| Genesis 15:1 |
Some time later, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision. He said,/“Fear not, Abram,/I am a shield to you;/Your reward shall be very great.” |
| Genesis 15:2 |
But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, seeing that I shall die childless, and the one in charge of my household is Dammesek Eliezer!” |
| Genesis 15:3 |
Abram said further, “Since You have granted me no offspring, my steward will be my heir.” |
| Genesis 15:4 |
The word of the LORD came to him in reply, “That one shall not be your heir; none but your very own issue shall be your heir.” |
| Genesis 15:5 |
He took him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He added, “So shall your offspring be.” |
| Genesis 15:6 |
And because he put his trust in the LORD, He reckoned it to his merit. |
| Genesis 15:7 |
Then He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to assign this land to you as a possession.” |
| Genesis 15:8 |
And he said, “O Lord GOD, how shall I know that I am to possess it?” |
| Genesis 15:9 |
He answered, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young bird.” |
| Genesis 15:10 |
He brought Him all these and cut them in two, placing each half opposite the other; but he did not cut up the bird. |
| Genesis 15:11 |
Birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. |
| Genesis 15:12 |
As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great dark dread descended upon him. |
| Genesis 15:13* |
And He said to Abram, “Know well that your offspring shall be strangers in a land not theirs |
| Genesis 15:15 |
As for you,/You shall go to your fathers in peace;/You shall be buried at a ripe old age. |
| Genesis 15:16 |
And they shall return here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” |
| Genesis 15:17 |
When the sun set and it was very dark, there appeared a smoking oven, and a flaming torch which passed between those pieces. |
| Genesis 15:18 |
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I assign this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: |
| Genesis 15:19 |
the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, |
| Genesis 15:20 |
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, |
| Genesis 15:21 |
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” |
| Genesis 20:1 |
Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was sojourning in Gerar, |
| Genesis 20:2 |
Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. |
| Genesis 20:3 |
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are to die because of the woman that you have taken, for she is a married woman.” |
| Genesis 20:4 |
Now Abimelech had not approached her. He said, “O Lord, will You slay people even though innocent? |
| Genesis 20:5 |
He himself said to me, ‘She is my sister’! And she also said, ‘He is my brother.’ When I did this, my heart was blameless and my hands were clean.” |
| Genesis 20:6 |
And God said to him in the dream, “I knew that you did this with a blameless heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. That was why I did not let you touch her. |
| Genesis 20:7 |
Therefore, restore the man’s wife—since he is a prophet, he will intercede for you—to save your life. If you fail to restore her, know that you shall die, you and all that are yours.” |
| Genesis 20:8 |
Early next morning, Abimelech called his servants and told them all that had happened; and the men were greatly frightened. |
| Genesis 20:9 |
Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What wrong have I done that you should bring so great a guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done to me things that ought not to be done. |
| Genesis 20:10 |
What, then,” Abimelech demanded of Abraham, “was your purpose in doing this thing?” |
| Genesis 20:11 |
“I thought,” said Abraham, “surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. |
| Genesis 20:12 |
And besides, she is in truth my sister, my father’s daughter though not my mother’s; and she became my wife. |
| Genesis 20:13 |
So when God made me wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘Let this be the kindness that you shall do me: whatever place we come to, say there of me: He is my brother.’” |
| Genesis 20:14 |
Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored his wife Sarah to him. |
| Genesis 20:15 |
And Abimelech said, “Here, my land is before you; settle wherever you please.” |
| Genesis 20:16 |
And to Sarah he said, “I herewith give your brother a thousand pieces of silver; this will serve you as vindication before all who are with you, and you are cleared before everyone.” |
| Genesis 20:17 |
Abraham then prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his slave girls, so that they bore children; |
| Genesis 20:18 |
for the LORD had closed fast every womb of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. |
| Genesis 21:9 |
Sarah saw the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham playing. |
| Genesis 21:10 |
She said to Abraham, “Cast out that slave-woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” |
| Genesis 21:11 |
The matter distressed Abraham greatly, for it concerned a son of his. |
| Genesis 21:12 |
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed over the boy or your slave; whatever Sarah tells you, do as she says, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be continued for you. |
| Genesis 21:13 |
As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for he is your seed.” |
| Genesis 21:14 |
Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. |
| Genesis 21:15 |
When the water was gone from the skin, she left the child under one of the bushes, |
| Genesis 21:16 |
and went and sat down at a distance, a bowshot away; for she thought, “Let me not look on as the child dies.” And sitting thus afar, she burst into tears. |
| Genesis 21:17 |
God heard the cry of the boy, and an angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heeded the cry of the boy where he is. |
| Genesis 21:18 |
Come, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.” |
| Genesis 21:19 |
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water, and let the boy drink. |
| Genesis 21:20 |
God was with the boy and he grew up; he dwelt in the wilderness and became a bowman. |
| Genesis 21:21 |
He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt. |
| Genesis 22:1 |
Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, “Abraham,” and he answered, “Here I am.” |
| Genesis 22:2 |
And He said, “Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.” |
| Genesis 22:3 |
So early next morning, Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him. |
| Genesis 22:4 |
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from afar. |
| Genesis 22:5 |
Then Abraham said to his servants, “You stay here with the ass. The boy and I will go up there; we will worship and we will return to you.” |
| Genesis 22:6 |
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together. |
| Genesis 22:7 |
Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he answered, “Yes, my son.” And he said, “Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” |
| Genesis 22:8 |
And Abraham said, “God will see to the sheep for His burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them walked on together. |
| Genesis 22:9 |
They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. |
| Genesis 22:10 |
And Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son. |
| Genesis 22:11 |
Then an angel of the LORD called to him from heaven: “Abraham! Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.” |
| Genesis 22:12 |
And he said, “Do not raise your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me.” |
| Genesis 22:13 |
When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son. |
| Genesis 22:14 |
And Abraham named that site Adonai-yireh, |
| Genesis 22:15 |
The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, |
| Genesis 22:16 |
and said, “By Myself I swear, the LORD declares: Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your favored one, |
| Genesis 22:17 |
I will bestow My blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes. |
| Genesis 22:18 |
All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command.” |
| Genesis 22:19 |
Abraham then returned to his servants, and they departed together for Beer-sheba; and Abraham stayed in Beer-sheba. |
| Genesis 28:11 |
He came upon a certain place and stopped there for the night, for the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place. |
| Genesis 28:12 |
He had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it. |
| Genesis 28:16* |
Jacob awoke from his sleep |
| Genesis 28:17 |
Shaken, he said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the abode of God, and that is the gateway to heaven.” |
| Genesis 28:18 |
Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. |
| Genesis 28:19 |
He named that site Bethel; but previously the name of the city had been Luz. |
| Genesis 28:20* |
Jacob then made a vow, saying, |
| Genesis 28:22 |
And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, shall be God’s abode; and of all that You give me, I will set aside a tithe for You.” |
| Genesis 31:1 |
Now he heard the things that Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from that which was our father’s he has built up all this wealth.” |
| Genesis 31:2 |
Jacob also saw that Laban’s manner toward him was not as it had been in the past. |
| Genesis 31:4 |
Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field, where his flock was, |
| Genesis 31:5 |
and said to them, “I see that your father’s manner toward me is not as it has been in the past. But the God of my father has been with me. |
| Genesis 31:6 |
As you know, I have served your father with all my might; |
| Genesis 31:7 |
but your father has cheated me, changing my wages time and again. God, however, would not let him do me harm. |
| Genesis 31:8 |
If he said thus, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks would drop speckled young; and if he said thus, ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks would drop streaked young. |
| Genesis 31:9 |
God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me. |
| Genesis 31:10 |
“Once, at the mating time of the flocks, I had a dream in which I saw that the he-goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and mottled. |
| Genesis 31:11 |
And in the dream an angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here,’ I answered. |
| Genesis 31:12 |
And he said, ‘Note well that all the he-goats which are mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have noted all that Laban has been doing to you. |
| Genesis 31:13 |
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now, arise and leave this land and return to your native land.’” |
| Genesis 31:14 |
