(The Scriptures) The Second Book of Moses, called Exodus
Chapter Lookup: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Chapter 1

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These are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egypt with Jacob, every man with his household:

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Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Juda,

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Isachar, Zabulon, Ben Jamin,

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Dan, Nephtali, Gad and Aser.

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All the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob, were seventy, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

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When Joseph was dead and all his brethren and all that generation:

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the children of Israel grew, increased, multiplied and waxed exceeding mighty: so that the land was full of them.

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¶ Then there rose up a new king in Egypt which knew not Joseph.

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And he said unto his folk: behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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Come on, let us play wisely with them: lest they multiply, and then (if there chance any war) they join them selves unto our enemies and fight against us, and so get them out of the land.

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¶ And he set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burthens. And they built unto Pharao treasure cities: Phiton and Raamses.

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But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: so that they abhorred the children of Israel.

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And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy,

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and made their lives bitter unto them with cruel labour in clay and brick, and all manner work in the fields, and in all manner of service, which they caused them to work cruelly.

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¶ And the king of Egypt said unto the midwives of the Hebrews' women, of which the one's name was Sephora and the other Phua:

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when ye midwife the women of the Hebrews and see in the birth time that it is a boy, kill it. But if it be a maid, let it live.

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Notwithstanding the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them: but saved the men children.

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¶ Then the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them: why have ye dealt on this manner and have saved the men children?

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And the midwives answered Pharao, that the Hebrews' women were not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the midwives came at them.

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And God therefore dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and waxed very mighty.

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And because the midwives feared God, he made them houses.

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¶ Then Pharao charged all his people saying: All the men children that are born, cast into the river and save the maid children alive.

Chapter 2

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And there went a man of the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi.

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And the wife conceived and bare a son. And when she saw that it was a proper child, she hid him three months long.

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And when she could no longer hide him, she took a basket of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and pitch, and laid the child therein, and put it in the flags by the river's brink.

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And his sister stood afar off, to wete what would come of it.

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¶ And the daughter of Pharao came down to the river to wash herself, and her maidens walked along by the river's side. And when she saw the basket among the flags, she sent one of her maids and caused it to be fetched.

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And when she had opened it she saw the child, and behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on it and said: it is one of the Hebrew's children.

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¶ Then said his sister unto Pharao's daughter: shall I go and call unto thee a nurse of the Hebrew's women, to nurse the child?

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And the maid ran and called the child's mother.

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Then Pharao's daughter said unto her. Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will reward thee for thy labour. And the woman took the child and nursed it up.

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¶ And when the child was grown, she brought it unto Pharao's daughter, and it was made her son, and she called it Moses, because (said she) I took him out of the water.

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¶ And it happened in these days when Moses was waxed great, that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burthens, and spied an Egyptian smiting one of his brethren an Hebrew.

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And he looked round about: and when he saw that there was no man by, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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And he went out another day: and behold, two Hebrews strove together. And he said unto him that did the wrong: wherefore smitest thou thine neighbour?

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And he answered: who hath made thee a ruler or a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Then Moses feared and said: of a surety the thing is known.

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And Pharao heard of it and went about to slay Moses: but he fled from Pharao and dwelt in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a well's side.

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¶ The priest of Madian had seven daughters which came and drew water and filled the troughs, for to water their father's sheep.

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And the shepherds came and drove them away: But Moses stood up and helped them and watered their sheep.

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And when they came to Raguel their father, he said: how happeneth it that ye are come so soon today?

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And they answered: there was an Egyptian that delivered us from the shepherds, and so drew us water and watered the sheep.

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And he said unto his daughters: where is he? why have ye left the man? Go call him that he may eat bread.

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¶ And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gave Moses Zephora his daughter which bare a son,

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and he called him Gerson: for he said: I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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And she bare yet another son, whom he called Elieser saying: the God of my father is mine helper, and hath rid me out of the hands of Pharao. And it chanced in process of time, that the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

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And their complaint came up unto God from the labour. And God remembered his promise with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

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And God looked upon the children of Israel and knew them.

Chapter 3

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Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law priest of Madian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

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And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of a bush. And he perceived that the bush burned with fire, and consumed not.

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Then Moses said: I will go hence and see this great sight, how it cometh that the bush burneth not.

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And when the LORD saw that he came for to see, he called unto him out of the bush and said: Moses Moses; And he answered: here am I.

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And he said: come not hither, but put thy shoes off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

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And 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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¶ Then the LORD said: I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

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and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Hevites, and of the Jebusites.

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¶ Now therefore behold, the complaint of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

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But come, I will send thee unto Pharao, that thou mayst bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

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¶ And Moses said unto God: what, am I to go to Pharao and to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?

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And he said: I will be with thee. And this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: after that thou hast brought the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

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¶ Then said Moses unto God: when I come unto the children of Israel and say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, and they say unto me, what is his name, what answer shall I give them?

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Then said God unto Moses: I will be what I will be: and he said, this shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: I will be did send me to you.

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¶ And God spake further unto Moses: thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel: the LORD 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 for ever, and this is my memorial thorowout all generations.

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Go therefore and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them: the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, appeared unto me and said: I have been and seen both you and that which is done to you in Egypt.

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And I have said it, that I will bring you out of the tribulation of Egypt unto the land of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Hevites and Jebusites: even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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¶ If it come to pass that they hear thy voice, then go, both thou and the elders of Israel unto the king of Egypt, and say unto him: The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: Let us go therefore three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

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Notwithstanding I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except it be with a mighty hand:

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yea and I will therefore stretch out mine hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do therein. And after that he will let you go.

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¶ And I will get this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: so that when ye go, ye shall not go empty:

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but every wife shall borrow of her neighbouress and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver and of gold and raiment. And ye shall put them on your sons and daughters, and shall rob the Egyptians.

Chapter 4

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Moses answered and said: See, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice: but will say, the LORD hath not appeared unto thee.

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Then the LORD said unto him: what is that in thine hand? and he said, a rod.

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And he said, cast it on the ground, and it turned unto a serpent. And Moses ran away from it.

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And the LORD said unto Moses: put forth thine hand and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod again in his hand,

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that they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath appeared unto thee.

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¶ And the LORD said furthermore unto him: thrust thine hand into thy bosom. And he thrust his hand into his bosom and took it out. And behold, his hand was leprous even as snow.

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And he said: put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again, and plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

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If they will not believe thee neither hear the voice of the first token: yet will they believe the voice of the second token.

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But and if they will not believe the two signs neither hearken unto thy voice, then 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 turn to blood upon the dry land.

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¶ And Moses said unto the LORD: Oh my Lord._{{the Lorde: oh my Lorde.}} I am not eloquent, no not in times past and namely since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and slow tongued.

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And the LORD said unto him: who hath made man's mouth, or who hath made the dumb or the deaf, the seeing or the blind? have not I the LORD?

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Go therefore and I will be with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say.

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¶ And he said: Oh my Lord,_{{Lorde}|LORDE|} send I pray thee whom thou wilt.

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And the LORD was angry with Moses and said: I know Aaron thy brother the Levite that he can speak. And moreover behold, he cometh out against_{{to meet}} thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

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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.

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And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: he shall be thy mouth, and thou shalt be his God:

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and take this rod in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt do miracles.

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¶ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law again and said unto him: let me go (I pray thee) and turn again unto my brethren which are in Egypt, that I may see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses: go in peace.

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And the LORD said unto Moses in Madian: return again into Egypt for they are dead which went about to kill thee.

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And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass, and went again to Egypt, and took the rod of God in his hand.

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¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: when thou art come into Egypt again, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharao which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden his heart, so that he shall not let the people go.

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And tell Pharao, thus sayeth the LORD: Israel is mine eldest son,

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and therefore sayeth unto thee: let my son go, that he may serve me. If thou wilt not let him go: behold, I will slay thine eldest son.

