Genesis 31 Cross References - LITV

¹ And he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was to our father, and from that which was to our father he has gotten all this wealth. ² And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. ³ And Jehovah said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred. And I will be with you. ⁴ And Jacob sent and called for Rachel and for Leah to come to the field, to his flocks. ⁵ And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not toward me as before. But the God of my father has been with me. ⁶ And you know that with all my power I have served your father. ⁷ And your father has cheated me and has changed my wages ten times. And God has not let him do evil to me. ⁸ And if he said this: The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said this, The striped shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore striped. ⁹ And God has taken away the livestock of your father and has given to me. ¹⁰ And it happened at the time the flock was in heat, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream: And behold! The ram leaping on the flock were striped, speckled, and spotted. ¹¹ And the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Behold me. ¹² And He said, Lift up your eyes and see all the rams leaping on the flock; they are striped, speckled and spotted. For I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. ¹³ I am the God of Bethel, there where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now rise up; go out of this land and go back to the land of your kindred. ¹⁴ And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet to us a portion and an inheritance in the house of our father? ¹⁵ Are we not counted strangers by him. For he has sold us, and he has also entirely spent our silver. ¹⁶ For all the wealth which God has taken from our father, it is for us and for our sons. And now all that which God has said to you, do. ¹⁷ And Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels. ¹⁸ And he drove all the livestock, and he took all his goods which he had gotten, livestock of his property which he had gotten in Padan-aram, to come to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan. ¹⁹ And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the household idols which were her father's. ²⁰ And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, for he did not tell him that he was about to flee. ²¹ And he and all that was to him fled. And he rose up and crossed the River and set his face to Mount Gilead. ²² And on the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. ²³ And he took his brothers with him and pursued him, seven days journey. And he overtook him in Mount Gilead. ²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Watch out for yourself, that you not speak with Jacob from good to evil. ²⁵ And Laban overtook Jacob. And Jacob had pitched his tent at the Mount. And Laban with his brothers had pitched at Mount Gilead. ²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? And you have deceived my heart and have taken my daughters like captives of the sword. ²⁷ Why did you hide so as to flee, and have deceived me and have not told me. And I would have sent you away with rejoicing and with music, with tabret and with harp. ²⁸ And you have not let me kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have been foolish to do this . ²⁹ It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Watch out for yourself that you do not speak with Jacob from good to evil. ³⁰ And now surely you have gone because you have longed after your father's house. Why have you stolen my gods? ³¹ And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid. For I said, Lest by force you take your daughters from me. ³² With whomever you find your gods, he shall not live before our brothers here. See for yourself what is with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. ³³ And Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two slave-girls; and he did not find. And he went out of Leah's tent and came into Rachel's tent. ³⁴ And Rachel had taken the household idols and put them into the camel's saddle; and she sat on them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find. ³⁵ And she said to her father, Let no anger be in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before your face, for the way of women is to me. And he sought and did not find the household idols. ³⁶ And Jacob was angry, and he argued with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my transgression; what my sin that you have hotly pursued me? ³⁷ For you have felt around all my articles; what have you found from all the articles of your house? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers and let them decide between the two of us. ³⁸ Now I was with you twenty years. Your ewes and your she-goats have not failed to bear, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock. ³⁹ I did not bring to you the mangled; I replaced it. From my hand you exacted it, that stolen by day and that stolen by night. ⁴⁰ I was there; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night. And my sleep fled from my eyes. ⁴¹ Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times. ⁴² Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, truly now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my palm, and last night He judged. ⁴³ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters and the sons my sons. And the flocks are my flocks; yea, all which you see, it is mine and my daughters'. What can I do to these today, or to their sons whom they have borne? ⁴⁴ And now come, let us cut a covenant, you and me; and let it be a witness between you and me. ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones. And they took stones and they made a memorial pillar. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it, Heap of the Testimony. And Jacob called it in Hebrew, Heap of Testimony. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me today; so he called its name Heap of Testimony; ⁴⁹ also, Watchtower; for he said, May Jehovah watch between you and me, for we are hidden, when we are out of sight, each from his neighbor. ⁵⁰ If you will not afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives above my daughters, no man is with us. Behold! God is a witness between you and me. ⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set between you and me. ⁵² This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness. As for me, I will not pass over this heap to you; and as for you, you will not pass over this heap and this pillar for evil to me. ⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, the God of their father, let judge between us. And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed on the mountain. ⁵⁵ And Laban rose up early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban went away and returned to his on place.

⁸ And if he said this: The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said this, The striped shall be your wages, then all the flocks bore striped. ⁹ And God has taken away the livestock of your father and has given to me.

¹³ And you tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and all that you have seen. And hurry and bring down my father here.

¹¹ And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and his many sons, and all to which the king had promoted him, and how he lifted him up above the princes and the servants of the king.

²⁴ If I have made gold my hope or have called fine gold my trust; ²⁵ if I rejoiced because my wealth was great; or because my hand had gotten much;

³¹ if the men of my tent did not say, Who can find one not being satisfied from his meat,

¹⁴ from men, by Your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and their belly You fill with Your treasure; they are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes.

¹⁶ Do not be afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases; ¹⁷ for when he dies, he shall take nothing; his glory shall not go down after him.

⁴ My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

³ who sharpen their tongue like a sword; they tread their arrows, a bitter word, ⁴ so that they may shoot at the innocent from a lurking place; suddenly they shoot at him, and fear not.

³ What shall be given to you, or what shall one add to you, O false tongue? ⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of broom! ⁵ Woe is me that I sojourned in Meshech; I dwell with the tents of Kedar!

³⁰ A healthy heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

⁴ Fury is fierce, and anger overflows, but who can stand before jealousy?

⁴ And I considered every labor, and every advantage of the work, that it is the envy of a man against his neighbor; this is also vanity and striving after wind.

¹⁴ So Sheol has enlarged its appetite, and opened its mouth without measure, and her glory and her multitude, and her uproar, he who exults in her, shall come down in it.

²³ So says Jehovah, Do not let the wise glory in his wisdom, and do not let the mighty glory in his might. Do not let the rich glory in his riches.

⁴⁴ Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so is the daughter.

⁸ Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and he showed to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

⁴ he has been puffed up, understanding nothing, but is sick concerning doubts and arguments, out of which comes envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil suspicions,

³ For we also once were senseless, disobedient, led astray, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

²⁴ Because "all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of grass; the grass was dried, and its flower fell out,

⁵ And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed greatly with anger, and his face fell.

²⁷ And Laban said to him, If I have found favor in your eyes, stay. I have seen omens, also Jehovah has blessed me because of you.

