Exodus 2 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now there was a certain man of the tribe of Levi who had married one of the daughters of Levi ² and she conceived and bore a son. And when they saw that he was a beautiful child they hid him three months. ³ But when they could not conceal him any longer, his mother provided for him a wicker basket and plaistered it with bitumenous pitch and put the child into it and placed it in the stagnant water by the side of the river. ⁴ And his sister watched it at a distance to see what would become of it. ⁵ And the daughter of Pharao came to bathe herself at the river and her maids were walking with her along the bank. And seeing the basket in the stagnant water she sent her maid and had it brought to her. ⁶ And upon opening it she saw in the basket a child weeping. And the daughter of Pharao had compassion on it and said, This is one of the Hebrew children. ⁷ Whereupon his sister said to Pharao's daughter, Shall I call for thee a nurse from among the Hebrews to suckle the child for thee? ⁸ And the daughter of Pharao said, Go. Upon which the girl went and called the child's mother. ⁹ And the daughter of Pharao said to her, Take care of this child for me and suckle it for me; and I will pay thee the wages. So the woman took the child and suckled it; ¹⁰ and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water. ¹¹ And after a course of many years, when Moses was become great he went out to his brethren the children of Israel. And as he was observing their distress, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, who was one of his brethren the children of Israel. ¹² Whereupon looking about on every side and seeing no body he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³ And going out the next day he saw two Hebrew men quarrelling and said to him who was in the wrong, Why dost thou beat thy neighbour? ¹⁴ To which he replied, Who made thee a ruler or a judge over us? Dost thou mean to kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday? Thereupon Moses was alarmed and said, Is the thing become so public? ¹⁵ Now when Pharao heard of this deed he sought to slay Moses, but he withdrew from the presence of Pharao and took up his abode in the land of Madiam. When he came to the land of Madiam he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Madiam had seven daughters who tended the flocks of their father Jothor. And they having come to the well began to draw water to fill the troughs that they might water the flocks of their father Jothor, ¹⁷ and the shepherds came and drove them away. Upon which Moses arose and protected them and drew water for them and watered their flocks. ¹⁸ And when they came to their father Raguel, he said to them, Why have you come so soon to-day? ¹⁹ To which they replied, An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds and drew for us and watered our flocks. ²⁰ And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why did you leave the man behind? Therefore call him that he may eat bread. ²¹ So Moses dwelt with the man; and he gave him his daughter Sepphora to be his wife. ²² And his wife conceived and bore him a son; And Moses called his name Gersam, saying, Because I am a sojourner in a strange land. ²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God. ²⁴ And God heard their groans. And God remembered his covenant which he had made with Abraham, Isaak and Jacob. ²⁵ And God looked upon the Israelites and was made known to them.

¹⁶ And these are the names of the children of Levi according to their families, Gerson, Kaath and Merari. Now the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven. ¹⁷ And these were the sons of Gerson, Lobeni and Semei. These were houses of their patriarchal family. ¹⁸ And the sons of Kaath were Ambram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel. Now the years of the life of Kaath were a hundred and thirty three. ¹⁹ And the sons of Merari were Mooli and Mousi. These were the houses of the patriarchal family of Levi according to their families. ²⁰ Now Ambram had taken to wife Jochabed a daughter of his father's brother and she bore to him Aaron and Moses and Mariam their sister. And the years of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty two.

⁵⁹ And Kaath begot Ambram, whose wife's name was Jochabed, a daughter of Levi and she bore these for Levi in Egypt; She bore by Ambram, Aaron, and Moses, and Mariam their sister.

¹ The sons of Levi were Gerson, Kaath and Merari. ² And the sons of Kaath, Ambram and Issaar, Chebron and Oziel. ³ And the children of Ambram were Aaron and Moses and Mariam. And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.

¹² And the sons of Kaath were Ambram, Issaar, Chebron, Oziel; four. ¹³ The sons of Ambram were Aaron and Moses. Now Aaron was set apart for the sanctification of the most holy things, he and his sons, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister in the priest's office, and to bless in his name forever ¹⁴ But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were classed in the tribe of Levi.

⁵ a beneficent man who commiserateth and lendeth. He will manage his affairs with judgment;

²⁰ At this time Moses was born, who was exceeding beautiful, and was nursed up three months in his father's house.