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¶ And it chanced by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him and would have killed him.

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Then Zepora took a stone and circumcised her son, and fell at his feet, and said: a bloody husband art thou unto me.

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And he let him go. She said a bloody husband, because of the circumcision.

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¶ Then said the LORD unto Aaron: go meet Moses in the wilderness. And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him.

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And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD which he had sent by him, and all the tokens which he had charged him withal.

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So went Moses and Aaron and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel.

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And Aaron told all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the miracles in the sight of the people,

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and the people believed. And when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel and had looked upon their tribulation, they bowed them selves, and worshipped.

Chapter 5

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Then Moses and Aaron went and told Pharao, thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel. Let my people go, that they may keep holy day unto me in the wilderness.

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And Pharao answered: what fellow is the LORD, that I should hear his voice for to let Israel go?

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I know not the LORD, neither will let Israel go. And they said: the God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go (we pray thee) three days' journey into the desert, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God: lest he smite us either with pestilence or with sword.

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Then said the king of Egypt unto them: wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their work, get you unto your labour.

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And Pharao said furthermore: behold, there is much people in the land, and ye make them play and let their work stand.

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¶ And Pharao commanded the same day unto the taskmasters over the people and unto the officers saying:

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see that ye give the people no more straw to make brick withal, as ye did in time past: let them go and gather them straw them selves,

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and the number of bricks which they were wont to make in time past, lay unto their charge also, and minish nothing thereof. For they be idle and therefore cry saying: let us go and do sacrifice unto our God.

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They must have more work laid upon them, that they may labour therein, and then will they not turn them selves to false words.

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¶ Then went the taskmasters of the people and the officers out and told the people saying: Thus sayeth Pharao: I will give you no more straw,

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but go your selves and gather you straw where ye can find it, yet shall none of your labour be minished.

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Then the people scattered abroad thorowout all the land of Egypt for to gather them stubble to be instead of straw.

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¶ And the taskmasters hasted them forward saying: fulfil your work day by day, even as when straw was given you.

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And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharao's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them: wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in times past?

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¶ Then went the officers of the children of Israel and complained unto Pharao saying: wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

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there is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us: make brick. And lo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul intreated.

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And he answered: idle are ye idle, and therefore ye say: let us go and do sacrifice unto the LORD.

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Go therefore and work, for there shall no straw be given you, and yet see that ye deliver the hole tale of brick.

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¶ When the officers of the children of Israel saw themself in shrewd case (in that he said ye shall minish nothing of your daily making of brick)

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then they met Moses and Aaron standing in their way as they came out from Pharao,

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and said unto them: The LORD look unto you and judge, for ye have made the savour of us stink in the sight of Pharao and of his servants, and have put a sword into their hands to slay us.

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¶ Moses returned unto the LORD_{{Lorde}|LORDE|} and said: Lord_|LORDE| wherefore dealest thou cruelly with this people: and wherefore hast thou sent me?

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For since I came to Pharao to speak in thy name, he hath fared foul with this folk, and yet thou hast not delivered thy people at all;

Chapter 6

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Then the LORD said unto Moses. Now shalt thou see what I will do unto Pharao, for with a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a mighty hand shall he drive them out of his land.

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¶¶ And God spake unto Moses saying unto him: I am the LORD,

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and I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob an Almighty God: but in my name Jehovah_{Iehouah} was I not known unto them.

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Moreover I made an appointment with them to give them the land of Canaa: the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.

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And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, because the Egyptians keep them in bondage, and have remembered my promise.

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¶ Wherefore say unto the children of Israel: I am the LORD, and will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and will rid you out of their bondage, and will deliver you with a stretched out arm and with great judgements.

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And I will take you for my people and will be to you a God. And ye shall know that I am the LORD your God which brings you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians.

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And I will bring you unto the land over the which I did lift up my hand to give it unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and will give it unto you for a possession: even I the LORD.

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And Moses told the children of Israel even so: But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage.

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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying:

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Go and bid Pharao king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

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And Moses spake before the LORD saying: behold, the children of Israel hearken not unto me, how then shall Pharao hear me: seeing that I have uncircumcised lips.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel and unto Pharao king of Egypt: to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

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¶ These be the heads of their father's houses. The children of Ruben the eldest son of Israel are these: Hanoh, Pallu, Hezron, Charmi, these be the householders of Ruben.

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The children of Simeon are these: Gemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Saul the son of a Cananitish wife: these are the kindreds of Simeon.

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¶ These are the names of the children of Levi in their generations: Gerson, Kahath and Merari. And Levi lived an hundred and thirty seven year.

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The sons of Gerson: Libni and Semei in their kindreds.

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The children of Kahath: Amram, Jesear, Hebron and Usiel. And Kahath lived an hundred and thirty three year.

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The children of Merari are these: Maheli and Musi: these are the kindreds of Levi in their generations.

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¶ And Amram took Jochebed his niece to wife which bare him Aaron and Moses. And Amram lived an hundred and thirty seven year.

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The children of Jezear: Korah, Nepheg and Sichri.

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The children of Usiel: Misael, Elzaphan and Sithri.

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¶ And Aaron took Elizaba daughter of Aminadab and sister of Nahason, to wife: which bare him Nadab, Abehu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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The children of Korah: Assir, Elkana and Abiassaph: these are the kindreds of the Korahites.

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And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putuel to wife: which bare him Pinehas: these be the principal fathers of the Levites in their kindreds.

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¶ These are that Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: carry the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with their armies.

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These are that Moses and Aaron which spake to Pharao king of Egypt, that they might bring the children of Israel out of Egypt.

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And in the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,

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he spake unto him saying, I am the LORD, see that thou speak unto Pharao the king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.

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And Moses answered before the LORD: I am of uncircumcised lips, how shall Pharao then give me audience?

Chapter 7

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And the LORD said unto Moses: behold, I have made thee Pharao's God, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

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Thou shalt speak all that I command thee and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharao: that he send the children of Israel out of his land.

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But I will harden Pharao's heart, that I may multiply my miracles and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

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And yet Pharao shall not hearken unto you, that I may set mine hand upon Egypt and bring out mine armies, even my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with great judgements.

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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have stretched forth my hand upon Egypt, and have brought out the children of Israel from among them.

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¶ Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded them.

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And Moses was eighty year old and Aaron eighty three when they spake unto Pharao.

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And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron saying:

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when Pharao speaketh unto you and sayeth: shew a wonder, then shalt thou say unto Aaron, take the rod and cast it before Pharao, and it shall turn to a serpent.

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¶ Then went Moses and Aaron in unto Pharao, and did even as the LORD had commanded. And Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharao and before his servants, and it turned to a serpent.

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Then Pharao called for the wise men, and enchanters of Egypt did in like manner with their sorcery.

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And they cast down every man his rod, and they turned to serpents: but Aaron's rod ate up their rods:

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and yet for all that Pharao's heart was hardened, so that he hearkened not unto them, even as the LORD had said.

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¶ Then said the LORD unto Moses: Pharao's heart is hardened, and he refuseth to let the people go.

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Get thee unto Pharao in the morning, for he will come unto the water, and stand_{stode} thou upon the river's brink against he come, and the rod which turned to a serpent take in thine hand.

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And say unto him: the LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee saying: let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: but hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

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Wherefore thus sayeth the LORD: hereby thou shalt know that I am the LORD. Behold, I will smite with the staff that is in mine hand upon the waters that are in the river, and they shall turn to blood.

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And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink: so that it shall grieve the Egyptians to drink of the water of the river.

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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, say unto Aaron: take thy staff and stretch out thine hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, rivers, ponds and all pools of water, that they may be blood, and that there may be blood in all the land of Egypt: both in vessels of wood and also of stone.

