Witnessing

"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."
Acts 4:12
The Book Of Leviticus
The 1560 Geneva Old Testament With The Spelling Modernized

Modernized spelling
Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Leviticus Chapter 1

1 Now the Lord called Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, If any of you offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, ye shall offer your sacrifice of cattle, as of beeves and of the sheep.

3 If his sacrifice be a burnt offering of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, presenting him of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.

4 And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted to the Lord, to be his atonement.

5 And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord, and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall offer the blood, and shall sprinkle it round about upon the altar, that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

6 Then shall he flay the burnt offering, and cut it in pieces.

7 So the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire.

8 Then the priests Aaron’s sons shall lay the parts in order, the head and the caul upon the wood that is in the fire which is upon the altar.

9 But the inwards thereof and the legs thereof he shall wash in water, and the priest shall burn all on the altar: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire, for a sweet savor unto the Lord.

10 And if his sacrifice for the burnt offering be of the flocks (as of the sheep, or of the goats) he shall offer a male without blemish,

11 And he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and the priests Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

12 And he shall cut it in pieces, separating his head and his caul, and the priest shall lay them in order upon the wood that lieth in the fire which is on the altar:

13 But he shall wash the inwards, and the legs with water, and the priest shall offer the whole and burn it upon the altar: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord.

14 And if his sacrifice be a burnt offering to the Lord of the fowls, then he shall offer his sacrifice of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons.

15 And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring the neck of it asunder, and burn it on the altar: and the blood thereof shall be shed upon the side of the altar.

16 And he shall pluck out his maw with his feathers, and cast them beside the altar on the east part in the place of the ashes.

17 And he shall cleave it with his wings, but not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar upon the wood that is in the fire: for it is a burnt offering, an oblation made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 2

1 And when any will offer a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put incense thereon,

2 And shall bring it unto Aaron’s sons the priests, and he shall take thence his handful of the flour, and of the oil with all the incense, and the priest shall burn it for a memorial upon the altar: for it is an offering made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord.

3 But the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons: for it is most holy of the Lord’s offerings made by fire.

4 If thou bring also a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be an unleavened cake of fine flour mingled with oil, or an unleavened wafer anointed with oil.

5 But if thy meat offering be an oblation of the frying pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.

6 And thou shalt part it in pieces, and power oil thereon: for it is a meat offering.

7 And if thy meat offering be an oblation made in the cauldron, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

8 After, thou shalt bring the meat offering (that is made of these things) unto the Lord, and shalt present it unto the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar,

9 And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial of it, and shall burn it upon the altar: for it is an oblation made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord.

10 But that which is left of the meat offering, shall be Aaron’s and his sons: for it is most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

11 All the meat offerings which ye shall offer unto the Lord, shall be made without leaven: for ye shall neither burn leaven nor honey in any offering of the Lord made by fire.

12 In the oblation of the first fruits ye shall offer them unto the Lord, but they shall not be burned upon the altar for a sweet savor.

13 (All the meat offerings also shalt thou season with salt, neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering, but upon all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt)

14 If then thou offer a meat offering of thy first fruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for thy meat offering of thy first fruits ears of corn dried by the fire, and wheat beaten out of the green ears.

15 After, thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay incense thereon: for it is a meat offering.

16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, even of that that is beaten, and of the oil of it with all the incense thereof: for it is an offering unto the Lord made by fire.
Leviticus Chapter 3

1 Also if his oblation be a peace offering, if he will offer of the drove (whether it be male or female) he shall offer such as is without blemish, before the Lord,

2 And shall put his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

3 So he shall offer part of the peace offerings as a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord, even the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards.

4 He shall also take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, and upon the flanks, and the caul on the liver with the kidneys.

5 And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar, with the burnt offering, which is upon the wood, that is on the fire: this is a sacrifice made by fire for a sweet savor unto the Lord.

6 Also if his oblation be a peace offering unto the Lord out of the flock, whether it be male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

7 If he offer a lamb for his oblation, then he shall bring it before the Lord,

8 And lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and shall kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation, and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

9 After, of the peace offerings he shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: he shall take away the fat thereof, and the rump altogether, hard by the back bone, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards.

10 Also he shall take away the two kidneys, with the fat that is upon them, and upon the flanks, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys.

11 Then the priest shall burn it upon the altar, as the meat of an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

12 Also if his offering be a goat, then shall he offer it before the Lord,

13 And shall put his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

14 Then he shall offer thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord, the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards.

15 Also he shall take away the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and upon the flanks, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys.

16 So the priest shall burn them upon the altar, as the meat of an offering made by fire for a sweet savor: all the fat is the Lord’s.

17 This shall be a perpetual ordinance for your generations, throughout all your dwellings, so that ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus Chapter 4

1 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any shall sin through ignorance, in any of the commandments of the Lord, (which ought not to be done) but shall do contrary to any of them,

3 If the priest that is anointed do sin (according to the sin of the people) then shall he offer, for his sin which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering,

4 And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, and shall put his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the Lord.

5 And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock’s blood, and bring it into the tabernacle of the congregation.

6 Then the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

7 The priest also shall put some of the blood before the Lord, upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation, then shall he pour all the rest of the blood of the bullock at the foot of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

8 And he shall take away all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering: to wit, the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is about the inwards.

9 He shall take away also the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and upon the flanks, and the caul upon the liver with the kidneys,

10 As it was taken away from the bullock of the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.

11 But the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and his legs, and his inwards, and his dung shall he bear out.

12 So he shall carry the whole bullock out of the host unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured, and shall burn him on the wood in the fire: where the ashes are cast out, shall he be burned.

13 And if the whole congregation of Israel shall sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the multitude, and have done against any of the commandments of the Lord which should not be done, and have offended:

14 When the sin which they have committed shall be known, then the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the tabernacle of the congregation,

15 And the elders of the congregation shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord, and he shall kill the bullock before the Lord.

16 Then the priest that is anointed, shall bring of the bullock’s blood into the tabernacle of the congregation,

17 And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the veil.

18 Also he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar, which is before the Lord, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation: then shall he pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

19 And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.

20 And the priest shall do with this bullock, as he did with the bullock for his sin: so shall he do with this: so the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

21 For he shall carry the bullock without the host, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: for it is an offering for the sin of the congregation.

22 When a ruler shall sin, and do through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God, which should not be done, and shall offend,

23 If one show unto him his sin, which he hath committed, then shall he bring for his offering an he goat without blemish,

24 And shall lay his hand upon the head of the he goat, and kill it in the place where he should kill the burnt offering before the Lord: for it is a sin offering.

25 Then the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and shall pour the rest of his blood at the foot of the burnt offering altar,

26 And shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the peace offering: so the priest shall make an atonement for him, concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

27 Likewise if any of the people of the land shall sin through ignorance in doing against any of the commandments of the Lord, which should not be done, and shall offend,

28 If one show him his sin which he hath committed, then he shall bring for his offering, a she goat without blemish for his sin which he hath committed,

29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

30 Then the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and pour all the rest of the blood thereof at the foot of the altar,

31 And shall take away all his fat, as the fat of the peace offerings is taken away, and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor unto the Lord, and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

32 And if he bring a lamb for his sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish,

33 And shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and he shall slay it for a sin offering in the place where he should kill the burnt offering.

34 Then the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the burnt offering altar, and shall pour all the rest of the blood thereof at the foot of the altar.