¹⁰ And Moses said to Jehovah, O Lord, I am not a man of words, either from yesterday or the third day, nor since You have been speaking to Your bondslave. For I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.

⁴ And this is the case of the manslayer who shall flee there, that he may live: whoever strikes his neighbor unawares, and has not hated him yesterday and the day before;

⁵⁴ The man who is tender and very delicate among you, and his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his sons which he has left;

⁹ And from that day forward Saul was watching David. ¹⁰ And on the next day it happened that the evil spirit from God came on Saul. And he prophesied in the midst of the house; and David was playing with his hand, as he did day by day. And Saul's spear was in his hand. ¹¹ And Saul threw the spear, and said, I will strike David, even to the wall. And David twice drew back from his face.

⁷ And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was before him as yesterday and the day before.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke and commanded to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usual to heat it.

¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever.

²² And it happened at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

³ Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham. ⁴ And I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in your seed, ⁵ because Abraham listened to My voice and heeded My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.

²⁴ And Jehovah appeared to him in the same night, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you; and I will bless you and increase your seed, because of My servant Abraham.

⁴ And may He give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, for you to possess the land of your travels, which God gave to Abraham.

¹³ And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed.

¹⁵ And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.

²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God is with me and keeps me in this way which I am going, and gives to me bread to eat and clothing to wear, ²¹ and I return in peace to the house of my father, then Jehovah shall be my God, ²² and this stone which I have placed as a memorial pillar shall become the house of God; and all which You shall give to me, I will tithe the tenth to You.

²⁵ And it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away so I may go to my own place and to my land.

¹³ I am the God of Bethel, there where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now rise up; go out of this land and go back to the land of your kindred.

¹⁸ And he drove all the livestock, and he took all his goods which he had gotten, livestock of his property which he had gotten in Padan-aram, to come to his father Isaac, to the land of Canaan.

⁹ And Jacob said, Oh God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who said to me, Go back to your land and to your kindred and I will deal well with you.

¹ And God said to Jacob, Rise up, go to Bethel and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled before your brother Esau.

² And God said to Israel in visions of the night, and He spoke, Jacob! Jacob! And he answered, Behold me. ³ And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, and God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹ To the chief musician. For the sons of Korah; A song. For the Virgins. God is our refuge and strength, very much found to be a help in distresses.

¹⁵ And call on Me in the day of distress; and I will save you; and you shall glorify Me.

¹⁵ Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.

¹⁰ Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your God; I will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

⁵ Set your way of life without money-loving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you," never! Deut. 31:6

² And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before. ³ And Jehovah said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred. And I will be with you.

⁴² Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, truly now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my palm, and last night He judged.

⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, the God of their father, let judge between us. And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born until today;

¹⁷ Your father commanded before his death, saying, So you shall say to Joseph, Please lift up now the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin; for they did evil to you. And now please lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

²⁹ And he said to him, You know how I have served you and what your livestock has become with me.

³⁸ Now I was with you twenty years. Your ewes and your she-goats have not failed to bear, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock. ³⁹ I did not bring to you the mangled; I replaced it. From my hand you exacted it, that stolen by day and that stolen by night. ⁴⁰ I was there; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night. And my sleep fled from my eyes. ⁴¹ Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times. ⁴² Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, truly now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my palm, and last night He judged.

⁵ Slaves, obey your lords according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ; ⁶ not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ serving as slaves with good will to the Lord, and not as to men, ⁸ each one knowing that whatever good thing he does, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a slave or a freeman.

²² Slaves, obey the lords according to flesh in all respects, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God. ²³ And whatever you may do, work from the soul as to the Lord and not to men, ²⁴ knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But the one doing wrong will receive what he did wrong, and there is no respect of persons.

⁹ Let slaves be subject to their own masters, well-pleasing in all things, not speaking against them, ¹⁰ not stealing, but showing all good faith, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Savior God in all things.

¹⁸ Servants, be obedient to your masters in all fear, not only to those good and forbearing, but also to the perverse ones .

⁶ And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the honor of your heart, and I also withheld you from sinning against Me. On account of this I did not allow you to touch her.

²⁹ It is in the power of my hand to do you harm. But the God of your fathers spoke to me last night, saying, Watch out for yourself that you do not speak with Jacob from good to evil.

⁴¹ Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times.

²⁶ When I break to you the staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall give back your bread by weight; and you shall eat, and shall not be satisfied.

²² for all the men who are seeing My glory, and My miracles which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tried Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,

¹² And it happened when the Jews who lived near them came in, they said to us ten times, From all places where you shall return, they will be against us.

¹⁰ Have You not made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that is his all around? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

³ And this, ten times you have shamed me; you are not ashamed that you have wronged me.

⁸ He has fenced up my path so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness on my paths.

²⁸ For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are preserved forever; but the wicked's seed shall be cut off.

¹⁴ He allowed no man to oppress them; yea, He reproved kings for their sakes; ¹⁵ saying, Touch not My anointed; and, Do My prophets no harm.

¹ And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothing, only let your name be called on us; collect our shame.

¹⁷ Every weapon formed against you shall not prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness is from Me, says Jehovah.

²³ So says Jehovah of hosts: In those days ten men out of all languages of the nations shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

³² I will pass among all your flock today, taking from there every speckled and spotted sheep, and every black sheep among the lambs, also the spotted and speckled goats; these shall be my wages.

¹ And he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was to our father, and from that which was to our father he has gotten all this wealth.

¹⁶ For all the wealth which God has taken from our father, it is for us and for our sons. And now all that which God has said to you, do.

¹ On that day king Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the vexer of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. ² And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

¹⁰ for every beast of the forest is Mine; the cattle on a thousand hills;

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

¹⁵ Or is it not lawful for me to do what I desire with my things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?

¹² And he dreamed. And, behold, a ladder was placed on the earth, its top reaching to the heavens. And, behold, the angels of God were going up and going down on it!

³⁹ And the flocks were in heat before the rods and bore striped, speckled and spotted offspring .

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Watch out for yourself, that you not speak with Jacob from good to evil.

⁶ And He said, Now hear My words, If your prophet is of Jehovah, I shall make Myself known to him in an appearance; I will speak to him in a dream.

¹ If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams rises among you, and gives you a sign or a wonder,

⁵ Jehovah appeared to Solomon in Gibeon in a dream of the night. And God said, Ask. What shall I give to you?

⁷ And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness; by the well in the way of Shur. ⁸ And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave-girl, where did you come from? And where do you go? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress, Sarai. ⁹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hand. ¹⁰ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will exceedingly multiply your seed, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold! You are with child and shall bear a son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has attended to your affliction. ¹² And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers. ¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah, the One speaking to her, You, a God of vision! For she said, Even here I have looked after the One seeing me?