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And Moses and Aaron did even as the LORD commanded. And he lift up the staff and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharao and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the river, turned into blood.

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And the fish that was in the river died, and the river stank: so that the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river. And there was blood thorowout all the land of Egypt.

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¶ And the enchanters of Egypt did likewise with their enchantments, so that Pharao's heart was hardened and did not regard them as the LORD had said.

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And Pharao turned himself and went into his house, and set not his heart thereunto.

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And 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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And it continued a week after that the LORD had smote the river.

Chapter 8

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The LORD spake unto Moses: Go unto Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the LORD: let my people go, that they may serve me.

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If thou wilt not let them go: behold I will smite all thy land with frogs.

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And the river shall scrale with frogs, and they shall come up and go into thine house and into thy chamber where thou sleepest and upon thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and upon thy vitailles which thou hast in store.

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And the frogs shall come upon thee and on thy people and upon all thy servants.

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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, say unto Aaron: stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, rivers, and ponds. And bring up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

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And Aaron stretched his hand over the water of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

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And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorcery, and the frogs came up upon the land of Egypt.

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¶ Then Pharao called for Moses and Aaron and said, pray ye unto the LORD that he may take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto the LORD.

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And Moses said unto Pharao: Appoint thou the time unto me, when I shall pray for thee and thy servants and thy people, to drive away the frogs from thee and thy house, so that they shall remain but in the river only.

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And he said tomorrow. And he said: even as thou hast said, that thou mayst know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.

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And the frogs shall depart from thee and from thine houses, and from thy servants and from thy people, and shall remain in the river only.

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¶ And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharao, and Moses cried unto the LORD upon the appointment of frogs which he had made unto Pharao.

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And the LORD did according to the saying of Moses. And the frogs died out of the houses, courts and fields.

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And they gathered them together upon heaps: so that the land stank of them.

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¶ But when Pharao saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and hearkened not unto them, as the LORD had said.

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And the LORD said unto Moses: Say unto Aaron: stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may turn to lice in all the land of Egypt.

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And they did so. And Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and smote the dust of the earth, and it turned to lice both in man and beast, so that all the dust of the land turned to lice, thorowout all the land of Egypt.

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¶ And the enchanters assayed likewise with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not. And the lice were both upon man and beast.

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Then said the enchanters unto Pharao: it is the finger of God. Neverthelater Pharao's heart was hardened and he regarded them not, as the LORD had said.

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¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharao, for he will come unto the water: and say unto him, thus sayeth the LORD: let my people go, that they may serve me.

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If thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send all manner flies both upon thee and thy servants, and thy people, and into thy houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of flies, and the ground whereon they are.

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But I will separate the same day the land of Gosan where my people are, so that there shall no flies be there: that thou mayest know that I am the LORD upon the earth.

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And I will put a division between my people and thine. And even tomorrow shall this miracle be done.

8:24

¶ And the LORD did even so: and there came noisome flies into the house of Pharao, and into his servants' houses and into all the land of Egypt: so that the land was marred with flies.

8:25

Then Pharao sent for Moses and Aaron and said: Go and do sacrifice unto your God in the land.

8:26

And Moses answered: it is not mete so to do. For we must offer unto the LORD our God, that which is an abomination unto the Egyptians: behold shall we sacrifice that which is an abomination unto the Egyptians before their eyes, and shall they not stone us?

8:27

we will therefore go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the LORD our God as he hath commanded us.

8:28

¶ And Pharao said: I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice unto the LORD your God in the wilderness: only go not far away, and see that ye pray for me.

8:29

And Moses said: behold, I will go out from thee and pray unto the LORD, and the flies shall depart from Pharao and from his servants and from his people tomorrow. But let Pharao from henceforth deceive no more, that he would not let the people go to sacrifice unto the LORD.

8:30

¶ And Moses went out from Pharao and prayed unto the LORD.

8:31

And the LORD did as Moses had said, and took away the flies from Pharao and from his servants and from his people, so that there remained not one.

8:32

But for all that, Pharao hardened his heart even then also and would not let the people go.

Chapter 9

9:1

And the LORD said unto Moses: go unto Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: send out my people that they may serve me.

9:2

If thou wilt not let them go but wilt hold them still:

9:3

behold, the hand of the LORD shall be upon thy cattle which thou hast in the field, upon horses, asses, camels, oxen, and sheep, with a mighty great murrain.

9:4

But the LORD shall make a division between the beasts of the Israelites, and the beasts of the Egyptians: so that there shall nothing die of all that pertaineth to the children of Israel.

9:5

And the LORD appointed a time saying: tomorrow the LORD shall do this thing in the land.

9:6

¶ And the LORD did the thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

9:7

And Pharao sent to wete: but there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. Notwithstanding the heart of Pharao hardened, and he would not let the people go.

9:8

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: take your hands full of ashes out of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it up into the air in the sight of Pharao,

9:9

and it shall turn to dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall make swelling sores with blains both on man and beast in all the land of Egypt.

9:10

And they took ashes out of the furnace, and stood before Pharao, and Moses sprinkled it up into the air: And there brake out sores with blains both in man and beast:

9:11

so that the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, by the reason of botches on the enchanters and upon all the Egyptians.

9:12

But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharao, that he hearkened not unto them, as the LORD had said unto Moses.

9:13

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharao and tell him, thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: Let my people go, that they may serve me,

9:14

or else I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart and upon thy servants and on thy people, that you mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.

9:15

For now I will stretch out my hand and will smite thee and thy people with pestilence: so that thou shalt perish from the earth.

9:16

Yet in very deed for this cause have I stirred thee up, for to shew my power in thee, and to declare my name thorowout all the world.

9:17

¶ If it be so that thou stoppest my people, that thou wilt not let them go:

9:18

behold, tomorrow this time, I will send down a mighty great hail: even such one as was not in Egypt since it was grounded unto this time.

9:19

Send therefore and fetch home thy beasts and all that thou hast in the field. For upon all the men and beasts which are found in the field and not brought home, shall the hail fall, and they shall die.

9:20

And as many as feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharao made their servants and their beasts flee to house:

9:21

and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and their beasts in the field.

9:22

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: stretch forth thine hand unto heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt: upon man and beast, and upon all the herbs of the field in the field of Egypt.

9:23

And Moses stretched out his rod unto heaven, and the LORD thundered and hailed, so that the fire ran along upon the ground. And the LORD so hailed in the land of Egypt,

9:24

that there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, so grievous, that there was none such in all the land of Egypt, since people inhabited it.

9:25

¶ And the hail smote in the land of Egypt all that was in the field both man and beast. And the hail smote all the herbs of the field and broke all the trees of the field:

9:26

only in the land of Gosan where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

9:27

And Pharao sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: I have now sinned, the LORD is righteous and I and my people are wicked.

9:28

Pray ye unto the LORD, that the thunder of God and hail may cease, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer.

9:29

¶ And Moses said unto him: as soon as I am out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the LORD, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail: that thou mayst know, how that the earth is the LORD's.

9:30

But I know that thou and thy servants yet fear not the LORD God.

9:31

The flax and the barley were smitten, for the barley was shot up and the flax was bolled:

9:32

but the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were late sown.

9:33

¶ And Moses went out of the city from Pharao and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD, and the thunder and hail ceased, neither rained it any more upon the earth.

9:34

When Pharao saw that the rain and the hail and thunder were ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart: both he and his servants.

9:35

So was the heart of Pharao hardened, that he would not let the children of Israel go, as the LORD had said by Moses.

Chapter 10

10:1

The LORD said unto Moses: go unto Pharao, nevertheless I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I might shew these my signs amongst them,

10:2

and that thou tell in the audience of thy son and of thy son's son, the pageants which I have played in Egypt, and the miracles which I have done among them: that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

10:3

¶ Then Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharao, and said unto him: Thus sayeth the LORD God of the Hebrews: how long shall it be, or thou wilt submit thyself unto me? Let my people go that they may serve me.

