HalleluYAH Scriptures - The Tanak

["45 GENESIS 11 each one of us dreamed a dream of Pharaoh is one. Elohim has dream in one night, he and I. Each shown Pharaoh what He is about to of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream. do: 12 \\\"And there was with us an Ibri 26 \\\"The seven good cows are seven youth, a servant of the captain of the years, and the seven good heads are guard. And we related to him, and he seven years - it is one dream. interpreted our dreams for us. To each 27 \\\"And the seven lean and ugly cows man he interpreted according to his which came up after them are seven own dream. years, and the seven empty heads 13 \\\"And it came to be, as he scorched by the east wind are seven interpreted for us, so it came to be. He years of scarcity of food. restored me to my office, and he 28 \\\"This is the word which I spoke to hanged him.\\\" Pharaoh: Elohim has shown Pharaoh 14 Then Pharaoh sent and called what He is about to do. r Yoseph, and they hurriedly brought 29 \\\"See, seven years of great plenty him out of the dungeon.. And he are coming in all the land of Mitsrayim, shaved and changed his garments, 30 but after them seven years of and came to Pharaoh. scarcity of food shall arise and all 15 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph,-\\\"I the plenty be forgotten in the land of have dreamed a dream, and there is Mitsrayim. And the scarcity of food no one to interpret it. Now I myself shall destroy the land, have heard it said of you that you 31 and the plenty shall not be understand a dream, to interpret it.\\\" remembered in the land, because of 16 And Yoseph answered Pharaoh, the scarcity of food following, for it is saying, \\\"It is not in me, let Elohim very severe. answer Pharaoh with peace.\\\" 32 \\\"And the dream was repeated to 17 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, \\\"See, Pharaoh twice because the word is in my dream I stood on the bank of the established by Elohim, and Elohim is hastening to do it. river 33 \\\"And now, let Pharaoh look for a 18 and saw seven cows coming up out discerning and wise man, and appoint of the river, fine looking and fat, and him over the land of Mitsrayim. they fed amongst the reeds, 34 \\\"Let Pharaoh do this, and let him 19 then saw seven other cows coming appoint overseers over the land, to up after them, poor and very ugly and take up one-fifth of the land of lean of flesh, such ugliness as I have Mitsrayim in the seven years of plenty. never seen in all the land of Mitsrayim. 35 \\\"And let them gather all the food of 20 \\\"And the lean of flesh and ugly cows those good years that are coming, and ate up the first seven, the fat cows. store up grain under the hand of 21 \\\"Yet when they had eaten them up, Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were as ugly cities. as at the beginning. Then I awoke. 36 \\\"And the food shall be for a store for 22 \\\"Also, I looked in my dream and saw the land for the seven years of scarcity of food which shall be in the land of seven heads coming up on one stalk, Mitsrayim, and do not let the land be complete and good, cut off by the scarcity of food.\\\" 23 then saw seven heads, withered, 37 And the word was good in the eyes lean, scorched by the east wind, of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants. coming up after them. 24 \\\"And the lean heads swallowed the 38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, \\\"Could we find another like him, seven good heads. And I spoke to the magicians, but there was no one who a man in whom is the Ruah of Elohim?\\\" could explain it to me.\\\" 25 And Yoseph said to Pharaoh, \\\"The 39 Then Pharaoh said to Yoseph,","BERESHITH 46 \\\"Since Elohim has shown you all this, my father's house.\\\" 52 And the name of the second he there is no one as discerning and wise called Ephrayim, \\\"For Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in the land of as you. my affliction.\\\" . 53 And the seven years of plenty which 40 \\\"Be over my house, you yourself, were in the land of Mitsrayim came to an end, and at your word all my people shall 54 and the seven years of scarcity of food began to come, as Yoseph had be equipped - only in the throne I am said. And the scarcity of food was in all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim greater than you.\\\" there was bread. 55 But when all the land of Mitsrayim 41 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, \\\"See, I hungered, and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh said to have appointed you over all the land of all the Mitsrites, \\\"Go to Yoseph, do whatever he says to you.\\\" . , . Mitsrayim.\\\" 56 And the scarcity of food was over all the face of the earth, and Yoseph 42 And Pharaoh took his seal-ring off opened all the storehouses and sold to the Mitsrites. And the scarcity of food his hand and put it on Yoseph's hand. was severe in the land of Mitsrayim. . 57 And all the earth came to Yoseph in And he dressed him in garments of Mitsrayim to buy grain, because the scarcity of food was severe in all the fine linen and put a gold chain around earth. his neck. \u25a0 42 And when Ya'aqob saw that there was grain in Mitsrayim, 43 And he had him ride in the second Ya'aqob said to his sons, \\\"Why do you look at each other?\\\" chariot which he had. And they cried 2 And he said, \\\"See, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go down to out before him, \\\"Bow the knee!\\\" And that place and buy for us there, and let us live and not die.\\\" he appointed him over all the land of 3 And Yoseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain in Mitsrayim. Mitsrayim. -,< \u25a0 \/ 4 But Ya'aqob did not send Yoseph's brother Binyamin with his brothers, for 44 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, \\\"I am he said, \\\"Lest some harm come to him.\\\" , Pharaoh, and without you let no man 5 And the sons of Yisra'el went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for lift his hand or foot in all the land of the scarcity of food was in the land of Kena'an. Mitsrayim.\\\" 6 And Yoseph was the governor over 45 And Pharaoh called Yoseph's name the land, he was the one who sold to Tsaphnath-Pa'neah. And he gave him all the people of the land. And Yoseph's brothers came and bowed as a wife Asenath, the daughter of down before him with their faces to the earth. Poti-Phera priest of On. And Yoseph 7 And Yoseph saw his brothers and went out over all the land of Mitsrayim. recognised them, but he acted as a 46 Now Yoseph was thirty years old stranger to them and spoke to them when he stood before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yoseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim. -. 47 And in the seven years of plenty the ground brought forth generously. 48 And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them. 49 Thus Yoseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he ceased counting, for it was without number. 50 And to Yoseph were born two sons before the years of scarcity of food came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Phera priest of On, bore to him. * 51 And Yoseph called the name of the first-born Menashsheh, \\\"For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all","47 GENESIS harshly, and said to them, \\\"Where do come upon us.\\\" 22 And Re'uben answered them, you come from?\\\" And they said, \\\"From saying, \\\"Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Do not sin against the boy,' and you the land of Kena'an to buy food.\\\" would not listen? And see, his blood is now required of us.\\\" 8 So Yoseph recognised his brothers, 23 And they did not know that Yoseph understood them, for he spoke to them but they did not recognise him. through an interpreter. 24 And he turned himself away from 9 And Yoseph remembered the dreams them and wept, but came back to them and spoke to them. And he took which he had dreamed about them, Shim'on from them and bound him before their eyes. and said to them, \\\"You are spies! You 25 And Yoseph commanded and they filled their sacks with grain, also to put have come to see the nakedness of back every man's silver into his sack, and to give them food for the journey. the land!\\\" And thus it was done for them. 26 So they loaded their donkeys with 10 And they said to him, \\\"No, my the grain and went from there. 27 And as one of them opened master, but your servants have come his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his silver, for to buy food. . there it was in the mouth of his sack! 28 And he said to his brothers, \\\"My 11 \\\"We are all one man's sons, we are silver has been returned, and there it is, in my sack!\\\" And their hearts sank trustworthy, your servants are not and they were afraid, saying to each other, \\\"What is this that Elohim has spies.\\\" \u2022 done to us?\\\" 29 So they came to Ya'aqob their father 12 But he said to them, \\\"No, but you in the land of Kena'an and reported to him all that befell them, saying, have come to see the nakedness of 30 \\\"The man, the master of the land, spoke to us harshly, and took us for the land.\\\" . . < - spies of the land. 31 \\\"But we said to him, 'We are 13 And they said, \\\"Your servants are trustworthy, we are not spies. 32 'We are twelve brothers, sons of our twelve brothers, the sons of one man father. One is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the in the land of Kena'an. And see, the land of Kena'an.' 33 \\\"And the man, the master of the youngest is with our father today, and land, said to us, 'By this I know that you are trustworthy: Leave one of your one is no more.\\\" brothers here with me, and take food for the scarcity of food of your 14 And Yoseph said to them, \\\"It is as I households, and go. 34 'And bring your youngest brother to spoke to you, saying, 'You are spies!' me, then I know that you are not spies, 15 \\\"By this you shall be proven: By the but that you are trustworthy - I give life of Pharaoh, you do not leave this your brother to you, and you move place unless your youngest brother about in the land.'\\\" comes here. 16 \\\"Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while'you are kept in prison. So let your words be proven to see whether there is any truth in you, or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies!\\\" 17 And he put them all together in prison for three days. 18 Now Yoseph said to them the third day, \\\"Do this and live, for I revere Elohim: 19 \\\"If you are trustworthy, let one of your brothers be confined to your prison house, and you, go, bring grain for the scarcity of food of your houses. * \u25a0> 20 \\\"And bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be confirmed, and you do not die.\\\" And so they did. 21 And they said to each other, \\\"Truly, we are guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the distress of his life when he pleaded with us, yet we did not listen, that is why this distress has","BERfiSHITH 48 35 And it came to be as they emptied him - from my hand you are to require their sacks, that look, the bundle of him. If I do not bring him back to you each man's silver was in his sack! And when they and their father saw the and put him before you, then let me bear the blame forever. bundles of silver, they were afraid. 10 \\\"For if we had not delayed, truly 36 And Ya'aqob their father said to by now we could have returned this them, \\\"You have bereaved me - second time.\\\" Yoseph is no more, and Shim'on is no 11 And their father Yisra'el said to them, more, and you would take Binyamin! \\\"If so, then do this: Take some of the All this is against me.\\\" 37 So Re'uben spoke to his father, best fruit of the land in your vessels saying, \\\"Take the lives of my two sons and bring a present down for the man, a little balm and a little honey, spices if I do not bring him back to you. Put and myrrh, nuts and almonds. him in my hands, and I myself bring him back to you.\\\" 12 \\\"And take double silver in your hand, and take back in your hand the 38 But he said, \\\"My son is not going silver that was returned in the mouth down with you, for his brother is dead, of your sacks. It could have been a and he is left alone. If any harm should mistake. \u2022 : : come to him along the way in which 13 \\\"And take your brother, and arise, you go, then you would bring down my go back to the man. grey hair with sorrow to the grave.\\\" 14 \\\"And El Shaddai give to you 43A Q But the scarcity of food was compassion before the man, so that he \u25a0 O severe in the land. shall release your other brother and 2 And it came to be, when they had Binyamin. And I, if I am bereaved, I am eaten up the grain which they had bereaved!\\\" brought from Mitsrayim, that their 15 And the men took that present and father said to them, \\\"Go back, buy us a Binyamin, and they took double the little food.\\\" -> amount of silver in their hand, and 3 But Yahudah spoke to him, saying, arose and went down to Mitsrayim, \\\"The man vehemently warned us, and stood before Yoseph. saying, 'You do not see my face unless 16 And Yoseph saw Binyamin with your brother is with you.'\\\" them, and said to the one over his 4 \\\"If you let our brother go with us, we house, \\\"Bring the men home, and go down and buy you food. make a great slaughter, and prepare, 5 \\\"But if you do not let him go, we do for these men are to eat with me at not go down, because the man said to noon.\\\" us, 'You do not see my face unless 17 And the man did as Yoseph said, your brother is with you.'\\\" and the man brought the men into 6 And Yisra'el said, \\\"Why did you do Yoseph's house. evil to me to inform the man that you 18 And the men were afraid because still had a brother?\\\" they were brought into Yoseph's 7 And they said, \\\"The man kept asking house. And they said, \\\"It is because about us and our relatives, saying, 'Is of the silver, which was put back into your father still alive? Have you a our sacks the first time, that we are brother?' And we informed him brought in, to throw himself upon us according to these words. How could and fall upon us, to take us as slaves, we know that he would say, 'Bring your our donkeys too.\\\" brother down'?\\\" 19 So they came near to the man over 8 And Yahudah said to Yisra'el his the house of Yoseph, and spoke to him father, \\\"Send the boy with me, and let at the door of the house, us arise and go, and live and not die, 20 and said, \\\"O my master, we indeed both we and you and also our little came down the first time to buy food, ones. i\u2022 21 but it came to be, when we came 9 \\\"I myself shall stand guarantor for to the lodging place, that we opened","49 GENESIS our sacks and saw each man's silver in youngest according to his youth, and the mouth of his sack, our silver in its the men looked at each other in weight. And we have brought it back in astonishment. I our hand. 34 And he took portions to them from 22 \\\"And we have brought down other before him, but Binyamin's portion was silver in our hands to buy food. We do five times as much as any of theirs. not know who put our silver in our And they feasted and they drank with sacks.\\\" him. 23 But he said, \\\"Peace be with you, do A. A. And he commanded the one not be afraid. Your Elohim and the *1'1 over his. house, saying, \\\"Fill Elohim of your father has given you the men's sacks with food, as they are treasure in your sacks - your silver had able to bear, and put each man's silver come to me!\\\" And he brought Shim'on in the mouth of his sack. out to them. 2 \\\"And put my cup, the silver cup, in 24 And the man brought the men into the mouth of the sack of the youngest, Yoseph's house and gave them water, and the silver for his grain.\\\" And he did and they washed their feet. And he according to the word of Yoseph which gave their donkeys fodder. he spoke. 25 And they made the present ready for 3 As soon as the morning was light, the Yoseph's coming at noon, for they men were sent away, they and their heard that they were to eat there. donkeys. 26 And when Yoseph came home, they 4 And when they had gone out of brought him the present which was in the city, not having gone far, Yoseph their hand, into the house, and bowed said to the one over his house, \\\"Rise down before him to the earth. up, follow the men, and when you 27 And he asked them about their overtake them, say to them, Why have welfare, and said, \\\"Is your father well, you repaid evil for good? the old man of whom you spoke? Is he 5 'Is this not the one from which my still alive?\\\" .. master drinks, and with which he 28 And they said, \\\"Your servant our indeed divines? You have done evil in father is in good health, he is still what you have done.'\\\" alive.\\\" And they bowed their heads 6 So he overtook them and spoke down and did obeisance. these words to them. 29 And he lifted his eyes and saw his 7 And they said to him, \\\"Why does my brother Binyamin, his mother's son, master say these words? Far be it and said, \\\"Is this your younger brother from us that your servants should do of whom you spoke to me?\\\" And he according to this word. said, \\\"Elohim show favour to you, my 8 \\\"See, we brought back to you from son.\\\" the land of Kena'an the silver which we 30 And Yoseph hurried, for his found in the mouth of our sacks. How emotions were deeply moved towards then should we steal silver or gold his brother, and he looked to weep, from your master's house? and went into his room and wept there. 9 \\\"With whomever of your servants it 31 Then he washed his face and came is found - he shall die and we shall out, and controlled himself, and said, become my master's slaves as well.\\\" \\\"Serve the food.\\\" 10 And he said, \\\"Now also let it be 32 And they placed him by himself, and according to your words: he with whom them by themselves, and the Mitsrites it is found becomes my slave, and you who ate with him by themselves, are innocent.\\\" for the Mitsrites could not eat food 11 And they hurried, each man let with the Ibrim, for that is an down his sack to the ground, and each abomination to the Mitsrites. opened his sack. 33 And they sat before him, the first\u00ad 12 And he searched, with the oldest born according to his birthright and the first and with the youngest last, and","BERESHITH 50 the cup was found in Binyamin's sack. down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down, for we are 13 And they tore their garments, and not able to see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.' each man loaded his donkey and went 27 \\\"Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me back to the city. two sons, 28 and the one went out from me, and I 14 And Yahudah and his brothers said, \\\"Truly, he is torn, torn to pieces!\\\" And I have not seen him since. - came to Yoseph's house, and he was 29 'And if you take this one from me too, and harm comes to him, you shall still there. And they fell before him on bring down my grey hair with evil to the grave.' the ground. 30 \\\"And now, if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us - 15 And Yoseph said to them, \\\"What since his own life is bound up in his life - deed is this you have done? Did you 31 then it shall be, when he sees that the boy is not with us, that he shall die. not know that a man like me indeed So your servants shall bring down the grey hair of your servant our father divines?\\\" with sorrow to the grave. 32 \\\"For your servant went guarantor for 16 And Yahudah said, \\\"What do we the boy to my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall be a say to my master? What do we speak? sinner before my father forever.' 33 \\\"And now, please let your servant Or how do we clear ourselves? Elohim remain instead of the boy as a slave to my master, and let the boy go up with has found out the wickedness of your his brothers. 34 \\\"For how do I go up to my father if servants. See, we are my master's the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?\\\" slaves, both we and he also with And Yoseph was unable to whom the cup was found.\\\" . restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he called 17 But he said, \\\"Far be it from me to do out, \\\"Have everyone go out from me!\\\" So no one stood with him while this. The man in whose hand the cup Yoseph made himself known to his brothers. \u2022 was found, he becomes my slave. And 2 And he wept aloud, and the Mitsrites and the house of Pharaoh heard it. you, go up in peace to your father.\\\" 3 And Yoseph said to his brothers, \\\"I am Yoseph, is my father still alive?\\\" 18 And Yahudah came near to him But his brothers were unable to answer him, for they trembled before and said, \\\"O my master, please let him. your servant speak a word in my 4 Then Yoseph said to his brothers, \\\"Please come near to me.\\\" And when master's hearing, and do not let your they came near, he said, \\\"I am Yoseph displeasure burn against your servant, your brother, whom you sold into Mitsrayim. for you are like Pharaoh. 5 \\\"And now, do not be grieved nor 19 \\\"My master asked his servants, saying, 'Have you a father or a brother?' 20 \\\"And we said to my master, 'We have a father, an old man, and a young child of his old age, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's children, 'and his father loves him.' ' 21 \\\"And you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, and let me lay my eyes on him.' \u2022. 22 \\\"And we said to my master, 'The boy is not able to leave his father, for if he leaves his father, his father shall die.' 23 \\\"But you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you do not see my face again.' 24 \\\"And it came to be, when we went up to your servant my father, that we told him the words of my master. 25 \\\"And our father said, 'Go back and buy us a little food.' 26 \\\"But we said, 'We are not able to go","51 GENESIS displeased with yourselves because households and come to me, and I you sold me here, for Elohim sent me give you the best of the land of before you to preserve life. Mitsrayim, and you eat the fatness of 6 \\\"For two years now the scarcity of the land. . 1\u2022 food has been in the land, and there 19 'And you have been commanded, are still five years in which there is do this: Take wagons out of the land of neither ploughing nor harvesting. Mitsrayim for your little ones and your 7 \\\"And Elohim sent me before you to wives. And you shall bring your father, preserve for you a remnant in the and come. earth, and to give life to you by a great 20 'And do not be concerned about escape. . \u25a0 your goods, for the best of all the land 8 \\\"So then, you did not send me here, of Mitsrayim is yours.'\\\" \u25a0 .\u25a0 but Elohim. And He has appointed me 21 And the sons of Yisra'el. did so. And for a father to Pharaoh, and master of Yoseph gave them wagons, according all his house, and a ruler throughout all to the command of Pharaoh, and he the land of Mitsrayim. \u2022. gave them food for the journey. 