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+\id GEN Unlocked Literal Bible
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+\h Genesis 
+\toc1 The First Book of Moses, called Genesis 
+\toc2 Genesis 
+\toc3 Gen 
+\mt The First Book of Moses, called Genesis 
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+\v 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
+\v 2 The earth was without form and empty. Darkness was upon the surface of the deep. The Spirit of God was moving above the surface of the waters.
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+\v 3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
+\v 4 God saw the light, that it was good. He divided the light from the darkness.
+\v 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." This was evening and morning, the first day.
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+\p
+\v 6 God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
+\v 7 God made the expanse and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. It was so.
+\v 8 God called the expanse "sky." This was evening and morning, the second day.
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+\v 9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear." It was so.
+\v 10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathered waters he called "seas." He saw that it was good.
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+\v 11 God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit whose seed is in the fruit, each according to its own kind." It was so.
+\v 12 The earth produced vegetation, plants producing seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit whose seed was in it, after their kind. God saw that it was good.
+\v 13 This was evening and morning, the third day.
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+\v 14 God said, "Let there be lights in the sky to divide the day from the night. And let them be as signs, for seasons, for days and years.
+\v 15 Let them be lights in the sky to give light upon the earth." It was so.
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+\v 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
+\v 17 God set them in the sky to give light upon the earth,
+\v 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
+\v 19 This was evening and morning, the fourth day.
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+\v 20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the expanse of the sky."
+\v 21 God created the great sea creatures, as well as every living creature after its kind, creatures that move and with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
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+\v 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Let birds multiply on the earth."
+\v 23 This was evening and morning, the fifth day.
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+\v 24 God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures, each according to its own kind, livestock, creeping things, and beasts of the earth, each according to its own kind." It was so.
+\v 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, the livestock after their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind. He saw that it was good.
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+\v 26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
+\v 27 God created man in his own image. In his own image he created him. Male and female he created them.
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+\v 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply. Fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
+\v 29 God said, "See, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the surface of all the earth, and every tree with fruit which has seed in it. They will be food to you.
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+\v 30 To every beast of the earth, to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, and to every creature that has the breath of life I have given every green plant for food." It was so.
+\v 31 God saw everything that he had made. Behold, it was very good. This was evening and morning, the sixth day.
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+\v 1 Then the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the living things that filled them.
+\v 2 On the seventh day God came to the end of his work which he had done, and so he rested on the seventh day from all his work.
+\v 3 God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which he had done in his creation.
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+\v 4 These are the events concerning the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.
+\v 5 No bush of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the ground.
+\v 6 But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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+\v 7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
+\v 8 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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+\v 9 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. This included the tree of life that was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
+\v 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became four rivers.
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+\v 11 The name of the first is Pishon. It is the one which flows throughout the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
+\v 12 The gold of that land is good. There is also bdellium and the onyx stone there.
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+\v 13 The name of the second river is Gihon. This one flows throughout the whole land of Cush.
+\v 14 The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
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+\v 15 Yahweh God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and to maintain it.
+\v 16 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree in the garden you may freely eat.
+\v 17 But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you may not eat, for on the day that you eat from it, you will surely die."
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+\v 18 Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper corresponding to him."
+\v 19 Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
+\v 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to all the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field. But for the man himself there was found no helper corresponding to him.
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+\v 21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, so the man slept. Yahweh God took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh where he took the rib.
+\v 22 With the rib that Yahweh God had taken from the man, he made a woman and brought her to the man.
+\v 23 The man said, 
+\q "This time, this one is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. 
+\q She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of man."
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+\v 24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, he will be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
+\v 25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, but were not ashamed.
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+\v 1 Now the serpent was more shrewd than any other beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the garden?'"
+\v 2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit from the trees of the garden,
+\v 3 but concerning the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You may not eat it, nor may you touch it, or you will die.'"
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+\v 4 The serpent said to the woman, "You will surely not die.
+\v 5 For God knows that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
+\v 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate it. And she gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
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+\v 7 The eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
+\v 8 They heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, so the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
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+\v 9 Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
+\v 10 The man said, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid myself."
+\v 11 God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
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+\v 12 The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
+\v 13 Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
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+\v 14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, 
+\q "Because you have done this, cursed are you alone among all the livestock and all the beasts of the field. 
+\q It is on your belly that you will go, and it is dust that you will eat all the days of your life.
+\q
+\v 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. 
+\q He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
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+\v 16 To the woman he said, 
+\q "I will greatly multiply your pain in having children; it is in pain that you will give birth to children.
+\q Your desire will be for your husband, but he will rule over you."
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+\v 17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree, concerning which I commanded you, saying, 'You may not eat from it,' 
+\q cursed is the ground because of you;
+\q in painful toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.
+\q
+\v 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
+\q
+\v 19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, 
+\q until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. 
+\q For dust you are, and to dust you will return."
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+\v 20 The man called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living things.
+\v 21 Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.
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+\v 22 Yahweh God said, "Now the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. So now he must not be allowed to reach out with his hand, take from the tree of life, eat it, and live forever."
+\v 23 Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.
+\v 24 So God drove the man out of the garden, and he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword that turned every way, in order to guard the way to the tree of life.
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+\v 1 The man slept with Eve his wife. She conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have produced a man with Yahweh's help."
+\v 2 Then she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd, but Cain worked the soil.
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+\v 3 It came about that in the course of time Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground as an offering to Yahweh.
+\v 4 As for Abel, he brought some of the firstborn of his flock and some of the fat. Yahweh accepted Abel and his offering,
+\v 5 but Cain and his offering he did not accept. So Cain was very angry, and he scowled.
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+\v 6 Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry and why are you scowling?
+\v 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin crouches at the door and desires to control you, but you must rule over it."
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+\v 8 Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and while they were in the fields, Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.
+\p
+\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?"
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+\v 10 Yahweh said, "What have you done? Your brother’s blood is calling out to me from the ground.
+\v 11 Now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
+\v 12 When you work the ground, from now on it will not yield to you its strength. A fugitive and a wanderer you will be in the earth."
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+\v 13 Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.
+\v 14 Indeed, you have driven me out this day from this ground, and I will be hidden from your face. I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."
+\v 15 Yahweh said to him, "If anyone kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Then Yahweh put a mark on Cain, so that if anyone found him, that person would not attack him.
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+\v 16 So Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh and lived in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
+\v 17 Cain slept with his wife and she conceived. She gave birth to Enoch. He built a city and named it after his son Enoch.
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+\v 18 To Enoch was born Irad. Irad became the father of Mehujael. Mehujael became the father of Methushael. Methushael became the father of Lamech.
+\v 19 Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other was Zillah.
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+\v 20 Adah gave birth to Jabal. He was the father of those who lived in tents who have livestock.
+\v 21 His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of those who play the harp and pipe.
+\v 22 As for Zillah, she bore Tubal Cain, the forger of tools of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal Cain was Naamah.
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+\v 23 Lamech said to his wives, 
+\q "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say.
+\q For I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.
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+\v 24 If Cain is avenged seven times as much, truly Lamech will be avenged seventy-seven times as much."
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+\v 25 Adam slept with his wife again, and she bore another son. She called his name Seth and said, "God has given me another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him."
+\v 26 A son was born to Seth and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Yahweh.
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+\v 1 This is the record of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created mankind, he made them in his own likeness.
+\v 2 Male and female he created them. He blessed them and named them mankind, when they were created.
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+\v 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and he called his name Seth.
+\v 4 After Adam became the father of Seth, he lived eight hundred years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 5 Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
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+\v 6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.
+\v 7 After he became the father of Enosh, he lived 807 years and became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 8 Seth lived 912 years, and then he died.
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+\v 9 When Enosh had lived ninety years, he became the father of Kenan.
+\v 10  After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 11 Enosh lived 905 years, and then he died.
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+\v 12 When Kenan had lived seventy years, he became the father of Mahalalel.
+\v 13 After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 14 Kenan lived 910 years, and then he died.
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+\v 15 When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Jared.
+\v 16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 17 Mahalalel lived 895 years, and then he died.
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+\v 18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
+\v 19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived eight hundred years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 20 Jared lived 962 years, and then he died.
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+\v 21 When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah.
+\v 22 Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 23 Enoch lived 365 years.
+\v 24 Enoch walked with God, and then he was gone, for God took him.
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+\v 25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.
+\v 26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 27 Methuselah lived 969 years. Then he died.
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+\v 28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he became the father of a son.
+\v 29 He called his name Noah, saying, "This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands, which we must do because of the ground that Yahweh has cursed."
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+\v 30 Lamech lived 595 years after he became the father of Noah. He became the father of more sons and daughters.
+\v 31 Lamech lived 777 years. Then he died.
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+\v 32 After Noah had lived five hundred years, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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+\v 1 It came about when mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,
+\v 2  that the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were attractive. They took for themselves wives, any of them that they chose.
+\v 3 Yahweh said, "My spirit will not remain in mankind forever, for they are flesh. They will live 120 years."
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+\v 4 Giants were on the earth in those days, and also afterward. This happened when the sons of God married daughters of men, and they had children with them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 
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+\v 5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of mankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
+\v 6 Yahweh regretted that he had made mankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
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+\v 7 So Yahweh said, "I will wipe away mankind whom I have created from the surface of the earth; both mankind and the larger animals, and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them."
+\v 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.
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+\v 9 These are the events concerning Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
+\v 10 Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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+\v 11 The earth was corrupt before God, and it was filled with violence.
+\v 12  God saw the earth; behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
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+\v 13 God said to Noah, "I can see that it is time to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Indeed, I will destroy them with the earth.
+\v 14 Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch within and without.
+\v 15 This is how you will  make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
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+\v 16 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it at a cubit from the top of the side.  Place a door in the side of the ark and make a lower, a second, and a third deck.
+\v 17 Listen, I am about to bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh that has in it the breath of life from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth will die.
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+\v 18 But I will establish my covenant with you. You will go into the ark, you, and your sons, and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.
+\v 19 Of every living creature of all flesh, two of every kind you must bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you, both male and female.
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+\v 20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the larger animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
+\v 21 Gather for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and store it, so that it will be food for you and for them."
+\v 22  So Noah did this. According to all that God commanded him, so he did.
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+\v 1 Yahweh said to Noah, "Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
+\v 2 Of every clean animal you will bring with you seven males and seven females. And of the animals that are not clean, bring two, the male and his mate.
+\v 3 Also of the birds of the sky, bring seven males and seven females, to preserve their offspring upon the surface of all the earth.
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+\v 4 For in seven days I will cause it to rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy from off the surface of the ground every living thing that I have made."
+\v 5 Noah did all that Yahweh commanded him.
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+\v 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came upon the earth.
+\v 7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives went into the ark together because of the waters of the flood.
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+\v 8 Clean animals and unclean animals, birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
+\v 9  two by two, male and female, came to Noah and went into the ark, just as God had commanded Noah.
+\v 10 It came about that after the seven days, the water of the flood came upon the earth.
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+\v 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
+\v 12 The rain began and fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
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+\v 13 On that very same day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark.
+\v 14 They entered along with each wild animal according to its kind, and each sort of livestock according to its kind, and each creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind, and every sort of bird according to its kind, each kind of creature with wings.
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+\v 15 Two of all flesh in which was the breath of life came to Noah and entered into the ark.
+\v 16 The animals that went in were male and female of all flesh; they entered in just as God had commanded him. Then Yahweh shut the door after them.
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+\v 17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark. It rose up from upon the earth.
+\v 18 The water came in torrents and greatly increased upon the earth, and the ark floated upon the surface of the water.
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+\v 19 The waters forced themselves higher and higher on the earth. They completely covered all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven.
+\v 20 The waters rose fifteen cubits above the tops of the mountains.
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+\v 21 All living beings that moved upon the earth died: the birds, the livestock, the wild animals, all the swarming creatures that swarmed upon the earth, and all mankind.
+\v 22 All beings in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all those of the dry land, died.
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+\v 23 So every living thing that was on the surface of the earth was wiped out, from mankind to the larger animals, to creeping things, and to birds of the sky. They were all destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those with him in the ark were left.
+\v 24 The water dominated the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
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+\v 1 God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the water started to recede.
+\v 2 The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and it stopped raining.
+\v 3 The flood waters receded from off the earth continually. And after the end of a hundred and fifty days, the water had decreased considerably.
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+\v 4 The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
+\v 5 The water continued to recede until the tenth month. On the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
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+\v 6 It came about after forty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
+\v 7 He sent out a raven and it flew back and forth until the water was dried up from the earth.
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+\v 8 Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground, 
+\v 9 but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the water was still covering the whole earth. He reached out with his hand, and took and brought her into the ark with him.
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+\v 10 He waited another seven days and again he sent out the dove from the ark.
+\v 11 The dove returned to him in the evening. See, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water had subsided from off the earth.
+\v 12  He waited another seven days, and sent out the dove again. She did not return again to him.
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+\v 13 It came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, looked out, and saw that, behold, the surface of the ground was dry.
+\v 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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+\v 15 God said to Noah,
+\v 16 "Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.
+\v 17 Bring out with you every living creature of all flesh that is with you, including the birds, the livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may abound throughout the earth, be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth."
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+\v 18 So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.
+\v 19 Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, according to their families, left the ark.
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+\p
+\v 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh. He took some of the clean animals and some of the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
+\v 21 Yahweh smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart, "I will not again curse the ground because of mankind, even though the inclination of their hearts is evil from childhood. Nor will I again destroy everything living, as I have done.
+\q
+\v 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, 
+\q summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 9
+\p
+\v 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.
+\v 2  The fear of you and the dread of you will be upon every living animal on the earth, upon every bird of the sky, upon everything that goes low on the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea. They are given into your hand.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
+\v 4 But you must not eat meat with its life— that is its blood—in it.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 But for your blood, the life that is in your blood, I will require payment. From the hand of every animal I will require it. From the hand of any man, that is, from the hand of one who has murdered his brother, I will require an accounting for the life of that man.
+\q
+\v 6 Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man will his blood be shed, 
+\q for it was in the image of God that he made man.
+\v 7 As for you, be fruitful and multiply, spread throughout the earth and multiply on it."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,
+\v 9  "As for me, listen! I am going to establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you,
+\v 10 and with every living creature that is with you, with the birds, the livestock, and every creature of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark, to every living creature on the earth.
+
+\s5
+\v 11  I hereby establish my covenant with you, that never again will  all flesh be destroyed by the waters of a flood. Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
+\p
+\v 12 God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
+\v 13 I  have set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
+
+\s5
+\v 14  It will come about when I bring a cloud over the earth and the rainbow is seen in the cloud,
+\v 15 then I will call to mind my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh.  The waters will never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to commemorate the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
+\p
+\v 17 Then God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 The sons of Noah that came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.
+\v 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these, the whole earth was populated.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20  Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.
+\v 21 He drank some of the wine and became drunk. He was lying uncovered in his tent.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.
+\v 23 So Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned the other way, so they did not see their father’s nakedness.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 When Noah awoke from his drunkenness, he learned what his youngest son had done to him.
+\v 25 So he said,
+\q "Cursed be Canaan. May he be a servant to his brothers' servants."
+
+\s5
+
+\v 26 He also said,
+\q "May Yahweh, the God of Shem, be blessed, and may Canaan be his servant.
+\q
+\v 27 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him make his home in the tents of Shem. May Canaan be his servant."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 After the flood, Noah lived three hundred fifty years.
+\v 29 All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, and then he died.
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 10
+\p
+\v 1  These are the descendants of the sons of Noah, that is, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
+\v 3 The  sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
+\v 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
+\v 5 From these the coastland  peoples separated and went into their lands, every one with its own language, according to their clans, by their nations.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6  The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
+\v 7 The  sons of Cush were Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.
+
+\s5
+\v 8  Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first conqueror on the earth.
+\v 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. That is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."
+\v 10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Out of that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
+\v 12 and Resen, which was between Nineveh and Calah. It was a large city.
+\p
+\v 13 Mizraim became the father of the Ludites, the Anamites, the Lehabites, the Naphtuhites,
+\v 14 the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, and of Heth,
+\v 16 also of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
+\v 17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
+\v 18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites spread out.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza, and as one goes toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
+\v 20 These were the sons of Ham, by their clans, by their languages, in their lands, and in their nations.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Sons also were born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was also the ancestor of all the people of Eber.
+\v 22 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
+\v 23 The sons of Aram were Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.
+\v 25  Eber had two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.
+
+\s5
+\v 26  Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
+\v 27  Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
+\v 28  Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
+\v 29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
+
+\s5
+\v 30 Their territory was from Mesha, all the way to Sephar, the mountain of the east.
+\v 31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their clans and their languages, in their lands, according to their nations.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 32 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations. From these the nations separated and went over the earth after the flood.
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 11
+\p
+\v 1 Now the whole earth used one language and had the same words. 
+\v 2 As they journeyed in the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They had brick instead of stone and tar as mortar.
+\v 4 They  said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves.  If we do not, we will be scattered across the surface of the whole earth."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 So Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the descendants of Adam had  built.
+\v 6 Yahweh said, "Look, they are one people with the same language, and they are beginning to do this! Soon nothing that they intend to do will be  impossible for them.
+\v 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they may not understand each other."
+
+\s5
+\v 8 So Yahweh scattered them from there  across the surface of all the earth and they stopped building the city.
+\v 9 Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth and from there Yahweh scattered them abroad over the surface of all the earth.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 These are the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
+\v 11 Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 When Arpachshad had lived thirty-five years, he became the father of Shelah.
+\v 13 Arpachshad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 When Shelah had lived thirty years, he became the father of Eber.
+\v 15  Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber, and became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he became the father of Peleg.
+\v 17 Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 When Peleg had lived thirty years, he became the father of Reu.
+\v 19 Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he became the father of Serug.
+\v 21 Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 When Serug had lived thirty years, he became the father of Nahor.
+\v 23 Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 When Nahor had live twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.
+\v 25 Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.
+\p
+\v 26 After Terah had lived seventy years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 Now these are the descendants of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran became the father of Lot.
+\v 28 Haran died in the presence of  his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, a daughter of Haran, who was the father of Milcah and Iscah.
+\v 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of his son Haran, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and together they left Ur of the Chaldeans, to go into the land of Canaan.  But they came to Haran and stayed there.
+\v 32 Terah lived 205 years and then died in Haran.
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 12
+\p
+\v 1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Go from your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s household, to the land that I will show you.
+\v 2 I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
+\v 3 I will bless those who bless you, but whoever dishonors you I will curse. Through you will all the families of the earth be blessed."
+
+\s5
+\v 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him to do, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
+\v 5 Abram took Sarai, his wife, Lot, his brother's son, all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Haran. They left to go into the land of Canaan, and came to the land of Canaan. 
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Abram passed through the land as far as Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites lived in the land.
+\v 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will  give this land." So there Abram built an altar to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 From there he moved to the hill country to the east of Bethel, where he pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east.  There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.
+\v 9 Then Abram continued journeying, going toward the Negev.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to stay, for the famine was severe in the land.
+\v 11 When he was about to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "See here, I know that you are a beautiful woman.
+\v 12 When the Egyptians see you they will say, 'This is his wife,' and they will kill me, but they will keep you alive.
+\v 13 Say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my life will be spared because of you."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 It came about that when Abram entered into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.
+\v 15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s household.
+\v 16 Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake, and gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
+\v 18 Pharaoh summoned Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
+\v 19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, here is your wife. Take her, and go your way."
+\v 20 Then Pharaoh gave orders to his men concerning him, and they sent him away, along with his wife and all that he had.
+
+
+

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+ 
+
+\s5
+\c 13
+\p
+\v 1 So Abram left Egypt and went into the Negev, he, his wife, and all that he had. Lot also went with them.
+\v 2 Now Abram was very rich in animals, in silver, and in gold.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 He continued on his journey from the Negev to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been before, between Bethel and Ai.
+\v 4  This is the place where the altar was that he  had built previously, and here he called on the name of Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
+\v 6 The land was not able to support them both living close together, because their possessions were very many, so that they could not stay together.
+\v 7 Also, there was a dispute between the herdsmen of Abram’s animals and the herdsmen of Lot’s animals.  The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.
+
+\s5
+\v 8  So Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; after all, we are family.
+\v 9 Is not the whole land before you? Go ahead and separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left."
+
+\s5
+\v 10 So Lot looked around, and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan was well watered everywhere all the way to Zoar, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt. This was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
+\v 11 So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan and traveled  east, and the relatives separated from each other.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities of the plain. He set up his tents as far away as Sodom.
+\v 13 Now the men of Sodom were very wicked sinners against Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had departed from him, "Look from the place where you are standing to the north, south, east, and west.
+\v 15 All this land which you see, I will give to you and to your descendants forever.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 And I will make your descendants as abundant as the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.
+\v 17 Arise, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I will give it to you."
+\v 18 So Abram picked up his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there built an altar to Yahweh.
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 14
+\p
+\v 1 It came about in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
+\v 2 that they made war against Bera, king of Sodom, Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar).
+
+\s5
+\v 3 These latter five kings joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
+\v 4 Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
+\v 5 Then in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
+\v 6 and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Then they turned and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
+\p
+\v 8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (also called Zoar) went out and prepared for battle
+\v 9  against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, Tidal, king of Goiim, Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell in there. Those who were left fled to the mountains.
+\v 11 So the enemy took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and went their way.
+\v 12 When they went, they also took Lot, Abram’s brother's son, who was living in Sodom, along with all his possessions.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. He was living by the oaks that belonged to Mamre, the Amorite, who was the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were all allies of Abram.
+\v 14 Now when Abram heard that enemies had captured his relative, he led out his three hundred and eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued them as far as Dan.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 He divided his men against them at night and attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
+\v 16 Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (also called the King’s Valley).
+\v 18 Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 He blessed him saying, 
+\q "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
+\q
+\v 20 Blessed be God Most High, who has given your enemies into your hand." 
+\m
+Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods for yourself."
+\v 22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
+\v 23 that I will not take a thread, a sandal strap, nor anything that is yours, so that you can never say, 'I have made Abram rich.'
+\v 24 I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten and the share of the men that went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their portion."
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 15
+\p
+\v 1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and your very great reward."
+\v 2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
+\v 3 Abram said, "Since you have given me no descendant, see, the steward of my house is my heir."
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Then, behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir; but rather the one who will come from your own body will be your heir."
+\v 5 Then he brought him outside, and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 He believed Yahweh, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
+\v 7 He said to him, "I am Yahweh that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."
+\v 8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Then he said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a dove, and a young pigeon."
+\v 10 He brought him all these, and cut them in two, and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not divide the birds.
+\v 11 When the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Then when the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep and, behold, a deep and terrifying darkness overwhelmed him.
+\v 13 Then Yahweh said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 I will judge that nation that they will serve, and afterward they will come out with abundant possessions.
+\v 15 But you will  go to your fathers in peace, and you will be buried in a good old age.
+\v 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
+
+\s5
+\v 17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between the pieces.
+\v 18 On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I hereby give this land, from the river of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates River—
+\v 19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
+\v 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites,
+\v 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 16
+\p
+\v 1  Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not borne any children for him, but she had a female servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
+\v 2 So Sarai said to Abram, "See, Yahweh has kept me from having children.  Go sleep with my servant. It may be that I will have children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.  
+\v 3 It was after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan that Sarai, Abram's wife, gave Hagar, her Egyptian servant, to her husband as a wife.
+\v 4 So he had relations with Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong on me is because of you. I gave my servant woman into your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Let Yahweh judge between me and you."
+\v 6 But Abram said to Sarai, "See here, your servant woman is in your power, do to her what you think best." So Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 The angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring that is on the way to Shur.
+\v 8 He said, "Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."
+
+\s5
+\v 9 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority."
+\v 10 Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your descendants, so that they will be too numerous to count."
+
+\s5
+\v 11 The angel of Yahweh also said to her, 
+\q "Behold, you are pregnant, and will bear a son, and you will call his name Ishmael, 
+\q because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
+\q
+\v 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile against every man, and every man will be hostile to him, 
+\q and he will live apart from all his brothers."
+
+\s5
+\v 13 Then she gave this name to Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Do I really continue to see, even after he has seen me?"
+\v 14 Therefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
+\v 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 17
+\p
+\v 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
+\v 2 Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Abram bowed low with his face to the ground and God talked with him, saying,
+\v 4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
+\v 5 No longer will your name be Abram, but your name will be Abraham—for I appoint you to be the father of a multitude of nations.
+\v 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
+\v 8 I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land where you have been living, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
+\v 10 This is my covenant, which you must keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you must be circumcised.
+\v 11 You must be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Every male  among you that is eight days old must be circumcised, throughout your people's generations. This includes him who is born into your household and him who is bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.
+\v 13 He who is born into your household and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
+\v 14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai any more. Instead, her name will be Sarah.
+\v 16 I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
+
+\s5
+\v 17 Then Abraham bowed low with his face to the ground, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Can a child be born to a man that is a hundred years old? And can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a son?"
+\v 18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"
+
+\s5
+\v 19 God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you must name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant with his descendants after him.
+\v 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I hereby bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him abundantly. He will be the father of twelve leaders of tribes, and I will make him become a great nation.
+\v 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time in the next year."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
+\v 23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all those who were born into his household, and all those who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that same day, as God had said to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
+\v 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
+\v 26 On the very same day Abraham and Ishmael his son were both circumcised.
+\v 27 All the men of his household were circumcised with him, including those born into the household and those bought with money from a foreigner.
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+\c 18
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent doorway in the heat of the day.
+\v 2 He looked up and, behold, he saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed low to the ground.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 He said, "Lord, if I have found favor in your sight,  do not pass by and leave your servant.
+\v 4 Let a little water be brought, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
+\v 5 Let me bring a little food, so that you may refresh yourselves. Afterwards you can go your way, since you have come to your servant." And they said, "Do as you have said."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Then Abraham quickly went into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Hurry, get three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."
+\v 7 Then Abraham ran to the herd, and took a calf that was tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.
+\v 8 He took curds and milk, and the calf that had been prepared, and placed the food before them, and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 They said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He replied, "There, in the tent."
+\v 10 He said, "I will certainly return to you in the springtime, and see, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah was listening in the tent doorway, which was behind him.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, very advanced in age, and Sarah had passed the age when women could bear children.
+\v 12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying to herself, "After I have become worn out, will I have this pleasure, my master being old also?"
+
+\s5
+\v 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really bear a child, when I am old?'
+\v 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the time appointed by me, in the spring, I will return to you. About this time next year Sarah will have a son."
+\v 15 Then Sarah denied it and said, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. He replied, "No, you did laugh."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 Then the men arose to leave and looked down toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
+\v 17 But Yahweh said, "Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,
+\v 18 since Abraham will indeed become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
+\v 19 For I have chosen him so that he may instruct his children and his household after him to keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham what he has said to him."
+
+\s5
+\v 20 Then Yahweh said, "Because the accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah are so many, and because their sin is so very grave,
+\v 21 I will now go down there and see whether they are as wicked as the accusations that have come to me indicate. If not, I will know."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 So the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before Yahweh.
+\v 23 Then Abraham approached and said, "Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Perhaps there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are there?
+\v 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, killing  the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be treated the same as the wicked. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?"
+\v 26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake."
+
+\s5
+\v 27 Abraham answered and said, "Look what I have done, taking it upon myself to speak to my Lord, even though I am only dust and ashes!
+\v 28 What if there are five less than fifty righteous? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?" And he said, "I will not destroy it, if I find there forty five."
+
+\s5
+\v 29 He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the forty’s sake."
+\v 30 He said, "Please do not be angry, Lord, so I may speak. Perhaps thirty will be found there." He replied, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
+\v 31 He said, "Look, I have undertaken to speak to my Lord! Perhaps twenty will be found there." He replied, "I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake."
+
+\s5
+\v 32 Finally he said, "Please do not be angry, Lord, and I will speak this one last time. Perhaps ten will be found there." And he said, "I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake."
+\v 33 Yahweh went on his way as soon as he had finished talking with Abraham, and Abraham returned home.
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+\c 19
+\p
+\v 1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, while Lot was sitting at the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, arose to meet them, and bowed down with his face to the ground.
+\v 2 He said, "Please my masters, I urge you to turn aside into your servant’s house, stay for the night, and wash your feet. Then you can rise up early and go on your way." And they said, "No, we will spend the night in the town square."
+\v 3 But he urged them strongly, so they went with him, and entered into his house. He prepared a meal and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the men from every part of the city.
+\v 5 They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men that came in to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may sleep with them."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 So Lot went out the door to them and shut the door after himself.
+\v 7 He said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
+\v 8 Look, I have two daughters that have not slept with any man. Let me, I beg you, bring them out to you, and you do to them whatever is good in your eyes. Only do nothing to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."
+
+\s5
+\v 9 They said, "Stand back!" They also said, "This one came here to live as a foreigner, and now he has become our judge!  Now we will deal worse with you than with them." They pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near to break down the door.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.
+\v 11 As for the men who were outside the door of the house, Lot's visitors attacked them with blindness, both young and old, so that they wore themselves out trying to find the door.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Then the men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here? Any sons-in-law, your sons and your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, get them out of here.
+\v 13 For we are about to destroy this place, because the accusations against it before Yahweh have become so loud that he has sent us to destroy it."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, the men who had promised to marry his daughters, and said, "Quick, get out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city." But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be joking.