35 And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb of the peace offerings is taken away: then the priest shall burn it upon the altar with the oblations of the Lord made by fire, and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
Leviticus Chapter 5

1 Also if any have sinned, that is, if he have heard the voice of an oath, and he can be a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it, if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity:

2 Either if one touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean creeping things, and is not aware of it, yet he is unclean, and hath offended:

3 Either if he touch any uncleanness of man (whatsoever uncleanness it be, that he is defiled with) and is not aware of it, and after cometh to the knowledge of it, he hath sinned:

4 Either if any swear, and pronounce with his lips to do evil, or to do good (whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath) and it be hid from him, and after knoweth that he hath offended in one of these points,

5 When he hath sinned in any of these things, then he shall confess that he hath sinned therein.

6 Therefore shall he bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath committed, even a female from the flock, be it a lamb or a she goat for a sin offering, and the priest shall make an atonement for him, concerning his sin.

7 But if he be not able to bring a sheep, he shall bring for his trespass which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons unto the Lord, one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

8 So he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer the sin offering first, and wring the neck of it asunder, but not pluck it clean off.

9 After he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be shed at the foot of the altar: for it is a sin offering.

10 Also he shall offer the second for a burnt offering as the manner is: so shall the priest make an atonement for him (for his sin which he hath committed) and it shall be forgiven him.

11 But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that hath sinned, shall bring for his offering, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering, he shall put none oil thereto, neither put any incense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

12 Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it for the remembrance thereof, and burn it upon the altar with the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for it is a sin offering.

13 So the priest shall make an atonement for him, as touching his sin that he hath committed in one of these points, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest’s, as the meat offering.

14 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

15 If any person transgress and sin through ignorance by taking away things consecrated unto the Lord, he shall then bring for his trespass offering unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, worth two shekels of silver by thy estimation after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

16 So he shall restore that wherein he hath offended, in taking away of the holy thing, and shall put the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto the priest: so the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

17 Also if any sin and do against any of the commandments of the Lord, which ought not to be done, and know not and sin and bear his iniquity,

18 Then shall he bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, in thy estimation worth two shekels for a trespass offering unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred, and was not aware: so it shall be forgiven him.

19 This is the trespass offering for the trespass committed against the Lord.
Leviticus Chapter 6

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 If any sin and commit a trespass against the Lord, and deny unto his neighbor that, which was taken him to keep, or that which was put to him of trust, or doth by robbery, or by violence oppress his neighbor,

3 Or hath found that which was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely, for any of these things that a man doeth, wherein he sinneth:

4 When, I say, he thus sinneth and trespasseth, he shall then restore the robbery that he robbed, or the thing taken by violence which he took by force, or the thing which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

5 Or for whatsoever he hath sworn falsely, he shall both restore it in the whole sum, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom pertaineth, the same day that he offereth for trespass.

6 Also he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock in thy estimation worth two shekels for a trespass offering unto the priest.

7 And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord, and it shall be forgiven him, whatsoever thing he hath done, and trespassed therein.

8 Then the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering, (it is the burnt offering because it burneth upon the altar all the night unto the morning, and the fire burneth on the altar)

10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and shall put on his linen breeches upon his flesh, and take away the ashes when the fire hath consumed the burnt offering upon the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

11 After, he shall put off his garments, and put on other raiment, and carry the ashes forth without the host unto a clean place.

12 But the fire upon the altar shall burn thereon and never be put out: wherefore the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

13 The fire shall ever burn upon the altar, and never go out.

14 Also this is the law of the meat offering, which Aaron’s sons shall offer in the presence of the Lord, before the altar.

15 He shall even take thence his handful of fine flour of the meat offering and of the oil, and all the incense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor, as a memorial therefore unto the Lord:

16 But the rest thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without leaven in the holy place: in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

17 It shall not be baken with leaven: I have given it for their portion of mine offerings made by fire: for it is as the sin offering and as the trespass offering.

18 All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it: It shall be a statute forever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord, made by fire: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

19 Again the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

20 This is the offering of Aaron and his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour, for a meat offering perpetual: half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

21 In the frying pan it shall be made with oil: thou shalt bring it fried, and shalt offer the baken pieces of the meat offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord.

22 And the priest that is anointed in his stead, among his sons shall offer it: It is the Lord’s ordinance forever, it shall be burned altogether.

23 For every meat offering of the priest shall be burned altogether, it shall not be eaten.

24 Furthermore, the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

25 Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and say, This is the law of the sin offering, in the place where the burnt offering is killed, shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord, for it is most holy.

26 The priest that offereth this sin offering, shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there droppeth of the blood thereof upon a garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it droppeth in the holy place.

28 Also the earthen pot that it is sodden in, shall be broken, but if it be sodden in a brazen pot, it shall both be scoured and washed with water.

29 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof, for it is most holy.

30 But no sin offering, whose blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to make reconciliation in the holy place, shall be eaten, but shall be burned in the fire.
Leviticus Chapter 7

1 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering, it is most holy.

2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering, shall they kill the trespass offering, and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

3 All the fat thereof also shall he offer, the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards.

4 After he shall take away the two kidneys, with the fat that is on them and upon the flanks, and the caul on the liver with the kidneys.

5 Then the priest shall burn them upon the altar, for an offering made by fire unto the Lord: this is a trespass offering.

6 All the males among the priests shall eat thereof, it shall be eaten in the holy place, for it is most holy.

7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering, one law serveth for both: that wherewith the priest shall make atonement, shall be his.

8 Also the priest that offereth any man’s burnt offering, shall have the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and that is dressed in the pan, and in the frying pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.

10 And every meat offering mingled with oil, and that is dry, shall pertain unto all the sons of Aaron, to all alike.

11 Furthermore, this is the law of the peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord.

12 If he offer it to give thanks, then he shall offer for his thanks offering, unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried with the cakes mingled with oil.

13 He shall offer also his offering with cakes of leavened bread, for his peace offerings, to give thanks.

14 And of all the sacrifice he shall offer one cake for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

15 Also the flesh of his peace offerings, for thanksgiving, shall be eaten the same day that it is offered: he shall leave nothing thereof until the morning.

16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a free offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and so in the morning the residue thereof shall be eaten.

17 But as much of the offered flesh as remaineth unto the third day, shall be burned with fire.

18 For if any of the flesh of his peace offerings be eaten in the third day, he shall not be accepted that offereth it, neither shall it be reckoned unto him, but shall be an abomination: therefore the person that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

19 The flesh also that toucheth any unclean thing, shall not be eaten, but burned with fire: but of this flesh all that be clean shall eat thereof.

20 But if any eat of the flesh of the peace offerings that pertaineth to the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even the same person shall be cut off from his people.

21 Moreover, when any toucheth any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or of an unclean beast, or of any filthy abomination, and eat of the flesh of the peace offerings, which pertaineth unto the Lord, even that person shall be cut off from his people.

22 Again the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

23 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, Ye shall eat no fat of beeves, nor of sheep, nor of goats:

24 Yet the fat of the dead beast, and the fat of that, which is torn with beasts, shall be occupied to any use, but ye shall not eat of it.

25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of the which he shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, even the person that eateth, shall be cut off from his people.

26 Neither shall ye eat any blood, either of fowl, or of beast in all your dwellings.

27 Every person that eateth any blood, even the same person shall be cut off from his people.

28 And the Lord talked with Moses, saying,

29 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, He that offereth his peace offerings unto the Lord, shall bring his gift unto the Lord of his peace offerings:

30 His hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire: even the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be shaken to and fro before the Lord.

31 Then the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar, and the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering, of your peace offerings.

