# bible

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<verse num="2">Now<note>Or "And"</note> the earth was formless and empty, and darkness <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> hovering over the surface of the waters.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And God saw the light, that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> good, and God caused <transChange type="added">there to be</transChange> a separation between the light and between the darkness.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first day. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And God said, "Let there be a vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> in the midst of the waters, and {let it cause a separation between the waters}."<note>Literally "Let there be a separation made between waters to waters"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">So<note>Or "And"</note> God made the vaulted dome,<note>Or "expanse"</note> and he caused a separation between the waters which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> under the vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome.<note>Or "expanse"</note> And it was so.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And God called the vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> "heaven."<note>Or "sky"</note> And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day. </verse>


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<verse num="9">And God said, "Let the waters under heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And God called the dry ground "earth," and he called the collection of the waters "seas." And God saw that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> good.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And God said, "Let the earth produce green plants <transChange type="added">that will</transChange> bear seed--fruit trees bearing fruit {in which there is seed}<note>Literally "which its seed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it"</note>--according to its<note>Or "their"</note> kind, on the earth." And it was so.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the earth brought forth green plants bearing seed according to its<note>Or "their"</note> kind, and trees bearing fruit {in which there was seed}<note>Literally "which its seed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it"</note> according to its<note>Or "their"</note> kind. And God saw that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> good.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And God said, "Let there be lights<note>Or "light sources"</note> in the vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> {to separate day from night},<note>Literally "to make a separation between the day and between the night"</note> and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years,</verse>


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<verse num="15">and they shall be as lights<note>Or "light sources"</note> in the vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> to give light on the earth." And it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> so.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And God made two lights,<note>Or "light sources"</note> the greater light<note>Or "light source"</note> to rule<note>Literally "as the authority of"</note> the day and the smaller light<note>Or "light source"</note> to rule<note>Literally "as the authority of"</note> the night, and the stars.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And God placed them in the vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> to give light on the earth</verse>


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<verse num="18">and to rule over the day and over the night, and to {separate light from darkness}.<note>Literally "make a separation between the light and between the darkness"</note> And God saw that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> good.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And God said, "Let the waters swarm <transChange type="added">with</transChange> swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted dome<note>Or "expanse"</note> of heaven.<note>Or "the sky"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">So<note>Or "And"</note> God created the great sea creatures and every living creature <transChange type="added">that</transChange> moves, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wings according to its<note>Or "their"</note> kind. And God saw that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> good.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animals<note>Literally "animals of the earth/land"</note> according to their kind." And it was so.</verse>


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<verse num="25">So<note>Or "And"</note> God made wild animals<note>Literally "animals of the earth/land"</note> according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its<note>Or "their"</note> kind. And God saw that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> good. </verse>


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<verse num="26">And God said, "Let us make humankind in<note>Or "as"</note> our image and according to<note>Or "as"</note> our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven,<note>Or "the sky"</note> and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth."</verse>


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<verse num="27">So<note>Or "And"</note> God created humankind in<note>Or "as"</note> his image, in<note>Or "as"</note> the likeness of God he created him,<note>Or "it" <transChange type="added">collective: humankind</transChange></note> male and female he created them.</verse>


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<verse num="28">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,<note>Or "the sky"</note> and over every animal that moves upon the earth." </verse>


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<verse num="29">And God said, "Look--I am giving to you every plant <transChange type="added">that</transChange> bears seed which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree {that bears fruit}.<note>Literally "which in it fruit of a tree bears seed"</note> They shall be yours as food."</verse>


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<verse num="30">And to every kind of animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven,<note>Or "the sky"</note> and to everything that moves upon the earth in which <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> life <transChange type="added">I am giving</transChange> every green plant as food." And it was so.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> and earth<note>Or "the earth"</note> and all their array<note>Or "host"</note> were finished.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And God blessed the seventh day, and he sanctified<note>Or "hallowed"</note> it, because on it he rested from all his work {of creating that <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> to do}.<note>Literally "which God created to do"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="4">These are the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> and earth<note>Or "the earth"</note> when they were created, in the day <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Yahweh God made earth and heaven<note>Or "sky"</note>--</verse>


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<verse num="5">{before any plant of the field was}<note>Literally "and every plant of the field not yet was"</note> on earth, and <transChange type="added">before</transChange> {any plant of the field}<note>Literally "and every plant of the field not yet"</note> 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,</verse>


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<verse num="6">but a stream <transChange type="added">would</transChange> rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground--</verse>


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<verse num="7">when<note>Or "and"</note> Yahweh God formed the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> <transChange type="added">of</transChange> dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. </verse>


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<verse num="8">And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> whom he had formed.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree <transChange type="added">that</transChange> was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the midst of the garden, {along with}<note>Or "and"</note> the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Now<note>Or "And"</note> a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches.</verse>


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<verse num="11">The name of the first <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> gold.</verse>


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<verse num="12">(The gold of that land <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good; bdellium and onyx stones <transChange type="added">are</transChange> there.)</verse>


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<verse num="13">And the name of the second <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And the name of the third <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Euphrates. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And Yahweh God took the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Yahweh God commanded the man,<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> saying, "From every tree of the garden {you may freely eat},<note>Literally "eating you may eat"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day {that you eat}<note>Literally "of your eating"</note> from it {you shall surely die}."<note>Literally "dying you shall die"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="18">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh God said, "<transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not good <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> is alone. I will make for him a helper {as his counterpart}."<note>Literally "as his opposite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky,<note>Or "the heavens"</note> and he brought <transChange type="added">each</transChange> to the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> to see what he would call it. And whatever the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> called that living creature <transChange type="added">was</transChange> its name.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> {gave names}<note>Literally "called names"</note> to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> and to all the wild animals.<note>Literally "animals of the earth/land"</note> But for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> man there was not found a helper {as his counterpart}.<note>Literally "as his opposite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man.<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> While<note>Or "And"</note> he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up {the flesh where it had been}.<note>Literally "the flesh in the place of it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> into a woman and brought her to the man.<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">And the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> said, </verse>


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<verse num="24">Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal}<note>Literally "animal of the field"</note> which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"</verse>


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<verse num="2">The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,</verse>


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<verse num="3">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'."</verse>


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<verse num="5">For God knows that on the day you <transChange type="added">both</transChange> eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you <transChange type="added">both</transChange> shall be like gods,<note>The plural is in the context of v. 22 <transChange type="added">"one of us"</transChange> and the plural suffix pronouns <transChange type="added">["you [all</transChange>"]] throughout the verse</note> knowing good and evil."</verse>


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<verse num="6">When<note>Or "And"</note> the woman saw that the tree <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good for food and that it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make <transChange type="added">one</transChange> wise, then<note>Or "and"</note> she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> also to her husband with her, and he ate.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then<note>Or "And"</note> the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Then<note>Or "And"</note> they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden {at the windy time of day}.<note>Literally "at the wind of the day"</note> And the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Yahweh God called to the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> and said to him, "Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you?"</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he replied,<note>Literally "And he said"; "replied" distinguishes Adam as the speaker</note> "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> naked, so I hid myself."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then he<note>That is, Yahweh God</note> asked,<note>Or "said"</note> "Who told you that you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> naked? Have you eaten from {the tree from which I forbade you to eat}?"<note>Literally "the tree which I commanded to not eat from it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> replied,<note>Or "said"</note> "The woman whom you gave <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> with me--she gave to me from the tree and I ate."</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh God said to the woman, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring<note>Literally "seed"</note> and between her offspring;<note>Literally "seed"</note> he will strike you <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> head, and you will strike him <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> heel."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And to Adam<note>The noun lacks the definite article and is taken as a proper noun in this context</note> he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat},<note>Literally "from the tree which I commanded saying not to eat from it"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="18">And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field.</verse>


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<verse num="19">By the sweat of your brow<note>Literally "your face"</note> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And the man<note>"The man" indicates the noun is singular and occurs with the definite article</note> {named}<note>Literally "called the name"</note> his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Yahweh God made for Adam<note>The noun lacks the definite article and is taken as a proper noun in this context</note> and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them. </verse>


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<verse num="22">And Yahweh God said, "Look--the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. {What if}<note>Literally "And now lest"</note> he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.</verse>


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<verse num="24">So<note>Or "And"</note> he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and {a flaming, turning sword}<note>Literally "a flame of the sword which was turning"</note> to guard the way to the tree of life. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Adam knew<note>Or "had intercourse with"</note> Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with <transChange type="added">the help of</transChange> Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="2">{Then she bore}<note>Literally "And she added to bear"</note> his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And {in the course of time}<note>Literally "it came to pass at the end of days"</note> Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh,</verse>


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<verse num="4">and Abel also brought <transChange type="added">an offering</transChange> from {the choicest firstlings of his flock}.<note>Literally "from the firstlings of his flock and from their fat"</note> And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering,</verse>


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<verse num="5">but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.</verse>


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<verse num="7">If you do well {will I not accept you}?<note>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"</note> But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for you, but you must rule over it." </verse>


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<verse num="8">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Cain said to his brother Abel, <transChange type="added">"Let us go out into the field."</transChange><note>This phrase is not present in the Hebrew; it is supplied in other versions <transChange type="added">Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate</transChange></note> And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh said to Cain, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.</verse>


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<verse num="12">When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}.<note>Literally "it shall not add to give its strength to you"</note> You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment <transChange type="added">is</transChange> greater than <transChange type="added">I can</transChange> bear.</verse>


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<verse num="14">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."</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. </verse>


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<verse num="17">And Cain knew<note>Or "had intercourse with"</note> his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city {he named the city after his son, Enoch}.<note>Literally "he called the name of the city as the name of his son, Enoch"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Lamech took to himself two wives.<note>Or "women"</note> The name of the first <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Adah, and the name of the second <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Zillah.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and <transChange type="added">those who have</transChange> livestock.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the name of his brother <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all <transChange type="added">kinds of</transChange> tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Naamah. </verse>


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<verse num="24">If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech <transChange type="added">will be avenged</transChange> seventy and seven <transChange type="added">times</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Adam knew<note>Or "had intercourse with"</note> his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for <transChange type="added">she said</transChange> "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him."</verse>


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<verse num="26">And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he<note>Or "humankind," if the 3ms form is considered collective</note> began to call on the name of Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">This is the record of the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Adam. When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> God created Adam,<note>Or "humankind"</note> he made him in the likeness of God.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Male and female he created them. And he blessed them. And he called their name "Humankind" when<note>Literally "on the day"</note> they were created.</verse>


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<verse num="3">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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="6">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Seth had lived one hundred and five years, he fathered Enosh.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And after Seth had fathered Enosh he lived eight hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="9">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Enosh lived ninety years, he fathered Kenan.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And after Enosh fathered Kenan he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="12">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Kenan had lived seventy years, he fathered Mahalalel.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And after Kenan had fathered Mahalalel, he lived eight hundred and forty years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="15">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Jared.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And after Mahalalel had fathered Jared, he lived eight hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="18">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Jared had lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he fathered Enoch.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And after Jared had fathered Enoch, he lived eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="21">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="25">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And after Methuselah had fathered Lamech, he lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="28">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he fathered a son.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us}<note>Literally "shall comfort us"</note> from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And after Lamech had fathered Noah he lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and he fathered sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="31">All the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. </verse>


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<verse num="32">When<note>Literally "On the day"</note> Noah {was five hundred years old},<note>Literally "was a son of five hundred years"</note> Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange>, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="2">Then<note>Or "And"</note> the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> also flesh. And his days <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> one hundred and twenty years."</verse>


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<verse num="4">The Nephilim <transChange type="added">were</transChange> 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. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind <transChange type="added">was</transChange> great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart <transChange type="added">was</transChange> always<note>Literally "every day"</note> only evil.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and {he was grieved in his heart}.<note>Literally "he was grieved to his heart"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">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,<note>Or "the sky"</note> for I regret that I have made them."</verse>


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<verse num="9">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Noah. Noah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the earth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> corrupted before God, and the earth was filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> violence.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh <transChange type="added">has</transChange> come before me, for the earth was filled <transChange type="added">with</transChange> violence because of them. Now, look, I <transChange type="added">am going</transChange> to destroy them <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark <transChange type="added">with</transChange> rooms, then<note>Or "and"</note> you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits.</verse>


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<verse num="16">You must make a roof for the ark, and {finish it to a cubit above}.<note>Literally "to one cubit you must finish it from above"</note> And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> the door of the ark, you must put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> in its side. You must make it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a lower, second, and a third <transChange type="added">deck</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="17">And I, behold, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the breath of life from under the heaven;<note>Or "the sky"</note> everything that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the earth shall perish.</verse>


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<verse num="18">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.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every <transChange type="added">kind</transChange> into the ark to keep <transChange type="added">them</transChange> alive with you; they shall be male and female.</verse>


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<verse num="20">From the birds according to their<note>Or "its"</note> kind, and from the animals according to their<note>Or "its"</note> kind, from every creeping thing <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the ground according to its<note>Or "their"</note> kind--two from every kind shall come to you to keep <transChange type="added">them</transChange> alive.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, take for yourself from every kind of food that is eaten. And you must gather <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to yourself. And it shall be for you and for them for food."</verse>


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<verse num="1">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> righteous before me in this generation.</verse>


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<verse num="2">From all the clean animals you must take for yourself {seven pairs},<note>Literally "seven, seven"</note> a male and its mate. And from the animals that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not clean <transChange type="added">you must take</transChange> two, a male and its mate,</verse>


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<verse num="3">as well as from the birds of heaven<note>Or "the sky"</note> {seven pairs},<note>Literally "seven, seven"</note> male and female, {to keep their kind alive}<note>Literally "to keep seed alive"</note> on the face of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="4">For {within seven days}<note>Literally "to seven days still"</note> I will send rain upon the earth <transChange type="added">for</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="6">Noah {was six hundred years old}<note>Literally "was a son of six hundred years"</note> when<note>Or "and"</note> the flood waters came upon the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Of clean animals, and of animals which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,</verse>


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<verse num="9">{two of each}<note>Literally "two, two"</note> went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="11">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.</verse>


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<verse num="13">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,</verse>


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<verse num="14">they and all the living creatures according to their<note>Or "its"</note> kind, and all the domesticated animals according to their<note>Or "its"</note> kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to their<note>Or "its"</note> kind, all the birds according to their<note>Or "its"</note> kind, every winged creature.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they came to Noah to the ark, {two of each},<note>Literally "two, two"</note> from every living thing in which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the breath of life.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him.</verse>


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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface<note>Hebrew "face"</note> of the waters.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the waters prevailed {overwhelmingly}<note>Literally "very very"</note> upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven.<note>Or "the sky"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">{The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them}.<note>Literally "Fifteen cubits above the waters swelled, and they covered the mountains"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">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.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Everything in whose nostrils <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {the breath of life},<note>Literally "a breath of spirit of life"</note> among all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on dry land, died.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he<note>In context, God</note> blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven;<note>Or "the sky"</note> they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him in the ark remained.</verse>


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<verse num="1">And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow<note>Or "go"</note> over the earth, and the waters subsided.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens<note>Or "the sky"</note> were closed, and the rain from the heavens<note>Or "the sky"</note> was restrained.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the waters receded from the earth {gradually},<note>Literally "going and returning"</note> and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the waters {continued to recede}<note>Literally "going and receding"</note> to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he sent out a<note>Or "the"</note> raven;<note>Or "crow"</note> {it went to and fro}<note>Literally "it went out, going out and returning"</note> until the waters were dried up from upon the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And {he sent out a<note>Or "the"</note> dove}<note>Literally "and he sent out a dove from him"</note> to see <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> the waters had subsided from upon the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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 <transChange type="added">were still</transChange> on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he waited another seven days, and {again he sent out}<note>Literally "he added to send"</note> the dove from the ark.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the dove came to him {in the evening},<note>Literally "at the time of the evening"</note> and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he waited {seven more days},<note>Literally "again another seven days"</note> and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first <transChange type="added">month</transChange>, on the first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.</verse>


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<verse num="16">"Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Bring out with you all the living things which <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="18">So<note>Or "And"</note> Noah went out, with<note>Or "and"</note> his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> everything <transChange type="added">that</transChange> moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark.</verse>


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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said {to himself},<note>Literally "to his heart"</note> "{Never again will I curse}<note>Literally "I will not add to curse again"</note> the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind <transChange type="added">is</transChange> evil from his youth. {Nor will I ever again destroy}<note>Literally "And I will not add again to destroy"</note> all life as I have done.</verse>


