our daughters. a Gen. 28:13 that were with him, Put away the strange gods that

our daughters. a Gen. 28:13 that were with him, Put away the strange gods that

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may dwell in the land, and do their affairs therein (for behold, the land hath room enough for them) let us take their daughters to wives, and give them our daughters. 22 Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, and to be one people, if all the men children among us be circumcised as they are circumcised. 23 Shall not 1their flocks and their substance and all their cattle be ours? only let us consent herein unto them and they will dwell with us. 24 And unto Hamor, and Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city: and all the men children were circumcised, even all that went out of the gate of his city. 25 And on the third day (when they were sore) two of the sons of Jacob, 1Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and aslew 2every male. 26 They slew also Hamor and Shechem his son with the 1edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went their way. 27 Again, the other sons of Jacob came upon the dead, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28 They took their sheep and their beeves, and their asses, and whatsoever was in the city and in the fields. 29 Also they carried away captive and spoiled all their goods, and all their children and their wives, and all that was in the houses. 30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, and made me 1stink among the inhabitants of the land, as well the Canaanites, as the Perizzites, and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me, and so shall I, and my house be destroyed. 31 And they answered, Should he abuse our sister as a whore? 35 1 Jacob at God's commandment goeth up to Bethel built an altar. 2 He reformeth his household. 5 God maketh the enemies of Jacob afraid. 8 Deborah dieth. 12 The land of Canaan is promised him. 18 Rachel dieth in labor. 22 Reuben lieth with his father's concubine.

that appeared unto thee, awhen thou fleddest from Esau thy brother. 2 Then said Jacob unto his household and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and 1cleanse yourselves, and change your garments: 3 For we will rise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there unto God, which heard me in the day of my tribulation, and was with me in the way which I went. 4 And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods, which were in their hands, and all their 1earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under an oak, which was by Shechem. 5 Then they went on their journey, and the 1fear of God was upon the cities that were round about them: so that they did not follow after the sons of Jacob. 6 ¶ So came Jacob to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan: (the same is Bethel) he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and bhad called the place, The God of Bethel, because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and he called the name of it 1Allon Bachuth. 9 Again God appeared unto Jacob, after he came to Padan Aram, and blessed him. 10 Moreover God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall be no more called Jacob, but cIsrael shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 11 And God said unto him, I am God 1all-sufficient: grow, and multiply: a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins. 12 Also I will give the land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, unto thee: and unto thy seed after thee will I give that land. 13 So God 1ascended from him in the place where he had talked with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, a pillar of stone, and poured drink offerings thereon: also he poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called the name of that place where God spake with him, Bethel. 16 ¶ Then they departed from Bethel, and when

chapter 34

a Gen. 49:6

chapter 35

a Gen. 28:13

b Gen. 28:19

c Gen. 32:28

1 Then 1God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make there an altar unto God,

34:23 1 Thus they lack no kind of persuasion, which prefer their own commodities before the commonwealth. 34:25 1 For they were the chief of the company. 2 The people are punished with their wicked princes. 34:26 1 Hebrew, mouth of the sword. 34:30 1 Or, to be abhorred. 35:1 1 God is ever at hand to succor his in their troubles. 35:2 1 That by this outward act they should show their inward repentance.

35:4 1 For therein was some sign of superstition, as in tablets and Agnus deis. 35:5 1 Thus, notwithstanding the inconvenience that came before, God delivered Jacob. 35:8 1 Or, oak of lamentations. 35:11 1 Or, almighty. 35:13 1 As God is said to descend when he showeth some sign of his presence: so he is said to ascend when vision is ended.

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3 And took Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 4 And aAdah bare unto Esau, Eliphaz: and Basemath bare Reuel, 5 Also Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau which were born to him in the land of Canaan. 6 So Esau took his wives and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his flocks, and all his cattle, and all his substance, which he had gotten in the land of Canaan, and 1went into another country from his brother Jacob. 7 For their riches were so great, that they could not dwell together, and the land, wherein they were strangers, could not receive them because of their flocks. 8 bTherefore dwelt Esau in mount Seir: this Esau is Edom. 9 ¶ So these are the generations of Esau father of 1Edom in mount Seir: 10 These are the names of Esau's sons: cEliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau, and Reuel the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz. 12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son, and bare unto Eliphaz, Amalek: these be the sons of Adah Esau's wife. 13 ¶ And these are the 1sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these be the sons of Basemath Esau's wife. 14 ¶ And these were the sons of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, 1daughter of Zibeon Esau's wife: for she bare unto Esau, Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. 15 ¶ These were 1,2Dukes of the sons of Esau the sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau Duke Teman, Duke Omar, Duke Zepho, Duke Kenaz, 16 Duke Korah, Duke Gatam, and Duke Amalek: these are the Dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom: these were the 1sons of Adah. 17 ¶ And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son: Duke Nahath, Duke Zerah, Duke Shammah, Duke Mizzah: these are the Dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom: these are the 1sons of Basemath Esau's wife.

there was 1about half a day's journey of ground to come to Ephrath, Rachel travailed, and in travailing she was in peril. 17 And when she was in the pains of her labor, the midwife said unto her, Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also. 18 Then as she was about to yield up the ghost (for she died) she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin. 19 Thus ddied Rachel and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. 20 And Jacob set a 1pillar upon her grave: This is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day. 21 ¶ Then Israel went forward, and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. 22 Now when Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and 1lay ewith Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. And Jacob had twelve sons. 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben Jacob's eldest son, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah Rachel's maid: Dan and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah Leah's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, which were born him in Padan Aram. 27 ¶ Then Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre a city of Kirjath Arbah: that is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac were strangers. 28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost and died, and was fgathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 36 2 The wives of Esau. 7 Jacob and Esau are rich. 9 The genealogy of Esau. 24 The finding of mules.

d Gen. 48:7

e Gen. 49:4

f Gen. 23:8

chapter 36

a 1 Chron. 1:35

b Josh. 24:4

c 1 Chron. 1:35

1 Now these are 1the generations of Esau, which is Edom. 2 Esau took his wives of the 1daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon an Hittite and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon an Hivite.

35:16 1 The Hebrew word signifieth as much ground as one may go from baite to baite, which is taken for half a day's journey. 35:20 1 The ancient fathers used this ceremony to testify their hope of the resurrection to come, which was not generally revealed. 35:22 1 This teacheth that the fathers were not chosen for their mer­ its, but by God's only mercies, whose election by their faults was not changed. 36:1 1 This genealogy declareth that Esau was blessed temporally, and that his father's blessing took place in worldly things. 36:2 1 Besides those wives whereof is spoken, Gen. 26:34.

36:6 1 Herein appeareth God's providence, which causeth the wicked to give place to the godly, that Jacob might enjoy Canaan according to God's promise. 36:9 1 Or, the edomites. 36:13 1 Or, nephews. 36:14 1 Or, niece. 36:15 1 Or, chief men. 2 If God's promises be so sure towards them which are not of his household, how much more will he perform the same to us? 36:16 1 Or, nephews. 36:17 1 Or, nephews.

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18 ¶ Likewise these were the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife: Duke Jeush, Duke Jaalam, Duke Korah: these Dukes came of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah Esau's wife. 19 These are the children of Esau, and these are the Dukes of them: This Esau is Edom. 20 ¶ dThese are the sons of Seir the Horite, which 1inhabited the land before Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, 21 And Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan: these are the Dukes of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. 22 And the sons of Lotan were, Hori and Hemam, and Lotan's sister was Timna. 23 And the sons of Shobal were these: Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. 24 And these are the sons of Zibeon: Both Ajah, and Anah: this was Anah that found 1mules in the wilderness, as he fed his father Zibeon's asses. 25 And the children of Anah were these: Dishon and Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah. 26 Also these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran. 27 The sons of Ezer are these: Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan. 28 The sons of Dishan are these, Uz, and Aran. 29 These are the Dukes of the Horites: Duke Lotan, Duke Shobal, Duke Zibeon, Duke Anah, 30 Duke Dishon, Duke Ezer, Duke Dishan: these be the Dukes of the Horites, after their Dukedoms in the land of Seir. 31 ¶ And these are the 1Kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any King over the children of Israel. 32 Then Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. 33 And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead. 34 When Jobab also was dead, Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. 35 And after the death of Husham, Hadad the son of Bedad, which slew Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Avith. 36 When Hadad was dead, then Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

37 When Samlah was dead, Saul of 1Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his stead. 38 When Saul died, Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead. 39 And after the death of Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor, Hadar reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Pau: and his wife's name Mehetabel the daughter of Matred, the 1daughter of Mezahab. 40 Then these are the names of the Dukes of Esau according to their families, their places, and by their names: Duke Timnah, Duke Alvah, Duke Jetheth. 41 Duke Aholibamah, Duke Elah, Duke Pinon, 42 Duke Kenaz, Duke Teman, Duke Mibzar, 43 Duke Magdiel, Duke Iram: these be the Dukes of Edom, according to their habitations, in the land of their inheritance. This Esau is the father of 1Edom. 37 2 Joseph accuseth his brethren. 5 He dreameth and is hated of his brethren. 28 They sell him to the Ishmaelites. 34 Jacob bewaileth Joseph.

d 1 Chron. 1:38

1 Jacob now dwelt in the land, wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. 2 These are the 1generations of Jacob when Joseph was seventeen years old, he kept sheep with his brethren, and the child was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, And Joseph brought unto their father their evil 2,3saying. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he begat him in his old age and he made him a coat of many 1colors. 4 So when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, then they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him. 5 ¶ And Joseph 1dreamed a dream, and told his brethren, who hated him so much the more. 6 For he said unto them, Hear, I pray you this dream which I have dreamed. 7 Behold now, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field: and lo, my sheaf arose and also stood upright, and behold, your sheaves compassed round about, and did reverence to my sheaf. 8 Then his brethren said to him, What, shalt thou reign over us, and rule us? or shalt thou have altogether dominion over us? And they 1hated him so

36:20 1 Before that Esau did there inhabit. 36:24 1 Who not contented with those kinds of beasts, which God had created, found out the monstrous generation of mules between the Ass and the mare. 36:31 1 The wicked rise up suddenly to honor, and perish as quickly: but the inheritance of the children of God continueth ever, Ps. 102:28. 36:37 1 Which city is by the river Euphrates. 36:39 1 Or, niece. 36:43 1 Of Edom came the Idumeans.

37:2 1 That is, the story of such things as came to him and his family, as Gen. 5:1. 2 Or, slander. 3 He complained of the evil words and injuries which they spake and did against him. 37:3 1 Or, pieces. 37:5 1 God revealed to him by a dream what should come to pass. 37:8 1 The more that God showed himself favorable to his, the more doth the malice of the wicked rage against them.

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much the more, for his dreams, and for his words. 9 ¶ Again he dreamed another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have had one dream more, and behold, the Sun and the Moon and eleven stars did reverence to me. 10 Then he told it unto his father and to his brethren, and his father 1rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this thy dream, which thou hast dreamed? shall I, and thy mother, and thy brethren come indeed and fall on the ground before thee? 11 And his brethren envied him, but his father 1,2noted the saying. 12 ¶ Then his brethren went to keep their father's sheep in Shechem. 13 And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren keep in Shechem? come and I will send thee to them. 14 And he answered him, I am here. Then he said unto him, Go now, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and how the flocks prosper, and bring me word again: so he sent him from the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem. 15 ¶ Then a man found him: for lo, he was wandering in the field, and the man asked him, saying, what seekest thou? 16 And he answered, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they keep sheep. 17 And the man said, they are departed hence: for I heard them say, Let us go unto Dothan. Then went Joseph after his brethren, and found them in Dothan. 18 And when they saw him afar off, even before he came at them, they 1conspired against him for to slay him. 19 For they said one to another, Behold, this 1dreamer cometh. 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, A wicked beast hath devoured him: then we shall see, what will come of his dreams. 21 aBut when Reuben heard that, he delivered him out of their hands, and said, 1Let us not kill him. 22 Also Reuben said unto them, Shed not blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him. Thus he said, that he might

deliver him out of their hand, and restore him to his father. 23 ¶ Now when Joseph was come unto his brethren, they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his parti-colored coat that was upon him. 24 And they took him, and cast 1him into a pit, and the pit was empty, without water in it. 25 Then they sat them down to eat bread: and lift up their eyes and looked, and behold, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicery, and 1balm, and myrrh, and were going to carry it down into Egypt. 26 Then Judah said to his brethren, What availeth it, if we slay our brother, though we keep his blood secret? 27 Come and let us bsell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hands be upon him: for he is our brother, and our flesh: and his brethren obeyed. 28 Then the 1Midianites' merchant men passed by, and they drew forth, and lift Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: who brought Joseph into Egypt. 29 ¶ Afterward Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit: then he rent his clothes, 30 And returned to his brethren, and said, The child is not yonder, and I, whither shall I go? 31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood. 32 So they sent that parti-colored coat, 1and they brought it unto their father, and said, This have we found: see now, whether it be thy son's coat, or no. 33 Then he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat: a wicked beast hath cdevoured him: Joseph is surely torn in pieces. 34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season. 35 Then all his sons and his daughters arose up to comfort him, but he would not be comforted, but said, 1Surely I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning: so his father wept for him. 36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar 1an Eunuch of Pharaoh's and his 2chief steward.

chapter 37

a Gen. 42:22

b Ps. 105:17

c Gen. 44:28

37:10 1 Not despising the vision, but seeking to appease his brethren. 37:11 1 Or, kept diligently. 2 He knew that God was author of the dream, but he understood not the meaning. 37:18 1 The holy Ghost covereth not men's faults, as do vain writers, which make vice virtue. 37:19 1 Or, master of dreams. 37:21 1 Hebrew, let us not smite his life. 37:24 1 Their hypocrisy appeareth in this that they feared man more than God: and thought it was not murder, if they shed not his blood: or else had an excuse to cover their fault.

37:25 1 Or, rosen, turpentine, or treacle. 37:28 1 Moses writing according to the opinion of them which took the Midianites and Ishmaelites to be both one, doth here confound their names: as also appeareth, verse 36 and Gen. 39:1, or else he was first offered to the Midianites, but sold to the Ish­ maelites. 37:32 1 To wit, the messengers which were sent. 37:35 1 Or, I will mourn for him so long as I live. 37:36 1 Which word doth not always signify him that is gelded, but also him that is in some high dignity. 2 Or, captain of the guard.

45 genesis 38:26 38 2 The marriage of Judah. 7, 9 The trespass of Er and Onan, and the vengeance of God that came thereupon. 18 Judah lieth with his daughter-inlaw Tamar. 24 Tamar is judged to be burnt for whoredom. 29, 30 The birth of Perez and Zerah.

and sat down in 1Pethah-enam which is by the way to Timnah, because she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife. 15 When Judah saw her, he judged her an whore: for she had covered her face. 16 And he turned to the way towards her, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me lie with thee, (for he 1knew not that she was his daughter-in-law.) And she answered, What wilt thou give me for to lie with me? 17 Then said he, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock, and she said, Well, if thou wilt give me a pledge, till thou send it. 18 Then he said, What is the pledge that I shall give thee? And she answered, Thy signet and thy 1cloak and thy staff that is in thine hand. So he gave it her, and lay by her, and she was with child by him. 19 Then she rose, and went and put her veil from her and put on her widow's raiment. 20 Afterward Judah sent a kid of the goats by the hand of his 1neighbor the Adullamite, for to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not. 21 Then asked he the men of the place, saying, Where is the whore, that sat in Enaim by the wayside? and they answered, There was no whore there. 22 He came therefore to Judah again, and said, I cannot find her, and also the men of the place said, There was no whore there. 23 Then Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be 1,2shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her. 24 ¶ Now after three months, one told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the whore, and lo, with playing the whore, she is great with child. Then Judah said, Bring ye her forth and let her be 1burnt. 25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, unto whom these things pertain, am I with child: and said also, Look I pray thee, whose these are, the seal, and the cloak, and the staff. 26 Then Judah knew them, and said, She is 1more righteous than I: for she hath done it because I gave her not to Shelah my son. So he lay with her 2no more.

chapter 38

a 1 Chron. 2:3

b Num. 26:19

c Num. 26:19

1 And at that time 1Judah went down from his brethren, and turned into a man called Hirah an Adullamite. 2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a man called aShua a 1Canaanite: and he took her to wife, and went into her. 3 So she conceived and bare a son, and he called his name Er. 4 bAnd she conceived again and bare a son, and she called his name Onan. 5 Moreover she bare yet a son, whom she called Shelah: and Judah was at Chezib when she bare him. 6 Then Judah took a wife to Er his firstborn son, whose name was Tamar. 7 cNow Er the firstborn of Judah was wicked in the sight of the Lord: therefore the Lord slew him. 8 And Judah said to Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and do the office of a kinsman unto her, and raise 1up seed unto thy brother. 9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his: therefore when he went in unto his brother's wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. 10 And it was wicked in the eyes of the Lord, which he did: wherefore he slew him also. 11 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, 1Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son grow up (for he thought thus, Lest he die as well as his brethren,) So Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house. 12 ¶ And in process of time also the daughter of Shua Judah's wife died. Then Judah, when he 1had left mourning, went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he, and his neighbor Hirah the Adullamite. 13 And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath, to shear his sheep. 14 Then she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself,

38:1 1 Moses describeth the genealogy of Judah, because the Mes­ siah should come of him. 38:2 1 Which affinity notwithstanding was condemned of God. 38:8 1 This order was for the preservation of the stock, that the child begotten by the second brother should have the name and inheritance of the first: which is in the new Testament abol­ ished. 38:11 1 For she could not marry in any other family so long as Judah would retain her in his. 38:12 1 Hebrew, was comforted. 38:14 1 Or, in the door of the fountain, or, where were two ways.

38:16 1 God had wonderfully blinded him that he could not know her by her talk. 38:18 1 Or, tyre of thine head. 38:20 1 That his wickedness might not be known to others. 38:23 1 Hebrew, in contempt. 2 He feareth man more than God. 38:24 1 We see that the Law, which was written in man's heart, taught them that whoredom should be punished with death: albeit no law, as yet was given. 38:26 1 That is, she ought rather to accuse me than I her. 2 For the horror of the sin condemned him.

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27 ¶ Now, when the time was come that she should be delivered, behold, there were twins in her womb. 28 And when she was in travail, the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound a red thread about his hand, saying, this is come out first. 29 But when he 1plucked his hand back again, lo, his brother came out, and the midwife said, How hast 2thou broken the breach upon thee? and his name was called dPerez. 30 And afterward came out his brother that had the red thread about his hand, and his name was called Zerah. 39 1 Joseph sold to Potiphar. 2 God prospereth him. 7 Potiphar's wife tempteth him. 13, 20 He is accused and cast in prison. 23 God showeth him favor.

the house with me, but hath committed all that he had to mine hand. 9 There is no man greater in this house than I: neither hath he kept anything from me, but only thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness and so sin against 1God? 10 And albeit she spake to Joseph day by day, yet he hearkened not unto her, to lie with her, or to be in her company. 11 Then on a certain day Joseph entered into the house to do his business: and there was no man of the household in the house. 12 Therefore she caught him by his garment, saying, Sleep with me: but he left his garment in her hand and fled, and got him out. 13 Now when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled out, 14 She called unto the men of her house, and told them, saying, Behold, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us 1to mock us: who came in to me for to have slept with me: but I 2cried with a loud voice. 15 And when he heard that I lift up my voice and cried, he left his garments with me, and fled away, and got him out. 16 So she laid up his garment by her, until her lord came home. 17 Then she told him 1according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came into me, to mock me. 18 But as soon as I lift up my voice and cried, he left his garment with me, and fled out. 19 Then when his master heard the words of his wife, which she told him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me, his anger was kindled. 20 And Joseph's master took him and put him in 1,2prison, in the place, where the king's prisoners lay bound: and there he was in prison. 21 ¶ But the Lord was with Joseph, and 1showed him mercy, and got him favor in the sight of the 2master of the prison. 22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison, and 1whatsoever they did there, that did he. 23 And the keeper of the prison looked unto nothing that was under his hand, seeing that the

d 1 Chron. 2:4

Matt. 1:3

1 Now Joseph was brought down into Egypt: and Potiphar 1an Eunuch of Pharaoh's (and his chief steward an Egyptian) bought him at the hand of the Ishmaelites, which had brought him thither. 2 And the 1Lord was with Joseph, and he was a man that prospered and was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him: and made him 1ruler of his house, and put all that he had in his hand. 5 And from that time that he had made him ruler over his house and over all that he had, the Lord 1blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake: and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field. 6 Therefore he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, 1and took account of nothing, that was with him, save only of the bread, which he did eat. And Joseph was a fair person, and well favored. 7 Now therefore after these things, his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, 1Lie with me. 8 But he refused and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what he hath in

38:29 1 Their heinous sin was signified by this monstrous birth. 2 Or the separation between thee and thy brother. 39:1 1 Read Gen. 37:36. 39:2 1 The favor of God is the fountain of all prosperity. 39:4 1 Because God prospered him: and so he made religion to serve his profit. 39:5 1 The wicked are blessed by the company of the godly. 39:6 1 For he was assured that all things should prosper well: there­ fore he ate and drank and took no care. 39:7 1 In this word he declareth the sum whereunto all her flatteries did tend.

39:9 1 The fear of God preserved him against her continual tenta­ tions. 39:14 1 Or, to do us villainy and shame. 2 This declareth that where incontinence is, thereunto is joined extreme impudency and craft. 39:17 1 Or, after this manner. 39:20 1 Hebrew, in the prison house. 2 His evil intreatment in the prison may be gathered of Ps. 105:18. 39:21 1 Hebrew, inclined mercy unto him. 2 Or, lord. 39:22 1 That is, nothing was done without his commandment.

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Lord was with him: for whatsoever he did, the Lord made it to prosper. 40 8 The interpretation of dreams is of God. 12, 19 Joseph expoundeth the dreams of the two prisoners. 23 The ingratitude of the butler.

13 Within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thine 1office, and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into his hand after the old manner, when thou wast his butler, 14 But have me in remembrance with thee, when thou art in good case, and show mercy, I pray thee unto me, and 1make mention of me to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring me out of this house. 15 For I was stolen away by theft out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing, wherefore they should put me 1in the dungeon. 16 And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, Also me thought in my dream that I had three 1white baskets on mine head. 17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner bakemeats for Pharaoh: and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon mine head. 18 Then Joseph answered, and said, 1This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: 19 Within three days shall Pharaoh take thine head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee. 20 ¶ And so the third day, which was Pharaoh's 1birthday, he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler, and the chief baker among his servants. 21 And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership, who gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 22 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted unto them. 23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. 41 26 Pharaoh's dreams are expounded by Joseph. 40 He is made ruler over all Egypt. 45 Joseph's name is changed. 50 He hath two sons Manasseh and Ephraim.

1 And after these things, the butler of the King of Egypt and his baker offended their Lord the King of Egypt. 2 And Pharaoh was angry against his two 1Officers, against the chief butler, and against the chief baker. 3 Therefore he put them in ward in his chief steward's house, in the prison and place where 1Joseph was bound. 4 And the chief steward gave Joseph charge over them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward. 5 ¶ And they both dreamed a dream, either of them his dream in one night, 1each one according to the interpretation of his dream, both the butler and the baker of the King of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And when Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers, that were with him in his master's ward, saying, Wherefore 1look ye so sadly today? 8 Who answered him, We have dreamed each one a dream, and there is none to interpret the same. Then Joseph said unto them, 1Are not interpretations of God? tell them me now. 9 So the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said unto him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me, 10 And in the vine were three branches, and as it budded, her flower came forth: and the clusters of grapes waxed ripe. 11 And I had Pharaoh's cup in mine hand, and I took the grapes, and wrung them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. 12 Then Joseph said unto him, This 1is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.

1 And 1two years after, Pharaoh also 2dreamed, and behold, he stood by a river. 2 And lo, there came out of the river seven 1goodly kine and fat-fleshed, and they fed in a 2meadow. 3 And lo, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, evil favored and lean fleshed, and

40:2 1 Or, eunuchs, the word signifieth them, that were in high estate, or them that were gelded. 40:3 1 God worketh many wonderful means to deliver his. 40:5 1 That is, every dream had his interpretation, as the thing after­ ward declared. 40:7 1 Hebrew, why are your faces evil? 40:8 1 Cannot God raise up such as shall interpret such things? 40:12 1 He was assured by the spirit of God, that his interpretation was true. 40:13 1 Hebrew, place. 40:14 1 He refused not the means to be delivered, which he thought God had appointed.

40:15 1 Or, in the pit. 40:16 1 That is made of white twigs, or as some read, baskets full of holes. 40:18 1 He showeth that the ministers of God ought not to conceal that, which God revealeth unto them. 40:20 1 Which was an occasion to appoint his officers, and so to examine them that were in prison. 41:1 1 Hebrew, at the end of two years of days. 2 This dream was not so much for Pharaoh, as to be a means to deliver Joseph, and to provide for God's Church. 41:2 1 Or, fair to behold. 2 Or, staggie place.

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stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the evil favored and lean fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine: so Pharaoh awoke. 5 Again he slept, and dreamed the 1second time: and behold, seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, rank and goodly. 6 And lo, seven thin ears, and blasted with the East wind, sprang up after them. 7 And the thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears, then Pharaoh awaked, and lo it was a dream. 8 Now when the morning came, his spirit was 1troubled: therefore he sent and called all the soothsayers of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof, and Pharaoh told them his dreams: but 2none could interpret them to Pharaoh. 9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I 1call to mind my faults this day. 10 Pharaoh being angry with his servants, put me in ward in the chief steward's house, both me, and the chief baker. 11 Then we dreamed a dream in one night both I, and he: we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 12 And there was with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant unto the chief steward, whom when we told, he declared our dreams to 1us, to everyone he declared according to his dream. 13 And as he declared unto us, so it came to pass: for he restored me to mine office, and hanged him. 14 aThen sent Pharaoh, and called 1Joseph and they brought him hastily out of prison, and he shaved him, and changed his raiment, and came to Pharaoh. 15 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and no man can interpret it, and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream, thou canst interpret it. 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, 1Without me God shall 2answer for the wealth of Pharaoh. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: In my dream, behold, I stood by the bank of the river: 18 And lo, there came up out of the river seven fat fleshed, and well favored kine. and they fed in the meadow. 19 Also lo, seven other kine came up after them

poor and very 1evil favored kine, and lean fleshed: I never saw the like in all the land of Egypt, for evil favored. 20 And the lean and the evil favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine. 21 And when they 1had eaten them up: it could not be known that they had eaten them, but they were still as evil favored, as they were at the beginning: so did I awake. 22 Moreover I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears sprang out of one stalk, full and fair. 23 And lo, seven ears withered, thin, and blasted with the East wind, sprang up after them. 24 And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. Now I have told the soothsayers, and none can declare it unto me. 25 ¶ Then Joseph answered Pharaoh, 1Both Pharaoh's dreams are one. God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do. 26 The seven good Kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years: this is one dream. 27 Likewise the seven thin and evil favored kine, that came out after them, are seven years: and the seven empty ears blasted with the East wind, are seven years of famine. 28 This is the thing which I have said unto Pharaoh, that God hath showed unto Pharaoh, what he is about to do. 29 Behold, there come seven years of great 1plenty in all the land of Egypt. 30 Again, there shall arise after them seven years of famine, so that all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine shall consume the land: 31 Neither shall the plenty 1be known in the land, by reason of this famine that shall come after, for it shall be exceeding great. 32 And therefore the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh the second time, because the thing is established by God, and God hasteth to perform it. 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh 1provide for a man of understanding and wisdom, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh make and appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

chapter 41

a Ps. 105:20

41:5 1 All these means God used to deliver his servant, and to bring him into favor and authority. 41:8 1 This fear was enough to teach him that this vision was sent of God. 2 The wise of the world understand not God's secrets, but to his servants his will is revealed. 41:9 1 He confesseth his fault against the king before he speak of Joseph. 41:12 1 Read Gen. 40:5. 41:14 1 The wicked seek to the Prophets of God in their necessity, whom in their prosperity they abhor.

41:16 1 As though he would say, if I interpret thy dream it cometh of God, and not of me. 2 Hebrew, answer peace. 41:19 1 Hebrew, naught. 41:21 1 Hebrew, were gone into their inward parts. 41:25 1 Both his dreams tend to one end. 41:29 1 Or, abundance and saturity. 41:31 1 Or, they shall remember no more the plenty. 41:33 1 The office of a true Prophet is not only to show the evils to come, but also the remedies for the same.

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35 Also let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food, in the cities, and let them keep it. 36 So the food shall be for the provision of the land, against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not by famine. 37 ¶ And the saying pleased Pharaoh and all his servants. 38 Then said Pharaoh unto his servants, Can we find such a man as this, in whom is the 1Spirit of God? 39 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is no man of understanding, or wisdom like unto thee. 40 bThou shalt be over mine house, and at thy 1,2word shall all my people be armed, only in the king's throne will I be above thee. 41 Moreover Pharaoh said to Joseph, Behold, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. 42 And Pharaoh took off his 1ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in garments of fine linen, and put a golden chain about his neck. 43 So he sat him upon the 1best chariot that he had, save one: and they cried before him, 2Abrech, and placed him over all the land of Egypt. 44 Again Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in the land of Egypt. 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name 1Zaphnath-Paaneah: and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah 2Prince of On: then went Joseph abroad in the land of Egypt. 46 ¶ And Joseph was 1thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh King of Egypt: and Joseph departing from the presence of Pharaoh, went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth 1brought forth store. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven plenteous years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the

field, that was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 So Joseph gathered wheat, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: for it was without number. 50 Now unto Joseph were born ctwo sons (before the year of famine came) which Asenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah prince of On bare unto him. 51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labor and all my 1father's household. 52 Also he called the name of the second, Ephraim: For God, said he, hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction. 53 ¶ So the seven years of the plenty that was in the land of Egypt were ended. 54 dThen began the seven years of famine to come, according as Joseph had said: and the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt was 1bread. 55 At the length all the land of Egypt was famished, and the people cried unto Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he saith to you, do ye. 56 When the famine was upon all the land, Joseph opened all places, wherein the store was, and sold unto the Egyptians: for the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. 57 And all the countries 1came to Egypt to buy corn of Joseph, because the famine was sore in all lands. 42 3 Joseph's brethren come into Egypt to buy corn. 7 He knoweth them, and tryeth them. 24 Simeon is put in prison. 34 The others go to fetch Benjamin.

b Ps. 105:21

Acts 7:10

c Gen. 46:20

Gen. 48:5

d Ps. 105:16

chapter 42

a Acts 7:12

1 Then 1Jacob saw that there was 2food in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why 3gaze ye one upon another? 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is food in Egypt, aGet you down thither, and buy us food thence, that we may live and not die. 3 ¶ So went Joseph's ten brethren down to buy corn of the Egyptians. 4 But Benjamin Joseph's brother, would not Jacob

41:38 1 None should be preferred to honor that have not gifts of God meet for the same. 41:40 1 Hebrew, mouth. 2 Some read, the people shall kiss thy mouth, that is shall obey thee in all things. 41:42 1 Or, his signet. 41:43 1 Hebrew, second chariot. 2 In sign of honor: which word some expound, tender father, or father of the king, or kneel down. 41:45 1 Or, the expounder of secrets. 2 Or, priest. 41:46 1 His age is mentioned both to show that his authority came

of God, and also that he suffered imprisonment and exile twelve years and more. 41:47 1 Hebrew, made for gatherings. 41:51 1 Notwithstanding that his father's house was the true Church of God: yet the company of the wicked and prosperity caused him to forget it. 41:54 1 Or, food. 41:57 1 Or, came to Egypt to Joseph. 42:1 1 This story showeth plainly that all things are governed by God's providence for the profit of his Church. 2 Or, corn. 3 As men destitute of counsel.

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send with his brethren: for he said, Lest death should 1befall him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy food among them that came: for there was famine in the land of Canaan. 6 Now Joseph was governor of the land, who sold to all the people of the land: then Joseph's brethren came, and bowed their faces to the ground before him. 7 And when Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them, and 1made himself strange toward them, and spake to them roughly, and said unto them, Whence come ye? Who answered, Out of the land of Canaan, to buy vittles. 8 (Now Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. 9 And Joseph remembered the bdreams, which he dreamed of them) and he said unto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the 1weakness of the land. 10 But they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy vittles thy servants are come. 11 We are all one man's sons: we mean truly, and thy servants are no spies. 12 But he said unto them, Nay, but ye are come to see the weakness of the land. 13 And they said, We thy servants, are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan: and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one 1is not. 14 Again Joseph said unto them, This is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies. 15 Hereby ye shall be proved: 1by the life of Pharaoh, ye shall not go hence, except your youngest brother come hither. 16 Send one of you which may fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh ye are but spies. 17 So he put them in ward three days. 18 Then Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live: for I 1fear God. 19 If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison house, and go ye, carry food for the famine of your houses: 20 cBut bring your younger brother unto me, that your words may be tried, and that ye die not: and

they did so. 21 ¶ And they said one to another, 1We have verily sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Warned I not you, saying, dSin not against the child, and ye would not hear? and lo, his 1blood is now required. 23 (And they were not aware that Joseph understood them: for he 1spake unto them by an interpreter.) 24 Then he turned from them, and 1wept, and turned to them again, and communed with them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes. 25 ¶ So Joseph commanded that they should fill their sacks with wheat, and put every man's money again in his sack, and give them vittles for the journey: and thus did he unto them. 26 And they laid their vittles upon their asses, and departed thence. 27 And as one of them opened his sack for to give his ass provender in the Inn, he espied his money: for lo, it was in his sack's mouth. 28 Then he said unto his brethren, My money is restored: for lo, it is even in my sack. And their heart

b Gen. 37:5

c Gen. 35:5

d Gen. 37:21

1failed them, and they were 2astonished, and said one to another, What is this, that God hath done unto us? 29 ¶ And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying, 30 The man who is lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and put us in prison as spies of the country. 31 And we said unto him, We are true men, and are no spies. 32 We be twelve brethren, sons of our father: one 1is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. 33 Then the lord of the country said unto us, Hereby shall I know if ye be true men: Leave one of your brethren with me, and take food for the famine of your houses, and depart, 34 And bring your youngest brother unto me, that I may know that ye are no spies, but true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall occupy in the land. 35 ¶ And as they emptied their sacks, behold,

42:4 1 Hebrew, should meet him. 42:7 1 This dissembling is not to be followed, nor any particular facts of the fathers not approved by God's word. 42:9 1 Hebrew, nakedness, or, filthiness. 42:13 1 Or, is dead. 42:15 1 The Egyptians which were idolaters, used to swear by their king's life: but God forbiddeth to swear by any but him: yet Joseph dwelling among the wicked smelleth of their corruptions. 42:18 1 And therefore am true and just. 42:21 1 Affliction maketh men to acknowledge their faults, which

otherwise they would dissemble. 42:22 1 God will take vengeance upon us, and measure us with our own measure. 42:23 1 Hebrew, an interpreter between them. 42:24 1 Though he showed himself rigorous, yet his brotherly affec­ tion remained. 42:28 1 Hebrew, went out. 2 Because their conscience accused them of their sin, they thought God would have brought them to trouble by this money. 42:32 1 Or, cannot be found.

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every man's bundle of money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw the bundles of their money, they were afraid. 36 Then Jacob their father said to them, Ye have robbed me of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin: all these things 1are against 2me. 37 Then Reuben answered his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee again: deliver him to mine hand, and I will bring him to thee again. 38 But he said, My son shall not go down with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come unto him by the way which ye go, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave. 43 13 Jacob suffereth Benjamin to depart with his children. 14 Simeon is delivered out of prison. 30 Joseph goeth aside and weepeth.

require him. cIf I bring him not to thee, and set him before thee, 1then let me bear the blame forever. 10 For except we had made this tarrying, doubtless by this we had returned the second time. 11 Then their father Israel said unto them, If it must needs be so now, do thus: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels, and bring the man a present, a little rosin, and a little honey, 1spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds: 12 And take 1double money in your hand, and the money, that was brought again in your sacks' mouths carry it again in your hand, lest it were some oversight. 13 Take also your brother and arise, and go again to the man. 14 And 1God Almighty give you mercy in the sight of the man, that he may deliver you your other brother, and Benjamin: but I shall be 2robbed of my child, as I have been. 15 Thus the men took this present, and took twice so much money in their hand with Benjamin, and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph. 16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said 1to his steward, Bring these men home and kill meat, and make ready: for the men shall eat with me at noon. 17 And the men did as Joseph bade, and brought the men unto Joseph's house. 18 Now when the men were brought into Joseph's house, they were 1afraid, and said, Because of the money, that came in our sack's mouths at the first time, are we brought, that he may 2pick a quarrel against us, and 3lay something to our charge, and bring us in bondage and our asses. 19 Therefore came they to Joseph's steward, and communed with him at the door of his house, 20 And said, O sir, dwe came indeed down hither at the first time to buy food, 21 And as we came to an Inn and opened our sacks, behold, every man's money was in his sack's mouth, even our money in full weight, but we have brought it in our hands. 22 Also other money have we brought in our hands to buy food, but we cannot tell, who put our

chapter 43

a Gen. 42:20

b Gen. 42:20

c Gen. 44:32

d Gen. 42:3

1 Now great 1famine was in the land. 2 And when they had eaten up the vittles, which they had brought from Egypt, their father said unto them, Turn again and buy us a little food. 3 And Judah answered him, saying, The man charged us by an oath, saying, aNever see my face, except your brother be with you. 4 If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down, and buy thee food. 5 But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, bLook me not in the face, except your brother be with you. 6 And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so evil with me, as to tell the man, whether ye had yet a brother or no? 7 And they answered, The man asked straightly of 1ourselves and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye any brother? And we told him according to 1these words: could we know certainly that he would say, Bring your brother down? 8 Then said Judah to Israel his father, Send the boy with me, that we may rise and go, and that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and our children. 9 I will be surety for him: of mine hand shalt thou

42:36 1 Or, light upon me. 2 For they seemed not to be touched with any love toward their brethren which increased his sorrow: and partly as appeareth he sus­ pected them for Joseph. 43:1 1 This was a great tentation to Jacob to suffer so great famine in that land where God had promised to bless him. 43:7 1 Or, of our estate and condition. 2 Hebrew, to the mouth of these words: that is, that thing which he asked us. 43:9 1 Hebrew, I will sin to thee.

43:11 1 Or, sweet smells. 43:12 1 When we are in necessity or danger, God forbiddeth not to use all honest means to better our estate and condition. 43:14 1 Our chief trust ought to be in God, and not in worldly means. 2 He speaketh these words not so much of despair, as to make his sons more careful to bring again their brother. 43:16 1 Or, to the ruler of his house. 43:18 1 So the judgment of God pressed their conscience. 2 Hebrew, roll himself upon us. 3 Hebrew, cast himself upon us.

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money in our sacks. 23 And he said, 1Peace be to you, fear not: 2your God, and the God of your father hath given you that treasure in your sacks, I had your money: and he brought forth Simeon to them. 24 So the man led them into Joseph's house, and gave them water to wash their feet, and gave their asses provender. 25 And they made ready their present against Joseph came at noon, (for they heard say, that they should eat bread there.) 26 When Joseph came home, they brought the present into the house to him, which was in their hands, and bowed down to the ground before him. 27 And he asked them of their 1prosperity, and said, Is your father the old man, of whom ye told me, in good health? is he yet alive? 28 Who answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive: and they bowed down, and made obeisance. 29 And he lifting up his eyes, beheld his brother Benjamin, his 1mother's son, and said, Is this your younger brother of whom ye told me? And he said, God be merciful unto thee, my son. 30 And Joseph made haste (for his 1affection was inflamed toward his brother, and sought where to weep) and entered into his chamber and wept there. 31 Afterward he washed his face, and came out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on 1meat. 32 And they 1prepared for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews: for that was an 2abomination unto the Egyptians. 33 So they sat before him: the eldest according unto his age, and the youngest according unto his youth: and the men marveled among themselves. 34 And they took meats from before him, and sent to them: but Benjamin's meat was five times so much as any of theirs: and they drank, 1and had of the best drink with him. 44 15 Joseph accuseth his brother of theft. 33 Judah offereth himself to be servant for Benjamin.