²³ By faith Moses, when he was born was concealed three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a comely child, and they were not terrified by the king's edict.

¹⁴ Make therefore for thyself an ark of squared timber. Thou shalt make the ark with small apartments, and pitch it on the inside and outside with pitch.

³ And they said one to another, Come let us make bricks and bake them with fire. Now the bricks served them for stone and their mortar was asphaltus.

¹⁰ Now in this salt vale there were wells of Asphaltus. And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorra fled and fell there. And they who were left fled to the hilly country.

²² Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

² thou who art sending pledges by sea, and paper messages on the water; for swift messengers will go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and fierce people. There is one far transcending it. With regard to the nation without hope and trodden down,

⁶ both the streams and the canals of the river shall fail; and every collection of water shall be dried up, even every fen, where reeds and papyrus grow.

¹³ And when they were gone, behold an angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there till I order thee; for Herod will seek the child to destroy him.

¹⁶ When Herod saw that he was treated with contempt by the magians, he was highly incensed, and he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and all the territory belonging thereto, from those who had entered the second year and under, according to the time, of which he had. got exact information from the magians.

¹⁹ This king, mischievously politic against our family, ill treated our fathers, causing their children to be ex posed that they might not be preserved alive.

²⁰ therefore Mariam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took in her hand a timbrel and all the women went out after her with timbrels in choirs,

¹ and while they were at Aseroth, Mariam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses had taken; ² because he had taken to wife an Ethiopian woman, therefore they said, Hath the Lord spoken to Moses only? Hath he not spoken to us also? ³ [Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men on the earth,] ⁴ And when the Lord heard, the Lord immediately said to Moses, and Aaron, and Mariam. Come forth you three to the tabernacle of the testimony. And when they three came out to the tabernacle of the testimony, ⁵ the Lord descended in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and Aaron and Mariam were called. And when they both came out ⁶ he said to them, Hear my words. If there be a prophet among you to the Lord, I will make myself known to him by a vision, and speak to him in sleep. ⁷ Not so with respect to my servant Moses. In all my house he is faithful. ⁸ Mouth to mouth, I will speak to him personally, and not in dark sentences. He hath actually seen the glory of God. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses. ⁹ And the wrath of the Lord was upon them, ¹⁰ and the cloud withdrew from the tabernacle, and behold Mariam was leprous like snow. When Aaron looked on Mariam, and behold she was leprous, ¹¹ he said to Moses, O my lord, impute not sin to us, because we have acted ignorantly; because we have sinned, ¹² Let her not be as dead, as an abortive, for it devoureth the half of her flesh. ¹³ Whereupon Moses cryed to the Lord, saying, God, I beseech thee, heal her. ¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be set apart seven days, without the camp, and after that let her come in. ¹⁵ So Mariam was set apart without the camp, seven days, and the people did not remove till Mariam was cleansed.

¹ When the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came to the wilderness of Sin, in the first month, the people took up their abode at Kades; and there Mariam died, and there she was buried.

⁴ For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee Moses and Aaron and Mariam.

¹⁵ Go in the morning to Pharao. Behold he is going out to the water and thou wilt meet him at the border of the river. And thou shalt take in thy hand the staff which was turned into a serpent,

²⁰ Then the Lord said to Moses, Rise early to-morrow and stand before Pharao. Lo! he will come forth to the water, and thou shalt say to him, Thus saith the Lord, Send away my people that they may serve me in the wilderness.

⁶ And the ravens brought him bread in the morning and flesh in the evening, and he drank water from the brook.

⁹ The Lord was a refuge for the distressed, a seasonable helper in adversity.

⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor; because of the groans of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set in safety and speak boldly.

¹ At the conclusion. For the sons of Kora. A Psalm concerning hidden things. GOD is our refuge and strength; our helper in the troubles which often befal us.

¹⁰ Since the secret purpose of man can contribute to thy praise, let the remainder of it cause a festival to be celebrated for thee.

¹ The heart of a king is in the hand of God; like a canal of water, he turneth it whithersoever he pleaseth.

¹⁷ Now the Lord had commanded a great fish to swallow Jonas, so Jonas was three days and three nights, in the belly of the fish.

¹⁰ Upon this a command was given by the Lord to the fish, and it cast forth Jonas upon the dry ground.

²¹ Being then exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and had him nursed for her own son.