¹ And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day.

¹⁷ And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing?

¹ And it happened after these things, testing Abraham, God said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me.

⁵ And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not toward me as before. But the God of my father has been with me.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born until today; ¹⁶ The Angel that redeemed me from every evil, may He bless the youths; and may my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they like the fishes increase into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

⁴ And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the thorn bush, and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Behold me.

⁴ And Jehovah called to Samuel. And he said, Behold, I am here.

⁶ and Jehovah again called Samuel. And Samuel rose up and went to Eli and said, Behold, I am here, for you have called me. And he said, I have not called, my son. Go back and lie down.

⁸ And Jehovah again called Samuel, the third time. And he rose up and went to Eli and said, Behold, I am here, for you have called me. And Eli understood at Jehovah was calling the boy.

¹⁶ And Eli called Samuel and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Behold, I am here .

⁹ Then you shall call, and Jehovah will answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am . If you put the yoke away from among you, the sending out of the finger, and the speaking of vanity;

³⁷ And Jacob took for himself white rods of a fresh tree, and the almond and plane tree. And he peeled white stripes in them, laying bare the white on the rods. ³⁸ And he set the rods which he had peeled by the troughs, by the water troughs where the flocks came to drink, across from the flocks. And they were in heat when they came to drink. ³⁹ And the flocks were in heat before the rods and bore striped, speckled and spotted offspring . ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and he set the faces of the flock toward the striped, and every black one in the flocks of Laban. And he put his own droves by themselves, and did not put them with the flock of Laban. ⁴¹ And it happened that whenever the strong flocks conceived, Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the flocks, before the troughs, that they might conceive by the rods. ⁴² And the flocks being feeble, he did not set them . And usually it happened that the weak were for Laban, and the strong for Jacob. ⁴³ And the man increased very much, and many flocks were his, and slave-girls, and male slaves, and camels and asses.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry from before their slave-drivers; for I know his sorrows.

⁹ And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and I also have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

¹³ You shall not extort your neighbor, nor rob; you shall not allow the wages of one hired to remain with you until morning.

¹⁵ In the same day you shall give him his hire; do not let the sun go down on it. For he is poor, and has lifted up his heart on it; that he not cry against you to Jehovah, and it be sin against you.

⁵ For the pain of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now rise up, says Jehovah; I will set in safety; he pants for it.

³ You sift my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

⁸ If you see the oppression of the poor, or the removing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the purpose. For a high one over a high one is watching; and high ones are over them.

³⁴ I surely saw the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and I came down to pluck them out. And now, come, I will send you to" Egypt. Ex. 3:5, 7, 8a, 10a

⁹ And lords, do the same things toward them, forbearing threatening, knowing that the Lord of you and of them is in Heaven, and there is no respect of persons with Him.

¹² And he dreamed. And, behold, a ladder was placed on the earth, its top reaching to the heavens. And, behold, the angels of God were going up and going down on it! ¹³ And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed. ¹⁴ And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed. ¹⁵ And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you. ¹⁶ And Jacob awakened from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know. ¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing except the house of God, and this is the door to Heaven. ¹⁸ And Jacob started up early in the morning and took the stone which he had placed at his head, and he placed it as a pillar; and he poured oil on the top of it. ¹⁹ And he called the name of that place, The House of God. And yet the name of the city was at first Luz.

³ And Jehovah said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred. And I will be with you.

⁷ And he built an altar there and called the place Elbethel; because God revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.

²⁴ Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh.

²⁴ And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his slave-girl, to his daughter Leah as a slave.

²⁹ And Laban gave his slave-girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel, to her for a slave-girl.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate and the elders, said, We are witnesses. May Jehovah make the woman who is coming into your house to be as Rachel and as Leah, both of whom built the house of Israel. And may you do worthily in Ephratah, and proclaim the name in Bethlehem.

¹⁵ And Laban said to Jacob, are you not my brother? And should you serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall be your wages? ¹⁶ And Laban had two daughters, the name of the older, Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel. ¹⁷ And the eyes of Leah were weak, and Rachel was beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance. ¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter. ¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better for me to give her to you than to give her to another man; live with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes like a few days, in that he loved her.

²⁷ Fulfill the week of this one and we will also give you this other one, for the service which you will serve with me, yet another seven years. ²⁸ And Jacob did so, and he fulfilled the week of this one, and he gave to him his daughter Rachel, to him for a wife. ²⁹ And Laban gave his slave-girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel, to her for a slave-girl. ³⁰ And he also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.

²⁶ Give my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know my service with which I have served you.

⁷ And when a man sells his daughter for a slave-girl, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out. ⁸ If she is bad in the eyes of her master who has appointed her for himself, he shall allow her redemption. He shall not have power to sell her to a strange people, in his deceiving her. ⁹ And if he chooses her for his son, he shall do to her as is the custom of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes another for himself, her flesh, her clothing, and her conjugal right shall not be diminished. ¹¹ And if he does not do these three for her, she shall go out for nothing, without silver.

⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word.

³⁵ And he turned out in that day all the striped and spotted lambs, and all the speckled and spotted goats, every one which had white, and every black one among the lambs. And he gave them into the hands of his sons.

⁹ And God has taken away the livestock of your father and has given to me.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, and look, and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.

¹⁰ And the slave took ten camels from his master's camels and left. And all his master's were in his hand. And he rose up and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

⁶¹ And Rebekah and her young women rose up, and they rode on the camels and went after the man. And the slave took Rebekah and went.

¹⁷ And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

¹ And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me. ² And he said, Behold! Now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.

²¹ and I return in peace to the house of my father, then Jehovah shall be my God,

²⁷ And Jacob came to his father Isaac, to Mamre, to the City of Arba; it is Hebron where Abraham and Isaac turned in. ²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. ²⁹ And Isaac expired and died and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

³⁰ And now surely you have gone because you have longed after your father's house. Why have you stolen my gods?

³² With whomever you find your gods, he shall not live before our brothers here. See for yourself what is with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

³⁴ And Rachel had taken the household idols and put them into the camel's saddle; and she sat on them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find.

² And Jacob said to his house, and to all those with him, Put away the strange gods in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your clothing.

² And Joshua said to all the people, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers have in the past lived Beyond the River (Terah the father of Abraham and father of Nahor) and they served other gods.

⁴ And he returned the silver to his mother. And his mother took two hundred silver pieces and gave them to a refiner. And he made it a graven image, and a molten image. And it was in Micah's house. ⁵ And the man Micah had a house of gods. And he made an ephod, and household idols, and consecrated one of his sons And he was a priest for him.