1 Afterward he commanded his steward, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2 And 1put my cup, I mean, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the commandment that Joseph gave him. 3 And in the 1morning the men were sent away, they, and their asses. 4 And when they went out of the city not far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men: and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good? 5 Is not that the cup wherein my lord drinketh? 1and in the which he doth divine and prophesy? ye have done evil in so doing. 6 ¶ And when he overtook them, he said these words unto them. 7 And they answered him, Wherefore saith my lord such words? God forbid that thy servants should do such a thing. 8 Behold, the money which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? 9 With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. 10 And he said, Now then let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found, shall be my servant, and ye shall be 1blameless. 11 Then at once every man took down his sack to the ground, and everyone opened his sack. 12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. 13 Then they 1rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and went again into the city. 14 ¶ So Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house (for he was yet there) and they fell before him on the ground. 15 Then Joseph said unto them, What act is this, which ye have done? know ye not that such a man as I, can divine and prophesy? 16 Then said Judah, What shall we say unto my

43:23 1 Or, you are well. 2 Notwithstanding the corruptions of Egypt, yet Joseph taught his family to fear God. 43:27 1 Hebrew, peace. 43:29 1 For they two only were born of Rachel. 43:30 1 Hebrew, bowels. 43:31 1 Hebrew, bread. 43:32 1 To signify his dignity. 2 The nature of the superstitious is to condemn all others in respect of themselves. 43:34 1 Sometimes this word signifieth to be drunken, but here it is

meant, that they had enough, and drank of the best wine. 44:2 1 We may not by this example use any unlawful practices, see­ ing God hath commanded us to walk in simplicity. 44:3 1 Hebrew, the morning shone. 44:5 1 Because the people thought he could divine, he attrib­ut­ eth to himself that knowledge: or else he feigneth that he con­ sulted with soothsayers for it: Which simulation is worthy to be reproved. 44:10 1 Hebrew, innocent. 44:13 1 To signify how greatly the thing displeased them, and how sorry they were for it.

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lord? what shall we speak? and how can we justify ourselves? 1God hath found out the wickedness of thy servants: behold, we are servants to my lord, both we, and he, with whom the cup is found. 17 But he answered, God forbid, that I should do so, but the man, with whom the cup is found, he shall be my servant, and go ye in peace unto your father. 18 ¶ Then Judah drew near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant now speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thy wrath be kindled against thy servant: for thou art even 1as Pharaoh. 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, aHave ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we answered my lord, We have a father that is old, and a young 1child, which he begat in his age: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21 Now thou saidest unto thy servants, Bring him unto me, that I may 1set mine eye upon him. 22 And we answered my lord, The child cannot depart his father: for if he leave his father, his father would die. 23 Then saidest thou unto thy servants, bExcept your younger brother come down with you, look in my face no more. 24 So when we came unto thy servant our father, and showed him what my lord had said, 25 And our father said unto us, Go again, buy us a little food. 26 Then we answered, We cannot go down, but if our youngest brother 1go with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. 27 Then thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my 1wife bare me two sons. 28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Of a surety he is torn in cpieces, and I saw him not since. 29 Now ye take this also away from me: if death take him, then 1ye shall bring my gray head in sorrow to the grave. 30 Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the child be not with us (seeing that his 1life dependeth on the child's life.) 31 Then when he shall see that the child is not come, he will die: so shall thy servants bring down

the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32 Doubtless thy servant became surety for the child to my father, and, dIf I bring him not unto thee again, then I will bear the blame unto my father forever. 33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let me thy servant abide for the child, as a servant to my lord, and let the child go up with his brethren. 34 For 1how can I go up to my father: if the child be not with me, unless I would see the evil that shall come on my father. 45 1 Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren. 8 He showeth that all was done by God's providence. 18 Pharaoh commandeth him to send for his father. 24 Joseph exhorteth his brethren to concord.

chapter 44

a Gen. 42:13,16

b Gen. 43:3

c Gen. 37:33

d Gen. 43:9

chapter 45

a Acts 7:13

b Gen. 50:20

1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all that stood by him, but he cried, 1Have forth every man from me. And there tarried not one with him, while Joseph uttered himself unto his brethren. 2 And he wept, and cried, so that the Egyptians heard: the house of Pharaoh heard also. 3 Then Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph: doth my father yet live? But his brethren could not answer him, for they were astonished at his presence. 4 Again, Joseph said to his brethren, Come near, I pray you, to me. And they came near. And he said, aI am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. 5 Now therefore be not 1sad, neither grieved with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: bFor God did send me before you for your preservation. 6 For now two years of famine have been through the land, and five years are behind, wherein neither shall be earing nor harvest. 7 Wherefore God sent me before you to preserve your posterity in this land, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 8 Now then you sent not me hither, but 1God, who hath made me a father unto Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. 9 Haste you and go up to my father, and tell him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord

44:30 1 Hebrew, his soul is bound to his soul. 44:34 1 Meaning, he had rather remain their prisoner, than to return and see his father in heaviness. 45:1 1 Not that he was ashamed of his kindred, but that he would cover his brethren's fault. 45:5 1 This example teacheth that we must by all means comfort them, which are truly humbled and wounded for their sins. 45:8 1 Albeit God detest sin, yet he turneth man's wickedness to serve to his glory.

44:16 1 If we see no evident cause of our affliction, let us look to the secret counsel of God, who punisheth us justly for our sins. 44:18 1 Equal in authority or, next unto the king. 44:20 1 Hebrew, child of his old age. 44:21 1 Or, that I may see him. 44:26 1 Hebrew, be with us. 44:27 1 Rachel bare to Jacob, Joseph and Benjamin. 44:29 1 Ye shall cause me to die for sorrow.

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26 And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he also is governor over all the land of Egypt, and Jacob's heart 1failed: for he believed them not. 27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: but when he saw the chariots, which Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived. 28 And Israel said, I have enough: Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him yet I die. 46 2 God assureth Jacob of his journey into Egypt. 27 The number of his family when he went into Egypt. 29 Joseph meeteth his father. 34 He teacheth his brethren what to answer to Pharaoh.

of all Egypt: come down to me, tarry not. 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and shalt be near me, thou and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy sheep, and thy beasts, and all that thou hast. 11 Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remain five years of famine) lest thou perish through poverty, thou and thy household, and all that thou hast. 12 And behold, your eyes do see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that 1my mouth speaketh to you. 13 Therefore tell my father of all mine honor in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen, and make haste, and bring my father hither. 14 Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. 15 Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and afterward his brethren talked with him. 16 ¶ And the 1tidings came to Pharaoh's house, so that they said, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to thy brethren, This do ye, laid your beasts and depart, go to the land of Canaan, 18 And take your father, and your household, and come to me, and I will give you the 1best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat of the 2fat of the land. 19 And I command thee, Thus do ye, take you chariots out of the land of Egypt for your children, and for your wives, and bring your father and come. 20 Also 1regard not your stuff: for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours. 21 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them chariots according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he gave them vittles also for the journey. 22 He gave them all, none except, change of raiment: but unto Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five suits of raiment. 23 And unto his father 1likewise he sent ten he asses laden with the best things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with wheat, and bread and meat for his father by the way. 24 So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, 1Fall not out by the way. 25 Then they went up from Egypt, and came unto the land of Canaan, unto Jacob their father,

chapter 46

a Josh. 24:4

Ps. 105:23

Isa. 52:4

b Exod. 1:2

Exod. 6:24 Num. 26:5 1 Chron. 5:1

c Exod. 6:15 1 Chron. 4:24

d 1 Chron. 6:1

1 Then Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and 1offered sacrifice unto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Jacob, Jacob. Who answered, I am here. 3 Then he said, I am God, the God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation. 4 I will 1go down with thee into Egypt, and I will also 2bring thee up again, and Joseph shall 3put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 Then Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their children, and their wives in the chariots, which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both aJacob and all his seed with him. 7 His sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt. 8 ¶ And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, even Jacob and his sons: bReuben, Jacob's firstborn. 9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10 ¶ And the sons of cSimeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. 11 ¶ Also the sons of dLevi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

45:12 1 That is, that I speak in your own language, and have none interpreter. 45:16 1 Hebrew, voice. 45:18 1 The most plentiful ground. 2 The chiefest fruits and commodities. 45:20 1 Hebrew, let not your eyes spare your vessel. 45:23 1 Or, he sent as much, to wit, silver as verse 22, and ten asses. 45:24 1 Seeing he had remitted the fault done toward him, he would

not that they should accuse one another. 45:26 1 As one between hope and fear. 46:1 1 Whereby he both signifieth, that he worshipped the true God, and also that he kept in his heart the possession of that land from whence present necessity drove him. 46:4 1 Conducting thee by my power. 2 In thy posterity. 3 Shall shut thine eyes when thou diest: which appertained to him that was most dearest, or chief of the kindred.

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12 ¶ Also the sons of eJudah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah: (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.) And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 ¶ Also the sons of fIssachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Job, and Shimron. 14 ¶ Also the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel. 15 These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the 1souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three. 16 Also the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 ¶ Also the sons of gAsher: Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: and Heber, Malchiel. 18 These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter: and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls. 19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife were Joseph, and Benjamin. 20 ¶ And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh, and Ephraim, which hAsenath the daughter of Poti-Pherah prince of On bare unto him. 21 ¶ Also the sons of iBenjamin: Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, and Gera, Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born unto Jacob, fourteen souls in all. 23 ¶ Also the sons of Dan: Hushim. 24 ¶ Also the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob, in all seven souls. 26 All the jsouls, that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his 1loins (besides Jacob's sons' wives) were in the whole, threescore and six souls. 27 Also the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: so that all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, are seventy. 28 ¶ Then he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to 1direct his way unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 Then Joseph 1made ready his chariot, and went

up to Goshen to meet Israel his father, and presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck and wept upon his neck a 2good while. 30 And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die since I have seen thy face, and that thou art yet alive. 31 Then Joseph said to his brethren, and to his father's house, I will go up and show Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me. 32 And the men are 1sheepherders, and because they are sheepherders, they have brought their sheep and their cattle, and all that they have. 33 And if Pharaoh call you, and ask you, What is your trade? 34 That ye shall say, Thy servants are men occupied about cattle, from our childhood even unto this time, both we and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen: for every sheep keeper is an 1abomination unto the Egyptians. 47 7 Jacob cometh before Pharaoh, and telleth him his age. 11 The land of Goshen is given him. 22 The idolatrous priests have living of the King. 28 Jacob's age when he dieth.

e 1 Chron. 2:3

1 Chron. 9:21 Gen. 38:3

f 1 Chron. 7:1

g 2 Chron. 7:30

h Gen. 41:50

i 1 Chron. 7:6

1 Chron. 8:1

j Deut. 10:25

1 Then came Joseph and told Pharaoh, and said, My father, and my brethren, and their sheep, and their cattle, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan, and behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And Joseph took part of his brethren, even 1five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 When Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come: for thy servants have no pasture for their sheep, so sore is the famine in the land of Canaan, Now therefore, we pray thee: let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. 5 Then spake Pharaoh to Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee. 6 The 1land of Egypt is before thee: in the best place of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell: let them dwell in the land of Goshen: and if thou knowest that there be men of activity among them, make them rulers over my cattle. 7 Joseph also brought Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob 1saluted Pharaoh.

46:15 1 Or, persons. 46:26 1 Hebrew, thighs. 46:28 1 Or, to prepare him a place. 46:29 1 Hebrew, bound his chariot. 2 Hebrew, yet, or still. 46:32 1 He was not ashamed of his father and kindred, though they were of base condition.

46:34 1 God suffereth the world to hate his, that they may forsake the filth of the world, and cleave to him. 47:2 1 That the king might be assured they were come, and see what manner of people they were. 47:6 1 Joseph's great modesty appeareth in that he would enter­ prise nothing without the king's commandment. 47:7 1 Hebrew, blessed.

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8 Then Pharaoh said unto Jacob, 1How old art thou? 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The whole time of my apilgrimage is an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of my life been, and I have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimages. 10 And Jacob 1took leave of Pharaoh, and departed from the presence of Pharaoh. 11 ¶ And Joseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gave them possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, even in the land of 1Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 ¶ And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household with bread 1even to the young children. 13 ¶ Now there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan were 1famished by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered all the money, that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought, and 1Joseph laid up the money in Pharaoh's house. 15 So when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, then all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said, Give us bread: for why should we die before thee? for our money is spent. 16 Then said Joseph, Bring your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if your money be spent. 17 So they brought their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread for the horses, and for the flocks of sheep, and for the herds of cattle, and for the asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year. 18 But when the year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, that since our money is spent, and my lord hath the herds of the cattle, there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our ground. 19 Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we and our 1land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bound to Pharaoh: therefore give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land go not to waste.

20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians sold every man his ground, because the famine was sore upon them: so the land became Pharaoh's. 21 And he 1removed the people unto the cities, 2from one side of Egypt even to the other. 22 Only the land of the Priests bought he not: for the Priests had an ordinary of Pharaoh, and they did eat their ordinary, which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their ground. 23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day, and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you: sow therefore the ground. 24 And of the increase ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be yours for seed of the field, and for your meat, and for them of your households, and for your children to eat. 25 Then they answered, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. 26 Then Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, 1except the land of the Priests only, which was not Pharaoh's. 27 ¶ And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen: and they had their possessions therein, and grew and multiplied exceedingly. 28 Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. 29 Now when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If I have now found grace in thy sight, bput thine hand now under my thigh, and deal mercifully and truly with me: bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. 30 But when I shall 1sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial. And he answered, I will do as thou hast said. 31 Then he said, swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel 1worshipped towards the bed's head. 48 1 Joseph with his two sons visiteth his sick father. 3 Jacob rehearseth God's promise. 5 He receiveth Joseph's sons as his. 19 He preferreth the younger.

chapter 47

a Heb. 11:9,13

b Gen. 24:2

1 Again after this, one said to Joseph, Lo, thy

47:8 1 Hebrew, how many days are the years of thy life? 47:10 1 Hebrew, blessed. 47:11 1 Which was a city in the country of Goshen, Exod. 1:11. 47:12 1 Some read, that he fed them as little babes, because they could not provide for themselves against that famine. 47:13 1 Hebrew, brought to an extremity, or at their wit's end. 47:14 1 Wherein he both declareth his fidelity toward the King, and his mind free from covetousness. 47:19 1 For except the ground be tilled and sown, it perisheth, and is as it were dead.

47:21 1 By this changing they signified that they had nothing of their own, but received all of the king's liberality. 2 Hebrew, end of the border. 47:26 1 Pharaoh in providing for Idolatrous priests, shall be a con­ demnation to all them which neglect the true ministers of God's word. 47:30 1 Hereby he protested that he died in the faith of his fathers, teaching his children to hope for the promised land. 47:31 1 He rejoiced that Joseph had promised him, and setting him­ self up upon his pillow, praised God. Read 1 Chron. 29:10.

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15 ¶ dAlso he blesseth Joseph, and said, The God, before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which hath fed me all my life long, unto this day, bless thee. 16 The 1Angel, which hath delivered me from all evil, bless the children, and let my 2name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, that they may grow as fish into a multitude in the midst of the earth. 17 But when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it 1displeased him: and he stayed his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the eldest: put thy right hand upon his head. 19 But his father refused, and said, I know well, my son, I know well: he shall be also a people, and he shall be great likewise: but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be full of nations. 20 So he blessed them that day, and said, In thee Israel shall bless, and say, God make thee as 1Ephraim and as Manasseh, and he set Ephraim before Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die, and God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of 1your fathers. 22 Moreover, I have given unto thee one portion above thy brethren, which 1I got out of the hand of the Amorite by my esword and by my bow. 49 1 Jacob blesseth all his sons by name. 10 He telleth them that Christ shall come out of Judah. 29 He will be buried with his fathers. 33 He dieth.

father is sick: then he took with him his 1two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 Also one told Jacob, and said, Behold thy son Joseph is come to thee, and Israel took his strength unto him and sat upon the bed. 3 Then Jacob said unto Joseph, God 1almighty appeared unto me at aLuz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and will multiply thee, and will make a great number of people of thee, and will give this land unto thy seed after thee for an 1everlasting possession. 5 ¶ And now thy btwo sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, which are born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came to thee into Egypt, shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are mine. 6 But thy lineage, which thou hast begotten after them, shall be thine: they shall be called after the names of their brethren in their inheritance. 7 Now when I came from Padan, Rachel cdied upon mine hand in the land of Canaan, by the way when there was but half a day's journey of ground to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath: the same is Bethlehem. 8 Then Israel beheld Joseph's sons and said, Whose are these? 9 And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, which 1God hath given me here. Then he said, I pray thee, bring them to me, that I may bless them: 10 ( For the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not well see) Then he caused them to come to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. 11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to have seen thy face: yet lo, God hath showed me also thy seed. 12 And Joseph took them away from his knees, and did reverence 1down to the ground. 13 Then took Joseph them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, so he brought them unto him. 14 But Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on 1Ephraim's head which was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head (directing his hands of purpose) for Manasseh was the elder.

chapter 48

a Gen. 28:13

b Gen. 41:50

c Gen. 35:19

d Heb. 11:21

e Gen. 34:25

chapter 49

a Gen. 32:22

1 Chron. 5:1

1 Then Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall come to you in the 1last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father. 3 ¶ Reuben mine eldest son, thou art my 1might, and the beginning of my strength, 2the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: 4 Thou wast light as water: thou shalt not be excellent, because athou wentest up to thy father's

48:1 1 Joseph more esteemeth that his children should be received into Jacob's family, which was the Church of God, than to enjoy all the treasures of Egypt. 48:3 1 Or, all sufficient. 48:4 1 Which is true in the carnal Israel unto the coming of Christ, and in the spiritual forever. 48:9 1 The faithful acknowledge all benefits come of God's free mercies. 48:12 1 Hebrew, his face to the ground. 48:14 1 God's judgments is oft times contrary to man's, and he pre­ ferreth that, which man despiseth.

48:16 1 This Angel must be understood of Christ, as Gen. 31:13 and 32:1. 2 Let them be taken as my children. 48:17 1 Joseph faileth in binding God's grace to the order of nature. 48:20 1 In whom God's graces should manifestly appear. 48:21 1 Which they had by faith in the promise. 48:22 1 By my children whom God spared for my sake. 49:1 1 When God shall bring you out of Egypt, and because that he speaketh of the Messiah, he nameth it the last days. 49:3 1 Begotten in my youth. 2 If thou hadst not lost thy birthright by thine offense.

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bed: 1then diddest thou defile my bed, thy dignity is gone. 5 ¶ Simeon and Levi, brethren in evil, 1the instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 Into their secret let not my soul come: my 1glory be not thou joined with their assembly: for in their wrath they slew a 2man, and in their self-will they dug down a wall. 7 Cursed be their wrath, for it was fierce, and their rage, for it was cruel: I will 1divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel. 8 ¶ Thou Judah, thy brethren shall praise thee: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies: thy father's son shall 1bow down before unto thee. 9 Judah as a Lion's whelp shalt thou come up from the spoil, my son. He shall lie down and couch a Lion, and as a Lioness: 1Who shall stir him up? 10 The 1Sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until 2Shiloh come, and the people shall be gathered unto him. 11 He shall bind his Ass foal unto the 1vine, and his ass's colt unto the best vine. He shall wash his garment in wine, and his cloak in the blood of grapes. 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk. 13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell by the seaside, and he shall be an haven for ships: and his border shall be unto Sidon. 14 ¶ Issachar shall be 1,2a strong ass, couching down between two burdens: 15 And he shall see that rest is good, and that the land is pleasant, and he shall bow his shoulder to bear, and shall be subject unto tribute. 16 ¶ Dan 1shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan shall be a 1serpent by the way, an adder by the path, biting the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. 18 1O Lord, I have waited for thy salvation. 19 ¶ Gad, a host of men shall overcome him, but

he shall overcome at the last. 20 ¶ Concerning Asher, his 1bread shall be fat, and he shall give pleasures for a king. 21 ¶ Naphtali shall be a hind let go, giving 1goodly words. 22 ¶ Joseph shall be 1a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by the well side: the 2small boughs shall turn upon the wall: 23 1And the archers grieved him, and shot against him, and hated him. 24 But his bow abode strong, and the hands of his arms were strengthened, by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob, of whom was the feeder appointed by the 1stone of Israel, 25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the almighty, who shall bless thee with heavenly blessings from above, with blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 26 The blessings of thy father shall be 1stronger than the blessings of mine elders: unto the end of the hills of the world they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him that was 2separated from his brethren. 27 ¶ Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil. 28 ¶ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and thus their father spake unto them, and blessed them: every one of them blessed he with a several blessing. 29 And he charged them and said unto them, I am ready to be gathered unto my people: bbury me with my fathers in the cave, that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, besides Mamre in the land of Canaan: which cave Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife: there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife:

b Gen. 47:30

49:4 1 Or, it ceased to be my bed. 49:5 1 Or, their swords were instruments of violence. 49:6 1 Or, tongue: meaning that he neither consented to them in word nor thought. 2 The Shechemites, Gen. 34:26. 49:7 1 For Levi had no part, and Simeon was under Judah, Josh. 19:1, till God gave them the place of the Amalekites, 1 Chron. 4:43. 49:8 1 As was verified in David and Christ. 49:9 1 His enemies shall so fear him. 49:10 1 Or, Kingdom. 2 Which is Christ the Messiah, the giver of prosperity who shall call the Gentiles to salvation. 49:11 1 A country most abundant with vines and pastures is prom­ ised him. 49:14 1 Hebrew, an ass of great bones.

2 His force shall be great, but he shall want courage to resist his enemies. 49:16 1 Shall have the honor of a tribe. 49:17 1 That is, full of subtlety. 49:18 1 Seeing the miseries that his posterity should fall into, he bursteth out in prayer to God to remedy it. 49:20 1 He shall abound in corn and pleasant fruits. 49:21 1 Overcoming more by fair words than by force. 49:22 1 Hebrew, a son of increase. 2 Hebrew, daughters. 49:23 1 As his brethren when they were his enemies, Potiphar and others. 49:24 1 That is God. 49:26 1 Inasmuch as he was more near to the accomplishment of the promise, and it had been more often confirmed. 2 Either in dignity, or when he was sold from his brethren.

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and there I buried Leah. 32 The purchase of the field and the cave that is therein, was bought of the children of Heth. 33 Thus Jacob made an end of giving charge to his sons, and 1plucked his feet into the bed, and gave up the ghost, and was gathered to his people. 50 1 Jacob is buried. 19 Joseph forgiveth his brethren. 23 He seeth his children's children. 26 He dieth.

commanded them: 13 bFor his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which cave cAbraham bought with the field, to be a 1place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite beside Mamre. 14 ¶ Then Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after that he had buried his father. 15 And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, 1It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will pay us again all the evil which we did unto him. 16 Therefore they sent unto Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying, 17 Thus shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive now, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin: for they rewarded thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of thy father's 1God. And Joseph wept, when 2they spake unto him. 18 Also his brethren came unto him, and fell down before his face, and said, Behold, we be thy servants. 19 To whom Joseph said, dFear not: for 1am not I under 2God? 20 When ye thought evil against me, God disposed it to good, that he might bring to pass, as it is this day, and save much people alive. 21 Fear not now therefore, I will nourish you, and your children: and he comforted them, and spake 1kindly unto them. 22 ¶ So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an 1hundred and ten years. 23 eAnd Joseph saw Ephraim's children, even unto the third generation: also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought upon Joseph's knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, fI am ready to die, and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, g,1God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry my bones hence. 26 So Joseph died, when he was an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and put him in a chest in Egypt.

chapter 50

a Gen. 47:29

b Acts 7:26

c Gen. 23:16

d Gen. 45:5

e Num. 32:39

f Heb. 11:22

g Exod. 13:19

1 Then Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him, and kissed him. 2 And Joseph commanded his servants the 1physicians to embalm his father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 So forty days were accomplished (for so long did the days of them that were embalmed last) and the Egyptians bewailed him 1seventy days. 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I have now found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears, of Pharaoh, and say, 5 My father made me aswear saying, Lo, I die, bury me in my grave, which I have made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. 6 Then Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, 1as he made thee to swear. 7 ¶ So Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh, both the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 Likewise all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their children, and their sheep, and their cattle left they in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and they were an exceeding great company. 10 And they came to 1Goren Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they made a great and exceeding sore lamentation: and he mourned for his father seven days. 11 And when the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land saw the mourning in Goren Atad, they said, This is a great mourning unto the Egyptians: wherefore the name thereof was called 1Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. 12 So his sons did unto him, according as he had

49:33 1 Whereby is signified how quietly he died. 50:2 1 He meaneth them that embalmed the dead and buried them. 50:3 1 They were more excessive in lamenting than the faithful. 50:6 1 The very infidels would have oaths performed. 50:10 1 Or, the corn floor of Atad. 50:11 1 Or, the lamentation of the Egyptians. 50:13 1 Or, a possession. 50:15 1 An evil conscience is never fully at rest. 50:17 1 Meaning, that they which have one God should be joined

in most sure love. 2 Or, the messenger. 50:19 1 Or, am I in God's stead, meaning to take vengeance. 2 Who by the good success seemeth to remit it, and therefore it ought not to be revenged by me. 50:21 1 Hebrew, to their heart. 50:22 1 Who, notwithstanding he bare rule in Egypt about fourscore years, yet was joined with the church of God in faith and religion. 50:25 1 He speaketh this by the spirit of prophecy, exhorting his brethren to have full trust in God's promise for their deliverance.

T h e s e c o n d b o o k o f m o s e s ,

c a l l e d e x o d u s

1 2 The children of Jacob that came into Egypt. 8 The new Pharaoh oppresseth them. 12 The providence of God toward them. 15 The King's commandment to the midwives. 22 The sons of the Hebrews are commanded to be cast into the river.

grieved against the children of Israel. 13 Wherefore the Egyptians by cruelty caused the children of Israel to serve. 14 Thus they made them weary of their lives by sore labor in clay and in brick, and in all work in the field, with all manner of bondage, 1which they laid upon them most cruelly. 15 ¶ Moreover the King of Egypt commanded the midwives of the Hebrew women (of which the one's name was 1Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah) 16 And said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the women of the Hebrews, and see them on their 1stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then let her live. 17 Notwithstanding the midwives feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commanded them, but preserved alive the men children. 18 Then the King of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done thus, and have preserved alive the men children? 19 And the midwives answered Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew 1women are not as the women of Egypt: for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come at them. 20 God therefore prospered the midwives, and the people multiplied, and were very mighty. 21 And because the midwives feared God, therefore he 1made them houses. 22 Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every man-child that is born, 1cast ye into the river, but reserve every maid-child alive. 2 2 Moses is born and cast into the flags. 5 He is taken up of Pharaoh's daughter and kept. 12 He killeth

chapter 1

a Gen. 46:8

b Gen. 26:27

Deut. 10:22

c Acts 7:17

1 Now a,1these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt (every man and his household came thither with Jacob) 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. 5 So all the 1souls, that came out of the loins of Jacob, were bseventy souls: Joseph was in Egypt already. 6 Now Joseph died and all his brethren, and that whole generation. 7 ¶ And the cchildren of Israel 1brought forth fruit and increased in abundance, and were multiplied, and were exceeding mighty, so that the 2land was full of them. 8 Then there rose up a new King in Egypt, who 1knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are greater, and mightier than we. 10 Come, let us work wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that if there be war, they join themselves also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and 1,2get them out of the land. 11 Therefore did they set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burdens: and they built the cities Pithom and Raamses for the 1treasures of Pharaoh. 12 But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grew: therefore 1they were more

1:1 1 Moses describeth the wonderful order that God observeth in performing his promise to Abraham, Gen. 15:14. 1:5 1 Or, persons. 1:7 1 Or, did grow. 2 He meaneth the country of Goshen. 1:8 1 He considered not how God had preserved Egypt for Joseph's sake. 1:10 1 Into Canaan, and so we shall lose our commodity. 2 Or, go up out of the land. 1:11 1 Or, corn and provision.

1:12 1 The more that God blesseth his, the more doth the wicked envy them. 1:14 1 Hebrew, wherewith they served themselves of them by cruelty. 1:15 1 These seem to have been the chief of the rest. 1:16 1 Or, seats whereupon they sat in travail. 1:19 1 Their disobedience herein was lawful, but their dissembling evil. 1:21 1 That is, God increased the families of the Israelites by their means. 1:22 1 When tyrants cannot prevail by craft, they burst forth into open rage.

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1feared and said, Certainly this thing is known. 15 Now Pharaoh heard this matter, and sought to slay Moses: therefore Moses fled from Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. 16 And the 1Priest of Midian had seven daughters, which came and drew water, and filled the troughs, for to water their father's sheep. 17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses rose up, and 1defended them, and watered their sheep. 18 And when they came to Reuel their 1father, he said, How are ye come so soon today? 19 And they said, A man of Egypt delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and also drew us water enough, and watered the sheep. 20 Then he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why have ye so left the man? 1call him that he may eat bread. 21 And Moses agreed to dwell with the man: who gave unto Moses Zipporah his daughter: 22 And she bare a son, bwhose name he called Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land. 23 ¶ Then in process of time, the King of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed for the bondage and 1cried: and their cry for the bondage came up unto God. 24 Then God heard their moan, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 25 So God looked upon the children of Israel, and God 1had respect unto them. 3 1 Moses keepeth sheep, and God appeareth unto him in a bush. 10 He sendeth him to deliver the children of Israel. 14 The name of God.

the Egyptian. 15 He fleeth and marrieth a wife. 23 The Israelites cry unto the Lord.

chapter 2

a Num. 26:59 1 Chron. 23:13 Acts 7:20 Heb. 11:23

1 Then there went a 1man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived and bare a son: and when she saw that he was fair, ashe hid him three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark made of reed, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and 1laid the child therein, and put it among the bulrushes by the river's brink. 4 Now his sister stood afar off, to wit what would come of him. 5 ¶ Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash her in the river, and her maidens walked by the river's side: and when she saw the ark among the bulrushes, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6 Then she opened it, and saw it was a child, and behold, the babe wept: so she had compassion on it, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. 7 Then said his sister unto Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call unto thee a nurse of the Hebrew women to nurse thee the child? 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. So the maid went and called the 1child's mother. 9 To whom Pharaoh's daughter said, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will reward thee. Then the woman took the child, and nursed him. 10 Now the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he was as her son, and she called his name Moses, because, said she, I drew him out of the water. 11 ¶ And in those days, when Moses was 1grown, he went forth unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: also he saw an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew one of his brethren. 12 And he looked 1round about, and when he saw no man, he 2slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13 Again he came forth the second day, and behold two Hebrews strove: and he said unto him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14 And he answered, Who made thee a man of authority, and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Then Moses

b Exod. 18:3

chapter 3

a Acts 7:30

1 When Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his fatherin-law, Priest of Midian, and drove the flock to the 1back side of the desert, and came to the 2Mountain of God, 3Horeb, 2 Then the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him ain a flame of fire out of the midst of a 1bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

2:1 1 This Levite was called Amram, who married Jochebed, Exod. 6:20. 2:3 1 Committing him to the providence of God, whom she could not keep from the rage of the tyrant. 2:8 1 Man's counsel cannot hinder that, which God hath determined shall come to pass. 2:11 1 That is, was forty years old, Acts 7:23. 2:12 1 Hebrew, thus and thus. 2 Being assured that God had appointed him to deliver the Isra­ elites, Acts 7:25. 2:14 1 Though by his fear he showed his infirmity, yet faith covered it, Heb. 11:27. 2:16 1 Or, prince.

2:17 1 Hebrew, saved them. 2:18 1 Or, grandfather. 2:20 1 Wherein he declared a thankful mind, which would recom­ pense the benefit done unto his. 2:23 1 God humbleth his by afflictions, that they should cry unto him, and receive the fruit of his promise. 2:25 1 He judgeth their causes or acknowledged them to be his. 3:1 1 Or, far within the desert. 2 It was so called after the law was given. 3 Called also Sinai. 3:2 1 This signifieth that the Church is not consumed by the fire of affliction, because God is in the midst thereof.

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3 Therefore Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush burneth not. 4 And when the 1Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he answered, I am here. 5 Then he said, Come not hither, 1put thy shoes off thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is 2holy ground. 6 Moreover he said, bI am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses hid his face: for he was 1afraid to look upon God. 7 ¶ Then the Lord said, I have surely seen the trouble of my people, which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, because of their 1taskmasters: for I know their sorrows. 8 Therefore I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good land and a large, into a land that 1floweth with milk and honey, even into the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 1And now lo, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me, and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 ¶ But Moses said unto God, Who am 1I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he answered, 1Certainly 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. 13 Then Moses said unto God, Behold, when I shall come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you: if they say unto me, What is his Name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God answered Moses, I 1AM THAT I AM. Also he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

15 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 forever, and this is my memorial unto all ages. 16 Go and gather the Elders of Israel together, and thou shalt say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob appeared unto me, and said, 1I have surely remembered you, and that which is done to you in Egypt. 17 Therefore I did say, I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land that floweth with milk and honey. 18 Then shall they obey my voice, and thou and the Elders of Israel shall go unto the King of Egypt, and say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath 1met with us: we pray thee now therefore, let us go three days' journey in the wilderness, that we may 2sacrifice unto the Lord our God. 19 ¶ But I know, that the King of Egypt will not let you go, but by strong hand. 20 Therefore will I stretch out mine hand and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that shall he let you go. 21 And I will make this people to be favored of the Egyptians: so that when ye go, ye shall not go empty. 22 1,cFor every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her 2that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment, and ye shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters, and shall spoil the Egyptians. 4 3 Moses' rod is turned into a serpent. 6 His hand is leprous. 9 The water of the river is turned into blood. 14 Aaron is given to help Moses. 21 God hardeneth Pharaoh. 25 Moses' wife circumciseth her son.

b Matt. 22:32

Acts 7:32

c Exod. 11:2

Exod. 12:35

1 Then Moses answered, and said, 1But lo, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. 2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in

3:4 1 Whom he calleth the Angel, verse 2. 3:5 1 Resign thyself up to me, Ruth 4:7; Josh. 5:15. 2 Because of my presence. 3:6 1 For sin causeth man to fear God's justice. 3:7 1 Whose cruelty was intolerable. 3:8 1 Most plentiful of all things. 3:9 1 He heard before, but now he would revenge it. 3:11 1 He doth not fully disobey God, but acknowledgeth his own weakness. 3:12 1 Neither fear thine own weakness, nor Pharaoh's tyranny. 3:14 1 The God which ever have been, am, and shall be: the God

almighty, by whom all things have their being, and the God of mercy, mindful of my promise, Rev. 1:8. 3:16 1 Hebrew, in visiting have visited. 3:18 1 Or, appeared unto us. 2 Because Egypt was full of idolatry, God would appoint them a place where they should serve him purely. 3:22 1 This example may not be followed generally: though at God's com­ mandment they did it justly, receiving some recompense of their labors. 2 Or, in whose house she sojourneth. 4:1 1 God beareth with Moses' doubting, because he was not alto­ gether without faith.

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that he himself shall speak? for lo, he cometh also forth to meet thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 15 Therefore thou shalt speak unto him, and 1put the words in his mouth, and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye ought to do. 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be as thy mouth, and thou shalt be to him as b,1God. 17 Moreover thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do miracles. 18 ¶ Therefore Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, I pray thee, let me go, and return to my 1brethren, which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. Then Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 19 (For the Lord had said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt: for they are all dead which 1went about to kill thee.) 20 Then Moses took his wife and his sons, and 1put them on an ass, and returned toward the land of Egypt, and Moses took the 2rod of God in his hand. 21 And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou art entered and come into Egypt again, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will 1harden his heart, and he shall not let the people go. 22 Then thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my 1firstborn. 23 Wherefore I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn. 24 ¶ And as he was by the way in the Inn, the Lord met him, and 1would have killed him. 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp knife, and 1cut away the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Thou art indeed a bloody husband unto me. 26 So 1he departed from him. Then she said, O bloody husband (because of the circumcision). 27 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Aaron, Go meet

thine hand? And he answered, A rod. 3 Then said he, Cast it on the ground. So he cast it on the ground, and it was turned into a serpent: and Moses fled from it. 4 Again the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. Then he put forth his hand and caught it, and it was turned into a rod in his hand. 5 Do this 1that 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. 6 ¶ And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Thrust now thine hand into thy bosom. And he thrust his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out again, behold his hand was 1leprous as snow. 7 Moreover he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. So 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. 8 So shall it be, if they will not believe thee, neither obey 1the voice of the first sign, yet shall they believe for the voice of the second sign. 9 But if they will not yet believe these two signs, neither obey unto thy voice, then shalt thou take of the 1water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: so the water which thou shalt take out of the river, shall be turned to blood upon the dry land. 10 ¶ But Moses said unto the Lord, Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent, 1neither at any time have been, nor yet since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am 2slow of speech and slow of tongue. 11 Then the Lord said unto him, Who hath given the mouth to man? or who hath made the dumb, or the deaf, or him that seeth, or the blind? have not I the Lord? 12 Therefore go now, and aI will be with thy mouth, and will teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 But he said, Oh my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the 1hand of him, whom thou 2shouldest send. 14 Then the Lord was 1very angry with Moses, and said, Do not I know Aaron thy brother the Levite,

chapter 4

a Matt. 10:19

Matt. 12:22

b Exod. 7:1

4:5 1 This power to work miracles was to confirm his doctrine, and to assure him of his vocation. 4:6 1 Or, white as snow. 4:8 1 Or, the words confirmed by the first sign. 4:9 1 Because these three signs should be sufficient witnesses to prove that Moses should deliver God's people. 4:10 1 Hebrew, from yesterday, and ere yesterday. 2 Hebrew, heavy of mouth. 4:13 1 Or, ministry. 2 That is, the Messiah: or some other, that is more meet than I. 4:14 1 Though we provoke God justly to anger, yet he will never reject his. 4:15 1 Thou shalt instruct him what to say.

4:16 1 Meaning, as a wise counselor and full of God's spirit. 4:18 1 Or, kinsfolk, and lineage. 4:19 1 Hebrew, sought thy soul. 4:20 1 Hebrew, caused them to ride. 2 Whereby he wrought the miracles. 4:21 1 By receiving my spirit and delivering him unto Satan to increase his malice. 4:22 1 Meaning, most dear unto him. 4:24 1 God punished him with sickness for neglecting his Sacra­ ment. 4:25 1 This act was extraordinary: for Moses was sore sick, and God even then required it. 4:26 1 Or, the Angel.

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Moses in the wilderness. And he went and met him in the 1Mount of God, and kissed him. 28 Then Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord, who had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had charged him. 29 ¶ So went Moses and Aaron, and gathered all the elders of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron told all the words, which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and he did the miracles in the sight of the people. 31 And the 1people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and had looked upon their tribulation, they bowed down, and worshipped. 5 1 Moses and Aaron do their message unto Pharaoh, who oppresseth the people of Israel more and more. 20 They cry out upon Moses and Aaron therefore, and Moses complaineth unto God.

saying, Let us go to offer sacrifice unto our God. 9 1Lay more work upon the men, and cause them to do it, and let them not regard 2vain words. 10 ¶ Then went the taskmasters of the people and their officers out, and told the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will give you no more straw. 11 Go yourselves, get ye straw where ye can find it, yet shall nothing of your labor be diminished. 12 Then were the people scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt, for to gather stubble instead of straw. 13 And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Finish your day's work 1every day's task, as ye did when ye had straw. 14 And the Officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your [task] in making brick yesterday and today, as in times past? 15 ¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus thy servants? 16 There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say unto us, Make brick: and lo, thy servants are beaten, and 1thy people is blamed. 17 But he said, 1Ye are too much idle: therefore ye say, Let us go to offer sacrifice to the Lord. 18 Go therefore now and work: for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the whole tale of brick. 19 Then the officers of the children of Israel 1saw themselves in an evil case, because it was said, Ye shall diminish nothing of your brick, nor of every day's task. 20 ¶ And they met Moses and Aaron, which stood in their way as they came out from Pharaoh. 21 To whom they said, The Lord look upon you and judge: for ye have made our savor to 1stink before Pharaoh and before his servants, in that ye have 2put a sword in their hand to slay us. 22 Wherefore Moses returned to the Lord, and said, Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? wherefore hast thou thus sent me? 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath vexed this people, and yet thou hast not delivered thy people.