9 \\\"Hurry and go up to my father, and 22 He gave to all of them, to each man, say to him, 'Thus says' your son changes of garments, but to Binyamin Yoseph, \\\"Elohim has made me master he gave three hundred pieces of silver of all Mitsrayim. Come down to me, do and five changes of garments. - \/. not delay. \u2022\u2022\u2022 23 And he sent to his father this: ten 10 \\\"And you shall dwell in the land of donkeys loaded with the best of Goshen, and be near to me, you and Mitsrayim, and ten female donkeys your children, your children's children, loaded with grain, and bread, and food your flocks and your herds, and all that for his father for the journey. you have. >\u2022 < 24 So he sent his brothers away, and 11 \\\"And I shall provide for you there, they left. And he said to them, \\\"Do not lest you and your household, and all quarrel along the way.\\\" that you have, come to poverty, 25 And they went up out of Mitsrayim, because five years of scarcity of food and came to the land of Kena'an to are still to come.\\\"' \u00ab.?\u2022 Ya'aqob their father. 12 \\\"And look, your eyes and the eyes 26 And they told him, saying, \\\"Yoseph of my brother Binyamin see that it is is still alive, and he is governor over all my mouth that speaks to you. the land of Mitsrayim.\\\" And Ya'aqob's 13 \\\"And you shall inform my father of heart ceased, for he did not believe all my esteem in Mitsrayim, and of them. all that you have seen. And you shall 27 But when they spoke to him all the hurry and bring my father down here.\\\" words which Yoseph had spoken to 14 And he fell on his brother Binyamin's them, and when he saw the wagons neck and wept, and Binyamin wept on which Yoseph had sent to transport his neck. \u25a0 him, the spirit of Ya'aqob their father 15 And he kissed all his brothers and revived. wept over them, and after that his 28 And Yisra'el said, \\\"Enough! My son brothers spoke with him. . Yoseph is still alive. Let me go and see 16 And the report of it was heard by him before I die.\\\" the house of Pharaoh, saying, \\\"The C And Yisra'el departed with brothers of Yoseph have come.\\\" And it nrU all that he had, and came to was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and Be'ersheba, and brought offerings to in the eyes of his servants. the Elohim of his father Yitshaq. 17 And Pharaoh said to Yoseph, \\\"Say 2 And Elohim spoke to Yisra'el in to your brothers, 'Do this: Load your the visions of the night, and said, beasts and go, enter the land of \\\"Ya'aqob, Ya'aqob!\\\" And he said, Kena'an, \\\"Here I am.\\\" 18 and take your father and your 3 And He said, \\\"I am the El, Elohim of","BERESHITH 52 your father. Do not be afraid to go Beri'ah: Heber and Malki'el. down to Mitsrayim, for I shall make you 18 These were the sons of Zilpah, there into a great nation. whom Laban gave to Le'ah his 4 \\\"I Myself am going down with you to daughter. And these she bore to Mitsrayim and I Myself shall certainly Ya'aqob: sixteen beings. bring you up again. And let Yoseph put 19 The sons of Rahel, Ya'aqob's wife: his hand on your eyes.\\\" Yoseph and Binyamin. 5 And Ya'aqob rose up from 20 And to Yoseph in the land of Be'ersheba. And the sons of Yisra'el Mitsrayim were born Menashsheh brought their father Ya'aqob, and their and Ephrayim, whom Asenath, the little ones,- and their wives, in the daughter of Poti-Phera priest of On, wagons which Pharaoh had sent to bore to him. transport him. 21 And the sons of Binyamin: Belah, 6 And they took their livestock and their and Beker, and Ashbel, Gera and property which they had acquired in Na'aman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and the land of Kena'an, and came into Huppim, and Ard. Mitsrayim, Ya'aqob and all his seed 22 These were the sons of Rahel who with him. were born to Ya'aqob: fourteen beings 7 His sons and his sons' sons, his in all. daughters and his sons' daughters, 23 And the son of Dan: Hushim. and all his seed he brought with him to 24 And the sons of Naphtali: Yahtse'el, Mitsrayim. and Guni, and Yetser, and Shillem. 8 And these were the names of the 25 These were the sons of Bilhah, children of Yisra'el, Ya'aqob and his whom Laban gave to Rahel his sons, who came into Mitsrayim: daughter, and she bore these to Re'uben was Ya'aqob's first-born. Ya'aqob: seven beings in all. 9 And the sons of Re'uben: Hanok, and 26 All the beings who went with Pallu, and Hetsron, and Karmi. Ya'aqob to Mitsrayim, who came from 10 And the sons of Shim'on: Yemu'el, his body, besides Ya'aqob's sons' and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yakin, wives, were sixty-six beings in all. \u2022 and Tsohar, and Sha'ul, son of a 27 And the sons of Yoseph who were Kena'anite woman. born to him in Mitsrayim were two 11 And the sons of Lewi: Gereshon, beings. All the beings of the house of Qehath, and Merari. Ya'aqob who went to Mitsrayim were 12 And the sons of Yahudah: Er, and seventy. Onan, and Shelah, and Perets, and 28 And he sent Yahudah before him to Zerah - but Er and Onan died in the Yoseph, to point out before him the land of Kena'an. And the sons of way to Goshen. And they came to the Perets were Hetsron and Hamul. land of Goshen. 13 And the sons of Yissaskar: Tola, 29 And Yoseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his and Puw'ah, and Yob, and Shimron. father Yisra'el. And he appeared to 14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, him, and fell on his neck and wept on and Elon, and Yahle'el. his neck a long time. 15 These were the sons of Le'ah, whom she bore to Ya'aqob in Paddan 30 And Yisra'el said to Yoseph, \\\"Now Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the let me die, since I have seen your beings, his sons and his daughters, face, that you are still alive.\\\" were thirty-three. 31 And Yoseph said to his brothers and 16 And the sons of Gad: Tsiphyon and to his father's household, \\\"I am going up to inform Pharaoh, and say to him, Haggi, Shuni and Etsbon, Eri and 'My brothers and those of my father's Arodi, and Areli. 17 And the sons of Asher: Yimnah, and house, who were in the land of Kena'an, have come to me. Yishwah, and Yishwi, and Beri'ah, and 32 'And the men are shepherds, that Serah, their sister. And the sons of","53 GENESIS i they have been men of livestock, and reached the days of the years of the I they have brought their flocks and their life of my fathers in the days of their herds, and all that they have.' sojournings.\\\" 33 \\\"And it shall be, when Pharaoh 10 And Ya'aqob barak Pharaoh, and calls you and says, What is your went out from before Pharaoh. occupation?' . 11 So Yoseph settled his father and his 34 that you shall say, 'Your servants brothers, and gave them a possession have been men of livestock from our in the land of Mitsrayim, in the best of youth even till now, both we and also the land, in the land of Ra'meses, as our fathers,' so that you dwell in the Pharaoh had commanded. land of Goshen, for every shepherd is 12 And Yoseph provided his father, an abomination to the Mitsrites.\\\" and his brothers, and all his father's \\\"7 Then Yoseph went and spoke household with bread for the mouth of T* f to Pharaoh, and said, \\\"My the little ones. father and my brothers, their flocks 13 Now there was no bread in all the and their herds and all that they land, because the scarcity of food was possess, have come from the land of very severe, and the land of Mitsrayim Kena'an. And see, they are in the land and all the land of Kena'an became of Goshen.\\\" exhausted from the scarcity of food. 2 And he took five men from among 14 And Yoseph gathered up all the his brothers and presented them to silver that was found in the land of Pharaoh. Mitsrayim and in the land of Kena'an, 3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, for the grain which they bought. And \\\"What is your occupation?\\\" And they Yoseph brought the silver into said to Pharaoh, \\\"Your servants are Pharaoh's house. shepherds, both we and also our 15 And when the silver was all spent in fathers.\\\" \u00bb\u2022 the land of Mitsrayim and in the land 4 And they said to Pharaoh, \\\"We have of Kena'an, all the Mitsrites came to come to dwell in the land, because Yoseph and said, \\\"Give us bread, for there is no pasture for your servant's why should we die in your presence? flocks, for the scarcity of food is severe For the silver is gone!\\\" in the land of Kena'an. And now, 16 And Yoseph said, \\\"Give your please let your servants dwell in the livestock, and I give you bread for your land of Goshen.\\\" livestock, if the silver is gone.\\\" 5 And Pharaoh spoke to Yoseph, 17 So they brought their livestock to saying, \\\"Your father and your brothers Yoseph, and Yoseph gave them bread have come to you. in exchange for the horses, and for the 6 \\\"The land of Mitsrayim is before you. flocks they owned, and for the herds Settle your father and brothers in the they owned, and for the donkeys. Thus best of the land, let them dwell in the he fed them with bread in exchange for land of Goshen. And if you know all their livestock that year. of capable men among them, then 18 And when that year had ended, they make them chief herdsmen over my came to him the next year and said to livestock.\\\" him, \\\"We do not hide from my master 7 And Yoseph brought in his father that our silver is all spent, and my Ya'aqob and stood him before master also has the livestock we Pharaoh. And Ya'aqob barak Pharaoh. owned. There has not any been left 8 And Pharaoh said to Ya'aqob, \\\"How before my master but our bodies and many are the days of your life?\\\" our lands. 9 And Ya'aqob said to Pharaoh, \\\"The 19 \\\"Why should we die before your days of the years of my sojournings eyes, both we and our land? Buy us are one hundred and thirty years. Few and our land for bread, and let us and and evil have been the days of the our land be servants of Pharaoh. And years of my life, and they have not give us seed, and let us live and not","BERESHITH 54 die, and let the land not lie waste.\\\" and bury me in their burial place.\\\" And 20 And Yoseph bought the entire land he said, \\\"I do as you have said.\\\" of Mitsrayim for Pharaoh, because 31 And he said, \\\"Swear to me.\\\" And he every man of the Mitsrites sold his swore to him, and Yisra'el bowed field, because the scarcity of food was himself on the head of the bed. severe upon them. And the land came A O And after these events it came ^rO to be that it was said to to be Pharaoh's. .. 21 And as for the people, he moved Yoseph, \\\"See, your father is sick.\\\" And them into the cities, from one end of he took with him his two sons, the borders of Mitsrayim to the other Menashsheh and Ephrayim. end. . .. 2 And Ya'aqob was told, \\\"See, your 22 Only the ground of the priests he.did son Yoseph is coming to you.\\\" And not buy, for the priests had allotments Yisra'el strengthened himself and sat from Pharaoh, and they ate their up on.the bed. ; allotments which Pharaoh gave them. 3 And Ya'aqob said to Yoseph, \\\"El Therefore they did not . sell their Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the ground. .. \u25a0 land of Kena'an and barak me, 23 And Yoseph said to the people, 4 and said to me, 'See, I am making \\\"Look, I have bought you and your you bear fruit and shall increase you land today for Pharaoh. Look, here is and make of you an assembly of seed for you, and you shall sow the peoples, and give this land to your land. .\u25a0 .\u00bb .. .. . seed after you as an everlasting 24 \\\"And it shall be that in the harvest possession.' ; . \u2022 you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh. 5 \\\"And now, your two sons, Ephrayim And four-fifths is your own; as seed for and Menashsheh, who were born to the field and for your food, for those of you in the land of Mitsrayim before I your households and as food for your came to you in Mitsrayim, are mine - little ones.\\\" \u2022 : as Re'uben and Shim'on, they are 25 And they said, \\\"You have saved mine. ;'\u2022 \u25a0. our lives. Let us find favour in the eyes 6 \\\"Your offspring whom you shall bring of my master, and we shall become forth after them are yours, and let them Pharaoh's servants.\\\" be called by the name of their brothers 26 And Yoseph made it a law over the in their inheritance. land of Mitsrayim to this day, that 7 \\\"And I, when I came from Paddan, Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except Rahel died beside me in the land of for the ground of the priests only, Kena'an on the way, when there was which did not become Pharaoh's. but a little distance to go to Ephrath. 27 And Yisra'el dwelt in the land of And I buried her there on the way to Mitsrayim, in the land of Goshen. And Ephrath, that is Beyth Lehem.\\\" they had possessions there and bore 8 And Yisra'el saw Yoseph's sons, and fruit and increased exceedingly. \u25a0 said, \\\"Who are these?\\\" 28 And Ya'aqob lived in the land of 9 And Yoseph said to his father, \\\"They Mitsrayim seventeen years. So the are my sons, whom Elohim has given length of Ya'aqob's life was one me in this place.\\\" And he said, \\\"Please hundred and forty-seven years. bring them to me, and let me barak 29 And the time for Yisra'el to die drew them.\\\" near, and he called his son Yoseph 10 And the eyes of Yisra'el were dim and said to him, \\\"Now if I have found with age, and he was unable to see. favour in your eyes, please put your And he drew them near him, and he hand under my thigh, and show kissed them and embraced them. kindness and truth to me. Please do 11 And Yisra'el said to Yoseph, \\\"I had not bury me in Mitsrayim, not thought to see your face. But see, 30 but I shall lie with my fathers, and Elohim has also shown me your seed!\\\" you shall take me up out of Mitsrayim 12 So Yoseph brought them from","55 GENESIS between his knees,, and he bowed A Q And Ya'aqob called his sons Hr 27 and said, \\\"Gather together, so down with his face to the earth. 13 And Yoseph took them both, that I declare to you what is to befall Ephrayim with his right hand toward you in the last days: Yisra'el's left hand, and Menashsheh 2 \\\"Gather together and hear, you sons with his left hand toward Yisra'el's right of Ya'aqob, and listen to Yisra'el your hand, and brought them near him. father. \u2022r . 14 And Yisra'el stretched out his right 3 \\\"Re'uben, you are my first-born, my hand and laid it on Ephrayim's head, power and the beginning of my who was the' younger, and his strength, the excellency of exaltation left hand on Menashsheh's head, and the excellency of power. consciously directing his hands, for 4 \\\"Unstable as the waters, you do not Menashsheh was the first-born. excel, because you went up to your 15 And he barak Yoseph, and said, father's bed, then you defiled it - he \\\"The Elohim before whom my fathers went up to my couch. Abraham and Yitshaq walked, the 5 \\\"Shim'on and Lewi are brothers, their Elohim who has fed me all my life long weapons are implements of violence. to this day,. \/ ; \u25a0\u2019 6 \\\"Let my being not enter their council, 16 the Messenger who has redeemed let my esteem not be united to their me from all evil - barak the youths! assembly; because they slew a man in And let my name be called upon their displeasure, and they lamed an them, and the name of my fathers ox in pleasure. Abraham and Yitshaq. And let them 7 \\\"Cursed be their displeasure for it is increase to a multitude in the midst of fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I the earth.\\\" \u25a0\u25a0 divide them in Ya'aqob and scatter 17 And when Yoseph saw that his them in Yisra'el. father laid his right hand on the head 8 \\\"You, Yahudah, your brothers praise of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; you; your hand is on the neck of your and he took hold of his father's hand to enemies; your father's children bow remove it from the head of Ephrayim to down before you. \u201c .v the head of Menashsheh. 9 \\\"Yahudah is a lion's cub; from the 18 And Yoseph said to his father, \\\"Not prey you have gone up, my son! He so, my father, for this one is the first\u00ad bowed down, he crouched like a lion. born, put your right hand on his head.\\\" And like a lion, who rouses him? 19 But his father refused and said, \\\"I 10 \\\"The sceptre shall not turn aside know, my son, I know. He also from Yahudah, nor a Lawgiver from becomes a people, and he also is between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of great. And yet, his younger brother is peoples. 11 \\\"Binding his donkey to the vine, and greater than he, and his seed is to his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he become the completeness of the nations.\\\" 20 And he barak them on that day, washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes. saying, \\\"In you Yisra'el shall barak, saying, 'Elohim make you as Ephrayim 12 \\\"His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. and as Menashsheh!' \\\" Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh. 13 \\\"Zebulun dwells at the seashore, he 21 And Yisra'el said to Yoseph, \\\"See, I is a haven for ships, and his border is unto Tsidon. am dying, but Elohim shall be with you and bring you back to the land of your 14 \\\"Yissaskar is a strong donkey lying fathers. down between two burdens, 22 \\\"And I, I have given to you one 15 and he saw that a resting place was portion above your brothers, which I good, and that the land was pleasant, took from the hand of the Amorite with and he inclined his shoulder to bear a my sword and with my bow.\\\" burden, and became a subject to slave","BERESHITH 56 labour. the land of Kena'an, which Abraham 16 \\\"Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra'el. bought with the field of Ephron the 17 \\\"Dan is a serpent by the way, an Hittite as a possession for a burial site. adder by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider falls 31 There they buried Abraham and backward. 18 \\\"I have waited for your deliverance, Sarah his wife, there they buried O 19 \\\"Gad, a raiding band raids him, but Yitshaq and Ribqah his wife, and there he raids its heel. 20 \\\"Bread from Asher is rich, and he 1 buried Le'ah, gives delicacies of a sovereign. 21 \\\"Naphtali is a deer let loose, he 32 the field purchased, and the cave gives words of elegance. 22 .\\\"Yoseph is an offshoot of a fruit\u00ad which is in it, from the sons of Heth.\\\" bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit\u00ad 33 And when Ya'aqob ended bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall. commanding his sons, he drew his feet 23 \\\"And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated up into the bed and breathed his last, him. 24 \\\"But his bow remained in strength, and was gathered to his people. and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One O And Yoseph fell on his father's of Ya'aqob - from there is the OkJ face, and wept over him, and Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra'el - 25 from the El of your father who helps kissed him. you, and by El Shaddai who barak you 2 And Yoseph commanded \u2022\u2022 his with birekoth of the shamayim above, birekoth of the deep that lies beneath, servants the physicians to embalm his birekoth of the breasts and of the father. So the physicians embalmed womb. 26 \\\"The birekoth of your father have Yisra'el. excelled the birekoth of my ancestors, 3 And forty days were completed for up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of Yoseph, and him, for so are completed the days of on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. embalming. And the Mitsrites wept for 27 \\\"Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he him seventy days. . . \u2022\u2022 divides the spoil.\\\" 28 All these are the twelve tribes of 4 And when the days of weeping for Yisra'el, and this is what their father him were past, Yoseph spoke to the spoke to them. And he barak them, he barak each one according to his own household of Pharaoh, saying, \\\"If, berakah. : . . . . now, I have found favour in your eyes, 29 And he commanded them, and said please speak in the hearing of to them, \\\"I am to be gathered to my Pharaoh, saying, people, bury me with my fathers in the 5 'My father made me swear, saying, cave that is in the field of Ephron the \\\"See, I am dying, bury me in my grave Hittite, which I dug for myself in the land of 30 in the cave that is in the field of Kena'an.\\\" And now, please let me go Makpelah, which is before Mamre in up and bury my father, and return.' \\\" 6 And Pharaoh said, \\\"Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.\\\" ' 7 And Yoseph went up to bury his father. And with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mitsrayim, 8 and all the house of Yoseph, and his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great company. 10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and they lamented there with a great","57 GENESIS and very heavy lamentation. And he spoke to him. observed seven days of mourning for 18 And his brothers also went and fell his father. down before his face, and they said, \\\"See, we are your servants.\\\" 11 And when the inhabitants of 19 And Yoseph said to them, \\\"Do not the land, the Kena'anites, saw the fear, for am I in the place of Elohim? mourning at the threshing-floor of 20 \\\"And you, you intended evil against Atad, they said, \\\"This is a grievous me, but Elohim intended it for good, in mourning for the Mitsrites.\\\" That is why order to do it as it is this day, to keep a its name was called Abel Mitsrayim, great many people alive. which is beyond the Yarden. 21 \\\"And now, do not fear, I provide for 12 And his sons did to him as he had you and your little ones.\\\" So he commanded them, comforted them and spoke kindly to 13 for his sons brought him to the land them. of Kena'an, and buried him in the cave 22 And Yoseph dwelt in Mitsrayim, of the field of Makpelah, before he and his father's household. And Mamre, which Abraham bought with Yoseph lived one hundred and ten the field from Ephron the Hittite as years. property for a burial site. r 23 And Yoseph saw Ephrayim's 14 And after he had buried his father, children to the third generation. The Yoseph returned to Mitsrayim, he and children of Makir, son of Menashsheh, his brothers and all who went up with were also brought up on Yoseph's him to bury his father. knees. 15 And when Yoseph's brothers saw 24 And Yoseph said to his brothers, \\\"I that their father was dead, they said, am dying, but Elohim shall certainly \\\"What if Yoseph hates us, and pays us visit you and bring you out of this land back all the evil which we did to him?\\\" to the land of which He swore to 16 And they sent word to Yoseph, Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya'aqob.\\\" saying, \\\"Before your father died he 25 And Yoseph made the children of commanded, saying, Yisra'el swear, saying, \\\"Elohim shall 17 'This is what you are to say to certainly visit you, and you shall bring Yoseph, \\\"I beg you, please forgive the up my bones from here.