Compact Anthology of
World
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Pa rt On e
The Ancient World
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tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein. 8 And thou shalt set up the court round about,
and hang up the hanging at the court gate. 9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all
that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy. 10 And thou shalt anoint the altar
of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy. 11 And thou shalt
anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it. 12 And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water. 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and
anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office. 14 And thou shalt bring his sons,
and clothe them with coats: 15 And thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister
unto me in the priest’s office: for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
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Thus did Moses: according to all that the LORD commanded him, so did he.
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And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle
was reared up. 18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and
put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars. 19 And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the
covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above
upon the ark: 21 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark
of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the
vail. 23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle
southward. 25 And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail: 27 And he burnt sweet incense
thereon; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. 29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door
of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the
LORD commanded Moses.
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And he set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water there, to wash withal.
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And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat: 32 When they went into the tent of
the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the LORD commanded Moses. 33 And
he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses
finished the work.
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Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 And
Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of
the LORD filled the tabernacle. 36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel
went onward in all their journeys: 37 But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it
was taken up. 38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight
of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
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Genesis Chapter 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was
upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was
evening and there was morning, one day.
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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which
were above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there
was morning, a second day.
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And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land
appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:
and God saw that it was good. 11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees
bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought
forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind:
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and God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
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And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give
light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light
upon the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God
saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
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And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in
the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth,
wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on
the earth. 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
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And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and
beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the
cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
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And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth. 27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food: 30 and to every beast of the earth,
and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, [I have given]
every green herb for food: and it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis Chapter 2
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished
his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God
blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and
made.
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These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God
made earth and heaven. 5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up;
for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground; 6 but there
went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And Jehovah God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 And
out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of
life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden
to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon: that
is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 and the gold of that land is good: there is
bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole
land of Cush. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth in front of Assyria. And the
fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it.
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And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17 but of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.
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And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.
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And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought
them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was
the name thereof. 20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the
field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.
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And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof: 22 and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman,
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and brought her unto the man. 23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall
be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were
not ashamed.
Genesis Chapter 3
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto
the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye
shall not surely die: 5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall
be as God, knowing good and evil.
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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the
tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. 8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking
in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God
amongst the trees of the garden.
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And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in
the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
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And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee
that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the
tree, and I did eat. 13 And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said,
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
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And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and
above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 and I
will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel. 16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain
thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat
of it all the days of thy life; 18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field; 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 20 And the man called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the
mother of all living. 21 And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.
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And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put
forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever- 23 therefore Jehovah God sent him forth
from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at
the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of
the tree of life.
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And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with [the
help of] Jehovah. 2 And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the
ground.
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And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah.
4
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel
and to his offering: 5 but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
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And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? 7 If thou doest well,
shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire, but do
thou rule over it. 8 And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose
up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
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And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And
now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
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when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt
thou be in the earth.
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And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, thou hast driven me out
this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the
earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me. 15 And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore
whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest
any finding him should smite him.
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And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And
Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city,
after the name of his son, Enoch. 18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat
Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech.
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And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
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And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and [have] cattle. 21 And his brother’s name was
Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe. 22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, the forger of
every cutting instrument of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
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And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my
speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me: 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
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And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth. For, [said she], God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and
he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.
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Genesis Chapter 5
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he
him; 2 male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were
created.
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And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called
his name Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters. 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
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And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh: 7 and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred
and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: 8 and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and
he died.
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And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Kenan. 10 and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: 11 and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
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And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel: 13 and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: 14 and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years:
and he died.
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And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 16 And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared eight
hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:
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and all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.
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And Jared lived a hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch: 19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 20 And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years:
and he died.
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And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat
Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
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And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: 26 and Methuselah lived after he
begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters. 27 And all the days of Methuselah
were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
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And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 and he called his name Noah, saying,
This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, [which cometh] because of the ground which
Jehovah hath cursed. 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons
and daughters: 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. 32 And
Noah was five hundred years old: And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto
them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they
chose. 3 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a
hundred and twenty years.
