Genesis 13 Cross References - Thomson

¹ So Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all his substance, and Lot with him, into the wilderness. ² Now Abram was very rich in cattle and in silver and gold, ³ therefore he proceeded on to the place from which he had come into the wilderness, even to Baithel to the place where his tent formerly was, between Baithel and Aggai, ⁴ to the place of the altar which he had there built at the first, and there Abram invoked the name of the Lord. ⁵ Now Lot who accompanied Abram had flocks and herds and tents, ⁶ so that the land would not admit of their living together. Because their substance was great and the land did not admit of their living together, ⁷ and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle, and the Chananites and the Pherezites then inhabited that land; 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 Behold is not the whole land before thee? Separate from me. If thou incline to the left, I will take the right. Or if thou go to the right, I will go to the left. ¹⁰ Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gormorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land, of Egypt. ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself all the country bordering on the Jordan; and Lot removed to the eastern border. And the brothers separated one from the other. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan; ¹² and Lot dwelt in a city of the borderers and pitched his tent among the Sodomites, ¹³ though the men of Sodom were wicked and very great sinners in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁴ And God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, Raise thy eyes and look from the place where thou now art, to the north and south and east and west. ¹⁵ For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and thy seed for ever. ¹⁶ And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth. If any can count the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered. ¹⁷ Arise and travel through the land, the length and the breadth thereof, for to thee I will give it and to thy seed for ever. ¹⁸ Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt near the Oak of Mambre, which was by Chebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

⁹ And Abram removed and proceeding forward encamped in the wilderness. ¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land. ¹¹ and when Abram was near entering Egypt, he said to his wife Sara, I know that because thou art a beautiful woman, ¹² it will therefore come to pass that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife, and they will kill me; but thee they will save alive. ¹³ Say thou therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my life will be preserved for thy sake. ¹⁴ So when Abram came into Egypt the Egyptians beheld his wife, for she was very beautiful; ¹⁵ and when the princes of Pharaoh saw her they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was brought to Pharaoh's house. ¹⁶ And they treated Abram well for her sake, though he had sheep and oxen and asses and men servants and maid servants and mules and camels. ¹⁷ But God visited Pharaoh and his family with great and grievous plagues because of Sara the wife of Abram. ¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram and said, Why hast thou acted thus with me and didst not tell me that she is thy wife? Why didst thou say, She is my sister? I indeed took her to be my wife, but now there is thy wife before thee. Take her and begone. ¹⁹ And Pharaoh gave strict orders to men touching Abram, to convoy away him and his wife and all that he had.

¹ Now Abraham had removed thence into the south country, and made his abode between Kades and Sour, and sojourned among the Gerarites.

³³ and Abraham planted a field at Well of the Oath and there invoked the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

⁴⁰ Thus did Joshua smite all the hilly country, and Nageb, and the plain, and Asedoth, and the kings thereof. They did not leave one of them alive. They utterly destroyed every one who breathed the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

⁵ he distinguished for them seven portions, saying, Let Juda stand. Their boundary is south of this. And let the children of Joseph stand. Their boundary is north of this.

¹⁰ And when Angchus said to David, Upon whom have you fallen? David said to Angchus, Towards the south of Judea, and towards the south of Jesmega, and towards the south of Kenezi.

⁷ and come to Mapsar of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Evites, and the Chananites, they came to the south of Juda to Bersabee.

³⁵ The Lord indeed hath blessed my master exceedingly, so that he is be 35 come great. He hath given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, men servants and maid servants, camels and asses.

¹² And Isaak sowed in that land and got that year an hundred fold of barley. And the Lord blessed him ¹³ and the man was exalted and prospered more and more till he became exceeding great.

¹⁸ but remember the Lord thy God, that it is he who giveth thee power to procure wealth, that he may establish the covenant which the Lord made with thy fathers, as at this day.

⁷ The Lord impoverished, and maketh rich; He humbleth, and he exalteth on high.

³ His attendants were numerous, and his works great in the country. He was also a man of illustrious birth, among the people of the east.

¹⁰ Hast thou not made a hedge about all that he hath, abroad and at home, and about all that belong to him round about, and blessed the works of his hands, and multiplied his cattle on the earth?

²¹ Become hardened now, if thou remainest; and shalt thou be rewarded with good things? ²² Receive, I pray thee, from his mouth, the terms of deliverance, and lay up his words in thy heart. ²³ If thou wilt return and humble thyself before the Lord, having removed iniquity far from thy dwelling, ²⁴ thou shalt be placed on a mount, founded on a rock, and be like the rock of the torrent Sophir. ²⁵ Then will the Almighty be thy defence from enemies; and he will make thee pure as silver tried by fire.

¹ An Alleluia. Happy the man who feareth the Lord! in his commandments he will greatly delight. ² His seed shall be mighty in the land: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Glory and riches are in his house; and his righteousness shall endure forever.

⁹ Honour the Lord with some of thy righteous labours: and set apart for him some of thy fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that thy barns may be plenteously filled with corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine.

²² The blessing of the Lord is on the head of the righteous; it maketh rich, and to it no sorrow of heart shall be joined.

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you.

⁸ For bodily exercise is of little service, but this godliness is profitable for all things, having a promise of the present life and of that to come.

⁶ And Abram travelled through the land lengthwise till he came to the place of Sychem to the lofty Oak. Now the Chananites at that time inhabited that land.

⁸ And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord. ⁹ And Abram removed and proceeding forward encamped in the wilderness.

²⁶ And Seth had a son; and he called his name Enos. He hoped that he would invoke the name of the Lord God.

⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. ⁸ And from that place he went to the mountain east of Baithel and there pitched his tent, having Baithel on the west and Aggai on the east, and built there an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

¹⁸ Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt near the Oak of Mambre, which was by Chebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

¹ Then God said to Jacob, arise and go to the place Bethel and dwell there. And erect there an altar to the God who appeared to thee, when thou wast fleeing from the face of thy brother Esau. ² Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your garments; ³ and let us arise and go to Bethel and build there an altar to the God who hearkened to me in a day of distress; who was with me and preserved me in the way in which I went.

⁸ Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house; and the place of the mansion of thy glory.

¹ For the conclusion. On understanding. For the sons of Kore. As the hart panteth for fountains of water, so panteth my soul for thee, God. ² My soul hath thirsted for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. An Ode. To thee, O God, a hymn in Sion is seemly: and to thee a vow should be paid. ² Hearken to my prayer. To thee all flesh should come.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm for the wine presses. For the sons of Kore. LORD of hosts, how lovely are thine abodes! ² my soul longeth, it panteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh exulted for the living God.

¹⁰ Because one day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be in an abject state in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

¹ An Alleluia, Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good: for to everlasting his mercy endureth.

⁸ O let them praise the Lord for his mercies; and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men:

¹⁵ let them praise the Lord for his mercies, and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men;

² Because to me he inclined his ear: therefore in my days I will invoke him.

¹⁷ to thee I will offer a sacrifice of praise and call on the name of the Lord.

¹⁸ The Lord is near to all who invoke him; to all that call upon him with truth.

⁹ Then thou shalt cry and God will answer thee; and whilst thou art speaking he will say, Lo I am here. If thou remove from thee the bond, and the vote and decree which occasion murmuring,

⁹ that I may then bring back upon peoples a tongue for its generation, that they may all invoke the name of the Lord; that they may serve him under one yoke.

² to the congregation of God which is at Corinth; to them who are hallowed by Christ Jesus; called to be holy, together with all those in every place who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

¹⁸ in every prayer and supplication, always praying with the spirit [being for this purpose in a continual state of watchfulness and prayer] for all the saints ¹⁹ particularly for me, that to me a word may be given, that with the opening of my mouth, and with freedom am plainness of speech, I may make known the secret of the glad tidings,

²⁰ And Ada bore Jobel. He was the father of them who dwell in tents, feeding cattle.

²⁷ And when they grew up to be young men, Esau was a man skilled in hunting and fond of the field; but Jacob was a man of plain manners and lived at home.

²⁹ Let them seize their tents and their flocks: let them take for themselves their clothing, all their utensils and their camels: and call ye for destruction against all them around.

⁶ And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons belonging to his family, and all his substance, and all his cattle, and all that he possessed, and all that he had gotten in the land of Chanaan, and went out from the land of Chanaan, from the face of his brother Jacob: ⁷ for their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not support them on account of the abundance of their stock.

¹⁰ A lover of silver cannot be satisfied with silver; but did any one ever love what the abundance of this produceth? Surely this is vanity. ¹¹ By an abundance of wealth they who consume it are multiplied. And what is the mighty advantage of the owner from it? That he hath the first sight of it with his eyes?

¹⁷ Whereupon he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do; for I have not room to store my crops. ¹⁸ Then he said, I will do this. I will pull down my store houses and build larger, and there lay up all my produce and my good things.

⁹ But they who determine to be rich, fall headlong into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

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, ¹⁹ the Kenites and the Kenezites, and the Kedmonites ²⁰ and the Chettites and the Pherezites and the Raphaeims ²¹ and the Amorites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Gergesites and the Jebusites.

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

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.

³⁰ Thereupon Jacob said to Symeon and Levi, You have made me an object of hatred so as to be deemed a mortal enemy to all the inhabitants of the land, both to the Chananites and the Pherezites. Now as I am few in number they will assemble against me and fall upon me, and I and my house shall be utterly destroyed.

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.

⁹ I said, This thing which you do is not good. It is not in this manner that you are in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of the nations, our enemies.

³ For you are yet carnal; for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are you not carnal and walking in the ways of man?

²⁰ idolatry, fascinations, enmities, strifes, emulations, .animosities, contentions, factions, sects,

¹⁴ For this good pleasure do you all things without murmurings and surmises, ¹⁵ that you may be blameless and sincere, spotless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, amongst whom shine ye forth as lights in the world,

⁵ Walk in wisdom towards them who are without, redeeming the time.

¹² that your walk may appear orderly to the world, and that you may be in want of nothing.

³ For we, even we ourselves were formerly foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy, objects of hatred, hating one another;

¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad.

¹ Whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not from this"from those sensual appetites of yours which are at war in your members?

¹² let your behaviour among the nations be virtuous, that when they speak against you as evil doers, they who have been eye witnesses may from your good works glorify God in the day of visitation.

²⁷ Now these are the generations of Tharra. Tharra begot Abram and Nachor and Arran; and Arran begot Lot. ²⁸ And Arran died in the presence of his father Tharra in the land in which he was born in the country of the Chaldees. ²⁹ And Abram and Nachor took themselves wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sara, and the name of Nachor's wife, Malcha, a daughter of Arran, who was the father of Malcha and the father of Jescha. ³⁰ And Sara was barren and did not bear children. ³¹ And Tharra took Abram his son and Lot the son of Arran, his grand son, and Sara his daughter in law, the wife of his son Abram, and led them out of the country of the Chaldees to go to the land of Chanaan. But when they came to Charran he took up his abode there.

²⁴ And he dismissed them: And as they were departing, he said to them, See that you do not fall out by the way.

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?

¹ A Song of the steps. Behold! what I pray you, so beautiful, or is there anything so pleasant, as brethren dwelling in unity?

¹ Wrath destroyeth even the prudent; now a soft answer turneth away wrath; but a harsh word stirreth up anger.

