Genesis 46 Cross References - LEB

¹ So Israel journeyed with all that he had, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. ² And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." ³ Then he said, "I am the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. ⁴ I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes." ⁵ So Jacob arose from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to transport him. ⁶ And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, ⁷ his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt. ⁸ Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob ⁹ and the sons of Reuben: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ¹⁰ The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. ¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹² The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tolah, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. ¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. ¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters were thirty-three persons in all. ¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. ¹⁷ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel. ¹⁸ There are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob—sixteen persons. ¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. ²¹ The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. ²² These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all. ²³ The sons of Dan: Hushim. ²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. ²⁵ These are the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob—seven persons in all. ²⁶ All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt _⌊who were his descendants_⌋,* not including the wives of the sons of Jacob were sixty-six persons in all. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy. ²⁸ He* had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to appear before him* in Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. ²⁹ Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell upon his neck and wept upon his neck a long time. ³⁰ Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face, for you are still alive." ³¹ Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me. ³² And the men are shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.' ³³ And it shall be that when Pharaoh calls you he will say, 'What is your occupation?' ³⁴ Then you must say, 'You servants are men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,'* so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is a detestable thing to Egyptians."

⁴ and Abel also brought an offering from _⌊the choicest firstlings of his flock_⌋.* And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,

²⁰ And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

⁸ And he moved on from there to the hill country, east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent at Bethel on the west, and at Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Yahweh. And he called on the name of Yahweh.

¹⁴ Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.

³¹ Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.

³³ And he* planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, _⌊the everlasting God_⌋.*

¹³ And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

²² Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. And he called its name Rehoboth, and said, "Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." ²³ And from there he went up to Beersheba. ²⁴ And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham." ²⁵ And he built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. And he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Isaac dug a well there.

¹⁰ Then Jacob went out from Beersheba and went to Haran.

¹³ And behold, Yahweh was standing beside him,* and he said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you were sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants.

⁴² If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."

⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father* judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

²⁰ And there he erected an altar and called it "El Elohe Israel."*

³ Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone."

⁷ And he built an altar there and called the place El-Bethel, for there God had appeared to him when he fled before his brother.

²⁰ All Israel from Dan to Beersheba realized that Samuel was faithful* as a prophet to Yahweh.

⁵ _⌊Then when_⌋* the days of the feast had run their course, _⌊Job would send_⌋,* and he would sanctify them. Thus* he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought,* "Perhaps my children have sinned and _⌊cursed_⌋* God in their heart." This is what Job used to do _⌊all the time_⌋.*

⁸ _⌊So then_⌋,* take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you,* for _⌊I will certainly accept his prayer_⌋,* so that it will not be done with you* according to your folly, for you* have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has."

¹ After these things the word of Yahweh came* to Abram in a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward shall be very great."

¹³ And he said to Abram, "_⌊You must surely know_⌋* that your descendants shall be as aliens in a land _⌊not their own_⌋.* And they shall serve them* and they* shall oppress them four hundred years.

¹ And it happened that after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

¹¹ And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."

¹¹ Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

³ And Moses said, "Let me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?" ⁴ And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, "Moses, Moses." And he said, "Here I am."

⁶ and he said,
"Please hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak to him in a dream.*

⁴ the declaration of the hearer of God's words,* who sees the revelation of Shaddai,* falling down but whose eyes are uncovered.

⁴ Then Yahweh called out to Samuel and he said, "Here I am!"

¹⁰ Then Yahweh came and stood there and called out _⌊as before_⌋,* "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, because your servant is listening."

⁵ And he began to seek* God in the days of Zechariah who was teaching in visions of God. And _⌊whenever_⌋* he sought Yahweh God made him have success.

¹³ Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at the falling of deep sleep on men,

¹⁴ Indeed, God speaks in one way, even* in two,* yet someone does not perceive it. ¹⁵ "In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,

¹⁹ Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

⁴ And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"

¹⁰ Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus _⌊named_⌋* Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he said, "Behold, here I am, Lord!"

³ About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, "Cornelius."

¹³ And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!"

⁹ And a vision appeared to Paul during the night: a certain Macedonian man was standing there and imploring him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and* help us!"

² And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

¹⁵ for all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your descendants, forever. ¹⁶ I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be so counted.

¹⁸ Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.

¹⁷ that I will certainly bless you and greatly multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the shore of the sea. And your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies.

² And Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I will show to you. ³ Dwell as an alien in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham you father.

¹³ And behold, Yahweh was standing beside him,* and he said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you were sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants. ¹⁴ Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.

¹¹ And God said to him, "I am El-Shaddai.* Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assemblage of nations shall be from you, and kings shall go out from your loins.

²⁷ So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

⁷ And the _⌊Israelites_⌋* were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them. ⁸ And a new king rose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. ⁹ And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* are greater and more numerous than us. ¹⁰ Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, lest they become many, and when war happens, they also will join our enemies and will fight against us and go up from the land."

¹⁰ Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you are today as the stars of the heaven _⌊in number_⌋.*

²² With only seventy persons your ancestors* went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven _⌊with respect to multitude_⌋.*

⁵ And _⌊you shall declare_⌋* and you shall say _⌊before_⌋* your God, 'My ancestor* was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien _⌊few in number_⌋,* and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

¹⁰ You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation.

¹ But now thus says Yahweh,
he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; _⌊you are mine_⌋.* ² When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch* you.

⁹ And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, _⌊saying_⌋,* "You must not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

¹⁷ "But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

²⁴ saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! It is necessary for you to stand before Caesar, and behold, God has graciously granted you all who are sailing with you.'

¹⁴ And also the nation that they* serve I will judge. Then* afterward they shall go out with great possessions. ¹⁵ And as for you, you shall go to your ancestors* in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶ And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites _⌊is not yet complete_⌋."*

¹⁵ Now behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised to you."

²¹ And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.*

¹ Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him.

⁵ 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan—there you must bury me." So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.'"

¹³ And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite before* Mamre.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." ²⁵ Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."

⁸ And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites* and the Hittites* and the Amorites* and the Perizzites* and the Hivites* and the Jebusites.*

¹⁷ Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels. ¹⁸ And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

¹⁹ And you Joseph, are commanded to say this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come!

²¹ And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons at the word of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

²⁷ Then they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them. And when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

²⁴ And Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only your sheep and goats and your cattle must be left behind. Your dependents* may also go with you."

²⁶ our livestock must also go with us. Not a hoof can be left because we must take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And we will not know with what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there."

¹⁵ And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.

¹⁵ our ancestors* went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt _⌊a long time_⌋,* and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.*

⁴ and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

⁸ "When Jacob came to Egypt, your ancestors* cried out to Yahweh, so he sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought your ancestors* out from Egypt and settled them in this place.

²³ Then Israel came to Egypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.

⁴ For thus says the Lord Yahweh:
"My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him _⌊without cause_⌋.*

¹ And Jacob _⌊continued his journey_⌋* and went to the land of the Easterners.* ² And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the field, and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. And the stone on the mouth of the well was large. ³ And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well. And they watered the sheep and returned the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place. ⁴ And Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran." ⁵ And he said to them, "Do you know Laban, son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him." ⁶ And he said to them, "_⌊Is he well_⌋?"* And they said, "He is well. Now look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep." ⁷ And he said, "Look, it is still _⌊broad daylight_⌋;* it is not the time for the livestock to be gathered. Give water to the sheep and go, pasture them." ⁸ And they said, "We are not able, until all the flocks are gathered. Then the stone is rolled away from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep." ⁹ While he was speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which belonged to her father, for she was pasturing them. ¹⁰ And it happened that, when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob drew near and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. ¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. ¹² And Jacob told Rachel that he was the relative of her father, and that he was the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father. ¹³ And it happened that when Laban heard the message about Jacob, the son of his sister, he ran to meet him. And he embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. ¹⁴ And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my flesh and my bone!" And he stayed with him a month. ¹⁵ Then Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage should be." ¹⁶ Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. ¹⁷ Now the eyes of Leah were dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. ¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter." ¹⁹ Then Laban said, "Better that I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me." ²⁰ And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her. ²¹ And Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may go in to her, for _⌊my time_⌋* is completed." ²² So Laban gathered all the men of the place and prepared a feast. ²³ And it happened that in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her. ²⁴ And Laban gave Zilpah his female servant to her, to Leah his daughter as a female servant. ²⁵ And it happened that in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Now why did you deceive me?" ²⁶ Then Laban said, "_⌊It is not the custom_⌋* in our country to give the younger before the firstborn. ²⁷ Complete the week of this one,* then I will also give you the other, _⌊on the condition that you will work for me_⌋* another seven years." ²⁸ And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this one,* then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife. ²⁹ And Laban gave Bilhah his female servant to Rachel his daughter as a female servant. ³⁰ Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.

³² Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I am unloved. Now my husband will love me."

²² And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard about it. ²³ The sons of Leah: The firstborn of Jacob was Reuben. Then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

¹ Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in _⌊days to come_⌋.* ² Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father! ³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power. ⁴ Unstable* as water, you shall not excel any longer, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled it. You went up upon my couch! ⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let me* not come into their council. ⁶ Let not my person* be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle. ⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel. ⁸ Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you. ⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of nations. ¹¹ Binding his donkey to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in the wine and his garment in the blood of grapes. ¹² The eyes are darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk. ¹³ Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon. ¹⁴ Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. ¹⁵ He saw a resting place that was good, and land that was pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor. ¹⁶ Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper on the road that bites the heels of a horse, so that its rider falls backward. ¹⁸ I wait for your salvation, O Yahweh. ¹⁹ Bandits shall attack Gad, but he shall attack their heels. ²⁰ Asher's food is delicious, and he shall provide from the king's delicacies. ²¹ Naphtali is a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words. ²² Joseph is the bough* of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough* by a spring. His branches climb over the wall. ²³ _⌊The archers_⌋* fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him. ²⁴ But his bow remained in a steady position; _⌊his arms_⌋* were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. ²⁵ Because of the God of your father he will help you and by Shaddai* he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb. ²⁶ The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers. ²⁷ Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening. ²⁸ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing. ²⁹ Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors* in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is before* Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. ³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah— ³² the purchase of the field and the cave which was in it from the Hittites." ³³ When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people.

¹ And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his _⌊family_⌋:* ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; ⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. ⁵ And _⌊all those who descended from Jacob_⌋* were seventy individuals,* and Joseph was in Egypt.

¹⁴ These are the heads of _⌊their families_⌋.*
The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, are Enoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben. ¹⁵ And the sons of Simeon are Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess.* These are the clans of Simeon. ¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies:* Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were _⌊one hundred and thirty-seven years_⌋.* ¹⁷ The sons of Gershon are Libni and Shimei according to their clans. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kohath are Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath were _⌊one hundred and thirty-three years_⌋.*

⁵ And these are the names of the men who will _⌊assist you_⌋:* from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

²⁰ The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, every male individually from _⌊twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²¹ those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

¹⁰ "The standard of the camp of Reuben will be to the south according to their divisions. The leader of the descendants will be Elizur son of Shedeur. ¹¹ And his division and the _⌊ones counted_⌋* are forty-six thousand five hundred. ¹² Those encamped next to him will be the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the descendants of Simeon will be Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. ¹³ And his division and the _⌊ones counted_⌋* are fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

⁴ "Take a census of the community from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses."
The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were: ⁵ Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendants* of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;* ⁶ of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;* of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.* ⁷ These are the clans of the Reubenites,* and the ones counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. ⁸ The children of Pallu: Eliab. ⁹ The children of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who were appointed of the community, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh, ¹⁰ and the land opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they were a sign.* ¹¹ The children* of Korah, however, did not die.

⁶ "May Reuben live, and may he not die, _⌊and let his number not be few_⌋."*

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, ² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. ³ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death. ⁴ And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore Perez and Zerah to him. The sons of Judah were five in all. ⁵ The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ⁶ The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. ⁷ The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in the matter of the devoted thing. ⁸ And the son of Ethan was Azariah. ⁹ The sons of Hezron who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb. ¹⁰ And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. ¹¹ And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz. ¹² And Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse. ¹³ And Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, ¹⁴ Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, ¹⁵ Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. ¹⁶ And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. ¹⁷ And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. ¹⁸ And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and by Jerioth. And these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. ¹⁹ And when Azubah died, Caleb married* Ephrathah, and she bore Hur to him. ²⁰ And Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. ²¹ And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. And he married* her when he was sixty years old. And she bore Segub to him. ²² And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. ²³ And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-Jair from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these were the _⌊descendants_⌋* of Makir, the father of Gilead. ²⁴ And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. ²⁵ And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. ²⁶ And Jerahmeel had another wife, and her name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. ²⁷ The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. ²⁸ And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur. ²⁹ And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid. ³⁰ And the sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim. And Seled died without children. ³¹ And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. ³² And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether died without children. ³³ And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the children of Jerahmeel. ³⁴ And Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, and his name was Jarha. ³⁵ So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his slave for a wife, and she bore to him Attai. ³⁶ And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. ³⁷ And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. ³⁸ And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. ³⁹ And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. ⁴⁰ And Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. ⁴¹ And Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama. ⁴² And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn; he was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah: Hebron. ⁴³ And the sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. ⁴⁴ And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem fathered Shammai. ⁴⁵ And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-Zur. ⁴⁶ And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. And Haran fathered Gazez. ⁴⁷ And the sons of Jahdai were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. ⁴⁸ Maacah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. ⁴⁹ She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Acsah. ⁵⁰ These were the _⌊descendants_⌋* of Caleb.
The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim, ⁵¹ Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-Gader. ⁵² And Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. ⁵³ And the families of Kiriath-Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. ⁵⁴ The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Ataroth-Beth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. ⁵⁵ And the families of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These were the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab.

¹ Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, ² Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. ³ And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, ⁴ Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, ⁵ Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. ⁶ And these are the sons of Ehud (these were heads of the _⌊families_⌋* for the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away to Manahath): ⁷ Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who took them away. And he fathered Uzza and Ahihud. ⁸ And Shaharaim fathered children in the fields of Moab after he had sent them away—Hushim and Baara, his wives. ⁹ And he fathered by Hodesh his wife Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, ¹⁰ Jeuz, Sakia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of the _⌊families_⌋.* ¹¹ And by Husham he fathered Abitub and Elpaal. ¹² The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (he built Ono and Lod with _⌊its towns_⌋),* ¹³ and Beriah and Shema who were the heads of the _⌊families_⌋* of the inhabitants of Aijalon (they themselves chased away the inhabitants of Gath). ¹⁴ Now Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, ¹⁵ Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, ¹⁶ Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beriah. ¹⁷ And Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, ¹⁸ Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal. ¹⁹ And Jakim, Zikri, Zabdi, ²⁰ Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, ²¹ Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei. ²² And Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, ²³ Abdon, Zikri, Hanan, ²⁴ Hananiah, Elam, Antothijah, ²⁵ Iphdeiah, and Peniel were the sons of Shashak. ²⁶ And Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, ²⁷ Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zikri were the sons of Jeroham. ²⁸ These were the heads of the _⌊families_⌋* according to their generations, chiefs. These lived in Jerusalem. ²⁹ And Jeiel* the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. And the name of his wife was Maacah. ³⁰ And his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, ³¹ Gedor, Ahio, Zeker, ³² and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their kinsmen. ³³ And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. ³⁴ And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. ³⁵ And the sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. ³⁶ And Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. ³⁷ And Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son. ³⁸ And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. ³⁹ And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. ⁴⁰ And the sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, and they had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites.

¹ Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he instructed him and said to him, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

³³ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "It is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.

²⁵ And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.

³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed—I and my household!"

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let me* not come into their council. ⁶ Let not my person* be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle. ⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.

¹⁵ And the sons of Simeon are Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess.* These are the clans of Simeon.