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The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
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And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
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And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And Jehovah
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things,
and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
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But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
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These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, [and] perfect in his generations: Noah walked
with God. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God saw the earth, and,
behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
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And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through
them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
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Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without
with pitch. 15 And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty
cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it
upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou
make it. 17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of
life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die. 18 But I will establish my covenant with thee; and
thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. 19 And of every living
thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male
and female. 20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground
after its kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that
is eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that
God commanded him, so did he.
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And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before
me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee seven and seven, the male and his female; and of
the beasts that are not clean two, the male and his female: 3 of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male
and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon
the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the
ground.
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And Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded him. 6 And Noah was six hundred years old when
the flood of waters was upon the earth.
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And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters
of the flood. 8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creepeth upon
the ground, 9 there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah. 10 And
it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
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In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the
same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the
rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and
the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of
every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life. 16 And
they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.
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And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted
up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were
under the whole heaven were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were
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covered.
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And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on
the dry land, died. 23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left,
and they that were with him in the ark. 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Genesis Chapter 8
And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God
made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; 2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of
heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters decreased.
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And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
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And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month,
were the tops of the mountains seen.
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And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
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and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 8 And he
sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 but the dove found no
rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth:
and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven
days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her
mouth an olive-leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet
other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.
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And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters
were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of
the ground was dried. 14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
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And God spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’
wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds, and cattle, and
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and
multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him: 19 every
beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatsoever moveth upon the earth, after their families, went forth out
of the ark.
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And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered
burnt-offerings on the altar. 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again
curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for that the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will
I again smite any more everything living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and
cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; With all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. 3 Every
moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; As the green herb have I given you all. 4 But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require;
At the hand of every beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will
I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God
made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with
you, and with your seed after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every
beast of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. 11 And I will establish my
covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more
be a flood to destroy the earth.
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And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature
that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant
between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be
seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of
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all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and
I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all
flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established
between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Exodus Chapter 1
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with
Jacob): 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
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And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 And
Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding
mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the
people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight
against us, and get them up out of the land. 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their
burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more
they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. 13 And
the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service,
in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve
with rigor.
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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the
name of the other Puah: 16 and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them
upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive. 18 And
the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the
men-children alive? 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian
women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them. 20 And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God,
that he made them households. 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast
into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived,
and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 3 And when she could
not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the
child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done
to him.
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And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it. 6 And she opened it, and saw the
child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
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Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may
nurse the child for thee? 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child’s
mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy
wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s
daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.
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And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked
on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12 And he looked this way and that
way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 And he went out
the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to
kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known. 15 Now when Pharaoh
heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:
and he sat down by a well.
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Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water
their father’s flock. 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and
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watered their flock. 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon today? 19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for
us, and watered the flock. 20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man?
Call him, that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter. 22 And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign
land.
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And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel
sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. 24 And
God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 And
God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge [of them].
Exodus Chapter 3
Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the
back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb. 2 And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto
him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the
bush was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
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And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said,
Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. 5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for
the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
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And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and
honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest
bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the
children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be the token unto thee,
that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
13
And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of
your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them? 14 And
God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath
sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Jehovah,
the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
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Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and [seen] that which
is done to you in Egypt: 17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing
with milk and honey. 18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto
the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath met with us: and now let us go,
we pray thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
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And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty hand. 20 And I will put
forth my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let
you go. 21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go,
ye shall not go empty. 22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye
shall despoil the Egyptians.
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And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will
say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And Jehovah said unto him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A
rod. 3 And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled
from before it. 4 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail: (and he put forth his
hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand:) 5 That they may believe that Jehovah, the God of their
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fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
6
And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his
bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as [white as] snow. 7 And he said, Put thy hand into
thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was
turned again as his [other] flesh.) 8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the
voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. 9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not
believe even these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour
it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
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And Moses said unto Jehovah, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken
unto thy servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 11 And Jehovah said unto him, Who hath made
man’s mouth? Or who maketh [a man] dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah? 12 Now therefore go,
and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak. 13 And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by
the hand of him whom thou wilt send. 14 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there
not Aaron thy brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee:
and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his
mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall be thy
spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as
God. 17 And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.