33 The same that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, among the sons of Aaron, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

34 For the breast shaken to and fro, and the shoulder lifted up, have I taken of the children of Israel, even of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute forever from among the children of Israel.

35 This is the anointing of Aaron, and the anointing of his sons, concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them to serve in the priest’s office unto the Lord.

36 The which portions the Lord commanded to give them in the day that he anointed them from among the children of Israel, by a statute forever in their generations.

37 This is also the law of the burnt offering of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the peace offerings,

38 Which the Lord commanded Moses in the mount Sinai, when he commanded the children of Israel to offer their gifts unto the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.
Leviticus Chapter 8

1 Afterward the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread,

3 And assemble all the company at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

4 So Moses did as the Lord had commanded him, and the company was assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

5 Then Moses said unto the company, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded to do.

6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water,

7 And put upon him the coat, and girded him with a girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him, which he girded with the broidered gard of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

8 After he put the breastplate thereon, and put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.

9 Also he put the miter upon his head, and put upon the miter on the forefront the golden plate, and the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

10 (Now Moses had taken the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle, and all that was therein, and sanctified them,

11 And sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his instruments, and the laver, and his foot, to sanctify them)

12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

13 After, Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon their heads, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

14 Then he brought the bullock for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the bullock for the sin offering.

15 And Moses slew him, and took the blood, which he put upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar: so he sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.

16 Then he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver and the two kidneys, with their fat, which Moses burned upon the altar.

17 But the bullock and his hide, and his flesh, and his dung, he burned with fire without the host as the Lord had commanded Moses.

18 Also he brought the ram for the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram.

19 So Moses killed it, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about,

20 And Moses cut the ram in pieces, and burned the head with the pieces, and the fat,

21 And washed the inwards and the legs in water: so Moses burned the ram every whit upon the altar: for it was a burnt offering for a sweet savor, which was made by fire unto the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22 After, he brought the other ram, the ram of consecrations, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram,

23 Which Moses slew, and took of the blood of it, and put it upon the lap of Aaron’s right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

24 Then Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put of the blood on the lap of their right ears, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet, and Moses sprinkled the rest of the blood upon the altar round about.

25 And he took the fat and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right shoulder.

26 Also he took of the basket of the unleavened bread that was before the Lord, one unleavened cake and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder.

27 So he put all in Aaron’s hands, and in his sons’ hands, and shook it to and fro before the Lord.

28 After, Moses took them out of their hands, and burned them upon the altar for a burnt offering: for these were consecrations for a sweet savor which were made by fire unto the Lord.

29 Likewise Moses took the breast of the ram of consecrations and shook it to and fro before the Lord: for it was Moses’ portion, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

30 Also Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and on his sons’ garments with him: so he sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

31 Afterward Moses said unto Aaron and his sons, Seethe the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it,

32 But that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread, shall ye burn with fire.

33 And ye shall not depart from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation seven days, until the days of your consecrations be at an end: for seven days, said the Lord, shall he consecrate you,

34 As he hath done this day: so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.

35 Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night, seven days, and shall keep the watch of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

36 So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
Leviticus Chapter 9

1 And in the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel:

2 Then he said unto Aaron, Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and bring them before the Lord.

3 And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye an he goat for a sin offering, and a calf, and a lamb, both of a year old, without blemish for a burnt offering:

4 Also a bullock, and a ram for peace offerings, to offer before the Lord, and a meat offering mingled with oil: for today the Lord will appear unto you.

5 Then they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the assembly drew near and stood before the Lord.

6 (For Moses had said, This is the thing, which the Lord commanded that ye should do, and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you)

7 Then Moses said unto Aaron, Draw near to the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thee and for the people: offer also the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them, as the Lord hath commanded.

8 Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

9 And the sons of Aaron brought the blood unto him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured the rest of the blood at the foot of the Altar.

10 But the fat and the kidneys and the caul of the liver of the sin offering, he burned upon the altar, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

11 The flesh also and the hide he burned with fire without the host.

12 After, he slew the burnt offering, and Aaron’s sons brought unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the Altar.

13 Also they brought the burnt offering unto him with the pieces thereof, and the head, and he burned them upon the Altar.

14 Likewise he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burned them upon the burnt offering on the altar.

15 Then he offered the people’s offering, and took a goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it: and offered it for sin, as the first:

16 So he offered the burnt offering, and prepared it, according to the manner.

17 He presented also the meat offering, and filled his hand thereof, and beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning he burned this upon the altar.

18 He slew also the bullock, and the ram for the peace offerings, that was for the people, and Aaron’s sons brought unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,

19 With the fat of the bullock, and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the inwards and the kidneys, and the caul of the liver.

20 So they laid the fat upon the breasts, and he burned the fat upon the altar.

21 But the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron shook to and fro before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

22 So Aaron lift up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

23 After, Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.

24 And there came a fire out from the Lord and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they gave thanks, and fell on their faces.
Leviticus Chapter 10

1 But Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereupon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.

2 Therefore a fire went out from the Lord, and devoured them: so they died before the Lord.

3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified: but Aaron held his peace.

4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan the sons of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the host.

5 Then they went, and carried them in their coats out of the host, as Moses had commanded.

6 After, Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rent your clothes, lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, all the house of Israel bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.

7 And go not ye out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you: and they did according to Moses commandment.

8 And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,

9 Thou shalt not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye come into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: this is an ordinance forever throughout your generations,

10 That ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between the clean and the unclean,

11 And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath commanded them by the hand of Moses.

12 Then Moses said unto Aaron and unto Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord, made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:

13 And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy duty and thy sons’ duty of the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded.

14 Also the shaken breast and the heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place: thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they are given as thy duty and thy sons’ duty, of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.

15 The heave shoulder, and the shaken breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to shake it to and fro before the Lord, and it shall be thine and thy sons with thee by a law forever, as the Lord hath commanded.

16 And Moses sought the goat that was offered for sin, and lo, it was burned: therefore he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron, which were left alive, saying,

17 Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy? And God hath given it you, to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make an atonement for them before the Lord.

18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought within the holy place: ye should have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.

19 And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering, and their burnt offering before the Lord, and such things as thou knowest are come unto me: If I had eaten the sin offering today, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?

20 So when Moses heard it, he was content.
Leviticus Chapter 11

1 After, the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, These are the beasts which ye shall eat, among all the beasts that are on the earth.

3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

4 But of them that chew the cud, or divide the hoof only, of them ye shall not eat: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, he shall be unclean unto you.

5 Likewise the coney, because he cheweth the cud and divideth not the hoof, he shall be unclean to you.

6 Also the hare, because he cheweth the cud, and divideth not the hoof, he shall be unclean to you.

7 And the swine, because he parteth the hoof and is cloven footed, but cheweth not the cud, he shall be unclean to you.

8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch: for they shall be unclean to you.

9 These shall ye eat, of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, or in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

10 But all that have not fins nor scales in the seas, or in the rivers, of all that moveth in the waters, and of all living things that are in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.

11 They, I say, shall be an abomination to you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, but shall abhor their carcass.

12 Whatsoever hath not fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be abomination unto you.

13 These shall ye have also in abomination among the fowls, they shall not be eaten: for they are an abomination, the eagle, and the goshawk, and the osprey:

14 Also the vulture, and the kite after his kind,

15 And all ravens after their kind:

16 The ostrich also, and the night crow, and the sea mew, and the hawk after his kind:

17 The little owl also, and the cormorant, and the great owl.

18 Also the redshank and the pelican, and the swan:

19 The stork also, the heron after his kind, and the lapwing, and the bat:

20 Also every fowl that creepeth and goeth upon all four, such shall be an abomination unto you.

21 Yet these shall ye eat: of every fowl that creepeth, and goeth upon all four which have their feet and legs all of one to leap withal upon the earth,

22 Of them ye shall eat these, the grasshopper after his kind, and the solean after his kind, the hargol after his kind, and the hagab after his kind.