10:4

If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring grasshoppers into thy land,

10:5

and they shall cover the face of the earth that it can not be seen, and they shall eat the residue which remaineth unto you and escaped the hail, and they shall eat all your green trees upon the field,

10:6

and they shall fill thy houses and all thy servants' houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians after such a manner: as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers fathers have seen, since the time they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself about, and went out from Pharao.

10:7

¶ And Pharao's servants said unto him: How long shall this fellow thus plague us?_{{How long shall we be thus evilly entreated?}} Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God, or else wilt thou see Egypt first destroyed?

10:8

And then Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharao, and he said unto them: Go and serve the LORD your God but who are they that shall go?

10:9

And Moses answered: we must go with young and old: yea and with our sons and with our daughters, and with our sheep and oxen must we go. For we must hold a feast unto the LORD.

10:10

¶ And he said unto them: shall it be so? The LORD be with you, should I let you go, and your children also? Take heed, for ye have some mischief in hand.

10:11

Nay not so: but go ye that are men and serve the LORD, for that was your desire. And they thrust them out of Pharao's presence.

10:12

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for grasshoppers, that they come upon the land of Egypt and eat all the herbs of the land, and all that the hail left untouched.

10:13

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land, all that day and all night. And in the morning the east wind brought the grasshoppers,

10:14

and the grasshoppers went up over all the land of Egypt and lighted in all quarters of Egypt very grievously: so that before them were there no such grasshoppers, neither after them shall be.

10:15

And they covered all the face of the earth, so that the land was dark therewith. And they ate all the herbs of the land and all the fruits of the trees which the hail had left: so that there was no green thing left in the trees and herbs of the field thorow all the land of Egypt.

10:16

¶ Then Pharao called for Moses and Aaron in haste and said: I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

10:17

Forgive me yet my sin only this once, and pray unto the LORD your God that he may take away from me this death only.

10:18

And he went out from Pharao and prayed unto the LORD,

10:19

and the LORD turned the wind into a mighty strong west wind, and it took away the grasshoppers and cast them into the reed sea: so that there was not one grasshopper left in all the coasts of Egypt.

10:20

But the LORD hardened Pharao's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

10:21

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: Stretch out thy hand unto heaven, and let there be darkness upon the land of Egypt: even that they may feel the darkness.

10:22

And Moses stretched forth his hand unto heaven, and there was a dark mist_{{thick darkness}} upon all the land of Egypt three days long,

10:23

so that no man saw another, neither rose up from the place where he was by the space of three days, but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelled.

10:24

¶ Then Pharao called for Moses and said: go and serve the LORD, only let your sheep, and your oxen abide, but let your children go with you.

10:25

And Moses answered: thou must give us also offerings and burnt offerings for to sacrifice unto the LORD our God.

10:26

Our cattle therefore shall go with us, and there shall not one hoof be left behind, for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God. Moreover we can not know wherewith we shall serve the LORD, until we come thither.

10:27

¶ But the LORD hardened Pharao's heart, so that he would not let them go.

10:28

And Pharao said unto him: get thee from me and take heed to thyself that thou see my face no more. For whensoever thou comest in my sight, thou shalt die.

10:29

And Moses said: Let it be as thou hast said: I will see thy face no more.

Chapter 11

11:1

And the LORD said unto Moses: yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharao and upon Egypt, and after that he will let you go hence. And when he letteth you go, he shall utterly drive you hence.

11:2

But bid the people that every man borrow of his neighbour and every woman of her neighbouress: jewels of silver and jewels of gold.

11:3

And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover Moses was very great in the land of Egypt: both in the sight of Pharao, and also in the sight of the people.

11:4

¶ And Moses said: thus sayeth the LORD. About midnight will I go out among the Egyptians,

11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die: even from the firstborn of Pharao that sitteth on his seat, unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is in the mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

11:6

And there shall be a great cry thorowout all the land of Egypt: so that there was never none like nor shall be.

11:7

And among all the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, nor yet man or beast: that ye may know, how the LORD putteth a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

11:8

And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and fall before me and say: get thee out and all the people that are under thee, and then will I depart. And he went out from Pharao in a great anger.

11:9

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: Pharao shall not regard you, that many wonders may be wrought in the land of Egypt.

11:10

And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharao. But the LORD hardened Pharao's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Chapter 12

12:1

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying:

12:2

This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you.

12:3

Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel saying: that they take the tenth day of this month to every household, a sheep.

12:4

If the household be too few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbour that is next unto this house, take according to the number of souls, and count unto a sheep according to every man's eating.

12:5

A sheep without spot and a male of one year old shall it be, and from among the lambs and the goats shall ye take it.

12:6

¶ And ye shall keep him in ward, until the fourteenth day of the same month. And every man of the multitude of Israel shall kill him about even.

12:7

And they shall take of the blood and strike on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses, wherein they eat him.

12:8

And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and with sour herbs they shall eat it.

12:9

See that ye eat not thereof sodden in water, but roast with fire: both head, feet, and purtenance together.

12:10

And see that ye let nothing of it remain unto the morning: if ought remain burn it with fire.

12:11

¶ Of this manner shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, and shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And ye shall eat it in haste, for it is the LORD's passover,

12:12

for I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.

12:13

And the blood shall be unto you a token upon the houses wherein ye are, for when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

12:14

¶ And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even thorowout your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom for ever.

12:15

Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that 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 plucked out from Israel.

12:16

The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the seventh also. There shall be no manner of work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat: that only may ye do.

12:17

And see that ye keep you to unleavened bread. For upon that same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt, therefore ye shall observe this day and all your children after you, that it be a custom for ever.

12:18

The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet bread unto the twenty first day of the month at even again.

12:19

Seven days see that there be no leavened bread found in your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread, that soul shall be rooted out from the multitude of Israel: whether he be a stranger or born in the land.

12:20

Therefore see that ye eat no leavened bread, but in all your habitations eat sweet bread.

12:21

¶ And Moses called for the elders of Israel and said unto them: choose out and take to every household a sheep, and kill passover.

12:22

And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike it upon the upper post and on the two side posts, and see that none of you go out at the door of his house until the morning.

12:23

For the LORD will go about and smite Egypt. And when he seeth the blood upon the upper door post and on the two side posts, he will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your house to plague you.

12:24

Therefore see that thou observe this thing, that it be an ordinance to thee, and thy sons for ever.

12:25

¶ And when ye be come into the land which the LORD will give you according as he hath promised, see that ye keep this service.

12:26

And when your children ask you what manner of service is this ye do.

12:27

Ye shall say: it is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, which passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, as he smote the Egyptians and saved our houses. Then the people bowed them selves and worshipped.

12:28

And the children of Israel went and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

12:29

¶ And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: from the firstborn of Pharao that sat on his seat, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all firstborn of the cattle.

12:30

Then Pharao arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying thorowout Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead.

12:31

¶ And he called unto Moses and Aaron by night saying: Rise up, and get you out from among my people: both ye and also the children of Israel, and go and serve the LORD as ye have said.

12:32

And take your sheep and your oxen with you as ye have said, and depart and bless me also.

12:33

And the Egyptians were fierce upon the people and made haste to send them out of the land: for they said: we be all dead men.

12:34

And the people took the dough before it was soured which they had in store, and bound it in cloths, and put it upon their shoulders.

12:35

And the children of Israel did according to the saying of Moses: and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.

12:36

And the LORD gat the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and so they borrowed and robbed the Egyptians.

12:37

¶ Thus took the children of Israel their journey from Rameses to Sucoth six hundred thousand men of foot, beside children.

12:38

And much common people went also with them, and sheep, and oxen, and cattle exceeding much.

