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And I will be called upon among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and shall overtake thee, until he shall have consumed thee, and until he shall have destroyed thee; because thou didst not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commands, and his ordinances which he has commanded thee.

And the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine; I am the Lord.

And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel the fiftieth part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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

These are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt:

And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nation, to be their God; I am the Lord.

And ye sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord hearkened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.

I walked also at large: for I sought out thy commandments.

And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.

A sojourner or hireling shall not eat of it.

This is the numbering of the family of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, by the hand of Moses.

And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.

And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.

And Moses finished speaking to all Israel.

And the leper in whom the plague is, let his garments be ungirt, and his head uncovered; and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.

All the days in which the plague shall be upon him, being unclean, he shall be esteemed unclean; he shall dwell apart, his place of sojourn shall be without the camp.

And all those who were appointed to be officers of thousands of the host, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, approached Moses, and said to Moses,

And for the ransoms of the two hundred and seventy-three which exceed the Levites in number of the first-born of the sons of Israel;

And Isaac went into the house of his mother, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted for Sarrha his mother.

And they departed from Daebon Gad, and encamped in Gelmon Deblathaim.

And ye shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labours.

And the sons of Dan according to their families; to Same, the family of the Sameites; these are the families of Dan according to their families.

And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings, and was not ashamed.

And these things shall be signs in thee, and wonders among thy seed for ever;

And he that goes into the house at any time, during its separation, shall be unclean until evening.

And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee to-day.

And ye dwelt in Cades many days, as many days as ye dwelt there.

These are my judgments and my ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children of Israel, in the mount Sina, by the hand of Moses.

And he said to them, Take heed with your heart to all these words, which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons, to observe and do all the words of this law.

six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

In one house shall it be eaten, and ye shall not carry of the flesh out from the house; and a bone of it ye shall not break.

on the other side of Jordan, in the valley near the house of Phogor, in the land of Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel smote when they came out of the land of Egypt.

This is the law concerning beasts and birds and every living creature moving in the water, and every living creature creeping on the earth;

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

All that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the rulers of Israel numbered, namely, the Levites, according to their families and according to the houses of their lineage,

And Abimelech drew near to the tower, and they besieged it; and Abimelech drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

And westward of Hieracon the border was near to Joppa.

And he caused them to be pitied in the sight of all who carried them captive.

And Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines departed to their place.

from Accaron, Gemna, and all the cities that are near Asedoth; and their villages.

The strange children shall be cast away, and shall be overthrown out of their hiding places.

this day. And the Lord shall deliver thee this day into my hand; and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from off thee, and will give thy limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might.

The Lord lives; and blessed be my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after.

Who cried with a loud voice, I am clear from the blood of this woman.

And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust.

Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction.

Your elder sister who dwells on thy left hand is Samaria, she and her daughters: and thy younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Thou hast shortened the days of his throne: thou hast poured shame upon him. Pause.

And he measured the court, the length whereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth a hundred cubits, on its four sides; and the altar in front of the house.

O ye fire and heat, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.

Thus saith the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

Yet notwithstanding thou hast not walked in their ways, neither hast thou done according to their iniquities within a little, but thou hast exceeded them in all thy ways.

And he brought me into the porch of the house; and he measured the post of the porch, the breadth was five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other side; and the breadth of the door was fourteen cubits, and the side-pieces of the door of the porch were three cubits on one side, and three cubits on the other side.

Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

How long, O Lord, wilt thou turn away, for ever? shall thine anger flame out as fire?

And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.

He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

And all this assembly shall know that the Lord delivers not by sword or spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and the Lord will deliver you into our hands.

It is God that avenges me, and has subdued the nations under me;

The Lord lives, and blessed be my guardian, and my God, my strong keeper, shall be exalted.

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, that we may glory in thy praise.

And Saul received the kingdom, by lot he inherits the office of ruling over Israel: and he fought against all his enemies round about, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against the children of Edom, and against Baethaeor, and against the king of Suba, and against the Philistines: whithersoever he turned, he was victorious.

Asiedoth, and her villages, and her hamlets; Gaza, and its villages and its hamlets as far as the river of Egypt, and the great sea is the boundary.

And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon, even six hundred men; and they sojourned four months in the rock of Remmon.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan, according to their families, these are their cities and their villages: and the children of Dan did not drive out the Amorite who afflicted them in the mountain; and the Amorite would not suffer them to come down into the valley, but they forcibly took from them the border of their portion.

And a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon the head of Abimelech, and broke his skull.

And Laban called it, the Heap of Testimony; and Jacob called it, the Witness Heap.

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean; and between those that bring forth alive, such as should be eaten, and those that bring forth alive, such as should not be eaten.

And I meditated on thy commandments, which I loved exceedingly.

because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.

And they inherited his land, and the land of Og king of Basan, two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan eastward.

And he that sleeps in the house shall wash his garments, and be unclean until evening; and he that eats in the house shall wash his garments, and be unclean until evening.

And if a garment have in it the plague of leprosy, a garment of wool, or a garment of flax,

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;

And they departed from Gelmon Deblathaim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, over against Nabau.

All the families of Samei according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.

For this is no vain word to you; for it is your life, and because of this word ye shall live long upon the land, into which ye go over Jordan to inherit it.

from five and twenty years old and upward till fifty years old, every one that goes in to the service of the works, and the charge of the things that are carried in the tabernacle of witness.

But the Levites of the tribe of their family were not counted among the children of Israel.

Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war with us, and not one is missing.

And for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two heifers, five rams, five he-goats, five ewe-lambs of a year old: this was the gift of Elisaph the son of Raguel.

thou shalt even take five shekels a head; thou shalt take them according to the holy didrachm, twenty oboli to the shekel.

All the congregation of the children of Israel shall keep it.

Then all the people turned them toward him, and said, What mean these words that thou hast spoken?

For when there cometh any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods, which can neither save themselves from war, nor from plague?

So he standing in the midst of them said, Are ye such fools, ye sons of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth ye have condemned a daughter of Israel?

And in the hill country Samir, and Jether, and Socha,

And he cried out quickly to the young man his armour-bearer, and said to him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, lest at any time they should say, A woman slew him: and his young man thrust him through and he died.

And he wrought valiantly, and smote Amalec, and rescued Israel out of the hand of them that trampled on him.

And the Philistine arose and went to meet David.

And the sons of Dan went and fought against Lachis, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and they dwelt in it, and called the name of it Lasendan: and the Amorite continued to dwell in Edom and in Salamin: and the hand of Ephraim prevailed against them, and they became tribute to them.

my deliverer from angry enemies: thou shalt set me on high above them that rise up against me: thou shalt deliver me from the unrighteous man.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting; and all the people shall say, Amen, Amen.

The Lord who avenges me is strong, chastening the nations under me,