# bible

book: Jude
content:
<verse num="8">Despite that, in the same way also these <transChange type="added">men</transChange>, <transChange type="added">because of their</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("dreams") which is understood as causal</note> dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings.</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="9">But Michael the archangel, when he argued with the devil, disputing concerning the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="10">But these persons blaspheme all that they do not understand, and all that they understand by instinct like the irrational animals, by these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> they are being destroyed.</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="11">Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, and have given themselves up to the error of Balaam for gain, and have perished<note>Or possibly "will perish"</note> in the rebellion of Korah.</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="12">These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted,</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="13">wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity. </verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="14">And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about<note>Or "against"</note> these <transChange type="added">people</transChange>, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy ones</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="15">to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly<note>Some manuscripts have "to convict every soul"</note> concerning all their ungodly deeds that they have committed in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="16">These <transChange type="added">people</transChange> are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their<note>Some manuscripts have "their own"</note> desires, and their mouths speaking pompous <transChange type="added">words</transChange>, {showing partiality to gain an advantage}<note>Literally "respecting faces for the sake of advantage"</note>. </verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="17">But you, dear friends, remember the words proclaimed beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="18">for they said to you,<note>Some manuscripts have "to you that"</note> "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires."</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="20">But you, dear friends, <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("building up") which is understood as means</note> building yourselves up in your most holy faith, <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("praying") which is understood as means</note> praying in the Holy Spirit,</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="21">keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="23">and save others <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("snatching") which is understood as means</note> snatching <transChange type="added">them</transChange> from the fire, and have mercy on others with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh. </verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="24">Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make <transChange type="added">you</transChange> to stand before his glory blameless<note>Or "without blemish"</note> with exultation,</verse>


book: Jude
content:
<verse num="25">to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, <transChange type="added">be</transChange> glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time and now and for all eternity. Amen.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his slaves <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which must take place in a short time, and communicated <transChange type="added">it</transChange> <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("sending") which is understood as means</note> sending <transChange type="added">it</transChange> through his angel to his slave John,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="2">who testified about the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, all that he saw.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who reads aloud and <transChange type="added">blessed are</transChange><note>*The phrase "<transChange type="added">blessed are</transChange>" is an understood repetition from the beginning of the verse</note> those who hear the words of the prophecy and observe the things written in it, because the time <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near! </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="4">John, to the seven churches in Asia:<note>A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)</note> grace to you and peace from the one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming, and from the seven spirits who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> before his throne,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="5">and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father--to him <transChange type="added">be</transChange> the glory and the power {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>. Amen. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even every one who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, the one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming, the All-Powerful. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">I, John, your brother and co-sharer in the affliction and kingdom and steadfastness in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great sound like a trumpet</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="11">saying, "What you see, write in a book and send <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="12">And I turned to see the voice which was speaking with me, and <transChange type="added">when I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("turned") which is understood as temporal</note> turned, I saw seven gold lampstands,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="13">and in the midst of the lampstands <transChange type="added">one</transChange> like a son of man, dressed in <transChange type="added">a robe</transChange> reaching to the feet and girded around his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> chest <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a golden belt,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="14">and his head and hair <transChange type="added">were</transChange> white like wool, white as snow, and his eyes <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like a fiery flame,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">and his feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like fine bronze when it has been fired in a furnace, and his voice <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the sound of many waters,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="16">and <transChange type="added">he</transChange> had in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword coming out of his mouth, and his face <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the sun shining in its strength. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="17">And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person, and he placed his right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="18">and the one who lives, and I was dead, and behold, I am living {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="19">Therefore, write <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which you saw, and <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which are, and <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which are about to take place after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">As for</transChange> the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands--the seven stars are <transChange type="added">the</transChange> angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seven churches. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="2">'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> false.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">And you have patient endurance, and have endured <transChange type="added">many things</transChange> because of my name, and have not become weary.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="4">But I have <transChange type="added">this</transChange> against you: that you have left your first love.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="5">Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do {the works you did at first}<note>Literally "the first works"</note>. But if you do not, I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">But you do have this: that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, <transChange type="added">things</transChange> which I also hate.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will grant to him to eat from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.' </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">'I know your affliction and poverty (but you are rich), and the slander of those {who call themselves Jews}<note>Literally "who say themselves to be Jews"</note> and are not, but <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a synagogue of Satan.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">Do not be afraid of <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will experience affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="11">The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.' </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="13">'I know where you live, where the throne of Satan <transChange type="added">is</transChange>. And you hold fast to my name and did not deny your<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> faith in me, even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="14">But I have a few <transChange type="added">things</transChange> against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">So likewise you also have those who hold fast to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="16">Therefore repent! But if you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword from my mouth.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="17">The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give to him <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the hidden manna, and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, that no one knows except the one who receives <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.' </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="19">'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance--and your last works <transChange type="added">are</transChange> greater than the first.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="20">But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="21">And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="22">Behold, I am throwing her into a sickbed and those who committed adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent from her deeds.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="23">And I will kill her children with deadly disease, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="24">But I say to you, to the rest <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> in Thyatira, all those who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep <transChange type="added">things</transChange> of Satan, as they say, I do not put upon you any other burden.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="26">And the one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him authority over the nations,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="27">and "he will shepherd them with an iron rod; he will break <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in pieces like jars made of clay,"<note>A quotation from Ps 2:9</note></verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="28">as I also have received from my Father, and I will give him the morning star.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="29">The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="2">Be on the alert and strengthen the remaining <transChange type="added">things</transChange> that are about to die, for I have not found your works completed before my God.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know <transChange type="added">at</transChange> what hour I will come against you.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="4">But you have a few {people}<note>Literally "names"</note> in Sardis who have not defiled their clothing, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="5">The one who conquers in this way will be dressed in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, and I will declare his name before my Father and before his angels.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">'I know your works (behold, I have put before you an opened door that no one is able to shut<note>*Literally "to shut it," but the direct object is not translated here in keeping with English style</note>) that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and did not deny my name.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">Behold, I am causing <transChange type="added">those</transChange> of the synagogue of Satan, the ones who call themselves Jews and are not, but are lying--behold, I will make them {come}<note>Literally "that they will come"</note> and kneel down before your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="12">The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go outside again, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="13">The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot!</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="16">Thus, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth!</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="17">Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="18">I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="19">As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent!</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="20">Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="21">The one who conquers, I will grant to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="22">The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'" </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I looked, and behold, an open door in heaven, and the former voice that I had heard like a trumpet speaking with me was saying, "Come up here and I will show you <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which must take place after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="2">Immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one was seated on the throne.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">And the one seated <transChange type="added">was</transChange> similar in appearance to jasper and carnelian stone, and a rainbow <transChange type="added">was</transChange> around the throne similar in appearance to emerald.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="4">And around the throne <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones <transChange type="added">were</transChange> twenty-four elders dressed in white clothing, and on their heads <transChange type="added">were</transChange> gold crowns.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="5">And from the throne came out lightnings and sounds and thunders, and seven torches of fire <transChange type="added">were</transChange> burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">And before the throne <transChange type="added">was something</transChange> like a sea of glass, like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne <transChange type="added">were</transChange> four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="7">And the first living creature <transChange type="added">was</transChange> similar to a lion, and the second living creature <transChange type="added">was</transChange> similar to an ox, and the third living creature had a face like a man's, and the fourth living creature <transChange type="added">was</transChange> similar to an eagle flying.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">And the four living creatures, {each one}<note>Literally "one by one"</note> of them, had six wings apiece, full of eyes around and inside, and they do not have rest day and night, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, the one who lives {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="10">the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>, and put down their crowns before the throne, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="11">"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and because of your will they existed and were created."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">And I saw in the right hand of the one who is seated on the throne a scroll, written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="3">And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="5">And one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as though slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">And he came and took <transChange type="added">the scroll</transChange><note>A very few less important manuscripts supply the words "the scroll" here; in Greek the direct object ("the scroll") is frequently understood anyway and must be supplied in the English translation</note> from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one of whom had a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">and made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth."</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and of the living creatures and of the elders, and their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands times thousands,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="13">And I heard every creature that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the sea and everything in them saying, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">And the four living creatures were saying, "Amen!" and the elders fell down and worshiped. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="1">And I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying like the sound of thunder, "Come!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and the one seated on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and in order that he might conquer. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="3">And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And another horse came out, fiery red, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace from the earth, and that they would slaughter one another, and a large sword was given to him. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="5">And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one seated on it had a balance scale in his hand.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">And I heard <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not damage the olive oil and the wine!" </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="7">And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice from the fourth living creature saying, "Come!"</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">And I looked, and behold, a pale green horse, and the one seated on it {was named}<note>Literally "name to him"</note> Death, and Hades followed after him. And authority was granted to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword and by famine and by pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the testimony which they had,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "{How long}<note>Literally "until when"</note>, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?"</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="11">And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until <transChange type="added">the number of</transChange> their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they <transChange type="added">had been</transChange> were completed also. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="12">And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="13">and the stars of heaven<note>Or "of the sky"</note> fell to the earth like a fig tree throws down its unripe figs <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("shaken") which is understood as temporal</note> shaken by a great wind.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">And the sky was split apart like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved from their place.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="15">And the kings of the earth, and the most important people, and the military leaders, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="16">And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="1">After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And I saw another angel ascending {from the east}<note>Literally "from the rising of the sun"</note>, holding the seal of the living God, and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels {who were given permission}<note>Literally "to whom was granted to them"</note> to damage the earth and the sea,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="3">saying, "Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads."</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And I heard the number of the ones who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: </verse>


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<verse num="7">from the tribe of Simeon,<note>Or "Symeon," an alternate spelling of the Greek form of the name</note> twelve thousand, </verse>


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<verse num="9">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I looked, and behold, a great crowd that no one was able to number, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> white robes and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> palm branches in their hands.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,</verse>


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<verse num="13">And one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are dressed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the white robes--who are <transChange type="added">they</transChange>, and from where have they come?"</verse>


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<verse num="15">Because of this, they are before the throne of God, and they serve<note>Or "worship"</note> him day and night in his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne {will shelter}<note>Literally "will take up residence over"</note> them.</verse>


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<verse num="16">They will not be hungry <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer or be thirsty <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, nor will the sun ever beat down on them, nor any heat,<note>An allusion to Isa 49:10</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">because the Lamb <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and will lead them to springs of living waters, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."<note>An allusion to Isa 25:8</note></verse>


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<verse num="1">And when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven <transChange type="added">for</transChange> about half an hour.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And another angel who had a golden censer came and stood at the altar, and a large amount of incense was given to him, in order that he could offer the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before the throne.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the smoke of the incense went up before God with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire from the altar and threw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to the earth, and there were thunders and sounds and lightnings and an earthquake. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves in order to blow them. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And the first blew the trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown to the earth, and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. </verse>


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<verse num="8">And the second angel blew the trumpet, and <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood,</verse>


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<verse num="9">and a third of the creatures in the sea--the ones which had life--died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. </verse>


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<verse num="10">And the third angel blew the trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter. </verse>


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<verse num="12">And the fourth angel blew the trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened, and the day did not shine <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> a third of it, and the night likewise. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And I looked, and I heard one eagle flying {directly overhead}<note>Literally "in midheaven," i.e., "at the zenith"</note>, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, from the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow the trumpet!" </verse>


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<verse num="1">And the fifth angel blew the trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like smoke from a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And it was told to them that they should not damage the grass of the earth or any green <transChange type="added">plant</transChange> or any tree, except those people who do not have the seal of God on their<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> foreheads.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And the appearance of the locusts <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads <transChange type="added">were something</transChange> like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like men's faces,</verse>


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<verse num="8">and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like <transChange type="added">the teeth</transChange> of lions,</verse>


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<verse num="9">and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the sound of many {horse-drawn chariots}<note>Literally "chariots of horses"</note> running into battle.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people <transChange type="added">for</transChange> five months <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in their tails.</verse>


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<verse num="11">They have <transChange type="added">as</transChange> king over them the angel of the abyss, {whose name}<note>Literally "the name to him"</note> in Hebrew <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon. </verse>


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<verse num="12">The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns<note>Some manuscripts have "four horns"</note> of the golden altar <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> before God</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!"</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the number of the troops of the cavalry <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {two hundred million}<note>Literally "twenty thousands of ten thousands"</note>; I heard the number of them.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery <transChange type="added">red</transChange> and hyacinth-colored and sulphurous <transChange type="added">yellow</transChange> breastplates, and the heads of the horses <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur.</verse>


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<verse num="18">By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed--by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths.</verse>


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<verse num="19">For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails <transChange type="added">are</transChange> similar in appearance to snakes, having heads, and with them they cause injury.<note>Literally "they injure"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="20">And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, {in order not to worship}<note>Literally "so that they did not worship"</note> the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk,</verse>


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<verse num="21">and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and a rainbow over his head, and his face <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the sun, and his feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like pillars of fire,<note>Or "like fiery pillars"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">and holding in his hand a little scroll that was opened. And he put his right foot on the sea and his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> left on the land.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he cried out with a loud voice like a lion roars, and when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded<note>Or "spoke"</note> their own voices.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And when the seven thunders spoke,<note>Or "sounded"</note> I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them!" </verse>


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<verse num="5">And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven</verse>


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<verse num="6">and swore by the one who lives {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>, who created heaven and the <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in it, and the earth and the <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in it, and the sea and the <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in it, "There will be no more delay!</verse>


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<verse num="7">But in the days of the sound of the seventh angel, whenever he is about to blow the trumpet, then<note>Literally "and"</note> the mystery of God is completed, as he announced to his own slaves the prophets." </verse>


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<verse num="8">And the voice that I had heard from heaven <transChange type="added">was</transChange> speaking with me again and saying, "Go, take the opened scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll, and he said to me, "Take and eat it up, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it up, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And they said to me, "It is necessary for you to prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings." </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="1">And a measuring rod similar in appearance to a staff was given to me, saying, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And leave out the courtyard outside of the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample the holy city <transChange type="added">for</transChange> forty two months.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And I will grant <transChange type="added">authority</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy <transChange type="added">for one</transChange> thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth."</verse>


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<verse num="4">These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed.</verse>


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<verse num="6">These have the authority to shut the sky, so that {it does not rain}<note>Literally "it does not rain rain"; the redundancy is removed in the translation</note> during the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they wish. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And when they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war with them and will conquer them and will kill them.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And their dead bodies <transChange type="added">will lie</transChange> in the street of the great city which is called symbolically Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And <transChange type="added">those</transChange> from peoples and tribes and languages and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here," and they went up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And at that hour a great earthquake took place, and a tenth of the city collapsed, and seven thousand {people}<note>Literally "names of men"</note> were killed by the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the seventh angel blew the trumpet, and there was a loud voice in heaven saying, </verse>


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<verse num="16">And the twenty-four elders <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> seated on their thrones before God fell down on their faces and worshiped God,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and sounds and thunders and an earthquake and large hail.<note>Or "a great hailstorm"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">and {who was pregnant}<note>Literally "who was having in the belly"</note> and was crying out <transChange type="added">because she</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was having birth pains") which is understood as causal</note> was having birth pains, and was in torment to give birth.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And another sign appeared in heaven, and behold, a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads <transChange type="added">were</transChange> seven royal headbands.<note>Or "diadem crowns"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And his tail swept away a third of the stars from heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, in order that whenever she gave birth to her child he could devour <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And she gave birth to a son, a male <transChange type="added">child</transChange>, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod,<note>An allusion to Ps 2:9</note> and her child was snatched away to God and to his throne.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared there by God, so that they could feed her there <transChange type="added">for one</transChange> thousand two hundred sixty days. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels {fought against}<note>Literally "made war with"</note> the dragon, and the dragon and his angels {fought back}<note>Literally "made war"</note>.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer in heaven.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="9">And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives until death.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Because of this, rejoice, you heavens, and those who live in them! Woe <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the earth and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great anger, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("knows") which is understood as causal</note> knows that he has little time!"</verse>