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<verse num="22">{As long as the earth endures},<note>Literally "While all the days of the earth"</note> seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="1">And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven,<note>Or "the sky"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As <transChange type="added">I gave</transChange> the green plants to you, I have <transChange type="added">now</transChange> given you everything.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Only you shall not eat {raw flesh with blood in it}.<note>Literally "flesh with its life, its blood"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And<note>Or "only"; the same word that occurs at the beginning of v. 4</note> {your lifeblood}<note>Literally "your blood belonging to your life"</note> I will require; from {every animal}<note>Literally "from the hand of every animal"</note> I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of <transChange type="added">each</transChange> man to his brother I will require the life of humankind. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="6">"<transChange type="added">As for</transChange> the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="9">"As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you,</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="10">and with every living creature that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you--the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all <transChange type="added">that</transChange> came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="11">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."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="12">And God said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you for future generations.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="13">My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> covenant between me and between the earth.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="14">And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="15">Then<note>Or "And"</note> I will remember my covenant that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction}<note>Literally "be to destroy"</note> of all flesh.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="16">The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember <transChange type="added">the</transChange> everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upon the earth."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="17">And God said to Noah, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upon the earth. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="18">Now<note>Or "And"</note> the sons of Noah who came out of the ark <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Canaan.)</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="19">These three <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Noah, and from these {the whole earth was populated}.<note>Literally "all the earth branched out"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">And Noah began <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on <transChange type="added">their</transChange> shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces <transChange type="added">were turned</transChange> backward, so that<note>Or "and"</note> they did not see the nakedness of their father.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Noah awoke from his drunkenness,<note>Or "his wine"</note> and he knew what his youngest son had done to him.</verse>


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<verse num="27">May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of the sons of Noah--Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children<note>Or "sons"</note> were born to them after the flood.</verse>


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<verse num="5">From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="7">And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Cush fathered Nimrod. {He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior}.<note>Literally "He began to be a mighty warrior on the earth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="10">Now,<note>Or "And"</note> the beginning of his kingdom <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.</verse>


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<verse num="11">From that land he went out <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="12">Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the great city.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="18">the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the territory of the Canaanites <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from Sidon {in the direction of}<note>Literally "in your going"</note> Gerar as far as Gaza, and {in the direction of}<note>Literally "in your going"</note> Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.</verse>


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<verse num="20">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the descendants<note>Or "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)</note> of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands, and in their nations. </verse>


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<verse num="21">And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, <transChange type="added">children</transChange> were also born.</verse>


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<verse num="25">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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Joktan.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="29">Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Joktan.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="30">And their dwelling <transChange type="added">place</transChange> {extended from}<note>Literally "was from"</note> Mesha {in the direction of}<note>Literally "in your going"</note> Sephar <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the hill country of the east.</verse>


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<verse num="31">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, and according to their nations. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="32">These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations<note>Or "family records"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> in their nations. And from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="1">Now<note>Or "And"</note> the whole earth <transChange type="added">had</transChange> one language and the same words.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="2">And as people migrated<note>Or "set out"</note> from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="3">And they said {to each other},<note>Literally "each to his companion"</note> "Come, let us make bricks and {burn them thoroughly}."<note>Literally "burn to burning"</note> And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top <transChange type="added">reaches to</transChange> the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth." </verse>


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<verse num="5">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind}<note>Literally "sons of Adam" or "sons of humankind"</note> was building.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language},<note>Literally "one people and one language to all of them"</note> and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}.<note>Literally "and this they begin to do"</note> So<note>Or "And"</note> now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand {each other's language}."<note>Literally "each the language of his companion"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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. </verse>


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<verse num="10">These are the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Shem. When Shem {was one hundred years old},<note>Literally "the son of one hundred years"</note> he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons and daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Now<note>Or "And"</note> these are the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of the wife of Abram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, {his grandson},<note>Literally "the son of his son"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And the days of Terah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


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<verse num="3">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." </verse>


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<verse num="4">And Abram went <transChange type="added">out</transChange> as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram {was seventy-five years old}<note>Literally "the son of five years and seventy years"</note> when he went out from Haran.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot {his nephew},<note>Literally "the son of his brother"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Abram traveled through the land up to the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the land at that time.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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.</verse>


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<verse num="8">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.</verse>


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<verse num="9">{And Abram kept moving on},<note>Literally "And Abram moved on, going and moving on"</note> toward the Negev.</verse>


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<verse num="10">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.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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,</verse>


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<verse num="12">and it shall happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange>, if the Egyptians see you, then they will say, 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his wife,' then they will kill me but let you live.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. {Then I will live}<note>Literally "And my soul will live"</note> on account of you."</verse>


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<verse num="14">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very beautiful.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, and they praised her <transChange type="added">beauty</transChange> to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="16">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.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> your wife?</verse>


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<verse num="19">Why did you say 'She <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister,' so that I took her to myself as a wife? Now then, here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your wife. Take her and go."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him away. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him. And Lot <transChange type="added">went</transChange> with him to the Negev.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Now Abram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.</verse>


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<verse num="3">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,</verse>


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<verse num="4">to the place where he had made an altar at the beginning. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the land could not {support them}<note>Literally "lift them up"</note> <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to live together, because their possessions were <transChange type="added">so</transChange> many that<note>Or "and"</note> they were not able to live together.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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.</verse>


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<verse num="8">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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange> brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If <transChange type="added">you want what is on</transChange> the left, then I will go right; if <transChange type="added">you want what is on</transChange> the right, I will go left."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> well-watered land--<transChange type="added">this was</transChange> before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt {in the direction of}<note>Literally "your going"</note> Zoar.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So<note>Or "And"</note> Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed from the east, and so they separated {from each other}.<note>Literally "each from his brother"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent toward Sodom.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Now the men of Sodom {were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">were</transChange> wicked and sinners against Yahweh very"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">And Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes and look from the place where you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> to the north, and to the south, and to the east and to the west,</verse>


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<verse num="15">for all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your descendants, forever.</verse>


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<verse num="16">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 <transChange type="added">so</transChange> counted.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Arise, go through the length of the land and through its breadth, for I will give it to you."</verse>


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<verse num="18">So<note>Or "And"</note> Abram pitched his tent, and he came and settled at the oaks of Mamre, which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at Hebron. And there he built an altar to Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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,</verse>


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<verse num="2">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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Zoar).</verse>


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<verse num="3">All these joined forces at the valley of Siddim (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, the sea of the salt).</verse>


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<verse num="4">Twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.</verse>


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<verse num="5">In the fourteenth year Kedorlaomer and the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim,</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is at the wilderness.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then<note>Or "And"</note> they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Kadesh). And they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then<note>Or "And"</note> the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Zoar) went out, and {they took up battle position}<note>Literally "And they took up position with them for battle"</note> in the Valley of Siddim</verse>


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<verse num="9">with Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar, four kings against five.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now<note>Or "And"</note> the Valley of Siddim {was full of tar pits}.<note>Literally "pits, pits of tar"</note> And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and {fell into them},<note>Literally "they fell there"</note> but the rest fled to the mountains.</verse>


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<verse num="11">So<note>Or "And"</note> they<note>In context, the enemy</note> took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and they left.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And they<note>In context, the enemy</note> took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.)</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then<note>Or "And"</note> 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}.<note>Literally "And they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> owners of a covenant of Abram"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">When<note>Or "And"</note> Abram heard that his {relative}<note>Literally "brother"</note> was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen <transChange type="added">of them</transChange>, and he went in pursuit up to Dan.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he divided <transChange type="added">his trained men</transChange> against them at night, he and his servants. And he defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> north of Damascus.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his {relative},<note>Literally "brother"</note> and his possessions, and the women and the people as well. </verse>


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<verse num="17">After his return from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, the Valley of the King).</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (He was the priest of God Most High).</verse>


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<verse num="20">And blessed <transChange type="added">be</transChange> God Most High who delivered your enemies into your hand."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself."</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth,</verse>


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<verse num="23">{that neither a thread nor}<note>Literally "that not from a thread and up to"</note> a thong of a sandal would I take from all that <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to you, that you might not say, 'I made Abram rich.'</verse>


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<verse num="24">{Nothing besides what}<note>Literally "besides me only which"</note> the servants have eaten and the share of the men who went out with me <transChange type="added">will I take.</transChange> Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share." </verse>


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<verse num="1">After these things the word of Yahweh came<note>Literally "was"</note> to Abram in a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your shield, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> your reward <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> very great."</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Abram said, "O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? {I continue to be}<note>Literally "I am going"</note> childless, and {my heir}<note>Literally "the son of the inheritance of my house"</note> is Eliezer of Damascus."</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Abram said, "Look, you have not given me a descendant, and here, {a member of my household}<note>Literally "a son of my house"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {my heir}."<note>Literally "inheriting me"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And behold, the word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">came</transChange> to him saying, "This <transChange type="added">person</transChange> will not {be your heir},<note>Literally "inherit you"</note> but {your own son will be your heir}."<note>Literally "he who goes out from your body, he will inherit you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">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."</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him <transChange type="added">as</transChange> righteousness.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it."</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he said, "O Yahweh God, how shall I know <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I will possess it?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">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."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite {the other},<note>Literally "its companion"</note> but the birds he did not cut.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And it happened, as the sun {went down},<note>Literally "to go"</note> then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he said to Abram, "{You must surely know}<note>Literally "knowing you must know"</note> that your descendants shall be <transChange type="added">as</transChange> aliens in a land {not their own}.<note>Literally "not to them"</note> And they shall serve them<note>Some nation hostile to Abram's descendants (Egypt in later history)</note> and they<note>Some nation hostile to Abram's descendants (Egypt in later history)</note> shall oppress them four hundred years.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And also the nation that they<note>That is, Abram's descendants</note> serve I will judge. Then<note>Or "And"</note> afterward they shall go out with great possessions.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, you shall go to your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites {is not yet complete}."<note>Literally "is not complete up to now"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And after the sun had gone down and it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces.</verse>


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<verse num="18">On that day Yahweh {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> 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,</verse>


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<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">the land of</transChange> the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,</verse>


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<verse num="1">Now<note>Or "And"</note> Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hagar.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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}."<note>Literally "I will be built from her"</note> And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then<note>Or "And"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And <transChange type="added">when</transChange> she<note>That is, Hagar</note> saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm <transChange type="added">be</transChange> upon you. {I had my servant sleep with you},<note>Literally "I put my servant in your lap"</note> and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> she saw that she had conceived, {she no longer respected me}.<note>Literally "I grew small in her eyes"</note> May Yahweh judge between me and you!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {under your authority}.<note>Literally "in your hand"</note> Do to her that which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in your eyes." And Sarai mistreated her, and she<note>That is, Hagar</note> fled from her presence. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, "{From where}<note>Literally "where from this"</note> have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress."</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then<note>Or "And"</note> the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under {her authority}."<note>Literally "her hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "{I will greatly multiply}<note>Literally "multiplying I will multiply"</note> your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for <transChange type="added">their</transChange> abundance."</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> against everyone, and the hand of everyone <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> against him, and he will live {in hostility with all his brothers}."<note>Literally "against the face of all his brothers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">So<note>Or "And"</note> she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> El-Roi,"<note>"God of seeing"</note> for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Therefore the well was called Beer-Lahai-Roi; behold, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> between Kadesh and Bered.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Abram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. </verse>


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<verse num="1">When<note>Literally "And it happened that"</note> Abram <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> El-Shaddai;<note>Often translated, "God Almighty"</note> walk before me and be blameless</verse>


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<verse num="2">so that<note>Or "and"</note> I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you {exceedingly}."<note>Literally "with very very"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">"<transChange type="added">As for</transChange> me, behold, my covenant <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.</verse>


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<verse num="5">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.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And I will make you {exceedingly}<note>Literally "with very very"</note> fruitful. I will make you a nation, and kings shall go out from you.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And I will give to you and to your offspring after you {the land in which you are living as an alien},<note>Literally "a land of your sojournings"</note> all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God." </verse>


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<verse num="9">And God said to Abraham, "Now <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations.</verse>


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<verse num="10">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you, and <transChange type="added">also</transChange> with<note>Or "between"</note> your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And {at eight days of age}<note>Literally "a son of eight days"</note> you shall yourselves circumcise every male <transChange type="added">belonging</transChange> to your generations <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner}<note>Literally "those born of house and acquisition of money from every son of a foreigner"</note> who is not from your offspring.</verse>


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<verse num="13">{You must certainly circumcise}<note>Literally "circumcising you will circumcise"</note> {the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner}.<note>Literally "those born of house and acquisition of money from every son of a foreigner"</note> And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And <transChange type="added">as for any</transChange> uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his<note>Literally "her"; the reference is still to a male; the pronoun is feminine because "person" (nephesh) is grammatically feminine</note> people. He has broken my covenant.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And God said to Abraham, "<transChange type="added">as for</transChange> Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> her name.</verse>


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<verse num="16">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}.<note>Literally "she shall become to nations"</note> Kings of peoples shall come<note>Or "be"</note> from her."</verse>


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<verse num="17">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},<note>Literally "to a man one hundred years old can he be born?"</note> or {can Sarah bear a child at ninety}?"<note>Literally "can ninety-year-old Sarah bear a child?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">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.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him {exceedingly}.<note>Literally "with very very"</note> He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year."</verse>


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<verse num="22">When<note>Or "And"</note> he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all <transChange type="added">those</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Abraham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Ishmael his son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> thirteen years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Abraham and his son Ishmael <transChange type="added">were</transChange> circumcised on the same day.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And all the men of his house, {those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner},<note>Literally "born of house and acquisition of money from the son of a foreigner"</note> were circumcised with him. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Yahweh appeared to him<note>Abraham</note> by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting in the doorway of the tent at the heat of the day.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men were standing near<note>Or "by"; the context requires some distance for Abraham to run to them</note> him. And he saw <transChange type="added">them</transChange> and ran from the doorway of the tent to meet them. And he bowed down to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your eyes do not pass by your servant.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And let me bring a piece of bread, then<note>Or "and"</note> refresh {yourselves}.<note>Literally "your heart"</note> Afterward you can pass on, {once}<note>Literally "for therefore"</note> you have passed by with your servant." Then they said, "Do so as you have said."</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and he said, "Quickly--make three seahs of fine flour for kneading and make bread cakes!"</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Abraham ran to the cattle and took a {calf},<note>Literally "a son of cattle"</note> tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he made haste to prepare it.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then he took curds and milk, and the calf which he prepared, and set <transChange type="added">it</transChange> before them. And he was standing by them under the tree while<note>Or "and"</note> they ate.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they said to him, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Sarah your wife?" And he said, "Here, in the tent."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he<note>Yahweh</note> said, "I will certainly return to you {in the spring},<note>Literally "at the time of life"</note> and look, Sarah your wife <transChange type="added">will have</transChange> a son." Now Sarah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> listening at the doorway of the tent, and which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> behind him.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Now Abraham and Sarah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> old, {advanced in age};<note>Literally "going in the days"</note> {the way of women}<note>Literally "the road according to women"</note> had ceased to be for Sarah.</verse>


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<verse num="12">So<note>Or "And"</note> Sarah laughed to herself saying, "After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall <transChange type="added">this</transChange> pleasure be to me?"</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I will bear a child, now <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I have grown old?'</verse>


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<verse num="14">Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you {in the spring}<note>Literally "at the time of life"</note> and Sarah <transChange type="added">shall have</transChange> a son."</verse>


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<verse num="15">But Sarah denied <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. He<note>Yahweh</note> said, "No, but you did laugh." </verse>


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<verse num="16">Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them {to send them on their way}.<note>Literally "to send them away"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Yahweh said, "Shall I conceal from Abraham what I <transChange type="added">am going</transChange> to do?</verse>


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<verse num="18">Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him.</verse>


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<verse num="19">For I have chosen<note>Or "have known"</note> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Yahweh said, "Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great and because their sin <transChange type="added">is</transChange> very {serious},<note>Literally "heavy"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress <transChange type="added">which</transChange> has come to me? If not, I will know." </verse>


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<verse num="22">And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still standing before Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Abraham drew near <transChange type="added">to Yahweh</transChange> and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked?</verse>


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<verse num="24">If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst?</verse>


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<verse num="25">Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, that<note>Or "and"</note> the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?"</verse>


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<verse num="26">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."</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> dust and ashes.</verse>


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<verse num="28">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 <transChange type="added">it</transChange> if I find forty-five there."</verse>


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<verse num="29">And {once again he spoke}<note>Literally "And he added again to speak"</note> to him and said, "What if<note>Or "Perhaps"</note> forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on account of the forty."</verse>


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<verse num="30">And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if<note>Or "Perhaps"</note> thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> if I find thirty there."</verse>


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<verse num="31">And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if<note>Or "Perhaps"</note> twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for the sake of the twenty."</verse>


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<verse num="32">And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if<note>Or "Perhaps"</note> ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for the sake of the ten."</verse>