¹⁸ A wrathful man prepareth battles; but he who is slow to anger appeaseth the rising quarrel. A man slow to anger will extinguish law suits; but the wicked rather promote them.

³ It is an honour to a man to abstain from railing; but with such things every fool is entangled.

⁹ Happy the peace makers; for they shall be called children of God.

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?

¹⁰ in brotherly love be tenderly affectionate one to another: in honour prefer one another;

⁶ but brother goeth to law with brother and that before unbelievers? 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?

² with all humility and meekness; with long suffering, bearing with one another in love; ³ and endeavouring to preserve the unity of the spirit by the bond of peace;

¹⁴ For this good pleasure do you all things without murmurings and surmises,

⁹ In respect to brotherly love you have no need of our writing to you, for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another,

¹⁴ Follow peace with all men, and that holiness without which none shall see the Lord,

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of this righteousness is peaceably sown by them who cultivate peace.

²² Having, in obedience to the truth, purified your souls by the spirit for an unfeigned brotherly affection, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

¹⁷ honour all men, love the brotherhood; fear God; honour the king.

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

⁸ and above all things have fervent love for one another: for this "love will cover a multitude of sins."

⁷ and to piety, brotherly affection; and to brotherly affection, universal love;

⁹ he who saith that he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is still in darkness. ¹⁰ He who loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and in it there is no stumbling block. ¹¹ But he who hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who loveth not his brother abideth in death. ¹⁵ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer hath everlasting life abiding in him. ¹⁶ By this we know the love of God. Because he laid down his life for us, therefore we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ¹⁷ Whosoever hath worldly substance, and seeth his brother in want, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? ¹⁸ My children, let us not love in word, and with the tongue, but in deed, and in truth. ¹⁹ When we know by this that we are of the truth, let us in his presence persuade our hearts,

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

²⁰ If anyone saith, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For how can he who doth not love his brother whom he hath seen, love God, whom he hath not seen? ²¹ Besides, we have this commandment from him, That he who loveth God, love his brother also:

¹⁵ And Abimelech said to Abraham, Behold my land is before thee; dwell wherever it may please thee.

¹⁰ and dwell among us. Behold the land before you is spacious. Dwell and trade therein and purchase possessions in it.

⁷ I was for peace; but when I spoke they attacked me without provocation.

¹⁸ If possible, that is, as far as in your power, be at peace with all men.

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?

¹³ Whoever among you is a man of wisdom and knowledge, let him, by a virtuous course of life, shew his works with the meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad.

⁸ Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising with one another, full of brotherly love, compassionate, courteous ⁹ not rendering evil for evil, revile for revile; but on the contrary, blessing; knowing that you have been called for this, that you may inherit a blessing. ¹⁰ For "whoever desireth life; and loveth to see good days; Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile; ¹¹ Let him depart from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue it. ¹² Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their prayers: But the face of the Lord is against them who do evil."

⁸ And God planted a garden in Eden towards the east and placed there the man whom he had made. ⁹ And God caused to spring up there also out of that ground every tree beautiful to the sight and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree for the purpose of knowing what was to be known of good and evil. ¹⁰ Now a river issueth out of Eden to water the garden: thence it is divided into four heads.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food; and that it is delightful to see with the eyes; and that to exercise understanding is comely, so having taken some of the fruit thereof, she ate and gave also to her husband with her. And when they had eaten,

² that the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose:

² made war on Balla king of Sodom, and on Barsa king of Gomorra, and on Sennaar king of Adama, and Sumobor king of Seboeim, and the king of Balak which is Segor.

⁸ Then marched out the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorra and the king of Adama and the king of Seboeim and the king of Balak, that is Segor, and drew up in array against them for battle in the salt vale,

¹⁷ And having led them out they said, Escape for thy life. Look not back, nor stop in any part of the plain around. Escape to the mountains, lest peradventure thou be overtaken. ¹⁸ Thereupon Lot said to them, I beseech thee, Lord, ¹⁹ since thy servant hath found favour in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy kindness in what thou dost for me to save my life. I cannot escape to the mountains. Peradventure the calamity may overtake me and I shall die. ²⁰ Behold that city is nigh for me to flee to. It is little and thither I can escape. Is it not little? And my soul shall live by thy means. ²¹ And he said, Behold I have indulged thee also in this matter, so as not to destroy that city of which thou hast spoken. ²² Haste therefore to escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou get there. For this cause he called the name of that city, Segor. ²³ The sun was risen on the earth when Lot entered Segor; ²⁴ and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. ²⁵ And he overthrew these cities, and all the circumjacent country, and all the inhabitants of those cities, and all the productions of the ground. ²⁶ And Lot's wife having looked back was turned into a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham went early in the morning to the place, where he had stood before the Lord, ²⁸ and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorra and towards the circumjacent plain, and he beheld and lo! a flame ascended out of the earth like the smoke of a furnace. ²⁹ But when God destroyed all the cities of that neighbourhood he remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out from that destruction. Now when the Lord had destroyed those cities in which Lot had dwelt, ³⁰ Lot went up out of Segor, and he and his two daughters with him settled in the mountains; for he was afraid to dwell in Segor. So he and his two daughters with him took up their abode in a cave.