23 But all other fowls that creep and have four feet, they shall be abomination unto you.

24 For by such ye shall be polluted: whosoever toucheth their carcass, shall be unclean unto the evening.

25 Whosoever also beareth of their carcass, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until even.

26 Every beast that hath claws divided, and is not cloven footed, nor cheweth the cud, such shall be unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them, shall be unclean.

27 And whatsoever goeth upon his paws among all manner beasts that goeth on all four, such shall be unclean unto you: who so doth touch their carcass shall be unclean until the even.

28 And he that beareth their carcass, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: for such shall be unclean unto you.

29 Also these shall be unclean to you among the things that creep and move upon the earth, the weasel, and the mouse, and the frog, after his kind:

30 Also the rat, and the lizard, and the chameleon, and the stellio, and the mole.

31 These shall be unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

32 Also whatsoever any of the dead carcasses of them doth fall upon, shall be unclean, whether it be vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack: whatsoever vessel it be that is occupied, it shall be put in the water as unclean until the even, and so be purified.

33 But every earthen vessel, where into any of them falleth, whatsoever is within it shall be unclean, and ye shall break it.

34 All meat also that shall be eaten, if any such water come upon it, shall be unclean: and all drink that shall be drunk in all such vessels shall be unclean.

35 And every thing that their carcass fall upon, shall be unclean: the furnace or the pot shall be broken: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

36 Yet the fountains and wells where there is plenty of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcasses shall be unclean.

37 And if there fall of their dead carcass upon any seed, which useth to be sow, it shall be clean.

38 But if any water be poured upon the seed, and there fall of their dead carcass thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.

39 If also any beast, whereof ye may eat, die, he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.

40 And he that eateth of the carcass of it, shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it, shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

41 Every creeping thing therefore that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination, and not be eaten.

42 Whatsoever goeth upon the breast, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or that hath many feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, ye shall not eat of them, for they shall be abomination.

43 Ye shall not pollute yourselves with anything that creepeth, neither make yourselves unclean with them, neither defile yourselves thereby: ye shall not, I say, be defiled by them,

44 For I am the Lord your God: be sanctified therefore, and be holy, for I am holy, and defile not yourselves with any creeping thing, that creepeth upon the earth.

45 For I am the Lord that brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God, and that you should be holy, for I am holy.

46 This is the law of beasts, and of fowls, and of every living thing that moveth in the waters, and of everything that creepeth upon the earth:

47 That there may be a difference between the unclean and clean, and between the beast that may be eaten, and the beast that ought not to be eaten.

Leviticus Chapter 12

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, When a woman hath brought forth seed, and born a man child, she shall be unclean seven days, like as she is unclean when she is put apart for her disease.

3 (And in the eighth day, the foreskin of the child’s flesh shall be circumcised)

4 And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days: she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the time of her purifying be out.

5 But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as when she hath her disease: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

6 Now when the days of her purifying are out, (whether it be for a son or for a daughter) she shall bring to the priest a lamb of one year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle dove for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

7 Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her: so she shall be purged of the issue of her blood this is the law for her that hath born a male or female.

8 But if she be not able to bring a lamb, she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her: so she shall be clean.

Leviticus Chapter 13

1 Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, and to Aaron, saying,

2 The man that shall have in the skin of his flesh a swelling or a scab, or a white spot, so that in the skin of his flesh it be like the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests,

3 And the priest shall look on the sore in the skin of his flesh: if the hair in the sore be turned into white, and the sore seem to be lower than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy. Therefore the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean:

4 But if the white spot be in the skin of his flesh, and seem not to be lower than the skin, nor the hair thereof be turned unto white, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague, seven days.

5 After, the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: and if the plague seem to him to abide still, and the plague grow not in the skin, the priest shall shut him up yet seven days more.

6 Then the priest shall look on him again the seventh day, and if the plague be dark, and the sore grow not in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is a scab: therefore he shall wash his clothes and be clean.

7 But if the scab grows more in the skin, after that he is seen of the priest for to be purged, he shall be seen of the priest yet again.

8 Then the priest shall consider, and if the scab grows in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is leprosy.

9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, he shall be brought unto the priest,

10 And the priest shall see him: and if the swelling be white in the skin, and have made the hair white, and there be raw flesh in the swelling,

11 It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh: and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.

12 Also if the leprosy break out in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of the plague, from his head even to his feet, where so ever the priest looketh,

13 Then the priest shall consider: and if the leprosy cover all his flesh, he shall pronounce the plague to be clean, because it is all turned into whiteness: so he shall be clean.

14 But if there be raw flesh on him when he is seen, he shall be unclean.

15 For the priest shall see the raw flesh, and declare him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean, therefore it is the leprosy.

16 Or if the raw flesh change and be turned into white, then he shall come to the priest,

17 And the priest shall behold him: and if the sore be changed into white, then the priest shall pronounce the plague clean, for it is clean.

18 The flesh also in whose skin there is a bile and is healed,

19 And in the place of the bile there be a white swelling, or a white spot somewhat reddish, it shall be seen of the priest.

20 And when the priest seeth it, if it appear lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be changed into white, the priest then shall pronounce him unclean: for it is a plague of leprosy, broken out in the bile.

21 But if the priest look on it, and there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be darker, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.

22 And if it spread abroad in the flesh, the priest shall pronounce him unclean, for it is a sore.

23 But if the spot continue in his place, and grow not, it is a burning bile: therefore the priest shall declare him to be clean.

24 If there be any flesh, in whose skin there is an hot burning, and the quick flesh of the burning have a white spot, somewhat reddish or pale,

25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and if the hair in that spot be changed into white, and it appear lower than the skin, it is a leprosy broken out in the burning: therefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is the plague of leprosy.

26 But if the priest look on it, and there be no white hair in the spot, and be no lower than the other skin, but be darker, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.

27 After, the priest shall look on him the seventh day: if it be grown abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is the plague of leprosy.

28 And if the spot abide in his place, not growing in the skin, but is dark, it is a rising of the burning: the priest shall therefore declare him clean, for it is the drying up of the burning.

29 If also a man or woman hath a sore on the head or in the beard,

30 Then the priest shall see the sore: and if it appear lower than the skin, and there be in it a small yellow hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: for it is a black spot, and leprosy of the head or of the beard.

31 And if the priest look on the sore of the black spot, and if it seem not lower than the skin nor have any black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him, that hath the sore of the black spot, seven days.

32 After, in the seventh day the priest shall look on the sore: and if the black spot grow not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the black spot seem not lower than the skin,

33 Then he shall be shaven, but the place of the black spot shall he not shave: but the priest shall shut up him, that hath the black spot, seven days more.

34 And the seventh day the priest shall look on the black spot: and if the black spot grow not in the skin, nor seem lower than the other skin, then the priest shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

35 But if the black spot grow abroad in the flesh after his cleansing,

36 Then the priest shall look on it: and if the black spot grow in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair: for he is unclean.

37 But if the black spot seem to him to abide, and that black hair grow therein, the black spot is healed, he is clean, and the priest shall declare him to be clean.

38 Furthermore if there be many white spots in the skin of the flesh of man or woman,

39 Then the priest shall consider: and if the spots in the skin of their flesh be somewhat dark and white withal, it is but a white spot broken out in the skin: therefore he is clean.

