LXX Concordance for τῷ

The LORD God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,[fn] where there is gold.

The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush.

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

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man[fn] no helper was found corresponding to him.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can't eat from any tree in the garden'? ”

The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze,[fn] and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

And he said, “I heard you[fn] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”

So the LORD God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,

you are cursed more than any livestock

and more than any wild animal.

You will move on your belly

and eat dust all the days of your life.

And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it':

The ground is cursed because of you.

You will eat from it by means of painful labor[fn]

all the days of your life.

The LORD God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.

In the course of time Cain presented some of the land's produce as an offering to the LORD.

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent?

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.

Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

His brother was named Jubal; he was the first[fn] of all who play the lyre and the flute.

A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.

And after he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked with God; then he was not there because God took him.

These are the family records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries; Noah walked with God.

Those that entered, male and female of every creature, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the LORD shut him in.

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark's cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and every creature on earth.”

He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Let God extend Japheth;[fn]

let Japheth dwell in the tents of Shem;

let Canaan be Shem's slave.

And Shem, Japheth's older brother, also had sons. Shem was the father of all the sons of Eber.

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg,[fn] for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

They said to each other, “Come, let's make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.)

The LORD said to Abram:

Go from your land,

your relatives,

and your father's house

to the land that I will show you.

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[fn] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

So Abram said to Lot, “Please, let's not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.

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 were subject to Chedorlaomer for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.

He blessed him and said:

Abram is blessed by God Most High,

Creator[fn] of heaven and earth,

Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

As the sun was setting, a deep sleep came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the Brook of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River:

So Abram's wife, Sarai, took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband, Abram, as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years.

So Hagar gave birth to Abram's son, and Abram named his son (whom Hagar bore) Ishmael.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live[fn] in my presence and be blameless.

God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah[fn] will be her name.

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ”

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.[fn] I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.

“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.

On that very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.

“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.”

“For I have chosen[fn] him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. This is how the LORD will fulfill to Abraham what he promised him.”

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

“Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”

Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What made you do this? ”

Then Abimelech took flocks and herds and male and female slaves, gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.

for the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

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

She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him[fn] in his old age.”

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

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed[fn] about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

Abraham took flocks and herds and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant.

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs? ”

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together.

Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hethites, the people of the land.

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.”

Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the hearing of the Hethites: four hundred standard shekels[fn] of silver.

The field with its cave passed from the Hethites to Abraham as burial property.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring'[fn] ​— ​he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

“Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,' and who responds, ‘Drink, and I'll water your camels also' ​— ​let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

“Whose daughter are you? ” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night? ”

“Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master in her[fn] old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

“and who responds to me, ‘Drink, and I'll draw water for your camels also' ​— ​let her be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master's son.

“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.

“Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master's son, just as the LORD has spoken.”

Then he brought out objects of silver and gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us? ”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

These are the family records of Abraham's son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's slave, bore to Abraham.

And the LORD said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;

two peoples will come from you and be separated.

One people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.

He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted.” That is why he was also named Edom.[fn]

Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore to Jacob and sold his birthright to him.

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham's time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

“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.

So Abimelech warned all the people, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”

Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.[fn] Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

They made life bitter[fn] for Isaac and Rebekah.

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,

“Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father ​— ​the kind he loves.

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

When he came to his father, he said, “My father.”

And he answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son? ”

He had also made some delicious food and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat some of his son's game, so that you may bless me.”

So he said, “Isn't he rightly named Jacob?[fn] For he has cheated me twice now. He took my birthright, and look, now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven't you saved a blessing for me? ”

You will live by your sword,

and you will serve your brother.

But when you rebel,[fn]

you will break his yoke from your neck.

“May God give you and your offspring the blessing of Abraham so that you may possess the land where you live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.”

He told Rachel that he was her father's relative, Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

Laban said to him, “Just because you're my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, “What have you done to me? Wasn't it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me? ”

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she envied her sister. “Give me sons, or I will die! ” she said to Jacob.

Then she said, “Here is my maid Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she'll bear children for me[fn] so that through her I too can build a family.”

Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

Rachel's slave Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

When Leah's slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,

Reuben went out during the wheat harvest and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother Leah, Rachel asked, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.”

God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.

She conceived and bore a son, and she said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

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

“For you had very little before I came, but now your wealth has increased. The LORD has blessed you because of me. And now, when will I also do something for my own family? ”

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.

“You know that with all my strength I have served your father

“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father's family?

On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war!

Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

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.

She said to her father, “Don't be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed

He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.

“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 spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:

And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? '

The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel[fn] ​— ​limping because of his hip.

Leah's daughter Dinah, whom Leah bore to Jacob, went out to see some of the young women of the area.