12:39

And they baked sweet cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt, for it was not soured: because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not tarry, neither had they prepared them any other provision of meat.

12:40

¶ And the time of the dwelling of the children of Israel which they dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty year.

12:41

And when the four hundred and thirty years were expired, even the self same day departed all the hosts of the LORD out of the land of Egypt.

12:42

This is a night to be observed to the LORD, because he brought them out of the land of Egypt. This is a night of the LORD, to be kept of all the children of Israel and of their generations after them.

12:43

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: this is the manner of passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof,

12:44

but all the servants that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat thereof.

12:45

A stranger and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

12:46

In one house shall it be eaten. Ye shall carry none of the flesh out at the doors: moreover, see that ye break not a bone thereof.

12:47

All the multitude of the children of Israel shall observe it.

12:48

¶ If a stranger dwell among you, and will hold Passover unto the LORD, let him circumcise all that be males, and then let him come and observe it, and be taken as one that is born in the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

12:49

One manner of law shall be unto them that are born in the land, and unto the strangers that dwell among you.

12:50

And all the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

12:51

And even the self same day did the LORD bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their armies.

Chapter 13

13:1

And the LORD spake unto Moses saying:

13:2

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn that open all manner matrices among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are mine.

13:3

And Moses said unto the people: think on this day in which ye came out of Egypt and out of the house of bondage: for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out from thence. See therefore that ye eat no leavened bread.

13:4

This day come ye out of Egypt in the month of Abib.

13:5

¶ When the LORD hath brought thee in to the land of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Hevites and Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers that he would give thee: a land wherein milk and honey floweth, then see that thou keep this service in this same month.

13:6

Seven days thou shalt eat sweet bread, and the seventh day shall be feastful unto the LORD.

13:7

Therefore thou shalt eat sweet bread seven days, and see that there be no leavened bread seen nor yet leaven among you in all your quarters.

13:8

¶ And thou shalt shew thy son at that time saying: this is done, because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came out of Egypt.

13:9

Therefore it shall be a sign unto thee upon thine hand and a remembrance between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD brought thee out of Egypt,

13:10

see thou keep therefore this ordinance in his season from year to year.

13:11

¶ Moreover when the LORD hath brought thee into the land of the Cananites, as he hath sworn unto thee and to thy fathers, and hath given it thee,

13:12

then thou shalt appoint unto the LORD all that openeth the matrice, and all the firstborn among the beasts which thou hast if they be males.

13:13

And all the firstborn of the asses, thou shalt redeem with a sheep: if thou redeem him not, then break his neck. But all the firstborn among thy children shalt thou buy out.

13:14

¶ And when thy son asketh thee in time to come saying: what is this? thou shalt say unto him: with a mighty hand and LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

13:15

And when Pharao was loth to let us go, the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: as well the firstborn of men as of beasts. And therefore I sacrifice unto the LORD all the males that open the matrice, but all the firstborn of my children I must redeem.

13:16

And this shall be as a token in thine hand, and as a thing hanged up between thine eyes: because the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

13:17

¶ When Pharao had let the people go, God carried them not thorow the land of the Philistines, though it were a nye way. For God said: the people might haply repent when they see war, and so turn again to Egypt:

13:18

therefore God led thee about thorow the wilderness that bordereth on the red sea. The children of Israel went harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

13:19

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he made the children of Israel swear saying: God will surely visit you, take my bones therefore away hence with you.

13:20

¶ And they took their journey from Sucoth: and pitched their tents in Etham in the edge of the wilderness.

13:21

And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way: and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: that they might go both by day and night.

13:22

And the pillar of the cloud never departed by day nor the pillar of fire by night out of the people's sight.

Chapter 14

14:1

Then the LORD spake unto Moses saying:

14:2

bid the children of Israel that they turn and pitch their tents before the entering of Hiroth between Migdol and the sea toward Baal Zephon: even before that shall ye pitch upon the sea.

14:3

For Pharao will say of the children of Israel: they are tangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

14:4

And I will harden his heart, that he shall follow after them, that I may get me honour upon Pharao and upon all his host, that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did even so.

14:5

¶ And when it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled, then Pharao's heart and all his servants turned unto the people and said: why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out of our service?

14:6

and he made ready his chariots and took his people with him

14:7

and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and captains upon all his people.

14:8

For the LORD hardened the heart of Pharao king of Egypt, that he followed after the children of Israel which for all that went out thorow an high hand.

14:9

And the Egyptians followed after them and overtook them where they pitched by the sea, with all the horsses and chariots of Pharao and with his horsemen and his host: even fast by the entering of Hiroth before Baal Zephon.

14:10

And Pharao drew nye, and when the children of Israel lift up their eyes and saw how the Egyptians followed after them, they were sore afraid and cried out unto the LORD.

14:11

¶ Then said they unto Moses: were there no graves for us in Egypt, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egypt?

14:12

Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying, let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness.

14:13

And Moses said unto the people: fear ye not but stand still and behold how the LORD shall save you this day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall ye see them no more for ever till the world's end.

14:14

The LORD shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace.

14:15

¶ The LORD said unto Moses: wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward.

14:16

But lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it asunder, that the children of Israel may go on dry ground thorow the middest thereof.

14:17

And behold I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they may follow you. And I will get me honour upon Pharao and upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

14:18

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have gotten me honour upon Pharao, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

14:19

¶ And the angel of God which went before the host of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the clouden pillar that was before them removed and stood behind them

14:20

and went between the host of the Egyptians and the host of Israel. It was a dark cloud, and gave light by night: so that all the night long the one could not come at the other.

14:21

¶ When now Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, the LORD carried away the sea with a strong east wind that blew all night, and made the sea dry land and the water divided itself.

14:22

And the children of Israel went in thorow the middest of the sea upon the dry ground. And the water was a wall unto them, both on their right hand and on their left hand.

14:23

And the Egyptians followed and went in after them to the middest of the sea, with all Pharao's horses, and his chariots and his horsemen.

14:24

¶ And in the morning watch, the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy pillar, and troubled their host

14:25

and smote off their chariot wheels and cast them down to the ground. Then said the Egyptians: Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD fighteth for them against us.

14:26

Then said the LORD unto Moses: stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the water may come again upon the Egyptians upon their chariots and horsemen.

14:27

Then stretched forth Moses his hand over the sea, and it came again to his course early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it. Thus the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middest of the sea,

14:28

and the water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen: so that of all the host of Pharao that came into the sea after them, there remained not one.

14:29

But the children of Israel went upon dry land in the middest of the sea, and the water was a wall unto them: both on the right hand of them and also on the left.

14:30

¶ Thus the LORD delivered Israel the self same day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea side.

14:31

And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the LORD had shewed upon the Egyptians, they feared the LORD: and believed both the LORD and also his servant Moses.

Chapter 15

15:1

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song unto the LORD and said: Let us sing unto the LORD, for he is become glorious, the horse and him that rode upon him hath he overthrown in the sea.

15:2

¶ The LORD is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation. He is my God and I will glorify him, he is my father's God and I will lift him up on high._{{an hie}}

15:3

¶ The LORD is a man of war, Jehovah_{Iehouah} is his name:

15:4

Pharao's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea. His jolly captains are drowned in the redde_{reed} sea,

15:5

the deep waters have covered them: they sank to the bottom as a stone.

15:6

¶ Thine hand LORD is glorious in power, thine hand LORD hath all to dashed the enemy.

15:7

¶ And with thy great glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries, thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them, even as stubble.

15:8

¶ With the breath of thine anger the water gathered together and the floods stood still as a rock, and the deep water congealed together in the middest of the sea.

15:9

¶ The enemy said: I will follow and overtake them, and will divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword, and mine hand shall destroy them.