⁶ from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

²² From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* those who were counted according to the number of their names, every individual male from _⌊twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²³ those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

¹² The descendants* of Simeon, according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites;* of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites;* of Jakin, the clan of the Jakinites;* ¹³ of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites;* of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.*

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

²⁴ The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul. ²⁵ Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. ²⁶ The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. ²⁷ Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah. ²⁸ And they lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, ²⁹ Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, ³⁰ Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, ³¹ Beth-Marcaboth, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. ³² And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan, five cities ³³ and all their villages that surrounding these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for them. ³⁴ Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, ³⁵ Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel. ³⁶ And Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, ³⁷ and Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. ³⁸ These _⌊mentioned by name_⌋* were leaders in their families, and their fathers' households increased greatly. ³⁹ And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. ⁴⁰ And they found fertile and good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and at ease, for the former inhabitants there were from Ham. ⁴¹ These, mentioned by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. And they devoted them to destruction to this day, and they settled among them because there was pasture there for their flocks. ⁴² And some of them from the Simeonites went to Mount Seir, five hundred men. And Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were under their leadership. ⁴³ And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

³⁴ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons." Therefore, she called his name Levi.

¹⁶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies:* Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were _⌊one hundred and thirty-seven years_⌋.*

¹⁷ These were the sons of Levi according to their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁸ And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their clans: Libni and Shimei. ¹⁹ And the sons of Kohath according to their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ²⁰ The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to _⌊their families_⌋.* ²¹ _⌊To Gershon belonged_⌋* the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these are the clans of the Gershonites. ²² The _⌊ones counted_⌋* according to the number of every male from _⌊one month_⌋* and above were seven thousand five hundred.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ² "_⌊Take a census_⌋* of the descendants* of Kohath from the midst of the descendants* of Levi, according to their clans and _⌊their families_⌋,* ³ from _⌊thirty years old_⌋* and above, up to _⌊fifty years old_⌋,* everyone who comes to the service to do the work in the tent of assembly. ⁴ This is the work of the descendants* of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary: ⁵ When setting out the camp, Aaron and his sons will go and lower the curtain of the covering and cover with it the ark of the testimony.* ⁶ They will put on it a covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋,* and they will spread a cloth of perfect blue over it, and they will place its poles. ⁷ And over the table of the presence they will spread out a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes, and libation bowls, and the pitchers of the libation; and the bread of continuity will be on it. ⁸ They will spread over it a scarlet cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋,* and they will place its poles. ⁹ They will take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light source, its lamps, a pair of its tongs, its small pans, and all the vessels of its oil with which they attend to it. ¹⁰ They will put it and all its vessels inside a covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋* and put it on the carrying frame. ¹¹ Over the altar of gold they will spread a blue cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋* and place its poles. ¹² They will take all the vessels of the cultic service with which they serve in the sanctuary and put them on a blue cloth, and they will cover them with a covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋;* and they will put them on the carrying frame. ¹³ They will remove the fat-soaked ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it; ¹⁴ they will put on it all the vessels with which they serve, the fire pans, forks, shovels, and bowls—all the vessels of the altar. They will spread on it a covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋;* and they will place its poles. ¹⁵ And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary when the camp sets out, the descendants* of Kohath will come after to carry these, but they must not touch the sanctuary, or they will die. These are the load of the descendants* of Kohath in the tent of assembly. ¹⁶ "Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is to supervise the oil of the light source, the incense, _⌊the regular grain offering_⌋,* the oil of anointment, the supervision of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, in the sanctuary and in its vessels." ¹⁷ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ¹⁸ "You must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites* from the midst of the Levites. ¹⁹ Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden. ²⁰ But they must not go and look _⌊for a moment_⌋* at the holy objects." ²¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, ²² "_⌊Take a census_⌋* of the descendants* of Gershon also, according to _⌊their families_⌋* and clans, ²³ from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above until _⌊fifty years old_⌋;* you will muster* them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly. ²⁴ This is the work of the clans of the Gershonites:* to serve and to carry. ²⁵ They will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of assembly and its covering and the covering of _⌊fine leather_⌋,* which _⌊is on top of it_⌋,* and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of assembly, ²⁶ and the curtains of the courtyard, and the covering for the doorway of the gate of the courtyard, which is all around on the tabernacle and altar, and their cords and all the vessels of their work; and all that is done to them they will do. ²⁷ And all the work of the descendants* of the Gershonites* will be at _⌊the command_⌋* of Aaron and his sons, for all they are to carry and for all their work, and you will appoint to them responsibility for all they are to carry. ²⁸ This is the work of the clan of the descendants* of the Gershonites* in the tent of assembly, and their responsibility lies _⌊under the direction_⌋* of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. ²⁹ "For the descendants* of Merari according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* you will muster* them; ³⁰ from _⌊those thirty years old_⌋* and above until _⌊fifty years old_⌋;* you will muster* them, all who come to do the work of the tent of assembly. ³¹ And this is the responsibility of _⌊those who are to carry_⌋,* all their work in the tent of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle and its bars, pillars, and bases, ³² and the pillars of the courtyard all around, and their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their vessels and for all their work. You will appoint by name the vessels that they are responsible to carry. ³³ This is the work of the clan of the descendants* of Merari, for all their work in the tent of assembly _⌊under the direction_⌋* of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest." ³⁴ And Moses and Aaron mustered the leaders of the community according to the house of _⌊their families_⌋,* ³⁵ from _⌊those thirty years old_⌋* and above until _⌊fifty years old_⌋;* everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly, ³⁶ the _⌊ones counted_⌋* were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. ³⁷ These were those counted of the clans of the Kohathites,* everyone who served in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered* according to _⌊the command_⌋* of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.* ³⁸ And the descendants* of Gershon counted according to their clans and according to _⌊their families_⌋,* ³⁹ from _⌊those thirty years old_⌋* and above until _⌊fifty years old_⌋,* everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly; ⁴⁰ the _⌊ones counted_⌋,* according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* were two thousand six hundred and thirty. ⁴¹ These were those counted of the clans of the descendants* of Gershon, everyone who serves in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered* according to _⌊the command_⌋* of Yahweh. ⁴² Those counted of the clans of the descendants* of Merari according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* ⁴³ from _⌊those thirty years old_⌋* and above until _⌊fifty years old_⌋,* everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly, ⁴⁴ the _⌊ones counted_⌋,* according to their clans, were three thousand two hundred. ⁴⁵ These were those counted of the clans of the descendants* of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron mustered* according to _⌊the command_⌋* of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.* ⁴⁶ All those counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel mustered* according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* ⁴⁷ from _⌊those thirty years old_⌋* and above until _⌊fifty years old_⌋,* everyone who comes to the service to do the work of the service carrying in the tent of assembly, ⁴⁸ the _⌊ones counted_⌋* were eighty thousand five hundred and eighty. ⁴⁹ According to _⌊the command_⌋* of Yahweh by the hand of Moses* _⌊they were mustered_⌋,* each man according to his service and according to their* service and according to their* burden; and so they were counted by him just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² "Speak to Aaron, and say to him: 'When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.'" ³ And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. ⁴ And this is _⌊how the lampstand was made_⌋,* a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom,* it was hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand. ⁵ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁶ "Take the Levites from the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* and purify them. ⁷ So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and _⌊they will shave their whole body_⌋* and wash their garments. ⁸ And they will take a _⌊young bull_⌋* and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second _⌊young bull_⌋* as a sin offering. ⁹ You will bring the Levites _⌊before_⌋* the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* ¹⁰ And you will bring the Levites _⌊before Yahweh_⌋,* and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* will lay their hands on the Levites, ¹¹ and _⌊Aaron will offer_⌋* the Levites as a wave offering _⌊before Yahweh_⌋* from the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* and they will do the work of Yahweh. ¹² And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer it as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. ¹³ And you will present the Levites _⌊before_⌋* Aaron and _⌊before_⌋* his sons, and he _⌊will offer_⌋* them as a wave offering to Yahweh. ¹⁴ "And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* and the Levites will be for me. ¹⁵ And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you _⌊will offer_⌋* them as a wave offering. ¹⁶ For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* ¹⁷ For every firstborn among the _⌊Israelites_⌋* is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me, ¹⁸ and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* ¹⁹ And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* to do the work of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* so a plague will not be among the _⌊Israelites_⌋* when the _⌊Israelites_⌋* come near the sanctuary." ²⁰ And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the _⌊Israelites_⌋* did to them. ²¹ And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and _⌊Aaron offered them_⌋* as a wave offering _⌊before Yahweh_⌋;* and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them. ²² After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them. ²³ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ "This is what is for the Levites: _⌊those twenty-five years old_⌋* and above will* come to help with the service in the work of the tent of assembly; ²⁵ and _⌊those fifty years old_⌋* will* return from the service of the work and will serve no longer. ²⁶ They* can attend* their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep their responsibilities, but they* will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities."

