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With my whole heart have I diligently sought thee: cast me not away from thy commandments.

and the goat upon which the lot of the scape-goat came, he shall present alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon him, so as to send him away as a scape-goat, and he shall send him into the wilderness.

If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:

And if thou shouldest go forth to engage with thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every wicked thing.

And Jacob said, If I have found grace in thy sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore have I seen thy face, as if any one should see the face of God, and thou shalt be well-pleased with me.

And they shall put it, and all its vessels, into a blue skin cover; and they shall put it on bearers.

And preserve ye this law according to the times of the seasons, from year to year.

And Balaam said to God, Balac son of Sepphor, king of Moab, sent them to me, saying,

And he put them in prison three days.

And every one that touches whatsoever shall have been under him shall be unclean until evening; and he that takes them up shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

And Pharao approached, and the children of Israel having looked up, beheld, and the Egyptians encamped behind them: and they were very greatly terrified, and the children of Israel cried to the Lord;

And Lot having lifted up his eyes, observed all the country round about Jordan, that it was all watered, before God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, as the garden of the Lord, and as the land of Egypt, until thou come to Zogora.

Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.

And if when thou goest out to war against thine enemies, the Lord thy God should deliver them into thine hands, and thou shouldest take their spoil,

Who has exactly calculated the seed of Jacob, and who shall number the families of Israel? let my soul die with the souls of the righteous, and let my seed be as their seed.

Thou sentest forth thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

And ye shall eat that which is old and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.

And on the eighth day he shall take two lambs without spot of a year old, and one ewe lamp without spot of a year old, and three-tenths of fine flour for sacrifice kneaded with oil, and one small cup of oil.

And Balac was angry with Balaam, and clapped his hands together; and Balac said to Balaam, I called thee to curse my enemy, and behold thou hast decidedly blessed him this third time.

And Judas said, Let her have them, but let us not be ridiculed; I sent this kid, but thou hast not found her.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And if thou shalt draw nigh to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.

And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.

He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy.

So innocent blood shall not be spilt in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, and there shall not be in thee one guilty of blood.

And he shall lay his hand on its head; and they shall kill it by the side of the altar, toward the north before the Lord, and the sons of Aaron the priests shall pour its blood on the altar round about.

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up them and Core, when their assembly perished, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty, and they were made a sign.

And Joshua did as Moses said to him, and he went out and set the army in array against Amalec, and Moses and Aaron and Or went up to the top of the hill.

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the tabernacle of witness; and they shall keep their charge of priesthood, and all things belonging to the altar, and within the veil; and the stranger that touches them shall die.

and the priest shall look, and, behold, if it is a white spot in the skin, and it has changed the hair to white, and there be some of the sound part of the quick flesh in the sore

And Jacob said, God of my father Abraam, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good.

There shall not be found in thee one who purges his son or his daughter with fire, one who uses divination, who deals with omens, and augury,

And Jothor said, Blessed be the Lord, because he has rescued them out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao.

And if he have no brethren, ye shall give his inheritance to his father's brother.

And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the valley of Gerara, and dwelt there.

And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.

And thou shalt act according to the thing which they shall report to thee out of the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou shalt observe to do all whatsoever shall have been by law appointed to thee.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and solemnly charge the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord; and the sons of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites.

It is a whole-burnt-offering of the sabbaths on the sabbath days, besides the continued whole-burnt-offering, and its drink offering.

And Phaleg lived and hundred and thirty years, and begot Ragau.

But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt do no work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy servant nor thy maidservant, thine ox nor thine ass, nor any cattle of thine, nor the stranger that sojourns with thee.

A tenth deal for each several lamb, for the seven lambs.

And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the Lord thy God, accordingly as thy hand has power in as many things as the Lord thy God shall give thee.

As the Lord commanded Moses, so did they to the daughters of Salpaad.

And if he take another to himself, he shall not deprive her of necessaries and her apparel, and her companionship with him.

And all things which have not fins or scales in the water, or in the seas, and in the brooks, of all which the waters produce, and of every soul living in the water, are an abomination; and they shall be abominations to you.