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, saying, “Have we still a share in the inheritance of our father’s house? |
| Genesis 31:15 |
Surely, he regards us as outsiders, now that he has sold us and has used up our purchase price. |
| Genesis 31:16 |
Truly, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, do just as God has told you.” |
| Genesis 31:19 |
Meanwhile Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household idols. |
| Genesis 31:20 |
Jacob kept Laban the Aramean in the dark, not telling him that he was fleeing, |
| Genesis 31:21 |
and fled with all that he had. Soon he was across the Euphrates and heading toward the hill country of Gilead. |
| Genesis 31:22 |
On the third day, Laban was told that Jacob had fled. |
| Genesis 31:23 |
So he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him a distance of seven days, catching up with him in the hill country of Gilead. |
| Genesis 31:24 |
But God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Beware of attempting anything with Jacob, good or bad.” |
| Genesis 31:25 |
Laban overtook Jacob. Jacob had pitched his tent on the Height, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country of Gilead. |
| Genesis 31:26 |
And Laban said to Jacob, “What did you mean by keeping me in the dark and carrying off my daughters like captives of the sword? |
| Genesis 31:27 |
Why did you flee in secrecy and mislead me and not tell me? I would have sent you off with festive music, with timbrel and lyre. |
| Genesis 31:28 |
You did not even let me kiss my sons and daughters good-by! It was a foolish thing for you to do. |
| Genesis 31:29 |
I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father said to me last night, ‘Beware of attempting anything with Jacob, good or bad.’ |
| Genesis 31:30 |
Very well, you had to leave because you were longing for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?” |
| Genesis 31:31 |
Jacob answered Laban, saying, “I was afraid because I thought you would take your daughters from me by force. |
| Genesis 31:32 |
But anyone with whom you find your gods shall not remain alive! In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what I have of yours and take it.” Jacob, of course, did not know that Rachel had stolen them. |
| Genesis 31:33 |
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and Leah’s tent and the tents of the two maidservants; but he did not find them. Leaving Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent. |
| Genesis 31:34 |
Rachel, meanwhile, had taken the idols and placed them in the camel cushion and sat on them; and Laban rummaged through the tent without finding them. |
| Genesis 31:35 |
For she said to her father, “Let not my lord take it amiss that I cannot rise before you, for the period of women is upon me.” Thus he searched, but could not find the household idols. |
| Genesis 31:36 |
Now Jacob became incensed and took up his grievance with Laban. Jacob spoke up and said to Laban, “What is my crime, what is my guilt that you should pursue me? |
| Genesis 31:37 |
You rummaged through all my things; what have you found of all your household objects? Set it here, before my kinsmen and yours, and let them decide between us two. |
| Genesis 31:38 |
“These twenty years I have spent in your service, your ewes and she-goats never miscarried, nor did I feast on rams from your flock. |
| Genesis 31:39 |
That which was torn by beasts I never brought to you; I myself made good the loss; you exacted it of me, whether snatched by day or snatched by night. |
| Genesis 31:40 |
Often, scorching heat ravaged me by day and frost by night; and sleep fled from my eyes. |
| Genesis 31:41 |
Of the twenty years that I spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks; and you changed my wages time and again. |
| Genesis 31:42 |
Had not the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, been with me, you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God took notice of my plight and the toil of my hands, and He gave judgment last night.” |
| Genesis 31:43 |
Then Laban spoke up and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks; all that you see is mine. Yet what can I do now about my daughters or the children they have borne? |
| Genesis 31:44 |
Come, then, let us make a pact, you and I, that there may be a witness between you and me.” |
| Genesis 31:45 |
Thereupon Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. |
| Genesis 31:46 |
And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they took stones and made a mound; and they partook of a meal there by the mound. |
| Genesis 31:47 |
Laban named it Yegar-sahadutha, |
| Genesis 31:48 |
And Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” That is why it was named Gal-ed; |
| Genesis 31:49 |
and [it was called] Mizpah, because he said, “May the LORD watch between you and me, when we are out of sight of each other. |
| Genesis 31:50 |
If you ill-treat my daughters or take other wives besides my daughters—though no one else be about, remember, God Himself will be witness between you and me.” |
| Genesis 31:51 |
And Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this mound and here the pillar which I have set up between you and me: |
| Genesis 31:52 |
this mound shall be witness and this pillar shall be witness that I am not to cross to you past this mound, and that you are not to cross to me past this mound and this pillar, with hostile intent. |
| Genesis 31:53 |
May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor”—their ancestral deities—“judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. |
| Genesis 31:54 |
Jacob then offered up a sacrifice on the Height, and invited his kinsmen to partake of the meal. After the meal, they spent the night on the Height. |
| Genesis 32:1 |
Early in the morning, Laban kissed his sons and daughters and bade them good-by; then Laban left on his journey homeward. |
| Genesis 32:2 |
Jacob went on his way, and angels of God encountered him. |
| Genesis 32:3 |
When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he named that place Mahanaim. |
| Genesis 32:14* |
[And he spent the night there.] |
| Genesis 32:25* |
[And a man wrestled with him] |
| Genesis 32:26* |
he wrenched Jacob’s hip at its socket, so that the socket of his hip was strained as he wrestled with him. |
| Genesis 32:32 |
The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping on his hip. |
| Genesis 32:33 |
That is why the children of Israel to this day do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the socket of the hip, since Jacob’s hip socket was wrenched at the thigh muscle. |
| Genesis 33:18* |
Jacob arrived safe in the city of Shechem |
| Genesis 33:19 |
The parcel of land where he pitched his tent he purchased from the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred <i>kesitah</i>s. |
| Genesis 33:20 |
He set up an altar there, and called it El-elohe-yisrael. |
| Genesis 34:3 |
Being strongly drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob, and in love with the maiden, he spoke to the maiden tenderly. |
| Genesis 34:4 |
So Shechem said to his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.” |
| Genesis 34:6 |
Then Shechem’s father Hamor came out to Jacob to speak to him. |
| Genesis 34:8 |
And Hamor spoke with them, saying, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him in marriage. |
| Genesis 34:9 |
Intermarry with us: give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves: |
| Genesis 34:10 |
You will dwell among us, and the land will be open before you; settle, move about, and acquire holdings in it.” |
| Genesis 34:11 |
Then Shechem said to her father and brothers, “Do me this favor, and I will pay whatever you tell me. |
| Genesis 34:12 |
Ask of me a bride-price ever so high, as well as gifts, and I will pay what you tell me; only give me the maiden for a wife.” |
| Genesis 34:13* |
Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor—speaking with guile |
| Genesis 34:14 |
and said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace among us. |
| Genesis 34:15 |
Only on this condition will we agree with you; that you will become like us in that every male among you is circumcised. |
| Genesis 34:16 |
Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to ourselves; and we will dwell among you and become as one kindred. |
| Genesis 34:17 |
But if you will not listen to us and become circumcised, we will take our daughter and go.” |
| Genesis 34:18 |
Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem. |
| Genesis 34:19 |
And the youth lost no time in doing the thing, for he wanted Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most respected in his father’s house. |
| Genesis 34:20 |
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the public place of their town and spoke to their fellow townsmen, saying, |
| Genesis 34:21 |
“These people are our friends; let them settle in the land and move about in it, for the land is large enough for them; we will take their daughters to ourselves as wives and give our daughters to them. |
| Genesis 34:22 |
But only on this condition will the men agree with us to dwell among us and be as one kindred: that all our males become circumcised as they are circumcised. |
| Genesis 34:23 |
Their cattle and substance and all their beasts will be ours, if we only agree to their terms, so that they will settle among us.” |
| Genesis 34:24 |
All all those who went out of the gate of his town,were circumcised. |
| Genesis 34:25* |
On the third day, when they were in pain, |
| Genesis 34:28 |
They seized their flocks and herds and asses, all that was inside the town and outside; |
| Genesis 34:29 |
all their wealth, all their children, and their wives, all that was in the houses, they took as captives and booty. |
| Genesis 35:1* |
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and remain there; and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you |
| Genesis 35:2 |
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Rid yourselves of the alien gods in your midst, purify yourselves, and change your clothes. |
| Genesis 35:3 |
Come, let us go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” |
| Genesis 35:4 |
They gave to Jacob all the alien gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the terebinth that was near Shechem. |
| Genesis 35:5 |
As they set out, a terror from God fell on the cities round about, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. |
| Genesis 35:6 |
Thus Jacob came to Luz—that is, Bethel—in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. |
| Genesis 35:7* |
There he built an altar and named the site El-bethel, for it was there that God had revealed Himself to him |
| Genesis 35:8 |
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and was buried under the oak below Bethel; so it was named Allon-bacuth. |