¹⁴ And the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish answered and said to their brothers, Do you not know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols, and a graven image, and a molten image? And now, you know what you are to do. ¹⁵ And they turned in there, and came into the house of the young man, the Levite in Micah's house. And they asked him for the peace. ¹⁶ And the six hundred men of the sons of Dan girded with their weapons of war were standing at the opening of the gate. ¹⁷ And the five men, those who went to spy out the land came in there, and they took the graven image, and the ephod, and the household idols, and the casted image. And the priest was standing at the opening of the gate, and the six hundred men who were girded with weapons of war. ¹⁸ And when these went into the house of Micah and took the graven image, the ephod, and the household idols, and the casted image, even the priest said to them, What are you doing? ¹⁹ And they said to him, Be quiet! Lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for one man's house, or for you to be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel? ²⁰ And the heart of the priest was glad. And he took the ephod, and the household idols, and the graven image, and went among the people. ²¹ And they turned and departed, and put the little ones, and the livestock, and the valuables before them. ²² They had gone far away from Micah's house, and the men who were in the houses near Micah's house had been called together, and had overtaken the sons of Dan. ²³ And they called to the sons of Dan, and they turned their faces and said to Micah, What ails you, that you have been called together? ²⁴ And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and the priest, and you are leaving, and what more do I have? What is this you say to me, What ails you?

³¹ And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image, which he had made, all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh.

¹³ And Michal took an image and laid it on the bed; and she put the quilt of goat's hair at his head-place, and covered with a spread.

²¹ For the king of Babylon shall stand at the mother of the way, at the head of the two ways to practice divination. He shall shake arrows, he shall ask household idols; he shall look at the liver.

⁴ For the sons of Israel shall stay many days with no king and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod or teraphim.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one going east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¹⁸ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

²³ And he took his brothers with him and pursued him, seven days journey. And he overtook him in Mount Gilead.

²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked. And, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead! And their camels were bearing spices, and balsam gum, and myrrh, going down to take them to Egypt.

²⁸ And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to give directions before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

¹ And Balaam saw that it pleased Jehovah to bless Israel, and he did not go, as at other times to seek spells. And he set his face toward the wilderness.

¹ And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had many livestock, a very great multitude. And they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. And, behold, the place was a place for livestock.

¹² And we possessed this land at that time: from Aroer by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead And its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

⁸ With him the Reubenites, and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave to them beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of Jehovah has given to them; ⁹ from Aroer on the lip of the river Arnon, and the city which is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba, to Dibon;

² And Joshua said to all the people, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers have in the past lived Beyond the River (Terah the father of Abraham and father of Nahor) and they served other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the River, and caused him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave Isaac to him.

¹⁸ And the people said, The chief men of Gilead, each man to his neighbor, Who will be the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall be head over all the people of Gilead.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

¹⁷ Then Hazael the king of Syria went up and fought against Gath, and captured it; and Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem.

⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces pointing there, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant never to be forgotten.

⁵¹ And it happened in the fulfilling of the days of His taking up, even He set His face to go to Jerusalem. ⁵² And He sent messengers before His face. And going they went into a village of Samaritans, so as to make ready for Him. ⁵³ And they did not receive Him, because His face was going toward Jerusalem.

³⁶ And he put three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob was feeding the remaining flocks of Laban.

⁵ And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and his servants was turned as to the people. And they said, What is this we have done? For we have sent away Israel from serving us. ⁶ And he prepared his chariots. And he took his people with him. ⁷ And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and officers over all of them. ⁸ And Jehovah hardened Pharaoh king of Egypt's heart. And he pursued the sons of Israel. And the sons of Israel were going out with a high hand. ⁹ And the Egyptians pursued them. And they overtook them camping by the sea, all the horses and the chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, by Pihahiroth, before Baalzephon. ¹⁰ And Pharaoh came near, and the sons of Israel raised their eyes, and, behold! The Egyptians were marching after them! And they were greatly afraid. And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah. ¹¹ And they said to Moses, Were there no graves in Egypt, that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What is this you have done to us, to bring us out from Egypt? ¹² Is this not the word which we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Go away from us, and let us serve the Egyptians. For it is better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness. ¹³ And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid. Take your stand and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He will prepare for you today. For as you see the Egyptians today, you shall not continue to see them again forever. ¹⁴ Jehovah will fight for you, and you be silent. ¹⁵ And Jehovah said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me? Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them pull up. ¹⁶ And you raise your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it so that the sons of Israel may go in the midst of the sea on dry ground. ¹⁷ And behold! I am about to harden the heart of the Egyptians. And they will go after them. And I will be honored through Pharaoh and through his armies, through his chariots, and through his horsemen. ¹⁸ And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, in my being honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots, and through his horsemen. ¹⁹ And the Angel of God withdrew, the One going before the camp of Israel. And He went behind them. And the pillar of cloud withdrew from before them, and it stood behind them. ²⁰ And it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And it was cloudy and dark. And it gave light to the night; and this one did not come near to that one all night. ²¹ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night. And He made the sea dry land, and the waters divided. ²² And the sons of Israel came into the middle of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them from their right and from their left. ²³ And the Egyptians pursued, and all the horses of Pharaoh came after them, his chariots and his horsemen, into the middle of the sea. ²⁴ And it happened in the morning watch: Jehovah looked on the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and cloud. And He confused the camp of the Egyptians. ²⁵ And He took off the wheels of their chariots, and made them drive with difficulty. And the Egyptians said, I will flee from the face of Israel, for Jehovah is fighting for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶ And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, and let the waters return on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen. ²⁷ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its usual flow, at the turning of the morning, and the Egyptians were fleeing to meet it. And Jehovah shook off the Egyptians into the middle of the sea. ²⁸ And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, together with all the army of Pharaoh, those going after them into the sea. And not even one was left among them. ²⁹ And the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the waters being a wall for them, from their right and from their left. ³⁰ And Jehovah saved Israel in that day from the hand of Egypt. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the lip of the sea. ³¹ And Israel saw the great hand with which Jehovah worked against Egypt. And the people feared Jehovah, and they believed in Jehovah and in His servant Moses.

¹² breaking the plots of the crafty, nor did their hands perform the undertaking. ¹³ He takes the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the wily ones is hastened.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.

²⁷ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my master, I being in the way, Jehovah guided me to the house of the brother of my master.

¹¹ And it happened in those days, even Moses was grown, and he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian man strike a Hebrew man of his brothers.

¹³ And he went out on the second day, and, behold, two men, Hebrews, were fighting. And he said to the guilty one, Why should you strike your neighbor?

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, you are about to die because of the woman you have taken, she being married to a husband.

⁵⁰ And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing has come from Jehovah; we are not able to speak to you good or evil.