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And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and
return unto my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.
20
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses
took the rod of God in his hand. 21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou
do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart and he will not let the
people go. 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born: 23 and I have said
unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will slay thy son, thy
first-born.
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And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him. 25 Then
Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, Surely a bridegroom
of blood art thou to me. 26 So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood [art thou], because of the
circumcision.
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And Jehovah said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah wherewith he had sent him, and all
the signs wherewith he had charged him.
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And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel: 30 and Aaron spake
all the words which Jehovah had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people. 31 And the people
believed: and when they heard that Jehovah had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction,
then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
Exodus Chapter 5
And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my
people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should
hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days’ journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice unto Jehovah our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. 4 And the
king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works? get you unto
your burdens. 5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their
burdens. 6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7 Ye
shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And
the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught
thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9 Let heavier work be laid
upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard lying words.
10
And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus
saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your
work shall be diminished. 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble
for straw. 13 And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, [your] daily tasks, as when there was straw.
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And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?
15
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus
with thy servants? 16 There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy
servants are beaten; but the fault it in thine own people. 17 But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us
go and sacrifice to Jehovah. 18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver
the number of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said,
Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, [your] daily tasks.
20
And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: 21 and they said
unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge: because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. 22 And Moses returned unto Jehovah,
and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? 23 For since I came to
Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he
let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land. 2 And God spake unto Moses, and said unto
him, I am Jehovah: 3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name
Jehovah I was not known to them. 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of
Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned. 5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. 6 Wherefore say
unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: 7 and
I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who
bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to
give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.
9
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and
for cruel bondage.
10
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 11 Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land. 12 And Moses spake before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? 13 And Jehovah spake unto Moses
and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
14
These are the heads of their fathers’ houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu,
Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. 15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and
Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon.
16
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari;
and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei,
according to their families. 18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of
the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years. 19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the
families of the Levites according to their generations. 20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife;
and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.
21
And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and
Sithri. 23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bare
him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are
the families of the Korahites. 25 And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she
bare him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ [houses] of the Levites according to their families. 26 These
are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according
to their hosts. 27 These are they that spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt:
these are that Moses and Aaron.
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And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 that Jehovah spake
unto Moses, saying, I am Jehovah: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee. 30 And Moses
said before Jehovah, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, See, I have made thee as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy
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prophet. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let
the children of Israel go out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders
in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth
my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall
know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among
them. 6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as Jehovah commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was fourscore years
old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 9 When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show
a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a
serpent.
10
And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jehovah had commanded: and Aaron cast
down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the
wise men and the sorcerers: and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments.
12
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. 13 And
Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
14
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn, he refuseth to let the people go. 15 Get thee unto
Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink to meet him; and
the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the God
of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and,
behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened. 17 Thus saith Jehovah, In this thou shalt know that I am Jehovah: behold, I
will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
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And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink
water from the river.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of
Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may
become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of
stone. 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that
were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river
were turned to blood. 21 And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could
not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 And the magicians of Egypt
did in like manner with their enchantments: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them;
as Jehovah had spoken. 23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart. 24 And
all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.
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Exodus Chapter 8
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go,
that they may serve me. 2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: 3 and the
river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy
bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs:
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and the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the
streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 6 And Aaron stretched out his hand
over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt. 7 And the magicians did in like
manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat Jehovah, that he take away the frogs from me,
and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto Jehovah. 9 And Moses said unto
Pharaoh, Have thou this glory over me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy
people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only? 10 And he said, Against
to-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto Jehovah
our God. 11 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people;
they shall remain in the river only. 12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Jehovah
concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh. 13 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses;
and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields. 14 And they gathered them together in
heaps; and the land stank. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened
not unto them, as Jehovah had spoken.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that is
may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 17 And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his
rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were lice upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became
lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but
they could not: and there were lice upon man, and upon beast. 19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the
finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to
the water; and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21 Else, if thou wilt not
let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon they servants, and upon thy people, and
into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they
are. 22 And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be
there; to the end thou mayest know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth. 23 And I will put a division between
my people and thy people: by to-morrow shall this sign be. 24 And Jehovah did so; and there came grievous swarms
of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted
by reason of the swarms of flies.