| Genesis 35:14 |
and Jacob set up a pillar at the site where He had spoken to him, a pillar of stone, and he offered a libation on it and poured oil upon it. |
| Genesis 35:16* |
Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor. |
| Genesis 35:17 |
When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Have no fear, for it is another boy for you.” |
| Genesis 35:18 |
But as she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named him Ben-oni; |
| Genesis 35:19* |
Thus Rachel died. |
| Genesis 35:20 |
Over her grave Jacob set up a pillar; it is the pillar at Rachel’s grave to this day. |
| Genesis 37:18 |
They saw him from afar, and before he came close to them they conspired to kill him. |
| Genesis 37:21 |
But when Reuben heard it, he tried to save him from them. He said, “Let us not take his life.” |
| Genesis 37:22 |
And Reuben went on, “Shed no blood! Cast him into that pit out in the wilderness, but do not touch him yourselves”—intending to save him from them and restore him to his father. |
| Genesis 37:23 |
When Joseph came up to his brothers, they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the ornamented tunic that he was wearing, |
| Genesis 37:24 |
and took him and cast him into the pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. |
| Genesis 37:25 |
Then they sat down to a meal. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, their camels bearing gum, balm, and ladanum to be taken to Egypt. |
| Genesis 37:28 |
When Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph up out of the pit. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who brought Joseph to Egypt. |
| Genesis 37:29 |
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes. |
| Genesis 37:30 |
Returning to his brothers, he said, “The boy is gone! Now, what am I to do?” |
| Genesis 37:36 |
The Midianites, meanwhile, sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a courtier of Pharaoh and his chief steward. |
| Genesis 40:1 |
Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt gave offense to their lord the king of Egypt. |
| Genesis 40:2 |
Pharaoh was angry with his two courtiers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker, |
| Genesis 40:3 |
and put them in custody, in the house of the chief steward, in the same prison house where Joseph was confined. |
| Genesis 40:4 |
The chief steward assigned Joseph to them, and he attended them./When they had been in custody for some time, |
| Genesis 40:5 |
both of them—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—dreamed in the same night, each his own dream and each dream with its own meaning. |
| Genesis 40:6 |
When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught. |
| Genesis 40:7 |
He asked Pharaoh’s courtiers, who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you appear downcast today?” |
| Genesis 40:8 |
And they said to him, “We had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” So Joseph said to them, “Surely God can interpret! Tell me [your dreams].” |
| Genesis 40:9 |
Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph. He said to him, “In my dream, there was a vine in front of me. |
| Genesis 40:10 |
On the vine were three branches. It had barely budded, when out came its blossoms and its clusters ripened into grapes. |
| Genesis 40:11 |
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” |
| Genesis 40:12 |
Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: The three branches are three days. |
| Genesis 40:13 |
In three days Pharaoh will pardon you and restore you to your post; you will place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, as was your custom formerly when you were his cupbearer. |
| Genesis 40:14 |
But think of me when all is well with you again, and do me the kindness of mentioning me to Pharaoh, so as to free me from this place. |
| Genesis 40:15 |
For in truth, I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews; nor have I done anything here that they should have put me in the dungeon.” |
| Genesis 40:16 |
When the chief baker saw how favorably he had interpreted, he said to Joseph, “In my dream, similarly, there were three openwork baskets on my head. |
| Genesis 40:17 |
In the uppermost basket were all kinds of food for Pharaoh that a baker prepares; and the birds were eating it out of the basket above my head.” |
| Genesis 40:18 |
Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation: The three baskets are three days. |
| Genesis 40:19 |
In three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale you upon a pole; and the birds will pick off your flesh.” |
| Genesis 40:20 |
On the third day—his birthday—Pharaoh made a banquet for all his officials, and he singled out his chief cupbearer and his chief baker from among his officials. |
| Genesis 40:21 |
He restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand; |
| Genesis 40:22 |
but the chief baker he impaled—just as Joseph had interpreted to them. |
| Genesis 40:23 |
Yet the chief cupbearer did not think of Joseph; he forgot him. |
| Genesis 41:1 |
After two years’ time, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, |
| Genesis 41:2 |
when out of the Nile there came up seven cows, handsome and sturdy, and they grazed in the reed grass. |
| Genesis 41:3 |
But presently, seven other cows came up from the Nile close behind them, ugly and gaunt, and stood beside the cows on the bank of the Nile; |
| Genesis 41:4 |
and the ugly gaunt cows ate up the seven handsome sturdy cows. And Pharaoh awoke. |
| Genesis 41:5 |
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven ears of grain, solid and healthy, grew on a single stalk. |
| Genesis 41:6 |
But close behind them sprouted seven ears, thin and scorched by the east wind. |
| Genesis 41:7 |
And the thin ears swallowed up the seven solid and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke: it was a dream! |
| Genesis 41:8 |
Next morning, his spirit was agitated, and he sent for all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men; and Pharaoh told them his dreams, but none could interpret them for Pharaoh. |
| Genesis 41:9 |
The chief cupbearer then spoke up and said to Pharaoh, “I must make mention today of my offenses. |
| Genesis 41:10 |
Once Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and placed me in custody in the house of the chief steward, together with the chief baker. |
| Genesis 41:11 |
We had dreams the same night, he and I, each of us a dream with a meaning of its own. |
| Genesis 41:12 |
A Hebrew youth was there with us, a servant of the chief steward; and when we told him our dreams, he interpreted them for us, telling each of the meaning of his dream. |
| Genesis 41:13 |
And as he interpreted for us, so it came to pass: I was restored to my post, and the other was impaled.” |
| Genesis 41:14 |
Thereupon Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and he was rushed from the dungeon. He had his hair cut and changed his clothes, and he appeared before Pharaoh. |
| Genesis 41:15 |
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, but no one can interpret it. Now I have heard it said of you that for you to hear a dream is to tell its meaning.” |
| Genesis 41:16 |
Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “Not I! God will see to Pharaoh’s welfare.” |
| Genesis 41:17 |
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile, |
| Genesis 41:18 |
when out of the Nile came up seven sturdy and well-formed cows and grazed in the reed grass. |
| Genesis 41:19 |
Presently there followed them seven other cows, scrawny, ill-formed, and emaciated—never had I seen their likes for ugliness in all the land of Egypt! |
| Genesis 41:20 |
And the seven lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven cows, the sturdy ones; |
| Genesis 41:21 |
but when they had consumed them, one could not tell that they had consumed them, for they looked just as bad as before. And I awoke. |
| Genesis 41:22 |
In my other dream, I saw seven ears of grain, full and healthy, growing on a single stalk; |
| Genesis 41:23 |
but right behind them sprouted seven ears, shriveled, thin, and scorched by the east wind. |
| Genesis 41:24 |
And the thin ears swallowed the seven healthy ears. I have told my magicians, but none has an explanation for me.” |
| Genesis 41:25 |
And Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same: God has told Pharaoh what He is about to do. |
| Genesis 41:26 |
The seven healthy cows are seven years, and the seven healthy ears are seven years; it is the same dream. |
| Genesis 41:27 |
The seven lean and ugly cows that followed are seven years, as are also the seven empty ears scorched by the east wind; they are seven years of famine. |
| Genesis 41:28 |
It is just as I have told Pharaoh: God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do. |
| Genesis 41:29 |
Immediately ahead are seven years of great abundance in all the land of Egypt. |
| Genesis 41:30 |
After them will come seven years of famine, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. As the land is ravaged by famine, |
| Genesis 41:31 |
no trace of the abundance will be left in the land because of the famine thereafter, for it will be very severe. |
| Genesis 41:32 |
As for Pharaoh having had the same dream twice, it means that the matter has been determined by God, and that God will soon carry it out. |
| Genesis 41:33 |
“Accordingly, let Pharaoh find a man of discernment and wisdom, and set him over the land of Egypt. |
| Genesis 41:34 |
And let Pharaoh take steps to appoint overseers over the land, and organize the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty. |
| Genesis 41:35 |
Let all the food of these good years that are coming be gathered, and let the grain be collected under Pharaoh’s authority as food to be stored in the cities. |
| Genesis 41:36 |
Let that food be a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will come upon the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish in the famine.” |
| Genesis 41:37 |
The plan pleased Pharaoh and all his courtiers. |
| Genesis 41:38 |
And Pharaoh said to his courtiers, “Could we find another like him, a man in whom is the spirit of God?” |
| Genesis 41:39 |
So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is none so discerning and wise as you. |
| Genesis 41:40 |
You shall be in charge of my court, and by your command shall all my people be directed; only with respect to the throne shall I be superior to you.” |
| Genesis 41:41 |
Pharaoh further said to Joseph, “See, I put you in charge of all the land of Egypt.” |
| Genesis 41:42 |
And removing his signet ring from his hand, Pharaoh put it on Joseph’s hand; and he had him dressed in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. |
| Genesis 41:43 |