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father's family.

On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.

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 set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him ​— ​a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

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.

Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

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.

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.

They sent the long-sleeved robe to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it. Is it your son's robe or not? ”

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guards.

At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother's wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother.”

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father's house.

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out,” Judah said, “and let her be burned to death! ”

Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right[fn] than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her intimately again.

The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving[fn] in the household of his Egyptian master.

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.

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master's wife, “with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.[fn]

Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.[fn]

After this, the king of Egypt's cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were in custody with him in his master's house, “Why do you look so sad today? ”

So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: “In my dream there was a vine in front of me.

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.

When morning came, he was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

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

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it.”

“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stalk.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh's dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“It is just as I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“The food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine that will take place in the land of Egypt. Then the country will not be wiped out by the famine.”

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you are.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh and no one will be able to raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt without your permission.”

Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore them to him.

Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

He said to his brothers, “My silver has been returned! It's here in my bag.” Their hearts sank. Trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What has God done to us? ”

As they began emptying their sacks, there in each man's sack was his bag of silver! When they and their father saw their bags of silver, they were afraid.

Then Reuben said to his father, “You can kill my two sons if I don't bring him back to you. Put him in my care,[fn] and I will return him to you.”

“Why have you caused me so much trouble? ” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man that you had another brother? ”

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and take them down to the man as a gift ​— ​a little balsam and a little honey, aromatic gum and resin, pistachios and almonds.

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward, “Take the men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they will eat with me at noon.”

So they approached Joseph's steward[fn] and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.

“When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one's silver was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they knelt low and paid homage to him.

Joseph hurried out because he was overcome with emotion for his brother, and he was about to weep. He went into an inner room and wept there.

Joseph commanded his steward, “Fill the men's bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one's silver at the top of his bag.

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?

“If it is found with one of us, your servants, he must die, and the rest of us will become my lord's slaves.”

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

“What can we say to my lord? ” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants' iniquity. We are now my lord's slaves ​— ​both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

But Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

“and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.'

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

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants,[fn] so he called out, “Send everyone away from me! ” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

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

He gave each of the brothers changes of clothes, but he gave Benjamin three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothes.

Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

These were Leah's sons born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. The total number of persons:[fn] thirty-three.

These were the sons of Zilpah ​— ​whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah ​— ​that she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.

These were Rachel's sons who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons.

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore to Jacob: seven persons.

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's family, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him, ‘My brothers and my father's family, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen.”

And Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation? ”

They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our ancestors, are shepherds.”

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived? ”

And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's family with food for their dependents.

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks of sheep, the herds of cattle, and the donkeys. That year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

In this way, Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, because every Egyptian sold his field since the famine was so severe for them. The land became Pharaoh's,

Joseph said to the people, “Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.

So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests' land does not belong to Pharaoh.

“When I rest with my ancestors, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”

Joseph answered, “I will do what you have asked.”

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

And Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons God has given me here.”

So Israel said, “Bring them to me and I will bless them.”

Joseph said to his father, “Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

“May I never enter their council;

may I never join their assembly.

For in their anger they kill men,

and on a whim they hamstring oxen.

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 they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.

These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; each came with his family:

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.”

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, “You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.”

The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor? ”[fn]

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship[fn] God at this mountain.”

“They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

“And I will give these people such favor with the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

But Moses replied to the LORD, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent ​— ​either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant ​— ​because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”[fn]

“And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the LORD says: Israel is my firstborn son.

Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and about all the signs he had commanded him to do.

They answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, or else he may strike us with plague or sword.”

“Don't continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.

But he said, “You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, ‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.'

But the LORD replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.”

“I will bring you to the land that I swore[fn] to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.”

“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,' tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent.' ”

“This is what the LORD says: Here is how you will know that I am the LORD. Watch. I am about to strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.

The LORD then said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, canals, and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.”

Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor of choosing. When should I appeal on behalf of you, your officials, and your people, that the frogs be taken away from you and your houses, and remain only in the Nile? ”

“the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”

“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the country.”

“But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die.”

“For this time I am about to send all my plagues against you,[fn] your officials, and your people. Then you will know there is no one like me on the whole earth.

So Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not let the Israelites go, as the LORD had said through Moses.

Pharaoh's officials asked him, “How long must this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Don't you realize yet that Egypt is devastated? ”

“No, go ​— ​just able-bodied men ​— ​worship the LORD, since that's what you want.” And they were driven from Pharaoh's presence.

Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship the LORD. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

The LORD gave[fn] the people favor with the Egyptians. In addition, Moses himself was very highly regarded[fn] in the land of Egypt by[fn] Pharaoh's officials and the people.

Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get out immediately from among my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the LORD as you have said.