⁵⁷ These are the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites;* of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites;* of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.* ⁵⁸ These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites,* the clan of the Hebronites,* the clan of the Mahlites,* the clan of the Mushites,* the clan of the Korahites.* Kohath fathered Amram.

⁸ And of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are for _⌊your faithful one_⌋,* _⌊whom you tested at Massah_⌋;* you contended with him at the waters of Meribah. ⁹ The one saying of his father and of his mother, 'I have not regarded them,' and his brothers he did not acknowledge, and his children* he did not know, but rather they observed your word, and your covenant they kept. ¹⁰ They taught* your regulations to Jacob, and your law to Israel; they placed incense smoke _⌊before you_⌋,* and whole burnt offerings on your altar. ¹¹ Bless, O Yahweh, his substance, and with the work of his hands you must be pleased; smite the loins of those who attack him, and those hating him, _⌊so that they cannot arise_⌋."*

¹¹ And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.

¹⁶ And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

¹ * The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ² The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ³ The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

¹⁶ The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

¹ Then David said, "This will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel." ² And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God. ³ And David provided much iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the seams, and abundant copper that could not be weighed, ⁴ and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought abundant cedars to David. ⁵ Then David said, "Solomon my son is a boy and inexperienced, and the house built for Yahweh must be exceedingly great in fame and splendor throughout every land. I will make preparations for him." So David provided abundant materials before he died. ⁶ Then he called to Solomon his son and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel. ⁷ And David said to Solomon his son, "I myself had in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, ⁸ but it happened that the word of Yahweh came over me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have made much war; you shall not build a house for my name because you have shed much blood upon the ground before me. ⁹ Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days. ¹⁰ He himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I will be to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.' ¹¹ Now, my son, Yahweh will be with you, that you may succeed and build the house of Yahweh your God as he has spoken concerning you. ¹² Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God. ¹³ Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed. ¹⁴ Now see, with great effort I have made provision for the house of Yahweh: 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron that cannot be weighed, for there is an abundance. Also timber and stone I have provided, but to these you should add. ¹⁵ And with you there is an abundance of craftsmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and everyone skilled in every kind of craftsmanship ¹⁶ with gold, silver, bronze, and iron without number. Arise and work! Yahweh will be with you!" ¹⁷ And David commanded all the commanders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, ¹⁸ "Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has he not given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people. ¹⁹ Now set your heart and mind to seek Yahweh your Go, and arise and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, that the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God might be brought into the house built for the name of Yahweh.

³⁵ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased bearing children.

¹ And it happened that at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. ² And Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name was Shua. And he took her and went in to her. ³ And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.

⁷ And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him.

¹⁰ And what he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so he killed him also.

²⁴ And _⌊about three months later_⌋* it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the whore, and now, behold, she has conceived by prostitution." And Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned." ²⁵ She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these belong I have conceived." And she said, "Now discern* to whom these belong: the seal and cord and the staff." ²⁶ Then Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know* her again. ²⁷ And it happened that at the time she gave birth that, behold, twins were in her womb. ²⁸ And it happened that at her labor one child put out a hand. And the midwife took it and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This one came out first." ²⁹ Then his hand drew back and, behold, his brother came out, and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" And she called his name Perez. ³⁰ And afterward his brother who had the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah.

⁸ Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you. ⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of nations. ¹¹ Binding his donkey to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in the wine and his garment in the blood of grapes. ¹² The eyes are darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk.

⁷ from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

²⁶ From the descendants of Judah, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²⁷ those who were counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

¹⁹ The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ The descendants* of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites;* of Perez, the clan of the Perezites;* of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.* ²¹ The children of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;* of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.*

⁷ _⌊And he said this of Judah_⌋,* "Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; his own hands strive* for him, and may you be a help _⌊against_⌋* his foes."

² And Yahweh said, "Judah will go up. I hereby give the land into his hand."

³ The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death. ⁴ And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore Perez and Zerah to him. The sons of Judah were five in all. ⁵ The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

¹ These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite;

¹ The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

²¹ The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth Ashbea;

² though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph).

⁶⁸ but chose the tribe of Judah, _⌊Mount Zion_⌋* that he loved.

¹ The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. ² Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers, ³ and Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez became the father of Hezron, and Hezron became the father of Aram,*

¹⁴ For it is evident that our Lord is a descendant of Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses said nothing concerning priests.

⁵ And one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.

¹⁴ And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." ¹⁵ And she said to her, "Is your taking my husband such a small thing that you will also take the mandrakes of my son?" Then Rachel said, "Then he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes." ¹⁶ When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him. And she said, "Come in to me, for _⌊I have hired_⌋* you with my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night. ¹⁷ And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob. ¹⁸ Then Leah said, "God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.

²³ The sons of Leah: The firstborn of Jacob was Reuben. Then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

¹⁴ Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. ¹⁵ He saw a resting place that was good, and land that was pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor.

⁸ from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar;

²⁸ From the descendants of Issachar, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²⁹ those who were counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred. ³⁰ From the descendants of Zebulun, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war:

²³ The descendants* of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites;* of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;* ²⁴ of Jashub, the clans of the Jashubites;* of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites.* ²⁵ These were the clans of Issachar according to the ones counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and rejoice, Issachar, in your tents;

¹ The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. ² The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David were twenty-two thousand six hundred. ³ The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were chiefs.* ⁴ And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For _⌊they had_⌋* many wives and sons. ⁵ Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy.

³² And from the men of Issachar: _⌊men who were skilled in understanding the times_⌋* to know what Israel should do. Their chiefs were two hundred, and all their kinsmen were under their command.

¹⁹ And Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob. ²⁰ And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun.

¹³ Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.

⁹ from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon.

³⁰ From the descendants of Zebulun, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³¹ those who were counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

²⁶ The descendants* of Zebulun according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites;* of Elon, the clan of the Elonites;* of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.* ²⁷ These were the clans of the Zebulunites* according to the ones counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred.

¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and rejoice, Issachar, in your tents; ¹⁹ They summon people to the mountains;* there they sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness, because the affluence of the seas they suck out, and _⌊the most hidden treasures of the sand_⌋."*

²⁰ And Isaac was _⌊forty years old_⌋* when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

³² Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I am unloved. Now my husband will love me." ³³ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "It is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also." And she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons." Therefore, she called his name Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased bearing children.

¹⁷ And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob. ¹⁸ Then Leah said, "God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar. ¹⁹ And Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob. ²⁰ And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun. ²¹ And afterward she gave birth to a daughter. And she called her name Dinah.

