Genesis 48 Cross References - Thomson

¹ After this when it was told Joseph, Thy father is sick, he took his two sons Manasses and Ephraim and went to Jacob. ² And when they told Jacob saying, Behold thy son Joseph is coming to thee, Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed. ³ And Jacob said to Joseph, My God appeared to me at Louza in the land of Chanaan and blessed me 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. 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. ⁶ And the issue which thou mayst have after this shall go by the name of their brothers. They shall be enrolled in their inheritances. ⁷ Now when I came out of Syrian Mesopotamia Rachel thy mother died in the land of Chanaan, just as I drew near the race ground of Chabratha on the way to Ephratha. So I buried her in the way of the race ground the same is Bethlehem. ⁸ Then Israel seeing the sons of Joseph said, Who are these with thee? ⁹ And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me here. Whereupon Jacob said, Bring them near to me that I may bless them. ¹⁰ Now Israel's eyes were dim by reason of old age and he could not see clearly. And when he brought them near to him, he kissed them and embraced them. ¹¹ And Israel said to Joseph, Lo! was I not deprived of thy presence? yet behold God hath shewn me even thy seed. ¹² Then Joseph took them from his knees; and when they had made obeisance to him with their face to the ground, ¹³ Joseph taking his two sons, Ephraim in his right hand towards Israel's left and Manasses in his left hand towards Israel's right, brought them near to him. ¹⁴ But Israel stretching out his right hand laid it on Ephraim's head [now he was the youngest] and his left hand on Manasses' head crossing his hands. ¹⁵ And he blessed them and said, The God whom my fathers Abraham and Isaak worshipped; the God who hath fed me from my youth to this day; ¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth! ¹⁷ Now when Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on Ephraim's head, it appeared amiss to him; and he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to the head of Manasses. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head. ¹⁹ But he refused and said, I know; my son; I know. This indeed will be a people and will be exalted. But his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will be a multitude of nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them that day and said, By you Israel will bless saying, God make thee like Ephraim and Manasses. So he put Ephraim before Manasses. ²¹ Then Israel said to Joseph, Lo I die. But God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. ²² Now to thee exclusively above thy brothers, I give Sikima, which I took out of the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.

⁵⁰ Now before the seven years of famine Joseph had two sons, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres the priest of Heliopolis bore to him. ⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of his first born Manasses, because God hath made me forget all my troubles and all my father's family. And the name of his second son he called Ephraim, because God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

²⁰ And to Joseph children were born in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres, the priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, namely, Manasses and Ephraim. And to Manasses, there were sons born, whom his concubine Syra bore to him, namely, Machir. And Machir begot Galaad. And the sons of Ephraim the brother of Manasses were Soutalaam and Taam. And the sons of Soutalaam, Edom.

²³ and saw Ephraim's children to the third generation; and the children of Machir the son of Manasses were also dandled on his knees;

¹⁶ And Job lived after this affliction a hundred and seventy years. So that all the years which he lived were two hundred and forty. And Job saw his children and his children's children, to the fourth generation,

⁶ And mayst thou see children's children! Peace be upon Israel.

³ The sisters, therefore sent to Jesus, saying, Sir, He whom thou lovest is sick.

²⁸ And give a charge to Joshua, and strengthen and encourage him; for he shall cross over before this people, and shall give them the possession of all this land which thou hast seen.

¹⁶ Jonathan son of Saul arose, and went to David at Kaina, and strengthened his confidence in the Lord,

¹⁸ And when I told them of the good hand of God which was upon me, and the words which the king spoke to me, and said, Let us arise and build; their hands were strengthened for this good work.

³ May the Lord support him on his bed of languishing! thou hast made all his bed in this sickness of his.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart be wise, thou wilt gladden my heart.

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

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

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. ¹⁵ And lo! I am with thee watching; over thee in all the way thou goest and I will bring thee back to this land: for I will not leave thee until I have done all that I have spoken to thee. ¹⁶ And when Jacob awoke from his sleep he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. ¹⁷ And he was terrified and said, How awful is this place; This is no other than the house of God. And this is the gate of heaven. ¹⁸ So when Jacob arose in the morning he took the stone which he had there put at his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it; ¹⁹ and called the name of that place House of God. But the first name of this city was Oulamluz.

⁶ And when Jacob came to Louza which is in the land of Chanaan, the same is Baithel, he and all the people who were with him, ⁷ he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Baithel; because God appeared to him there, when he was fleeing from the face of his brother Esau.

⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again at Louza after he came from Syrian Mesopotamia, and God blessed him ¹⁰ and God said to him, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob; but Israel shall be thy name. So he called his name Israel. 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. 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.

³ and I appeared to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob as their God. Though I did not clearly manifest to them my name Lord,

²³ and they encamped near, and kept a watch upon Baithel. [Now the name of that city formerly was Louza.]

⁴ He indeed wrestled with an angel and prevailed. Have they wept or have they supplicated me? Have they found me in the house of On? Or have they been spoken to there?

¹¹ having the glory of God. And its lustre was like a most precious stone, like a jasper shining as chrystal;

² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed;

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.

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."

¹³ Thy home born servant and he who is bought shall surely be circumcised. And this my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

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;

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;

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. ¹⁵ And lo! I am with thee watching; over thee in all the way thou goest and I will bring thee back to this land: for I will not leave thee until I have done all that I have spoken to thee.

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.

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.

²⁷ Thus Israel became sojourners in the land of Egypt in the district of Gesem, and they had possessions therein and increased and multiplied exceedingly.

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,

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.

⁸ When the Most High divided nations; When he dispersed the children of Adam, He settled the boundaries of nations, According to the number of God's messengers;

¹⁴ And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel; and they shall rebuild the wasted cities and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof; and make gardens and eat the fruits of them. ¹⁵ I will indeed plant them in their own land; and they shall no more be rooted up from the land, which I have given them, saith the Lord God Almighty.