15:10

¶ Thou blewest with thy breath and the sea covered them, and they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

15:11

¶ Who is like unto thee o LORD among gods: who is like thee, so glorious in holiness, fearful, laudable and that shewest wonders?

15:12

¶ Thou stretchedest out thy right hand, and in the earth swallowed them.

15:13

¶ And thou carriedest with thy mercy this people which thou deliveredest, and broughtest them with thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

15:14

¶ The nations heard, and were afraid, pangs came upon the Philistines.

15:15

¶ Then the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint hearted.

15:16

¶ Let fear and dread fall upon them thorow the greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass thorow o LORD, while the people pass thorow, which thou hast gotten.

15:17

¶ Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the place LORD_{Lorde} which thou hast made for to dwell in, the sanctuary Lord,_{Lorde} which thy hands have prepared.

15:18

¶ The LORD reign ever and allway.

15:19

¶ For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land thorow the middest of the sea.

15:20

¶ And Miriam a prophetess the sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women came out after her with timbrels in a dance.

15:21

And Miriam sang before them: sing ye unto the LORD, for he is become glorious indeed: the horse and his rider hath he overthrown in the sea.

15:22

¶ Moses brought Israel from the redde_{reed} sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Sur. And they went three days long in the wilderness, and could find no water.

15:23

At the last they came to Mara: but they could not drink of the waters for bitterness, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of the place was called Mara.

15:24

Then the people murmured against Moses, saying: what shall we drink?

15:25

And Moses cried unto the LORD, and he shewed him a tree:_{tre} and he cast it into the water, and they waxed sweet. There he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he tempted them

15:26

¶ and said: If ye will hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God, and will do that which is right in his sight and will give an ear unto his commandments, and keep all his ordinances: then will I put none of these diseases upon thee which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the LORD thy surgeon.

15:27

¶¶ And they came to Elim where were twelve wells of water and seventy date trees, and they pitched there by the water.

Chapter 16

16:1

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the whole company of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which lieth between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month after that they were come out of the land of Egypt.

16:2

And the hole multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

16:3

and said unto them: would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and ate bread our bellies' full for ye have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this hole multitude for hunger.

16:4

¶ Then said the LORD unto Moses: behold, I will rain bread from heaven down to you, and let the people go out, and gather day by day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no.

16:5

The sixth day let them prepare that which they will bring in, and let it be twice as much as they gather in daily.

16:6

And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel: at even ye shall know that it is the LORD, which brought you out of the land of Egypt,

16:7

and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the LORD: because he hath heard your grudgings against the LORD: for what are we that ye should murmur against us?

16:8

And moreover spake Moses: At evening the LORD will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread enough, because the LORD hath heard your murmur which ye murmur against him: for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the LORD.

16:9

¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron: Say unto all the company of the children of Israel, come forth before the LORD, for he hath heard your grudgings.

16:10

And as Aaron spake unto the hole multitude of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in a cloud.

16:11

And the LORD spake unto Moses saying:

16:12

I have heard the murmuring of the children of Israel, tell them therefore and say that at evening they shall eat flesh, and in the morning they shall be filled with bread, and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.

16:13

¶ And at evening the quails came and covered the ground where they lay. And in the morning the dew lay round about the host.

16:14

And when the dew was fallen: behold, it lay upon the ground in the wilderness, small and round and thin as the hoar frost on the ground.

16:15

When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: what is this? for they wist not what it was; And Moses said: this is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.

16:16

This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, that ye gather every man enough for him to eat: a gomer full for a man according to the number of you, and gather every man for them which are in his tent.

16:17

¶ And the children of Israel did even so, and gathered some more some less,

16:18

and did mete it with a gomer. And unto him that had gathered much remained nothing over, and unto him that had gathered little was there no lack: but every man had gathered sufficient for his eating.

16:19

And Moses said unto them: See that no man let ought remain of it till the morning.

16:20

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses: but some of the left of it until the mornynge, and it waxed full of worms and stank, and Moses was angry with them.

16:21

¶ And they gathered it all mornings: every man as much as sufficed for his eating, for as soon as the heat of the son_{sonne} came it melted.

16:22

And the sixth day they gathered twice so much bread, two gomers for one man, and the rulers of the multitude came and told Moses.

16:23

And he said unto them: this is that which the LORD hath said: tomorrow is the Sabbath of the holy rest of the LORD: bake that which ye will bake and fetch that ye will fetch, and that which remaineth lay up for you, and keep it till the morning.

16:24

And they laid it up till the morning as Moses bade, and it stank not, neither was there any worms therein.

16:25

And Moses said: that eat this day: for today it is the LORD's Sabbath: today ye shall find none in the field.

16:26

Sixth days ye shall gather it, for the seventh is the Sabbath: there shall be none therein.

16:27

¶ Notwithstanding there went out of the people in the seventh day for to gather: but they found none.

16:28

Then the LORD said unto Moses: how long shall it be, yer ye will keep my commandments and laws?

16:29

See because the LORD hath given you a Sabbath, therefore he giveth you the sixth day bread for two days. Bide therefore every man at home, and let no man go out of his place the seventh day.

16:30

And the people rested the seventh day.

16:31

And the house of Israel called it Man. And it was like unto Coriander seed and white, and the taste of it was like unto wafers made with honey.

16:32

¶ And Moses said: this is that which the LORD commandeth: fill a gomer of it, that it may be kept for your children after you: that they may see the bread wherewith he fed you in wilderness, when he had brought you out of the land of Egypt.

16:33

And Moses spake unto Aaron: take a cruse and put a gomer full of Man therein, and lay it up before the LORD to be kept for your children after you,

16:34

as the LORD commanded Moses. And Aaron laid it up before the testimony there to be kept.

16:35

¶ And the children of Israel ate man forty year until they came unto a land inhabited. And so they ate Man, even until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan,

16:36

and a gomer is the tenth part of an Epha.

Chapter 17

17:1

And all the company of the children of Israel went on their journeys from the wilderness of Sin at the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Raphidim: where was no water for the people to drink.

17:2

And the people chode with Moses and said: give us water to drink. And Moses said unto them: why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?

17:3

There the people thirsted for water, and murmured against Moses and said: wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

17:4

¶ And Moses cried unto the LORD saying, what shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

17:5

And the LORD said unto Moses: go before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand and go.

17:6

Behold, I will stand there before thee upon a rock in Horeb: and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out thereof, that the people may drink. And Moses did even so before the elders of Israel.

17:7

And he called the name of the place: Massa and Meriba: because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD saying: is the LORD among us or not?

17:8

¶ Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Raphidim.

17:9

And Moses said unto Josua: choose out men and go fight with Amelech. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill and the rod of God in mine hand.

17:10

And Josua did as Moses bade him, and fought with the Amalekites. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

17:11

And when Moses held up his hand, Israel had the better. And when he let his hand down, Amelech had the better.

17:12

¶ When Moses' hands were weary, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down thereon. And Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the son was down.

17:13

And Josua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of his sword.

17:14

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: write this for a remembrance in a book and tell it unto Josua, for I will put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

17:15

And Moses made an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi,_{{The LORD is he that exalteth, or worketh miracles for me.}}

17:16

for he said: the hand is on the seat of the LORD, that the LORD will have war with Amalek thorowout all generations.

Chapter 18

18:1

Jethro the priest of Madian Moses' father-in-law heard of all that God had done unto Moses and to Israel his people, how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

18:2

And he took Zippora Moses' wife, after she was sent back,

18:3

and her two sons, of which the one was called Gerson, for he said: I have been an alien_{alient} in a strange land.

18:4

And the other was called Eliesar: for the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharao.

18:5

¶ And Jethro Moses' father-in-law came with his two sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness: where he had pitched his tent by the mount of God.

18:6

And he sent word to Moses: I thy father-in-law Jethro am come to thee, and thy wife also, and her two sons with her.