¹ Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ² And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and raped her. ³ And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke _⌊tenderly_⌋* to the girl. ⁴ So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, "Get this girl for me as a wife." ⁵ And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came. ⁶ And Hamor, father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him. ⁷ And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were distressed and very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations with the daughter of Jacob—_⌊something that_⌋* should not be done. ⁸ And Hamor spoke with them saying, "Shechem my son _⌊is in love with_⌋* your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. ⁹ Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. ¹⁰ You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire property in it." ¹¹ Then Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will do. ¹² _⌊Make the bride price and gift as high as you like_⌋;* I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife." ¹³ Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. ¹⁴ And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace for us. ¹⁵ Only on this condition will we give consent to you; if you will become like us—every male among you to be circumcised. ¹⁶ Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family. ¹⁷ But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go." ¹⁸ And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor. ¹⁹ And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he wanted the daughter of Jacob. Now he was the most honored of his father's house. ²⁰ Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying, ²¹ "These men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and let them trade in it. Now, behold, the land is _⌊broad enough for them_⌋.* Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give our daughters to them. ²² Only on this condition will they give consent to us, to live with us and to become one family—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. ²³ Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us." ²⁴ And all those who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem. Every male was circumcised, all those who went out of the gate of his city. ²⁵ And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males. ²⁶ They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out. ²⁷ The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸ They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the field. ²⁹ They captured and plundered all that was in the houses—all their wealth, their little ones, and their women. ³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed—I and my household!" ³¹ But they said, "Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power. ⁴ Unstable* as water, you shall not excel any longer, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled it. You went up upon my couch! ⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let me* not come into their council. ⁶ Let not my person* be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle. ⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel. ⁸ Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you. ⁹ Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of nations. ¹¹ Binding his donkey to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in the wine and his garment in the blood of grapes. ¹² The eyes are darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk. ¹³ Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of assembly, on the first of the month, in the second year _⌊after they came out_⌋* of the land of Egypt, saying, ² "_⌊Take a census of_⌋* the entire community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* according to their clans and _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, every male individually ³ from _⌊twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You and Aaron must muster them* for their wars. ⁴ A man from each tribe will be with you, each man the head of _⌊his family_⌋.* ⁵ And these are the names of the men who will _⌊assist you_⌋:* from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur; ⁶ from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab; ⁸ from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar; ⁹ from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon. ¹⁰ From the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. ¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; ¹² from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; ¹³ from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; ¹⁴ from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; ¹⁵ and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan." ¹⁶ These are the ones summoned from the community, the leaders of their ancestors'* tribes; they are the heads of Israel's clans. ¹⁷ So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, ¹⁸ and they summoned the entire community on the first day of the second month. And they registered themselves among their clans according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above individually, ¹⁹ just as Yahweh commanded Moses. And he counted them in the desert of Sinai. ²⁰ The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, every male individually from _⌊twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²¹ those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. ²² From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* those who were counted according to the number of their names, every individual male from _⌊twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²³ those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. ²⁴ From the descendants of Gad, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²⁵ those who were counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. ²⁶ From the descendants of Judah, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²⁷ those who were counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred. ²⁸ From the descendants of Issachar, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²⁹ those who were counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred. ³⁰ From the descendants of Zebulun, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³¹ those who were counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. ³² From the descendants of Joseph: from the descendants of Ephraim, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³³ those who were counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. ³⁴ From the descendants of Manasseh, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³⁵ those who were counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred. ³⁶ From the descendants of Benjamin, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³⁷ those who were counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred. ³⁸ From the descendants of Dan, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³⁹ those who were counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. ⁴⁰ From the descendants of Asher, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ⁴¹ those who were counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred. ⁴² From the descendants of Naphtali, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ⁴³ those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred. ⁴⁴ These are the ones counted whom Moses and Aaron mustered,* with the twelve leaders of Israel, each one from _⌊his family_⌋.* ⁴⁵ So all those who were counted from the _⌊Israelites_⌋* according to _⌊their families_⌋,* from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. ⁴⁶ All of the ones counted were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ⁴⁷ The Levites from their ancestors'* tribe were not mustered* in their midst. ⁴⁸ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁴⁹ "You will not muster* the tribe of Levi, and you will not _⌊take a census of_⌋* them in the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* ⁵⁰ You will _⌊appoint_⌋* them over the tabernacle of the testimony,* over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it. They will carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they will care for it; and they will camp around the tabernacle. ⁵¹ And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will _⌊take it down_⌋,* and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger* that approaches it will be put to death. ⁵² The _⌊Israelites_⌋* will encamp, each in their own camp, and each by their* own banner according to their divisions. ⁵³ But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony,* and there will not be wrath on the community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋;* and the Levites will keep the requirements of the tabernacle of the testimony."* ⁵⁴ And the _⌊Israelites_⌋* did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ² "Make yourself two silver trumpets; make them of hammered-work. _⌊You will use them_⌋* for calling the community and for breaking the camp. ³ You will blow them, and all the community will assemble to the doorway of the tent of assembly. ⁴ But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to you. ⁵ When you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out; ⁶ when you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys. ⁷ But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise. ⁸ The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations. ⁹ If you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies. ¹⁰ "And on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you _⌊before_⌋* your God; I am Yahweh your God." ¹¹ And it happened, in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month the cloud was lifted from upon the tabernacle of the testimony.* ¹² And the _⌊Israelites_⌋* set out for their journey* from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran. ¹³ They set out _⌊for the first time_⌋* on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses.* ¹⁴ The standard of the camp of the descendants* of Judah set out for the first time according to their divisions, with Nahshon son of Amminadab over its division. ¹⁵ And Nathanel son of Zuar was over the division of the descendants* of Issachar; ¹⁶ Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of the descendants* of Zebulun. ¹⁷ The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle, set out. ¹⁸ And the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions; Elizur son of Shedeur was over their division. ¹⁹ Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the sons of the tribe of Simeon. ²⁰ Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of the descendants* of Gad. ²¹ The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived. ²² And the stand of the camp of the descendants* of Ephraim set out according to their divisions; Elishama son of Ammihud was over its division. ²³ Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of the descendants* of Manasseh. ²⁴ Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of the descendants* of Benjamin. ²⁵ Then the standard of the camp of the descendants* of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over its division. ²⁶ Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of the descendants* of Asher. ²⁷ Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of the descendants* of Naphtali. ²⁸ These were the departures of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* according to their divisions; and so they set out. ²⁹ Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, "We are setting out to the place that Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you'; go with us, and we will _⌊treat you well_⌋* because _⌊Yahweh promised_⌋* good concerning Israel." ³⁰ But he said to him, "I will not go. I will only go to my land and to my family." ³¹ He* said, "Please, do not abandon us because you know our encampment in the desert, and _⌊you should be our guide_⌋.* ³² Moreover, if you go with us, the good that Yahweh will do to us we will do to you." ³³ And so they set out from the mountain of Yahweh a journey of three days, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh setting out ahead of them* three days' journey to search out a resting place for them; ³⁴ and the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day when they set out from the camp. ³⁵ And whenever the ark was setting out Moses would say,
"Rise up, Yahweh! May your enemies be scattered; may the ones that hate you flee from your presence." ³⁶ And when it rested he would say, "Return, Yahweh, to the countless thousands of Israel."