+\v 15 When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get going, take your wife and your two daughters that are here, so you are not swept away in the punishment of the city."
+
+\s5
+\v 16 But he lingered. So the men grabbed his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, because Yahweh was merciful to him. They brought them out, and set them outside the city.
+\v 17 When they had brought them out, one of the men said, "Run for your lives! Do not look back, or stay anywhere on the plain. Escape to the mountains so you are not swept away."
+
+\s5
+\v 18 Lot said to them, "No, please, my masters!
+\v 19 Your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot escape to the mountains, because the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
+\v 20 Look, that city over there is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Please, let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my life will be saved."
+
+\s5
+\v 21 He said to him, "Alright, I am granting this request also, that I will not destroy the city which you have mentioned.
+\v 22 Hurry! Escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the city was called Zoar.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 23 The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot reached Zoar.
+\v 24 Then Yahweh rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
+\v 25 He destroyed those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the plants that grew on the ground.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 But Lot's wife, who was behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
+\p
+\v 27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
+\v 28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain. He looked and behold, smoke was rising from the land like the smoke of a furnace.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 29 So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God called Abraham to mind. He sent Lot out of the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 30 But Lot went up from Zoar to live in the mountains with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere to sleep with us according to the way of all the world.
+\v 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will sleep with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
+\v 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. Then the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
+
+\s5
+\v 34 The next day the firstborn said to the younger, "Listen, last night I slept with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you should go in and sleep with him, so that we may extend our father's line."
+\v 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger went and slept with him. He did not know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
+
+\s5
+\v 36 So both the daughters of Lot were pregnant by their father.
+\v 37 The firstborn gave birth to a son, and named him Moab. He became the ancestor of the Moabites of today.
+\v 38 As for the younger daughter, she also gave birth to a son, and named him Ben Ammi. He became the ancestor of the people of Ammon of today.
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+\c 20
+\p
+\v 1 Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He was a foreigner living in Gerar.
+\v 2 Abraham said concerning Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." So Abimelech king of Gerar sent his men and they took Sarah.
+\v 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him,  "Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife."
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her and he said, "Lord, would you kill even a righteous nation?
+\v 5 Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister?' Even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I also know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
+\v 7 Therefore, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you and all who are yours will surely die."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all of his servants to himself. He told all these things to them, and the men were very afraid.
+\v 9 Then Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me that which ought not to be done."
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What prompted you to do this thing?"
+\v 11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
+\v 12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 When God caused me to leave my father’s house and travel from place to place, I said to her, 'You must show me this faithfulness as my wife: At every place where we go, say about me, "He is my brother.'"
+\v 14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham. Then he returned Sarah, Abraham's wife, to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever it pleases you."
+\v 16 To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is to cover any offense against you in the eyes of all that are with you, and before everyone, you are completely made right."
+
+\s5
+\v 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they were able to have children.
+\v 18 For Yahweh had caused all the women of the household of Abimelech to be completely infertile, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
+
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+\c 21
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh paid attention to Sarah as he had said he would, and Yahweh did for Sarah just as he had promised.
+\v 2 Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
+\v 3 Abraham named his son, the one who had been born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
+\v 4 Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
+\v 6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh; every one who hears will laugh with me."
+\v 7 She also said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children, and yet I have borne him a son in his old age!"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
+\v 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 So she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son: for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."
+\v 11 This thing was very grievous to Abraham because of his son.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be grieved because of the lad, and because of your servant woman. Listen to her words in all she says to you about this matter, because it is through Isaac that your descendants will be named.
+\v 13 I will also make the son of the servant woman into a nation, because he is your descendant."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Abraham rose up early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. He gave her the boy and sent her away. She departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
+\v 15 When the water in the waterskin was gone,  she abandoned the child under one of the bushes.
+\v 16 Then she went, and sat down a short distance from him, about  the distance of a bowshot away, for she said, "Let me not look upon the death of the child." As she sat there across from him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 God heard the voice of the lad, and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is.
+\v 18 Get up, raise up the lad, and encourage him; for I will make him into a great nation."
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and gave the lad a drink.
+\v 20 God was with the lad, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.
+\v 21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 It came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.
+\v 23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my children, nor with my descendants. Show to me and to the land in which you have been staying the same covenant faithfulness that I have shown to you."
+\v 24 Abraham said, "I swear."
+
+\s5
+\v 25 Abraham also complained to Abimelech concerning a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized from him.
+\v 26 Abimelech said, "I do not know who has done this thing.  You did not tell me before now; I have not heard of it until today."
+\v 27 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.
+
+\s5
+\v 28 Then Abraham set seven female lambs of the flock by themselves.
+\v 29 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven female lambs that you have set by themselves?"
+\v 30 He replied, "These seven female lambs you will receive from my hand, so that it may be a witness for me, that I dug this well."
+
+\s5
+\v 31 So he called that place Beersheba, because there they both swore an oath.
+\v 32 They made a covenant at Beersheba, and then Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.
+
+\s5
+\v 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba. There he worshiped Yahweh, the eternal God.
+\v 34 Abraham remained as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.
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+\c 22
+\p
+\v 1 It came about after these things that God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" Abraham said, "Here I am."
+\v 2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains there, which I will tell you about."
+\v 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, along with Isaac his son. He cut the wood for the burnt offering, then set out on his journey to the place that God had told him about.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place afar off.
+\v 5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there. We will worship and come again to you."
+\v 6 Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on Isaac his son. He took in his own hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father," and he said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "See, here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
+\v 8 Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So they went on, both of them together.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 When they came to the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood on it. Then he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
+\v 10 Abraham reached out with his hand and took up the knife to kill his son.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Then the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" and he said, "Here I am."
+\v 12 He said, "Do not lay your hand upon the lad, nor do anything to harm him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
+
+\s5
+\v 13 Abraham looked up and behold, behind him was a ram caught in the bushes by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
+\v 14 So Abraham called that place, "Yahweh will provide," and it is said to this day, "On the mountain of Yahweh it will be provided."
+
+\s5
+\v 15 The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven
+\v 16 and said—this is an oracle of Yahweh, "By myself I have sworn that because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
+\v 17 I will surely bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 Through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
+\v 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they departed and went together to Beersheba, and he lived at Beersheba.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20  It came about after these things that Abraham was told, "Milcah has borne children, as well, to your brother Nahor."
+\v 21 They were Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
+\v 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These were the eight children that Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
+\v 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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+\s5
+\c 23
+\p
+\v 1 Sarah lived a hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.
+\v 2 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan. Abraham mourned and wept for Sarah.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Then Abraham rose up and went from his dead wife, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
+\v 4 "I am a foreigner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying,
+\v 6 "Listen to us, my master. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb, so that you may bury your dead."
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Abraham  arose and bowed down to the people of the land, to the sons of Heth.
+\v 8 He spoke to them, saying, "If you agree that I should bury my dead, then hear me and plead with Ephron, the son of Zohar, for me.
+\v 9 Ask him to sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns, which is at the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me publicly as a property for a burial place."
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth, of all those who had come into the gate of his city, saying,
+\v 11 "No, my master, hear me. I give you the field, and the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. I give it to you to bury your dead."
+
+\s5
+\v 12  Then Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
+\v 13 He spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "But if you are willing, please hear me. I will pay for the field. Take the money from me, and I will bury my dead there."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying,
+\v 15 "Please, my master, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? Bury your dead."
+\v 16 Abraham listened to Ephron and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the amount of silver that he had spoken in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard measurement of the merchants.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was next to Mamre, that is, the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border, passed
+\v 18 to Abraham by purchase in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all those who had come into the gate of his city.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which is next to Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
+\v 20 So the field and the cave in it  passed to Abraham as a property for a burial place from the sons of Heth.
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+\c 24
+\p
+\v 1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
+\v 2  Abraham said to his servant, the one who was the oldest of his household and who was in charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh
+\v 3 and I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I make my home.
+\v 4 But you will go to my country, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land? Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"
+\v 6 Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there!
+\v 7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my relatives, and who promised me with a solemn oath saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son from there.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine. Only you are not to take my son back there."
+\v 9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 The servant took ten of his master's camels and departed. He also took with him all kinds of gifts from his master. He departed and went to the region of Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
+\v 11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water.  It was evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Then he said,  "Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, grant me success today and show covenant faithfulness to my master Abraham.
+\v 13 Look, here I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
+\v 14 Let it happen like this. When I say to a young woman, 'Please lower  your pitcher so that I may drink,' and she says to me, 'Drink, and I will water your camels too,' then let her be the one that you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown covenant faithfulness to my master."
+
+\s5
+\v 15 It came about that even before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out with her water pitcher on her shoulder. Rebekah was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
+\v 16 The young woman was very beautiful and a virgin. No man had slept with her. She went down to the spring and filled her pitcher, and came up.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little drink of water from your pitcher."
+\v 18 She said, "Drink, my master,"  and she quickly let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."
+\v 20 So she hurried and emptied her pitcher into the trough, then ran again to the well to draw water, and drew water for all his camels.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 The man watched her in silence to see whether Yahweh had prospered his journey or not.
+\v 22 As the camels finished drinking, the man brought out a gold nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two gold bracelets for her arms weighing ten shekels,
+\v 23 and asked, "Whose daughter are you? Tell me please, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?"
+
+\s5
+\v 24 She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
+\v 25 She also said to him, "We have plenty of both straw and feed, and also room for you to spend the night."
+
+\s5
+\v 26 Then the man bowed down and worshiped Yahweh.
+\v 27 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his covenant faithfulness and his trustworthiness toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me directly to the house of my master’s relatives."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 Then the young woman ran and told her mother’s household about all of these things.
+\v 29 Now Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran to the man who was out at the road by the spring.
+\v 30 When he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and when he had heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "This is what  the man said to me," he went to the man, and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 And Laban said, "Come, you blessed of Yahweh. Why are you standing outside? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels."
+\v 32 So the man came to the house and he unloaded the camels. The camels were given straw and feed, and water was provided to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
+
+\s5
+\v 33 They set food before him to eat, but he said,  "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." So Laban said, "Speak on."
+\v 34 He said, "I am Abraham’s servant.
+\v 35 Yahweh has blessed my master very much and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
+
+\s5
+\v 36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old, and he has given everything that he owns to him.
+\v 37 My master made me swear, saying, 'You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I make my home.
+\v 38 Instead, you must go to my father’s family, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son.'
+\s5
+\v 39 I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'
+\v 40 But he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and he will prosper your way, so that you will get a wife for my son from among my relatives and from my father’s family line.
+\v 41 But you will be free from my oath if you come to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'
+
+\s5
+\v 42 So I arrived today at the spring, and said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please, if you do indeed intend to make my journey successful—
+\v 43 here I am, standing by the spring of water—let the young woman who comes out to draw water, the woman to whom I say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
+\v 44 the woman who says to me, "Drink, and I will also draw water for your camels"—let her be the woman whom you, Yahweh, have chosen for my master’s son.'
+
+\s5
+\v 45 Even before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me  a drink.'
+\v 46 She quickly lowered her pitcher from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels water also.' So I drank, and she watered the camels also.
+
+\s5
+\v 47 I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.' Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms.
+\v 48 Then I bowed down and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to find the daughter of my master’s relative for his son.
+
+\s5
+\v 49 Now therefore, if you are prepared  to treat my master with family faithfulness and trustworthiness, tell me. But if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come  from Yahweh; we cannot speak to you either bad or good.
+\v 51 Look, Rebekah is before you. Take her and go, so she may be the wife of your master’s son, as Yahweh has spoken."
+
+\s5
+\v 52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the ground to Yahweh.
+\v 53 The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother.
+
+\s5
+\v 54 Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank. They stayed there overnight, and when they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master."
+\v 55 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman stay with us for a few more days, at least ten. After that she may go."
+
+\s5
+\v 56 But he said to them, "Do not hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master."
+\v 57 They said, "We will call the young woman and ask her."
+\v 58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Will you go with this man?" She replied, "I will go."
+
+\s5
+\v 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah, along with her female servant, on her journey with Abraham’s servant and his men.
+\v 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, 
+\q "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, 
+\q and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 61 Then Rebekah arose, and she and her servant girls mounted the camels, and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
+\p
+\v 62 Now Isaac was living in the Negev, and had just returned from Beerlahairoi.
+
+\s5
+\v 63 Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening. When he looked up and saw, behold, there were camels coming!
+\v 64 Rebekah looked, and when she saw Isaac, she jumped down from the camel.
+\v 65 She said to the servant, "Who is that man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil, and covered herself.
+
+\s5
+\v 66 The servant recounted to Isaac all the things that he had done.
+\v 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 25
+\p
+\v 1 Abraham took another wife; her name was Keturah.
+\v 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
+\v 3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. The descendants of Dedan were the Assyrian people, the Letush people, and the Leum people.
+\v 4  Midian's sons were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were Keturah's descendants.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Abraham gave all that he owned to Isaac.
+\v 6 However, while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them to the land of the east, away from Isaac, his son.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, 175 years.
+\v 8  Abraham breathed his last and died at a  good old age, an old man with a full life, and he was gathered to his people.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre.
+\v 10 This field Abraham had  bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah his wife.
+\v 11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac lived near Beerlahairoi.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Now these are the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s  servant, bore to Abraham.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 These were the names of Ishmael's sons, according to their birth order: Nebaioth—the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel,  Mibsam,
+\v 14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
+\v 15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
+\v 16 These were Ishmael's sons, and these were their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their tribes.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years: he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.
+\v 18  They lived from Havilah to Shur, which is near Egypt, as one goes toward Assyria. They lived in hostility with each other.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 These are the events concerning Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
+\v 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took  as his wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
+
+\s5
+\v 21  Isaac prayed to Yahweh for his wife because she was childless, and Yahweh  answered his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
+\v 22   The children struggled together within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?"  She went to ask Yahweh  about this.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 Yahweh said to her,
+\q "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you.
+\q One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 When it was time for her to give birth, behold, there were twins in her womb.
+\v 25 And the first came out red all over like a hairy garment. They called his name Esau.
+\v 26 After that, his brother came out. His hand was grasping Esau’s heel. He was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when his wife bore them.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a quiet man, who spent his time in the tents.
+\v 28 Now Isaac loved Esau because he ate the animals that he had hunted, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Jacob cooked some stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was weak from hunger.
+\v 30 Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me  with that red stew. Please, I am exhausted!"  That is why was his name was called Edom.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 Jacob said, "First sell me your birthright."
+\v 32 Esau said, "Look, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"
+\v 33 Jacob said, "First swear to me," so Esau swore an oath and in that way he sold his birthright to Jacob.
+\v 34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank, then got up and went on his way. In this manner Esau despised his birthright.
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 26
+\p
+\v 1 Now a famine happened in the land, besides the first famine that had been in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines at Gerar.
+
+\s5
+\v 2 Now Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land that I tell you to live in.
+\v 3 Stay in this very land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants, I will give all
+these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
+\v 5 I will do this because  Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my instructions, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
+\v 7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister."  He feared to say, "She is my wife," because he thought, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah, because she is so beautiful."
+\v 8 After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out of a window. He saw, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Abimelech called Isaac to him and said, "Look, certainly she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."
+\v 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept  with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."
+\v 11 So Abimelech warned all the people and said, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Isaac planted crops in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold, because Yahweh blessed him.
+\v 13 The man became rich, and grew more and more until he became very great.
+\v 14 He had many sheep and cattle, and a large household. The Philistines envied him.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Now all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them up by filling them with earth.
+\v 16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."
+\v 17 So Isaac departed from there and settled in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 Once again Isaac dug out the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. The Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham's death. Isaac called the wells by the same names that his father had called them.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
+\v 20 The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, and said, "This water is ours." So Isaac called that well "Esek," because they had quarreled with him.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too,  so he gave it the name of "Sitnah."
+\v 22 He left  there and dug yet another well, but they did not quarrel over that one. So he called it Rehoboth, and he said,  "Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 23 Then Isaac went up from there to Beersheba.
+\v 24 Yahweh appeared to him that same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants, for my servant Abraham’s sake."
+\v 25 Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and his servants dug a well.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath, his friend, and Phicol, the captain of his army.
+\v 27 Isaac said to them, "Why are you coming to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"
+
+\s5
+\v 28 And they said, "We have clearly seen that Yahweh has been with you. So we decided that there should  be an oath between us, yes, between us and you.  So let us make a covenant with you,
+\v 29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not harmed you, and as we have treated you well and have sent you away in peace. Indeed, you are blessed by Yahweh."
+
+\s5
+\v 30 So Isaac made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
+\v 31 They rose early in the morning and swore an oath with each other.  Then Isaac sent them away, and they left him in peace.
+
+\s5
+\v 32 That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug. They said, "We have found water."
+\v 33 He called the well Shibah, so the name of that city is Beersheba to this day.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 34 When Esau was forty years old, he took a wife, Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
+\v 35 They brought sorrow to Isaac and Rebekah.
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 27
+\p
+\v 1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau, his older son, and said to him, "My son." He said to him, "Here I am."
+\v 2 He said, "See here, I am old.  I do not know the day of my death.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Therefore take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me.
+\v 4 Make delicious food for me, the sort that I love, and bring it to me so I can eat it and bless you before I die."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 5 Now Rebekah heard it when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it back.
+\v 6 Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son and said, "See here, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother. He said,
+\v 7 'Bring me game and make me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of Yahweh before my death.'
+
+\s5
+\v 8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.
+\v 9 Go to the flock, and bring me two good young goats; and I will make delicious food from them for your father, just like he loves.
+\v 10 You will take it to your father, so that he may eat it, so that he may bless you before his death."
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "See, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
+\v 12 Perhaps my father will touch me, and I will seem to him as a deceiver. I will bring a curse upon me and not a blessing."
+
+\s5
+\v 13 His mother said to him, "My son, let any curse fall on me. Just obey my voice, and go, bring  them to me."
+\v 14 So Jacob went and got the young goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made delicious food, just like his father loved.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau, her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son.
+\v 16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
+\v 17 She put the delicious food and the bread that she had prepared into the hand of her son Jacob.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 Jacob went to his father and said, "My father." He said, "Here I am; who are you, my son?"
+\v 19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn; I have done as you said to me. Now sit up and eat some of my game, that you may bless me."
+
+\s5
+\v 20 Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God brought it to me."
+\v 21 Isaac said to Jacob, "Come near me, so I may touch you, my son, and learn whether you are my true son Esau or not."
+
+\s5
+\v 22 Jacob went over to Isaac his father; and Isaac touched him and said, "The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
+\v 23 Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands, so Isaac blessed him.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 He said, "Are you  really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am."
+\v 25 Isaac said, "Bring the food to me, and I will eat of your game, so that I may bless you." Jacob brought the food to him. Isaac ate, and Jacob brought him wine, and he drank.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near now and kiss me, my son."
+\v 27 Jacob came near and kissed him, and he smelled the smell of his clothes and blessed him. He said,
+\q "See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 28 May God give you a portion of the dew of heaven, a portion of the fatness of the earth,
+\q and plenty of grain and new wine.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you.
+\q Be master over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you.
+\q May every one who curses you be cursed; may every one who blesses you be blessed."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 30  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely  gone out from the presence of Isaac his father—it was then that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
+\v 31 He also made delicious food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Father, get up and eat some of your son’s game, so that you may bless me."
+
+\s5
+\v 32 Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
+\v 33 Isaac trembled very much and said, "Who was it that hunted this game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came, and I  have blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed."
+
+\s5
+\v 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with very great and bitter crying, and said to his father, "Bless me, me also, my father."
+\v 35 Isaac said, "Your brother came in here deceitfully and has taken away your blessing."
+
+\s5
+\v 36 Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and, see,  now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"
+\v 37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Look, I have made him your master, and I have given to him all his brothers as servants. And I have given him grain and new wine. What more can I do for you, my son?"
+
+\s5
+\v 38 Esau said to his father, "Have you not even one blessing for me, my father? Bless me, even me too, my father." Esau  wept loudly.
+
+\s5
+\v 39 Isaac his father answered and said to him,
+\q "Look, the place where you live will be far from the richness of the earth,
+\q away from the dew of the sky above.
+\q
+\v 40 By your sword you will  live, and you will serve your brother.
+\q But when you rebel, you will shake his yoke from off your neck."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are near; after that I will kill my brother Jacob."
+\v 42 The words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "See, your brother Esau is consoling himself about you by planning to kill you.
+
+\s5
+\v 43 Now therefore, my son, obey me and  flee  to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
+\v 44 Stay with him there for a few days, until your brother’s fury subsides,
+\v 45 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you  both in one day?
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes one of the daughters of Heth as a wife, like these women, some of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 28
+\p
+\v 1 Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
+\v 2 Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take a wife from there, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 May God Almighty bless you, make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of peoples.
+\v 4 May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your descendants after you, that you may inherit the land where you have been living, which God gave to Abraham."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away. Jacob went to Paddan Aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take a wife from there. He also saw that Isaac had blessed him and given him a command, saying, "You must not take a wife from the women of Canaan."
+\v 7 Esau also saw that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Paddan Aram.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 Esau saw that the women of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.
+\v 9 So  he went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.
+\v 11 He came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set.  He took one of the stones in that place,  put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 He dreamed and saw a stairway set up on the earth. Its top reached to heaven and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
+\v 13 Behold, Yahweh stood above it and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I  will give to you and to your descendants.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread far out to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south. In you and in your descendants will all the families of the earth be blessed.
+\v 15 Behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. I will bring you into this land again; for I will not leave you. I will do all that I have promised to you."
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I did not know it."
+\v 17 He was afraid and said, "How terrifying is this place! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 Jacob  arose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head. He set it up as a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.
+\v 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city originally was Luz.
+
+\s5
+\v 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will protect me on this road on which I am walking, and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to wear,
+\v 21 so that I return safely to my father’s house, then Yahweh will be my God.
+\v 22 Then this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be a sacred stone. From everything that you give me, I will surely give a tenth back to you."
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 29
+\p
+\v 1 Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
+\v 2 As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there by it. For out of that well they would water the flocks, and the stone over the well’s mouth was large.
+\v 3 When all the flocks had gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well’s mouth and water the sheep, and then put the stone again over the well’s mouth, back in its place.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran."
+\v 5 He said to them, "Do  you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
+\v 6 He said to them, "Is he well?" They said, "He is well, and, look there, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep."
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Jacob said, "See, it is the middle of the day. It is not the time for the flocks to be gathered together. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze."
+\v 8 They said, "We cannot water them until all the flocks are gathered together. The men will then roll the stone from the well’s mouth, and we will water the sheep."
+
+\s5
+\v 9 While Jacob was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
+\v 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob came over, rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.
+\v 12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. Then she ran and told her father.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 When Laban heard the news about Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him,
+kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
+\v 14 Laban said to him, "You are indeed my bone and my flesh." Then Jacob stayed with him for about one month.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
+\v 16 Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
+\v 17 Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.
+\v 18  Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
+\v 20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him only a few days, for the love he had for her.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days have been completed—so that I may marry her."
+\v 22 So Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.
+
+\s5
+\v 23  In the evening, Laban took Leah his daughter and brought her to Jacob, who slept with her.
+\v 24 Laban also gave Zilpah his female servant to his daughter Leah as a servant.
+\v 25  In the morning, behold, it was Leah! Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me?
+Did I not serve you for Rachel? Why then have you tricked me?"
+
+\s5
+\v 26 Laban said, "It is not our custom to give the younger daughter before the firstborn.
+\v 27 Complete the  bridal week of this daughter, and we will give you the other also  in return for serving me another
+seven years."
+
+\s5
+\v 28 Jacob did so, and completed Leah's week. Then  Laban gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also.
+\v 29 Laban also gave to his daughter Rachel Bilhah, his female servant, to be her servant.
+\v 30 So Jacob married Rachel, too,  but he loved Rachel more than Leah.  So Jacob served Laban for seven more years.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was not loved, so he caused her to become pregnant, but Rachel was childless.
+\v 32 Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me."
+
+\s5
+\v 33 Then she conceived again and bore a son. She said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved, he has therefore given me this son also," and she called his name Simeon.
+\v 34 Then she conceived again and bore a son. She said, "Now this time will my husband be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi.
+
+\s5
+\v 35 She conceived again and bore a son. She said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah; then she stopped having children.
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 30
+\p
+\v 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."
+\v 2 Jacob’s anger was burned against Rachel. He said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
+
+\s5
+\v 3 She said, "See, there is my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her, so she might give birth to children on my knees, and I will have children by her."
+\v 4 So she gave him  her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
+\v 6 Then Rachel said, "God has listened to me. He has certainly heard my voice and given me a son."  Therefore she  called his name Dan.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant,  conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
+\v 8 Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." She called his name Naphtali.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
+\v 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.
+\v 11 Leah said, "This is fortunate!" so she called his name Gad.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Then Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.
+\v 13 Leah said, "I am happy! For the daughters will call me happy." So she called his name Asher.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field. He brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some  of your son’s mandrakes."
+\v 15 Leah said to her, "Is it a small matter to you, that you have taken away my husband? Do you now want to take away my son’s mandrakes, too?" Rachel said, "Then he will sleep with you tonight, in exchange for your son’s mandrakes."
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening.  Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me tonight, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes." So Jacob slept with Leah that night.
+\v 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.
+\v 18 Leah said, "God has given me my wages, because I gave my servant woman to my husband." She called his name Issachar.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Leah conceived again and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
+\v 20 Leah said, "God has given me a good gift.  Now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." She called his name Zebulun.
+\v 21 Afterwards she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 God called Rachel to mind and listened to her. He caused her to become pregnant.
+\v 23 She conceived and bore a son. She said, "God has taken away my shame."
+\v 24 She called his name Joseph, saying, "Yahweh has added to me another son."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 25 After Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, so that I may go to my own home and to my country.
+\v 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know the service I have given you."
+
+\s5
+\v 27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, wait, because I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
+\v 28 Then he said, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Jacob said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
+\v 30 For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I worked. Now when will I provide for my own household also?"
+
+\s5
+\v 31 So Laban said, "What will I pay you?" Jacob said, "You will not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
+\v 32 Let me walk through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. These  will be my wages.
+
+\s5
+\v 33 My integrity will testify for me later on, when you come to check on my wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, if any are found with me, will be considered to be stolen."
+\v 34 Laban said, "Agreed. Let it be according to your word."
+
+\s5
+\v 35 That day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
+\v 36 Laban also put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob. So Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban’s flocks.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 37 Jacob took fresh cut branches of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane tree, and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white inner wood appear that was in the sticks.
+\v 38 Then he set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in front of the watering troughs where they came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
+
+\s5
+\v 39 The flocks conceived in front of the sticks, and the flocks produced striped, speckled, and spotted young.
+\v 40 Jacob separated the female sheep and directed their faces toward the striped animals and all the black sheep in the flock of Laban.  Then he separated his flocks and did not mix them any longer with Laban’s flocks.
+
+\s5
+\v 41 Whenever the stronger sheep in the flock were breeding, then Jacob would lay the sticks in the watering troughs before the eyes of the flock, so that they might conceive among the sticks.
+\v 42 But when the feebler animals in the flock came, he did not put the sticks in front of them. So the feebler animals were Laban’s, and the stronger were Jacob’s.
+
+\s5
+\v 43 The man became very prosperous. He had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 31
+\p
+\v 1 Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, that they said, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and it is from our father's possessions that he has gotten all this wealth."
+\v 2 Jacob saw the look on Laban's face. He saw that his attitude toward him had changed.
+\v 3 Then Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock
+\v 5 and said to them, "I see your father’s attitude  toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
+\v 6 You know that it is with all my strength that I have served your father.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not permitted him to hurt me.
+\v 8 If he said, 'The speckled animals will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled young. And if he said, 'The striped will be your wages,' then the whole flock bore striped young.
+\v 9 In this way God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Once at the time of breeding season, I saw in a dream the male goats that were mating with the flock. The male goats were striped, speckled, and spotted.
+\v 11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob.' I said, 'Here I am.'
+
+\s5
+\v 12 He said, 'Lift up your eyes and see all the male goats that are mating with the flock. They are striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen everything that Laban is doing to you.
+\v 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now leave this land and return to the land of your birth.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there  any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
+\v 15 Are we not treated by him as foreigners? For he has sold us and has also completely devoured our money.
+\v 16 For all the riches that God has taken away from our father are now ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 Then Jacob arose and placed his sons and his wives upon the camels.
+\v 18 He began to drive all his livestock, and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession, which he had gained in Paddan Aram. He began to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.
+\v 20 Jacob also deceived  Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he was leaving.
+\v 21 So he fled with all that he had and quickly passed over the River, and headed toward the hill country of Gilead.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22  On the third day Laban was told  that Jacob had fled.
+\v 23 So he took his relatives with him and pursued  him for a seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Now God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good or bad."
+\v 25 Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country. Laban with his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead also.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you deceived me  and carried away my daughters like prisoners of war?
+\v 27 Why did you flee secretly and trick me and did not tell me. I would have sent you away with celebration and with songs, with tambourine and with harps.
+\v 28 You did not allow me to kiss my grandsons and my daughters good bye.  Now you have done foolishly.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 It is in my power to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, 'Be careful  that you speak to Jacob neither good or bad.'