\\\" transgression of your brothers and 26 And Yoseph died, being one their sin, for they did evil to you.\\\"' And hundred and ten years old. And they now, please forgive the transgression embalmed him, and he was placed in of the servants of the Elohim of your a coffin in Mitsrayim. father.\\\" And Yoseph wept when they t","SHEMOTH 58 SHEMOTH then she shall live.\\\" 17 But the midwives revered Elohim, nioci w~\\\\w and did not do as the sovereign of Mitsrayim commanded them, and kept 1 And these are the names of the children of Yisra'el who came to the male children alive. Mitsrayim with Ya'aqob, each one with 18 So the sovereign of Mitsrayim called his household: for the midwives and said to them, 2 Re'uben, Shim'on, Lewi, and \\\"Why have you done this, and kept the Yahudah; male children alive?\\\" 3 Yissaskar, Zebulun, and Binyamin; 19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. \u2019\u2019Because the Ibri women are not like 5 And all those who were descendants the Mitsrite women. For they are lively of Ya'aqob were seventy beings, as and give birth before the midwives Yoseph was already in Mitsrayim. come to them.\\\" 6 And Yoseph died, and all his 20 So Elohim was good to the brothers, and all that generation. midwives, and the people increased 7 And the children of Yisra'el bore fruit and became very numerous. and increased very much, multiplied 21 And it came to be, because the and became very strong, and the land midwives revered Elohim, that He was filled with them. provided households for them. 8 Then a new sovereign arose over 22 And Pharaoh commanded all his Mitsrayim, who did not know Yoseph, people, saying, \\\"Throw every son who 9 and he said to his people,- \\\"See, the is born into the river, and keep alive people of the children of Yisra'el are every daughter.\\\" more and stronger than we, O And a man of the house of Lewi 10 come, let us act wisely towards them, lest they increase, and it shall be went and married a daughter of when fighting befalls us, that they shall Lewi. join our enemies and fight against us, 2 And the woman conceived and bore and shall go up out of the land.\\\" a son. And she saw that he was a 11 So they appointed slave-masters lovely child, and she hid him three over them to afflict them with their months. burdens, and they built for Pharaoh 3 And when she could hide him no supply cities, Pithom and Ra'amses. longer, she took an ark of papyrus for 12 But the more they afflicted them, the him, and. coated it with tar and pitch, more they increased and grew, and and put the child in it, and laid it in the they were in dread of the children of reeds by the edge of the river. 4 And his sister stood at a distance, to Yisra'el. know what would be done to him. 13 And the Mitsrites made the children 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came of Yisra'el serve with harshness, down to wash herself at the river, and 14 and they made their lives bitter with her young women were walking by the hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, river-side. And when she saw the ark and in all kinds of work in the field, all among the reeds, she sent her female their work which they made them do servant to get it, was with harshness. 6 and opened it and saw the child, and 15 Then the sovereign of Mitsrayim see, the child wept. So she had spoke to the Ibri midwives, of whom compassion on him, and said, \\\"This is the name of one was Shiphrah and the one of the children of the Ibrim.\\\" name of the other Pu'ah, 16 and he said, \\\"When you deliver the 7 And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, \\\"Shall I go and call a nurse Ibri women, and see them on the birth\u00ad for you from the Ibri women to nurse the child for you?\\\" stools, if it is a son, then you shall put him to death, but if it is a daughter, 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, \\\"Go.\\\" And the girl went and called the","59 EXODUS child's mother. 22 And she bore him a son, and he 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, \\\"Take this child away and nurse him called his name Gereshom, for he for me, then I shall pay your wages.\\\" So the woman took the child and said, \\\"I have become a sojourner in a nursed him. 10 And the child grew, and she brought foreign land.\\\" him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his 23 And it came to be after these many name Mosheh, saying, \\\"Because I have drawn him out of the water.\\\" days that the sovereign of Mitsrayim 11 And in those days it came to be, when Mosheh was grown, that he went died. And the children of Yisra'el out to his brothers and looked at their burdens. And he saw a Mitsrite beating groaned because of the slavery, and an Ibri, one of his brothers. 12 So he turned this way and that way, they cried out. And their cry came up and when he saw no one, he smote the Mitsrite and hid him in the sand. to Elohim because of the slavery. 13 And he went out the second day and saw two Ibrim fighting, and he said 24 And Elohim heard their groaning, to the one who did the wrong, \\\"Why do you smite your neighbour?\\\" and Elohim remembered His Covenant 14 And he said, \\\"Who made you a head and a judge over us? Do you with Abraham, with Yitshaq, and with intend to slay me as you slew the Mitsrite?\\\" And Mosheh feared and Ya'aqob. said, \\\"Truly, the matter is known!\\\" 15 And Pharaoh heard of this matter, 25 And Elohim looked on the children and he sought to kill Mosheh. But Mosheh fled from the face of Pharaoh of Yisra'el, and Elohim knew! and dwelt in the land of Midyan. And he sat down by a well. O And Mosheh was shepherding 16 And the kohen of Midyan had seven O the flock of Yithro his father-in- daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to law, the kohen of Midyan. And he led water their father's flock, 17 but the shepherds came and drove the flock to the back of the wilderness, them away. Then Mosheh stood up and came to their rescue, and watered and came to Horeb, the mountain of their flock. Elohim. 18 And they came to Re'uw'el their father, and he said, \\\"How is it that you 2 And the Messenger of have come so soon today?\\\" 19 And they said, \\\"A Mitsrite rescued appeared to him in a flame of fire from us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us the midst of a bush. And he looked and and watered the flock.\\\" 20 And he said to his daughters, \\\"And saw the bush burning with fire, but the where is he? Why did you leave the bush was not consumed. man? Call him and let him eat bread.\\\" 21 And Mosheh agreed to dwell with 3 And Mosheh said, \\\"Let me turn aside the man, and he gave Tsipporah his now, and see this great sight, why the daughter to Mosheh. bush does not burn.\\\" 4 And saw that he turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, \\\"Mosheh! Mosheh!\\\" And he said, \\\"Here I am.\\\" 5 And He said, \\\"Do not come near here. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is qodesh ground.\\\" 6 And He said, \\\"I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Yitshaq, and the Elohim of Ya'aqob.\\\" And Mosheh hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim. 7 And said, \\\"I have indeed seen the oppression of My people who are in Mitsrayim, and have heard their cry because of their slave-drivers, for I know their sorrows. 8 \\\"And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Mitsrites, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the","SHEMOTH 60 place of the Kena'anites and the elders of Yisra'el, to the sovereign of Hittites and the Amorites and the Mitsrayim, and you shall say to him, ' Perizzites and the Hiwwites and the WW Elohim of the I brim has met with Yebusites. us. And now, please, let us go three 9 \\\"And now, see, the cry of the children days' journey into the wilderness to slaughter to i^^our Elohim.' of Yisra'el has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which 19 \\\"But I know that the sovereign of the Mitsrites oppress them. Mitsrayim is not going to let you go, 10 \\\"And now, come, I am sending you not even by a strong hand. to Pharaoh, to bring My people, the 20 \\\"And I shall stretch out My hand and children of Yisra'el, out of Mitsrayim.\\\" smite Mitsrayim with all My wonders 11 And Mosheh said to Elohim, \\\"Who which I shall do in its midst. And after am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that he shall let you go. that I should bring the children of 21 \\\"And I shall give this people favour Yisra'el out of Mitsrayim?\\\" * in the eyes of the Mitsrites. And it shall 12 And He said, \\\"Because I am with be, that when you go, you shall not go you. And this is to you the sign that I empty-handed. have sent you: When you have 22 \\\"But every woman shall ask from brought the people out of Mitsrayim, her neighbour and from the stranger in you are to serve Elohim on this her house, objects of silver, and mountain.\\\" objects of gold, and garments. And you 13 And Mosheh said to Elohim, \\\"See, shall put them on your sons and on when I come to the children of Yisra'el your daughters, and shall plunder the and say to them, 'The Elohim of your Mitsrites.\\\" fathers has sent me to you,' and they \/i] And Mosheh answered and said, Hr \\\"And if they do not believe me, say to me, 'What is His Name?' what shall I say to them?\\\" nor listen to my voice, and say, ''XVW 14 And Elohim said to Mosheh, \\\"I am has not appeared to you?'\\\" that which I am.\\\" And He said, \\\"Thus 2 And said to him, \\\"What is that you shall say to the children of Yisra'el, in your hand?\\\" And he said, \\\"A rod.\\\" 'I am has sent me to you.'\\\" 3 And He said, \\\"Throw it on the 15 And Elohim said further to Mosheh, ground.\\\" So he threw it on the ground, \\\"Thus you are to say to the children of and it became a serpent. And Mosheh Yisra'el, Elohim of your fathers, fled from it. the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of 4 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Reach Yitshaq, and the Elohim of Ya'aqob, out your hand and catch it by the tail\\\" - has sent me to you. This is My Name so he reached out his hand and seized forever, and this is My remembrance to it, and it became a rod in his hand - all generations.' 5 so that they believe that WW 16 \\\"Go, and you shall gather the elders Elohim of their fathers, the Elohim of of Yisra'el together, and say to them, ' Abraham, the Elohim of Yitshaq, and Elohim of your fathers, the the Elohim of Ya\u2019aqob, has appeared Elohim of Abraham, of Yitshaq, and of to you.\\\" Ya'aqob, appeared to me, saying, \\\"I 6 And said to him again, \\\"Now have indeed visited you and seen what put your hand in your bosom.\\\" And he is done to you in Mitsrayim; put his hand in his bosom, and when 17 and I say: I am bringing you up out he took it out, and see, his hand was of the affliction of Mitsrayim to the land leprous, like snow. of the Kena'anite and the Hittite and 7 And He said, \\\"Put your hand in your the Amorite and the Perizzite and the bosom again.\\\" So he put his hand in Hiwwite and the Yebusite, to a land his bosom again, and drew it out of his flowing with milk and honey.\\\"' bosom, and see, it was restored like 18 \\\"And they shall listen to your voice. his other flesh. And you shall come, you and the 8 \\\"And it shall be, if they do not believe","61 EXODUS you, nor listen to the voice of the first he returned to the land of Mitsrayim. sign, they shall believe the voice of the And Mosheh took the rod of Elohim in latter sign. .; \u2022 . - >. his hand. 9 \\\"And it shall be, if they do not believe 21 And said to Mosheh, \\\"As you even these two signs, or listen to your go back to Mitsrayim, see that you do voice, that you shall take water from all those wonders before Pharaoh the river and pour it on the dry land. which I have put in your hand. But I am And the water which you take from the going to harden his heart, so that he river shall become blood on the dry does not let the people go. land.\\\" 22 \\\"And you shall say to Pharaoh, 10 And Mosheh said to ftW, \\\"O 'Thus said \\\"Yisra'el is My son, I am not a man of words, My first-born, \u25a0 neither before nor since You have 23 so I say to you, let. My son go to spoken to Your servant, for I am slow serve Me. But if you refuse to let him of speech and slow of tongue.\\\" go, see, I am killing your son, your 11 And said to him, \\\"Who has first-born.\\\"\\\"' \u2018 made man's mouth? Or who makes 24 And it came to be on the way, in the dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it lodging place, that met him and not I, sought to kill him. \u2019 . 12 \\\"And now, go, and I shall be with 25 And Tsipporah took a sharp stone your mouth and teach you what to and cut off the foreskin of her son and say.\\\" ... - \u25a0 < ... ..v .. threw it at Mosheh's feet, and said, 13 But he said, \\\"O please send \\\"You are indeed a bridegroom of blood by the hand of him whom You would tome!\\\" send.\\\" 26 So He let him go. Then she said, 14 And the displeasure of burned \\\"You .are a bridegroom of blood,\\\" against Mosheh, and He said, \\\"Is not because of the circumcision. Aharon the Lewite your brother? I 27 And said to Aharon, \\\"Go to know that he speaks well. And see, he meet Mosheh in the wilderness.\\\" And is also coming out to meet you. And he went and met him on the mountain when he sees you, he shall be glad in of Elohim, and kissed him. \u2022< his heart. \u2018 \\\\. 28 Mosheh then told Aharon, all the 15 \\\"And you shall speak to him and put words of who had sent him, the words in his mouth. And I am with and all the signs which >. He had your mouth and with his. mouth, and I commanded him. . shall teach you what to do. 29 And Mosheh went with Aharon and 16 \\\"And he shall speak for you to the gathered together all the elders of the people. And it shall be that he shall be children of Yisra'el. \u2019 .\u2022\u2022 . a mouth for you, and you shall be an 30 And Aharon spoke all the words elohim for him. ?\u2022\u2022\u2022 ; which MW had spoken to Mosheh. 17 \\\"And take this rod in your hand, with Then he did the signs before the eyes which you shall do the signs.\\\" ..... of the people. \u2022 18 Then Mosheh went and returned to 31 And the people believed. And they Yether his father-in-law, and said to heard that had visited the him, \\\"Please let me go and return to children of Yisra'el and that He had my brothers who are in Mitsrayim to looked, on their affliction, and they see whether they are still alive.\\\" And bowed their heads and did obeisance. Yithro said to Mosheh, \\\"Go in peace.\\\" And afterwards Mosheh and 19 And 3W<7said to Mosheh in w Aharon went in1 and said to Midyan, \\\"Go, return to Mitsrayim, for Pharaoh, \\\"Thus said 'WAV Elohim of all the men are dead who sought your Yisra'el, 'Let My people go, so that life.\\\" .' 1they celebrate a festival to Me in the 20 So Mosheh took his wife and his \u2019wilderness.'\\\" \/ \u2022 - sons and put them on a donkey, and 2: And Pharaoh said, \\\"Who is","SHEMOTH 62 that I should obey His voice to let your servants this way? = ~ 16 \\\"There is no straw given to your Yisra'el go? I do not know nor am I going to let Yisra'el go.\\\" . servants, and they say to us, 'Make bricks!' And see, your servants are 3 And they said, \\\"The Elohim of the Ibrim has met with us. Please, let beaten, but your own people are at us go three days' journey into the fault.\\\" wilderness and slaughter to our 17 But he said, \\\"You are idle! You are idle! That is why you say, 'Let us go Elohim, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.\\\" and slaughter to 4 But the sovereign of Mitsrayim said 18 \\\"So now go, work. And straw is not to them, \\\"Mosheh and Aharon, why do given to you, but deliver the amount of you take the people from their work? bricks.\\\" - Get back to your burdens.\\\" 19 And the foremen of the children of 5 And Pharaoh said, \\\"See, the people Yisra'el saw that they were in trouble of the land are many now, and you after it was said, \\\"You are not to make them cease from their burdens!\\\" diminish your daily amount of bricks.\\\" 20 And when they came out from 6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the slave-drivers of the Pharaoh, they met Mosheh ;and people and their foremen, saying, Aharon who stood there to meet them. 21 And they said to them, \\\"Let 7 \\\"You are no longer to give the look on you and judge, because you people straw to make bricks as before. Let them go and gather straw for have made us loathsome in the eyes themselves. \u2022 !\u2022 \\\" of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his 8 \\\"And lay on them the required servants, to give a sword in their hand to kill us.\\\" amount of bricks which they made before, do not diminish it. For they are 22 And Mosheh returned to and idle, that is why they cry out, saying, said, why have You done evil 'Let us go and slaughter to our Elohim.' to this people? Why did You send me? 9 \\\"Let more work be laid on the men, 23 \\\"For ever since I. came to Pharaoh so that they labour in it, and not pay to speak in Your Name, he has done attention to words of falsehood.\\\" evil to this people. And You have not 10 And the slave-drivers of the people delivered Your people at all.\\\" and their foremen went out and spoke \u00a37 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Now O see what I do to Pharaoh, for with to the people, saying, \\\"Thus said Pharaoh, 'I do not give you straw, t .? a strong hand he is going to let them 11 'Go, take straw for yourselves, go, and with a strong hand he is going wherever you find it, for your work to drive them out of his land.\\\" shall not be diminished.'\\\" r' 2 And Elohim spoke to Mosheh and 12 And the people were scattered in all said to him, \\\"I am WW. the land of Mitsrayim - to gather 3 \\\"And I appeared to Abraham, to stubble for straw.. Yitshaq, and to Ya'aqob, as El 13 And the slave-drivers were hurrying Shaddai. And by My Name, was them on, saying, \\\"Complete your work, I not known to them? your daily amount, as when there was 4 \\\"And I also established My Covenant straw.\\\" ' \u2022. with them, to give them the land of 14 Also the foremen of the children of Kena'an, the land of their sojournings, Yisra'el, whom Pharaoh's slave-drivers in which they have sojourned. had appointed over them, were beaten 5 \\\"And I have also heard the groaning and were asked, \\\"Why have you not of the children of Yisra'el whom the completed your task in making bricks Mitsrites are enslaving, and I have both yesterday and today, as before?\\\" remembered My Covenant. 15 And the foremen of the children 6 \\\"Say, therefore, to the children of of Yisra'el came and cried out to Yisra'el, 'I am and I shall bring Pharaoh, saying, \\\"Why do you treat you out from under the burdens of the","63 EXODUS Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from 19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and their enslaving, and shall redeem you Mushi. These are the clans of Lewi with an outstretched arm, and with according to their generations. great judgments, 20 And Amram took for himself 7 and shall take you as My people, and Yokebed, his father's sister, as wife. I shall be your Elohim. And you shall And she bore him Aharon and know that I am your Elohim who Mosheh. And the years of the life of is bringing you out from under the Amram were one hundred and thirty\u00ad burdens of the Mitsrites. seven. \u2022 : \u25a0: 8 'And I shall bring you into the land 21 And the sons of Yitshar: Qorah, and which I swore to give to Abraham, to Nepheg, and Zikri. Yitshaq, and to Ya'aqob, to give it to 22 And the sons of Uzzi'el: Misha'el, you as an inheritance. I am 'YYYY'\\\" and Eltsaphan, and Sithri. 9 And Mosheh spoke thus to the 23 Aharon took to himself Elisheba, children of Yisra'el, but they did daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife. And\\\" she bore him not listen to Mosheh, because of shortness of spirit, and from hard Nadab, and Abihu, El'azar, . and slavery. *- Ithamar. 10 And spoke to Mosheh, saying, 24 And the sons of Qorah: Assir, 11 \\\"Go in, speak to Pharaoh sovereign Elqanah,- and Abiyasaph. These are of Mitsrayim, to let the children of the clans of the Qorhites. . Yisra'el go out of his land.\\\" 25 And El'azar, Aharon's son, took for 12 And Mosheh spoke before himself one of the daughters of Puti'el saying, \\\"The children of Yisra'el have as wife. And she bore him Pinehas. not listened to me, and why would These are the heads of the fathers of Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of the Lewites according to their clans. uncircumcised lips?\\\" 26 This is Aharon, and Mosheh, to 13 And WW spoke to Mosheh and to whom said, \\\"Bring out the Aharon, and gave them a command children of Yisra'el from the land of for the children of Yisra'el and for Mitsrayim according to their divisions.\\\" Pharaoh, sovereign of Mitsrayim, to 27 They were the ones who spoke to bring the children of Yisra'el out of the Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, to land of Mitsrayim. \u25a0 : :- bring \u2022 out the children of Yisra'el 14 These are the heads of their fathers\u2019 from Mitsrayim. This is Mosheh, and houses: The sons of Re'uben, the first\u00ad Aharon. \u2022 \\\\ ' born of Yisra'el: Hanok and Pallu, 28 And it came to be, on the day when Hetsron and Karmi. These are the spoke to Mosheh in the land of clans of Re'uben. *\u2022 . \u25a0 \u201c Mitsrayim, \u25a0 '\u25a0?. . 15 And the sons of Shim'on: Yemu'el, 29 that <XYYY spoke to Mosheh, saying, and Yamin, and Ohad, and Yakin, \\\"I am YYY. Speak to Pharaoh and Tsohar, and Sha'uT the son of a sovereign of Mitsrayim all that I say to Kena'anite woman. These are the you.\\\" . clans of Shim'on. \u2022 . 30 And Mosheh said before 16 These are the names of the sons of \\\"See, I am of uncircumcised lips, and Lewi according to their generations: why would Pharaoh listen to me?\\\" . Gereshon, and Qehath, and Merari. f So WW said to Mosheh, \\\"See, And the years of the life of Lewi were f I have made you an elohim to one hundred and thirty-seven. Pharaoh, and Aharon your brother is 17 The sons of Gereshon: Libni and your nabi. < - j\u25a0 Shim'i according to their clans. . . 2 \\\"You shall speak all that I command 18 And the sons of Qehath: Amram, you, and Aharon your brother shall and Yitshar, and Hebron, and Uzzi'el. speak to Pharaoh, to let the children of And the years of the life of Qehath Yisra'el go out of his land. were one hundred and thirty-three. 3 \\\"But I am going to harden the heart","SHEMOTH i64 of Pharaoh, and shall increase My they serve Me in the wilderness,\\\" but signs and My wonders in the land of see, until now you have not listened! Mitsrayim. 