⁵⁰ and pardon the iniquities which they have committed against thee, and all the acts of disobedience of which they have been guilty; and make them objects of compassion in the sight of those who have captivated them, that they may have compassion on them.

¹¹ Turn not away, I beseech thee, Lord. But let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy children, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I beseech thee, thy servant this day, and grant him favour in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's butler,

⁴⁶ he relented and excited compassion for them among all those who had captivated them.

⁸ Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising with one another, full of brotherly love, compassionate, courteous

⁴ And his sister watched it at a distance to see what would become of it.

¹ and while they were at Aseroth, Mariam and Aaron spoke against Moses, because of the Ethiopian woman whom Moses had taken;

²⁰ Now Ambram had taken to wife Jochabed a daughter of his father's brother and she bore to him Aaron and Moses and Mariam their sister. And the years of the life of Ambram were a hundred and thirty two.

¹⁰ Since my father and my mother have left me; and the Lord hath taken me to himself:

³ Hearken to me house of Jacob and all ye remnant of Israel, who have been carried from the womb, and instructed from childhood to old age; ⁴ I am the self existent, even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.

⁸ Then I passed by thee and beheld thee and lo! thou wast of a marriageable age. So I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and sware to thee and entered into covenant with thee, saith the Lord.

²⁵ And Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived and brought forth a son and called his name Seth, saying, "For God hath raised up for me another seed in the place of Abel whom Cain slew."

¹¹ Furthermore the angel of the Lord said to her, Behold thou art with child, and thou shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ismael; for the Lord hath hearkened to thy affliction.

⁵ Now therefore thy two sons, who have been born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came to thee into Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasses, like Reuben and Symeon, shall be mine.

²⁰ and she conceived, and at the appointed time bore a son, and called his name Samuel, because, said she, I asked him of the Lord God of Sabbaoth. ²¹ and she will bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

²¹ Being then exposed, Pharao's daughter took him up and had him nursed for her own son. ²² So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom .of the Egyptians, and became mighty in council and in actions.

⁵ that he might redeem those under law"that we may receive the adoption of children.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

¹ Behold what a love the Father hath shewn us, that we should be called children of God: on this account the world doth not know us, because it did not know him.

¹¹ So he set task masters over them to afflict them with labours and they built for Pharao fortified cities, namely, Peitho and Ramesses and On, which is Heliopolis.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow,

⁹ Let the work of these men be made heavy and let them employ their thoughts about that, and not trouble themselves with vain discourses.

¹⁴ And when they beat the clerks of the nation of the Israelites who were set over them by the officers of Pharao and said, Why have you not as heretofore compleated your tasks of brick making to day?

⁶ It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obligations of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppressed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing:

²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest.

¹⁸ The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the business for which he anointed me. He hath sent me to publish glad tidings to the poor; to heal them who are broken hearted; to proclaim a deliverance to captives; and a recovery of sight, to the blind; to set at liberty the bruised;

²² So Moses was instructed in all the wisdom .of the Egyptians, and became mighty in council and in actions. ²³ And when he was forty years old it came into his mind to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one of them injured, he defended him and avenged the injury by killing the Egyptian.

²⁴ By faith Moses, when he was become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; ²⁶ accounting the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had an eye to the reward.

²⁴ And seeing one of them injured, he defended him and avenged the injury by killing the Egyptian. ²⁵ Now he supposed that his brethren would understand that by his hand God was about to give them deliverance. But they understood not, ²⁶ and on the next day when he shewed himself to them who were quarrelling and persuaded them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren, Why do ye injure one another?

²⁶ and on the next day when he shewed himself to them who were quarrelling and persuaded them to peace, saying, Men, you are brethren, Why do ye injure one another? ²⁷ He who was doing his neighbour the injury thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a chief and a judge over us? ²⁸ Dost thou mean to kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?

⁷ Now, then, it is indeed a disparagement to you that you have law suits among yourselves. Why do you not rather suffer wrong? Why do you not rather suffer loss? ⁸ Instead of this you yourselves do wrong, and defraud even your brethren.

⁸ therefore Abram said to Lot, Let there be no quarreling between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.

⁹ And they said to him, Begone there! Thou camest to sojourn, didst thou also, to be our judge? Now therefore we will treat thee worse than them. And they pressed violently against the man, Lot; and came near to break open the door.