¹ * And it happened after the plague, *Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying, ² "_⌊Take a census_⌋* of the community of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* all who are able to go out to war in Israel." ³ So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying, ⁴ "Take a census of the community from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses."
The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were: ⁵ Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendants* of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;* ⁶ of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;* of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.* ⁷ These are the clans of the Reubenites,* and the ones counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. ⁸ The children of Pallu: Eliab. ⁹ The children of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who were appointed of the community, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh, ¹⁰ and the land opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they were a sign.* ¹¹ The children* of Korah, however, did not die. ¹² The descendants* of Simeon, according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites;* of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites;* of Jakin, the clan of the Jakinites;* ¹³ of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites;* of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.* ¹⁴ These were the clans of the Simeonites,* twenty-two thousand two hundred. ¹⁵ The descendants* of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites;* of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites;* of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;* ¹⁶ of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites;* of Eri, the clan of the Erites;* ¹⁷ of Arod, the clan of the Arodites;* of Areli, the clan of the Arelites;* ¹⁸ These were the clans of the descendants* of Gad according to the ones counted of them, forty thousand five hundred. ¹⁹ The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ The descendants* of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites;* of Perez, the clan of the Perezites;* of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.* ²¹ The children of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites;* of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.* ²² These were the clans of Judah according to the ones counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. ²³ The descendants* of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites;* of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;* ²⁴ of Jashub, the clans of the Jashubites;* of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites.* ²⁵ These were the clans of Issachar according to the ones counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. ²⁶ The descendants* of Zebulun according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites;* of Elon, the clan of the Elonites;* of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.* ²⁷ These were the clans of the Zebulunites* according to the ones counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred. ²⁸ The descendants* of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹ The descendants* of Manasseh: of Makir, the clan of the Makirites.* And Makir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.* ³⁰ These were the descendants* of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites;* of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;* ³¹ and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites;* and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;* ³² and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites;* and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.* ³³ Zelophehad son of Hepher did not have sons, but only daughters; and the names* of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These were the clans of Manasseh, and the ones counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. ³⁵ These were the descendants* of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites;* of Beker, the clan of the Bekerites;* of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.* ³⁶ And these were the descendants* of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.* ³⁷ These were the clans of the descendants* of Ephraim according to the ones counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These were the descendants* of Joseph according to their clans. ³⁸ The descendants* of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites;* of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites;* of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;* ³⁹ of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites;* of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.* ⁴⁰ The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites;* of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.* ⁴¹ These were the descendants* of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. ⁴² These were the descendants* of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites.* These were the clans of Dan according to their clans. ⁴³ All the clans of the Shuhamites,* according to the ones counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. ⁴⁴ The descendants* of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites;* of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites;* of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites.* ⁴⁵ The descendants* of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites;* of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites.* ⁴⁶ The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ⁴⁷ These were the clans of the descendants* of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. ⁴⁸ The descendants* of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites;* of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;* ⁴⁹ of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites;* of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.* ⁵⁰ These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred. ⁵¹ These were the ones counted of the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. ⁵² Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁵³ "For these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴ For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given _⌊their_⌋* inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them. ⁵⁵ Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors.* ⁵⁶ _⌊Their_⌋* inheritance must be divided according to the lot between the larger and smaller groups." ⁵⁷ These are the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites;* of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites;* of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.* ⁵⁸ These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites,* the clan of the Hebronites,* the clan of the Mahlites,* the clan of the Mushites,* the clan of the Korahites.* Kohath fathered Amram. ⁵⁹ The name of the wife of Amram was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whose mother bore her for Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam. ⁶⁰ To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁶¹ But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire _⌊before_⌋* Yahweh. ⁶² The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from _⌊a month old_⌋* and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the _⌊Israelites_⌋.* ⁶³ These were the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the _⌊Israelites_⌋* on the desert-plateau of Moab on the Jordan across Jericho. ⁶⁴ And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the _⌊Israelites_⌋* in the desert of Sinai. ⁶⁵ For Yahweh said to them, "They will surely die in the desert." And not a man was left over from them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

¹¹ Then Leah said, "Good fortune!" And she called his name Gad.

²⁶ The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.

¹⁹ Bandits shall attack Gad, but he shall attack their heels.

¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni;

²⁴ From the descendants of Gad, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ²⁵ those who were counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

¹⁵ The descendants* of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites;* of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites;* of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;* ¹⁶ of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites;* of Eri, the clan of the Erites;* ¹⁷ of Arod, the clan of the Arodites;* of Areli, the clan of the Arelites;*

²⁰ And of Gad he said, "Blessed be _⌊the one who enlarges Gad_⌋;* like a lion he dwells, and he tears an arm as well as a scalp. ²¹ And he selected* the best part for himself, * for there the portion of a ruler is included, and he came with the heads of the people;* he did* the righteousness of Yahweh, and his regulations for Israel."

² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

¹¹ And the sons of Gad lived near to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah: ¹² Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. ¹³ And their kinsmen according to their fathers' households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. ¹⁴ These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. ¹⁵ Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers' households. ¹⁶ And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in _⌊its towns_⌋,* and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

¹³ Then Leah said, "How happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.

²⁰ Asher's food is delicious, and he shall provide from the king's delicacies.

¹³ from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;

⁴⁰ From the descendants of Asher, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ⁴¹ those who were counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.

⁴⁴ The descendants* of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites;* of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites;* of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites.* ⁴⁵ The descendants* of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites;* of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites.* ⁴⁶ The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

²⁴ And of Asher he said, "Blessed _⌊more than sons_⌋* is Asher; _⌊may he be the favorite_⌋* of his brothers, _⌊dipping his feet in the oil_⌋.*

³⁰ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. ³¹ The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzayith.* ³² And Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua. ³³ The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet. ³⁴ The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. ³⁵ The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. ³⁶ The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, ³⁷ Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. ³⁸ The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara. ³⁹ The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. ⁴⁰ All of these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen mighty warriors, heads of the princes. And their number enrolled by genealogy, in the army for the war, was twenty-six thousand men.

²⁴ And Laban gave Zilpah his female servant to her, to Leah his daughter as a female servant.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah, the female slave of Leah, bore a son to Jacob. ¹¹ Then Leah said, "Good fortune!" And she called his name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Leah's female servant, bore a second son to Jacob. ¹³ Then Leah said, "How happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.

⁴ Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter."

²⁴ And she called his name Joseph, saying, "Yahweh has added to me another son."

¹⁶ Then they journeyed from Bethel. And _⌊when they were still some distance_⌋* from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor. ¹⁷ And _⌊when her labor was the most difficult_⌋* the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid _⌊for you have another son_⌋."* ¹⁸ And it happened that when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni.* But his father called him Benjamin.*

²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

¹ And Jacob settled in the land of the sojourning of his father, in the land of Canaan. ² These are the generations* of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he was a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father. ³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleeves* for him. ⁴ When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him. ⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers. And _⌊they hated him even more_⌋.* ⁶ And he said to them, "Listen now to this dream that I dreamed. ⁷ Now behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field and, behold, my sheaf stood up and it remained standing. Then behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf." ⁸ Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And _⌊they hated him even more_⌋* on account of his dream and because of his words. ⁹ Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me." ¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?" ¹¹ And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. ¹² Now his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father in Shechem. ¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them." And he said, "Here I am." ¹⁴ Then he said to him, "Go now, see _⌊if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock_⌋,* then return word to me." And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem. ¹⁵ And a man found him, and behold, he* was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, "What do you seek?" ¹⁶ And he said, "I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing." ¹⁷ And the man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan. ¹⁸ And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹ And each said to his brothers, "Look, this master of dreams is coming. ²⁰ Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him in one of the pits. Then we will say a wild animal devoured him. Then we will see what his dreams become." ²¹ And Reuben heard it and delivered him from their hand and said, "We must not take his life." ²² And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him"—so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father. ²³ And it happened that as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves,* that was upon him. ²⁴ And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit was empty; there was no water in it). ²⁵ Then they sat down to eat some food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices _⌊on the way_⌋* to Egypt. ²⁶ Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed. ²⁸ Then Midianite traders passed by. And they* drew Joseph up and brought him up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt. ²⁹ Then Reuben returned to the pit and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes. ³⁰ And he returned to his brothers and said, "The boy _⌊is gone_⌋!* Now I, _⌊what can I do_⌋?"* ³¹ Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. ³² Then they sent the robe with long sleeves* and they brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it. Is it the robe of your son or not?" ³³ And he recognized it and said, "The robe of my son! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph is surely torn to pieces!" ³⁴ And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵ And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him. ³⁶ And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard.