He had him ride in the chariot of his second-in-command, and they cried before him, “Abrek!” Thus he placed him over all the land of Egypt. |
| Genesis 41:44 |
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh; yet without you, no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” |
| Genesis 41:46* |
Leaving Pharaoh’s presence, Joseph traveled through all the land of Egypt. |
| Genesis 41:47 |
During the seven years of plenty, the land produced in abundance. |
| Genesis 41:48 |
And he gathered all the grain of the seven years that the land of Egypt was enjoying, and stored the grain in the cities; he put in each city the grain of the fields around it. |
| Genesis 41:49 |
So Joseph collected produce in very large quantity, like the sands of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured. |
| Genesis 41:50 |
Before the years of famine came, Joseph became the father of two sons, whom Asenath daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, bore to him. |
| Genesis 41:51 |
Joseph named the first-born Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget completely my hardship and my parental home.” |
| Genesis 41:52 |
And the second he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fertile in the land of my affliction.” |
| Genesis 41:53 |
The seven years of abundance that the land of Egypt enjoyed came to an end, |
| Genesis 41:54* |
and the seven years of famine set in, just as Joseph had foretold. |
| Genesis 41:55 |
And when all the land of Egypt felt the hunger, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he tells you, you shall do.”— |
| Genesis 41:56 |
Accordingly, when the famine became severe in the land of Egypt, Joseph laid open all that was within, and rationed out grain to the Egyptians. The famine, however, spread over the whole world. |
| Genesis 41:57 |
So all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to procure rations, for the famine had become severe throughout the world. |
| Genesis 46:1 |
So Israel set out with all that was his, and he came to Beer-sheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. |
| Genesis 46:2 |
God called to Israel in a vision by night: “Jacob! Jacob!” He answered, “Here.” |
| Genesis 46:3 |
And He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Fear not to go down to Egypt, for I will make you there into a great nation. |
| Genesis 46:4 |
I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you back; and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.” |
| Genesis 46:5* |
So Jacob set out from Beer-sheba. |
| Genesis 48:1 |
Some time afterward, Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. |
| Genesis 48:2 |
When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to see you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed. |
| Genesis 48:8 |
Noticing Joseph’s sons, Israel asked, “Who are these?” |
| Genesis 48:9 |
And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” “Bring them up to me,” he said, “that I may bless them.” |
| Genesis 48:10 |
Now Israel’s eyes were dim with age; he could not see. So [Joseph] brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. |
| Genesis 48:11 |
And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see you again, and here God has let me see your children as well.” |
| Genesis 48:12 |
Joseph then removed them from his knees, and bowed low with his face to the ground. |
| Genesis 48:13 |
Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim with his right hand—to Israel’s left—and Manasseh with his left hand—to Israel’s right—and brought them close to him. |
| Genesis 48:14 |
But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim’s head, though he was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head—thus crossing his hands—although Manasseh was the first-born. |
| Genesis 48:15 |
And he blessed Joseph, saying,/“The God in whose ways my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,/The God who has been my shepherd from my birth to this day— |
| Genesis 48:16 |
The Angel who has redeemed me from all harm—/Bless the lads./In them may my name be recalled,/And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,/And may they be teeming multitudes upon the earth.” |
| Genesis 48:17 |
When Joseph saw that his father was placing his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it wrong; so he took hold of his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s. |
| Genesis 48:18 |
“Not so, Father,” Joseph said to his father, “for the other is the first-born; place your right hand on his head.” |
| Genesis 48:19 |
But his father objected, saying, “I know, my son, I know. He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great. Yet his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall be plentiful enough for nations.” |
| Genesis 48:21 |
Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die; but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. |
| Genesis 48:22 |
And now, I assign to you one portion more than to your brothers, which I wrested from the Amorites with my sword and bow.” |
| Genesis 50:23 |
Joseph lived to see children of the third generation of Ephraim; the children of Machir son of Manasseh were likewise born upon Joseph’s knees. |
| Genesis 50:24 |
At length, Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. God will surely take notice of you and bring you up from this land to the land that He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” |
| Genesis 50:25 |
So Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “When God has taken notice of you, you shall carry up my bones from here.” |
| Exodus 1:15 |
The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, |
| Exodus 1:16 |
saying, “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the birthstool: if it is a boy, kill him; if it is a girl, let her live.” |
| Exodus 1:17 |
The midwives, fearing God, did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live. |
| Exodus 1:18 |
So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this thing, letting the boys live?” |
| Exodus 1:19 |
The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women: they are vigorous. Before the midwife can come to them, they have given birth.” |
| Exodus 1:20 |
And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and increased greatly. |
| Exodus 1:21 |
And because the midwives feared God, He established households for them. |
| Exodus 1:22 |
Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, “Every boy that is born you shall throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.” |
| Exodus 2:1 |
A certain man of the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. |
| Exodus 2:2 |
The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw how beautiful he was, she hid him for three months. |
| Exodus 2:3 |
When she could hide him no longer, she got a wicker basket for him and caulked it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child into it and placed it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile. |
| Exodus 2:4 |
And his sister stationed herself at a distance, to learn what would befall him. |
| Exodus 2:5 |
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the Nile, while her maidens walked along the Nile. She spied the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to fetch it. |
| Exodus 2:6 |
When she opened it, she saw that it was a child, a boy crying. She took pity on it and said, “This must be a Hebrew child.” |
| Exodus 2:7 |
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get you a Hebrew nurse to suckle the child for you?” |
| Exodus 2:8 |
And Pharaoh’s daughter answered, “Yes.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. |
| Exodus 2:9 |
And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed it. |
| Exodus 2:10 |
When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, who made him her son. She named him Moses, explaining, “I drew him out of the water.” |
| Exodus 3:1 |
Now Moses, tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, drove the flock into the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. |
| Exodus 3:4* |
God called to him out of the bush: “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.” |
| Exodus 3:6* |
I am,” He said, “the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” |
| Exodus 3:9 |
Now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me; moreover, I have seen how the Egyptians oppress them. |
| Exodus 3:10 |
Come, therefore, I will send you to Pharaoh, and you shall free My people, the Israelites, from Egypt.” |
| Exodus 3:11 |
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and free the Israelites from Egypt?” |
| Exodus 3:12 |
And He said, “I will be with you; that shall be your sign that it was I who sent you. And when you have freed the people from Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.” |
| Exodus 3:13 |
Moses said to God, “When I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” |
| Exodus 3:14 |
And God said to Moses, “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh.” sent me to you.’” |
| Exodus 3:15 |
And God said further to Moses, “Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you:/This shall be My name forever,/This My appellation for all eternity. |
| Exodus 4:18 |
Moses went back to his father-in-law Jether And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” |
| Exodus 13:18* |
Now the Israelites went up armed out of the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 13:19 |
And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph, who had exacted an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will be sure to take notice of you: then you shall carry up my bones from here with you.” |
| Exodus 15:20 |
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her in dance with timbrels. |
| Exodus 15:21 |
And Miriam chanted for them:/Sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously;/Horse and driver He has hurled into the sea. |
| Exodus 17:1* |
They encamped at Rephidim, |
| Exodus 17:8 |
Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. |
| Exodus 17:9 |
Moses said to Joshua, “Pick some men for us, and go out and do battle with Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill, with the rod of God in my hand.” |
| Exodus 17:10 |
Joshua did as Moses told him and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. |
| Exodus 17:11 |
Then, whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; but whenever he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. |
| Exodus 17:12 |
But Moses’ hands grew heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur, one on each side, supported his hands; thus his hands remained steady until the sun set. |
| Exodus 17:13 |
And Joshua overwhelmed the people of Amalek with the sword. |