40 And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, and is bald, is clean.

41 And if his head lose the hair on the forepart, and be bald before, he is clean.

42 But if there be in the bald head, or in the bald forehead a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy springing in his bald head, or in his bald forehead.

43 Therefore the priest shall look upon it, and if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, appearing like leprosy in the skin of the flesh,

44 He is a leper and unclean: therefore the priest shall pronounce him altogether unclean: for the sore is in his head.

45 The leper also in whom the plague is, shall have his clothes rent, and his head bare, and shall put a covering upon his lips, and shall cry, I am unclean, I am unclean.

46 As long as the disease shall be upon him, he shall be polluted, for he is unclean: he shall dwell alone, without the camp shall his habitation be.

47 Also the garment that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woolen garment or a linen garment,

48 Whether it be in the warp or in the woof of linen or of woolen, either in a skin, or in anything made of skin,

49 And if the sore be green or somewhat reddish in the garment or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything that is made of skin, it is a plague of leprosy and shall be showed unto the priest.

50 Then the priest shall see the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague, seven days,

51 And shall look on the plague the seventh day: if the plague grow in the garment or in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, or in anything that is made of skin, that plague is a fretting leprosy and unclean.

52 And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, whether it be woolen or linen, or anything that is made of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy, therefore it shall be burnt in the fire.

53 If the priest yet see that the plague grow not in the garment, or in the woof, or in whatsoever thing of skin it be,

54 Then the priest shall command them to wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more.

55 Again the priest shall look on the plague, after it is washed: and if the plague have not changed his color, though the plague spread no further, it is unclean: thou shalt burn it in the fire, for it is a fret inward, whether the spot be in the bare place of the whole, or in part thereof.

56 And if the priest see that the plague be darker, after that it is washed, he shall cut it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.

57 And if it appear still in the garment or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything made of skin, it is a spreading leprosy: thou shalt burn the thing wherein the plague is, in the fire.

58 If thou hast washed the garment or the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, if the plague be departed there from, then shall it be washed the second time, and be clean.

59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woolen or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, to make it clean or unclean.

Leviticus Chapter 14

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 This is the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: that is, he shall be brought unto the priest,

3 And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall consider him: and if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper,

4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is cleansed, two sparrows alive and clean, and cedar wood and a scarlet lace, and hyssop.

5 And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds over pure water in an earthen vessel.

6 After, he shall take the live sparrow with the cedar wood, and the scarlet lace, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living sparrow in the blood of the sparrow slain, over the pure water,

7 And he shall sprinkle upon him, that must be cleansed of his leprosy, seven times, and cleanse him, and shall let go the live sparrow into the broad field.

8 Then he that shall be cleansed, shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, so he shall be clean: after that shall he come into the host, but shall tarry without his tent seven days.

9 So in the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair, both his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows: even all his hair shall he shave, and shall wash his clothes and shall wash his flesh in water: so he shall be clean.

10 Then in the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and an ewe lamb of a year old without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and a pint of oil.

11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall bring the man which is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

12 Then the priest shall take one lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the pint of oil, and shake them to and fro before the Lord.

13 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slain, even in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass offering: for it is most holy.

14 So the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the lap of the right ear of him that shall be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

15 The priest shall also take of the pint of oil, and pour it into the palm of his left hand,

16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.

17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand, shall the priest put upon the lap of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, where the blood of the trespass offering was put.

18 But the remnant of the oil that is in the priest’s hand, he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: so the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.

19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed of his uncleanness: then after shall he kill the burnt offering.

20 So the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar and the priest shall make an atonement for him: so he shall be clean.

21 But if he be poor, and not able, then he shall bring one lamb for a trespass offering to be shaken, for his reconciliation, and a tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil, for a meat offering, with a pint of oil.

22 Also two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, as he is able, whereof the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering,

23 And he shall bring them the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.

24 Then the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the pint of oil, and the priest shall shake them to and fro before the Lord.

25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the lap of his right ear that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

26 Also the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.

27 So the priest shall with his right finger sprinkle of the oil that is in his left hand, seven times before the Lord.

28 Then the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand, upon the lap of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot: upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering.

29 But the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand, he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord.

30 Also he shall present one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, as he is able:

31 Such, I say, as he is able, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering with the meat offering: so the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.

32 This is the law of him which hath the plague of leprosy, who is not able in his cleansing to offer the whole.

33 The Lord also spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

34 When ye be come unto the land of Canaan which I give you in possession, if I send the plague of leprosy in an house of the land of your possession,

35 Then he that owneth the house, shall come and tell the priest, saying, Me think there is like a plague of leprosy in the house.

36 Then the priest shall command them to empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean, and then shall the priest go in to see the house,

37 And he shall mark the plague: and if the plague be in the walls of the house, and that there be deep spots, greenish or reddish, which seem to be lower than the wall,

38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shall cause to shut up the house seven days.

39 So the priest shall come again the seventh day: and if he see that the plague be increased in the walls of the house,

40 Then the priest shall command them to take away the stones wherein the plague is, and they shall cast them into a foul place without the city.

41 Also he shall cause to scrape the house within round about, and pour the dust, that they have pared off, without the city in an unclean place.

42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the places of those stones, and shall take other mortar, to plaster the house with.

43 But if the plague come again and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after that he hath scraped and plastered the house,

44 Then the priest shall come and see: and if the plague grows in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is therefore unclean.

45 And he shall break down the house, with the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city unto an unclean place.

46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up, he shall be unclean until the even.

47 He also that sleepeth in the house shall wash his clothes: he likewise that eateth in the house, shall wash his clothes.

48 But if the priest shall come and see, that the plague hath spread no further in the house, after the house be plastered, the priest shall pronounce that house clean, for the plague is healed.

49 Then shall he take to purify the house, two sparrows, and cedar wood, and scarlet lace, and hyssop.

50 And he

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Genesis Chapter 1

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the waters.

3 Then God said, Let there be light: And there was light.

4 And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light, Day, and the darkness, he called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 Again God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters: and let it separate the waters from the waters.

7 Then God made the firmament, and parted the waters, which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 God said again, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear. and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land, Earth, and he called the gathering together of the waters, Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 Then God said, Let the earth bud forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed, the fruitful tree, which beareth fruit according to his kind, which may have his seed in itself upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth the bud of the herb, that seedeth seed according to his kind, also the tree that yieldeth fruit, which hath his seed in itself according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 So the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years.

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth. and it was so.

16 God then made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the less light to rule the night: he made also the stars.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven, to shine upon the earth,

18 And to rule in the day, and in the night, and to separate the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 Afterward God said, Let the waters bring forth in abundance every creeping thing that hath life: and let the foul fly upon the earth in the open firmament of the heaven.

21 Then God created the great whales, and every thing living and moving, which the waters brought forth in abundance, according to their kind, and every feathered foul according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22 Then God blessed them, saying, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the foul multiply in the earth.

23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 Moreover God said, Let the earth bring forth the living thing according to his kind, cattle, and that which creepeth, and the beast of the earth, according to his kind. And it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth according to his kind, and the cattle according to his kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26 Furthermore God said, Let us make man in our image according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the foul of the heaven, and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over every thing that creepeth and moveth on the earth.

27 Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female.

28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Bring forth fruit and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the foul of the heaven, and over every beast that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I have given unto you every herb bearing seed, which is upon all the earth, and every tree, wherein is the fruit of a tree bearing seed: that shall be to you for meat.