1 17 'Thus said tfW, \\\"By this you know 4 \\\"And Pharaoh is not going to listen to that I am See, I am striking the you, and I shall lay My hand on waters which are in the river with the Mitsrayim, and bring My divisions and rod that is in my hand, and they shall My people, the children of Yisra'el, out be turned to blood, \u2019 of the land of Mitsrayim by great 18 and the fish in the river shall die. judgments. And the river . shall stink, and the 5 \\\"And the Mitsrites shall know that I Mitsrites shall find it impossible to drink am when I stretch out My hand the water of the river.\\\"'\\\" \u201d \u2019 \u2022 \u2022 - on Mitsrayim. And I shall bring the 19 And spoke to Mosheh, \\\"Say children of Yisra'el out from among to Aharon, 'Take your rod and stretch them.\\\" out your hand over the waters of 6 And Mosheh and Aharon did as Mitsrayim, over their streams, over commanded them, so they did. their rivers, over their ponds, and over 7 Now Mosheh was eighty years old all their pools of water, that they and Aharon eighty-three years old become blood. And there shall be when they spoke to Pharaoh. <' blood in all the land of Mitsrayim, both 8 And spoke to Mosheh and to in wooden and in stone containers' \\\" \u2022 Aharon, saying, , . 20 And Mosheh and Aharon did so, as 9 1 \\\"When Pharaoh ~ speaks to commanded. And he lifted up you, saying, \/Show a miracle for the rod and struck the waters that were yourselves,' then you shall say to in the river, in the eyes of Pharaoh and Aharon, 'Take your rod and throw it in the eyes of his servants. And all the before Pharaoh, and let it become a waters that were in the river were serpent.'\\\" turned to blood. \u2022 ., \u2022 10 So Mosheh and Aharon went in to 21 And the fish that were in the river Pharaoh, and they did so, as died, and the river stank, and the commanded. And Aharon threw his Mitsrites were unable to drink the rod before Pharaoh and before his water of the river. And the blood was in servants, and it became.a serpent. ? all the land of Mitsrayim. \u2022. \u25a0 - \u2022 11 But Pharaoh also called the wise 22 And the magicians of Mitsrayim did men and the practisers of witchcraft. the same with their magic. And the And they, the magicians of Mitsrayim, heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and also did so with their magic. he did not listen to them, as had 12 And they, each one, threw down said. ... . . ?\u2022 his rod, and they became serpents. 23 And Pharaoh turned and went into But the rod of Aharon swallowed up his house, and his heart was not their rods. ,J moved by this either. 13 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, 24 And all the Mitsrites dug all around and he did not listen to them, as MW the river for water to drink, for they had said, w.?: . were unable to drink the water of the 14 And WW said to'Mosheh, \\\"The river. \u201d heart of Pharaoh is hard, he refuses to 25 And seven days were completed let the people go. after had struck the river. 15 \\\"Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as O And WW spoke to Mosheh, \\\"Go O to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus he goes out to the water, and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him. said fflW, \\\"Let My people go, so that And take in your hand the rod which they serve Me. .. was turned into a serpent. 2 \\\"But if you refuse to let them go, see, 16 \\\"And you shall say to him, \u20193*t^Tthe I am smiting all your border with frogs. Elohim of the Ibrim has sent me to 3 \\\"And the river shall swarm with frogs, you, saying, \\\"Let My people go, so that which shall go up and shall come into","65 EXODUS your house, and into your bedroom, 16 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Say to and on your bed, and into the houses Aharon, 'Stretch out your rod, and of your servants, and on your people, strike the dust of the land, so that it and into your ovens, and into your becomes gnats in all the land of kneading bowls, \\\"\u2022 Mitsrayim.'\\\" :\u25a0 4 and the frogs shall come up on you 17 And they did so, and Aharon and on your people and on all your stretched out his hand with his rod and servants...... struck the dust of the earth, and it 5 And 'iftW said to Mosheh, \\\"Say to became gnats on man and beast. All Aharon, 'Stretch out your hand with the dust of the land became gnats in your rod over the streams, over the all the land of Mitsrayim. rivers, and over the ponds, and cause 18 And the magicians did similarly frogs to come up on the land of with their magic to bring forth gnats, Mitsrayim.'\\\" but they were unable. And there were 6 So Aharon stretched out his hand gnats on man and beast. \u25a0 \u25a0 -\u2022 \u2019 -t over the waters of Mitsrayim, and the 19 The magicians then said to frogs came up, and covered the land Pharaoh, \\\"This is the finger of Elohim!\\\" of Mitsrayim. But the heart of Pharaoh was 7 And the magicians did so with their hardened, and he did not listen to magic, and brought up frogs on the them, as had said. land of Mitsrayim. *. C . > \u2019 20 And WW said to Mosheh, \\\"Rise 8 Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and early in the morning and stand before Aharon, and said, \\\"Pray to to Pharaoh as he comes out to the water, take away the frogs from me and from and say to him, 'Thus said \\\"Let my people, and I shall let the people My people go, so that they serve Me. go to slaughter to 21 \\\"Or else, if you do not let My people 9 And Mosheh said to . Pharaoh, go, see, I am sending swarms of flies \\\"Explain yourself to me: When am I to on you and your servants, and on your pray for you, and for your servants, people and into your houses. And the and for your people, to destroy the houses of the Mitsrites shall be filled frogs from you and your houses, and with swarms of -.flies, apd ; also the remain only in the river?\\\" \u25a0 . ground on which they stand. 10 So he said, \\\"Tomorrow.\\\" And he 22 \\\"And in that day I shall separate the said, \\\"Let it be according to your word, land of Goshen, in which My people so that you know that there is no one dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be like 'WW our Elohim. .\u2022 there, so that you know that I am WW 11 \\\"And the frogs shall turn aside from in the midst of the land. you, and from your houses, and from 23 \\\"And I shall put a distinction your servants, and from your people - between My people and your people. they shall remain in the river only.\\\" Tomorrow this sign shall be.\\\"'\\\" 12 And Mosheh and Aharon went out 24 And <%\\\\'%y did so, and thick swarms from Pharaoh. And Mosheh cried out of flies came into the house of to WW concerning the frogs which He Pharaoh,- and into his servants' had brought against Pharaoh. houses, and into all the land of 13 And did according to the word Mitsrayim, and the land was ruined i of Mosheh. And the frogs died out of because of the swarms of flies. the houses, out of the courtyards, and 25 Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and out of the fields. \u2022 . - ; \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.' '< \u2022\u2019 Aharon, and said, \\\"Go, slaughter to 14 And they gathered them together in your Elohim in the land.\\\" \u25a0 \u25a0'\u25a0 \u25a0> . \u2022. heaps, and the land stank. - 26 And Mosheh said, \\\"It is not right to 15 And when Pharaoh saw that there do so, for we would be slaughtering was relief, he hardened his heart and the abomination of the Mitsrites to did not listen to them, as had Elohim. See, if we slaughter said. : r the abomination of the Mitsrites before","SHEMOTH 66 their eyes, would they not stone us? Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not 27 \\\"Let us go three days' journey into let the people go. the wilderness, then we shall slaughter 8 And WW said to Mosheh and to WW our Elohim, as He commands Aharon, \\\"Fill your hands with ashes us.\\\" from a furnace and let Mosheh scatter 28 And Pharaoh said, \\\"I am letting you it toward the shamayim before the go, then you shall slaughter to KW eyes of Pharaoh. your Elohim in the wilderness. Only, do 9 \\\"And it shall become fine dust in all not go very far away! Pray for me.\\\" the land of Mitsrayim, and ,.it shall 29 And Mosheh said, \\\"See, when I cause, boils that break out in sores on leave you I shall pray to WW, and man and beast in all the land of tomorrow the swarms of flies shall Mitsrayim.\\\" depart from Pharaoh, from his 10 So they took ashes from the furnace servants, and from his people. But do and stood before Pharaoh, and not let Pharaoh' again deceive, not to Mosheh scattered them toward the let the people go to slaughter to shamayim. And they caused boils, ^r.\\\" breaking out in sores on man and 30 And Mosheh went out from Pharaoh beast. and prayed to MW. 11 And the magicians were unable to 31 And :y\\\\yy did according to the word stand before Mosheh because of the of Mosheh and removed the swarms of boils, for the boils were .on the flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, magicians and on all the Mitsrites. and from his people. Not one 12 But hardened the heart of remained. \u2022' \u25a0. Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, 32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart at as WW had said to Mosheh. this time too, and did not let the people 13 And said to Mosheh, '\\\"Rise go. early in the morning and stand before Q And 'W&y said to Mosheh, \\\"Go Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus said Zz in to Pharaoh and speak to him, WW Elohim of the Ibrim, \\\"Let My 'Thus said KW Elohim of the Ibrim, people go, so that they serve Me, \\\"Let My people go, so that they serve 14 for at this time I am sending all My Me. d \u25a0' \u2022 ' . plagues unto your heart, and on your 2 \\\"For if you refuse to let them go, and servants and on your people, so that still hold them, .. < \u2022 - ' you know that there is no one like Me 3 see, the hand of WW is on your in all the earth. \u25a0. livestock in the field, on the horses, on 15 \\\"Now if I had stretched out My hand the donkeys, on the camels, on the and struck you and your people with cattle, and on the sheep - a very pestilence, then you would have been grievous pestilence. \u2022 cut off from the earth. 4 \\\"And WW shall separate between 16 \\\"And for this reason I have raised the livestock of Yisra'el and the you up, in order to show you- My livestock of Mitsrayim, and let no power, and in order to declare My matter die of all that belongs to the Name in all the earth. children of Yisra'el.\\\" 17 \\\"You still exalt yourself against My 5 And WW made an appointed time, people in that you do not let them go! saying, \\\"Tomorrow WW is going to do 18 \\\"See, tomorrow about this time I am this word in the land.\\\" \u00bb ..; causing very heavy hail to rain down, 6 And WW did this word on the next such as has not been in Mitsrayim, day, and all the livestock of Mitsrayim from the day of its founding until now. died, but of the livestock of the children 19 \\\"And now send, bring your livestock of Yisra'el, not one died. \u2022 to safety, and all that you have in the 7 Then Pharaoh sent, and see, not field, for the hail shall come down on even one of the livestock of the every man and every beast which is Yisra'elites was dead. But the heart of found in the field and is not brought","67 EXODUS home, and they shall die.\\\" \u2019 \\\" not smitten, for they were late crops. 20 Those among the servants of 33 And Mosheh went out of the city Pharaoh who revered the word of from Pharaoh and spread out his 'WW made their servants and hands to and the thunder and livestock flee to the houses. the hail ceased, and the rain was not 21 But those who did not lay their heart poured on the earth. . . . . on the word of WW left their servants 34 And Pharaoh saw that the rain, and and livestock in the field. the hail, and the thunder had ceased, 22 Then ^^said to Mosheh, \\\"Stretch yet he sinned again and he hardened out your hand toward the shamayim, his heart, he and his servants. and let there be hail in all the land of 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was Mitsrayim - on man, and on beast, and hardened, and he did not let the on every plant of the field, throughout children of Yisra'el go, as had the land of Mitsrayim.\\\" said through Mosheh. 23 Then Mosheh stretched out his rod *1 O And said to Mosheh, toward the shamayim. And sent I k\/ \\\"Go in to Pharaoh, for I have thunder and hail, and fire came down hardened his heart, and the hearts of to the earth. And rained hail on his servants, so that I show these the land of Mitsrayim. \u2022 signs of Mine before him, 24 Thus there came to be hail, and fire 2 and that you relate in the hearing of flashing continually in the midst of the your son and your son's son what I hail, very heavy, such as had not been have done in Mitsrayim, and My signs in all the land of Mitsrayim since it which I have done among them. And became a nation. you shall know that I am 25 And the hail smote in all the land of 3 And Mosheh and Aharon came in to Mitsrayim all that was in the field, both Pharaoh and said .to him, \\\"Thus said man and beast. And the hail smote Elohim of the Ibrim, 'Till when every plant of the field and broke every shall you refuse to humble yourself tree of the field. before Me? Let My people go, so that 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where they serve Me. the children of Yisra'el were, there was 4 'Or else, if you refuse to let My no hail. ;. people go, see, tomorrow I am 27 Pharaoh then sent and called for bringing locusts within your borders. Mosheh and for Aharon, and said to 5 'And they shall cover the surface of them, \\\"I have sinned this time. 3*t34<is the land, so that no one is able to see righteous, and my people and I are the land. And they shall eat the rest of wicked. what has escaped, which remains to 28 \\\"Pray to for there has been you from the hail, and they shall eat enough of the thunder and hail of every tree which grows up for you out Elohim. And I am letting you go, so of the field. . \u2022 \u2022 that you stay no longer.\\\" 6 'And they shall fill your houses, and 29 And Mosheh said to him, \\\"As soon the houses of all your servants, and as I go out of the city, let me spread the houses of all the Mitsrites, which out my hands to let the thunder neither your fathers nor your fathers' cease and the hail be no more, so that fathers have seen, since the day that you know that the earth belongs to they were on the earth to this day.' \\\" Then he turned and went out from 30 \\\"But as for you and your servants, I Pharaoh.* know that you do not yet fear before 7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, Elohim.\\\" 31 And the flax and the barley were \\\"Till when would this one be a snare to smitten, for the barley was in the head and the flax was in bud. us? Let the men go; so that they serve 32 But the wheat and the spelt were 3*^* their Elohim. Do you not yet know that Mitsrayim is destroyed?\\\" 8 And Mosheh and Aharon were","SHEMOTH 68 brought back to Pharaoh, and he said blew them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left within all the border to them, \\\"Go, serve ^Wryour Elohim. Who are the ones that are going?\\\" ofMitsrayim. 20 However, WW hardened the heart 9 And Mosheh said, \\\"We are going with of Pharaoh, and he did not let the children of Yisra'el go. > . our young and our old, with our sons 21 And 'XW said to Mosheh, \\\"Stretch out your hand toward the shamayim, and our daughters, with our flocks and and let there be darkness over the land of Mitsrayim, even a darkness our herds we are going, for we have a festivaI to \\\" 10 And he said to them, \\\"Let be with you as I let you and your little ones go!. Watch, for evil is before your which is felt.\\\" > -\\\\ ' face! > ; . -\u2022 22 And Mosheh stretched out his hand 11 \\\"Not so! You men go now, and serve toward the shamayim, and there was for that is what you desired.\\\" thick darkness in all the land of And they were driven out from the Mitsrayim for three days. . \u2022 1 . presence of Pharaoh. -\u25a0 \u2022 23 They did not see one another, nor 12 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Stretch did anyone rise from his place for three out your hand over the land of days, while all the children of Yisra'el Mitsrayim for the locusts to come upon had light in their dwellings. >\u2022: the land of Mitsrayim, and eat every 24 And Pharaoh called to Mosheh and plant of the land - all that the hail has said, \\\"Go, serve only leave your left.\\\" \u2022 . r<.z \u2014 flocks and your herds behind. Let your 13 And Mosheh stretched out his rod little ones go with you too.\\\" over the land of Mitsrayim, and 25 But Mosheh said, \\\"You yourself are brought an east wind on the land all to provide us with slaughterings and that day and all that night. Morning burnt offerings, to prepare for 'W'W i came, and the east wind brought the our Elohim. ;> locusts. \u25a0\u25a0 < . . \u2022' 26 \\\"And our livestock are to go with us 14 And the locusts went up over all too, not a hoof is to be left behind, for the land of Mitsrayim and settled within we have to take Some of them to serve all the borders of Mitsrayim, very \u2022^3<Kour Elohim, and we ourselves do grievous. There had never been not know with what we are to serve locusts like them before, nor would WW until we come there.\\\" there again be like them. 27 However, hardened the heart 15 And they covered the surface of all of Pharaoh, and he would not let them the land, so that the land was go. i darkened. And they ate every plant of 28 And Pharaoh said to him, \\\"Get away the land and all the fruit of the trees from me! Watch yourself and see my which the hail had left, and1 no face no more,- for in the day you see greenness was left on the trees or on my face you die!\\\" \u2022 . >\u2022 the plants of the field, in all the land of 29 And Mosheh said, \\\"You have Mitsrayim. spoken rightly - never again do I see 16 Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and your face!\\\" \u2022\u2022 < \u2018 : Aharon in haste, and said, \\\"I have d d And said to Mosheh, \\\"I 1 I am bringing yet one more sinned against WW your Elohim and against you... ;\u2022 : plague on Pharaoh and on Mitsrayim. 17 \\\"And now, please bear my sin only After that he is going to let you go from here. When he lets you go, he shall this once, and pray to WW your Elohim, that He would only turn away drive you out from here altogether. 2 \\\"Speak now in the hearing of the this death from me.\\\" : 18 And he went out from Pharaoh and people, and let every man ask from his prayed to neighbour and every woman from her 19 And WW turned a very strong west neighbour, objects of silver and objects wind, which took the locusts away and of gold.\\\"","69 EXODUS 3 And 'WAV' gave the people favour in each man\u2019s need you make your count the eyes of the Mitsrites. And the man for the lamb. Mosheh was very great in the land of 5 'Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year Mitsrayim, in the eyes of Pharaoh's old male. Take it from the sheep or servants and in the eyes of the people. from the goats.. . \u2022. -: 4 And Mosheh said, \\\"Thus said 6. 'And you shall keep it until the \u2019About midnight I am going out into the fourteenth day of the same month. midst of Mitsrayim, Then all the assembly of the 5 and all the first-born in the land of congregation of Yisra'el shall kill it Mitsrayim shall die, from the first-born between the evenings. - .>?\u2022 of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, 7 'And they shall take some of the even to the first-born of the female blood and put it on the two doorposts servant who is behind the handmill, and on the lintel of the houses where and all the first-born of cattle. they eat it. > 6 'And there shall be a great cry 8 'And they shall eat the flesh on that throughout all the land of Mitsrayim, night, roasted in fire - with unleavened such as has never been or ever be bread and with bitter herbs they shall again. eat it. \u2022 \u2022 7 'But against any of the children of 9 'Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all Yisra'el no dog shall move its tongue, with water, but roasted in fire, its head against man or against beast, so that with its legs and its inward parts. . you know that makes distinction 10 'And do not leave of it until morning, between Mitsrayim and Yisra'el.' and what remains of it until morning 8 \\\"And all these servants of yours shall you are to burn with fire. . . come down to me and bow down to 11 'And this is how you eat it: your loins me, saying, 'Get out, you and all the girded, your sandals on your feet, and people at your feet!' And after that I your staff in your hand. And you shall i shall go out.\\\" And he went out from eat it in haste. It is the Pesah of Pharaoh in great displeasure. 12 'And I shall pass through the land of 9 But said to Mosheh, \\\"Pharaoh Mitsrayim on that night, and shall smite is not going to listen to you, in order to all the \u2019 first-born in the land of multiply My wonders in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and beast. And Mitsrayim.\\\"' \u2022 _ - : on all the mighty ones of Mitsrayim I 10 And Mosheh and Aharon did shall execute judgment. I am all these wonders' before Pharaoh, 13 'And the blood shall be a sign for however, hardened the heart of you on the houses where you are. And Pharaoh, and he did not \u25a0 let the when I see the blood, I shall pass over children of Yisra'el go out of his land. you, and let the plague not come on d O And W spoke to Mosheh you to destroy you when I smite the I Z- and to Aharon in the land of land of Mitsrayim. \u25a0 Mitsrayim, saying, 14 'And this day shall become to you a 2 \\\"This month is the beginning of remembrance. And you shall observe it months for you, it is the first month of as a Festival to KW throughout your the year for you. generations - observe it as a Festival, 3 \\\"Speak to all the congregation of an everlasting Law. < \\\\ \u25a0. Yisra'el, saying, 'On the tenth day of 15 'Seven days you shall eat this month each one of them is to take unleavened bread. Indeed on the first for himself a lamb, according to the day you cause leaven to cease from house of his father, a lamb for a your houses. For whoever eats household. leavened bread from the first day until 4 'And if the household is too small for the seventh day, that being shall be cut the lamb, let him and his neighbour off from Yisra'el. next to his house take it according to 16 'And on the first day is a qodesh the number of the beings, according to gathering, and on the seventh day you.","SHEMOTH 70 have a qodesh gathering. No work at the Mitsrites < and delivered our all is done on them, only that which is households.' \\\" And the people bowed eaten by every being, that alone is their heads and did obeisance. prepared by you. 28 And the children of Yisra'el went 17 'And you shall guard the Matstsoth, away and did so - as had for on this same _ day I brought commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so your divisions out of the land of they did. ! Mitsrayim. And you shall guard this 29 And it came to be at midnight that day throughout your generations, an smote all the first-born in the everlasting Law. land of Mitsrayim, from the first-born of 18 'In the first, on the fourteenth day of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the the month, in the evening, you shall first-born of the captive who was in the eat unleavened bread until the twenty- dungeon, and all the first-born of first day of the month in the evening. livestock. 