1 Then afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to 1Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may 2celebrate a feast unto me in the wilderness. 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. 3 And they said, 1We worship the God of the Hebrews: we pray thee, let us go three days' journey in the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, lest 2he bring upon us the pestilence or sword. 4 Then said the King of Egypt unto them, Moses and Aaron, why cause ye the people to cease from their works? get you to your burdens. 5 Pharaoh said furthermore, Behold, much people is now in the land, and ye 1make them leave their burdens. 6 Therefore Pharaoh gave commandment the same day unto the taskmasters of the people, and to their 1officers, saying, 7 Ye shall give the people no more straw, to make brick (1as in time past) but let them go and gather them straw themselves. 8 Notwithstanding lay upon them the number of brick, which they made in time past, diminish nothing thereof: for they be idle, therefore they cry,

4:27 1 Or, Horeb. 4:31 1 So that Moses had now experience of God's promise that he should have good success. 5:1 1 Faith overcometh fear, and maketh men bold in their vocation. 2 And offer sacrifice. 5:3 1 Or, God hath met us. 2 Hebrew, Lest he meet us with pestilence. 5:5 1 As though ye would rebel. 5:6 1 Which were of the Israelites, and had charge to see them do their work.

5:7 1 Hebrew, yesterday and ere yesterday. 5:9 1 The more cruelly that tyrants rage, the nearer is God's help. 2 Of Moses and Aaron. 5:13 1 Hebrew, the work of a day in his day. 5:16 1 Or, thy people the Egyptians are in fault. 5:17 1 Hebrew, idle, ye are idle. 5:19 1 Or, looked sad on them, which said. 5:21 1 Read Gen. 34:30. 2 It is a grievous thing to the servants of God to be accused of evil, specially of their brethren, when they do as their duty requireth.

65 exodus 6:29 6 8 God reneweth his promise of deliverance of the Israelites. 9 Moses speaketh to the Israelites, but they believe him not. 10 Moses and Aaron are sent again unto Pharaoh.

the asons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel are Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben. 15 bAlso the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon. 16 ¶ cThese also are the names of the sons of Levi in their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari (and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred 1thirty and seven years). 17 The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi by their families. 18 dAnd the sons of Kohath, Amram and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel (and Kohath lived an hundred thirty and three years). 19 Also the sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of Levi their kindreds. 20 And Amram took Jochebed his 1father's sister to his wife, and she bare him Aaron and eMoses (and Amram lived an hundred thirty and seven years). 21 ¶ Also the sons of Izhar: 1Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri. 23 And Aaron took Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of 1Nahshon to his wife, which bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24 Also the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites. 25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to his wife, which bare him f Phinehas: these are the principal fathers of the Levites throughout their families. 26 These are Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, Bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, according to their 1armies. 27 These are that Moses, and Aaron, which spake to Pharaoh King of Egypt, that they might bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. 28 ¶ And at that time when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 When the Lord, I say, spake unto Moses, saying, I am the Lord, speak thou unto Pharaoh the King of Egypt all that I say unto thee.

chapter 6

a Gen. 46:9

Num. 26:5 1 Chron. 5:8

b 1 Chron. 4:24

c Num. 3:17 1 Chron. 6:1 1 Chron. 23:6

1 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see, what I will do unto Pharaoh: for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and even 1be constrained to drive them out of his land. 2 Moreover God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord, 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob by the Name of 1Almighty God, but by my Name 2Jehovah was I not known unto them. 4 Furthermore as I made my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers: 5 So I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and have remembered my covenant. 6 Wherefore say thou unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians, and will deliver you out of their bondage, and will redeem you in a stretched out arm, and in great 1judgments. 7 Also I will 1take you for my people, and will be your God: then ye shall know that I the Lord your God bring you out from the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you into the land which I 1sware that I would give to Abraham, and to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it unto you for a possession: I am the Lord. 9 ¶ So Moses told the children of Israel thus: but they hearkened 1not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit and for cruel bondage. 10 Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 11 Go speak to Pharaoh King of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 12 But Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel hearken not unto me, how then shall Pharaoh hear me, which am of 1uncircumcised lips? 13 Then the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and charged them to go to the children of Israel and to Pharaoh King of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 14 ¶ These be the heads 1of their father's houses:

d Num. 26:57

1 Chron. 6:1 1 Chron. 23:6

e Exod. 2:2 Num. 26:59

f Num. 25:18

6:1 1 Hebrew, in a strong hand. 6:3 1 Or, all sufficient. 2 Whereby he signifieth that he will perform indeed that which he promised to their fathers: for this name declareth that he is constant and will perform his promise. 6:6 1 Or, plagues. 6:7 1 He meaneth, as touching the outward vocation, the dignity whereof they lost afterward by their rebellion: but as for election to life everlasting, it is immutable. 6:8 1 Hebrew, Lift up mine hand. 6:9 1 So hard a thing it is to show true obedience under the cross.

6:12 1 Or barbarous and rude in speech: and by this word (uncir­ cumcised) is signified the whole corruption of man's nature. 6:14 1 This genealogy showeth of whom Moses and Aaron came. 6:16 1 For he was 42 years old, when he came into Egypt, and there lived 94. 6:20 1 Which kind of marriage was after in the law forbidden, Lev. 18:12. 6:21 1 Moses and he were brothers' children, whose rebellion was punished, Num. 16:1. 6:23 1 Who was a prince of Judah, Num. 1:7. 6:26 1 For their families were so great, that they might be compared to armies.

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14 ¶ The Lord then said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is 1obstinate, he refuseth to let the people go. 15 Go unto Pharaoh in the morning, (lo, he will come forth unto the water) and thou shalt stand and meet him by 1the river's brink, and the rod, which was turned into a serpent, shalt thou take in thine hand. 16 And thou shalt 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: and behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear. 17 Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the water that is in the river, and it shall be turned into blood. 18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink, and it shall 1grieve the Egyptians to drink of the water of the river. 19 ¶ The Lord then spake to Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the waters of Egypt, over their streams, over their rivers, and over their ponds, and over all pools of their waters, and they shall be 1blood, and there shall be blood throughout the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and of stone. 20 So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord commanded: aand he lift up the rod, and smote the water that was in the river in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants: and ball the water that was in the river, was turned into blood. 21 And the 1fish 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 throughout the land of Egypt. 22 And the enchanters of Egypt did 1likewise with their sorceries: and the heart of Pharaoh was 2hardened: so that he did not hearken unto them, as the Lord hath said. 23 Then Pharaoh returned, and went again into his house, 1neither did this yet enter into his heart. 24 All the Egyptians then dug round about the river for waters to drink: for they could not drink of the water of the river.

30 Then Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of 1uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hear me? 7 3 God hardeneth Pharaoh's heart. 10 Moses and Aaron do the miracles of the serpent, and the blood: and Pharaoh's sorcerers do the like.

chapter 7

a Exod. 17:5

b Ps. 78:44

1 Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I have made thee 1Pharaoh's 2God, and Aaron thy brother shall 3be thy Prophet. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I commanded thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he suffer the children of Israel to go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my miracles, and my wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 And Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out mine armies, even my people, the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by great 1judgments. 5 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, even so did they. 7 (Now Moses was 1fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three, when they spake unto Pharaoh.) 8 ¶ And the Lord had spoken unto Moses and Aaron, saying, 9 If Pharaoh speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for you, then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall be turned into a 1serpent. 10 ¶ Then went Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh, and did even as the Lord had commanded, and Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it was turned into a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and 1sorcerers: and those charmers also of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments. 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they were turned into serpents: but Aaron's rod devoured their rods. 13 So Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not to them, as the Lord had said.

6:30 1 The disobedience both of Moses and of the people, showeth that their deliverance came only of God's free mercy. 7:1 1 Or, a God to Pharaoh. 2 I have given thee power and authority to speak in my name and to execute my judgments upon him. 3 Or, shall speak for thee (before Pharaoh.) 7:4 1 To strengthen Moses' faith, God promiseth again to punish most sharply the oppression of his Church. 7:7 1 Moses lived in affliction and banishment forty years before he enjoined his office to deliver God's people. 7:9 1 Or, dragon.

7:11 1 It seemeth that these were Jannes and Jambres: read 2 Tim. 3:8, so ever the wicked maliciously resist the truth of God. 7:14 1 Or, heavy and dull. 7:15 1 To wit, the river Nile. 7:18 1 Or, they shall be weary, and abhor to drink. 7:19 1 The first plague. 7:21 1 To signify that it was a true miracle, and that God plagued them in that which was most necessary for the preservation of life. 7:22 1 In outward appearance, and after that the seven days were ended. 2 Hebrew, was made strong. 7:23 1 Hebrew, he set not his heart at all thereunto.

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25 And this 1continued fully seven days after the Lord had smitten the river. 8 6 Frogs are sent. 13 Moses prayeth, and they die. 17 Lice are sent, whereby the sorcerers acknowledge God's power. 24 Egypt is plagued with noisome flies. 30 Moses prayeth again.

12 Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the Lord concerning the frogs, which he had 1sent unto Pharaoh. 13 And the Lord did according to the saying of Moses: So the frogs 1died in the houses, in the towns, and the fields. 14 And they gathered them together by heaps, and the land stank of them. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he 1hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said. 16 ¶ Again the Lord said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may be turned to 1lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 17 And they did so: for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth: and lice came upon man and upon beast: all the dust of the earth was lice throughout all the land of Egypt. 18 Now the enchanters assayed likewise with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they 1could not. So the lice were upon man and upon beast. 19 Then said the enchanters unto Pharaoh, This is 1the finger of God. But Pharaoh's heart remained obstinate, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had said. 20 ¶ Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh (lo, he will come forth unto the water) and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send 1swarms of flies both upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and the ground also whereon they are. 22 But the land of Goshen, where my people are, will I cause to be 1wonderful in that day, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the 2earth. 23 And I will make a deliverance of my people from thy people: tomorrow shall this miracle be. 24 And the Lord did so: for there came 1great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses, so that through all the land of

1 Afterward the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 And if thou wilt not let them go, behold, I will smite all thy country with 1frogs: 3 And the river shall crawl full of frogs, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy chamber, where thou sleepest, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy ovens, and 1into thy kneading troughs. 4 Yea, the frogs shall climb up upon thee, and on thy people, and upon all thy servants. 5 ¶ Also the Lord said to Moses, Say thou unto Aaron, Stretch out thine hand with thy rod upon the streams, upon the rivers, and upon the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. 6 Then Aaron stretched out his hand upon the waters of Egypt, and the 1frogs came up and covered the land of 2Egypt. 7 And the sorcerers did likewise with their sorceries, and brought frogs up upon the land of Egypt. 8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, 1Pray 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 do sacrifice unto the Lord. 9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, 1Concerning me, even 2command when I shall pray for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and from thine houses, that they may remain in the river only. 10 Then he said, Tomorrow. And he answered, Be it 1as thou hast said, that thou mayest know, that there is none like unto the Lord our God. 11 So the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thine houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people: only they shall remain in the river.

7:25 1 Or seven days accomplished. 8:2 1 There is nothing so weak, that God cannot cause to overcome the greatest power of man. 8:3 1 Or, upon thy dough, or into thine ambries. 8:6 1 The second plague. 2 But Goshen, where God's people dwelt, was excepted. 8:8 1 Not love, but fear causeth the very Infidels to seek unto God. 8:9 1 Hebrew, have this honor over me. 2 Or, speak plain unto me. 8:10 1 Hebrew, according to thy word. 8:12 1 Or, laid upon.

8:13 1 In things of this life God oft times heareth the prayers of the just for the ungodly. 8:15 1 Or, made his heart heavy. 8:16 1 The third plague. 8:18 1 God confounded their wisdom and authority in a thing most vile. 8:19 1 They acknowledged that this was done by God's power and not by sorcery, Luke 11:20. 8:21 1 Or, a multitude of venomous beasts as serpents, etc. 8:22 1 Or, I will separate. 2 Or, land of Egypt. 8:24 1 The fourth plague.

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Egypt, the earth was corrupt by the swarms of flies. 25 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Go, do sacrifice unto your God in this land. 26 And Moses answered, It is not meet to do so: for then we should offer unto the Lord our God that, which is an 1abomination unto the Egyptians. Lo, can we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and they not stone us? 27 Let us go three days' journey in the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, aas he hath commanded us. 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice unto the Lord your God in the wilderness: but 1go not far away, pray for me. 29 And Moses said, Behold, I will go out from thee, and pray unto the Lord, that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow: but let Pharaoh from henceforth 1deceive no more, in not suffering the people to sacrifice unto the Lord. 30 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed unto the Lord. 31 And the Lord did according to the saying of Moses, and the swarms of flies departed from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, and there remained not one. 32 Yet Pharaoh 1hardened his heart at this time also, and did not let the people go. 9 3 The moraine of beasts. 10 The plague of botches and sores. 23 The horrible hail, thunder, and lightning. 26 The land of Goshen ever is excepted. 27 Pharaoh confesseth his wickedness. 33 Moses prayeth for him. 35 Yet he is obstinate.

there shall nothing die at all, that pertaineth to the children of Israel. 5 And the Lord appointed a time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord shall finish this thing in this land. 6 So the Lord did this thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one. 7 Then Pharaoh 1sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead: and the heart of Pharaoh was obstinate, and he did not let the people go. 8 ¶ And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron, Take your handful of 1ashes of the furnace, and Moses shall sprinkle them toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh, 9 And they shall be turned to dust in all the land of Egypt: and it shall be as a scab breaking out into blisters upon man, and upon beast throughout all the land of Egypt. 10 Then they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh: and Moses sprinkled them toward the heaven, and there came [a] 1scab breaking out into blisters upon man, and upon beast. 11 And the sorcerers could not stand before Moses, because of the scab: for the scab was upon the enchanters and upon all the Egyptians. 12 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them, aas the Lord had said unto Moses. 13 ¶ Also the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go that they may serve me. 14 For I will at this time send my plagues upon 1thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. 15 For now I will stretch out mine hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with the pestilence: and thou shalt perish from the earth. 16 And indeed, bfor this cause have 1I appointed thee, to 2show my power in thee, and to declare my 3name throughout all the world. 17 Yet thou exaltest thyself against my people, and lettest them not go. 18 Behold, tomorrow this time I will cause to rain

chapter 8

a Exod. 3:18

chapter 9

a Exod. 4:21

b Rom. 9:17

1 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. 2 But if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt yet hold them still, 3 Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy flock which is in the field: for upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the cattle, and upon the sheep shall be a 1mighty great moraine. 4 And the Lord shall do 1wonderfully between the beasts of Israel, and the beasts of Egypt: so that

8:26 1 For the Egyptians worshipped divers beasts, as the ox, the sheep and such like which the Israelites offered in sacrifice, which thing the Egyptians abhorred to see. 8:28 1 So the wicked prescribe unto God's messengers how far they shall go. 8:29 1 He could not judge his heart, but yet he charged him to do this unfeignedly. 8:32 1 Where God giveth not faith, no miracles can prevail. 9:3 1 The fifth plague. 9:4 1 He shall declare his heavenly judgment against his enemies,

and his favor toward his children. 9:7 1 Into the land of Goshen, where the Israelites dwelled. 9:8 1 Or, embers. 9:10 1 The sixth plague. 9:14 1 So that thine own conscience shall condemn thee of ingrati­ tude and malice. 9:16 1 Or, set thee up. 2 Or, to show thee. 3 That is, that all the world may magnify my power in overcoming thee.

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a mighty great hail, such as was not in Egypt since the foundation thereof was laid unto this time. 19 Send therefore now, and 1gather the cattle, and all that thou hast in the field: for upon all the men, and the beasts, which are found in the field, and not brought home, the hail shall fall upon them, and they shall die. 20 Such then as feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh, made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses. 21 But such as 1regarded not the 2word of the Lord, left his servants, and his cattle in the field. 22 ¶ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon all the herbs of the field in the land of Egypt. 23 Then Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and 1hail, and 2lightning upon the ground: and the Lord caused hail to rain upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so grievous, as there was none throughout all the land of Egypt, since 1it was a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast: also the hail smote all the trees of the field and brake to pieces all the trees of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen (where the children of Israel were) was no hail. 27 Then Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I 1have now sinned: the Lord is righteous, but I and my people are wicked. 28 Pray ye unto the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more 1mighty thunders, and hail, and I will let you go, and ye shall tarry no longer. 29 Then Moses said unto him, As soon as I am out of the city, I will spread mine hands unto the Lord, and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail, that thou mayest know that cthe earth is the Lord's. 30 As for thee and thy servants, I know 1afore I pray, ye will fear before the face of the Lord God. 31 (And the flax, and the barley were smitten: for

the barley was eared, and the flax was bolled. 32 But the wheat and the rye were not smitten, for they were 1hid in the ground.) 33 Then Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, neither rained it upon the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder were ceased, he sinned again, and hardened his heart, both he, and his servants. 35 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened: neither would he let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had said 1by Moses. 10 7 Pharoah's servants counsel him to let the Israel­ites depart. 13 Grasshoppers destroy the country. 16 Pharaoh confesseth his sin. 22 Darkness is sent.

c Ps. 24:1

chapter 10

a Exod. 4:2

1 Again the Lord said unto Moses, Go to Pharaoh, afor I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might work these 1my miracles in the midst of his realm, 2 And that thou mayest declare in the 1ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have done in Egypt, and my miracles, which I have done among them: that ye may know that I am the Lord. 3 Then came Moses and Aaron unto Pharaoh, and they said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse 1to humble thyself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me. 4 But if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring 1grasshoppers into thy coasts. 5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, that a man cannot see the earth: and they shall eat the residue which remaineth unto you, and hath escaped from the hail: and they shall eat all your trees that bud in the field. 6 And they shall fill thine houses, and all thy servants' houses, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the time they were upon the earth unto this day. So he returned, and went out from Pharaoh. 7 Then Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How

9:19 1 Here we see though God's wrath be kindled, yet there is a certain mercy showed even to his enemies. 9:21 1 Hebrew, set not his heart to. 2 The word of the minister is called the word of God. 9:23 1 The seventh plague. 2 Hebrew, fire walked. 9:24 1 Or, since it was inhabited. 9:27 1 The wicked confess their sins to their condemnation, but they cannot believe to obtain remission. 9:28 1 Hebrew, voice of God. 9:30 1 Meaning, that when they have their request, they are never

the better, though they make many fair promises, wherein we see the practices of the wicked. 9:32 1 Or, late sown. 9:35 1 Hebrew, by the hand of Moses. 10:1 1 Or, in his presence, or among them. 10:2 1 The miracles should be so great, that they should be spo­ ken of for ever: where also we see the duty of parents toward their children. 10:3 1 The end of affliction is, to humble ourselves with true repen­ tance under the hand of God. 10:4 1 Or, locusts.

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long shall he be 1an 2offence unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: wilt thou first know that Egypt is destroyed? 8 So Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh, and he said unto them, Go, serve the Lord your God, but who are they that shall go? 9 And Moses answered, We will go with our young, and with our old, with our sons, and with our daughters, with our sheep, and with our cattle will we go: for we must celebrate a feast unto the Lord. 10 And he said unto them, Let 1the Lord so be with you, as I will let you go and your children: 2behold, for evil is before your face. 11 It shall not be so: now go ye that are men, and serve the Lord: for that was your desire. Then they were thrust out from Pharaoh's presence. 12 ¶ After, the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand upon the land of Egypt for the grasshoppers, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat all the herbs of the land, even all that the hail had left. 13 Then Moses stretched forth his rod upon the land of Egypt: and the Lord brought an East wind upon the land all that day, and all that night: and in the morning the East wind brought the 1grasshoppers. 14 So the grasshoppers went up upon all the land of Egypt, and 1remained in all quarters of Egypt: so grievous Grasshoppers, like to these were never before, neither after them shall be such. 15 For they covered all the face of the earth, so that the land was dark: and they did eat 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 upon the trees, nor among the herbs of the field throughout all the land of Egypt. 16 Therefore Pharaoh called for 1Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 And now forgive me my sin only this once, and pray unto the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only. 18 Moses then went out from Pharaoh, and prayed unto the Lord. 19 And the Lord turned a mighty strong West wind, and took away the grasshoppers, and violently

cast them into the 1red Sea, so that there remained not one grasshopper in all the land of Egypt. 20 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go. 21 ¶ Again the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be upon the land of Egypt darkness, even darkness that may be 1felt. 22 Then Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a 1black darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 No man saw another, neither rose up from the place where he was for three days: but all the children of Israel had light where they dwelt. 24 Then Pharaoh called for Moses, and said, Go serve the Lord: only your sheep and your cattle shall abide, and your children shall go with you. 25 And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices, and burnt offerings that we may do sacrifice unto the Lord our God. 26 Therefore our cattle also shall go with us: there shall not an 1hoof be left, for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God: neither do we know 2how we shall serve the Lord, until we come thither. 27 (But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.) 28 And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me: look thou see my face no more: for whensoever thou comest in my sight, thou shalt 1die. 29 Then Moses said, Thou hast said well: from henceforth will I see thy face no more. 11 1 God promiseth their departure. 2 He willeth them to borrow their neighbors' jewels. 3 Moses was esteemed of all save Pharaoh.

chapter 11

a Exod. 3:32

Exod. 3:35

1 Now the Lord had said unto Moses, yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt, after that, he will let you go hence: when he letteth you go, he shall 1at once chase you hence. 2 Speak thou now to the people, that every man 1require of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, ajewels of silver, and jewels of gold. 3 And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: also Moses was very great in the

10:7 1 Or, snare. 2 Meaning, the occasion of all these evils: so are the godly ever charged as Elijah was by Ahab. 10:10 1 That is, I would the Lord were no more affectioned toward you, than I am minded to let you go. 2 Punishment is prepared for you. Some read, Ye intend some mischief. 10:13 1 The eighth plague. 10:14 1 Or, he caused them to remain. 10:16 1 The wicked in their miseries seek to God's ministers for help, albeit they hate and detest them.

10:19 1 The water seemed red, because the sand or gravel is red: the Hebrews called it the Sea of bulrushes. 10:21 1 Because it was so thick. 10:22 1 The ninth plague. 10:26 1 The ministers of God ought not to yield one iota to the wicked, as touching their charge. 2 That is, with what beasts, or how many. 10:28 1 Though before he confessed Moses just, yet again his own conscience he threateneth to put him to death. 11:1 1 Without any condition, but with haste and violence. 11:2 1 Or, borrow.

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land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people. 4 And Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, bAbout midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt. 5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth on his throne, unto the firstborn of the maid servant, that is at 1the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts. 6 Then there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as was never none like, nor shall be. 7 But against none of the children of Israel shall a dog move his tongue, neither against man nor beast, that ye may know that the Lord putteth a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and fall before me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that 1are at thy feet, and after this will I depart. So he went out from Pharaoh very angry. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hear you, 1that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt. 10 So Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: but the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he suffered not the children of Israel to go out of his land. 12 1 The Lord instituteth the passover. 26 The fathers must teach their children the mystery thereof. 29 The firstborn are slain. 31 The Israelites are driven out of the land. 35 The Egyptians are spoiled. 37 The number that departeth out of Egypt.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs, or of the kids. 6 And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: then 1all the multitude of the congregation of Israel shall kill it 2at even. 7 After, they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two posts, and on the upper doorpost of the houses where they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread: with sour herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not thereof raw, boiled nor sodden in water, but roast with fire, both his 1head, his feet, and his purtenance. 10 And ye shall reserve nothing of it unto the morning: but that, which remaineth of it unto the morrow shall ye burn with fire. 11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it, Your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste: for 1it is the Lord's Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt the same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment upon all the 1gods of Egypt, I am the Lord. 13 And the blood shall be a token for you upon the houses where ye are: so when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you a 1remembrance: and ye shall keep it an holy feast unto the Lord, throughout your generations: ye shall keep it holy by an ordinance 2forever. 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, and in any case ye shall put away leaven the first day out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the first day shall be an holy 1assembly: also in the seventh day shall be an holy assembly unto you: no work shall be done in them, save about that which every man must eat: that only may ye do. 17 Ye shall keep also the feast of unleavened bread: for that same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore ye shall observe this day, throughout your posterity, by an ordinance forever.

b Exod. 12:29

1 Then the Lord spake to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This 1month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be to you the first 2month of the year. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month let every man take unto him a lamb, according to the house of the 1fathers, a lamb for an house. 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, he shall take his neighbor, which is next unto his house, according to the number of the persons: every one of you, according to his 1eating shall make your count for the lamb.

11:5 1 From the highest to the lowest. 11:8 1 That is, under thy power and government. 11:9 1 God hardeneth the hearts of the reprobate, that his glory thereby might be the more set forth, Rom. 9:17. 12:2 1 Called Nisan, containing part of March, and part of April. 2 As touching the observation of feasts: as for other policies, they reckoned from September. 12:3 1 As the fathers of the household had great or small families. 12:4 1 He shall take so many as are sufficient to eat the lamb.

12:6 1 Everyone his house. 2 Hebrew, between the two evenings, or twilight. 12:9 1 That is, all that may be eaten. 12:11 1 The lamb was not the Passover, but signified it, as sacra­ ments are not the thing itself, which they do represent, but signify it. 12:12 1 Or, princes, or Idols. 12:14 1 Of the benefit received for your deliverance. 2 That is, until Christ's coming: for then ceremonies had an end. 12:16 1 Or, calling together of the people to serve God.

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18 ¶ aIn the first month and the fourteenth day of the month at 1even, ye shall eat unleavened bread unto the one and twentieth day of the month at even. 19 Seven days shall no leaven be found in your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread, that person shall be cut off from the Congregation of Israel: whether he be a stranger, or born in the land. 20 Ye shall eat no leavened bread: but in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 21 ¶ Then Moses called all the Elders of Israel, and said unto them, Choose out and take you for every of your households a lamb, and kill the Passover. 22 And take ba bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the 1lintel, and the 2door cheeks with the blood that is in the basin, and let none of you go out at the door of the house, until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians: and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two door cheeks, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the 1destroyer to come into your houses to plague you. 24 Therefore shall ye observe this thing as an ordinance, both for thee and thy sons forever. 25 And when ye shall come into the 1land, which the Lord will give you, as he hath promised, then ye shall keep this 2service. 26 cAnd when your children ask you, What service is this ye keep? 27 Then ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, which passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and preserved our houses. Then the people 1bowed themselves and worshipped. 28 So the children of Israel went, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron: so did they. 29 ¶ Now at dmidnight, the Lord 1smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all the firstborn of beasts. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians: and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was 1no house where there was not one dead. 31 And he called to Moses and to Aaron by night,

and said, Rise up, get you out from among my people, both ye, and the children of Israel, and go serve the Lord as ye have said. 32 Take also your sheep and your cattle as ye have said, and depart, and 1bless me also. 33 And the Egyptians did force the people, because they would send them out of the land in haste: for they said, We die all. 34 Therefore the people took their dough before it was leavened, even their dough bound in clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the saying of Moses, and they asked of the Egyptians ejewels of silver and jewels of gold, and raiment. 36 And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and they 1granted their request: so they spoiled the Egyptians. 37 Then the fchildren of Israel took their journey from 1Rameses to Succoth about six hundred thousand men of foot, besides children. 38 And 1a great multitude of sundry sorts of people went out with them, and sheep, and beeves, and cattle in great abundance. 39 And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt, and made unleavened cakes: for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, neither could they tarry, nor yet prepare themselves vittles. 40 ¶ So the dwelling of the children of Israel, while they dwelled in Egypt, was gfour hundred and thirty years. 41 And when the 1four hundred and thirty years were expired, even the selfsame day departed all the hosts of the Lord out of the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be kept holy to the Lord, because he brought them out of the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord, which all the children of Israel must keep throughout their generations. 43 Also the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the Law of the Passover: 1no stranger shall eat thereof. 44 But every servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45 A stranger or an hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 hIn one house shall it be eaten: thou shalt carry

chapter 12

a Lev. 23:5 Num. 28:16

b Heb. 21:28

c Josh. 4:6

d Exod. 11:4

e Exod. 3:12

Exod. 11:2

f Num. 32:3

Josh. 24:6

g Gen. 15:13

Acts 7:6 Gal. 3:17

h Num. 9:12

12:18 1 For in old time so they counted, beginning the day at Sunset till the next day at the same time. 12:22 1 Or, transom, or upper door post. 2 Or, two side posts. 12:23 1 The Angel sent of God to kill the firstborn. 12:25 1 The land of Canaan. 2 Or, ceremony. 12:27 1 They gave God thanks for so great a benefit. 12:29 1 The tenth plague.

12:30 1 Of those houses, wherein any firstborn was, either of men or beasts. 12:32 1 Pray for me. 12:36 1 Or, lent them. 12:37 1 Which was a city in Goshen, Gen. 47:11. 12:38 1 Which were strangers, and not born of the Israelites. 12:41 1 From Abraham's departing from Ur in Chaldea unto the departing of the children of Israel from Egypt are 430 years. 12:43 1 Except he be circumcised, and only profess your religion.

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none of the flesh out of the house, ineither shall ye break a bone thereof. 47 All the Congregation of Israel shall observe it. 48 But if a stranger dwell with thee, and will observe the passover of the Lord, let him circumcise all the males, that belong unto him, and then let him come and observe it, and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for none uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 One 1law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the stranger that dwelleth among you. 50 Then all the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron: so did they. 51 And the selfsame day did the Lord bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. 13 The firstborn are offered to God. 3 The memorial of their deliverance. 6 The institution of the Passover. 8, 14 An exhortation to teach their children to remember this deliverance. 17 Why they are led by the wilderness. 19 The bones of Joseph. 21 The pillar of the cloud and of the fire.

saying, This is done, because of that which the Lord did unto me, when I came out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be a sign unto thee 1upon thine hand, and for a remembrance between thine eyes, that the Law of the Lord may be in thy mouth: for by a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt. 10 Keep therefore this ordinance in his season appointed from year to year. 11 ¶ And when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 12 cThen shalt thou set apart unto the Lord all that first openeth the womb: also everything that first doth open the womb, and cometh forth of thy beast: the males shall be the Lord's. 13 But every 1first foal of an 2ass, thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck: likewise also the firstborn of man among thy sons shalt thou 3buy out. 14 ¶ And when thy son shall ask thee 1tomorrow, saying, What is this? thou shalt then say unto him, With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 15 For when Pharaoh was hard hearted against our departing, the Lord then slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man even to the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice unto the Lord all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem. 16 And it shall be as a token upon thine hand, and as 1frontlets between thine eyes, that the Lord brought us out of Egypt by a mighty hand. 17 ¶ Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God carried them not by the way of the Philistines' country, 1though it were nearer: (for God said, Lest the people repent when they 2see war, and turn again to Egypt). 18 But God made the people to go about by the way of the wilderness of the red sea: and the children of Israel went up 1armed out of the land of Egypt. 19 (And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, dGod will surely visit you, and ye shall take my bones away hence with you.) 20 ¶ eSo they took their journey from Succoth, and

i John 29:36

chapter 13

a Exod. 22:29

Exod. 34:19

Lev. 27:26 Num. 3:13 Num. 8:16

Luke 2:23

b Exod. 23:23

c Exod. 22:29

Exod. 34:19 Ezek. 44:30

d Gen. 50:22

Josh. 24:30

e Num. 33:6

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 aSanctify unto me all the firstborn: that is, every one that first openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of man as of beast: for it is mine. 3 ¶ Then Moses said unto the people, bRemember this day in the which ye came out of Egypt, out of the 1house of 2bondage: for by a mighty hand the Lord brought you out from thence: therefore no leavened bread shall be 3eaten. 4 This day come ye out in the month of 1Abib. 5 ¶ Now when the Lord hath brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, and Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, (which he sware unto thy fathers, that he would give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey) then thou shalt keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and the 1seventh day shall be the feast of the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days, and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, nor yet leaven be seen with thee in all thy quarters. 8 ¶ And thou shalt show thy son 1in that day,

12:49 1 They that are of the household of God, must be all joined in one faith and religion. 13:3 1 Hebrew, house of servants. 2 Where they were in most cruel slavery. 3 To signify that they had not leisure to leaven their bread. 13:4 1 Containing part of March and part of April, when corn began to ripe in that country. 13:6 1 Both the seventh and the first day were holy, as Exod. 12:16. 13:8 1 When thou dost celebrate the feast of unleavened bread. 13:9 1 Thou shalt have continual remembrance thereof, as thou wouldest of a thing that is in thine hand, or before thine eyes.

13:13 1 Hebrew, that first cometh forth. 2 This is also understood of the horse and other beasts which were not offered in sacrifice. 3 By offering a clean beast in sacrifice, Lev. 12:6. 13:14 1 Or, hereafterwards. 13:16 1 Or, signs of remembrance. 13:17 1 Or, because. 2 Which the Philistines would have made against them by stop­ ping them the passage. 13:18 1 That is, not privily, but openly and as the word doth signify, set in order by five and five.

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camped in Etham in the edge of the wilderness. 21 fAnd the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a 1cloud 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 by night. 22 gHe took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night from before the people. 14 4, 8 Pharaoh's heart is hardened, and pursueth the Israelites. 11 The Israelites stricken with fear, murmur against Moses. 13 Moses doth encourage them. 21 He divideth the Sea. 23, 27 The Egyptians follow and are drowned.

marched after them, and they were sore 1afraid: wherefore the children of Israel cried unto the Lord. 11 And they said unto Moses, Hast thou brought us to die in the wilderness, because there were no graves in Egypt? wherefore hast thou served us thus, to carry us out of Egypt? 12 Did not we tell thee this thing in Egypt, saying, Let 1us be in rest, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness. 13 Then Moses said to the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and behold 1the salvation of the Lord which he will show to you this day. For the Egyptians whom ye have seen this day, ye shall never see them again. 14 The Lord shall fight for you: therefore 1hold you your peace. 15 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore 1cryest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the Sea and divide it, and let the children of Israel go on dry ground through the midst of the Sea. 17 And I, behold, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may follow them, and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 18 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 19 (And the Angel of God, which went before the host of Israel, removed, and went behind them: also the pillar of the cloud went from before them, and stood behind them, 20 And came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel: it was both a cloud and darkness, yet gave it 1light by night, so that all the night long the one came not at the other.) 21 And Moses stretched forth his hand upon the Sea, and the Lord caused the Sea to run back by a strong East wind all the night, and made the Sea dry land: for the waters were cdivided. 22 Then the dchildren of Israel went through the midst of the Sea upon the dry ground, and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left hand.

f Num. 14:14

Deut. 1:33

Ps. 78:14 1 Cor. 10:1

g Neh. 9:19

chapter 14

a Num. 33:7

b Josh. 24:6

c Josh. 4:23

Ps. 114:3

d Ps. 78:13

1 Cor. 10:1 Heb. 11:29

1 Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the children of Israel, that they 1return and camp before 2Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the Sea, over against aBaal Zephon: about it shall ye camp by the Sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are tangled in the land: the wilderness hath shut them in. 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after you: so I will 1get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host: the Egyptians also shall know that I am the Lord: and they did so. 5 ¶ Then it was told the king of Egypt, that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we this done, and have let Israel go out of our service? 6 And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him, 7 And took six hundred chosen chariots, and 1all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8 (For the Lord had hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he followed after the children of Israel: but the children of Israel went out with an 1high hand.) 9 bAnd the Egyptians pursued after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen and his host overtook them camping by the Sea, beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. 10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lift up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians

13:21 1 To defend them from the heat of the sun. 14:2 1 From toward the country of the Philistines. 2 So the Sea was before them, mountains on either side, and the enemies at their back: yet they obeyed God, and were delivered. 14:4 1 By punishing his obstinate rebellion. 14:7 1 Josephus writeth, that besides those chariots there were 50,000 horsemen, and 80,000 footmen. 14:8 1 With great joy and boldness. 14:10 1 They which a little before in their deliverance rejoiced, being

now in danger, are afraid and … 14:12 1 Such is the impatience of the flesh, that it cannot abide God's appointed time. 14:13 1 Or, deliverance. 14:14 1 Only put your trust in God without grudging or doubting. 14:15 1 Thus in tentations faith fighteth against the flesh, and crieth with inward groanings to the Lord. 14:20 1 The cloud showeth light to the Israelites, but to the Egyp­ tians it was darkness, so that their two hosts could not join together.

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2 The Lord is my strength, and 1praise, and he is become my salvation. He is my God, and I will 2prepare him a tabernacle: he is my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a 1man of war, his 2Name is Jehovah. 4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also were drowned in the red Sea. 5 The depths have covered them, they sank to the bottom as a stone. 6 Thy 1right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath bruised the enemy. 7 And in thy great glory thou hast overthrown them that rose against 1thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as the stubble. 8 And by the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered, the floods stood still as an heap, the depths congealed together in the 1heart of the Sea. 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake them, I will divide the spoil, 1my lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, mine hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou blewest with thy wind, the sea covered them, they sank as lead in the mighty waters. 11 Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the 1gods! Who is like thee so glorious in holiness, 2fearful in praises, doing wonders! 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 Thou wilt by thy mercy carry this people, which thou deliveredst, thou wilt bring them in thy strength unto thine holy 1habitation. 14 The people shall hear and be afraid: sorrow shall come upon the inhabitants of Philistia. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed, and trembling shall come upon the great men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Canaan shall wax faint hearted. 16 aFear and dread shall fall upon them: because of the 1greatness of thine arm, they shall be still as a stone, till thy people pass, O Lord: till this people pass, which thou hast purchased. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine 1inheritance, which is the

23 And the Egyptians pursued and went after them to the midst of the Sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 Now, in the morning 1watch, when the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians, out of the fiery and cloudy pillar, he struck the host of the Egyptians with fear. 25 For he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them with 1much ado: so that the Egyptians every one said, I will flee from the face of Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians. 26 ¶ Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch thine hand upon the Sea, that the waters may return upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen. 27 Then Moses stretched forth his hand upon the Sea, and the Sea returned to his force early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it: but the Lord 1overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the Sea. 28 So the water returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that came into the Sea after them: there remained not one of them. 29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land through the midst of the Sea, and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. 30 Thus the Lord saved Israel the same day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the Sea bank. 31 And Israel saw the mighty 1power, which the Lord showed upon the Egyptians: so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his 2servant Moses. 15 1, 20 Moses with the men and women sing praises unto God for their deliverance. 23 The people murmur. 25 At the prayer of Moses the bitter waters are sweet. 26 God teacheth the people obedience.

chapter 15

a Deut. 2:25

Josh. 2:9

1 Then 1sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and said in this manner, I will sing unto the Lord: for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and him that rode upon him hath he overthrown in the Sea.

14:24 1 Which was about the three last hours of the night. 14:25 1 Or, heavily. 14:27 1 So the Lord by the water saved his, and by the water drowned his enemies. 14:31 1 Hebrew, hand. 2 That is, the doctrine which he taught them in the Name of the Lord. 15:1 1 Praising God for the overthrow of his enemies, and their deliv­ erance. 15:2 1 Or, the occasion of my song of praise. 2 To worship him therein. 15:3 1 In battle he overcometh ever.

2 Ever constant in his promise. 15:6 1 Or, power. 15:7 1 Those, that are enemies to God's people, are his enemies. 15:8 1 Or, in the depth of the sea. 15:9 1 Hebrew, my soul shall be filled. 15:11 1 For so oftentimes the Scripture calleth the mighty men of the world. 2 Which oughtest to be praised with all fear and reverence. 15:13 1 That is, into the land of Canaan: or into mount Zion. 15:16 1 Or, for thy great power. 15:17 1 Which was mount Zion, where afterward the Temple was built.