And the vow of a widow and of her that is put away, whatsoever she shall bind upon her soul, shall stand to her.

Thou shalt surely give to him, and thou shalt lend him as much as he wants, according as he is in need; and thou shalt not grudge in thine heart as thou givest to him, because on this account the Lord thy God will bless thee in all thy works, and in all things on which thou shalt lay thine hand.

to distinguish between sacred and profane, and between clean and unclean,

This is the order of the camp of Ruben; their forces shall be toward the south, and the prince of the children of Ruben shall be Elisur the son of Sediur.

And all that have not fins and scales ye shall not eat; they are unclean to you.

And if any one give to his neighbour to keep a calf or sheep or any beast, and it be wounded or die or be taken, and no one know,

And he drew nigh and kissed him, and smelled the smell of his garments, and blessed him, and said, Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of an abundant field, which the Lord has blessed.

For if we had not tarried, we should now have returned twice.

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I repulsed them.

thou shalt surely report concerning him, and thy hands shall be upon him among the first to slay him, and the hands of all the people at the last.

And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the second Sella.

Jebosthe, Saul's son was forty years old, when he reigned over Israel; and he reigned two years, but not over the house of Juda, who followed David.

And he offered up on the altar the fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, according as the Lord commanded Moses.

Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the fruits of it.

it came to pass on a certain day, that Joseph went into the house to do his business, and there was no one of the household within.

And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire.

And ye shall go over Jordan, and shall dwell in the land, which the Lord our God takes as an inheritance for you; and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and ye shall dwell safely.

And Enos lived after his begetting Cainan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And the Lord was very angry in that day, and sware, saying,

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whatever man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or on a journey far off, among you, or among your posterity; he shall then keep the passover to the Lord,

For the land into which thou goest to inherit it, is not as the land of Egypt, whence ye came out, whensoever they sow the seed, and water it with their feet, as a garden of herbs:

And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and under his feet was as it were a work of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.

And Moses took of the anointing oil,

And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

A cubit on this side, and a cubit on that side of that which remains of the skins, of the length of the skins of the tabernacle: it shall be folding over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and that side, that it may cover it.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar.

And they departed from Aelim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

And I remained in the mount forty days and forty nights: and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you.

And ye shall measure to yourselves the eastern border from Arsenain to Sepphamar.

And their pillars twenty, and twenty brazen sockets for them, and their rings and their clasps of silver.

And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? shall indeed both I and thy mother and thy brethren come and bow before thee to the earth?

And every sacrifice made up with oil, or not made up with oil, shall belong to the sons of Aaron, an equal portion to each.

And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly.

For if he would confine, and restrain his spirit with himself;

And thou shalt put the two stones on the shoulders of the shoulder-piece: they are memorial-stones for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders, a memorial for them.

It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as a portion to them of the burnt-offerings of the Lord: it is most holy, as the offering for sin, and as the offering for trespass.

And thou shalt eat and be filled, and shalt bless the Lord thy God on the good land, which he has given thee.

And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.

And the Lord God said to Noe, A period of all men is come before me; because the earth has been filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them and the earth.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to cross over Jordan into the land of Chanaan.

and who recompenses them that hate him to their face, to destroy them utterly; and will not be slack with them that hate him: he will recompense them to their face.

And thou shalt bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the calf, before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

And he shall make the second a whole-burnt-offering, as it is fit; and the priest shall make atonement for his sin which he has sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim through age, and he could not see; and he brought them near to him, and he kissed them, and embraced them.

and with every living creature with you, of birds and of beasts, and with all the wild beasts of the earth, as many as are with you, of all that come out of the ark.

And it shall come to pass when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and beautiful cities which thou didst not build,

And he saved them out of the hand of them that hated them, and redeemed them out of the hand of the enemy.

And all that generation were laid to their fathers: and another generation rose up after them, who knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he wrought in Israel.

lest at any time the nations should say, Where is their God?

for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.

Nay even Juda kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practised, and rejected the Lord.