⁸ Upon which his brothers said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us or have dominion over us? So they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words. ⁹ And he had another dream and told this to his father and his brothers and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream, as if the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. ¹⁰ Upon which his father rebuked him saying, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? What! Shall I and thy mother and thy brothers come and bow down to thee on the ground? ¹¹ So his brothers envied him; but his father pondered the matter.

¹⁹ and said one to another, Behold the dreamer is coming. ²⁰ Now therefore come let us kill him and throw him into one of these pits, and we will say a savage beast hath devoured him. And let us see what will become of his dreams.

³ when they rose in a body against Moses and Aaron, and said, Be it known to yon that the whole congregation are holy, and the Lord is among them. Why then do you set yourselves against the congregation of the Lord?

¹³ Is it a small matter that thou hast been bringing us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in this wilderness, that thou tyrannisest over us?

² The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying] ³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke." ⁴ He who dwelleth in heaven will laugh them to scorn; the Lord will treat them with derision. ⁵ Then will he speak to them in his wrath and trouble them with his sore displeasure. ⁶ But as for me, by him I am appointed king on Sion his holy mountain.

¹² The threat of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but his favour is like dew on the grass.

²⁵ They who fear and reverence men have been supplanted: but he whose trust is in the Lord shall be gladdened. Impiety causeth a man to fall: but he who trusteth in the Lord shall be safe.

²³ And when he was come to the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority dost thou these things? And, Who gave thee this authority?

¹⁴ thereupon he said. to him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

¹⁴ Now his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this man to reign over us.

²⁷ And as for those enemies of mine who would not have me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.

³⁵ This Moses whom they rejected, saying, Who made thee a chief and a judge? this very person God sent as a chief and a deliverer by the hand of an angel who appeared to him in the bush

¹¹ And he made his camels lie down without the city, by the well of water, in the evening, when the women come out to draw water;

² and she bore to him Zembran and Jesan and Madal and Madiam and Jesbok and Soie.

⁴ And the children of Madiam were Gephar and Apheir and Enoch and Abeida and Eldaga. All these were children of Chettura.

⁶ When Esau saw that Isaak had blessed Jacob and sent him to Syro Mesopotamia to take there a wife for himself, and that when he blessed him he charged him saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of the Chananites; ⁷ and that Jacob hearkened to his father and mother and was gone to Syrian Mesopotamia,

² And looking, he saw a well in the plain and there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks. Now there was a great stone on the mouth of the well,

¹⁹ So after many years, when the king of Egypt was dead, and the Lord said to Moses in Madiam, Go return to Egypt, for all who sought thy life are dead;

¹ And when Achab told his wife Jezabel all that Elias had done, and how he had slain the prophets with the sword, ² Jezabel sent to Elias, and said, As sure as thou art Elias, and I Jezabel, God do so to me and more also, if by this time to-morrow I do not make thy life like the life of one of them. ³ At this Elias was terrified, and arose and went where his inclination led him, and coming to Bersabee, in the land of Juda, he left his servant there,

¹³ which when Elias heard, he covered his face with his mantle and went out and stood beneath the cave. And behold there came a voice to him and said, Why art thou come hither, Elias? ¹⁴ To which Elias replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I alone am left, and they seek my life to take it.

³ A prudent man seeing the wicked severely punished instructeth himself: but the foolish passed heedlessly by and were punished.

²¹ And when king Joakim and all the chiefs heard all his words, and sought to kill him and Ourias heard it, he fled to Egypt. ²² And the king sent men to Egypt, ²³ who fetched him out thence and brought him to the king; and he slew him with the sword and threw him into the common grave yard.

²³ Now when they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For, verily I say to you, before you shall have gone through all the cities of Israel, the son of man will come.

⁶ Now Jacob's well was there. And as Jesus, wearied as he was with the journey, was sitting by the well, [it was about the sixth hour]

²⁹ At this speech Moses fled and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he became the father of two sons.

²⁷ By faith he left Egypt in defiance of the king's wrath; for he persevered as seeing Him who is invisible.