And the LORD gave the people such favor with the Egyptians that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

It was a night of vigil in honor of the LORD, because he would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the LORD, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.

“The same law will apply to both the native and the alien who resides among you.”

“When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites,[fn] which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you must carry out this ceremony in this month.

“On that day explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

“you are to present to the LORD every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the LORD's.

“When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of humans and the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the LORD all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.'

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.”

“Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

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.”

When Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in him and in his servant Moses.

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said:

I will sing to the LORD,

for he is highly exalted;

he has thrown the horse

and its rider into the sea.

Miriam sang to them:

Sing to the LORD,

for he is highly exalted;

he has thrown the horse

and its rider into the sea.

The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.

“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? ”

When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it? ” because they didn't know what it was.

Moses told them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.

On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts[fn] apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.

“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you won't find any in the field.

As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.

The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the LORD's command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? In a little while they will stone me! ”

Moses said to Joshua, “Select some men for us and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God's staff in my hand.”

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.

along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom[fn] (because Moses had said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land”)

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been[fn] and went into the tent.

Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses's father-in-law in God's presence.

When Moses's father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this you're doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening? ”

“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.

Moses went up the mountain to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: “This is what you must say to the house of Jacob and explain to the Israelites:

and the LORD told Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

He said to the people, “Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women.”

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

Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work ​— ​you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your livestock, or the resident alien who is within your city gates.

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.

Then the LORD told Moses, “This is what you are to say to the Israelites: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man[fn] without paying anything.

“If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.

“If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.

“If a person schemes and willfully[fn] acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from my altar to be put to death.

“However, if the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned, and its owner must also be put to death.

“If the ox gores a male or female slave, he must give thirty shekels of silver[fn] to the slave's master, and the ox must be stoned.

“the owner of the pit must give compensation; he must pay to its owner, but the dead animal will become his.

“If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not restrained it, he must compensate fully, ox for ox; the dead animal will become his.

“When a man gives his neighbor valuables[fn] or goods to keep, but they are stolen from that person's house, the thief, if caught, must repay double.

“In any case of wrongdoing involving an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or anything else lost, and someone claims, ‘That's mine,'[fn] the case between the two parties is to come before the judges.[fn] The one the judges condemn[fn] must repay double to his neighbor.

“But if, in fact, the animal was stolen from his custody, he must make restitution to its owner.

“If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must pay an amount in silver equal to the bridal price for virgins.

“If you lend silver to my people, to the poor person among you, you must not be like a creditor to him; you must not charge him interest.

“Be my holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; throw it to the dogs.

“If you come across your enemy's stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.

“Also observe the Festival of Harvest[fn] with the firstfruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering[fn] at the end of the year, when you gather your produce[fn] from the field.

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

Then he said to Moses, “Go up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders, and bow in worship at a distance.

Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has commanded.”

Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.

God did not harm[fn] the Israelite nobles; they saw him, and they ate and drank.

“There are to be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a bud and petals, on the next branch. It is to be this way for the six branches that extend from the lampstand.

“Each support will have two tenons for joining. Do the same for all the supports of the tabernacle.

“and make forty silver bases under the twenty supports, two bases under the first support for its two tenons, and two bases under the next support for its two tenons;

“along with their forty silver bases, two bases under the first support and two bases under each support;

“There are to be eight supports with their silver bases: sixteen bases; two bases under the first support and two bases under each support.

“Put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

“Make holy garments for your brother Aaron, for glory and beauty.

“Take some of the bull's blood and apply it to the horns of the altar with your finger; then pour out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

“With the first lamb offer two quarts[fn] of fine flour mixed with one quart[fn] of oil from crushed olives, and a drink offering of one quart of wine.

“When you take a census of the Israelites to register them, each of the men must pay a ransom for his life to the LORD as they are registered. Then no plague will come on them as they are registered.

“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.

When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.

But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God: “LORD, why does your anger burn against your people you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?

Then Moses asked Aaron, “What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin? ”

Afterward Moses said, “Today you have been dedicated[fn] to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother. Therefore you have brought a blessing on yourselves today.”

The LORD spoke to Moses: “Go up from here, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying: I will give it to your offspring.

“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.

The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for I have made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.”

“He has also given[fn] both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.

He overlaid them with gold and made their rings out of gold as holders for the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD commanded Moses.

They made specially woven[fn] garments for ministry in the sanctuary, and the holy garments for Aaron from the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

The artistically woven waistband that was on the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, according to the same workmanship of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and of finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

He fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the Israelites, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then they tied the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece was above the ephod's waistband and did not come loose from the ephod. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe[fn] to be worn for ministry. They made it just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

and the sash of finely spun linen expertly embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. They did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

They attached a cord of blue yarn to it in order to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

The Israelites had done all the work according to everything the LORD had commanded Moses.