+\v 30 And now, you have gone away because you longed very much for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?"
+
+\s5
+\v 31 Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid and thought that you would take your daughters from me by force I left secretly.
+\v 32 Whoever has stolen your gods will not continue to live. In the presence of our relatives, identify whatever with me is yours and take it." For Jacob did  not know that Rachel had stolen them.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 33 Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find  them.  He went out of Leah’s tent and entered into Rachel’s tent.
+
+\s5
+\v 34 Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in a camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.
+\v 35 She said to her father, "Do not be angry, my master, that I cannot stand up  before you, for I am having my period." So he searched but did not find his household gods.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 36 Jacob was angry and argued with Laban. He said to him, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
+\v 37 For you have searched all my possessions. What have you found of all your household goods? Set them here before our relatives, so that they may judge between us two.
+
+\s5
+\v 38 For twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten any rams from your flocks.
+\v 39 What was torn by beasts I did not bring to you. Instead, I bore the loss of it. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
+\v 40 There I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the frost by night; and I went without sleep.
+
+\s5
+\v 41 These twenty years I have been in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock. You have changed my wages ten times.
+\v 42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the one Isaac fears, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my  oppression and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 43 Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the grandchildren are my grandchildren, and the flocks are my flocks. All that you see is mine.  But what can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
+\v 44 So now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be for a witness between you and me."
+
+\s5
+\v 45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
+\v 46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they took stones and made a pile. Then they ate there by the pile.
+\v 47 Laban called it Jegar Saha Dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
+
+\s5
+\v 48 Laban said, "This pile is a witness between me and you today." Therefore its name was called Galeed.
+\v 49 It is also called Mizpah, because Laban said,  "May Yahweh watch between  you and me, when we are out of sight one from another.
+\v 50 If you mistreat my daughters, or if you take any wives besides my daughters,  although no one else is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."
+
+\s5
+\v 51 Laban said to Jacob, "Look at this pile, and look at the pillar, which I have set between you and me.
+\v 52 This pile is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to me, to do harm.
+\v 53 May the God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Jacob swore by God, him whom his father Isaac feared.
+
+\s5
+\v 54 Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his relatives to eat a meal. They ate and spent the entire night on the mountain.
+\v 55 Early in the morning Laban rose,  kissed his grandsons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home. 
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 32
+\p
+\v 1 Jacob also  went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
+\v 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God’s camp," so he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau, in the land of Seir, in the region of Edom.
+\v 4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what  you  will you say to my master Esau: This is what   your servant Jacob says:  'I have been staying with Laban, and I have stayed until now.
+\v 5  I have oxen, donkeys, and flocks, male servants, and female servants.   I have sent to tell this to my master, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 6 The messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."
+\v 7 Then Jacob was very afraid and  upset.  So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, and also the flocks, the herds, and the camels.
+\v 8 He said, "If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape."
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, and I will prosper you,'
+\v 10 I am not worthy  of all your acts of covenant faithfulness and of all the trustworthiness that you have done for your servant. For with only my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.
+\v 12 But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper. I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for their number.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 Jacob stayed there that night. He took some of what  he had with him as a gift for Esau, his brother:
+\v 14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
+\v 15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys  and ten male donkeys.
+\v 16 These he handed over to his servants, every herd by itself. He said to his servants, "Go on ahead of me and put a space between each of the herds."
+
+\s5
+\v 17 He instructed the first servant, saying, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, saying, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these animals in front of you?'
+\v 18 Then you will say, 'They are your servant Jacob’s. They are a gift sent to my master Esau. And see, he is also coming after us.' "
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Jacob also gave instructions to the second group,  the third, and all the men who followed the herds. He said, "You will say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.
+\v 20 You will say also, 'Your servant Jacob is coming after us.'" For he thought, "I will appease him with the gifts that go ahead of me.  When I meet him afterwards, perhaps he will accept me."
+\v 21 So the gifts went on ahead of him. He himself stayed that night in the camp.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Jacob got up during the  night, and took his two wives, his two women servants, and his eleven sons. He sent them across the ford of the Jabbok.
+\v 23 In this way he sent them across the stream along with all his possessions.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled  with him until daybreak.
+\v 25 When the man  saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob's hip. Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.
+\v 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is  breaking." Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
+
+\s5
+\v 27 The man said to him, "What is your name?" Jacob said, "Jacob."
+\v 28 The man said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Jacob asked him,  "Please tell me  your name." He said, "Why is it that you  ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
+\v 30 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel for he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is delivered."
+
+\s5
+\v 31 The sun rose on Jacob as he passed Peniel. He was limping because of his hip.
+\v 32 That is why to this day the people of Israel  do not eat the ligaments of the hip which are at the hip joint, because the man injured those ligaments while dislocating Jacob's  hip.
+
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 33
+\p
+\v 1 Jacob looked up and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men.  Jacob divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants. 
+\v 2 Then he put the female servants and their children in front, followed by Leah and her children, and followed by Rachel and Joseph last of all.
+\v 3 He himself went on ahead of them. He bowed toward the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they wept.
+\v 5 When Esau looked up, he saw the women and the children. He said, "Who are these people with you?" Jacob  said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 Then the female servants came forward with their children, and they bowed down.
+\v 7 Next Leah also and her children came forward and bowed down. Finally Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed down.
+\v 8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all these groups that I met?"  Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my master."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”
+\v 10 Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my gift from my hand, for indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.
+\v 11 Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus Jacob urged him, and Esau accepted it.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 12 Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way. I will go before you."
+\v 13 Jacob said to him, "My master knows that the children are young, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young. If they overdrive them even one day, all the flocks will die.
+\v 14 May my master go ahead of his servant.  I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are before me, and at the pace of the children, until I come to my master in Seir."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 15 Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of my men who are with me."  But Jacob said, "Why do that? My master has already been kind enough to me."
+\v 16 So Esau that day started on his way back to Seir.
+\v 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock.  Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 When Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan. He camped near the city.
+\v 19 Then he bought the piece of ground where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
+\v 20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.
+ 
+
+ 
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+ 
+\s5
+\c 34
+\p
+\v 1 Now Dinah, Leah's daughter whom she bore to Jacob, went out to meet the young women of the land.
+\v 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her and he grabbed her, assaulted her, and slept her.
+\v 3 He was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 4 Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get this young woman for me as a wife."
+\v 5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. His sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
+\v 7 The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard of the matter. The men were offended. They were very angry because he had disgraced Israel by forcing himself on Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing should not have been done.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 8 Hamor spoke with them, saying, "My son Shechem loves your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
+\v 9 Intermarry with us, Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
+\v 10 You will live with us, and the land will be open to you to live and trade in, and to acquire property."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you tell me I will give.
+\v 12 Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you  say to me, but give me the young woman as a wife."
+\v 13 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, because Shechem had defiled Dinah their sister.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 14 They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to anyone who is uncircumcised; for that would be a disgrace to us.
+\v 15 Only on this condition will we agree with you: if you will become circumcised as we are, if every male among you is circumcised.
+\v 16 Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.
+\v 17 But if you do not listen to us and become circumcised, then we will take our sister and we will leave."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 Their words pleased Hamor and his son Shechem.
+\v 19 The young man did not delay to do what they said, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter, and because he was the most honored person in all his father's household.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 20 Hamor and Shechem his son went to the gate of their city and spoke with the men of their city, saying,
+\v 21 "These men are at peace with us, so let them live in the land and trade in it for, really, the land is large enough for them.  Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 22 Only on this condition will the men agree to live with us and become one people: if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
+\v 23 Will not their livestock and their property—all their animals be ours? So let us agree with them, and they will live among us."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 24 All the men of the city listened to Hamor and Shechem, his son. Every male was circumcised.
+\v 25  On the third day, when they were very sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each man took his sword and went to the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.
+\v 26 They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword. They took Dinah from Shechem’s house and left.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 27 The other sons of Jacob came to the dead bodies and looted the city, because the people had defiled their sister.
+\v 28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, and everything in the city and in the surrounding fields with 
+\v 29 all their wealth. All their children and their wives, they captured. They even took everything that was in the houses.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 30 Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, to make me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites.  I am few in number. If they gather themselves together against me and attack me, then I will be destroyed, I and my household."
+\v 31 But Simeon and Levi said, "Should Shechem have dealt with our sister as with a prostitute?"
+ 
+
+

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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 35
+\p
+\v 1 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and stay there.  Build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from Esau your brother.”
+\v 2 Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.
+\v 3 Then let us depart and go up to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
+ 
+\s5
+\v 4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.
+\v 5 As they traveled, God made panic to fall on the cities that were around them, so those people did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 So Jacob arrived at Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
+\v 7 He built an altar there and called the place El Bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him, when he was fleeing from his brother.
+\v 8 Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died. She was buried down from Bethel under the oak tree, so it was called Allonbacuth.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 When Jacob came from Paddan Aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
+\v 10 God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob. Your name will be Israel.”  So God called his name Israel.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.
+\v 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you.  To your descendants after you I also give the land."
+\v 13 God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken to him, a pillar of stone.  He poured out a drink offering over it and poured oil on it.
+\v 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 They journeyed on from Bethel.  While they was still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. She had hard labor.
+\v 17 While she was in hardest labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son."
+\v 18 As she was dying, with her dying breath she named him Benoni, but his father called him Benjamin.
+\v 19 Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
+\v 20 Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. It is the marker of Rachel’s grave to this day.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 21 Israel traveled on and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder.
+\v 22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben slept with Bilhah his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.
+ 
+\s5
+\p Now Jacob had twelve sons.
+\v 23 His sons by Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
+\v 24 His sons by Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
+\v 25 His sons by Bilhah, Rachel’s female servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female servant, were Gad and Asher.  All these are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
+\v 27 Jacob came to Isaac, his father, in Mamre in Kiriath Arba (the same as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 Isaac lived for one hundred eighty years.
+\v 29 Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his ancestors, an old man full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
+ 
+
+ 
+

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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 36
+\p
+\v 1 These were the descendants of Esau (also called Edom).
+\v 2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites. These were his wives: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
+\v 3 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel.
+\v 5 Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock—all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
+\v 7 He did this because their possessions were too many for them to stay together. The land where they had settled could not support them because of their livestock.
+\v 8 So Esau, also known as Edom, settled in the hill country of Seir.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Following were the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
+\v 10 These were the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.
+\v 11 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
+\v 12 Timna, a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son, bore Amalek. These were the grandsons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 13 These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the grandsons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
+\v 14 These were the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife, who was the daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon.  She bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 These were the clans among the Esau’s descendants: 
+the descendants of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,
+\v 16 Korah, Gatam,  and Amalek. These were the clans descended from Eliphaz in the land of Edom. They were the grandsons of Adah.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 17 These were the clans from Reuel, Esau’s son: 
+Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah. These were the clans descended from Reuel in the land of Edom. They were the grandsons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
+\v 18 These were the clans of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: Jeush, Jalam, Korah. These are the clans that descended from Esau’s wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.
+\v 19 These were the sons of Esau, and these are their clans.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 These were the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
+\v 21  Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the clans of the Horites, the inhabitants of Seir in the land of Edom.
+\v 22 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman, and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 23 These were the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
+\v 24 These were the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he was pasturing donkeys of Zibeon his father.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 25 These were the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.
+\v 26 These were the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.
+\v 27 These were the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
+\v 28 These were the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 29 These were the clans of the Horites: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, and Anah,
+\v 30 Dishon, Ezer, Dishan: these are clans of the Horites, according to their clan lists in the land of Seir.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
+\v 32 Bela, son of Beor, reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
+\v 33 When Bela died, then Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 34 When Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
+\v 35 When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith.
+\v 36 When Hadad died, then Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 37 When Samlah died, then Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his place.
+\v 38 When Shaul died, then Baal Hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place.
+\v 39 When Baal Hanan, the son of Achbor, died, then Hadar reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the granddaughter of Me Zahab.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 40 These were the names of the clan heads of Esau's descendants, according to their clans and their regions, by their names:
+Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
+\v 41 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,
+\v 42 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,
+\v 43 Magdiel, and Iram. These were the clan heads of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.
+ 
+
+

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+
+
+\s5
+\c 37
+\p
+\v 1 Jacob lived in the land where his father was staying, in the land of Canaan.
+\v 2 These are the events concerning Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.
+\s5
+
+\v 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was the son of his old age. He made him a beautiful garment.
+\v 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. They hated him and would not speak cordially to him.
+\s5
+
+\p
+
+\v 5 Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told his brothers about it. They hated him even more.
+\v 6 He said to them, "Please listen to this dream which I dreamed.
+
+\s5
+
+\v 7 Behold, we were tying bundles of grain in the field and behold, my bundle  rose and stood upright, and behold, your bundles came around and bowed down to my bundle."
+
+\v 8 His brothers said to him, "Will you really reign over us? Will you actually rule over us?" They hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
+
+\s5
+
+\v 9 He dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers. He said, "Look, I have dreamed another dream: The sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
+
+\v 10 He told it to his father just as to his brothers, and his father rebuked him. He said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come to bow down to the ground to you?"
+
+\v 11 His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
+
+\s5
+
+\p
+
+\v 12 His brothers went to tend their father’s flock in Shechem.
+
+\v 13 Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers tending the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." Joseph said to him, "I am ready."
+
+\v 14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flock, and bring me word." So Jacob sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and Joseph went to Shechem.
+
+\s5
+
+\v 15 A certain man found Joseph. Behold, Joseph was wandering in a field. The man asked him, "What do you seek?"
+
+\v 16 Joseph said, "I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are tending the flock."
+
+\v 17 The man said, "They left this place, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
+
+\s5
+
+\p
+
+\v 18 They saw him from a distance, and before he came near to them, they plotted against him to kill him.
+
+\v 19 His brothers said to one another, "Look, this dreamer is approaching.
+
+\v 20 Come now, therefore, let us kill him and cast him into one of the pits. We will say, 'A wild animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
+
+\s5
+
+\v 21 Reuben heard it and rescued him from their hand. He said, "Let us not take his life."
+
+\v 22 Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him"—that he might rescue him out of their hand to bring him back to his father.
+
+\s5
+
+\v 23 It came about that when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his beautiful garment.
+
+\v 24 They took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty with no water in it.
+
+\s5
+
+\p
+
+\v 25 They sat down to eat bread. They lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh. They were traveling to carry them down to Egypt.
+
+\v 26 Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
+
+\s5
+
+\v 27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands upon him. For he is our brother, our flesh." His brothers listened to him.
+
+\v 28 The Midianite merchants passed by. His brothers drew Joseph up and lifted him up out of the pit. They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites carried Joseph into Egypt.
+
+\s5
+
+\p
+
+\v 29 Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. He tore his clothes.
+
+\v 30 He returned to his brothers and said, "Where is the boy? And I, where will I go?"
+
+\s5
+
+\v 31 They slaughtered a goat and then took Joseph’s garment and dipped it into the blood.
+
+\v 32 Then they brought it to their father and said, "We found this. Please see whether it is your son's clothing or not."
+
+\v 33 Jacob recognized it and said, "It is my son’s clothing. A wild animal has devoured him. Joseph has certainly been torn to pieces."
+
+\s5
+
+\v 34 Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth upon his loins. He mourned for his son many days.
+
+\v 35 All his sons and daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "Indeed I will go down to sheol mourning for my son." His father wept for him.
+
+\v 36 The Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard.
+
+
+
+
+

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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 38
+\p
+\v 1 It came about at that time that Judah left his brothers and stayed with a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
+\v 2 He met there a daughter of a Canaanite man whose name was Shua. He married her and slept with her.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 3 She became pregnant and had a son.  He was named  Er.
+\v 4 She became pregnant again and had a son. She called his name Onan.
+\v 5 She again had a son and called his name Shelah. It was at Chezib where she gave birth to him.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 Judah found a wife for Er, his firstborn. Her name was Tamar.
+\v 7 Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 8 Judah said to Onan, "Sleep with your brother’s wife. Do the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up a child for your brother."
+\v 9 Onan knew that the child would not be his.  Whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled the semen on the ground so he would not have a child for his brother.
+\v 10 What he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him also.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 11 Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah, my son, grows up." For he thought, "Lest he also die like his brothers." Tamar left and lived in her father’s house.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 After a long time, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted and went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
+\v 13 Tamar was told, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
+\v 14 She took off the clothing of her widowhood and covered herself with her veil and wrapped herself. She sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah had grown up but she had not been given to him as a wife.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 15 When Judah saw her he thought that she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.
+\v 16 He went to her by the road and said, "Come, please let me sleep with you"—for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law—and she said, "What will you give me so you can sleep with me?"
+ 
+\s5
+\v 17 He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge until you send it?"
+\v 18 He said, "What pledge can I give you?" And she said, "Your seal and cord, and the staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her and slept with her. She became pregnant by him.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 19 She got up and went away. She took off her veil and put on the clothing of her widowhood.
+\v 20 Judah sent the young goat from the flock with his friend the Adullamite to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand, but he did not find her.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 21 Then the Adullamite asked the men of the place, "Where is the cultic prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has not been a cultic prostitute here."
+\v 22 He returned to Judah and said, "I did not find her. Also, the men of the place said, 'There has not been a cultic prostitute here.'"
+\v 23 Judah said, "Let her keep the things, lest we be put to shame. Indeed, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 It came about after about three months that it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has committed prostitution, and indeed, she is pregnant by it." Judah said, "Bring her here and let her be burned."
+\v 25 When she was brought out, she sent to her father-in-law a message, "By the man who owns these I am pregnant." She said, "Determine please whose these are, the seal and cords and staff."
+\v 26 Judah recognized them and said, "She is more right than I am, since I did not give her as a wife to Shelah, my son.” He did not make love to her again.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 27 It came about at the time for her to give birth that,  behold, twins were in her womb.
+\v 28 It came about as she was giving birth one put out a hand, and the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his hand and said, "This one came out first."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 29 It came about as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out first. The midwife said, "How you have broken out!" And he was named Perez.
+\v 30 Then his brother came out, who had the scarlet thread upon his hand, and he was named Zerah.
+ 
+
+

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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 39
+\p
+\v 1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh who was captain of the guard and an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had brought him down there.
+\v 2 Yahweh was with Joseph. He was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his Egyptian master.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 3 His master saw that Yahweh was with him and that Yahweh prospered everything that he did.
+\v 4 Joseph found favor in his sight. He served Potiphar. Potiphar made Joseph manager over his house, and everything that he possessed, he put under his care.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 5 It came about from the time that he made him manager over his house and over everything he possessed, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house because of Joseph. The blessing of Yahweh was on everything that Potiphar had in the house and in the field.
+\v 6 Potiphar put everything that he had under Joseph’s care. He did not have to think about anything except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and attractive.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 7 It came about after this that his master’s wife lusted for Joseph. She said, "Sleep with me."
+\v 8 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, "Look, my master does not pay attention to what I do in the house, and he has put everything that he owns under my care.
+\v 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. He has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”
+ 
+\s5
+\v 10 She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her or to be with her.
+\v 11 It came about one day that he went into the house to do his work. None of the men of the house were there in the house.
+\v 12 She caught him by his clothes and said, "Sleep with me." He left his clothing in her hand, fled, and went outside.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 13 It came about, when she saw that he had left his clothing in her hand and had fled outside,
+\v 14 that she called to the men of her house and told them, "See, Potiphar has brought in a Hebrew to mock us. He came in to me to sleep with me, and I screamed.
+\v 15 It came about when he heard me scream, that he left his clothing with me, fled, and went outside."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 16 She set his clothing next to her until his master came home.
+\v 17 She told him this explanation, "The Hebrew servant whom you brought to us, came in to mock me.
+\v 18 It came about that when I screamed, he left his clothing with me and fled outside."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 It came about that, when his master heard the explanation his wife told him, "This is what your servant did to me," he became very angry.
+\v 20 Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. He was there in the prison.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 21 But Yahweh was with Joseph and showed covenant faithfulness to him. He gave him favor in the sight of the prison warden.
+\v 22 The prison warden committed to Joseph’s care all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, Joseph was in charge of it.
+\v 23 The prison warden did not worry about anything that was under his care, because Yahweh was with him. Whatever he did, Yahweh prospered.
+ 
+
+

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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 40
+\p
+\v 1 It came about that after these things, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
+\v 2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
+\v 3 He put them in custody in the prison of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 4 The captain of the guard put Joseph in charge of them. He attended to them. They remained in custody for some time.
+\v 5 Both of them dreamed a dream, each man his dream in the same night, each man with the interpretation of his dream, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt who were confined in the prison.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them. Behold, they were sad.
+\v 7 He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
+\v 8 They said to him, "We have both dreamed a dream and no one can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me, please."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph. He said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me.
+\v 10 In the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms came out and the clusters of grapes ripened.
+\v 11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand. I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I placed the cup into Pharaoh’s hand."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 12 Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it. The three branches are three days.
+\v 13 Within three days Pharaoh will raise your head and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, just as when you were his cupbearer.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 14 But think of me when it goes well with you, and please show kindness to me. Mention me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this prison.
+\v 15 For indeed I was abducted out of the land of the Hebrews. Here also have I done nothing that they should put me in this dungeon."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream, and, behold, three baskets of bread were on my head.
+\v 17 In the top basket there were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds ate them out of the basket on my head."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 18 Joseph answered and said, "This is the interpretation. The three baskets are three days.
+\v 19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree. The birds will eat your flesh off you."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 20 It came about on the third day that it was Pharaoh’s birthday. He made a feast for all his servants. He paid special attention to the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, more than to all his other servants.
+\v 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his responsibility, and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand again.
+\v 22 But he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.
+\v 23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember to help Joseph. Instead, he forgot about him.
+ 
+
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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 41
+\p
+\v 1 It came about at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream. Behold, he stood by the Nile.
+\v 2 Behold, seven cows came up out of the Nile, desirable and fat, and they grazed in the reeds.
+\v 3 Behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, undesirable and thin. They stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 4 Then the undesirable and thin cows ate the seven desirable and fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
+\v 5 Then he slept and dreamed a second time. Behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, wholesome and good.
+\v 6 Behold, seven heads, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 7 The thin heads swallowed up the seven wholesome and full heads.  Pharaoh woke up, and, behold, it was a dream.
+\v 8 It came about in the morning that his spirit was troubled. He sent and called for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, "Today I am thinking about my offenses.
+\v 10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, the chief baker and me.
+\v 11 We dreamed a dream the same night, he and I. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 12 There was with us there a young Hebrew man, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him and he interpreted for us our dreams. He interpreted for each of us according to his dream.
+\v 13 It came about as he interpreted for us, so it happened. Pharaoh restored me to my post, but the other one he hanged."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph.  They quickly took him out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
+\v 15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, but there is no interpreter for it. But I have heard about you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
+\v 16 Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It is not in me. God will answer Pharaoh with favor.”
+ 
+\s5
+\v 17 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, "In my dream, behold, I stood on the bank of the Nile.
+\v 18 Behold, seven cows came up out of the Nile, fat and desirable, and they grazed among the reeds.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 19 Behold, seven other cows came up after them, weak, very undesirable, and thin. I never saw in all the land of Egypt such undesirableness like them.
+\v 20 The thin and undesirable cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
+\v 21 When they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them, for they were still as undesirable as before. Then I awoke.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 22 I looked in my dream, and, behold, seven heads came up upon one stalk, full and good.
+\v 23 Behold, seven more heads, withered, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprang up after them.
+\v 24 The thin heads swallowed up the seven good heads. I told these dreams to the magicians, but there was none that could
+explain it to me."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 25 Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are the same. What God is about to do, he has declared to Pharaoh.
+\v 26 The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams are the same.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 27 And the seven thin and undesirable cows that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven thin heads scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.
+\v 28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has revealed to Pharaoh.
+\v 29 Look, seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 30 Seven years of famine will come after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will devastate the land.
+\v 31 The abundance will not be remembered in the land because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.
+\v 32 That the dream was repeated to Pharaoh is because the matter has been established by God, and God will soon do it.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 33 Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and put him over the land of Egypt.
+\v 34 Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land. Let them take a fifth of the crops of Egypt in the seven abundant years.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming. Let them store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities. Let them guard it.
+\v 36 The food will be a supply for the land for the seven years of famine which will be in the land of Egypt. In this way the land will not be devastated by the famine."
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 37 This advice was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.
+\v 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a man as this, in whom is the Spirit of God?"
+ 
+\s5
+\v 39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you.
+\v 40 You will be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne will I be greater than you."
+\v 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it upon Joseph’s hand. He clothed him with clothes of fine linen, and put a gold chain on his neck.
+\v 43 He had him ride in the second chariot which he possessed. Men shouted before him, "Bend the knee." Pharaoh put him over all the land of Egypt.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and apart from you, no man will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
+\v 45 Pharaoh called Joseph’s name "Zaphenath Paneah." He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as a wife. Joseph’s authority was over all Egypt.
+                             
+\s5
+\p
+\v 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
+\v 47 In the seven bountiful years the land produced abundantly.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt and put the food in the cities. He put into each city the food from the fields that surrounded it.
+\v 49 Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, so much that he stopped counting, because it was beyond counting.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 50 Joseph had two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
+\v 51 Joseph called the name of his firstborn Manasseh, for  he said, "God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household."
+\v 52 He called the name of the second son Ephraim, for he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 53 The seven years of abundance that was in the land of Egypt came to an end.
+\v 54 The seven years of famine began, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was food.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people loudly called on Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph and do what he says."
+\v 56 The famine was over all the face of the whole land. Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
+\v 57 All the earth was coming to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
+ 
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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 42
+\p
+\v 1 Now Jacob became aware that there was grain in Egypt. He said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
+\v 2 He said, "See here, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there so we may live and not die."
+\v 3 Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
+\v 4 But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers, for he said, "Lest harm may perhaps happen to him."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
+\v 6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 7 Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke harshly with them. He said to them, "Where have you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
+\v 8 Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 9 Joseph remembered the dreams that he had had about them. He said to them, "You are spies. You came to see the undefended parts of the land."
+\v 10 They said to him, "No, my master.  Your servants have come to buy food.
+\v 11 We are all one man’s sons. We are honest men. Your servants are not spies."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 12 He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the undefended parts of the land."
+\v 13 They said, "We your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. See, the youngest is this day with our father, and one brother lives no longer."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 14 Joseph said to them, "It is what I said to you; you are spies.
+\v 15 By this you will be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you will not leave here, unless your youngest brother comes here.
+\v 16 Send one of yourselves and let him get your brother. You will be bound that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."
+\v 17 He put them all in custody for three days.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 Joseph said to them on the third day, "Do this and live, for I fear God.
+\v 19 If you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in this prison, but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
+\v 20 Bring your youngest brother to me so your words will be verified and you will not die." So they did so.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 21 They said to one another, "We are truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us and we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
+\v 22 Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you, 'Do not sin against the boy,' but you would not listen? Now, see, his blood is required of us."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 23 They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.
+\v 24 He turned from them and wept. He returned to them and spoke to them. He took Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes.
+\v 25 Then Joseph commanded his servants to fill his brothers’ bags with grain, and to put every man’s money back into his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. It was done for them.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 The brothers loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed from there.
+\v 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey feed in the lodging place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the opening of his sack.
+\v 28 He said to his brothers, "My money has been put back. Look at it; it is in my sack." And their hearts sank and they turned trembling to one another. They said, "What is this that God has done to us?"
+ 
+\s5
+\v 29 They went to Jacob, their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them. They said,
+\v 30 "The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us and thought that we were spies in the land.
+\v 31 We said to him, 'We are honest men. We are not spies.
+\v 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no longer alive, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.'
+ 
+\s5
+\v 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, take grain for the famine in your houses, and go your way.
+\v 34 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. Then I will release your brother to you, and you will trade in the land.'"
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 35 It came about as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.
+\v 36 Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no longer alive, Simeon is gone, and you will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 37 Reuben spoke to his father, saying, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring Benjamin back to you. Put him under my authority, and I will bring him to you again."
+\v 38 Jacob said, "My son will not go down with you. For his brother is dead and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the road in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol."
+ 
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+
+ 
+\s5
+\c 43
+\p
+\v 1 The famine was severe in the land.
+\v 2 It came about when they had eaten the grain that they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again; buy us some food."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 3 Judah told him, "The man solemnly warned us, 'You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
+\v 4 If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.
+\v 5 But if you do not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, 'You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.'"
+ 
+\s5
+\v 6 Israel said, "Why did you treat me so badly by telling the man that you had another brother?"
+\v 7 They said, "The man asked details about us and our family. He said, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?' We answered him according to these questions. How could we have known that he would say, 'Bring your brother down?'"
+ 
+\s5
+\v 8 Judah said to Israel his father, "Send the boy with me. We will rise and go that we may live and not die, both we, you, and also our children.
+\v 9 I will be a guarantee for him. You will hold me responsible. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
+\v 10 For if we had not delayed, surely by now we would have come back here a second time."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 11 Their father Israel said to them, "If it be so, now do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags.  Carry down to the man a gift: some balm and honey, spices and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
+\v 12 Take double money in your hand. The money that was returned in the opening of your sacks, carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was a mistake.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 13 Take also your brother. Rise and go again to the man.
+\v 14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, so that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
+\v 15 The men took that gift. They took double money in their hand and Benjamin. They rose, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, "Bring the men into the house, slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon."