¹ Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, commander of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. ² And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. ³ And his master observed that Yahweh was with him, and everything that was in his hand to do Yahweh made successful. ⁴ And Joseph found favor in his eyes and he served him. Then he appointed him* over his house and all that he owned he put into his hand. ⁵ And it happened that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph. And the blessing of Yahweh was upon all that he had in the house and in the field. ⁶ And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and _⌊he did not worry about anything_⌋* except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was _⌊well built and handsome_⌋.* ⁷ And it happened that after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." ⁸ But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master _⌊does not worry about_⌋* what is in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand. ⁹ He has no greater authority in this house than me, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, since you are his wife. Now how could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" ¹⁰ And it happened that as she spoke to Joseph _⌊day after day_⌋,* he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her. ¹¹ _⌊But one particular day_⌋* he came into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house were there in the house, ¹² she seized him by his garment and said, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and he went outside. ¹³ And it happened that when she saw that he left his garment in her hand and fled outside, ¹⁴ she called to the men of her house and said to them, "Look! He* brought a Hebrew man to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. ¹⁵ And when he heard me, that I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled, and he went outside." ¹⁶ Then she put his garment beside her until his master came to his house. ¹⁷ Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me. ¹⁸ And it happened that as I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside." ¹⁹ And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "_⌊This is what your servant did to me_⌋,"* _⌊he became very angry_⌋.* ²⁰ And Joseph's master took him and put him into prison, the place that the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison. ²¹ And Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed loyal love to him, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison. ²² And the chief of the prison put all the prisoners that were in the prison into the hand of Joseph. And everything that was done there, he was the one who did it. ²³ The chief of the prison _⌊did not worry about_⌋* anything in his* hand, since Yahweh was with him. And whatever he did Yahweh made it successful.

¹ And it happened that after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker did wrong against their lord, against the king of Egypt. ² And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief cupbearer and chief baker. ³ And he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, into the prison where Joseph was confined. ⁴ And the chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. And they were in custody _⌊many days_⌋.* ⁵ And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation. ⁶ When Joseph came to them in the morning he looked at them, and behold, they were troubled. ⁷ And he asked the court officials of Pharaoh that were with him in the custody of his master's house, "Why are your faces sad today?" ⁸ And they said to him, "We each dreamed a dream, but there is no one to interpret it." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me." ⁹ Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and he said to him, "In my dream, now behold, there was a vine before me, ¹⁰ and on the vine were three branches. And as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters of grapes grew ripe. ¹¹ And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into the cup of Pharaoh. Then I placed the cup into the hand of Pharaoh." ¹² Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: The three branches, they are three days. ¹³ In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will restore you to your office. And you shall put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand as was formerly the custom, when you were his cupbearer. ¹⁴ But remember me when it goes well with you, and please may you show kindness with respect to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. ¹⁵ For I was surely kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in this pit." ¹⁶ And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said to Joseph, "I also dreamed. In my dream, now behold, there were three baskets of bread upon my head. ¹⁷ And in the upper basket were all sorts of baked foods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket upon my head." ¹⁸ Then Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: The three baskets, they are three days. ¹⁹ In three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and hang you on a pole,* and the birds will eat your flesh from you." ²⁰ And it happened that on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants. ²¹ And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing position. And he placed the cup in the hand of Pharaoh. ²² But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them. ²³ But the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

²⁷ Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me.

¹ So Joseph went and reported to Pharaoh. And he said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan. Now they are here in the land of Goshen." ² And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh. ³ And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."* ⁴ And they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servant's flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." ⁵ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. ⁶ The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and if you know there is among them men of ability, then appoint them overseers of my own livestock." ⁷ Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸ Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, "_⌊How old are you_⌋?"* ⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors* in the days of their sojourning." ¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and he went out from the presence of Pharaoh. ¹¹ And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed. ¹² And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children. ¹³ Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine. ¹⁴ And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up." ¹⁶ And Joseph said, "Give your livestock and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock if your money is used up." ¹⁷ So they brought their herds to Joseph, and Joseph gave food to them in exchange for horses, their flocks, and their cattle and donkeys. And he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. ¹⁸ When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, "We cannot hide from my lord that our money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land. ¹⁹ Why should we die in front of you, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, then we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Then give us seed and we shall live and not die, and the land will not become desolate." ²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's. ²¹ As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other. ²² Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for there was an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they _⌊lived on_⌋* the allotment that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land. ²³ And Joseph said to the people, "Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you so you can sow the land. ²⁴ And it shall happen that at the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh and four-fifths shall be yours, as seed for the field and for your food and for those who are in your households, and as food for your little ones." ²⁵ And they said, "You have saved our lives. If we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh." ²⁶ So Joseph made it a statute unto this day concerning the land of Egypt: one fifth to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh. ²⁷ So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. ²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years. ²⁹ When _⌊the time of Israel's death drew near_⌋,* he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might vow to deal kindly* and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt, ³⁰ but let me lie with my ancestors.* Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site." And he said, "I will do according to your word." ³¹ Then he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.

²² Joseph is the bough* of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough* by a spring. His branches climb over the wall. ²³ _⌊The archers_⌋* fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him. ²⁴ But his bow remained in a steady position; _⌊his arms_⌋* were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. ²⁵ Because of the God of your father he will help you and by Shaddai* he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb. ²⁶ The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers. ²⁷ Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening.

¹ Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him. ² And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. ³ Forty days _⌊were required for it_⌋,* for thus are the days _⌊required for_⌋* embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days. ⁴ When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, ⁵ 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan—there you must bury me." So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.'" ⁶ Then Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father as he made you swear." ⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him, ⁸ with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. ⁹ And there also went up with him chariots and horsemen. The company was very great. ¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which was beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days. ¹¹ And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, "This is a severe mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. ¹² Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them. ¹³ And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite before* Mamre. ¹⁴ And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

⁵ And _⌊all those who descended from Jacob_⌋* were seventy individuals,* and Joseph was in Egypt.

³⁶ From the descendants of Benjamin, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³⁷ those who were counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

³⁸ The descendants* of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites;* of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites;* of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;* ³⁹ of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites;* of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.* ⁴⁰ The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites;* of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.* ⁴¹ These were the descendants* of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

¹² Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh dwells _⌊securely_⌋,* the Most High* shields all around him, all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells." ¹³ And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by Yahweh is his land, with* the choice things of heaven, with* dew, and with* the deep lying down beneath, ¹⁴ and with* the choice things of the fruits* of the the sun, and with the choice things of the yield of the _⌊seasons_⌋,* ¹⁵ and with* the finest things of the ancient mountains, and with* the choice things of the _⌊eternal hills_⌋,* ¹⁶ and with* the choice things of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of the one _⌊who dwelt_⌋* in the bush.* Let them come to the head of Joseph, and to the crown of the prince among his brothers. ¹⁷ As the firstborn of his ox, majesty _⌊belongs to him_⌋,* and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together,* and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."

⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph Zaphenath-paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

⁵⁰ Before the years of famine came, Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore two sons to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for he said, "God has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father's house." ⁵² And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune."

⁴ and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and make you numerous, and will make you a company of nations. And I will give this land to your offspring after you as an everlasting possession.' ⁵ And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon are.

¹³ And Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim at his right to the left of Israel, and Manasseh at his left to the right of Israel. And he brought them near to him. ¹⁴ And Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim (now he was the younger), and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

²⁰ So he blessed them that day, saying,
Through you Israel shall pronounce blessing, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.'"
So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

³² From the descendants of Joseph: from the descendants of Ephraim, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³³ those who were counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. ³⁴ From the descendants of Manasseh, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³⁵ those who were counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

²⁸ The descendants* of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹ The descendants* of Manasseh: of Makir, the clan of the Makirites.* And Makir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.* ³⁰ These were the descendants* of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites;* of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;* ³¹ and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites;* and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;* ³² and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites;* and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.* ³³ Zelophehad son of Hepher did not have sons, but only daughters; and the names* of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These were the clans of Manasseh, and the ones counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. ³⁵ These were the descendants* of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites;* of Beker, the clan of the Bekerites;* of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.* ³⁶ And these were the descendants* of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.* ³⁷ These were the clans of the descendants* of Ephraim according to the ones counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These were the descendants* of Joseph according to their clans.