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place that thou hast prepared, O Lord, for to dwell in, even the sanctuary, O Lord, which thine hands shall establish. 18 The Lord shall reign forever and ever. 19 For Pharaoh's horses went with his chariots and horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought the waters of the sea upon them: but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. 20 ¶ And Miriam the Prophetess, sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women came out after her with timbrels and 1dances. 21 And Miriam 1answered the men, Sing ye unto the Lord: for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he overthrown in the sea. 22 Then Moses brought Israel from the red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of 1Shur: and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no waters. 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of the place was called 1Marah. 24 Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were sweet: there he made them an ordinance and a law, and there 1he proved them, 26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken, O Israel, unto the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is 1right in his sight, and wilt give 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 that healeth thee. 27 ¶ bAnd they came to Elim, where were twelve fountains of water, and seventy 1palm trees, and they camped there by the waters. 16 1The Israelites come to the desert of Sin, and murmur against Moses and Aaron. 13 The Lord sendeth Quails and Manna. 23 The Sabbath is sanctified unto the Lord. 27 The seventh day Manna could not be found. 32 It is kept for a remembrance to the posterity.

derness of 1Sin, (which is between Elim and Sinai) the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole Congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron in the wilderness. 3 For the children of Israel said to them, Oh that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh 1pots, when we ate bread our bellies full: for ye have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole company with famine. 4 ¶ Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will cause bread to rain from heaven to you, and the people shall go out, and gather 1that that is sufficient for every 2day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or no. 5 But the sixth day they shall prepare that, which they shall bring home, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. 6 Then Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even ye shall know, that the Lord brought you out of the land of Egypt: 7 And in the morning ye shall see the glory of the Lord: 1for he hath heard your grudgings against the Lord: and what are we that ye have murmured against us? 8 Again, Moses said, At even shall the Lord give you flesh to eat, and in the morning your fill of bread: for the Lord hath heard your murmurings, which ye murmur against him: for what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the 1Lord. 9 ¶ And Moses said to Aaron, Say unto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, Draw near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings. 10 Now as Aaron spake unto the whole Congregation of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared ain a cloud. 11 (For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying, 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: tell them therefore, and say, 1At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread,

b Num. 33:9

chapter 16

a Exod. 13:21

1 Afterward all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from Elim, and came to the wil-

15:20 1 Signifying their great joy: which custom the Jews observed in certain solemnities, Judg. 11:34 and 11:21, but it ought not to be a cloak to cover our wanton dances. 15:21 1 By singing the like song of thanksgiving. 15:22 1 Which was called Etham, Num. 33:8. 15:23 1 Or, bitterness. 15:25 1 That is, God, or Moses in God's name. 15:26 1 Which is, to do that only that God commanded. 15:27 1 Or, date trees. 16:1 1 This is the eighth place wherein they had camped, there is another place called Zin, which was the 33rd place wherein they

camped: and is also called Kadesh, Num. 33:36. 16:3 1 So hard a thing is it to the flesh not to murmur against God when the belly is pinched. 16:4 1 Hebrew, the portion of a day in his day. 2 To signify, that they should patiently depend upon God's provi­ dence from day to day. 16:7 1 He gave them not Manna because they murmured, but for his promise sake. 16:8 1 He that contemneth God's ministers, contemneth God himself. 16:12 1 Or, in the twilight.

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it in the field. 26 Six days shall ye gather it, but in the seventh day is the Sabbath: in it there shall be none. 27 ¶ Notwithstanding, there 1went out some of the people in the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. 28 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments, and my laws? 29 Behold, how the Lord hath given you the Sabbath: therefore he giveth you the sixth day bread for two days: tarry therefore every man in his place: let no man go out of his place the seventh day. 30 So the people rested the seventh day. 31 And the house of Israel called the name of it Manna, and it was like 1to coriander seed, but white: and the taste of it was like unto wafers made with honey. 32 And Moses said, This is that which the Lord had commanded, Fill an omer of it, to keep it for your posterity: that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt. 33 Moses also said to Aaron, Take a 1pot and put an omer full of Manna therein, and set it before the Lord to be kept for your posterity. 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the 1Testimony to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel did eat Manna fforty years, until they came unto a land inhabited: they did eat Manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. 36 The omer is the tenth part of the 1Ephah. 17 1 The Israelites come into Rephidim, and grudge for water. 6 Water is given them out of the rock. 11 Moses holdeth up his hands, and they overcome the Amalekites. 15 Moses buildeth an altar to the Lord.

and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.) 13 And so at even the bquails came and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. 14 cAnd when the dew that was fallen was ascended, behold, a small round thing was upon the face of the wilderness, small as the hoary frost upon the earth. 15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is 1Manna, for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, dThis is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat. 16 ¶ This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded: gather of it every man according to his eating, 1an omer for 2a man according to the number of your persons: every man shall take for them which are in his tent. 17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. 18 And when they did measure it with an omer, ehe that had gathered much, had nothing over, and he that had gathered little, had no 1lack: so every man gathered according to his eating. 19 Moses then said unto them, Let no man reserve thereof till morning. 20 Notwithstanding, they obeyed not Moses: but some of them reserved of it till morning, and it was full of worms, and 1stank: therefore Moses was angry with them. 21 And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: for when the heat of the sun came, it was melted. 22 ¶ And the sixth day they gathered 1twice so much bread, two omers for one man: then all the rulers of the Congregation came and told Moses. 23 And he answered them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord: bake that today which ye will bake, and seethe that which ye will seethe, and all that remaineth, lay it up to be kept till the morning for you. 24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade, and it stank not, neither was there any worm therein. 25 Then Moses said, Eat that today: for today is the Sabbath unto the Lord: today ye shall not 1find

b Num. 11:31

c Num. 11:7

Ps. 78:24

d John 6:30

1 Cor. 10:3

e 2 Cor. 8:15

f Josh. 5:12

Neh. 5:15

chapter 17

a Num. 20:4

1 And all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys at the 1commandment of the Lord, and camped in 2Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. 2 aWherefore the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why contend ye with me? wherefore do ye 1tempt the Lord?

16:15 1 Which signifieth a part, portion, or gift: also meat prepared. 16:16 1 Which containeth about a pottle of our measure. 2 Hebrew, for an head. 16:18 1 God is a rich feeder of all, and none can justly complain. 16:20 1 No creature is so pure, but being abused it turneth to our destruction. 16:22 1 Which portion should serve for the Sabbath and the day before. 16:25 1 God took away the occasion from their labor, to signify how holy he would have the Sabbath kept. 16:27 1 Their infidelity was so great, that they did expressly against

God's commandment. 16:31 1 In form and figure, but not in color, Num.11:7. 16:33 1 Of this vessel, read Heb. 9:4. 16:34 1 That is, the Ark of the covenant, to wit, after that the Ark was made. 16:36 1 Which measure contained about ten pottels. 17:1 1 Hebrew, at the mouth. 2 Moses here noteth not every place where they camped, as Num. 33, but only those places, where some notable thing was done. 17:2 1 Why distrust you God? why look ye not for succor of him with­ out murmuring against us?

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3 So the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore hast thou thus brought us out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children, and our cattle with thirst? 4 And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do to this people? for they be almost ready to 1stone me. 5 And the Lord answered to Moses, Go before the people, and take with thee of the Elders of Israel: and thy rod wherewith thou bsmotest the river, take in thine hand, and go: 6 cBehold, I will stand there before thee upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite on the rock, and water shall come out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the Elders of Israel. 7 And he called the name of the place 1Massah and 2Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they had tempted the Lord, saying, Is the 3Lord among us, or no? 8 ¶ dThen came 1Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 9 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go fight with Amalek: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the 1hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 10 So Joshua did as Moses bade him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, went up to the top of the hill. 11 And when Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed: but when he let his hand 1down, Amalek prevailed. 12 Now Moses' hands were heavy: therefore they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side: so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 14 ¶ And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a remembrance 1in the book, and 2rehearse it to Joshua: for eI will utterly put out the remembrance

of Amalek from under heaven. 15 (And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it 1Jehovah Nissi.) 16 Also he said, 1The Lord hath sworn, that he will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. 18 1 Jethro cometh to see Moses his son-in-law. 8 Moses telleth him of the wonders of Egypt. 9 Jethro rejoiceth and offereth sacrifice to God. 21 What manner of men officers and judges ought to be. 24 Moses obeyeth Jethro's counsel in appointing officers.

b Exod. 7:20

c Num. 2:9

Ps. 78:15 Ps. 105:41 1 Cor. 10:4

d Deut. 25:17

e Num. 24:20

1 Sam. 15:3

chapter 18

a Exod. 2:16

b Exod. 2:22

1 When Jethro the aPriest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt, 2 Then Jethro the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah Moses' wife, (after he had 1sent her away) 3 And her two sons, (whereof the one was called bGershom: for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 4 And the name of the other was Eliezer: for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh). 5 And Jethro Moses' father-in-law came with his two sons, and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he camped by the 1mount of God. 6 And he 1said to Moses, I thy father-in-law Jethro am come to thee, and thy wife and her two sons with her. 7 ¶ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him, and each asked other of his 1welfare: and they came into the tent. 8 Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come unto them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them. 9 And Jethro rejoiced at all the goodness, which the Lord had showed to Israel, and because he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 10 Therefore Jethro said, 1Blessed be the Lord who hath delivered you out of the hand of the

17:4 1 How ready the people are for their own matters to slay the true Prophets, and how slow they are to revenge God's cause against his enemies and false Prophets. 17:7 1 Or, tentation. 2 Or, strife. 3 When in adversity we think God to be absent, then we neglect his promise, and make him a liar. 17:8 1 Who came of Eliphaz, son of Esau, Gen. 36:12. 17:9 1 That is, Horeb, which is also called Sinai. 17:11 1 So that we see how dangerous a thing it is to faint in prayer. 17:14 1 In the book of the Law. 2 Hebrew, put it in the ears of Joshua. 17:15 1 That is, the Lord is my banner as he declared by holding up

his rod and his hands. 17:16 1 Hebrew, the hand of the Lord upon the throne. 18:2 1 It may seem that he sent her back for a time to her father for her impatience, lest she should be a let to his vocation, which was so dangerous, Exod. 4:25. 18:5 1 Horeb is called the mount of God, because God wrought many miracles there. So Peter calleth the mount where Christ was transfigured, the holy mount: for by Christ's presence it was holy for a time, 2 Pet. 1:18. 18:6 1 That is, he sent messengers to say unto him. 18:7 1 Hebrew, of peace. 18:10 1 Whereby it is evident that he worshipped the true God, and therefore Moses refused not to marry his daughter.

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thee) both thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go quietly to their place. 24 So Moses 1obeyed the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said: 25 And Moses chose men of courage out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers over thousands, rulers over hundreds, rulers over fifties, and rulers over tens. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons, but they brought the hard causes to Moses: for they judged all small matters themselves. 27 Afterward Moses 1let his father-in-law depart, and he went into his country. 19 1 The Israelites come to Sinai. 5 Israel is chosen from among all other nations. 8 The people promise to obey God. 12 He that toucheth the hill, dieth. 16 God appeareth unto Moses upon the mount in thunder and lightning.

Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh: who hath also delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods: for as they have dealt cproudly with them, so are they 1recompensed. 12 Then Jethro Moses' father-in-law took burnt offerings and sacrifices, to offer unto God. And Aaron and all the Elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law 1before God. 13 ¶ Now on the morrow, when Moses sat to judge the people, the people stood about Moses from morning unto even. 14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand about thee from morning unto even? 15 And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to seek 1God. 16 When they have a matter, they come unto me, and I judge between one and another, and declare the ordinances of God, and his laws. 17 But Moses' father-in-law said unto him, The thing which thou doest, is not well. 18 Thou both 1weariest thyself greatly, and this people that is with thee: for the thing is too heavy for thee: dthou art not able to do it thyself alone. 19 Hear now my 1voice, (I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee) be thou for the people to 2Godward, and report thou the causes unto God, 20 And admonish them of the ordinances, and of the laws, and show them the way, wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 21 Moreover, provide thou among all the people 1men of courage, fearing God, men dealing truly, hating covetousness: and appoint such over them to be rulers over thousands, rulers over hundreds, rulers over fifties, and rulers over tens. 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons: but every great matter let them bring unto thee, and let them judge all small causes: so shall it be easier for thee, when they shall bear the burden with thee. 23 If thou do this thing, (and God so command

c Exod. 1:10,

16, 22 Exod. 5:7 Exod. 14:8

d Deut. 1:9

chapter 19

a Acts 7:38

b Deut. 29:2

c Deut. 5:2

d Deut. 10:14

Ps. 24:1

e 1 Pet. 2:9

Rev. 1:6

f Exod. 24:3

Deut. 5:27 Deut. 26:17 Josh. 21:16

1 In the 1third month, after the children of Israel were gone out of the land of Egypt, the same 2day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they departed from Rephidim, and came to the desert of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness, even there Israel camped before the mount. 3 aBut Moses went up unto God, for the Lord had called out of the mount unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of 1Jacob, and tell the children of Israel. 4 bYe have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I carried you upon 1eagle's wings, and have brought you unto me. 5 Now therefore cif ye will hear my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my chief treasure above all people, dthough all the earth be mine. 6 Ye shall be unto me also a kingdom of ePriests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 7 ¶ Moses then came and called for the Elders of the people, and proposed unto them all these things, which the Lord commanded him. 8 And the people answered all together, and said, fAll that the Lord hath commanded, we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people unto the Lord. 9 And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto

18:11 1 For they that drowned the children of the Israelites, perished themselves by water. 18:12 1 They ate in that place, where the sacrifice was offered: for part was burnt, and the rest eaten. 18:15 1 That is, to know God's will, and to have justice executed. 18:18 1 Hebrew, thou wilt faint and fall. 18:19 1 Or, counsel. 2 Judge thou in hard causes, which cannot be decided but by consulting with God. 18:21 1 What manner of men ought to be chosen to bear office. 18:24 1 Godly counsel ought ever to be obeyed, though it come of

our inferiors, for to such God oftentimes giveth wisdom to humble them that are exalted, and to declare that one member hath need of another. 18:27 1 Read the occasion, Num. 10:29. 19:1 1 Which was in the beginning of the month Sivan, containing part of May, and part of June. 2 That they departed from Rephidim. 19:3 1 God called Jacob, Israel: therefore the house of Jacob and the people of Israel signify only God's people. 19:4 1 For the Eagle by flying high, is out of danger, and by carrying her birds rather on her wings than in her talons declareth her love.

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thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear while I talk with thee, and that they may also believe thee forever. (For Moses had told the words of the people unto the Lord.) 10 Moreover the Lord said unto Moses, Go to the people, and 1sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. 11 And let them be ready on the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai: 12 And thou shalt set marks unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up to the mount, nor touch the border of it, whosoever toucheth the gmount, shall surely die. 13 No hand shall touch it, but he shall be stoned to death, or stricken through with darts: whether it be beast or man, he shall not live: when the 1horn bloweth long, they shall come up 2into the mountain. 14 ¶ Then Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. 15 And he said unto the people, Be ready on the third day, and come not at your 1wives. 16 And the third day, when it was morning, there was thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people that was in the camp was afraid. 17 Then Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God, and they stood in the nether part of the mount. 18 hAnd mount Sinai was all on smoke, because the Lord came down upon it in fire, and the smoke thereof ascended, as the smoke of a furnace, and all the mount 1trembled exceedingly. 19 And when the sound of the trumpet blew long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by 1voice. 20 (For the Lord came down upon mount Sinai on the top of the mount) and when the Lord called Moses up into the top of the mount, Moses went up.

21 Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, that they break not their bounds, to go up to the Lord to gaze, lest many of them perish. 22 And let the 1Priests also which come to the Lord be sanctified, lest the Lord 2destroy them. 23 And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up into the mount Sinai: for thou hast charged us, saying, Set marks on the mountain, and sanctify it. 24 And the Lord said unto him, Go, get thee down, and come up thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the 1Priests and the people break their bounds to come up unto the Lord, lest he destroy them. 25 So Moses went down unto the people, and told them. 20 2 The Commandments of the first Table. 13 The Commandments of the second. 18 The people afraid are comforted by Moses. 23 Gods of silver and gold are again forbidden. 24 Of what sort the altar ought to be.

g Heb. 12:20

h Deut. 4:11

chapter 20

a Deut. 5:6

Ps. 81:10

b Lev. 26:1

Ps. 97:7

c Lev. 19:12

Deut. 5:11 Matt. 5:33

d Exod. 23:12

Ezek. 20:12

1 Then God 1spake all these words, saying, 2 aI am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of 1bondage. 3 Thou shalt have none other gods 1before me. 4 bThou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude of things that are in heaven above, neither that are in the earth beneath, nor that are in the waters under the earth. 5 Thou shalt not 1bow down to them, neither serve them: for I am the Lord thy God, a 2jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third generation and upon the fourth of them that hate me: 6 And showing mercy unto 1thousands to them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7 cThou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in 1vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain. 8 Remember the Sabbath day, 1to keep it holy. 9 dSix days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work,

19:10 1 Teach them to be pure in heart, as they show themselves outwardly clean by washing. 19:13 1 Or, trumpet. 2 Or, toward. 19:15 1 But give yourselves to prayer and abstinence, that you may at this time attend only upon the Lord, 1 Cor. 7:5. 19:18 1 God used these fearful signs, that his law should be had in greater reverence, and his majesty the more feared. 19:19 1 He gave authority to Moses by plain words, that the people might understand him. 19:22 1 Or, rulers. 2 Or, break out upon them. 19:24 1 Neither dignity nor multitude have authority to pass the bounds that God's word prescribeth.

20:1 1 When Moses and Aaron were gone up, or had passed the bounds of the people, God spake thus out of the mount Horeb, that all the people heard. 20:2 1 Or, servants. 20:3 1 To whose eyes all things are open. 20:5 1 By this outward gesture, all kinds of service and worship to idols is forbidden. 2 And will be revenged on the contemners of mine honor. 20:6 1 So ready is he rather to show mercy than to punish. 20:7 1 Either by swearing falsely or rashly by his Name, or by con­ temning it. 20:8 1 Which is by meditating the spiritual rest, by hearing God's word, and resting from worldly travails.

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10 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maid, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy 1gates. 11 eFor in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it. 12 ¶ f Honor thy 1father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13 ¶ gThou shalt not 1kill. 14 Thou shalt not 1commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not 1steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false 1witness against thy neighbor. 17 hThou shalt not 1covet thy neighbor's house, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, neither anything that is thy neighbor's. 18 ¶ And all the people 1saw the thunders: and the 2lightnings, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, and when the people saw it, they fled and stood afar off, 19 And said unto Moses, iTalk thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God talk with us, lest we die. 20 Then Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to 1prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not. 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near unto the darkness where God was. 22 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 23 Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of silver, nor gods of gold: you shall make you none. 24 jAn altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and thereon shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and thy kpeace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places, where I shall put the remembrance of my Name, I will come unto thee, and bless thee.

25 lBut if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones: for if thou lift up thy tool upon them, thou hast polluted 1them. 26 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy 1filthiness be not discovered thereon. 21 Temporal and civil ordinances appointed by God touching servitude, murders, and wrongs: the observation whereof doth not justify a man, but are given to bridle our corrupt nature, which else would break out into all mischief and cruelty.

e Gen. 2:2

f Deut. 5:16

Matt. 15:4

Eph. 6:2

g Matt. 5:21

h Rom. 7:7

i Deut. 5:24

Deut. 18:16

Heb. 12:18

j Exod. 27:8

Exod. 38:7

k Lev. 3:1

l Deut. 27:5

Josh. 8:31

1 Now these are the laws, which thou shalt set before them: 2 aIf thou buy an Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free for 1nothing. 3 If he 1came himself alone, he shall go out himself alone: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 4 If his master hath given him a wife and she hath borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her 1master's, but he shall go out himself alone. 5 But if the servant say thus, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out free, 6 Then his master shall bring him unto the 1Judges, and set him to the 2door, or to the post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him 3forever. 7 Likewise if a man 1sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall 1he cause to buy her: he shall have no power to sell her to a strange people, seeing he 2despised her. 9 But if he hath betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her 1according to the custom of the daughters. 10 If he take 1him another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her raiment, and recompense of her virginity. 11 And if he do not these 1three unto her, then

chapter 21

a Lev. 25:39

Deut. 15:12

Jer. 34:14

20:10 1 Or, city. 20:12 1 By the parents also is meant all that have authority over us. 20:13 1 But love and preserve thy brother's life. 20:14 1 But be pure in heart, word and deed. 20:15 1 But study to save his goods. 20:16 1 But further his good name, and speak truth. 20:17 1 Thou mayst not so much as wish his hinderance in anything. 20:18 1 Or, heard. 2 Hebrew, fire brands. 20:20 1 Whether you will obey his precepts as you promised, Exod. 19:8. 20:25 1 Hebrew, it, that is, the stone. 20:26 1 Which might be by his stooping or flying abroad of his clothes. 21:2 1 Paying no money for his liberty.

21:3 1 Not having wife nor children. 21:4 1 Till her time of servitude was expired which might be the sev­ enth year or the fiftieth. 21:6 1 Hebrew, gods. 2 Where the judges sat. 3 That is, to the year of Jubilee, which was every fiftieth year. 21:7 1 Constrained either by poverty, or else to the intent that the master should marry her. 21:8 1 By giving another money to buy her of him. 2 Or, deflowered her. 21:9 1 That is, he shall give his dowry. 21:10 1 For his son. 21:11 1 Neither marry her himself, nor give another money to buy her, nor bestow her upon his son.

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28 ¶ If an ox gore a man or a woman that he die, the fox shall be 1stoned to death, and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall go quite. 29 If the ox were wont to push in times past, and it hath been 1told his master, and he hath not kept him, and after he killeth a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall die also. 30 If there be set to him a 1sum of money, then he shall pay the ransom of his life, whatsoever shall be laid upon him. 31 Whether he hath gored a son, or gored a daughter, he shall be judged after the same manner. 32 If the ox gore a servant or a maid, he shall give unto their master thirty 1shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 33 ¶ And when a man shall open a well, or when he shall dig a pit and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall therein, 34 The owner of the pit shall 1make it good, and give money to the owner thereof, but the dead beast shall be his. 35 ¶ And if a man's ox hurt his neighbor's ox that he die, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money thereof, and the dead ox also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in times past, and his master hath not kept him, he shall pay ox for ox, but the dead shall be his own. 22 1 Of theft. 5 Damage. 7 Lending. 14 Borrowing. 16 Enticing of maids. 18 Witchcraft. 20 Idolatry. 21 Support of strangers, widows, and fatherless. 25 Usury. 28 Reverence to Magistrates.

shall she go out free, paying no money. 12 ¶ bHe that smiteth a man, and he die, shall die the death. 13 And if a man hath not laid wait, but 1God hath offered him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with guile, cthou shalt take him from mine 1altar, that he may die. 15 ¶ Also he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die the death. 16 ¶ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, if it be found with him, shall die the death. 17 ¶ dAnd he that curseth his father or his mother, shall die the death. 18 When men also strive together, and one smite another with a 1stone, or with the fist, and he die not but lieth in bed. 19 If he rise again and walk without upon his staff, then shall he that smote him go 1quit, save only he shall bear his charges 2for his resting, and shall pay for his healing. 20 ¶ And if a man smite his servant, or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished. 21 But if he continue a day or two days, he shall not 1be punished: for he is his money. 22 ¶ Also if men strive and hurt a woman with child, so that her child depart from her and 1death follow not, he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband shall appoint him, or he shall pay as the 2Judges determine. 23 But if death follow, then thou shalt pay life for life. 24 e,1Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 ¶ And if a man smite his servant in the eye, or his maid in the eye, and hath perished it, he shall let him go free for his eye. 27 Also if he smite 1out his servant's tooth, or his maid's tooth, he shall let him go out free for his tooth.

b Lev. 24:17

c Deut. 12:3

d Lev. 22:9 Prov. 20:20

Matt. 15:4 Mark 7:10

e Lev. 24:20 Deut. 19:21

Matt. 5:38

f Gen. 9:5

chapter 22

a 2 Sam. 12:6

1 If a man steal an 1ox or a sheep, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, aand four sheep for the sheep. 2 ¶ If a thief be found 1breaking up, and be smitten that he die, no blood shall be shed for him. 3 But if it be 1in the daylight, 2blood shall be shed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he had not wherewith, then should he be sold for his theft.

21:13 1 Though a man be killed at unawares, yet it is God's provi­ dence that it should so be. 21:14 1 The holiness of the place ought not to defend the murderer. 21:18 1 Either far off him or near. 21:19 1 By the civil Justice. 2 Or, losing of his time. 21:21 1 By the civil magistrate, but before God he is a murderer. 21:22 1 Of the mother or child. 2 Or, arbiters. 21:24 1 The execution of this law only belonged to the magistrate, Matt. 5:38.

21:27 1 So God revengeth cruelty in the most least things. 21:28 1 If the beast be punished, much more shall the murderer. 21:29 1 Or, testified to his. 21:30 1 By the next of the kindred of him that is so slain. 21:32 1 Read Gen. 23:15. 21:34 1 This law forbiddeth not only not to hurt, but to beware lest any be hurt. 22:1 1 Either [a] great beast of the herd, or a small beast of the flock. 22:2 1 Breaking an house to enter in, or undermining. 22:3 1 Hebrew, when the sun riseth upon him. 2 He shall be put to death that killeth him.

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20 ¶ dHe that offereth unto any gods, save unto the Lord only, shall be slain. 21 ¶ eMoreover, thou shalt not do injury to a stranger, neither oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 ¶ f Ye shall not trouble any widow, nor fatherless child. 23 If thou vex or trouble such, and so he call and cry unto me, I will surely hear his cry. 24 Then shall my wrath be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your 1wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 25 ¶ gIf thou lend money to my people, that is, to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be as an usurer unto him: ye shall not oppress him with usury. 26 If thou take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him before the sun go down. 27 For that is his covering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? therefore when he 1crieth unto me, I will hear him: for I am merciful. 28 ¶ hThou shalt not rail upon the Judges, neither speak evil of the ruler of thy people. 29 ¶ Thine 1abundance and thy liquor shalt thou not keep back. iThe firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give me. 30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam, and the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 31 ¶ Ye shall be an holy people unto me, jneither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field: ye shall cast it 1to the dog. 23 2 Not to follow the multitude. 13 Not to make mention of the strange gods. 14 The three solemn feasts. 20, 23 The Angel is promised to lead his people. 25 What God promiseth if they obey him. 29 God will cast out the Canaanites by little and little, and why.

4 If the theft be found 1with him alive, (whether it be ox, ass, or sheep) he shall restore the double. 5 ¶ If a man do hurt field, or vineyard, and put in his beast to feed in another man's field, he shall recompense of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard. 6 ¶ If fire break out, and catch in the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution. 7 ¶ If a man deliver his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of his house, if the thief be found, he shall pay the double. 8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the 1Judges to swear, whether he hath 2put his hand unto his neighbor's good, or no. 9 In all manner of trespass, whether it be for oxen, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges, and whom the Judges condemn, he shall pay the double unto the neighbor. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbor to keep ass, or ox, or sheep, or any beast, and it die, or be 1hurt, or taken away by enemies, and no man see it, 11 1An oath of the Lord shall be between them twain, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's good, and the owner of it shall take the oath, and he shall not make it good: 12 bBut if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 13 If it be torn in pieces, he shall bring 1record, and shall not make that good, which is devoured. 14 ¶ And if a man borrow ought of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or else die, the owner thereof not being by, he shall surely make it good. 15 If the owner thereof be by, he shall not make it good: for if it be an hired thing, it 1came for his hire. 16 ¶ cAnd if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall endow her, and take her to his wife. 17 If her father refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 ¶ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast, shall die the death.

b Gen. 31:39

c Deut. 12:28

d Deut. 13:13-15

e Lev. 19:33

f Zech. 7:10

g Lev. 25:37

Deut. 23:19

Ps. 15:5

h Acts 25:5

i Exod. 13:2-12

Exod. 34:19

j Lev. 22:8 Ezek. 44:31

1 Thou shalt not 1receive a false tale, neither shalt thou put thine hand with the wicked, to be a 2false witness. 2 ¶ Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil, neither 1agree in a controversy 2to decline after many and overthrow the truth. 3 ¶ Thou shalt not esteem a poor man in his cause.

22:4 1 Hebrew, in his hand. 22:8 1 Hebrew, gods. 2 That is, whether he hath stolen. 22:10 1 Hebrew, broken. 22:11 1 They should swear by the Name of the Lord. 22:13 1 He shall show some part of the beast, or bring in witnesses. 22:15 1 He that hired it shall be free by paying the hire. 22:24 1 The just plague of God upon the oppressors.

22:27 1 For cold and necessity. 22:29 1 Thine abundance of thy corn, oil and wine. 22:31 1 And so have nothing to do with it. 23:1 1 Or, report a false tale. 2 Or, cruel. 23:2 1 Hebrew, answer. 2 Do that which is godly, though few do favor it.

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4 ¶ If thou meet thine enemy's ox, or his ass going astray, thou shalt 1bring him to him again. 5 If thou see thine enemy's 1ass lying under his burden, wilt thou cease to help him? thou shalt help him up again with it. 6 Thou shalt not overthrow the right of the poor in his suit. 7 Thou shalt keep thee far from a false matter, thou shalt not slay the 1innocent and the righteous: for I will not justify a wicked man. 8 ¶ aThou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the 1wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. 9 ¶ Thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the 1heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 bMoreover, six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather the fruits thereof. 11 But 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 with thine olive trees. 12 cSix days thou shalt do thy work, and in the seventh day thou shalt rest, that thine ox, and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy maid, and the stranger may be refreshed. 13 And ye shall take heed to all things that I have said unto you: and ye shall make 1no mention of the name of other gods, neither shall it be heard out of thy mouth. 14 ¶ Three times shalt thou keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 Thou dshalt keep the feast of 1unleavened bread: thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the season of the month of Abib: for in it thou camest out of Egypt: and enone shall appear before me empty. 16 The 1feast also of the harvest of the first fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the 2feast of gathering fruits in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.

17 These three times in the year shall all thy men children appear before the Lord Jehovah. 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with 1leavened bread: neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. 19 f The first of the firstfruits of thy land, thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God: yet shalt thou not seethe a kid in his 1mother's milk. 20 ¶ gBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in thy way, and to bring thee to the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and hear his voice, and provoke him not: for he will not spare your misdeeds, because my 1name is in him. 22 But if thou hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and will afflict them that afflict thee. 23 For mine Angel hshall go before thee, and bring thee unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them. 24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, neither serve them, nor do after the works of them: but i,1utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their images. 25 For ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy 1bread and thy water, and I will take all sickness away from the midst of thee. 26 ¶ jThere shall none cast their fruit, nor be barren in thy land, the number of thy days will I fulfill. 27 I will send my 1fear before thee, and will destroy all the people among whom thou shalt go: and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee: 28 And I will send khornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from thy face. 29 I will not cast them out from thy face in one year, lest the land grow to a wilderness, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from thy face, until thou increase, and inherit the land. 31 And I will make thy coasts from the red sea unto the sea 1of the Philistines, and from

chapter 23

a Deut. 16:19

b Lev. 25:3

Lev. 26:43 Deut. 15:1

c Exod. 20:8

Deut. 5:13

d Exod. 13:3

Exod. 34:18

e Deut. 16:16

f Exod. 34:26

Deut. 14:22

g Exod. 33:2

Deut. 7:22

h Exod. 33:2

Deut. 7:21 Josh. 24:12

i Deut. 7:25

j Deut. 7:14

k Josh. 24:12

23:4 1 If we be bound to do good to our enemy's beast, much more to our enemy himself, Matt. 5:44. 23:5 1 If God command to help up our enemy's ass under his burden, will he suffer us to cast down our brethren with heavy burdens? 23:7 1 Whether thou be magistrate or art commanded by the mag­ istrate. 23:8 1 Hebrew, seeing. 23:9 1 For in that that he is a stranger, his heart is sorrowful enough. 23:13 1 Neither by swearing by them nor speaking of them, Ps. 16:4; Eph. 5:3. 23:15 1 That is, Easter, in remembrance that the Angel passed over and spared the Israelites, when he slew the firstborn of the Egyp­ tians. 23:16 1 Which is Whitsuntide, in token that the Law was given 50

days after they departed from Egypt. 2 This is the feast of Tabernacles, signifying that they dwelled 40 years under the tents or the Tabernacles in wilderness. 23:18 1 No leavened bread shall be there in thine house. 23:19 1 Meaning, that no fruits should be taken before just time: and hereby are bridled all cruel and wanton appetites. 23:21 1 I will give him mine authority, and he shall govern you in my name. 23:24 1 God commandeth his not only not to worship idols, but to destroy them. 23:25 1 That is, all things necessary for this present life. 23:27 1 I will make them afraid at thy coming and send mine Angel to destroy them, as Exod. 35:2. 23:31 1 Called the Sea of Syria.

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the 2desert unto the 3River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and thou shalt drive them out from thy face. 32 lThou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods: 33 Neither shall they dwell in the land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, surely it shall be thy 1,mdestruction. 24 3 The people promise to obey God. 4 Moses writeth the civil Laws. 9, 13 Moses returneth into the mountain. 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people. 18 Moses was forty days and forty nights in the mountain.

10 And they 1saw the God of Israel, and under his feet was as it were a 2work of a Sapphire stone, and as the very heaven when it is clear. 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he 1laid not his hand: also they saw God, and 2did eat and drink. 12 ¶ And the Lord 1said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there, and I will give thee 2tables of stone, and the Law, and the Commandment, which I have written, for to teach 3them. 13 Then Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God, 14 And said unto the Elders, Tarry us here until we come again unto you: and behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: whosoever hath any matters, let him come to them. 15 Then Moses went up to the mount, and the cloud covered the mountain, 16 And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered 1it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like 1consuming fire on the top of the mountain, in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain and Moses was in the dmount forty days and forty nights. 25 2 The voluntary gifts for the making of the Tabernacle. 10 The form of the Ark. 17 The Mercy seat. 23 The Table. 31 The Candlestick. 40 All must be done according to the pattern.

l Exod. 34:15

Deut. 7:2

m Deut. 7:16

Josh. 23:13

chapter 24

a Exod. 19:8

b Exod. 20:24

c 1 Pet. 1:2

Heb. 9:20

d Exod. 34:28

Deut. 9:9

chapter 25

a Exod. 35:5

1 Now he had 1said unto Moses, Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel, and ye shall worship afar off. 2 And Moses himself alone shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him. 3 ¶ 1Afterward Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the 2Laws: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, aAll the things which the Lord hath said, will we do. 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early, and set up an baltar 1under the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent young 1men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings of beeves, and sacrificed peace offerings unto the Lord. 6 Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 After, he took the 1book of the covenant, and read it in the audience of the people: who said, All that the Lord hath said, we will do, and be obedient. 8 Then Moses took the cblood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the 1blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these things. 9 ¶ Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the Elders of Israel.

1 Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 1Speak unto the children of Israel that they receive an offering for me: of aevery man, whose heart giveth it freely, ye shall take the offering for me. 3 And this is the offering which ye shall 1take of them, gold and silver, and brass, 4 And 1blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen and goat's hair, 5 And ram's skins colored red, and the skins of

2 Of Arabia called desert. 3 To wit, Ephraim. 23:33 1 Hebrew, offense or snare. 24:1 1 When he called him up to the mountain to give him the Laws, beginning at Exod. 20, hitherto. 24:3 1 When he had received these laws in mount Sinai. 2 Hebrew, judgments. 24:4 1 Or, at the foot of the mountain. 24:5 1 For as yet the Priesthood was not given to Levi. 24:7 1 Or, the book of the Law. 24:8 1 Which blood signifieth that the covenant broken cannot be satisfied without blood shedding. 24:10 1 As perfectly as their infirmities could behold his majesty. 2 Hebrew, brick work.

24:11 1 He made them not afraid, nor punished them. 2 That is, rejoiced. 24:12 1 The second time. 2 Signifying the hardness of our hearts, except God do write his laws therein by his Spirit, Jer. 31:33; Ezek. 11:19; 2 Cor. 3:3; Heb. 8:10 and 10:16. 3 To wit, the people. 24:16 1 Or, him. 24:17 1 The Lord appeareth like devouring fire to carnal men: but to them that he draweth with his Spirit, he is like pleasant Sapphire. 25:2 1 After the moral and judicial law he giveth them the ceremo­ nial law that nothing should be left to man's invention. 25:3 1 For the building and use of the Tabernacle. 25:4 1 Or, yellow.

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badgers, and the wood 1Shittim, 6 Oil for the light, spices for 1anointing oil, and for the perfume of sweet savor. 7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the bEphod, and in the cbreastplate. 8 Also they shall make me a 1Sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show thee, even so shall ye make the form of the Tabernacle, and the fashion of all the instruments thereof. 10 ¶ They shall make also an dArk of Shittim wood, two cubits and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and a cubit and an half high. 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a 1crown of gold round about. 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four 1corners thereof: that is, two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side thereof. 13 And thou shalt make bars of Shittim wood, and cover them with gold. 14 Then thou shalt put the bars in the rings by the sides of the Ark, to bear the Ark with them. 15 The bars shall be in the rings of the Ark: they shall not be taken away from it. 16 So thou shalt put in the Ark the 1Testimony, which I shall give thee. 17 Also thou shalt make a 1,2Mercy seat of pure gold, two cubits and an half long and a cubit and an half broad. 18 And thou shalt make two Cherubims of gold: of work beaten out with the hammer shalt thou make them at the two ends of the Mercy seat. 19 And the one Cherub shalt thou make at the one end, and the other Cherub at the other end: of the matter of the Mercy seat shall ye make the Cherubims, on the two ends thereof. 20 And the Cherubims shall stretch their wings on high, covering the Mercy seat with their wings and their faces one to another: to the Mercy seatward shall the faces of the Cherubims be. 21 And thou shalt put the Mercy seat above upon the Ark, and in the Ark thou shalt put the Testimony, which I will give thee. 22 And there I will 1declare myself unto thee, and from above the Mercy seat ebetween the two

Cherubims, which are upon the Ark of the Testimony, I will tell thee all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. 23 ¶ f Thou shalt also make a Table of Shittim wood, of two cubits long, and one cubit broad, and a cubit and a half high: 24 And thou shalt cover it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about. 25 Thou shalt also make unto it a border of 1four fingers round about: and thou shalt make a golden crown round about the border thereof: 26 After, thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and shalt put the rings in the four corners that are in the four feet thereof. 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places for bars to bear the Table. 28 And thou shalt make the bars of Shittim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, that the Table may be borne with them. 29 Thou shalt make also 1dishes for it, and incense cups for it, and coverings for it, and goblets, wherewith it shall be covered, even of fine gold shalt thou make them. 30 And thou shalt set upon the Table Showbread before me continually. 31 ¶ gAlso thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of 1work beaten out with the hammer shall the Candlestick be made, his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops: and his flowers shall be of the same. 32 Six branches also shall come out of the sides of it: three branches of the candlestick out of the one side of it, and three branches of the Candlestick out of the other side of it. 33 Three bowls like unto almonds, one knop and one flower in one branch: and three bowls like almonds in the other branch, one knop and one flower: so throughout the six branches that come out of the Candlestick. 34 And in the shaft of the Candlestick shall be four bowls like unto almonds, his knops and his flowers. 35 And there shall be a knop under two branches made thereof: and a knop under two branches made thereof: and a knop under two branches made thereof, according to the six branches coming out of the Candlestick.

b Exod. 28:4

c Exod. 28:15

d Exod. 37:1

e Num. 7:89

f Exod. 37:10

g Exod. 37:17

25:5 1 Which is thought to be a kindle of Cedar, which will not rot. 25:6 1 Ordained for the Priests. 25:8 1 A place both to offer sacrifice, and to hear the Law. 25:11 1 Or, a circle and a border. 25:12 1 Or, feet. 25:16 1 The stone tables, the rod of Aaron and Manna which were a testimony of God's presence. 25:17 1 Or, covering: or propitiatory.

2 There God appeared mercifully unto them: and this was a figure of Christ. 25:22 1 Or, will appoint with thee. 25:25 1 Or, an hand broad. 25:29 1 To set the bread upon. 25:31 1 It shall not be molten, but beaten out of the lump of gold with the hammer.