+\v 17 The steward did as Joseph said. He brought the men to Joseph’s house.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 18 The men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house. They said, "It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we were brought in, that he may seek an opportunity against us. He might arrest us and take us as slaves, and take our donkeys.”
+\v 19 They approached the steward of Joseph’s house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,
+\v 20 saying, "My master, we came down the first time to buy food.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 21 It came about, when we reached the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the opening of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hands.
+\v 22 Other money we have also brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."
+\v 23 The steward said, "Peace be to you, do not fear. Your God and the God of your father must have put your money in your sacks. I received your money." The steward then brought Simeon out to them.
+ 
+\s5
+\v 24 The steward took the men into Joseph’s house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave feed to their donkeys.
+\v 25 They prepared the gifts for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they had heard that they would eat there.
+ 
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 When Joseph came home, they brought the gifts which were in their hand into the house, and bowed down before him to the ground.
+\v 27 He asked them about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
+ 
+\s5
+\v 28 They said, "Your servant our father is well. He is still alive." They prostrated and bowed down.
+\v 29 He lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother’s son, saying, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you spoke to me?" He said, "God be gracious to you, my son."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 30 Joseph hurried to go out of the room, for he was deeply moved about his brother. He sought somewhere to weep. He went to his room and wept there.
+\v 31 He washed his face and came out. He controlled himself, saying, "Serve the food."
+ 
+\s5
+\v 32 The servants served Joseph by himself and the brothers by themselves. The Egyptians there ate with him by themselves because the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is detestable to the Egyptians.
+\v 33 The brothers sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. The men were astonished together.
+\v 34 Joseph sent portions to them from the food in front of him. But Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of his brothers. They drank and were merry with him.
+ 
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 44
+\p
+\v 1 Joseph commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s opening.
+\v 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s opening of the youngest,  and also his money for the grain." The steward did as Joseph had said.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 The morning dawned, and the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
+\v 4 When they were out of the city but were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Get up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you returned evil for good?
+\v 5 Is this not the cup from which my master drinks, and the cup that he uses for divination? You have done evil, this thing that you have done.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 6 The steward overtook them and spoke these words to them.
+\v 7 They said to him, "Why does my master speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they would do such a thing.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 Look, the money that we found in our sacks’ openings, we brought again to you out of the land of Canaan. How then could we steal out of your master’s house silver or gold?
+\v 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my master’s slaves."
+\v 10 The steward said, "Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom the cup is found will be my slave, and you others will be innocent."
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Then each man hurried and brought his sack down to the ground, and each man opened his sack.
+\v 12 The steward searched. He began with the oldest and finished with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
+\v 13 Then they tore their clothes. Each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they bowed before him to the ground.
+\v 15 Joseph said to them, "What is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me practices divination?"
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Judah said, "What can we say to my master? What can we speak? Or how can we justify ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Look, we are my master’s slaves, both we and he also in whose hand the cup was found."
+\v 17 Joseph said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup was found, that person will be my slave, but as for you others, go up in peace to your father."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 Then Judah came near to him and said, "My master, please let your servant speak a word in my master’s ears, and do let your anger burn against your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
+\v 19 My master asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'
+
+\s5
+\v 20 And we said to my master, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.'
+\v 21 And you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may see him.'
+\v 22 And we said to my master, 'The boy cannot leave his father. For if he should leave his father his father would die.'
+
+\s5
+\v 23 And you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.'
+\v 24 And it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my master.
+\v 25 And our father said, 'Go again, buy us some food.'
+\v 26 And we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down, for we will not be able to see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.'
+
+\s5
+\v 27 Your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
+\v 28 And the one went out from me and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since."
+\v 29 And if you take this one also from me and harm comes to him, you will bring down my gray hair with sorrow to sheol.'
+
+\s5
+\v 30 Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the boy’s life,
+\v 31 it will come about, when he sees that the boy is not with us that he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to sheol.
+\v 32 For your servant became a guarantee for the boy to my father and said, 'If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the guilt to my father forever.'
+
+\s5
+\v 33 Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy as slave to my master, and let the boy go up with his brothers.
+\v 34 For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I am afraid to see the evil that would come on my father."
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 45
+\p
+\v 1 Then Joseph could not control himself before all the servants who stood by him. He said loudly, "Everyone must leave me." So no servant stood by him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
+\v 2 He wept loudly, the Egyptians heard it, and the house of Pharaoh heard of it.
+\v 3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph. Is my father still alive?" His brothers could not answer him, for they were shocked in his presence.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. He said, "I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
+\v 5 And now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
+\v 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 God sent me ahead of you to preserve you as a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive for you many survivors.
+\v 8 So now it was not you who sent me here but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, master of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, God has made me master of all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.
+\v 10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks and your herds, and all that you have.
+\v 11 I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine, so that you do not come to poverty, you, your household, and all that you have.'
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Look, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.
+\v 13 You will tell my father about all my power in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You will hurry and bring my father down here."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 He hugged his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
+\v 15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After that his brothers talked with him.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 The news of the matter was told in Pharaoh’s house: "Joseph’s brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh and his servants very much.
+\v 17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: load your animals and go to the land of Canaan.
+\v 18 Get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Now you are commanded, 'Do this, take carts out of the land of Egypt for your children and for your wives. Get your father and come.
+\v 20 Do not be concerned about your possessions, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them carts, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.
+\v 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
+\v 23 For his father he sent this: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt; and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and other supplies for his father for the journey.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 So he sent his brothers away and they left. He said to them, "See that you do not quarrel on the journey."
+\v 25 They went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
+\v 26 They told him saying "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart was astonished, for he did not believe them.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 They told him all the words of Joseph that he had said to them. When Jacob saw the carts that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.
+\v 28 Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
+
+
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+\s5
+\c 46
+\p
+\v 1 Israel made his journey with all that he had and went to Beersheba. There he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
+\v 2 God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, saying, "Jacob, Jacob." He said, "Here I am."
+\v 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Do not fear to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.
+\v 4 I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will surely bring you up again. And Joseph will close your eyes with his own hand."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba. The sons of Israel transported Jacob their father, their children, and their wives, in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
+\v 6 They took their livestock and their possessions that they had accumulated in the land of Canaan. They came into Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
+\v 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 These are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn;
+\v 9 the sons of Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi;
+\v 10 the sons of Simeon, Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman;
+\v 11 the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;
+
+\s5
+\v 12 the sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah, (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul);
+\v 13 the sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Lob, and Shimron;
+\v 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel
+\v 15 (these were the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. His sons and his daughters numbered  thirty-three);
+
+\s5
+\v 16 the sons of Gad Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Er, Arodi, and Areli;
+\v 17 the sons of Asher Imnah and Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah Heber and Malchiel
+\v 18 (these were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. These she bore to Jacob, sixteen persons);
+
+\s5
+\v 19 the sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife—Joseph and Benjamin;
+\v 20 (to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him);
+\v 21 the sons of Benjamin Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard
+\v 22 (these were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob. All these persons were fourteen in number);
+
+\s5
+\v 23 the  son of Dan Hushim;
+\v 24 the  sons of Naphtali Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem
+\v 25 (these were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. These she bore to Jacob. All these persons were seven in number).
+
+\s5
+\v 26 All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his descendants, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives—all these persons were sixty-six in number.
+\v 27 The sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two in number. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came to the land of Goshen.
+\v 29 Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He saw him, hugged his neck, and wept on his neck a long time.
+\v 30 Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."
+
+\s5
+\v 31 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s house, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, saying, 'My brothers and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
+\v 32 The men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock. They have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.'
+
+\s5
+\v 33 It will come about, when Pharaoh calls you and asks, 'What is your occupation?'
+\v 34 that you should say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth until now, both we, and our forefathers.' Do this so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."
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+\s5
+\c 47
+\p
+\v 1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, "My father and my brothers, their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have arrived from the land of Canaan. See, they are in the land of Goshen."
+\v 2  He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.
+
+\s5
+\v 3  Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, as  our ancestors."
+\v 4 Then they said to Pharaoh, "We come as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan.  So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
+\v 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best region, the land of Goshen. If you know any capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and presented him to Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
+\v 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How long have you lived?"
+\v 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my travels are a hundred and thirty. The years of my life have been few and painful. They have not been as long as those of my ancestors." 
+\v 10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them a territory in the land of Egypt, the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
+\v 12  Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according the number of their dependents.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 Now there was no food in all the land; for the famine was severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.
+\v 14 Joseph gathered all the money that was in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, by selling grain to the inhabitants. Then Joseph brought the money to Pharaoh’s palace.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 When all the money of the lands of Egypt and  Canaan was spent, all the Egyptians came to Joseph saying, "Give us food! Why should we die in your presence because our money is gone?"
+\v 16 Joseph said, "If your money is gone, bring your livestock and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock."
+\v 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph. Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, for the flocks, for the herds, and for the donkeys. He fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock that year.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, "We will not hide from my master that our money is all gone, and the herds of cattle are my master’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my master, except our bodies and our land.
+\v 19 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was very severe. In this way, the land became Pharaoh’s.
+\v 21 As for the people, he made them slaves from one end of  Egypt's border to the other end.
+\v 22 It was only the land of the priests that Joseph did not buy, because the priests were given an allowance. They ate from the allotment which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 Then Joseph said to the people, "See, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you will plant the land.
+\v 24 At the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field and for food for your households and your children."
+
+\s5
+\v 25 They said, "You have saved our lives. May we find favor in your eyes. We will be Pharaoh’s servants."
+\v 26 So Joseph made it a statute which is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day, that one fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 So Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. His people gained  possessions there. They were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
+\v 28 Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the years of Jacob's life were one hundred forty-seven years.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 When the time approached for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh, and show me faithfulness and trustworthiness. Please do not bury me in Egypt.
+\v 30 When I sleep with my fathers, you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in my forefathers' burial place." Joseph said, "I will do as you have said."
+\v 31 Israel said, "Swear to me," and Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed  down at the head of his bed.
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+\s5
+\c 48
+\p
+\v 1 It came about after these things, that one said to Joseph, "Look, your father is sick." So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
+\v 2 When Jacob was told, "Look, your son Joseph has arrived to see you," Israel gathered strength and sat up in bed.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan. He blessed me
+\v 4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you. I will make of you an assembly of nations. I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.'
+
+\s5
+\v 5 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, they are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
+\v 6 The children you have  after them will be yours; they will be listed under the names of their brothers in their inheritance.
+\v 7 But as for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, while there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, "Whose are these?"
+\v 9 Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons, whom God has given me here." Israel said, "Bring them to me, that I may bless them."
+\v 10 Now Israel's eyes were failing because of his age, so he could not see. So Joseph brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see your face again, but God has even allowed me to see your children."
+\v 12 Joseph brought them out from between Israel's knees, and then he bowed with his face to the earth.
+\v 13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them close to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Israel reached out with his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head. He crossed his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
+\v 15 Israel blessed Joseph, saying, 
+\q "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, 
+\q the God who has cared for me to this day,
+\q
+\v 16 the angel who has protected me from all harm, may he bless these boys.  
+\q May my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. 
+\q May they grow into a multitude on the earth."
+\m
+
+\s5
+\v 17 When Joseph saw his father place his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.
+\v 18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head."
+
+\s5
+\v 19 His father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great.  Yet his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a multitude of nations."
+\v 20 Israel blessed them that day with these words,  
+\q "The people of Israel will pronounce blessings by your names saying, 
+\q 'May God make you like Ephraim and like  Manasseh'." 
+\m
+In this way, Israel put Ephraim before Manasseh.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Israel said to Joseph, "See, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
+\v 22 To you, as one who is above your brothers, I give the mountain slope that I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow."
+
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+\s5
+\c 49
+\p
+\v 1 Then Jacob called for his sons, and said: 
+\q "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what will happen to you in
+the future.
+\q
+\v 2 Assemble yourselves and listen, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 3 Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength,
+\q outstanding in dignity, and outstanding in power.
+\q
+\v 4 Uncontrollable as rushing water, you will not have the preeminence,
+\q because you went up to your father’s bed.
+\q Then you defiled it; you went up to my couch.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 5 Simeon and Levi are brothers. Weapons of violence are their swords.
+\q
+\v 6 O my soul, do not come into their council; do not join in their meetings, for my heart has too much honor for that. 
+\q For in their anger they killed men. It was for pleasure that they hamstrung oxen.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 7 May their anger be cursed, for it was fierce—and their fury, for it was cruel.
+\q I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 8 Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies.
+\q Your father’s sons will bow down before you.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 9 Judah is a lion’s cub. My son, you have gone up from your victims.
+\q He stooped down, he crouched like a lion, like a lioness. Who would dare to awaken him?
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
+\q until Shiloh comes. The nations will obey him.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 11 Binding his young horse to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine,
+\q he has washed his garments in wine, and his robe in the blood of grapes.
+\q
+\v 12 His eyes will be as dark as wine, and his teeth as white as milk.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 13 Zebulun will  live by the shore of the sea. He will be a harbor for ships,
+\q and his border will extend to Sidon.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 14 Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.
+\q
+\v 15 He sees a good resting place and the pleasant land.
+\q He will bend his shoulder to the burden and became a servant for the task.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 16 Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
+\q
+\v 17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous snake in the path
+\q that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
+\q
+\v 18 I wait for your salvation, Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\q2
+\v 19 Gad—raiders will attack  him, but he will attack them at their heels.
+\q2
+\v 20 Asher's food will be rich, and he will provide royal delicacies.
+\q2
+\v 21 Naphtali is a doe let loose; he will have beautiful fawns.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough near a spring,
+\q whose branches climb over the wall.
+\q
+\v 23 The archers will attack him and shoot at him and harass him.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 24 But his bow will remain steady, and his hands will be skillful
+\q because of the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 25 Because the God of your father, who will help you, and because of the Almighty God, who will bless you
+\q with blessings of the sky above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
+\q blessings of the breasts and womb.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 26 The blessings of your father will be greater than of the ancient mountains
+\q or of the desirable things of the everlasting hills.
+\q They will be on the head of Joseph, blessings that crown the head of the one who was prince over his brothers.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 27 Benjamin is a hungry wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey,
+\q and in the evening he will divide the plunder."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 These are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is it what their father said to them when he blessed them.  Each one he  blessed with an appropriate blessing.
+\v 29 Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my forefathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
+\v 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is near Mamre in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought for a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
+\v 32 The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the people of Heth."
+\v 33 When Jacob  finished these instructions to his sons, he pulled his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and went to his people.
+
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+\s5
+\c 50
+\p
+\v 1 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face, wept over him, and kissed him.
+\v 2 Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.
+\v 3 They took forty days, for that was the full time  for embalming. The Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 When the days of weeping were over, Joseph spoke to  Pharaoh's royal court saying, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,
+\v 5 'My father made me swear, saying, "See, I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug  for myself in the land of Canaan. There you will bury me." Now let me go up and bury my father, and then I will return.'"
+\v 6 Pharaoh answered, "Go and bury your father, as he made you swear."
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the officials of Pharaoh, the courtiers of his household, and all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,
+\v 8 with all Joseph's household and his brothers, and his father’s household. But  they left their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, in the land of Goshen.
+\v 9 Chariots and horsemen also went with him. It was a very large group of people.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad on the other side of  the Jordan, they mourned with very great and grievous sorrow. There Joseph made a seven day mourning for his father.
+\v 11 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, "This is a very sad occasion for the Egyptians."  That is why the place was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 So his sons did for Jacob just as he had instructed them.
+\v 13 His sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. Abraham had bought the cave with the field for a burial place. He had bought it from Ephron the Hittite.
+\v 14 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned into Egypt, he, along with his brothers, and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, "What if Joseph bears a grudge and wants to repay us in full for all the evil that we did to him?"
+\v 16 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, "Your father gave instructions before he died, saying,
+\v 17 'Tell  Joseph this, "Please forgive your brothers and the wrong they committed when they treated you so badly."' Now please forgive  the servants of the God of your father."  Joseph wept when the message was brought to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 His brothers also went and lay facedown before him. They said, "See, we are your servants."
+\v 19 But Joseph answered them, "Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
+\v 20 And as for you, you meant to harm me, but God meant it for good, to preserve the lives of many people, as you see today.
+\v 21 So now do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children." He comforted them in this way and spoke kindly to them.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Joseph lived in Egypt, together with his father’s family. He lived one hundred ten years.
+\v 23 Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. He also saw the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh. They were "born on his knees." 
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will  surely come to you and lead you up out of this land to the land which he swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
+\v 25 Then Joseph made the people of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to you. At that time you must carry up my bones from here."
+\v 26 So Joseph died, one hundred ten years old. After they embalmed him, they put  him in a coffin in Egypt.
+
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+\ide UTF-8
+\h Exodus 
+\toc1 The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus 
+\toc2 Exodus 
+\toc3 Exo 
+\mt The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus 
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+\s5
+\c 1
+\p
+\v 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:
+\v 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
+\v 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
+\v 4 Dan, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
+\v 5 All of the descendants of Jacob were seventy in number. Joseph was already in Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Then Joseph, all his brothers, and all that generation died.
+\v 7 The Israelites were fruitful, increased greatly in numbers, and became very strong; the land was filled with them.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then a new king arose over Egypt, who did not care for the memory of Joseph.
+\v 9 He said to his people, "Look at the Israelites; they are more numerous and stronger than we are.
+\v 10 Come, let us deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the land."
+
+\s5
+\v 11 So they put taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. The Israelites built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Rameses.
+\v 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites increased in numbers and spread. So the Egyptians began to dread the Israelites.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 The Egyptians made the Israelites work rigorously.
+\v 14 They made their lives bitter with hard service with mortar and brick, and with all kinds of work in the fields. All their required work was hard.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives; the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the other Puah.
+\v 16 He said, "When you assist the Hebrew women on the birthstool, observe when they give birth.  If the baby is male, then you must kill him; but if it is female, then she may live."
+\v 17 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt ordered them; instead, they let the male babies live.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 The king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you let the male babies live?"
+\v 19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; they are vigorous and have finished giving birth before a midwife comes to them."
+
+\s5
+\v 20 God protected these midwives. The people increased in numbers and became very strong.
+\v 21 Because the midwives feared God, he made families for them.
+\v 22 Pharaoh ordered all his people, "You must throw every male that is born into the river, but you may let live every female."
+
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+\s5
+\c 2
+\p
+\v 1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a woman of Levi.
+\v 2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a healthy boy, she hid him for three months.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. Then she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds in the water along the side of the river.
+\v 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river while her attendants walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her attendant to get it.
+\v 6 When she opened it, she saw the child. Behold, the baby was crying. She had compassion on him and said, "This is certainly one of the Hebrews’ children."
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Then the baby's sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, "Should I go and find you a Hebrew woman to nurse the child for you?"
+\v 8 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, "Go." So the young girl went and got the child’s mother.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to the baby's mother, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay you wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
+\v 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and said, "Because I drew him from the water."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 11 When Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard work. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own people.
+\v 12 He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one there, he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 He went out the next day, and, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting. He said to the one who was in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your companion?"
+\v 14 But the man said, "Who made you a leader and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed that Egyptian?"  Then Moses became afraid and said, "What I did has certainly become known to others."
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Now when Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. There he sat down by a well.
+\p
+\v 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came, drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
+\v 17 The shepherds came and tried to drive them away, but Moses went and helped them. Then he watered their flock.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 When the girls went to Reuel their father, he said, "Why are you home so early today?"
+\v 19 They said, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."
+\v 20 He said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why did you leave the man? Call him so he can eat a meal with us."
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who also gave him his daughter Zipporah in marriage.
+\v 22 She bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom; he said, "I have been a resident in a foreign land."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 23 A long time later, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of the slave labor.  They cried out for help, and their pleas went up to God because of their bondage.
+\v 24 When God heard their groaning, God called to mind his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
+\v 25 God saw the Israelites, and he understood their situation.
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+\v 1 Now Moses was still shepherding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. Moses led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and arrived at Horeb, the mountain of God.
+\v 2 There the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush.  Moses looked, and behold, the bush was burning, but the bush was not burned up.
+\v 3 Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this amazing thing, why the bush is not burned up."
+
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+\v 4 When Yahweh saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him out of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." Moses said, "Here I am."
+\v 5 God said, "Do not come any closer!  Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are  standing is ground consecrated for my own purpose."
+\v 6 He added, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
+
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+\v 7 Yahweh said, "I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their shouts because of their taskmasters, for I know about their suffering.
+\v 8  I have come down to free them from the Egyptians' power and to bring them up from that land to a good, large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
+
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+\v 9 And now the shouts of the people of Israel have come to me. Moreover, I have seen the oppression caused by the Egyptians.
+\v 10 Now then, I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."
+
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+\v 11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites from Egypt?"
+\v 12 God replied, "I will certainly be with you. This will be a sign to you that I have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship me on this mountain."
+
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+\p
+\v 13 Moses said to God, "When I go to the Israelites and tell them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and when they say to me, 'What is his name?' what should I say to them?"
+\v 14 God said to Moses, "I AM THAT I AM." God said, "You must say to the Israelites, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
+\v 15 God also said to Moses, "You must say to the Israelites, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is how I will be kept in mind for all generations.'
+
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+\v 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together. Say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me and said, "I have indeed observed you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
+\v 17 I have promised to bring you up from the oppression in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,  Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."'
+\v 18 They will listen to you. You and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt, and you must tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, in order that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
+
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+\v 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, unless his hand is forced.
+\v 20 I will reach out with my hand and attack the Egyptians with all the miracles that I will do among them. After that, he will let you go.
+\v 21 I will grant this people favor from the Egyptians, so when you leave, you will not go empty-handed.
+\v 22 Every woman will ask for silver and gold jewels and for clothing from her Egyptian neighbors and any women staying in her neighbors' houses. You will put them on your sons and daughters. In this way you will plunder the Egyptians."
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+\v 1 Moses answered, "But what if they do not believe me or listen to me but say instead, 'Yahweh has not appeared to you'?"
+\v 2 Yahweh said to him, "What is that in your hand?" Moses said, "A staff."
+\v 3 Yahweh said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran back from it.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out and take it by the tail." So he reached out and took hold of the snake. It became a staff in his hand again.
+\v 5 "This is so they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."
+
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+\v 6 Yahweh also said  to him, "Now put your hand inside your robe." So Moses put his hand inside his robe. When he brought it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
+\v 7 Yahweh said, "Put your hand inside your robe again." So Moses put his hand inside his robe, and when he brought it out, he saw that it was made healthy again, like the rest of his flesh.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 Yahweh said, "If they do not believe you—if they do not pay attention to the first sign of my power or believe in it, then they will believe the second sign.
+\v 9 And if they do not believe even these two signs of my power, or listen to you, then take some water from the river and pour it on the dry land. The water that you take will become blood on the dry land."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 Then Moses said to Yahweh, "Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you spoke to your servant. I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."
+\v 11 Yahweh said to him, "Who is it who made man’s mouth? Who makes a man mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
+\v 12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say."
+\v 13 But Moses said, "Lord, please send anyone else, anyone whom you wish to send."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Then Yahweh became angry with Moses. He said, "What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
+\v 15 You will speak to him and put the words to say into his mouth. I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will show you both what to do.
+\v 16 He will speak to the people for you. He will be your mouth, and you will be to him like me, God.
+\v 17 You will take in your hand this staff. With it you will do the signs."
+
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+\v 18 So Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Let me go so I may return to my relatives who are in Egypt and see if they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
+\v 19 Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt, for all the men who were trying to take your life are dead."
+\v 20 Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on a donkey. He returned to the land of Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, and he will not let the people go.
+\v 22 You must say to Pharaoh, 'This is what Yahweh says: Israel is my son, my firstborn,
+\v 23 and I say to you, "Let my son go, so he may worship me." But since you have refused to let him go, I will certainly kill your son, your firstborn.'"
+
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+\v 24 Now on the way, when they stopped for the night, Yahweh met Moses and tried to kill him.
+\v 25 Then Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off the foreskin of her son, and touched it to Moses' feet. Then she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom to me by blood."
+\v 26 So Yahweh let him alone. She said, "You are a bridegroom of blood" because of the circumcision.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moses." Aaron went, met him at the mountain of God, and kissed him.
+\v 28 Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh that he had sent him to say and about all the signs of Yahweh's power that he had commanded him to do.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the Israelites.
+\v 30 Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses. He also displayed the signs of Yahweh's power in the sight of the people.
+\v 31 The people believed. When they heard that Yahweh had observed the Israelites and that he had seen their oppression, then they bowed their heads and worshiped him.
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+\v 1 After these things happened, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: 'Let my people go, so they can have a festival for me in the wilderness.'"
+\v 2 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh? Why should I listen to his voice and let Israel go? I do not know Yahweh; moreover, I will not let Israel go."
+
+\s5
+\v 3 They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to Yahweh our God so that he does not attack us with plague or with the sword."
+\v 4 But the king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people from their work? Go back to your work."
+\v 5 He also said, "There are now many Hebrew people in our land, and you are making them stop their work."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 On that same day, Pharaoh gave a command to the people's taskmasters and foremen. He said,
+\v 7 "Unlike before, you must no longer give the people straw to make bricks. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
+\v 8 However, you must still demand from them the same number of bricks as they made before. Do not accept any fewer, because they are lazy. That is why they are calling out and saying, 'Allow us to go and sacrifice to our God.'
+\v 9 Increase the workload for the men so that they keep at it and pay no more attention to deceptive words."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 So the people's taskmasters and foremen went out and informed the people. They said, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will no longer give you any straw.
+\v 11 You yourselves must go and get straw wherever you can find it, but your workload will not be reduced.'"
+
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+\v 12 So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
+\v 13 The taskmasters kept urging them and saying, "Finish your work, just as when straw was given to you."
+\v 14 Pharaoh’s taskmasters beat the Israelite foremen, those same men whom they had put in charge of the workers. The taskmasters kept asking them, "Why have you not produced all the  bricks required of you, either yesterday and today, as you used to do in the past?"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 So the Israelite foremen came to Pharaoh and cried out to him. They said, "Why are you  treating your servants this way?
+\v 16 No straw is being given to your servants anymore, but they are still telling us, 'Make bricks!' We, your servants, are even beaten now, but it is the fault of your own people."
+\v 17 But Pharaoh said, "You are lazy! You are lazy! You say, 'Allow us to go sacrifice to Yahweh.'
+\v 18 So now go back to work. No more straw will be given to you, but you must still make the same number of bricks."
+
+\s5
+\v 19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, "You must not reduce the daily number of bricks."
+\v 20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were standing outside the palace, as they went away from Pharaoh.
+\v 21 They said to Moses and Aaron, "May Yahweh look at you and punish you, because you have made us offensive in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants. You have put a sword in their hand to kill us."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Moses went back to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you send me in the first place?
+\v 23 Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak to him in your name, he has caused trouble for this people, and you have not set your people free at all."
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+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. You will see this, for he will let them go because of my strong hand. Because of my strong hand, he will drive them out of his land."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am Yahweh.
+\v 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty; but by my name, Yahweh, I was not known to them.
+\v 4 I also established my covenant with them, in order to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as non-citizens, the land in which they wandered about.
+\v 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have called to mind my covenant.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Therefore, say to the Israelites, 'I am Yahweh. I will bring you out from slavery under the Egyptians, and I will free you from their power. I will rescue you with a display of my power, and with mighty acts of judgment.
+\v 7 I will take you to myself as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from slavery under the Egyptians.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh.'"
+\v 9 When Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not listen to him because of their discouragement about their harsh slavery.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 So Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
+\v 11 "Go tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the people of Israel go from his land."
+\v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, "If the Israelites have not listened to me, why will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am not good at speaking?"
+\v 13 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron. He gave them a command for the Israelites and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These were the clan ancestors of Reuben.
+\v 15 The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul—the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clan ancestors of Simeon.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Here are listed the names of the sons of Levi, together with their descendants. They were Gershon,  Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived until he was 137 years old.
+\v 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei.
+\v 18 The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived until he was 133 years old.
+\v 19 The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi. These became the clan ancestors of the Levites, together with their descendants.
+
+\s5
+\v 20 Amram married Jochebed, his father’s sister. She bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years and then died.
+\v 21 The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.
+\v 22 The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
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+\v 23 Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon. She bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
+\v 24 The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These were the clan ancestors of the Korahites.
+\v 25 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, married one of the daughters of Putiel. She bore him Phinehas. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses among the Levites, together with their descendants.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 These two men were the Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring out the Israelites from the land of Egypt, by their groups of fighting men."
+\v 27 Aaron and Moses spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to allow them bring out the Israelites from Egypt. These were the same Moses and Aaron.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 When Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
+\v 29 he said to him, "I am Yahweh. Say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything that I will tell you."
+\v 30 But Moses said Yahweh, "I am not good at speaking, so why will Pharaoh listen to me?"
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+\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you like a god to Pharaoh. Aaron your brother  will be your prophet.
+\v 2 You will say everything that I command you to say. Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh so that he will let the people of Israel go from his land.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will display many signs of my power, many wonders, in the land of Egypt.
+\v 4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will put my hand on Egypt and bring out my groups of fighting men, my people, the descendants  of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of punishment.
+\v 5 The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I reach out with my hand on Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as Yahweh commanded them.