| Exodus 17:14 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Inscribe this in a document as a reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven!” |
| Exodus 17:15 |
And Moses built an altar and named it Adonai-nissi. |
| Exodus 17:16 |
He said, “It means, ‘Hand upon the throne of the LORD!’ The LORD will be at war with Amalek throughout the ages.” |
| Exodus 18:1 |
Jethro priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out from Egypt. |
| Exodus 18:2 |
So Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent home, |
| Exodus 18:3 |
and her two sons—of whom one was named Gershom, that is to say, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land”; |
| Exodus 18:4 |
and the other was named Eliezer, meaning, “The God of my father was my help, and He delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.” |
| Exodus 18:5 |
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought Moses’ sons and wife to him in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of God. |
| Exodus 18:6 |
He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, with your wife and her two sons.” |
| Exodus 18:7 |
Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed low and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent. |
| Exodus 18:8 |
Moses then recounted to his father-in-law everything that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had befallen them on the way, and how the LORD had delivered them. |
| Exodus 18:9 |
And Jethro rejoiced over all the kindness that the LORD had shown Israel when He delivered them from the Egyptians. |
| Exodus 18:10 |
“Blessed be the LORD,” Jethro said, “who delivered you from the Egyptians and from Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. |
| Exodus 18:11 |
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, yes, by the result of their very schemes against [the people].” |
| Exodus 18:12 |
And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices for God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to partake of the meal before God with Moses’ father-in-law. |
| Exodus 18:13 |
Next day, Moses sat as magistrate among the people, while the people stood about Moses from morning until evening. |
| Exodus 18:14 |
But when Moses’ father-in-law saw how much he had to do for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing to the people? Why do you act alone, while all the people stand about you from morning until evening?” |
| Exodus 18:15 |
Moses replied to his father-in-law, “It is because the people come to me to inquire of God. |
| Exodus 18:16 |
When they have a dispute, it comes before me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known the laws and teachings of God.” |
| Exodus 18:17 |
But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing you are doing is not right; |
| Exodus 18:18 |
you will surely wear yourself out, and these people as well. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone. |
| Exodus 18:19 |
Now listen to me. I will give you counsel, and God be with you! You represent the people before God: you bring the disputes before God, |
| Exodus 18:20 |
and enjoin upon them the laws and the teachings, and make known to them the way they are to go and the practices they are to follow. |
| Exodus 18:21 |
You shall also seek out from among all the people capable men who fear God, trustworthy men who spurn ill-gotten gain. Set these over them as chiefs of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, |
| Exodus 18:22 |
and let them judge the people at all times. Have them bring every major dispute to you, but let them decide every minor dispute themselves. Make it easier for yourself by letting them share the burden with you. |
| Exodus 18:23 |
If you do this—and God so commands you—you will be able to bear up; and all these people too will go home unwearied.” |
| Exodus 18:24 |
Moses heeded his father-in-law and did just as he had said. |
| Exodus 18:25 |
Moses chose capable men out of all Israel, and appointed them heads over the people—chiefs of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens; |
| Exodus 18:26 |
and they judged the people at all times: the difficult matters they would bring to Moses, and all the minor matters they would decide themselves. |
| Exodus 18:27 |
Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way to his own land. |
| Exodus 19:2* |
they entered the wilderness of Sinai and encamped in the wilderness. Israel encamped there in front of the mountain, |
| Exodus 19:3 |
and Moses went up to God. The LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob and declare to the children of Israel: |
| Exodus 19:4 |
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Me. |
| Exodus 19:5 |
Now then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples. Indeed, all the earth is Mine, |
| Exodus 19:6 |
but you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel.” |
| Exodus 19:7 |
Moses came and summoned the elders of the people and put before them all that the LORD had commanded him. |
| Exodus 19:8 |
All the people answered as one, saying, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the people’s words to the LORD. |
| Exodus 19:9* |
And the LORD said to Moses, “I will come to you in a thick cloud, in order that the people may hear when I speak with you and so trust you ever after.” |
| Exodus 19:14* |
Moses came down from the mountain |
| Exodus 19:16* |
there was thunder, and lightning, and a dense cloud upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the horn; and all the people who were in the camp trembled. |
| Exodus 19:17 |
Moses led the people out of the camp toward God, and they took their places at the foot of the mountain. |
| Exodus 19:18 |
Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke, for the LORD had come down upon it in fire; the smoke rose like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled violently. |
| Exodus 19:19 |
The blare of the horn grew louder and louder. As Moses spoke, God answered him in thunder. |
| Exodus 20:15 |
All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the blare of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they fell back and stood at a distance. |
| Exodus 20:16 |
“You speak to us,” they said to Moses, “and we will obey; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.” |
| Exodus 20:17 |
Moses answered the people, “Be not afraid; for God has come only in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may be ever with you, so that you do not go astray.” |
| Exodus 20:18 |
So the people remained at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was. |
| Exodus 20:19 |
The LORD said to Moses:/Thus shall you say to the Israelites: You yourselves saw that I spoke to you from the very heavens: |
| Exodus 20:20 |
With Me, therefore, you shall not make any gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves any gods of gold. |
| Exodus 20:21 |
Make for Me an altar of earth and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your sacrifices of well-being, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come to you and bless you. |
| Exodus 20:22 |
And if you make for Me an altar of stones, do not build it of hewn stones; for by wielding your tool upon them you have profaned them. |
| Exodus 20:23 |
Do not ascend My altar by steps, that your nakedness may not be exposed upon it. |
| Exodus 21:1 |
These are the rules that you shall set before them: |
| Exodus 21:2 |
When you acquire a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free, without payment. |
| Exodus 21:3 |
If he came single, he shall leave single; if he had a wife, his wife shall leave with him. |
| Exodus 21:4 |
If his master gave him a wife, and she has borne him children, the wife and her children shall belong to the master, and he shall leave alone. |
| Exodus 21:5 |
But if the slave declares, “I love my master, and my wife and children: I do not wish to go free,” |
| Exodus 21:6 |
his master shall take him before God. He shall be brought to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall then remain his slave for life. |
| Exodus 21:7 |
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go free as male slaves do. |
| Exodus 21:8 |
If she proves to be displeasing to her master, who designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed; he shall not have the right to sell her to outsiders, since he broke faith with her. |
| Exodus 21:9 |
And if he designated her for his son, he shall deal with her as is the practice with free maidens. |
| Exodus 21:10 |
If he marries another, he must not withhold from this one her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights. |
| Exodus 21:11 |
If he fails her in these three ways, she shall go free, without payment. |
| Exodus 21:12 |
He who fatally strikes a man shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 21:13 |
If he did not do it by design, but it came about by an act of God, I will assign you a place to which he can flee. |
| Exodus 21:14 |
When a man schemes against another and kills him treacherously, you shall take him from My very altar to be put to death. |
| Exodus 21:15 |
He who strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 21:16 |
He who kidnaps a man—whether he has sold him or is still holding him—shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 21:17 |
He who insults his father or his mother shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 21:18 |
When men quarrel and one strikes the other with stone or fist, and he does not die but has to take to his bed— |
| Exodus 21:19 |
if he then gets up and walks outdoors upon his staff, the assailant shall go unpunished, except that he must pay for his idleness and his cure. |
| Exodus 21:20 |
When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod, and he dies there and then, he must be avenged. |
| Exodus 21:21 |
But if he survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, since he is the other’s property. |
| Exodus 21:22 |
When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensues, the one responsible |
| Exodus 21:23 |
But if other damage ensues, the penalty shall be life for life, |
| Exodus 21:24 |
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, |
| Exodus 21:25 |
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. |
| Exodus 21:26 |
When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye. |
| Exodus 21:27 |
If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth. |
| Exodus 21:28 |
When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox is not to be punished. |
| Exodus 21:29 |
If, however, that ox has been in the habit of goring, and its owner, though warned, has failed to guard it, and it kills a man or a woman—the ox shall be stoned and its owner, too, shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 21:30 |