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<verse num="33">Then Yahweh left,<note>Or "went"</note> as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening. And Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. Then Lot saw <transChange type="added">them</transChange> and stood up to meet them. And he bowed down <transChange type="added">with his</transChange> face to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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."</verse>


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<verse num="3">But {he urged them strongly},<note>Literally "he pressed upon them very"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people {to the last man},<note>Literally "from the end"</note> surrounded the house.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know<note>Hebrew idiom for sexual intercourse (cp. Gen 4:1)</note> them."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said, "No, my brothers, please do not do <transChange type="added">such a</transChange> wrong <transChange type="added">thing</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Behold, I have two daughters who have not known<note>Hebrew idiom for sexual intercourse (cp. Gen 4:1)</note> a man. Please, let me bring them out to you; then do to them as <transChange type="added">it seems</transChange> good in your eyes. Only to these men do not do <transChange type="added">this</transChange> thing, since they came under{ my roof}<note>Literally "my beam"</note> for protection."</verse>


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<verse num="9">But they said, "Step aside!" Then they said, "{This fellow}<note>Literally "the one"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the men reached out <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their hands and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and they shut the door.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then the men said to Lot, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> here with you? Bring out from the place <transChange type="added">your</transChange> sons-in-law, and your sons and your daughters, and all who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you in the city.</verse>


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<verse num="13">For we are <transChange type="added">about to</transChange> destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> taking<note>That is, marrying</note> his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh <transChange type="added">is going</transChange> to destroy the city!" But {it seemed like a joke}<note>Literally "it was as one making fun"</note> in the eyes of his sons-in-law.</verse>


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<verse num="15">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},<note>Literally "who are found"</note> lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city."</verse>


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<verse num="16">But <transChange type="added">when</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And after bringing them outside <transChange type="added">one</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="19">Behold, your servant has found favor in your eyes and {you have shown me great kindness}<note>Literally "your kindness which you have done to me you have made great"</note> in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Behold, this city <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near <transChange type="added">enough</transChange> to flee there, and it <transChange type="added">is a</transChange> little <transChange type="added">one</transChange>. Please, let me flee there. Is it not a little <transChange type="added">one</transChange>? Then my life shall be saved."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And he said to him, "Behold, {I will grant this favor as well};<note>Literally "I am lifting up your face also concerning this thing"</note> that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Escape there quickly, for I cannot do <transChange type="added">this</transChange> thing until you get there." Therefore, there name of the city was called Zoar. </verse>


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<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">After</transChange> the sun {had risen}<note>Literally "had gone out"</note> upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar,</verse>


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<verse num="24">Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="26">But his<note>That is, Lot's</note> wife looked {back},<note>Literally "behind him"</note> and she became a pillar of salt.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Abraham arose early in the morning <transChange type="added">and went</transChange> to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="28">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,<note>Or "and"</note> behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace.</verse>


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<verse num="29">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. </verse>


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<verse num="30">And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country<note>Or "mountain"</note> with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And the firstborn <transChange type="added">daughter</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him<note>Idiom for "have sexual intercourse with him"</note> that {we may secure descendants through our father}."<note>Literally "that we might preserve offspring from our father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">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.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange>, 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}."<note>Literally "that we might preserve offspring from our father"</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">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.</verse>


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<verse num="37">The firstborn gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the father of Moab until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and she called his name Ben-Ammi. He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the father of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> until this day. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night. And he said to him, "Look, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a dead man on account of the woman you have taken. For she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a married woman}."<note>Literally "married of a husband" or "a woman owned by a husband"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, "my Lord, will you even kill a righteous people?"</verse>


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<verse num="5">Did not he himself say to me, 'She <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister'? And she herself said, 'He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my brother.' With integrity of my heart and with cleanness of my hands I did this."</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes,<note>Or "Also"</note> I know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also {kept you from sinning}<note>Literally "kept back from sinning"</note> against me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her.</verse>


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<verse num="7">So now, return the wife of the man, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And {if you do not return her},<note>Literally "If there is not for you a returning"</note> know that you will certainly die, and all that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> yours." </verse>


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<verse num="8">So Abimelech rose early in the morning. And he called all his servants and {told them all these things},<note>Literally "said all these things in their ears"</note> and the men were very afraid.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Abimelech said to Abraham, "{What were you thinking}<note>Literally "What have you seen?"</note> that you did this thing?"</verse>


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<verse num="11">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.</verse>


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<verse num="12">{Besides},<note>Literally "And also moreover"</note> she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> as God caused me to wander from the house of my father I said to her, 'This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your loyal kindness that you must do for me at every place where we come: say concerning me, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my brother." '"</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Abimelech said, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my land before you; settle {where it pleases you}."<note>Literally "in the good in your eyes"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">And to Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand <transChange type="added">pieces of</transChange> silver to your brother. It <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> {an exoneration}.<note>Literally "a covering of the eyes"</note> {You are vindicated before all who are with you}."<note>Literally "to all who are with you and with all you are vindicated"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they <transChange type="added">could</transChange> bear children <transChange type="added">again</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="18">For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son <transChange type="added">when he was</transChange> eight days old, as God had commanded him.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Abraham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son <transChange type="added">to Abraham</transChange> in his old age." </verse>


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<verse num="8">And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking.</verse>


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<verse num="10">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."</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the matter {displeased Abraham very much}<note>Literally "was very bad in the eyes of Abraham"</note> on account of his son.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then God said to Abraham, "{Do not be displeased}<note>Literally "Do not let it be bad"</note> on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. {Listen to everything that Sarah said to you},<note>Literally "Everything Sarah said to you, listen with respect to her voice"</note> for through Isaac <transChange type="added">your</transChange> offspring will be named.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is your offspring."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to Hagar, putting <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And she went and {she sat a good distance away},<note>Literally "she sat with respect to her, opposite, far away, as the shooting of a bow"</note> for she said, "Let me not see the child's death." So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And God heard the cry<note>Or "voice"</note> of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, "{What is the matter}<note>Literally "What to you"</note> Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cry<note>Or "voice"</note> of the boy {from where he is}.<note>Literally "in which he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> there"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">Get up, take up the boy and take him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation."</verse>


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<verse num="19">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.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became {an expert with a bow}.<note>Literally "an archer with the bow"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. </verse>


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<verse num="22">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you, in all that you do.</verse>


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<verse num="23">So now, swear to me here by God <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">pledge</transChange> to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien."</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And Abimelech said, "I do not know who did this thing, neither did you tell me, nor have I heard <transChange type="added">of it</transChange> except for today."</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Abimelech. And the two of them {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then Abraham set <transChange type="added">off</transChange> seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What <transChange type="added">is the meaning of</transChange> these seven ewe-lambs that you have set <transChange type="added">off</transChange> by themselves?"</verse>


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<verse num="30">And he said, "You shall take the seven ewe-lambs from my hand {as proof on my behalf}<note>Literally "for the sake that it shall be a witness for me"</note> that I dug this well."</verse>


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<verse num="31">Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And they {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech, and Phicol his army commander stood and returned to the land of the Philistines.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And he<note>That is, Abraham</note> planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, {the everlasting God}.<note>Literally "El-Olam"</note></verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="2">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 where<note>Or "that"</note> I will tell you."</verse>


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<verse num="3">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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance.</verse>


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<verse num="5">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."</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and the two of them went together.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Isaac said to Abraham his father, "My father!" And he said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>, my son." And he said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Abraham said, "{God will provide}<note>Literally "God will see to it" or "God will see for himself"</note> the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went together. </verse>


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<verse num="9">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.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" And he said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="12">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}<note>Literally "a fearer"</note> God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child, from me."</verse>


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<verse num="13">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.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh {will provide},"<note>Literally "will see"</note> {for which reason}<note>Literally "which"</note> it is said today, "on the mountain of Yahweh {it shall be provided}."<note>Literally "it/he shall be seen"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">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,</verse>


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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice."</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after these things, it was told to Abraham, "Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:</verse>


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<verse num="23">(Now, Bethuel fathered Rebekah). These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, the brother of Abraham.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And {Sarah lived}<note>Literally "the lives of Sarah were"</note> one hundred and twenty-seven years; <transChange type="added">these were</transChange> the years of the life of Sarah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba; that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Hebron, in the land of Canaan.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> said,</verse>


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<verse num="4">"I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site}<note>Literally "ownership of a grave"</note> among you so that I may bury my dead from before me."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the Hittites<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> answered Abraham <transChange type="added">and</transChange> said to him,</verse>


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<verse num="6">"Hear us, my lord, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a mighty prince<note>Or "prince of God"</note> in our midst. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites. None of us {will withhold his burial site}<note>Literally "will withhold from himself his burial site</note> from you <transChange type="added">for</transChange> burying your dead."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites.<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And he spoke with them, saying, "{If you are willing}<note>Literally "if there is with your inner selves / souls"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron the son of Zohar,</verse>


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<verse num="9">that he may sell<note>Or "give"</note> to me the cave of Machpelah which {belongs to him},<note>Literally "which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to him"</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at the end of his field. At full value let him sell<note>Or "give"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me in your midst as {a burial site}."<note>Literally "ownership of a grave"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites.<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> with respect to all <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> entering the gate of his city, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> said,</verse>


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<verse num="11">"No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in it, I <transChange type="added">also</transChange> give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "{If only you will hear me}<note>Literally "Only if you perhaps hear me"</note>--I give the price of the field. Take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from me that I may bury my dead there."</verse>


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<verse num="15">"My lord, hear me. A <transChange type="added">piece of</transChange> land <transChange type="added">worth</transChange> four hundred shekels of silver--what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> that between me and you? Bury your dead."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named<note>Or "spoken"</note> in the hearing of the Hittites:<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> four hundred shekels of silver {at the merchants' current rate}.<note>Literally "passing to the merchant"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">So the field of Ephron which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the Machpelah, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> near Mamre--the field and the cave which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in it, with all the trees that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the field, which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> within all its surrounding boundaries--{passed}<note>Literally "went up"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites,<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> with respect to all <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> entering the gate of his city.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Hebron, in the land of Canaan.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And the field and the cave which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in it {passed}<note>Literally "went up"</note> to Abraham as {a burial site}<note>Literally "ownership of a grave"</note> from the Hittites.<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Abraham <transChange type="added">was</transChange> old, {advanced in age},<note>Literally "going in the days"</note> and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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</verse>


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<verse num="3">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,</verse>


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<verse num="4">but that you will go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son, for Isaac."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing {to follow}<note>Literally "to go after"</note> me to this land--must I then return your son to the land from whence you came?"</verse>


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<verse num="6">Abraham said to him, "{You must take care}<note>Literally "let it be careful to you"</note> that you do not return my son there.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And if the woman is not willing {to follow}<note>Literally "to go after"</note> you, then you shall be released from this oath of mine--only you must not return my son there."</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the servant took ten camels from his master's camels, and he went with all <transChange type="added">kinds of</transChange> his master's good things in his hand. And he arose and went to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And he made the camels kneel outside the city at the well of water, at the time of evening, toward the time <transChange type="added">the women</transChange> went out to draw water.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he said, "O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are going out to draw water.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And let it be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the girl to whom I shall say, 'Please, offer your jar that I may drink' and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> says, 'Drink--and I will also water your camels,' she <transChange type="added">is the one</transChange> you have chosen for your servant, for Isaac. By her I will know that you have shown loyal love to my master."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on her shoulder.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Now the girl <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very pleasing in appearance. <transChange type="added">She was</transChange> a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the servant ran to meet her. And he said, "Please, let me drink a little of the water from your jar."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And she said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly lowered her jar in her hand and gave him a drink.</verse>


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<verse num="19">When<note>Or "And"</note> she finished giving him a drink she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they finish drinking."</verse>


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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> gazing at her silently to know <transChange type="added">if</transChange> Yahweh had made his journey successful or not.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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,</verse>


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<verse num="23">and said, "Please tell me, whose daughter <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you? Is there a place <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the house of your father for us to spend the night?"</verse>


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<verse num="24">And she said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then she said to him, "We have both straw and fodder in abundance, as well as a place to spend the night."</verse>


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<verse num="27">And he said, "Blessed <transChange type="added">be</transChange> Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld<note>Or "abandoned"</note> his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the way <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Yahweh led me <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the house of my master's brother."</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then the girl ran and reported these things to the household of her mother. </verse>


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<verse num="29">Now Rebekah had a brother, and his name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Laban. And Laban ran out to the man toward the spring.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And when he saw the ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> said, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, <transChange type="added">he was</transChange> standing with the camels at the spring.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And he said, "Come, O blessed <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? Now I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."</verse>


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<verse num="32">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 <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


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<verse num="33">{And food was placed before him}<note>Literally "And it was placed before him"</note> to eat. And he said, "I will not eat until {I have told my errand}."<note>Literally "I have spoken my word"</note> And he said, "Speak."</verse>


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<verse num="34">And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the servant of Abraham.</verse>


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<verse num="35">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.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he<note>That is, Abraham</note> has given to him all that he has.</verse>


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<verse num="37">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.</verse>


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<verse num="38">But you shall go to the house of my father, and to my family, and you shall take a wife for my son.'</verse>


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<verse num="39">And I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not {follow}<note>Literally "go after"</note> me.'</verse>


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<verse num="40">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.</verse>


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<verse num="41">Then you shall be released from my oath, when you come to my family. And if they will not give <transChange type="added">a woman</transChange> to you, then you will be released from my oath.'</verse>


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<verse num="42">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},<note>Literally "if there is you making successful my journey"</note> upon which I am going.</verse>


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<verse num="43">Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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,"</verse>


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<verse num="44">let her say to me, "Drink; I will also draw water for your camels," she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for the son of my master.'</verse>


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<verse num="45">I had not yet finished speaking to myself<note>Or "to my heart"</note> when, behold, Rebekah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming out with<note>Or "and"</note> 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.'</verse>


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<verse num="46">And she hastened and let down her jar {from her shoulder}<note>Literally "from upon her"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="47">Then I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="48">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.</verse>


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<verse num="49">So now, {if you are going to deal loyally and truly}<note>Literally "if there is you doing loyal love and faithfulness"</note> with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, so that I may turn to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> right or to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> left."<note>An idiom for "so that I might know what to do"</note></verse>


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<verse num="50">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.</verse>


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<verse num="51">Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Rebekah before you. Take <transChange type="added">her</transChange> and go; let her be a wife for the son of your master as Yahweh has spoken."</verse>


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<verse num="52">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when the servant of Abraham heard their words he bowed down to the ground to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="53">And the servant brought out silver jewelry and gold jewelry, and garments, and he gave <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Rebekah. And he gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother.</verse>


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<verse num="54">And he and the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="55">And her brother and her mother said, "Let the girl remain with us ten days <transChange type="added">or so</transChange>; after <transChange type="added">that</transChange> she may go."</verse>


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<verse num="56">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."</verse>


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<verse num="57">And they said, "Let us call the girl and ask {her opinion}."<note>Literally "her mouth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="58">And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."</verse>


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<verse num="59">So they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his men.</verse>


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<verse num="60">And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> our sister; may you become countless thousands; and may your offspring take possession of the gate of his enemies."</verse>


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<verse num="61">And Rebekah and her maidservants arose, and they mounted the camels and {followed}<note>Literally "went after"</note> the man. And the servant took Rebekah and left. </verse>


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<verse num="62">Now Isaac <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming from the direction of Beer-Lahai-Roi. And he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living in the land of the Negev.</verse>


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<verse num="63">And Isaac went out to meditate in the field {early in the evening},<note>Literally "at the turning of evening"</note> and he lifted up his eyes and saw--behold, camels were coming.</verse>


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<verse num="64">And Rebekah lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac. And she got down from the camel.</verse>


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<verse num="65">And she said to the servant, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this man walking around in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "That <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my master." And she took her<note>Or "the"</note> veil and covered herself.</verse>


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<verse num="67">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 <transChange type="added">the death of</transChange> his mother. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Abraham again took a wife, and her name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Keturah.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the sons of Midian <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the children of Keturah.</verse>


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<verse num="6">But to the sons of Abraham's concubines Abraham gave gifts. And while he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still living he sent them away eastward, <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from his son Isaac, to the land of the east.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the days of the years of {the life of Abraham}:<note>Literally "the years of the life of Abraham which he lived"</note> one hundred and seventy-five years.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> east of Mamre,</verse>


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<verse num="10">the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites.<note>Or "sons of Heth"</note> There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-Lahai-Roi. </verse>


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<verse num="12">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, that Hagar the Egyptian, the maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their family records. The firstborn of Ishmael <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,</verse>