+\v 7 Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron,
+\v 9 "When Pharaoh  says to you, 'Do a miracle,' then you will say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, so that it may become a snake.'"
+\v 10 Then Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, and they did just as Yahweh had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Then Pharaoh also called for his wise men and sorcerers. They did the same thing by their magic. 
+\v 12 Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their snakes.
+\v 13 Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not listen, just as Yahweh had foretold.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh’s heart is hard, and he refuses to let the people go.
+\v 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out to the water. Stand on the riverbank to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that had turned into a snake.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you to say, "Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. Until now you have not listened."
+\v 17 Yahweh says this: "By this you will know that I am Yahweh. I am going to strike the water of the Nile River with the staff that is in my hand, and the river will be turned to blood.
+\v 18 The fish that are in the river will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink water from the river."'"
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and reach out with your hand over the waters of Egypt, and over their rivers, streams, pools, and all their ponds, so that their water may become blood. Do this so that there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in containers of wood and stone.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 Moses and Aaron did as Yahweh commanded. Aaron raised the staff and struck the water in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants. All the water in the river turned to blood.
+\v 21 The fish in the river died, and the river began to stink. The Egyptians could not drink water from the river, and the blood was everywhere in the land of Egypt.
+\v 22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing with their magic. So Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as Yahweh had said would happen.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house. He did not even pay attention to this.
+\v 24 All the Egyptians dug around  the river for water to drink, but they could not drink the water of the river itself.
+\v 25 Seven days passed after Yahweh had attacked the river.
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+\v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Yahweh says this: "Let my people go so that they may worship me.
+\v 2 If you refuse to let them go, I will afflict all your country with frogs.
+\v 3 The river will swarm with frogs. They will come up and go into your house, your bedroom, and your bed. They will go into your servants' houses. They will go onto your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.
+\v 4 The frogs will attack you, your people, and all your servants."'"
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Reach out with your hand and your staff over the rivers, the streams, and the pools, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.'"
+\v 6 Aaron reached out with his hand over Egypt's waters, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
+\v 7 But the magicians did the same with their magic: they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to Yahweh for him to take away the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to him."
+\v 9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "You can have the privilege of telling me when I should pray for you, your servants, and your people, so that  the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and stay only in the river."
+
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+\v 10 Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Let it be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh, our God.
+\v 11 The frogs will go from you, your houses, your servants, and your people. They will stay only in the river."
+\v 12 Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. Then Moses cried out to Yahweh concerning the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.
+
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+\v 13 Yahweh did as Moses asked: the frogs died in the houses, courts, and fields.
+\v 14 The people gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
+\v 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and did not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as Yahweh had said that he would do.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Reach out with your staff and strike the dust on the ground, that it may become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
+\v 17 They did so: Aaron reached out with his hand and his staff. He struck the dust on the ground. Gnats came onto man and beast. All the dust on the ground became gnats throughout the whole land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 The magicians tried with their magic to produce gnats, but they could not. There were gnats on man and beast.
+\v 19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, so he refused to listen to them. It was just as Yahweh had said Pharaoh would do.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and stand in front of Pharaoh as he goes out to the river. Say to him, 'Yahweh says this: "Let my people go so that they may worship me.
+\v 21 But if you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you, your servants, and your people, and into your houses.  The Egyptians' houses will be full of swarms of flies, and even the ground on which they stand will be full of flies.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 But on that day I treat the land of Goshen differently, the land in which my people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there. This will happen so that you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of this land.
+\v 23 I will make a distinction between my people and your people. This sign of my power will take place tomorrow."'"
+\v 24 Yahweh did so, and thick swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's house and into his servants’ houses. Throughout the whole land of Egypt, the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.
+
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+\p
+\v 25 Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in our own land."
+\v 26 Moses said, "It is not right for us to do so, for the  sacrifices we make to Yahweh our God are something disgusting to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices right before their eyes that are disgusting to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?
+\v 27 No, it is a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we must make, in order to sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he commands us."
+
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+\v 28 Pharaoh said, "I will allow you to go and sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness. Only you must not go very far away. And pray for me."
+\v 29 Moses said, "As soon as I go out from you, I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may leave you, Pharaoh, and your servants and people tomorrow. But you must not deal deceitfully any more by not letting our  people go to sacrifice to Yahweh."
+
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+\v 30 Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to Yahweh.
+\v 31 Yahweh did as Moses asked: he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his servants, and his people. Not one remained.
+\v 32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
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+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: "Let my people go so that they may worship me."
+\v 2 But if you refuse to let them go, if you still keep them back,
+\v 3 then Yahweh's hand will be on your cattle in the fields and on the horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks, and it will cause a terrible disease.
+\v 4 Yahweh will treat Israel's cattle and Egypt's cattle differently: no animal that belongs to the Israelites will die.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Yahweh has fixed a time; he has said, "It is tomorrow that I will do this thing in the land."'"
+\v 6 Yahweh did this the next day: all the cattle of Egypt died. But none of the Israelites' animals died, not one animal.
+\v 7 Pharaoh investigated, and, behold, not even one animal of the Israelites died. But his heart was stubborn, so he did not let the people go.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take some handfuls of ashes from a kiln. You, Moses, must throw the ashes up into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
+\v 9 They will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt. They will cause blisters and sores to break out on people and animals throughout all the land of Egypt."
+\v 10 So Moses and Aaron took ashes from a kiln and stood in front of Pharaoh. Then Moses threw the ashes up into the air. The ashes caused blisters and sores to break out on people and animals.
+
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+\v 11 The magicians could not resist Moses because of the blisters; because the blisters were on them and on all the other Egyptians.
+\v 12 Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, so Pharaoh did not listen to Moses and Aaron. This was just as Yahweh had said to Moses that Pharaoh would do.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, stand in front of Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: "Let my people go so that they may worship me.
+\v 14 For I will this time send all my plagues on you yourself, on your servants and your people. I will do this so that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 By now I could have reached out with my hand and attacked you and your people with disease, and you would have been eradicated from the land.
+\v 16 But it was for this reason I allowed you to survive: in order to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed throughout all the earth.
+\v 17 You are still lifting yourself up against my people by not letting them go.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 Listen! Tomorrow about this time I will bring a very strong hail storm, such as has not been seen in Egypt since the day it was begun until now.
+\v 19 Now then, send men and gather your cattle and everything you have in the fields to a safe place. Every man and animal that is in the field and is not brought home—the hail will come down on them, and they will die."'"
+
+\s5
+\v 20 Then those of Pharaoh's servants who believed in Yahweh's message hurried to bring their slaves and cattle into the houses.
+\v 21 But those who did not take Yahweh's message seriously left their slaves and cattle in the fields.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out with your hand toward the sky so that there will be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people, on animals, and on all the plants in the fields throughout the land of Egypt."
+\v 23  Moses reached out with his staff toward the sky, and Yahweh sent thunder, hail, and lightning to the ground. He also rained hail on the land of Egypt.
+\v 24 So there were hail and lightning mixed with hail, very severe, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
+
+\s5
+\v 25 Throughout all the land of Egypt, the hail struck everything in the fields, both people and animals. It struck every plant in the fields and broke every tree.
+\v 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 Then Pharaoh sent men to summon Moses and Aaron. He said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
+\v 28 Pray to Yahweh, because the mighty thunderbolts and hail are too much. I will let you go, and you will stay here no longer."
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I leave the city, I will spread my hands out to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and there will not be any more hail. In this way you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.
+\v 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet really honor Yahweh God."
+
+\s5
+\v 31 Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was maturing, in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
+\v 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not harmed because they were later crops.
+\v 33 When Moses had left Pharaoh and the city, he spread out his hands to Yahweh; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain came down no more.
+
+\s5
+\v 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, together with his servants.
+\v 35 Pharaoh's heart was hardened, so he did not let the people of Israel go. This was the way that Yahweh had said to Moses that Pharaoh would act.
+
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+\s5
+\c 10
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants. I have done this to show these signs of my power among them.
+\v 2 I have also done this so that you may tell your children and grandchildren the things I have done, how I have harshly treated Egypt, and how I have given various signs of my power among them. In this way you will know that I am Yahweh."
+
+\s5
+\v 3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, "Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says this: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go so that they may worship me.
+\v 4 But if you refuse to let my people go, listen, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your land.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 They will cover the surface of the ground so that no one will be able to see the earth. They will eat the remains of whatever escaped from the hail. They will also eat every tree that grows for you in the fields.
+\v 6 They will fill your houses, those of all your servants,  and those of all the Egyptians—something neither your father nor your grandfather ever saw, nothing ever seen since the day that they were on the earth to this present day.'"  Then Moses left and went out from Pharaoh.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, "How long will this man be a menace to us? Let the Israelites go so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?"
+\v 8 Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, who said to them, "Go worship Yahweh your God. But what people will go?"
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and our daughters. We will go with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a festival for Yahweh."
+\v 10 Pharaoh said to them, "May Yahweh indeed be with you, if I ever let you go and your little ones go. Look, you have some evil in mind.
+\v 11 No! Go, just the men among you, and worship Yahweh, for that is what you want." Then Moses and Aaron were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out with your hand over the land of Egypt to the locusts, that they may attack the land of Egypt and eat every plant in it, everything that the hail has left."
+\v 13 Moses reached out with his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind over the land all that day and night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 The locusts went through all the land of Egypt and infested all parts of it. So many locusts had never before been in the land and never will be again.
+\v 15 They covered the surface of the whole land so that it was darkened. They ate every plant in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Throughout all the land of Egypt, no living green plant remained, nor any tree or plant in the fields.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.
+\v 17 Now then, forgive my sin this time, and pray to Yahweh your God that he will take this death away from me."
+\v 18 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Yahweh brought a very strong west wind that picked up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.
+\v 20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh did not let the Israelites go.
+
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness that may be felt."
+\v 22 Moses reached out with his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
+\v 23 No one could see anyone else; no one left his home for three days. However, all the Israelites had light in the place where they lived.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, "Go worship Yahweh. Even your families may go with you, but your flocks and herds must remain behind."
+\v 25 But Moses said, "You must also give us animals for sacrifices and burnt offerings so that we may sacrifice them to Yahweh our God.
+\v 26 Our cattle must also go with us; not a hoof of them may be left behind, for we must take them to worship Yahweh our God. For we do not know with what we must worship Yahweh until we arrive there."
+
+\s5
+\v 27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.
+\v 28 Pharaoh said to Moses, "Go from me! Be careful about one thing, that you do not see me again, for on the day you see my face, you will die."
+\v 29 Moses said, "You yourself have spoken. I will not see your face again."
+ 
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+\s5
+\c 11
+\p
+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "There is still one more plague that I will bring on Pharaoh and Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he finally lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
+\v 2 Instruct the people that every man and woman is to ask of his or her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold."
+\v 3 Now Yahweh had made the Egyptians eager to please the Israelites. Moreover, the man Moses was very impressive in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and the people of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 Moses said, "Yahweh says this: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.
+\v 5 All the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill grinding it, and to all the firstborn of the cattle.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Then there will be a great wailing throughout all the land of Egypt, such as has never been nor ever will be again.
+\v 7 But not even a dog will bark against any of the people of Israel, against either man or beast. In this way you will know that I am treating the Egyptians and you Israelites differently.'
+\v 8 All these servants of yours, Pharaoh, will come down to me and bow down to me. They will say, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that I will go out." Then he went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you. This is so that I will do many amazing things in the land of Egypt."
+\v 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and Pharaoh did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 12
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt. He said,
+\v 2 "For you, this month will be the start of months, the first month of the year to you.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Tell the assembly of Israel, 'On the tenth day of this month they must each take a lamb or young goat for themselves, each family doing this, a lamb for each household.
+\v 4 If the household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next door neighbor are to take lamb or young goat meat that will be enough for the number of the people. It should be enough for everyone to eat, so they must take enough meat to feed them all.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Your lamb or young goat must be without blemish, a one-year-old male. You may take one of the sheep or goats.
+\v 6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of that month. Then the whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight.
+\v 7 You must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on top of the door frame of the houses in which you will eat the meat.
+\v 8 You must eat the meat that night, after first roasting it over a fire. Eat it with bread made without yeast, along with bitter herbs.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water. Instead, roast it over fire with its head, legs and inner parts.
+\v 10 You must not let any of it be left over until morning. You must burn whatever is left over in the morning.
+\v 11 This is how you must eat it: with your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly. It is Yahweh's Passover.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and attack all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will bring punishment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
+\v 13 The blood will be a sign on your houses for my coming to you. When I see the blood, I will pass over you when I attack the land of Egypt. This plague will not come on you and destroy you 
+\v 14 This day will become a memorial day for you, which you must observe as a festival for Yahweh. It will always be a law for you, throughout your people's generations, that you must observe this day.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 You will eat bread without yeast during seven days. On the first day you will remove the yeast from your houses. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person must be cut off from Israel.
+\v 16 On the first day there will be a gathering of the people that will be consecrated for my purposes, and on the seventh day there will be another such gathering. No work will be done on these days, except the cooking for everyone to eat. That must be the only work that may be done by you.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 You must observe this Festival of Unleavened Bread because it is on this day that I will have brought your people, armed group by armed group, out of the land of Egypt. So you must observe this day throughout your people's generations. This will always be a law for you.
+\v 18 You must eat unleavened bread from twilight of the fourteenth day in the first month of the year, until twilight of the twenty-first day of the month.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 During these seven days, no yeast must be found in your houses. Whoever eats bread  made with yeast must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether that person is a foreigner or someone born in your land.
+\v 20 You must eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat bread made without yeast.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs or kids that will be enough to feed your families and kill the Passover lamb.
+\v 22 Then take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that will be in a basin. Apply the blood  in the basin to the top of the door frame and the two doorposts. None of you is to go out of the door of his house until the morning.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 For Yahweh will pass through to attack the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and on the two doorposts, he will pass over your door and not permit the destroyer to come into your houses to attack you.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 You must observe this event. This will always be a law for you and your descendants. 
+\v 25 When you enter the land that Yahweh will give you, just as he has promised to do, you must observe this act of worship.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 When your children ask you, 'What does this act of worship mean?'
+\v 27 then you must say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, because Yahweh passed over the Israelites' houses in Egypt when he attacked the Egyptians. He set our households free.'" Then the people bowed down and worshiped Yahweh.
+\v 28 The Israelites went and did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 29 It happened at midnight that Yahweh attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the person in prison and all the firstborn of cattle.
+\v 30 Pharaoh got up in the night—he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians. There was loud lamenting in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, you and the Israelites. Go, worship Yahweh, as you have said you wanted to do.
+\v 32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and also bless me."
+\v 33 The Egyptians were in a great hurry to send them out of the land, for they said, "We are all dead people."
+
+\s5
+\v 34 So the people took their dough without adding any yeast. Their kneading bowls were already tied up in their clothes and on their shoulders.
+\v 35 Now the people of Israel did as Moses told them. They asked the Egyptians for articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.
+\v 36 Yahweh made the Egyptians eager to please the Israelites. So the Egyptians gave them whatever they asked for. In this way, the Israelites plundered the Egyptians.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. They numbered about 600,000 men on foot, in addition to the women and children.
+\v 38 A mixed crowd of non-Israelites also went with them, together with flocks and herds, a very large number of cattle.
+\v 39 They baked bread without yeast in the dough that they brought from Egypt. It was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay to prepare food.
+\v 40 The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
+
+\s5
+\v 41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all of Yahweh's armed groups went out from the land of Egypt.
+\v 42 This was a night to stay awake, for Yahweh to bring them out from the land of Egypt. This was Yahweh's night to be observed by all the Israelites throughout their people's generations.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Here is the rule for the Passover: no foreigner may share in eating it.
+\v 44 However, every Israelites' slave, bought with money, may eat it after you have circumcised him.
+
+\s5
+\v 45 Foreigners and hired servants must not eat any of the food.
+\v 46 The food must be eaten in one house. You must not carry any of the meat out of the house, and you must not break any bone of it.
+
+\s5
+\v 47 All the community of Israel must observe the festival.
+\v 48 If a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover for Yahweh, all his male relatives must be circumcised. Then  he may come and observe it. He will become like the people who were born in the land. However, no uncircumcised person may eat any of the food.
+
+\s5
+\v 49 This same law will apply to both the native born and to the foreigner who lives among you."
+\v 50 So all the Israelites did exactly  as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
+\v 51 It came about that very day that Yahweh brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armed groups.
+
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+\s5
+\c 13
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh  spoke to Moses and said,
+\v 2 "Consecrate to me all the firstborn, every firstborn male among the Israelites, both of people and animals. The firstborn belongs to me."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 3 Moses said to the people, "Call this day to mind, the day on which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by Yahweh's strong hand he brought you out from this place. No bread with yeast may be eaten.
+\v 4 You are going out of Egypt on this day, in the month of Abib.
+\v 5 When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and the Jebusites, the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—then you must observe this act of worship in this month.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 For seven days you must eat bread without yeast; on the seventh day there will be a feast to honor Yahweh.
+\v 7 Bread without yeast must be eaten throughout the seven days; no bread with yeast may be seen among you. No yeast may be seen with you within any of your borders.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 On that day you are to say to your children, 'This is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came  out of Egypt.'
+\v 9 This will be a reminder for you on your hand, and a reminder on your forehead. This is so the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth, for with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out of Egypt.
+\v 10 Therefore you must keep this law at its appointed  time from year to year.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 11 When Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your ancestors to do, and when he gives the land to you,
+\v 12 you must set apart for him every firstborn child and the first offspring of your animals. The males will be Yahweh's.
+\v 13 Every firstborn of a donkey you must buy back with a lamb. If you do not buy it back, then you must break its neck. But each of your firstborn males among all your sons—you must buy them back.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 When your son asks you later, 'What does this mean?' then you are to tell him, 'It was by a strong hand that Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of slavery.
+\v 15 When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of people and the firstborn of animals. That is why I sacrifice to Yahweh the firstborn male of every animal, and why I buy back the firstborn of my sons.'
+\v 16 This will become a reminder on your hands, and a reminder on your forehead, for it was by a strong hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that land was nearby. For God said, "Perhaps the people will change their minds when they experience war and will then return to Egypt."
+\v 18 So God led the people around through the wilderness to the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt armed for battle.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear and said, "God will surely rescue you, and you must carry away my bones with you."
+\v 20 The Israelites journeyed from Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.
+\v 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them on the way. By night he went in a pillar of fire to give them light. In this way they could travel by day and by night.
+\v 22 Yahweh did not take away from before the people the daytime pillar of cloud or the nighttime pillar of fire.
+
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+\s5
+\c 14
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses:
+\v 2 "Say to the Israelites that they should turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You are to camp by the sea opposite Pi Hahiroth.
+\v 3 Pharaoh will say about the Israelites, 'They are wandering in the land. The wilderness has closed in on them.'
+
+\s5
+\v 4 I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. I will get honor because of Pharaoh and all his army. The Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." So the Israelites camped as they were instructed.
+\v 5 When the king of Egypt was told that the Israelites had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his servants turned against the people. They said, "What have we done in letting Israel go free from working for us?"
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Then Pharaoh got his chariots ready and took his army with him.
+\v 7 He took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers on all of them.
+\v 8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and the king pursued the Israelites.  Now the  Israelites had gone away in triumph.
+\v 9 But the Egyptians pursued them, together with all his horses and chariots, his horsemen, and his army. They overtook the Israelites camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 When Pharaoh came close, the Israelites looked up and were surprised.  The Egyptians were marching after them, and they were terrified.  The Israelites cried out to Yahweh.
+\v 11 They said to Moses, "Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us like this, bringing us out of Egypt?
+\v 12 Is this not what we told you in Egypt? We said to you, 'Leave us alone, so we can work for the Egyptians. It would have been better for us to work for them than to die in the wilderness.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 13 Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the rescue that Yahweh will provide for you today. For you will never see again the Egyptians whom you see today. 
+\v 14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you will only have to stand still.”
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Why are you, Moses, continuing to call out to me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
+\v 16 Lift up your staff, reach out with your hand over the sea and divide it in two, so that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.
+\v 17 Be aware that I will harden the Egyptians' hearts so they will go after them. I will get  honor because of Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.
+\v 18 Then the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I have gotten honor because of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
+
+\s5
+\v 19 The angel of God, who went before the Israelites, moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from before them and went to stand behind them.
+\v 20 The cloud came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. It was a dark cloud to the Egyptians, but it lit the night for the Israelites, so one side did not come near the other all night.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Moses reached out with his hand over the sea. Yahweh drove the sea back by a strong east wind all that night and made the sea into dry land. In this way the waters were divided.
+\v 22 The Israelites went into the middle of the sea on dry ground. The waters formed a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 The Egyptians pursued them. They went after them into the middle of the sea—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen.
+\v 24 But in the early morning hours, Yahweh looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud. He caused panic among the Egyptians.
+\v 25 Their chariot wheels were clogged, and the horsemen drove with difficulty. So the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from Israel, for Yahweh is fighting for them against us."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out with your hand over the sea so that the waters may come back onto the Egyptians, their chariots, and their horsemen."
+\v 27 So Moses reached out with his hand over the sea, and it returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. The Egyptians fled into the sea, and Yahweh drove the Egyptians into the middle of it.
+\v 28 The waters came back and covered Pharaoh's chariots, horsemen, and his entire army  that had followed the chariots into the sea. No one survived.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 However, the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea. The waters were a wall for them on their right hand and on their left.
+\v 30 So Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw dead Egyptians on the seashore.
+\v 31 When Israel saw the great power that Yahweh used against the Egyptians, the people honored Yahweh, and they trusted in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
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+\s5
+\c 15
+\p
+\v 1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to Yahweh. They sang,
+\q "I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously;
+\q the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 2 Yahweh is my strength and song,
+\q and he has become my salvation.
+\q This is my God, and I will praise him,
+\q my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
+\q
+\v 3 Yahweh is a warrior;
+\q Yahweh is his name.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 4 He has thrown Pharaoh’s chariots and army into the sea.
+\q Pharaoh’s chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea.
+\q
+\v 5 The depths covered them;
+\q they went down into the depths like a stone.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 6 Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power;
+\q your right hand, Yahweh, has shattered the enemy.
+\q
+\v 7 In great majesty you overthrew those who rose up against you. 
+\q You sent out your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
+\q
+\v 8 By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up;
+\q the flowing waters stood upright in a heap;
+\q the deep water was congealed in the heart of the sea.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will share out the plunder;
+\q my desire will be satisfied on them;
+\q I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.'
+\q
+\v 10 But you blew with your wind, and the sea covered them;
+\q they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
+\q
+\v 11 Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods?
+\q Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
+\q honored in praises, doing miracles?
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 12 You reached out with your right hand,
+\q and the earth swallowed them.
+\q
+\v 13 In your covenant loyalty you have led the people you have rescued.
+\q In your strength you have led them to the holy place where you live. 
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 14 The peoples will hear, and they will tremble;
+\q terror will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.
+\q
+\v 15 Then the chiefs of Edom will fear;
+\q the soldiers of Moab will shake;
+\q all the inhabitants of Canaan will melt away.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 16 Terror and dread will fall on them.
+\q Because of your arm's power, they will become as still as a stone
+\q  until your people pass by, Yahweh—
+\q until the people you have rescued pass by.
+
+\s5
+\q
+\v 17 You will bring them and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance,
+\q the place, Yahweh, that you have made to live in,
+\q the sanctuary, our Lord, that your hands have built.
+\q
+\v 18 Yahweh will reign forever and ever."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 For Pharaoh's horses went with his chariots and horsemen into the sea. Yahweh brought back the
+waters of the sea on them. But the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
+\v 20 Miriam the prophetess, sister of Aaron, picked up a tambourine, and all the women went out with tambourines, dancing along with her.
+\v 21 Miriam sang to them:
+\q "Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously.
+\q The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Then Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea. They went out into the wilderness of Shur. They traveled for three days into
+the wilderness and found no water.
+\v 23 Then they came to Marah, but they could not drink the water there because it was bitter. So they called that place Marah.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 So the people complained to Moses and said, "What can we drink?"
+\v 25 Moses cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a tree. Moses threw it into the water, and the water became sweet to drink. It was there that Yahweh gave them a strict law, and it was there that he tested them.
+\v 26 He said, "If you will listen carefully to my voice, I, Yahweh your God, and do what is right in my eyes—and if you pay attention to my commandments and obey all my laws, I will put on you none of the diseases that I 
+put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh, who heals you."
+
+\s5
+\v 27 Then the people came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. They camped there by the water.
+
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 16
+\p
+\v 1 The people journeyed on from Elim, and all the community of Israelites came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt.
+\v 2 The whole community of Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
+\v 3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by Yahweh's hand in the land of Egypt when we were sitting by the pots of meat and were eating bread to the full. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill our whole community with hunger."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people will go out and gather a day’s portion every day so that I may test them to see whether or not they will walk in my law.
+\v 5 It will come about on the sixth day, that they will gather twice as much as what they gathered every day before, and they will cook what they bring in."
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, "In the evening you will know that it is Yahweh who has brought you out from the land of Egypt.
+\v 7 In the morning you will see Yahweh's glory, for he hears your complaining against him. Who are we for you to complain against us?"
+\v 8 Moses also said, "You will know this when Yahweh gives you meat in the evening and bread in the morning  to the full—for he has heard the complaints that you speak against him. Who are Aaron and I? Your complaints are not against us; they are against Yahweh."
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the community of the people of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your complaints.'"
+\v 10 It came about, as Aaron spoke to the whole community of the people of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, Yahweh's glory appeared in the cloud.
+\v 11 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
+\v 12 "I have heard the complaints of the people of Israel. Speak to them and say, 'In the evening you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, your God.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 It came about in the evening that quails came up and covered the camp. In the morning the dew lay round about the camp.
+\v 14 When the dew had gone, behold, on the ground in the wilderness was a small round thing as thin as hoarfrost on the ground.
+\v 15 When the people of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" They did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread that Yahweh has given you to eat.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 This is the command that Yahweh has given: 'You must gather, each one of you, the amount you need to eat, an omer for each person of the number of your people. This is how you will gather it: Gather enough to eat for every person who lives in your tent.'"
+\v 17 The people of Israel did so. Some gathered more, some gathered less.
+\v 18 When they measured it with an omer measure, those who had gathered much had nothing left over, and those who had gathered little had no lack. Each person gathered enough to meet their need.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Then Moses said to them, "No one must leave any of it until morning."
+\v 20 However, they did not listen to Moses. Some of them left some of it until morning, but it bred worms and became foul. Then Moses became angry with them.
+\v 21 They gathered it morning by morning. Each person gathered enough to eat for that day. When the sun became hot, it melted.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 It came about that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each person. All the leaders of the community came and told this to Moses.
+\v 23 He said to them, "This is what Yahweh has said: 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath in Yahweh's honor. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. All that remains over, set it aside for yourselves until morning.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 24 So they set it aside until morning, as Moses had instructed. It did not become foul, nor was there any worm in it.
+\v 25 Moses said, "Eat that food today, for today is a day reserved as a Sabbath to honor Yahweh. Today you will not find it in the fields.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 You will gather it during six days, but the seventh day is the Sabbath. On the Sabbath there will be no manna."
+\v 27 It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather manna, but they found none.
+
+\s5
+\v 28 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
+\v 29 See, I, Yahweh have given you the Sabbath. So on the sixth day I am giving you bread for two days. Each of you must stay in his own place; no one must go out from his place on the seventh day."
+\v 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 The people of Israel called that food "manna." It was white like coriander seed, and its taste was like wafers made with honey.
+\v 32 Moses said, "This what Yahweh has commanded: 'Let an omer of manna be kept throughout your people's generations so that your descendants might see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, after I brought you out from the land of Egypt.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 33 Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put an omer of manna into it. Preserve it before Yahweh to be kept throughout the people's generations."
+\v 34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, Aaron stored it beside the covenant decrees in the ark.
+\v 35 The people of Israel ate manna forty years until they came to inhabited land. They ate it until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
+\v 36 Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 17
+\p
+\v 1 The whole community of the Israelites journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, following Yahweh's instructions. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
+\v 2 So the people blamed Moses for their situation and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
+\v 3 The people were very thirsty, and they complained against Moses. They said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt? To kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"
+
+\s5
+\v 4 Then Moses cried out to Yahweh, "What should I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me."
+\v 5 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go on ahead of the people, and take with you some elders of Israel. Take with you the staff with which you struck the river, and go.
+\v 6  I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you will strike the rock. Water will come out of it for the people to drink." Then Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
+\v 7 He called that place Massah and Meribah because of the Israelites' complaining, and because they had tested the Lord by saying, "Is Yahweh among us or not?"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then an army of the Amalek people came and attacked Israel at Rephidim.
+\v 9 So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some men and go out. Fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
+\v 10 So Joshua fought Amalek as Moses had instructed, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 While Moses was holding his hands up, Israel was winning;  when he let his hands rest, Amalek would begin to win.
+\v 12 When Moses’ hands became heavy, Aaron and Hur took a stone and put it under him for him to sit on. At the same time, Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one person on one side of him, and the other person on the other side. So Moses' hands were held steady until the sun went down.
+\v 13 So Joshua defeated the people of Amalek with the sword.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this in a book and read it in Joshua's hearing, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies."
+\v 15 Then Moses built an altar and called it "Yahweh is my banner."