¹ Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a great multitude of cattle, and having taken a view of the country of Jazer, and the region of Galaad, and seen that it was a place fit for stock, ² the Reubenites and the Gadites came to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the chiefs of the congregation and said, ³ Ataroth, and Daibon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabo, and Baian, ⁴ the land which the Lord delivered up before the children of Israel, is a land fit for raising stock, and thy servants have cattle; ⁵ if therefore, said they, we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and cause us not to cross the Jordan. ⁶ Whereupon Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, Must your brethren go to war, and you sit still here? ⁷ Besides, why do you divert the thoughts of the Israelites from crossing over into the land which the Lord giveth them? ⁸ Did not your fathers do so, when I sent them from Kades-Barne to view the land? ⁹ When they had passed through the valley of grapes, and viewed the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites from going to the land which the Lord gave them; ¹⁰ and the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he sware saying, ¹¹ These men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upwards, who know good and evil, shall not see the land, which I with an oath promised to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob; [for they have not followed me] ¹² save Chaleb, son of Jephonne, who separated himself from them, and Joshua, son of Nave, because they followed the Lord. ¹³ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he led them about in the wilderness forty years, until all that generation, who had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed. ¹⁴ Behold you are risen up in your fathers' stead, a set of sinful men, to augment the wrath of the Lord against Israel. ¹⁵ For by turning away from him, to cause him to leave you still in the wilderness, you will transgress against the whole congregation. ¹⁶ Upon this they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepcots here for our cattle, and cities for our families, ¹⁷ but we ourselves, completely armed, will march in the van before the children of Israel, until we bring them to their place. Our families indeed must dwell in walled cities, because of the inhabitants of the land, ¹⁸ that we may not be under a necessity of returning to our houses, until the children of Israel are parcelled out, every one in his possession. ¹⁹ Moreover we will not take a share with them of the land beyond the river Jordan, because we have got our share on the eastern side of the Jordan. ²⁰ Then Moses said to them, If you will act agreeably to what you say; if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord, ²¹ and every one, completely armed, will cross the Jordan before the Lord, until his enemy be crushed before him, ²² and the land subdued before the Lord, after this you shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and acquitted by Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. ²³ But if you do not act in this manner, you will sin against the Lord, and you shall be sensible of your sin, when evils overtake you. ²⁴ Build therefore cities for your families, and sheepcots for your cattle, and perform what hath proceeded out of your mouth. ²⁵ And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad spake to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our Lord commandeth; ²⁶ our families, and our wives, and our cattle, shall remain in the cities of Galaad; ²⁷ but we thy servants will cross over, all armed, and arrayed for battle before the Lord, as our lord saith. ²⁸ Then Moses convened with them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Nave, and the chiefs of the patriarchal houses of the tribes of Israel, ²⁹ and said to them, If the Reubenites and the Gadites cross the Jordan with you, every one armed for battle before the Lord, when you shall have subdued the land before you, you shall give them the land of Galaad for a possession. ³⁰ But if they decline to cross with you, armed for battle before the Lord; you shall drive before you their families, and their wives, and their cattle, into the land of Chanaan, and they shall have a portion with you in the land of Chanaan. ³¹ And the Reubenites and the Gadites answered, saying, All that our lord saith to his servants we will do. ³² We will cross over, completely armed before the Lord, into the land of Chanaan, and you shall give us our possession on this side of the Jordan. ³³ So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the boundaries thereof, even the cities of the land round about. ³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely, ³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, ³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names. ³⁹ Now a descendant of Machir, son of Manasses, had gone to Galaad, and taken it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt there. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave Galaad to the community of Machir, son of Manasses, and they dwelt there. ⁴¹ And Jair, of the tribe of Manasses, went and took their sheepcots, and called them the sheepcots of Jair. ⁴² And Nabau went and took Kaath, and its villages, and called them Naboth after his own name.

³ and the wilderness, and the country around Jericho, the city of palm trees, even to Segor.

⁴⁶ These he cast on the bank of the Jordan, in the clay ground, between Sokkoth and Seira.

³⁴ a fruitful country into barrenness: for the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

⁵ The heart of Moab within her uttereth lowings, which reach Segor: for she is a three headed heifer. At the ascent of Louith weepers will come up to thee; by the way of Aroniim destruction and dismay are roaring.

³ And now Sion, I will comfort thee. I have indeed comforted all her desolations, and I will make her waste places like a garden; and those west of her like the garden of the Lord. In her shall be found joy and gladness, thanksgiving and the sound of praise.

³⁴ At the scream of Esebon which reached to Aitam, their cities from Zogar to Oroaim uttered their voice, and spread the news with an alarm. [J] Because the water of Nebrin also shall be dried up;

¹³ In the delightful paradise of God thou wast born, Thou hast been adorned with every precious stone, the sardis and topaz and emerald and carbuncle and sapphire and jasper, and with silver and gold and the ligure and agate, and amethyst and chrysolite and beryl and onyx; and hast filled thy treasuries and thy stores with gold.

⁸ Even the cypresses such as were in the paradise of God and the pines were not to be compared with his shoots, nor were the fir trees comparable to his branches. Not a tree in the garden of God was equal to him in beauty,

³ Before them is a kindling fire, and all behind them a glowing flame. Before them the land is like a pleasure garden, and behind them, a scene of desolation: and there is none who can escape them.

¹⁵ Love not the world nor the things in the world. If any one loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pomp of this life are not of the Father, but are of the world.

⁹ Behold is not the whole land before thee? Separate from me. If thou incline to the left, I will take the right. Or if thou go to the right, I will go to the left.

¹⁴ And God said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, Raise thy eyes and look from the place where thou now art, to the north and south and east and west.

¹⁷ And having led them out they said, Escape for thy life. Look not back, nor stop in any part of the plain around. Escape to the mountains, lest peradventure thou be overtaken.

³ By the hallowed things in this land of his he had marvellously displayed all his designs.

⁶³ I am a companion of all them who fear thee; and of them who keep thy commandments.

¹⁰ Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not; but when unfortunate go not to the house of thy brother. Better is a friend near at hand, than a brother far off.

²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but comforting one another; and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

¹² They took also Lot, Abram's brother's son and his substance, when they went off, as he dwelt among the Sodomites.