⁵ And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Padanaram, to Laban, the son, of Bethuel the Aramean, brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

¹⁰ And it happened at the time the flock was in heat, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream: And behold! The ram leaping on the flock were striped, speckled, and spotted.

⁵ And they dreamed a dream, both of them, each his dream in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison house.

¹ And it happened at the end of two years of days, Pharaoh was dreaming. And, lo, he was standing by the River.

²⁰ And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, If the men have come to call you, rise up, go with them and say only the thing that I speak to you; it you shall do.

²⁶ And again the Angel of Jehovah passed on and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn, either to the right or to the left.

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the mouth of Jehovah, to do good or bad of my own heart. What Jehovah speaks, that I will speak.

⁵ And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a perishing Aramean! And he went down to Egypt with few men, and lived there, and became a nation there, great, mighty and many.

²² But Absalom did not speak either good or evil with Amnon, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar.

¹⁵ In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed, ¹⁶ then He opens the ear of men and seals their instruction, ¹⁷ that He may turn man from his deed; that He might conceal pride from man.

²⁵ His flesh shall be fresher than in vigor; let him return to the days of his youth.

²⁹ Because of your raging against Me, and your arrogance has come up to My ears, even I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips; and I will turn you back by the way you came in.

¹² And Jacob fled into the field of Syria, and Israel served for a wife; yea, he shepherded for a wife.

²⁰ And as he was thinking about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord was seen by him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For that in her is fathered by the Holy Spirit.

¹² And having been warned by a dream not to return to Herod, they went back into their own country by another way.

¹⁹ But as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Let nothing be to you and that just one. For I have suffered many things today by a dream because of him.

⁸ And he moved from there to a mountain on the east of Bethel, and stretched his tent with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, and called on the name of Jehovah.

¹⁸ And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he came from Padan-aram And he camped in front of the city.

⁹ By faith he resided as a foreigner in a land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;

¹³ And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

¹⁰ And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground.

¹⁸ And Pharaoh called for Abram and said, What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me she is your wife?

⁹ And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What have you done to us? And in what have I offended you that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that ought not to be done. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see that you have done this thing?

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people had in a little lain with your wife, and you would have caused to come on us guilt.

³⁶ And Jacob was angry, and he argued with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my transgression; what my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

²⁹ And they took all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, and looted all that was in the house.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to Achan, My son, I beg you, give glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and give thanks to Him, and please tell me what you have done. Do not hide it from me.

⁴³ And Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me, what did you do? And Jonathan told him, and said, I indeed tasted a little honey with the end of the staff in my hand. Behold, I am here; I will die.

²⁹ And David said, What have I done now? Was it not but a word?

² And they captured the women in it, from the small even to the great; they did not kill anyone, but they led them away, and went on their way.

³⁵ Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your nation, even the chief priests, delivered you up to me! What did you do?

²¹ And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all those playing the harp and the organ.

⁵⁹ And they sent away their sister Rebekah, and her nurse, and Abraham's slave and his men. ⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you become myriads of thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of their haters.

³ And Jehovah said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred. And I will be with you. ⁴ And Jacob sent and called for Rachel and for Leah to come to the field, to his flocks. ⁵ And he said to them, I see your father's face, that it is not toward me as before. But the God of my father has been with me.

²⁰ And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, for he did not tell him that he was about to flee. ²¹ And he and all that was to him fled. And he rose up and crossed the River and set his face to Mount Gilead.

³¹ And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid. For I said, Lest by force you take your daughters from me.

²⁰ And the sister of Aaron, Miriam the prophetess took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

²⁷ And Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as Jehovah had spoken to him. And it happened, since he feared his father's house and the men of the city, to do it by day, that he did it by night.

¹¹ They send their little ones out as a flock; and their children dance. ¹² They lift up voice at the timbrel and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the flute. ¹³ They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to Sheol. ¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

²³ As with silver dross spread over an earthen vessel, so are burning lips and a wicked heart. ²⁴ He who hates dissembles with his lips, for he lays up deceit in his inner being, ²⁵ when his voice is gracious, do not believe him, for he has seven hateful things in his heart. ²⁶ Though his hatred is covered by guile, his evil shall be revealed in the assembly.

¹³ And it happened when Laban heard the report of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him. And he took him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

⁵⁵ And Laban rose up early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban went away and returned to his on place.

²⁷ And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went and met him in the mountain of God; and he kissed him.

⁹ May Jehovah grant to you that you find rest, each in the house of her husband. And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice and wept.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth clung to her.

¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, You have acted foolishly that you have not kept the command of Jehovah your God which He commanded you. For now Jehovah would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

²⁰ And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him, Go back; for what have I done to you?

⁹ For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro in all the earth in order to be strong for those with their heart perfect toward Him. You have acted foolishly in this. For this reason, from now on there shall be wars with you.

³⁷ And there was much weeping of all, and falling on the neck of Paul, they ardently kissed him,

¹⁴ But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁰ So you shall speak to Hezekiah the king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you trust delude you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹ To the chief musician. A Contemplation. A Psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O hero? The mercy of God is all the day.

⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel and said, Your God truly is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and a Revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.

²⁸ {cf9 : Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His Angel and has delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and have changed the king's words, and have given their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God.}

²⁰ And when he came to the den, he cried with a grieved voice to Daniel. The king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you always serve, is He able to deliver you from the lions?

²⁶ A decree was given from before me that in all the domain of my kingdom there shall be trembling and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God and endures forever, and His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed. And His rule shall be to the end.

¹⁰ So Pilate said to Him, Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to crucify you, and I have authority to release you? ¹¹ Jesus answered, You would have no authority against Me, not any, if it were not given to you from above. Because of this, the one delivering Me to you has a greater sin.

³⁸ And now I say to you, draw away from these men and permit them; because if this counsel is of men, or this work, it will be destroyed. ³⁹ But if it is from God, you will not be able to destroy it, lest you be found even fighters against God.

⁵ And he said, Sir, who are you? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute; it is hard for you to kick against the prods.

¹⁹ And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the household idols which were her father's.

¹² And I will pass through in the land of Egypt in this night. And I will strike every first born in the land of Egypt, from man even to livestock. And I will execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah!

⁴ And the Egyptians were burying those whom Jehovah had smitten among them, every first-born, and Jehovah had executed judgments on their gods.

³¹ And Joash said to all that stood against him, You, will you contend for Baal? Or you, will you save him? He who contends for him shall be killed by the morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because one has smashed his altar.

²⁴ And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and the priest, and you are leaving, and what more do I have? What is this you say to me, What ails you?

