, and said, I have seen men by the way of Oronen, by the side of the mountain.

Thy hands were not bound, and thy feet were not put in fetters: one brought thee not near as Nabal; thou didst fall before children of iniquity.

And there came over against Gabaa ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel; and the fight was severe; and they knew not that evil was coming upon them.

And David said to Saul, Thy servant was tending the flock for his father; and when a lion came and a she-bear, and took a sheep out of the flock,

Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

so shall I not be afraid, but I will speak: for I am not thus conscious of guilt.

And the Lord delivered it into the hand of Israel; and he took it on that day, and slew the inhabitants with the edge of the sword, and slew every thing breathing in it, as they did to Lachis.

And the coasts will return westward by Athabor, and will go out thence to Jacana, and will border on Zabulon southward, and Aser will join it westward, and Jordan eastward.

And to the family of the sons of Merari the Levites that remained, he gave out of the tribe of Zabulon, Maan and its suburbs; and Cades and its suburbs,

And Jonathan sprang up from the table in great anger, and did not eat bread on the second day of the month, for he grieved bitterly for David, because his father determined on mischief against him.

Let my meditation be sweet to him: and I will rejoice in the Lord.

And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?

He spoke, and the locust came, and caterpillars innumerable,

Aliphaleth the son of Asbites, the son of the Machachachite; Eliab the son of Achitophel the Gelonite.

And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them to bring hither every one his calf, and every one his sheep: and let them slay it on this stone and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood: and the people brought each one that which was in his hand, and they slew them there.

And Jephthae came to Massepha to his house; and behold, his daughter came forth to meet him with timbrels and dances; and she was his only child, he had not another son or daughter.

a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

And the king said to Berzelli, Thou shalt go over with me, and I will nourish thine old age with me in Jerusalem.

And Samuel departed to Armathaim, and Saul went up to his house at Gabaa.

He instructs my hands for war: and thou hast made my arms as a brazen bow.

Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are destroyed, thou shalt see it.

But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing thee harm, if thou hadst not hasted and come to meet me, then I said, There shall surely not be left to Nabal till the morning one male.

And the Amorite drove out the children of Dan into the mountains, for they did not suffer them to come down into the valley.

He makes my feet like hart's feet, and sets me upon the high places.

Thirty and five years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Azuba daughter of Salai.

And Abimelech pursued him, and he fled from before him; and many fell down slain as far as the door of the gate.

and Ramen, and Tano, and Iluthoth, and Maeani,

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all things that his father Azarias did.

So that a man cannot say, This is worse than that: for in time they shall all be well approved.

Then the two elders stood up in the midst of the people, and laid their hands upon her head.

Stand in the multitude of the elders; and cleave unto him that is wise.

But enquire not ye of mine act: for I will not declare it unto you, till the things be finished that I do.

For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.

But thou, O godless man, and of all other most wicked, be not lifted up without a cause, nor puffed up with uncertain hopes, lifting up thy hand against the servants of God:

And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.

But they will maintain the state of the world, and all their desire is in the work of their craft.

The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced: when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them.

Fail not to be with them that weep, and mourn with them that mourn.

In like manner, they can neither give riches nor money: though a man make a vow unto them, and keep it not, they will not require it.

And he brought me in at the northern gate, and measured it according to these measures;

The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble.

and the lofty ones shall fall by the sword, and the Libanus shall fall with his lofty ones.

watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my entrances.

And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?