²⁶ and you shall be consecrated to me. Because I the Lord your God am the Holy One, who hath separated you from all the nations, that you should be mine,

¹⁰ of the children of Joseph; of the Ephraimites, Elisama, son of Emiud; of the Manassites, Gamaliel, son of Phadassur;

³² And of the children of Joseph; Of the Ephraimites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, ³³ on a review of those of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred. ³⁴ And of the Manassites, according to their pedigrees, according to their communities, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names by their poll, all the males from twenty years old and upwards, every one who went out in the army, ³⁵ on a review of those of the tribe of Manasses, were thirty two thousand two hundred.

²⁸ The children of Joseph by their communities were; Manasses and Ephraim. ²⁹ The children of Manasses were from Machir, the community of the Machirites. Galaad also being a son of Machir, from Galaad, the community of the Galaadites. ³⁰ And these also were Galaadites, from Achiezer, the community of the Achiezerites; from Cheleg, the community of the Chelegites; ³¹ from Esriel, the community of the Esrielites; from Sychem, the community of the Sychemites; ³² from Symaer, the community of the Symaerites; and from Opher, the community of the Opherites. ³³ Now Salpaad the son of Opher had no sons; but he had daughters, and these were the names of Salpaad's daughters, Maala and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa. ³⁴ These communities of Manasses were, from the review of them, fifty two thousand seven hundred. ³⁵ And these were the children of Ephraim, from Suthala, the community of the Suthalites; from Tanach, the community of the Tanachites; ³⁶ these also were Suthalites; from Eden, the community of the Edenites; ³⁷ these communities of Ephraim were from the review of them, thirty two thousand five hundred. These were the communities of Joseph, by their communities.

⁷ Now therefore divide this land, for a possession among the nine tribes, and the half of the tribe of Manasses.

⁴ Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasses and Ephraim; there was therefore no portion of land given to the Levites, but only cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for their cattle; for they had cattle.

¹ And the borders of the children of Joseph were from the Jordan, in front of Jericho eastward, and to go up from Jericho to the hilly country; the wilderness to Baithel-louza, and having come out to Baithel, ² the boundary is to run along the borders of Achatarothi, ³ and proceed westward, along the borders of Aptalim, till it reacheth the borders of lower Baithoron; and the termination thereof is to be at the sea. ⁴ And when the children of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasses, got their possessions, ⁵ the borders of the children of Ephraim, according to their communities were these. The boundary of their possession from the east were Ataroth, and Erok, till it reached the ⁶ upper Baithoron, and Gazara; then the boundary was to proceed westward to Ikasmon, on the north side of Therma, then to come round eastward to Thenasa, and Selles, and from the east border of that to pass on to Janoka, ⁷ and to Macho, and Ataroth, including their villages; then to come to Jericho, and terminate at the Jordan: ⁸ And from Taphu the boundary was to run westward by Chelkana and to terminate at the sea. This possession of the tribe of Ephraim, according to their communities, ⁹ with the cities set apart for the children of Ephraim, in the inheritance of the children of Manasses, comprehended all their cities and their villages. ¹⁰ But Ephraim did not destroy the Chananites who dwelt in Gazer. So the Chananites have dwelt among the Ephraimites to this day.

¹ And the sons of Reuben the first born of Israel; for he was the first born, but when he went up to his father's bed, his father gave his birth right to his son Joseph as the son of Israel: yet in the genealogy he did not attain the right of primogeniture; ² for Juda being mighty in power prevailed over his brethren to have the Ruler appointed out of him, though the blessing was Joseph's.

¹ Still however thus saith the Lord, the God who made thee Jacob, and who formed thee, Israel! fear not. Because I have redeemed thee; have called thee by thy name; thou art mine;

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.

¹⁷ And they shall be, saith the Lord Almighty, an acquisition for me, on the day which I make; and I will make choice of them, as a man maketh choice of a son who serveth him.

¹⁸ and be to you a father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

⁵ having before hand determinately pointed us out for an adoption into the number of children by Jesus Christ for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will;

⁶ of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Nephthaleim were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand; ⁷ of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand;

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.

⁹ And God appeared to Jacob again at Louza after he came from Syrian Mesopotamia, and God blessed him

¹⁶ And Jacob removed from Baithel and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Gader. And when he was near Chabratha on the way to Ephratha, Rachel was taken in labour and had a hard delivery. ¹⁷ And when she was in the sharp pangs of child birth, the midwife said to her, Courage; for this also is a son for thee. ¹⁸ And just as she was departing [for she died] she called his name Sun of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin. ¹⁹ And Rachel died and was buried in the race ground of Ephratha, which is Bethlehem.

² The man's name was Elimelech, and his wife's name was Noemin, and the names of his two sons, Maalon and Chelaion. They were Ephrathites of Bethlehem Juda. They went to the country of Moab, and while they were there,

¹ There was a man of Armathaim-Sipha, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkana, son of Jeremeel, son of Eliu, son of Thoke, at Nasib -Ephraim.

² Soon as thou shalt depart from me to-day, thou wilt meet two men at Rachel's tomb, on mount Benjamin, coming in haste, and they will say to thee, The asses which you went to seek, are found; and behold thy father hath left off caring for the asses, and is anxiously concerned for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

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² But as for thee, Bethlehem, thou house of Ephratha, art thou too little to be one of the chiliads of Juda? Out of thee one shall come forth for me to be the chief of Israel. His goings forth have been from the beginning; from the days of an age.

¹⁸ "A cry was heard at Rama; lamentation and weeping and great mourning; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted, because they are no more."

⁴ and make me savory meat such as I love and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

²⁸ Therefore God give thee from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the land plenty of corn and wine. ²⁹ May nations serve thee; and princes bow down to thee. Be thou lord of thy brother. And let the children of thy father pay thee homage. Cursed be he who curseth thee; and let him who blesseth thee be blessed.