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shalt double the 1sixth curtain upon the forefront of the covering. 10 And thou shalt make fifty strings in the edge of one curtain in the selvedge of the coupling, and fifty strings in the edge of the other curtain in the second coupling. 11 Likewise thou shalt make fifty 1taches of brass, and fasten them on the strings, and shalt couple the covering together that it may be one. 12 And the 1remnant that resteth in the curtains of the covering, even the half curtain that resteth, shall be left at the backside of the Tabernacle. 13 That the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side of that which is left in the length of the curtains of the covering may remain on either side of the Tabernacle to cover it. 14 Moreover, for that covering thou shalt make a 1covering of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of 2badgers' skins above. 15 ¶ Also thou shalt make boards for the Tabernacle of Shittim wood to stand up. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and an half cubit the breadth of one board. 17 Two tenons shall be in one board set in order as the feet of a Ladder, one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the Tabernacle. 18 And thou shalt make boards for the Tabernacle, even twenty boards on the South side, even full South. 19 And thou shalt make forty 1sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. 20 In like manner on the other side of the Tabernacle toward the North side shall be twenty boards, 21 And their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 And on the side of the Tabernacle, toward the West, shalt thou make six boards. 23 Also two boards shalt thou make in the corners of the Tabernacle in the two sides. 24 Also they shall be 1joined beneath, and likewise they shall be joined above to a ring: thus shall it be for them two: they shall be for the two corners. 25 So they shall be eight boards having sockets of

36 Their knops and their branches shall be thereof: all this shall be one beaten work of pure gold. 37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and the lamps thereof shalt thou put thereon, to give light toward that that is before it. 38 Also the snuffers and snuffdishes thereof shall be of pure gold. 39 Of a 1talent of fine gold shalt thou make it with all these instruments. 40 hLook therefore that thou make them after their fashion, that was showed thee in the mountain. 26 1 The form of the Tabernacle and the appertinences. 33 The places of the Ark, of the Mercy seat, of the Table, and of the Candlestick.

h Heb. 8:5

Acts 7:44

1 Afterward thou shalt make the Tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue silk, and purple, and scarlet: and in them thou shalt make Cherubims of 1broidered work. 2 The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: every one of the curtains shall have one measure. 3 Five curtains shall be coupled one to another: and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another. 4 And thou shalt make strings of blue silk upon the edge of the one curtain, which is in the selvedge 1of the coupling: and likewise shall thou make in the edge of the other curtain in the selvedge, in the second coupling. 5 Fifty strings shalt thou make in one curtain, and fifty strings shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain, which is in the 1second coupling: the strings shall be one right against another. 6 Thou shalt make also fifty 1taches of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the taches, and it shall be one 2Tabernacle. 7 ¶ Also thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair, to be a 1covering upon the Tabernacle, thou shalt make them to the number of eleven curtains. 8 The length of a curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of a curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall be of one measure. 9 And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and the six curtains by themselves: but thou

25:39 1 This was the talent weight of the Temple, and weighed 120 pounds. 26:1 1 That is, of most cunning or fine work. 26:4 1 On the side that the curtains might be tied together. 26:5 1 In tying together both the sides. 25:6 1 Or, hooks. 2 Or, partition. 26:7 1 Lest rain and weather should mar it. 26:9 1 That is, five on the one side, and five on the other, and the

sixth should hang over the door of the Tabernacle. 26:11 1 Or, hooks. 26:12 1 For these curtains were two cubits longer than the curtains of the Tabernacle so that they were wider by a cubit on both sides. 26:14 1 To be put upon the covering that was made of goats' hair. 2 This was the third covering of the Tabernacle. 26:19 1 Or, brass pieces, wherein were the mortises for the tenons. 26:24 1 The Hebrew word signifieth twins: declaring that they should be so perfect and well joined as was possible.

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silver, even sixteen sockets, that is, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 26 ¶ Then thou shalt make five bars of Shittim wood for the boards of one side of the Tabernacle. 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the Tabernacle: also five bars for the boards of the side of the Tabernacle toward the West side. 28 And the middle bar shall go through the midst of the boards, from end to end. 29 And thou shalt cover the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold, for places for the bars, and thou shalt cover the bars with gold. 30 So thou shalt rear up the Tabernacle, aaccording to the fashion thereof, which was showed thee in the Mount. 31 ¶ Moreover, thou shalt make a veil of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, thou shalt make it of broidered work with Cherubims. 32 And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of Shittim wood covered with gold, (whose 1hooks shall be of gold) standing upon four sockets of silver. 33 ¶ Afterward thou shalt hang the veil 1on the hooks, that thou mayest bring in thither, that is, within the veil, the Ark of the Testimony: and the veil shall make you a separation between the Holy place and the 2most holy place. 34 Also thou shalt put the Mercy seat upon the Ark of the Testimony in the most Holy place. 35 And thou shalt set the Table 1without the veil, and the Candlestick over against the Table on the South side of the Tabernacle, and thou shalt set the Table on the North side. 36 Also thou shalt make an 1hanging for the door of the Tabernacle of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen wrought with needle. 37 And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of Shittim, and cover them with gold: their heads shall be of gold, and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them. 27 1 The Altar of the burnt offering. 9 The courts of the Tabernacle. 20 The lamps continually burning.

thereof: the horns shall be of 1itself, and thou shalt cover it with brass. 3 Also thou shalt make his ash pans for his ashes, and his besoms, and his basins, and his flesh-hooks, and his 1censers: thou shalt make all the instruments thereof of brass. 4 And thou shalt make unto it a grate, like network of brass: also upon that 1grate shalt thou make four brazen rings upon the four corners thereof. 5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the grate may be in the midst of the altar. 6 Also thou shalt make bars for the altar, bars, I say, of Shittim wood, and shalt cover them with brass. 7 And the bars thereof shall be put in the rings, the which bars shall be upon the two sides of the altar to bear it. 8 Thou shalt make the altar hollow between the boards: as God showeth thee in the mount, so shall they make it. 9 ¶ Also thou shalt make the 1court of the Tabernacle in the South side, even full South: the court shall have curtains of fine twined linen, of an hundred cubits long, for one side, 10 And it shall have twenty pillars, with their twenty sockets of brass: the heads of the pillars, and their 1fillets shall be silver. 11 Likewise on the North side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and the twenty pillars thereof with their twenty sockets of brass: the heads of the pillars and the fillets shall be silver. 12 ¶ And the breadth of the court, on the West side shall have curtains of fifty cubits, with their ten pillars, and their ten sockets. 13 And the breadth of the court, Eastward full East, shall have 1fifty cubits. 14 Also hangings of fifteen cubits shall be on the one 1side with their three pillars and their three sockets. 15 Likewise on the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets. 16 ¶ And in the gate of the court shall be a veil of twenty cubits of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen wrought with needle, with the

chapter 26

a Exod. 25:9,40

Heb. 8:5 Acts 7:44

1 Moreover thou shalt make the 1Altar of Shittim wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad (the altar shall be four square) and the height thereof three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make it horns in the four corners

26:32 1 Some read, heads of the pillars. 26:33 1 Hebrew, Under the hooks: meaning that it should hang downward from the hooks. 2 Whereinto the high Priest only entered once a year. 26:35 1 Meaning, in the holy place. 26:36 1 This hanging or veil was between the holy place, and there where the people were. 27:1 1 For the burnt offering.

27:2 1 Of the same wood and matter not fastened unto it. 27:3 1 Or, fire pans. 27:4 1 Hebrew, net. 27:9 1 This was the first entry into the Tabernacle, where the people abode. 27:10 1 They were certain hoops or circles for to beautify the pillar. 27:13 1 Meaning, curtains of fifty cubits. 27:14 1 Of the door of the court.

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6 ¶ And they shall make the Ephod of gold, blue silk, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen of broidered work. 7 The two shoulders thereof shall be joined together by their two edges: so shall it be closed. 8 And the 1embroidered girdle of the same Ephod, which shall be upon him, shall be of the selfsame work and stuff, even of gold, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 And thou shalt take two Onyx stones, and grave upon them the names of the children of Israel. 10 Six names of them upon the one stone, and the six names that remain, upon the second stone, according to 1their generations. 11 Thou shalt cause to grave the two stones according to the names of the children of Israel, by a graver of signets that worketh and graveth in stone, and shalt make them to be set and embossed in gold. 12 And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the Ephod, as stones of 1remembrance of the children of Israel: for Aaron shall bear their names before the Lord upon his two shoulders for a remembrance. 13 So thou shalt make bosses of gold, 14 ¶ And two chains of fine gold 1at the end, of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and shalt fasten the wreathen chains upon the bosses. 15 ¶ Also thou shalt make the breastplate of 1judgment with broidered work: like the work of the Ephod shalt thou make it: of gold, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen shalt thou make it. 16 1Foursquare it shall be and double, an hand breadth long and an hand breadth broad. 17 Then thou shalt set it full of places for stones, even four rows of stones: the order shall be this, a 1ruby, a topaz, and a 2carbuncle in the first row. 18 And in the second row thou shalt set an 1emerald, a sapphire, and a 2diamond. 19 And in the third row a turquoise, an agate, and an Hematite. 20 And in the fourth row 1a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: and they shall be set in gold in their embossments.

four pillars thereof and their four sockets. 17 All the pillars of the court shall have fillets of silver round about, with their heads of silver, and their sockets of brass. 18 ¶ The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty 1at either end, and the height five cubits, and the hangings of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass. 19 All the vessels of the Tabernacle for all manner service thereof, and all the 1pins thereof, and all the pins of the court shall be brass. 20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive 1beaten for the light, that the lamps may always 2burn. 21 In the Tabernacle of the Congregation without the veil, which is before the Testimony, shall Aaron and his sons dress them from evening to morning before the Lord, for a statute forever unto their generations, to be observed by the children of Israel. 28 1 The Lord calleth Aaron and his sons to the Priesthood. 4 Their garments. 13, 29 Aaron enter­eth into the Sanctuary in the name of the children of Israel. 30 Urim and Thummim. 38 Aaron beareth the iniquity of the Israelites' offerings.

1 And cause thou thy brother Aaron to come unto thee, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may serve me in the Priest's office: I mean, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar Aaron's sons. 2 Also thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, 1glorious and beautiful. 3 Therefore thou shalt speak unto all 1cunning men, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to 2consecrate him, that he may serve me in the Priest's office. 4 Now these shall be the garments, which they shall make, a breastplate, and an 1Ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: so these holy garments shall they make for Aaron thy brother, and for his sons, that he may serve me in the Priest's office. 5 Therefore they shall take gold, and blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

27:18 1 Hebrew, fifty in fifty. 27:19 1 Or, stakes, wherewith the curtains were fastened to the ground. 27:20 1 Such as cometh from the olive, when it is first pressed or beaten. 2 Or, ascend up. 28:2 1 Whereby his office may be known to be glorious and excellent. 28:3 1 Hebrew, wise in heart. 2 Which is to separate him from the rest. 28:4 1 A short and straight coat without sleeves, put upmost upon his garments to keep them close unto him.

28:8 1 Which went about his upmost coat. 28:10 1 As they were in age, so should they be graven in order. 28:12 1 That Aaron might remember the Israelites to Godward. 28:14 1 Of the bosses. 28:15 1 It was so called, because the high Priest could not give sen­ tence in judgment without that on his breast. 28:16 1 The description of the breastplate. 28:17 1 Or, Sardius. 2 Or, Emerald. 28:18 1 Or, Carbuncle. 2 Or, Jasper. 28:20 1 Hebrew, Tarshish.

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shalt make pomegranates of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet round about the skirts thereof, and bells of gold between them round about: 34 That is, a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate round about upon the skirts of the robe. 35 So shall it be upon Aaron, when he ministereth, and his sound shall be heard when he goeth into the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, and he shall not die. 36 ¶ Also thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave thereon, as signets are graven, 1HOLINESS TO THE LORD. 37 And thou shalt put it on a blue silk lace, and it shall be upon the mitre, even upon the forefront of the mitre shall it be. 38 So shall it be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may 1bear the iniquity of the offerings, which the children of Israel shall offer in all their holy offerings: and it shall be always upon his forehead, to make them acceptable before the Lord. 39 Likewise thou shalt embroider the fine linen coat, and thou shalt make a mitre of fine linen, but thou shalt make a girdle of needle work. 40 Also thou shalt make for Aaron's sons coats, and thou shalt make them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make them for glory and comeliness. 41 And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and on his sons with him, and shalt anoint them, and 1fill their hands, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office. 42 Thou shalt also make them linen breeches to cover their privities: from the loins unto the thighs shall they reach. 43 And they shall be for Aaron and his sons, when they come into the Tabernacle 1of the Congregation, or when they come unto the altar to minister in the holy place, that they 2commit not iniquity, and so die. This shall be a law forever unto him, and to his seed after him. 29 1 The manner of consecrating the Priests. 38 The continual sacrifice.­ 45 The Lord promiseth to dwell among the children of Israel.

21 And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, graven as signets, every one after his name, and they shall be for the twelve tribes. 22 ¶ Then thou shalt make upon the breastplate two chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold. 23 Thou shalt make also upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and put the two rings on 1the two ends of the breastplate. 24 And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings in the ends of the breastplate. 25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains, thou shalt fasten in the two embossments, and shalt put them upon the shoulders of the Ephod upon the foreside of it. 26 ¶ Also thou shalt make two rings of gold, which thou shalt put in the 1two other ends of the breastplate, upon the border thereof, toward the inside of the Ephod. 27 And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath in the forepart of it over against the coupling of it upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod. 28 Thus shall they bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blue silk, that it may be fast upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the Ephod. 29 So Aaron shall 1bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth into the holy place for a remembrance continually before the Lord. 30 ¶ Also thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment, the 1Urim and the Thummim, which shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord, and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the Lord continually. 31 ¶ And thou shalt make the robe of the Ephod altogether of blue silk. 32 And the hole for his head shall be in the midst of it, having an edge of woven work round about the collar of it: so shall it be as the collar of an habergeon, that it rent not. 33 ¶ And beneath upon the skirts thereof, thou

chapter 29

a Lev. 9:2

1 This thing also shalt thou do unto them, when thou consecratest them to be my Priests, aTake a young calf, and two rams without blemish,

28:23 1 Which are upmost toward the shoulder. 28:26 1 Which are beneath. 28:29 1 Aaron shall not enter into the holy place in his own name, but in the name of all the children of Israel. 28:30 1 Urim signifieth light, and Thummim perfection: declaring that the stones of the breastplate were most clear, and of perfect beauty: by Urim also is meant knowledge, and Thummim holiness, showing what virtues are required in the Priests.

28:36 1 Holiness appertaineth to the Lord: for he is most holy, and nothing unholy may appear before him. 28:38 1 Their offerings could not be so perfect, but some fault would be therein: which sin the high Priest bare, and pacified God. 28:41 1 That is, consecrate them, by giving them things to offer and thereby admit them to their office. 28:43 1 Or, of witness. 2 In not hiding their nakedness.

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2 And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: (of fine wheat flour shalt thou make them). 3 Then thou shalt put them in one basket, and 1present them in the basket with the calf and the two rams, 4 And shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and wash them with water. 5 Also thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the tunicle, and the 1robe of the Ephod, and the Ephod, and the breastplate, and shalt close them to him with the broidered girdle of the Ephod. 6 Then thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and shalt put the holy bcrown upon the mitre. 7 And thou shalt take the anointing coil, and shalt pour upon his head and anoint him. 8 And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. 9 And shalt gird them with girdles, both Aaron and his sons: and shalt put the bonnets on them, and the Priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual law: thou dshalt also 1fill the hands of Aaron, and the hands of his sons. 10 After, thou shalt present the calf before the Tabernacle of the congregation, eand Aaron and his sons shall 1put their hands upon the head of the calf. 11 So shalt thou kill the calf before the Lord, at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 12 Then thou shalt take of the blood of the calf, and put it upon the horns of the Altar with thy finger, and shalt pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the Altar. 13 fAlso thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul, that is on the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and shalt burn them upon the Altar. 14 But the flesh of the calf, and his skin, and his dung shalt thou burn with fire without the host: it is a 1sin offering. 15 ¶ Thou shalt also take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. 16 Then thou shalt kill the ram, and take his blood, and sprinkle it round about upon the Altar, 17 And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him and his legs, and shalt put them

upon the pieces thereof, and upon his head. 18 So thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the Altar: for it is a burnt offering unto the Lord 1for a sweet savor: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 19 And shalt thou take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram. 20 Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it 1upon the lap of Aaron's ear, and upon the lap of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and shalt sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 21 And thou shalt take of the blood that is 1upon the Altar, and of the anointing oil, and shalt sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments of his sons with him: so he shall be hallowed, and his clothes, and his sons, and the garments of his sons with him. 22 Also thou shalt take of the rams the fat and the rump, even the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, (for it is the 1ram of consecration). 23 And one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread tempered with oil, and one wafer, out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord: 24 And thou shalt put all this in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons, and shalt shake them to and fro before the Lord. 25 Again, thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar besides the burnt offering for a sweet savor before the Lord: for this is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 26 Likewise thou shalt take the breast of the ram of the consecration, which is for Aaron, and shalt shake it to 1and fro before the Lord, and it shall be thy part. 27 And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the shaken offering, and the shoulder of the 1heave offering, which was shaken to and fro, and which was heaved up of the ram of the consecration which was for Aaron, and which was for his sons. 28 And Aaron and his sons shall have it by a statute forever, of the children of Israel: for it is an heave offering, and it shall be an heave offering of the children of Israel, of their 1peace offerings, even their heave offering to the Lord.

b Exod. 28:36

c Exod. 30:25

d Exod. 28:41

e Lev. 1:4

f Lev. 3:3

29:3 1 To offer them in sacrifice. 29:5 1 Which was next under the Ephod. 29:9 1 Or, consecrate them. 29:10 1 Signifying that the sacrifice was also offered for them, and that they did approve it. 29:14 1 Hebrew, sin, 2 Cor. 5:21. 29:18 1 Or, savor of rest, which causeth the wrath of God to cease. 29:20 1 Meaning the soft and nether part of the ear.

29:21 1 Wherewith the Altar must be sprinkled. 29:22 1 Which is offered for the consecration of the high Priest. 29:26 1 This sacrifice the Priest did move toward the East, West, North, and South. 29:27 1 So called because it was not only shaken to and fro, but also lifted up. 29:28 1 Which were offerings of thanksgiving to God for his benefits.

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29 ¶ And the holy garments which appertain to Aaron, shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated therein. 30 That son that shall be Priest in his stead, shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to minister in the holy place. 31 ¶ So thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place. 32 gAnd Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 33 So they shall eat these things, 1whereby their atonement was made, to consecrate them, and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy things. 34 Now if ought of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the rest with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is an holy thing. 35 Therefore shalt thou do thus unto Aaron and unto his sons, according to all things which I have commanded thee: seven days shalt thou 1consecrate them. 36 And shalt offer every day a calf for a sin offering, for 1reconciliation: and thou shalt cleanse the Altar, when thou hast offered upon it for reconciliation, and shalt anoint it to sanctify it. 37 Seven days shalt thou cleanse the Altar and sanctify it, so the Altar shall be most holy: and whatsoever toucheth the Altar, shall be holy. 38 ¶ hNow this is that which thou shalt present upon the altar: even two lambs of one year old, day by day continually. 39 The one lamb thou shalt present in the morning, and the other lamb thou shalt present at even. 40 And with the one lamb, a 1tenth part of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of an 2Hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of an Hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 And the other lamb thou shalt present at even: thou shalt do thereto according to the offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, to be a burnt offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 42 This shall be a continually burnt offering in your generations at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord, where I will

1make appointment with you, to speak there unto thee. 43 There I will appoint with the children of Israel, and the place shall be sanctified by my 1glory. 44 And I will sanctify the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar: I will sanctify also Aaron and his sons to be my Priests, 45 And I will idwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. 46 Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: 1I am the Lord their God. 30 The Altar of incense. 13 The sum that the Israelites should pay to the Tabernacle. 28 The brazen laver. 33 The anointing oil. 34 The making of the perfume.

g Lev. 8:31

Lev. 24:9 Matt. 12:4

h Num. 28:3

i Lev. 26:12

2 Cor. 6:16

1 Furthermore thou shalt make an Altar 1for sweet perfume, of Shittim wood thou shalt make it. 2 The length thereof a cubit, and the breadth thereof a cubit, (it shall be foursquare) and the height thereof two cubits: the horns thereof shall be 1of the same. 3 And thou shalt overlay it with fine gold, both the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and his horns: also thou shalt make unto it 1a crown of gold round about. 4 Besides this thou shalt make under this crown two golden rings on either side: even on every side shalt thou make them, that they may be as places for the bars to bear it withal. 5 The which bars thou shalt make of Shittim wood, and shalt cover them with gold. 6 After thou shalt set it 1before the veil, that is near the Ark of the Testimony, before the Mercy seat that is upon the Testimony, where I will appoint with thee. 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he 1dresseth the lamps thereof, shall he burn it. 8 Likewise at even, when Aaron setteth up the lamps thereof, he shall burn incense: this perfume shall be perpetually before the Lord, throughout your generations. 9 Ye shall offer no 1strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor offering, neither pour any drink

29:33 1 That is, by the sacrifices. 29:35 1 Hebrew, fill their hands. 29:36 1 To appease God's wrath that sin may be pardoned. 29:40 1 That is, an Omer, read Exod. 16:16. 2 Which is about a pint. 29:42 1 Or, declare myself to you. 29:43 1 Because of my glorious presence.

29:46 1 It is I the Lord, that am their God. 30:1 1 Upon the which the sweet perfume was burnt, verse 34. 30:2 1 Of the same wood and matter. 30:3 1 Or, a circle and border. 30:6 1 That is, in the Sanctuary, and not in the holiest of all. 30:7 1 Meaning, when he trimmeth them, and refresheth the oil. 30:9 1 Otherwise made them this, which is described.

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offering 2thereon. 10 And Aaron shall make reconciliation upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering in the day of reconciliation: once in the year shall he make reconciliation upon it throughout your generations: this is most holy unto the Lord. 11 ¶ Afterward the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 12 aWhen thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then they shall give every man 1a redemption of his life unto the Lord, when thou tellest them, that there be no plague among them when thou countest them. 13 This shall every man give, that goeth into the number, half a shekel, after the 1shekel of the Sanctuary: (ba shekel is twenty gerahs) the half shekel shall be an offering to the Lord. 14 All that are numbered from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the Lord. 15 The rich shall not pass, and the poor shall not diminish from half a shekel, when ye shall give an offering unto the Lord, 1for the redemption of your lives. 16 So thou shalt take the money of the redemption of the children of Israel, and shalt put it unto the use of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, for the redemption of your lives. 17 ¶ Also the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Thou shalt also make a Laver of brass, and his foot of brass to wash, and shalt put it between the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and shalt put water therein. 19 For Aaron and his sons shall 1wash their hands, and their feet thereat. 20 When they go into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, or when they go unto the Altar to minister, and to make the perfume of the burnt offering to the Lord, they shall wash themselves with water, lest they die. 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet that they die not: and this shall be to them an ordinance 1forever, both unto him and to his seed throughout their generations. 22 ¶ Also the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices: of the most pure myrrh five hundred 1shekels, of sweet cinnamon half so much, that is, two hundred and fifty,

and of sweet 2calamus, two hundred, and fifty: 24 Also of Cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the Sanctuary, and of oil olive an cHin. 25 So thou shalt make of it the oil of holy ointment, even a most precious ointment after the art of the Apothecary: this shall be the oil of holy ointment. 26 And thou shalt anoint the 1Tabernacle of the Congregation therewith, and the Ark of the Testimony: 27 Also the Table, and all the instruments thereof, and the Candlestick, with all the instruments thereof, and the altar of incense: 28 Also the altar of burnt offering with all his instruments, and the laver and his foot. 29 So thou shalt sanctify them, and they shall be most holy: all that shall touch them, shall be holy. 30 Thou shalt also anoint Aaron and his sons, and shalt consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office. 31 Moreover thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me, throughout your generations. 32 None shall anoint 1man's flesh therewith, neither shall ye make any composition like unto it: for it is holy, and shall be holy unto you. 33 Whosoever shall make the like ointment, or whosoever shall put any of it upon 1a stranger, even he shall be cut off from his people. 34 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee these spices, pure myrrh and 1clear gum and galbanum, these odors with pure frankincense of each like weight: 35 Then thou shalt make of them perfume composed after the art of the apothecary, mingled together, pure and holy. 36 And thou shalt beat it to powder, and shalt put it before the Ark of the Testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will make appointment with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. 37 And ye shall not make unto you any composition like this perfume, which thou shalt make: it shall be unto thee holy for the 1Lord. 38 Whosoever shall make like unto that to smell thereto, even he shall be cut off from his people. 31 2 God maketh Bezalel and Aholiab meet for his work. 13 The Sabbath day is the sign of our sanc-

chapter 30

a Num. 1:2,5

b Lev. 27:25

Num. 3:47 Ezek. 45:12

c Exod. 29:40

2 But it must only serve to burn perfume. 30:12 1 Whereby he testified that he redeemed his life which he had forfeit, as is declared by David, 2 Sam. 24:1. 30:13 1 This shekel valued two common shekels: and the gerah valued about 12 pence after five shillings sterling the ounce of silver. 30:15 1 That God should be merciful unto you. 30:19 1 Signifying, that he that cometh to God, must be washed from all sin and corruption. 30:21 1 So long as the Priesthood shall last.

30:23 1 Weighing so much. 2 It is a kind of reed of a very sweet savor within, and it is used in powders and odors. 30:26 1 All things which appertain to the Tabernacle. 30:32 1 Neither at their burials nor otherwise. 30:33 1 Either a stranger or an Israelite, save only the Priests. 30:34 1 In Hebrew, Sheheleth: which is a sweet kind of gum and shin­ eth as the nail. 30:37 1 Only dedicated to the use of the Tabernacle.

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whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, shall die the death. 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, that they may observe the 1rest throughout their generations for an everlasting Covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: bfor in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and in the seventh day 1he ceased and rested. 18 Thus (when the Lord had made an end of communing with Moses upon mount Sinai) che gave him two Tables 1of the Testimony, even tables of stone, written with the finger of God. 32 4 The Israelites impute their deliverance to the calf. 14 God is appeased by Moses' prayer. 19 Moses breaketh the Tables.

tification. 18 The Tables written by the finger of God.

chapter 31

a Exod. 20:8

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Behold, I 1have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, 3 Whom I have filled with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all 1workmanship: 4 To find out curious works to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 5 Also in the art to set stones, and to carve in timber, and to work in all manner of workmanship. 6 And behold, I have joined him with Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all that are 1wise hearted, have I put wisdom to make all that I have commanded thee: 7 That is, the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Ark of the Testimony, and the Mercy seat that shall be thereupon, with all instruments of the Tabernacle: 8 Also the Table and the instruments thereof, and the 1pure Candlestick with all his instruments, and the Altar of perfume: 9 Likewise the Altar of burnt offering with all his instruments, and the Laver with his foot: 10 Also the garments of the ministration, and the holy garment for Aaron the Priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the Priest's office, 11 And the 1anointing oil, and sweet perfume for the Sanctuary according to all that I have commanded thee, shall they do. 12 ¶ Afterward the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, and say, 1Notwithstanding keep ye my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you in your generations, that ye may know that I the Lord do sanctify you. 14 aYe shall therefore keep the 1Sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that defileth it, shall die the death: therefore whosoever worketh therein, the same person shall be even cut off from among his people. 15 Six days shall men work, but in the seventh day is the Sabbath of the holy rest to the Lord:

Ezek. 20:12

b Gen. 31

Gen. 22

c Deut. 9:10

chapter 32

a Ps. 106:19

b 1 Kings 12:28

c 1 Cor. 10:7

d Deut. 9:12

1 But when the people saw, that Moses tarried long ere he came down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together against Aaron, and said unto him, Up, 1make us gods to go before us: for of this Moses (the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt) we know not what is become of him. 2 And Aaron said unto them, 1Pluck off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. 3 Then all the people plucked from 1themselves the golden earrings, which were in their ears, and they brought them unto Aaron. 4 aWho received them at their hands, and fashioned it with the graving tool, and made of it a 1molten calf: then they said, bThese be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 5 When Aaron saw that, he made an Altar before it: and Aaron proclaimed, saying, Tomorrow shall be the holy day of the Lord. 6 So they rose up the next day in the morning, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings: also cthe people sat them down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 7 ¶ Then the Lord said unto Moses, dGo get thee down: for thy people which thou hast brought out

31:2 1 I have chosen and made meet, Exod. 35:30. 31:3 1 This showeth that handicrafts are the gifts of God's spirit, and therefore ought to be esteemed. 31:6 1 I have instructed them, and increased their knowledge. 31:8 1 So called, because of the cunning and art used therein, or because the whole was beaten out of the piece. 31:11 1 Which only was to anoint the Priests and the instruments of the tabernacle, and not to burn. 31:13 1 Though I command these works to be done, yet will I not that you break my Sabbath days. 31:14 1 God repeateth this point because the whole keeping of the law standeth in the true use of the Sabbath, which is to cease from our works, and to obey the will of God.

31:16 1 Or, Sabbath. 31:17 1 From creating his creatures, but not from governing and preserving them. 31:18 1 Whereby he declared his will to his people. 32:1 1 The root of Idolatry is, when men think that God is not at hand, except they see him carnally. 32:2 1 Thinking that they would rather forego idolatry, than to resign their most precious jewels. 32:3 1 Such is the rage of idolaters, that they spare no cost to satisfy their wicked desires. 32:4 1 They smelled of their leaven of Egypt, where they saw calves, oxen and serpents worshipped.

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of the land of Egypt, hath corrupted their ways. 8 They 1are soon turned out of the way, which I commanded them: for they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have offered thereto, saying, eThese be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 9 Again the Lord said unto Moses, fI have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people. 10 Now 1therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, for I will consume them: but I will make of thee a mighty people 11 gBut Moses prayed unto the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 hWherefore shall the Egyptians 1speak, and say, He hath brought them out maliciously for to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the earth? turn from thy fierce wrath, and 2change thy mind from this evil toward thy people. 13 Remember 1Abraham, Isaac, and Israel thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidest unto them, iI will multiply your seed, as the stars of heaven, and all this land, that I have spoken of, will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever. 14 Then the Lord changed his mind from the evil, which he threatened to do unto his people. 15 So Moses returned and went down from the mountain with the two Tables of the Testimony in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides, even on the one side and on the other were they written. 16 And these Tables were the work of God, and 1this writing was the writing of God graven in the Tables. 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people, as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the host. 18 Who answered, It is not the noise of them that have the victory, nor the noise of them that are overcome: but I do hear the noise of singing. 19 Now, as soon as he came near unto the host, he saw the calf and the dancing: so Moses' wrath waxed hot, and he cast the Tables out of his hands, and brake them in pieces beneath the mountain. 20 jAfter, he took the calf, which they had made,

and burned it in the fire, and ground it unto powder, and strowed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel 1drink of it. 21 Also Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? 22 Then Aaron answered, Let not the wrath of my Lord wax fierce: Thou knowest this people, that they are even set on mischief. 23 And they said unto me, Make us gods to go before us: for we know not what is become of this Moses (the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt). 24 Then I said to them, Ye that have gold, pluck it off: and they brought it me, and I did cast it into the fire, and thereof came this calf. 25 Moses therefore saw that the people were 1naked (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies) 26 And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who pertaineth to the Lord? let them come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves unto him. 27 Then he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Put every man his sword by his side, go to and fro, from gate to gate, through the host, and 1slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. 28 So the children of Levi did as Moses had commanded: and there fell of the people the same day about three thousand men. 29 (For Moses had said, Consecrate your hands unto the Lord this day, even every man upon his 1son, and upon his brother, that there may be given you a blessing this day.) 30 And when the morning came, Moses said unto the people, Ye have committed a grievous crime: but now I will go up to the Lord, if I may pacify him for your sin. 31 Moses therefore went again unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. 32 Therefore now if thou pardon their sin, thy mercy shall appear: but if thou wilt not, I pray thee, raise me 1out of thy book, which thou hast written. 33 Then the Lord said to Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, I will put him out of my 1book.

e 1 Kings 12:28

f Exod. 33:3

Deut. 9:13

g Ps. 106:23

h Num. 14:13

i Gen. 12:7

Gen. 15:7 Gen. 48:16

j Deut. 9:21

32:8 1 Whereby we see what necessity we have to pray earnestly to God, to keep us in his true obedience, and to send us good guides. 32:10 1 God showeth that the prayers of the godly stay his punishment. 32:12 1 Or, blaspheme. 2 Or, repent. 32:13 1 That is, thy promise made to Abraham. 32:16 1 All these repetitions show how excellent a thing they defrauded themselves of by their idolatry. 32:20 1 Partly to despite them of their idolatry, and partly that they should have none occasion to remember it afterward.

32:25 1 Both destitute of God's favor, and an occasion to their ene­ mies to speak evil of their God. 32:27 1 This fact did so please God, that he turned the curse of Jacob against Levi to a blessing, Deut. 33:9. 32:29 1 In revenging God's glory we must have no respect to person, but put off all carnal affection. 32:32 1 So much he esteemed the glory of God, that he preferred it even to his own salvation. 32:33 1 I will make it known that he was never predestinated in mine eternal counsel to life everlasting.

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34 Go now therefore, bring the people unto the place which I commanded thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee, but yet in the day of my visitation I will visit their sin upon them. 35 1So the Lord plagued the people, because they caused Aaron to make the calf which he made. 33 2 God promiseth to send an Angel before his people. 4 They are sad because the Lord denieth to go up with them. 9 Moses talketh familiarly with God. 13 He prayeth for the people.

Tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door of the Tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. 10 Now when all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the Tabernacle door, all the people rose up, and worshipped every man in his tent door. 11 And the Lord spake unto Moses, 1face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. After he turned again into the host, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun a young man, departed not out of the Tabernacle. 12 ¶ Then Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Lead this people forth, and thou hast not showed me whom thou wilt send with me: thou hast said moreover, I know thee by 1name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. 13 Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, and that I may find grace in thy sight: consider also that this nation is thy people. 14 And he answered, My 1,2presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. 15 Then he said unto him, If thy presence go not with us, carry us not hence. 16 And wherein now shall it be known, that I and thy people have found favor in thy sight? shall it not be when thou goest with us? so I, and thy people shall have preeminence before all the people that are upon the earth. 17 And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this also that thou hast said: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. 18 Again he said, I beseech thee, show me thy 1glory. 19 And he answered, I will make all my 1good go before thee, and I will 2proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee: dfor I will show 3mercy to whom I will show mercy, and will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 Furthermore he said, Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me, and 1live. 21 Also the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by 1me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock: 22 And while my glory passeth by, I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with mine

chapter 33

a Gen. 12:7

b Exod. 23:27

Josh. 24:11

Deut. 7:22

c Exod. 31:9

Deut. 9:13

d Rom. 9:15

1 Afterward the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, 1go up from hence, thou, and the people (which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt) unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, aUnto thy seed will I give it. 2 And bI will send an Angel before thee, and will cast out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, 3 To a land, I say, that floweth with milk and honey: for I will not go up with thee, cbecause thou art a stiffnecked people, lest I consume thee in the way. 4 And when the people heard this evil tidings, they sorrowed, and no man put on his best raiment. 5 (For the Lord had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people, I will come suddenly upon thee and consume thee: therefore now put thy costly raiment from thee, that I may know 1what to do unto thee.) 6 So the children of Israel laid their good raiment from them, after Moses came down from the mount Horeb. 7 Then Moses took his tabernacle, and pitched it without the host far off from the host, and called it 1Ohel-moed. And when any did seek to the Lord, he went out unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was without the host. 8 And when Moses went out unto the Tabernacle, all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tabernacle. 9 And as soon as Moses was entered into the

32:35 1 This declareth how grievous a sin idolatry is, seeing that at Moses' prayer God would not fully remit it. 33:1 1 The land of Canaan was compassed with hills: so they that entered into it, must pass up by the hills. 33:5 1 That either I may show mercy, if thou repent, or else punish thy rebellion. 33:7 1 That is, the Tabernacle of the Congregation: so called, because the people resorted thither, when they should be instructed of the Lord's will. 33:11 1 Most plainly and familiarly of all others, Num. 12:7,8; Deut. 34:10. 33:12 1 I care for thee and will preserve thee in this thy vocation.

33:14 1 Hebrew, face. 2 Signifying that the Israelites should excel through God's favor all other people, verse 16. 33:18 1 Thy face, thy substance, and thy majesty. 33:19 1 My mercy and fatherly care. 2 Read Exod. 34:6,7. 3 For finding nothing in man that can deserve mercy, he will freely save his. 33:20 1 For Moses saw not his face in full majesty, but as man's weak­ ness could bear. 33:21 1 In mount Horeb.

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hand while I pass by. 23 After I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my 1back parts: but my face shall not be seen. 34 1 The Tables are renewed. 6 The description of God. 12 All fellowship with idolaters is forbidden. 18 The feasts. 28 Moses is 40 days in the mount. 30 His face shineth, and he covereth it with a veil.

in all nations: and all the people among whom thou art, shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 11 Keep diligently that which I command thee this day: Behold, I will cast out before thee the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 dTake heed to thyself, that thou make no compact with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest they be the cause of 1ruin among you: 13 But ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their images in pieces, and cut down their 1groves, 14 (For thou shalt bow down to none other god, because the Lord, whose Name is eJealous, is a jealous God.) 15 Lest thou make a fcompact with the inhabitants of the land, and when they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, some man call thee, and thou geat of his sacrifice. 16 And lest thou take of their hdaughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. 17 Thou shalt make thee no gods of 1metal. 18 The feast of iunleavened bread shalt thou keep: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the jmonth of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou camest out of Egypt. 19 kEvery male that first openeth the womb, shall be mine: also all the firstborn of thy flock shall be reckoned mine, both of beeves and sheep. 20 But the first of the ass thou shalt buy out with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then thou shalt break his neck: all the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou redeem, and none shall appear before me l,1empty. 21 ¶ mSix days shalt thou work, and in the seventh day thou shalt rest: both in earing time, and in the harvest thou shalt rest. 22 ¶ nThou shalt also observe the feast of weeks in the time of the firstfruits, of wheat harvest, and the feast of gathering fruits in 1the end of the year. 23 ¶ oThrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord Jehovah God of Israel. 24 For I will cast out the nations before thee and enlarge thy coasts, so that no man shall 1desire thy land, when thou shalt come up to appear before the

chapter 34

a Deut. 10:1

b Deut. 5:9

Jer. 32:18

c Deut. 5:2

d Deut. 7:2

e Exod. 20:5

f 1 Cor. 8:10

g Exod. 23:32

Deut. 7:2,3

h 1 Kings 11:2

i Exod. 23:15

1 And the Lord said unto Moses, aHew thee two Tables of stone, like unto the first, and I will write upon the Tables the words that were in the first Tables, which thou brakest in pieces. 2 And be ready in the morning, that thou mayest come up early unto the mount of Sinai, and 1wait there for me in the top of the mount. 3 But let no man come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the sheep nor cattle feed 1before this mount. 4 Then Moses hewed 1two Tables of stone like unto the first, and rose up early in the morning, and went up unto the mount of Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two Tables of stone. 5 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 So the Lord passed before his face, and 1cried, The Lord, the Lord, strong, merciful, and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth. 7 Reserving mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, and not 1making the wicked innocent, bvisiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon children's children, unto the third and fourth generation. 8 Then Moses made haste and bowed himself to the earth, and worshipped, 9 And said, O Lord, I pray thee, If I have found grace in thy sight, that the Lord would now go with us (1for it is a stiff-necked people) and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. 10 And he answered, Behold, cI will make a covenant before all thy people, and will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the world, neither

j Exod. 13:4

k Exod. 13:2

Exod. 22:29 Ezek. 44:30

l Exod. 23:25

m Exod. 23:12

n Exod. 23:15

o Deut. 16:16 Exod. 23:14,17

3:23 1 So much of my glory as in this mortal life thou art able to see. 34:2 1 Hebrew, stand to me. 34:3 1 Or, about. 34:4 1 Or, polished. 34:6 1 This ought to be referred to the Lord, and not to Moses pro­ claiming: as Exod. 33:19. 34:7 1 Hebrew, not making innocent. 34:9 1 Seeing the people are thus of nature, the rulers have need to call upon God that he would always be present with his Spirit.