¹⁸ Melchisedek also the king of Salem carried out bread and wine. Now he was a priest of the most High God,

¹⁴ Now let the virgin to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher that I may drink; and who shall say, Drink thou, and I will give water also to thy camels till they have all done drinking; let her be the woman whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaak. And by this I shall know that thou hast dealt mercifully with my master Abraham. ¹⁵ And before he had finished this mental speech, lo! Rebekka the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, the wife of Nachor, Abraham's brother, came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. ¹⁶ Now the damsel was of a very beautiful countenance and was a virgin. No man had known her. So when she had gone down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up, ¹⁷ the servant ran to meet her and said, Let me drink a little water out of thy pitcher. ¹⁸ Upon which she said, Drink, my lord, and hastened to let down the pitcher on her arm and let him drink till he was satisfied. ¹⁹ Then she said, I will draw water for thy camels also until they shall have all drunk. ²⁰ And she hasted and emptied the pitcher into the watering trough and ran to the well to draw more and drew water for all the camels.

⁶ And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well. And lo yonder is Rachel his daughter! She was coming with the sheep. ⁷ Then Jacob said to them, There is yet much day. It is not yet time for the cattle to be folded. Water the flocks and lead them off to feed. ⁸ But they said, We cannot, till all the shepherds are come together. Then they will roll the stone from the mouth of the well; and we will water the flocks. ⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, lo! Rachel the daughter of Laban came with her father's sheep; for she tended her father's flock. ¹⁰ And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

⁴⁵ And Pharao called Joseph's name Psonthomphanech and gave him Aseneth a daughter of Petephres the priest of Heliopolis to be his wife.

¹ Now when Moses was feeding the flocks of Jothor his father in law the priest of Madiam he led them below the wilderness and came to the mountain Choreb.

¹¹ And as they were going up the ascent to the city, they met the women coming out to draw water, and said to them, Is the Seer here?

²⁵ Then Abraham expostulated with Abimelech touching the wells of water which the servants of Abimelech had taken.

¹⁵ and all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaak, Depart from us, for thou art become far mightier than we. ¹⁷ Upon this Isaak departed thence and took up his abode in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there. ¹⁸ And Isaak digged again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged and which the Philistines had stopped up, after the death of his father Abraham. And he called them by the same names, by which his father had named them. ¹⁹ Isaak's servants also digged in the valley of Gerar, and found there a well of spring water. ²⁰ But the shepherds of the Gerarites contended with Isaak's shepherds, saying the water was theirs. So he called the name of that well Injustice: because they did him injustice. ²¹ Then he removed thence and digged another well; and about this also they contended; so he called its name Enmity. ²² And he removed thence and digged another well; and about this they did not contend; So he called the name of it, Room-enough; saying, For now the Lord hath made room for us, though he hath increased us in the land.

¹⁰ And when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

¹² Whereupon looking about on every side and seeing no body he smote the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

¹⁸ Then Moses went and returned to Jothor his father in law and said, I must go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt and see if they be still living. And Jothor said to Moses, Go in peace.

¹ Now when Jothor the priest of Madiam, Moses' father in law heard of all that the Lord had done for his people Israel, [for while the Lord was bringing Israel out of Egypt ² Jothor the father in law of Moses had taken home Sepphora, Moses' wife, after she had gone back, ³ with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gersam; for he said, I was a stranger in a strange land; ⁴ and the name of the other Eliezar; for the God of my fathers, said he, hath been my help, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao] ⁵ Jothor the father in law of Moses came out to him with his sons and his wife to the wilderness where he was encamped by the mount of God. ⁶ And when they told Moses saying, Behold Jothor thy father in law is coming to thee with thy wife and thy two sons with him, ⁷ Moses went out to meet his father in law and made obeisance to him and kissed him. And when they had embraced each other he conducted them to his tent. ⁸ And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done to Pharao and to all the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the difficulties which they had encountered on the way, and how the Lord had rescued them out of the hand of Pharao and out of the hand of the Egyptians. ⁹ Whereupon Jothor was enrapt in wonder at all the good things which the Lord had done for them in delivering them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharao; ¹⁰ and Jothor said, Blessed be the Lord. Because he hath delivered these out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao, ¹¹ I know now that the Lord is great above all the gods, for this reason because they were set against these. ¹² Then Jothor the father in law of Moses took whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for God; and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father in law.

²⁹ Now when they began their march Moses said to Obad, son of Raguel the Madianite, the brother in law of Moses, We are now on our march to the place which the Lord said, This I will give you. Come with us and we will deal well with thee; for the Lord hath spoken good things concerning Israel.

²⁰ And whoever shall be defiled, and not purified, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation, because he hath defiled the holy things of the Lord. Because the water of sprinkling hath not been sprinkled on him, he is unclean.