³⁴ And when Esau heard the words of his father Isaak he cried with a loud and very bitter cry and said, Bless, I beseech thee, me also, Father. ³⁵ And he said to him, Thy brother hath come deceitfully and taken thy blessing. ³⁶ And Esau said, His name is rightly called Jacob; for lo! he hath now supplanted me a second time. He took from me my rights of primogeniture; and now he hath taken my blessing. Then Esau said to his father, Hast thou not, father, reserved a blessing for me? ³⁷ And Isaak in reply said to Esau, Seeing I have made him thy lord and made all his brethren his servants and have also supported him with corn and wine, what can I do for thee, my son? ³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Hast thou but one blessing, father? Bless, I beseech thee, me also, father. And Isaak being deeply affected, Esau raised his voice and wept. ³⁹ And Isaak his father answered and said to him, Behold thy dwelling shall border on the fatness of the earth and on the dew of heaven from above. ⁴⁰ By thy sword thou shalt live and thou shalt serve thy brother. But the time will come when thou mayst shake off and loose his yoke from thy neck.

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

² And Jacob was angry with Rachel and said to her, Am I in God's stead, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of the womb?

⁵ And when Esau looked up and saw the women and the children he said, What! Are these thine! To which Jacob replied, These are the children with which God hath favoured thy servant.

²⁸ All these were the twelve sons of Jacob. And these were the words which their father spoke to them when he blessed them, each according to his peculiar blessing.

¹ Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God blessed the children of Israel, before his death;

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, We are witnesses. Then the elders said, The Lord make this thy wife who is coming to thy house, like Rachel and like Leia, who both built up the house of Israel, and laid the foundation of power in Ephratha, that there may be a name in Bethlehem: ¹² And may thy house be like the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore to Juda, from the seed which the Lord will give thee from this young woman. ¹³ So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in unto her, and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son. ¹⁴ Whereupon the women said to Noemin, Blessed be the Lord who hath not left thee this day without a kinsman to make thy name famous in Israel.

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.

²⁷ For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath granted me the petition which I asked of him;

²⁰ Now Eli had blessed Elkana, and his wife saying, The Lord grant thee seed from this woman in return for the loan which thou hast lent to the Lord. And when the man returned to his place ²¹ the Lord visited Anna, and she bore three sons more, and two daughters. But the lad Samuel grew up before the Lord.

⁵ All these sons Aiman had with him when he commenced a psalm for the king in the words of God. To exalt the horn God indeed had given Aiman fourteen sons and three daughters.

⁴ Abdedom the eighth; and the sons of Abdedom were, Samaias the first born, Jozabath the second, Joath the third, Sachar the fourth, Nathaniel the fifth, ⁵ Amiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Philathi the eighth; because God had blessed him,

³ Behold sons are an heritage of the Lord; a reward of the fruit of the womb.

¹⁸ Here am I and the children whom God hath given me." Now when there shall be signs and wonders in the house of Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwelleth on Mount Sion;

³ Let not the stranger who cleaveth to the Lord say, "The Lord will separate me from his people." Nor let the eunuch say, "I am a dry tree." ⁴ For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things in which I delight and adhere to my covenant; ⁵ I will give them, in my house and within my walls, an honourable place better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which shall not fail.

²¹ By faith Jacob, when a dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons and worshipped, bowing upon the head of his staff.

¹ And after Isaak grew old, when his eyes were so dimmed that he could not see he called Esau his eldest son and said to him. My Son. And he said here I am.

²⁷ And when he came near and kissed him; he smelled the smell of his raiment and blessed him and said, Behold the fragrance of my son is like the fragrance of a full field which the Lord hath blessed.

⁵⁵ And in the morning Laban arose and kissed his daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and went to his place

¹⁵ And Benjamin wept on his neck. And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And after that his brothers conversed with him.

² it came to pass at that time, when Eli was sleeping in his place, his eyes having then begun to be heavy, so that he could not see,

¹⁵ Now Eli was ninety years of age, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see.

²⁰ Whereupon Elisha left the cattle and ran after Elias and said, Let me salute my father and I will follow thee. And Elias said, Return; for I have done with thee.

¹⁰ for the heart of this people is stupefied; and their ears are dull of hearing; and they have shut their eyes, that for a while they may not see with their eyes; and hear with their ears; and understand with their hearts; and return that I may heal them.

¹ It is not that the hand of the Lord is unable to save; nor that his ear is grown dull to hear;

³³ And he knew it and said, It is my son's robe. An evil beast hath devoured him. A wild beast hath torn Joseph.

³⁵ And all his sons and daughters assembled and came to comfort him, but he would not be comforted saying, I will go to my son mourning, to the mansion of the dead. Thus his father mourned for him.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, Me you have bereaved of children. Joseph is gone. Symeon is gone. And will you take away Benjamin? All these things are against me.

²⁶ and told him saying. Thy son Joseph is alive and he is the governor of all the land of Egypt. Whereupon Jacob was absorpt in thought, for he could not believe them.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do infinitely above all that we can ask or conceive, according to that power which is operative in us

² he raised his eyes and looked, and lo! three men stood above him. And when he saw them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent; and having made obeisance to the ground,

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,

⁷ Then Abraham standing up made obeisance to the people of the land; the children of Chet.

³ And he himself went before them; and he made a low obeisance to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.

⁶ Joseph was the governor of the country; he sold to all the people of that land. So when Joseph's brothers came they made obeisance to him with their face to the ground.

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

⁸ Upon which Moses made haste and having bowed down on the ground he worshipped

³ Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God;

³² you shall rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of an elder, and fear thy God. I am the Lord your God;

¹⁹ So Bersabe went to king Solomon, to speak to him concerning Adonias. And the king arose to meet her, and saluted her, and when he sat down on the throne, there was a throne set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right hand,

³⁷ Thereupon she came and fell at his feet, and having made obeisance to him by bowing to the ground she took up her son and went out.