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<verse num="13">And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male <transChange type="added">child</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, in order that she could fly into the wilderness, to her place where she is fed there <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a time, and times, and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And from his mouth the serpent spouted water like a river after the woman, in order that he could make her swept away by a river.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the earth came to the aid of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had spouted out of his mouth.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="17">And the dragon was angry at the woman, and went away to {fight against}<note>Literally "to make war with"</note> the rest of her children, those who keep the commandments of God and who hold to the testimony about Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="1">And I saw coming up out of the sea a beast that had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns ten royal headbands,<note>Or "ten diadem crowns"</note> and on its heads a blasphemous name.<note>Some manuscripts read "blasphemous names"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard, and its feet <transChange type="added">were</transChange> like a bear's, and its mouth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And one of its heads <transChange type="added">appeared</transChange> as though slaughtered to death, and its {fatal wound}<note>Literally "wound of death"</note> had been healed. And the whole earth was astonished <transChange type="added">and followed</transChange> after the beast.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And they worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the beast, and who is able to make war with him? </verse>


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<verse num="5">And a mouth was given to him speaking great <transChange type="added">things</transChange> and blasphemies, and authority to act was given to him <transChange type="added">for</transChange> forty-two months.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">And he opened his mouth for blasphemies toward God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling, those who live in heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and people and language and nation.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And all those who live on the earth will worship him, {everyone whose name is not written}<note>Literally "of whom his name is not written"</note> from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.</verse>


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<verse num="10">If anyone <transChange type="added">is going</transChange> into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to be killed by the sword, by the sword he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to be killed.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And I saw another beast coming up from the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he was speaking like a dragon.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he exercises all the authority of the first beast on behalf of him, and he causes the earth and those who live in it to worship the first beast {whose fatal wound had been healed}<note>Literally "of whom the wound of his death had been healed"</note>.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he performs great signs, so that he even causes fire from heaven to come down to the earth before people.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it has been granted to him to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword and <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> lived.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And it was given to him to put breath into the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast both spoke and caused that all those, unless they worshiped the image of the beast, should be killed.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he causes all <transChange type="added">people</transChange>, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, that they give them a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,</verse>


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<verse num="17">and that no one was able to buy or to sell except the one who had the mark--the name of the beast or the number of his name.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">Here is wisdom: the one who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number,<note>Or "it is <transChange type="added">the</transChange> number of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> man"</note> and his number <transChange type="added">is</transChange> six hundred sixty-six.<note>A few significant manuscripts read "six hundred sixteen"</note> </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="1">And I looked, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the sound that I heard <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like harpists playing on their harps.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And they were singing <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been bought from the earth. </verse>


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<verse num="4">These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity <transChange type="added">as</transChange> first fruits to God and to the Lamb,</verse>


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<verse num="6">And I saw another angel flying {directly overhead}<note>Literally, "in midheaven"</note>, having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who reside on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,</verse>


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<verse num="7">saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water!" </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="8">And another second angel followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Babylon the great, who caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality." </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="9">And another third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="10">he himself also will drink of the wine of the anger of God that has been mixed full strength in the cup of his wrath, and will be tortured with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And the smoke of their torture went up {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>, and those who worshiped the beast and his image did not have rest day and night, {along with anyone who received}<note>Literally "and if anyone received"</note> the mark of his name.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="12">Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud was seated <transChange type="added">one</transChange> like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="15">And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, "Send out your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="16">And the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="17">And another angel came out of the temple <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> in heaven; he also had a sharp sickle.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">And another angel who had authority over the fire <transChange type="added">went out</transChange> from the altar, and he called out with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send out your sharp sickle and harvest the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are at their prime!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="19">And the angel swung his sickle into the earth and harvested the vine of the earth, and threw <transChange type="added">the grapes</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> into the great winepress of the wrath of God.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="20">And the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood went out from the winepress up to the bridles of the horses, about one thousand six hundred stadia.<note>That is, about 300 km (200 mi); a stade (plural stadia) was a measure of distance about 192 m (607 ft)</note> </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="1">And I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels having seven plagues <transChange type="added">that are</transChange> the last <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>, because with them the wrath of God is completed.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And I saw <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name were standing by<note>Or "on"; or "at"; or "near"</note> the glassy sea, holding harps from God.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="3">And they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">Who would never fear, Lord, and glorify your name? For only you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy, because all the nations<note>Or "Gentiles"; the same Greek word can be translated "nations" or "Gentiles" depending on the context</note> will come and worship before you, because your righteous deeds have been revealed."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="5">And after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I looked, and the temple, the tent of the testimony in heaven, was opened,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out from the temple, dressed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> clean, bright linen garments, and girded with golden belts around their<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> chests.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">And I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="2">And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and there was an evil and painful sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">And the second poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood, like <transChange type="added">that</transChange> of a dead person, and every living thing <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> in the sea died. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">because they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; they are deserving!"</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to it to burn up people with fire.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And people were burned up <transChange type="added">by the</transChange> great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they began chewing their tongues because of the pain.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and because of their sores, and they did not repent of their deeds. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="12">And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order that the way would be prepared for the kings from {the east}<note>Literally "the rising of the sun"</note>.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="13">And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits like frogs.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">For they are the spirits of demons performing signs that go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them for the battle of the great day of God the All-Powerful.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="15">(Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who is on the alert and who keeps his clothing, so that he does not walk around naked and they see his shamefulness!)</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="17">And the seventh poured out his bowl on the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">And there were lightnings and sounds and thunders, and there was a great earthquake, as has not happened from the <transChange type="added">time</transChange> humanity has been on the earth--so great in this way <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the earthquake.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="19">And the great city was <transChange type="added">split</transChange> into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his furious wrath.<note>Literally "of the anger of the wrath of him"</note></verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="21">And large hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds,<note>Literally "weighing a talent"; a talent was 125 Roman pounds (of 12 ounces each), so this is just under 100 lbs or 43 kg</note> came down from the sky upon people, and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, because the plague of it was very great. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">And he carried me away into the wilderness in the Spirit,<note>Or "in the spirit," referring to the human spirit</note> and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of detestable things and the unclean things of her sexual immorality.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="5">And on her forehead a name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> written, a mystery: "Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">And the angel said to me, "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that has the seven heads and the ten horns that carries her.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("see") which is understood as temporal</note> see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="9">Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains {on which the woman sits}<note>Literally "where the woman is seated on them"</note> and they are seven kings.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="10">Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and whenever he comes it is necessary <transChange type="added">for</transChange> him to remain a short time.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And the beast that was, and is not, is also himself an eighth, and is of the seven, and he is going to destruction.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="12">And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings <transChange type="added">for</transChange> one hour with the beast.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="13">These have one opinion, and they will give their power and authority to the beast.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him <transChange type="added">are</transChange> called and chosen and faithful." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="16">And the ten horns that you saw and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="17">For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make {a unanimous decision}<note>Literally "to make one decision"</note> and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">And the woman that you saw is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I saw another angel descending from heaven, who had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">For all the nations have drunk<note>Some of the best manuscripts read "have fallen"</note> from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the power of her sensuality."</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="5">because her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">Pay back to her as she herself also paid out, and {pay back double}<note>Literally "double twofold"</note> according to her deeds; in the cup that she mixed, mix double for her.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="7">As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!'</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="8">Because of this her plagues will come in one day-- death and mourning and famine-- and she will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who passes judgment on her <transChange type="added">is</transChange> powerful!"</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And the kings of the earth will weep and mourn over her, those who committed sexual immorality and lived sensually with her, when they see the smoke of her burning,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="10">standing {far off}<note>Literally "from afar"</note> because of the fear of her torment, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more--</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="12">cargo of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple cloth and silk and scarlet cloth and all kinds of scented wood and all kinds of ivory goods and all kinds of goods of precious wood and bronze and iron and marble</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="13">and cinnamon and amomum<note>Or "spice"; the term can refer to "spice" in general, or specifically to amomum, a spice from India</note> and incense and ointment and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine wheat flour and wheat and domesticated animals and sheep and horses and carriages and {slaves}<note>Literally "bodies"</note> and human lives. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">"And {the fruit your soul desires}<note>Literally "your fruit of desire"</note> has departed from you, and all the luxury and the splendor has perished from you, and they will never find them any more."</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="15">The merchants of these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, who became rich from them, will stand {far off}<note>Literally "from afar"</note>, weeping and mourning because of the fear of her torment,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="18">and began to cry out <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the great city?"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="19">And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="20">Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="21">And one powerful angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the sea, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="22">And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute players and trumpeters will never be heard in you again! And every craftsman of every trade will never be found in you again! And the sound of a mill will never be heard in you again!</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="23">And the light of a lamp will never shine in you again! And the sound of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again! For your merchants were the most important people of the earth, because with your sorcery they deceived all the nations.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="24">And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and all those who had been slaughtered on the earth.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I heard <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like the loud sound of a great crowd in heaven saying, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">because his judgments <transChange type="added">are</transChange> true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves {shed by}<note>Literally "from"</note> her hand!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is seated on the throne, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">And I heard <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like the sound of a great crowd and <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like the sound of many waters and <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like the sound of powerful thunder, saying, </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">Let us rejoice and be glad and give him the glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="8">And it has been granted to her that she be dressed in bright, clean fine linen (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints).</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And he said to me, "Write: Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> those who are invited to the banquet of the wedding celebration of the Lamb!" And he said to me, "These are the true words of God."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">And I fell down before his feet to worship him, and he said to me, "{Do not do that!}<note>Literally "do not see to it"</note> I am a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and the one seated on it was called "Faithful" and "True," and with justice<note>Or "in righteousness"</note> he judges and makes war.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="12">Now his eyes <transChange type="added">were</transChange> a flame of fire, and on his head <transChange type="added">were</transChange> many royal headbands having a name written that no one except he himself knows.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="13">And <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> dressed in an outer garment dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">And the armies <transChange type="added">that are</transChange> in heaven, dressed in clean, white fine linen, were following him on white horses.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">And out of his mouth came a sharp sword, so that with it he could strike the nations. And he will shepherd them with an iron rod,<note>An allusion to Ps 2:9</note> and he stomps the winepress of the wine of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="16">And he has a name written on his outer garment and on his thigh: "King of kings and Lord of lords." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="17">And I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly {directly overhead}<note>Literally, "in midheaven"</note>, </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">in order that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military tribunes, and the flesh of the powerful, and the flesh of horses and those seated on them, and the flesh of all <transChange type="added">people</transChange>, both free and slave, and small and great!"</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="19">And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war with the one who is seated on the horse and with his army.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="20">And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs before him, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="21">And the rest were killed by the sword of the one who is seated on the horse--the <transChange type="added">sword</transChange> that comes out of his mouth--and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">And I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And he seized the dragon--the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan--and bound him <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a thousand years,</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="3">and threw him into the abyss, and shut <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and sealed <transChange type="added">it</transChange> above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> it is necessary <transChange type="added">for</transChange> him to be released <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a short time. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="4">And I saw thrones, and they sat down on them, and authority to judge was granted to them. And <transChange type="added">I saw</transChange> the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and did not receive the mark on their<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> forehead and on their hand, and they came to life and reigned with Christ <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a thousand years.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="5">(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.) This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the first resurrection.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="6">Blessed and holy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over this person the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand<note>Some manuscripts have "<transChange type="added">for</transChange> the thousand"</note> years. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="7">And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="8">and he will go out to deceive the nations <transChange type="added">that are</transChange> at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them for battle, {whose number}<note>Literally "of whom the number of them"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like the sand of the sea.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="9">And they went up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the fortified camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and consumed them.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="10">And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet also <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, and they will be tormented day and night {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="11">And I saw a great white throne and the one who was seated on it, {from whose presence}<note>Literally "from the presence of whom"</note> earth and heaven fled, and a place was not found for them.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="12">And I saw the dead--the great and the small--standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the <transChange type="added">book</transChange> of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="13">And the sea gave up the dead <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> in them, and each one was judged according to their deeds.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death--the lake of fire.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea did not exist <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="2">And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="4">And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, and<note>Literally "or"</note> mourning or wailing or pain will not exist <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer. The former <transChange type="added">things</transChange><note>Some manuscripts have "any longer, because the former <transChange type="added">things</transChange>"</note> have passed away."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="5">And the one seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all <transChange type="added">things</transChange> new!" And he said, "Write, because these words are faithful and true."</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">And he said to me, "It is done! I <transChange type="added">am</transChange><note>Some manuscripts explicitly state "am"</note> the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give <transChange type="added">water</transChange> from the spring of the water of life freely.<note>Or "without charge"</note></verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="7">The one who conquers will inherit these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and I will be {his God}<note>Literally "to him God"</note> and he will be {my son}<note>Literally "to me a son"</note>.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">But <transChange type="added">as</transChange> for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="10">And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and lofty mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="11">that has the glory of God. Its radiance <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a precious stone, <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like a jasper stone, shining like crystal.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="12">It has<note>Literally "having," referring back to the city mentioned in v. 11</note> a great and high wall that has twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on <transChange type="added">the gates</transChange> which are<note>Some manuscripts have "which are the names"</note> of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel--</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="13">on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="14">And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. </verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="15">And the one who spoke with me was holding a golden measuring rod in order that he could measure the city and its gates and its wall.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="16">And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as <transChange type="added">its</transChange> width. And he measured the city with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia;<note>Or "two thousand two hundred kilometers"; or "fourteen hundred miles" (a stade was a unit of length about 185 meters or 607 feet)</note> the length and the width and the height of it are equal.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="17">And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits<note>This number in cubits amounts to 12 times 12; it would be about 65 meters (216 feet)</note> {according to human measure}<note>Literally "according to the measure of a man"</note>, which is the angel's.</verse>


book: Rev
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<verse num="18">And the material of its wall <transChange type="added">is</transChange> jasper, and the city <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure gold, similar in appearance to pure glass.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="19">The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="20">the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="21">And the twelve gates <transChange type="added">are</transChange> twelve pearls, each one of the gates was from a single pearl. And the street of the city <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure gold, like transparent glass. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="22">And I did not see a temple in it, for the Lord God All-Powerful is its temple, and the Lamb.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="23">And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon, that they shine on it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Lamb.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="24">And the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="27">And every unclean thing and one who practices<note>Some manuscripts have "and the one who practices"</note> detestable things and falsehood will never enter into it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="1">And he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="2">in the middle of its street, and {on both sides of the river}<note>Literally "of the river from here and from there"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the tree of life, producing twelve fruits--yielding its fruit according to every month--and the leaves of the tree <transChange type="added">are</transChange> for the healing of the nations.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="3">And there will not be any curse <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his slaves will serve<note>Or "will worship"</note> him,</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="4">and they will see his face, and his name <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> on their foreheads.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="5">And night will not exist <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light<note>Some manuscripts have "of the light"</note> of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign {forever and ever}<note>Literally "for the ages of the ages"</note>. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="6">And he said to me, "These words <transChange type="added">are</transChange> faithful and true, and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which must take place in a short time." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="7">"And behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="8">And I, John, <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the one who heard and who saw these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>. And when I heard and saw <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to me.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="9">And he said to me, "{Do not do that!}<note>Literally "do not see to it"</note> I am your fellow slave, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!"</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="10">And he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near!</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="11">The one who does evil, let him do evil still, and the defiled, let him be defiled still, and the righteous, let him practice righteousness still, and the holy, let him be holy still." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="12">"Behold, I am coming quickly, and my reward <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me, to repay each one according to <transChange type="added">what</transChange> his deeds are!</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="13">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="14">Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the ones who wash their robes, so that their authority will be over the tree of life and they may enter into the city through the gates.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="15">Outside <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="16">"I, Jesus, sent my angel to testify to you about these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star." </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="17">And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And the one who hears, let him say, "Come!" And the one who is thirsty, let him come. The one who wants, let him take the water of life freely.<note>Or "without cost"</note> </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="18">I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues written in this book.</verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="19">And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share of the tree of life and from the holy city that are written in this book. </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="20">The one who testifies about these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> says, "Yes, I am coming quickly!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! </verse>


book: Rev
content:
<verse num="21">The grace of the Lord Jesus <transChange type="added">be</transChange> with all.<note>Many manuscripts add "Amen"; some manuscripts add "the saints. Amen"</note> </verse>