¹¹ And when the inhabitants of the land of Chanaan saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, This is a great grief to the Egyptians. For this cause they called its name Grief of Egypt. It is on the bank of the Jordan.

⁵ and I will fetch bread that you may eat. And after that you may proceed on your journey, in as much as you have turned aside to your servant. Whereupon he said, Do as thou hast said.

² and said, I intreat you, my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and rising early in the morning, you may proceed on your journey. And they said, No, we will lodge in the street. ³ Then he pressed them, and they went home with him. And when they came to his house, he made an entertainment for them; and baked for them unleavened cakes, and they did eat.

³¹ and said to him, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord, why hast thou tarried without? I have the house ready and a place for the camels. ³² So the man went in to the family, and Laban unsaddled the camels, and gave straw and provender to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him, ³³ and set bread before them to eat. But the man said I cannot eat till I have told my business. And Laban said, speak.

¹³ And when Laban heard the name of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and having embraced him he kissed him, and brought him to his house. And Jacob related to him all these circumstances.

⁵⁴ Then he offered a sacrifice upon the mount and invited his brethren and they ate and drank and slept on the mount.

²⁵ And they were employed in making ready the presents until Joseph came at noon, for they heard that he was to dine there.

³² [indeed the stranger lodged not in the street, and my door was open to every comer:]

¹¹ When all his brethren and his sisters heard what had befallen him, they came to him, together with all those who were formerly acquainted with him, and having eaten and drank at his house, they comforted him, and expressed their amazement at all that the Lord had brought upon him. And every one presented him a lamb, and a quarter of a drachm of gold bullion.

¹⁰ is she eminent for good works? Hath she brought up children? Hath she exercised hospitality? Hath she washed the feet of the saints? Hath she assisted the afflicted? Hath she been assiduous to perform every good work?

² Be not unmindful of hospitality; for by this some have unknowingly entertained angels.

³⁸ These twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not cast their young; nor have I devoured the rams of thy flock. ³⁹ What was torn by wild beasts I brought not to thee. I made up at my own expence the loss of what was stolen by day or by night. ⁴⁰ I have borne the sultry heat of the day and the frost of the night, and sleep departed from my eyes.

¹⁰ and when the boy was grown up she brought him to Pharao's daughter and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, saying, I drew him out of the water.

²⁰ Moses took his wife and children and mounted them on asses to return to Egypt. And he took in his hand the staff which he had from God. ²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Thou art on thy way and returning to Egypt. See that thou do in the sight of Pharao all the miracles which I put in thy hands. And I will make his heart stubborn, so that he will not let the people go. ²² And thou shalt say to Pharao, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my first born son, ²³ and I have said to thee, Send away this my people that they may serve me; if therefore thou wilt not dismiss them behold I will slay thy son; thy first born. ²⁴ Now when he was on the way at the resting place, an Angel of the Lord met him and sought to kill him. ²⁵ Whereupon Sepphora took a sharp stone and circumcised her son. Then she fell at his feet and said, The blood of the circumcision of my son hath stopped me.

² Jothor the father in law of Moses had taken home Sepphora, Moses' wife, after she had gone back, ³ with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gersam; for he said, I was a stranger in a strange land; ⁴ and the name of the other Eliezar; for the God of my fathers, said he, hath been my help, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao] ⁵ Jothor the father in law of Moses came out to him with his sons and his wife to the wilderness where he was encamped by the mount of God. ⁶ And when they told Moses saying, Behold Jothor thy father in law is coming to thee with thy wife and thy two sons with him,

¹¹ Not that I speak with regard to want; for I have learned, in whatever circumstances I am, to be contented. ¹² I know how to be brought low; and I know how to abound: in every respect, and in all things, I have been initiated into the mysteries of feeding plentifully, and suffering hunger; of abounding, and being in want.

⁶ Now this religion, with contentment, is a great gain.

²⁵ chusing rather to suffer afflictions with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

⁵ Let your conduct be free from avarice. Be content with what you have; for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor will I ever forsake thee."

¹⁰ and him who is rich, in his humiliation, because he shall pass away like a flower of the grass.