²⁸ Her bounty caused her children to honour her; for they were rich, and her husband praised her.

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

⁵¹ And Joseph called the name of his first born Manasses, because God hath made me forget all my troubles and all my father's family. And the name of his second son he called Ephraim, because God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father: for this is the first born, put thy right hand on his head.

⁶ Thy right hand, Lord, is glorious in power. Thy right hand, Lord, dashed enemies to pieces.

¹⁰ and present the Levites before the Lord. And the sons of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites;

¹⁸ and I have taken the Levites instead of all the first born among the children of Israel,

⁹ as Joshua son of Nave was filled with a spirit of wisdom, [for Moses had laid his hands upon him] the children of Israel hearkened to him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹ A Psalm. By David. The Lord said to my Lord; sit at my right hand; till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

¹⁶ The right hand of the Lord hath exalted me; the right hand of the Lord hath exerted power.

⁵ And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites. Because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets that men may observe them; verily I say to you, They have their reward.

¹⁸ Now I say to thee, Thou art named Peter, [a rock,] and upon this very rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

¹³ Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray for them; and his disciples rebuked them.

¹⁵ And when he had laid his hands on them he departed thence.

⁴⁰ And when the sun was set, all that had any sick of any kind of disease, brought them to him; and he, laying his hands on every one of them, healed them.

¹³ and laid his hands on her. And instantly she stood upright and glorified God.

⁶ whom they set before the apostles, who having prayed, laid their hands on them.

¹⁷ Then they laid their hands on them and they received a holy spirit. ¹⁸ When Simon saw that by the laying on of the hands of the apostles the holy spirit was given, he offered them money, ¹⁹ saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay my hands he may receive a holy spirit.

³ So having fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they dismissed them.

¹⁴ Neglect not the gift which is in thee, which was given thee by prophesy with the laying on of the hands of the assembled elders.

²² Lay hands upon no one hastily, nor be a partaker in the sins of others. Keep thyself pure.

²² And Enoch continued to please God after he begot Mathousala two hundred years and begot sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty five years. ²⁴ And Enoch continued to please God and was not found, for God translated him.

⁹ Now these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; and being perfect in the tenor of his life, Noe pleased God.

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.

²⁰ And Jacob made a vow saying, If the Lord God will be with me and watch over me in the way in which I am going and give me bread to eat and raiment to clothe me

¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!

²⁴ Thence he who hath strengthened Israel Is from the God of thy father;

⁶ Thereupon Solomon said, Thou hast shewn great kindness to thy servant David my father. As he walked before thee in truth and righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee, thou therefore hast kept for him this great kindness to set his son on his throne as at this day.

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

¹ A Psalm by David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall want nothing.

³ Trust in the Lord and exercise kindness; dwell in the land and thou shalt be fed with the riches thereof.

⁴ who redeemeth thy life from destruction: who crowneth thee with mercy and kindness; ⁵ who satisfieth thy desire with good things that thy youth may be renewed like an eagle's.

²⁴ [a] Hath not a man something good which he can eat and drink and which he can point out to his soul as a good by his labour? [b] With respect to that I saw indeed that even this is from the hand of God; ²⁵ for who can eat or who can drink without him?

¹² The sleep of the slave is sweet whether he eateth little or much. But the fulness of the rich suffereth him not to sleep.

¹⁸ Behold I have seen a good which is comely, namely to eat and drink, and to have a good enjoyment in all the labour with which one toileth under the sun, the number of the days of his life which God hath given him; for this is his portion.

⁷ All the labour of a man is for the mouth; yet the appetite will not be satisfied:

²¹ and thine ears will hear the words of the deceivers behind thee who say, This is the way let us walk in it, whether to the right or left;

¹⁶ he shall dwell in a lofty cavern of a strong rock: bread shall be given him and his water shall not fail.

² and expose them to the sun and moon and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven which they loved and served, and after which they went and to which they were attached, and to which they bowed down. They shall not be lamented nor buried; but shall be for a spectacle, on the face of the earth

²⁵ Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body, than raiment? ²⁶ Observe those birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor lay up in granaries; yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are not you much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Besides, which of you can by his anxiety prolong his life one hour? ²⁸ And with respect to raiment, why are you anxious? Consider those lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin: ²⁹ yet I affirm, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God thus arrayeth the herbage which is today in the field, and tomorrow to be cast into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, O ye mistrustful? ³¹ Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat; or, what shall we drink; or, with what shall we be clothed? ³² For about all such things the nations are solicitous: for your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you. ³⁴ Wherefore be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious about its own concerns. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.

⁶ They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking in all the commandments and precepts of the Lord, without blame.

³¹ Whether then you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

¹² For this is the matter of our boasting; the testimony of our conscience, that with simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more especially towards you.

⁶ As you therefore have received the Christ Jesus for your Lord, walk in him

¹² exhorting you, and comforting you, and testifying that you should walk worthy of God who inviteth you to his kingdom and glory.

⁶ Now this religion, with contentment, is a great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into this world; and it is evident that we can carry nothing out of it. ⁸ Having then food and raiment let us be content with these. 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. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; to gratify which, some have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

²¹ God indeed made the great sea monsters and every species of moving animals which the waters produced according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to kind. And God saw that they were good. ²² And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let flying creatures be multiplied on the earth."