19 'For seven days no leaven is to be 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, found in your houses, for if anyone he and all his servants, and all the eats what is leavened, that same being Mitsrites. And there was a great cry in shall be cut off from the congregation Mitsrayim, for there was not a house of Yisra'el, whether sojourner or native where there was not a dead one. of the land. 31 Then he called for Mosheh and 20 'Do not eat that which is leavened - Aharon by night, and said, \\\"Arise, go in all your dwellings you are to eat out from the midst of my people, both unleavened bread,'\\\" you and the children of Yisra'el. And 21 And Mosheh called for all the elders go, serve ^^<Tas you have said. of Yisra'el and said to them, \\\"Go 32 \\\"Take both your flocks and your out and take lambs for yourselves herds, as you have said, and go. Then iI according to your clans, and slaughter you shall barak me too.\\\" * * the Pesah. '\u2022 . 33 And the Mitsrites urged the people, 22 \\\"And you shall take a bunch of to hasten to send them away out of the hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in land. For they said, \\\"We are all dying!\\\" the basin, and strike the lintel and the 34 And the people took their dough two doorposts with the blood that is in before it was leavened, having their the basin, and you, none of you shall kneading bowls bound up in their go out of the door of his house until garments on their shoulders. morning. 35 And the children of Yisra'el had done 23 \\\"And shall pass on to smite according to the word of Mosheh, and the Mitsrites, and shall see the blood they had asked from the Mitsrites on the lintel and on the two doorposts, objects of silver, and objects of gold, and shall pass over the door and and garments. \u2022 not allow the destroyer to come into 36 And gave the people favour in your houses to smite you. the eyes of the Mitsrites, so that they 24 \\\"And you shall guard this word as a gave them what they asked, and they Law for you and your sons, forever. plundered the Mitsrites. 25 \\\"And it shall be, when you come to 37 And the children of Yisra'el departed the land which WW gives you, as He from Ra'meses to Sukkoth, about six promised, that you shall guard this hundred thousand men on foot, service. . besides the little ones. 26 \\\"And it shall be, when your children 38 And a mixed multitude went up with say to you, 'What does this service them too, also flocks and herds, very mean to you?' \u00bb '\u2022 much livestock. 27 then you shall say, 'It is the Pesah 39 And they baked unleavened cakes slaughtering of who passed of the dough which they had brought over the houses of the children of out of Mitsrayim, for it was not Yisra'el in Mitsrayim when He smote leavened, since they were driven out","71 EXODUS of Mitsrayim, and had not been able to \\\"Remember this day in which you went delay, nor had they prepared food for out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of themselves. slavery. For by strength of hand 40 And the sojourn of the children of brought you out of this place, and Yisra'el who lived in Mitsrayim was whatever is leavened shall not be four hundred and thirty years. eaten. 41 And it came to be at the end of the 4 \\\"Today you are going out, in the four hundred and thirty years, on that month Abib. . same day it came to be that all the 5 \\\"And it shall be, when KM brings divisions of went out from the you into the. land of the Kena'anites, land of Mitsrayim. and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and 42 It is a night to be observed unto the Hiwwites, and the Yebusites, which for bringing them out of the land He swore to your fathers to give you, a of Mitsrayim. This night is unto land flowing with milk and honey, that to be observed by all the children of you shall keep this service in this Yisra'el throughout their generations. month. '\/ 43 And said to Mosheh and 6 \\\"Seven days \u25a0. you eat unleavened Aharon, \\\"This is the Law of the Pesah: bread, and on the seventh day is a No son of a stranger is to eat of it, Festival to 44 but any servant a man has bought 7 \\\"Unleavened bread is to be eaten the for silver, when you have circumcised seven days, and whatever is leavened him, then let him eat of it. j > \u2022 is not to be seen with you, and leaven 45 \\\"A sojourner and a hired servant is not to be seen with you within all does not eat of it. your border. 46 \\\"It is eaten in one house, you are 8 \\\"And you shall inform your son in that not to take any of the flesh outside the day, saying, 'It is because of what Ii house, nor are you to break any bone WW did for me when I came up from of it. \u2022 \u2022 Mitsrayim.' \\\\ 47 \\\"All the congregation of Yisra'el are 9 \\\"And it shall be as a sign to you to perform it. on your hand and as a reminder 48 \\\"And when a stranger sojourns with between your eyes, that the Torah of you and shall perform the Pesah to is to be in your mouth, for with a let all his males be circumcised, strong hand has brought you out and then let him come near and of Mitsrayim. perform it, and he shall be as a native 10 \\\"And you shall guard this Law at its of the land. But let no uncircumcised Appointed Time from year to year. eat of it. -. 11 \\\"And it shall be, when WW brings 49 \\\"There is one Torah for the native- you into the land of the Kena'anites, as born and for the stranger who sojourns He swore to you and your fathers, and among you.\\\" gives it to you, so And all the children of Yisra'el did 12 that you shall pass over to as commanded Mosheh and every one opening the womb, and Aharon, so they did. every first-born that comes from your 51 And it came to be on that same day livestock, the males belong to W\u2019. that WW brought the children of 13 \\\"But every first-born of a donkey you Yisra'el out of the land of Mitsrayim are to ransom with a lamb. And if you according to their divisions. do not ransom it, then you shall break d O And spoke to Mosheh, its neck. And every first-born of man I O saying, among your sons you are to ransom. 2 \\\"Qadosh to Me all the first-born, the 14 \\\"And it shall be, when your son asks one opening the womb among the you in time to come, saying, 'What is children of Yisra'el, among man and this?' then you shall say to him, 'By among beast, it is Mine.\\\" strength of hand brought us out 3 And Mosheh said to the people, of Mitsrayim, out of the house of","SHEMOTH 72 bondage. Pharaoh, and he shall pursue them. 15 'And it came to be, when Pharaoh But I am to be esteemed through was too hardened to let us go, that Pharaoh and over all his army, and the killed every first-born in the land Mitsrites shall know that I am 'XW.\\\" of Mitsrayim, both the first-born of man And they did so. and the first-born of beast. Therefore I 5 And it was reported to the sovereign am slaughtering to every male of Mitsrayim that the people had fled, that opens the womb, but every first\u00ad and the heart of Pharaoh- and his born of my sons I ransom.' servants was turned ' against the 16 \\\"And it shall be as a sign on your people. And they said, \\\"Why have we hand and as frontlets between your done this, that we have let Yisra'el go eyes, for by strength of hand from serving us?\\\" brought us out of Mitsrayim.\\\" 6 So he made his chariot ready and 17 And it came to be, when Pharaoh took his people with him. ? ' - \u2022 had let the people go, that Elohim did 7 And he took six hundred chosen not lead them by way of the land of the chariots, and all the chariots of Pelishtites, though that was nearer, for Mitsrayim with officers over all of them. Elohim said, \\\"Lest the people regret 8 And WW hardened the heart of when they see fighting, and return to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim, and Mitsrayim.\\\" he pursued the children of Yisra'el, but 18 So Elohim led the people around by the children of Yisra'el went out with a way of the wilderness of the Sea of high hand. \u2022 \u25a0 .> Reeds. And the children of Yisra'el 9 And the Mitsrites pursued them, and went up armed from the land of all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, Mitsrayim. and his horsemen and his army, 19 And Mosheh took the bones of and reached them camping by the Yoseph with him, for he certainly made sea beside Pi ha'Hiroth, before Ba'al the children of Yisra'el swear, saying, Tsephon. \\\"Elohim shall certainly visit you, and 10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the you shall bring my bones from here children of Yisra'el lifted their eyes and with you.\\\" saw the Mitsrites coming up after 20 And they departed from Sukkoth them. And they were greatly afraid, so and camped in Etham at the edge of the children of Yisra'el cried out to the wilderness. \u2022 21 And went before them by day 11 And they said to Mosheh, \\\"Did you in a column of cloud to lead the way, take us away to die in the wilderness and by night in a column of fire to give because there are no graves in them light, so as to go by day and Mitsrayim? What is this you have done night. ' \u2022 -c ' to us, to bring us up out of Mitsrayim? 22 The column of cloud did not cease 12 \\\"Is this not the word that we spoke by day, nor the column of fire by night, to you in Mitsrayim, saying, 'Leave us before the people. alone and let us serve the Mitsrites?' d \/I. And spoke to Mosheh, For it would have been better for us to I i\\\" saying, . \u2022 serve the Mitsrites than to die in the 2 \\\"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, wilderness.\\\" that they turn and camp before Pi 13 And Mosheh said to the people, \\\"Do ha'Hiroth, between Migdol and the sea, not be afraid. Stand still, and see the opposite Ba'al Tsephon - camp before deliverance of WW, which He does it by the sea. for you today. For the Mitsrites whom 3 \\\"For Pharaoh shall say of the you see today, you are never, never to children of Yisra'el, 'They are see again. entangled in the land, the wilderness 14 fights for you, and you keep has closed them in.' silent.\\\" 4 \\\"And I shall harden the heart of 15 And 3WKsaid to Mosheh, \\\"Why do","73 EXODUS you cry to Me? Speak to the children horsemen.\\\" of Yisra'el, and let them go forward. 27 And Mosheh stretched out his hand 16 \\\"And you, lift up your rod, and over the sea, and the sea returned to stretch out your hand over the sea and its usual flow, at the break of day, with divide it, and let the children of Yisra'el the Mitsrites fleeing into it. Thus go on dry ground through the midst of overthrew the Mitsrites in the midst of the sea. the sea, ' \u2022 17 \\\"And I, see I am hardening the 28 and the waters returned and hearts of the Mitsrites, and they shall covered the chariots, and the horse\u00ad follow them. And I am to be esteemed men, and all the army of Pharaoh that through Pharaoh and over all his army, came into the sea after them, and not his chariots, and his horsemen. even one was left of them. 18 \\\"And the Mitsrites shall know that 29 And the children of Yisra'el walked I am when I am esteemed on dry ground in the midst of the sea, through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his and the waters were a wall to them on horsemen.\\\" their right and on their left. 19 And the Messenger of Elohim, who 30 Thus saved Yisra'el that day went before the camp of Yisra'el, out of the hand of the Mitsrites, and moved and went behind them. And the Yisra'el saw the Mitsrites dead on the column of cloud went from before them seashore. and stood behind them, 31 And Yisra'el saw the great work 20 and came between the camp of the which had done in Mitsrayim, Mitsrites and the camp of Yisra'el. And and the people revered and it was the cloud and the darkness, and believed 'WW and His servant it gave light by night, and the one did Mosheh. not come near the other all the night. d fT Then Mosheh and the children i 21 And Mosheh stretched out his hand I w of Yisra'el sang this song to over the sea. And caused the MW, and spoke, saying,- -. . sea to go back by a strong east wind \\\"I sing to for He is highly ... * all that night, and made the sea into exalted! dry land, and the waters were divided. The horse and its rider He has thrown 22 And the children of Yisra'el went into into the sea! the midst of the sea on dry ground, 2 \\\"Yah is my strength and song, and and the waters were a wall to them on He has become my deliverance. their right and on their left. \u2022 . He is my El, and I praise Him - 23 And the Mitsrites pursued and went Elohim of my father, and I exalt Him. after them into the midst of the sea, all 3 \\\"WK is a man of battle, the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, is His Name. * and his horsemen. \u25a0< . .. 4 \\\"He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and 24 And it came to be, in the morning his army into the sea, watch, that WW looked down upon And his chosen officers are drowned the army of the Mitsrites through the in the Sea of Reeds.. . \u2022 column of fire and cloud, and He 5 \\\"The depths covered them, brought the army of the Mitsrites into They went down to the bottom like a confusion. . stone. , 25 And He took off their chariot wheels, 6 \\\"Your right hand, O has so that they drove them with difficulty. become great in power. And the Mitsrites said, \\\"Let us flee Your right hand, O has crushed from the face of Yisra'el, for the enemy, v \u25a0\u2022\u2022\u2022. . . >' fights for them against the Mitsrites.\\\" 7 \\\"And in the greatness of Your 26 Then 'A\u2019t^Tsaid to Mosheh, \\\"Stretch excellence out your hand over the sea, and You pulled down those who rose up let the waters come back upon the against You. Mitsrites, on their chariots, and on their You sent forth Your wrath, it consumed","SHEMOTH 74 them like stubble. 20 And Miryam the nebiyah, the sister 8 \\\"And with the wind of Your nostrils of Aharon, took the timbrel in her hand. the waters were heaped up, And all the women went out after her The floods stood like a wall, with timbrels and with dances. The depths became stiff in the heart of 21 And Miryam answered them, the sea. \\\"Sing to for He is highly exalted! 9 \\\"The enemy said, 'I pursue, I The horse and its rider He has thrown overtake, into the sea!\\\" I divide the spoil, my being is satisfied 22 And Mosheh brought Yisra'el from on them. the Sea of Reeds, and they went out I draw out my sword, my hand into the Wilderness of Shur. And they destroys them.' went three days in the wilderness and 10 \\\"You blew with Your wind, the sea found no water. covered them, 23 And they came to Marah, and they They sank like lead in the mighty were unable to drink the waters of waters. Marah, for they were bitter. So the 11 \\\"Who is like You, O WW, among name of it was called Marah. the mighty ones? 24 And the people grumbled against Who is like You, great in qodeshah? Mosheh, saying, \\\"What are we to Awesome in praises, working drink?\\\" ................. wonders. 25 Then he cried out to and 12 \\\"You stretched out Your right hand, showed him a tree. And when he the earth swallowed them. threw it into' the waters, the waters 13 \\\"In Your kindness You led the were made sweet. There He made a people whom You have redeemed, Law and a Right-Ruling for them, and In Your strength You guided them to there He tried them. Your qodesh dwelling. 26 And He said, \\\"If you diligently obey 14 \\\"Peoples heard, they trembled, the voice of WW your Elohim and do I Anguish gripped the inhabitants of what is right in His eyes, and shall listen to His Commands and shall Pelesheth. . 15 \\\"Then the chiefs of Edom were guard all His Laws, I shall bring on you troubled, none of the diseases I brought on the The mighty men of Mo'ab, trembling Mitsrites, for I am who heals grips them, you.\\\" 27 And they came to Elim, where there All the inhabitants of Kena'an melted. 16 \\\"Fear and dread fell on them, were twelve fountains of water and By the greatness of Your arm they are seventy palm trees. And they camped as silent as a stone, there by the waters. . Until Your people pass over, O d \/C And they departed from Elim, I O and all the congregation of Until the people, whom You have bought, pass over. the children of Yisra'el came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between 17 \\\"You bring them in and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their going out In the place, O which You have made for Your own dwelling, of the land of Mitsrayim. The Miqdash, O which Your 2 And all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el grumbled against hands have prepared. 18 reigns forever and ever.\\\" Mosheh and Aharon in the wilderness. 3 And the children of Yisra'el said to 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into them, \\\"If only we had died by the the sea, and brought back the hand of in the land of Mitsrayim, waters of the sea upon them. And the when we sat by the pots of meat and children of Yisra'el went on dry ground when we ate bread to satisfaction! in the midst of the sea. For you have brought us out into this","75 EXODUS wilderness to put all this assembly to they said to each other, \\\"What is it?\\\" death with hunger.\\\" For they did not know what it was. And 4 And KW said to Mosheh, \\\"See, I Mosheh said to them, \\\"It is the bread am raining bread from the shamayim which 'iftW has given you to eat. for you. And the people shall go out 16 \\\"This is the word which has and gather a day's portion every day, commanded: 'Let every man gather it in order to try them, whether they walk according to each one's need, an omer in My Torah or not. for each being, according to the 5 \\\"And it shall be on the sixth day that number of beings. Let every man take they shall prepare what they bring in, for those who are in his tent.'\\\" and it shall be twice as much as they 17 And the children of Yisra'el did so gather daily.\\\" and gathered, some more, some less. 6 And Mosheh and Aharon said to all 18 And they measured it by omers, the children of Yisra'el, \\\"At evening you and he who gathered much did not shall know that 'XW has brought you have too much, and he who gathered out of the land of Mitsrayim. little did not have too little. Each one 7 \\\"And in the morning you shall see the gathered according to his need. esteem of for He hears your 19 And Mosheh said, \\\"Let no one leave grumblings against And what any of it until morning.\\\" are we, that you grumble against us?\\\" 20 And they did not listen to Mosheh, 8 And Mosheh said, \\\"In that so some of them left part of it until gives you meat to eat in the evening, morning, and it bred worms and stank. and in the morning bread to And Mosheh was wroth with them. satisfaction, for hears your 21 And they gathered it every morning, grumblings which you make against each one according to his need. And Him. And what are we? Your when the sun became hot, it melted. grumblings are not against us but 22 And it came to be, on the sixth day, against that they gathered twice as much 9 And Mosheh said to Aharon, \\\"Say to bread, two omers for each one. And all all the congregation of the children of the rulers of the congregation came Yisra'el, 'Come near before for and told Mosheh. He has heard your grumblings.'\\\" \u2018 23 And he said to them, \\\"This is what 10 And it came to be, as Aharon spoke has said, 'Tomorrow is a rest, a to all the congregation of the children Shabbath qodesh to WW. That which of Yisra'el, that they looked toward the you bake, bake; and that which you wilderness and see, the esteem of cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves 'XW appeared in the cloud. all that- is left over, to keep it until 11 And spoke to Mosheh, saying, morning.'\\\" 12 \\\"I have heard the grumblings of the 24 And they laid it up till morning, as children of Yisra'el. Speak to them, Mosheh commanded. And it did not saying, 'Between the evenings you are stink, and no worm was in it. .. to eat meat, and in the morning you 25 And Mosheh said, \\\"Eat it today, for are to be satisfied with bread. And you today is a Shabbath to today shall know that I am KW your you do not find it in the field. Elohim.'\\\" 26 \\\"Gather it six days, but on the 13 And it came to be that quails came seventh day, which is the Shabbath, up at evening and covered the camp, there is none.\\\" and in the morning the dew lay all 27 And it came to be that some of the around the camp. people went out on the seventh day to 14 And the layer of dew went up, and gather, but they found none. see, on the surface of the wilderness, 28 And said to Mosheh, \\\"How was a small round substance, as fine long shall you refuse to guard My as frost on the ground. Commands and My Torot? 15 And the children of Yisra'el saw, and 29 \\\"See, because WW has given you","SHEMOTH 76 the Shabbath, therefore He is giving 5 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Pass you bread for two days on the sixth over before the people, and take with day. Let each one stay in his place, do you some of the elders of Yisra'el. And not let anyone go out of his place on take in your hand your rod with which the seventh day.\\\" you struck the river, and go. 30 So the people rested on the seventh 6 \\\"See, I am standing before you there day. on the rock in Horeb. And you shall 31 And the house of Yisra'el called its smite the rock, and water shall come name Manna. And it was like white out of it, and the people shall drink.\\\" coriander seed, and the taste of it was And Mosheh did so before the eyes of like thin cakes made with honey. . the elders of Yisra'el. . 32 And Mosheh said, \\\"This is the word 7 And he called the name of the place which 'WW has commanded: 'Fill an Massah and Meribah, because of the omer with it, to keep for your 'strife' of the children of Yisra'el, and generations, so that they see the because they 'tried' saying, \\\"Is bread with which I fed you in the 'XVW in our midst or not?\\\" \u25a0 ? > ;\u2022 wilderness, when I brought you out of 8 And Amaleq came and fought with the land of Mitsrayim.'\\\" Yisra'el in Rephidim. \u2022 \u25a0 .\u25a0 33 And Mosheh said to Aharon, \\\"Take a 9 And Mosheh said to Yahoshua, pot and put an omer of manna in it, \\\"Choose for us men and go out, fight and put it down before to keep with Amaleq. Tomorrow I am stationing for your generations.\\\" myself on the top of the hill with the 34 As commanded Mosheh, so rod of Elohim in my hand.