+\v 16 He did this, because he said, "Yahweh has sworn that he will have war with Amalek from generation to generation."
+
+
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+
+
+\s5
+\c 18
+\p
+\v 1 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people. He heard that Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
+\v 2 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home,
+\v 3 and her two sons; the name of the one son was Gershom, for Moses had said, "I have been a foreigner in a foreign land."
+\v 4 The name of the other was Eliezer, for Moses had said, "My ancestor's God was my help. He rescued me from Pharaoh's sword."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with Moses' sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
+\v 6 He said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They asked about each other's welfare and then went into the tent.
+\v 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake,  about all the hardships that had come to them along the way, and how Yahweh had rescued them.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel, in that he had rescued them from the Egyptians' power.
+\v 10 Jethro said, "May Yahweh be praised, for he has rescued you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh's power, and he has set the people free from their  control.
+\v 11 Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, because when the Egyptians treated the Israelites arrogantly, God rescued his people."
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat a meal before God with Moses’ father-in-law.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 On the next day Moses sat down to judge the people. The people stood around him from morning until evening.
+\v 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, "What is this that you are doing with the people? Why is it that you sit alone and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?"
+
+\s5
+\v 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, "The people come to me to ask for God's direction.
+\v 16 When they have a dispute, they come to me. I decide between one person and another, and I teach them God's statutes and laws."
+
+\s5
+\v 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not very good.
+\v 18 You will certainly wear out yourself and the people who come to you, because the burden is too heavy for you. You cannot do it yourself alone.
+\v 19 Listen to me. I will give you advice, and God will be with you, because you are the people's  representative to God, and you bring their disputes to him.
+\v 20 You must teach them his statutes and laws. You must show them the way to walk and the work to do.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Furthermore, you must choose capable men from all the people, men who honor God, men of truth who hate unjust gain. You must put them over people, to be leaders in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and of tens.
+\v 22 They will judge the people in all routine cases, but the difficult cases they will bring to you. As for all the small cases, they can judge those themselves. In that way it will be easier for you, and they will carry the burden with you.
+\v 23 If you do this, and if God commands you to do so, then you will be able to endure, and the entire people will be able to go home satisfied."
+
+\s5
+\v 24 So Moses listened to his father-in-law's words and did everything that he had said.
+\v 25 Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
+\v 26 They judged the people in normal circumstances. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but they themselves judged all the small cases.
+\v 27 Then Moses let his father-in-law leave, and Jethro went back into his own land.
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 19
+\p
+\v 1 In the third month after the people of Israel had gone out from the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
+\v 2 After they left Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai, they camped in the wilderness in front of the mountain.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Moses went up to God. Yahweh called to him from the mountain and said, "You must tell the house of Jacob, the people of Israel:
+\v 4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
+\v 5 Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.
+\v 6 You will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation for me. These are the words that you must speak to the people of Israel."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 So Moses came and summoned the elders of the people. He set before them all these words that Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 8 All the people answered together and said, "We will do everything that Yahweh has said." Then Moses came to report the people's words to Yahweh.
+\v 9 Yahweh said to Moses, "I am coming to you in a thick cloud so that the people may hear when I speak with you and may also believe you forever." Then Moses told the people's words to Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people. Today and tomorrow you must consecrate them—prepare them for my coming, and make them wash their garments.
+\v 11 Be ready for the third day, for the third day I, Yahweh, will come down to Mount Sinai.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 You must set bounds all around the mountain for the people. Say to them, 'Be careful that you do not go up the mountain or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death.'
+\v 13 No one's hand must touch such a person. Instead, he must certainly be stoned or shot. Whether it is a person or an animal, he must be put to death. When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they may come up to the foot of the mountain."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people. He consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.
+\v 15 He said to the people, "Be ready on the third day; do not go near your wives."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunder and lightning bolts and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud trumpet. All the people in the camp trembled.
+\v 17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
+\v 18 Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because Yahweh descended on it in fire and  smoke.  The smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in a voice.
+\v 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and he summoned Moses to the top. So Moses went up.
+\v 21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people not to break through to me to look, or many of them will perish.
+\v 22 Let the priests also who come near to me set themselves apart—prepare themselves for my coming—so that I do not attack them."
+
+\s5
+\v 23 Moses said to Yahweh, "The people cannot come up to the mountain, for you commanded us: 'Set boundaries around the mountain and treat it as holy, special for Yahweh's honor.'"
+\v 24 Yahweh said to him, "Go, get down the mountain, and bring up Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people break through the barrier to come up to me, or I will attack them."
+\v 25 So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 20
+\p
+\v 1 God spoke all these words:
+\v 2 "I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
+\v 3 You must have no other gods before me.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 You must not make for yourself a carved figure nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water below.
+\v 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God. I punish the ancestors' wickedness by bringing punishment on the descendants, to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
+\v 6 But I show covenant faithfulness to thousands of those who  love me and keep my commandments.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 You must not take the name of me, Yahweh your God, in vain, for I will not hold guiltless anyone who takes my name in vain.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy—reserved for me.
+\v 9 You must labor and do all your work for six days.
+\v 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath for me, Yahweh your God. On it you must not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the foreigner who is within your gates.
+\v 11 For in six days I, Yahweh, made the heavens, earth, and sea, and everything that is in them, and then rested on the seventh day. Therefore I, Yahweh, blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it, reserving it for myself.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land which I, Yahweh your God, am giving you.
+\p
+\v 13 You must not murder anyone.
+\p
+\v 14 You must not commit adultery.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 You must not steal from anyone.
+\p
+\v 16 You must not give false testimony against your neighbor.
+\p
+\v 17 You must not covet your neighbor’s house; you must not covet your neighbor’s wife, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 All the people saw the thundering and the lightning, and heard the voice of the trumpet, and saw the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled and stood far off.
+\v 19 They said to Moses, "Speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die."
+\v 20 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid, for God has come to test you so that the honor of him may be in you, and so that you do not sin."
+\v 21 So the people stood far off, and Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you must tell the  Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
+\v 23 You will not make for yourselves other gods alongside me, gods of silver or gods of gold.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 You must make an earthen altar for me, and you must sacrifice on it your burnt offerings, fellowship offerings, sheep, and oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you.
+\v 25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tools on it, you will have defiled it.
+\v 26 You must not go up by steps to my altar; this is to keep you from exposing your private parts.'"
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 21
+\p
+\v 1 "Now these are the decrees that you must set before them:
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 2 'If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh year he will go free without paying anything.
+\v 3 If he came by himself, he must go free by himself; if he is married, then his wife must go free with him.
+\v 4 If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and he must go free by himself.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 But if the servant plainly says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,"
+\v 6 then his master must bring him to God. The master must bring him to a door or doorpost, and his master must bore his ear through with an awl. Then the servant will serve him for the rest of his life.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she must not go free as the male servants do.
+\v 8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be bought back. He has no right to sell her to a foreign people. He has no such right, since he has treated her deceitfully.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 If her master designates her as a wife for his son, he must treat her the same as if she were his daughter. 
+\v 10 If he takes another wife for himself, he must not diminish her food, clothing, or her marital rights.
+\v 11 But if he does not provide these three things for her, then she can go free without paying any money.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Whoever strikes a man so that he dies, that person must surely be put to death.
+\v 13 If the man did not do it with premeditation, but instead by accident, then I will fix a place to where he can flee.
+\v 14 If a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him deceitfully, then you must take him, even if he is at God's altar, so that he may die.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Whoever hits his father or mother must surely be put to death.
+\p
+\v 16 Whoever kidnaps a person and sells him, or the person is found in his possession, that kidnapper must surely be put to death.
+\p
+\v 17 Whoever curses his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 If men fight and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist, and that person does not die, but is confined to his bed;
+\v 19 then if he recovers and is able to walk about using his staff, the man who struck him must pay for the loss of his time; he must also pay for his complete recovery. But that man is not guilty of murder.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 If a man hits his male servant or his female servant with a staff, and if the servant dies as a result of the blow, then that man must surely be punished.
+\v 21 However, if the servant lives for a day or two, the master must not be punished, for he will have suffered the loss of the servant.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 If men fight together and hurt a pregnant woman so that she miscarries, but there is no other injury to her, then the guilty man must surely be fined, if the woman’s husband demands it from him, and he must pay as the judges determine.
+\v 23 But if there is serious injury, then you must give a life for a life,
+\v 24 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,
+\v 25 a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, or a bruise for a bruise.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 If a man hits the eye of his male servant or of his female servant and destroys it, then he must let the servant go free in compensation for his eye.
+\v 27 If he knocks out a tooth of his male servant or female servant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its flesh must not be eaten; but the ox's owner must  be acquitted of guilt.
+\v 29 But if the ox had a habit of goring in the past, and its owner was warned but did not keep it in, and the ox has killed a man or a woman, that ox must be stoned, and its owner also must be put to death.
+\v 30 If a payment is required for his life, he must pay whatever he is required to pay.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 If the ox has gored a man's son or daughter, the ox's owner must do what this decree requires him to do.  
+\v 32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the ox's owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 33 If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
+\v 34 the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to the dead animal's owner, and the dead animal will become his.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 35 If one man’s ox hurts another man's ox so that it dies, then they must sell the live ox and divide its price, and they must also divide the dead ox.
+\v 36 But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his own.
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 22
+\p
+\v 1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, then he must pay five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.
+\v 2 If a thief is found breaking in, and if he is struck so that he dies, in that case no guilt for murder will attach to anyone on his account.
+\v 3 But if the sun has risen before he breaks in, guilt for murder will attach to the person who kills him.
+\p
+A thief must make restitution. If he has nothing, then he must be sold for his theft.
+\v 4 If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox, a donkey, or a sheep, he must pay back double.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 5 If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and from the best of his own vineyard.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 If a fire breaks out and spreads in thorns so that stacked grain, or standing grain, or a field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 If a man gives money or goods to his neighbor for safe keeping, and if it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, that thief must pay double.
+\v 8 But if the thief is not found, then the owner of the house must come before the judges to see whether he has put his own hand on his neighbor’s property.
+\v 9 For every dispute about something, whether it is an ox, a donkey, a sheep, clothing, or any other missing thing about which one says, "This belongs to me," the claim of  both parties must come before the judges. The man whom the judges find guilty must pay double to his neighbor.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and if it dies or is hurt or is carried away without anyone seeing it,
+\v 11 an oath to Yahweh must be taken by them both, as to whether or not one person has put his hand on his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept this, and the other will make no restitution.
+\v 12 But if it was stolen from him, the other must make restitution to the owner for it.
+\v 13 If an animal was torn in pieces, let the other man bring the animal as evidence. He will not have to pay for what was torn.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 If a man borrows any animal from his neighbor and the animal is injured or dies without the owner being with it, the other man must surely make restitution.
+\v 15 But if the owner was with it, the other man will not have to pay; if the animal was  hired, it will be paid for by its hiring fee.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 16 If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and if he sleeps with her, he must surely make her his wife by paying the bride wealth required for this.
+\v 17 If her father completely refuses to give her to him, he must pay money equal to the bride wealth of virgins.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 You must not allow a sorceress to live.
+\p
+\v 19 Whoever sleeps with a beast must surely be put to death.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 Whoever sacrifices to any god except to Yahweh must be completely destroyed.
+\v 21 You must not wrong a foreigner or oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.
+\v 23 If you afflict them at all, and if they call out to me, Yahweh, I will surely hear their call.
+\v 24 My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows, and your children will become fatherless.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 25 If you lend money to any of my people among you who are poor, you must not be like a moneylender to him or charge him interest.
+\v 26 If you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun goes down,
+\v 27 for that is his only covering; it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? When he calls out to me, I will hear him, for I am compassionate.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 28 You must not blaspheme me, God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 You must not hold back offerings from your harvest or your winepresses. You must give to me the firstborn of your sons.
+\v 30 You must also do the same with your oxen and your sheep. For seven days they may remain with their mothers, but on the eighth day you must give them to me.
+\v 31 You are to be a holy people. So you must not eat any meat that was torn by animals in the field. Instead, you must throw it to the dogs.
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+\s5
+\c 23
+\p
+\v 1 You must not give a false report about anyone. Do not join with a wicked man to be a dishonest witness.
+\v 2 You must not follow a crowd to do evil, nor may you bear witness while siding with the crowd in order to pervert justice.
+\v 3 You must not favor a poor man in his lawsuit.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you must bring it back to him.
+\v 5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen to the ground under its load, you must not leave that person. You must surely help him with his donkey.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 You must not pervert justice when it should go to your poor people in a poor man's lawsuit.
+\v 7 Do not join others in making false accusations, and do not kill the innocent or righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
+\v 8 Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see, and perverts honest people's words.
+\v 9 You must not oppress a foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 For six years you will sow seed on your land and gather in its produce.
+\v 11 But in the seventh year you will leave it unplowed and fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat. What they leave, the wild animals will eat.  You will do the same with your vineyards and olive groves.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 During six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Do this so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and so that your female slave's son and any foreigner may rest and be refreshed.
+\v 13 Pay attention to everything that I have said to you. Do not mention the names of other gods, nor let their names be heard from your mouth.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 You must travel to hold a festival for me three times every year.
+\v 15 You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread.  As I commanded you, you will eat unleavened bread for seven days. At that time,  you will appear before me in the month Abib, which is fixed for this purpose. It was in this month that you came out from Egypt.  But you must not appear before me empty handed.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 You must observe the Festival of Harvest, the first fruits of your labors when you sowed seed in the fields. Also you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the fields.
+\v 17 All your males must appear before me, Yahweh, three times every year.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 You must not offer the blood from sacrifices made to me with bread containing yeast. The fat from the sacrifices at my festivals must not remain all night until the morning.
+\v 19 You must bring the choicest first fruits from your land into my house, the house of Yahweh your God. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 I am going to send an angel before you to guard you on the way, and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
+\v 21 Be attentive to him and obey him. Do not provoke him, for he will not pardon your transgressions. My name is on him.
+\v 22 If you indeed obey his voice and do everything that I tell you, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and the Jebusites.  I will destroy them.
+\v 24 You must not bow down to their gods, worship them, or do as they do.  Instead, you must completely overthrow them and smash their sacred stone pillars in pieces.
+\v 25 You must worship me, Yahweh your God. If you do, I will bless your bread and water. I will remove sickness from among you.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 No woman will be barren or will miscarry her young in your land. I will give you long lives.
+\v 27 I will send fear of myself on those into whose land you advance. I will kill all the people whom you meet. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in fright.
+\v 28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
+\v 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become abandoned, and the wild animals would become too many for you.
+
+\s5
+\v 30 Instead, I will drive them out little by little from before you until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
+\v 31 I will fix your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will give you victory over the land's inhabitants. You will drive them out before yourselves.
+\v 32 You must not make a covenant with them or with their gods.
+\v 33 They must not live in your land, or they would make you sin against me.  If you worship their gods, this will surely become a trap for you.'"
+
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+\s5
+\c 24
+\p
+\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me—you, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders, and worship me at a distance.
+\v 2 Moses alone may come near to me. The others must not come near, nor may the people come up with him."
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Moses went and told the people all of Yahweh's words and decrees. All the people answered with one voice and said, "We will do all the words that Yahweh has said."
+\v 4 Then Moses wrote down all of Yahweh's words. Early in the morning, Moses built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve stone pillars, so that the stones would represent the twelve tribes of Israel.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 He sent some Israelite young men to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice fellowship offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
+\v 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it into basins; he splashed the other half onto the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 He took the book of the covenant and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will do all that Yahweh has spoken. We will be obedient."
+\v 8 Then Moses took the blood and splashed it onto the people. He said, "This is the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you by giving you this promise with all these words."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders went up the mountain.
+\v 10 They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.
+\v 11 God did not lay a hand in anger on the Israelite leaders. They saw God, and they ate and drank.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay there. I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."
+\v 13 So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Moses had said to the elders, "Stay here and wait for us until we come to you. Aaron and Hur are with you. If anyone has a dispute, let him go to them."
+\v 15 So Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered it.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Yahweh's glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.
+\v 17 The appearance of Yahweh's glory was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the Israelites.
+\v 18 Moses entered the cloud and went up the mountain. He was up the mountain for forty days and forty nights.
+
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+\s5
+\c 25
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses,
+\v 2 "Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me from every person who is motivated by a willing heart. You must receive these offerings for me. 
+
+\s5
+\v 3 These are the offerings that you must receive from them: gold, silver, bronze,
+\v 4 blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats’ hair;
+\v 5 ram skins dyed red and sea cow hides; acacia wood;
+\v 6 oil for the sanctuary lamps, spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense,
+\v 7 onyx stones and other precious stones to be set for the ephod and breastpiece.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 Let them make me a sanctuary so that I may live among them.
+\v 9 You must make it exactly as I will show you in the plans for the tabernacle and for all its equipment.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 They are to make an ark of acacia wood. Its length must be two and a half cubits; its width will be one cubit and a half; and its  height will be one cubit and a half.
+\v 11 You must cover it inside and out with pure gold, and you must make on it a border of gold around its top.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 You must cast four rings of gold for it, and put them on the ark's four feet, with two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side.
+\v 13 You must make poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.
+\v 14 You must put the poles into the rings on the ark's sides, in order to carry the ark.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 The poles must remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be taken from it.
+\v 16 You must put into the ark the covenant decrees that I will give you.
+\v 17 You must make an atonement lid of pure gold. Its length must be two and a half cubits, and its width must be a cubit and a half.
+\v 18 You must make two cherubim of hammered gold for the two ends of the atonement lid.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Make one cherub for one end of the atonement lid, and the other cherub for the other end. They must be made as one piece with the atonement lid.
+\v 20 The cherubim must spread out their wings upward and overshadow the atonement lid with them. The cherubim must face one another and look toward the center of the atonement lid.
+\v 21 You must put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and you must put into the ark the covenant decrees that I am giving you.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 It is at the ark that I will meet with you. I will speak with you from my position above the atonement lid. It will be from between the two cherubim
+over the ark of the covenant decrees that I will speak to you about all the commands I will give you for the Israelites.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 23 You must make a table of acacia wood. Its length must be two cubits; its width must be one cubit, and its height must be a cubit and a half.
+\v 24 You must cover it with pure gold and put a border of gold around the top.
+
+\s5
+\v 25 You must make a surrounding frame for it one handbreadth wide, with a surrounding border of gold for the frame.
+\v 26 You must make for it four rings of gold and attach the rings to the four corners, where the four feet were.
+\v 27 The rings must be attached to the frame to provide places for the poles, in order to carry the table.
+
+\s5
+\v 28 You must make the poles out of acacia wood and cover them with gold so that the table may be carried with them.
+\v 29 You must make the dishes, spoons, pitchers, and bowls to be used to pour out drink offerings.
+You must make them of pure gold.
+\v 30 You must regularly set the bread of the presence on the table before me.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 You must make a lampstand of pure hammered gold. The lampstand is to be made with its base and shaft. Its cups, its leafy bases, and its flowers are to be all made of one piece with it.
+\v 32 Six branches must extend out from its sides—three branches must extend from one side, and three branches of the lampstand must extend from the other side.
+
+\s5
+\v 33 The first branch must have three cups made like almond blossoms, with a leafy base and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, with a leafy base and a flower. It must be the same for all six branches extending out from the lampstand.
+\v 34 On the lampstand itself, the central shaft, there must be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their leafy bases and the flowers.
+
+\s5
+\v 35 There must be a leafy base under the first pair of branches—made as one piece with it, and a leafy base under the second pair of branches—also made as one piece with it. In the same way there must be a leafy base under the third pair of branches, made as one piece with it. It must be the same for all six branches extending out from the lampstand.
+\v 36 Their leafy bases and branches must all be one piece with it, one beaten piece of work of pure gold.
+
+\s5
+\v 37 You must make the lampstand and its seven lamps, and set up its lamps for them to give light from it.
+\v 38 The tongs and their trays must be made of pure gold.
+\v 39 Use one talent of pure gold to make the lampstand and its accessories.
+\v 40 Be sure to make them after the pattern that you are being shown on the mountain.
+
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+
+\s5
+\c 26
+\p
+\v 1 You must make the tabernacle with ten curtains made from fine linen and blue, purple, and scarlet wool with the designs of cherubim. This will be the work of a very skilled craftsman.
+\v 2 The length of each curtain must be twenty-eight cubits, the width four cubits. All the curtains must be of the same size.
+\v 3 Five curtains must be joined to each other, and the other five curtains must also be joined to each other.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 You must make loops of blue along the outer edge of the end curtain of one set. In the same way, you must do the same along the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.
+\v 5 You must make fifty loops on the first curtain, and you must make fifty loops on the end curtain in the second set. Do this so that the loops will be opposite to each other.
+\v 6 You must make fifty clasps of gold and join the curtains together with them so that the tabernacle becomes united.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 You must make curtains of goats’ hair for a tentlike covering over the tabernacle. You must make eleven of these curtains. 
+\v 8 The length of each curtain must be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain must be four cubits. Each of the eleven curtains must be of the same size.
+\v 9 You must join five curtains to each other and the other six curtains to each other. You must double over the sixth curtain in the front of the tent.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 You must make fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain of the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain that joins the second set.
+\v 11 You must make fifty bronze clasps and put them into the loops. Then you must join the tentlike covering  together so that it may be one.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 The leftover half curtain, that is, the overhanging part  remaining from the tent's curtains, must hang at the back of the tabernacle.
+\v 13 There must be one cubit of curtain on one side, and one cubit of curtain on the other side—that which is left over of the length of the tent's curtains must hang over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the other side, to cover it.
+\v 14 You must make for the tabernacle a covering of ram skins dyed red, and another covering of fine leather to go above that.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 You must make vertical boards out of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
+\v 16 The length of each board must be ten cubits, and its width must be one and a half cubits.
+\v 17 There must be two projections in each board for joining the boards to each other. You are to make all the tabernacle's boards in this way. 
+\v 18 When you make the boards for the tabernacle, you must make twenty boards for the south side.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 You must make forty silver bases to go under the twenty boards. There must be two bases under the first board to be its two pedestals, and also two bases under each of the other boards for their two pedestals.
+\v 20 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, you must make twenty boards
+\v 21 and their forty silver bases. There must be two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 For the back side of the tabernacle on the west side, you must make six boards.
+\v 23 You must make two boards for the back corners of the tabernacle.
+\v 24 These boards must be separate at the bottom, but joined at the top to the same ring. It must be this way for both of the back corners.
+\v 25 There must be eight boards, together with their silver bases. There must be sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 You must make crossbars of acacia wood—five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
+\v 27 five crossbars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the boards for the back side of the tabernacle to the west.
+\v 28 The crossbar in the center of the boards, that is, halfway up, must reach from end to end.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 You must cover the boards with gold. You must make their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and you must cover the bars with gold.
+\v 30 You must set up the tabernacle by following the plan  you were shown on the mountain.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 You must make a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen, with designs of cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
+\v 32 You must hang it on four pillars of acacia wood covered with gold. These pillars must have  hooks of gold set on four silver bases.
+\v 33 You must hang up the curtain under the clasps, and you must bring in the ark of the covenant decrees. The curtain is to separate the holy place from the most holy place. 
+
+\s5
+\v 34 You must put the atonement lid on the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the most holy place.
+\v 35 You must place the table outside the curtain. You must place the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. The table must be on the north side.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 36 You must make a hanging for the tent entrance. You must make it out of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, using fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer.
+\v 37 For the hanging, you must make five pillars of acacia and cover them with gold. Their hooks must be of gold, and you must cast five bronze bases for them.
+
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+\s5
+\c 27
+\p
+\v 1 You must make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide. The altar must be square and  three cubits high.
+\v 2 You must make extensions of its four corners shaped like ox horns. The horns will be made as one piece with the altar, and you must cover them with bronze.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 You must make equipment for the altar: pots for ashes, and also shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans. You must make all these utensils with bronze.
+\v 4 You must make a grate for the altar, a network of bronze. Make a bronze ring for each of the grate's four corners.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 You must put the grate under the ledge of the altar, halfway down to the bottom.
+\v 6 You must make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you must cover them with bronze.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 The poles must be put into the rings, and the poles must be on the two sides of the altar, to carry it.
+\v 8 You must make the altar hollow, out of planks. You must make it in the way you were shown on the mountain.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 9 You must make a courtyard for the tabernacle. There must be hangings on the south side of the courtyard, hangings of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long.
+\v 10 The hangings must have twenty posts, with twenty bronze bases. There must also be hooks attached to the posts, as well as silver rods.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Likewise along the north side, there must be hangings one hundred cubits long with twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, hooks attached to the posts, and silver rods.
+\v 12 Along the courtyard on the west side there must be a curtain fifty cubits long. There must be ten posts and ten bases.
+\v 13 The courtyard must also be fifty cubits long on the east side.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 The hangings for one side of the entrance must be fifteen cubits long. They must have three posts with three bases. 
+\v 15 The other side must also have hangings fifteen cubits long. They must have their three posts and three bases.
+\v 16 The courtyard gate must be a curtain twenty cubits long. The curtain must be made of blue,  purple, and scarlet linen, fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer. It must have four posts with four bases.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 All the courtyard posts must have silver rods, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
+\v 18 The length of the courtyard must be one hundred cubits, the width fifty cubits, and the height five cubits with fine twined linen hangings all along, and bases of bronze.
+\v 19 All the equipment to be used in the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and courtyard must be made of bronze.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 You must command the Israelites to bring pure olive oil of pressed olives for the lamps so that they may burn continually.
+\v 21 In the tent of meeting, outside the curtain that is before the ark of the covenant decrees, Aaron and his sons must maintain the lamps from evening to morning before Yahweh. This requirement will be a lasting ordinance forever throughout the generations of the Israelite nation.
+
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+\s5
+\c 28
+\p
+\v 1 Call to yourself Aaron your brother and his sons—Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar— from among the Israelites so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 2 You must make for Aaron, your brother, garments consecrated and reserved for my purposes. These garments will be for his honor and splendor.
+\v 3 You must speak to all people who are specially skilled, those whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, so that they may make Aaron’s garments to set him apart to serve me as my priest.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 The garments that they must make are a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of woven work, a turban, and a sash. They must make these garments, consecrated and reserved for my purposes. They will be for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 5 Craftsmen must use fine linen that is gold, blue, purple, and scarlet.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 They must make the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine twined linen. It must be  the work of a skillful craftsman.
+\v 7 It must have two shoulder pieces attached to its two upper corners.
+\v 8 Its finely woven waistband must be like the ephod; it must be made of one piece with the ephod, made of fine twined linen that is gold, blue, purple, and scarlet.
+\v 9 You must take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel's twelve sons.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Six of their names must be on one stone, and six names must be on the other stone, in order of the sons' birth.
+\v 11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engraving on a signet, you must engrave the two stones with the names of Israel's twelve sons. You must mount the stones in settings of gold.
+\v 12 You must put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, to be stones to remind Yahweh of Israel's sons. Aaron will carry their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders as a reminder to him.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 You must make settings of gold
+\v 14 and two braided chains of pure gold like cords, and you must attach the chains to the settings.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 You must make a breastpiece for decision making, the work of a skillful workman, fashioned like the ephod. Make it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen.
+\v 16 It is to be square. You must fold the breastpiece double. It must be one span long and one span wide.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 You must place in it four rows of precious stones. The first row must have a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet.
+\v 18 The second row must have an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
+\v 19 The third row must have a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.
+\v 20 The fourth row must have a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper. They must be mounted in gold settings.
+\s5
+\v 21 The stones must be arranged by the names of Israel's twelve sons, each in order by name. They must be like the engraving on a signet ring, each name standing for one of the twelve tribes.
+\v 22 You must make on the breastpiece chains like cords, braided work of pure gold.
+\v 23 You must make two rings of gold for the breastpiece and must attach them to the two ends of the breastplate.
+\v 24 You must attach the two golden chains to the two corners of the breastpiece.
+
+\s5
+\v 25 You must attach the other ends of the two braided chains to the two settings. Then you must attach those to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at its front.
+\v 26 You must make two rings of gold, and you must put them on the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 You must make two more gold rings, and you must attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the front of the ephod, close to its seam above the finely woven waistband of the ephod.
+\v 28 They must tie the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod's rings with a blue cord, so that it might be attached just above the ephod's woven waistband. This is so that the breastplate might not become unattached from the ephod.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 When Aaron goes into the holy place, he must carry the names of Israel's twelve sons in the breastpiece for decision making on his heart. This will serve as a constant reminder to Yahweh.
+\v 30 You must put in the breastpiece for decision making the Urim and the Thummim. They must be on Aaron’s breast when he goes in before Yahweh, and Aaron must constantly carry the decision making for the Israelites on his breast before Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 You must make the robe of the ephod completely of purple fabric.
+\v 32 It must have an opening for the head in the middle. The opening must have a woven edge round about so that it does not tear. This must be the work of a weaver.
+
+\s5
+\v 33 On the bottom hem, you must make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn all around. Gold bells must be between them all around.
+\v 34 There must  be a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate—and so on—all around the hem of the robe.
+\v 35 The robe is to be on Aaron when he serves, so that its sound can be heard when he goes into the holy place before Yahweh and when he leaves. This is so that he does not die.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 36 You must make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving on a signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH.