⁷ But an angel of the Lord found her at the fountain of water in the wilderness; at the fountain in the way to Sour. ⁸ And the angel of the Lord said to her, Agar, thou servant of Sara, whence comest thou and whither art thou going? And she said I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sara. ⁹ And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress and submit to her authority. ¹⁰ Moreover the angel of the Lord said to her, I will multiply thy seed so that it shall not be numbered on account of the multitude of it. 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. ¹² He will be a wild man. His hands will be against all, and the hands of all, against him. And he shall dwell in front of all his brethren." ¹³ So she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, "Thou the God who lookest upon me;" for said she, I saw plainly him who appeared to me;

¹¹ Moreover an angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, What is the matter. ¹² And he said, Lift up thy eyes and behold the he-goats and the rams which are leaping on the sheep and the goats! They are ring-streaked, speckled and ash coloured; for I have seen what Laban is doing to thee. ¹³ I am the God who appeared to thee at the place of God, where thou didst anoint for me a pillar and where thou didst make a vow. Now therefore arise and depart from this land and go to the land of thy nativity, and I will be with 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.

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.

²² Joseph is a fruitful son. My fruitful son was envied. Abide with me, my younger son, Against whom calumniators brought false accusations.

² And an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a fire blazing out of a bush. And when he saw that the bush blazed with fire, but was not consumed, ³ Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight; why the bush is not consumed. ⁴ But when the Lord saw that he drew near to look; the Lord called to him out of the bush saying, Moses! Moses! And he said, What is it? ⁵ And he said, Approach not hither. Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground. ⁶ Then he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob. Whereupon Moses turned away his face; for he was afraid to look forward in the presence of God.

²⁰ Now behold I send my angel before thy face, that he may guard thee in the way, and bring thee to the land, which I have prepared for thee. ²¹ Take heed to thyself and hearken to him and disobey him not; for he should not withdraw from you; for my name is upon him.

⁴⁶ every one who went out to be marshalled in Israel, was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

¹⁰ then shall all the nations of the earth see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of thee;

¹⁷ His beauty is that of a firstling bull, His horns are the horns of an Unicorn, With these he will push the nations at once, Even from the limits of the land. These are the myriads of Ephraim; And these the thousands of Manasses.

¹⁷ But Joshua said to the children of Joseph, If thou art a numerous people, and hast great power, thou wilt not have one lot only,

¹ So there went up a messenger of the Lord from Galgal to Wailing, namely to Baithel, to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus saith the Lord, I caused you to come up out of Egypt, and brought you into this land which I solemnly promised your fathers, and I said I will never break my covenant with you; ² therefore you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land, nor worship their gods; but you shall break to pieces their graven images, and demolish their altars. But you have not hearkened to my voice. Because you have done these things, ³ therefore I have said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be curbs for you; and their gods shall be to you a stumbling block. ⁴ And when the messenger of the Lord had spoken these words to all the children of Israel, the people wept aloud.

²¹ And when he had done so, the angel of the Lord stretched out the point of the staff in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and fire came up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of the Lord vanished out of his sight. ²² When Gideon saw that it was an angel of the Lord, he said, Alas! alas! Lord, my lord! For have I seen the angel of the Lord face to face. ²³ And the Lord said to him, Peace be to thee. Fear not. Thou shalt not die. ²⁴ Upon which Gideon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it, Peace of the Lord. To this day it is still at Ephratha, which belonged to father Esdri.

²¹ And as the angel of the Lord no more appeared to Manoe and his wife, Manoe then knew that he was an angel of the Lord; ²² whereupon he said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God.

¹⁴ when my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray to me and seek my favour, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins, and heal their land.

² Let my soul glory in the Lord: let the meek hear and be gladdened.

⁷ The angel of the Lord will encamp round them that fear him, and deliver them.

²² The Lord will redeem the souls of his servants: and none will transgress who trust in him.

⁷ May the Lord preserve thee from all evil! the Lord will keep thy soul.

⁴ Thy deliverer is the Lord of Hosts, his name is the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old.

⁹ Wilt Thou be lie a man asleep or like a head of a family who cannot save? as Thou, O Lord, art among us and we are called by Thy name, O! do not forget us.

⁴ He indeed wrestled with an angel and prevailed. Have they wept or have they supplicated me? Have they found me in the house of On? Or have they been spoken to there? ⁵ The Lord God Almighty was to be his memorial:

¹² that the rest of mankind may seek [the Lord] even all the nations who are called by my name, saith the Lord who doth all these things.

¹ Behold I am about to send my messenger and he will examine the way before me. And the Lord whom ye seek; even the angel of the covenant whom you desire will come suddenly to his temple. Behold he is coming, saith the Lord Almighty.

¹³ and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil [for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages, amen.

¹⁵ I do not ask thee to remove them out of the world, but to preserve them from the evil one.

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, ³¹ which when Moses saw, he was astonished at the vision. And as he was going near to view it, there came a voice of the Lord to him, ³² "I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob." Upon which Moses trembled and durst not view it. ³³ Then the Lord said to him, Loose the sandals from thy feet, for the place where thou standest is holy ground. ³⁴ I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them. Now therefore come, I will send thee to Egypt. 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

¹⁷ that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord; even all the nations who are called by my name, saith the Lord who doth all these things."

²³ Nay, even they who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we ourselves are groaning within ourselves, waiting for an adoption the redemption of this body of ours.

⁴ and did all drink of the same spiritual drink, for they drank from a spiritual rock accompanying them; now that rock was the Christ.

⁹ nor let us try the Christ as some indeed of them did, and were destroyed by serpents:

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁸ Esau seeing that the daughters of the Chananites were displeasing in the sight of his father Isaak,

¹⁰ And it appeared evil in the sight of God that he had done this, therefore he caused him also to die.

¹⁴ But Israel stretching out his right hand laid it on Ephraim's head [now he was the youngest] and his left hand on Manasses' head crossing his hands.

¹ the people were wickedly murmuring before the Lord, and the Lord heard, and was provoked to wrath, and a fire from the Lord was kindled among them, and was consuming part of the camp,

³⁴ Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned inadvertently; for I did not know that thou stoodest in the way against me. Now therefore, if it is not agreeable to thee, I will turn back.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, nor the height of his stature, for I have rejected him: for God looketh not superficially as man looketh; for man looketh at the outward appearance, but God will look to the heart.