\\\" Aharon put it down before the Witness, w And Yahoshua did as Mosheh said to keep. to . him, to fight with Amaleq. And 35 And the children of Yisra'el ate Mosheh, Aharon, and Hur went up to manna forty years, until they came to the top of the hill. \u25a0 an inhabited land. They ate manna 11 And it came to be, when Mosheh until they came to the border of the held up his hand, that Yisra'el land of Kena'an. prevailed. And when he let down his 36 And an omer is one-tenth of an hand, Amaleq prevailed. ephah. '\u25a0 \u2018 12 But Mosheh's hands were heavy, so \\\"7 And all the congregation of the they took a stone and put it under him, I f children of Yisra'el departed and he sat on it. And Aharon and Hur on their journey from the Wilderness of supported his hands, one on one side, Sin, according to the command of and the other on the other side. And and camped in Rephidim. And his hands were steady until the going there was no water for the people to down of the sun. \u25a0 \u2022 drink. \u25a0 \u2022 r 13 And Yahoshua defeated Amaleq and 2 Therefore the people strove with his people with the edge of the sword. Mosheh, and said, \\\"Give us water to 14 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Write drink.\\\" And Mosheh said to them, \\\"Why this for a remembrance in the book do you strive with me? Why do you try and recite it ' in the hearing of W?\\\" r \u2022 Yahoshua, that I shall completely blot 3 And the people thirsted there for out the remembrance of Amaleq from water, and the people grumbled under the shamayim.\\\" against Mosheh, and said, \\\"Why did 15 And Mosheh built an altar and called you bring us out of Mitsrayim, to kill us its name, ^^Nissi, r and our children and our livestock with 16 for he said, \\\"Because a hand is thirst?\\\" \u2022 \u2022: ,, on the throne of Yah, is to fight 4 Then Mosheh cried out to against Amaleq, from generation to saying, \\\"What am I to do with this generation.\\\" \u2018 people? Yet a little and they shall stone d O And Yithro, the kohen of I O Midyan, Mosheh's father-in- me!\\\"","77 EXODUS law, heard of all that Elohim had done 13 And it came to be, on the next day, for Mosheh and for Yisra'el His people, that Mosheh sat to rightly rule the that WW had brought Yisra'el out of people. And the people stood before Mitsrayim. Mosheh from morning until evening. 2 And Yithro, Mosheh's father-in-law, 14 And when the father-in-law of took Tsipporah, the wife of Mosheh - Mosheh saw all that he did for the after he had sent her back, people, he said, \\\"What is this that you 3 and her two sons, of whom the name are doing for the people? Why do you of one was Gereshom, for he said, \\\"I sit by yourself, and all the people stand have been a sojourner in a foreign before you from . morning until land,\\\" evening?\\\" 4 and the name of the other was 15 And Mosheh said to his father-in- Eli'ezer, for he said, \\\"The Elohim of my law, \\\"Because the people come to me father was my help, and delivered me to seek Elohim. \u25a0 from the sword of Pharaoh.\\\" 16 \\\"When- they have a matter, they 5 Yithro, Mosheh's father-in-law, came come to me, and I rightly rule between with his sons and his wife to Mosheh one and another, and make known the in the wilderness, where he was Laws of Elohim and His Torot.\\\" encamped at the mountain of Elohim. 17 And the father-in-law of Mosheh 6 And he had said to Mosheh, \\\"I, your said to him, \\\"What you are doing is not father-in-law Yithro, am coming to you good. \u2022 *. \u2022 \u2022' with your wife and her two sons with 18 \\\"Both you and these people with her.\\\" \u25a0u you shall certainly wear yourselves 7 And Mosheh went out to meet his out. For the matter is too heavy for father-in-law, and bowed down, and you. You are not able to do it by kissed him. And they asked each other yourself. . \u25a0 \u2022 > . r about their welfare, and they went into 19 \\\"Now listen to my voice. Let me the tent.. v : \u25a0 !- counsel you and Elohim be with you: 8 And Mosheh told his father-in-law all Stand before Elohim for the people, that had done to Pharaoh and to and -.you shall bring the matters to the Mitsrites for Yisra'el's sake, all the Elohim. hardship that had come upon them on 20 \\\"And you shall warn them of the the way, and how WW had delivered Laws and the Torot, and show them them. . i. \u2022 \u2022 the way in which they should walk and 9 And Yithro rejoiced for all the good the work which they do. . which had done for Yisra'el, 21 \\\"But you yourself, seek out from whom He had delivered out of the all the people able men, who revere hand of the Mitsrites. . . \u25a0 . \u2022 Elohim, men , of truth, hating unfair 10 And Yithro said, \\\"Baruk be gain. \u00bb And i place them over them who has delivered you out of the hand to be rulers of thousands, rulers of of the Mitsrites and out of the hand of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the tens. people from under the hand of the 22 \\\"And they shall rightly rule the Mitsrites. c\u2022 \u2019 \u2022. people at all times. And it shall be that 11 \\\"Now I know that is greater they bring every great matter to you, than all the mighty ones, for in the but they themselves rightly rule every matter in which they acted proudly, small matter. So, make it lighter for above them.\\\" yourself, for they shall bear with you. 12 Then Yithro, the father-in-law of 23 \\\"If you do this word, and Elohim Mosheh, brought a burnt offering and shall command you, then you shall be other slaughterings unto Elohim. And able to stand and all this people also Aharon came with all the elders of go to their place in peace.\\\" Yisra'el to eat bread with the father-in- 24 And Mosheh listened to the voice of law of Mosheh before Elohim. his father-in-law and did all that he","SHEMOTH 78 said. 10 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Go to 25 And Mosheh chose able men out of the people and qadosh them today all Yisra'el, and made them heads over and tomorrow. And they shall wash the people: rulers of thousands, rulers their garments, of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers 11 and shall be prepared by the third of tens. day. For on the third day shall 26 And they rightly ruled the people at come down upon Mount Sinai before all times - the hard matters they the eyes of all the people. brought to Mosheh, but they rightly 12 \\\"And you shall make a border for ruled every small matter themselves. the people all around, saying, \u2019Take 27 And Mosheh sent off his father-in- heed to yourselves that you do not go law, and he went away to his own land, up to the mountain or touch the border d Q In the third month after the of it. Whoever touches the mountain I -7 children of Yisra'el had come shall certainly be put to death. out of the land of Mitsrayim, on this 13 'Not a hand is to touch it, but he day they came to the Wilderness of shall certainly be stoned or shot with Sinai. an arrow, whether man or beast, he 2 For they departed from Rephidim; shall not live.'. When the trumpet and had come to the Wilderness of sounds long, let them go up to the Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. mountain.\\\" i So Yisra'el camped there before the 14 And Mosheh came down from the mountain. mountain to the people and qadosh 3 And Mosheh went up to Elohim, and the people, and they washed their called to him from the mountain, garments. saying, \\\"This is what you are to say to 15 And he said to the people, \\\"Be the house of Ya'aqob, and declare to prepared by the third day. Do not come the children of Yisra'el: \u2022 near a wife.\\\" 4 'You have seen what I did to the 16 And it came to be, on the third Mitsrites, and how I bore you on day in the morning, that there were eagles' wings and brought you to thunders and lightnings, and a thick Myself. cloud on the mountain. And the sound 5 'And now, if you diligently obey My of the ram's horn was very loud, and voice, and shall guard My Covenant, all the people who were in the camp then you shall be My treasured trembled. .r possession above all the peoples - for 17 And Mosheh brought the people out all the earth is Mine -\u00bb of the camp to meet with Elohim, and 6 'and you shall be to Me a reign of they stood at the foot of the mountain. \u2022 kohenim and a qodesh nation.' Those 18 And Mount Sinai was in smoke, all are the words which you are to speak of it, because descended upon it to the children of Yisra'el.\\\" \u2022: .=.. in fire. And its smoke went up like 7 And Mosheh came and called for the the smoke of a furnace, and all the elders of the people, and put before mountain trembled exceedingly. \u2022 them all these words which 19 And when the blast of the ram's horn commanded him. \u2022 sounded long and became very strong, 8 And all the people answered together Mosheh spoke, and Elohim answered and said, \\\"All that has spoken him by voice. \u2022 c \u2022 we shall do.\\\" So Mosheh brought back 20 And W came down upon Mount the words of the people to Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And 9 And WW said to Mosheh, \\\"See, I 'XW called Mosheh to the top of the am coming to you in the thick cloud, mountain, and Mosheh went up. so that the people hear when I speak 21 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Go with you, and believe you forever.\\\" And down, warn the people, lest they break Mosheh reported the words of the through unto to see, and many people to \u25a0\u25a0 i of them fall. . \u2022: .\u2022 \u2022","79 EXODUS 22 \\\"And let the kohenim who come all that is in them, and rested the near qadosh themselves too, seventh day. Therefore WW barak lest break out against them.\\\" the Shabbath day and qadosh it. 23 And Mosheh said to \\\"The 12 \\\"Respect your father and your people are not able to come up to mother, so that your days are Mount Sinai, for You warned us, prolonged upon the land which saying, 'Make a border around the your Elohim is giving you. mountain and qadosh it.' \\\" 13 \\\"You do not murder. 24 And.ftW said to him, \\\"Come, go 14 \\\"You do not commit adultery. down and then come up, you and 15 \\\"You do not steal. Aharon with you. But do not let the 16 \\\"You do not bear false witness kohenim and the people break through against your neighbour. * to come up to lest He break out 17 \\\"You do not covet your neighbour's against them.\\\" house, ' you do not covet your 25 And Mosheh went down to the neighbour's wife, nor his male servant, people and spoke to them. nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor OO And Elohim spoke all these his donkey, or whatever belongs to Z-kJ Words, saying, your neighbour.\\\" \u2022 . \u00ab 2 \\\"I am your Elohim, who 18 And all the people saw the thunders, brought you out of the land of the lightning flashes, the sound of the Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery. ram's horn, and the mountain smoking. 3 \\\"You have no other mighty ones And the people saw it, and they against My face. \\\" trembled and stood at a distance, 4 \\\"You do not make for yourself a 19 and said to Mosheh, \\\"You speak carved image, or any likeness of that with us and we hear, but let not Elohim which is in the shamayim above, or speak with us, lest we die.\\\" which is in the earth beneath, or which 20 And Mosheh said to the people, \\\"Do is in the waters under the earth, not fear, for Elohim has come to prove 5 you do not bow down to them you, and in order that His reverence be nor serve them. For ], your before you, so that you do not sin.\\\" Elohim, am a jealous El, visiting the 21 So the people stood at a distance, wickedness of the fathers on the but Mosheh drew near the dense cloud children to the third and fourth where Elohim was. generations of those who hate Me, 22 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Say 6 but showing kindness to thousands, this to the children of Yisra'el:' 'You to those who love Me and guard My yourselves have seen that I have Commands. ; -\u2022 spoken to you from the shamayim. 7 \\\"You do not bring the Name of 23 'You do not make besides Me your Elohim to naught, for does mighty ones of silver, and you do not leave the one unpunished who not make mighty ones of gold for brings His Name to naught. yourselves. .. \u2019\u25a0 8 \\\"Remember the Shabbath day, to 24 'Make an altar of earth for Me, and qadosh it. .. ; you shall slaughter on it your burnt 9 \\\"Six days you labour, and shall do all offerings and your peace offerings, your work, your sheep and your cattle. In every 10 but the seventh day is a Shabbath place where I cause My Name to be of 'WW your Elohim. You do not do remembered I shall come to you and any work - you, nor your son, nor your barak you. daughter, nor your male servant, nor 25 'And if you make Me an altar of your female servant, nor your cattle, stone, do not build it of cut stone, for if nor your stranger who is within your you use your chisel on it, you have gates. .\u2022 profaned it. 11 \\\"For in six days made the 26 'Nor do you go up by steps to My shamayim and the earth, the sea, and altar, lest your nakedness be exposed","SHEMOTH 80 on it.' sells him, or if he is found in his hand, 21 \\\"And these are the Right- shall certainly be put to death. \u25a0 Rulings which you are to put 17 \\\"And he who curses his father or his before them: mother shall certainly be put to death. 2 \\\"When you buy an Ibri servant, he 18 \\\"And when men strive together, and serves six years, and in the seventh he one smites the other with a stone or goes out free, for naught. with his fist, and he does not die but is 3 \\\"If he comes in by himself, he goes confined to his bed\/ \u2022 \u25a0\u25a0 out by himself; if he comes in married, 19 if he rises again and walks about then his wife shall go out with him. outside with his staff, then he who 4 \\\"If his master has given him a wife, smote him shall be innocent. He only and she has borne him sons or pays for lost time and sees to it that he daughters, the wife and her children is completely healed. . . are her master's, and he goes out by 20 \\\"And when a man smites his male himself. or female servant with a rod, so that he 5 \\\"And if the servant truly says, 'I love dies under his hand, he shall certainly my master, my wife, and my children, be avenged.. r let me not go out free,' 21 \\\"But if he remains alive a day or 6 then his master shall bring him two, he is not avenged; for he is his before Elohim, and shall bring him to property. r the door, or to the doorpost, and his 22 \\\"And when men strive and they master shall pierce his ear with an awl. shall smite a pregnant woman, and her And he shall serve him forever. children come out, yet there is no 7 \\\"And when a man sells his daughter injury, he shall certainly be punished to be a female servant, she does not accordingly as the woman's husband go out as the male servants do. lays upon him. And he shall pay by the 8 \\\"If she is displeasing in the eyes of judges. , ... : ?\u2022 her master who- has engaged her. to 23 \\\"But if there is injury, then you shall himself, then he shall let her be give life for life, ransomed. He shall have no authority 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for to sell her to a foreign people, because hand, foot for foot, -.\/? of him deceiving her. . . < 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, 9 \\\"And if he has engaged her to his lash for lash. \u2022 son, he is to do to her as is the right of 26 \\\"And when a man smites the eye daughters. !' of his male or female servant, and 10 \\\"If he takes another, her food, her destroys it, he is to let him go free for covering, and her marriage rights are the sake of his eye. not to be diminished. r 27 \\\"And if he knocks out the tooth of 11 \\\"And if he does not do these three his male or female servant, he is to let for her, then she shall go out for him go free for the sake of his tooth.- \u25a0 naught, without silver. 28 \\\"And when an ox gores a man or a 12 \\\"He who strikes a man so that' he woman to death, then the ox shall dies shall certainly be put to death. certainly be stoned, and its flesh is not 13 \\\"But if he did not lie in wait, but eaten, and the owner of the ox is Elohim delivered him into his hand, innocent. then I shall appoint for you a place 29 \\\"However, if the ox was previously where he is to flee. in the habit of goring, and its owner 14 \\\"But when a man acts presump\u00ad has been warned, and he has not kept tuously against his neighbour, to kill it confined, so that it has killed a man him by treachery, you are to take him or a woman, the ox is stoned and its even from My altar to die. owner also is put to death. . 15 \\\"And he who smites his father or his 30 \\\"If a s\/p-covering is laid upon him, mother shall certainly be put to death. then he shall give the ransom of his 16 \\\"And he who kidnaps a man and life, whatever is laid on him.","81 EXODUS 31 \\\"Whether it has gored a son or master of the house shall be brought gored a daughter, according to this before Elohim to see whether he has Right-Ruling it is done to him. put his hand into his neighbour's 32 \\\"If the ox gores a male or female goods. servant, he is to give to their master 9 \\\"For every matter of transgression, thirty sheqels of silver, and the ox is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for stoned. garment, or for whatever is lost which 33 \\\"And when a man opens a pit, or if a another claims to be his, let the matter man digs a pit and does not cover it, of them both come before Elohim. and an ox or a donkey falls in it, And whomever Elohim declares wrong 34 the owner of the pit is to repay, he is repays double to his neighbour. to give silver to their owner, and the 10 \\\"When a man gives to his neighbour dead is his. a donkey, or ox, or sheep, or any beast 35 \\\"And when the ox of a man smites to watch over, and it dies, or is injured, the ox of his neighbour and it dies, or is driven away while no one is then they shall sell the live ox and looking, divide the silver from it, and also divide 11 let an oath of be between the dead ox. them both, that he has not put his 36 \\\"Or if it was known that the ox was hand into his neighbour's goods. And previously in the habit of goring, and the owner of it shall accept that, and its owner has not kept it confined, he he does not repay. shall certainly repay ox for ox, while 12 \\\"But if it is indeed stolen from him, the dead is his. he repays to its owner. O O \\\"When a man steals an ox or 13 \\\"If it is torn to pieces, then let him Z\u2014.Z\u2014. a sheep, and shall slaughter it bring it for evidence, he does not repay or sell it, he repays five cattle for an ox what was torn. '\u25a0 . \u2019 . * and four sheep for a sheep. 14 \\\"And when a man borrows from his 2 \\\"If the thief is found breaking in, and neighbour, and it is injured or dies he is smitten so that he dies, there is while the owner of it is not present, he no guilt for his bloodshed. shall certainly repay.. \u2022 \u2022 . \u25a0 3 \\\"If the sun has risen on him, there 15 \\\"But if its owner was with it, he does is guilt for his bloodshed, he shall not repay. If it was hired, he is entitled certainly repay. If he has not the to the hire. 1 \u2022 .<\u25a0 ' means, then he shall be sold for his 16 \\\"And when a man entices a maiden theft. :rr' who is not engaged, and lies with her, 4 \\\"If the theft is indeed found alive in he shall certainly pay the bride-price his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey for her to be his wife. \u25a0 - .. or sheep, he repays double. 17 \\\"If her father absolutely refuses to 5 \\\"When a man lets a field or vineyard give her to him, he pays according to be consumed, and lets loose his the bride-price of maidens. livestock, and it feeds in another man's 18 \\\"Do not allow \u25a0 a . practiser of field, he repays from the best of his witchcraft to live. r \u2019 ,. ' \u2019 own field and the best of his own 19 \\\"Anyone lying with a beast shall vineyard.\\\" certainly be put to death. . \u2022. 6 \\\"When fire breaks out and spreads to 20 \\\"He who slaughters to a mighty one, thorn bushes, so that stacked grain, except to only, is put under the or standing grain, or the field is ban. \u25a0 . h \u25a0\u25a0 consumed, he who kindled,the fire 21 \\\"Do not tread down a sojourner or shall certainly repay. oppress him, for you were sojourners 7 \\\"When a man gives silver or goods to in the land of Mitsrayim. i \u2022 his neighbour to guard, and it is stolen 22 \\\"Do not afflict any widow or out of the man's house, if the thief is fatherless child. i found, he repays double. 23 \\\"If you do afflict them at all - if they 8 .\\\"If the thief is not found, then the cry out to Me at all, I shall, certainly","SHEMOTH 82 hear their cry, words of the righteous. 24 And My wrath shall burn and I shall 9 \\\"And do not oppress a sojourner, slay you with the sword, your wives as you yourselves know the life shall be widows and your children of a sojourner,. because you were fatherless. sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim. 25 \\\"If you do lend silver to any of My 10 \\\"And for six years you are to sow people, the poor among you, you are your land, and shall gather its not to be like one that lends on interest increase, to him. Do not lay interest on him. 11 but the seventh year you are to let it 26 \\\"If you take your neighbour's rest, and shall leave it, and the poor of garment as a pledge at all, you are to your people shall eat. And what they return it to him before the sun goes leave, the beasts of the field eat. Do down. \u00ab\u25a0 the same with your vineyard and your 27 \\\"For that is his only covering, it is his oliveyard. , ., garment for his skin. What does he 12 \\\"Six days you are to do your work, sleep in? And it shall be that when he and on the seventh day you rest, in cries to Me, I shall hear, for I show order that your ox and your donkey favour. might rest, and the son of your female 28 \\\"Do not revile Elohim, nor curse a servant and the sojourner be ruler of your people. refreshed. . , 29 \\\"Do not withhold your produce and 13 \\\"And in all that I have said to you your juice. Give Me the first-born of take heed. And make no mention of your sons. the name of other mighty ones, let it 30 \\\"Likewise you are to do with your not be heard from your mouth. oxen, with your sheep. It is to be with 14 \\\"Three times in the year you are to its mother seven days. On the eighth celebrate a Festival to Me: day you give it to Me. 15 \\\"Guard the Festival of Matstsoth. 31 \\\"And you are qodesh men to Me, Seven days you eat unleavened and you do not eat any meat which is bread, as I commanded you, at the torn to pieces in the field, you throw it time appointed in the month of Abib - to the dogs. for in it you came out of Mitsrayim - 'J'D \\\"Do not bring a false report. and do not appear before Me empty- Z-O Do not put your hand with the handed; wicked to be a malicious witness. 