¹ Now in the evening the two angels came to Sodom, and Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom, and upon seeing them, Lot arose to meet them, and made obeisance with his face to the ground,

²⁵ And he overthrew these cities, and all the circumjacent country, and all the inhabitants of those cities, and all the productions of the ground.

²⁹ But when God destroyed all the cities of that neighbourhood he remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out from that destruction. Now when the Lord had destroyed those cities in which Lot had dwelt,

⁵ I hated the assembly of evil doers; and with the ungodly I cannot sit.

³³ Be not led astray; "good morals are debauched by talk profane."

⁷ delivered just Lot, who was troubled at the lascivious conduct of those licentious men, ⁸ [for at the sight and report, that righteous man who dwelt among them was daily tormented in soul by their unlawful deeds]

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with iniquity.

⁹ He was a giant hunter before the Lord God. For this cause they say, "Like Nebrod the giant hunter before the Lord."

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.

²⁰ Then the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorra hath been multiplied before me, and their sins are exceedingly great,

⁴ But before they went to rest, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old; all the people in a body. ⁵ And they called out Lot and said to him, Where are the men who came to thee this night? Bring them out to us that we may know them. ⁶ Whereupon Lot went out to them into the porch and shut the door after him: ⁷ And he said to them, You must not brethren, commit such wickedness. ⁸ I have two daughters who have not known man; Let me bring out these to you, and use them as you please; only do no injury to these men in as much as they have come under the shelter of my roof. 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. ¹⁰ Then the men stretched forth their hands and pulled Lot to them into the house and shut the door of the house, ¹¹ and smote with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were tired seeking the door.

⁷ But Er the first born of Judas was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and God slew him.

¹⁸ and the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said to thee, Go and destroy utterly. Thou shalt slay those who have sinned against me; namely Amelek; and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast totally destroyed them.

⁶ and made his sons pass through fire, and consulted omens, and auguries, and built temples, and multiplied diviners, to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

⁹ Had not the Lord of Hosts left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and made like Gomorra.

⁸ Because Jerusalem is forsaken and Judea is fallen therefore their tongues concur with their transgression. They disbelieve the things relating to the Lord. ⁹ Because their glory is now humbled; and the shame of their countenance is risen up against them: their sin therefore, like the Sodomites, they proclaimed and openly avowed.

²⁴ Can any one hide himself in secret places; and I not see him? Do I not fill the heaven and the earth? saith the Lord.

⁴⁶ your eldest sister is Samaria; she and her daughters who live on thy left; and your youngest sister who liveth on thy right is Sodom with her daughters. ⁴⁷ But thou hast not walked even in their ways, nor done according to their transgressions in a small degree. Thou hast surpassed them in all thy ways. ⁴⁸ As I live, saith the Lord, Sodom herself and her daughters did not do as thou and thy daughters have done. ⁴⁹ But this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom; Pride. Through fulness of bread and prosperity she and her daughters grew wanton. There was this also in her and her daughters that they did not assist the distressed and the needy; ⁵⁰ but were haughty and committed iniquities in my sight; therefore I destroyed them.

¹⁰ And when he was at table in the house, behold many publicans and sinners came and placed themselves at the table with Jesus and his disciples.

¹³ Go then and learn what this meaneth, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice;" for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.

²³ And thou Capernaum, which hast been exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to the mansion of the dead; for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ²⁴ But I say to you, that the condition of the land of Sodom will, in a day of judgment, be more tolerable than thine.

²⁴ Then they called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

³¹ Now we know that God hearkeneth not to sinners; but if any one be a worshipper of God, and do his will, to him he hearkeneth.

²⁷ and in like manner the males also leaving the sex, were inflamed with desires towards each other, which they most shamefully indulged, men with men, and received in themselves the retribution which was justly due to their error.

¹³ There is indeed no creature concealed from his sight. All things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

⁶ and when he condemned to destruction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing them to ashes, and making them a publick example to future impious men,

¹⁰ and more especially them who go after flesh, in the lust of uncleanness, and despise authority. Being audacious, and self sufficient they tremble not when they revile glories;

⁷ As Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, which, in like manner with them, abandoned themselves to licentiousness, and went after strange flesh, were made an example of, suffering the vengeance of everlasting fire;

¹⁰ Then Lot raised his eyes and took a view of all the country bordering on the Jordan. For before God overthrew Sodom and Gormorra it was all watered till it reacheth Zogora, like the paradise of God, and like the land, of Egypt.

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.

²⁷ Go up to the top of the craggy mountain, and raise thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and take a view of it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not cross this Jordan.

¹⁸ Look up with thine eyes all around and view them all; behold they are gathered together and coming to thee. As I live saith the Lord, Thou shalt clothe thyself with them all, as with raiment, and wrap them about thee as a bride doth her dress.

⁴ Raise thine eyes around and behold thy children gathered together; all thy sons are come from afar, and thy daughters shall be carried on shoulders.

⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him.

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. ⁸ And I will give thee and thy seed after thee this land in which thou sojournest; even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."

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

⁷ The Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my nativity; who spoke to me, and who sware to me saying, "To thee I will give this land and to thy seed;" he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son.

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 ⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

⁴ And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraham, to thee and thy seed after thee, to inherit this land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

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.

¹² And this land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaak, I have given to thee. To thee it shall belong: and to thy seed after thee I will give this land.

⁴ and said, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and make thee a multitude of nations, and I will give thee this land even to thy seed after thee for a perpetual possession.

¹ the Lord said to Moses, Depart, go up hence thou and thy people whom thou hast led out of the land of Egypt, to the land which with an oath I promised to Abraham and Isaak and Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.

² Give a charge to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, You are about to enter the land of Chanaan. This you shall have for an inheritance, even the whole land of Chanaan, with its borders.