34:12 1 If thou follow their wickedness, and pollute thyself with their idolatry. 34:13 1 Which pleasant places they chose for their idols. 34:17 1 As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: And herein is condemned all manner of idols, whatsoever they be made of. 34:20 1 Without offering something. 34:22 1 Which was in September, when the sun declined which in the count of political things they called the end of the year. 34:24 1 God promiseth to defend them and theirs, which obey his commandment.

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shall die. 3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations upon the Sabbath day. 4 ¶ Again, Moses spake unto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, saying, 5 Take from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a bwilling heart, let him bring this offering to the Lord, namely gold, and silver and brass: 6 Also blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair, 7 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins with Shittim wood: 8 Also oil for light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense, 9 And onyx stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the breastplate. 10 And all the wise 1hearted among you, shall come and make all that the Lord hath commanded: 11 That is, the cTabernacle, the pavilion thereof, and his covering, and his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets, 12 The Ark, and the bars thereof: the Mercy seat, and the veil that 1covereth it, 13 The Table, and the bars of it, and all the instruments thereof, and the showbread: 14 Also the Candlestick of light and his instruments, and his lamps with the oil for the light: 15 dLikewise the Altar of perfume and his bars, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the veil of the door at the entering in of the Tabernacle, 16 The eAltar of burnt offering with his brazen grate, his bars and all his instruments, the laver and his foot, 17 The hangings of the court, his pillars and his sockets, and the veil of the gate of the court, 18 The pins of the Tabernacle, and the pins of the court with their cords, 19 The 1ministering garments to minister in the holy place, and the holy garments of Aaron the Priest, and the garments of his sons, that they may minister in the Priest's office. 20 ¶ Then all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21 And every one, whose heart 1encouraged him, and every one, whose spirit made him willing, came and brought an offering to the Lord, for the work of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and for all his uses, and for the holy garments.

Lord thy God thrice in the year. 25 pThou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither shall ought of the sacrifice of the feast of Passover be left unto the morning. 26 The first ripe fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God: yet shalt thou not 1seethe a kid in his mother's milk. 27 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of qthese words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. 28 So he was there with the Lord 1forty days and forty nights, and did neither eat bread nor drink water, and he wrote in the Tables rthe words of the covenant, even the 2Ten commandments. 29 ¶ So when Moses came down from mount Sinai, the two Tables of the Testimony were in Moses' hand, as he descended from the mount: (now Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone bright, after that God had talked with him). 30 And Aaron and all the children of Israel looked upon Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone bright, and they were 1afraid to come near him. 31 But Moses called them: and Aaron and all the chief of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came near, and he charged them with all that the Lord had said unto him in mount Sinai. 33 So Moses made an end of communing with them, sand had put a covering upon his face. 34 But, when Moses came 1before the Lord to speak with him, he took off the covering until he came out: then he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. 35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, how the skin of Moses' face shone bright: therefore Moses put the covering upon his face, until he went to speak with God. 35 2 The Sabbath. 5 The free gifts are required. 21 The readiness of the people to offer. 30 Bezalel and Aholiab are praised of Moses.

p Exod. 23:18

q Exod. 24:18

Deut. 9:9

r Deut. 4:23

s 2 Cor. 3:13

chapter 35

a Exod. 20:9

b Exod. 25:2

c Exod. 26:31

d Exod. 30:1

e Exod. 27:1

1 Then Moses assembled all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them: 2 aSix days thou shalt work, but the seventh day shall be unto you the holy 1Sabbath of rest unto the Lord: whosoever doeth any work therein,

34:26 1 Read Exod. 23:1; Deut. 14:21. 34:28 1 This miracle was to confirm the authority of the law, and ought no more to be followed than other miracles. 2 Or, words. 34:30 1 Read 2 Cor. 3:7. 34:34 1 Which was in the Tabernacle of the congregation.

35:2 1 Wherein ye shall rest from all bodily work. 35:10 1 Read Exod. 28:3. 35:12 1 Which hanged before the Mercy seat that it could not be seen. 35:19 1 Such as appertain to the service of the Tabernacle. 35:21 1 Hebrew, lifted him up.

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22 Both men and women, as many as were free hearted, came and brought 1taches and earrings, and rings, and bracelets, all were jewels of gold: and every one that offered an offering of gold unto the Lord: 23 Every man also, which had blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, brought them. 24 All that offered an oblation of silver and of brass, brought the offering unto the Lord: and every one, that 1had Shittim wood for any manner work of the ministration, brought it. 25 And all the women that were 1wise-hearted, did spin with their hands, and brought the spun work, even the blue silk, and the purple, the scarlet, and fine linen. 26 Likewise all the women, 1whose hearts were moved with knowledge, spun goats' hair. 27 And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the breastplate: 28 Also spice, and oil for light, and for the fanointing oil, and for the sweet perfume. 29 Every man and woman of the children of Israel, whose hearts moved them willingly to bring for all the work which the Lord had commanded them to make 1by the hand of Moses, brought a free offering unto the Lord. 30 ¶ Then Moses said unto the children of Israel, Behold, gthe Lord hath called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah, 31 And hath filled him 1with an excellent spirit of wisdom, of understanding, and of knowledge, and in all manner work, 32 To find out curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, 33 And in graving stones to set them, and in carving of wood, even to make any manner of fine work. 34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach other: both he, and Aholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan: 35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner 1of cunning hand broidered, and needle work: in blue silk, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen and weaving, even to do all manner of work and subtle inventions. 36 5 The great readiness of the people. 8 The cur­ tains made. 19 The coverings. 20 The boards. 31 The bars, 35 and the veil.

1 Then wrought Bezalel, and Aholiab, and all 1cunning men, to whom the Lord gave wisdom, and understanding, to know how to work all manner work for the service of the 2Sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded. 2 For Moses had called Bezalel, and Aholiab, and all the wise-hearted men, in whose hearts the Lord had given wisdom, even as many as their hearts encouraged to come unto that work to work it. 3 And they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the Sanctuary, to make it: also 1they brought still unto him free gifts every morning. 4 So all the wise men, that wrought all the holy work, came every man from his work which they wrought, 5 And spake to Moses, saying, The people bring too 1much, and more than enough for the use of the work, which the Lord hath commanded to be made. 6 Then Moses gave a commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the host, saying, Let neither man nor woman prepare any more work for the oblations of the Sanctuary. So the people were stayed from offering. 7 For the stuff they had, was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. 8 aAll the cunning men therefore among the workmen, made for the Tabernacle ten curtains of fine twined linen, and of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet: 1Cherubims of broidered work made they upon them. 9 The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the curtains were all of one size. 10 And he coupled five curtains together, and another five coupled he together. 11 And he made strings of blue silk by the edge of one curtain, in the selvedge of the coupling: likewise he made on the side of the other curtain in the selvedge in the second coupling. 12 bFifty strings made he in the one curtain, and fifty strings made he in the edge of the other curtain, which was in the second coupling: the strings were set one against another. 13 After, he made fifty 1taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the taches: so was it one Tabernacle.

f Exod. 30:23

g Exod. 31:2

h Exod. 26:1

chapter 36

a Exod. 26:3,4

b Exod. 26:10

35:22 1 Or, hooks. 35:24 1 Hebrew, with whom was found. 35:25 1 Which were witty and expert. 35:26 1 That is, which were good spinners. 35:29 1 Using Moses as a minister thereof. 35:31 1 Or, with the spirit of God. 35:35 1 Pertaining to graving, or carving, or such like.

36:1 1 Hebrew, wise in heart. 2 By the Sanctuary he meaneth all the Tabernacle. 36:3 1 Meaning, the Israelites. 36:5 1 A rare example and notable to see the people so ready to serve God with their goods. 36:8 1 Which were little pictures with wings in the form of children. 36:13 1 Or, hooks.

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14 ¶ Also he made curtains of goats' hair for the 1covering upon the Tabernacle: he made them to the number of eleven curtains. 15 The length of one curtain had thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains were of one size. 16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. 17 Also he made fifty strings upon the edge of one curtain in the selvedge in the coupling, and fifty strings made he upon the edge of the other curtain in the second coupling. 18 He made also fifty taches of brass to couple the covering that it might be one. 19 And he made a 1covering upon the pavilion of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above. 20 ¶ Likewise he made the boards for the Tabernacle, of Shittim wood to 1stand up. 21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of one board was a cubit and an half. 22 One board had two tenons, set in order as the feet of a ladder, one against another: thus made he for all the boards of the Tabernacle. 23 So he made twenty boards for the South side of the Tabernacle, even full South. 24 And forty sockets of silver made he under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. 25 Also for the other side of the Tabernacle toward the North, he made twenty boards. 26 And their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 27 Likewise toward 1the West side of the Tabernacle he made six boards. 28 And two boards made he in the corners of the Tabernacle for either side, 29 And they were cjoined beneath, and likewise were made sure above with a ring: thus he did to both in both corners. 30 So there were eight boards, and their sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets. 31 ¶ After, he made dbars of Shittim wood, five for the boards in the one side of the Tabernacle, 32 And five bars for the boards in the other side of the Tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the Tabernacle on the side toward the West.

33 And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards, from the one end to the other. 34 He overlaid also the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and covered the bars with gold. 35 ¶ Moreover he made a 1veil of blue silk and purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen: with Cherubims of broidered work made he it: 36 And made thereunto four pillars of Shittim, and overlaid them with gold: whose 1hooks were also of gold, and he cast for them four sockets of silver. 37 And he made an 1hanging for the Tabernacle door, of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, and needle work, 38 And the five pillars of it with their hooks, and overlaid their chapiters, and their 1fillets with gold, but their five sockets were of brass. 37 1The Ark. 6 The Mercy seat. 10 The Table. 17 The Candlestick. 25 The altar of incense.

c Exod. 26:24

d Exod. 25:28

Exod. 30:4,5

chapter 37

a Exod. 25:10

b Exod. 25:17

1 After this, Bezalel made the aArk of Shittim wood, two cubits and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and a cubit and an half high: 2 And overlaid it with fine gold within and without, and made a 1crown of gold to it round about, 3 And cast for it four rings of gold for the four corners of it: that is, two rings for the one side of it, and two rings for the other side thereof. 4 Also he made bars of Shittim wood, and covered them with gold, 5 And put the bars in the rings by the sides of the Ark, to bear the Ark. 6 ¶ And he made the bMercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and an half was the length thereof, and one cubit and an half the breadth thereof. 7 And he made two Cherubims of gold, upon the two ends of the Mercy seat: even of work beaten with the hammer made he them. 8 One Cherub on the one end, and another Cherub on the other end: 1of the Mercy seat made he the Cherubims, at the two ends thereof. 9 And the Cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered the Mercy seat with their wings and their faces were one towards another: toward the Mercy seat were the faces of the Cherubims. 10 ¶ Also he made the Table of Shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and an half the height of it.

36:14 1 Or, pavilion. 36:19 1 These two were about the covering of goats' hair. 36:20 1 And to bear up the curtains of the Tabernacle. 36:27 1 Or, toward the Sea, which was the Sea called Mediterranean, Westward from Jerusalem. 36:35 1 Which was between the Sanctuary and the Holiest of all.

36:36 1 Or, heads. 36:37 1 Which was between the court and the Sanctuary. 36:38 1 Or, graven borders. 37:2 1 Like battlements. 37:8 1 Of the selfsame matter that the Mercy seat was.

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11 And he overlaid it with fine gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about. 12 Also he made thereto a border of an 1hand breadth round about, and made upon the border a crown of gold round about. 13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were in the four feet thereof. 14 Against the border were the rings, as places for the bars to bear the Table. 15 And he made the bars of Shittim wood, and covered them with gold to bear the Table. 16 cAlso he made the instruments for the Table of pure gold: dishes for it, and incense cups for it, and goblets for it, and coverings for it, wherewith it should be covered. 17 ¶ Likewise he made the Candlestick of pure gold: of work beaten out with the hammer made he the Candlestick: and his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers were of one piece. 18 And six branches came out of the sides thereof: three branches of the Candlestick out of the one side of it, and three branches of the Candlestick out of the other side of it. 19 In one branch three bowls made like almonds, a knop and a flower: and in another branch three bowls made like almonds, a knop and a flower: and so throughout the six branches that proceeded out of the Candlestick. 20 And upon the Candlestick were four bowls after the fashion of almonds, the knops thereof and the flowers thereof. 21 That is, under every two branches a knop made thereof, and a knop under the second branch thereof, and a knop under the third branch thereof, according to the six branches coming out of it. 22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: it was all one dbeaten work of pure gold. 23 And he made for it seven lamps with the snuffers, and snuffdishes thereof of pure gold. 24 Of a 1talent of pure gold made he it with all the instruments thereof. 25 ¶ Furthermore he made the eperfume altar of Shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit (it was square) and two cubits high, and the horns thereof were of the same. 26 And he covered it with pure gold, both the top and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it, and made unto it a crown of gold round about. 27 And he made two rings of gold for it, under the crown thereof in the two corners of the two sides

thereof, to put bars in for to bear it therewith. 28 Also he made the bars of Shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. 29 And he made the holy fanointing oil, and the sweet pure incense after the apothecary's art. 38 1The altar of burnt offerings. 8 The brazen Laver. 9 The Court. 24 The sum of that the people offered.

c Exod. 25:29

d Exod. 25:31

e Exod. 30:1-4

f Exod. 30:33-39

chapter 38

a Exod. 27:1

b Exod. 27:3

c Exod. 27:8

1 Also he made the altar of the burnt offering of aShittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof: it was square and three cubits high. 2 And he made unto it horns in the four corners thereof: the horns thereof were of the same, and he overlaid it with brass. 3 Also he made all the instruments of the altar: the 1ashpans, and the besoms and the basins, the fleshhooks, and the bcensers: all the instruments thereof made he of brass. 4 Moreover, he made a brazen grate wrought like a net to the Altar, under the compass of it beneath in the 1midst of it. 5 And cast four rings of brass for the four ends of the grate to put bars in. 6 And he made the bars of Shittim wood, and covered them with brass. 7 The which bars he put into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal, and made it chollow within the boards. 8 ¶ Also he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass of the 1glasses of the women that did assemble and came together at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 9 ¶ Finally, he made the court on the South side full South: the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, having an hundred cubits. 10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. 11 And on the North side the hangings were an hundred cubits: their pillars twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty, the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets of silver. 12 On the west side also were hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars with their ten sockets: the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets of silver. 13 And toward the East side, full East were hangings of fifty cubits. 14 The hangings of the one side were fifteen cubits, their three pillars, and their three sockets:

37:12 1 Or, four fingers. 37:24 1 Read Exod. 25:39. 38:3 1 Or, fire pans. 38:4 1 So that the gridiron or grate was half so high as the altar, and

stood within it. 38:8 1 R. Kimbi saith, that the women brought their looking glasses, which were of brass or fine metal, and offered them freely unto the use of the Tabernacle: which was a bright thing and of great majesty.

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15 dAnd of the other side of the court gate on both sides were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three sockets. 16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen. 17 But the sockets of the pillars were of brass: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver, and the covering of their chapiters of silver: and all the pillars of the court were hooped about with silver. 18 He made also the hanging of the gate of the court of needle work, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen even twenty cubits long, and five cubits in height and breadth, 1like the hangings of the court. 19 And their pillars were four with their four sockets of brass: their hooks of silver, and the covering of the chapiters, and their fillets of silver. 20 But all the epins of the Tabernacle and of the court round about were of brass. 21 ¶ These are the parts of the Tabernacle, I mean, of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, which was appointed by the commandment of Moses for the office of the 1Levites, by the hand of Ithamar son to Aaron the Priest. 22 So Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses. 23 And with him Aholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a 1cunning workman and an embroiderer, and a worker of needle work in blue silk, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen. 24 All the gold that was occupied in all the work wrought for the holy place (which was the gold of the offering) was nine and twenty talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the shekel of the Sanctuary. 25 But the silver of them that were numbered in the Congregation, was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels, after the shekel of the Sanctuary. 26 A 1portion for a man, that is, half a shekel after the shekel of the Sanctuary, for all them that were numbered from twenty years old and above, among six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty men. 27 Moreover there were an hundred talents of silver, to cast the sockets of the Sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil: an hundred sockets of an hundred talents, a talent for a socket. 28 But he made the hooks for the pillars of a

thousand seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, and overlaid their chapiters, and made fillets about them. 29 Also the brass of the offering was seventy 1talents, and two thousand, and four hundred shekels. 30 Whereof he made the sockets to the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate which was for it, with all the instruments of the Altar. 31 And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets for the court gate, and all the fpins of the Tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about. 39 1The apparel of Aaron and his sons. 32 All that the Lord commanded was made, and finished. 43 Moses blesseth the people.

d Exod. 27:14

e Exod. 29:17

f Exod. 17:15

chapter 39

a Exod. 31:10

Exod. 35:29

b Exod. 28:9

c Exod. 28:12

1 Moreover they made 1garments of ministration to minister in the Sanctuary of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet: they amade also the holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 2 So he made the Ephod of gold, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue silk and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with broidered work. 4 For the which they made shoulders to couple together: for it was closed by the two edges thereof. 5 And the broidered girdle of his Ephod that was upon him, was of the same stuff, and of like work: even of gold, of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 6 ¶ And they wrought btwo Onyx stones closed in ouches of gold, and graved, as 1signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. 7 And put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, as stones for a cremembrance of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 8 ¶ Also he made the breastplate of broidered work like the work of the Ephod: to wit, of gold, blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. 9 They made the breast plate double, and it was square an hand breadth long, and an hand breadth broad: it was also double. 10 And they filled it with four rows of stones. The order was thus, a Ruby, a Topaz, and a Carbuncle in the first row. 11 And in the second row an Emerald, a Sapphire, and a Diamond: 12 Also in the third row 1a Turquoise, an Agate,

38:18 1 Hebrew, over against. 38:21 1 That the Levites might have the charge thereof, and minister in the same, as did Eleazar and Ithamar, Num. 3:4. 38:23 1 Or, a graver, or carpenter, Exod. 36:4. 36:26 1 Or, half a shekel.

38:29 1 Read the weight of a talent, Exod. 25:39. 39:1 1 As coverings for the Ark, the Candlestick, the Altars and such like. 39:6 1 That is, of very fine and curious workmanship. 39:12 1 Or, a ligure, which stone authors write that it cometh of the urine of the beast called Lynx.

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and an Hematite: 13 Likewise in the fourth row a Chrysolite, an Onyx, and a Jasper: closed and set in ouches of gold. 14 So the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, even twelve 1after their names, graven like signets, every one after his name, according to the twelve tribes. 15 After, they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work and pure gold. 16 They made also two bosses of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings in the two corners of the breastplate. 17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings, in the corners of the breastplate. 18 Also the two other ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two bosses, and put them on the shoulders of the Ephod, upon the forefront of it. 19 Likewise they made two rings of gold, and put them in the two other corners of the breastplate upon the edge of it, which was on the inside of the Ephod. 20 They made also two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the Ephod, beneath on the foreside of it, and over against his coupling above the broidered girdle of the Ephod. 21 Then they fastened the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the Ephod, with a lace of blue silk that it might be fast upon the broidered girdle of the Ephod, and that the breastplate should not be loosed from the Ephod, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 22 ¶ Moreover, he made the robe of the 1Ephod of woven work, altogether of blue silk. 23 And 1the hole of the robe was in the midst of it, as the collar of an habergeon, with an edge about the collar, that it should not rent. 24 And they made upon the skirt of the robe pomegranates, of blue silk and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen twined. 25 They made also dbells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the skirts of the robe round about between the pomegranates. 26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate round about the skirts of the robe to minister in, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 27 ¶ After, they made coats of fine linen, of woven work for Aaron and for his sons. 28 And the mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen ebreeches of fine twined

linen. 29 ¶ And the girdle of fine twined linen, and of blue silk, and purple, and scarlet, even of needle work, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 30 ¶ Finally, they made the plate for the holy crown of fine gold, and wrote upon it a superscription like to the graving of a signet, fHOLINESS TO THE LORD. 31 And they tied unto it a lace of blue silk to fasten it on high upon the mitre, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 32 ¶ Thus was all the work of the Tabernacle, even of the gTabernacle of the Congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses: so did they. 33 ¶ Afterward they brought the Tabernacle unto Moses, the Tabernacle and all his instruments, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets, 34 And the covering of rams' skins, dyed red, and the coverings of badgers' skins, and the 1covering veil. 35 The Ark of the testimony, and the bars thereof, and the Mercy seat. 36 The Table, with all the instruments thereof, and the showbread. 37 The pure Candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the Lamps 1set in order, and all the instruments thereof, and the oil for light: 38 Also the golden Altar and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging of the Tabernacle door, 39 The brazen Altar with his grate of brass, his bars and all his instruments, the Laver and his foot. 40 The curtains of the court with his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging to the court gate, and his cords, and his pins, and all the instruments of the service of the Tabernacle, called the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 41 Finally, the ministering garments to serve in the Sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron the Priest, and his sons' garments to minister in the Priest's office. 42 According to every point that the Lord had 1commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work. 43 And Moses beheld all the work, and behold they had done it as the Lord had commanded: so had they done: and Moses 1blessed them.

d Exod. 28:33

e Exod. 28:41

f Exod. 28:36

g Exod. 27:21

39:14 1 That is, every tribe had his name written on a stone. 39:22 1 Which was next under the Ephod. 39:23 1 Where he should put through his head. 39:34 1 So called, because it hanged before the mercy seat and cov­ ered it from sight, Exod. 35:12.

39:37 1 Or, which Aaron dressed and refreshed with oil every morn­ ing, Exod. 30:7. 39:42 1 Signifying that in God's matters man may neither add, nor diminish. 39:43 1 Praised God for the people's diligence, and prayed for them.

exodus 40:1 104 40 The Tabernacle with the appertinences is reared up. 34 The glory of the Lord appeareth in the cloud covering the Tabernacle.

day of the first month in 1the second year. 18 Then Moses reared up the Tabernacle and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars of it, and reared up his pillars. 19 And he spread the covering over the Tabernacle, and put the covering of that covering on high above it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 20 ¶ And he took and put the 1Testimony in the Ark, and put the bars in the rings of the Ark, and set the Mercy seat on high upon the Ark. 21 He brought also the Ark into the Tabernacle, and hanged up the bcovering veil, and covered the Ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 22 ¶ Furthermore he put the Table in the Tabernacle of the Congregation in the North side of the Tabernacle, without the veil, 23 And set the bread in order before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 24 ¶ Also he put the Candlestick in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, over against the Table toward the South side of the Tabernacle. 25 And he 1lighted the lamps before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 26 ¶ Moreover, he set the golden Altar in the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the veil, 27 And burnt sweet incense thereon, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 28 ¶ Also he hanged up the veil at the 1door of the Tabernacle. 29 After, he set the burnt offering Altar without the door of the Tabernacle, called the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and offered the burnt offering and the sacrifice thereon, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 30 ¶ Likewise he set the Laver between the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and poured water therein to wash with. 31 So Moses and Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat. 32 When they went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and when they approached to the Altar, they washed, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 33 Finally, he reared up the court round about the Tabernacle and the Altar, and hanged up the veil at the court gate: so Moses finished the work. 34 ¶ cThen the cloud covered the Tabernacle of

chapter 40

a Num. 7:1

b Exod. 35:12

c Num. 9:15 1 Kings 8:20

1 Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 In the 1first day of the first month in the very first of the same month shalt thou set up the Tabernacle, called the Tabernacle of the Congregation: 3 And thou shalt put therein the Ark of the Testimony, and cover the Ark with the veil. 4 Also thou shalt bring in the 1Table, and set it in order as it doth require: thou shalt also bring in the Candlestick, and light his lamps. 5 And thou shalt set the incense Altar 1of gold before the Ark of the Testimony; and put the 2hanging at the door of the Tabernacle. 6 Moreover, thou shalt set the burnt offering Altar before the door of the Tabernacle, called the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 7 And thou shalt set the Laver between the Tabernacle of the Congregation and the Altar, and put water therein. 8 Then thou shalt appoint the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate. 9 After, thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the Tabernacle, and all that is therein, and hallow it with all the instruments thereof, that it may be holy. 10 And thou shalt anoint the Altar of the burnt offering, and all his instruments, and shalt sanctify the Altar, that it may be an altar most holy. 11 Also thou shalt anoint the Laver, and his foot, and shalt sanctify it. 12 Then thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and wash them with water. 13 And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and shalt anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the Priest's office. 14 Thou shalt also bring his sons and clothe them with garments. 15 And shalt anoint them as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office: for their anointing shall be a sign, that the Priesthood 1shall be everlasting unto them throughout their generations. 16 So Moses did according to all that the Lord had commanded him; so did he. 17 ¶ aThus was the Tabernacle reared up the first

40:2 1 After that Moses had been 40 days, and 40 nights in the mount, that is, from the beginning of August to the tenth of Septem­ ber, he came down, and caused this work to be done: which being finished, was set up in Abib, which month containeth half March and half April. 40:4 1 Read Exod. 26:35. 40:5 1 That is, the altar of perfume, or to burn incense on.

2 This hanging or veil was between the Sanctuary and the court. 40:15 1 Till both the Priesthood and the ceremonies should end, which was at Christ's coming. 40:17 1 After they came out of Egypt, Num. 7:1. 40:20 1 That is, the Tables of the law, Exod. 31:18 and 34:29. 40:25 1 Or, set up. 40:28 1 Between the Sanctuary and the court.

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the Congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. 35 So Moses could not enter into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle. 36 Now when the cloud ascended up from the Tabernacle, the children of Israel went forward in

all their journeys. 37 But if the cloud ascended not, then they journeyed not till the day that it ascended. 38 For 1the cloud of the Lord was upon the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

40:38 1 Thus the presence of God preserved and guided them night and day, till they came to the land promised.

T h e t h i r d b o o k o f m o s e s ,

c a l l e d

1L e v i t i c u s

1 1 Of burnt offerings for particular persons. 3, 10, and 14 The manner to offer burnt offerings as well of bullocks, as of sheep and birds.

of the flocks (as of the sheep, or of the goats) he shall offer a male without blemish. 11 1And he shall kill it on the North side of the altar 2before the Lord, and the Priests Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar. 12 And he shall cut it in 1pieces, separating his head and his 2caul, and the Priest shall lay them in order upon the wood that lieth in the fire which is on the altar: 13 But he shall wash the inwards, and the legs with water, and the Priest shall offer the whole and burn it upon the altar: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 14 ¶ And if his sacrifice be a burnt offering to the Lord of the fowls, then shall he offer his sacrifice of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons. 15 And the Priest shall bring it unto the altar, and 1wring the neck of it asunder, and burn it on the altar: and the blood thereof shall be 2shed upon the side of the altar. 16 And he shall pluck out his maw with his feathers, and cast them beside the altar on the 1East part in the place of the ashes. 17 And he shall cleave it with his wings, but not divide it asunder: and the Priest shall burn it upon the altar upon the wood that is in the fire: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 2 1 The meat offering is after three sorts of fine flour unbaked. 4 Of bread baked.

chapter 1

a Exod. 29:10

1 Now the 1Lord called Moses, and spake unto him out of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, If any of you offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, ye shall offer your sacrifice of 1cattle, as of beeves and of the sheep. 3 aIf his sacrifice be a burnt offering of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, presenting him of his own voluntary will at the door of the 1Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord. 4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted 1to the Lord, to be his atonement. 5 And 1he shall kill the bullock before the Lord, and the Priests Aaron's sons shall offer the blood, and shall sprinkle it round about upon the 2altar, that is by the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 6 Then shall he slay the burnt offering, and cut it in pieces. 7 So the sons of Aaron the Priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire. 8 Then the Priests Aaron's sons shall lay the parts in order, the head and the 1caul upon the wood that is in the fire which is upon the altar. 9 But the inwards thereof and the legs thereof he shall wash in water, and the Priest shall burn all on the altar: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire, for a sweet savor 1unto the Lord. 10 ¶ And if his sacrifice for the burnt offering be

1 And when any will offer a 1meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he

Title 1 Because in this book is chiefly entreated of the Levites, and of things pertaining to their office. 1:1 1 Hereby Moses declareth that he taught nothing to the people but that which he received of God. 1:2 1 So they could offer of none other sort, but of those which were commanded. 1:3 1 Meaning, within the court of the Tabernacle. 1:4 1 Hebrew, to him. 1:5 1 The Priest or Levite. 2 Of the burnt offering, Exod. 27:1. 1:8 1 Or, the body of the . . ., or the fat.

1:9 1 Or a savor of rest, which pacifieth the anger of the Lord. 1:11 1 Read verse 5. 2 Before the altar of the Lord. 1:12 1 Hebrew, into his pieces. 2 Or, fat. 1:15 1 The Hebrew word signifieth to pinch off with the nail. 2 Or, strained or pressed. 1:16 1 On the side of the court gate in the pans which stood with ashes, Exod. 17:3. 2:1 1 Because the burnt offering could not be without the meat offering.

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shall pour oil upon it, and put incense thereon. 2 And shall bring it unto Aaron's sons the Priests, and 1he shall take thence his handful of the flour, and of the oil with all the incense, and the Priest shall burn it for a 2memorial upon the altar: for it is an offering made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 3 But the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': for it is 1most holy of the Lord's offerings made by fire. 4 ¶ If thou bring also a meat offering baked in the oven, it shall be an unleavened cake of fine flour mingled with oil, or an unleavened wafer anointed with oil. 5 ¶ But if thy 1meat offering be an oblation of the frying pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil. 6 And thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: for it is a meat offering. 7 ¶ And if thy meat offering be an oblation made in the caldron, it shall be made of fine flour with oil. 8 After, thou shalt bring the meat offering (that is made of these things) unto the Lord, and shalt present it unto the Priest, and he shall bring it to the altar, 9 And the Priest shall take from the meat offering a amemorial of it, and shall burn it upon the altar: for it is an oblation bmade by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 10 But that which is left of the meat offering, shall be Aaron's and his sons': for it is most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire. 11 All the meat offerings which ye shall offer unto the Lord, shall be made without leaven: for ye shall neither burn leaven nor honey in any offering of the Lord made by fire. 12 ¶ In the oblation of the firstfruits ye shall offer 1them unto the Lord, but they shall not be burnt 2upon the altar for a sweet savor, 13 (All the meat offerings also shalt thou season with csalt, neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the 1covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering, but upon all thine oblations thou shalt offer

salt.) 14 If then thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for thy meat offering of thy firstfruits dears of corn dried by the fire, and wheat beaten out of 1the green ears. 15 After, thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay incense thereon: for it is a meat offering. 16 And the Priest shall burn the memorial of it, even of that, that is beaten, and of the oil of it with all the incense thereof: for it is an offering unto the Lord made by fire. 3 The manner of peace offerings, and beasts for the same. 17 The Israelites may not eat fat nor blood.

chapter 2

a Lev. 2:2

b Exod. 29:18

c Mark 9:49

d Lev. 23:14

chapter 3

a Exod. 29:22

1 Also if his oblation be a 1peace offering, if he will offer of the drove (whether it be male or female) he shall offer such as is without blemish, before the Lord. 2 And shall put his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation: and Aaron's sons the Priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. 3 So he shall offer 1part of the peace offering, as a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, even the afat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards. 4 He shall also take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and upon 1the flanks, and the caul on the liver with the kidneys. 5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar, with the burnt offering, which is upon the wood, that is on the fire: this is a sacrifice made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 6 ¶ Also if his oblation be a peace offering unto the Lord out of the flock, whether it be 1male or female, he shall offer it without blemish. 7 If he offer a Lamb for his oblation, then he shall bring it before the Lord. 8 And lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and shall kill it before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar. 9 After, of the peace offerings he shall offer 1an offering made by fire unto the Lord: he shall take

2:2 1 The Priest. 2 To signify that God remembereth him that offereth. 2:3 1 Therefore none could eat of it but the Priest. 2:5 1 Which is a gift offered to God to pacify him. 2:12 1 That is, fruits, which were sweet as honey, ye may offer. 2 But reserved for the Priests. 2:13 1 Which they were bound (as by covenant) to use all sacrifices, Num. 18:19; 2 Chron. 13:5; Ezek. 43:24, or it meaneth a sure and pure covenant. 2:14 1 Or, full ears: for the word signifieth a fruitful field. Read 2 Chron. 26:10 in the note 2. 3:1 1 A sacrifice of thanksgiving offered for peace and prosperity,

either generally or particularly. 3:3 1 One part was burnt, another was to the Priests, and the third to him that offered. 3:4 1 Or, the which kidneys are near the flank. 3:6 1 In the peace offering it was indifferent to offer either male or female, but in the burnt offering only the male: so here can be offered no birds, but in the burnt offering they might: all there was consumed with fire, and in the peace offering put apart. 3:9 1 The burnt offering was wholly consumed, and of the offering made by fire only the inwards, etc. were burnt: the shoulder and breast, with the two jaws and the maw were the Priest's, and the rest his that offered.

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away the fat thereof, and the rump altogether, hard by the back bone, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards. 10 Also he shall take away the two kidneys, with the fat that is upon them, and upon the bflanks, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys. 11 Then the Priest shall burn it upon the altar, as the meat of an offering made by fire unto the Lord. 12 ¶ Also if his offering be a goat, then shall he offer it before the Lord, 13 And shall put his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before 1the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about. 14 Then he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord, the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards. 15 Also he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and upon the flanks, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys. 16 So the Priest shall burn them upon the altar, as the meat of an offering made by fire for a sweet savor: call the fat is the Lord's. 17 This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, so that ye shall eat neither 1fat nor dblood. 4 1 The offering for sins done of ignorance. 3 For the Priest, the Congregation, the ruler, and private man.

of the Congregation. 6 Then the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the 1Sanctuary. 7 The Priest also shall put some of the blood before the Lord, upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense, which is in the 1Tabernacle of the Congregation, then shall he pour aall the rest of the blood of the bullock at the foot of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 8 And he shall take away all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering: to wit, the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is about the inwards. 9 He shall take away also the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and upon the flanks, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys, 10 As it was taken away from the bullock of the peace offerings, and the Priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering. 11 bBut the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and his legs, and his inwards, and his dung shall he bear out. 12 So he shall carry the whole bullock out of the chost unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured, and shall burn him on the wood in the fire: where the ashes are cast out, shall he be burnt. 13 ¶ And if the 1whole Congregation of Israel shall sin through ignorance, and the thing be dhid from the eyes of the multitude, and have done against any of the commandments of the Lord which should not be done, and have offended: 14 When the sin which they have committed shall be known, then the Congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 15 And the 1Elders of the Congregation shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord, and 2he shall kill the bullock before the Lord. 16 Then the Priest that is anointed, shall bring of the bullock's blood into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, 17 And the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the veil. 18 Also he shall put some of the blood upon the

b Lev. 3:4

c Lev. 7:25

d Gen. 9:4

Lev. 17:4

chapter 4

a Lev. 5:9

b Exod. 29:14

Num. 19:5

c Heb. 13:12

d Lev. 5:2-4

1 Moreover, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If 1any shall sin through 2ignorance, in any of the commandments of the Lord, (which ought not to be done) but shall do contrary to any of them, 3 If 1the Priest that is anointed do sin (according to the sin of the people) then shall he offer, for his sin which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering, 4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord, and shall put his hand upon the bullock's head, and 1kill the bullock before the Lord. 5 And the Priest that is anointed, shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it into the Tabernacle

3:13 1 Meaning, at the north side of the Altar, Lev. 1:1. 3:17 1 By eating fat, was meant to be carnal, and by blood eating, was signified cruelty. 4:2 1 Hebrew, a soul. 2 That is, of negligence or ignorance, specially in the ceremonial law: for otherwise the punishment for crime [is] appointed according to the transgression, Num. 15:22. 4:3 1 Meaning, the high Priest. 4:4 1 Hereby confessing that he deserved the same punishment which the beast suffered.

4:6 1 Which was between the Holiest of all, and the Sanctuary. 4:7 1 Which was in the court: meaning by the Tabernacle the Sanctuary: and in the end of this verse it is taken for the court. 4:13 1 The multitude excuseth not the sin, but if all have sinned, they must all be punished. 4:15 1 For all the people could not lay on their hands: therefore it was sufficient that the Ancients of the people did it in the name of all the Congregation. 2 Or, the Priest.

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horns of the altar, which is before the Lord, that is in the Tabernacle of the Congregation: then shall he pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, 19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and 1burn it upon the altar. 20 And the Priest shall do with his bullock, as he did with the bullock for his sin: so shall he do with this: so the Priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them. 21 For he shall carry the bullock without the host, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: for it is an offering for the sin of the Congregation. 22 ¶ When a ruler shall sin, and do through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God, which should not be done, and shall offend, 23 If one show unto him his sin, which he hath committed, then shall he bring for his offering an 1he goat without blemish, 24 And shall lay his hand upon the head of the he goat, and kill it in 1the place where he should kill the burnt offering before the Lord: for it is a sin offering. 25 Then the Priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and shall pour the rest of his blood at the foot of the burnt offering altar, 26 And shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the peace offering: so the Priest shall make 1an atonement for him, concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him. 27 ¶ Likewise if any of the 1people of the land shall sin through ignorance in doing against any of the commandments of the Lord, which should not be done, and shall offend, 28 If one show him his sin which he hath committed, then he shall bring for his offering, 1a she goat without blemish for his sin which he hath committed. 29 1And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of burnt offering. 30 Then the Priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the

burnt offering altar, and pour all the rest of the blood thereof at the foot of the altar, 31 And shall take away all his fat, as the fat of the peace offerings is taken away, and the Priest shall burn it upon the altar for a esweet savor unto the Lord, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him. 32 And if he bring a lamb for his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish. 33 And shall lay his 1hand upon the head of the sin offering, and he shall slay it for a sin offering in the place where he should kill the burnt offering. 34 Then the Priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and shall pour all the rest of the blood thereof at the foot of the altar. 35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb of the peace offerings is taken away: then the Priest shall burn it upon the altar 1with the oblations of the Lord made by fire, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him. 5 1 Of him that testifieth the truth. 4 Of him that voweth rashly. 15 Of him that by ignorance withdraweth anything dedicated to the Lord.

e Exod. 29:18

1 Also if 1any have sinned, that is, 2if he have heard the voice of an oath, and he can be a witness, whether he hath seen or 3known of it, if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity: 2 Either if one touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carrion of an unclean beast, or a carrion of unclean cattle, or a carrion of unclean creeping things, and is not ware of it, yet he is unclean, and hath offended: 3 Either if he touch any uncleanness of man (whatsoever uncleanness it be, that he is defiled with) and is not ware of it, and after cometh to the knowledge of it, he hath sinned: 4 Either if any 1swear and pronounce with his lips to do evil, or to do good (whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath) and it be hid from him, and after knoweth that he hath offended in one of these points, 5 When he hath sinned in any of these 1things,

4:19 1 Or, make a perfume with it. 4:23 1 Or, the male goat of the fold. 4:24 1 That is, the Priest shall kill it; for it was not lawful for any out of that office to kill the beast. 4:26 1 Wherein he represented Jesus Christ. 4:27 1 Or, private person. 4:28 1 Or, the female of the goats. 4:29 1 Read verse 24. 4:33 1 Meaning, that the punishment of his sin should be laid upon that beast, or, that he had received all things of God, and offered this

willingly. 4:35 1 Or, besides the burnt offerings, which were daily offered to the Lord. 5:1 1 Hebrew, a soul. 2 Or, if the judge hath taken an oath of any other. 3 Whereby it is commanded to bear witness to the truth, and dis­ close the iniquity of the ungodly. 5:4 1 Or, vow rashly without just examination of the circumstances, and not knowing what shall be the issue of the same. 5:5 1 Which have been mentioned before in this Chapter.