30 Likewise to every beast of the earth, and to every foul of the heaven, and to every thing that moveth upon the earth, which hath life in itself, every green herb shall be for meat. And it was so.

31 And God saw all that he had made, and lo, it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis Chapter 2

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 For in the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and the seventh day he rested from all his work, which he had made.

3 So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work, which God had created and made.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5 And every plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field, before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,

6 But a mist went up from the earth, and watered all the earth.

7 The Lord God also made the man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in his face breath of life, and the man was a living soul.

8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had made.

9 (For out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for meat: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and of evil.

10 And out of Eden went a river to water the garden, and from thence it was divided, and became into four heads.

11 The name of one is Pison: the same compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where is gold.

12 And the gold of that land is good: there is also bdellium, and the onyx stone.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same compasseth the whole land of Cush.

14 The name also of the third river is Hiddekel: this goeth toward the east side of Assyria: and the fourth river is Perath)

15 Then the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden, that he might dress it and keep it.

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Thou shalt eat freely of every tree of the garden,

17 But as touching the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for when so ever thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.

18 Also the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be himself alone. I will make him an help meet for him.

19 So the Lord God formed of the earth every beast of the field, and every foul of the heaven, and brought them unto the man to see how he would call them: for how so ever the man named the living creature, so was the name thereof.

20 The man therefore gave names unto all cattle, and to the foul of the heaven, and to every beast of the field: but for Adam found he not an help meet for him.

21 Therefore the Lord God caused an heavy sleep to fall upon the man, and whiles he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.

22 And the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her to the man.

23 Then the man said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

24 Therefore shall man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis Chapter 3

1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

3 But of the fruit of the tree, which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not die at all,

5 But God doth know, that when ye shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meat, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat.

7 Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree leaves together, and made themselves breeches.

8 Afterward they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9 But the Lord God called to the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

10 Who said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and was afraid: because I was naked, therefore I hid myself.

11 And he said, Who told thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat in no case?

12 Then the man said, The woman which thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

13 And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

15 I will also put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall break thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy sorrows, and thy conceptions. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thy desire shall be subject to thine husband, and he shall rule over thee.

17 Also to Adam he said, Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it) cursed is the earth for thy sake: in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

18 Thorns also, and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return.

20 (And the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living)

21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

22 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever,

23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the earth, whence he was taken.

24 Thus he cast out man, and at the east side of the Garden of Eden he set the Cherubims, and the blade of a sword shaken, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis Chapter 4

1 Afterward the man knew Eve his wife, which conceived and bear Cain, and said, I have obtained a man by the Lord.

2 And again she brought forth his brother Abel, and Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain was a tiller of the ground.

3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought an oblation unto the Lord of the fruit of the ground.

4 And Abel also himself brought of the first fruits of his sheep, and of the fat of them, and the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering,

5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had no regard: wherefore Cain was exceeding wroth, and his countenance fell down.

6 Then the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance cast down?

7 If thou do well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: also unto thee his desire shall be subject, and thou shalt rule over him.

8 Then Cain spake to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

9 Then the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? Who answered, I cannot tell. Am I my brother’s keeper?

10 Again he said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood cryeth unto me from the ground.

11 Now therefore thou art cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thine hand.

12 When thou shalt till the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: a vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be in the earth.

13 Then Cain said to the Lord, My punishment is greater, than I can bear.

14 Behold, thou hast cast me out this day from the earth, and from thy face shall I be hid, and shall be a vagabond, and a renegade in the earth, and whosoever findeth me, shall slay me.

15 Then the Lord said unto him, Doubtless whosoever slayeth Cain, he shall be punished seven fold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any man finding him should kill him.

16 Then Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod toward the east side of Eden.

17 Cain also knew his wife, which conceived and bear Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city by the name of his son, Enoch.

18 And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad begat Mehujael, and Mehujael begat Methushael, and Methushael begat Lamech.

19 And Lamech took him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

20 And Adah bear Jabal, who was the father of such as dwell in the tents, and of such as have cattle.

21 And his brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all that play on the harp and organs.

22 And Zillah also bear Tubal-cain, who wrought cunningly every craft of brass and of iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

23 Then Lamech said unto his wives Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech: hearken unto my speech: for I would slay a man in my wound, and a young man in mine hurt.

24 If Cain shall be avenged seven fold, truly Lamech, seventy times seven fold.

25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bear a son, and she called his name Seth: for God, said she, hath appointed me another seed for Abel, because Cain slew him.

26 And to the same Seth also there was born a son, and he called his name Enos. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord.

Genesis Chapter 5

1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likeness of God made he him,

2 Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day that they were created.

3 Now Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a child in his own likeness after his image, and called his name Seth.

4 And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat sons and daughters.

5 So all the days that Adam lived, were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

6 And Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos.

7 And Seth lived, after he begat Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

8 So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

9 Also Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan.

10 And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

11 So all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years: and he died.

12 Likewise Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel.

13 And Cainan lived, after he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 So all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

15 Mahalaleel also lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared.

16 Also Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

17 So all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and begat Enoch.

19 Then Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 So all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

21 Also Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah.

22 And Enoch walked with God, after he begat Methuselah, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years.

24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more seen: for God took him away.

25 Methuselah also lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.

26 And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters.

27 So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

28 Then Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son,

29 And called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and sorrow of our hands, as touching the earth, which the Lord hath cursed.

30 And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters.

31 So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

32 And Noah was five hundred year old. And Noah begat Shem, Ham and Japheth.

Genesis Chapter 6

1 So when men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and there were daughters born unto them,

2 Then the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all that they liked.

3 Therefore the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, because he is but flesh, and his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

4 There were giants in the earth in those days: yea, and after that the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they had born them children, these were mighty men, which in old time were men of renown.

5 When the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually,

6 Then it repented the Lord that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorry in his heart.

7 Therefore the Lord said, I will destroy from the earth the man, whom I have created, from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foul of the heaven: for I repent that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just and upright man in his time: and walked with God.

10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11 The earth also was corrupt before God: for the earth was filled with cruelty.

12 Then God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupt his way upon the earth.

13 And God said unto Noah, An end of all flesh is come before me: for the earth is filled with cruelty through them: and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

14 Make thee an ark of pine trees: thou shalt make cabins in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

15 And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

16 A window shalt thou make in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above, and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof: thou shalt make it with the low, second and third room.

17 And I, behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under the heaven: all that is in the earth shall perish.

18 But with thee will I establish my covenant, and thou shalt go into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

19 And of every living thing, of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou cause to come into the ark, to keep them alive with thee: they shall be male and female.

20 Of the fouls, after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, that thou mayest keep them alive.

21 And take thou with thee of all meat that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meat for thee and for them.

22 Noah therefore did according unto all, that God commanded him: even so did he.

Genesis Chapter 7

1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this age.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: but of unclean beasts by couples, the male and his female.

3 Of the fouls also of the heaven by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the whole earth.

4 For seven days hence I will cause it rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and all the substance that I have made, will I destroy from off the earth.

5 Noah therefore did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old, when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

7 So Noah entered and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

8 Of the clean beasts, and of the unclean beasts, and of the fouls, and of all that creepeth upon the earth,

9 There came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And so after seven days the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,

12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 In the self same day entered Noah with Shem, and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark.

14 They and every beast after his kind, and all cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth and moveth upon the earth after his kind, and every foul after his kind, even every bird of every feather.

15 For they came to Noah into the ark, two and two, of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

16 And they entering in, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

17 Then the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the waters were increased, and bear up the ark, which was lift up above the earth.

18 The waters also waxed strong, and were increased exceedingly upon the earth, and the ark went upon the waters.

19 The waters prevailed so exceedingly upon the earth, that all the high mountains, that are under the whole heaven, were covered.

20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, when the mountains were covered.

21 Then all flesh perished that moved upon the earth, both foul and cattle and beast, and every thing that creepeth and moveth upon the earth, and every man.

22 Everything in whose nostrils the spirit of life did breathe, whatsoever they were in the dry land, they died.

23 So he destroyed everything that was upon the earth, from man to beast, to the creeping thing, and to the foul of the heaven: they were even destroyed from the earth. And Noah only remained; and they that were with him in the ark.

24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

Genesis Chapter 8

1 Now God remembered Noah and every beast, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: therefore God made a wind to pass upon the earth, and the waters ceased.

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained,

3 And the waters returned from above the earth, going and returning: and after the end of the hundred and fiftieth day the waters abated.

4 And in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

5 And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: in the tenth month, and in the first day of the month were the tops of the mountains seen.

6 So after forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark, which he had made,

7 And sent forth a raven, which went out going forth and returning, until the waters were dried up upon the earth.

8 Again he sent a dove from him, that he might see if the waters were diminished from off the earth.

9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot: therefore she returned unto him into the ark (for the waters were upon the whole earth) and he put forth his hand, and took her, and took her to him into the ark.

10 And he abode yet other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.

11 And the dove came to him in the evening, and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf that she had plucked: whereby Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

12 Notwithstanding he waited yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

13 And in the six hundredth and one year, in the first day of the first month the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the upper part of the ground was dry.

14 And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month was the earth dry.

15 Then God spake to Noah, saying,

16 Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons and thy sons’ wives with thee.

17 Bring forth with thee every beast that is with thee, of all flesh, both foul and cattle, and every thing that creepeth and moveth upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and bring forth fruit and increase upon the earth.

18 So Noah came forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him.

19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every foul, all that moveth upon the earth after their kinds went out of the ark.

20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean beast, and of every clean foul, and offered burnt offerings upon the altar.

21 And the Lord smelled a savor of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will henceforth curse the ground no more for man’s cause: for the imagination of man’s heart is evil, even from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things living, as I have done.

22 Hereafter seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, so long as the earth remaineth.
Genesis Chapter 9

1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Bring forth fruit, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

2 Also the fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every foul of the heaven, upon all that moveth on the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.

3 Everything that moveth and liveth, shall be meat for you: as the green herb, have I given you all things.

4 But flesh with the life thereof, I mean, with the blood thereof, shall ye not eat?

5 For surely I will require your blood, wherein your lives are: at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of a man’s brother will I require the life of man.

6 Whoso sheadeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God hath he made man.

7 But bring ye forth fruit and multiply: grow plentifully in the earth, and increase therein.

8 God spake also to Noah and to his sons with him, saying,

9 Behold, I, even I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

10 And with every living creature that is with you, with the foul, with the cattle, and with every beast of the earth with you, from all that go out of the ark, unto every beast of the earth.

11 And my covenant will I establish with you, that from henceforth all flesh shall not be rooted out by the waters of the flood, neither shall there be a flood to destroy the earth any more.

12 Then God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you, and between every living thing, that is with you unto perpetual generations.

13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

14 And when I shall cover the earth with a cloud, and the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

15 Then will I remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and between every living thing in all flesh, and there shall be no more waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 Therefore the bow shall be in the cloud, that I may see it, and remember the everlasting covenant between God, and every living thing in all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 God said yet to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

18 Now the sons of Noah going forth of the ark, were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.

19 These are the three sons of Noah, and of them was the whole earth overspread.

20 Noah also began to be an husbandman and planted a vineyard.

21 And he drunk of the wine and was drunken, and was uncovered in the midst of his tent.

22 And when Ham the father of Canaan saw the nakedness of his father, he told his two brethren without.

23 Then took Shem and Japheth a garment, and put it upon both their shoulders and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father with their faces backward: so they saw not their father’s nakedness.

24 Then Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him,

25 And said, Cursed be Canaan: a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

26 He said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.

27 God persuaded Japheth, that he may dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.

28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

29 So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Genesis Chapter 10

1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth: unto whom sons were born after the flood.

2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

3 And the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

4 Also the sons of Javan, Elishah and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

5 Of these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands, every man after his tongue, and after their families in their nations.

6 Moreover, the sons of Ham were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.

7 And the sons of Cush, Seba and Havilah, and Sabtech, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: also the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan.

8 And Cush begat Nimrod, who began to be mighty in the earth.

9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, As Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

11 Out of that land came Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah:

12 Resen also between Nineveh and Calah: this is a great city.

13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim.

14 Pathrusim also, and Casluhim (out of whom came the Philistims) and Caphtorims.

15 Also Canaan begat Zidon his first born, and Heth,

16 And Jebusi, and Emori, and Girgashi,

17 And Hivi, and Arki, and Sini,

18 And Arvadi, and Zemari, and Hamathi: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

19 Then the border of the Canaanites was from Zidon, as thou comest to Gerar until Gaza, and as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham according to their families, according to their tongues in their countries and in their nations.

21 Unto Shem also the father of all the sons of Eber, and elder brother of Japheth were children born.

22 The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

23 And the sons of Aram, Uz and Hul, and Gether and Mash.

24 Also Arpachshad begat Shebah, and Shebah begat Eber.

25 Unto Eber also were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg: for in his days was the earth divided: and his brother’s name was Joktan.

26 Then Joktan begat Almodad and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

28 And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

31 These are the sons of Shem according to their families, according to their tongues, in their countries and nations.

32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations among their people: and out of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Genesis Chapter 11

1Then the whole earth was of one language and one speech.

2 And as they went from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.

3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn it in the fire. So they had brick for stone, and slime had they instead of mortar.

4 Also they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto the heaven, that we may get us a name, lest we be scattered upon the whole earth.

5 But the Lord came down, to see the city and tower, which the sons of men builded.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they all have one language, and this they begin to do, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoever they have imagined to do.

7 Come on, let us go down, and there confound their language, that every one perceive not another’s speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them from thence upon all the earth, and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: from thence then did the Lord scatter them upon all the earth.

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood.

11 And Shem lived, after he begat Arpachshad, five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 Also Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah.

13 And Arpachshad lived, after he begat Shelah, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber.

15 So Shelah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16 Likewise Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.

17 So Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.

19 And Peleg lived, after he begat Reu, two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 Also Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.

21 So Reu lived, after he begat Serug, two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22 Moreover Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.

23 And Serug lived, after he begat Nahor, two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.

25 So Nahor lived, after he begat Terah, an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26 So Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran: and Haran begat Lot.

28 Then Haran died before Terah his father in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 So Abram and Nahor took them wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren, and had no child.

31 Then Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife: and they departed together from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
Genesis Chapter 12

1 For the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house unto the land that I will show thee.

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.

3 I will also bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 So Abram departed, even as the Lord spake unto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seventy and five year old, when he departed out of Haran)

5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they possessed, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they departed, to go to the land of Canaan: and to the land of Canaan they came.

6 So Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, and unto the plain of Moreh (and the Canaanite was then in the land)

7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there builded he an altar unto the Lord, which appeared unto him.

8 Afterward removing thence unto a mountain eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent having Beth-el on the west side, and Hai on the east: and there he built an altar unto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.

9 Again Abram went forth going and journeying toward the south.

10 Then there came a famine in the land: therefore Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there: for there was a great famine in the land.

11 And when he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

12 Therefore it will come to pass, that when the Egyptians see thee, they will say, She is his wife: so will they kill me, but they will keep thee alive.