# bible_fts_content

c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 2
c3content:
NowOr "And" the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And God saw the light, that it was good, and God caused there to be a separation between the light and between the darkness.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And God said, "Let there be a vaulted domeOr "expanse" in the midst of the waters, and {let it cause a separation between the waters}."Literally "Let there be a separation made between waters to waters"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
SoOr "And" God made the vaulted dome,Or "expanse" and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted domeOr "expanse" and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome.Or "expanse" And it was so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And God called the vaulted domeOr "expanse" "heaven."Or "sky" And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And God said, "Let the waters under heavenOr "the sky" be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And God called the dry ground "earth," and he called the collection of the waters "seas." And God saw that it was good.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And God said, "Let the earth produce green plants that will bear seed--fruit trees bearing fruit {in which there is seed}Literally "which its seed is in it"--according to itsOr "their" kind, on the earth." And it was so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the earth brought forth green plants bearing seed according to itsOr "their" kind, and trees bearing fruit {in which there was seed}Literally "which its seed is in it" according to itsOr "their" kind. And God saw that it was good.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And God said, "Let there be lightsOr "light sources" in the vaulted domeOr "expanse" of heavenOr "the sky" {to separate day from night},Literally "to make a separation between the day and between the night" and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
and they shall be as lightsOr "light sources" in the vaulted domeOr "expanse" of heavenOr "the sky" to give light on the earth." And it was so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And God made two lights,Or "light sources" the greater lightOr "light source" to ruleLiterally "as the authority of" the day and the smaller lightOr "light source" to ruleLiterally "as the authority of" the night, and the stars.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And God placed them in the vaulted domeOr "expanse" of heavenOr "the sky" to give light on the earth


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to {separate light from darkness}.Literally "make a separation between the light and between the darkness" And God saw that it was good.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted domeOr "expanse" of heaven.Or "the sky"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
SoOr "And" God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird with wings according to itsOr "their" kind. And God saw that it was good.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animalsLiterally "animals of the earth/land" according to their kind." And it was so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 25
c3content:
SoOr "And" God made wild animalsLiterally "animals of the earth/land" according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to itsOr "their" kind. And God saw that it was good. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And God said, "Let us make humankind inOr "as" our image and according toOr "as" our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven,Or "the sky" and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 27
c3content:
SoOr "And" God created humankind inOr "as" his image, inOr "as" the likeness of God he created him,Or "it" collective: humankind male and female he created them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven,Or "the sky" and over every animal that moves upon the earth." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And God said, "Look--I am giving to you every plant that bears seed which is on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree {that bears fruit}.Literally "which in it fruit of a tree bears seed" They shall be yours as food."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And to every kind of animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven,Or "the sky" and to everything that moves upon the earth in which there is life I am giving every green plant as food." And it was so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And God blessed the seventh day, and he sanctifiedOr "hallowed" it, because on it he rested from all his work {of creating that there was to do}.Literally "which God created to do" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 4
c3content:
These are the generationsOr "family records" of heavenOr "the sky" and earthOr "the earth" when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heavenOr "sky"--


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
{before any plant of the field was}Literally "and every plant of the field not yet was" on earth, and before {any plant of the field}Literally "and every plant of the field not yet" had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
whenOr "and" Yahweh God formed the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article whom he had formed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, {along with}Or "and" the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
NowOr "And" a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Yahweh God took the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh God commanded the man,"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article saying, "From every tree of the garden {you may freely eat},Literally "eating you may eat"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day {that you eat}Literally "of your eating" from it {you shall surely die}."Literally "dying you shall die" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh God said, "it is not good that the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article is alone. I will make for him a helper {as his counterpart}."Literally "as his opposite"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky,Or "the heavens" and he brought each to the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article to see what he would call it. And whatever the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article called that living creature was its name.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article {gave names}Literally "called names" to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heavenOr "the sky" and to all the wild animals.Literally "animals of the earth/land" But for the man there was not found a helper {as his counterpart}.Literally "as his opposite"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man."The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article WhileOr "And" he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up {the flesh where it had been}.Literally "the flesh in the place of it"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article into a woman and brought her to the man."The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal}Literally "animal of the field" which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 3
c3content:
but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods,The plural is in the context of v. 22 "one of us" and the plural suffix pronouns ["you [all"]] throughout the verse knowing good and evil."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
WhenOr "And" the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, thenOr "and" she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
ThenOr "And" the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ThenOr "And" they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden {at the windy time of day}.Literally "at the wind of the day" And the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Yahweh God called to the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article and said to him, "Where are you?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he replied,Literally "And he said"; "replied" distinguishes Adam as the speaker "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then heThat is, Yahweh God asked,Or "said" "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from {the tree from which I forbade you to eat}?"Literally "the tree which I commanded to not eat from it"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article replied,Or "said" "The woman whom you gave to be with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspringLiterally "seed" and between her offspring;Literally "seed" he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And to AdamThe noun lacks the definite article and is taken as a proper noun in this context he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat},Literally "from the tree which I commanded saying not to eat from it" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
By the sweat of your browLiterally "your face" you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the man"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article {named}Literally "called the name" his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh God made for AdamThe noun lacks the definite article and is taken as a proper noun in this context and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if}Literally "And now lest" he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 24
c3content:
SoOr "And" he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and {a flaming, turning sword}Literally "a flame of the sword which was turning" to guard the way to the tree of life. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Adam knewOr "had intercourse with" Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 2
c3content:
{Then she bore}Literally "And she added to bear" his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And {in the course of time}Literally "it came to pass at the end of days" Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and Abel also brought an offering from {the choicest firstlings of his flock}.Literally "from the firstlings of his flock and from their fat" And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
If you do well {will I not accept you}?Literally "a lifting up"; this is an abbreviation of the Hebrew idiom "to lift up the face," which means "to accept or regard with favor" But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out into the field."This phrase is not present in the Hebrew; it is supplied in other versions Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 12
c3content:
When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}.Literally "it shall not add to give its strength to you" You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I must hide. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." ThenOr "And" Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Cain knewOr "had intercourse with" his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city {he named the city after his son, Enoch}.Literally "he called the name of the city as the name of his son, Enoch"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Lamech took to himself two wives.Or "women" The name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and those who have livestock.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 22
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all kinds of tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 25
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Adam knewOr "had intercourse with" his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time heOr "humankind," if the 3ms form is considered collective began to call on the name of Yahweh. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
This is the record of the generationsOr "family records" of Adam. WhenLiterally "On the day" God created Adam,Or "humankind" he made him in the likeness of God.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Male and female he created them. And he blessed them. And he called their name "Humankind" whenLiterally "on the day" they were created.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And after Seth had fathered Enosh he lived eight hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And after Enosh fathered Kenan he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And after Kenan had fathered Mahalalel, he lived eight hundred and forty years, and fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And after Mahalalel had fathered Jared, he lived eight hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 25
c3content:
WhenLiterally "On the day" Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And after Methuselah had fathered Lamech, he lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us}Literally "shall comfort us" from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And after Lamech had fathered Noah he lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and he fathered sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 32
c3content:
WhenLiterally "On the day" Noah {was five hundred years old},Literally "was a son of five hundred years" Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 2
c3content:
ThenOr "And" the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was alwaysLiterally "every day" only evil.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and {he was grieved in his heart}.Literally "he was grieved to his heart"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven,Or "the sky" for I regret that I have made them."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
These are the generationsOr "family records" of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence because of them. Now, look, I am going to destroy them along with the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark with rooms, thenOr "and" you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And this is how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
You must make a roof for the ark, and {finish it to a cubit above}.Literally "to one cubit you must finish it from above" And as for the door of the ark, you must put it in its side. You must make it with a lower, second, and a third deck. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I, behold, I am about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heaven;Or "the sky" everything that is on the earth shall perish.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark--you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
From the birds according to theirOr "its" kind, and from the animals according to theirOr "its" kind, from every creeping thing on the ground according to itsOr "their" kind--two from every kind shall come to you to keep them alive.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And as for you, take for yourself from every kind of food that is eaten. And you must gather it to yourself. And it shall be for you and for them for food."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs},Literally "seven, seven" a male and its mate. And from the animals that are not clean you must take two, a male and its mate,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
as well as from the birds of heavenOr "the sky" {seven pairs},Literally "seven, seven" male and female, {to keep their kind alive}Literally "to keep seed alive" on the face of the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
For {within seven days}Literally "to seven days still" I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Noah {was six hundred years old}Literally "was a son of six hundred years" whenOr "and" the flood waters came upon the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{two of each}Literally "two, two" went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 13
c3content:
On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
they and all the living creatures according to theirOr "its" kind, and all the domesticated animals according to theirOr "its" kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to theirOr "its" kind, all the birds according to theirOr "its" kind, every winged creature.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they came to Noah to the ark, {two of each},Literally "two, two" from every living thing in which was the breath of life.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth. And the waters increased, and lifted the ark, and it rose up from the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surfaceHebrew "face" of the waters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the waters prevailed {overwhelmingly}Literally "very very" upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven.Or "the sky"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them}.Literally "Fifteen cubits above the waters swelled, and they covered the mountains"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And every living thing that moved on the earth perished--the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Everything in whose nostrils was {the breath of life},Literally "a breath of spirit of life" among all that was on dry land, died.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And heIn context, God blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven;Or "the sky" they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blowOr "go" over the earth, and the waters subsided.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavensOr "the sky" were closed, and the rain from the heavensOr "the sky" was restrained.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the waters receded from the earth {gradually},Literally "going and returning" and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the waters {continued to recede}Literally "going and receding" to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he sent out aOr "the" raven;Or "crow" {it went to and fro}Literally "it went out, going out and returning" until the waters were dried up from upon the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And {he sent out aOr "the" dove}Literally "and he sent out a dove from him" to see whether the waters had subsided from upon the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he waited another seven days, and {again he sent out}Literally "he added to send" the dove from the ark.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the dove came to him {in the evening},Literally "at the time of the evening" and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf was in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he waited {seven more days},Literally "again another seven days" and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Bring out with you all the living things which are with you, from all the living creatures--birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, and everything that moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself},Literally "to his heart" "{Never again will I curse}Literally "I will not add to curse again" the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy}Literally "And I will not add again to destroy" all life as I have done.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
{As long as the earth endures},Literally "While all the days of the earth" seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven,Or "the sky" and on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As I gave the green plants to you, I have now given you everything.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 5
c3content:
AndOr "only"; the same word that occurs at the beginning of v. 4 {your lifeblood}Literally "your blood belonging to your life" I will require; from {every animal}Literally "from the hand of every animal" I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"As for the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and with every living creature that is with you--the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that is with you for future generations.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and between the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
ThenOr "And" I will remember my covenant that is between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction}Literally "be to destroy" of all flesh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that is upon the earth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
NowOr "And" the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these {the whole earth was populated}.Literally "all the earth branched out"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put it on their shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so thatOr "and" they did not see the nakedness of their father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Noah awoke from his drunkenness,Or "his wine" and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
These are the generationsOr "family records" of the sons of Noah--Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ChildrenOr "sons" were born to them after the flood.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Cush fathered Nimrod. {He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior}.Literally "He began to be a mighty warrior on the earth"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now,Or "And" the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 18
c3content:
the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the territory of the Canaanites was from Sidon {in the direction of}Literally "in your going" Gerar as far as Gaza, and {in the direction of}Literally "in your going" Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
These are the descendantsOr "sons" ("descendants" was chosen since the proper names in this section are gentilic in form--that is, they indicate one's place of origin--and have the definite article) of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands, and in their nations. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, children were also born.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And their dwelling place {extended from}Literally "was from" Mesha {in the direction of}Literally "in your going" Sephar to the hill country of the east.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 31
c3content:
These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, and according to their nations. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 32
c3content:
These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generationsOr "family records" and in their nations. And from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And as people migratedOr "set out" from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And they said {to each other},Literally "each to his companion" "Come, let us make bricks and {burn them thoroughly}."Literally "burn to burning" And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind}Literally "sons of Adam" or "sons of humankind" was building.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language},Literally "one people and one language to all of them" and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}.Literally "and this they begin to do" SoOr "And" now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand {each other's language}."Literally "each the language of his companion"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
These are the generationsOr "family records" of Shem. When Shem {was one hundred years old},Literally "the son of one hundred years" he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 27
c3content:
NowOr "And" these are the generationsOr "family records" of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, {his grandson},Literally "the son of his son" and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to Haran, and they settled there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Abram, "Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Abram went out as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram {was seventy-five years old}Literally "the son of five years and seventy years" when he went out from Haran.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot {his nephew},Literally "the son of his brother" and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to the land of Canaan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Abram traveled through the land up to the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." And he built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he moved on from there to the hill country, east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent at Bethel on the west, and at Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Yahweh. And he called on the name of Yahweh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And it happened that as he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful of appearance,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
and it shall happen that, if the Egyptians see you, then they will say, 'This is his wife,' then they will kill me but let you live.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. {Then I will live}Literally "And my soul will live" on account of you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And it happened that as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, and they praised her beauty to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Why did you say 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that was with him away. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was with him. And Lot went with him to the Negev.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he went according to his journey from the Negev, then to Bethel, to the place where his tent was at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 4
c3content:
to the place where he had made an altar at the beginning. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the land could not {support them}Literally "lift them up" so as to live together, because their possessions were so many thatOr "and" they were not able to live together.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of the livestock of Abram and the herdsmen of the livestock of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men are brothers.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you want what is on the left, then I will go right; if you want what is on the right, I will go left."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered land--this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt {in the direction of}Literally "your going" Zoar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 11
c3content:
SoOr "And" Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed from the east, and so they separated {from each other}.Literally "each from his brother"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent toward Sodom.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now the men of Sodom {were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh}.Literally "were wicked and sinners against Yahweh very"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are to the north, and to the south, and to the east and to the west,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 16
c3content:
I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be so counted.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 13
c2verse: 18
c3content:
SoOr "And" Abram pitched his tent, and he came and settled at the oaks of Mamre, which were at Hebron. And there he built an altar to Yahweh. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that in the days of Amraphel, the king of Shinar, Arioch, the king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer, the king of Elam, and Tidal, the king of Goiim,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 2
c3content:
made war with Bera, the king of Sodom, and Birsha, the king of Gomorrah, Shinab, the king of Admah, and Shemeber, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 5
c3content:
In the fourteenth year Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 7
c3content:
ThenOr "And" they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that is, Kadesh). And they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 8
c3content:
ThenOr "And" the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and {they took up battle position}Literally "And they took up position with them for battle" in the Valley of Siddim


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 9
c3content:
with Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar, four kings against five.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 10
c3content:
NowOr "And" the Valley of Siddim {was full of tar pits}.Literally "pits, pits of tar" And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and {fell into them},Literally "they fell there" but the rest fled to the mountains.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 11
c3content:
SoOr "And" theyIn context, the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and they left.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And theyIn context, the enemy took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.)


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 13
c3content:
ThenOr "And" one who escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he was living at the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. {They were allies with Abram}.Literally "And they were owners of a covenant of Abram"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 14
c3content:
WhenOr "And" Abram heard that his {relative}Literally "brother" was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and he went in pursuit up to Dan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And he divided his trained men against them at night, he and his servants. And he defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, which is north of Damascus.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his {relative},Literally "brother" and his possessions, and the women and the people as well. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 17
c3content:
After his return from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King).


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (He was the priest of God Most High).