16 and the Festival of the Harvest, 2 \\\"Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor the first-fruits of your labours which bear witness in a strife so as to turn you have sown in the field; and the aside after many, to pervert. Festival of the Ingathering at the 3 \\\"And do not favour a poor man in his outgoing of the year, when you have strife. \u25a0 \u2022 \u2022\u2022 . -J gathered in the fruit of your labours 4 \\\"When you meet your enemy's ox or from the field. .< his donkey going astray, you shall 17 \\\"Three times in the year all your certainly return it to him. males are to appear before the Adon 5 \\\"When you see the donkey of him who hates you, lying under its burden, 18 \\\"Do not offer the blood of My you shall refrain from leaving it to him, slaughtering with leavened bread, and you shall certainly help him. t the fat of My Festival shall not remain 6 \\\"Do not turn aside the right-ruling of until morning. your poor in his strife. 19 \\\"Bring the first of the first-fruits of 7 \\\"Keep yourself far from a false your land into the House of your matter, and do not kill the innocent and Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in the righteous, for I do not declare the its mother's milk. wicked right. 20 \\\"See, I am sending a Messenger 8 \\\"And do not take a bribe, for a bribe before you to guard you in the way and blinds the seeing one and twists the to bring you into the place which I have","83 EXODUS prepared. they make you sin against Me when 21 \\\"Be on guard before Him and obey you serve their mighty ones, when it His voice. Do not rebel against Him, becomes a snare to you.\\\" . for He is not going to pardon your And to Mosheh He said, transgression, for My Name is in Him. \\\"Come up to KM, you and 22 \\\"But if you diligently obey His voice Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and and shall do all that I speak, then I seventy of the elders of Yisra'el, and shall be an enemy to your enemies you shall bow yourselves from a and a distresser to those who distress distance. you. \u25a0 >. \u25a0 2 \\\"But Mosheh shall draw near to WW 23 \\\"For My Messenger shall go before by himself, and let them not draw near, you and shall bring you in to the nor let the people go up with him.\\\" Amorites and the Hittites and the 3 And Mosheh came and related to the Perizzites and the Kena'anites and the people all the Words of and all Hiwwites and the Yebusites, and I the Right-Rulings. And all the people shall cut them off. answered with one voice and said, \\\"All 24 \\\"Do not bow down to their mighty the Words which 3*tA4<has spoken we ones, nor serve them, nor do shall do.\\\" according to their works, but without 4 And Mosheh wrote down all the fail overthrow them and without fail Words of WW, and rose up early in break down their pillars. the morning, and built an altar at the 25 \\\"And you shall serve WW your foot of the mountain, and twelve Elohim, and He shall barak your bread standing columns for the twelve tribes and your water. And I shall remove of Yisra'el. sickness from your midst. 5 And he sent young men of the 26 \\\"None shall miscarry or be barren in children of Yisra'el, and they offered your land. I shall fill the number of your burnt offerings and slaughtered peace days. slaughterings of bulls to 27 \\\"I shall send My fear before you, 6 And Mosheh took half the blood and and cause confusion among all the put it in basins, and half the blood he people to whom you come, and make sprinkled on the altar. all your enemies turn their backs to 7 And he took the Book of the you. Covenant and read in the hearing of 28 \\\"And I shall send hornets before the people. And they said, \\\"All that you, which shall drive out the Hiwwite, WW has spoken we shall do, and the Kena'anite, and the Hittite from obey.\\\" before you. 8 And Mosheh took the blood and 29 \\\"I shall not drive them out from sprinkled it on the people, and said, before you in one year, lest the land \\\"See, the blood of the Covenant which become a waste and the beast of the 'WW has made with you concerning field become too numerous for you. all these Words.\\\" 30 \\\"Little by little I shall drive them out 9 And Mosheh went up, also Aharon, from before you, until you have Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the increased, and you inherit the land. elders of Yisra'el, 31 \\\"And I shall appoint your border 10 and they saw the Elohim of Yisra'el, from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea and under His feet like a paved work of of the Pelishtites, and from the sapphire stone, and like the shamayim wilderness to the River, for I shall give for brightness. the inhabitants of the land into your 11 Yet He did not stretch out His hand hand, and you shall drive them out against the chiefs of the children of before you. Yisra'el! And they saw Elohim, and 32 \\\"Do not make a covenant with them they ate and drank. nor with their mighty ones. 12 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Come 33 \\\"Let them not dwell in your land, lest up to Me on the mountain and be","SHEMOTH 84 there, while I give you tablets of stone, long, an ammah and a half wide, and and the Torah and the Command an ammah and a half high. which I have written, to teach them.\\\" 11 \\\"And you shall overlay it with clean 13 And Mosheh arose with his assistant gold, inside and outside you shall Yahoshua, and Mosheh went up to the overlay it. And you shall make on it a mountain of Elohim. moulding of gold all around. 14 And he said to the elders, \\\"Wait 12 \\\"And you shall cast four rings of here for us until we come back to you. gold for it, and put them in its four And see, Aharon and Hur are with you. corners, two rings on one side, and Whoever has matters, let him go to two rings on the other side. them.\\\" 13 \\\"And you shall make poles of acacia 15 And Mosheh went up into the wood, and overlay them with gold, mountain, and a cloud covered the 14 and shall put the poles into the rings mountain. r on the sides of the ark, to lift up the ark 16 And the esteem of WW dwelt on by them. Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it 15 \\\"The poles are in the rings of the for six days. And on the seventh day ark, they are not taken from it. \u2022 . \u2019 He called to Mosheh out of the midst 16 \\\"And into the ark you shall put the of the cloud. Witness which I give you. 17 And the appearance of the esteem 17 \\\"And you shall make a lid of of was like a consuming fire on atonement of clean gold, two and a the top of the mountain, before the half ammah long and an ammah and a eyes of the children of Yisra'el. half wide. *' \u2022 18 And Mosheh went into the midst 18 \\\"And you shall make two kerubim of of the cloud and went up into the gold, make them of beaten work, at the mountain. And it came to be that two ends of the lid of atonement. Mosheh was on the mountain forty 19 \\\"And make one kerub at one end, days and forty nights. and the other kerub at the other end. O And spoke to Mosheh, Make the kerubim from the lid of Z.O saying, atonement, at its two ends. 2 \\\"Speak to the children of Yisra'el, that 20 \\\"And the kerubim shall be spreading they take up a contribution for Me. out their wings above, covering the lid From everyone whose heart moves of atonement with their wings, with him you shall take up My contribution. their faces toward each other, the 3 \\\"And. this is the contribution which faces of the kerubim toward the lid of you take up from them: gold, and atonement. silver, and bronze, 21 \\\"And you shall put the lid of 4 and blue and purple and scarlet, and atonement on top of the ark, and put fine linen, and goats' hair, into the ark the Witness which I give 5 and rams' skins dyed red, and fine you. leather, and acacia wood, 22 \\\"And I shall meet with you there, 6 oil for the light, spices for the and from above the lid of atonement, anointing oil and for the sweet incense, from between the two kerubim which 7 shoham stones, and stones to be put are on the ark of the Witness, I in the shoulder garment and in the shall speak to you all that which I breastplate. command you concerning the children 8 \\\"And they shall make Me a Miqdash, of Yisra'el. and I shall dwell in their midst. 23 \\\"And you shall make a table of 9 \\\"According to all that I show you - the acacia wood two ammah long, an pattern of the Mishkan and the pattern ammah wide, and an ammah and a of all its furnishings - make it exactly half high. so. 24 \\\"And you shall overlay it with clean 10 \\\"And they shall make an ark of gold, and shall make a moulding of acacia wood two and a half ammah gold all around,","85 EXODUS 25 and shall make for it a rim of a 40 \\\"So see, and do according to the tophah all around, and shall make a pattern which was shown to you on the gold moulding for the rim all around. mountain. \u2022. 26 \\\"And you shall make for it four rings OC \\\"And make the Mishkan with of gold, and put the rings on the four ten- curtains of fine woven corners that are at its four legs. linen and blue and purple and scarlet 27 \\\"The rings are close to the rim, as Make them, with kerubim, the work of holders for the poles to lift the table. '\u2022 a skilled workman. 28 \\\"And you shall make the poles of 2 \\\"The length of each curtain is twenty\u00ad acacia wood, and overlay them with eight ammah, and the width of each gold, and the table shall be lifted with curtain four ammah, all the curtains them. \u2018r having one measure. 29 \\\"And you shall make its dishes, and 3 \\\"Five curtains are joined to each its ladles, and its jars, and its bowls for other, and five curtains are joined to pouring. Make them of clean gold. each other. \u25a0- . \u25a0\u00bb .\u2018 : 30 \\\"And you shall put the showbread 4 \\\"And you shall make loops of blue on on the table before Me, continually. the edge of the end on one curtain, 31 \\\"And you shall make a lampstand of and do the same on the edge of the clean gold - the lampstand is made of end of the second curtain. .\u25a0 beaten work. Its base and its shaft, 5 \\\"Make fifty loops in the one curtain its cups, its ornamental knobs and and make fifty loops on the edge of the blossoms are from it, seam of the second curtain, the loops 32 And six branches shall come out of being opposite to each other. its sides: three branches of the 6 \\\"And you shall make fifty hooks of lampstand out of one side, and three gold, and shall join the curtains branches of the lampstand out of the together with the hooks, and the other side; '\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0> Mishkan shall be one. 33 three cups made like almond 7 \\\"And you shall make curtains of flowers on one branch, with goats' hair, for a Tent over the ornamental knob and blossom, and Mishkan, make eleven curtains. three cups made like almond flowers 8 \\\"The length of each curtain is thirty on the other branch, with ornamental ammah, and the width of each curtain knob and blossom - so for the six four ammah, one measure to the branches coming out of the lampstand. eleven curtains. 34 \\\"And on the lampstand itself are four 9 \\\"And you shall join the five curtains cups made like almond flowers, with by themselves, and the six curtains by ornamental knob and blossom, themselves, and you shall double over 35 and a knob under the first two the six curtains at the front of the Tent. branches of the same, and a knob 10 \\\"And you shall make fifty loops on under the second two branches of the the edge of the curtain that is same, and a knob under the third two outermost, and fifty loops on the edge branches of the same, according to the of the second curtain. six branches coming out of the lamp\u00ad 11 \\\"And you shall make fifty bronze stand. hooks, and put the hooks into the 36 \\\"Their knobs and their branches are loops, and join the Tent together, and it of the same - all of it one beaten work shall be one. of clean gold. 12 \\\"And the overlapping part of the rest 37 \\\"And you shall make seven lamps of the curtains of the Tent, the half for it, and they shall mount its lamps so curtain that remains, shall hang over that they give light in front of it. the back of the Mishkan. 38 \\\"And its snuffers and their trays are 13 \\\"And an ammah on one side and an of clean gold. ammah on the other side, of what 39 \\\"It is made of a kikar of clean gold, remains of the length of the curtains of with all these utensils. the Tent, is to hang over the sides of","SHEMOTH 86 the Mishkan, on this side and on that according to its pattern which you were side, to cover it. shown on the mountain. u \\\"And you shall make a covering of 31 \\\"And you shall make a veil of blue ram skins dyed red for the Tent, and a and purple and scarlet, and fine woven covering of fine leather above that. linen, the work of a skilled workman, 15 \\\"And for the Mishkan you shall made with kerubim. make the boards of acacia wood, 32 \\\"And you shall put it on the four standing up. columns of acacia wood overlaid with 16 \\\"Ten ammah is the length of a gold, their hooks of gold, upon four board, and an ammah and a half the sockets of silver. . \u2022 width of each board, 33 \\\"And you shall hang the veil from 17 two tenons in each board for binding the hooks, and shall bring the ark of one to another. Do the same for all the the Witness there, behind the veil. And boards of the Mishkan. the veil shall make a separation for 18 \\\"And you shall make the boards for you between the Qodesh and the Most the Mishkan, twenty boards for the Qodesh Place. south side, 34 \\\"And you shall put the lid of 19 And make forty sockets of silver atonement upon the ark of the Witness under the twenty boards, two sockets in the Most Qodesh Place. under each of the boards for its two 35 \\\"And you shall put the table outside tenons. the veil, and the lampstand opposite 20 \\\"And for the second side of the the table on the side of the Mishkan Mishkan, on the north side, twenty toward the south, and put the table on boards, the north side. 21 and their forty sockets of silver, two 36 \\\"And you shall make a covering for sockets under each of the boards. the door of the Tent, of blue and purple 22 \\\"And for the rear parts of the and scarlet, and fine woven linen, Mishkan, westward, make six boards, made by a weaver. 23 and make two boards for the 37 \\\"And you shall make for the corners of the Mishkan in the rear. covering five columns of acacia wood, 24 \\\"And they are double beneath and and overlay them with gold, their similarly they are complete to the top, hooks of gold, and you shall cast five to the one ring. So it is for both of sockets of bronze for them. them, they are for the two corners. Q\u201c7 \\\"And you shall make an altar 25 \\\"And they shall be eight boards, and Z- \/ of acacia wood, five ammah their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets - long and five ammah wide - the altar is two sockets under the one board, and square - and its height three ammah. two sockets under the other board. 2 \\\"And you shall make its horns on its 26 \\\"And you shall make bars of acacia four corners, its horns are of the same. wood, five for the boards on one side And you shall overlay it with bronze. of the Mishkan, 3 \\\"And you shall make its pots to 27 and five bars for the boards on receive its ashes, and its shovels and the other side of the Mishkan, and its basins and its forks and its fire five bars for the boards of the side holders. Make all its utensils of bronze. of the Mishkan, for the rear parts 4 \\\"And you shall make a grating for it, a westward, bronze network, and shall make on the 28 with the middle bar in the midst of network four bronze rings at its four the boards, going through from end to corners, end. 5 and shall put it under the rim of the 29 \\\"And overlay the boards with gold, altar beneath, so that the network is and make their rings of gold as holders halfway up the altar. for the bars, and overlay the bars with 6 \\\"And you shall make poles for the gold. altar, poles of acacia wood, and shall 30 \\\"And you shall raise up the Mishkan overlay them with bronze.","87 EXODUS 7 \\\"And the poles shall be put in the evening until morning before -a rings, and the poles shall be on the Law forever to their generations, from two sides of the altar for lifting it. the children of Yisra'el. 8 \\\"Make it hollow with boards. As it was OO \\\"And you, bring near Aharon shown to you on the mountain, so they your brother and his sons with are to make it. him, from among the children of 9 \\\"And you shall make the courtyard Yisra'el, for serving as kohen to Me: of the Mishkan: for the south side Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, El'azar and screens for the courtyard made of fine Ithamar, the sons of Aharon. woven linen, one hundred ammah long 2 \\\"And you . shall make qodesh for one side, >. garments for Aharon your brother, for 10 and its twenty columns and their esteem and for comeliness. twenty sockets of bronze, the hooks of 3 \\\"And you, speak to all the wise of the columns and their bands of silver, heart, whom I have filled with a spirit of 11 and so for the north side in length, wisdom, and they shall, make the screens one hundred long, with its garments of Aharon, to qadosh him, for twenty columns and their \u201c twenty him to serve as kohen to Me. sockets of bronze, and the hooks of 4 \\\"And these are the garments which the columns and their bands of silver. they make: a breastplate, a shoulder 12 \\\"And the width of the courtyard on garment, a robe, an embroidered long the west side screens of fifty ammah, shirt, a turban, and a girdle. And they with their ten columns and their ten shall make qodesh garments for sockets. o Aharon your brother and his sons, for 13 \\\"And the width of the courtyard on him to serve as kohen to Me. the east side fifty ammah. 5 \\\"And they shall take the gold, and the 14 \\\"And the screens on one side of the blue and the purple and the scarlet, gate fifteen ammah, with their three and the fine linen, - columns and their three sockets. 6 and shall make the shoulder garment 15 \\\"And on the other side screens of of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet, fifteen, with their three columns and and fine woven linen, the work of a their three sockets. skilled workman. 16 \\\"And for the gate of the courtyard 7 \\\"It is to have two shoulder pieces a covering twenty ammah long, of joined at its two edges, and so it is blue and purple and scarlet, and fine joined together. woven linen, made by a weaver - four 8 \\\"And the embroidered band of the columns and four sockets. . shoulder garment, which is on it, is of 17 \\\"All the columns around the the same workmanship, made of gold, courtyard have bands of . silver, their of blue and purple and scarlet, and fine hooks silver and their sockets bronze. woven linen. 18 \\\"The length of the courtyard is one 9 \\\"And you shall take two shoham hundred ammah, and the width fifty by stones and engrave on them the fifty, and the height five ammah, woven names of the sons of Yisra'el, of fine linen thread, and its sockets of 10 six of their names on one stone, and bronze. . v>. the remaining six names on the other 19 \\\"All the utensils of the Mishkan for stone, according to their birth. all its service, all its pegs, and all the 11 \\\"With the work of an engraver in pegs of the courtyard, are bronze. -< \u2022 stone, like the engravings of a signet, 20 \\\"And you, you are to command the engrave the two stones with the children of Yisra'el to bring you clear oil names of the sons of Yisra'el. Put them of pressed olives for the light, to cause in mountings of gold. < the lamp to burn continually. 12 \\\"And you shall put the two stones on 21 \\\"In the Tent of Appointment, outside the shoulder pieces of the shoulder the veil which is before the Witness, garment as stones of remembrance for Aharon and his sons are to tend it from the sons of Yisra'el. And Aharon shall","SHEMOTH 88 bear their names before on his seam above the embroidered band of two shoulders, for a remembrance. the shoulder garment, 13 \\\"And you shall make mountings of 28 and they bind the breastplate by gold, \u2022 \u25a0. means of its rings to the rings of 14 and two chains of clean gold like the shoulder garment, using a blue braided cords, and fasten the braided cord, so that it is above the chains to the mountings. embroidered, band of the shoulder 15 \\\"And you shall make a breastplate garment, so that the breastplate does of right-ruling, a work of a skilled not come loose from the shoulder workman, like the work of the shoulder garment r i . : garment. Make it of gold, of blue and 29 \\\"And Aharon shall bear the names purple and scarlet, and fine woven of the sons \u2022 of Yisra'el on \u2022 the linen. breastplate of right-ruling over his 16 \\\"It is square, doubled, a zereth its heart, when he goes into the qodesh length, and a zereth its width. place,' for a remembrance before 17 \\\"And you shall put mountings of continually. stones in it, four rows of stones: The 30 \\\"And into the breastplate of. right\u00ad first row is a ruby, a topaz, and an ruling you shall put the Urim and the emerald; ; ' Tummim, and they shall be on the 18 and the second row is a turquoise, a heart of Aharon when he goes in sapphire, and a diamond; before And Aharon shall bear 19 and the third row is a jacinth, an the right-ruling of the children of agate, and an amethyst; Yisra'el on his heart before \u2022 IRW, 20 and the fourth row is a beryl, and a continually. \u25a0 \u2022 shoham, and a jasper. They are put in 31 \\\"And you shall make the robe of the gold mountings. shoulder garment all of blue. 21 \\\"And the stones are according to the 32 \\\"And the opening for his head shall names of the sons of Yisra'el, twelve be in the middle of it, a woven binding according to their names, like the all around its opening, like the opening engravings of a signet, each one with in scaled armour, so that it does not its own name, for the twelve tribes. tear. 22 \\\"And you shall make braided chains 33 \\\"And on its hem you shall make of corded work for the breastplate at pomegranates of blue and purple and the end, of clean gold. scarlet, all around its hem, and bells of 23 \\\"And you shall make two rings of gold between them all around: gold for the breastplate, and shall put 34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a the two rings on the two ends of the golden bell and a pomegranate, on the breastplate. \u25a0 .. *, :'\u2019 hem of the robe all around. 24 \\\"And you shall put the two cords of 35 \\\"And it shall be upon Aharon to gold in the two rings which are on the attend in, and its sound shall be heard ends of the breastplate, when he goes into the qodesh place 25 and the other two ends of the two before and when he comes out, cords you fasten to the two mountings, so that he does not die. and put them on the shoulder pieces of 36 \\\"And you shall make a plate of the shoulder garment in the front. \u2022 clean gold and engrave on it, like the 26 \\\"And you shall make two rings of engraving of a signet: QODESHAH TO gold, and shall put them on the two w. ends of the breastplate, on the edge of 37 \\\"And you shall put it on a blue cord, it, which is on the inner side of the and it shall be on the turban - it is to be shoulder garment. on the front of the turban. 