² And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon. ³ And the men of Ashdod rose early on the next day. And, behold! Dagon had fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah! And they took Dagon and put it back in its place. ⁴ And they rose early in the morning on the next day; and, behold! Dagon had fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands, were cut off at the threshold. Only the flat part had been left to him. ⁵ On account of this the priests of Dagon, and all those coming into the house of Dagon, do not step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod until this day. ⁶ And the hand of Jehovah was heavy on the men of Ashdod. And He wasted them, and struck them with hemorrhoids, Ashdod and its borders.

²¹ And they abandoned their idols there; and David and his men took them away.

¹⁹ and have given their gods into the fire (for they were not gods, only the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them).

¹ Bel has bowed; Nebo stoops; their idols are for the beast, and for the cattle; your things carried are loads; a burden for the weary. ² They stoop; they bow together; they are not able to deliver the burden; and their soul has gone into captivity.

¹¹ So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

¹² And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. And he shall burn them, and take them captive. And he shall adorn himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd covers himself with his robe. And he shall go forth from there in peace.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done? And you have deceived my heart and have taken my daughters like captives of the sword. ²⁷ Why did you hide so as to flee, and have deceived me and have not told me. And I would have sent you away with rejoicing and with music, with tabret and with harp.

²⁵ The fear of man brings a snare, but he trusting Jehovah is set on high.

⁷ And he said, My brothers, please do not act evilly.

³³ And my righteousness shall testify for me in the day to come. When you come in about my wages, before your face everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen with me.

⁹ With whomever it may be found, with him of your servants, he shall die; and we also will become slaves to my lord. ¹⁰ And he said, Now also let it be according to your words; with whomever it is found with him, he shall become a slave to me, and you shall be innocent. ¹¹ And they hurried, and each one brought down his sack to the earth. And each one opened his sack. ¹² And he searched, with the oldest first, and with the youngest last, and the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin.

³ Behold, I am here! Testify against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I offended? Whom have I abused, and from whose hand have I taken a bribe that I might hide my eyes with it; and I will give back to you. ⁴ And they said, You have not oppressed us, and you have not abused us, and you have not taken from the hand of any man. ⁵ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

²⁴ And the men of Israel were distressed on that day, for Saul took an oath of the people, saying, Cursed shall be the man who eats food until the evening, when I have been avenged on my foes. And none of the people tasted food. ²⁵ And all those of the land came into a forest, and there was honey on the ground. ²⁶ And the people came into the forest; and behold, a flow of honey! But no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. ²⁷ And Jonathan did not hear when his father made the people swear. And he put out the tip of the staff in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. And he put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened. ²⁸ And one of the people answered and said, Your father certainly took an oath of the people, saying, Cursed shall be the man who eats food today. And the people were weak. ²⁹ And Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. See, now, that my eyes became bright, for I tasted this little honey.

²⁰ avoiding this, lest anyone should blame us in this bounty being ministered by us; ²¹ providing right things not only before the Lord, but also before men. Prov. 3:4

¹⁷ By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him? ¹⁸ I begged Titus and sent the brother with him . Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps? ¹⁹ Again, do you think we are defending to you? We speak before God in Christ, but in all things for your building up, beloved.

²⁸ And the girl ran and told these things to the house of her mother.

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother.

¹⁷ And Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels.

¹¹ And Abraham and Sarah were aged, going on in days. The custom as to women had ceased to be to Sarah. ¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After my being old, shall there be pleasure to me; my lord also being old?

¹² Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long on the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you.

¹⁹ And if a woman's discharge in her flesh is a flow of blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.

³ Each man of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths; I am Jehovah your God.

³² You shall rise up in the face of gray hair; and you shall honor the face of an old man; and be afraid of your God. I am Jehovah.

¹⁹ And Bathsheba came in to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed to her, and sat on his throne, and placed a throne for the king's mother. And she sat at his right hand.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good, and fearing no terror. Gen. 18:12

² And Jacob's anger glowed against Rachel, and he said, Am I in God's place, who has kept back from you the fruit of the womb?

⁷ And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard, and the men were furious, and they were very angry, because he had done foolishness in Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob, and it should not be done in this way.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.

¹⁵ And Moses was very angry, and said to Jehovah, Do not respect their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, nor have I done evil to one of them.

¹¹ And Naaman was angry, and went on, and said, Behold, I said, He will certainly come out to me and will stand and call on the name of Jehovah his God, and will wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

¹⁹ And the man of God was angry with him, and said, By striking five or six times, then you would have stricken Syria until it was finished; but now, you shall strike Syria three times.

¹ The wicked flee though no one is pursuing, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

⁵ And having looked around on them with anger, being greatly grieved over the hardness of their heart, He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he stretched out, and his hand was restored sound as the other.

²⁶ "Be angry but do not sin;" do not let the sun go down on your wrath, LXX-Psa. 4:4; MT-Psa. 4:5

¹⁹ So that, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. ²⁰ For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.

²³ And they took them out of the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the sons of Israel, and laid them out before Jehovah.

³ Behold, I am here! Testify against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I offended? Whom have I abused, and from whose hand have I taken a bribe that I might hide my eyes with it; and I will give back to you. ⁴ And they said, You have not oppressed us, and you have not abused us, and you have not taken from the hand of any man.

¹⁶ But if he does not hear, take one or two more with you, "so that on the mouth of two" or "three witnesses every word may stand". Deut. 19:15

⁴ If, then, you truly have judgments of this life, those being least esteemed in the church, you sit these. ⁵ For I speak shame to you. So, is there not a wise one among you, not even one who will be able to give judgment on his brother in your midst?

¹⁰ You and God are witnesses how holily and righteously and blamelessly we were to you, those believing;

¹⁸ Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, in all things wishing to behave well.

¹² having your behavior good among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers; by observing your good works, they may glorify God in a day of visitation.

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers, they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ.

³⁰ For little was yours before my presence, and it has spread out into a host. And Jehovah has blessed you at my foot. And now when shall I work for my house, I also?

²⁶ There shall not be one miscarrying, nor one barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

⁴ The fruit of your body shall be blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your oxen, and the young ones of your flock.

² Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, to the shepherds, So says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who are feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock? ³ You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you sacrifice the fat ones, and you do not feed the flock. ⁴ You have not made the weak strong; and you have not healed the sick, and you have not bound up the broken. And the banished have not been brought back, and you have not sought the lost, but you rule them with force and with harshness.

¹⁰ When a man gives an ass or an ox to his neighbor; or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, or is injured, or is captured, no one seeing it, ¹¹ an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And its owner shall take it, and he shall not repay. ¹² And if it is indeed stolen from him, he shall repay to its owner. ¹³ If it is completely torn in pieces, he shall bring it as a witness; he shall not repay that which was torn.