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{that neither a thread nor}Literally "that not from a thread and up to" a thong of a sandal would I take from all that belongs to you, that you might not say, 'I made Abram rich.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 14
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{Nothing besides what}Literally "besides me only which" the servants have eaten and the share of the men who went out with me will I take. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 1
c3content:
After these things the word of Yahweh cameLiterally "was" to Abram in a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward shall be very great."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 2
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Abram said, "O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? {I continue to be}Literally "I am going" childless, and {my heir}Literally "the son of the inheritance of my house" is Eliezer of Damascus."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Abram said, "Look, you have not given me a descendant, and here, {a member of my household}Literally "a son of my house" is {my heir}."Literally "inheriting me"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And behold, the word of Yahweh came to him saying, "This person will not {be your heir},Literally "inherit you" but {your own son will be your heir}."Literally "he who goes out from your body, he will inherit you"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he said to him, "I am Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to him, "Take for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite {the other},Literally "its companion" but the birds he did not cut.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And it happened, as the sun {went down},Literally "to go" then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know}Literally "knowing you must know" that your descendants shall be as aliens in a land {not their own}.Literally "not to them" And they shall serve themSome nation hostile to Abram's descendants (Egypt in later history) and theySome nation hostile to Abram's descendants (Egypt in later history) shall oppress them four hundred years.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And also the nation that theyThat is, Abram's descendants serve I will judge. ThenOr "And" afterward they shall go out with great possessions.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And as for you, you shall go to your ancestorsOr "fathers" in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites {is not yet complete}."Literally "is not complete up to now"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And after the sun had gone down and it was dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 15
c2verse: 18
c3content:
On that day Yahweh {made}Literally "cut" a covenant with Abram saying, "To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 1
c3content:
NowOr "And" Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps {I will have children by her}."Literally "I will be built from her" And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 3
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when sheThat is, Hagar saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm be upon you. {I had my servant sleep with you},Literally "I put my servant in your lap" and when she saw that she had conceived, {she no longer respected me}.Literally "I grew small in her eyes" May Yahweh judge between me and you!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your servant is {under your authority}.Literally "in your hand" Do to her that which is good in your eyes." And Sarai mistreated her, and sheThat is, Hagar fled from her presence. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, "{From where}Literally "where from this" have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 9
c3content:
ThenOr "And" the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under {her authority}."Literally "her hand"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "{I will greatly multiply}Literally "multiplying I will multiply" your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for their abundance."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone, and the hand of everyone will be against him, and he will live {in hostility with all his brothers}."Literally "against the face of all his brothers"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 13
c3content:
SoOr "And" she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are El-Roi,""God of seeing" for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 16
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 1
c3content:
WhenLiterally "And it happened that" Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I am El-Shaddai;Often translated, "God Almighty" walk before me and be blameless


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 2
c3content:
so thatOr "and" I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you {exceedingly}."Literally "with very very"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And I will make you {exceedingly}Literally "with very very" fruitful. I will make you a nation, and kings shall go out from you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you {the land in which you are living as an alien},Literally "a land of your sojournings" all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And God said to Abraham, "Now as for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 10
c3content:
This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you, and also withOr "between" your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And {at eight days of age}Literally "a son of eight days" you shall yourselves circumcise every male belonging to your generations and {the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner}Literally "those born of house and acquisition of money from every son of a foreigner" who is not from your offspring.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 13
c3content:
{You must certainly circumcise}Literally "circumcising you will circumcise" {the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner}.Literally "those born of house and acquisition of money from every son of a foreigner" And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from hisLiterally "her"; the reference is still to a male; the pronoun is feminine because "person" (nephesh) is grammatically feminine people. He has broken my covenant.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And God said to Abraham, "as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and {she shall give rise to nations}.Literally "she shall become to nations" Kings of peoples shall comeOr "be" from her."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, "{Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old},Literally "to a man one hundred years old can he be born?" or {can Sarah bear a child at ninety}?"Literally "can ninety-year-old Sarah bear a child?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him {exceedingly}.Literally "with very very" He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all those acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 17
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And all the men of his house, {those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner},Literally "born of house and acquisition of money from the son of a foreigner" were circumcised with him. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh appeared to himAbraham by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting in the doorway of the tent at the heat of the day.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men were standing nearOr "by"; the context requires some distance for Abraham to run to them him. And he saw them and ran from the doorway of the tent to meet them. And he bowed down to the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And let me bring a piece of bread, thenOr "and" refresh {yourselves}.Literally "your heart" Afterward you can pass on, {once}Literally "for therefore" you have passed by with your servant." Then they said, "Do so as you have said."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 6
c3content:
ThenOr "And" Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and he said, "Quickly--make three seahs of fine flour for kneading and make bread cakes!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Abraham ran to the cattle and took a {calf},Literally "a son of cattle" tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he made haste to prepare it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then he took curds and milk, and the calf which he prepared, and set it before them. And he was standing by them under the tree whileOr "and" they ate.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And heYahweh said, "I will certainly return to you {in the spring},Literally "at the time of life" and look, Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was listening at the doorway of the tent, and which was behind him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, {advanced in age};Literally "going in the days" {the way of women}Literally "the road according to women" had ceased to be for Sarah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 12
c3content:
SoOr "And" Sarah laughed to herself saying, "After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall this pleasure be to me?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What is this that Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true that I will bear a child, now that I have grown old?'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you {in the spring}Literally "at the time of life" and Sarah shall have a son."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 15
c3content:
But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. HeYahweh said, "No, but you did laugh." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them {to send them on their way}.Literally "to send them away"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For I have chosenOr "have known" him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Yahweh said, "Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very {serious},Literally "heavy"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 21
c3content:
I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress which has come to me? If not, I will know." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 24
c3content:
If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep them away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, thatOr "and" the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I am dust and ashes.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five--will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?" And he answered, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And {once again he spoke}Literally "And he added again to speak" to him and said, "What ifOr "Perhaps" forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do it on account of the forty."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What ifOr "Perhaps" thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What ifOr "Perhaps" twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 18
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What ifOr "Perhaps" ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening. And Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. Then Lot saw them and stood up to meet them. And he bowed down with his face to the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he said, "Behold, my lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the square."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But {he urged them strongly},Literally "he pressed upon them very" and they turned aside with him and came into his house. And he made a meal for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people {to the last man},Literally "from the end" surrounded the house.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may knowHebrew idiom for sexual intercourse (cp. Gen 4:1) them."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Behold, I have two daughters who have not knownHebrew idiom for sexual intercourse (cp. Gen 4:1) a man. Please, let me bring them out to you; then do to them as it seems good in your eyes. Only to these men do not do this thing, since they came under{ my roof}Literally "my beam" for protection."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But they said, "Step aside!" Then they said, "{This fellow}Literally "the one" came to dwell as a foreigner and he acts as a judge! Now we shall do worse to you than them!" And they pressed very hard against the man, against Lot, and they drew near to break the door.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then the men reached out with their hands and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and they shut the door.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then the men said to Lot, "Who is here with you? Bring out from the place your sons-in-law, and your sons and your daughters, and all who are with you in the city.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 13
c3content:
For we are about to destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were takingThat is, marrying his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh is going to destroy the city!" But {it seemed like a joke}Literally "it was as one making fun" in the eyes of his sons-in-law.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters {who are staying with you},Literally "who are found" lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But when he lingered, the men seized him by his hand and his wife's hand, and his two daughters by hand, on account of the mercy of Yahweh upon him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And after bringing them outside one said, "Flee for your life; do not look behind you, and do not stand anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains lest you be destroyed."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Behold, your servant has found favor in your eyes and {you have shown me great kindness}Literally "your kindness which you have done to me you have made great" in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Behold, this city is near enough to flee there, and it is a little one. Please, let me flee there. Is it not a little one? Then my life shall be saved."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he said to him, "Behold, {I will grant this favor as well};Literally "I am lifting up your face also concerning this thing" that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Escape there quickly, for I cannot do this thing until you get there." Therefore, there name of the city was called Zoar. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And he looked down upon the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the whole surface of the land, the plain. And he saw that,Or "and" behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 29
c3content:
So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill countryOr "mountain" with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the firstborn daughter said to the younger one, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with himIdiom for "have sexual intercourse with him" that {we may secure descendants through our father}."Literally "that we might preserve offspring from our father"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And they gave their father wine to drink that night, and the firstborn went and lay with her father, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And it happened that, the next day the firstborn said to the younger one, "Look, I laid with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, then go and lie with him that {we may secure descendants through our father}."Literally "that we might preserve offspring from our father"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And they gave their father wine to drink again that night, and the younger got up and lay with him, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 37
c3content:
The firstborn gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He is the father of Moab until this day.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 19
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and she called his name Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the {Ammonites}Literally "sons/children of Ammon" until this day. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Abraham journeyed from there to the land of the Negev, and he settled between Kadesh and Shur. And he dwelled as an alien in Gerar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night. And he said to him, "Look, you are a dead man on account of the woman you have taken. For she is {a married woman}."Literally "married of a husband" or "a woman owned by a husband"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Did not he himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' With integrity of my heart and with cleanness of my hands I did this."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes,Or "Also" I know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also {kept you from sinning}Literally "kept back from sinning" against me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So now, return the wife of the man, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And {if you do not return her},Literally "If there is not for you a returning" know that you will certainly die, and all that are yours." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So Abimelech rose early in the morning. And he called all his servants and {told them all these things},Literally "said all these things in their ears" and the men were very afraid.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that should not be done."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Abimelech said to Abraham, "{What were you thinking}Literally "What have you seen?" that you did this thing?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{Besides},Literally "And also moreover" she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it happened that as God caused me to wander from the house of my father I said to her, 'This is your loyal kindness that you must do for me at every place where we come: say concerning me, "He is my brother." '"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Abimelech said, "Here is my land before you; settle {where it pleases you}."Literally "in the good in your eyes"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And to Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother. It shall be {an exoneration}.Literally "a covering of the eyes" {You are vindicated before all who are with you}."Literally "to all who are with you and with all you are vindicated"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they could bear children again.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 20
c2verse: 18
c3content:
For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son to Abraham in his old age." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the matter {displeased Abraham very much}Literally "was very bad in the eyes of Abraham" on account of his son.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased}Literally "Do not let it be bad" on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you},Literally "Everything Sarah said to you, listen with respect to her voice" for through Isaac your offspring will be named.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And she went and {she sat a good distance away},Literally "she sat with respect to her, opposite, far away, as the shooting of a bow" for she said, "Let me not see the child's death." So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And God heard the cryOr "voice" of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, "{What is the matter}Literally "What to you" Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cryOr "voice" of the boy {from where he is}.Literally "in which he is there"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became {an expert with a bow}.Literally "an archer with the bow"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And it happened that at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you, in all that you do.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 23
c3content:
So now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal with me falsely, or with my descendants, or my posterity. According to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall pledge to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And Abimelech said, "I do not know who did this thing, neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it except for today."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two of them {made}Literally "cut" a covenant.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe-lambs that you have set off by themselves?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And he said, "You shall take the seven ewe-lambs from my hand {as proof on my behalf}Literally "for the sake that it shall be a witness for me" that I dug this well."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And they {made}Literally "cut" a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech, and Phicol his army commander stood and returned to the land of the Philistines.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 21
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And heThat is, Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, {the everlasting God}.Literally "El-Olam"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he said, "Take your son, your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains whereOr "that" I will tell you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. And he took two of his servants with him, and Isaac his son. And he chopped wood for a burnt offering. And he got up and went to the place which God had told him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go up there. We will worship, then we will return to you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed it on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and the two of them went together.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Isaac said to Abraham his father, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Abraham said, "{God will provide}Literally "God will see to it" or "God will see for himself" the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went together. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar atop the wood.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy; do not do anything to him. For now I know that you are {one who fears}Literally "a fearer" God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child, from me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh {will provide},"Literally "will see" {for which reason}Literally "which" it is said today, "on the mountain of Yahweh {it shall be provided}."Literally "it/he shall be seen"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he said, "I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 17
c3content:
that I will certainly bless you and greatly multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the shore of the sea. And your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 18
c3content:
All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 22
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And it happened that after these things, it was told to Abraham, "Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And {Sarah lived}Literally "the lives of Sarah were" one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the HittitesOr "sons of Heth" and said,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 4
c3content:
"I am a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site}Literally "ownership of a grave" among you so that I may bury my dead from before me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty princeOr "prince of God" in our midst. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites. None of us {will withhold his burial site}Literally "will withhold from himself his burial site from you for burying your dead."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he spoke with them, saying, "{If you are willing}Literally "if there is with your inner selves / souls" that I bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron the son of Zohar,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 9
c3content:
that he may sellOr "give" to me the cave of Machpelah which {belongs to him},Literally "which is to him" which is at the end of his field. At full value let him sellOr "give" it to me in your midst as {a burial site}."Literally "ownership of a grave"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites.Or "sons of Heth" And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the HittitesOr "sons of Heth" with respect to all who were entering the gate of his city, and said,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which is in it, I also give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "{If only you will hear me}Literally "Only if you perhaps hear me"--I give the price of the field. Take it from me that I may bury my dead there."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 15
c3content:
"My lord, hear me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver--what is that between me and you? Bury your dead."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had namedOr "spoken" in the hearing of the Hittites:Or "sons of Heth" four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.Literally "passing to the merchant"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So the field of Ephron which was in the Machpelah, which was near Mamre--the field and the cave which was in it, with all the trees that were in the field, which were within all its surrounding boundaries--{passed}Literally "went up"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 18
c3content:
to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites,Or "sons of Heth" with respect to all who were entering the gate of his city.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 23
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And the field and the cave which was in it {passed}Literally "went up" to Abraham as {a burial site}Literally "ownership of a grave" from the Hittites.Or "sons of Heth" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Abraham was old, {advanced in age},Literally "going in the days" and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 3
c3content:
that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing {to follow}Literally "to go after" me to this land--must I then return your son to the land from whence you came?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Abraham said to him, "{You must take care}Literally "let it be careful to you" that you do not return my son there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Yahweh, the God of heaven who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'to your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And if the woman is not willing {to follow}Literally "to go after" you, then you shall be released from this oath of mine--only you must not return my son there."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the servant took ten camels from his master's camels, and he went with all kinds of his master's good things in his hand. And he arose and went to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he made the camels kneel outside the city at the well of water, at the time of evening, toward the time the women went out to draw water.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said, "O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are going out to draw water.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And let it be that the girl to whom I shall say, 'Please, offer your jar that I may drink' and who says, 'Drink--and I will also water your camels,' she is the one you have chosen for your servant, for Isaac. By her I will know that you have shown loyal love to my master."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And it happened that before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah--who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham--came out, and her jar was on her shoulder.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Now the girl was very pleasing in appearance. She was a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the servant ran to meet her. And he said, "Please, let me drink a little of the water from your jar."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 19
c3content:
WhenOr "And" she finished giving him a drink she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they finish drinking."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water. And she drew water for all his camels.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And it happened that as the camels finished drinking the man took a gold ring of a half shekel in weight and two bracelets for her arms, ten shekels in weight,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 23
c3content:
and said, "Please tell me, whose daughter are you? Is there a place at the house of your father for us to spend the night?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then she said to him, "We have both straw and fodder in abundance, as well as a place to spend the night."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheldOr "abandoned" his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I was on the way and Yahweh led me to the house of my master's brother."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And when he saw the ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, who said, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing with the camels at the spring.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And he said, "Come, O blessed one of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? Now I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And the man came to the house and unloaded the camels. And he gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 33
c3content:
{And food was placed before him}Literally "And it was placed before him" to eat. And he said, "I will not eat until {I have told my errand}."Literally "I have spoken my word" And he said, "Speak."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Now Yahweh has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. He has given to him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And heThat is, Abraham has given to him all that he has.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And my master made me swear, saying, 'Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I am living.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 38
c3content:
But you shall go to the house of my father, and to my family, and you shall take a wife for my son.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I have walked, shall send his angel with you and will make your journey successful. And you shall take a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Then you shall be released from my oath, when you come to my family. And if they will not give a woman to you, then you will be released from my oath.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, {if you would please make my journey successful},Literally "if there is you making successful my journey" upon which I am going.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw water and to whom I say, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar,"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 44
c3content:
let her say to me, "Drink; I will also draw water for your camels," she is the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for the son of my master.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 45
c3content:
I had not yet finished speaking to myselfOr "to my heart" when, behold, Rebekah was coming out withOr "and" her jar on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And she hastened and let down her jar {from her shoulder}Literally "from upon her" and said, 'Drink, and I will give a drink to your camels also.' Then I drank and she gave a drink to the camels also.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 47
c3content:
Then I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' And I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 48
c3content:
And I knelt down and worshiped Yahweh, and I praised Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right way, to take the daughter of the brother of my master for his son.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 49
c3content:
So now, {if you are going to deal loyally and truly}Literally "if there is you doing loyal love and faithfulness" with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left."An idiom for "so that I might know what to do"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 50
c3content:
Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and they said, "The matter has gone out from Yahweh; we are not able to speak bad or good to you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 51
c3content:
Here is Rebekah before you. Take her and go; let her be a wife for the son of your master as Yahweh has spoken."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 52
c3content:
And it happened that when the servant of Abraham heard their words he bowed down to the ground to Yahweh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 53
c3content:
And the servant brought out silver jewelry and gold jewelry, and garments, and he gave them to Rebekah. And he gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 54
c3content:
And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. And they got up in the morning, and he said, "Let me go to my master."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 55
c3content:
And her brother and her mother said, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; after that she may go."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 56
c3content:
And he said to them, "Do not delay me. Now, Yahweh has made my journey successful. Let me go. I must go to my master."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 60
c3content:
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "You are our sister; may you become countless thousands; and may your offspring take possession of the gate of his enemies."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 61
c3content:
And Rebekah and her maidservants arose, and they mounted the camels and {followed}Literally "went after" the man. And the servant took Rebekah and left. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 62
c3content:
Now Isaac was coming from the direction of Beer-Lahai-Roi. And he was living in the land of the Negev.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 63
c3content:
And Isaac went out to meditate in the field {early in the evening},Literally "at the turning of evening" and he lifted up his eyes and saw--behold, camels were coming.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 65
c3content:
And she said to the servant, "Who is this man walking around in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "That is my master." And she took herOr "the" veil and covered herself.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 24
c2verse: 67
c3content:
And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after the death of his mother. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All of these were the children of Keturah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 6
c3content:
But to the sons of Abraham's concubines Abraham gave gifts. And while he was still living he sent them away eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the east.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now these are the days of the years of {the life of Abraham}:Literally "the years of the life of Abraham which he lived" one hundred and seventy-five years.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, that was east of Mamre,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 10
c3content:
the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites.Or "sons of Heth" There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And it happened that after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-Lahai-Roi. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now these are the generationsOr "family records" of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, that Hagar the Egyptian, the maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their family records. The firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 16
c3content:
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments--12 leaders according to their tribes.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now these are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. And he passed away and died, and was gathered to his people.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 18
c3content:
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which was oppositeOr "upon the face of" Egypt, going toward Asshur, opposite;Or "upon the face of" he {settled}Literally "fell" oppositeOr "upon the face of" all his brothers. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now these are the generationsOr "family records" of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Isaac was {forty years old}Literally "a son of forty years" when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "{If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant}?"Literally "if so, why this I?" And she went to inquire of Yahweh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples {from birth}Literally "from your bowels" shall be divided. And {one people shall be stronger than the other}.Literally "people than people shall be stronger" And the elder shall serve the younger."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And the first came out red, all {his body}Literally "of him" was like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac {was sixty years old}Literally "a son of sixty years" at their birth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the boys grew up. And Esau was a skilledOr "knowing" (knowledgeable) hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Isaac loved Esau because {he could eat of his game},Literally "game in his mouth" but Rebekah loved Jacob.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And Esau said to Jacob, "Give me {some of that red stuff}Literally "some of the red, this red" to gulp down, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom).