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And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. 26 And Moses
said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, shall
we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? 27 We will go three days’
journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us. 28 And Pharaoh said, I will
let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat
for me. 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat Jehovah that the swarms of flies may depart
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to-morrow: only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more
in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Jehovah. 30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.
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And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people; there remained not one. 32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did
not let the people go.
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Then Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews,
Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still, 3 behold, the
hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon
the herds, and upon the flocks: [there shall be] a very grievous murrain. 4 And Jehovah shall make a distinction
between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children
of Israel. 5 And Jehovah appointed a set time, saying, To-morrow Jehovah shall do this thing in the land. 6 And Jehovah did that thing on the morrow; and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not
one. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart
of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses
sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and
shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 And they
took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil
breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of
the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians. 12 And Jehovah hardened the heart of
Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them, as Jehovah had spoken unto Moses.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him,
Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14 For I will this time send
all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is
none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence,
and thou hadst been cut off from the earth: 16 but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee
my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17 As yet exaltest thou thyself against my
people, that thou wilt not let them go? 18 Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous
hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now. 19 Now therefore send, hasten in
thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field; [for] every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not
be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. 20 He that feared the word of Jehovah
among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses. 21 And he that regarded not the
word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of
Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses
stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and
Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such
as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of
Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree
of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
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And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: Jehovah is
righteous, and I and my people are wicked. 28 Entreat Jehovah; for there hath been enough of [these] mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer. 29 And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am
gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Jehovah; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any
more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah’s. 30 But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will
not yet fear Jehovah God. 31 And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was
in bloom. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up. 33 And Moses went out of the
city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto Jehovah: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was
not poured upon the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he
sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did
not let the children of Israel go, as Jehovah had spoken by Moses.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, 2 and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of
thy son’s son, what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may
know that I am Jehovah. 3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the
God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve
me. 4 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border: 5 and they shall
cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which
is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:
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and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy
fathers nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned,
and went out from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us?
let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed? 8 And Moses
and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Jehovah your God; but who are they
that shall go? 9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters,
with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah. 10 And he said unto them, So
be Jehovah with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. 11 Not so: go now ye
that are men, and serve Jehovah; for that is what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come
up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left. 13 And Moses stretched
forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night;
and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt,
and rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they,
neither after them shall be such. 15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and
they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any
green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God,
and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that he
may take away from me this death only. 18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah. 19 And Jehovah
turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained
not one locust in all the border of Egypt. 20 But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of
Israel go.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land
of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a
thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place
for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
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And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve Jehovah; only let your flocks and your herds be
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stayed: let your little ones also go with you. 25 And Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and
burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a
hoof be left behind: for thereof must we take to serve Jehovah our God; and we know not with what we must serve
Jehovah, until we come thither.
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But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. 28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee
from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in the day thou seest my face thou shalt die. 29 And Moses
said, Thou hast spoken well. I will see thy face again no more.
Exodus Chapter 11
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he
will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. 2 Speak now in the
ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold. 3 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was
very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.
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And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: 5 and all the
first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the
first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. 6 And there shall be a great cry
throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath not been, nor shall be any more. 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make
a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And
he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger. 9 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that
my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh:
and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them
every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household: 4 and if the household be too little for
a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according
to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old:
ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month;
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and put
it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in
that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at
all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it
remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
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And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye
shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah’s passover. 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all
the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I
am Jehovah. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I
will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this
day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall
keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put
away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that
soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh
day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only
may be done by you. 17 And ye shall observe the [feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought
your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance
for ever.
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In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one
and twentieth day of the month at even. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever
eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or
one that is born in the land. 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according
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to your families, and kill the passover. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the
basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of
the door of his house until the morning. 23 For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth
the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy
sons for ever. 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as
he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you,
What mean ye by this service? 27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah’s passover, who passed over the houses
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed
the head and worshipped. 28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.