+\v 37 You must attach this plate by a blue cord to the front of the turban.
+\v 38 It must be on Aaron’s forehead; he must always bear any guilt that might attach to the offering of the holy gifts that the Israelites consecrated. The turban must be always on his forehead so that Yahweh may accept their gifts.
+
+\s5
+\v 39 You must make the coat with fine linen, and you must make a turban of fine linen. You must also make a sash, the work of an embroiderer.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 40 For Aaron’s sons you must make coats, sashes, and headbands for their honor and splendor.
+\v 41 You must clothe Aaron your brother, and his sons with him. You must anoint them and consecrate them, reserve them for me, so that they may serve me as priests.
+
+\s5
+\v 42 You must make them linen undergarments to cover their private parts, undergarments that will cover them from the waist to the thighs.
+\v 43 Aaron and his sons must wear these when they enter the tent of meeting or when they approach  the altar to serve in the holy place. They must do this so that they may bear no iniquity and die. This will be a permanent law for Aaron and his descendants after him.
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+\c 29
+\p
+\v 1 Now this is what you must do to consecrate them so that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish,
+\v 2 bread without yeast, and cakes without yeast mixed with oil. Also take wafers without yeast rubbed with oil. Make the wafers using fine wheat flour.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 You must put them into a single basket, bring them in the basket, and present them with the bull and the two rams.
+\v 4 You must present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the tent of meeting. You must wash Aaron and his sons in water.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 You must take the garments and clothe Aaron with the coat, the robe of the ephod, the ephod, and the breastpiece, fastening the finely woven waistband of the ephod around him.
+\v 6 You must set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.
+\v 7 Then take the anointing oil and pour it on his head, and in this way anoint him.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 You must bring his sons and put coats on them.
+\v 9 You must clothe Aaron and his sons with sashes and put headbands on them. The work of the priesthood will belong to them by permanent law. In this way you must consecrate Aaron and his sons for them to serve me.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 You must all bring the bull before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
+\v 11 You must kill the bull before me, Yahweh, at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 You must take some of the bull's blood and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and you must pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
+\v 13 You must take all the fat that covers the inner parts, and also take the covering of the liver and the  two kidneys with the fat that is on them; burn it all on the altar.
+\v 14 But as for the bull's flesh, as well as its skin and dung, you must burn it up outside the camp. It will be a sin offering.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 You must also take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
+\v 16 You must kill the ram. Then take its blood and splash it against the altar on every side and on it.
+\v 17 You must cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts and its legs, and you must put the inner parts, together with its pieces and with its head,
+\v 18 on the altar. Then burn the whole ram. It will be a burnt offering to me, Yahweh. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 You must then take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on its head.
+\v 20 Then you must kill the ram and take some of its blood. Put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the tip of his sons' right ears, on the thumb of their right hands, and on the great toe of their right feet. Then you must splash blood against the altar on every side.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 You must take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and splash it all on Aaron and on his garments, and also on his sons and on their garments. Aaron will then be consecrated to me, reserved for me, as well as his garments, his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
+
+\s5
+\v 22 You must take the ram's fat, the fat tail, the fat that covers the inner parts, the covering of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh—for this ram is for the priests' consecration to me.
+\v 23 Take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of bread without yeast that will be before me, Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 You must put these in Aaron's hands and in the hands of his sons. They must raise them up before me, Yahweh, and present them as an offering to me.
+\v 25 You must then take the food from their hands and burn it on the altar with the burnt offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 26 You must take the breast of Aaron’s ram of consecration and raise it up and present it as an offering to me, Yahweh. Then it will be your portion to eat.
+\v 27 You must consecrate to me the breast of the offering that is raised high and the thigh of the offering that is presented—the breast that is raised and the thigh that is presented, both coming from the ram for the consecration of Aaron and his sons to me.
+\v 28 These portions of meat, given by the Israelites, must forever belong to Aaron and his descendants. By the regulations for the fellowship offerings, these will be offerings for the priests taken from the Israelites' offerings presented to me, Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 The holy garments of Aaron must also be reserved for his sons after him. They are to be anointed in them and consecrated to me in them.
+\v 30 The priest who succeeds him from among his sons, who comes into the tent of meeting to serve me in the holy place, is to wear those garments for seven days.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 You must take the ram for the consecration of the priests to me and boil its meat in a holy place.
+\v 32 Aaron and his sons must eat the ram's meat and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
+\v 33 They must eat the meat and bread that were given to atone for them and to consecrate them to serve me. No one else may eat that food, because they must treat it as consecrated to me, reserved for me.
+\v 34 If any of the meat of the consecration offering, or any of the bread, remains to the next morning, then you must burn it. It must not be eaten because it has been consecrated—reserved—for me.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 35 In this way, by following all that I have commanded you to do, you must treat Aaron and his sons. You must take seven days to consecrate them to me.
+\v 36 Every day you must offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. You must purify the altar by making atonement for it, and you must anoint it to set it apart as holy and reserved to me. 
+\v 37 For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will be most holy, very reserved for me. Whatever touches the altar will be the same.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 38 You must regularly offer on the altar every day two lambs a year old.
+\v 39 One lamb you must offer in the morning, and the other lamb you must offer about sundown.
+
+\s5
+\v 40 With the first lamb, offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil from pressed olives, and the fourth part of a hin of wine as a drink offering.
+
+\s5
+\v 41 You must offer the second lamb about sunset. You must offer the same grain offering as in the morning, and the same drink offering. These will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
+\v 42 These must be regular burnt offerings throughout your people's generations. You must do them at the entrance to the tent of meeting before me, Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you.
+
+\s5
+\v 43 That is where I will meet with the Israelites; the tent will be consecrated by my glory.
+\v 44  I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar for these to belong to me alone. I will also consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests.
+
+\s5
+\v 45 I will live among the Israelites and will be their God.
+\v 46 They will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt so that I might live among them. I am Yahweh, their God.
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+\c 30
+\p
+\v 1 You must make an altar to burn incense. You must make it with acacia wood.
+\v 2 Its length must be one cubit, and its width one cubit. It must be square, and its height must be two cubits. Its horns must be made as one piece with it.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 You must cover the incense altar with pure gold—its top, its sides, and its horns. You must make a surrounding border of gold for it.
+\v 4 You must make two golden rings to be attached to it under its border on its two opposite sides. The rings must be holders for poles to carry the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 You must make the poles of acacia wood, and you must cover them with gold.
+\v 6 You must put the incense altar before the curtain that is by the ark of the covenant decrees. It will be before the atonement lid that is over the ark of the covenant decrees, where I will meet with you.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Aaron must burn fragrant  incense every morning. He must burn it when he tends the lamps.
+\v 8 When Aaron lights the lamps again in the evening, he must burn incense on the incense altar. This must be a regular burning of incense before me, Yahweh, throughout your people's generations.
+\v 9 But you must offer no other incense on the incense altar, nor any burnt offering or grain offering. You must pour no drink offering on it.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Aaron must make atonement on the horns of the incense altar once a year. He must do this using the blood of the sin offering of atonement. The high priest must do this throughout your people's generations. This offering will be most holy, reserved for me, Yahweh."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses,
+\v 12 "When you take a census of the Israelites, then each person must give a ransom for his life to Yahweh. You must do this after you count them, so that there will be no plague among them when you count them.
+\v 13 Everyone who is counted in the census is to pay half a shekel of silver, according to the weight of the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is the same as twenty gerahs). This half shekel will be an offering to me, Yahweh.
+\v 14 Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and up, must give this offering to me.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 When the people give this offering to me to make atonement for their lives, the rich must not give more than the half shekel, and the poor must not give less.
+\v 16 You must  receive this atonement money from the Israelites and you must allocate it to the work of the tent of meeting. It must be a reminder to the Israelites before me, to make atonement for your lives."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 Yahweh spoke to Moses, 
+\v 18 "You must also make a large bronze basin with a bronze stand, a basin for  washing. You must  put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you must put water in it.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Aaron and his sons must wash their hands and their feet with the water in it.
+\v 20 When they go into the tent of meeting or when they go near to the altar to serve me by burning an offering, they must wash with water so that they do not die.
+\v 21 They must wash their hands and feet so that they do not die. This must be a permanent law for Aaron and his descendants throughout their people's generations."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Yahweh spoke to Moses, 
+\v 23 "Take these fine spices: five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, 250 shekels of sweet-smelling cane,
+\v 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, measured by the weight of the shekel of the sanctuary, and one hin of olive oil.
+\v 25 You must make holy anointing oil with these ingredients, the work of a perfumer. It will be a holy anointing oil, reserved for me.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 You must anoint the tent of meeting with this oil, as well as the ark of the covenant decrees,
+\v 27 the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its equipment, the incense altar,
+\v 28 the altar for burnt offerings with all its equipment, and the basin with its stand.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 You must consecrate them so that they may be most holy and reserved for me. Anything that touches them will also be reserved for me.
+\v 30 You must anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so that they may serve me as priests.
+\v 31 You must say to the Israelites, 'This must be an anointing oil consecrated to Yahweh throughout your people's generations.
+
+\s5
+\v 32 It must not be applied to people's skin, nor must you make any oil like it with the same formula because it is consecrated, reserved for Yahweh. You must regard it in this manner.
+\v 33 Whoever makes perfume like it, or whoever puts any of it on someone, that person must be cut off from his people.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take spices—stacte, onycha, and galbanum—sweet spices along with pure frankincense, each in equal amounts.
+\v 35 Make it into the form of incense, blended by a perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy, reserved for me.
+\v 36 You will grind it into a very fine mixture. Put part of it in front of the ark of the covenant decrees, which is in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. You will regard it as most holy.
+
+\s5
+\v 37 As for this incense that you will make, you must not make any with the same formula for yourselves. It must be most holy to you.
+\v 38 Whoever makes anything like it to use as a perfume must be cut off from his people."
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+\s5
+\c 31
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses,
+\v 2 "See, I have called by name Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 I have filled Bezalel with my spirit, to give him wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, for all kinds of craftsmanship,
+\v 4 to make artistic designs and to work in gold, silver, and bronze;
+\v 5 also to cut and set stones and to carve wood—to do all kinds of craftsmanship.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 In addition to him, I have appointed Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan. I have put skill into the hearts of all who are wise so that they may make all that I have commanded you. This includes
+\v 7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant decrees, the atonement lid on the ark, and all the furniture of the tent—
+\v 8 the table and its utensils, the pure lampstand with all its equipment, the incense altar,
+\v 9 the altar for burnt offerings with all its equipment, and the large basin with its base.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 This also includes the finely woven garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest and those of his sons, reserved for me so that they may serve as priests.
+\v 11 This also includes the anointing oil and the sweet incense for the holy place. These craftsmen must make all these things just as I have commanded you."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Yahweh spoke to Moses:
+\v 13 "Tell the Israelites: 'You must certainly keep Yahweh's Sabbath days, for these will be a sign between him and you throughout your people's generations so that you may know that he is Yahweh, who sets you apart for himself.
+\v 14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it must be treated by you as holy, reserved for him. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death. Whoever works on the Sabbath, that person must surely be cut off from his people.
+\v 15 Work will be done for six days, but the seventh day is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy, reserved for Yahweh's honor. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Therefore the Israelites must keep the Sabbath. They must observe it throughout their people's generations as a permanent law.
+\v 17 The Sabbath will always be a sign between Yahweh and the Israelites, for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 When God had finished talking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him two tablets of covenant decrees, made of stone, written on by his own hand.
+
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+\c 32
+\p
+\v 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Come, make us an idol that will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him."
+\v 2 So Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings that are on your wives' ears, and the ears of your sons, and daughters, and bring them to me."
+
+\s5
+\v 3 All the people took off the golden rings that were on their ears and brought them to Aaron.
+\v 4 He received the gold from them, fashioned it in a mold, and made it into a molded calf. Then the people said, "Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."
+
+\s5
+\v 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and made a proclamation; he said, "Tomorrow will be a festival in Yahweh's honor."
+\v 6 The people arose early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought fellowship offerings. Then they sat down to eat and to drink, and then got up to carouse in wild celebration.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go quickly, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
+\v 8 They have quickly left the way that I commanded them. They have molded for themselves a calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it. They have said, 'Israel, this is your god who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen this people. Look, they are a stiff-necked people.
+\v 10 Now then, do not try to stop me. My anger will burn hot against them, so I will destroy them. Then I will make a great nation from you."
+\v 11 But Moses tried to calm down Yahweh his God. He said, "Yahweh, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'He led them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth?' Turn from your burning anger and relent from this punishment on your people.
+\v 13 Call to mind Abraham and Isaac and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self and said to them, 'I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the heavens, and I will give to your descendants all this land of which I have spoken. They will inherit it forever.'"
+\v 14 Then Yahweh relented from the punishment that he had said he would inflict on his people.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 Then Moses turned around and went down the mountain, carrying the two tablets of the covenant decrees in his hand. The tablets were written on both their sides, on both the front and the back.
+\v 16 The tablets were God's own work, and the writing was God's own writing, engraved on the tablets.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of combat in the camp."
+\v 18 But Moses said, 
+\q "It is not the sound of a victor,
+\q and not the sound of defeated people,
+\q but the sound of singing that I hear."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 When Moses approached the camp, he saw the calf and the people dancing. He became very angry. He threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the bottom of the mountain.
+\v 20 He took the calf that the people had made, burned it, ground it to powder, and poured it into the water. Then he made the people of Israel drink it.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 Then Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great sin on them?"
+\v 22 Aaron said, "Do not let your anger burn hot, my master. You know these people, how they are set on doing evil.
+\v 23 They said to me, 'Make us a god who will go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'
+\v 24 So I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let him take it off. They gave me the gold and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 25 Moses saw that the people were running wild, for Aaron had let them get out of control, to mocking from their enemies.
+\v 26 Then Moses stood at the entrance to the camp and said, "Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me." All the Levites gathered around him.
+\v 27 He said to them, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this: 'Let each man fasten his sword on his side and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and kill his brother, his companion, and his
+neighbor.'"
+
+\s5
+\v 28 The Levites did what Moses ordered. That day about three thousand men out of the people died.
+\v 29 Moses said to the Levites, "You have been placed into Yahweh's service today, for each of you has acted against his brother, so Yahweh has given you a blessing today."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 30 The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed  a very great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin."
+\v 31 Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Oh, these people have committed a great sin and made themselves an idol of gold.
+\v 32 But now, please forgive their sin; but if you do not, blot me out of the book that you have written."
+
+\s5
+\v 33 Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me, that person I will blot out of my book.
+\v 34 So now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. See, my angel will go before you. But on the day that I punish them, I will punish them for their sin."
+\v 35 Then Yahweh sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf, the one that Aaron made.
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+\c 33
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt. Go to the land about which I made an oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.'
+\v 2 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
+\v 3 Go to that land, which is flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up with you, because you are a stubborn people. I might destroy you on the way."
+
+\s5
+\v 4 When the people heard these troubling words, they mourned, and no one put on any jewelry.
+\v 5 Yahweh had said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'You are a stubborn people. If I went among you for even one moment, I would destroy you. So now, take off your jewelry so that I may decide what to do with you.'"
+\v 6 So the Israelites wore no jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 Moses took a tent and pitched it outside the camp, some distance from the camp. He called it the tent of meeting. Everyone who asked Yahweh for anything went out to the tent of meeting, outside the camp.
+\v 8 When Moses would go out to the tent, all the people would stand up at their tent entrances and look at Moses until he had gone inside.
+\v 9 Whenever Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the tent entrance, and Yahweh would speak with Moses.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Whenever all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the entrance to the tent, they would get up and worship, every man at his own tent entrance.
+\v 11 Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua, son of Nun, a young man, would stay in the tent.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 Moses said to Yahweh, "See, you have been saying to me, 'Take this people on their journey,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
+\v 13 Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways so that I may know you and continue to find favor in your sight. Remember that this nation is your people."
+
+\s5
+\v 14 Yahweh answered, "My own presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
+\v 15 Moses said to him, "If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
+\v 16 For otherwise, how will it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Will it not only be if you go with us so that I and your people are different from all the other peoples that are on the surface of the earth?"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 Yahweh said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
+\v 18 Moses said, "Please show me your glory."
+
+\s5
+\v 19 Yahweh said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim my name 'Yahweh' before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
+\v 20 But Yahweh said, "You may not see my face, for no one can see me and live."
+
+\s5
+\v 21 Yahweh said, "See, here is a place by me; you will stand on this rock.
+\v 22 While my glory passes by, I will put you in a crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.
+\v 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be seen."
+
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+\s5
+\c 34
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Cut two tablets of stone like the first tablets. I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, the tablets that you broke.
+\v 2 Be ready by morning and come up Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the mountain top.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 No one is to come up with you. Do not let anyone else be seen anywhere on  the mountain. No flocks or herds are even to graze in front of the mountain."
+\v 4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and he got up early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had instructed him. Moses carried the tablets of stone in his hand.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Yahweh came down in the cloud and stood with Moses there, and he pronounced the name "Yahweh."
+\v 6 Yahweh passed by before him and proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness,
+\v 7 keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquities, transgressions, and sins. But he will by no means clear the guilty. He will bring the punishment for the fathers' sin on their children and on their children’s children, as far as the third and fourth generations."
+
+\s5
+\v 8 Moses quickly bowed his head to the ground and worshiped.
+\v 9 Then he said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, my Lord, please go among us, for this people is stubborn. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."
+
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+\p
+\v 10 Yahweh said, "See, I am about to make a covenant. Before all your people, I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation. All the people among you will see my deeds, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.
+\v 11 Obey what I command you today. I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among you.
+\v 13 Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their sacred stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
+\v 14 For you must worship no other god, for I, Yahweh, whose name is 'Jealous,' am a jealous God.
+
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+\v 15 Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. They commit adultery and go after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and they will invite you and you eat some of their sacrifices.
+\v 16 If so, you will even take some of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters will commit adultery and go after their own gods, and they will make your sons commit adultery and go after their gods.
+\v 17 You must mold no idols for yourselves.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 18 You must keep the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you must eat bread without yeast for seven days at the fixed time in the month of Abib, for it was in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt.
+
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+\v 19 All the firstborn are mine, even every male firstborn of your cattle, both of  oxen and sheep.
+\v 20 You must buy back the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, but if you do not buy it back, then you must break its neck. You must buy back all the firstborn of your sons. No one may appear before me empty-handed.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.
+\v 22 You must observe the Festival of Weeks with the first yield of the wheat harvest, and you must observe the Festival of Ingathering at the year’s end.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 All your men must appear before me, Yahweh, the God of Israel three times every year.
+\v 24 For I will drive out nations before you and expand your borders. No one will desire to invade your land and take it when you go up to appear before me, Yahweh, your God, three times every year.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 25 You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with any yeast, nor may any meat from the sacrifice at the Festival of the Passover be left over to the morning.
+\v 26  You must bring the best of the first fruits from your fields to my house. You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk."
+
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+\v 27 Yahweh said to Moses, "Write down these words, for I pledge myself to these words I have spoken, and have made a covenant with you and Israel."
+\v 28 Moses was there with Yahweh for forty days and nights; he did not eat any food nor drink any water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant decrees in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while speaking with God.
+\v 30 When Aaron and the  Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.
+\v 31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community came up to him. Then Moses spoke with them.
+
+\s5
+\v 32 After this, all the people of Israel came up to Moses, and he told them all the commands that Yahweh had  given him on Mount Sinai.
+\v 33 When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
+
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+\v 34 Whenever Moses went before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil. Then he would put the veil back on when he came away. He would come out of the tent and tell the Israelites what he had been instructed.
+\v 35 The Israelites saw Moses' face shining. But then he would put the veil over his face again until he went back in to speak with Yahweh.
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+\v 1 Moses assembled all the community of the Israelites and said to them, "These are the things that Yahweh has commanded you to do.
+\v 2 On six days work may be done, but for you, the seventh day must be a holy day, a Sabbath  day of complete rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
+\v 3 You must not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 Moses spoke to all the community of the Israelites, saying, "This is the thing that Yahweh commanded.
+\v 5 Take an offering for Yahweh, all of you who have a willing heart. Bring an offering to Yahweh—gold, silver,  bronze,
+\v 6  blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen; goats’ hair;
+\v 7 ram skins dyed red and sea cow hides; acacia wood;
+\v 8 oil for the sanctuary lamps, spices for the anointing oil and the fragrant incense,
+\v 9  onyx stones and other precious stones to be set for the ephod and breastpiece.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 Every skilled man among you is to come and make everything that Yahweh has commanded—
+\v 11 the tabernacle with its tent, its covering, its clasps, boards, bars, posts, and bases;
+\v 12 also the ark with its poles, the atonement lid, and the curtain to conceal it.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 They brought the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the bread of the presence;
+\v 14 the lampstand for the lights, with its accessories, its lamps, and the oil for the lamps;
+\v 15 the incense altar with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the tabernacle entrance;
+\v 16 the altar for burnt offerings with its bronze grate and its poles and utensils; and the large basin with its base.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard entrance;
+\v 18 and the tent pegs for the tabernacle and courtyard, together with their ropes.
+\v 19 They brought the fine woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons, for them to serve as priests."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 Then all the tribes of Israel left and went away from Moses's presence.
+\v 21 Everyone whose heart stirred him up and whom his spirit made willing came and brought an offering to Yahweh for the construction of the tabernacle, for all the items of service in it, and for the holy garments.
+\v 22 They came, both men and women, all who had a willing heart. They brought brooches, earrings, rings, and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry. They all presented offerings of gold to Yahweh.
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+\v 23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet wool,  fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or sea cow skins brought them.
+\v 24 Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to Yahweh, and everyone who had acacia wood for any use in the work brought it.
+
+\s5
+\v 25 Every skilled woman spun wool with her hands and brought what she  had spun—blue,  purple, or scarlet wool, or fine linen.
+\v 26 All the women whose hearts stirred them up and who had skill spun goats' hair.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 The leaders brought onyx stones and other gems to be set into the ephod and the breastpiece;
+\v 28 they brought spices and oil for the lamps, for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
+\v 29 The Israelites brought a freewill offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart was willing brought materials for all the work that Yahweh had commanded through Moses to be made.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 30 Moses said to the Israelites, "See, Yahweh has called by name on Bezalel, son of Uri, son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
+\v 31 He has filled Bezalel with his spirit, to give him wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, for all kinds of craftsmanship,
+\v 32  to make artistic designs and to work in gold, silver, and bronze;
+\v 33 also to cut and set stones and to carve wood—to do all kinds of design and craftsmanship.
+
+\s5
+\v 34 He has put it in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan.
+\v 35 He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work, to work as craftsmen, as engravers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet wool and fine linen, and as weavers. They are craftsmen in all sorts of work, and they are artistic designers.
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+\c 36
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+\v 1 So Bezalel and Oholiab will work, as well as every wise-hearted person in whom Yahweh has put skill and understanding to know how to build the sanctuary, following the instructions that he has given you to do."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 2 Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skillful person in whose mind Yahweh had given skill, and whose heart stirred within him to come and do the work.
+\v 3 They received from Moses all the offerings that the Israelites had brought for constructing the sanctuary. The people were still bringing freewill offerings every morning to Moses.
+\v 4 So all the skilled people working on the sanctuary came from the work that they had been doing.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 They told Moses, "The people are bringing much more than enough for doing the work that Yahweh has commanded us to do."
+\v 6 So Moses instructed that no one in the camp should bring any more offerings for the construction of the sanctuary. Then the people stopped bringing these gifts.
+\v 7 They had more than enough materials for all the work.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 So all the craftsmen among them constructed the tabernacle with ten curtains made from fine linen and blue, purple, and scarlet wool with the designs of cherubim. This was the work of Bezalel, the very skilled craftsman.
+\v 9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, the width four cubits. All the curtains were of the same size.
+\v 10 Bezalel joined five curtains to each other, and the other five curtains he also joined to each other.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 He made loops of blue along the outer edge of the end curtain of one set, and he did the same along the outer edge of the end curtain in the second set.
+\v 12 He made fifty loops on the first curtain and fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. So the loops were opposite to each another.
+\v 13 He made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains together with them so that the tabernacle became united.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Bezalel made curtains of goat hair for a tentlike covering over the tabernacle; he made eleven of these curtains.
+\v 15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain was four cubits. Each of the eleven curtains was of the same size.
+\v 16 He joined five curtains to each other and the other six curtains to each other.
+\v 17 He made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain of the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain that joined the second set.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 Bezalel made fifty bronze clasps to join the tentlike covering together so that it might be one.
+\v 19 He made for the tabernacle a covering of ram skins dyed red, another covering of fine leather to go above that.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 20 Bezalel made vertical boards out of acacia wood  for the tabernacle.
+\v 21 The length of each board was ten cubits, and its width was one and a half cubits.
+\v 22 There were two projections in each board for joining the boards to each other. He made all the tabernacle's boards in this way.
+\v 23 In this way he made the boards for the tabernacle. He made twenty boards for the south side.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 Bezalel made forty silver bases to go under the twenty boards. There were two bases under the first board to be its two pedestals, and also two bases under each of the other boards for their two pedestals.
+\v 25 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards
+\v 26 and their forty silver bases. There were two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 For the back of the tabernacle on the west, Bezalel made six boards.
+\v 28 He made two boards for the back corners of the tabernacle.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 These boards were separate at the bottom, but joined at the top to the same ring. It was this way for both of the back corners.
+\v 30 There were eight boards, together with their silver bases. There were sixteen bases in all, two bases under the first board, two bases under the next board, and so on.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 31 Bezalel  made crossbars of acacia wood—five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
+\v 32 five crossbars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five crossbars for the boards for the back side of the tabernacle to the west. 
+\v 33 He made the crossbar in the center of the boards, that is, halfway up, to reach from end to end.
+\v 34 He covered the boards with gold. He made their rings of gold, for them to serve as holders for the crossbars, and he covered the bars with gold.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 35 Bezalel made the curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen, with designs of cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.
+\v 36 He made for the curtain four pillars of acacia wood, and he covered them with gold. He also made gold hooks for the pillars, and he cast for them four silver bases.
+
+\s5
+\v 37 He made a hanging for the tent entrance. It was made of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, using fine linen, the work of an embroiderer.
+\v 38 He also made the hanging's five pillars with hooks. He covered their tops and their rods with gold. Their five bases were made of bronze.
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+\c 37
+\p
+\v 1 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits; its width was one cubit and a half; and its  height was one cubit and a half.
+\v 2 He covered it inside and out with pure gold and made for it a border of gold around its top.
+\v 3 He cast four rings of gold for its four feet, with two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 He made poles of acacia wood and covered them with gold.
+\v 5 He put the poles into the rings on the ark's sides, in order to carry the ark.
+\v 6 He made an atonement lid of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width was one and a half cubits.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Bezalel made two cherubim of hammered gold for the two ends of the atonement lid.
+\v 8 One cherub was for one end of the atonement lid, and other cherub was for the other end. They were made as one piece with the atonement lid.
+\v 9 The cherubim spread out their wings upward and overshadowed the atonement lid with them. The cherubim faced each another and looked toward the center of the atonement lid.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 Bezalel made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, its width was one cubit, and its height was one and a half cubits.
+\v 11 He covered it with pure gold and put a border of pure gold around the top.
+\v 12 He made a surrounding frame for it one handbreadth wide, with a surrounding border of gold for the frame. 
+\v 13 He cast for it four rings of gold and attached the rings to the four corners, where the four feet were.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 The rings were attached to the frame to provide places for the poles, in order to carry the table.
+\v 15 He made the poles out of acacia wood and covered them with gold, in order to carry the table.
+\v 16 He made the objects that would be on the table—the dishes, spoons, the bowls, and pitchers to be used to pour out the offerings. He made them out of pure gold.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 He made the lampstand of pure hammered gold. He made the lampstand with its base and shaft. Its cups, its leafy bases, and its flowers were all made of one piece with it.
+\v 18 Six branches extended out from its sides—three branches extended from one side, and three branches of the lampstand extended from the other side.
+\v 19  The first branch had three cups made like almond blossoms, with a leafy base and a flower, and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, with a leafy base and a flower. It was the same for all six branches extending out from the lampstand.
+
+\s5
+\v 20 On the lampstand itself, the central shaft, there were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their leafy bases and the flowers.
+\v 21 There was a leafy base under the first pair of branches—made as one piece with it, and a leafy base under the second pair of branches—also made as one piece with it. In the same way there was a leafy base under the third pair of branches, made as one piece with it. It was the same for all six branches extending out from the lampstand.
+\v 22 Their leafy bases and branches were all one piece with it, one beaten piece of work of pure gold.
+
+\s5
+\v 23 Bezalel made the lampstand and its seven lamps, its tongs and their trays  of pure gold.
+\v 24 He made the lampstand and its accessories with one talent of pure gold.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 25 Bezalel made the incense altar. He made it with acacia wood. Its length was one cubit, and its width one cubit. It was square, and its height was two cubits. Its horns were made as one piece with it.
+
+\v 26 He covered the incense altar with pure gold—its top, its sides, and its horns. He also made a surrounding border of gold for it.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 He made two golden rings to be attached to it under its border on its two opposite sides. The rings were holders for poles to carry the altar.
+
+\v 28 He made the poles of acacia wood, and he covered them with gold.