The tabernacle was set up in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month.[fn]

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

He brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the curtain for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

He arranged the bread on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

and set up the lamps before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded him.

and burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.

He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD from the livestock, you may bring your offering from the herd or the flock.

“The offerer is to wash its entrails and legs with water. Then the priest will burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“But he is to wash the entrails and legs with water. The priest will then present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“He will tear it open by its wings without dividing the bird. Then the priest is to burn it on the altar on top of the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“When anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, it is to consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,

“When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he will take it to the altar.

“You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

“If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he is to present one without blemish before the LORD.

“If his offering as a fellowship sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he is to present a male or female without blemish.

“He will then present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a food offering to the LORD consisting of its fat and the entire fat tail, which he is to remove close to the backbone. He will also remove the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat on the entrails,

“Then the priest will burn the food on the altar, as a food offering for a pleasing aroma.[fn]

“All fat belongs to the LORD.

“If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he is to present to the LORD a young, unblemished bull as a sin[fn] offering for the sin he has committed.

“Then the priest is to take some of the blood from the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. The rest of its blood he is to pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

“Then the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He is to pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

“Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and apply it to the horns of the altar of burnt offering. He is to pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.

“In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf concerning the sin he has committed in any of these cases, and he will be forgiven. The rest will belong to the priest, like the grain offering.”

“If someone offends by sinning unintentionally in regard to any of the LORD's holy things,[fn] he must bring his penalty for guilt to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock (based on your assessment of its value in silver shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel) as a guilt offering.

“Then he is to bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest.

“The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil from the grain offering, with all the frankincense that is on the offering, and burn its memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

“The priest will burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

“Any grain offering that is baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his.

“From the cakes he is to present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It will belong to the priest who splatters the blood of the fellowship offering; it is his.

“If any of the meat of his fellowship sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presents it; it is repulsive. The person who eats any of it will bear his iniquity.[fn]

“You are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your fellowship sacrifices.

“I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, and have assigned them to the priest Aaron and to his sons as a permanent portion[fn] from the Israelites.”

which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

He also put the turban on his head and placed the gold medallion, the holy diadem, on the front of the turban, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then Moses presented Aaron's sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then Moses slaughtered it,[fn] took the blood, and applied it with his finger to the horns of the altar on all sides, purifying the altar. He poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it so that atonement can be made on it.[fn]

He burned the bull with its hide, flesh, and waste outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

but he washed the entrails and legs with water. He then burned the entire ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD as he had commanded Moses.

Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

So Aaron and his sons did everything the LORD had commanded through Moses.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering; make atonement for yourself and the people.[fn] Sacrifice the people's offering and make atonement for them, as the LORD commanded.”

He burned the fat, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver from the sin offering on the altar, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

but he presented the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.[fn]

Moses and Aaron then entered the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.

The LORD spoke to Aaron:

“They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the presentation offering, together with the food offerings of the fat portions, to present as a presentation offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD commanded.”

“But if the scab spreads further on his skin after he has presented himself to the priest for his cleansing, he is to present himself again to the priest.

“and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, the person is to present himself to the priest.

“When a man or woman has a condition on the head or chin,

“and if the contamination is green or red in the fabric, the leather, the warp, the weft, or any leather article, it is a mildew contamination and is to be shown to the priest.

“The priest is to reexamine the contamination on the seventh day. If it has spread in the fabric, the warp, the weft, or the leather, regardless of how it is used, the contamination is harmful mildew; it is unclean.

“When the priest examines it, if the contamination has not spread in the fabric, the warp or weft, or any leather article,

“After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn the fabric. It is a fungus[fn] on the front or back of the fabric.

“But if it reappears in the fabric, the warp or weft, or any leather article, it has broken out again. You must burn whatever is contaminated.

“the priest will order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one who is to be cleansed.

“He is to slaughter the male lamb at the place in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered, for like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is especially holy.

“The priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.

“With his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the LORD.

“the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared[fn] in my house.

“He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

“He must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons on the eighth day, come before the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.

“a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with a woman who is unclean.”

“After Aaron casts lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other for an uninhabitable place,[fn][fn]

“He is to take some of the bull's blood and sprinkle it with his finger against the east side of the mercy seat; then he will sprinkle some of the blood with his finger before the mercy seat seven times.

“He is to sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse and set it apart from the Israelites' impurities.

“This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the alien who resides among you.

“This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once a year because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the LORD commanded Moses.

“instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before his tabernacle ​— ​that person will be considered guilty.[fn] He has shed blood and is to be cut off from his people.