¹² then down the Jordan; and its termination shall be the salt sea. ¹³ This shall be your land and these its boundaries round about. So Moses gave a charge to the Israelites saying, This is the land which you shall parcel out, by lot, in the manner the Lord hath commanded it to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses; ¹⁴ because the tribe of the Reubenites, and the tribe of the Gadites, according to the houses of their families, and the half of the tribe of the Manassites, have received their allotments. ¹⁵ two tribes, and the half of a tribe, have received their lots on the south east side of the Jordan, in front of Jericho. ¹⁶ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ These are the names of the men who shall parcel out the land for you; Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nave, ¹⁸ And you shall take one chief of a tribe to divide the land among you by lot. ¹⁹ And these are the names of the men; Of the tribe of Judas, Chaleb son of Jephonne; ²⁰ of the tribe of Symeon, Salamiel son of Samiud; ²¹ of the tribe of Benjamin, Eldad son of Chaslon; ²² of the tribe of Dan, chief Bakchir, son of Egli; ²³ of the children of Joseph; of the tribe of the Manassites, chief Aniel, son of Suphi; ²⁴ of the tribe of the Ephraimites, chief Kamuel, son of Sabathan; ²⁵ of the tribe of Zabulon, chief Elisaphan, son of Pharnach; ²⁶ of the tribe of Issachar, chief Phaltiel, son of Oza; ²⁷ Of the tribe of Aser, chief Achior, son of Selemi; ²⁸ of the tribe of Nephthaleim, chief Phadael, son of Jamiud. ²⁹ To these the Lord gave it in charge to parcel out to the Israelites their allotments in the land of Chanaan.

² thou shalt take some of the first fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and put them in a basket, and go to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for his name to be there invoked; ³ and thou shalt go to the priest, who shall be in those days, and say to him, I acknowledge this day to the Lord my God, that I am come to the land which the Lord solemnly promised our fathers to give us. ⁴ Thereupon the priest shall take the basket out of thy hands, and set it down over against the altar of the Lord thy God,

⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, This is the land which I solemnly promised to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it. I have pointed it out to thine eyes, but thou shalt not go thither.

⁷ Art not thou the Lord who destroyed the inhabitants of this land from before thy people Israel? Thou indeed didst give it to the seed of Abraham thy beloved, forever:

⁷ Thou art the Lord God. Having made choice of Abram, thou didst lead him out from the country of the Chaldees and give him the name of Abraham. 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.

²² Hence they who bless him shall inherit the land; but they who curse him shall be rooted out.

²⁹ the righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein forever.

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;

¹ An Alleluia. Happy the man who feareth the Lord! in his commandments he will greatly delight. ² His seed shall be mighty in the land: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

¹⁸ that we may inherit a little of thy holy mountain.

⁵ Happy the meek; for they shall inherit the land.

⁵ but gave him no inheritance in it; not even a foot of land. He indeed promised that he would give it to him for a possession, even to his seed after him, though he then had no child.

² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed; ³ and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shalt be blessed.

⁵ Then he led him out and said to him, Look up now to the heaven and count the stars if thou canst number them. Then he said, So shall thy seed be.

⁶ And I will increase thee exceedingly, and cause thee to become nations; and kings shall spring from thee:

¹⁶ And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations."

²⁰ And as for Ismael, lo! I have hearkened to thee and behold I have blessed him, and I will increase him and multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve nations, and I will make him a great nation.

¹³ Nevertheless I will make the son of this handmaid a great nation, because he is thy seed.

¹⁷ with blessings I will indeed bless thee; and I will multiply thy seed abundantly as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the sea shore: and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their adversaries;

¹ Now Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Chettura ² and she bore to him Zembran and Jesan and Madal and Madiam and Jesbok and Soie. ³ And Jesan begat Saba and Dedan. And the children of Dedan were Assurieim and Latusieim and Laomeim. ⁴ And the children of Madiam were Gephar and Apheir and Enoch and Abeida and Eldaga. All these were children of Chettura. ⁵ But Abraham gave to his son Isaak all his possessions, ⁶ and to the children of his concubines Abraham gave gifts and sent them, while he was yet living, towards the east, into the eastern country from his son Isaak. ⁷ Now these were the years of the days of Abraham's life which he lived, one hundred and seventy five years. ⁸ And Abraham declining died in a good old age, an old man and full of days and he was added to his people. ⁹ And his sons Isaak and Ismael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron the son of Saar the Chettite, which is over against Mambre; ¹⁰ in the field and the cave which Abraham bought of the children of Chet, there they buried Abraham with Sarah his wife. ¹¹ And after the death of Abraham God blessed his son Isaak; and Isaak dwelt at the well of Vision. ¹² Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Ismael whom Agar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham; ¹³ and these are the names of the children of Ismael according to the names of his families. The first born of Ismael was Nabaioth, then Kedar and Nabdael and Massam ¹⁴ and Masma and Duma and Masse ¹⁵ and Choddan and Thaiman and Jetur and Naphes and Kedma. ¹⁶ These are the children of Ismael and these are their names in their tents and in their habitations; twelve chiefs of their respective nations. ¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ismael, one hundred and thirty seven years, and he declining died and was added to his race. ¹⁸ Now he inhabited the country from Evilat to Sour which is in front of Egypt, all the way to the Assyrians. In front of all his brethren was his habitation. ¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaak the son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaak. ²⁰ And Isaak was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekka the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Syro Mesopotamia the sister of Laban the Syrian. ²¹ And Isaak intreated the Lord for Rebekka his wife because she was barren, and the Lord hearkened to him; And Rebekka his wife conceived ²² and the children struggled within her and she said; If it is to be so with me, what doth this portend? So she went to inquire of the Lord. ²³ And the Lord said to her, two nations are in thy womb and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, and the one people will excel the other and the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴ So when her days to be delivered were fulfilled there were twins in her womb. ²⁵ And the first born came forth red all over hairy like a hide and she called his name Esau; ²⁶ and after that came forth his brother and his hand had hold of Esau's heel, and she called his name Jacob. Now Isaak was sixty years old when Rebekka bore them. ²⁷ And when they grew up to be young men, Esau was a man skilled in hunting and fond of the field; but Jacob was a man of plain manners and lived at home. ²⁸ And Isaak loved Esau, because his game was his food; But Rebekka loved Jacob. ²⁹ Now when Jacob was boiling pottage Esau came from the field fainty. ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste some of that red pottage, for I am fainty. For this cause his name was called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said to Esau, give me this day in exchange thy rights of primogeniture. ³² And Esau said, Lo! I am going to die, what then are these rights of primogeniture to me? ³³ And Jacob said to him, Swear now to me. So he swore to him. Thus were Esau's rights of primogeniture transferred to Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil pottage. And when he had eaten and drunk he arose and went away. Thus did Esau undervalue the rights of primogeniture.

⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

³ And may my God bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayst become a multitude of nations.

¹² But thou hast said, I will deal well with thee and make thy seed like the sand of the sea, which, for multitude cannot be numbered.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am thy God. Increase and multiply. Of thee shall be nations and collections of nations; and kings shall spring from thy loins.

¹ Now these are the families of Esau, the same is Edom. ² Esau took to himself wives from the daughters of the Chananites; Ada the daughter of Ailom the Chettite; and Olibema the daughter of Ana, the son of Sebegon the Evite; ³ and Basemath, Ismael's daughter, the sister of Nabaioth. ⁴ And Ada bore him Eliphas; and Basemath bore Raguel; ⁵ and Olibema bore Jeous and Jeglom and Kore. These were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Chanaan. ⁶ And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all the persons belonging to his family, and all his substance, and all his cattle, and all that he possessed, and all that he had gotten in the land of Chanaan, and went out from the land of Chanaan, from the face of his brother Jacob: ⁷ for their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they sojourned could not support them on account of the abundance of their stock. ⁸ And Esau made his abode on mount Seir. Esau is the same as Edom. ⁹ Now these are the families of Esau, the father of the Edomites, on mount Seir. ¹⁰ And these are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphas son of Ada, Esau's wife; and Raguel, son of Basemath, Esau's wife. ¹¹ And the sons of Eliphas were Thaiman, Omar, Sophar, Gotham and Kenez. ¹² And Thamna was a concubine of Eliphas, the son of Esau, and she bore to Eliphas, Amalek. These were the children of Ada the wife of Esau. ¹³ And these are the sons of Raguel, Nachoth, Zare, Some and Mose. These were the children of Basemath, the wife of Esau. ¹⁴ And these are the children of Olibema the daughter of Ana, the son of Sebegon, the wife of Esau. She bore to Esau, Jeous and Jeglom and Kore. ¹⁵ These were the emirs of son Esau. The sons of Eliphas, Esau's first born. Emir Thaiman, emir Omar, emir Sophar, emir Kenez, ¹⁶ emir Kore, emir Gothom, emir Amelek. These were the emirs of Eliphas in the land of Idumea. These were the children of Ada. ¹⁷ And these were sons of Raguel, son of Esau, emir Nachoth, emir Zare, emir Some, emir Mose. These were the emirs of Raguel in the land of Edom. These were the children of Basemath, the wife of Esau. ¹⁸ And these were the sons of Olibema the wife of Esau, emir Jeous, emir Jeglom, emir Kore. These were the emirs of Olibema, the daughter of Ana, Esau's wife. ¹⁹ These were the children of Esau and these their Emirs. They are the Edomites. ²⁰ Now these were sons of Seir the Chorrite, the inhabitant of the land, Lotan, Sobal, Sebegon, Ana, ²¹ and Deson, and Asar, and Rison. These were the emirs of the Chorrite; of son Seir in the land of Edom. ²² And these were the sons of Lotan, Chorri and Aiman, and the sister of Lotan, Thamna. ²³ And these were the sons of Sobal, Golam and Manachath and Gaibel and Sophar and Omar. ²⁴ And these were the sons of Sebegon, Aie and Ana. This is that Ana who found the Jameins in the wilderness, when he was feeding his father Sebegon's asses. ²⁵ And these were sons of Ana; Deson and Olibema a daughter of Ana: ²⁶ And these were the sons of Deson, Amada and Asban and Ithran and Charran. ²⁷ And these were the sons of Asar, Balaam and Zoukam and Joukam. ²⁸ And these were the sons Rison, Os and Aran. ²⁹ And these were the emirs of the Chorrites, emir Lotan, emir Sobal, emir Sebegon, emir Ana, ³⁰ emir Deson, emir Asar, emir Rison. These were the emirs of the Chorrites in their clans in the land of Edom. ³¹ And these were the kings who reigned in Edom before a king reigned in Israel; ³² Balak son of Beor reigned in Edom and the name of his city was Donnaba; ³³ and when Balak died, Jobab son of Zara of Bosorra reigned in his stead; ³⁴ and when Jobab died, Asom of the land of the Thaimanites reigned in his stead; ³⁵ and when Asom died, Adad son of Barad who smote Madiam in the plain of Moab reigned in his stead and the name of his city was Gethaim. ³⁶ And when Adad died, Samada of Masekka reigned in his stead; ³⁷ and when Samada died, Saul of Rooboth which is by the river reigned in his stead; ³⁸ and when Saul died, Ballenon son of Achobar reigned in his stead; ³⁹ and when Ballenon son of Achobar died, Arad son of Barad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Phogor, and his wife's name, Metebeel. She was a daughter of Matraith, son of Maizoob. ⁴⁰ These are the names of the emirs of Esau in their tribes according to their place in their countries and their nations; Emir of Thamna, emir of Gola, emir of Jether, ⁴¹ emir of Olibemas, emir of Elas; emir of Phinon, ⁴² emir of Kenez, emir of Thaiman, emir of Mazar, ⁴³ emir of Magediel, emir of Zaphoin. These are the emirs of Edom in their respective abodes in the land of their possession. Esau and father Edom is the same.