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And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born
of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of
cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry
in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
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And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye
and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said. 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have
said, and be gone; and bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the
land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men. 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. 36 And
Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they
despoiled the Egyptians.
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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that
were men, besides children. 38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very
much cattle. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it was not
leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any
victuals.
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Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to
pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah
went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for bringing them out from the
land of Egypt: this is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
43
And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat
thereof; 44 but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat
thereof. 45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry
forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 47 All the congregation of
Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Jehovah, let all his
males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: but
no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among you. 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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Exodus Chapter 13
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb
among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
3
And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of
bondage; for by strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4
This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
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And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey,
that thou shalt keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day
shall be a feast to Jehovah. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no leavened
bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders.
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And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which Jehovah did for me when I came
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forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that
the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt. 10 Thou
shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as he sware unto thee and to thy
fathers, and shall give it thee, 12 that thou shalt set apart unto Jehovah all that openeth the womb, and every firstling which thou hast that cometh of a beast; the males shall be Jehovah’s. 13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt
redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of man
among thy sons shalt thou redeem.
14
And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him,
By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 15 and it came to pass, when
Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man,
and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem. 16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by
strength of hand Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt.
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And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the
Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt: 18 but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the children of
Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly
sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
20
And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21 And
Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give
them light, that they might go by day and by night: 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people.
Exodus Chapter 14
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp
before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.
3
And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
4
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and
upon all his host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.
5
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was
changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
6
And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all
the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them. 8 And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and he pursued after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel went out with a high hand. 9 And the Egyptians
pursued after them, all the horses [and] chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them
encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
10
And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were
marching after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto Jehovah. 11 And they said
unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore
hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? 12 Is not this the word that we spake unto thee in Egypt,
saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we
should die in the wilderness.
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And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which he will work
for you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. 14 Jehovah will
fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward. 16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel
shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they
shall go in after them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his
horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon
his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
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And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of
cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them: 20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp
of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one came not near the other
all the night.
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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go [back] by a strong east wind
all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of Israel went into the
midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
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And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the host of
the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians. 25 And he took off
their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for
Jehovah fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
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And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the
Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and
the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen,
even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them. 29 But
the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left. 30 Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw
the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore. 31 And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians, and
the people feared Jehovah: and they believed in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.
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Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Jehovah, and spake, saying, I will sing unto Jehovah,
for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 2 Jehovah is my strength and
song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father’s God, and I will exalt him.
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Jehovah is a man of war: Jehovah is his name. 4 Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his
chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea. 5 The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone. 6 Thy
right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy. 7 And in the
greatness of thine excellency thou overthrowest them that rise up against thee: Thou sendest forth thy wrath, it consumeth them as stubble. 8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood upright as a
heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide
the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou didst
blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders? 12 Thou stretchedst
out thy right hand, The earth swallowed them. 13 Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast
redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation. 14 The peoples have heard, they tremble:
Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of
Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. 16 Terror and dread falleth
upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the
people pass over that thou hast purchased. 17 Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands
have established. 18 Jehovah shall reign for ever and ever. 19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and
with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after
her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously; The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
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And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went
three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
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And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore
the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 An
he cried unto Jehovah; And Jehovah showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made
sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them; 26 and he said, If thou wilt
diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to
his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the
Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.
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And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they
encamped there by the waters.
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And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out
of the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against
Aaron in the wilderness: 3 and the children of Israel said unto them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah
in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth
into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
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Then said Jehovah unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out
and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. 5 And it shall
come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they
gather daily. 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that Jehovah
hath brought you out from the land of Egypt; 7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Jehovah; for that
he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur against us? 8 And Moses said, [This
shall be], when Jehovah shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Jehovah heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against
us, but against Jehovah.
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And Moses said unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before Jehovah; for he hath heard your murmurings. 10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the
children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud.
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto
them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah your God.
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And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew
lay round about the camp. 14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a
small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
another, What is it? For they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath
given you to eat.
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This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer
a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent. 17 And the
children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less. 18 And when they measured it with an omer, he that
gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his
eating. 19 And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the morning. 20 Notwithstanding they hearkened
not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred wor...
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