+
+
+\v 29 He made the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
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+\c 38
+\p
+\v 1 Bezalel made the altar for burnt offerings of acacia wood. It was five cubits long and five cubits wide—a square—and three cubits high.
+\v 2 He made extensions of its four corners shaped like ox horns. The horns were made of one piece with the altar, and he covered it with bronze.
+\v 3 He made all the equipment for the altar—pots for ashes, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans. He made all this equipment with bronze.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 He made a grate for the altar, a network of bronze to be placed under the ledge, halfway down to the bottom.
+\v 5 He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grate, as holders for the poles.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 Bezalel made poles of acacia wood and covered them with bronze.
+\v 7 He put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of planks.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Bezalel made the large bronze basin with a bronze stand. He made the basin out of mirrors belonging to the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 He also made the courtyard. The hangings on the south side of the courtyard were of fine linen, one hundred cubits long.
+\v 10 The hangings had twenty posts, with twenty bronze bases. There were hooks attached to the posts, as well as silver rods.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 Likewise along the north side, there were hangings one hundred cubits long with twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, hooks attached to the posts, and silver rods.
+\v 12 The hangings of the west side were fifty cubits long, with ten posts and bases. The hooks and rods of the posts were silver.
+
+\s5
+\v 13 The courtyard was also fifty cubits long on the east side.
+\v 14 The hangings for one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long. They had three posts with three bases.
+\v 15 On the other side of the entrance of the court were also hangings fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases. 
+\v 16 All the hangings around the courtyard were made of fine linen.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 The bases for the posts were made of bronze. The hooks and rods for the posts were made of silver, and the covering for the tops of the posts was also made of silver. All the courtyard posts were covered with silver.
+\v 18 The curtain at the courtyard gate was twenty cubits long. The curtain was made of blue,  purple, and scarlet linen, fine twined linen, and was twenty cubits long. It was twenty cubits in length and five cubits in height, like the courtyard curtains.
+\v 19 It had four bronze bases and silver hooks. The covering for their tops and its rods were made of silver.
+\v 20 All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and courtyard were made of bronze.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 21 This is the inventory of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant decrees, as it was taken following Moses' instructions. It was the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
+\v 22 Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah, made everything that Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+\v 23 Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, worked with Bezalel as an engraver, as a skillful workman, and as an embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and in fine linen.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 All the gold that was used for the project, in all the work connected with the sanctuary—the gold from the presentation offering—was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, measured by the standard of the sanctuary shekel.
+\v 25 The silver given by the community weighed one hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel, 
+\v 26 or one beka per man, which is half a shekel, measured by the sanctuary shekel. This figure was reached on the basis of every person who was counted in the census, those twenty years old and older—603,550 men in all.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 One hundred talents of silver were cast for the sanctuary bases and the curtain's bases: one hundred bases, one talent for each base.
+\v 28 With the remaining 1,775 shekels of silver, Bezalel made the hooks for the posts, covered the tops of the posts, and made the rods for them.
+\v 29 The bronze from the offering weighed seventy talents and 2,400 shekels.
+
+\s5
+\v 30 With this he made the bases for the entrance to the tent of meeting, the bronze altar, its bronze grate, all the equipment for the altar,
+\v 31 the bases for the courtyard, the bases for the courtyard entrance, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs for the courtyard.
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+\p
+\v 1 With the blue, purple, and scarlet wool, they made finely woven garments for service in the holy place. They made Aaron's garments for the sanctuary, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 2 Bezalel made the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine twined linen.
+\v 3 They hammered gold sheets and cut them into wires, to work them into the blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and into the fine linen, the work of a skillful workman.
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+\s5
+\v 4 They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, attached at its two upper corners.
+\v 5 Its finely woven waistband was like the ephod; it was made of one piece with the ephod, made of fine twined linen that was gold, blue, purple, and scarlet, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 They crafted the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, set with engravings as on a signet, and engraved with the names of Israel's twelve sons.
+\v 7 Bezalel put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones to remind Yahweh of Israel's twelve sons, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 He made the breastpiece, the work of a skillful workman, fashioned like the ephod. He made it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet wool, and of fine linen.
+\v 9 It was square. They folded the breastpiece double. It was one span long and one span wide.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 They set in it four rows of precious stones. The first row had a ruby, a topaz, and a garnet. 
+\v 11 The second row had an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
+\v 12 The third row had a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst.
+\v 13 The fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. The stones were mounted in gold settings.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 The stones were arranged by the names of Israel's twelve sons, each in order by name. They were like the engraving on a signet ring, each name standing for one of the twelve tribes.
+\v 15 On the breastpiece they made chains like cords, braided work of pure gold.
+\v 16 They made two settings of gold and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the two corners of the breastpiece.
+
+\s5
+\v 17 They put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings at the corners of the breastpiece.
+\v 18 They attached the other two ends of the braided chains to the two settings. They attached them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at its front.
+
+\s5
+\v 19 They made two rings of gold and put them on the two other corners of the breastpiece, on the edge next to the inner border.
+\v 20 They made two more gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the front of the ephod, close to its seam above the finely woven waistband of the ephod.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 They tied the breastpiece by its rings to the ephod's rings with a blue cord, so that it might be attached just above the ephod's finely woven waistband. This was so that the breastpiece might not become unattached from the ephod. This was done as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Bezalel made the robe of the ephod completely of purple fabric, the work of a weaver.
+\v 23 It had an opening for the head in the middle. The opening had a woven edge round about so that it did not tear.
+\v 24 On the bottom hem, they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and of fine linen.
+
+\s5
+\v 25 They made bells of pure gold, and they put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the bottom edge the robe, between the pomegranates—
+\v 26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate—on the edge of the robe for Aaron to serve in. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 They made the coats of fine linen for Aaron and for his sons.
+\v 28 They made the turban of fine linen, the ornate head bands of fine linen, the linen undergarments of fine linen,
+\v 29 and the sash of fine linen and of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, the work of an embroiderer. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 30 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold; they engraved on it, like the engraving on a signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH.
+\v 31 They attached to the turban a blue cord to the top of the turban. This was as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 32 So the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The people of Israel did everything. They followed all the instructions  that Yahweh had given to Moses.
+\v 33 They brought the tabernacle to Moses—the tent and all its equipment, its clasps, boards, bars, posts, and bases;
+\v 34 the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of sea cow leather, and the curtain to conceal 
+\v 35 the ark of the covenant decrees, as well as the poles and the atonement lid.
+
+\s5
+\v 36 They brought the table, all its utensils, and the bread of the presence;
+\v 37 the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps in a row, with its accessories and the oil for the lamps;
+\v 38  the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the tabernacle entrance;
+\v 39 the bronze altar with its bronze grate and its poles and utensil and the large basin with its base.
+
+\s5
+\v 40 They brought the hangings for the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the courtyard entrance; its ropes and tent pegs; and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
+\v 41 They brought the fine woven garments for serving in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and his sons, for them to serve as priests.
+
+\s5
+\v 42 Thus the people of Israel did all the work as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+\v 43 Moses examined all the work, and, behold, they had done it. As Yahweh had commanded, in that way they did it. Then Moses blessed them.
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+\s5
+\c 40
+\p
+\v 1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses,
+\v 2 "On the first day of the first month of the new year you must set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 You must place the ark of the covenant decrees in it, and you must shield the ark with the curtain.
+\v 4 You must bring in the table and set in order the things that belong on it. Then you must bring in the lampstand and set up the lamps.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 You must put the golden incense altar before the ark of the covenant decrees, and you must put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
+\v 6 You must put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the entrance  to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
+\v 7 You must put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you must put water in it.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 You must set up the courtyard around it, and you must hang up the curtain at the courtyard entrance.
+\v 9 You must take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything that is in it. You must consecrate it and all its furnishings; then it will be holy, reserved for me.
+\v 10 You must anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils. You must consecrate the altar—prepare it for service to me, and it will become most holy, reserved for me.
+\v 11 You must anoint the bronze basin and its base, and sanctify it, to prepare it for service to me.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting, and you must wash them with water.
+\v 13 You are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him for me alone so that he may serve as my priest.
+
+\s5
+\v 14 You are to bring his sons and clothe them with coats.
+\v 15 You must anoint them as you anointed their father so that they may serve me as priests. Their anointing will make for them a permanent priesthood throughout their people's generations."
+\v 16 This is what Moses did; he followed all that Yahweh had commanded him. He did all these things.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year.
+\v 18  Moses set up the tabernacle, put its bases in place, set up its boards, attached its bars, and set up its pillars and posts.
+\v 19 He spread the covering over the tabernacle and put the tentlike covering over it, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 20 He took the covenant decrees and put them into the ark. He also placed  the poles on the ark and put the atonement lid on it.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 He brought the ark into the tabernacle. He set up the curtain for it to shield the ark of the covenant decrees, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 22 He put the table into the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the curtain.
+\v 23 He placed the bread in order on the table before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 He put the lampstand into the tent of meeting, across from the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.
+\v 25 He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 He put the golden incense altar into the tent of meeting in front of the curtain.
+\v 27 He burned fragrant incense on it, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+
+\s5
+\v 28 He hung the curtain at the tabernacle entrance.
+\v 29 He put the altar for the burnt offering at the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. He offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh had commanded him.
+\v 30 He placed the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and he put water in it for washing.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet from the basin
+\v 32 whenever they would go into the tent of meeting and whenever they would go up to the altar. They washed themselves, as Yahweh had commanded Moses.
+\v 33 Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar. He set up the curtain at the courtyard entrance. In this way, Moses finished the work.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.
+\v 35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and because Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.
+
+\s5
+\v 36 Whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out on their journey.
+\v 37 But if the cloud did not rise up from the tabernacle, then the people would not travel. They would stay until the day that it was lifted up.
+\v 38 For Yahweh's cloud was over the tabernacle by day, and his fire was over it by night, in plain view of all the people of Israel throughout their journey.
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+\id LEV Unlocked Literal Bible
+\ide UTF-8
+\h Leviticus 
+\toc1 The Third Book of Moses, commonly called Leviticus 
+\toc2 Leviticus 
+\toc3 Lev 
+\mt The Third Book of Moses, commonly called Leviticus 
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+\s5
+\c 1
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,
+\v 2 "Speak to the people of Israel and tell them, 'When any man from among you brings an offering to Yahweh, bring as your offering one of your animals, either from the herd or from the flock.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 3 If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he must offer a male without blemish. He is to offer it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, so that it may be accepted before Yahweh.
+\v 4 He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and then it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for himself.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Then he must kill the bull before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will present the blood and splash it on the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
+\v 6 Then he must skin the burnt offering and cut it to pieces.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 Then the sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar and place wood to feed the fire.
+\v 8 Aaron’s sons, the priests, are to place the pieces, the head and the fat, in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar.
+\v 9 But its inner parts and its legs he must wash with water. Then the priest will burn everything on the altar as a burnt offering. It will produce a sweet aroma for me; it will be an offering made to me by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 10 If his offering for the burnt offering is from the flock, one of the sheep or one of the goats, he must offer a male without blemish.
+\v 11 He must kill it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will splash its blood on every side of the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 Then he must cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest will lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire, which is on the altar,
+\v 13 but the inner parts and the legs he must wash with water. Then the priest will offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, and it will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 If his offering to Yahweh is to be a burnt offering of birds, then he must bring as his offering either a dove or a young pigeon.
+\v 15 The priest must bring it to the altar, wring off its head, and burn it on the altar. Then its blood must be drained out on the side of the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 He must remove its crop with its contents, and throw it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for the ashes.
+\v 17 He must tear it open by its wings, but he must not divide it into two parts. Then the priest will burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It will be a burnt offering, and it will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
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+\s5
+\c 2
+\p
+\v 1 When anyone brings a  grain offering to Yahweh, his offering must be fine flour, and he will pour oil on it  and put incense on it.
+\v 2 He is to take the offering to Aaron’s sons the priests, and there the priest will take out a handful of the fine flour with the oil and the incense on it. Then the priest will burn the offering on the altar to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness. It will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
+
+\v 3 Whatever is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. It is something most holy for God from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 4 When you offer a grain offering without yeast  that is baked in an oven, it must be soft bread of fine flour mixed with oil, or hard bread without yeast, which is spread with oil.
+\v 5 If your grain offering is baked with a flat iron pan, it must be of fine flour without yeast that is mixed with oil.
+
+\s5
+\v 6 You are to divide it into pieces and pour oil on it. This is a grain offering.
+\v 7 If your grain offering is cooked in a pan, it must be made with fine flour and oil.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 You must bring the grain offering made from these things to Yahweh, and it will be presented to the priest, who will bring it to the altar.
+\v 9 Then the priest will take some from the grain offering to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness, and he will burn it on the altar. It will be an offering made by fire, and it will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
+\v 10 What is left of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons. This is something most holy for Yahweh from the offerings to Yahweh made by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 11 No grain offering that you offer to Yahweh is to be made with yeast, for you must burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
+\v 12 You will offer them to Yahweh as an offering of first fruits, but they will not be used to produce a sweet aroma on the altar.
+\v 13 You must season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must never allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be missing from your grain offering. With all your offerings you must offer salt.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 If you offer a grain offering of first fruits to Yahweh, offer fresh grain that is roasted with fire and then crushed into meal.
+\v 15 Then you must put oil and incense on it. This is a grain offering.
+\v 16 Then the priest will burn part of the crushed grain and oil and incense to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness. This is an offering made by fire to Yahweh. 
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+\s5
+\c 3
+\p
+\v 1 If someone offers a sacrifice which is a fellowship offering of an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must offer an animal without blemish before Yahweh.
+\v 2 He will lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 The man will offer the sacrifice of a fellowship offering by fire to Yahweh. The fat that covers or is connected to the inner parts, 
+\v 4 and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them by the loins, and the lobe of  the liver, with the kidneys—he will remove all of this.
+\v 5 Aaron’s sons will burn that on the altar with the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire. This will produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh; it will be an offering made to him by fire.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 6 If the man's sacrifice of a fellowship offering to Yahweh is from the flock; male or female, he must offer a sacrifice without blemish.
+\v 7 If he offers a lamb for his sacrifice, then he must offer it before Yahweh.
+\v 8 He will lay his hand on the head of his sacrifice and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then Aaron’s sons will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 9 The man will offer the sacrifice of fellowship offerings as an offering made by fire to Yahweh. The fat, the entire fat tail cut away close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the inner parts and all the fat that is near the inner parts,
+\v 10 and the two kidneys and the fat that is with them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys—he will remove all of this.
+\v 11 And the priest will burn it all on the altar as a food offering made by fire to Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 12 And if the man's offering is a goat, then he will offer it before Yahweh.
+\v 13 He must lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it before the tent of meeting. Then the sons of Aaron will splash its blood on the sides of the altar.
+\v 14 The man will offer his sacrifice made by fire to Yahweh. He will remove the fat that covers the inner parts, and all the fat near the inner parts.
+
+\s5
+\v 15 He will also remove the two kidneys and the fat that is with them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver with the kidneys.
+\v 16 The priest will burn all that on the altar as a food offering made by fire, to produce a sweet aroma. All the fat belongs to Yahweh.
+\v 17 It will be a permanent law throughout your people's generations in every place you make your home, that you must not eat fat or blood.'"
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+\s5
+\c 4
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
+\v 2 "Tell the people of Israel, 'When anyone sins without wanting to sin, doing any of the things that Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and if he does something that is prohibited, the following must be done.
+\v 3 If it is the high priest who sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to Yahweh as a sin offering.
+
+\s5
+\v 4 He must bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, lay his hand on its head, and kill the bull  before Yahweh.
+\v 5 The anointed priest will take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting. 
+
+\s5
+\v 6 The priest will dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before Yahweh, before the curtain of the most holy place.
+\v 7 And the priest will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting, and he will pour out all the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
+
+\s5
+\v 8 He will cut away all the fat of the bull of the sin offering; the fat that covers the inner parts, all the fat that is attached to the inner parts,
+\v 9 the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe of the liver, with the kidneys—he will cut away all this.
+\v 10 He will cut it all away, just as he cuts it off from the bull of the sacrifice of peace offerings. Then the priest will burn these parts on the altar for burnt offerings.
+
+\s5
+\v 11 The skin of the bull and any remaining meat, with its head and with its legs  and its inner parts and its dung,
+\v 12 all the rest of the parts of the  bull—he will carry all these parts outside the camp to a place that they have cleansed for me, where they pour out the ashes; they will burn those parts there on wood. They must burn those parts where they pour out the ashes.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 13 If the whole assembly of Israel sins without wanting to sin, and the assembly is unaware that they have sinned and done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and if they are guilty, 
+\v 14 then, when the sin they have committed becomes known, then the assembly must offer a young bull for a sin offering and bring it before the tent of meeting.
+\v 15 The elders of the assembly will lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh, and the bull will be killed before Yahweh.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 The anointed priest will bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting, 
+\v 17 and the priest will dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the curtain.
+
+\s5
+\v 18 He will put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting, and he will pour out all the blood at the base of the altar for burnt offerings, which is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
+\v 19 He will cut off all the fat from it  and burn it on the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 20 That is what he must do with the bull. Just as he did with the bull of the sin offering, so will he also do with this bull, and the priest will make atonement for the people, and they will be forgiven.
+\v 21 He will carry the bull outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull. This is the sin offering for the assembly.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 When a ruler sins without intending to sin, doing any one of all the things that Yahweh his God has commanded not to be done, and if he is guilty, 
+\v 23 then if his sin which he has committed is made known to him, he must bring for his sacrifice a goat, a male without blemish.
+
+\s5
+\v 24 He will lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh. This is a sin offering.
+\v 25 The priest will take the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings, and he will pour out its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.
+
+\s5
+\v 26 He will burn all the fat on the altar, just like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest will make atonement for the ruler concerning his sin, and the ruler will be forgiven.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 27 If anyone of the common people sin without intending to sin,  doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and if he is guilty,
+\v 28 then if his sin which he has committed is known to him, then he will bring a goat for his sacrifice, a female without blemish, for the sin that he has committed.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 He will lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering at the place of burnt offering.
+\v 30 The priest will take some the blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings. He will pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.
+
+\s5
+\v 31 He will cut away all the fat, just as the fat is cut away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings. The priest will burn it on the altar to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh. The priest will make atonement for the man, and he will be forgiven.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 32 If the man brings a lamb as his sacrifice for a sin offering, he will bring a female without blemish.
+\v 33 He will lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering at the place where they kill the burnt offering.
+
+\s5
+\v 34 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar for burnt offerings, and he will pour out all its blood at the base of the altar.
+\v 35 He will cut away all the fat, just as the fat of the lamb is cut away from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest will burn it on the altar on top of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. The priest will make atonement for him for the sin he has committed, and the man will be forgiven.
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+\s5
+\c 5
+\p
+\v 1 If anyone sins because he does not testify when he has witnessed something about which he is required to testify, whether he has seen it or heard about it, he will be responsible.
+\v 2 Or if anyone touches anything God has designated as unclean, whether it be the carcass of an unclean wild animal or the carcass of any livestock that has died, or creeping animal, even if the person did not intend to touch it, he is unclean and guilty.
+
+\s5
+\v 3 Or if he touches the uncleanness of someone, whatever that uncleanness is, and if he is unaware of it, then he will be guilty when he learns about it.
+\v 4 Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man swears rashly with an oath, even if he is unaware of it, when he learns about it, then he will be guilty, in any of these things.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 When someone is guilty in any of these things, he must confess whatever sin he has committed.
+\v 6 Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh for the sin that he has committed, a female animal from the flock, either a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering, and the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 7 If he cannot afford to buy a lamb, then he can bring as his guilt offering for his sin two doves or two young pigeons to Yahweh, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.
+\v 8 He must bring them to the priest, who will offer one for the sin offering first—he will wring off its head from its neck but will not remove it completely from the body.
+\v 9 Then he will splash some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, and he will drain the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar. This is a sin offering.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 Then he must offer the second bird as a burnt offering, as described in the instructions, and the priest will make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and the person will be forgiven.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 11 But if he cannot afford to buy two doves or two young pigeons, then he must bring as his sacrifice for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or any incense on it, for it is a sin offering.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 He must bring it to the priest, and the priest will take a handful of it to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness and then burn it on the altar, on top of the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. This is a sin offering.
+\v 13 The priest will make atonement for any sin that the person has committed, and that person will be forgiven. The leftovers from the offering will belong to the priest, as with the grain offering.'"
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
+\v 15 "If anyone violates a command and sins, but did so unintentionally, then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh. This offering must be a ram without blemish from the flock; its value must be appraised in silver shekels—the tabernacle shekel—as a guilt offering.
+\v 16 He must satisfy Yahweh for what he had done wrong in connection with what is holy, and he must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and that person will be forgiven.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 17 If anyone sins and does anything that Yahweh has commanded not to be done, even if he was unaware of it, he is still guilty  and must carry his own guilt.
+\v 18 He must bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, worth the current value, as a guilt offering  to the priest. Then the priest will make atonement for him concerning the sin he has committed, of which he was unaware, and he will be forgiven.
+\v 19 It is a guilt offering, and he is certainly guilty before Yahweh."
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+\c 6
+\p
+\v 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
+\v 2 "If anyone sins and breaks a command against Yahweh, such as dealing  falsely with his neighbor regarding something entrusted to him, or if he cheats or robs him, or has oppressed his neighbor,
+\v 3 or has found something that his neighbor lost and lies about it, and swears to the lie, or in matters like these in which people sin,
+\v 4 then it will come about, if he has sinned and is guilty, that he must restore whatever he took by robbery or oppression or taking what was entrusted to him or the lost thing that he found.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 Or if he lied about any matter, he must restore it in full and must add one fifth more to pay him to whom it is owed, on the day that he is found guilty.
+\v 6 Then he must bring his guilt offering to Yahweh: a ram without blemish from the flock that is worth the current value, as a guilt offering to the priest.
+\v 7 The priest will make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he will be forgiven concerning whatever he has become guilty of doing."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 8 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 
+\v 9 "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering must be on the hearth of the altar all night until morning, and the fire of the altar will be kept burning.
+
+\s5
+\v 10 The priest will put on his linen clothes, and he will also put on his linen underclothes. He will pick up the ashes that are left after the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and he will put the ashes beside the altar.
+\v 11 He will take off his garments and put on other garments to carry the ashes outside the camp to a place that is clean.
+
+\s5
+\v 12 The fire on the altar will be kept burning. It must not go out, and the priest will burn wood on it every morning. He will arrange the burnt offering as required on it, and he will burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.
+\v 13 Fire must be kept burning on the altar continually. It must not go out.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 14 This is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron will offer it before Yahweh before the altar.
+\v 15 The priest will take up a handful  of the fine flour of the grain offering and of the oil and the incense which is on the grain offering, and he will burn it on the altar to produce a sweet aroma to gratefully think about Yahweh's goodness.
+
+\s5
+\v 16 Aaron and his sons will eat whatever is left of the offering. It must be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They will eat it in the courtyard of the tent of meeting 
+\v 17 It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their part of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as the sin offering and the guilt offering.
+\v 18 For all time to come throughout your people's generations, any male descended from Aaron may eat it as his share, taken from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them will become holy.' "
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 So Yahweh spoke to Moses again, saying,
+\v 20 "This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they will offer to Yahweh on the day when each son is anointed: a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.
+
+\s5
+\v 21 It will be made with oil in a baking pan. When it is soaked, you will bring it in. In baked pieces you will offer the grain offering to produce a sweet aroma for Yahweh.
+\v 22 The son of the high priest who is becoming the new high priest from among his sons will offer it. As commanded forever, all of it shall be burned to Yahweh.
+\v 23 Every grain offering of the priest will be completely burned up. It must not be eaten."
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 24 Yahweh spoke to Moses again, saying, 
+\v 25 "Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, 'This is the law of the sin offering:  The sin offering must be killed at the place where the burnt offering is killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.
+\v 26 The priest who offers it for sin will eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place in the courtyard of the tent of meeting.
+
+\s5
+\v 27 Whatever touches its meat will become holy, and if the blood is splashed on any garment, you must wash it, the part that was splashed on, in a holy place.
+\v 28 But the clay pot in which it is boiled must be broken. If it is boiled in a bronze pot, it must be scrubbed and rinsed clean in water.
+
+\s5
+\v 29 Any male among the priests may eat some of it because it is most holy.
+\v 30 And no sin offering must be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place. It must be burned.
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+\c 7
+\p
+\v 1 This is the law of the guilt offering.  It is most holy.
+\v 2 They must kill the guilt offering in the place for killing it, and they must splash its blood against every side of the altar.
+\v 3 All the fat in it will be offered: the fat tail, the fat that is over the inner parts,
+\v 4 the two kidneys and the fat on them, which is next to the loins, and what covers the liver, with the kidneys—all this must be removed.
+
+\s5
+\v 5 The priest must burn these parts on the altar as an offering made with  fire to Yahweh. This is the guilt offering.
+\v 6 Every male among the priests may eat part of this offering. It must be eaten in a holy place because it is most holy.
+
+\s5
+\v 7 The sin offering is like the guilt offering. The same law applies to both of them. They belong to the priest who makes atonement with them.
+\v 8 The priest who offers anyone's burnt offering may have for himself the hide of that offering.
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+\s5
+\v 9 Every grain offering that is baked in an oven, and every such offering that is cooked in a frying pan or in a baking pan will belong to the priest who offers it.
+\v 10 Every grain offering, either dry or mixed with oil, will belong equally to all the descendants of Aaron.
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+\s5
+\p
+\v 11 This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which people will offer to Yahweh.
+\v 12 If anyone offers it in order to give thanks, then he must offer it with a sacrifice of cakes made without yeast, but mixed with oil, of cakes made without yeast, but spread with oil, and of cakes made with fine flour that is mixed with oil.
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+\s5
+\v 13 Also for the purpose of giving thanks, he must offer with his peace offering  cakes of bread made with yeast.
+\v 14 He is to offer one of each kind of these sacrifices as an offering presented to Yahweh. It will belong to the priests who splashed the blood of the peace offerings onto the altar.
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+\s5
+\p
+\v 15 The person presenting a peace offering for the purpose of giving thanks must eat the meat of his offering on the day of the sacrifice. He must not leave any of it until the next morning.
+\v 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering is for the purpose of a vow, or for the purpose of a freewill offering, the meat must be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, but whatever remains of it may be eaten on the next day. 
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+\s5
+\v 17 However, whatever meat of the sacrifice remains on the third day must be burned.
+\v 18 If any of the meat of the sacrifice of one's peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted, neither will it be credited to the one  who offered it. It will be a disgusting thing, and the person who eats it will carry the guilt of his sin.
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+\s5
+\p
+\v 19 Any meat that touches an unclean thing must not be eaten. It must be burned. As for the rest of the meat, anyone who is clean may eat it.
+\v 20 However, an unclean person who eats any meat from the sacrifice of a peace offering that belongs to Yahweh—that person must be cut off from his people.
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+\s5
+\v 21 If anyone touches any unclean thing—whether uncleanness of man, or of unclean beast, or of some unclean and disgusting thing, and if he then eats some of the meat of a sacrifice of peace offering that belongs to Yahweh, that person must be cut off from his people.' "
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 22 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 
+\v 23 "Speak to the people of Israel and say, 'You must eat no fat of an ox or a sheep or a goat.
+\v 24 The fat of an animal that died without being a sacrifice, or the fat of an animal torn by wild animals, may be used for other purposes, but you must certainly not eat it.
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+\s5
+\v 25 Whoever eats the fat of an animal that men can offer as a  sacrifice by fire to Yahweh, that person must be cut off from his people.
+\v 26 You must eat no blood whatsoever in any of your houses, whether it is from a bird or an animal.
+\v 27 Whoever eats any blood, that person must be cut off from his people.' "
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+\p
+\v 28 So Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, 
+\v 29 "Speak to the people of Israel and say, 'He who offers the sacrifice of a peace offering to Yahweh must bring part of his sacrifice to Yahweh.
+\v 30  The offering for Yahweh to be made by fire, his own hands must bring it. He must bring the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be an offering raised before Yahweh and presented to him.
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+\s5
+\v 31 The priest must burn the fat on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his descendants.
+\v 32 You must give the right thigh to the priest as an offering presented out of the sacrifice of your peace offerings.
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+\s5
+\v 33 The priest, one of Aaron's descendants, who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat—he will have the right thigh as his share of the offering.
+\v 34 For I have taken the offering of the breast and thigh that was raised and presented to me, and I have given them to Aaron, the high priest and to his descendants; this will always be their share from the sacrifices of peace offerings made by the people of Israel.
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+\s5
+\p
+\v 35 This is the share for Aaron and his descendants from the offerings for Yahweh made by fire, on the day when Moses presented them to serve Yahweh in the work of priest. 
+\v 36 This is the share that Yahweh commanded to be given them from the people of Israel, on the day that he anointed the priests. It will always be their share throughout all generations.
+
+\s5
+\p
+\v 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the consecration offering, and of the sacrifice of peace offerings,
+\v 38 about which Yahweh gave commands to Moses on Mount Sinai on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to offer their sacrifices to Yahweh in the Wilderness of Sinai.' "
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