²⁵ And Ambri did evil in the sight of the Lord. Nay, he exceeded in wickedness all that went before him,

⁷ and the thing was evil in the sight of God, therefore he smote Israel.

¹⁸ for the Lord will see and it will displease him, and he will turn away his wrath.

⁷ nor are they all children, because they are of the race of Abraham; but in Isaak a seed shall be called for thee. ⁸ That is to say, It is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed.

¹¹ For the children being not yet born, nor having done any thing good or evil that the purpose might rest on the choice of God, not in consideration of works, but of his call,

¹⁸ Thereupon Lot said to them, I beseech thee, Lord,

¹⁵ And Rebekka took the robe of Esau her eldest son, the robe of dignity which was with her in the house and put it on her younger son Jacob.

²⁶ And Laban answered, It is not customary with us in this place to give the younger before the elder.

³³ And they sat before him, the first born according to his birth right and the youngest according to his youth. And the men were astonished, one at another.

³ Reuben my first born! Thou my strength and the head of my children! Too imperious and too self sufficient!

¹¹ No: Let the men go and worship; for this is what you desire. So they drove them out from the presence of Pharao.

⁹ In reply to which the prudent said, Perhaps there will not be enough for us and you. Therefore go rather to them who sell, and buy for yourselves.

¹⁴ Whereupon Peter said, By no means, Lord. For I have never eaten any thing common or unclean.

⁸ But I said, By no means, Lord; For nothing common or unclean hath ever entered my mouth.

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. ²¹ But this covenant of mine I will establish with Isaak whom Sarah shall bear about this time next year."

²⁸ And Isaak loved Esau, because his game was his food; But Rebekka loved Jacob.

¹⁹ his army, even they who were reviewed, being forty thousand five hundred; ²⁰ and they who encamp adjoining, shall be the division of the tribe of Manasses, and the chief of the Manassites shall be Gamaliel, son of Phadassur; ²¹ his army, even they who were reviewed, being thirty two thousand two hundred;

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

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate said, We are witnesses. Then the elders said, The Lord make this thy wife who is coming to thy house, like Rachel and like Leia, who both built up the house of Israel, and laid the foundation of power in Ephratha, that there may be a name in Bethlehem: ¹² And may thy house be like the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore to Juda, from the seed which the Lord will give thee from this young woman.

¹⁷ but God will bring upon thee and upon thy people and upon the house of thy father days which have not yet come. From the day he hath taken Ephraim from Juda [he will bring] the king of the Assyrians.

¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army. Thy warriors hung up in thee shields and helmets. They increased thy glory.

⁶ of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Nephthaleim were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand;

⁸ of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekka and said to her, Thou art our sister. Mayest thou become thousands of myriads and may thy seed inherit the cities of their enemies.

¹⁸ And on the west shall be the division of the camp of Ephraim, with their army; and the chief of the Ephraimites shall be Elisama, son of Emiud;

⁴⁸ On the seventh day the chief of the Ephraimites, Elisama, son of Emiud,

⁵⁴ On the eighth day the chief of the children of Manasses, Gamaliel, son of Phadassur,

²² Then were to march the division of the camp of Ephraim, with their army, and at the head of it Elisama son of Emiud; ²³ and at the head of the army of the tribe of Manasses, Gamaliel son of Phadassur;

⁸ of the tribe of Ephraim, Ause, son of Nave;

¹¹ of the tribe of Joseph; of the Manassites, Gaddi, son of Susi;

¹⁶ These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to examine the land: [now Moses had surnamed Ause, son of Nave, Joshua.]

⁵ And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance which they possessed, and every living creature which they had, and set out from Charran to go to the land of Chanaan.

¹⁴ But the nation which they shall serve I will judge. And after that they shall come out hither with much wealth.

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

¹⁵ And lo! I am with thee watching; over thee in all the way thou goest and I will bring thee back to this land: for I will not leave thee until I have done all that I have spoken to thee.

¹ Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had sojourned in the land of Chanaan;

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.

²⁴ Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, but God will assuredly visit you and conduct you out of this land into the land which God with an oath gave to our fathers, Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

¹ These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel, on the bank of the Jordan, west of the wilderness which reacheth to the Red sea, between Pharantophal and Lobon, and Aulon, and Katachrusea, ² eleven days' journey from Choreb, the way by mount Seir to Kades-Barne. ³ In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord had given him in charge to them. ⁴ After he had smitten Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon; and Og, king of Basan, who dwelt at Astaroth and Edrain, ⁵ Moses began, on the bank of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, to explain the law fully, saying. ⁶ The Lord our God spoke to us at Choreb, saying, You have tarried long enough by this mount. ⁷ Turn; strike your tents, and march to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the inhabitants around Araba; to the mountain and to the plain, and to the south, and to the land of the Chananites, on the sea shore, and to Antilibanus, till you reach the river; the great river Euphrates. ⁸ Behold I have delivered up the land before you. Go in, and take possession of the land, which with an oath I promised to give to your fathers; to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob; to them and their seed after them. ⁹ Then I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able alone to bear you. ¹⁰ The Lord your God hath multiplied you; and behold you are this day like the stars of heaven for multitude. ¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you as he hath promised you! ¹² How can I alone bear the burden of you, even the whole weight of you, and your contentions? ¹³ Appoint for yourselves men of wisdom, knowledge and understanding, for your several tribes, and I will make them leaders over you. ¹⁴ And you answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast proposed to do is good. ¹⁵ So I took from among you men of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and appointed them to be leaders over you; captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens; and promulgators of the law for your judges. ¹⁶ And I gave a charge to your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger who is with him. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not respect a person in judgment. Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it. ¹⁸ And when I had given you in charge, at that time, all the things which you were to do, ¹⁹ we removed from Choreb, and marched through all that great and frightful wilderness which you saw, on the way to the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God commanded us. And when we came to Kades-barne, ²⁰ I said to you, You are come to the mountain of the Amorite, which the Lord our God giveth you. Behold the Lord your God hath delivered up to you the land before you. Go up and take possession of it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, commanded you. Fear not, nor be faint hearted.