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then he shall confess that he hath sinned therein. 6 Therefore shall he bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath committed, even a female from the flock, be it a lamb or a she goat for a sin offering, and the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin. 7 But 1if he be not able to bring a sheep, he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons unto the Lord, one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering. 8 So he shall bring them unto the Priest, who shall offer the sin offering first, and awring the neck of it asunder, but not pluck it clean off. 9 After he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be 1shed at the foot of the altar: for it is a sin offering. 10 Also he shall offer the second for a burnt offering 1as the manner is: so shall the Priest 2make an atonement for him (for his sin which he hath committed) and it shall be forgiven him. 11 ¶ But if he bbe not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that hath sinned, shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an 1Ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, he shall put none 2oil thereto, neither put any incense thereon: for it is a sin offering. 12 Then shall he bring it to the Priest, and the Priest shall take his handful of it for the cremembrance thereof, and burn it upon the altar dwith the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for it is a sin offering. 13 So the Priest shall make an atonement for him, as touching his sin, that he hath committed in one of these points, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the Priest's, as the meat offering. 14 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 15 If any person transgress and sin through ignorance 1by taking away things consecrated unto the Lord, he shall then bring for his trespass offering unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, worth two shekels of silver 2by thy estimation after the shekel of the Sanctuary, for a trespass offering. 16 So he shall restore that wherein he hath offended, in taking away of the holy thing, and shall put the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto the Priest: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him

with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him. 17 ¶ Also if any sin and edo against any of the Commandments of the Lord, which ought not to be done, and know not, and 1sin and bear his iniquity, 18 Then shall he bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, in thy estimation worth ftwo shekels for a trespass offering unto the Priest: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his 1ignorance wherein he erred, and was not ware: so it shall be forgiven him. 19 This is the trespass offering for the trespass committed against the Lord. 6 6 The offering for sins which are done willingly. 9 The law of the burnt offerings. 13 The fire must abide evermore upon the altar. 14 The law of the meat offering. 20 The offerings of Aaron, and his sons.

chapter 5

a Lev. 1:16

b Lev. 5:7

c Lev. 2:2

d Lev. 4:35

e Lev. 4:2

f Exod. 30:13

chapter 6

a Num. 5:6

b Num. 5:7

c Lev. 5:15

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 If any sin and commit a trespass against the Lord, and deny unto his neighbor that which was taken him to keep, or that which was put to him1of trust, or doth by 2robbery, or by violence oppress his neighbor, 3 Or hath found that which was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, afor any of these things that a man doeth, wherein he 1 sinneth: 4 When, I say, he thus sinneth and trespasseth, he shall then restore the robbery that he robbed, or the thing taken by violence which he took by force, or the thing which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found, 5 Or for whatsoever he hath sworn falsely, he shall both restore it in the whole bsum, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it pertaineth, the same day that he offereth for his trespass. 6 Also he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the cflock in thy estimation worth two shekels for a trespass offering unto the Priest. 7 And the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiven him, whatsoever thing he hath done, and trespassed therein. 8 ¶ Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This

5:7 1 Hebrew, if his hand cannot touch, meaning for his poverty. 5:9 1 Or, poured. 5:10 1 Or, according to the Law. 2 Or, declare him to be purged of that sin. 5:11 1 Which was about a pottle. 2 As in the meat offering, Lev. 2:1. 5:15 1 As touching the firstfruits or tithes, due to the Priests and Levites.

2 By the estimation of the Priest, Lev. 27:12. 5:17 1 That is, afterward remembereth that he hath sinned when his conscience doth accuse him. 5:18 1 Else if his sin against God come of malice, he must die, Num. 15:30. 6:2 1 To bestow, and occupy for the use of him that gave it. 2 By any guile, or unlawful means. 6:3 1 Wherein he cannot but sin: or, wherein a man accustometh to sin by perjury or such like thing.

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is the 1law of the burnt offering, (it is the burnt offering because it burneth upon the altar all the night unto the morning, and the fire burneth on the altar). 10 And the Priest shall put on his linen garment, and shall put on his linen breeches upon 1his flesh, and take away the ashes when the fire hath consumed the burnt offering upon the altar, and he shall put them beside the 2altar. 11 After, he shall put off his garments, and put on other raiment, and carry the ashes forth without the host unto a clean place. 12 But the fire upon the altar shall burn thereon and never be put out: wherefore the Priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. 13 The fire shall ever burn upon the altar, and never go out. 14 ¶ dAlso this is the law of the meat offering, which Aaron's sons shall offer in the presence of the Lord, before the altar. 15 He shall even take thence his handful of fine flour of the meat offering and of the oil, and all the incense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor, as a ememorial therefore unto the Lord: 16 But the rest thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without leaven in the holy place: in the court of the Tabernacle of the Congregation they shall eat it. 17 It shall not be 1baked with leaven: I have given it for their portion of mine offering made by fire: for it is as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering. 18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it: It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: fwhatsoever toucheth them shall be holy: 19 ¶ Again the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 20 This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an gEphah of fine flour, for a meat offering 1perpetual: half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. 21 In the frying pan it shall be made with oil: thou shalt bring it fried, and shalt offer the 1baked

pieces of the meat offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord. 22 And the Priest that is 1anointed in his stead, among his sons shall offer it: It is the Lord's ordinance forever, it shall be burnt altogether. 23 For every meat offering of the Priest shall be burnt altogether, it shall not be eaten. 24 ¶ Furthermore, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 25 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and say, This is the Law of the sin offering, In the place where the burnt offering is killed, shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord, for it is most holy. 26 The Priest that offereth this sin offering, shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there droppeth of the blood thereof upon a 1garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it droppeth in the holy place. 28 Also the earthen pot that it is sodden in, shall be broken, but if it be sodden in a brazen pot, it shall both be scoured and washed with 1water. 29 All the males among the Priests shall eat thereof, for it is most holy. 30 hBut no sin offering, whose blood is brought into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to make reconciliation in the holy place, shall be eaten, but shall be burnt with 1fire. 7 1 The law of the trespass offering. 11 Also of the peace offering. 23 The fat and the blood may not be eaten.

d Lev. 2:1 Num. 15:4

e Lev. 2:9

f Exod. 29:37

g Exod. 29:37

h Lev. 4:5 Heb. 13:11

1 Likewise this is the law of the 1trespass offering, it is most holy. 2 In the place 1where they kill the burnt offering, shall they kill the trespass offering, and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. 3 All the fat thereof also shall 1he offer, the rump, and the fat that covered the inwards. 4 After, he shall take away the two kidneys, with the fat that is on them and upon the flanks, and the caul on the liver with the kidneys. 5 Then the Priest shall burn them upon the altar, for an offering made by fire unto the Lord: this is a trespass offering. 6 All the males among the Priests shall eat thereof, it shall be eaten in the holy place for it is most holy.

6:9 1 That is, the ceremonies which ought to be observed therein. 6:10 1 Upon his secret parts, Exod. 28:43. 2 In the ash pans appointed for that use. 6:17 1 Or, kneaded with leaven and after baked. 6:20 1 So oft as the high Priest shall be elected and anointed. 6:21 1 Or, fried. 6:22 1 His son that shall succeed him.

6:27 1 Meaning, the garment of the Priest. 6:28 1 Which was in the laver, Exod. 30:18. 6:30 1 Out of the camp, Lev. 4:12. 7:1 1 Which is for the smaller sins, and such as are committed by ignorance. 7:2 1 At the court gate. 7:3 1 The high Priest.

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7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering, one 1law serveth for both: 2that wherewith the Priest shall make atonement, shall be his. 8 Also the Priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, shall have the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. 9 And all the meat offering that is baked in the oven, and that is dressed in the pan, and in the frying pan, shall be the Priest's that offereth it. 10 And every meat offering mingled with oil, and that is 1dry, shall pertain unto all the sons of Aaron, to all alike. 11 Furthermore, this is the law of the peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord. 12 If he offer it to 1give thanks, then he shall offer for his thanks offering, unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried with the cakes mingled with oil. 13 He shall offer also his offering with cakes of leavened bread, for his peace offerings, to give thanks. 14 And of all the sacrifice he shall offer one cake for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the Priest's that sprinkled the blood of the peace offerings. 15 Also the flesh of the peace offerings, for thanksgiving, shall be eaten the same day that it is offered: he shall leave nothing thereof until the morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a 1vow, or a free offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and so in the morning the residue thereof shall be eaten. 17 But as much of the offered flesh as remaineth unto the third day, shall be burnt with fire. 18 For if any of the flesh of his peace offerings be eaten in the third day, he shall not be accepted that offereth it, neither shall it be reckoned unto him, but shall be an abomination: therefore the person that eateth of it shall 1bear his iniquity. 19 The flesh also that toucheth any unclean 1thing, shall not be eaten, but burnt with fire: but 2of this flesh all that be clean shall eat thereof. 20 But if any eat of the flesh of the peace offerings that pertaineth to the Lord, having his auncleanness upon him, even the same person shall be cut off from his people. 21 Moreover, when any toucheth any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or of an unclean beast, or of any filthy abomination, and eat of the flesh of the peace offerings, which pertaineth unto

the Lord, even that person shall be cut off from his people. 22 ¶ Again the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, bYe shall eat no fat of beeves, nor of sheep, nor of goats. 24 Yet the fat of the dead beast, and the fat of that, which is torn with beasts, shall be occupied to any use, but ye shall not eat of it. 25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of the which ye shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, even the person that eateth, shall be cut off from his people. 26 Neither cshall ye eat any blood, either of fowl, or of beast in all your dwellings. 27 Every person that eateth any blood, even the same person shall be cut off from his people. 28 ¶ And the Lord talked with Moses, saying, 29 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, He that offereth his peace offerings unto the Lord, shall bring his gift unto the Lord of his peace offerings. 30 His 1hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire: even the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be dshaken to and fro before the Lord. 31 Then the Priest shall burn the fat upon the Altar, and the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the Priest for an heave offering, of your peace offerings. 33 The same that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right shoulder for his part. 34 For the breast shaken to and fro, and the shoulder lifted up, have I taken of the children of Israel, even of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the Priest and unto his sons by a statute forever from among the children of Israel. 35 ¶ This is the 1anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons, concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them to serve in the Priest's office unto the Lord. 36 The which portions the Lord commanded to give them in the day that he anointed them from among the children of Israel, by a statute forever in their generations. 37 This is also the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the 1consecrations, and of

chapter 7

a Lev. 15:3

b Lev. 3:17

c Gen. 9:4 Lev. 17:14

d Exod. 29:24

7:7 1 The same ceremonies, notwithstanding that this word trespass signifieth less than sin. 2 Meaning, the rest which is left and not burnt. 7:10 1 Because it had no oil nor liquor. 7:12 1 Peace offerings contain a confession and thanksgiving for a benefit received, and also a vow, and free offering to receive a benefit. 7:16 1 If he makes a vow to offer: for else the flesh of the peace offer­ ings must be eaten the same day.

7:18 1 The sin wherefore he offered shall remain. 7:19 1 After it be sacrificed. 2 Of the peace offering that is clean. 7:30 1 And should not send it by another. 7:35 1 That is, his privilege, reward and portion. 7:37 1 Which sacrifice was offered when the Priests were consecrated, Exod. 29:22.

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the peace offerings, 38 Which the Lord commanded Moses in the mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel to offer their gifts unto the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai. 8 12 The anointing of Aaron, and his sons, with the sacrifice concerning the same.

his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar: so he sanctified 2it, to make reconciliation upon it. 16 Then he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, which Moses burned upon the altar. 17 But the bullock and his 1hide, and his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the host as the Lord had commanded Moses. 18 ¶ Also he brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram. 19 So Moses killed it, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about, 20 And Moses cut the ram in pieces, and burnt the head with the pieces, and the fat, 21 And washed the inwards and the legs in water: so Moses burnt the ram every whit upon the Altar: for it was a burnt offering for a sweet savor, which was made by fire unto the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 22 ¶ gAfter, he brought the other ram, the ram of consecrations, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram, 23 Which Moses 1slew, and took of the blood of it, and put it upon the lap of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 24 Then Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put of the blood on the lap of their right ears, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet, and Moses sprinkled the rest of the blood upon the Altar round about. 25 And he took the fat and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right shoulder. 26 Also he took of the basket of the unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder. 27 So he put hall in Aaron's hands, and in his sons' hands, and shook it to and fro before the Lord. 28 After, Moses took them out of their hands, and burnt them upon the altar for a burnt offering: for these were consecrations for a sweet savor, which were made by fire unto the Lord. 29 Likewise Moses took the breast of the ram of consecrations, and shook it to and fro before the Lord: for it was Moses' iportion as the Lord had commanded Moses.

chapter 8

a Exod. 28:1,4

b Exod. 30:24

c Exod. 29:30

d Exod. 28:30

e Ps. 33:2

f Exod. 29:1

Lev. 9:2

g Exod. 29:31

h Exod. 29:24

1 Afterward the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 aTake Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the banointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread, 3 And assemble all the company at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 4 So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him, and the company was assembled at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 5 Then Moses said unto the company, cThis is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to do. 6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water, 7 And put upon him the coat, and girded him with a girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the Ephod on him, which he girded with the broidered girdle of the Ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. 8 And he put the breastplate thereon, and put in the breastplate dthe Urim and the Thummim. 9 Also he put the miter upon his head, and put upon the miter on the forefront the golden plate, and the 1holy crown, as the Lord hath commanded Moses. 10 (Now Moses had taken the anointing oil, and anointed the 1Tabernacle, and all that was therein, and sanctified them, 11 And sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his instruments, and the laver, and his foot, to sanctify them.) 12 eAnd he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him to sanctify him. 13 After, Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon their heads, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 14 f Then he brought the bullock for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering. 15 And Moses slew him, and took the blood, which he put upon the horn of the 1Altar round about with

i Exod. 29:26

8:9 1 So called, because this superscription, Holiness to the Lord, was graven in it. 8:10 1 That is, the Holiest of all, the Sanctuary and the court. 8:15 1 Of the burnt offering. 2 To offer for the sins of the people.

8:17 1 In other burnt offerings, which are not of consecration, or offering for himself, the Priest hath the skin, Lev. 7:8. 8:23 1 Moses did this because that the Priests were not yet estab­ lished in their office.

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30 Also Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the Altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and on his sons' garments with him: so he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. 31 ¶ Afterward Moses said unto Aaron and his sons, Seethe the flesh at the door of the 1Tabernacle of the Congregation, and there jeat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it. 32 But that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread, shall ye burn with fire. 33 And ye shall not depart from the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation seven days, until the days of your consecrations be at an end: kfor seven days, said the Lord, shall he 1consecrate you, 34 As 1he hath done this day: so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you. 35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, day and night, seven days, and shall keep the watch of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded. 36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord had commanded by the1hand of Moses. 9 8 The first offerings of Aaron. 12 Aaron blesseth the people. 23 The glory of the Lord is showed. 24 The fire cometh from the Lord.

the Lord commanded that ye should do, and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you.) 7 Then Moses said unto Aaron, Draw near to the Altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for 1thee and for the people: offer also the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them, as the Lord hath commanded. 8 ¶ Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. 9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the Altar, and poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the Altar. 10 But the fat and the kidneys, and the caul of the liver of the sin offering, he 1burnt unto the Altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 11 The flesh also and the hide he burnt with fire without the host. 12 After, he slew the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons brought unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about the Altar. 13 Also they brought the burnt offering unto him with the pieces thereof, and the head, and he burnt them upon the Altar. 14 Likewise he did wash the inwards and the legs, and 1burnt them upon the burnt offering on the Altar. 15 ¶ Then he offered the people's offering and took a goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it: and offered it for sin, as the first: 16 So he offered the burnt offering, and prepared it, according to the manner. 17 He presented also the meat offering, and filled his hand thereof, and bbeside the burnt sacrifice of the morning he burnt this upon the altar. 18 He slew also the bullock, and the ram for the peace offerings, that was for the people, and Aaron's sons brought unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the Altar round about. 19 With the fat of the bullock, and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul of the liver. 20 So they laid the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the Altar. 21 But the 1breasts and the right shoulder Aaron shook to and fro before the Lord, as the Lord had

j Exod. 29:32

Lev. 24:9

k Exod. 29:35

chapter 9

a Exod. 29:1

b Exod. 29:38

1 And in the 1eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the Elders of Israel: 2 aThen he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a 1sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and bring them before the Lord. 3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye an he goat for a sin offering, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, without blemish for a burnt offering: 4 Also a bullock, and a ram for peace offerings, to offer before the Lord, and a meat offering mingled with oil: for today the Lord will appear unto you. 5 ¶ Then they brought that which Moses commanded before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and all the assembly drew near, and stood before the 1Lord. 6 (For Moses had said, This is the thing, which

8:31 1 At the door of the court. 8:33 1 Hebrew, fill your hands. 8:34 1 Or, as I have done. 8:36 1 By commission given to Moses. 9:1 1 After their consecration: for the seven days before, the Priests were consecrated. 9:2 1 Aaron entereth into the possession of the Priesthood: and offereth the four principal sacrifices, the burnt offering, the sin offer­

ing, the peace offerings, and the meat offering. 9:5 1 Before the Altar where his glory appeared. 9:7 1 Read for the understanding of this peace, Heb. 4:5 and 7:27. 9:10 1 That is, he laid them in order, and so they were burnt when the Lord sent down fire. 9:14 1 All this must be understood of the preparation of the sacri­ fices which were burnt after, verse 24. 9:21 1 Of the bullock and the ram.

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8 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying, 9 Thou shalt not drink wine nor 1strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, lest ye die: this is an ordinance forever throughout your generations, 10 That ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between the clean and the unclean, 11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath commanded them by the 1hand of Moses. 12 ¶ Then Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy: 13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy duty and thy son's duty of the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded. 14 Also the bshaken breast and the [heave] shoulder shall ye eat in a 1clean place: thou, and thy sons, and thy 2daughters with thee: for they are given as thy 3duty and thy son's duty, of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The heave shoulder, and the shaken breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to shake it to and fro before the Lord, and it shall be thine and thy sons with thee by a law forever, as the Lord hath commanded. 16 ¶ And Moses sought the goat that was offered for sin, and lo, it was burnt: therefore he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron, which were 1left alive, saying, 17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most Holy? and God hath given it you, to bear the iniquity of the Congregation, to make an atonement for them before the Lord. 18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought within the holy place: ye should have eaten it in the holy place, cas I commanded. 19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day 1have they offered their sin offering, and their burnt offering before the Lord, and such things as

commanded Moses. 22 So Aaron lift up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and 1came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. 23 After, Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and came out, and 1blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. 24 cAnd there came a fire out from the Lord, and consumed upon the Altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they 1gave thanks, and fell on their faces. 10 2 Nadab and Abihu are burnt. 6 Israel mourneth for them. 9 The Priests are forbidden wine.

c Gen. 4:4 1 Kings 18:38 2 Chron. 7:1

chapter 10

a Num. 3:4 Num. 26:61 1 Chron. 24:2

b Exod. 29:24

c Lev. 6:26

1 But aNadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put incense thereupon, and offered 1strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. 2 Therefore a fire went out from the Lord, and devoured them: so they died before the Lord. 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be 1sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified: but Aaron held his peace. 4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your 1brethren from before the Sanctuary out of the host. 5 Then they went, and carried them in their coats out of the host, as Moses had commanded. 6 After, Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar, and Ithamar his sons, 1Uncover not your heads, neither rent your clothes, lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, all the house of Israel bewail the burning which the Lord hath 2kindled. 7 And go not ye out from the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you: and they did according to Moses' commandment.

9:22 1 Because the altar was near the Sanctuary, which was the upper end, therefore he is said to come down. 9:23 1 Or prayed for the people. 9:24 1 Or, gave a shout for joy. 10:1 1 Not taken of the altar, which was sent from heaven, and endured till the captivity of Babylon. 10:3 1 I will punish them that serve me otherwise than I have com­ manded, not sparing the chief, that the people may fear and praise my judgments. 10:4 1 Or, cousins. 10:6 1 As though ye lamented for them, preferring your carnal affec­ tion to God's just judgment, Lev. 19:18; Deut. 14:1.

2 In destroying Nadab and Abihu the chief, and menacing the rest, except they repent. 10:9 1 Or, drink that maketh drunk. 10:11 1 Or, commission. 10:14 1 Or, where is no uncleanness. 2 For the breast and shoulders of the peace offerings might be brought to their families, so that their daughters might eat of them, as also of the offerings of firstfruits, the firstborn, and the Easter lamb, Read Lev. 22:12,13. 3 Or, right or portion. 10:16 1 And not consumed as Nadab and Abihu. 10:19 1 That is, Nadab and Abihu.

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thou knowest are come unto me: If I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord? 20 So when Moses heard it, he was 1content. 11 1 Of beasts, fishes and birds, which be clean, and which be unclean.

and the osprey: 14 Also the vulture, and the kite after his kind, 15 Also the ravens after their kind: 16 The ostrich also, and the night-crow, and the 1seamew, and the hawk after his kind. 17 The little owl also, and the cormorant, and the great owl: 18 Also the 1redshank, and the pelican, and the swan: 19 The stork also, the heron after his kind, and the lapwing and the [bat]: 20 Also every fowl that creepeth and goeth upon all four, such shall be an abomination unto you. 21 Yet these shall ye eat: of every fowl that creepeth, and goeth upon all four which 1have their feet and legs all of one to leap withal upon the earth. 22 Of them ye shall eat these, the grasshopper after his kind, and the 1solean after his kind, the hargol after his kind, and the hagab after his kind. 23 But all other fowls that creep and have four feet, they shall be abomination unto you. 24 For by such ye shall be polluted: whosoever toucheth the carcass, shall be unclean unto the evening. 25 Whosoever also 1beareth of their carcass, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until even. 26 Every beast that hath claws divided, and is 1not cloven footed, nor cheweth the cud, such shall be unclean unto you: everyone that toucheth them, shall be unclean. 27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws among all manner beasts that goeth on all four, such shall be unclean unto you: who so doth touch their carcass, shall be unclean until the even. 28 And he that beareth their carcass, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: for such shall be unclean unto you. 29 ¶ Also these shall be unclean to you among the things that creep and move upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the 1,2frog, after his kind: 30 Also the rat, and the lizard, and the chameleon, and the stellio, and the mole. 31 These shall be unclean to you among all that

chapter 11

a Gen. 7:2 Deut. 14:1 Acts 10:14

1 After, the Lord spake to Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, aThese are the beasts which ye 1shall eat, among all the beasts that are on the earth. 3 Whatsoever parteth the 1hoof, and is cloven footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat: 4 But of them that chew the cud, or divide the hoof only, of them ye shall not eat: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, he shall be unclean unto you. 5 Likewise the coney, because he cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, he shall be unclean to you. 6 Also the hare, because he cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, he shall be unclean to you. 7 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is cloven footed, but cheweth not the cud, he shall be unclean to you. 8 Of their 1flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch: for they shall be unclean to you. 9 ¶ These shall ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, or in the rivers, them shall ye eat. 10 But all that have not fins nor scales in the seas, or in the rivers, of all that 1moveth in the waters, and of all 2living things that are in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you. 11 They, I say, shall be an abomination to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, but shall abhor their carcass. 12 Whatsoever hath not fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be abomination unto you. 13 ¶ These shall ye have also in abomination among the fowls, they shall not be eaten, for they are an abomination, the eagle, and the 1goshawk,

10:20 1 Moses bare with his infirmity, considering his great sorrow, but doth not leave an example to forgive them that maliciously transgress the commandment of God. 11:2 1 Or, whereof ye may eat. 11:3 1 He noteth four sorts of beasts, some chew the cud only, and some have only the foot cleft: others neither chew the cud, nor have the hoof cleft: the fourth both chew the cud and have the hoof divided, which may be eaten. 11:8 1 God would that hereby for a time they should be discerned as his people from the Gentiles. 11:10 1 As little fish engendered of the slime.

2 As they which come of generation. 11:13 1 Or, gryphon, as it is in the Greek. 11:16 1 Or, cuckoo. 11:18 1 Or, porphyrio. 11:21 1 Or, have no bowings on their feet. 11:22 1 These were certain kinds of grasshoppers, which are not now properly known. 11:25 1 Out of the camp. 11:26 1 Or, hath not his foot cloven in two. 11:29 1 The green frog that sitteth on the bushes. 2 Or, crocodile.

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46 This is the law of beasts, and of fowls, and of every living thing that moveth in the waters, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth: 47 That there may be a difference between the unclean and clean, and between the beast that may be eaten, and the beast that ought not to be eaten. 12 2 A law how women should be purged after their deliverance.

creep: whosoever doth touch them when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even. 32 Also whatsoever any of the dead carcasses of them doth fall upon, shall be unclean, whether it be vessel of wood, or raiment, or 1skin, or sack: whatsoever vessel it be that is occupied, it shall be put in the water as unclean until the even, and so be purified. 33 But every earthen vessel, wherein any of them falleth, whatsoever is within it shall be unclean, and bye shall break it. 34 All meat also that shall be eaten, if any such water come upon it, shall be unclean: and all drink that shall be drunk in all such vessels shall be unclean. 35 And everything that their carcass fall upon, shall be unclean: the furnace or the pot shall be broken: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you. 36 Yet the fountains and wells where there is plenty of water shall be clean: but that which 1toucheth their carcasses, shall be unclean. 37 And if there fall of the dead carcass upon any seed, which useth to be sown, it shall be unclean. 38 But if any 1water be poured upon the seed, and there fall of the dead carcass thereon, it shall be unclean unto you. 39 If also any beast, whereof ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carcass thereof, shall be unclean until the even. 40 And he that eateth of the carcass of it, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. 41 Every creeping thing therefore that creepeth upon the earth, shall be an abomination, and not be eaten. 42 Whatsoever goeth upon the breast, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or that hath many feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, ye shall not eat of them, for they shall be abomination. 43 Ye shall not pollute yourselves with anything that creepeth, neither make yourselves unclean with them, neither defile yourselves thereby: ye shall not, I say, be defiled by them. 44 For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified therefore, and be 1holy, for I am holy, and defile not yourselves with any creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am the Lord that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God, and that you should be holy, for I am holy.

b Lev. 6:28

chapter 12

a Lev. 15:19

b Luke 1:21

John 7:22

c Luke 2:24

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, When a woman hath brought forth seed, and borne a manchild, she shall be unclean 1seven days, like as she is unclean when she is put apart for her 2,adisease. 3 (bAnd in the eighth day the foreskin of the children's flesh shall be circumcised.) 4 And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three 1and thirty days: she shall touch no 2hallowed thing, nor come into the 3Sanctuary, until the time of her purifying be out. 5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two 1weeks, as when she hath her disease: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days. 6 Now when the days of her purifying are out (whether it be for a son or for a daughter) she shall bring to the Priest a lamb of one year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering, unto the door of the 1Tabernacle of the Congregation, 7 Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her: so she shall be purged of the issue of her blood: this is the law for her that hath borne a male or female. 8 But if she 1be not able to bring a lamb, she shall bring two cturtles, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the Priest shall make an atonement for her: so she shall be clean. 13 2 What considerations the Priests ought to have in judging the leprosy, 29 the black spot, or scab, 47 and the leprosy of the garment.

1 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 The man that shall have in the skin of his flesh a swelling or a scab, or a white spot, so that in the skin of his flesh 1it be like the plague of leprosy, then

11:32 1 As a bottle or bag. 11:36 1 So much of the water as toucheth it. 11:38 1 He speaketh of seed that is laid to sleep before it be sown. 11:44 1 He showeth why God did choose them to be his people, 1 Pet. 1:15. 12:2 1 So that her husband for that time could not resort to her. 2 Or, flowers.

12:4 1 Besides the first seven days. 2 As sacrifice, or such like. 3 That is, into the court gate, till after forty days. 12:5 1 Twice so long as if she bare a man-child. 12:6 1 Where the burnt offerings were wont to be offered. 12:8 1 Hebrew, if her hand find not the worth of a lamb. 13:2 1 That it may be suspected to be the leprosy.

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he shall be brought unto Aaron the Priest, or unto one of his sons the Priests, 3 And the Priest shall look on the sore in the skin of his flesh: if the hair in the sore be turned into white, and the sore seen to be 1lower than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: therefore the Priest shall look on him, and 2pronounce him unclean. 4 But if the white spot be in the skin of his flesh, and seem not to be lower than the skin, nor the hair thereof be turned unto white, then the Priest shall shut up him that hath the plague, seven days. 5 After, the Priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if the plague seem 1to him to abide still, and the plague grow not in the skin, the Priest shall shut him up yet seven days more. 6 Then the Priest shall look on him again the seventh day, and if the plague 1be dark, and the sore grow not in the skin, then the Priest shall 2pronounce him clean, for it is a scab: therefore he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 7 But if the scab grow more in the skin, after that he is seen of the Priest for to be purged, he shall be seen of the Priest yet again. 8 Then the Priest shall consider, and if the scab 1grow in the skin, then the Priest shall pronounce him 2unclean: for it is leprosy. 9 ¶ When the plague of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought unto the Priest, 10 And the Priest shall see him: and if the swelling be white in the skin, and have made the hair white, and there be raw flesh in the swelling, 11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh: and the Priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean. 12 Also if the leprosy 1break out in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of the plague, from his head even to his feet, wheresoever the Priest looketh, 13 Then the Priest shall consider: and if the leprosy cover all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plague to be 1clean, because it is all turned into whiteness: so he shall be clean. 14 But if there be raw flesh on him when he is seen, he shall be unclean. 15 For the Priest shall see the raw flesh, and declare him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is 1unclean,

therefore it is the leprosy. 16 Or if the raw flesh change and be turned into white, then he shall come to the Priest, 17 And the Priest shall behold him: and if the sore be changed into white, then the Priest shall pronounce the plague clean, for it is clean. 18 ¶ The flesh also in whose skin there is 1a boil, and is healed 19 And in the place of the boil there be a white swelling, or a white spot somewhat reddish, it shall be seen of the Priest. 20 And when the Priest seeth it, if it appear lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be changed into white, the Priest then shall pronounce him 1unclean: for it is a plague of leprosy, broken out in the boil. 21 But if the Priest look on it, and there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be darker, then the Priest shall shut him up seven days. 22 And if it spread abroad in the flesh, the Priest shall pronounce him unclean, for it is a sore. 23 But if the spot continue in his place, and grow not, it is a burning boil: therefore the Priest shall declare him to be clean. 24 ¶ If there be any flesh, in whose skin there is an hot burning, and the quick flesh of the burning have a 1white spot, somewhat reddish or pale, 25 Then the Priest shall look upon it: and if the hair in that spot be changed into white, and it appear lower than the skin, it is a leprosy broken out in the burning: therefore the Priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is the plague of leprosy. 26 But if the Priest look on it, and there be no white hair in the spot, and be no lower than the other skin, but be darker, then the Priest shall shut him up seven days. 27 After, the Priest shall look on him the seventh day: if it be grown abroad in the skin, then the Priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is the plague of leprosy. 28 And if the spot abide in his place, not growing in the skin, but is dark, it is a 1rising of the burning: the Priest shall therefore declare him clean: for it is the drying up of the burning. 29 ¶ If also a man or a woman hath a sore on the head or in the beard,

13:3 1 That is, shrunken in, and be lower than the rest of the skin. 2 Hebrew, shall pollute him. 13:5 1 Hebrew, in his eyes. 13:6 1 As having the skin drawn together, or blackish. 2 Hebrew, shall cleanse him. 13:8 1 Or, be spread abroad. 2 As touching his bodily disease: for his disease was not imputed to him for sin before God, though it were the punishment of sin. 13:12 1 Or, bud. 13:13 1 For it is not that contagious leprosy that infecteth, but a kind

of scurvy, which hath not the flesh raw as the leprosy. 13:15 1 That is, declareth that the flesh is not found, but is in danger to be leprous. 13:18 1 Or, impostume. 13:20 1 None were exempted, but if the Priest pronounced him unclean, he was put out from among the people: as appeareth by Mary the prophetess, Num. 12:14, and by king Uzziah, 2 Chron. 26:20. 13:24 1 If he have a white spot in the place where the burning was, and was after healed. 13:28 1 Or, swelling.

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30 Then the Priest shall see the sore: and if it appears lower than the skin, and there be in it a small yellow 1hair, then the Priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is a black spot, and leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31 And if the Priest look on the sore of the black spot, and if it seem not lower than the skin, nor have any black hair in it, then the Priest shall shut up him that hath the sore of the black spot, seven days. 32 After, in the seventh day the Priest shall look on the sore: and if the black spot grow not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the black spot seem not lower than the skin, 33 Then he shall be shaven, but the place of the black spot shall he not shave: but the Priest shall shut up him that hath black spot, seven days more. 34 And the seventh day the Priest shall look on the black spot: and if the black spot grow not in the skin, nor seem lower than the other skin, then the Priest shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 35 But if the black spot grow abroad in the flesh after his cleansing, 36 Then the Priest shall look on it, and if the black spot grow in the skin, the Priest shall not 1seek for the yellow hair: for it is unclean. 37 But if the black spot seem to him to abide, and that black hair grow therein, the black spot is healed, he is clean, and the Priest shall declare him to be clean. 38 ¶ Furthermore if there be any white spots in the skin of the flesh of man or woman, 39 Then the Priest shall consider: and if the spots in the skin of their flesh be somewhat dark and white withal, it is but a white spot broken out in the skin: therefore he is clean. 40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, and is bald, is clean. 41 And if his head lose the 1hair on the forepart, and be bald before, he is clean. 42 But if there be in the bald head, or in the bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy springing in his bald head, or in his bald forehead. 43 Therefore the Priest shall look upon it, and if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, appearing like leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 44 He is a leper and unclean: therefore the Priest shall pronounce him altogether unclean: for the sore is in his head.

45 The leper also in whom the plague is, shall have his clothes 1rent, and his head bare, and shall put a covering upon his 2lips, and shall cry, I am unclean, I am unclean. 46 As long as the disease shall be upon him, he shall be polluted, for he is unclean: he shall dwell alone, awithout the camp shall his habitation be. 47 ¶ Also the garment that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment or a linen garment, 48 Whether it be in the warp or in the woof of linen or of woolen, either in a skin, or in anything made of skin, 49 And if the sore be green or somewhat reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the warp or in the woof, or in anything that is made of 1skin, it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be showed unto the Priest. 50 Then the Priest shall see the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague, seven days, 51 And shall look on the plague the seventh day: if the plague grow in the garment or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, or in anything that is made of skin, that plague is a fretting leprosy and unclean. 52 And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, whether it be woolen or linen, or anything that is made of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy, therefore it shall be burnt in the fire. 53 If the Priest yet see that the plague 1grow not in the garment, or in the woof, or in whatsoever thing of skin it be, 54 Then the Priest shall command them to wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more. 55 Again the Priest shall look on the plague, after it is washed: and if the plague have not changed his 1color, though the plague spread no further, it is unclean: thou shalt burn it in the fire, for it is a fret inward, 2whether the spot be in the bare place of the whole, or in part thereof. 56 And if the Priest see that the plague be darker, after that it is washed, he shall cut it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. 57 And if it appear still in the garment or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin, it is a spreading leprosy: thou shalt burn the thing wherein the plague is, in the fire.

chapter 13

a Num. 5:2 2 Kings 15:5

13:30 1 Which was not wont to be there, or else smaller than in any other part of the body. 13:36 1 He shall not care whether the yellow hair be there or no. 13:41 1 By sickness, or any other inconvenience. 13:45 1 In sign of sorrow and lamentation.

2 Either in token of mourning, or for fear of infecting others. 13:49 1 Whether it be garment, vessel, or instrument. 13:53 1 But abide still in one place, as verse 37. 13:55 1 But remain as it did before. 2 Or, whether it be in any bare place before, or behind.

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58 If thou hast washed the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, if the plague be departed therefrom, then shall it be washed 1the second time, and be clean. 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, to make it clean or unclean. 14 1 The cleansing of the leper, 34 And of the house that he is in.

of the Congregation. 12 Then the Priest shall take one lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the pint of oil, and bshake them to and fro before the Lord. 13 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slain, even in the holy place: for as the csin offering is the Priest's, so is the trespass offering: for it is most holy. 14 So the Priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the lap of the right ear of him that shall be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 15 The Priest shall also take of the pint of oil, and pour it into the palm of his left hand, 16 And the Priest shall dip his 1right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. 17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand, shall the Priest put upon the lap of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot,

chapter 14

a Matt. 8:2

Mark 1:40 Luke 5:12

b Exod. 29:24

c Lev. 7:17

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 aThis is the 1law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: that is, he shall be brought unto the Priest, 3 And the Priest shall go out of the camp, and the Priest shall consider him: and if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper, 4 Then shall the Priest command to take for him that is cleansed, two 1sparrows alive and 2clean, and cedarwood and a scarlet lace, and hyssop. 5 And the Priest shall command to kill one of the birds over 1pure water in an earthen vessel. 6 After, he shall take the live sparrow with the cedarwood, and the scarlet lace, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living sparrow in the blood of the sparrow slain, over the pure water. 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him, that must be cleansed of his leprosy, seven times, and cleanse him, and shall 1let go the live sparrow into the broad field. 8 Then he that shall be cleansed, shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, so he shall be clean: after that shall he come into the host, and shall tarry without his tent seven days. 9 So in the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair both his head and his beard, and his eyebrows: even all his hair shall be shaven, and shall wash his clothes, and shall wash his flesh in water: so he shall be clean. 10 Then in the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without 1blemish, and an ewe lamb of a year old without blemish, and three-tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, 2and a pint of oil. 11 And the Priest that maketh him clean shall bring the man which is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the Tabernacle

1where the blood of the trespass offering was put. 18 But the remnant of the oil that is in the Priest's hand, he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord. 19 And the Priest shall offer the burnt offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed of his uncleanness: then after shall he kill the burnt offering. 20 So the Priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the Altar: and the Priest shall make an atonement for him: so he shall be clean. 21 But if he be poor, and not 1able, then he shall bring one lamb for a trespass offering to be shaken, for his reconciliation, and a 2tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat offering, with a pint of oil. 22 Also two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, as he is able, whereof the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering, 23 And he shall bring them the eighth day for his cleansing unto the Priest at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before the Lord. 24 Then the Priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the pint of oil, and the Priest shall 1shake them to and fro before the Lord.

13:58 1 To the intent he might be sure that the leprosy was departed, and that all occasion of infection might be taken away. 14:2 1 Or, the ceremony which shall be used in his purgation. 14:4 1 Or, little birds. 2 Of birds which were permitted to be eaten. 14:5 1 Running water, or of the fountains. 14:7 1 Signifying, that he that was made clean, was set at liberty, and restored to the company of others.

14:10 1 Which hath no imperfection in any member. 2 This measure in Hebrew, is called Log, and contained six eggs in measure. 14:16 1 Hebrew, the finger of his right hand. 14:17 1 Hebrew, upon the blood of the trespass offering. 14:21 1 Hebrew, his hand cannot take it. 2 Which is an Omer, read Exod. 16:16. 14:24 1 Or, shall offer them as the offering that is shaken to and fro.