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.

⁷ and the children of Israel had increased and multiplied and were become numerous and grew more and more powerful and the land caused them to abound,

¹³ remembering Abraham and Isaak and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself and didst speak saying, I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of heaven for multitude; and didst say that thou wouldst give them all that land, that they should possess it for ever.

¹⁰ Who hath accurately scanned the seed of Jacob? Who can count the communities of Israel? May my soul depart among the souls of the righteous! And my offspring be as the seed of these!

¹⁰ The Lord your God hath multiplied you; and behold you are this day like the stars of heaven for multitude.

³ And when the Israelites had sown, Madiam and Amelek came up, and the children of the east came up with them,

⁵ For they came up with cattle. And their tents were pitched like locusts for multitude: and they and their camels were innumerable. And they came into the land of Israel, and wasted it;

⁸ and thy servant is in the midst of thy people whom thou hast chosen, an immense people which cannot be numbered,

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⁵ he gave David an account of the review of the people, and the whole number of the men of Israel who drew a sword, w r as eleven hundred thousand, and the children of Juda were four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew a sword.

²³ But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the Lord said, he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

¹⁴ this was the number of them according to the houses of their patriarchal families. The chiliarchs for Juda were Edna the chief, and with him sons, mighties of the army, three hundred chiliads; ¹⁵ and after him Joanan the leader and with him two hundred and eighty chiliads; ¹⁶ and after him Amasias the Zarite, who devoted himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred chiliads, mighties of the army; ¹⁷ and from Benjamin a mighty of the army, namely Eliada, and with him bow men, and those armed with shields, two hundred chiliads; ¹⁸ and after him Jozabad, and with him eighty chiliads, mighties of battle.

¹⁸ And hadst thou hearkened to my commandments thy peace would have been like a river and thy righteousness like a wave of the sea; ¹⁹ and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the issue of thy bowels as the dust of the ground. Still however thou shalt not be utterly cut off; nor shall thy name perish from before me.

¹⁶ Therefore the promise is because of faith, that it may be matter of favour to this extent, that it may be firm to the whole seed"not only to that under the law, but to that of the faith of Abraham, ¹⁷ who; as it is written, " I have made thee a father of many nations" is the father of us all in the sight of him in whom he believed; namely God who reanimateth the dead, and calleth up things not yet in existence as if actually existing. ¹⁸ Against hope he believed with a hope that he should become father of many nations according to what was said, "So shall thy seed be"

¹² Therefore there sprang even from one, and him dead as to these things, a posterity like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sand on the sea shore which is innumerable.

⁹ After this I looked and behold! a great multitude, which no one could number, of every nation and of tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes; and palm branches in their hands;

¹⁵ For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and thy seed for ever.

¹⁷ And upon sending them to view the land of Chanaan, Moses said to them, Having gone up through this wilderness, you shall go up to the mountain, ¹⁸ and view the land, of what sort it is; and the people who are settled in it, whether they be strong or weak; whether few or many; ¹⁹ and what sort of a country it is in which they are settled, whether it is good or bad; and what sort of cities they inhabit, whether they dwell in cities with walls, or without walls; ²⁰ and what the quality of the soil is, whether rich or poor; and whether there are trees there, or not. And having made a strict examination, you will bring with you some of the fruits of the land: [for their days, it being then the spring season, would reach to the time of the first ripe grapes.] ²¹ So they went up, and viewed the country from the wilderness of Sin, as far as Roob on the way to Aimath. ²² Then they went up, on a course parallel with the front of the desart; then turned down to Chebron, where were the Achimans and the Sessians, and the Thelamins, descendants of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt. ²³ And having come to the valley of grapes, and viewed it, they cut there a branch with a cluster of grapes on it, and carried it on poles, with some pomegranates and figs: ²⁴ and they called the name of that place, Valley of Grapes; because of the bunch of grapes which the children of Israel cut there.

²⁰ And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all the cattle which are clean and of all the fowls which are clean, and offered them up upon the altar for a whole homage offering.

⁴ to the place of the altar which he had there built at the first, and there Abram invoked the name of the Lord.

¹³ And one of them who escaped, came and told Abram, the traveller, who then dwelt near the oak grove of Mambre the Amorite, the brother of Eschol, and the brother of Aunan, who were in alliance with Abram.

¹ Again God appeared to him at the Oak grove of Mambre. As he was sitting at the door of his tent at noon,

² And Sarah died in the city Arbok, which is in the vale, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan. And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to make lamentation.

²⁷ Then Jacob went to his father Isaak, to Mambre, a city of the plain, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan, where Abraham and Isaak had sojourned.

¹⁴ Whereupon Israel said to him, Go and see if thy brothers and the flocks be well and bring me word. So he despatched him from the valley of Hebron and he went to Sychem:

²² Then they went up, on a course parallel with the front of the desart; then turned down to Chebron, where were the Achimans and the Sessians, and the Thelamins, descendants of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt.

¹³ Thereupon Joshua blessed him, and gave to Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, Chebron for a possession.

⁸ I saw the Lord continually before me. Because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved;

⁸ I therefore give it in charge that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and surmise: