LXX Concordance for τὸν

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[fn]

God made the two great lights ​— ​the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night ​— ​as well as the stars.

So God created man in his own image;

he created him in the image of God;

he created them male and female.

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time[fn] that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

Then the LORD God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

A river went[fn] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.[fn]

The LORD God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.”

So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

So the LORD God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you? ”

He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;

you will bear children with painful effort.

Your desire will be for your husband,

yet he will rule over you.

“It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

The LORD God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the LORD's help.”[fn]

but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let's go out to the field.”[fn] And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

But Cain answered the LORD, “My punishment[fn] is too great to bear!

Then the LORD replied to him, “In that case,[fn] whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

Adah bore Jabal; he was the first[fn] of the nomadic herdsmen.

Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah.

This is the document containing the family[fn] records of Adam.[fn] On the day that God created man,[fn] he made him in the likeness of God;

Adam lived 800 years after he fathered Seth, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Seth was 105 years old when he fathered Enosh.

Enosh was 90 years old when he fathered Kenan.

Kenan was 70 years old when he fathered Mahalalel.

Mahalalel was 65 years old when he fathered Jared.

Jared was 162 years old when he fathered Enoch.

Enoch was 65 years old when he fathered Methuselah.

Methuselah was 187 years old when he fathered Lamech.

Lamech lived 595 years after he fathered Noah, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Noah was 500 years old, and he fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain[fn] with[fn] mankind forever, because they are corrupt.[fn] Their days will be 120 years.”

the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved.

And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

“Understand that I am bringing a flood ​— ​floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

“Whoever sheds human blood,

by humans his blood will be shed,

for God made humans in his image.

Now Noah lived 350 years after the flood.

These are the family records of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. They also had sons after the flood.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who began to be powerful in the land.

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,

Arpachshad fathered[fn] Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.

And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

Then the LORD came down to look over the city and the tower that the humans[fn] were building.

So from there the LORD scattered them throughout the earth, and they stopped building the city.

These are the family records of Shem. Shem lived 100 years and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken to Pharaoh's household.

But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram's wife, Sarai.

to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the LORD there.

Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain[fn] of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the LORD's garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.

He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.

He blessed him and said:

Abram is blessed by God Most High,

Creator[fn] of heaven and earth,

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering![fn] I put my slave in your arms,[fn] and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the LORD judge between me and you.”

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable[fn] to you! ”

“But I will confirm my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased ​— ​every male among the members of Abraham's household ​— ​and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

and said, “My lord, if I have found favor with you, please do not go on past your servant.

“I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant's way. Later, you can continue on.”

“Yes,” they replied, “do as you have said.”

The LORD said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year's time, and your wife Sarah will have a son! ” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

“Is anything impossible for the LORD? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

“What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people who are in it?

The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Then he said, “Since I have ventured to speak to my lord, suppose twenty are found there? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it on account of twenty.”

When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, he departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant's house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”

“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”

They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them! ”

“Get out of the way! ” they said, adding, “This one came here as an alien, but he's acting like a judge! Now we'll do more harm to you than to them.” They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.

“for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the LORD, that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment[fn] of the city.”

Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

“Come, let's get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father's line.”

That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.

Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How did I sin against you that you have brought such enormous guilt on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”

Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves so that they could bear children,

Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

But Sarah saw the son mocking ​— ​the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham.

“and I will also make a nation of the slave's son because he is your offspring.”

and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can't bear to watch the boy die! ” While she sat at a distance, she[fn] wept loudly.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

“Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a resident alien.”

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech's servants had seized.

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham! ”

“Here I am,” he answered.

Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”

And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”

Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? ”

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

“Uz his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

“I am an alien residing among you. Give me burial property among you so that I can bury my dead.”[fn]

“Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God[fn] among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place.[fn] None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the sight[fn] of my people. Bury your dead.”

and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

“My lord, listen to me. Land worth four hundred shekels of silver ​— ​what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

Abraham was now old, getting on in years,[fn] and the LORD had blessed him in everything.

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from? ”

She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.

The girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.

“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

“but will go to my father's family and to my clan to take a wife for my son.'

“He said to me, ‘The LORD before whom I have walked will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's family.

“Then I knelt low, worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed to the ground before the LORD.

Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.

When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”

But he responded to them, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me away so that I may go to my master.”

So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her,[fn] and Abraham's servant and his men.

Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother's death.

and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

He took his last breath and died at a good old age, old and contented,[fn] and he was gathered to his people.

These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

“stay in this land as an alien, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see[fn] Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

and the LORD appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your offspring because of my servant Abraham.”

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”

And he answered, “Here I am.”

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,

Then Rebekah took the best clothes of her older son Esau, which were in the house, and had her younger son Jacob wear them.

So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from his hunting.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ” And Esau wept loudly.[fn]

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

So Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite girl.

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God's angels were going up and down on it.

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it

“and if I return safely to my father's family, then the LORD will be my God.

Jacob resumed his journey[fn] and went to the eastern country.[fn]

The shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep when all the flocks[fn] were gathered there. Then they would return the stone to its place over the well's opening.

“Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson? ” Jacob asked them.

They answered, “We know him.”

But they replied, “We can't until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well's opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban's daughter Rachel with his sheep,[fn] he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban's sheep.

When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran to meet him, hugged him, and kissed him. Then he took him to his house, and Jacob told him all that had happened.

But Leah replied to her, “Isn't it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son's mandrakes? ”

“Well then,” Rachel said, “he can sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.”

Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.[fn]

After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so that I can return to my homeland.

Then Laban said, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

“and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me.

“In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”

He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of Canaan, to his father Isaac.

And Jacob deceived[fn] Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing.

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself! ” God warned him. “Don't say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

“Now you have gone off because you long for your father's family ​— ​but why have you stolen my gods? ”

So Laban went into Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two concubines,[fn] but he found nothing. When he left Leah's tent, he went into Rachel's tent.

“For twenty years in your household I served you ​— ​fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks ​— ​and you have changed my wages ten times!

“This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.

Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his grandchildren and daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home.

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom.

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you ​— ​and he has four hundred men with him.”

“I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.

“Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.[fn]

“Get me this girl as a wife,” he told his father.

Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, “Grant me this favor,[fn] and I'll give you whatever you say.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went away.

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

Timna, a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz,

bore Amalek to Eliphaz.

These are the sons of Esau's wife Adah.

These are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah

daughter of Anah and granddaughter[fn] of Zibeon:

She bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah to Edom.

These are Zibeon's sons: Aiah and Anah.

This was the Anah who found the hot springs[fn] in the wilderness

while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

They said to one another, “Oh, look, here comes that dream expert![fn]

Reuben also said to them, “Don't shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him” ​— ​intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.

Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.

So they took Joseph's robe, slaughtered a male goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

“What should I give you? ” he asked.

She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn't find her.”

As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these? ”

From the time that he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house because of Joseph. The LORD's blessing was on all that he owned, in his house and in his fields.

She put Joseph's garment beside her until his master came home.

and had him thrown into prison, where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph's authority,[fn] because the LORD was with him, and the LORD made everything that he did successful.

and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guards in the prison where Joseph was confined.

“For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon.”[fn]

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh's hand.

“Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guards.

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.[fn] He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.

“You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands.[fn] Only I, as king,[fn] will be greater than you.”

Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought, “Something might happen to him.”

“Send one from among you to get your brother. The rest of you will be imprisoned so that your words can be tested to see if they are true. If they are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies! ”

On the third day Joseph said to them, “I fear God ​— ​do this and you will live.

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:

“The man who is the lord of the country said to us, ‘This is how I will know if you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.

Their father Jacob said to them, “It's me that you make childless. Joseph is gone, and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me! ”

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little food.”

“If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother? ' And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here'? ”

“Take your brother also, and go back at once to the man.

Then the steward said, “May you be well. Don't be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your bags. I received your silver.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.

When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.

When he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother that you told me about? ” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

They were seated before him in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

“Put my cup, the silver one, at the top of the youngest one's bag, along with the silver for his grain.” So he did as Joseph told him.

So each one quickly lowered his sack to the ground and opened it.

Then Joseph said, “I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father.”

“But we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.'

“This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported to him the words of my lord.

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us ​— ​his life is wrapped up with the boy's life ​— ​

“Your servant became accountable to my father for the boy, saying, ‘If I do not return him to you, I will always bear the guilt for sinning against you, my father.'

“For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh's household heard it.

“Return quickly to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

Tell my father about all my glory in Egypt and about all you have seen. And bring my father here quickly.”

When the news reached Pharaoh's palace, “Joseph's brothers have come,” Pharaoh and his servants were pleased.

“Get your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you can eat from the richness of the land.'

So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

Jacob left Beer-sheba. The sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their dependents and their wives.

Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. They were born to him by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, a priest at On.[fn]

Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to prepare for his arrival[fn] at Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen,

“the land of Egypt is open before you; settle your father and brothers in the best part of the land. They can live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

So Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from Pharaoh's presence.

Joseph collected all the silver to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were purchasing, and he brought the silver to Pharaoh's palace.

When that year was over, they came the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the silver is gone and that all our livestock belongs to our lord. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

and Joseph made the people servants[fn] from one end of Egypt to the other.

When the time approached for him to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor with you, put your hand under my thigh and promise me that you will deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt.

Some time after this, Joseph was told, “Your father is weaker.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

“When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

Then Joseph took them both ​— ​with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel's left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel's right ​— ​and brought them to Israel.

So he blessed them that day, putting Ephraim before Manasseh when he said, “The nation Israel will invoke blessings by you, saying, ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.' ”

“He ties his donkey to a vine,

and the colt of his donkey to the choice vine.

He washes his clothes in wine

and his robes in the blood of grapes.

“He saw that his resting place was good

and that the land was pleasant,

so he leaned his shoulder to bear a load

and became a forced laborer.

Then he commanded them, “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hethite.

When Jacob had finished giving charges to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed, took his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

“my father made me take an oath, saying, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.' Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.”

After Joseph buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

A new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them; they let the boys live.

Since the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.

Pharaoh's daughter went down to bathe at the Nile while her servant girls walked along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds, sent her slave girl, took it,

Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

Years later,[fn] after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people[fn] and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.

When they returned to their father Reuel,[fn] he asked, “Why have you come back so quickly today? ”

“So where is he? ” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.

“and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey ​— ​the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

In addition the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, resembling snow.[fn]

“He will speak to the people for you. He will serve as a mouth for you, and you will serve as God to him.

Then Moses went back to his father-in-law, Jethro, and said to him, “Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living.”

Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart[fn] so that he won't let the people go.

“I told you: Let my son go so that he may worship me, but you refused to let him go. Look, I am about to kill your firstborn son! ”

Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival for me in the wilderness.”

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labor! ”

So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, “This is what Pharaoh says: ‘I am not giving you straw.

“No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks! ' Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault.”

So Moses went back to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? And why did you ever send me?

“Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

Aaron's son Eleazar married

one of the daughters of Putiel,

and she bore him Phinehas.

These are the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

“Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put my hand into Egypt and bring the military divisions of my people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh's heart is hard: He refuses to let the people go.

“Tell him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let my people go, so that they may worship[fn] me in the wilderness. But so far you have not listened.

Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn't take even this to heart.

Seven days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him: This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

“The frogs will come up on you, your people, and all your officials.”

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Appeal to the LORD to remove the frogs from me and my people. Then I will let the people go and they can sacrifice to the LORD.”

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on people and animals.

The LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship[fn] me.

“As soon as I leave you,” Moses said, “I will appeal to the LORD, and tomorrow the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people. But Pharaoh must not act deceptively again by refusing to let the people go and sacrifice to the LORD.”

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not let the people go.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

Pharaoh sent messengers who saw that not a single one of the Israelite livestock was dead. But Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not let the people go.

So they took furnace soot and stood before Pharaoh. Moses threw it toward heaven, and it became festering boils on people and animals.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.

“By now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague, and you would have been obliterated from the earth.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven and let there be hail throughout the land of Egypt ​— ​on people and animals and every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.”

“But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD God.”

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may worship me.

The LORD then said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, and the locusts will come up over it and eat every plant in the land, everything that the hail left.”

They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.

“Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to the LORD your God, so that he will just take this death away from me.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there will be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt.”

“and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

“If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.

“When the LORD passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, he will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.

Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We're all going to die! ”

Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day when you came out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery, for the LORD brought you out of here by the strength of his hand. Nothing leavened may be eaten.

“Keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road to the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearby; for God said, “The people will change their minds and return to Egypt if they face war.”

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”

But Moses said to the people, “Don't be afraid. Stand firm and see the LORD's salvation that he will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.

That day the LORD saved Israel from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

With your faithful love,

you will lead the people

you have redeemed;

you will guide them to your holy dwelling

with your strength.

The LORD will reign forever and ever!

“and in the morning you will see the LORD's glory because he has heard your complaints about him. For who are we that you complain about us? ”

“I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you[fn] refuse to keep my commands and instructions?

Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Two quarts[fn] of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.' ”

The LORD answered Moses, “Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the staff you struck the Nile with in your hand and go.

So Joshua defeated Amalek and his army[fn] with the sword.

Moses's father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for God's people Israel when the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt.

Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the LORD rescued them.

“Blessed be the LORD,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from the power of Egypt and from the power of Pharaoh. He has rescued the people from under the power of Egypt!

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

“Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach them God's statutes and laws.”

“Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to him.

“They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every major case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load,[fn] and they will bear it with you.

They judged the people at all times; they would bring the hard cases to Moses, but they would judge every minor case themselves.

Then all the people responded together, “We will do all that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought the people's words back to the LORD.

“Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don't go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain must be put to death.

Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

The LORD directed Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD; otherwise many of them will die.

Moses responded to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since you warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consecrate it.”

Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the total darkness where God was.

“But if the slave declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,'

“If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse,[fn] the owner must be punished.[fn]

“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

“When a man's ox injures his neighbor's ox and it dies, they must sell the live ox and divide its proceeds; they must also divide the dead animal.

“When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed in, and then allows his animals to go and graze in someone else's field, he must repay[fn] with the best of his own field or vineyard.

“Do the same with your cattle and your flock. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to me.

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.[fn]

“Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.

“But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib,[fn] because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed.

“Bring the best of the firstfruits of your land to the house of the LORD your God.

“You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.

“For my angel will go before you and bring you to the land of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out.

“Serve the LORD your God, and he[fn] will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.

“Moses alone is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”

and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.

The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from the cloud.

“and onyx[fn] along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.[fn]

“Its snuffers and firepans must be of pure gold.

“Be careful to make them according to the pattern you have been shown on the mountain.

“Each support is to be fifteen feet[fn] long and twenty-seven[fn] inches wide.

“Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.

“Have your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest ​— ​Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

“These are the garments that they must make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a specially woven tunic,[fn] a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons so that they may serve me as priests.

“six of their names on the first stone and the remaining six names on the second stone, in the order of their birth.

“You are to make an embroidered breastpiece for making decisions.[fn] Make it with the same workmanship as the ephod; make it of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen.

“Put these on your brother Aaron and his sons; then anoint, ordain,[fn] and consecrate them, so that they may serve me as priests.

“Then take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe for the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastpiece; fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.

“Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and[fn] his sons.