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25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the Priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the lap of his right ear that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 26 Also the Priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own 1left hand. 27 So the Priest shall with his right finger sprinkle of the oil that is in his left hand, seven times before the Lord. 28 Then the Priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand, upon the lap of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: upon the place 1of the blood of the trespass offering. 29 But the rest of the oil that is in the Priest's hand, he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord. 30 Also he shall present one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, 1as he is able. 31 Such, I say, as he is able, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, 1with the meat offering: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord. 32 This is the 1Law of him which hath the plague of leprosy, who is not able in his cleansing to offer the whole. 33 ¶ The Lord also spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 34 When ye be come unto the land of Canaan which I give you in possession, if I 1send the plague of leprosy in an house of the land of your possession, 35 Then he that [owneth] the house shall come and tell the Priest, saying, Me think there is like a plague of leprosy in the house. 36 Then the Priest shall command them to empty the house before the Priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean, and then shall the Priest go in to see the house. 37 And he shall mark the plague: and if the plague be in the walls of the house, and that there be 1deep spots, greenish or reddish, which seem to be lower than the wall. 38 Then the Priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shall cause to shut up

the house seven days. 39 So the Priest shall come again the seventh day: and if he see that the plague be increased in the walls of the house, 40 Then the Priest shall command them to take away the stones wherein the plague is, and they shall cast them into a 1foul place without the city. 41 Also he shall cause to scrape the house within round about, and pour the dust, that they have pared off, without the city in 1an unclean place. 42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the places of those stones, and shall take other mortar, to plaster the house with. 43 But if the plague come again and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after that he hath scraped and plastered the house, 44 Then the Priest shall come and see: and if the plague grow in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is therefore unclean. 45 And he shall 1break down the house, with the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the 2mortar of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city unto an unclean place. 46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up, he shall be unclean until the even. 47 He also that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes: he likewise that eateth in the house, shall wash his clothes. 48 But if the Priest shall come and see, that the plague hath spread no further in the house, after the house be plastered, the Priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the plague is healed. 49 Then shall he take to purify the house, two sparrows, and cedarwood, and 1scarlet lace, and hyssop. 50 And he shall kill one sparrow over pure water in an earthen vessel, 51 And shall take the cedarwood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet lace with the live Sparrow, and dip them in the blood of the slain Sparrow, and in the pure water, and sprinkle the house seven times: 52 So shall he cleanse the house with the blood of the sparrow, and with the pure water, and with the live sparrow, and with the cedarwood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet lace.

14:26 1 Hebrew, into the palm of the Priest's left hand. 14:28 1 Or, where the blood of the trespass offering was put, as verse 17. 14:30 1 Whether of them he can get. 14:31 1 Or, besides the meat offering. 14:32 1 This order is appointed for the poor man. 14:34 1 This declareth that no plague nor punishment cometh to man without God's providence and his sending. 14:37 1 Or, blackness, or hollow streaks.

14:40 1 Or, polluted. 14:41 1 Where carrions were cast, and other filth, that the people might not be therewith infected. 14:45 1 That is, he shall command it to be pulled down, as verse 40. 2 Or, dust. 14:49 1 It seemeth that this was a lace or string to bind the hyssop to the wood, and so was made a sprinkle: the Apostle to the Hebrews calleth it scarlet wool, Heb. 9:19.

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11 Likewise whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue (and hath not washed his hands in water) shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 12 aAnd the vessel of earth that he toucheth, which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. 13 But if he that hath an issue, be 1cleansed of his issue, then shall he count him seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and wash his flesh in pure water: so shall he be clean. 14 Then the eighth day he shall take unto him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shall give them unto the Priest, 15 And the Priest shall make of the one of them a sin offering, and of the other a burnt offering: so the Priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue. 16 Also if any man's issue of seed depart from him, he shall wash all his 1flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 17 And every garment, and every skin whereupon shall be issue of seed, shall be even washed with water, and be unclean unto the even. 18 If he that hath an issue of seed do lie with a woman, they shall both wash themselves with water, and be unclean until the even. 19 ¶ Also when a woman shall have an issue, and her issue in her 1flesh shall be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her, shall be unclean until the even. 20 And whatsoever she lieth upon in 1her separation, shall be unclean, and everything that she sitteth upon, shall be unclean. 21 Whosoever also toucheth her bed, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and shall be unclean unto the even. 22 And whosoever toucheth anything that she sat upon, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even: 23 So that whether he toucheth her bed, or anything whereon she hath sat, he shall be unclean unto the even. 24 And if a man lie with her, and the flowers of her separation 1touch him, he shall be unclean seven

53 Afterward he shall let go the live sparrow out of the 1town into the 2broad fields: so shall he make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. 54 This is the law for every plague of leprosy and dblack spot, 55 And of the leprosy of the garment, and of the house, 56 And of the 1swelling, and of the scab, and of the white spot. 57 This is the law of the leprosy, to teach 1when a thing is unclean, and when it is clean. 15 8, 19 The manner of purging the unclean issues both of men and women. 31 The children of Israel must be separate from all uncleanness.

d Lev. 13:30

chapter 15

a Lev. 2:28

1 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, and to Aaron, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whosoever hath an issue from his 1flesh, is unclean, because of his issue. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue, when his flesh avoideth his issue, or if his flesh be stopped from his issue, this is 1his uncleanness. 4 Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the issue, shall be unclean, and everything whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean. 5 Whosoever also toucheth his bed, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sitteth on any thing, whereon he sat that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 7 Also he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 8 If he also that hath the issue, spit upon him that is clean, 1he shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even. 9 And what 1saddle soever he rideth upon, that hath the issue, shall be unclean, 10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him, shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth those things, shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

14:53 1 Hebrew, city. 2 Hebrew, on the face of the field. 14:56 1 Or, rising. 14:57 1 Hebrew, in the day of the unclean, and in the day of the clean. 15:2 1 Whose seed either in sleeping, or else of weakness of nature issueth at his secret part. 15:3 1 Of the thing wherefore he shall be unclean. 15:8 1 Of whom the unclean man did spit. 15:9 1 The word signifieth everything whereon a man rideth.

15:13 1 That is, be restored to his old state, and be healed thereof. 15:16 1 Meaning, all his body. 15:19 1 Or, secret part. 15:20 1 That is, when she hath her flowers, whereby she is separate from her husband, from the Tabernacle and from touching of any holy thing. 15:24 1 If any of her uncleanness did only touch him in the bed: for else the man that companied with such a woman, should die, Lev. 20:18.

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days, and all the whole bed whereon he lieth, shall be unclean. 25 Also when a woman's issue of blood runneth long time besides the time of her 1flowers, or when she hath an issue longer than her flowers, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be unclean, as in the time of her flowers. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth (as long as her issue lasteth) shall be to her as the 1bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon, shall be unclean, as her uncleanness when she is put apart. 27 And whosoever toucheth these things, shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and shall be unclean unto the even. 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall 1count her seven days, and after, she shall be clean. 29 And in the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the Priest at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 30 And the Priest shall make of the one a sin offering, and of the other a burnt offering, and the Priest shall make an atonement for her before the Lord, for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall ye 1separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, if they defile my Tabernacle that is among them. 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him from whom goeth an issue of seed whereby he is defiled: 33 Also of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath a running issue, whether it be man or woman, and of him that lieth with her which is unclean. 16 2 The Priest might not at all times come into the most holy place. 8 The scapegoat. 14 The purging of the Sanctuary. 17 The cleansing of the Tabernacle. 21 The Priest confesseth the sins of the people. 29 The feast of cleansing sins.

Aaron thy brother, bthat he come not at 1all times into the holy place within the veil, before the Mercy seat, which is upon the Ark, that he die not, for I will appear in the cloud upon the Mercy seat. 3 After this sort shall Aaron come into the Holy place: even with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and shall have linen breeches upon his 1flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and shall cover his head with a linen miter, these are the holy garments: therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, when he doth put them on. 5 And he shall take of the Congregation of the children of Israel, two he goats for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. 6 Then Aaron shall offer the bullock for his sin offering, cand make an atonement for himself, and for his house. 7 And he shall take the two he goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. 8 Then Aaron shall cast lots over the two he goats: one lot for the Lord, and the other for the 1Scapegoat. 9 And Aaron shall offer the goat, upon which the Lord's lot shall fall, and make him a sin offering. 10 But the goat, on which the lot shall fall to be the Scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make reconciliation by him, and to let him go (as a Scapegoat) into the wilderness. 11 Thus Aaron shall offer the bullock for his sin offering, and make a reconciliation for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock for his sin offering. 12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals from off the altar before the Lord, and his hand full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the 1veil, 13 And shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the 1cloud of the incense may cover the Mercy seat that is upon 2the Testimony: so he shall not die. 14 And he shall dtake of the blood of the bullock, eand sprinkle it with his finger upon the Mercy seat

chapter 16

a Lev. 10:1,2

b Exod. 30:10

Heb. 9:7

c Heb. 9:7

d Heb. 9:13

Heb. 10:4

e Lev. 1:5

1 Furthermore the Lord spake unto aMoses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they came to offer before the Lord, and died: 2 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto

1Eastward: and before the Mercy seat shall he sprinkle

15:25 1 Hebrew, separation. 15:26 1 Shall be unclean as the bed whereon she lay when she had her natural disease. 15:28 1 After the time that she is recovered. 15:31 1 Seeing that God required of his purity and cleanness: we cannot be his, except our filth and sins be purged with the blood of Jesus Christ, and so we learn to detest all sin. 16:2 1 The high Priest entered into the Holiest of all but once a year even in the month of September.

16:4 1 Or, privities. 16:8 1 In Hebrew it is called Azazel, which some say, is a mountain near Sinai, whither this goat was sent, but rather it is called the Scapegoat, because it was not offered, but sent into the desert, as verse 11. 16:12 1 The Holiest of all. 16:13 1 Or, the smoke. 2 Or, the Ark. 16:14 1 That is, on the side which was toward the people: for the head of the Sanctuary stood Westward.

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of the blood with his finger seven times. 15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat that is the people's sin offering, and bring his blood within the veil and do with that blood, as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the Mercy seat, and before the Mercy seat. 16 So he shall purge the Holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their trespasses of all their sins: so shall he do also for the Tabernacle of the Congregation 1placed with them, in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 fAnd there shall be no man in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, when he goeth in to make an atonement in the Holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the Congregation of Israel. 18 After, he shall go out unto the 1altar that is before the Lord, and make a reconciliation upon it, and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the Altar round about. 19 So shall he sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel. 20 ¶ When he hath made an end of purging the Holy place, and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the Altar, then he shall bring the live goat: 21 And Aaron shall put both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their trespasses in all their sins, putting them 1upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away (by the hand of a man appointed) into the wilderness. 22 So the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into 1the land that is not inhabited, and he shall let the goat go into the wilderness. 23 After, Aaron shall come into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and put off the linen clothes, which he put on when he went into the Holy place, and leave them there. 24 He shall wash also his flesh with water in 1the holy place, and put on his own raiment, and come out, and make his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. 25 Also the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. 26 And he that carried forth the goat called the

Scapegoat, shall wash his clothes, and wash his flesh in water, and after that shall come into the host. 27 Also the bullock for the burnt offering, and the goat for the sin offering (whose blood was brought to make a reconciliation in the Holy place) shall one gcarry out without the host to be burnt in the fire, with their skins, and with their flesh, and with their dung. 28 And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and wash his flesh in water, and afterward come into the host. 29 ¶ So this shall be an ordinance forever unto you: the tenth day of the 1seventh month, ye shall 2humble your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of the same country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you. 30 For that hday shall the Priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you: ye shall be clean from all your sins before the Lord. 31 This shall be a 1Sabbath of rest unto you, and you shall humble your souls by an ordinance forever. 32 And the Priest 1whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate (to minister in his father's stead) shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes and holy vestments, 33 And shall purge the holy Sanctuary and the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and shall cleanse the altar, and make an atonement for the Priests and for all the people of the Congregation. 34 And this shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins ionce a year: and as the Lord commanded Moses, he did. 17 All sacrifices must be brought to the door of the Tabernacle. 7 To devils they may not offer. 10 They may not eat blood.

f Luke 1:10

g Lev. 6:30 Heb. 15:11

h Lev. 23:7

i Exod. 30:10

Heb. 9:7

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say unto them, This is the thing which the Lord hath 1commanded, saying, 3 Whosoever he be of the house of Israel that 1killeth a bullock, or lamb, or goat in the host, or that killeth it out of the host, 4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation to offer an offering unto the Lord before the Tabernacle of the Lord, 1blood

16:16 1 Placed among them which are unclean. 16:18 1 Whereupon the sweet incense and perfume was offered. 16:21 1 Herein this goat is a true figure of Jesus Christ, who beareth the sins of the people, Isa. 53:9. 16:22 1 Hebrew, the land of separations. 16:24 1 In the court where was the Laver, Exod. 30:18. 16:29 1 Which was Tishri, and answereth to part of September, and part of October.

2 Meaning, by abstinence and fasting, Num. 25:7. 16:31 1 Or a rest which ye shall keep most diligently. 16:32 1 Whom the Priest shall anoint by God's commandment to succeed in his father's room. 17:2 1 Lest they should practice that idolatry, which they had learned among the Egyptians. 17:3 1 To make a sacrifice of offering thereof. 17:4 1 I do as much abhor it as though he had killed a man, as Isa. 66:3.

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shall be imputed unto that man: he hath shed blood, wherefore that man shall be cut off from among his people. 5 Therefore the children of Israel shall bring their offerings, which they would offer 1abroad in the field, and present them unto the Lord at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation by the Priest, and offer them for peace offerings unto the Lord. 6 Then the Priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the Altar of the Lord before the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and burn the fat for a asweet savor unto the Lord. 7 And they shall no more offer their offerings unto 1devils, after whom they have gone a 2whoring: this shall be an ordinance forever unto them in their generations. 8 ¶ Also thou shalt say unto them, Whosoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among them, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice, 9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation to offer it unto the Lord, even that man shall be cut off from his people. 10 ¶ Likewise whosoever he be of the house of Israel: or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any blood, I will even set 1my face against that person that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it unto you to offer upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls: for this blood shall make an atonement for the soul. 12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, None of you shall eat blood: neither the stranger that sojourneth among you, shall eat blood. 13 Moreover whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, which by hunting taketh any beast or fowl that may be 1eaten, he shall pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust: 14 For the life of all flesh is his blood, it is joined with his life: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, bYe shall eat the blood of no 1flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it, shall be cut off.

15 And every person that eateth it which dieth alone, or that which is torn with beasts, whether it be one of the same country or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and wash himself in water, and be unclean unto the even: after he shall be 1clean. 16 But if he wash them not, nor wash his 1flesh, then he shall bear 2his iniquity. 18 3 The Israelites ought not to follow the manners of the Egyptians and Canaanites. 6 The marriages that are unlawful.

chapter 17

a Exod. 29:18

Lev. 4:31

b Gen. 9:4

chapter 18

a Ezek. 20:11

Rom. 10:5

Gal. 3:12

b Lev. 20:11

c Lev. 20:19

Lev. 20:20

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. 3 After the 1doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the manner of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, shall ye not do, neither walk in their ordinances. 4 But do after my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God. 5 Ye shall keep therefore my statutes, and my judgments, awhich if a man do, he shall then live in them: 1I am the Lord. 6 ¶ None shall come near to any of the kindred of his flesh to 1uncover her shame: I am the Lord. 7 Thou shalt not uncover the shame of thy father, nor the shame of thy mother, for she is thy mother, thou shalt not discover her shame. 8 bThe shame of thy father's 1wife shalt thou not discover: for it is thy father's shame. 9 Thou shalt not discover the shame of thy 1sister, the daughter of thy father, or the daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home or born without: thou shalt not discover their shame. 10 The shame of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, thou shalt not, I say, uncover their shame: for it is thy 1shame. 11 The shame of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father (for she is thy sister) thou shalt not, I say, discover her shame. 12 cThou shalt not uncover the 1shame of thy father's sister: for she is thy father's kinswoman. 13 Thou shalt not discover the shame of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's kinswoman. 14 Thou shalt not uncover the shame of thy 1father's

17:5 1 Wheresoever they were moved with foolish devotion to offer it. 17:7 1 Meaning, whatsoever is not the true God, 1 Cor. 10:10; Ps. 95:5. 2 For idolatry is spiritual whoredom, because faith toward God is broken. 17:10 1 I will declare my wrath by taking vengeance on him, as Lev. 20:3. 17:13 1 Which the law permitteth to be eaten, because it is clean. 17:14 1 Or, living creature. 17:15 1 Or, counted clean.

17:16 1 Or, himself. 2 Or, the punishment of his sin. 18:3 1 Ye shall preserve yourselves from these abominations follow­ ing, which the Egyptians and Canaanites use. 18:5 1 And therefore ye ought to serve me alone, as my people. 18:6 1 That is, to lie with her, though it be under title of marriage. 18:8 1 Which is thy stepmother. 18:9 1 Either by father or mother, born in marriage or otherwise. 18:10 1 They are her children whose shame thou hast uncovered. 18:12 1 Or, secrets. 18:14 1 Which thine uncle doth discover.

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27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled: 28 And shall not the land spew you out if ye defile it, as it 1spewed out the people that were before you?) 29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons that do so, shall 1be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinances, that ye do not any of the abominable customs, which have been done before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: for I am the Lord your God. 19 A repetition of sundry Laws and Ordinances.

brother: that is, thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine 2aunt. 15 dThou shalt not discover the shame of thy daughter-in-law: for she is thy son's wife: therefore shalt thou not uncover her shame. 16 eThou shalt not discover the shame of thy 1brother's wife: for it is thy brother's shame. 17 Thou shalt not discover the shame of the wife and of her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, nor her daughter's daughter, to uncover her shame: for they are thy kinsfolks, and it were wickedness. 18 Also thou shalt not take a wife with her sister, during her life to 1vex her, in uncovering her shame upon her. 19 f Thou shalt not also go unto a woman to uncover her shame, as long as she is put 1apart for her disease. 20 Moreover, thou shalt not give thy self to thy neighbor's wife by carnal copulation, to be defiled with her. 21 gAlso thou shalt not give thy 1children to 2offer them unto 3Molech, neither shalt thou defile the Name of thy God: for I am the Lord. 22 Thou shalt not lie with the male as one lieth with a woman: for it is abomination. 23 hThou shalt not also lie with any beast to be defiled therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: for it is 1abomination. 24 Ye shall not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the Nations are defiled which I will cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I will 1visit the wickedness thereof upon it, and the land 2shall vomit out her inhabitants. 26 Ye shall keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments, and commit none of these abominations, as well he that is of the same country, as the stranger that sojourneth among you.

d Lev. 20:12

e Lev. 20:21

f Lev. 20:18

g Lev. 20:2 2 Kings 23:10

h Lev. 20:15

chapter 19

a Lev. 11:44

Lev. 20:7 1 Pet. 1:16

b Lev. 7:16

c Lev. 23:22

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, aYe shall be 1holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 ¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, and shall keep my Sabbath: for I am the Lord your God. 4 ¶ Ye shall not turn unto idols, nor make you molten gods: I am the Lord your God. 5 ¶ And when ye shall offer a peace offering unto the Lord, ye shall offer it 1freely. 6 bIt shall be eaten the day ye offer it, or on the morrow: and that which remaineth until the third day, shall be burnt in the fire. 7 For if it be eaten the third day, it shall be unclean, it shall not be 1accepted. 8 Therefore he that eateth it, shall bear his iniquity, because he hath defiled the hallowed thing of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people. 9 ¶ cWhen ye reap the harvest of your land, ye shall not reap every corner of your field, neither shalt thou gather the 1gleanings of thy harvest. 10 Thou shalt not gather the grapes of thy vineyard clean, neither gather every grape of thy vineyard, but thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the

2 Hebrew, thy father's brother's wife. 18:16 1 Because the idolaters, among whom God's people had dwelt and should dwell, were given to these horrible incests, God chargeth his to beware of the same. 18:18 1 By seeing thine affliction more bent to her sister than to her. 18:19 1 Or while she hath her flowers. 18:21 1 Hebrew, of thy seed. 2 Or, to make them pass. 3 Which was an idol of the Ammonites, unto whom they burned and sacrificed their children, 2 Kings 23:10. This seemed to be the chief and principal of all idols: and as the Jews write, was of a great stature, and hollow within, having seven places or chambers within him: one was to receive meal that was offered: another turtle doves: the third, a sheep: the fourth, a ram: the fifth a calf: the sixth an ox: the seventh a child. This idol's face was like a calf: his hands were ever stretched out to receive gifts: his priests were called Chemarim,

2 Kings 23:5; Hos. 10:5; Zeph. 1:4. 18:23 1 Or, confusion. 18:25 1 I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages and pollutions are suffered. 2 He compareth the wicked to evil humors and surfeiting, which corrupt the stomach, and oppress nature, and therefore must be cast out by vomit. 18:28 1 Both for their wicked marriages, unnatural copulations, idol­ atry or spiritual whoredom with Molech and such like abominations. 18:29 1 Either by the civil sword or by some plague that God will send upon such. 19:2 1 That is, void of all pollution, idolatry, and superstition both of soul and body. 19:5 1 Of your own accord. 19:7 1 To wit, of God. 19:9 1 Or, gatherings and leavings.

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stranger: I am the Lord your God. 11 ¶ Ye shall not steal, neither 1deal falsely, neither lie one to another. 12 ¶ dAlso ye shall not swear by my Name falsely, neither shalt thou defile the Name of thy God: I am the Lord. 13 ¶ Thou shalt not do thy neighbor 1wrong, neither rob him. eThe workman's hire shall not abide with thee until the morning. 14 ¶ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, fneither put a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the Lord. 15 ¶ Ye shall not do unjustly in judgment: gThou shalt not favor the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty, but thou shalt judge thy neighbor justly. 16 ¶ Thou shalt not 1walk about with tales among thy people: Thou shalt not 2stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the Lord. 17 ¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainly rebuke thy neighbor, 1and suffer him not to sin. 18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor be mindful of wrong against the children of thy people, hbut shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the Lord. 19 ¶ Ye shall keep mine ordinances. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with 1others of divers kinds. Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed, neither shall a garment of divers things, as of linen and woolen come upon thee. 20 ¶ Whosoever also lieth and meddleth with a woman that is a bondmaid, affianced to a husband, and not redeemed, nor freedom given her, 1she shall be scourged, but they shall not die, because she is not made free. 21 And he shall bring for his trespass offering unto the Lord, at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, a ram for a trespass offering. 22 Then the Priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord, concerning his sin which he hath done, and pardon shall be given him for his sin which he hath committed. 23 ¶ Also when ye shall come into the land, and

have planted every tree for meat, ye 1shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten: 24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to the praise of the Lord. 25 And the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit of it, that it may 1yield to you the increase thereof: I am the Lord your God. 26 ¶ Ye shall not eat the flesh with the 1blood: ye shall not use witchcraft, nor 2observe times. 27 iYe shall not 1cut round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou 2mar the tufts of thy beard. 28 jYe shall not cut your flesh for the 1dead, nor make any print of a 2mark upon you: I am the Lord. 29 ¶ Thou shalt not make thy daughter common, to cause her to be a 1whore, lest the land also fall to whoredom, and the land be full of wickedness. 30 ¶ Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord. 31 ¶ Ye shall not regard them that work with spirits, kneither Soothsayers: ye shall not seek to them to be defiled by them, I am the Lord your God. 32 ¶ Thou shalt 1rise up before the hoary head, and honor the person of the old man, and dread thy God: I am the Lord. 33 ¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not 1vex him. 34 lBut the stranger that dwelleth with you, shall be as one of yourselves, and thou shalt love him as thyself: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. 35 ¶ Ye shall not do unjustly in judgment, in 1line, in weight, or in measure. 36 mYou shall have just balances, true weights, a true 1Ephah, and a true Hin, I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt. 37 Therefore shall ye observe all mine ordinances, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord. 20 2 They that give of their seed to Molech, must die. 6 They that have recourse to sorcerers. 10 The man that committeth adultery, 11 incest, or fornication with the kindred or affinity. 24 Israel a peculiar people to the Lord.

d Exod. 20:7

Deut. 5:11 Matt. 5:34

e Deut. 24:14,15

Deut. 4:14

f Deut. 27:18

g Exod. 23:3

Deut. 1:17 Deut. 16:19

Prov. 24:23

James 2:2

h Matt. 5:43

Rom. 13:9

Gal. 5:14 James 2:8

i Lev. 21:5

j Deut. 14:1

k 1 Sam. 28:8

l Exod. 22:21

m Prov. 11:1

Prov. 16:11 Prov. 20:10

19:11 1 In that which is committed to your credit. 19:13 1 Or, oppress him by violence. 19:16 1 As a slanderer, backbiter, or quarrel picker. 2 By consenting to his death, or conspiring with the wicked. 19:17 1 Hebrew, suffer not sin upon him. 19:19 1 As a horse to leap an ass, or a mule a mare. 19:20 1 Hebrew, a beating shall be, some read, they shall be beaten. 19:23 1 It shall be unclean as that thing, which is not circumcised. 19:25 1 Or, that God may multiply. 19:26 1 Whether it be strangled, or otherwise.

2 To measure lucky or unlucky days. 19:27 1 As did the Gentiles in sign of mourning. 2 Or, cut, or tear. 19:28 1 Hebrew, soul or person. 2 By whipping your bodies or burning marks therein. 19:29 1 As did the Cyprians, and Locrians. 19:32 1 In token of reverence. 19:33 1 Or, do him wrong. 19:35 1 As in measuring the ground. 19:36 1 By these two measures he meaneth all others. Of Ephah, read Exod. 16:36, and of Hin, Exod. 29:40.

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1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Thou shalt say also to the children of Israel, aWhosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that dwell in Israel, that giveth his children unto 1Molech, he shall die the death, the people of the land shall stone him to death. 3 And I will 1set my face against that man and cut him off from among his people, because he hath given his children unto Molech, for to defile my Sanctuary, and to pollute mine holy Name. 4 And if the 1people of the land hide their eyes, and wink at that man when he giveth his children unto Molech, and kill him not, 5 Then will I set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. 6 ¶ If any turn after such as work with spirits, and after soothsayers to go a 1whoring after them, then will I set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people. 7 ¶ Sanctify yourselves therefore, band be holy, for I am the Lord your God. 8 Keep ye therefore mine ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord which doth sanctify you. 9 ¶ cIf there be any that curseth his father or his mother he shall die the death, seeing he hath cursed his father and his mother, 1his blood shall be upon him. 10 ¶ dAnd the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, because he hath committed adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall die the death. 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath uncovered his father's eshame, they shall both die: their blood shall be upon them. 12 Also the man that lieth with his daughter-inlaw, they both shall die the death, they have wrought 1abomination, their blood shall be upon them. 13 ¶ f The man also that lieth with the male, as one lieth with a woman, they have both committed abomination: they shall die the death, their blood shall be upon them. 14 Likewise he that taketh a wife and her mother, 1committeth wickedness: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no wickedness among you.

15 gAlso the man that lieth with a beast, shall die the death, and ye shall slay the beast. 16 And if a woman come to any beast, and lie therewith, then thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall die the death, their blood shall be upon them. 17 Also the man that taketh his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and seeth her shame, and she seeth his shame, it is villainy: therefore they shall be cut off in the sight 1of their people, because he that uncovered his sister's shame, he shall bear his iniquity. 18 hThe man also that lieth with a woman having her 1disease, and uncovereth her shame, and openeth her fountain, and she open the fountain of her blood, they shall be even both cut off from among their people. 19 Moreover, thou shalt not uncover the shame of thy mother's sister, inor of thy father's sister: because he hath uncovered his 1kin, they shall bear their iniquity. 20 Likewise the man that lieth with his father's brother's wife, and uncovereth his uncle's shame: they shall bear their iniquity, and shall die 1childless. 21 So the man that taketh his brother's wife, committeth filthiness, because he hath uncovered his brother's 1shame, they shall be childless. 22 ¶ Ye shall keep therefore all mine jordinances and all my judgments, and do them, that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, kspew you not out. 23 Wherefore ye shall not walk in the manners of this nation which I cast out before you: for they have committed all these things, ltherefore I abhorred them. 24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, even a land that 1floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people. 25 mTherefore shall ye put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean, neither shall ye 1defile your fowls with beasts and fowls, nor with any creeping thing, that the ground bringeth forth, which I have separated from you as unclean. 26 Therefore shall ye be nholy unto me: for I the

chapter 20

a Lev. 18:21

b Lev. 11:44

1 Pet. 1:16

c Exod. 21:17

Prov. 20:20

Matt. 15:4

d Deut. 22:22

John 8:4,5

e Lev. 28:8 Deut. 22:30

f Lev. 18:22

g Lev. 18:23

h Lev. 18:19

i Lev. 18:12,13

j Lev. 18:26

k Lev. 18:25

l Deut. 9:5

m Lev. 11:2,3

Deut. 14:4

n Lev. 20:7

20:2 1 By Molech he meaneth any kind of idol, Lev. 18:21. 20:3 1 Read Lev. 17:10 and 18:21. 20:4 1 Though the people be negligent to do their duty, and defend God's right, yet he will not suffer wickedness to go unpunished. 20:6 1 To esteem sorcerers or conjurers is spiritual whoredom, or idolatry. 20:9 1 He is worthy to die. 20:12 1 Or, confusion.

20:14 1 It is an execrable and detestable thing. 20:17 1 Hebrew, in the eyes of the children of their people. 20:18 1 Or, flowers. 20:19 1 Hebrew, flesh. 20:20 1 They shall be cut off from their people, and their children shall be taken as bastards, and not counted among the Israelites. 20:21 1 Read Lev.18:16. 20:24 1 Full of abundance of all things. 20:25 1 By eating them contrary to my commandment.

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Lord am holy, and I have separated you from other people that ye should be mine. 27 ¶ oAnd if a man or woman have a spirit of divination, or soothsaying in them, they shall die the death: they shall stone them to death, their blood shall be upon them. 21 2 For whom the Priests may lament. 6 How pure the Priests ought to be, both in themselves, and in their family.

12 Neither shall he go out of the 1Sanctuary, nor pollute the holy place of his God: for the 2crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord. 13 Also he shall take a maid unto his wife: 14 But a widow, or a divorced woman, or a polluted, or an harlot, these shall he not marry, but shall take a maid of his own 1people to wife: 15 Neither shall he defile his 1seed among his people: for I am the Lord which sanctify him. 16 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 17 Speak unto Aaron, and say, Whosoever of thy seed in their generations hath any blemishes, shall not prease to offer the bread of his God: 18 For whosoever hath any blemish, shall not come near: as a man blind or lame, or that hath 1a flat nose, or that hath any 2misshapen member, 19 Or, a man that hath a broken foot, or a broken hand, 20 Or, is crookbacked, or bleary-eyed, 1or hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. 21 None of the seed of Aaron the Priest that hath a blemish, shall come near to offer the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, having a blemish: he shall not prease to offer the 1bread of his God. 22 The bread of his God, even of the 1most holy, and 2of the holy shall he eat: 23 But he shall not go in unto the 1veil, nor come near the altar, because he hath a blemish, lest he pollute my Sanctuaries: for I am the Lord that sanctify them. 24 Thus spake Moses unto Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel. 22 3 Who ought to abstain from eating the things that were offered. 19 What oblation should be offered.

o Deut. 18:11

1 Sam. 25:7

chapter 21

a Lev. 19:27

1 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the Priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, Let none be 1defiled by the dead among his people, 2 But by his kinsman that is near unto him: to wit, by his mother, or by his father, or by his son, or by his daughter, or by his brother, 3 Or by his sister a 1maid, that is near unto him, which had not had an husband: for her 2he may lament. 4 He shall not lament for the 1Prince among his people, to pollute himself. 5 They shall not make abald parts upon their head, nor shave off the locks of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh. 6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the Name of their God: for the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they shall be holy. 7 They shall not take to wife an whore, or 1one polluted, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for such one is holy unto his God. 8 Thou shalt 1sanctify him therefore, for he offereth the 2bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord which sanctify you, am holy. 9 ¶ If a Priest's daughter fall to play the whore, she polluteth her father: therefore shall she be burnt with fire. 10 ¶ Also the high Priest among his brethren, (upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and hath consecrated his hand to put on the garments) shall not 1uncover his head nor rent his clothes. 11 Neither shall he go to any 1dead body, nor make himself unclean by his father or by his mother,

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, that they be 1separated from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they pollute not mine holy name in those things, which they hallow unto me: I am the Lord.

21:1 1 By touching the dead, lamenting, or being at their burial. 21:3 1 For being married she seemed to be cut off from his family. 2 Hebrew, he may be defiled. 21:4 1 The Priest was permitted to mourn for his next kindred only. 21:7 1 Which hath an evil name or is defamed. 21:8 1 Thou shalt count them holy and reverence them. 2 The showbread. 21:10 1 He shall use no such ceremonies as the mourners observed. 21:11 1 Or, to the houses of the dead. 21:12 1 To go to the dead. 2 For by his anointing he was preferred to the other Priests and therefore could not lament the dead, lest he should have polluted

his holy anointing. 21:14 1 Not only of his tribe, but of all Israel. 21:15 1 By marrying any unchaste or defamed woman. 21:18 1 Which is deformed or bruised. 2 As not of equal proportion, or having in number more or less. 21:20 1 Or that hath a web or pearl. 21:21 1 As the showbread, and meat offerings. 21:22 1 As of sacrifice for sin. 2 As of the tenths and firstfruits. 21:23 1 Into the Sanctuary. 22:2 1 Meaning, that the Priests abstain from eating, so long as they are polluted.

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3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations after you, that 1toucheth the holy things which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even that person shall be cut off from my sight, I am the Lord. 4 aWhosoever also of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue, he shall not eat of the holy things until he be clean: and who so toucheth any that is 1unclean by reason of the dead, or a man whose issue of seed runneth from him, 5 Or the man that toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man by whom he may take uncleanness, 1whatsoever uncleanness he hath, 6 The person that hath touched such, shall therefore be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, 1except he have washed his flesh with water. 7 But when the Sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things: for it is his 1food. 8 bOf a beast that dieth, or is rent with beasts, whereby he may be defiled, he shall not eat: I am the Lord. 9 Let them keep therefore mine ordinance, lest they bear their sin for it, and die for it, if they defile it: I the Lord sanctify them. 10 There shall no 1stranger also eat of the holy thing, neither 2the guest of the Priest, neither shall an hired servant eat of the holy thing: 11 But if the Priest buy any with money, he shall eat of it, also he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat. 12 If the Priest's daughter also be married unto a 1stranger, she may not eat of the holy offerings. 13 Notwithstanding if the Priest's daughter be a widow or divorced, and have no child, but is returned unto her father's house, she shall eat of her father's bread, as she did in her cyouth: but there shall no stranger eat thereof. 14 ¶ If a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, he shall put the 1fifth part thereunto, and give it unto the Priest with the hallowed thing. 15 So shall they not defile the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto the Lord, 16 Neither cause the people to bear the iniquity of

their 1trespass, while they eat their holy thing: for I the Lord do hallow them. 17 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whosoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his sacrifice for all their vows, and for all their free offerings, which they use to offer unto the Lord for a burnt offering, 19 Ye shall offer of your free mind a male without blemish of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. 20 Ye shall not offer anything that hath a blemish: for that shall not be acceptable for you. 21 dAnd whosoever bringeth a peace offering unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or for a free offering of the beeves, or of the sheep, his free offering shall be perfect, no blemish shall be in it. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a 1wen, or scurvy, or scabbed: these shall ye not offer unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of these upon the Altar of the Lord. 23 Yet a bullock, or a sheep that hath any emember superfluous, or lacking, such mayest thou present for a free offering, but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised or crushed, or broken, or cut away, neither shall ye make an offering thereof in your land, 25 Neither 1of the hand of a stranger shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these, because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: therefore shall they not be accepted for you. 26 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat shall be brought forth, it shall be even seven days under his dam: and from the eighth day forth it shall be accepted for a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord. 28 As for the cow or the ewe, ye shall not fkill her, and her young both in one day. 29 So when ye will offer a thank offering unto the Lord, ye shall offer willingly. 30 The same day shall it be eaten, ye shall leave gnone of it to the morrow: I am the Lord. 31 Therefore shall ye keep my Commandments and do them: for I am the Lord. 32 Neither shall ye 1pollute my holy Name, but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel. I the

chapter 22

a Lev. 15:2

b Exod. 12:21

Ezek. 45:31

c Lev. 10:14

d Deut. 15:21

e Lev. 21:12

f Deut. 22:6

g Lev. 7:15

22:3 1 To eat thereof. 22:4 1 By touching any dead thing, or being at burial of the dead. 22:5 1 Hebrew, according to all his uncleanness. 22:6 1 Or, until. 22:7 1 Or, bread. 22:10 1 Which is not of the tribe of Levi. 2 Some read, the servant which had his ear bored, and would not go free, Exod. 21:6. 22:12 1 Who is not of the Priest's kindred.

22:14 1 He shall give that and a fifth part over. 22:16 1 For if they did not offer for their error, the people by their example might commit the like offense. 22:22 1 Or, wart. 22:25 1 Ye shall not receive any imperfect thing of a stranger, to make it the Lord's offering: which he calleth the bread of the Lord. 22:32 1 For whosoever doth otherwise than God commandeth pol­ luted his Name.

131 Leviticus 23:24

Lord sanctify you, 33 Which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord. 23 2 The feasts of the Lord. 3 The Sabbath. 5 The Passover. 6 The feast of unleavened bread. 10 The feast of firstfruits. 16 Whitsuntide. 24 The feast of blowing trumpets. 34 The feast of Tabernacles.

made by fire unto the Lord of sweet savor: and the drink offering thereof the fourth part 2of an Hin of wine. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread nor parched corn, nor 1green ears until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: this shall be a Law forever in your generations and in all your dwellings. 15 ¶ Ye shall count also to you from the morrow after the 1Sabbath, even from the day that ye shall bring the sheaf of the shake offering, seven 2Sabbaths, they shall be complete. 16 Unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days: then ye shall bring a new meat offering unto the Lord. 17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations bread for the shake offering: they shall be two loaves of two tenth deals of fine flour, which shall be baken with 1leaven for firstfruits unto the Lord. 18 Also ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of one year old, and a young bullock and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, for a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savor unto the Lord. 19 Then ye shall prepare an he goat for a sin offering, and two lambs of one year old for peace offerings. 20 And the Priest shall shake them to and fro with the bread of the firstfruits before the Lord, and with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord, for the 1Priest. 21 So ye shall proclaim the same day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be an ordinance forever in all your dwellings, throughout your generations. 22 ¶ cAnd when you reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not rid clean the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou make any aftergathering of thy harvest, but shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger, I am the Lord your God. 23 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, In the 1seventh month, and in the first day of the month shall ye 2have a Sabbath, for the remembrance of

chapter 23

a Exod. 20:9,10

b Exod. 12:15

Num. 28:17

c Lev. 19:9 Deut. 24:19

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The feasts of the Lord which ye shall call the holy 1assemblies, even these are my feasts. 3 aSix days 1shall work be done, but in the seventh day shall be the Sabbath of rest, an holy 2convocation: ye shall do no work therein, it is the Sabbath of the Lord, in all your dwellings. 4 ¶ These are the feasts of the Lord, and holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their 1seasons. 5 In the first month and in the fourteenth day of the month at evening shall be the Passover of the Lord. 6 And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be the feast bof unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread. 7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no 1servile work therein. 8 Also ye shall offer sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord seven days, and in the 1seventh day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 9 ¶ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring 1a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the Priest, 11 And he shall shake the sheaf before the Lord, that it may be acceptable for you: the morrow after the 1Sabbath, the Priest shall shake it. 12 And that day when ye shake the sheaf, shall ye prepare a lamb without blemish of a year old, for a burnt offering unto the Lord: 13 And the meat offering thereof shall be two 1tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, for a sacrifice

23:2 1 Or, convocations. 23:3 1 Or, ye may work. 2 Or, assembly. 23:4 1 For the Sabbath was kept every week, and these others were kept but once every year. 23:7 1 Or, bodily labor, save about that which one must eat, Exod. 22:16. 23:8 1 The first day of the feast and the seventh were kept holy: in the rest they might work, except any feast were intermeddled, as the feast of unleavened bread, the fifteenth day, and the feast of sheaves the sixteenth day. 23:10 1 Or, an Omer, read Deut. 24:19; Ruth 2:15; Ps. 129:7. 23:11 1 That is, the second Sabbath of the Passover.

23:13 1 Which is, the fifth part of an Ephah, or two Omers: read Exod. 16:16. 2 Read Exod. 29:40. 23:14 1 Or, full ears. 23:15 1 That is the seventh day after the first Sabbath of the Passover. 2 Or, weeks. 23:17 1 Because the Priest should eat them, as Lev. 7:13, and they should not be offered to the Lord upon the altar. 23:20 1 That is, offered to the Lord, and the rest should be for the Priests. 23:24 1 That is, about the end of September. 2 Or, an holy day to the Lord.

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