If ransom is laid upon him, he must pay whatever is laid upon him to redeem his life. |
| Exodus 21:31 |
So, too, if it gores a minor, male or female, [the owner] shall be dealt with according to the same rule. |
| Exodus 21:32 |
But if the ox gores a slave, male or female, he shall pay thirty shekels of silver to the master, and the ox shall be stoned. |
| Exodus 21:33 |
When a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it, |
| Exodus 21:34 |
the one responsible for the pit must make restitution; he shall pay the price to the owner, but shall keep the dead animal. |
| Exodus 21:35 |
When a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide its price; they shall also divide the dead animal. |
| Exodus 21:36 |
If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has failed to guard it, he must restore ox for ox, but shall keep the dead animal. |
| Exodus 21:37 |
When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.— |
| Exodus 22:1 |
If the thief is seized while tunneling, and he is beaten to death, there is no bloodguilt in his case. |
| Exodus 22:2 |
If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt in that case.—He must make restitution; if he lacks the means, he shall be sold for his theft. |
| Exodus 22:3 |
But if what he stole—whether ox or ass or sheep—is found alive in his possession, he shall pay double. |
| Exodus 22:4 |
When a man lets his livestock loose to graze in another’s land, and so allows a field or a vineyard to be grazed bare, he must make restitution for the impairment of that field or vineyard. |
| Exodus 22:5 |
When a fire is started and spreads to thorns, so that stacked, standing, or growing grain is consumed, he who started the fire must make restitution. |
| Exodus 22:6 |
When a man gives money or goods to another for safekeeping, and they are stolen from the man’s house—if the thief is caught, he shall pay double; |
| Exodus 22:7 |
if the thief is not caught, the owner of the house shall depose before God that he has not laid hands on the other’s property. |
| Exodus 22:8 |
In all charges of misappropriation—pertaining to an ox, an ass, a sheep, a garment, or any other loss, whereof one party alleges, “This is it”—the case of both parties shall come before God: he whom God declares guilty shall pay double to the other. |
| Exodus 22:9 |
When a man gives to another an ass, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to guard, and it dies or is injured or is carried off, with no witness about, |
| Exodus 22:10 |
an oath before the LORD shall decide between the two of them that the one has not laid hands on the property of the other; the owner must acquiesce, and no restitution shall be made. |
| Exodus 22:11 |
But if [the animal] was stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner. |
| Exodus 22:12 |
If it was torn by beasts, he shall bring it as evidence; he need not replace what has been torn by beasts. |
| Exodus 22:13 |
When a man borrows [an animal] from another and it dies or is injured, its owner not being with it, he must make restitution. |
| Exodus 22:14 |
If its owner was with it, no restitution need be made; but if it was hired, he is entitled to the hire. |
| Exodus 22:15 |
If a man seduces a virgin for whom the bride-price has not been paid, and lies with her, he must make her his wife by payment of a bride-price. |
| Exodus 22:16 |
If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still weigh out silver in accordance with the bride-price for virgins. |
| Exodus 22:17 |
You shall not tolerate a sorceress. |
| Exodus 22:18 |
Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death. |
| Exodus 22:19 |
Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone shall be proscribed. |
| Exodus 22:20 |
You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 22:21 |
You shall not ill-treat any widow or orphan. |
| Exodus 22:22 |
If you do mistreat them, I will heed their outcry as soon as they cry out to Me, |
| Exodus 22:23 |
and My anger shall blaze forth and I will put you to the sword, and your own wives shall become widows and your children orphans. |
| Exodus 22:24 |
If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them. |
| Exodus 22:25 |
If you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun sets; |
| Exodus 22:26 |
it is his only clothing, the sole covering for his skin. In what else shall he sleep? Therefore, if he cries out to Me, I will pay heed, for I am compassionate. |
| Exodus 22:27 |
You shall not revile God, nor put a curse upon a chieftain among your people. |
| Exodus 22:28 |
You shall not put off the skimming of the first yield of your vats. You shall give Me the first-born among your sons. |
| Exodus 22:29 |
You shall do the same with your cattle and your flocks: seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me. |
| Exodus 22:30 |
You shall be holy people to Me: you must not eat flesh torn by beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs. |
| Exodus 23:1 |
You must not carry false rumors; you shall not join hands with the guilty to act as a malicious witness: |
| Exodus 23:2 |
You shall neither side with the mighty to do wrong—you shall not give perverse testimony in a dispute so as to pervert it in favor of the mighty— |
| Exodus 23:3 |
nor shall you show deference to a poor man in his dispute. |
| Exodus 23:4 |
When you encounter your enemy’s ox or ass wandering, you must take it back to him. |
| Exodus 23:5 |
When you see the ass of your enemy lying under its burden and would refrain from raising it, you must nevertheless raise it with him. |
| Exodus 23:6 |
You shall not subvert the rights of your needy in their disputes. |
| Exodus 23:7 |
Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the wrongdoer. |
| Exodus 23:8 |
Do not take bribes, for bribes blind the clear-sighted and upset the pleas of those who are in the right. |
| Exodus 23:9 |
You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt. |
| Exodus 23:10 |
Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield; |
| Exodus 23:11 |
but in the seventh you shall let it rest and lie fallow. Let the needy among your people eat of it, and what they leave let the wild beasts eat. You shall do the same with your vineyards and your olive groves. |
| Exodus 23:12 |
Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor, in order that your ox and your ass may rest, and that your bondman and the stranger may be refreshed. |
| Exodus 23:13 |
Be on guard concerning all that I have told you. Make no mention of the names of other gods; they shall not be heard on your lips. |
| Exodus 23:14 |
Three times a year you shall hold a festival for Me: |
| Exodus 23:15 |
You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread—eating unleavened bread for seven days as I have commanded you—at the set time in the month of Abib, for in it you went forth from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty-handed; |
| Exodus 23:16 |
and the Feast of the Harvest, of the first fruits of your work, of what you sow in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in the results of your work from the field. |
| Exodus 23:17 |
Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Sovereign, the LORD. |
| Exodus 23:18 |
You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with anything leavened; and the fat of My festal offering shall not be left lying until morning. |
| Exodus 23:19 |
The choice first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God./You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. |
| Exodus 23:20 |
I am sending an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have made ready. |
| Exodus 23:21 |
Pay heed to him and obey him. Do not defy him, for he will not pardon your offenses, since My Name is in him; |
| Exodus 23:22 |
but if you obey him and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. |
| Exodus 23:23 |
When My angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I annihilate them, |
| Exodus 23:24 |
you shall not bow down to their gods in worship or follow their practices, but shall tear them down and smash their pillars to bits. |
| Exodus 23:25 |
You shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will remove sickness from your midst. |
| Exodus 23:26 |
No woman in your land shall miscarry or be barren. I will let you enjoy the full count of your days. |
| Exodus 23:27 |
I will send forth My terror before you, and I will throw into panic all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn tail before you. |
| Exodus 23:28 |
I will send a plague ahead of you, and it shall drive out before you the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites. |
| Exodus 23:29 |
I will not drive them out before you in a single year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply to your hurt. |
| Exodus 23:30 |
I will drive them out before you little by little, until you have increased and possess the land. |
| Exodus 23:31 |
I will set your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of Philistia, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and you will drive them out before you. |
| Exodus 23:32 |
You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. |
| Exodus 23:33 |
They shall not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me; for you will serve their gods—and it will prove a snare to you. |
| Exodus 24:3 |
Moses went and repeated to the people all the commands of the LORD and all the rules; and all the people answered with one voice, saying, “All the things that the LORD has commanded we will do!” |
| Exodus 24:4 |
Moses then wrote down all the commands of the LORD./Early in the morning, he set up an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. |
| Exodus 24:5 |
He designated some young men among the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as offerings of well-being to the LORD. |
| Exodus 24:6 |
Moses took one part of the blood and put it in basins, and the other part of the blood he dashed against the altar. |
| Exodus 24:7 |
Then he took the record of the covenant and read it aloud to the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will faithfully do!” |
| Exodus 24:8 |
Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD now makes with you concerning all these commands.” |
| Exodus 24:11* |
and they ate and drank. |
| Exodus 24:12 |
The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and wait there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the teachings and commandments which I have inscribed to instruct them.” |
| Exodus 24:13 |
So Moses and his attendant Joshua arose, and Moses ascended the mountain of God. |
| Exodus 24:14 |
To the elders he had said, “Wait here for us until we return to you. You have Aaron and Hur with you; let anyone who has a legal matter approach them.” |
| Exodus 24:15* |
When Moses had ascended the mountain, |