27 \\\"And you shall make two rings of 38 \\\"And it shall be on the forehead of gold, and put them on the two shoulder Aharon, and Aharon shall bear the guilt pieces, underneath the shoulder of the qodesh gifts which the children garment, on the front of it, close to the of Yisra'el qadosh in all their qodesh","89 EXODUS gifts. And it shall always be on his put long shirts on them, forehead, for acceptance for them 9 and shall gird them with girdles - before Aharon and his sons - and put the 39 \\\"And you shall weave the long shirt turbans on them. And the kehunnah of fine linen, and shall make the turban shall be theirs for an everlasting Law. of fine linen, and you shall make the So you shall ordain Aharon and his girdle of woven work. sons. 40 \\\"And make long shirts for Aharon's 10 \\\"And you shall bring near the bull sons. And you shall make girdles before the Tent of Appointment, and for them, and you shall make turbans Aharon and his sons shall lay their for them, for esteem and comeliness.:- hands on the head of the bull. 41 \\\"And you shall put them on Aharon 11 \\\"And you shall slaughter the bull your brother and on his sons with him, before by the door of the Tent of and shall anoint them, and shall ordain Appointment,.. them, and shall qadosh them, and they 12 and take some of the blood of the shall serve as kohenim to Me. bull and put it on the horns of the altar 42 \\\"And make linen trousers for them, with your finger, and pour all the blood to cover their nakedness, reaching beside the base of the altar. from the waist to the thighs. 13 \\\"And you shall take all the fat that 43 \\\"And they shall be on Aharon and covers the entrails, and the appendage on his sons when they come into on the liver, and the two kidneys and the Tent of Appointment, or when they the fat that is on them, and burn them come near the altar to attend in the on the altar. qodesh place, so that they do not bear 14 \\\"But the flesh of the bull, and its skin wickedness and die - a Law forever to and its dung, you shall burn with fire him, and to his seed after him. outside the camp. It is a sin offering. QQ \\\"And this is the task you shall 15 \\\"And take one ram, and Aharon and do to them to qadosh them to his sons shall lay their hands on the serve Me as kohenim: Take one young head of the ram, bull and two rams, perfect ones, . 16 and you shall slaughter the ram, and 2 and unleavened . bread, and you shall take its blood and sprinkle it unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and all around on the altar. unleavened wafers anointed with oil - 17 \\\"And cut the ram in pieces, and make these of wheat flour. wash its entrails and its legs, and 3 \\\"And you shall put them in one place them upon its pieces and on its basket and bring them in the basket, head. \u2022 along with the bull and the two rams. 18 \\\"And you shall burn the entire ram 4 \\\"Then you shall bring Aharon and on the altar. It is a burnt offering to his sons to the door of the Tent of it is a sweet fragrance, an Appointment, and wash them with offering made by fire to water. \u2019 19 \\\"And you shall take the second ram, 5 \\\"And you shall take the garments, and Aharon and his sons shall lay their and shall put on Aharon the long shirt, hands on the head of the ram, and the robe of the shoulder garment, 20 and you shall slaughter the ram, and and the shoulder garment, and the take some of its blood and put it on the breastplate, and shall gird him with the tip of the right ear of Aharon and on embroidered - band of the shoulder the tip of the right ear of his sons, on garment, the thumb of their right hand and on 6 and shall put the turban on his head, the big toe of their right foot, and and shall put the qodesh sign of sprinkle the blood all around on the dedication on the turban, \u2022 altar. .\u25a0 7 and shall take the anointing oil, and 21 \\\"And you shall take some of the pour it on his head and anoint him. blood that is on the altar, and some of 8 \\\"Then you shall bring his sons and the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on","SHEMOTH 90 Aharon and on his garments, on his of Appointment, sons and on the garments of his sons 33 and they shall eat those with which with him. And he and his garments the atonement was made, to ordain shall be qodesh, and his sons and the them, to qadosh them. But let a garments of his sons with him. stranger not eat them, because, they 22 \\\"And you shall take the fat of the are qodesh. ram, and the fat tail, and the fat that 34 \\\"And if any of the flesh of the covers the entrails, and the appendage ordination offerings, or of the bread, be on the liver, and the two kidneys and left over until the morning, then you the fat on them, and the right thigh - it shall burn up what is left over. It is not is for a ram of ordination - eaten, because it is qodesh. 23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake 35 \\\"And so you shall do to Aharon made with oil, and one thin cake from and his sons, according to all I have the basket of the unleavened bread commanded you. Seven days you that is before shall ordain them, 24 \\\"And you shall put all these in the 36 and prepare a bull each day as a sin hands of Aharon and in the hands of offering for atonement. And you shall his sons, and you shall wave them - a cleanse the altar when you make wave offering before . atonement for it, and you shall anoint it 25 \\\"Then you shall take them from their to qadosh it. hands and burn them on the altar as a 37 \\\"For seven days you shall make burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance atonement for the altar, and qadosh it. before WW. It is an offering made by And the altar shall be most qodesh - fire to whatever touches the altar is to be 26 \\\"And you shall take the breast of the qodesh. ram of Aharon's ordination and wave it 38 \\\"And this is what you prepare on the - a wave offering before and it altar: two lambs, a year old, daily, shall be your portion. \u25a0' continually. 27 \\\"And from the ram of ordination you 39 \\\"Prepare the one lamb in the shall qadosh the breast of the wave morning, and the other lamb you offering which is waved, and the thigh prepare between the evenings, of the contribution which is raised, of 40 and one-tenth of an ephah of flour that which is for Aharon and of that mixed with one-fourth of a hin of which is for his sons. pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of 28 \\\"And it shall be from the children of wine as a drink offering, with the one Yisra'el for Aharon and his sons by a lamb. Law forever, for it is a contribution. And 41 \\\"And prepare the other lamb it is a contribution from the children of between the evenings. And with it Yisra'el from their peace offerings - prepare the grain offering and the drink their contribution to offering, as in the morning, for a sweet 29 \\\"And the qodesh garments of fragrance, an offering made by fire to Aharon are for his sons after him, to be w- anointed in them and to be ordained in 42 a continual burnt offering for your them. '\u25a0 generations at the door of the Tent of 30 \\\"The kohen from his sons in his Appointment before where I place, puts them on for seven shall meet with you to speak with you. days, when he enters the Tent of 43 \\\"And there I shall meet with the Appointment to attend in the qodesh children of Yisra'el, and it shall be place. made qadosh by My esteem. 31 \\\"And take the ram of ordination and 44 \\\"And I shall qadosh the Tent of cook its flesh in a qodesh place. Appointment and the altar. And Aharon 32 \\\"And Aharon and his sons shall eat and his sons I qadosh to serve as the flesh of the ram, and the bread that kohenim to Me. is in the basket, by the door of the Tent 45 \\\"And I shall dwell in the midst of the","91 EXODUS children of Yisra'el and shall be their them. Elohim. \u2022 13 \\\"Everyone among those who are 46 \\\"And they shall know that I am registered is to give this: half a sheqel their Elohim, who brought them up out according to the sheqel of the qodesh of the land of Mitsrayim, to dwell in place, twenty gerahs being a sheqel. their midst. I am their Elohim. The half-sheqel is the contribution to \\\"And you shall make an altar w. O w to burn incense on, make it of 14 \\\"Everyone passing over to be acacia wood, registered, from twenty years old and 2 an ammah long and an ammah wide above, gives a contribution to - it is a square - and two ammah high, 15 \\\"The rich does not give more and its horns of the same. the poor does not give less than half a 3 \\\"And you shall overlay its top, and its sheqel, when you give a contribution to sides all around, and its horns with \\\"WAY, to make atonement for clean gold. And you shall make for it a yourselves. moulding of gold all around. 16 \\\"And you shall take the silver for the 4 \\\"And make two gold rings for it, atonement from the children of Yisra'el, under the moulding on both its sides. and give it for the service of the Tent Make them on its two sides, and they of Appointment. And it shall be to the shall be holders for the poles to lift it children of Yisra'el for a remembrance with. \u2019 : .' ; before to make atonement for 5 \\\"And you shall make the poles of yourselves.\\\" acacia wood, and overlay them with 17 And spoke to Mosheh, saying, gold. 18 \\\"And you shall make a basin of 6 \\\"And you shall put it before the veil bronze, with its stand also of bronze, that is before the ark of the Witness, for washing. And you shall put it before the lid of atonement that is over between the Tent of Appointment and the Witness, where I am to meet with the altar, and shall put water in it. you. 19 \\\"And Aharon and his sons shall 7 \\\"And Aharon shall burn on it sweet wash from it their hands and their feet. incense, morning by morning. As he 20 \\\"When they go into the Tent of tends the lamps, he shall burn incense Appointment, or when they come near on it. \u2022 the altar to attend, to burn an offering 8 \\\"And when Aharon lights the lamps made by fire to they wash with between the evenings, he shall water, lest they die. burn incense on it - a continual 21 \\\"And they shall wash their hands incense before WW throughout your and their feet, lest they die. And it shall generations. be a Law forever to them, to him and 9 \\\"Do not offer strange incense on it, or his seed throughout their generations.\\\" a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and 22 And spoke to Mosheh, saying, do not pour a drink offering on it. 23 \\\"And take for yourself choice spices, 10 \\\"And Aharon shall make atonement five hundred of liquid myrrh; and half upon its horns once a year with the as much - two hundred and fifty - of blood of the sin offering of atonement - sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two once a year he makes atonement hundred and fifty of sweet-smelling upon it throughout your generations. It cane, is most qodesh to 24 and five hundred of cassia, 11 And spoke to Mosheh, saying, according to the sheqel of the qodesh 12 \\\"When you take the census of place, and a hin of olive oil. the children of Yisra'el, to register 25 \\\"And you shall make from these a them, then each one shall give an qodesh anointing oil, a compound, atonement for his life to WW, when blended, the work of a perfumer. It is a you register them, so that there is no qodesh anointing oil. plague among them when you register 26 \\\"And with it you shall anoint the","SHEMOTH 92 Tent of Appointment and the ark of the in silver, and in bronze, Witness, 5 and in cutting stones for mounting, 27 and the table and all its utensils, and and in carving wood, and to work in all the lampstand and its utensils, and the work. \u2022. altar of incense, 6 \\\"And I, look I have appointed with 28 and the altar of burnt offering with all him Oholiab son of Ahisamak, of the its utensils, and the basin and its tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in stand. the hearts of everyone who is wise- 29 \\\"And you shall qadosh them, and hearted, and they shall make all that I they shall be most qodesh. Whatever have commanded you: touches them is to be qodesh. 7 the Tent of Appointment, and the 30 \\\"And you shall anoint Aharon and ark of the Witness and the lid of his sons, and qadosh them,, to serve atonement that is on it, .and all -the as kohenim to Me. utensils of the Tent, 31 \\\"And speak to the children of 8 and the table and its utensils, and Yisra'el, saying, 'This is a qodesh the clean gold lampstand with all its anointing oil to Me throughout your utensils, and the altar of incense, \u25a0 generations. _ . 9 and the altar of burnt offering with all 32 'It shall not be poured on the flesh of its utensils, and the basin and its a man, and make no other like it, stand, > .\u2022 according to its composition. It is 10 and the woven garments, and the qodesh, it is qodesh to you. \u2018 \u2022 r qodesh garments for Aharon the kohen 33 Whoever compounds like it, or and the garments of his sons, for whoever puts any of it on a stranger, serving as kohenim, c' shall be cut off from his people.'\\\" 11 and the anointing oil and sweet 34 And said to Mosheh,- \\\"Take incense for the qodesh , place. sweet spices, fragrant gum and According to all that I have cinnamon and galbanam, and clear commanded you, they are to do.\\\" frankincense with these sweet spices, 12 And spoke to Mosheh, saying, all in equal amounts. \u25a0 \u2022 r r. - 13 \\\"And you, speak to the children of 35 \\\"Then you shall make of these an Yisra'el, saying, 'My Shabbathoth you incense, a compound, work of a are to guard, by all means, for this is a perfumer, salted, clean, qodesh:.. \u2022 r. \u2019 sign between Me and you throughout 36 \\\"And you shall beat some of it very your generations, to know that I, fine, and put some of it before the qadosh you. > : \u25a0. <\u25a0 Witness in the Tent of Appointment u 'And you shall guard the Shabbath, where I meet with you, it is most for it is qodesh to you. Everyone who qodesh to you.' . profanes it shall certainly be put to 37 \\\"And the incense which you make, death, for anyone who does work on it, do not make any for yourselves, that being shall be cut off from among according to its composition, it is his people. .r qodesh to you for 15 'Six days work is done, and, on the 38 \\\"Whoever makes like it, to smell it, seventh is a Shabbath of rest, qodesh he shall be cut off from his people.\\\" to Everyone doing work on the Q d And spoke to Mosheh, Shabbath day shall certainly be put to O I saying, '' death. \u2022 2 \\\"See, I have called by name Betsal'el 16 'And the children of Yisra'el shall son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of guard the Shabbath,. to perform the Yahudah, - -t Shabbath throughout their generations 3 and I have filled. him with the as an everlasting Covenant. Ruah of Elohim in wisdom, and in 17 'Between Me and the children of understanding, and in knowledge, and Yisra'el it is a sign forever. For in six in all work, days made the shamayim and 4 to make designs for work in gold, and the earth, and on the seventh day He","93 EXODUS rested and was refreshed.' \\\" consume them and I make of you a 18 And when He had ended speaking great nation.\\\"c \u2022 with him on Mount Sinai, He gave 11 But Mosheh pleaded with his Mosheh two tablets of the Witness, Elohim, and said, why does tablets of stone, written with the finger Your wrath burn against Your people of Elohim. whom You have brought out of the Q O And when the people saw that land of Mitsrayim with great power and O \u00a3\u2014 Mosheh was so long in coming with a strong hand? \u2022 \u25a0 down from the mountain, the people 12 \\\"Why should the Mitsrites speak, gathered together to Aharon, and said and say, 'For evil He brought them out to him, \\\"Arise, make us mighty ones to kill them in the mountains, and to who go before us. For this Mosheh, consume them from the face of the the man who brought us up out of the earth'? Turn from the heat of Your land of Mitsrayim, we do not know wrath, and relent from this evil to Your what has become of him.\\\" people. \u2019 2 And Aharon said to them, \\\"Take off 13 \\\"Remember Abraham, Yitshaq, and the golden earrings which are in the Yisra'el, Your servants, to whom You ears of your wives, your sons, and swore by Yourself, and said to them, 'I your daughters, and bring them to increase your seed like the stars of the me.\\\" \u25a0 shamayim. And all this land that I have 3 And all the people took off the golden spoken of I give to your seed, and they earrings which were in their ears, and shall inherit it forever.'\\\" brought them to Aharon. \u2022 14 And relented from the evil 4 And he took from their hand, and he which He said He would do to.His formed it with an engraving tool, and people.. - .,y : ' \u2022\u2019 \u2022\u201d i made a moulded calf. And they said, 15 And Mosheh turned and went down \\\"This is your mighty one, O Yisra'el, from? the mountain, and in his hand that brought you out of the land of were the two tablets of the Witness, Mitsrayim!\\\" tablets written on both their sides, 5 And Aharon saw and built an altar written on the one and on the other. before it. And Aharon called out and 16 And the tablets were the work of said, \\\"Tomorrow is a festival to 'WW\\\" Elohim, and the writing was the writing 6 And they rose early on the next of Elohim engraved on the tablets. day, and offered burnt offerings, and 17 And Yahoshua heard the noise of brought peace offerings. ' And the the people as they shouted and he people sat down to eat and drink, and said to Mosheh, \\\"A noise of battle in rose up to play. \u2018 the camp!\\\" \u25a0 .; \u2022 7 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Go, get 18 But he said, \\\"It is not the sound down! For your people whom you of those who shout of might, nor is it brought out of the land of Mitsrayim the sound of those who cry out in have corrupted themselves. weakness, but the sound of singing 8 \\\"They have turned aside quickly out that I hear.\\\" . - , of the Way which I commanded 19 And it came to be, as soon as he them. They have made themselves came near the camp, that he saw the a moulded calf, and have bowed calf and the dancing. And Mosheh's themselves to it and slaughtered to it, displeasure burned, and he threw the and said, 'This is your mighty one, O tablets out of his hands and broke Yisra'el, who brought you out of the them at the foot of the mountain. s land of Mitsrayim!'\\\" \u00ab\u25a0 20 And he took the calf which they had 9 And said to Mosheh, \\\"I have made, and burned it in the fire, and seen this people, and see, it is a stiff\u00ad ground it into powder, and scattered it necked people! on the face of the water and made the 10 ''And now, let Me alone, that My. children of Yisra'el drink it. wrath might burn against them and I 21 And Mosheh said to Aharon, \\\"What","SHEMOTH 94 did this people do to you that you have place of which I have spoken to you. brought so great a sin upon them?\\\" See, My Messenger goes before you. 22 And Aharon said, \\\"Do not let the And in the day of My visitation I shall displeasure of my master burn. You visit their sin upon them.\\\" ?. know the people, for evil is in them. 35 And plagued the people 23 \\\"And they said to me, 'Make us because they made the calf, which mighty ones who go before us. For this Aharon made. Mosheh, the man who brought us out QQ And said to Mosheh, of the land of Mitsrayim, we do not OO \\\"Come, go up from here, know what has become of him.' you and the people whom you have 24 \\\"And I said to them, 'Whoever has brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, to gold, let them take it off.' And they the land of which I swore to Abraham, gave it to me, and I threw it into the to Yitshaq, and to Ya'aqob, saying, 'To fire, and this calf came out.\\\" your seed I give it.' ' 25 And Mosheh saw that the people 2 \\\"And I shall send My Messenger were let loose, for Aharon had let them before you, and I shall drive out the loose, to their shame among their Kena'anite and the Amorite and the enemies. \u2022 \u2022 Hittite and the Perizzite and the 26 And Mosheh stood in the entrance Hiwwite and the Yebusite, of the camp, and said, \\\"Who is for 3 to a land flowing with milk and honey. To me!\\\" And all the sons of For I do not go up in your midst Lewi gathered themselves to him. because you are a stiff-necked people, 27 And he said to them, \\\"Thus said lest I consume you on the way.\\\" 'WW Elohim of Yisra'el: 'Each one put 4 And when the people heard this evil his sword on his side, pass over to and word, they mourned, and no one put fro from gate to gate in the camp, and on his ornaments. \u2022 ...\/\u2022 v each one slay his brother, and each 5 And said to Mosheh, \\\"Say one his friend, and each one his to the children of Yisra'el, 'You\u2019 are a relative.'\\\" .\u25a0 * . \u2022 stiff-necked people. Should I go up in 28 And the sons of Lewi did according your midst for one moment I shall to the word of Mosheh. And about consume you. And now, take off your three thousand men of the people fell ornaments, and I shall know what to that day. do to you.'\\\" ; \u25a0:\u2022 29 And Mosheh said, \\\"You are ordained 6 So the children of Yisra'el took off for today - since each one has their ornaments at Mount Horeb. been against his son and his brother - 7 And Mosheh took > his tent and so as to bring upon you a berakah pitched it outside the camp, far from today.\\\" ; the camp, and called it the Tent of 30 And it came to be on the next day Appointment. And it came to be that that Mosheh said to the people, \\\"You, everyone who sought went out you have sinned a great sin. And now I to the Tent of Appointment which was am going up to - if I might atone outside the camp. for your sin.\\\" 8 And it came to be, whenever Mosheh 31 And Mosheh returned to and went out to the Tent, that all the people said, 'Oh, these people have sinned rose, and each man stood at his tent a great sin, and have made for door and watched Mosheh until he themselves a mighty one of gold! entered the Tent. 32 \\\"And now, if You would lift their sin, 9 And it came to be, when Mosheh but if not, please blot me Put of Your entered the Tent, that the column of Book which You have written.\\\" cloud descended and stood at the door 33 And WW said to \u25a0 Mosheh, of the Tent, and He spoke with \\\"Whoever has sinned against Me, I Mosheh. > blot him out of My Book. u .10 And all the people saw the column 34 \\\"And now, go, lead the people to the of cloud standing at the Tent door, and"]