²² Whereupon you all came to me, and said, Let us send men before us, and let them traverse the land for us, and bring us word what way we shall go up, and to what cities we shall come. ²³ And the proposal was agreeable to me. So I took from among you twelve men; a man for every tribe. ²⁴ And they turned, and went up to the mountain, and came to the valley of the bunch of grapes. And when they had thoroughly viewed it, ²⁵ they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good, which the Lord our God giveth us. ²⁶ Notwithstanding this, you would not go up; but disobeyed the command of the Lord our God, ²⁷ and murmured in your tents, saying, Because the Lord hateth us he hath brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us utterly, ²⁸ wherever we go. When your brethren disheartened you, saying, It is a nation great and numerous, and stronger than we; and the cities are large, and walled up to the sky. Indeed we have seen there sons of giants. ²⁹ I said to you, Be not terrified, nor afraid of them. ³⁰ The Lord your God is marching before you. He will assist you in subduing them, according to all that he hath done for you in the land of Egypt, ³¹ and in that wilderness, which you have seen in your march to this mountain of the Amorite. The Lord thy God will take charge of thee, as a man would of a son; as he hath done all the way you marched, till you came to this place. ³² Notwithstanding this speech you did not confide in the Lord our God ³³ who was marching before you in the way to chuse a place for you, conducting you by night with fire, pointing out to you the way in which you were to march; and by day, with a pillar of cloud. ³⁴ And the Lord heard the sound of your words, and being provoked to wrath, he sware saying, ³⁵ Not one of these men shall see that good land which I, with an oath, promised their fathers, ³⁶ save Chaleb son of Jephonne. He shall see it. And to him I will give the land to which he went up, and to his children, because he vindicateth the cause of the Lord. ³⁷ With me also the Lord was angry on your account, and said, Neither shalt thou go in there. ³⁸ Joshua son of Nave who is thy attendant; he shall go thither. Encourage him, for he shall distribute it, by lot, to Israel. ³⁹ And with respect to your children, who do not know good or evil, they shall go thither, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, turn, and march into the wilderness, by the way to the Red sea. ⁴¹ Then you answered, and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God. We will go up, and fight according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. So, every one seizing his implements of war, you assembled tumultuously to go up the mountain. ⁴² Whereupon the Lord said to me, Say to them, You shall not go up, nor fight; for I am not with you. And you should not be trodden down before your enemies. ⁴³ Accordingly I spoke to you; but you hearkened not to me; but transgressed the command of the Lord, and presumptuously ascended the mountain. ⁴⁴ And the Amorites, who dwelt on the mountain, came out to meet you, and pursued you, as bees would do, and slaughtered you from Seir to Herma. ⁴⁵ Then you sat down, and wept before the Lord our God; but the Lord hearkened not to your voice, nor paid attention to you. So you abode at Kades many days, as many as you had staid there before.

⁸ and the Lord, who marcheth with thee, will not leave thee nor forsake thee. Fear not, nor be dismayed.

⁵ Not a man shall withstand you all the clays of thy life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

⁹ Behold I have commanded thee; be strong and courageous: fear not, nor be dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.

⁷ the Lord said to Joshua, This day I begin to exalt thee in the sight of all the children of Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

¹⁴ As for me, I am going speedily the way of all who are on the earth. Now you must know in your heart, and in your soul, that not one word hath failed of all that the Lord our God hath said. With respect to all that have come to us, not one of them have failed.