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then Jacob said, "Swear to me {first}."Literally "as the day" And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 25
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Then Jacob gave Esau bread, and thick lentil stew, and he ate and drank. Then he got up and went away. So Esau despised his birthright. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I will show to you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Dwell as an alien in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham you father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your descendants all these lands. And all nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 5
c3content:
because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 7
c3content:
When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinkingOr "lest" "the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for {she was beautiful}."Literally "good of appearance"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it happened that, {when he had been there a long time},Literally "when the days there were long to him" Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw--behold--Isaac was fondling Rebekah his wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Abimelech called IsaacOr "to Isaac" and said, "Surely she is your wife. Now why did you say 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, "The one who touches this man or his wife shall certainly die." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the man {became wealthier and wealthier}Literally "became great and went, going and became great" until he was exceedingly wealthy.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gaveOr "called" to them {the same names}Literally "names as names" which his father had givenOr "called" them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours." And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. And he called its name Rehoboth, and said, "Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And he built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. And he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Isaac dug a well there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And they said, "We see clearly that Yahweh has been with you, so we thoughtOr "said" let there be an oath between us--between us and you--and let us {make}Literally "cut" a covenant with you


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 29
c3content:
that you may not do us harm just as we have not touched you, but have only done good to you and sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by Yahweh."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other,Or "to his brother" and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And it happened that on that same day the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug. And they said, "We have found water!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 26
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And when Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that when Isaac was old and {his eyesight was weak},Literally "his eyes were weak from seeing" he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And heThat is, Esau said to him, "Here I am."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 4
c3content:
Then make for me tasty food like I love, and bring it to me. And I will eat it so that IOr "my soul" can bless you before I die. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and when Esau went to the field to hunt wild game to bring back,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 7
c3content:
'Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat it and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them as tasty food for your father, just as he likes.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes as a mocker, and he will bring upon me a curse and not a blessing."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice--go and get them for me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Rebekah took some of her older son Esau's best garments that were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that youOr "your soul" may bless me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Isaac said to his son, "{How}Literally "what is this?" did you find it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God {caused me to find it}."Literally "made it to happen before me"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please, come near and let me feel you, my son. {Are you really}Literally "are you this one?" my son Esau or not?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then he said, "Bring it near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that IOr "my soul" may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And he drew near and kissed him. And heThat is, Isaac smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 28
c3content:
May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, {immediately after}Literally "it was only" Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came back from his hunting.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 31
c3content:
He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that youOr "your soul" may bless me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then Isaac {trembled violently}.Literally "trembled a great trembling unto exceeding" Then he said, "Who then was he that hunted wild game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 34
c3content:
When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, "Bless me as well, my father!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then he said, "{Isn't that why he is named Jacob}?Literally "that his name is called Jacob?" He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 40
c3content:
But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be that when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 41
c3content:
Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart,That is, "to himself" "The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 42
c3content:
But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, "Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself concerning you, intending to kill you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 45
c3content:
until the anger of your brother turns from you and he has forgotten what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose the two of you in one day?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 27
c2verse: 46
c3content:
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.Or "daughters of the Hittites" If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite womenOr "daughters of the Hittites" like these, from the {native women},Literally "daughters of the land" {what am I living for}?"Literally "What is life to me?" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he instructed him and said to him, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now, may El-ShaddaiOften translated "God Almighty" bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And may he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraham."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, andOr "when" he blessed him and instructed him, saying, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 9
c3content:
then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth, as a wife, in addition to the wives he had. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And he arrived at a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and slept at that place.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set on the earth, and its top touched the heavens. And behold, angels of God were going up and going down on it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And behold, Yahweh was standing beside him,Or "above it" and he said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you were sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Now behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised to you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely Yahweh {is indeed}Literally "there is" in this place and I did not know!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! {This is nothing else than the house of God},Literally "there is not this but the house of God" and this is the gate of heaven!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a stone pillar, and poured oil on top of it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Jacob made a vowOr "vowed a vow" saying, "If God will be with me and protect me on this way that I am going, and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 28
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And this stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be the house of God, and of all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Jacob {continued his journey}Literally "lifted up his feet" and went to the land of the Easterners.Or "children of the east"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the field, and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. And the stone on the mouth of the well was large.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well. And they watered the sheep and returned the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he said to them, "{Is he well}?"Literally "Is it well for him?" And they said, "He is well. Now look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he said, "Look, it is still {broad daylight};Literally "high day" it is not the time for the livestock to be gathered. Give water to the sheep and go, pasture them."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And they said, "We are not able, until all the flocks are gathered. Then the stone is rolled away from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 9
c3content:
While he was speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which belonged to her father, for she was pasturing them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And it happened that, when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob drew near and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Jacob told Rachel that he was the relative of her father, and that he was the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it happened that when Laban heard the message about Jacob, the son of his sister, he ran to meet him. And he embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage should be."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may go in to her, for {my time}Literally "my days" is completed."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And it happened that in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And it happened that in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Now why did you deceive me?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Laban said, "{It is not the custom}Literally "it is not thus done" in our country to give the younger before the firstborn.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Complete the week of this one,Leah; the wedding feast would last one week then I will also give you the other, {on the condition that you will work for me}Literally "with respect to the work that you will work with me yet" another seven years."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this one,That is, Leah then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I am unloved. Now my husband will love me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "It is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also." And she called his name Simeon.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons." Therefore, she called his name Levi.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 29
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased bearing children. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, "Give me children--if not, I will die!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Jacob {became angry}Literally "became hot of nose" with Rachel. And he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then she said, "Here is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children {as my surrogate}.Literally "upon my knees" Then I will even {have children}Literally "be built up" by her."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Rachel said, "I have struggled a mighty struggle with my sister and have prevailed." And she called his name Naphtali.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 9
c3content:
When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And she said to her, "Is your taking my husband such a small thing that you will also take the mandrakes of my son?" Then Rachel said, "Then he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him. And she said, "Come in to me, for {I have hired}Literally "I have fully paid for" you with my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then Leah said, "God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And it happened that as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my place and my land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Give me my wives and my children for which I have served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my service that I have rendered to you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 27
c3content:
But Laban said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then he said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me.I.e., "How well they have done under my care"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 30
c3content:
For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you {wherever I turned}.Literally "to my foot" So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "Do not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing all the speckled and spotted sheep from them, along withOr "and" every dark-colored sheep among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. ThatOr "it" shall be my wages.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And my righteousness will answer for me {later}Literally "on the day tomorrow" when you come concerning my wages before you. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the sheep shall be stolen if it is with me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 35
c3content:
But that day heThat is, Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and {put them in the charge of his sons}.Literally "he gave into the hands of his sons"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And he put a journey of three days between him and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the remainder of Laban's flock.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which was on the branches.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs and in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban's flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And whenever any of the stronger of the flocks were in heat, Jacob put the branches {in full view}Literally "before the eyes of" of the flock in the troughs that they might mate among the branches.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 42
c3content:
But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put them there. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 30
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And the man became {exceedingly}Literally "very, very" rich and had large flocks, female slaves, male slaves, camels, and donkeys. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now heThat is, Jacob heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, "Jacob has taken all that our father has," and "From that which was our father's he has gained all this wealth."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, {it was not like it had been in the past}.Literally "there was not with him like yesterday or the day before"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your ancestorsOr "fathers" and to your family, and I will be with you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and he said to them, "Look, I see the face of your father, that {it is not like it has been toward me in the past}.Literally "it is not to me like yesterday or the day before" But the God of my father is with me.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 7
c3content:
and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 8
c3content:
If thus he said, 'Speckled shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore speckled. And if he said, 'Streaked shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore streaked.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now it happened that at the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and dappled.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see--all the rams mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 13
c3content:
I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 16
c3content:
For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idolsHebrew teraphim that belonged to her father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Jacob {tricked}Literally "stole the heart of" Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the EuphratesOr "the river" and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "{Take care}Literally "watch to yourself" that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done that you {tricked me}Literally "stole my heart" and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Why did you hide your intention to flee and {trick me},Literally "steal my heart" and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And why did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsonsOr "sons" and my daughters goodbye? Now you have behaved foolishly by doing this.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 29
c3content:
{It is in my power}Literally "there is power in my hand" to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, '{Take care}Literally "watch to yourself" from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, but why did you steal my gods?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought, 'Lest you take your daughters from me by force.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 32
c3content:
But with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen now identify what is with me that is yours and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find his gods. And he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And she said to her father, "Let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women is with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin that you pursued after me?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 37
c3content:
For you have searched all my possessions and what did you find among all the possessions of my household? Set it before my kinsmen and your kinsmen that they may decide between the two of us!


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 38
c3content:
These twenty years I was with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 39
c3content:
I brought no mangled carcass to you--I bore its loss. From my hand you sought it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 40
c3content:
There I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 41
c3content:
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 42
c3content:
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters and the grandsonsOr "sons" are my grandsons,Or "sons" and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see, it is mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 44
c3content:
So now, come, let us {make}Literally "cut" a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 46
c3content:
And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 47
c3content:
And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,Aramaic for "the heap of witness" but Jacob called it Galeed.Hebrew for "the heap of witness"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 48
c3content:
Then Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today." Therefore its name is called Galeed,Hebrew for "the heap of witness"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 49
c3content:
and Mizpah,Hebrew for "watchpost" because he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you when {we are out of sight of each other}.Literally "each from his neighbor is concealed"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 50
c3content:
If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see--God is a witness between me and you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 51
c3content:
And Laban said to Jacob, "See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 52
c3content:
This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 53
c3content:
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their fatherThat is, Terah judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 54
c3content:
And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal.Or "food, bread" And they ate the mealOr "food, bread" and spent the night on the hill.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 31
c2verse: 55
c3content:
Genesis 31:55-32:32 in the English Bible is 32:1-33 in the Hebrew Bible And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsonsOr "sons" and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And when he saw them, Jacob said, "This is the camp of God!" And he called the name of that place Mahanaim. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And he instructed them, saying, "Thus you must say to my lord, to Esau, 'Thus says your servant Jacob, I have dwelled as an alien with Laban, and I have remained there until now.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And I have acquired cattle, male donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And the messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that were with him into two companies.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And he thought, "If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be able to escape."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 10
c3content:
{I am not worthy}Literally "I am small" of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shownOr "done" your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now you yourself said, 'I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring as the sand of the sea that cannot be counted for abundance.'" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he lodged there that night. Then he took {from what he had with him}Literally "from that which was going from his hand" a gift for Esau his brother:


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 15
c3content:
thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he put them under the hand of his servants, {herd by herd},Literally "every herd by its own" and said to his servants, "Cross on ahead before me, and put some distance {between herds}.Literally "between a herd and between a herd"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he instructed the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother comes upon you and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you and where are you going? To whom do these animals belong ahead of you?'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Then you must say, 'To your servant, to Jacob. It is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he is also coming after us.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he also instructed the second servant and the third, and everyone else who was behind the herds, saying, "You must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "{Let me appease him}Literally "let me cover his face" with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will {show me favor}."Literally "lift up my face"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 22
c3content:
That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And when heThat is, the man saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then heThat is, the man said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,"Israel" means "he struggles with God," or "God struggles" for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this--for my name?" And he blessed him there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel which means "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 32
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Therefore the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that is upon the socket of the hip unto this day, because he struck the socket of the thigh of Jacob at the sinew of the sciatic nerve. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau was coming and four hundred men were with him. And heThat is, Jacob divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And he put the female slaves and their children first, then Leah and her children next, then Rachel with Joseph last.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came to his brother.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Then Leah and her children drew near and bowed down, and afterward Joseph and Rachel drew near and they bowed down.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And heThat is, Esau said, "{What do you mean by}Literally "What to you?" all this company that I have met?" Then he said, "To find favor in the eyes of my lord."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Esau said, "{I have enough}Literally "There is to me abundance" my brother; {keep what you have}."Literally "let what is to you be to you"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, you must take my gift from my hand, for then I have seen your face which is like seeing the face of God, and you have received me.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Please take my gift which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me, and because {I have enough}."Literally "There is to me abundance" And he urged him, so he took it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and the flocks and the cattle which are nursing are a concern to me. Now if they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the paceOr "foot" of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the paceOr "foot" of the children until I come to my lord in Seir."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "{What need is there}?Literally "What is this?" Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But Jacob traveled on to Succoth, and he built for himself a house, and he made shelters for his livestock. Therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem which is in the land of Canaan, {on his way}Literally "at his coming" from Paddan-Aram. And he camped before the city.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 33
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And he bought a piece of land where he pitched his tent for one hundred pieces of moneyHebrew kesitah from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and raped her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke {tenderly}Literally "to the heart" to the girl.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were distressed and very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations with the daughter of Jacob--{something that}Literally "and thus" should not be done.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Hamor spoke with them saying, "Shechem my son {is in love with}Literally "his soul longs for" your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire property in it."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will do.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{Make the bride price and gift as high as you like};Literally "Increase upon me very bride price and gift" I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace for us.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Only on this condition will we give consent to you; if you will become like us--every male among you to be circumcised.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he wanted the daughter of Jacob. Now he was the most honored of his father's house.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 21
c3content:
"These men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and let them trade in it. Now, behold, the land is {broad enough for them}.Literally "broad on sides before them" Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give our daughters to them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Only on this condition will they give consent to us, to live with us and to become one family--when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And all those who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem. Every male was circumcised, all those who went out of the gate of his city.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 26
c3content:
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 27
c3content:
The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 29
c3content:
They captured and plundered all that was in the houses--all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 34
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed--I and my household!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from before Esau your brother."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the ornamental rings that were in their ears. And Jacob buried them under the oak which was near Shechem.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then they set out on their journey, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, so that they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Jacob came to Luz which was in the land of Canaan (that is Bethel), he and all the people that were with him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he built an altar there and called the place El-Bethel, for there God had appeared to him when he fled before his brother.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died. And she was buried below Bethel, under the oak. And its name was called Allon-Bacuth."The Oak of Weeping"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Then his name was called Israel.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And God said to him, "I am El-Shaddai.Possibly "God Almighty," but more likely "God of the Wilderness" Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assemblage of nations shall be from you, and kings shall go out from your loins.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And as for the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I will give it to you. And to your descendants after you I will give the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Jacob set up a pillar at the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering upon it, and poured oil on it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then they journeyed from Bethel. And {when they were still some distance}Literally "there was still the stretch of land" from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And {when her labor was the most difficult}Literally "at her distress at giving birth" the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid {for you have another son}."Literally "for this one also to you is a son"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And it happened that when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni."Son of my sorrow" But his father called him Benjamin."Son of the right hand"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Jacob erected a pillar at her burial site. That is the pillar of the burial site of Rachel unto this day.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard about it. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The sons of Leah: The firstborn of Jacob was Reuben. Then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, or Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac dwelled as aliens.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 35
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, daughter of Elon, the Hittite, and Oholibamah, daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the persons of his household, and his sheep and goats, and all his cattle, and all the goods that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from his brother Jacob.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 7
c3content:
For their possessions were {too many to live together},Literally "much from living together" so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 10
c3content:
These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 12
c3content:
(Now Timnah was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau. And she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, the wife of Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Now these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, the wife of Esau: She bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 15
c3content:
These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs of Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Now these are the sons Reuel, the son of Esau: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Now these are the sons of Oholibamah, the wife of Esau: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs born of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the wife of Esau.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Now these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah--he is Anah who found the hot springs in the desert while he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And Husham died, and Hadad, son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the fieldOr "country" of Moab reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And Baal-Hanan the son of Acbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pau, and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 40
c3content:
Now these are the names of the chiefs of Esau according to their families, according to their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 36
c2verse: 43
c3content:
Magdiel, and Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom) according to their settlements in the land of their possession. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 2
c3content:
These are the generationsOr "family records" of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he was a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleevesOr "of many colors" for him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers. And {they hated him even more}.Literally "they added still to hate him"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Now behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field and, behold, my sheaf stood up and it remained standing. Then behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And {they hated him even more}Literally "they added still to hate him" on account of his dream and because of his words.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them." And he said, "Here I am."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then he said to him, "Go now, see {if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock},Literally "see the peace of your brothers and the peace of the flock" then return word to me." And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And a man found him, and behold, heThat is, Joseph was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, "What do you seek?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him in one of the pits. Then we will say a wild animal devoured him. Then we will see what his dreams become."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him"--so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And it happened that as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves,Or "of many colors" that was upon him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then they sat down to eat some food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices {on the way}Literally "going to bring down" to Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Then Midianite traders passed by. And theyThat is, the brothers drew Joseph up and brought him up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And he returned to his brothers and said, "The boy {is gone}!Literally "is not" Now I, {what can I do}?"Literally "where am I going?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Then they sent the robe with long sleevesOr "of many colors" and they brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it. Is it the robe of your son or not?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And he recognized it and said, "The robe of my son! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph is surely torn to pieces!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 37
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name was Shua. And he took her and went in to her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And heThat is, Judah was in Chezib when she bore him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to the wife of your brother and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 9
c3content:
But Onan knew that the offspring would not be for him, so whenever he went in to the wife of his brother he would waste it on the groundMeaning he would spill his semen on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Stay a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up," for {he feared he would also die}Literally "he thought lest he also will die" like his brother. So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 12
c3content:
{And in the course of time}Literally "And the days increased" the daughter of Shua, the wife of Judah, died. When Judah was consoled he went up to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite, to Timnah.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it was told to Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 14
c3content:
So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered herself with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which is on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give to me that you may come in to me?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he said, "I will send a kid from the goats of the flock." And she said, "Only if you give a pledge until you send it."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And he said, "What is the pledge that I must give to you?" And she said, "your seal, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." And he gave them to her and went in to her. And she conceived by him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And she arose and left, and she removed her veil from herself and put on the garments of her widowhood.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Judah sent the kid from the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he could not find her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is that cult prostitute that was at Eynayim by the roadside?" And they said, "There is no cult prostitute here."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then he returned to Judah and said, "I could not find her. Morever, the men of the place said, 'There is no cult prostitute here.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Judah said, "Let her take them for herself, lest we be {laughed at}.Literally "as contempt" Behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And {about three months later}Literally "it happened about three months" it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the whore, and now, behold, she has conceived by prostitution." And Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 25
c3content:
She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these belong I have conceived." And she said, "Now discernOr "examine" to whom these belong: the seal and cord and the staff."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Then Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know"Know" is a euphemism for "have sexual relations with" her again.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And it happened that at her labor one child put out a hand. And the midwife took it and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This one came out first."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then his hand drew back and, behold, his brother came out, and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" And she called his name Perez.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 38
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And afterward his brother who had the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, commander of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And his master observed that Yahweh was with him, and everything that was in his hand to do Yahweh made successful.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Joseph found favor in his eyes and he served him. Then he appointed himThat is, Joseph over his house and all that he owned he put into his hand.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And it happened that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph. And the blessing of Yahweh was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and {he did not worry about anything}Literally "he did not know with him anything" except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was {well built and handsome}.Literally "beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And it happened that after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master {does not worry about}Literally "does not know with me" what is in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 9
c3content:
He has no greater authority in this house than me, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, since you are his wife. Now how could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And it happened that as she spoke to Joseph {day after day},Literally "day, day" he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{But one particular day}Literally "and it happened as this day" he came into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house were there in the house,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 12
c3content:
she seized him by his garment and said, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and he went outside.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 14
c3content:
she called to the men of her house and said to them, "Look! HeThat is, Potiphar brought a Hebrew man to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And when he heard me, that I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled, and he went outside."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And it happened that as I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "{This is what your servant did to me},"Literally "according to these words your servant did to me" {he became very angry}.Literally "his nostrils became hot"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Joseph's master took him and put him into prison, the place that the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed loyal love to him, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the chief of the prison put all the prisoners that were in the prison into the hand of Joseph. And everything that was done there, he was the one who did it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 39
c2verse: 23
c3content:
The chief of the prison {did not worry about}Literally "did not pay heed to" anything in hisThat is, Joseph's hand, since Yahweh was with him. And whatever he did Yahweh made it successful. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker did wrong against their lord, against the king of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, into the prison where Joseph was confined.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. And they were in custody {many days}.Literally "days"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he asked the court officials of Pharaoh that were with him in the custody of his master's house, "Why are your faces sad today?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And they said to him, "We each dreamed a dream, but there is no one to interpret it." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and he said to him, "In my dream, now behold, there was a vine before me,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 10
c3content:
and on the vine were three branches. And as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters of grapes grew ripe.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into the cup of Pharaoh. Then I placed the cup into the hand of Pharaoh."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 13
c3content:
In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will restore you to your office. And you shall put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand as was formerly the custom, when you were his cupbearer.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 14
c3content:
But remember me when it goes well with you, and please may you show kindness with respect to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For I was surely kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in this pit."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said to Joseph, "I also dreamed. In my dream, now behold, there were three baskets of bread upon my head.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And in the upper basket were all sorts of baked foods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket upon my head."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 19
c3content:
In three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and hang you on a pole,Or "tree" and the birds will eat your flesh from you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And it happened that on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 40
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing position. And he placed the cup in the hand of Pharaoh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that after {two full years}Literally "two years of days" Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And behold, seven cows, {well built and fat},Literally "beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh" were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, {ugly and gaunt},Literally "Poor of appearance and thin of flesh" and they stood beside thoseOr "the" cows on the bank of the Nile.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the {ugly and gaunt}Literally "Poor of appearance and thin of flesh" cows ate the seven {well built and fat}Literally "beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh" cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were coming out of one stalk.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven plump and full ears of grain. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And it happened that in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all of the magiciansOr "soothsayer priests" of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh told his dream to them. But {they had no interpretation}Literally "there was no interpretation with them" for Pharaoh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the house of the chief of the guard.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And we dreamed a dream one night, I and he, {each with a dream that had a meaning}.Literally "each according to his dream we dreamed"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And there with us was a young man, a Hebrew servant of the chief of the guard, and we told him the dream, and he interpreted our dreams for us, each according to his dream he interpreted.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And it happened just as he interpreted to us, so it was. HeThat is, Pharaoh restored me to my office, and himThat is, the chief baker heThat is, Pharaoh hanged."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 14
c3content:
Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the prison. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I dreamed a dream, but there is none to interpret it. Now, I have heard concerning you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, "{It is not in my power};Literally "besides me" God will answer concerning the well-being of Pharaoh."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and behold, seven cows, {well built and fat},Literally "beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh" were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, very {ugly and gaunt}Literally "Poor of appearance and thin of flesh"--never have I seen any as them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But when they went into their belliesOr "inner parts" it could not be known that they went into their bellies,Or "inner parts" for their appearance was as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And behold, seven withered ears of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven good ears of grain. And I told the magicians,Or "soothsayer priests" but there was none to explain it to me."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The seven good cows, they are seven years, and the seven good ears of grain, they are seven years. The dreams are one.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the seven thin and ugly cows coming up after them, they are seven years, and the seven empty ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, they are also seven years of famine.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will consume the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Abundance in the land will not be known because of the famine {that follows},Literally "that thus afterwards" for it will be very heavy.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 32
c3content:
Now concerning the repetition of the dream twice to Pharaoh, it is because the matter is established by God, and God will do it quickly.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Now then, let Pharaoh select a man who is discerning and wise, and let him set him over the land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint supervisors over the land, and let him take one-fifth from the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 35
c3content:
Then let them gather all the food of these coming good years and let them pile up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 36
c3content:
Then the food shall be as a deposit for the land for the seven years of the famine that will be in the land of Egypt, that the land will not perish on account of the famine." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 39
c3content:
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all of this known to you there is no one as discerning and wise as you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 40
c3content:
You shall be over my house, and to your wordOr "mouth" all my people shall submit. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 42
c3content:
Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his finger and put it on the finger of Joseph. And he clothed him with garments of fine linen, and he put a chain of gold around his neck.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 43
c3content:
And he had him ride in his second chariot. And they cried out before him, "Kneel!" And Pharaoh set him over all the land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 44
c3content:
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your consent no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 45
c3content:
And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph Zaphenath-paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 46
c3content:
Now Joseph {was thirty years old}Literally "a son of thirty years" when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled through the whole land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 48
c3content:
And he gathered all the food of the seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt. And he stored the food in the cities. The food of the field that surrounded each city he stored in its midst.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 49
c3content:
And Joseph piled up grain like the sand of the sea in great abundance until he stopped counting it, for {it could not be counted}.Literally "there was no number"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 51
c3content:
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for he said, "God has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father's house."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 52
c3content:
And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 54
c3content:
And the seven years of famine began to come as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all of the countries, but in the land of Egypt there was food.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 55
c3content:
And when all the land of Egypt was hungry the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. And Pharaoh said to all the land of Egypt, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you, you must do."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 41
c2verse: 56
c3content:
And the famine was over the whole land, and Joseph opened all the storehousesHebrew "that which was in them" and sold food to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 1
c3content:
When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Then he said, "Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for {he feared harm would come to him}.Literally "he thought, lest harm encounter him"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those other people who went as well, for there was famine in the land of Canaan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold food to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, "From where have you come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed concerning them, and he said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Then they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, but behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 15
c3content:
By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison so that your words might be tested to see if there is truth with you. And if not, by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 19
c3content:
If you are honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison {where you are now being kept},Literally "in the house of your custody" but the rest of you go, carry grain for the famine for your households.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 20
c3content:
You must bring your youngest brother to me, and then your words will be confirmed and you will not die." And they did so.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 21
c3content:
Then each said to his brother, "Surely we are guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not say to you, do not sin against the boy? But you did not listen, and now, behold, his blood has been sought."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them and tied him up in front of them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to return their money to each sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And one of them later opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money--behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And he said to his brothers, "My money was returned and moreover, behold, it is in my sack!" Then {their hearts failed them}Literally "their heart went out" and each of them trembled and said, "What is this God has done to us?" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything that had happened to them, saying,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 30
c3content:
"The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying out the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 32
c3content:
We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is with our father now in the land of Canaan.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 33
c3content:
Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest. Leave one brother with me, and take food for the famine in your households and go.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies but you are honest. And I will give your brother back to you, and you will trade in the land.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And it happened that when they emptied their sacks, behold, each one's pouch of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me--Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take! All of this is against me!


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 37
c3content:
Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hand and I myself will return him to you."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 42
c2verse: 38
c3content:
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. If harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it happened that as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Judah said to him, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 4
c3content:
{If you will send}Literally "if there is a sending" our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 5
c3content:
but {if you will not send}Literally "if there is no sending" him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they said, "The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, 'Bring down your brother'?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and let us arise and go, so that we will live and not die--you, we, and our children.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 9
c3content:
I myself will be surety for him. You may seek him from my hand. If I do not bring him back to you and present him before you, then I will stand guilty before you forever.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so then do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, and pistachios and almonds.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And take double the money in your hands. Take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And may El-ShaddaiOften translated "God Almighty" grant you compassion before the man that he may release your other brother to you and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 15
c3content:
So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 16
c3content:
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the one who was over his household, "Bring the men into the house and slaughter and prepare an animal, for the men shall eat with me at noon."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the men were afraid when they were brought into the house of Joseph. And they said "We were brought here on account of the money that was returned to our sacks the first time, that he might attack us and fall upon us to take us as slaves with our donkeys."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 19
c3content:
So they approached the man who was over Joseph's house and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 21
c3content:
but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one's money was in the mouth of his sack--our money in its full weight--so we have returned with it in our hands.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Now, other money we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And he said, "Peace to you; do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have given you a treasure in your sacks; your money came to me." And he brought Simeon out to them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then the man brought the men into Joseph's house and he gave them water and washed their feet, and gave fodder to their donkeys.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then they laid outOr "prepared" the gift until Joseph came at noon, for they had heard that they were to eat food there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And when Joseph came into the house they brought the gift that was in their hand into the house to him, and they bowed down before him to the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And {he greeted them}Literally "he asked peace for them" and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother, and said, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you told me?" And he continued,Or "said" "God be gracious to you, my son."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 30
c3content:
Then Joseph {hurried away},Literally "made haste" {being overcome with emotion}Literally "his compassion boiled up" toward his brother, and sought for a place to cry. Then he went into a room and wept there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And they served himThat is, Joseph by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, for Egyptians {could not dine}Literally "were not able to eat food" with Hebrews, because that was a detestable thing to Egyptians.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And they were seated before him from the firstborn according to his birthright to the youngest according to his youth. And the men {looked at one another}Literally "each to his companion" amazed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 43
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And portions were served to them from {his table},Literally "his presence" and the portion of Benjamin was five times greater than the portion of any of them. And they drank and became drunk with him. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then he commanded the one who was over his household, saying, "Fill the sacks of the men with food as much as they are able to carry, and put each one's money in the mouth of his sack.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And my cup--the cup of silver--you shall put into the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and the money for his grain. And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had commanded.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 4
c3content:
They went out of the city, and had not gone far when Joseph said to the one who was over his house, "Arise! Pursue after the men and overtake them. Then you shall say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil in what you have done.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they said to him, "Why has my lord spoken according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Behold, the money that we found in the mouth of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan. Now why would we steal silver or gold from the house of my lord?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Whoever is found with it from among your servants shall die. And moreover, we will become slaves to my lord."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Then he said, "Now also according to your words, thus will it be. He who is found with it shall be my slave, but you shall be innocent."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he searched, beginning with the oldest and finishing with the youngest. And the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Judah and his brothers came to the house of Joseph--now he was still there--they fell before him to the ground.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Then Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who is like me surely practices divination?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? Now how can we show ourselves innocent? God has found the guilt of your servants! Behold, we are slaves to my lord, both we and also he in whose hand the cup was found."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But he said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found, he will become my slave. But as for you, go up in peace to your father."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 18
c3content:
But Judah drew near to him and said, "Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and {let not your anger burn}Literally "let not your nose become hot" against your servant, for {you are like Pharaoh himself}.Literally "like you like Pharaoh"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then heThat is, the father (Jacob/Israel) would die.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 23
c3content:
Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 26
c3content:
then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother is with us.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 28
c3content:
One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he must have been torn to pieces," and I have never seen him since.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 30
c3content:
So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us--now his life is bound up with his life--


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 31
c3content:
it shall happen that when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 32
c3content:
For your servant is pledged as surety for the boy by my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall be culpable to my father forever.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 33
c3content:
So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 44
c2verse: 34
c3content:
For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see}Literally "lest I see" the misery which will find my father." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Joseph was not able to control himself before all who were standing by him. And he cried out, "Make every man go out from me!" So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And {he wept loudly},Literally "he gave his voice with weeping" so that the Egyptians heard it and the household of Pharaoh heard it.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" And his brothers were unable to answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 4
c3content:
So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they drew near. And he said, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry {with yourselves}Literally "in your eyes" that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 6
c3content:
For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, but there will be five more years where there is no plowing or harvest.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And God sent me before you all to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 8
c3content:
So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Hurry, and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 10
c3content:
You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine--lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 12
c3content:
Now behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that {it is I}Literally "it is my mouth" who am speaking to you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And you must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt and all that you have seen. Now hurry and bring my father here."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Then the report was heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." And it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers: 'Do this--load your donkeys and go back to the land of Canaan,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 18
c3content:
and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And you Joseph, are commanded to say this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come!