18:7

And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and kissed him, and they saluted each other and came into the tent.

18:8

¶ And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharao and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had happened them by the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

18:9

And Jethro rejoiced over all the good which the LORD had done to Israel, and because he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

18:10

And Jethro said: blessed be the LORD which hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharao, which hath delivered his people from under the power of the Egyptians.

18:11

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, for because that they dealt proudly with them.

18:12

And Jethro Moses' father-in-law offered burnt offerings and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

18:13

¶ And it chanced on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from morning unto evening.

18:14

When his father-in-law saw all that he did unto the people, he said: what is this that thou doest unto the people? why sittest thou thyself and lettest all the people stand about thee from morning unto even?

18:15

And Moses said unto his father-in-law: because the people came unto me to seek counsel_{councell} of God.

18:16

For when they have a matter, they come unto me, and I must judge between every man and his neighbour, and must shew them the ordinances of God and his laws.

18:17

¶ And his father-in-law said unto him: it is not well that thou doest.

18:18

Thou doest unwisely and also this people that is with thee: because the thing is too grievous for thee, and thou art not able to do it thy self alone.

18:19

But hear my voice, and I will give thee counsel,_{councell} and God shall be with thee. Be thou unto the people to Godward, and bring the causes unto God

18:20

and provide them ordinances and laws, and shew them the way wherein they must walk and the works that they must do.

18:21

¶ Moreover seek out among all the people, men of activity which fear God, and men that are true and hate covetousness: and make them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty, and over ten.

18:22

And let them judge the people at all seasons: If there be any great matter, let them bring that unto thee, and let them judge all small causes them selves, and ease thy self, and let them bear with thee.

18:23

If thou shalt do this thing, then thou shalt be able to endure that which God chargeth thee with all, and all this people shall go to their places quietly.

18:24

¶ And Moses heard the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said,

18:25

and chose active men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, captains over thousands, over hundreds, over fifty and over ten.

18:26

And they judged the people at all seasons, and brought the hard causes unto Moses: and judged all small matters them selves.

18:27

And then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went in to his own land.

Chapter 19

19:1

The third month after the children of Israel were gone out of Egypt: the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

19:2

For they were departed from Raphidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched their tents in the wilderness. And there Israel pitched before the mount.

19:3

And Moses went up unto God. And the LORD called to him out of the mountain saying: thus say unto the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

19:4

Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I took you up upon Eagles' wings, and have brought you unto myself.

19:5

Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine appointment: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine.

19:6

Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy people: these are the words which thou shalt say unto the children of Israel.

19:7

¶ And Moses came and called for the elders of Israel, and laid before them all these words which the LORD had commanded him.

19:8

And the people answered all together and said: All that the LORD hath said, we will do. And Moses brought the words of the people unto the LORD.

19:9

And the LORD said unto Moses: Lo, I will come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I talk with thee, and also believe thee for ever. And Moses shewed the words of the people unto the LORD.

19:10

And the LORD said unto Moses: Go unto the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes:

19:11

that they may be ready against the third day. For the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

19:12

And set marks round about the people and say: beware that ye go not up into the mount, and that ye twich not the borders of it, for whosoever twicheth the mount, shall surely die.

19:13

There shall not an hand twich it, but that he shall either be stoned or else shot thorow: whether it be beast or man, it shall not live, when the horn bloweth: then let them come up in to the mountain.

19:14

¶ And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified them, and they washed their clothes:

19:15

And he said unto the people: be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at your wives.

19:16

And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid.

19:17

And Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God, and they stood under the hill.

19:18

¶ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful.

19:19

And the voice of the horn blew and waxed louder, and louder. Moses spake, and God answered him and that with a voice.

19:20

And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, even in the top of the hill, and called Moses up into the top of the hill. And Moses went up.

19:21

¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: go down and charge the people that they prease not up unto the LORD for to see him, and so many of them perish.

19:22

And let the priests also which come to the LORD's presence, sanctify them selves: lest the LORD smite them.

19:23

Then Moses said unto the LORD: the people can not come up in to mount Sinai, for thou chargedest us saying: set marks about the hill and sanctify it.

19:24

¶ And the LORD said unto him: away, and get thee down: and come up both thou and Aaron with thee. But let not the priests and the people presume for to come up unto the LORD: lest he smite them.

19:25

And Moses went down unto the people and told them.

Chapter 20

20:1

And God spake all these words and said:

20:2

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.

20:3

Thou shalt have none other gods in my sight.

20:4

¶ Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth.

20:5

See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

20:6

and yet shew mercy unto thousands among them that love me and keep my commandments.

20:7

¶ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

20:8

¶ Remember the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it.

20:9

Six days mayst thou labour and do all that thou hast to do:

20:10

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, neither thy manservant nor thy maidservant, neither thy cattle neither yet the stranger that is within thy gates.

20:11

For in six days the LORD made both heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

20:12

¶ Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

20:13

¶ Thou shalt not kill.

20:14

¶ Thou shalt not break wedlock.

20:15

¶ Thou shalt not steal.

20:16

¶ Thou shalt bear no false witness against thy neighbour.

20:17

¶ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house: neither shalt covet thy neighbour's wife, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his ass or ought that is his.

20:18

¶ And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked.

20:19

And when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off and said unto Moses: talk thou with us and we will hear, but let not God talk with us, lest we die.

20:20

And Moses said unto the people fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not.

20:21

¶ And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick cloud where God was.

20:22

And the LORD said unto Moses: thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye have seen how that I have talked with you from out of heaven.

20:23

Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of silver nor gods of gold: in no wise shall ye do it.

20:24

An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me and thereon offer thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, and thy sheep and thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remembrance of my name, thither I will come unto thee and bless thee.

20:25

¶ But and if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou shalt pollute it.

20:26

Moreover thou shalt not go up with steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not shewed thereon.

Chapter 21

21:1

These are the laws which thou shalt set before them.

21:2

If thou buy a servant that is an Hebrew, sixth years he shall serve, and the seventh he shall go out free paying nothing.

21:3

If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came married, his wife shall go out with him.

21:4

And if his master have given him a wife and she have borne him sons or daughters: then the wife and her children shall be her master's and he shall go out alone.

21:5

But and if the servant say I love my master and my wife and my children, I will not go out free.

21:6

Then let his master bring him unto the Gods and set him to the door or the doorpost, and bore his ear thorow with an nawl, and let him be his servant forever.

21:7

¶ If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do.

21:8

If she please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to wife, then shall he let her go free: to sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power, because he despised her.

21:9

If he have promised her unto his son to wife, he shall deal with her as men do with their daughters.

21:10

If he take him another wife, yet her food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish.

21:11

If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money.

21:12

¶ He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for it.

21:13

If a man lay not await but God deliver him into his hand, then I will point thee a place whither he shall flee.

21:14

If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he die.

21:15

And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.

21:16

¶ He that stealeth a man and selleth him (if it be proved upon him) shall be slain for it.

21:17

And he that curseth his father or mother, shall be put to death for it.

21:18

If men strive together and one smite another with a stone or with his fist, so that he die not, but lieth in bed:

21:19

if he rise again and walk without upon his staff, then shall he that smote him go quite: save only he shall bear his charges while he lay in bed and pay for his healing.

21:20

¶ If a man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they die under his hand, it shall be avenged.

21:21

But and if they continue a day or two, it shall not be avenged for they are his money.

21:22

¶ When men strive and smite a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her and yet no misfortune followeth: then shall he be merced, according as the woman's husband will lay to his charge, and he shall pay as the daysmen appoint him.

21:23

But and if any misfortune follow, then shall he pay life for life,

21:24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

21:25

burning for burning, wound for wound and stripe for stripe.

21:26

¶ If a man smite his servant or his maid in the eye and put it out, he shall let them go free for the eye's sake.