²³ And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were numerous. ²⁴ Now these were the heads of their fathers' households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, _⌊famous men_⌋,* heads of their fathers' households. ²⁵ But they transgressed against the God of their ancestors* and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. ²⁶ So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day.

¹⁴ The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. ¹⁵ And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. And the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second, Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters. ¹⁶ And Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. ¹⁷ The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Makir, son of Manasseh. ¹⁸ And his sister, Hammolecheth, gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. ¹⁹ The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. ²⁰ The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, ²¹ Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. And the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them because they came down to take their livestock. ²² And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. ²³ And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And he called his name Beriah because disaster had been upon his house. ²⁴ And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Lower and Upper Beth-Horon and Uzzen-Sheerah. ²⁵ And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son, ²⁶ Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, ²⁷ Nun his son, Joshua his son. ²⁸ And their property and their dwellings were Bethel and _⌊its towns_⌋.* And to the east, Naaran. And to the west, Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, up to Aija and its towns. ²⁹ And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.

²⁷ Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening.

³⁸ The descendants* of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites;* of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites;* of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;* ³⁹ of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites;* of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.* ⁴⁰ The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites;* of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.*

¹² Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh dwells _⌊securely_⌋,* the Most High* shields all around him, all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells."

⁶ The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three. ⁷ The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, the heads of the house of the fathers, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogy was twenty-two thousand thirty-four. ⁸ The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. ⁹ And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, as heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred. ¹⁰ The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. ¹¹ All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of the _⌊families_⌋,* mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, _⌊able to go to war_⌋.* ¹² And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim, the son of Aher.

¹ Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, ² Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. ³ And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, ⁴ Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, ⁵ Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. ⁶ And these are the sons of Ehud (these were heads of the _⌊families_⌋* for the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away to Manahath): ⁷ Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who took them away. And he fathered Uzza and Ahihud.

⁶ Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.

²⁵ The sons of Bilhah, the female servant of Rachel: Dan and Naphtali.

¹⁶ Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper on the road that bites the heels of a horse, so that its rider falls backward.

¹² from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;

³⁸ From the descendants of Dan, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ³⁹ those who were counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

²⁵ Then the standard of the camp of the descendants* of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over its division.

⁴² These were the descendants* of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites.* These were the clans of Dan according to their clans. ⁴³ All the clans of the Shuhamites,* according to the ones counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

²² And of Dan he said, "Dan is a cub of a lion; he leaps from Bashan."*

¹² And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim, the son of Aher.

³⁵ From the Danites, those equipped for battle: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

⁷ And Bilhah, Rachel's servant, conceived again and bore a second son to Jacob. ⁸ And Rachel said, "I have struggled a mighty struggle with my sister and have prevailed." And she called his name Naphtali.

²¹ Naphtali is a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words.

¹⁵ and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan."

⁴² From the descendants of Naphtali, their genealogies according to their clans, according to _⌊their families_⌋,* according to the number of names, from _⌊those twenty years old_⌋* and above, everyone who is able to go to war: ⁴³ those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁸ The descendants* of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites;* of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;* ⁴⁹ of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites;* of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.* ⁵⁰ These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred.

²³ And of Naphtali, he said, "Oh, Naphtali, sated of favor, and full of the blessing of Yahweh; take possession of the lake, and the land to the south."

²⁹ In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-Beth-Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, the Gilead, the Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali; then he deported them to Assyria.

¹³ The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the _⌊descendants_⌋* of Bilhah.

³⁴ From Naphtali: one thousand commanders; and those with them with shield and spear: thirty-seven thousand.

²⁹ And Laban gave Bilhah his female servant to Rachel his daughter as a female servant.

³ Then she said, "Here is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children _⌊as my surrogate_⌋.* Then I will even _⌊have children_⌋* by her." ⁴ Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her ⁵ And Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob. ⁶ Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.

²² And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard about it.

² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

³⁰ Now Gideon had seventy sons, _⌊his own offspring_⌋,* for he had many wives.

¹ And to Moses he said, "Go up to Yahweh—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel—and you will worship at a distance.

¹⁴ So Joseph sent and* summoned his father Jacob and all his* relatives, seventy-five persons in all.

²¹ Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates* and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

⁸ Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and let us arise and go, so that we will live and not die—you, we, and our children.

¹⁶ And Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? Now how can we show ourselves innocent? God has found the guilt of your servants! Behold, we are slaves to my lord, both we and also he in whose hand the cup was found." ¹⁷ But he said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found, he will become my slave. But as for you, go up in peace to your father." ¹⁸ But Judah drew near to him and said, "Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and _⌊let not your anger burn_⌋* against your servant, for _⌊you are like Pharaoh himself_⌋.* ¹⁹ My lord had asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?' ²⁰ And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.' ²¹ Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.' ²² Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he* would die.' ²³ Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.' ²⁴ And it happened that we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord. ²⁵ And when our father said, 'Buy a little food for us,' ²⁶ then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother is with us.' ²⁷ Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me. ²⁸ One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he must have been torn to pieces," and I have never seen him since. ²⁹ And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.' ³⁰ So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—now his life is bound up with his life— ³¹ it shall happen that when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow. ³² For your servant is pledged as surety for the boy by my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall be culpable to my father forever. ³³ So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers. ³⁴ For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? _⌊I do not want to see_⌋* the misery which will find my father."

¹⁰ You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.

³⁴ Then you must say, 'You servants are men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,'* so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is a detestable thing to Egyptians."

⁸ Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you.

⁴ But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

⁴³ And he had him ride in his second chariot. And they cried out before him, "Kneel!" And Pharaoh set him over all the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Then he fell upon the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. ¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And afterward his brothers spoke with him.

²⁰ And he set out and* came to his own father. But while* he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran _⌊and embraced him_⌋* and kissed him.

³⁷ And there was considerable weeping by all, and _⌊hugging_⌋* Paul, they kissed him,

²⁸ And Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

²⁹ "Now dismiss your slave in peace, Lord, according to your word. ³⁰ For my eyes have seen your salvation

¹⁶ Then the report was heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." And it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. ¹⁷ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers: 'Do this—load your donkeys and go back to the land of Canaan, ¹⁸ and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.' ¹⁹ And you Joseph, are commanded to say this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come! ²⁰ _⌊Do not worry_⌋* about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"

¹ So Joseph went and reported to Pharaoh. And he said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan. Now they are here in the land of Goshen." ² And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh. ³ And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."*

³ And because he was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

¹¹ For both the one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are all from one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

² _⌊Then she bore_⌋* his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.

²⁰ And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

¹⁸ And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

² These are the generations* of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he was a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.

³⁴ Then you must say, 'You servants are men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,'* so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is a detestable thing to Egyptians."

³ And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."*

¹ And Moses was a shepherd with the flock* of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west of the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

¹¹ Then Samuel said to Jesse, "_⌊Are all the young men here_⌋?"* And he said, "The youngest still remains, but look, he is shepherding the flock." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him, for we cannot _⌊sit down_⌋* until he comes here."

¹⁵ but David went _⌊back and forth_⌋* from Saul to feed the sheep of his father in Bethlehem.

²⁷ Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, _⌊sailors_⌋* who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

⁵ Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis.* Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals." ⁶ So they divided the land for themselves in order to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

⁷⁰ And he chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds. ⁷¹ He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. ⁷² And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.

¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and he will carry them in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.

⁵ but he will say, "I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth."*

³² And the men are shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.'

² And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh. ³ And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."* ⁴ And they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servant's flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

⁸ So they said to him, "Please tell us whoever is responsible that this disaster has come upon us! What is your occupation? And from where do you come? What is your country? And from which people are you?"

³⁵ But that day he* removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and _⌊put them in the charge of his sons_⌋.*

⁵ And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came.

¹² Now his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father in Shechem.

³² And they served him* by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, for Egyptians _⌊could not dine_⌋* with Hebrews, because that was a detestable thing to Egyptians.

²⁶ And Moses said, "To do so is not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, if we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?