³¹ Any you shall be holy men to Me. And you shall not eat flesh torn in pieces in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

⁸ he shall not eat a dead body or torn thing, for it is unclean; I am Jehovah.

³⁴ And David said to Saul, Your servant has been a shepherd among sheep for his father. And the lion came, and the bear, and took away a sheep out of the flock. ³⁵ And I went out after him and struck him, and delivered out of his mouth. And he rose against me, and I took hold of his beard and struck him, and killed him.

⁸ And shepherds were in the same country living in the fields and keeping guard over their flock by night.

¹² But the hireling, not even being a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and forsakes the sheep and flees. And the wolf seizes them, and scatters the sheep. ¹³ But the hireling flees because he is a hireling, and there is not a care to him concerning the sheep.

¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew for us and watered the flock. ²⁰ And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, and let him eat bread. ²¹ And Moses consented to live with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. ²² And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land.

¹ And Moses was feeding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

⁷⁰ He also chose His servant David, and took him from the sheepfolds; ⁷¹ He brought him in from the suckling ewes; He brought him to feed His people Jacob, and His inheritance, Israel.

¹⁵ Then when they broke fast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these? He said to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Feed My lambs! ¹⁶ Again He says to him, secondly, Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me? He says to Him, Yes, Lord, You know that I love You. He said to him, Shepherd My sheep! ¹⁷ Thirdly, He said to him, Simon son of Jonah, do you love Me? Peter was grieved that He said to him a third time, Do you love Me? And he said to him, Lord, You perceive all things, You know that I love You! Jesus said to him, Feed My sheep!

⁷ Remember your leaders who spoke the Word of God to you, considering the issue of their conduct, imitate their faith:

² Shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; nor eagerly for base gain, but readily; ³ nor as exercising lordship over the ones allotted to you, but becoming examples of the flock. ⁴ And at the appearing of the Chief Shepherd, you will receive the never fading crown of glory.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter. ¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better for me to give her to you than to give her to another man; live with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes like a few days, in that he loved her. ²¹ And Jacob said to Laban, Give my wife, for my days are completed. And let me go in to her. ²² And Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast. ²³ And it happened in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and he went in to her. ²⁴ And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his slave-girl, to his daughter Leah as a slave. ²⁵ And it happened in the morning; behold! She was Leah. And he said to Laban, What have you done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? And why have you tricked me? ²⁶ And Laban said, It is not done this way in our place, to give the younger before the first born.

³³ And my righteousness shall testify for me in the day to come. When you come in about my wages, before your face everyone that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the lambs, it is stolen with me. ³⁴ And Laban said, Yes, if it be so let it be as you speak. ³⁵ And he turned out in that day all the striped and spotted lambs, and all the speckled and spotted goats, every one which had white, and every black one among the lambs. And he gave them into the hands of his sons. ³⁶ And he put three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob was feeding the remaining flocks of Laban. ³⁷ And Jacob took for himself white rods of a fresh tree, and the almond and plane tree. And he peeled white stripes in them, laying bare the white on the rods. ³⁸ And he set the rods which he had peeled by the troughs, by the water troughs where the flocks came to drink, across from the flocks. And they were in heat when they came to drink. ³⁹ And the flocks were in heat before the rods and bore striped, speckled and spotted offspring . ⁴⁰ And Jacob separated the lambs, and he set the faces of the flock toward the striped, and every black one in the flocks of Laban. And he put his own droves by themselves, and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

⁷ And your father has cheated me and has changed my wages ten times. And God has not let him do evil to me.

³⁸ Now I was with you twenty years. Your ewes and your she-goats have not failed to bear, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

²⁶ I have been in travels often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my race, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the desert, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers,

⁵ And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built.

¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold! You are with child and shall bear a son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has attended to your affliction.

¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah, the One speaking to her, You, a God of vision! For she said, Even here I have looked after the One seeing me?

³³ And Isaac was terrified with a very great anxiety. And he said, Who then was the one who hunted game and came to me; and I ate from it all before you came; and I blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed.

³² And Leah conceived and bore a son. And she called his name Reuben; for she said, Surely Jehovah has looked on my affliction, for now my husband will love me.

¹² And He said, Lift up your eyes and see all the rams leaping on the flock; they are striped, speckled and spotted. For I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

¹⁷ And David went out before them, and answered and said to them, If you have come to me for peace, to help me, I have a heart to unite with yours. But if to betray me to my foe, there is no violence in my hand; the God of our fathers shall see and reprove.

⁷ And I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses in my soul;

¹¹ Vow and pay to Jehovah your God; let all that are around Him bring presents to the Fearful One. ¹² He shall cut off the spirit in princes; He is feared by the kings of the earth.

¹ A Song of Ascents, of David. Except that it was Jehovah who was for us, O may Israel say; ² except that it was Jehovah who was for us when men rose up against us, ³ then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger glowed against us.

¹³ Sanctify Jehovah of Hosts Himself, and let Him be your fear; and let Him be your dread.

⁹ But Michael the archangel, when contending with the Devil, he argued about the body of Moses; he dared not bring a judgment of blasphemy, but said, "Let the Lord rebuke you!" Zech. 3:2

²² And it happened at that time Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do. ²³ And now swear to me here by God, that you will not lie to me, and to my son, and to my heir, according to the kindness which I have sworn to you. Do to me and to the land in which you have lived. ²⁴ And Abraham said, I will swear. ²⁵ And Abraham reproved Abimelech on account of a well of water which the slaves of Abimelech had seized. ²⁶ And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; and also you have not told me; even I have not heard, except today. ²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave to Abimelech, and both of them cut a covenant. ²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹ And Abimelech said to Abraham, What are these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves? ³⁰ And he said, You shall take the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may become for me a witness that I dug this well. ³¹ On account of this that place is called The Well of Sheba, because the two of them swore there. ³² And they cut a covenant in Beersheba. And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, rose up; and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

²⁸ And they said, Since we plainly have seen that Jehovah has been with you, and we have said, let there be an oath now between us, between us and you, and let us cut a covenant with you, ²⁹ whether you will do with us evil, as we did not touch you, and as we did only good with you, and we sent you away in peace you now being blessed of Jehovah. ³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹ And they started up early at dawn, and each swore to his brother. And Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.

⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between you and me today; so he called its name Heap of Testimony;

⁵² This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness. As for me, I will not pass over this heap to you; and as for you, you will not pass over this heap and this pillar for evil to me.

¹⁹ Now, then, write this song for you, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it in their mouths, so that this song shall be for a witness to Me against the sons of Israel.

²¹ And it shall be, when many evils and distresses have found them, this song shall testify against them as a witness. For it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed. For I know their imagination which they are making today, before I bring them into the land which I have sworn.

