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Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: she is the last of the nations, desolate,

And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, two women coming forth, and the wind was in their wings; and they had stork's wings: and they lifted up the measure between the earth and the sky.

Who will boast that he has a pure heart? or who will boldly say that he is pure from sins?

Take heed to thyself, and keep thy heart diligently: forget not any of the things, which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thine heart all the days of thy life; and thou shalt teach thy sons and thy sons' sons,

according to every injury alleged, both concerning a calf, and an ass, and a sheep, and a garment, and every alleged loss, whatsoever in fact it may be, the judgment of both shall proceed before God, and he that is convicted by God shall repay to his neighbour double.

and she said to them, I know that the Lord has given you the land; for the fear of you has fallen upon us.

and the sons of Eliab, Namuel, and Dathan, and Abiron: these are renowned men of the congregation; these are they that rose up against Moses and Aaron in the gathering of Core, in the rebellion against the Lord.

And let it become dust over all the land of Egypt, and there shall be upon men and upon beasts sore blains breaking forth both on men and on beasts, in all the land of Egypt.

And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day.

And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you, if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.

For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

And I will look upon you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

And a clean man shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up in a clean place outside the camp; and they shall be for the congregation of the children of Israel to keep: it is the water of sprinkling, a purification.

All that were numbered of the camp of Juda were a hundred and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred: they shall move first with their forces.

And Abimelech said to Isaac, Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

And God said, Let the water which is under the heaven be collected into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And the water which was under the heaven was collected into its places, and the dry land appeared.

And these ye shall eat of all that are in the water, ye shall eat all that have fins and scales.

came to the place which God spoke of to him; and there Abraam built the altar, and laid the wood on it, and having bound the feet of Isaac his son together, he laid him on the altar upon the wood.

While he was yet speaking to them, behold, Rachel the daughter of Laban came with her father's sheep, for she fed the sheep of her father.

The house of Israel trusts in the Lord: he is their helper and defender.

And thou shalt make a court for the tabernacle, curtains of the court of fine linen spun on the south side, the length of a hundred cubits for one side.

And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Be silent and hear, O Israel; this day thou art become a people to the Lord thy God.

Who says to his father and mother, I have not seen thee; and he knew not his brethren, and he refused to know his sons: he kept thine oracles, and observed thy covenant.

Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to himself to minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them?

And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole-burnt-offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish.

And thou shalt give the Levites to Aaron, and to his sons the priests; they are given for a gift to me of the children of Israel.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And Jothor was amazed at all the good things which the Lord did to them, forasmuch as he rescued them out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao.

And the great men ceased speaking, and laid their finger on their mouth.

And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatsoever seed thou mayest sow, with the fruit of thy vineyard.

Lo! is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself from me; if thou to the left, I will go to the right, and if thou goest to the right, I will go to the left.

And Sarrha having seen the son of Agar the Egyptian who was born to Abraam, sporting with Isaac her son,

And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord proceed sounding the trumpets.

The nakedness of thy sister by thy father or by thy mother, born at home or abroad, their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

But to the sons of Caath he gave them not, because they have the ministrations of the sacred things: they shall bear them on their shoulders.

And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of witness; and thou shalt assemble all the congregation of the sons of Israel.

And the Egyptians pursued after them, and found them encamped by the sea; and all the cavalry and the chariots of Pharao, and the horsemen, and his host were before the village, over against Beel-sepphon.

And Moses took his rod which was before the Lord, as the Lord commanded.

Ye shall not drink wine nor strong drink, thou and thy sons with thee, whensoever ye enter into the tabernacle of witness, or when ye approach the altar, so shall ye not die; it is a perpetual statute for your generations,

The Lord raise thee up for himself a holy people, as he sware to thy fathers; if thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all his ways.

And Moses said, We will go with the young and the old, with our sons, and daughters, and sheep, and oxen, for it is a feast of the Lord.

And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon.

And it shall come to pass when the scribes shall have ceased speaking to the people, that they shall appoint generals of the army to be leaders of the people.

Therefore the Levites have no part nor inheritance among their brethren; the Lord himself is their inheritance, as he said to them.