21:27

Also if he smite out his servant's or his maid's tooth, he shall let them go out free for the tooth's sake.

21:28

¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall be stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten: and his master shall go quite.

21:29

¶ If the ox were wont to run at men in time past and it hath been told his master, and he hath not kept him, but that he hath killed a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned and his master shall die also.

21:30

If he be set to a sum of money, then he shall give for the deliverance of his life, according to all that is put unto him.

21:31

¶ And whether he hath gored a son or a daughter, he shall be served after the same manner.

21:32

But if it be a servant or a maid that the ox hath gored, then he shall give unto their master the sum of thirty sicles, and the ox shall be stoned.

21:33

¶ If a man open a well or dig a pit and cover it not, but that an ox or an ass fall therein,

21:34

the owner of the pit shall make it good and give money unto their master, and the dead beast shall be his.

21:35

¶ If one man's ox hurt another's that he die: then they shall sell the live ox and divide the money, and the dead ox also they shall divide.

21:36

But and if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time's past, then because his master hath not kept him, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own.

Chapter 22

22:1

If a man steal an ox or sheep and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

22:2

¶ If a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him:

22:3

except the son_{sonne} be up when he is found, then there shall be blood shed for him. A thief shall make restitution: If he have not wherewith, he shall be sold for his theft.

22:4

If the theft be found in his hand alive (whether it be ox, ass or sheep) he shall restore double.

22:5

¶ If a man do hurt field or vineyard, so that he put in his beast to feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

22:6

¶ If fire break out and catch in the thorns, so that the stacks_{stoukes} of corn or the standing corn or field be consumed therewith: he that kindled the fire shall make restitution.

22:7

¶ If a man deliver his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of his house: If the thief be found, he shall pay double.

22:8

If the thief be not found, then the goodman of the house shall be brought unto the gods and swear, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's good.

22:9

¶ And in all manner of trespass, whether it be ox, ass, sheep, raiment or any manner lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the gods. And whom the gods condemn: the same shall pay double unto his neighbour.

22:10

If a man deliver unto his neighbour to keep, ass, ox, sheep or whatsoever beast it be and it die or be hurt or driven away and no man see it:

22:11

then shall an oath of the LORD go between them, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's good, and the owner of it shall take the oath, and the other shall not make it good.

22:12

¶ If it be stolen from him, then he shall make restitution unto the owner:

22:13

If it be torn with wild beasts, then let him bring record of the tearing: and he shall not make it good.

22:14

¶ When a man borroweth ought of his neighbour if it be hurt or else die, and if the owner thereof be not by, he shall make it good:

22:15

If the owner thereof be by, he shall not make it good, namely if it be an hired thing and came for hire.

22:16

¶ If a man beguile a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall endote her and take her to his wife:

22:17

If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

22:18

¶ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

22:19

Whosoever lieth with a beast, shall be slain for it.

22:20

He that offereth unto any gods save unto the LORD only, let him die without redemption.

22:21

Vex not a stranger neither oppress him for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

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¶ Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child:

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If ye shall trouble them: they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry

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and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

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¶ If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him, neither shalt oppress him with usury.

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¶ If thou take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, see that thou deliver it unto him again by that the son_{sonne} go down.

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For that is his coverlet only: even the raiment for his skin wherein he sleepeth: or else he will cry unto me and I will hear him, for I am merciful.

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¶ Thou shalt not rail upon the gods, neither curse the ruler of thy people.

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¶ Thy fruits (whether they be dry or moist) see thou keep not back. Thy firstborn son thou shalt give me:

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likewise shalt thou do of thine oxen and of thy sheep. Seven days it shall be with the dam, and the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

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¶ Ye shall be holy people unto me, and therefore shall ye eat no flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. But shall cast it to dogs.

Chapter 23

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Thou shalt not accept a vain tale, neither shalt put thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

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¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest to follow many turn aside from the truth,

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neither shalt thou paint a poor man's cause.

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¶ When thou meetest thine enemy's ox or ass going astray, thou shalt bring them to him again.

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¶ If thou see thine enemy's ass sink under his burthen, thou shalt not pass by and let him alone: but shalt help him to lift him up again.

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¶ Thou shalt not hinder the right of the poor that are among you in their suit.

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¶ Keep thee far from a false matter, and the Innocent and righteous see thou slay not, for I will not justify the wicked.

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¶ Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.

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¶ Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I know the heart of stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt.

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¶ Six years thou shalt sow thy land and gather in the fruits thereof:

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and the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat: In like manner thou shalt do with thy vineyard and thine olive trees.

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¶ Six days thou shalt do thy work and the seventh day thou shalt keep holy day, that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thy maid and the stranger may be refreshed.

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¶ And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect. And make no rehearsal of the names of strange gods, neither let any man hear them out of your mouths.

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¶ Three feasts thou shalt hold unto me in a year.

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Thou shalt keep the feast of sweet bread, that thou eat unleavened bread seven days long as I commanded thee in the time appointed of the month of Abib, for in that month thou camest out of Egypt: and see that no man appear before me empty.

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And the feast of Harvest, when thou reapest the first fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field. And the feast of ingathering, in the end of the year: when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

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¶ Three times in a year shall all thy men children appear before the Lord Jehovah._{{Lorde Iehouah}}

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¶ Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread: neither shall the fat of my feast remain until the morning.

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¶ The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God thou shalt also not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

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¶ Behold, I send mine angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

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Beware of him and hear his voice and anger him not: for he will not spare your misdeeds, yea and my name is in him.

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But and if thou shalt hearken unto his voice and keep all that I shall tell thee, then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

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¶ When mine angel goeth before thee and hath brought thee in unto the Amorites, Hethites, Pherezites, Cananites, Hevites and Jebusites, and I shall have destroyed them,

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see thou worship not their gods neither serve them, neither do after the works of them, but overthrow them and break down the places of them.

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And see that ye serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water, and I will take all sicknesses away from among you.

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¶ Moreover there shall be no woman childless or unfruitful in thy land, and the number of thy days I will fulfill.

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I will send my fear before thee and will kill all the people whither thou shalt go. And I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee,

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and I will send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hevites, the Cananites and the Hethites before thee.

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¶ I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land grow to a wilderness: and the beasts of the field multiply upon thee.

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¶ But a little and a little I will drive them out before thee, until thou be increased that thou mayst inherit the land.

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And I will make thy coasts from the red sea unto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert unto the river. I will deliver the inhabiters of the land into thine hand, and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

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And thou shalt make none appointment with them nor with their gods.

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Neither shall they dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be thy decay.

Chapter 24

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And he said unto Moses: come unto the LORD: both thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel, and worship afar off.

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And Moses went himself alone unto the LORD, but they came not nye, neither came the people up with him.

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¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the laws. And all the people answered with one voice and said: all the words which the LORD hath said, will we do.

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¶ Then Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early and made an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel,

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and sent young men of the children of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings and to offer peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

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¶ And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

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And he took the book of the appointment and read it in the audience of the people. And they said: All that the LORD hath said, we will do and hear.

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And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people and said: behold, this is the blood of the appointment which the LORD hath made with you upon all these words.

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¶ Then went Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the seventy elders of Israel up,

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and saw the God of Israel, and under his feet as it were a brick work of Saphir and as it were the fashion of heaven when it is clear,

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and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he set not his hand. And when they had seen God they ate and drank.

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¶ And the LORD said unto Moses: come up to me in to the hill and be there, and I will give thee tables of stone and a law and commandments, which I have written to teach them.

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Then Moses rose up and his minister Josua, and Moses went up into the hill of God,

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and said unto the elders: tarry ye here until we come again unto you: And behold here is Aaron and Hur with you. If any man have any matters to do, let him come to them.

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¶ When Moses was come up into the mount, a cloud covered the hill,

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and the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the cloud.

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And the fashion of the glory of the LORD was