³ with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gersam; for he said, I was a stranger in a strange land; ⁴ and the name of the other Eliezar; for the God of my fathers, said he, hath been my help, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Pharao]

²¹ A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ When they were passing from nation to nation; And from one kingdom to another people;

¹⁴ But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were classed in the tribe of Levi. ¹⁵ The sons of Moses, were Gersam and Eliezer. ¹⁶ Of the Gersamites, Subael was chief, ¹⁷ and of the Eliezerites, Rabia was chief. Now Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rabia were increased to a multitude.

¹⁵ For we before thee are strangers and sojourners as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow and there is no fixed abiding.

¹² Hearken, Lord, to my prayer: give ear to my supplication: hold not thy peace at my tears: since I am a sojourner in the land; and a stranger as all my fathers were;

¹⁹ I am a sojourner in this land, hide not thy commandments from me.

¹³ These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they viewed them at a distance, and were persuaded of, and embraced them, and acknowledged that they were strangers and sojourners in the land. ¹⁴ For they who speak thus shew plainly that they are seeking their father's country:

¹⁰ Then the Lord said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me out of the ground.

²⁰ Then the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorra hath been multiplied before me, and their sins are exceedingly great, ²¹ therefore I am come down to see whether they do to each other according to the cry which is come to me; and if not, that I may know.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow, ⁸ therefore I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land, and conduct them to a land good and spacious; to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the country of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Pherezites, and the Gergasites and the Evites and the Jebusites. ⁹ And now behold the cry of the children of Israel hath reached me and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them,

⁷ Now Moses was eighty years old and his brother Aaron was eighty three years old, when he spoke to Pharao.

²² A widow and an orphan you shall not afflict. ²³ If you in anywise afflict them and they cry to me, I will hear their voice ²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless. ²⁵ If thou lend money to thy brother, who is near thee and in want; thou shalt not be rigorous with him, nor charge him interest. ²⁶ And if thou hast taken the mantle of thy neighbour as a pledge, thou shalt restore it to him before the setting of the sun; ²⁷ for it is his covering. This mantle is the only covering of his nakedness. In what can he sleep? If therefore he cry to me, I will hear him; for I am merciful.

¹⁶ we cried to the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to our voice; and having sent a messenger he hath brought us out of Egypt, and we are now at Kades, a city on the extremity of thy borders.

¹⁵ Thou shalt pay him his wages on the very day: let not the sun set upon it. For he is poor, and dependeth on it; and he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a sin in thee.

⁶ And when the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed upon us hard labours, ⁷ and we cried to the Lord our God, the Lord heard our voice. When he saw our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression,

¹¹ the Lord said to the Israelites, Did I not deliver you out of Egypt, and from the Amorites and the Ammonites, and the Philistines, ¹² and the Sidonians, and Amalek, and Madiam, who afflicted you? When you cried to me, I saved you out of their hands.

⁹ "Thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and didst hear their cry at the Red Sea:

⁶ In my distress I called on the Lord, and to my God I raised my cry. From his holy temple he heard my voice; and my cry before him reached his ears.

⁶ he removed his back from burdens. His hands served at the basket. ⁷ [J] "In affliction thou didst call upon me, and I delivered thee. I heard thee in the secret of a tempest. I proved thee at the water of strife.

¹⁹ Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and he saved them from their distresses. ²⁰ He sent forth his word and healed them; and delivered them from their destructions.

⁷ For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel; and the men of Juda his beloved plant. I waited for their executing justice, but they committed injustice, and promoted not righteousness, but an outcry.

²⁰ and it shall be an everlasting sign for the Lord, in the country of Egypt. Because they will cry to the Lord on account of their oppressors, therefore he will send them a man who will save them: he will vindicate their cause and deliver them.

¹⁹ Now when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, ²⁰ saying, "Arise and take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for they who sought the child's life, are dead."

³⁰ And when forty years were completed, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness at mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush,

²³ And instantly an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory. And being gnawed by worms he died. ²⁴ Still the word of God increased and was multiplied;

⁴ Behold the wages of the labourers who have reaped your fields, which you have withholden, raise a cry; and the outcries of these reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

¹⁴ But the nation which they shall serve I will judge. And after that they shall come out hither with much wealth. ¹⁵ Thou indeed shalt go to thy fathers in peace, having been nourished in a good old age. ¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall be brought back hither. For the sins of the Amorites have not yet come to the full. ¹⁷ And as the sun was setting there was a flash of fire, and lo! a smoking furnace and lamps of fire passed between the halved parts. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying, "To thy seed I will give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates,

⁷ And I will establish this my covenant with thee and thy seed after thee, throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee.