| Exodus 24:18* |
and Moses remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. |
| Exodus 31:18* |
[He gave Moses two tablets, stone tablets inscribed with the finger of God] |
| Exodus 32:1 |
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered against Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who shall go before us, for that man Moses, who brought us from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him.” |
| Exodus 32:2 |
Aaron said to them, “Take off the gold rings that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” |
| Exodus 32:3 |
And all the people took off the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron. |
| Exodus 32:4 |
This he took from them and “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!” |
| Exodus 32:5 |
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron announced: “Tomorrow shall be a festival of the LORD!” |
| Exodus 32:6 |
Early next day, the people offered up burnt offerings and brought sacrifices of well-being; they sat down to eat and drink, and then rose to dance. |
| Exodus 32:7 |
The LORD spoke to Moses, “Hurry down, for your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, have acted basely. |
| Exodus 32:8 |
They have been quick to turn aside from the way that I enjoined upon them. They have made themselves a molten calf and bowed low to it and sacrificed to it, saying: ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’” |
| Exodus 32:9 |
The LORD further said to Moses, “I see that this is a stiffnecked people. |
| Exodus 32:10 |
Now, let Me be, that My anger may blaze forth against them and that I may destroy them, and make of you a great nation.” |
| Exodus 32:11 |
But Moses implored the LORD his God, saying, “Let not Your anger, O LORD, blaze forth against Your people, whom You delivered from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand. |
| Exodus 32:12 |
Let not the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that He delivered them, only to kill them off in the mountains and annihilate them from the face of the earth.’ Turn from Your blazing anger, and renounce the plan to punish Your people. |
| Exodus 32:13 |
Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, how You swore to them by Your Self and said to them: I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and I will give to your offspring this whole land of which I spoke, to possess forever.” |
| Exodus 32:14 |
And the LORD renounced the punishment He had planned to bring upon His people. |
| Exodus 32:15 |
Thereupon Moses turned and went down from the mountain bearing the two tablets of the Pact, tablets inscribed on both their surfaces: they were inscribed on the one side and on the other. |
| Exodus 32:16 |
The tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing, incised upon the tablets. |
| Exodus 32:17 |
When Joshua heard the sound of the people in its boisterousness, he said to Moses, “There is a cry of war in the camp.” |
| Exodus 32:18 |
But he answered,/“It is not the sound of the tune of triumph,/Or the sound of the tune of defeat;/It is the sound of song that I hear!” |
| Exodus 32:19 |
As soon as Moses came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he became enraged; and he hurled the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain. |
| Exodus 32:20 |
He took the calf that they had made and burned it; he ground it to powder and strewed it upon the water and so made the Israelites drink it. |
| Exodus 32:21 |
Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such great sin upon them?” |
| Exodus 32:22 |
Aaron said, “Let not my lord be enraged. You know that this people is bent on evil. |
| Exodus 32:23 |
They said to me, ‘Make us a god to lead us; for that man Moses, who brought us from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him.’ |
| Exodus 32:24 |
So I said to them, ‘Whoever has gold, take it off!’ They gave it to me and I hurled it into the fire and out came this calf!” |
| Exodus 32:25 |
Moses saw that the people were out of control—since Aaron had let them get out of control—so that they were a menace to any who might oppose them. |
| Exodus 32:26 |
Moses stood up in the gate of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the LORD, come here!” And all the Levites rallied to him. |
| Exodus 32:27 |
He said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Each of you put sword on thigh, go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay brother, neighbor, and kin.” |
| Exodus 32:28 |
The Levites did as Moses had bidden; and some three thousand of the people fell that day. |
| Exodus 32:29 |
And Moses said, “Dedicate yourselves to the LORD this day—for each of you has been against son and brother—that He may bestow a blessing upon you today.” |
| Exodus 32:30 |
The next day Moses said to the people, “You have been guilty of a great sin. Yet I will now go up to the LORD; perhaps I may win forgiveness for your sin.” |
| Exodus 32:31 |
Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people is guilty of a great sin in making for themselves a god of gold. |
| Exodus 32:32 |
Now, if You will forgive their sin [well and good]; but if not, erase me from the record which You have written!” |
| Exodus 32:33 |
But the LORD said to Moses, “He who has sinned against Me, him only will I erase from My record. |
| Exodus 32:34 |
Go now, lead the people where I told you. See, My angel shall go before you. But when I make an accounting, I will bring them to account for their sins.” |
| Exodus 32:35 |
Then the LORD sent a plague upon the people, for what they did with the calf that Aaron made. |
| Exodus 33:6* |
from Mount Horeb on |
| Exodus 33:7 |
Now Moses would take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, at some distance from the camp. It was called the Tent of Meeting, and whoever sought the LORD would go out to the Tent of Meeting that was outside the camp. |
| Exodus 33:8 |
Whenever Moses went out to the Tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he had entered the Tent. |
| Exodus 33:9 |
And when Moses entered the Tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the Tent, while He spoke with Moses. |
| Exodus 33:10 |
When all the people saw the pillar of cloud poised at the entrance of the Tent, all the people would rise and bow low, each at the entrance of his tent. |
| Exodus 33:11 |
The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as one man speaks to another. And he would then return to the camp; but his attendant, Joshua son of Nun, a youth, would not stir out of the Tent. |
| Exodus 34:1 |
The LORD said to Moses: “Carve two tablets of stone like the first, and I will inscribe upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you shattered. |
| Exodus 34:4* |
[So Moses carved two tablets of stone, like the first, and took the two stone tablets with him.] |
| Exodus 34:5* |
The LORD came down in a cloud; |
| Exodus 34:28* |
And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water; and he wrote down on the tablets the terms of the covenant, |
| Numbers 11:11* |
“Why have You dealt ill with Your servant, and why have I not enjoyed Your favor, that You have laid the burden of all this people upon me? |
| Numbers 11:12 |
Did I conceive all this people, did I bear them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You have promised on oath to their fathers? |
| Numbers 11:14 |
I cannot carry all this people by myself, for it is too much for me. |
| Numbers 11:15 |
If You would deal thus with me, kill me rather, I beg You, and let me see no more of my wretchedness!” |
| Numbers 11:16 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy of Israel’s elders of whom you have experience as elders and officers of the people, and bring them to the Tent of Meeting and let them take their place there with you. |
| Numbers 11:17 |
I will come down and speak with you there, and I will draw upon the spirit that is on you and put it upon them; they shall share the burden of the people with you, and you shall not bear it alone. |
| Numbers 11:24* |
He gathered seventy of the people’s elders and stationed them around the Tent. |
| Numbers 11:25 |
Then the LORD came down in a cloud and spoke to him; He drew upon the spirit that was on him and put it upon the seventy elders. And when the spirit rested upon them, they spoke in ecstasy, but did not continue. |
| Numbers 11:26 |
Two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, had remained in camp; yet the spirit rested upon them—they were among those recorded, but they had not gone out to the Tent—and they spoke in ecstasy in the camp. |
| Numbers 11:27 |
A youth ran out and told Moses, saying, “Eldad and Medad are acting the prophet in the camp!” |
| Numbers 11:28 |
And Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant from his youth, spoke up and said, “My lord Moses, restrain them!” |
| Numbers 11:29 |
But Moses said to him, “Are you wrought up on my account? Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD put His spirit upon them!” |
| Numbers 11:30 |
Moses then reentered the camp together with the elders of Israel. |
| Numbers 12:1 |
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married: “He married a Cushite woman!” |
| Numbers 12:2 |
They said, “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” The LORD heard it. |
| Numbers 12:3 |
Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any other man on earth. |
| Numbers 12:4 |
Suddenly the LORD called to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three of them went out. |
| Numbers 12:5 |
The LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stopped at the entrance of the Tent, and called out, “Aaron and Miriam!” The two of them came forward; |
| Numbers 12:6 |
and He said, “Hear these My words: When a prophet of the LORD arises among you, I make Myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream. |
| Numbers 12:7 |
Not so with My servant Moses; he is trusted throughout My household. |
| Numbers 12:8 |
With him I speak mouth to mouth, plainly and not in riddles, and he beholds the likeness of the LORD. How then did you not shrink from speaking against My servant Moses!” |
| Numbers 12:9 |
Still incensed with them, the LORD departed. |
| Numbers 12:10 |
As the cloud withdrew from the Tent, there was Miriam stricken with snow-white scales! When Aaron turned toward Miriam, he saw that she was stricken with scales. |
| Numbers 12:11 |
And Aaron said to Moses, “O my lord, account not to us the sin which we committed in our folly. |
| Numbers 12:12 |
Let her not be as one dead, who emerges from his mother’s womb with half his flesh eaten away.” |
| Numbers 12:13 |
So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “O God, pray heal her!” |
| Numbers 12:14 |