And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me, and I have seen the affliction with which the Egyptians afflict them.

a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.

that it may give unto thy head a crown of graces, and may cover thee with a crown of delight.

Take heed to thyself that there be not a secret thing in thine heart, an iniquity, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, draws nigh; and thine eye shall be evil to thy brother that is in want, and thou shalt not give to him, and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and there shall be great sin in thee.

And every ass's saddle, on which the man with the issue shall have mounted, shall be unclean till evening.

Whenever thy friend shall reproach thee, retreat backward, despise him not;

But if her husband should straitly forbid her in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.

And Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, and they hearkened not to Moses for faint-heartedness, and for their hard tasks.

But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.

And they shall take a blue covering, and cover the candlestick that gives light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its funnels, and all the vessels of oil with which they minister.

The Phoenicians call Aermon Sanior, but the Amorite has called it Sanir.

And he brought us into this place, and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hearken to the word of the Lord our God.

And it shall be to thee a sign upon thy hand and a memorial before thine eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord God brought thee out of Egypt.

and shall not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of witness to sacrifice it to the Lord, that man shall be destroyed from among his people.

And the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraam, and swore to him concerning this matter.

And the Lord did as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields.

And Isaac and Ismael his sons buried him in the double cave, in the field of Ephron the son of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre:

And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety.

and intermarry with us. Give us your daughters, and take our daughters for your sons.

And if a man have a plague of leprosy, then he shall come to the priest;

And the priest shall approach the altar, and shall take away from the sacrifice a memorial of it, and the priest shall place it on the altar: a burnt offering, a smell of sweet savour to the Lord.

And these are what ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all things that have fins and scales in the waters, and in the seas, and in the brooks, these ye shall eat.

Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man who hopes in him.

And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters.

And when Aaron spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they turned toward the wilderness, then the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.

And Moses went forth from Pharao with wrath. And the Lord said to Moses, Pharao will not hearken to you, that I may greatly multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

And he said to him, I heard thy voice as thou walkedst in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.

I believed, wherefore I have spoken: but I was greatly afflicted.

against Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.

And Esau said, I have much, my brother; keep thine own.

And these the generations of Esau, the father of Edom in the mount Seir.

If sons be born to them, in the third generation they shall enter into the assembly of the Lord.

And God came to Balaam, and said to him, Who are these men with thee?

And Moses said to Joshua, Choose out for thyself mighty men, and go forth and set the army in array against Amalec to-morrow; and, behold, I shall stand on the top of the hill, and the rod of God will be in my hand.

Ye shall not eat of it raw nor sodden in water, but only roast with fire, the head with the feet and the appurtenances.

And every sacrifice which shall be prepared in the oven, and every one which shall be prepared on the hearth, or on a frying-pan, it is the property of the priest that offers it; it shall be his.

And ye shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that ye may understand all things that ye shall do.

Seven weeks shalt thou number to thyself; when thou hast begun to put the sickle to the corn, thou shalt begin to number seven weeks.

And if he have no daughter, ye shall give his inheritance to his brother.

Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor shalt thou serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal-staff: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.

and said, If I have found grace before thee, let my Lord go with us; for the people is stiff-necked: and thou shalt take away our sins and our iniquities, and we will be thine.

And his people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, Israel was the line of his inheritance.

Wherewith shall a young man direct his way? by keeping thy words.

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Gesem of Arabia; and thou shalt be near me, thou and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, thy sheep and thine oxen, and whatsoever things are thine.

Send one of you, and take your brother; and go ye to prison, till your words be clear, whether ye speak the truth or not; but, if not, by the health of Pharao, verily ye are spies.

except only the land of the priests; Joseph bought not this, for Pharao gave a portion in the way of gift to the priests; and they ate their portion which Pharao gave them; therefore they sold not their land.

Remember all that the Lord thy God did to Mariam in the way, when ye were going out of Egypt.

And Aaron shall bring forward the goat on which the lot for the Lord fell, and shall offer him for a sin-offering.

and Aaron's robes of ministry, and the robes of his sons to minister to me as priests,

then his brother's wife shall come forward before the elders, and shall loose one shoe from off his foot, and shall spit in his face, and shall answer and say, Thus shall they do to the man who will not build his brother's house in Israel.