¹⁸ Abraham shall indeed become a nation great and numerous; and by him all the nations of the earth are to be blessed.

³ Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will establish my oath which I sware to thy father Abraham

²⁴ and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham; Fear not; for I am with thee; and I will bless thee and multiply thy seed for the sake of thy father Abraham.

¹² and dreamed; and lo! a ladder set on the earth, the top of which reached up to heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ And the Lord leaned over it and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaak. Fear not. To thee and to thy seed I will give the land in which thou art sleeping. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and shall spread abroad to the west and the south, and the north and the east. And by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, namely by the seed of thee.

²⁸ Thereupon he said to him, Thy name shall no more be Jacob only, but Israel also shall be thy name. Since thou hast been enabled to prevail with God, therefore with men thou shalt be mighty.

² And God spoke to Israel in a vision of the night and said, Jacob! Jacob! And he said, Here I am. ³ And God said to him, I am the God of thy fathers. Fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will make thee there a great nation. ⁴ I indeed will go down with thee into Egypt and I will at last cause thee to come up, when Joseph shall have put his hands on thy eyes.

⁵ Now I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, which the Egyptians have occasioned by enslaving them. And I have remembered the covenant with you.

¹⁸ still because the Lord raised up judges for them, therefore the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, because the Lord was mollified by their groaning, by reason of them who oppressed them and afflicted them.

⁸ And finding his heart faithful before thee, thou madest a covenant with him, to give him the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites, even to his seed, and hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous. ⁹ "Thou didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and didst hear their cry at the Red Sea:

²⁷ Therefore thou didst deliver them into the hand of their enemies, who afflicted them. But when, in the time of their distress they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hear, and in thy tender mercies which are great, thou didst send them deliverers, and save them out of the hand of them who were afflicting them. ²⁸ Yet soon as they had rest, they returned to do evil in thy sight, therefore thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, who exercised dominion over them. But again when they cried to thee, thou from heaven didst hearken, and in the multitude of thy tender mercies didst deliver them,

⁵ in thee they trusted and were not put to shame.

²⁴ for he hath not slighted, nor abhorred the prayer of the distressed; nor turned away his face from me: but hearkened to me when I cried to him.

¹¹ Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee. According to the mighty power of thine arm; protect the children of them who are slain.

²⁰ to hear the groaning of the prisoners; to set free the sons of them who were slain;

⁶ ye seed of Abraham, his servants; ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones; ⁷ he is the Lord, our God, in all this land are his judgments. ⁸ He remembered forever his covenant; a word which he gave in charge for a thousand generations: ⁹ the covenant which he made with Abraham, and that oath of his to Isaak, ¹⁰ which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant; ¹¹ saying, To thee I will give the land of Chanaan to be the lot of your inheritance. ¹² When they were few in number; of little account and sojourners therein; ¹³ when they passed through from nation to nation; from one kingdom to another people;

⁴² Because he remembered his holy promise; that which he made to Abraham his servant;

⁴⁵ he remembered his covenant and according to the multitude of his mercies;

³ On the day when I invoke thee, answer me speedily: thou canst strengthen me in my soul with thy strength;

⁷² in kindness to our fathers, and in remembrance of his holy covenant ⁷³ [as he sware to our father Abraham]

⁸ there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow, ⁸ therefore I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land, and conduct them to a land good and spacious; to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the country of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Pherezites, and the Gergasites and the Evites and the Jebusites.

¹¹ And she vowed a vow to the Lord, saying, Adonai, Lord, Eloe Sabbaoth! If thou wilt look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and give thy handmaid a man child, I will dedicate him before thee, as a gift to the day of his death; and he shall not drink wine, nor fermented liquor, nor shall a razor come on his head.

¹² Perhaps the Lord may look on my affliction, and return me good for his cursing this day.

²⁷ Then will such a man blame himself, and say, What I have done! He hath not chastened me, as my sins deserve!

⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: and the way of the ungodly shall perish.

²² Cast thy care on the Lord, and he will sustain thee. He will never suffer the righteous to be shaken.

²³ to whom I will then declare, I never acknowledged you; Depart from me ye who work iniquity.

²⁵ The Lord hath dealt thus with me in the days in which he looked on me to take away my reproach among men.