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<verse num="16">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Ishmael, and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their names by their villages and by their encampments--12 leaders according to their tribes.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. And he passed away and died, and was gathered to his people.</verse>


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<verse num="18">They settled from Havilah to Shur, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> opposite<note>Or "upon the face of"</note> Egypt, going toward Asshur, opposite;<note>Or "upon the face of"</note> he {settled}<note>Literally "fell"</note> opposite<note>Or "upon the face of"</note> all his brothers. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac,</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Isaac was {forty years old}<note>Literally "a son of forty years"</note> when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "{If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant}?"<note>Literally "if so, why this I?"</note> And she went to inquire of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Yahweh said to her, "Two nations <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your womb, and two peoples {from birth}<note>Literally "from your bowels"</note> shall be divided. And {one people shall be stronger than the other}.<note>Literally "people than people shall be stronger"</note> And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> elder shall serve <transChange type="added">the</transChange> younger."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And when her days to give birth were completed,<note>Or "full"</note> then--behold--twins <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in her womb.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the first came out red, all {his body}<note>Literally "of him"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau.</verse>


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<verse num="26">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}<note>Literally "a son of sixty years"</note> at their birth.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And the boys grew up. And Esau <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a skilled<note>Or "knowing" (knowledgeable)</note> hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a peaceful man, living <transChange type="added">in</transChange> tents.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Isaac loved Esau because {he could eat of his game},<note>Literally "game in his mouth"</note> but Rebekah loved Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Once<note>Or "and"</note> Jacob cooked a thick stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And Esau said to Jacob, "Give me {some of that red stuff}<note>Literally "some of the red, this red"</note> to gulp down, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom).</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright {first}."<note>Literally "as the day"</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">And Esau said, "Look, I am going to die; now what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this birthright to me?"</verse>


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<verse num="33">Then Jacob said, "Swear to me {first}."<note>Literally "as the day"</note> And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="34">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. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I will show to you.</verse>


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<verse num="3">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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">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,</verse>


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<verse num="5">because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." </verse>


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<verse num="7">When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, "She <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking<note>Or "lest"</note> "the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for {she was beautiful}."<note>Literally "good of appearance"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange>, {when he had been there a long time},<note>Literally "when the days there were long to him"</note> Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw--behold--Isaac <transChange type="added">was</transChange> fondling Rebekah his wife.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Abimelech called Isaac<note>Or "to Isaac"</note> and said, "Surely she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your wife. Now why did you say 'She <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Abimelech said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> 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!"</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, "The <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> touches this man or his wife shall certainly die." </verse>


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<verse num="12">And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And the man {became wealthier and wealthier}<note>Literally "became great and went, going and became great"</note> until he was exceedingly wealthy.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he possessed sheep and cattle and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">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.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from us, for you have become much too powerful for us."</verse>


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<verse num="17">So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there.</verse>


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<verse num="18">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 gave<note>Or "called"</note> to them {the same names}<note>Literally "names as names"</note> which his father had given<note>Or "called"</note> them.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And when the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, they found a well of fresh water there.</verse>


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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah.</verse>


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<verse num="22">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."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> with you, and I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham."</verse>


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<verse num="25">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.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol his army commander.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."</verse>


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<verse num="28">And they said, "We see clearly that Yahweh has been with you, so we thought<note>Or "said"</note> let there be an oath between us--between us and you--and let us {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant with you</verse>


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<verse num="29">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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange> now blessed by Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="31">And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other,<note>Or "to his brother"</note> and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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!"</verse>


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<verse num="33">And he called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Beersheba unto this day. </verse>


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<verse num="34">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And {they made life bitter}<note>Literally "they caused bitterness of spirit"</note> for Isaac and Rebekah. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Isaac <transChange type="added">was</transChange> old and {his eyesight was weak},<note>Literally "his eyes were weak from seeing"</note> he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he<note>That is, Esau</note> said to him, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he said, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> old; I do not know the day of my death.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt food for me.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then make for me tasty food like I love, and bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me. And I will eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange> so that I<note>Or "my soul"</note> can bless you before I die. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Now Rebekah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and <transChange type="added">when</transChange> Esau went to the field to hunt wild game to bring <transChange type="added">back</transChange>,</verse>


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<verse num="6">Rebekah said to Jacob her son, "Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother saying,</verse>


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<verse num="7">'Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and bless you before Yahweh before my death.'</verse>


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<verse num="9">Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them <transChange type="added">as</transChange> tasty food for your father, just as he likes.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Then you must take it to your father and he will eat <transChange type="added">it</transChange> so that he may bless you before his death."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then Jacob said to his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a hairy man, but I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a smooth man.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a mocker, and he will bring upon me a curse and not a blessing."</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice--go and get <transChange type="added">them</transChange> for me."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So he went and took <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and brought <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Rebekah took <transChange type="added">some of</transChange> her older son Esau's best garments that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with her in the house, and she put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on Jacob her younger son.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over the smooth <transChange type="added">part of</transChange> his neck.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob, her son.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And he went to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>. Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you, my son?"</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Jacob said to his father, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you<note>Or "your soul"</note> may bless me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Isaac said to his son, "{How}<note>Literally "what is this?"</note> did you find <transChange type="added">it</transChange> so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God {caused me to find it}."<note>Literally "made it to happen before me"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please, come near and let me feel you, my son. {Are you really}<note>Literally "are you this one?"</note> my son Esau or not?"</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, "The voice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the voice of Jacob, but the hands <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the hands of Esau."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And he said, "{Are you really}<note>Literally "are you this one?"</note> my son Esau?" And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then he said, "Bring <transChange type="added">it</transChange> near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I<note>Or "my soul"</note> may bless you." And he brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And he drew near and kissed him. And he<note>That is, Isaac</note> smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, </verse>


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<verse num="28">May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine.</verse>


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<verse num="29">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."</verse>


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<verse num="30">And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, {immediately after}<note>Literally "it was only"</note> Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came <transChange type="added">back</transChange> from his hunting.</verse>


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<verse num="31">He too prepared tasty food and brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that you<note>Or "your soul"</note> may bless me."</verse>


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<verse num="32">And Isaac his father said to him, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you?" And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your son, your firstborn, Esau."</verse>


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<verse num="33">Then Isaac {trembled violently}.<note>Literally "trembled a great trembling unto exceeding"</note> Then he said, "Who then <transChange type="added">was</transChange> he that hunted wild game and brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me, and I ate <transChange type="added">it</transChange> all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!"</verse>


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<verse num="34">When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, "Bless me as well, my father!"</verse>


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<verse num="36">Then he said, "{Isn't that why he is named Jacob}?<note>Literally "that his name is called Jacob?"</note> 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?"</verse>


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<verse num="37">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 <transChange type="added">with</transChange> grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?"</verse>


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<verse num="38">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.</verse>


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<verse num="40">But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck.</verse>


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<verse num="41">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,<note>That is, "to himself"</note> "The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother."</verse>


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<verse num="42">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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange> consoling himself concerning you, <transChange type="added">intending</transChange> to kill you.</verse>


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<verse num="43">Now then, my son, listen to my voice; arise and flee to Haran to Laban my brother.</verse>


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<verse num="45">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?"</verse>


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<verse num="46">Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.<note>Or "daughters of the Hittites"</note> If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women<note>Or "daughters of the Hittites"</note> like these, from the {native women},<note>Literally "daughters of the land"</note> {what am I living for}?"<note>Literally "What is life to me?"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Now, may El-Shaddai<note>Often translated "God Almighty"</note> bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.</verse>


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<verse num="4">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."</verse>


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<verse num="5">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.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, and<note>Or "when"</note> he blessed him and instructed him, saying, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"</verse>


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<verse num="7">and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan <transChange type="added">were</transChange> evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,</verse>


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<verse num="9">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. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And he arrived at a <transChange type="added">certain</transChange> place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of the stones of the place and put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> under his head and slept at that place.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set on the earth, and its top touched the heavens. And behold, angels of God <transChange type="added">were</transChange> going up and going down on it.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And behold, Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing beside him,<note>Or "above it"</note> and he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants.</verse>


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<verse num="14">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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Now behold, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely Yahweh {is indeed}<note>Literally "there is"</note> in this place and I did not know!"</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then he was afraid and said, "How awesome <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this place! {This is nothing else than the house of God},<note>Literally "there is not this but the house of God"</note> and this is the gate of heaven!"</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a stone pillar, and poured oil on top of it.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And he called the name of that place Bethel; however, the name of the city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> formerly Luz.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Jacob made a vow<note>Or "vowed a vow"</note> 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,</verse>


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<verse num="21">and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I return in peace to the house of my father, then Yahweh will become my God.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And this stone that I have set up <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a pillar shall be the house of God, and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you." </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Jacob {continued his journey}<note>Literally "lifted up his feet"</note> and went to the land of the Easterners.<note>Or "children of the east"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">And he looked, and behold, <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a well in the field, and behold, there <transChange type="added">were</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> large.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you from?" And they said, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> from Haran."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he said to them, "Do you know Laban, son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know <transChange type="added">him</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he said to them, "{Is he well}?"<note>Literally "Is it well for him?"</note> And they said, "<transChange type="added">He is</transChange> well. Now look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said, "Look, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> still {broad daylight};<note>Literally "high day"</note> it is not the time <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the livestock to be gathered. Give water to the sheep and go, pasture them."</verse>


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<verse num="8">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."</verse>


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<verse num="9">While he was speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which belonged to her father, for she was pasturing <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange>, 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.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Jacob told Rachel that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the relative of her father, and that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Laban said to him, "Surely you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my flesh and my bone!" And he stayed with him a month. </verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Laban said to Jacob, "<transChange type="added">Just</transChange> because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage <transChange type="added">should be</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Leah, and the name of the younger <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Rachel.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Now the eyes of Leah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter."</verse>


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<verse num="19">Then Laban said, "Better <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Jacob said to Laban, "Give <transChange type="added">me</transChange> my wife, that I may go in to her, for {my time}<note>Literally "my days"</note> is completed."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And Laban gave Zilpah his female servant to her, to Leah his daughter <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a female servant.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> in the morning, behold, it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Leah! And he said to Laban, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Now why did you deceive me?"</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Laban said, "{It is not the custom}<note>Literally "it is not thus done"</note> in our country to give the younger before the firstborn.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Complete the week of this one,<note>Leah; the wedding feast would last one week</note> then I will also give you the other, {on the condition that you will work for me}<note>Literally "with respect to the work that you will work with me yet"</note> another seven years."</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this <transChange type="added">one</transChange>,<note>That is, Leah</note> then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And Laban gave Bilhah his female servant to Rachel his daughter as a female servant.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years. </verse>


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<verse num="31">When Yahweh saw that Leah <transChange type="added">was</transChange> unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> barren.</verse>


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<verse num="32">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 <transChange type="added">am</transChange> unloved. Now my husband will love me."</verse>


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<verse num="33">And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> because Yahweh has heard that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> unloved that he gave me this <transChange type="added">son</transChange> also." And she called his name Simeon.</verse>


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<verse num="34">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.</verse>


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<verse num="35">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. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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!"</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Jacob {became angry}<note>Literally "became hot of nose"</note> with Rachel. And he said, "<transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then she said, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children {as my surrogate}.<note>Literally "upon my knees"</note> Then I will even {have children}<note>Literally "be built up"</note> by her."</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to her</verse>


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<verse num="6">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.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Bilhah, Rachel's servant, conceived again and bore a second son to Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Rachel said, "I have struggled a mighty struggle with my sister and have prevailed." And she called his name Naphtali.</verse>


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<verse num="9">When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Leah said, "How happy <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher. </verse>


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<verse num="14">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."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And she said to her, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> your taking my husband <transChange type="added">such</transChange> a small <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="16">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}<note>Literally "I have fully paid for"</note> you with my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Leah said, "God has given <transChange type="added">me</transChange> my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar.</verse>


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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And she conceived and gave birth to a son. And she said, "God has taken away my disgrace."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And she called his name Joseph, saying, "Yahweh has added to me another son." </verse>


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<verse num="25">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Give <transChange type="added">me</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="27">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."</verse>


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<verse num="28">And he said, "Name your wage to me and I will give <transChange type="added">it</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="29">Then he said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me.<note>I.e., "How well they have done under my care"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you {wherever I turned}.<note>Literally "to my foot"</note> So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?"</verse>


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<verse num="31">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 <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing all the speckled and spotted sheep from them, along with<note>Or "and"</note> every dark-colored sheep among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. That<note>Or "it"</note> shall be my wages.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And my righteousness will answer for me {later}<note>Literally "on the day tomorrow"</note> when you come concerning my wages before you. Every <transChange type="added">one</transChange> that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the sheep shall be stolen <transChange type="added">if it is</transChange> with me."</verse>


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<verse num="35">But that day he<note>That is, Laban</note> removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that <transChange type="added">had</transChange> white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and {put them in the charge of his sons}.<note>Literally "he gave into the hands of his sons"</note></verse>


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<verse num="36">And he put a journey of three days between him and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the remainder of Laban's flock.</verse>


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<verse num="37">Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the branches.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs <transChange type="added">and</transChange> in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted.</verse>


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<verse num="40">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.</verse>


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<verse num="41">And whenever any of the stronger of the flocks were in heat, Jacob put the branches {in full view}<note>Literally "before the eyes of"</note> of the flock in the troughs that they might mate among the branches.</verse>


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<verse num="42">But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put <transChange type="added">them there</transChange>. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Jacob's.</verse>


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<verse num="43">And the man became {exceedingly}<note>Literally "very, very"</note> rich and had large flocks, female slaves, male slaves, camels, and donkeys. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now he<note>That is, Jacob</note> heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, "Jacob has taken all that our father has," and "From that which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> our father's he has gained all this wealth."</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, {it was not like it had been in the past}.<note>Literally "there was not with him like yesterday or the day before"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> and to your family, and I will be with you."</verse>


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<verse num="5">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}.<note>Literally "it is not to me like yesterday or the day before"</note> But the God of my father is with me.</verse>


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<verse num="7">and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.</verse>


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<verse num="8">If thus he said, 'Speckled shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore speckled. And <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he said, 'Streaked shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore streaked.</verse>


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<verse num="9">God has taken away your father's livestock and given <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to me.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">were</transChange> streaked, speckled, and dappled.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>.'</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see--all the rams mounting the flock <transChange type="added">are</transChange> streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.</verse>


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<verse num="13">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> 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.'"</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "<transChange type="added">Is there</transChange> yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?</verse>


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<verse num="15">Are we not regarded <transChange type="added">as</transChange> foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?</verse>


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<verse num="16">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."</verse>


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<verse num="18">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. </verse>


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<verse num="19">Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols<note>Hebrew teraphim</note> that belonged to her father.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Jacob {tricked}<note>Literally "stole the heart of"</note> Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he <transChange type="added">intended to</transChange> flee.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates<note>Or "the river"</note> and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="23">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.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "{Take care}<note>Literally "watch to yourself"</note> that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched <transChange type="added">their tents</transChange> in the hill country of Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done that you {tricked me}<note>Literally "stole my heart"</note> and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword?</verse>


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<verse num="27">Why did you hide <transChange type="added">your intention</transChange> to flee and {trick me},<note>Literally "steal my heart"</note> and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?</verse>


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<verse num="28">And <transChange type="added">why</transChange> did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons<note>Or "sons"</note> and my daughters <transChange type="added">goodbye</transChange>? Now you have behaved foolishly <transChange type="added">by</transChange> doing <transChange type="added">this</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="29">{It is in my power}<note>Literally "there is power in my hand"</note> to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, '{Take care}<note>Literally "watch to yourself"</note> from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.'</verse>


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<verse num="30">Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> why did you steal my gods?"</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> afraid, for I thought, 'Lest you take your daughters from me by force.'</verse>


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<verse num="32"><transChange type="added">But</transChange> with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen <transChange type="added">now</transChange> identify what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> yours and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Then Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find <transChange type="added">his gods</transChange>. And he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent.</verse>


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<verse num="34">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.</verse>


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<verse num="35">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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols.</verse>


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<verse num="36">Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my offense? What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sin that you pursued after me?</verse>


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<verse num="37">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!</verse>


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<verse num="38">These twenty years I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat.</verse>


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<verse num="39">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.</verse>


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<verse num="40"><transChange type="added">There</transChange> I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="41">These twenty years <transChange type="added">I have been</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="42">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."</verse>


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<verse num="43">Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my daughters and the grandsons<note>Or "sons"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my grandsons,<note>Or "sons"</note> and the flocks <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my flocks, and all that you see, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne?</verse>


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<verse num="44">So now, come, let us {make}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you."</verse>


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<verse num="45">And Jacob took a stone and set it up <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a stone pillar.</verse>


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<verse num="46">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.</verse>


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<verse num="47">And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,<note>Aramaic for "the heap of witness"</note> but Jacob called it Galeed.<note>Hebrew for "the heap of witness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="48">Then Laban said, "This pile of stones <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a witness between me and you today." Therefore its name is called Galeed,<note>Hebrew for "the heap of witness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="49">and Mizpah,<note>Hebrew for "watchpost"</note> because he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you when {we are out of sight of each other}.<note>Literally "each from his neighbor is concealed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="50">If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> there is no man with us, see--God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a witness between me and you."</verse>


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<verse num="51">And Laban said to Jacob, "See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you.</verse>


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<verse num="52">This pile of stones <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a witness, and the pillar <transChange type="added">is</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="53">May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father<note>That is, Terah</note> judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.</verse>


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<verse num="54">And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal.<note>Or "food, bread"</note> And they ate the meal<note>Or "food, bread"</note> and spent the night on the hill.</verse>


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<verse num="55"><note>Genesis 31:55-32:32 in the English Bible is 32:1-33 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons<note>Or "sons"</note> and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And when he saw them, Jacob said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the camp of God!" And he called the name of that place Mahanaim. </verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="4">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 <transChange type="added">there</transChange> until now.</verse>


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<verse num="5">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.'"</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the messengers returned to Jacob <transChange type="added">and</transChange> said, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him."</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him into two companies.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he thought, "If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be <transChange type="added">able</transChange> to escape."</verse>


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<verse num="9">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.'</verse>


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<verse num="10">{I am not worthy}<note>Literally "I am small"</note> of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown<note>Or "done"</note> your servant, for with <transChange type="added">only</transChange> my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.</verse>


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<verse num="11">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 <transChange type="added">alike</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="12">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.'" </verse>


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<verse num="13">And he lodged there that night. Then he took {from what he had with him}<note>Literally "from that which was going from his hand"</note> a gift for Esau his brother:</verse>


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<verse num="15">thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> under the hand of his servants, {herd by herd},<note>Literally "every herd by its own"</note> and said to his servants, "Cross on ahead before me, and put some distance {between herds}.<note>Literally "between a herd and between a herd"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And he instructed the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother comes upon you and asks you, saying, 'Whose <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you and where are you going? To whom do these <transChange type="added">animals</transChange> belong ahead of you?'</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then you must say, 'To your servant, to Jacob. It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> also <transChange type="added">coming</transChange> after us.'"</verse>


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<verse num="19">And he also instructed the second <transChange type="added">servant</transChange> and the third, and everyone <transChange type="added">else</transChange> who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> behind the herds, saying, "You must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob <transChange type="added">is</transChange> behind us.'" For he thought, "{Let me appease him}<note>Literally "let me cover his face"</note> with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will {show me favor}."<note>Literally "lift up my face"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp. </verse>


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<verse num="22">That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And when he<note>That is, the man</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then he<note>That is, the man</note> said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then he said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your name?" And he said, "Jacob."</verse>


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<verse num="28">And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,<note>"Israel" means "he struggles with God," or "God struggles"</note> for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."</verse>


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<verse num="29">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.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel <transChange type="added">which means</transChange> "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared."</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Therefore the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> 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. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming and four hundred men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him. And he<note>That is, Jacob</note> divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he put the female slaves and their children first, then Leah and her children next, then Rachel with Joseph last.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came to his brother.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then the female servants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed down.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then Leah and her children drew near and bowed down, and afterward Joseph and Rachel drew near and they bowed down.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And he<note>That is, Esau</note> said, "{What do you mean by}<note>Literally "What to you?"</note> all this company that I have met?" Then he said, "To find favor in the eyes of my lord."</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Esau said, "{I have enough}<note>Literally "There is to me abundance"</note> my brother; {keep what you have}."<note>Literally "let what is to you be to you"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">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 <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> like seeing the face of God, and you have received me.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Please take my gift which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me, and because {I have enough}."<note>Literally "There is to me abundance"</note> And he urged him, so he took <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then he<note>That is, Esau</note> said, "Let us journey and go <transChange type="added">on</transChange>, and I will go ahead of you."</verse>


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<verse num="13">But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children <transChange type="added">are</transChange> frail, and the flocks and the cattle <transChange type="added">which are</transChange> nursing <transChange type="added">are a concern</transChange> to me. Now <transChange type="added">if</transChange> they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace<note>Or "foot"</note> of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace<note>Or "foot"</note> of the children until I come to my lord in Seir."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "{What need is there}?<note>Literally "What is this?"</note> Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."</verse>


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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Canaan, {on his way}<note>Literally "at his coming"</note> from Paddan-Aram. And he camped before the city.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And he bought a piece of land where he pitched his tent for one hundred pieces of money<note>Hebrew kesitah</note> from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And there he erected an altar and called it "El Elohe Israel."<note>That is, "El the God of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke {tenderly}<note>Literally "to the heart"</note> to the girl.</verse>


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<verse num="4">So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, "Get this girl for me as a wife." </verse>


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<verse num="5">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.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. 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}<note>Literally "and thus"</note> should not be done.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Hamor spoke with them saying, "Shechem my son {is in love with}<note>Literally "his soul longs for"</note> your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves.</verse>


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<verse num="10">You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire <transChange type="added">property</transChange> in it."</verse>


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<verse num="11">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.</verse>


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<verse num="12">{Make the bride price and gift as high as you like};<note>Literally "Increase upon me very bride price and gift"</note> I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife."</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> uncircumcised, for that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a disgrace for us.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Only on this <transChange type="added">condition</transChange> will we give consent to you; if you will become like us--every male among you to be circumcised.</verse>


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<verse num="16">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.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he wanted the daughter of Jacob. Now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the most honored of his father's house.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="21">"These men <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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}.<note>Literally "broad on sides before them"</note> Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give our daughters to them.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Only on this <transChange type="added">condition</transChange> will they give consent to us, to live with us <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to become one family--when every male among us <transChange type="added">is</transChange> circumcised as they are circumcised.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals <transChange type="added">be</transChange> ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us."</verse>


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<verse num="24">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.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="26">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.</verse>


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<verse num="27">The <transChange type="added">other</transChange> sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.</verse>


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<verse num="28">They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the field.</verse>


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<verse num="29">They captured and plundered all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the houses--all their wealth, their little ones, and their women.</verse>


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<verse num="30">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 <transChange type="added">am</transChange> few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed--I and my household!"</verse>


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<verse num="1">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."</verse>


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<verse num="2">Then Jacob said to his household and to all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments.</verse>


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<verse num="3">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."</verse>


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<verse num="4">So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in their hands, and the ornamental rings that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in their ears. And Jacob buried them under the oak which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> near Shechem.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then they set out on their journey, and the terror of God was upon the cities that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> all around them, so that they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Jacob came to Luz which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the land of Canaan (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Bethel), he and all the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died. And she was buried below Bethel, under the oak. And its name was called Allon-Bacuth.<note>"The Oak of Weeping"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-Aram, and he blessed him.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And God said to him, "Your name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Then his name was called Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And God said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> El-Shaddai.<note>Possibly "God Almighty," but more likely "God of the Wilderness"</note> Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assemblage of nations shall be from you, and kings shall go out from your loins.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="14">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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. </verse>


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<verse num="16">Then they journeyed from Bethel. And {when they were still some distance}<note>Literally "there was still the stretch of land"</note> from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And {when her labor was the most difficult}<note>Literally "at her distress at giving birth"</note> the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid {for you have another son}."<note>Literally "for this one also to you is a son"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni.<note>"Son of my sorrow"</note> But his father called him Benjamin.<note>"Son of the right hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And Rachel died and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Bethlehem).</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Jacob erected a pillar at her burial site. That <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the pillar of the burial site of Rachel unto this day.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Israel journeyed <transChange type="added">on</transChange> and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.<note>Or "Migdal-Eder"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard <transChange type="added">about it</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="23">The sons of Leah: The firstborn of Jacob <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Reuben. Then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.</verse>


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<verse num="26">The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. </verse>


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<verse num="27">And Jacob came to Isaac his father <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mamre, <transChange type="added">or</transChange> Kiriath-Arba (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac dwelled as aliens.</verse>


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<verse num="29">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. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the descendants of Esau (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Edom).</verse>


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<verse num="2">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,</verse>


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<verse num="5">and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam, and Korah. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.</verse>


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<verse num="6">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.</verse>


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<verse num="7">For their possessions were {too many to live together},<note>Literally "much from living together"</note> so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.</verse>


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<verse num="8">So Esau dwelled in the hill country of Seir (Esau, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Edom). </verse>


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<verse num="9">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the descendants of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.</verse>


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<verse num="10">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="12">(Now Timnah was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau. And she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Adah, the wife of Esau.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, the wife of Esau: She bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.</verse>


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<verse num="15">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs of Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,</verse>


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<verse num="16">Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Adah.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons Reuel, the son of Esau: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Oholibamah, the wife of Esau: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs born of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the wife of Esau.</verse>


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<verse num="19">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Esau, and these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their chiefs (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Edom).</verse>


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<verse num="20">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Seir, the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,</verse>


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<verse num="21">Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. And Lotan's sister <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Timna.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah--he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Anah who found the hot springs in the desert while he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.</verse>


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<verse num="27">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.</verse>


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<verse num="28">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.</verse>


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<verse num="29">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,</verse>


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<verse num="30">Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. </verse>


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<verse num="31">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom. And the name of his city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Dinhabah.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah from Bozrah, reigned in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And Jobab died, and Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And Husham died, and Hadad, son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field<note>Or "country"</note> of Moab reigned in his place. And the name of his city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Avith.</verse>


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<verse num="37">And Samlah died, and Shaul from Rehoboth <transChange type="added">on</transChange> the Euphrates<note>Or "the River"</note> reigned in his place.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And Baal-Hanan the son of Acbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Pau, and the name of his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.</verse>


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<verse num="40">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the chiefs of Esau according to their families, according to their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,</verse>


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<verse num="43">Magdiel, and Iram. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the chiefs of Edom (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Esau, the father of Edom) according to their settlements in the land of their possession. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Jacob settled in the land of the sojourning of his father, in the land of Canaan.</verse>


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<verse num="2">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the generations<note>Or "family records"</note> of Jacob. Joseph, <transChange type="added">being</transChange> seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleeves<note>Or "of many colors"</note> for him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">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. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to his brothers. And {they hated him even more}.<note>Literally "they added still to hate him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">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."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And {they hated him even more}<note>Literally "they added still to hate him"</note> on account of his dream and because of his words.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he told <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?"</verse>


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<verse num="11">And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter <transChange type="added">in mind</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them." And he said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then he said to him, "Go now, see {if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock},<note>Literally "see the peace of your brothers and the peace of the flock"</note> then return word to me." And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And a man found him, and behold, he<note>That is, Joseph</note> was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, "What do you seek?"</verse>


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<verse num="16">And he said, "I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard <transChange type="added">them</transChange> saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.</verse>


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<verse num="20">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."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Reuben heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and delivered him from their hand and said, "We must not take his life."</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves,<note>Or "of many colors"</note> that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> upon him.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit <transChange type="added">was</transChange> empty; there was no water in it).</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then they sat down to eat <transChange type="added">some</transChange> 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}<note>Literally "going to bring down"</note> to Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit <transChange type="added">is there</transChange> if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?</verse>


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<verse num="27">Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then Midianite traders passed by. And they<note>That is, the brothers</note> drew Joseph up and brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange> up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty <transChange type="added">pieces of</transChange> silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Then Reuben returned to the pit and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And he returned to his brothers and said, "The boy {is gone}!<note>Literally "is not"</note> Now I, {what can I do}?"<note>Literally "where am I going?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="31">Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Then they sent the robe with long sleeves<note>Or "of many colors"</note> and they brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to their father and said, "We found this; please examine <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it the robe of your son or not?"</verse>


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<verse num="33">And he recognized it and said, "The robe of my son! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph <transChange type="added">is</transChange> surely torn to pieces!"</verse>


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<verse num="34">And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.</verse>


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<verse num="35">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.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hirah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shua. And he took her and went in to her.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he<note>That is, Judah</note> was in Chezib when she bore him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Tamar.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him.</verse>


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<verse num="8">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."</verse>


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<verse num="9">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 <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the ground<note>Meaning he would spill his semen on the ground</note> so as not to give offspring to his brother.</verse>


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<verse num="11">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}<note>Literally "he thought lest he also will die"</note> like his brother. So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father.</verse>


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<verse num="12">{And in the course of time}<note>Literally "And the days increased"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it was told to Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered <transChange type="added">herself</transChange> with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Judah saw her and reckoned her to <transChange type="added">be</transChange> a prostitute, for she had covered her face.</verse>


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<verse num="16">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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give to me that you may come in to me?"</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he said, "I will send a kid from the goats of the flock." And she said, "<transChange type="added">Only</transChange> if you give a pledge until you send <transChange type="added">it</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And he said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the pledge that I must give to you?" And she said, "your seal, your cord, and your staff that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your hand." And he gave <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to her and went in to her. And she conceived by him.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And she arose and left, and she removed her veil from herself and put on the garments of her widowhood.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Judah sent the kid from the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take <transChange type="added">back</transChange> the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he could not find her.</verse>


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<verse num="21">So he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> that cult prostitute <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> at Eynayim by the roadside?" And they said, "There is no cult prostitute here."</verse>


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<verse num="22">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.'"</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Judah said, "Let her take <transChange type="added">them</transChange> for herself, lest we be {laughed at}.<note>Literally "as contempt"</note> Behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And {about three months later}<note>Literally "it happened about three months"</note> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="25">She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these <transChange type="added">belong</transChange> I have conceived." And she said, "Now discern<note>Or "examine"</note> to whom these <transChange type="added">belong</transChange>: the seal and cord and the staff."</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Judah recognized <transChange type="added">them</transChange> and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know<note>"Know" is a euphemism for "have sexual relations with"</note> her again.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at the time she gave birth that, behold, twins <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in her womb.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at her labor one <transChange type="added">child</transChange> put out a hand. And the midwife took <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This <transChange type="added">one</transChange> came out first."</verse>


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<verse num="29">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.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And afterward his brother who <transChange type="added">had</transChange> the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And his master observed that Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him, and everything that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand to do Yahweh made successful.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Joseph found favor in his eyes and he served him. Then he appointed him<note>That is, Joseph</note> over his house and all that he owned he put into his hand.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and {he did not worry about anything}<note>Literally "he did not know with him anything"</note> except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was {well built and handsome}.<note>Literally "beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."</verse>


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<verse num="8">But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master {does not worry about}<note>Literally "does not know with me"</note> what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand.</verse>


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<verse num="9">He has no greater <transChange type="added">authority</transChange> in this house than me, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, since you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> his wife. Now how could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"</verse>


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<verse num="10">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> as she spoke to Joseph {day after day},<note>Literally "day, day"</note> he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her.</verse>


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<verse num="11">{But one particular day}<note>Literally "and it happened as this day"</note> he came into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house were there in the house,</verse>


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<verse num="12">she seized him by his garment <transChange type="added">and</transChange> said, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and he went outside.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when she saw that he left his garment in her hand and fled outside,</verse>


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<verse num="14">she called to the men of her house and said to them, "Look! He<note>That is, Potiphar</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And when he heard <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, that I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled, and he went outside."</verse>


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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> as I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside."</verse>


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<verse num="19">And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "{This is what your servant did to me},"<note>Literally "according to these words your servant did to me"</note> {he became very angry}.<note>Literally "his nostrils became hot"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed loyal love to him, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And the chief of the prison put all the prisoners that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the prison into the hand of Joseph. And everything that was done there, he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the one who did <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="23">The chief of the prison {did not worry about}<note>Literally "did not pay heed to"</note> anything in his<note>That is, Joseph's</note> hand, since Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him. And whatever he did Yahweh made <transChange type="added">it</transChange> successful. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and <transChange type="added">his</transChange> baker did wrong against their lord, against the king of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief cupbearer and chief baker.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, into the prison where Joseph was confined.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the chief of the guard appointed Joseph <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> with them, and he attended them. And they were in custody {many days}.<note>Literally "days"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation.</verse>


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<verse num="6">When Joseph came to them in the morning he looked at them, and behold, they were troubled.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he asked the court officials of Pharaoh that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him in the custody of his master's house, "Why <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your faces sad today?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">And they said to him, "We <transChange type="added">each</transChange> dreamed a dream, but there is no one to interpret it." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to me."</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and he said to him, "In my dream, now behold, <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a vine before me,</verse>


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<verse num="10">and on the vine <transChange type="added">were</transChange> three branches. And as it budded, its blossoms came up, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> its clusters of grapes grew ripe.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the cup of Pharaoh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Joseph said to him, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its interpretation: The three branches, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> three days.</verse>