²⁶ Take this book of the law, and you shall put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, so that it may be there for a witness against you.

²⁷ but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, to do the service of Jehovah before Him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings; that your sons may not say to our sons in the future, You have no portion in Jehovah.

²⁵ And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and laid on them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and raised it up there under the oak by the sanctuary of Jehovah. ²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He has spoken with us. And it shall be against you for a witness, that you not lie against your God.

¹⁴ And not only while I live, even you shall not do with me the kindness of Jehovah, that I not die, ¹⁵ but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, not even when Jehovah cuts off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the earth. ¹⁶ And Jonathan covenanted with the house of David, that Jehovah should seek it from the hand of David's enemies. ¹⁷ And Jonathan again made David swear, because he loved him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

³⁷ For you have felt around all my articles; what have you found from all the articles of your house? Set it here before my brothers and your brothers and let them decide between the two of us.

⁵⁴ And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed on the mountain.

⁵ And Joshua said to them, Cross over before the ark of Jehovah your God to the middle of the Jordan, and each man of you lift up one stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, ⁶ that this shall be a sign among you, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What are these stones to you? ⁷ You shall say to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as it crossed over into the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones are for a memorial to the sons of Israel all the days. ⁸ And the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Jehovah had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and crossed over with them to the lodging place, and laid them down there; ⁹ even the twelve stones that Joshua lifted up in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant stood firm. And they are there until this day.

²⁰ And the twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan were raised up in Gilgal by Joshua. ²¹ And he spoke to the sons of Israel, saying, When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What do these stones mean ? ²² Then you shall make your sons know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land, ²³ because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you crossed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Sea of Reeds, which He dried up before you until we crossed over; ²⁴ so that all the people of the land shall know that the hand of Jehovah is strong, so that you may fear Jehovah your God all the days.

²⁶ And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. And Jehovah turned back from the heat of His anger. On this account the name of that place is The Valley of Grief until this day.

¹⁷ And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and set up a very great heap of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each one to his tent.

⁵ a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

¹ So therefore we also, having so great cloud of witnesses lying around us, having laid aside every weight and the easily surrounding sin, through patience let us also run the race set before us,

³⁶ From Aroer, which is by the edge of the Arnon River, and the city beside the river, even to Gilead, there was not a city which was too high for us. Jehovah our God delivered all before us.

¹⁶ And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley and its border; even to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the sons of Ammon;

²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He has spoken with us. And it shall be against you for a witness, that you not lie against your God.

¹⁷ And the sons of Ammon were called together, and camped in Gilead. And the sons of Israel were gathered, and camped in Mizpeh

¹¹ And Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people appointed him head over them, and as commander. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Jehovah in Mizpeh.

²⁹ And the Spirit of Jehovah was on Jephthah. And he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed through Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed on to the sons of Ammon.

⁵ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Jehovah for you. ⁶ And they were gathered to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured out before Jehovah. And they fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the sons of Israel in Mizpah.

²² And king Asa proclaimed to all Judah (no one was exempt) and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and its timber with which Baasha had built. And king Asa built with it Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

¹ Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For the judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare to Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.

¹⁸ And you shall not take a wife with her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

¹⁰ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely we will do according to your word.

⁵ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.

²³ because they have committed disgraceful folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbor's wives, and have spoken a lying word in My name, which I have not commanded them. For I am He who knows, and a witness, says Jehovah.

⁵ And they said to Jeremiah, Let Jehovah be a true and faithful witness between us if not according to all things Jehovah your God shall send you to us, so we will do.

² Let the peoples hear, all of them. Pay attention, O earth, and its fullness. And let the Lord Jehovah be a witness against you, the Lord from His holy temple.

¹⁴ Yet you say, On what cause ? Because Jehovah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; and she is your companion and your covenant wife.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing to a lie; and against those who extort from the hired laborer's pay; and turning away the widow, and the fatherless, and the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁵ And He said, "For this reason a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." Gen. 2:24 ⁶ So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let not man separate.

⁵ For neither were we then found with words of flattery, even as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness (God is witness),

⁴⁴ And now come, let us cut a covenant, you and me; and let it be a witness between you and me. ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial.

²⁴ And Nahor lived twenty nine years and fathered Terah. ²⁵ And after he fathered Terah, Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years. And he fathered sons and daughters. ²⁶ And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. ²⁷ And these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai. And the name of Nahor's wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

³¹ And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My injury be upon you; I gave my slave-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I was despised in her eyes. Let Jehovah judge between me and you.

⁷ And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

²³ And now swear to me here by God, that you will not lie to me, and to my son, and to my heir, according to the kindness which I have sworn to you. Do to me and to the land in which you have lived. ²⁴ And Abraham said, I will swear.

²⁰ And it happened after these things it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold! Milcah, she also, has borne sons to your brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz, his firstborn, Buz, and his brother Kemuel, the father of Aram, ²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. ²³ And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, the brother of Abraham. ²⁴ And his concubine called Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

³ And I will cause you to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, among whom I dwell. ⁴ But you shall go to my country and to my kindred and take a wife for my son, for Isaac.

⁶ And He said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he feared to look upon God.

¹³ You shall fear Jehovah your God, and you shall serve Him, and you shall swear by His name.

⁸ And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

¹² And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices to God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father-in-law.

²⁰ And Abner came to David, to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made a feast for Abner and for the men with him. ²¹ And Abner said to David, let me rise up and go, and gather to my lord the king all Israel. And they shall cut a covenant with you. And you shall reign over all that your soul desires. And David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.

³³ And when Jehovah had finished speaking to Abraham, then Abraham returned to his place.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you become myriads of thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of their haters.

¹ And Isaac called Jacob. And he blessed him and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

²⁸ And you have not let me kiss my sons and my daughters. Now you have been foolish to do this .

⁴³ And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters and the sons my sons. And the flocks are my flocks; yea, all which you see, it is mine and my daughters'. What can I do to these today, or to their sons whom they have borne?

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

⁵ And Jehovah put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and you shall say this.

⁸ How shall I curse him whom God has not cursed? And how shall I rage at him whom Jehovah has not raged at?

¹¹ And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and lo you have surely blessed.

²⁵ And Balaam rose up and left, and returned to his place; and Balak also went on his way.

⁵ But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, and Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.

³⁶ For Jehovah will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain .

¹⁰ For the wraths of man thank You; You encircle Yourself with the wraths left over.

⁷ When a man's ways please Jehovah, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, By all means this man is a murderer, whom being saved out of the sea, Justice did not permit to live. ⁵ Then he indeed shaking the beast off into the fire, he suffered no harm.