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 20
c3content:
{Do not worry}Literally "let not your eyes be troubled" about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons at the word of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 22
c3content:
To each and to all of them he gave sets of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothing.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And to his father he sent {as follows}:Literally "according to this" ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father for the journey.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 24
c3content:
Then he sent his brothers away, and when they departed he said to them, "Do not be agitated on the journey."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And they spoke to him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart {went numb},Or "became cold" because he did not believe him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 45
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Then they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them. And when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 1
c3content:
So Israel journeyed with all that he had, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then he said, "I am the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 4
c3content:
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 5
c3content:
So Jacob arose from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to transport him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 7
c3content:
his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 12
c3content:
The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 15
c3content:
These are the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters were thirty-three persons in all.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 17
c3content:
The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 18
c3content:
There are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob--sixteen persons.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 25
c3content:
These are the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob--seven persons in all.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 26
c3content:
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt {who were his descendants},Literally "those going out of his loins" not including the wives of the sons of Jacob were sixty-six persons in all.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 28
c3content:
HeThat is, Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to appear before himThat is, Jacob in Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell upon his neck and wept upon his neck a long time.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And the men are shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 46
c2verse: 34
c3content:
Then you must say, 'You servants are men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,'Or "fathers" so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is a detestable thing to Egyptians." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 1
c3content:
So Joseph went and reported to Pharaoh. And he said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan. Now they are here in the land of Goshen."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."Or "fathers"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servant's flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 6
c3content:
The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and if you know there is among them men of ability, then appoint them overseers of my own livestock."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, "{How old are you}?"Literally "How many are the days of the years of your life?"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestorsOr "fathers" in the days of their sojourning."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Joseph said, "Give your livestock and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock if your money is used up."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 17
c3content:
So they brought their herds to Joseph, and Joseph gave food to them in exchange for horses, their flocks, and their cattle and donkeys. And he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 18
c3content:
When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, "We cannot hide from my lord that our money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 19
c3content:
Why should we die in front of you, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, then we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Then give us seed and we shall live and not die, and the land will not become desolate."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 20
c3content:
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 21
c3content:
As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for there was an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they {lived on}Literally "ate" the allotment that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Joseph said to the people, "Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you so you can sow the land.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And it shall happen that at the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh and four-fifths shall be yours, as seed for the field and for your food and for those who are in your households, and as food for your little ones."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And they said, "You have saved our lives. If we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So Joseph made it a statute unto this day concerning the land of Egypt: one fifth to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 27
c3content:
So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 29
c3content:
When {the time of Israel's death drew near},Literally "the days of Israel drew near to die" he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might vow to deal kindlyOr "loyal love" and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 30
c3content:
but let me lie with my ancestors.Or "fathers" Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site." And he said, "I will do according to your word."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 47
c2verse: 31
c3content:
Then he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And it happened that after these things, it was said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is ill." And he took his two sons with him, Ephraim and Manasseh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And it was told to Jacob, "Behold, your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel strengthened himself and he sat up in the bed.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Then Jacob said to Joseph, "El-ShaddaiOften translated "God Almighty" appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 4
c3content:
and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and make you numerous, and will make you a company of nations. And I will give this land to your offspring after you as an everlasting possession.'


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon are.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And your children whom you father after them shall be yours. By the name of their brothers they shall be called, with respect to their inheritance.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 7
c3content:
As for me, when I came to Paddan-Aram Rachel died {to my sorrow}Literally "to me" in the land of Canaan on the way when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Then Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons whom God has given me here." And he said, "Please bring them to me that I may bless them."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Now the eyes of Israel were dimOr "heavy" (i.e., his eyelids were heavy; his eyes were closed) on account of old age; he was not able to see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Israel said to Joseph, "I did not expect to see your face and behold, God has also shown me your offspring."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim at his right to the left of Israel, and Manasseh at his left to the right of Israel. And he brought them near to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim (now he was the younger), and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 16
c3content:
The angel who redeemed me from all evil, may he bless the boys. And through them let my name be perpetuated,Or "called" and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 17
c3content:
When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, he was displeased. And he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from the head of Ephraim over to the head of Manasseh.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; because this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But his father refused and said, "I know, my son; I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but his younger brother shall be greater than him, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.Or "fathers"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 48
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And I have given to you one slope of land rather than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites by my sword and with my bow." 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in {days to come}.Literally "the latter days" 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 4
c3content:
UnstableOr "reckless" as water, you shall not excel any longer, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled it. You went up upon my couch!


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 5
c3content:
Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let meOr "my soul" not come into their council.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Let not my personOr "my glory" be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 7
c3content:
Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 8
c3content:
Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him?


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 10
c3content:
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of nations.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 11
c3content:
Binding his donkey to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in the wine and his garment in the blood of grapes.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 13
c3content:
Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 15
c3content:
He saw a resting place that was good, and land that was pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper on the road that bites the heels of a horse, so that its rider falls backward.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 22
c3content:
Joseph is the boughOr "son" of a fruitful vine, a fruitful boughOr "son" by a spring. His branches climb over the wall.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{The archers}Literally "the masters of the bow" fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 24
c3content:
But his bow remained in a steady position; {his arms}Literally "the arms of his hands" were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Because of the God of your father he will help you and by ShaddaiOr "the Almighty" he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 26
c3content:
The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 27
c3content:
Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 28
c3content:
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 29
c3content:
Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestorsOr "fathers" in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 30
c3content:
in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is beforeOr "east of" Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 31
c3content:
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah--


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 49
c2verse: 33
c3content:
When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Forty days {were required for it},Literally "were fulfilled for it" for thus are the days {required for}Literally "fulfilled" embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 4
c3content:
When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 5
c3content:
'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan--there you must bury me." So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.'"


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 7
c3content:
So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him,


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 8
c3content:
with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 10
c3content:
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which was beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, "This is a severe mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite beforeOr "east of" Mamre.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"Thus you must say to Joseph, 'O, please now forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.' So now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 20
c3content:
As for you, you planned evil against me, but God planned it for good, in order to do this--to keep many people alive--as it is today.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 21
c3content:
So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and {spoke kindly}Literally "spoke to their heart" to them. 


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 22
c3content:
So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 25
c3content:
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."


c0book: Gen
c1chapter: 50
c2verse: 26
c3content:
So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his {family}:Literally "house"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And {all those who descended from Jacob}Literally "every soul/individual/life, the ones going out from the loins of Jacob" were seventy individuals,Or "souls," "lives" and Joseph was in Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" are greater and more numerous than us.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 10
c3content:
Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, lest they become many, and when war happens, they also will join our enemies and will fight against us and go up from the land."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their {forced labor},Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor" and they built storage cities for Pharaoh--Pithom and Rameses.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and the Egyptians were afraid because of the presence of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives--of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second was Puah--


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 16
c3content:
and he said, "When you help the Hebrews give birth, you will look upon the pairs of testicles; if he is a son, you will put him to death, and if she is a daughter, she will live."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 17
c3content:
But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, "Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 21
c3content:
{And so}Literally "and he/it was" because the midwives feared God, he gave them {families}.Literally "houses"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 1
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you will throw into the Nile, and every daughter you will let live." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And a man from the {family}Literally "house" of Levi went, and he took {a descendent of Levi}.Literally "daughter of Levi"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the woman conceived, and she gave birth to a son, and she saw him, that he was a fine baby, and she hid him three months.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 3
c3content:
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, while her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman for it and took it


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 6
c3content:
and opened it and saw him--the boy--and it was a lad weeping, and she had compassion for him and said, "This must be from the boys of the Hebrews."Each instance of the implied "she" in verses 5 and 6 is the daughter of Pharaoh


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews who is nursing so that she will nurse the boy for you?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go." And the girl went, and she called the mother of the boy.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And the daughter of Pharaoh said, "Take this boy and nurse him for me, and I myself will give you wages, and the woman took the boy, and she nursed him.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, "Because I drew him out from the water." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and he/it was" in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their {forced labor},Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor" and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, one of his brothers.Or "a Hebrew man from his brothers"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he turned here and there, and he saw no one,Literally "and he saw that there was not a man" and he struck the Egyptian, and he hid him in the sand.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the guilty one, "Why do you strike your neighbor?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And he said, "Who {appointed you as a commander}Literally "put you for a man, a commander" or "placed you for a man, a commander" and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses was afraid, and he said, "Surely the matter has become known."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Pharaoh heard this matter, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh, and he lived in the land of Midian, and he lived at {a certain well}.Literally "the well" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.The Hebrew noun translated "flock" is used here and in verses 17 and 19 collectively for sheep or goats or a mix of the two


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, "{Why have you come so quickly}Literally "why did you hasten coming" today?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And they said, "An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And he said to his daughters, "Where is he? {Why then}Literally "why this" have you left the man? {Call him so that he can eat some food}."Literally "call to or "summon/invite" him and he will eat bread"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, "I am an alien in a foreign land."The word translated "alien" sounds like the first syllable in the name Gershom. The second syllable sounds like the word for "there" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 23
c3content:
{And then}Literally "and he/it was" during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 2
c2verse: 25
c3content:
and God saw the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and God took notice.Or "and God knew" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Moses was a shepherd with the flockThe Hebrew noun translated "flock" in this verse is used collectively for sheep or goats or a mix of the two. of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west of the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, "Moses, Moses." And he said, "Here I am."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And he said, "You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face because he was afraid of looking at God. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" and the HittitesHebrew "Hittite" and the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" and the PerizzitesHebrew "Perizzite" and the HivitesHebrew "Hivite" and the Jebusites.Hebrew "Jebusite"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And now, look, the cry of distress of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" out from Egypt." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 11
c3content:
But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" out from Egypt?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And he said, "Because I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 13
c3content:
But Moses said to God, "Look, if I go to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and I say to them, 'The God of your ancestorsOr "fathers" has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is his name?' then what shall I say to them?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And God said to Moses, "I am that I am." And he said, "So you must say to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" 'I am sent me to you.'" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And God said again to Moses, "So you must say to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.'


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,Or "fathers" appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the CanaanitesHebrew "Canaanite" and the HittitesHebrew "Hittite" and the AmoritesHebrew "Amorite" and the PerizzitesHebrew "Perizzite" and the HivitesHebrew "Hivite" and the Jebusites,Hebrew "Jebusite" to a land flowing with milk and honey." '


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go on a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.' 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 19
c3content:
But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go {unless compelled by a strong hand}.Literally "and not with a strong hand"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And I will stretch out my hand, and I will strike Egypt with all of my wonders that I will do in its midst, and {afterward}Literally "after so" or "after I do so" he will release you.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, {and then}Literally "and he/it will be" when you go, you will not go empty-handed.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 3
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And a woman will ask from her neighbor and from the woman dwelling as an alien in her house for objects of silver and objects of gold and garments, and you will put them on your sons and on your daughters; and you will plunder Egypt." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Moses answered, and he said, "And if they do not believe me and they do not listen to my voice, but they say, 'Yahweh did not appear to you?'"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And he said, "Throw it onto the ground." And he threw it onto the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses fled from it.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out your hand and grasp it by its tail"--" (And he reached out his hand and grabbed it, and it became a staff in his palm.)--


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 5
c3content:
"so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,Or "fathers" appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh said to him again, "Put your hand into the fold of your garment." And he put his hand into the fold of his garment, and he took it out, and, {to his surprise},Literally "look" or "behold" his hand was afflicted with a skin disease, like snow.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And he said, "Return your hand to the fold of your garment." And he returned his hand to the fold of his garment, and he took it out from the fold of his garment, and, {to his surprise},Literally "look" or "behold" it was restored like the rest of his body.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 8
c3content:
"{And}Literally "and he/it will be" if they do not believe you and they will not listen to the voice of the former sign, then they will believe the voice of the latter sign.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 9
c3content:
{And}Literally "and he/it will be" if they also do not believe the second of these signs and they will not listen to your voice, then you must take water from the Nile and pour it onto the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I am not a man of words, {neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking}Literally "also from yesterday also from the day before also from then your speaking" to your servant, because I am heavy of mouth and of tongue."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Yahweh said to him, "Who gave a mouth to humankind, or who makes mute or deaf or sighted or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And he said, "Please, Lord, do send {anyone else whom you wish to send}."Literally "by the hand of someone you will send"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 14
c3content:
{And Yahweh was angry with}Literally "and the nose of Yahweh was hot against" Moses and said, "Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he certainly can speak, and also there he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will rejoice in his heart.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And you will speak to him, and you will put words in his mouth, and I myself will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you must do.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And he will speak for you to the people, {and then}Literally "and he/it will be" he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, "Please let me go, and let me return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and let me see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt because all the men have died who were seeking your life." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see all of the wonders that I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh, and I myself will harden his heart, and he will not release the people.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And I said to you, "Release my son and let him serve me," but you refused to release him. Look, I am about to kill your son, your firstborn.'" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 24
c3content:
{And}Literally "and he/it was" on the way, at the place of overnight lodging, Yahweh encountered him and sought to kill him.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 25
c3content:
But Zipporah took a flint knife, and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "Yes, you are a bridegroom of blood to me."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And he left him alone. At that time she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.Hebrew "circumcisions" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go to the desert to meet Moses." And he went and encountered him at the mountain of God and kissed him.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh, who had sent him--and all the signs that he had commanded him. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron went, and they gathered all of the elders of the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs before the eyes of the people.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 4
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And afterward, Moses and Aaron went, and they said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a festival for me in the desert.'"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 2
c3content:
And Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice to release Israel? I do not know Yahweh, and also I will not release Israel." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day journey into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he strike us with plague or with sword."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And the king of Egypt said, "Why, Moses and Aaron, do you takeOr "let loose," "let run wild" (compare 32:25) the people from their work? Go to your {forced labor}!"Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 7
c3content:
"You must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like {before}.Literally "yesterday three days ago" Let them go and gather straw for themselves.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 8
c3content:
But the quota of the bricks that they were making {before}Literally "yesterday three days ago" {you must require of them}.Literally "you will put on them" You must not reduce from it, because they are lazy. Therefore they are crying out, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 9
c3content:
Let the work be heavier on the men so that they will do it and not pay attention to words of deception." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And the slave drivers of the people and their foremen went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I am not giving you straw.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 11
c3content:
You go, get straw for yourselves from whatever you find because not a thing is being reduced from your work.'"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the slave drivers were insisting, saying, "Finish your work {for each day}Literally "a thing of a day" on its day, as {when there was straw}."Literally "in the being of the straw"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the foremen of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten by men who were saying, "Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking {as before, both yesterday and today}?"Literally "as yesterday three days ago also yesterday also the day" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the foremen of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this?