But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father spat in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut out of camp for seven days, and then let her be readmitted.” |
| Numbers 12:15 |
So Miriam was shut out of camp seven days; and the people did not march on until Miriam was readmitted. |
| Numbers 16:1* |
[] Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—descendants of Reuben— |
| Numbers 16:2* |
[rose up against Moses.] |
| Numbers 16:12 |
Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab; but they said, “We will not come! |
| Numbers 16:13 |
Is it not enough that you brought us from a land flowing with milk and honey to have us die in the wilderness, that you would also lord it over us? |
| Numbers 16:14 |
We will not come!” |
| Numbers 16:15 |
Moses was much aggrieved and he said to the LORD, “Pay no regard to their oblation. I have not taken the ass of any one of them, nor have I wronged any one of them.” |
| Numbers 16:25 |
Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, the elders of Israel following him. |
| Numbers 16:27* |
Now Dathan and Abiram had come out and they stood at the entrance of their tents, with their wives, their children, and their little ones. |
| Numbers 16:28 |
And Moses said, “By this you shall know that it was the LORD who sent me to do all these things; that they are not of my own devising: |
| Numbers 16:29 |
if these men die as all men do, if their lot be the common fate of all mankind, it was not the LORD who sent me. |
| Numbers 16:30 |
But if the LORD brings about something unheard-of, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, you shall know that these men have spurned the LORD.” |
| Numbers 16:31 |
Scarcely had he finished speaking all these words when the ground under them burst asunder, |
| Numbers 16:32 |
and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all Korah’s people and all their possessions. |
| Numbers 16:33 |
They went down alive into Sheol, with all that belonged to them; the earth closed over them and they vanished from the midst of the congregation. |
| Numbers 16:34 |
All Israel around them fled at their shrieks, for they said, “The earth might swallow us!” |
| Numbers 20:1* |
and the people stayed at Kadesh. Miriam died there and was buried there. |
| Numbers 20:3* |
The people quarreled with Moses, saying, |
| Numbers 20:5 |
Why did you make us leave Egypt to bring us to this wretched place, a place with no grain or figs or vines or pomegranates? There is not even water to drink!” |
| Numbers 20:14 |
From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardships that have befallen us; |
| Numbers 20:15 |
that our ancestors went down to Egypt, that we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and that the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our ancestors. |
| Numbers 20:16 |
We cried to the LORD and He heard our plea, and He sent a messenger who freed us from Egypt. Now we are in Kadesh, the town on the border of your territory. |
| Numbers 20:17 |
Allow us, then, to cross your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, and we will not drink water from wells. We will follow the king’s highway, turning off neither to the right nor to the left until we have crossed your territory.” |
| Numbers 20:18 |
But Edom answered him, “You shall not pass through us, else we will go out against you with the sword.” |
| Numbers 20:19 |
“We will keep to the beaten track,” the Israelites said to them, “and if we or our cattle drink your water, we will pay for it. We ask only for passage on foot—it is but a small matter.” |
| Numbers 20:20 |
But they replied, “You shall not pass through!” And Edom went out against them in heavy force, strongly armed. |
| Numbers 20:21 |
So Edom would not let Israel cross their territory, and Israel turned away from them. |
| Numbers 20:22* |
Setting out from Kadesh, |
| Numbers 21:4* |
to skirt the land of Edom. But the people grew restive on the journey, |
| Numbers 21:5 |
and the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why did you make us leave Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread and no water, and we have come to loathe this miserable food.” |
| Numbers 21:6 |
The LORD sent <i>seraph</i> serpents against the people. They bit the people and many of the Israelites died. |
| Numbers 21:7 |
The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD to take away the serpents from us!” And Moses interceded for the people. |
| Numbers 21:8 |
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a <i>seraph</i> figure and mount it on a standard. And if anyone who is bitten looks at it, he shall recover.” |
| Numbers 21:9 |
Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper serpent and recover. |
| Numbers 21:12 |
From there they set out and encamped at the wadi Zered. |
| Numbers 21:13 |
From there they set out and encamped beyond the Arnon, that is, in the wilderness that extends from the territory of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. |
| Numbers 21:14 |
Therefore the Book of the Wars of the LORD speaks of “…Waheb in Suphah, and the wadis: the Arnon |
| Numbers 21:15 |
with its tributary wadis, stretched along the settled country of Ar, hugging the territory of Moab…” |
| Numbers 21:16 |
And from there to Beer, which is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Assemble the people that I may give them water.” |
| Numbers 21:17 |
Then Israel sang this song:/Spring up, O well—sing to it— |
| Numbers 21:18* |
The well which the chieftains dug,/Which the nobles of the people started/With maces, with their own staffs. |
| Numbers 21:21 |
Israel now sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, |
| Numbers 21:22 |
“Let me pass through your country. We will not turn off into fields or vineyards, and we will not drink water from wells. We will follow the king’s highway until we have crossed your territory.” |
| Numbers 21:23 |
But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness. He came to Jahaz and engaged Israel in battle. |
| Numbers 21:24 |
But Israel put them to the sword, and took possession of their land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as [Az] of the Ammonites, for Az marked the boundary of the Ammonites. |
| Numbers 21:25 |
Israel took all those towns. And Israel settled in all the towns of the Amorites, in Heshbon and all its dependencies. |
| Numbers 21:26 |
Now Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against a former king of Moab and taken all his land from him as far as the Arnon. |
| Numbers 21:27 |
Therefore the bards would recite:/“Come to Heshbon; firmly built/And well founded is Sihon’s city. |
| Numbers 21:28 |
For fire went forth from Heshbon,/Flame from Sihon’s city,/Consuming Ar of Moab,/The lords of Bamoth by the Arnon. |
| Numbers 21:29 |
Woe to you, O Moab!/You are undone, O people of Chemosh!/His sons are rendered fugitive/And his daughters captive/By an Amorite king, Sihon.” |
| Numbers 21:30 |
Yet we have cast them down utterly,/Heshbon along with Dibon;/We have wrought desolation at Nophah,/Which is hard by Medeba. |
| Numbers 21:31 |
So Israel occupied the land of the Amorites. |
| Numbers 21:32 |
Then Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its dependencies and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. |
| Numbers 21:33 |
They marched on and went up the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan, with all his people, came out to Edrei to engage them in battle. |
| Numbers 21:34 |
But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I give him and all his people and his land into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites who dwelt in Heshbon.” |
| Numbers 21:35 |
They defeated him and his sons and all his people, until no remnant was left him; and they took possession of his country. |
| Numbers 25:1* |
While Israel was staying at Shittim, |
| Numbers 25:3* |
Thus Israel attached itself to Baal-peor, |
| Numbers 25:5 |
So Moses said to Israel’s officials, “Each of you slay those of his men who attached themselves to Baal-peor.” |
| Numbers 32:1 |
The Reubenites and the Gadites owned cattle in very great numbers. Noting that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were a region suitable for cattle, |
| Numbers 32:4 |
the land that the LORD has conquered for the community of Israel is cattle country, and your servants have cattle. |
| Numbers 32:5 |
It would be a favor to us,” they continued, “if this land were given to your servants as a holding; do not move us across the Jordan.” |
| Numbers 32:17 |
And we will hasten as shock-troops in the van of the Israelites until we have established them in their home, while our children stay in the fortified towns because of the inhabitants of the land. |
| Numbers 32:18 |
We will not return to our homes until every one of the Israelites is in possession of his portion. |
| Numbers 32:19 |
But we will not have a share with them in the territory beyond the Jordan, for we have received our share on the east side of the Jordan.” |
| Numbers 32:23 |
But if you do not do so, you will have sinned against the LORD; and know that your sin will overtake you. |
| Numbers 32:24* |
but do what you have promised.” |
| Numbers 32:39 |
The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, dispossessing the Amorites who were there; |
| Numbers 32:40 |
so Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled there. |
| Numbers 32:41 |
Jair son of Manasseh went and captured |
| Numbers 32:42 |
And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its dependencies, renaming it Nobah after himself. |
| Numbers 34:13 |
Moses instructed the Israelites, saying: This is the land you are to receive by lot as your hereditary portion, which the LORD has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes. |
| Numbers 34:14 |
For the Reubenite tribe by its ancestral houses, the Gadite tribe by its ancestral houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their portions: |
| Numbers 34:15 |
those two and a half tribes have received their portions across the Jordan, opposite Jericho, on the east, the orient side. |
| Deuteronomy 31:14 |
The LORD said to Moses: The time is drawing near for you to die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may instruct him. Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. |
| Deuteronomy 31:15 |
The LORD appeared in the Tent, in a pillar of cloud, the pillar of cloud having come to rest at the entrance of the tent. |
| Deuteronomy 31:23 |
And He charged Joshua son of Nun: “Be strong and resolute: for you shall bring the Israelites into the land that I promised them on oath, and I will be with you.” |
| Deuteronomy 34:5* |
[Moses, the servant of YHWH, died.] |
| Deuteronomy 34:10 |
Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses—whom the LORD singled out, face to face, |