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<verse num="13">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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> formerly the custom, when you were his cupbearer.</verse>


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<verse num="14">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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">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."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good he said to Joseph, "I also <transChange type="added">dreamed</transChange>. In my dream, now behold, <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> three baskets of bread upon my head.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And in the upper basket <transChange type="added">were</transChange> all sorts of baked foods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket upon my head."</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then Joseph answered and said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its interpretation: The three baskets, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> three days.</verse>


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<verse num="19">In three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and hang you on a pole,<note>Or "tree"</note> and the birds will eat your flesh from you."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> on the third day, <transChange type="added">which was</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing <transChange type="added">position</transChange>. And he placed the cup in the hand of Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after {two full years}<note>Literally "two years of days"</note> Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And behold, seven cows, {well built and fat},<note>Literally "beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh"</note> were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, {ugly and gaunt},<note>Literally "Poor of appearance and thin of flesh"</note> and they stood beside those<note>Or "the"</note> cows on the bank of the Nile.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the {ugly and gaunt}<note>Literally "Poor of appearance and thin of flesh"</note> cows ate the seven {well built and fat}<note>Literally "beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh"</note> cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were coming out of one stalk.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And behold, seven thin ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven plump and full ears of grain. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> a dream.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all of the magicians<note>Or "soothsayer priests"</note> of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh told his dream to them. But {they had no interpretation}<note>Literally "there was no interpretation with them"</note> for Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke with Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my sins today.</verse>


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<verse num="10">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.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And we dreamed a dream one night, I and he, {each with a dream that had a meaning}.<note>Literally "each according to his dream we dreamed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And there with us <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a young man, a Hebrew servant of the chief of the guard, and we told him <transChange type="added">the dream</transChange>, and he interpreted our dreams for us, each according to his dream he interpreted.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And it happened just as he interpreted to us, so it was. He<note>That is, Pharaoh</note> restored me to my office, and him<note>That is, the chief baker</note> he<note>That is, Pharaoh</note> hanged."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then Pharaoh sent and called <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the prison. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I dreamed a dream, but there is none to interpret it. Now, I have heard concerning you <transChange type="added">that when</transChange> you hear a dream <transChange type="added">you can</transChange> interpret it."</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, "{It is not in my power};<note>Literally "besides me"</note> God will answer <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> the well-being of Pharaoh."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "<transChange type="added">Now</transChange> in my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile,</verse>


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<verse num="18">and behold, seven cows, {well built and fat},<note>Literally "beautiful of appearance and healthy of flesh"</note> were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, very {ugly and gaunt}<note>Literally "Poor of appearance and thin of flesh"</note>--never have I seen <transChange type="added">any</transChange> as them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they went into their bellies<note>Or "inner parts"</note> it could not be known that they went into their bellies,<note>Or "inner parts"</note> for their appearance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then I saw in my dream and behold, seven ears of grain were coming out of one stalk, full and good.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And behold, seven withered ears of grain, thin <transChange type="added">and</transChange> scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven good ears of grain. And I told the magicians,<note>Or "soothsayer priests"</note> but there was none to explain <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me."</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.</verse>


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<verse num="26">The seven good cows, they are seven years, and the seven good ears of grain, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seven years. The dreams <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And the seven thin and ugly cows coming up after them, they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seven years, and the seven empty ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, they are <transChange type="added">also</transChange> seven years of famine.</verse>


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<verse num="28">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the word that I have spoken to Pharaoh; God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="30">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.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Abundance in the land will not be known because of the famine {that follows},<note>Literally "that thus afterwards"</note> for it will be very heavy.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Now concerning the repetition of the dream twice to Pharaoh, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> because the matter <transChange type="added">is</transChange> established by God, and God will do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> quickly.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Now then, let Pharaoh select a man <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> discerning and wise, and let him set him over the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="34">Let Pharaoh do <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, 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.</verse>


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<verse num="35">Then let them gather all the food of these coming good years and let them pile up grain under the hand of Pharaoh <transChange type="added">for</transChange> food in the cities, and let them keep <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="36">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." </verse>


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<verse num="37">And the plan<note>Or "word"</note> was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.</verse>


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<verse num="38">Then Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find a man like this in whom is the spirit of God?"</verse>


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<verse num="39">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.</verse>


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<verse num="40">You shall be over my house, and to your word<note>Or "mouth"</note> all my people shall submit. Only <transChange type="added">with respect to</transChange> the throne will I be greater than you."</verse>


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<verse num="41">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."</verse>


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<verse num="42">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.</verse>


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<verse num="43">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.</verse>


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<verse num="44">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Pharaoh, but without your consent no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."</verse>


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<verse num="45">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.</verse>


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<verse num="46">Now Joseph {was thirty years old}<note>Literally "a son of thirty years"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="48">And he gathered all the food of the seven years which <transChange type="added">occurred</transChange> in the land of Egypt. And he stored the food in the cities. The food of the field that surrounded <transChange type="added">each</transChange> city he stored in its midst.</verse>


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<verse num="49">And Joseph piled up grain like the sand of the sea in great abundance until he stopped counting <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, for {it could not be counted}.<note>Literally "there was no number"</note></verse>


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<verse num="50">Before the years of famine came, Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore two sons to him.</verse>


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<verse num="51">And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for <transChange type="added">he said</transChange>, "God has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father's house."</verse>


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<verse num="52">And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for <transChange type="added">he said</transChange>, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune."</verse>


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<verse num="53">And the seven years of abundance which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the land of Egypt came to an end.</verse>


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<verse num="54">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.</verse>


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<verse num="55">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."</verse>


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<verse num="56">And the famine was over the whole land, and Joseph opened all the storehouses<note>Hebrew "that which was in them"</note> and sold <transChange type="added">food</transChange> to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="57">And every land came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land. </verse>


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<verse num="1">When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"</verse>


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<verse num="2">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."</verse>


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<verse num="4">But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for {he feared harm would come to him}.<note>Literally "he thought, lest harm encounter him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those <transChange type="added">other people</transChange> who went <transChange type="added">as well</transChange>, for there was famine in the land of Canaan.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the one who sold <transChange type="added">food</transChange> to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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."</verse>


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<verse num="9">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!"</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.</verse>


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<verse num="11">We all are sons of one man. We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> honest <transChange type="added">men</transChange>. We, your servants, are not spies."</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then he said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then they said, "We, your servants, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, but behold, the youngest <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with our father today, and one is no more."</verse>


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<verse num="14">But Joseph said to them, "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> what I said to you--you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> spies.</verse>


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<verse num="15">By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison so that your words might be tested <transChange type="added">to see</transChange> if <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> truth with you. And if not, by the life of Pharaoh surely you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> spies."</verse>


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<verse num="18">On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live; I fear God.</verse>


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<verse num="19">If you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison {where you are now being kept},<note>Literally "in the house of your custody"</note> but <transChange type="added">the rest of</transChange> you go, carry grain for the famine for your households.</verse>


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<verse num="20">You must bring your youngest brother to me, and then your words will be confirmed and you will not die." And they did so.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then each said to his brother, "Surely we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="22">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."</verse>


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<verse num="23">Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter <transChange type="added">was</transChange> between them.</verse>


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<verse num="24">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.</verse>


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<verse num="25">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.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then they loaded their grain upon their donkeys and went <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from there.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And one <transChange type="added">of them later</transChange> opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money--behold, it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the mouth of his sack.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And he said to his brothers, "My money was returned and moreover, behold, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> in my sack!" Then {their hearts failed them}<note>Literally "their heart went out"</note> and each of them trembled <transChange type="added">and</transChange> said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this God has done to us?" </verse>


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<verse num="29">And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything <transChange type="added">that</transChange> had happened to them, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="30">"The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as <transChange type="added">if we were</transChange> spying out the land.</verse>


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<verse num="31">But we said to him, 'We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> honest; we are not spies.</verse>


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<verse num="32">We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with our father now in the land of Canaan.'</verse>


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<verse num="33">Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> honest. Leave one <transChange type="added">brother</transChange> with me, and take <transChange type="added">food for</transChange> the famine in your households and go.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not spies but you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> honest. And I will give your brother <transChange type="added">back</transChange> to you, and you will trade in the land.'"</verse>


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<verse num="35">And it happened <transChange type="added">that when</transChange> they emptied their sacks, behold, each one's pouch of money <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed.</verse>


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<verse num="36">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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against me!</verse>


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<verse num="37">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."</verse>


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<verse num="38">But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. <transChange type="added">If</transChange> harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol." </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now the famine in the land <transChange type="added">was</transChange> severe.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Judah said to him, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you.'</verse>


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<verse num="4">{If you will send}<note>Literally "if there is a sending"</note> our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you,</verse>


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<verse num="5">but {if you will not send}<note>Literally "if there is no sending"</note> <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you.'"</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then Israel said, "Why did you bring trouble to me by telling the man you still had a brother?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">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'?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">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.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Surely if we had not hesitated by this <transChange type="added">time</transChange> we would have returned twice."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then their father Israel said to them, "If <transChange type="added">it must be</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And take double <transChange type="added">the</transChange> money in your hands. Take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a mistake.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And may El-Shaddai<note>Often translated "God Almighty"</note> 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." </verse>


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<verse num="15">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.</verse>


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<verse num="16">When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the one who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over his household, "Bring the men into the house and slaughter and prepare <transChange type="added">an animal</transChange>, for the men shall eat with me at noon."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the man did as Joseph had said, and the man brought the men into the house of Joseph.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And the men were afraid when they were brought into the house of Joseph. And they said "We were brought <transChange type="added">here</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="19">So they approached the man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over Joseph's house and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,</verse>


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<verse num="21">but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one's money <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the mouth of his sack--our money in its <transChange type="added">full</transChange> weight--so we have returned <transChange type="added">with</transChange> it in our hands.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Now, other money we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks."</verse>


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<verse num="23">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.</verse>


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<verse num="24">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.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Then they laid out<note>Or "prepared"</note> the gift until Joseph came at noon, for they had heard that they were to eat food there.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And when Joseph came into the house they brought the gift that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in their hand into the house to him, and they bowed down before him to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And {he greeted them}<note>Literally "he asked peace for them"</note> and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"</verse>


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<verse num="28">And they said, "Your servant our father <transChange type="added">is</transChange> well; he is still alive." And they knelt and bowed down.</verse>


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<verse num="29">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,<note>Or "said"</note> "God be gracious to you, my son."</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then Joseph {hurried away},<note>Literally "made haste"</note> {being overcome with emotion}<note>Literally "his compassion boiled up"</note> toward his brother, and sought for <transChange type="added">a place</transChange> to cry. Then he went into a room and wept there.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then he washed his face and went out, now controlling himself, and said, "Serve the food."</verse>


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<verse num="32">And they served him<note>That is, Joseph</note> by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, for Egyptians {could not dine}<note>Literally "were not able to eat food"</note> with Hebrews, because that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a detestable thing to Egyptians.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And they were seated before him <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the firstborn according to his birthright <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the youngest according to his youth. And the men {looked at one another}<note>Literally "each to his companion"</note> amazed.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And portions were served to them from {his table},<note>Literally "his presence"</note> and the portion of Benjamin was five times greater than the portion of any of them. And they drank and became drunk with him. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then he commanded <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over his household, saying, "Fill the sacks of the men <transChange type="added">with</transChange> food as much as they are able to carry, and put each one's money in the mouth of his sack.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


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<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">When</transChange> the morning light <transChange type="added">came</transChange> the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.</verse>


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<verse num="4">They went out of the city, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> had not gone far when Joseph said to <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over his house, "Arise! Pursue after the men and overtake them. Then you shall say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?</verse>


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<verse num="5">Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil <transChange type="added">in</transChange> what you have done.'"</verse>


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<verse num="7">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!</verse>


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<verse num="8">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?</verse>


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<verse num="9">Whoever is found with it from among your servants shall die. And moreover, we will become slaves to my lord."</verse>


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<verse num="10">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."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then each man quickly brought down his sack to the ground, and each one opened his sack.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And he searched, beginning with the oldest and finishing with the youngest. And the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then they tore their clothes, and each one loaded his donkey and they returned to the city. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And Judah and his brothers came to the house of Joseph--now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still there--they fell before him to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like me surely practices divination?"</verse>


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<verse num="16">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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange> slaves to my lord, both we and also he in whose hand the cup was found."</verse>


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<verse num="17">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."</verse>


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<verse num="18">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}<note>Literally "let not your nose become hot"</note> against your servant, for {you are like Pharaoh himself}.<note>Literally "like you like Pharaoh"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">My lord had asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?'</verse>


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<verse num="20">And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger <transChange type="added">brother</transChange>, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.'</verse>


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<verse num="22">Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he<note>That is, the father (Jacob/Israel)</note> would die.'</verse>


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<verse num="23">Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.'</verse>


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<verse num="24">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord.</verse>


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<verse num="26">then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us.'</verse>


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<verse num="27">Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me.</verse>


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<verse num="28">One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he must have been torn to pieces," and I have never seen him since.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'</verse>


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<verse num="30">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--</verse>


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<verse num="31">it shall happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="32">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.</verse>


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<verse num="33">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.</verse>


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<verse num="34">For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see}<note>Literally "lest I see"</note> the misery which will find my father." </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And {he wept loudly},<note>Literally "he gave his voice with weeping"</note> so that the Egyptians heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and the household of Pharaoh heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Joseph! Is my father still alive?" And his brothers were unable to answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.</verse>


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<verse num="4">So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they drew near. And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="5">So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry {with yourselves}<note>Literally "in your eyes"</note> that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you.</verse>


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<verse num="6">For these two years the famine <transChange type="added">has been</transChange> in the midst of the land, but <transChange type="added">there will be</transChange> five more years where there is no plowing or harvest.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And God sent me before you <transChange type="added">all</transChange> to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors.</verse>


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<verse num="8">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.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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.</verse>


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<verse num="10">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.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And I will provide for you there, because <transChange type="added">there are</transChange> still five years of famine--lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.'</verse>


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<verse num="12">Now behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that {it is I}<note>Literally "it is my mouth"</note> who am speaking to you.</verse>


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<verse num="13">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."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Then he fell upon the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And afterward his brothers spoke with him.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Then the report was heard <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of Pharaoh, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." And it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers: 'Do this--load your donkeys and go back to the land of Canaan,</verse>


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<verse num="18">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.'</verse>


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<verse num="19">And you <transChange type="added">Joseph</transChange>, are commanded <transChange type="added">to say</transChange> this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come!</verse>


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<verse num="20">{Do not worry}<note>Literally "let not your eyes be troubled"</note> about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'" </verse>


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<verse num="21">And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons at the word of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.</verse>


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<verse num="22">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.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And to his father he sent {as follows}:<note>Literally "according to this"</note> ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father for the journey.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Then he sent his brothers away, and when they departed he said to them, "Do not be agitated on the journey."</verse>


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<verse num="25">So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And they spoke to him, saying, "Joseph <transChange type="added">is</transChange> still alive, and he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart {went numb},<note>Or "became cold"</note> because he did not believe him.</verse>


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<verse num="27">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.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Israel said, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> enough. Joseph my son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> still alive. I will go and see him before I die." </verse>


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<verse num="1">So Israel journeyed with all that he had, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.</verse>


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<verse num="4">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."</verse>


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<verse num="5">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.</verse>


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<verse num="6">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,</verse>


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<verse num="7">his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob</verse>


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<verse num="10">The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.</verse>


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<verse num="12">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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters <transChange type="added">were</transChange> thirty-three persons in all.</verse>


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<verse num="17">The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel.</verse>


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<verse num="18">There <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob--sixteen persons.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="21">The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.</verse>


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<verse num="22">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob--fourteen persons in all.</verse>


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<verse num="25">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob--seven persons in all.</verse>


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<verse num="26">All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt {who were his descendants},<note>Literally "those going out of his loins"</note> not including the wives of the sons of Jacob <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sixty-six persons in all.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt <transChange type="added">were</transChange> two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt <transChange type="added">were</transChange> seventy. </verse>


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<verse num="28">He<note>That is, Jacob</note> had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to appear before him<note>That is, Jacob</note> in Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.</verse>


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<verse num="29">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.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face, for you are still alive."</verse>


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<verse num="31">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 <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the land of Canaan have come to me.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And the men <transChange type="added">are</transChange> shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.'</verse>


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<verse num="33">And it shall be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> when Pharaoh calls you he will say, 'What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your occupation?'</verse>


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<verse num="34">Then you must say, 'You servants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,'<note>Or "fathers"</note> so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a detestable thing to Egyptians." </verse>