¹ Again Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Se lo, and having convened their elders, and their under officers, and their judges, and placed them before God, ² Joshua said to all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt in old time Beyond the river, namely, Thara, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor. And they served other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the river, and led him through all this land, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaak; ⁴ and to Isaak, Jacob and Esau; and to Esau I gave mount Seir for a possession; but Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt, and became there a nation, great, numerous and powerful. And when the Egyptians afflicted them, ⁵ I smote Egypt with signal miracles, which I did among them. ⁶ Now after this he brought our fathers out of Egypt, and you marched into the Red sea; and when the Egyptians pursued our fathers, with horses and chariots, into the Red sea, ⁷ and we cried to the Lord, he put a cloud and darkness between us and the Egyptians; and brought the sea upon them, and it overwhelmed them. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt. And when you had been many years in the wilderness, ⁸ he brought us to the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan; and the Lord delivered them into our hands, and you took possession of their land, and extirpated them from before you. ⁹ And when Balak, son of Sepphor, king of Moab, arose and drew up in array against Israel, and sent for Balaam to curse us, ¹⁰ the Lord thy God would not destroy thee, nay he caused him to bless us with blessings, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them up. ¹¹ And when you crossed the Jordan, and came to Jericho, and the Amorites who inhabited Jericho, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Chettites, and the Gergasites, fought against us, the Lord delivered them into our hands. ¹² Indeed he sent before you the hornet, and drove them out from before us, even the twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow, ¹³ and hath given you a land, on which you did not bestow labour, and cities which you did not build, and you are settled therein, and are eating of vineyards, and olive yards, which you did not plant. ¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with sincerity and truth, and put away the strange gods which our fathers worshipped in beyond the river, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. ¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy. ¹⁶ Upon this the people answered, and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods. ¹⁷ The Lord is our God. He is God. He hath brought up us and our fathers out of Egypt, and preserved us all the way we went, and among all the nations through which we passed, ¹⁸ and the Lord hath driven out from before us the Amorites, and all the nations who dwelt in this land; therefore we will serve none but the Lord; for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You may not be able to serve the Lord, because he is the Holy God, and will be zealous. He will not bear with your sins and your iniquities. ²⁰ When you forsake the Lord, and serve other gods, he will come and afflict you; and consume you, proportionally to the good he hath done you. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, Nay, we will serve none but the Lord. ²² Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him. ²³ Now therefore put away the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, We will serve the Lord, and hearken to his voice. ²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and gave it to them as a law, and a solemn decision at Selo, before the tabernacle of the Lord God of Israel. ²⁶ And when he had written these words in the book of the laws of God, he took a great stone, and set it up under a fir tree which was over against the Lord, ²⁷ and Joshua said to the people, Behold this stone shall be among you for a witness, that it hath heard all that were said by the Lord, for he hath this day spoken to you; and this shall be among you for a witness in the latter days, whenever you prove false to the Lord my God. ²⁸ Then Joshua dismissed the people, and they departed every one to his place; ²⁹ And after those things, Joshua the son of Nave, the servant of the Lord died at the age of a hundred and ten years; ³⁰ and they buried him in the boundaries of his inheritance, at Thamnasachar, on mount Ephraim, north of mount Gaas. There they deposited with him, in the grave in which they buried him, the stone knives with which he had circumcised the children of Israel at Galgala, as the Lord commanded them, when he had brought them out of Egypt. And there they are at this day. ³¹ and Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who out lived Joshua, and who had seen all the works of the Lord which he had done for Israel. ³² Now the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, the bones of Joseph, and they buried them at Sikimoi, in that portion of the field which Jacob purchased of the Amorites who dwelt at Sikimoi, for a hundred lambs, and which he gave to Joseph for an inheritance. ³³ And after these things, Eleazar son of Aaron, the chief priest, died, and was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to Phineas his son, which he had given him on mount Ephraim. At that time the children of Israel took up the ark of God, and carried it about among them. And Phineas officiated as priest in the room of his father Eleazar. And when he died, he was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to him. As for the children of Israel, they had gone to their several homes, and to their respective: cities. And when the children of Israel fell to worshipping Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations around them, the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglon king of Moab, and he exercised dominion over them eighteen years.

² I am going the way of all the earth, be thou therefore strong, and shew thyself a man, ³ and keep the watch of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which are written in the law of Moses; that thou mayest know what thou art to do, according to all that I command thee; ⁴ that the Lord may establish his word which he hath spoken, saying, If thy children take heed to their ways, to walk before me in truth, with their whole heart, thou shalt not, said he, have a man cut off from the throne of Israel.

⁴⁶ Live the Lord! and blessed be my God! and let the God of my salvation be exalted:

³ Trust not in chiefs, nor in sons of men, in whom there is no safety. ⁴ His breath goeth out and he shall return to his earth; on that day all his projects shall perish.

⁵ As for your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, will they live forever? ⁶ But receive ye my words and my statutes; all that I, by my spirit, give in charge to my servants the prophets, who reached your fathers, when they addressed them and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to deal with us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so hath he dealt with us."

²⁹ Now, O Lord, thou dismissest thy servant in peace according to thy word,

³⁶ For David indeed, having in his generation answered the purpose of God, went to rest and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption;

⁶ For I am now about to be poured out as a libation; and the time of my departure is at hand.

³ of whose father and mother there is no mention, no account of descent, nor of the beginning of his days, nor of the end of his life, but likened to the son of God he abideth a priest continually.

⁸ Again, here indeed men who die receive tithes; but there HE received them of whom it is testified that he liveth.

²³ Again, with regard to them, many were made priests, because death prevented a continuance: 24 but He, because of his continuing forever, hath a priesthood which doth not pass from one to another.

²⁵ So that he is completely able to save them, who come to God by him, as he is ever alive to intercede for them.

¹⁴ as I know that I must soon lay aside this tabernacle of mine, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath plainly shewed me;

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.

¹⁹ and purchased of Emmor, the father of Sychem, the part of the field where he had pitched his tent for a hundred lambs

²⁸ and took their flocks and their herds and their asses, both all that was in the city and all that was in the field,

¹⁷ but shall acknowledge the son of the hated as his first born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath, because he is the head of his children, and the rights of primogeniture belong to him.

¹⁴ When the children of Joseph complained to Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given us but one lot, and one portion, to inherit, seeing I am a numerous people, and God hath blessed me? ¹⁵ Joshua said to them, If thou art a numerous people, go up into the forest and clear it for thyself, if the mountain Ephraim be too narrow for thee. ¹⁶ Whereupon they said we are not satisfied with mount Ephraim, and the Chananites, who dwell there in Baithsan, and its villages, and in the valley of Jezrael, have choice horses, and iron. ¹⁷ But Joshua said to the children of Joseph, If thou art a numerous people, and hast great power, thou wilt not have one lot only, ¹⁸ for the forest will be thine. Though it is a forest thou canst clear it, and it shall be thine when thou hast rooted out the Chananites. For though they have choice horses, thou shalt excel them in strength.

³² Now the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, the bones of Joseph, and they buried them at Sikimoi, in that portion of the field which Jacob purchased of the Amorites who dwelt at Sikimoi, for a hundred lambs, and which he gave to Joseph for an inheritance.

²³ Now therefore hath the Lord God of Israel removed the Amorites from before his people, and art thou to possess them?

² for Juda being mighty in power prevailed over his brethren to have the Ruler appointed out of him, though the blessing was Joseph's.

¹³ Thus saith the Lord God, These are the boundaries of the land, which you shall inherit. It is an allotted portion for the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁹ As for me, I removed from before them the Amorite whose stature was like that of a cedar. Though he was strong as an oak, I withered his fruit above and his roots underneath.

⁵ therefore he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sichar, near the piece of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.