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 16
c3content:
Straw is not being given to your servants, but they are saying to us, 'Make bricks!' and, look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault ofThe expression is difficult. The word translated "fault" or "sin" has pointing for a second-person feminine singular subject ("you sinned"), which does not go well with either "Pharaoh" or "your people" as a subject; but the noun translated "sin of" has the same consonants, leading to the possibility that the word should be understood as a noun your people."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he said, "You are lazy, lazy! Therefore you are saying, 'Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.'


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the foremen of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" saw they were in trouble {with the saying},Literally "saying" "You will not reduce from your bricks {for each day}Literally "a thing of a day" on its day."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And they said to them, "May Yahweh look upon you and judge because you have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants so as to put a sword into their hand to kill us."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me?


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 5
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble to this people, and you have certainly not delivered your people." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, because with a strong hand he will release them, and with a strong hand he will drive them out from his land." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai,Often translated as "Almighty" but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens,


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 5
c3content:
but also I myself heard the groaning of the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 6
c3content:
Therefore say to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the {forced labor}Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor" of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And I will take you {as my people},Literally "to/for me for a people" and I will be {your God},Literally "to/for you for a God" and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the {forced labor}Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor" of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And I will bring you to the land {that I swore}Literally "that I raised my hand" to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Moses spoke thus to the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" but they did not listen to Moses, because of {discouragement}Literally "a lack of spirit" or "shortness of spirit" and because of hard work. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 11
c3content:
"Go, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and let him release the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from his land."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Look, the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am {a poor speaker}?"Literally "uncircumcised of lips"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he commanded them to go to the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" out from the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And the sons of Simeon are Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess.Or "the Canaanite woman." The Hebrew word is feminine These are the clans of Simeon. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies:Or "generations" Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.Literally "seven and thirty and hundred of year" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the sons of Kohath are Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath were {one hundred and thirty-three years}.Literally "three and thirty and hundred of year" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi. These are clans of the Levites according to their genealogies.Or "generations" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Amram took Jochebed his aunt for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Aaron and Moses, and the years of the life of Amram were {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.Literally "seven and thirty and hundred of year" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Aaron took Elisheba the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Eleazar the son of Aaron took for himself one from the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore for him Phinehas. These are the heads of the {families}Literally "fathers" of the Levites according to their clans. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 26
c3content:
It was that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 27
c3content:
They were those who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, in order to bring the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" out from Egypt. It was that Moses and Aaron. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 28
c3content:
{And so it was on a certain day}Literally "and it was on a day" Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I am speaking to you."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 6
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And Moses said before Yahweh, "Look, I am {a poor speaker}.Literally "uncircumcised of lips" And how will Pharaoh listen to me?" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 2
c3content:
You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from his land.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" from the land of Egypt with great punishments.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" out from their midst." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 7
c3content:
(And Moses was {eighty years old},Literally "a son of eighty year" and Aaron was {eighty-three years old}Literally "a son of three and eighty year" when they spoke to Pharaoh.) 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 9
c3content:
"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Do a wonder for yourselves,' you will say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.'"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a snake. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is {insensitive};Literally "heavy" he refuses to release the people.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 15
c3content:
Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must wait to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and you must take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And you must say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Release my people that they may serve me in the desert, and, look, you have not listened until now."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 17
c3content:
Thus says Yahweh, "By this you will know that I am Yahweh. Look, I am about to strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be changed to blood.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile." '" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch your hand out over the waters of Egypt and over their rivers, over their canals, and over their pools and over all of their reservoirs of water, so that they become blood,' and blood will be in all the land of Egypt and in vessels of wood and of stone." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh had commanded, and he raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and before the eyes of his servants, and all of the water that was in the Nile was changed to blood.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And the magicians of Egypt did likewise with their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Pharaoh turned and went to his house, and {he did not take also this to heart}.Literally "he did not put his heart also to this"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 7
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And all of the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they were unable to drink from the water of the Nile. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 1
c3content:
Exodus 8:1-32 in the English Bible is 7:26-8:28 in the Hebrew Bible And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your {bedroom}Literally "the inner room of your bed" and onto your bed and into the house of your servants and among your people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.'"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs went up and covered the land of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the magicians did likewise with their secret arts, and they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to Yahweh, and let him remove the frogs from me and from my people, and let me release the people so that they can sacrifice to Yahweh."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Moses said to Pharaoh, "{I leave to you the honor}Literally "glorify yourself" over me. When shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses? They will be left only in the Nile."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he said, "Tomorrow." And he said, "Let it be according to your word so that you will know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the frogs will depart from you and from your house and from your servants. They will be left only in the Nile." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Yahweh over the matter of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died from the houses, from the courtyards, and from the fields.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he made his heart {insensitive},Literally "heavy" and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnatsExactly what troublesome insect is uncertain in all the land of Egypt.'"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And he did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and he struck the dust of the land, and it became gnats on the humans and on the animals; all of the dust of the land became gnats in all the land of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 18
c3content:
And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring out the gnats, but they were not able, and the gnats were on the humans and on the animals.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God." But the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But if you are not about to release my people, look, I am about to send out flies among you and among your servants and among your people and in your houses; and the houses of Egypt will fill up with the flies and also the ground that they are on.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 22
c3content:
But on that day I will distinguishOr "deal differently with" the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, by there not being flies there, so that you will know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the land.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Yahweh did so, and a {severe}Literally "heavy" swarm of flies came to the house of Pharaoh and the house of his servants and in all the land of Egypt; the land was ruined because of the flies.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 26
c3content:
And Moses said, "To do so is not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, if we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 27
c3content:
We will go a journey of three days into the desert, and we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God according to what he says to us." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Pharaoh said, "I myself will release you, and you will sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the desert. Only surely you must not go far. Pray for me."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Moses said, "Look, I am going out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh so that the flies depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh again deceive us by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses and removed the flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one was left.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 8
c2verse: 32
c3content:
And Pharaoh made his heart {insensitive}Literally "heavy" also this time, and he did not release the people. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 3
c3content:
look, the hand of Yahweh is about to be present with a very {severe}Literally "heavy" plague on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the sheep and goats.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and not a thing will die from all that belongs to the {Israelites}.'"Literally "sons/children of Israel"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And Yahweh did this thing the next day; all the livestock of Egypt died, but from the livestock of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" not one died.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And Pharaoh sent to check, and {it turned out}Literally "look" not even one from the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was {insensitive},Literally "heavy" and he did not release the people. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take for yourselves full handfuls of soot from a smelting furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become on humans and on animals a skin sore sprouting blisters in all the land of Egypt."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And they took the soot of the smelting furnace, and they stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens, and it became skin sores sprouting blisters on humans and on animals.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And the magicians were not able to stand before Moses because of the skin sores, for the skin sores were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 14
c3content:
For at this time I am sending all of my plagues {to you personally}Literally "to your heart," that is, in a way designed to receive attention and among your servants and among your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 15
c3content:
For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 16
c3content:
But for the sake of this I have caused you to stand--for the sake of showing you my strength and in order to proclaim my name in all the earth.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 18
c3content:
Look, about this time tomorrow, I am going to cause very severeLiterally "heavy" hail to rain, the like of which has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And now send word; bring into safety your livestock and all that belongs to you in the field. The hail will come down on every human and animal that is found in the field and not gathered into the house, and they will die." '" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 20
c3content:
Anyone from the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh caused his servants and livestock to flee to the houses.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 21
c3content:
But whoever did not {give regard to}Literally "put his heart to" the word of Yahweh abandoned his servants and his livestock in the field. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand to the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, on human and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunderThe word often translated "voice" or "sound" is also used to describe thunder, as in this chapter and hail, and fire went to the earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And there was hail, and fire was flashing back and forth in the midst of the very severe hail, the like of which was not in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, from human to animal, and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and smashed every tree of the field.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 26
c3content:
Only in the land of Goshen, where the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" were, there was no hail. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 27
c3content:
And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 28
c3content:
Pray to Yahweh. The thunder of God and hail {are enough},Literally "much/great from the being of the voices/thunder" and I will release you, and {you will no longer have to stay}."Literally "you will not add to stand/remain"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Moses said to him, "At my leaving the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and the hail will be no more, so that you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And Moses went from Pharaoh out of the city, and he spread his hands to Yahweh, and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain did not pour on the earth.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder stopped, and {he again sinned}Literally "he added to sin" and made his heart {insensitive},Literally "he made his heart heavy" he and his servants.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 9
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not release the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" as Yahweh had said {by the agency of Moses}.Literally "by the hand of Moses" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart {insensitive}Literally "heavy" and the heart of his servants in order to put these signs of mine in his midst,


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 2
c3content:
so that you will tell in the ears of your child and {your grandchild}Literally "the son of your son" that I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and so that you will tell about my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I am Yahweh." 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 4
c3content:
But if you are refusing to release my people, look, I am about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 5
c3content:
And they will cover the surface of the land, and no one will be able to see the land, and they will eat the remainder of what is left--what is left over for you from the hail--and they will eat every sprouting tree belonging to you from the field.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt, something that your fathers and {your grandfathers}Literally "the fathers of your fathers" never saw from the day they were on the earth until this day.'" And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And the servants of Pharaoh said to him, "Until when will this be a snare for us? Release the men so that they may serve Yahweh their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Serve Yahweh your God. {Who are the ones going}?Literally "who and who the goers?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Moses said, "With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and goats and with our cattle we will go because it is the feast of Yahweh for us."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And he said to them, "Let Yahweh be thus with you as soon as I release you and your dependents.Or "little children" or "little ones" See that evil is before your faces.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 11
c3content:
{No indeed};Literally "not so" just the menThis word for "men" indicates that Pharaoh means only the able-bodied men can go go and serve Yahweh, since this is what you are seeking." And he drove them out from the presence of Pharaoh. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 12
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt with the locusts so that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and let them eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail left behind."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind into the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought the locusts.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 14
c3content:
And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and they settled in all the territory of Egypt, very {severe}.Literally "heavy" Before it there were not locusts like them, nor will there be after it.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 15
c3content:
And they covered the surface of all the land, and the land was dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left, and no green was left in the trees nor in the vegetation of the field in all the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 16
c3content:
And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 17
c3content:
And now forgive my sin surely this time, and pray to Yahweh your God so that he may only remove from me this death."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 19
c3content:
And Yahweh turned a very strong {west wind}Literally "sea wind," a wind from the Mediterranean Sea to the west and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the {Red Sea},Literally "sea of reed" and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 20
c3content:
And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}.Literally "sons/children of Israel" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that a person can feel darkness."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt for three days.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 23
c3content:
No one could see his brother, and {because of it no one could move from where they were}Literally "a man did not rise from under it" for three days, but there was light for the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in their dwellings. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 24
c3content:
And Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only your sheep and goats and your cattle must be left behind. Your dependentsOr "little children" or "little ones"; the term here includes women and children and men too old or ill to fight may also go with you."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 25
c3content:
And Moses said, "Even if you yourself put into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings and we offer them to Yahweh our God,


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 26
c3content:
our livestock must also go with us. Not a hoof can be left because we must take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And we will not know with what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And Pharaoh said to him, "Go from me. {Be careful}Literally "watch for you" not to see my face again, because on the day of your seeing my face you will die."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 10
c2verse: 29
c3content:
And Moses said, "{That is right}.Literally "right you said" {I will not again see your face}."Literally "I will not add again seeing of your face" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 1
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Still one plague I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterward he will release you from here. At the moment of his releasing, he will certainly drive you completely out from here.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 2
c3content:
Speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, a man from his neighbor and a woman from her neighbor, for objects of silver and objects of gold."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 3
c3content:
And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of Egypt. Also the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh and in the eyes of the people. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And Moses said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'About the middle of the night I will go out through the midst of Egypt,


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 5
c3content:
and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who is behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal.The Hebrew word often refers to domestic animals


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 6
c3content:
And there will be a great cry of distress in all the land of Egypt, the like of which has not been nor will be again.Literally "which like it has not been and like it will not be again"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 7
c3content:
But against all the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" from a man to an animal, a dog will not even {bark},Literally "move his tongue" or "sharpen his tongue" so that you will know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.'


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And all of these your servants will come down to me and bow to me, saying, 'Go out, you and all the people who are at your feet.' And afterward I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh {in great anger}.Literally "with heat of nose" 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 9
c3content:
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, {so that my wonders may multiply}Literally "for the sake of the multiplying of my wonders" in the land of Egypt."


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 11
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" from his land. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 2
c3content:
"This month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 3
c3content:
Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves {a lamb for the family},Literally "a lamb/kid for the house of fathers." The word translated "lamb" refers to a small livestock animal and could be either a young sheep or a young goat a lamb for the household.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 4
c3content:
And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons;Or "the number of selves" you will count out portions of the lamb {according to how much each one can eat}.Literally "a man for the mouth of his eating"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 5
c3content:
The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 6
c3content:
"{You will keep it}Literally "It will be for you for observation" until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it {at twilight}.Literally "between the evenings"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 7
c3content:
And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 8
c3content:
And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on {bitter herbs}.Literally "bitter things"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 9
c3content:
You must not eat any of it raw or boiled, boiled in the water, but rather roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 10
c3content:
And you must not leave any of it until morning; anything left from it until morning you must burn in the fire.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 11
c3content:
And this is how you will eat it--with your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It is Yahweh's Passover. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 12
c3content:
"And I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 13
c3content:
And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be a destructive plague among you when I strike the land of Egypt. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 14
c3content:
"And this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 15
c3content:
You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. Surely on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats food with yeast from the first day until the seventh day--that person will be cut off from Israel.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 16
c3content:
It will be for you on the first day a holy assemblyOr "summons," "convocation" and on the seventh day a holy assembly;Or "summons," "convocation" no work will be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, it alone will be prepared for you. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 17
c3content:
"And you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought out your divisions from the land of Egypt, and you will keep this day for your generations as a lasting statute.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 18
c3content:
On the first day, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 19
c3content:
For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, because {anyone eating food with yeast}Literally "anyone eating yeasted food, that person" will be cut off from the community of Israel--whether an alien or a native of the land.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 21
c3content:
And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, "Select and take for yourselves sheep for your clans and slaughter the Passover sacrifice.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 22
c3content:
And take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 23
c3content:
And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike you. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 25
c3content:
{And}Literally "and it will be" when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this {religious custom}.Literally "service" or "work"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 26
c3content:
{And}Literally "and it will be" when your children say to you, 'What is this {religious custom}Literally "service" or "work" for you?'Or "What does this service mean to you?"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 27
c3content:
you will say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.'" And the people knelt down and they worshiped.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 28
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 29
c3content:
{And}Literally "and it was" in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 30
c3content:
And Pharaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and a great cry of distress was in Egypt because there was not a house where there was no one dead.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 31
c3content:
And he called Moses and Aaron at night, and he said, "Get up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the {Israelites},Literally "sons/children of Israel" and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 33
c3content:
And the Egyptians urged the people in order to hurry their releaseOr "to hasten to release them" from the land, because they said, "All of us will die!"Or "We all are dead!"


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 34
c3content:
And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs were wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 35
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold and for clothing.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 36
c3content:
And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they granted their requests, and they plundered the Egyptians. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 37
c3content:
And the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" set out from Rameses to Succoth; the men were about six hundred thousand on foot,Or "footmen," "infantrymen." The word probably has military connotations, as when it is used elsewhere in the numbering of soldiers (compare 2 Sam 10:6; 1 Kgs 20:29; 2 Kgs 13:7) besides dependents.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 38
c3content:
And also a {mixed multitude}Literally "a large mixture" (compare Jer 25:20; Ezek 30:5) went up with them and sheep and goats and cattle, very numerous livestock.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 39
c3content:
And they baked the dough that they had brought out from Egypt as cakes, unleavened bread, because it had no yeast when they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay, and also they had not made provisions for themselves. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 40
c3content:
And the period of dwelling of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" that they dwelled in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 41
c3content:
And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this exact day, all of Yahweh's divisions went out from the land of Egypt.


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 42
c3content:
It is a night of vigilsOr "observances" belonging to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it is this night belonging to Yahweh with vigils for all of the {Israelites}Literally "sons/children of Israel" throughout their generations. 


c0book: Exod
c1chapter: 12
c2verse: 46
c3content:
It will be eaten in one house; you will not bring part of the meat out from the house to the outside; and you will not break a bone of it.