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<verse num="1">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 <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> here in the land of Goshen."</verse>


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<verse num="2">And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange> severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.</verse>


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<verse num="6">The land of Egypt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, "{How old are you}?"<note>Literally "How many are the days of the years of your life?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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 ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the days of their sojourning."</verse>


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<verse num="11">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.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine.</verse>


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<verse num="14">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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">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."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Joseph said, "Give your livestock and I will give you <transChange type="added">food</transChange> in exchange for your livestock if <transChange type="added">your</transChange> money is used up."</verse>


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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, "We cannot hide from my lord that <transChange type="added">our</transChange> money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land.</verse>


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<verse num="19">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."</verse>


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<verse num="20">So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine <transChange type="added">was</transChange> severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's.</verse>


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<verse num="21">As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they {lived on}<note>Literally "ate"</note> the allotment that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Joseph said to the people, "Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> seed for you so you can sow the land.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And it shall happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your households, and as food for your little ones."</verse>


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<verse num="25">And they said, "You have saved our lives. <transChange type="added">If</transChange> we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh."</verse>


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<verse num="26">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.</verse>


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<verse num="27">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.</verse>


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<verse num="28">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.</verse>


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<verse num="29">When {the time of Israel's death drew near},<note>Literally "the days of Israel drew near to die"</note> 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 <transChange type="added">vow</transChange> to deal kindly<note>Or "loyal love"</note> and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,</verse>


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<verse num="30">but let me lie with my ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site." And he said, "I will do according to your word."</verse>


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<verse num="31">Then he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> after these things, it was said to Joseph, "Behold, your father <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ill." And he took his two sons with him, Ephraim and Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then Jacob said to Joseph, "El-Shaddai<note>Often translated "God Almighty"</note> appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,</verse>


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<verse num="4">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 <transChange type="added">as</transChange> an everlasting possession.'</verse>


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<verse num="5">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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="6">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.</verse>


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<verse num="7">As for me, when I came to Paddan-Aram Rachel died {to my sorrow}<note>Literally "to me"</note> in the land of Canaan on the way when <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Bethlehem)."</verse>


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<verse num="8">When Israel saw the sons of Joseph he said, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">Then Joseph said to his father, "They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my sons whom God has given me here." And he said, "Please bring them to me that I may bless them."</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now the eyes of Israel were dim<note>Or "heavy" (i.e., his eyelids were heavy; his eyes were closed)</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Israel said to Joseph, "I did not expect to see your face and behold, God has also shown me your offspring."</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then Joseph removed them from his knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim at his right <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the left of Israel, and Manasseh at his left <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the right of Israel. And he brought them near to him.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Israel stretched out his right hand and put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the head of Ephraim (now he was the younger), and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the firstborn.</verse>


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<verse num="16">The angel who redeemed me from all evil, may he bless the boys. And through them let my name be perpetuated,<note>Or "called"</note> and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="17">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 <transChange type="added">over</transChange> to the head of Manasseh.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; because this one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the firstborn. Put your right <transChange type="added">hand</transChange> upon his head."</verse>


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<verse num="19">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."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And I have given to you one slope <transChange type="added">of land</transChange> rather than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites by my sword and with my bow." </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="1">Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in {days to come}.<note>Literally "the latter days"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="3">Reuben, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Unstable<note>Or "reckless"</note> as water, you shall not excel <transChange type="added">any longer</transChange>, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. You went up upon my couch!</verse>


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<verse num="5">Simeon and Levi <transChange type="added">are</transChange> brothers; weapons of violence <transChange type="added">are</transChange> their swords. Let me<note>Or "my soul"</note> not come into their council.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Let not my person<note>Or "my glory"</note> be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Cursed be their anger, for <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> fierce, and their wrath, for <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="8">Judah, <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="9">Judah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> 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?</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="10">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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="11">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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="12">The eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="13">Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He <transChange type="added">shall become</transChange> a haven for ships, and his border <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> at Sidon.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="14">Issachar <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="15">He saw a resting place that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> good, and land that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="19">Bandits shall attack Gad, but he shall attack <transChange type="added">their</transChange> heels.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="20">Asher's food <transChange type="added">is</transChange> delicious, and he shall provide from the king's delicacies.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="21">Naphtali <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="22">Joseph <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the bough<note>Or "son"</note> of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough<note>Or "son"</note> by a spring. His branches climb over the wall.</verse>


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<verse num="23">{The archers}<note>Literally "the masters of the bow"</note> fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows <transChange type="added">at him</transChange> and were hostile to him.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="24">But his bow remained in a steady position; {his arms}<note>Literally "the arms of his hands"</note> were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="25">Because of the God of your father he will help you and <transChange type="added">by</transChange> Shaddai<note>Or "the Almighty"</note> he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="26">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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="27">Benjamin <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="28">All these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the twelve tribes of Israel, and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am <transChange type="added">about to be</transChange> gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> in the cave that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the field of Ephron the Hittite,</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="30">in the cave that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the field of Machpelah that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before<note>Or "east of"</note> Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="31">There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah--</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="32">the purchase of the field and the cave which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in it from the Hittites."</verse>


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<verse num="33">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. </verse>


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<verse num="2">And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="3">Forty days {were required for it},<note>Literally "were fulfilled for it"</note> for thus <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the days {required for}<note>Literally "fulfilled"</note> embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="4">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,</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="5">'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> 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.'"</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="7">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,</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="8">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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="9">And there also went up with him chariots and horsemen. The company <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very great.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="10">When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a severe mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> beyond the Jordan.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="13">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 before<note>Or "east of"</note> Mamre.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="14">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. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="15">And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dead, they said, "It may be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="16">So they sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Joseph saying, "Your father commanded <transChange type="added">us</transChange> before his death, saying,</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="17">"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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="18">Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, "Behold, we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your servants."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="19">Then Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I in the place of God?</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="20">As for you, you planned evil against me, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> God planned it for good, in order to do this--to keep many people alive--as <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> today.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="21">So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and {spoke kindly}<note>Literally "spoke to their heart"</note> to them. </verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="22">So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="23">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.</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="24">And Joseph said to his brothers, "I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> 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."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="25">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."</verse>


book: Gen
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<verse num="26">So Joseph died, <transChange type="added">being</transChange> one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="1">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the sons of Israel who came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his {family}:<note>Literally "house"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And {all those who descended from Jacob}<note>Literally "every soul/individual/life, the ones going out from the loins of Jacob"</note> were seventy individuals,<note>Or "souls," "lives"</note> and Joseph was in Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="9">And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> greater and more numerous than us.</verse>


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<verse num="10">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."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="11">And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their {forced labor},<note>Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"</note> and they built storage cities for Pharaoh--Pithom and Rameses.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and <transChange type="added">the Egyptians</transChange> were afraid because of the presence of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> to work.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all <transChange type="added">sorts</transChange> of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives--of whom the name of the one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Shiphrah and the name of the second <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Puah--</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16">and he said, "When you help the Hebrews give birth, you will look upon the pairs of testicles; if he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a son, you will put him to death, and if she <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a daughter, she will live."</verse>


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<verse num="17">But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="18">And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, "Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?"</verse>


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<verse num="19">And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew <transChange type="added">women are</transChange> not like the Egyptian women, because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="20">And God did the midwives good, and the <transChange type="added">Israelite</transChange> people became many and were very numerous.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="21">{And so}<note>Literally "and he/it was"</note> because the midwives feared God, he gave them {families}.<note>Literally "houses"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">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." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="1">And a man from the {family}<note>Literally "house"</note> of Levi went, and he took {a descendent of Levi}.<note>Literally "daughter of Levi"</note></verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="3">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 <transChange type="added">it</transChange> among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="5">And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, <transChange type="added">while</transChange> her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman <transChange type="added">for it</transChange> and took it</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="6">and opened <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and saw him--the boy--and it was a lad weeping, and she had compassion for him and said, "This <transChange type="added">must be</transChange> from the boys of the Hebrews."<note>Each instance of the implied "she" in verses 5 and 6 is the daughter of Pharaoh</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> nursing <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> she will nurse the boy for you?"</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="8">And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go." And the girl went, and she called the mother of the boy.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="10">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." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="11">{And then}<note>Literally "and he/it was"</note> in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their {forced labor},<note>Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"</note> and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, <transChange type="added">one of</transChange> his brothers.<note>Or "a Hebrew man from his brothers"</note></verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="12">And he turned here and there, and he saw no one,<note>Literally "and he saw that there was not a man"</note> and he struck the Egyptian, and he hid him in the sand.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="13">And he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the guilty <transChange type="added">one</transChange>, "Why do you strike your neighbor?"</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="14">And he said, "Who {appointed you as a commander}<note>Literally "put you for a man, a commander" or "placed you for a man, a commander"</note> and a judge over us? <transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses was afraid, and he said, "Surely the matter has become known."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="15">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}.<note>Literally "the well"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">Now</transChange> the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.<note>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</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="18">And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, "{Why have you come so quickly}<note>Literally "why did you hasten coming"</note> today?"</verse>


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<verse num="19">And they said, "An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew <transChange type="added">water</transChange> for us and watered the flock."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="20">And he said to his daughters, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he? {Why then}<note>Literally "why this"</note> have you left the man? {Call him so that he can eat some food}."<note>Literally "call to <transChange type="added">or "summon/invite"</transChange> him and he will eat bread"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, "I am an alien in a foreign land."<note>The word translated "alien" sounds like the first syllable in the name Gershom. The second syllable sounds like the word for "there"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="23">{And then}<note>Literally "and he/it was"</note> during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="24">And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="25">and God saw the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and God took notice.<note>Or "and God knew"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="1">And Moses was a shepherd with the flock<note>The Hebrew noun translated "flock" in this verse is used collectively for sheep or goats or a mix of the two.</note> of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="2">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="3">And Moses said, "Let me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?"</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="4">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 <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="5">And he said, "You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> standing, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> holy ground."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="6">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. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="7">And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="8">And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> 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 Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and the Hittites<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> and the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> and the Perizzites<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> and the Hivites<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites.<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note></verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="9">And now, look, the cry of distress of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> has come to me, and also I see the oppression <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians <transChange type="added">are</transChange> oppressing them.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="10">And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and <transChange type="added">you must</transChange> bring my people, the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> out from Egypt." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="11">But Moses said to God, "Who <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> out from Egypt?"</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="12">And he said, "Because I am with you, and this <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> 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."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="13">But Moses said to God, "Look, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I go to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and I say to them, 'The God of your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his name?' <transChange type="added">then</transChange> what shall I say to them?"</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="14">And God said to Moses, "I am that I am." And he said, "So you must say to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> 'I am sent me to you.'" </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="15">And God said again to Moses, "So you must say to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my name forever, and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my remembrance from generation <transChange type="added">to</transChange> generation.'</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16">Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> 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."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="17">And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and the Hittites<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> and the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> and the Perizzites<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> and the Hivites<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites,<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> to a land flowing with milk and honey." '</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="18">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 <transChange type="added">on</transChange> a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.' </verse>


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<verse num="19">But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go {unless compelled by a strong hand}.<note>Literally "and not with a strong hand"</note></verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="20">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}<note>Literally "after so" or "after <transChange type="added">I do</transChange> so"</note> he will release you.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And I will give this people favor in the eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians, {and then}<note>Literally "and he/it will be"</note> when you go, you will not go empty-handed.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="22">And a woman will ask from her neighbor and from the woman dwelling as an alien in her house <transChange type="added">for</transChange> objects of silver and objects of gold and garments, and you will put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on your sons and on your daughters; and you will plunder Egypt." </verse>


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<verse num="1">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?'"</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Yahweh said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this in your hand?" And he said, "A staff."</verse>


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<verse num="3">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="4">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out your hand and grasp <transChange type="added">it</transChange> by its tail"--" (And he reached out his hand and grabbed it, and it became a staff in his palm.)--</verse>


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<verse num="5">"so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="6">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},<note>Literally "look" or "behold"</note> his hand <transChange type="added">was</transChange> afflicted with a skin disease, like snow.</verse>


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<verse num="7">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},<note>Literally "look" or "behold"</note> it was restored like the rest of his body.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="8">"{And}<note>Literally "and he/it will be"</note> if they do not believe you and they will not listen to the voice of the former sign, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> they will believe the voice of the latter sign.</verse>


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<verse num="9">{And}<note>Literally "and he/it will be"</note> if they also do not believe the second of these signs and they will not listen to your voice, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> you must take water from the Nile and pour <transChange type="added">it</transChange> onto the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="10">And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not a man of words, {neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking}<note>Literally "also from yesterday also from the day before also from then your speaking"</note> to your servant, because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> heavy of mouth and of tongue."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="11">And Yahweh said to him, "Who gave a mouth to humankind, or who makes mute or deaf or sighted or blind? <transChange type="added">Is it</transChange> not I, Yahweh?</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="12">So then go, and I myself will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you must speak."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="13">And he said, "Please, Lord, do send {anyone else whom you wish to send}."<note>Literally "by the hand of <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> you will send"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">{And Yahweh was angry with}<note>Literally "and the nose of Yahweh was hot against"</note> Moses and said, "<transChange type="added">Is there</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16">And he will speak for you to the people, {and then}<note>Literally "and he/it will be"</note> he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And you must take this staff in your hand, with which you will do the signs." </verse>


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<verse num="18">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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Egypt, and let me see whether they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="19">And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt because all the men have died who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> seeking your life." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="21">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="22">And you must say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Israel <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my son, my firstborn."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="23">And I said to you, "Release my son and let him serve me," but you refused to release him. Look, I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> to kill your son, your firstborn.'" </verse>


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<verse num="24">{And}<note>Literally "and he/it was"</note> on the way, at the place of overnight lodging, Yahweh encountered him and sought to kill him.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But Zipporah took a flint <transChange type="added">knife</transChange>, and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "Yes, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a bridegroom of blood to me."</verse>


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<verse num="26">And he left him alone. At that time she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.<note>Hebrew "circumcisions"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="27">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="28">And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh, who had sent him--and all the signs that he had commanded him. </verse>


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<verse num="29">And Moses and Aaron went, and they gathered all of the elders of the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">And Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs before the eyes of the people.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.'"</verse>


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<verse num="2">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." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="3">And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go <transChange type="added">on</transChange> a three-day journey into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he strike us with plague or with sword."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the king of Egypt said, "Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take<note>Or "let loose," "let run wild" (compare 32:25)</note> the people from their work? Go to your {forced labor}!"<note>Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land <transChange type="added">are</transChange> now many, and you want to stop them from their {forced labor}."<note>Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="6">And on that day Pharaoh commanded the slave drivers over the people and his foremen, saying,</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="7">"You must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like {before}.<note>Literally "yesterday three days ago"</note> Let them go and gather straw for themselves.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="8">But the quota of the bricks that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> making {before}<note>Literally "yesterday three days ago"</note> {you must require of them}.<note>Literally "you will put on them"</note> You must not reduce from it, because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> lazy. Therefore they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> crying out, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="9">Let the work be heavier on the men so that they will do it and not pay attention to words of deception." </verse>


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<verse num="10">And the slave drivers of the people and their foremen went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> not giving you straw.</verse>


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<verse num="11">You go, get straw for yourselves from whatever you find because not a thing is being reduced from your work.'"</verse>


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<verse num="12">And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="13">And the slave drivers <transChange type="added">were</transChange> insisting, saying, "Finish your work {for each day}<note>Literally "a thing of a day"</note> on its day, as {when there was straw}."<note>Literally "in the being of the straw"</note></verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="14">And the foremen of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten <transChange type="added">by men who were</transChange> saying, "Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking {as before, both yesterday and today}?"<note>Literally "as yesterday three days ago also yesterday also the day"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="15">And the foremen of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this?</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16">Straw <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not being given to your servants, but <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> saying to us, 'Make bricks!' and, look, your servants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> being beaten, but it is the fault of<note>The 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</note> your people."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he said, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> lazy, lazy! Therefore you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying, 'Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.'</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="18">And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="19">And the foremen of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> saw they were in trouble {with the saying},<note>Literally "saying"</note> "You will not reduce from your bricks {for each day}<note>Literally "a thing of a day"</note> on its day."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="20">And they met Moses and Aaron, <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> waiting to meet them when they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> going out from Pharaoh.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="21">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 <transChange type="added">so as</transChange> to put a sword into their hand to kill us."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="22">And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me?</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="23">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." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="1">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." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="2">And God spoke to Moses, and he said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="3">And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai,<note>Often translated as "Almighty"</note> but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">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,</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="5">but also I myself heard the groaning of the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> whom <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians <transChange type="added">are</transChange> making to work, and I remembered my covenant.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="6">Therefore say to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the {forced labor}<note>Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"</note> of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="7">And I will take you {as my people},<note>Literally "to/for me for a people"</note> and I will be {your God},<note>Literally "to/for you for a God"</note> and you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the {forced labor}<note>Literally "burdens" or "burdensome labor"</note> of Egypt.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="8">And I will bring you to the land {that I swore}<note>Literally "that I raised my hand"</note> to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a possession. I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="9">And Moses spoke thus to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> but they did not listen to Moses, because of {discouragement}<note>Literally "a lack of spirit" or "shortness of spirit"</note> and because of hard work. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="11">"Go, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and let him release the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from his land."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="12">And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Look, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> {a poor speaker}?"<note>Literally "uncircumcised of lips"</note></verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="13">And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he commanded them <transChange type="added">to go</transChange> to the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> out from the land of Egypt. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="14">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the heads of {their families}.<note>Literally "the house of their fathers"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="15">And the sons of Simeon <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess.<note>Or "the Canaanite woman." The Hebrew word is feminine</note> These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of Simeon. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16">And these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies:<note>Or "generations"</note> Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.<note>Literally "seven and thirty and hundred of year"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="17">The sons of Gershon <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Libni and Shimei according to their clans. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="18">And the sons of Kohath <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {one hundred and thirty-three years}.<note>Literally "three and thirty and hundred of year"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="19">And the sons of Merari <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Mahli and Mushi. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> clans of the Levites according to their genealogies.<note>Or "generations"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="20">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 <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {one hundred and thirty-seven years}.<note>Literally "seven and thirty and hundred of year"</note> </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="21">And the sons of Izhar <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Korah and Nepheg and Zikri. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="22">And the sons of Uzziel <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="23">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. </verse>


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<verse num="24">And the sons of Korah <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the clans of the Korahites. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="25">And Eleazar the son of Aaron took for himself <transChange type="added">one</transChange> from the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore for him Phinehas. These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the heads of the {families}<note>Literally "fathers"</note> of the Levites according to their clans. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="26"><transChange type="added">It was</transChange> that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="27">They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> those who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, in order to bring the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> out from Egypt. <transChange type="added">It was</transChange> that Moses and Aaron. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="28">{And so it was on a certain day}<note>Literally "and it was on a day"</note> Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="29">And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> speaking to you."</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="30">And Moses said before Yahweh, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> {a poor speaker}.<note>Literally "uncircumcised of lips"</note> And how will Pharaoh listen to me?" </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="1">And Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="2">You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from his land.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="3">And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="4">And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from the land of Egypt with great punishments.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> out from their midst." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="6">And Moses and Aaron did <transChange type="added">it</transChange>; as Yahweh commanded them, so they did.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="7">(And Moses <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {eighty years old},<note>Literally "a son of eighty year"</note> and Aaron <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {eighty-three years old}<note>Literally "a son of three and eighty year"</note> when they spoke to Pharaoh.) </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="9">"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.'"</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="10">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. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="11">And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="12">Each threw down his staff, and they became snakes, and Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="13">And Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had said. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="14">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {insensitive};<note>Literally "heavy"</note> he refuses to release the people.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="15">Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> 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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="16">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."</verse>


book: Exod
content:
<verse num="17">Thus says Yahweh, "By this you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh. Look, I <transChange type="added">am about to</transChange> strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be changed to blood.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="18">And the fish that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile." '" </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="19">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 <transChange type="added">vessels of</transChange> wood and of stone." </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="20">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.</verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="21">And the fish that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt. </verse>


book: Exod
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<verse num="22">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.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Pharaoh turned and went to his house, and {he did not take also this to heart}.<note>Literally "he did not put his heart also to this"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">And all of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians dug around the Nile <transChange type="added">for</transChange> water to drink, because they were unable to drink from the water of the Nile. </verse>


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<verse num="1"><note>Exodus 8:1-32 in the English Bible is 7:26-8:28 in the Hebrew Bible</note> And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."</verse>


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<verse num="2">And if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> refusing to release, look, I <transChange type="added">am going to</transChange> plague all of your territory with frogs.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your {bedroom}<note>Literally "the inner room of your bed"</note> and onto your bed and into the house of your servants and among your people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And the frogs will go up against you and against your people and against all of your servants.'" </verse>


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<verse num="5">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.'"</verse>


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<verse num="6">And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs went up and covered the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And the magicians did likewise with their secret arts, and they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt. </verse>


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<verse num="8">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."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Moses said to Pharaoh, "{I leave to you the honor}<note>Literally "glorify yourself"</note> 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."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he said, "Tomorrow." And he said, "<transChange type="added">Let it be</transChange> according to your word so that you will know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the frogs will depart from you and from your house and from your servants. They will be left only in the Nile." </verse>


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<verse num="12">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.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died from the houses, from the courtyards, and from the fields.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they piled them <transChange type="added">in</transChange> countless heaps,<note>Literally "heaps, heaps"</note> and the land stank.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he made his heart {insensitive},<note>Literally "heavy"</note> and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. </verse>


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<verse num="16">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats<note>Exactly what troublesome insect is uncertain</note> in all the land of Egypt.'"</verse>


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<verse num="17">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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">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.</verse>


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<verse num="19">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. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."</verse>


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<verse num="21">But if you are not <transChange type="added">about to</transChange> release my people, look, I <transChange type="added">am about</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="22">But on that day I will distinguish<note>Or "deal differently with"</note> the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, by there not being flies there, so that you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh in the midst of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And I will put a distinction between my people and your people; this sign will be tomorrow.'" </verse>


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<verse num="24">And Yahweh did so, and a {severe}<note>Literally "heavy"</note> <transChange type="added">swarm of</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and he said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land."</verse>


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<verse num="26">And Moses said, "To do so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us?</verse>


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<verse num="27">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." </verse>


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<verse num="28">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."</verse>


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<verse num="29">And Moses said, "Look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">us</transChange> by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh." </verse>


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<verse num="31">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.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And Pharaoh made his heart {insensitive}<note>Literally "heavy"</note> also this time, and he did not release the people. </verse>


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<verse num="1">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."</verse>


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<verse num="2">But if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> refusing to release and you still <transChange type="added">are</transChange> keeping hold of them,</verse>


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<verse num="3">look, the hand of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> about to be <transChange type="added">present with</transChange> a very {severe}<note>Literally "heavy"</note> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and not a thing will die from all <transChange type="added">that belongs</transChange> to the {Israelites}.'"<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And Yahweh set an appointed time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh will do this thing in the land." </verse>


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<verse num="6">And Yahweh did this thing the next day; all the livestock of Egypt died, but from the livestock of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> not one died.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Pharaoh sent <transChange type="added">to check</transChange>, and {it turned out}<note>Literally "look"</note> not even one from the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was {insensitive},<note>Literally "heavy"</note> and he did not release the people. </verse>


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<verse num="8">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.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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."</verse>


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<verse num="10">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.</verse>


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<verse num="11">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 <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="14">For at this time I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> sending all of my plagues {to you personally}<note>Literally "to your heart," that is, in a way designed to receive attention</note> and among your servants and among your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="15">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.</verse>


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<verse num="16">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.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Still you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Look, about <transChange type="added">this</transChange> time tomorrow, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to cause very severe<note>Literally "heavy"</note> hail to rain, the like of which has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And now send <transChange type="added">word</transChange>; bring into safety your livestock and all that <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> 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." '" </verse>


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<verse num="20">Anyone from the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh caused his servants and livestock to flee to the houses.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But whoever did not {give regard to}<note>Literally "put his heart to"</note> the word of Yahweh abandoned his servants and his livestock in the field. </verse>


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<verse num="22">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."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunder<note>The word often translated "voice" or "sound" is also used to describe thunder, as in this chapter</note> and hail, and fire went <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And there was hail, and fire <transChange type="added">was</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the field, from human to animal, and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and smashed every tree of the field.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Only in the land of Goshen, where the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange>, there was no hail. </verse>


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<verse num="27">And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the righteous <transChange type="added">one</transChange>, and I and my people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the wicked <transChange type="added">ones</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Pray to Yahweh. The thunder of God and hail {are enough},<note>Literally "much/great from the being of the voices/thunder"</note> and I will release you, and {you will no longer have to stay}."<note>Literally "you will not add to stand/remain"</note></verse>


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<verse num="29">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 <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="30">But <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the presence of Yahweh God." </verse>


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<verse num="31">And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley <transChange type="added">was in the</transChange> ear and the flax <transChange type="added">was in</transChange> bud.</verse>


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<verse num="32">But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> late-ripening. </verse>


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<verse num="33">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 <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> earth.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder stopped, and {he again sinned}<note>Literally "he added to sin"</note> and made his heart {insensitive},<note>Literally "he made his heart heavy"</note> he and his servants.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not release the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> as Yahweh had said {by the agency of Moses}.<note>Literally "by the hand of Moses"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart {insensitive}<note>Literally "heavy"</note> and the heart of his servants in order to put these signs of mine in his midst,</verse>


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<verse num="2">so that you will tell in the ears of your child and {your grandchild}<note>Literally "the son of your son"</note> that I dealt harshly with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians and <transChange type="added">so that you will tell about</transChange> my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh." </verse>


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<verse num="3">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.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> refusing to release my people, look, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.</verse>


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<verse num="5">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 <transChange type="added">belonging</transChange> to you from the field.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt, <transChange type="added">something</transChange> that your fathers and {your grandfathers}<note>Literally "the fathers of your fathers"</note> never saw from the day they were on the earth until this day.'" And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. </verse>


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<verse num="7">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?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Serve Yahweh your God. {Who are the ones going}?<note>Literally "who and who the goers?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">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 <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> the feast of Yahweh for us."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he said to them, "Let Yahweh be thus with you <transChange type="added">as soon</transChange> as I release you and your dependents.<note>Or "little children" or "little ones"</note> See that evil is before your faces.</verse>


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<verse num="11">{No indeed};<note>Literally "not so"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> the men<note>This word for "men" indicates that Pharaoh means only the able-bodied men can go</note> go and serve Yahweh, since this <transChange type="added">is what</transChange> you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeking." And he drove them out from the presence of Pharaoh. </verse>


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<verse num="12">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."</verse>


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<verse num="13">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.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and they settled in all the territory of Egypt, very {severe}.<note>Literally "heavy"</note> Before it there were not locusts like them, nor will there be after it.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they covered the surface of all the land, and the land was dark <transChange type="added">with them</transChange>, 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. </verse>


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<verse num="16">And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And now forgive my sin surely this time, and pray to Yahweh your God so that he may only remove from me this death."</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Yahweh turned a very strong {west wind}<note>Literally "sea wind," a wind from the Mediterranean Sea to the west</note> and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the {Red Sea},<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="21">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 <transChange type="added">a person can</transChange> feel darkness."</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three days.</verse>


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<verse num="23">No one could see his brother, and {because of it no one could move from where they were}<note>Literally "a man did not rise from under it"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three days, but there was light for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in their dwellings. </verse>


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<verse num="24">And Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only your sheep and goats and your cattle must be left behind. Your dependents<note>Or "little children" or "little ones"; the term here includes women and children and men too old or ill to fight</note> may also go with you."</verse>


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<verse num="25">And Moses said, "Even <transChange type="added">if</transChange> you yourself put into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings and we offer <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Yahweh our God,</verse>


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<verse num="26">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 <transChange type="added">with</transChange> what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there."</verse>


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<verse num="27">And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to release them.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Pharaoh said to him, "Go from me. {Be careful}<note>Literally "watch for you"</note> not to see my face again, because on the day of your seeing my face you will die."</verse>


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<verse num="29">And Moses said, "{That is right}.<note>Literally "right you said"</note> {I will not again see your face}."<note>Literally "I will not add again seeing of your face"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">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.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, a man from his neighbor and a woman from her neighbor, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> objects of silver and objects of gold."</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of Egypt. Also the man Moses <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh and in the eyes of the people. </verse>


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<verse num="4">And Moses said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'About the middle of the night I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> go out through the midst of Egypt,</verse>


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<verse num="5">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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange> behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal.<note>The Hebrew word often refers to domestic animals</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">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.<note>Literally "which like it has not been and like it will not be again"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">But against all the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from a man to an animal, a dog will not <transChange type="added">even</transChange> {bark},<note>Literally "move his tongue" or "sharpen his tongue"</note> so that you will know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.'</verse>


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<verse num="8">And all of these your servants will come down to me and bow to me, saying, 'Go out, you and all the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> at your feet.' And afterward I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh {in great anger}.<note>Literally "with heat of nose"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="9">And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, {so that my wonders may multiply}<note>Literally "for the sake of the multiplying of my wonders"</note> in the land of Egypt."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from his land. </verse>


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<verse num="2">"This month <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the beginning of months; it <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> for you the first of the months of the year.</verse>


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<verse num="3">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},<note>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</note> a lamb for the household.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take <transChange type="added">one</transChange> according to the number of persons;<note>Or "the number of selves"</note> you will count out portions of the lamb {according to how much each one can eat}.<note>Literally "a man for the mouth of his eating"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from the sheep or from the goats. </verse>


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<verse num="6">"{You will keep it}<note>Literally "It will be for you for observation"</note> until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it {at twilight}.<note>Literally "between the evenings"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And they will take <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the blood and put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> unleavened bread on {bitter herbs}.<note>Literally "bitter <transChange type="added">things</transChange>"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">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.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And you must not leave any of it until morning; anything left from it until morning you must burn in the fire.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And this is how you will eat it--<transChange type="added">with</transChange> your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh's Passover. </verse>


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<verse num="12">"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 <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="13">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. </verse>


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<verse num="14">"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.</verse>


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<verse num="15">You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. Surely on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, because anyone <transChange type="added">who</transChange> eats <transChange type="added">food with</transChange> yeast from the first day until the seventh day--that person will be cut off from Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="16">It will be for you on the first day a holy assembly<note>Or "summons," "convocation"</note> and on the seventh day a holy assembly;<note>Or "summons," "convocation"</note> no work will be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, it alone will be prepared for you. </verse>


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<verse num="17">"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.</verse>


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<verse num="18">On the first <transChange type="added">day</transChange>, 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.</verse>


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<verse num="19">For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, because {anyone eating food with yeast}<note>Literally "anyone eating yeasted food, that person"</note> will be cut off from the community of Israel--<transChange type="added">whether</transChange> an alien or a native of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="20">You will eat no <transChange type="added">food with</transChange> yeast; in all of your dwellings you will eat unleavened bread." </verse>


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<verse num="21">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.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And take a bunch of hyssop and dip <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into the blood that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the basin and apply <transChange type="added">some</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="23">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 <transChange type="added">you</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="24">"And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever.<note>Or "until eternity"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">{And}<note>Literally "and it will be"</note> when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this {religious custom}.<note>Literally "service" or "work"</note></verse>


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<verse num="26">{And}<note>Literally "and it will be"</note> when your children say to you, 'What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this {religious custom}<note>Literally "service" or "work"</note> for you?'<note>Or "What does this service mean to you?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">you will say, 'It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.'" And the people knelt down and they worshiped.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. </verse>


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<verse num="29">{And}<note>Literally "and it was"</note> 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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And Pharaoh got up <transChange type="added">at</transChange> 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.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And he called Moses and Aaron <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night, and he said, "Get up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me." </verse>


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<verse num="33">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians urged the people <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to hurry their release<note>Or "to hasten to release them"</note> from the land, because they said, "All of us <transChange type="added">will</transChange> die!"<note>Or "We all are dead!"</note></verse>


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<verse num="34">And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs <transChange type="added">were</transChange> wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians <transChange type="added">for</transChange> objects of silver and objects of gold and <transChange type="added">for</transChange> clothing.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians, and they granted <transChange type="added">their</transChange> requests, and they plundered <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians. </verse>


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<verse num="37">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> set out from Rameses to Succoth; the men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> about six hundred thousand on foot,<note>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)</note> besides dependents.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And also a {mixed multitude}<note>Literally "a large mixture" (compare Jer 25:20; Ezek 30:5)</note> went up with them and sheep and goats and cattle, very numerous livestock.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And they baked the dough that they had brought out from Egypt <transChange type="added">as</transChange> 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. </verse>


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<verse num="40">And the period of dwelling of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> that they dwelled in Egypt <transChange type="added">was</transChange> four hundred and thirty years.</verse>


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<verse num="41">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.</verse>


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<verse num="42">It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a night of vigils<note>Or "observances"</note> <transChange type="added">belonging</transChange> to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this night <transChange type="added">belonging</transChange> to Yahweh <transChange type="added">with</transChange> vigils for all of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> throughout their generations. </verse>


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<verse num="43">And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the statute of the Passover: No foreigner may eat it.</verse>


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<verse num="44">But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.</verse>


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<verse num="46">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.</verse>