13 Say, I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my life may be preserved by thee.

14 Now, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman: for she was very fair.

15 And the Princes of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her unto Pharaoh: so the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house:

16 Who entreated Abram well for her sake, and he had sheep, and beeves, and he asses, and menservants and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

17 But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

18 Then Pharaoh called Abram, and said, Why hast thou done this unto me? Wherefore didst thou not tell me, that she was thy wife?

19 Why saidest thou, She is my sister, that I should take her to be my wife? Now therefore behold thy wife, take her and go thy way.

20 And Pharaoh gave men commandment concerning him: and they conveyed him forth, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis Chapter 13

1 Then Abram went up from Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him toward the south.

2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver and in gold.

3 And he went on his journey from the south toward Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai,

4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the Name of the Lord.

5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheep, and cattle and tents,

6 So that the land could not bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

7 Also there was debate between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. (and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land.)

8 Then said Abram unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, neither between mine herdsmen and thine herdsmen: for we be brethren.

9 Is not the whole land before thee? Depart I pray thee from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right: or if thou go to the right hand, then I will take the left.

10 So when Lot lifted up his eyes, he saw that all the plain of Jordan was watered everywhere: (for before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar)

11 Then Lot chose unto him all the plain of Jordan, and took his Journey from the east: and they departed the one from the other.

12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot abode in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent even to Sodom.

13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and exceeding sinners against the Lord.

14 Then the Lord said unto Abram, (after that Lot was departed from him) Lift up thine eyes now, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

15 For all the land, which thou seest, will I give unto thee and to thy seed forever?

16 And I will make thy seed, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.

17 Arise, walk through the land, in the length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will give it unto thee.

18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar unto the Lord.
Genesis Chapter 14

1 And in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedor-laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of the nations:

2 These men made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.

3 All these joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea.

4 Twelve year were they subject to Chedor-laomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedor-laomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto the plain of Paran, which is by the wilderness.

7 And they returned and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites that dwelled in Hazezon-tamar.

8 Then went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar: and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim:

9 To wit, with Chedor-laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar: four kings against five.

10 Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits, and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell there: and the residue fled to the mountain.

11 Then they took all the substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and their victuals and went their way.

12 They took Lot also Abram’s brother’s son and his substance (for he dwelt at Sodom) and departed.

13 Then came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, which dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner, which were confederate with Abram.

14 When Abram heard that his brother was taken, he brought forth of them that were born and brought up in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

15 Then he, and his servants divided themselves against them by night, and smote them and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left side of Damascus,

16 And he recovered all the substance, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also and the people.

17 After that he returned from the slaughter of Chedor-laomer, and of the kings that were with him, came the king of Sodom forth to meet him in the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.

18 And Melchi-zedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was a priest of the Most High God.

19 Therefore he blessed him, saying, Blessed art thou, Abram, of God Most High possessor of heaven and earth,

20 And blessed be the Most High God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gave him tithe of all.

21 Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord the Most High God possessor of heaven and earth,

23 That I will not take of all that is thine, so much as a thread or shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich,

24 Save only that, which the young men have eaten, and the parts of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre: let them take their parts.
Genesis Chapter 15

1 After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am thy buckler, and thine exceeding great reward.

2 And Abram said, O Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of mine house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

3 Again Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: wherefore lo, a servant of mine house shall be mine heir.

4 Then behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, He shall not be thine heir, but one that shall come out of thine own bowels, he shall be thine heir.

5 Moreover he brought him forth and said, Look up now unto heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And Abram believed the Lord, and he counted that to him for righteousness.

7 Again he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

8 And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9 Then he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, a turtle dove also and a pigeon.

10 So he took all these unto him, and divided them into the midst, and laid every piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

11 Then fouls fell on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12 And when the sun went down, there fell an heavy sleep upon Abram: and lo, a very fearful darkness fell upon him.

13 Then he said to Abram, Know this of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land, that is not theirs, four hundred years, and shall serve them: and they shall entreat them evil.

14 Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 But thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good age.

16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full.

17 Also when the sun went down, there was a darkness: and behold, a smoking furnace, and a firebrand, which went between those pieces.

18 In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21 The Amorites also, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Genesis Chapter 16

1 Now Sarai Abram’s wife bear him no children, and she had a maid an Egyptian, Hagar by name.

2 And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from child bearing. I pray thee go in unto my maid: it may be that I shall receive a child by her. And Abram obeyed the voice of Sarai.

3 Then Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelled ten year in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram for his wife.

4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her dame was despised in her eyes.

5 Then Sarai said to Abram, Thou doest me wrong. I have given my maid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.

6 Then Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thine hand: do with her as it pleaseth thee. Then Sarai dealt roughly with her: wherefore she fled from her.

7 But the Angel of the Lord found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness by the fountain in the way to Shur,

8 And he said, Hagar Sarai’s maid, whence comest thou? And whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from my dame Sarai.

9 Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy dame, and humble thyself under her hands.

10 Again the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will so greatly increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

11 Also the angel of the Lord said unto her, See, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: for the Lord hath heard thy tribulation.

12 And he shall be a wild man: his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

13 Then she called the name of the Lord, that spake unto her, Thou God lookest on me: for she said, Have I not also here looked after him that seeth me?

14 Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahairoi. Lo, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

15 And Hagar bear Abram a son, and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bear, Ishmael.

16 And Abram was four score and six years old, when Hagar bear him Ishmael.
Genesis Chapter 17

1 When Abram was ninety year old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God all sufficient. walk before me, and be thou upright,

2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

4 Behold, I make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations,

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee.

6 Also I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and will make nations of thee: yea, kings shall proceed of thee.

7 Moreover I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

8 And I will give thee and thy seed after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

9 Again God said unto Abraham, Thou also shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee, Let every man child among you be circumcised:

11 That is, ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

12 And every man child of eight days old among you, shall be circumcised in your generations, as well he that is born in thine house, as he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

13 He that is born in thine house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: so my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

14 But the uncircumcised man child, in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised, even that person shall be cut off from his people, because he hath broken my covenant.

15 Afterward God said unto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

16 And I will bless her, and will also give thee a son of her, yea, I will bless her and she shall be the mother of nations: kings also of people shall come of her.

17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him, that is an hundred year old? And shall Sarah that is ninety years old bear?

18 And Abraham said unto God, Oh, that Ishmael might live in thy sight.

19 Then God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

20 And as concerning Ishmael, I have heard thee: lo, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly: twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee, the next year at this season.

22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all that were born in his house, and all that was bought with his money, that is, every man child among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the foreskin of their flesh in that self same day, as God had commanded him.

24 Abraham also himself was ninety year old and nine, when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.

25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen year old, when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.

26 The self same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son:

27 And all the men of his house, both born in his house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
Genesis Chapter 18

1 Again the Lord appeared unto him in the plain of Mamre, as he sat in his tent door about the heat of the day.

2 And he lift up his eyes, and looked: and lo, three men stood by him, and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the ground.

3 And he said, Lord, if I have now found favor in thy sight, go not, I pray thee, from thy servant.

4 Let a little water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

5 And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may comfort your hearts, afterward ye shall go your ways: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, Do even as thou hast said.

6 Then Abraham made haste into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready at once three measures of fine meal: knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

7 And Abraham ran to the beasts, and took a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant, who hasted to make it ready.

8 And he took butter and milk, and the calf, which he had prepared, and set before them, and stood himself by them under the tree, and they did eat.

9 Then they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he answered, Behold, she is in the tent.

10 And he said, I will certainly come again unto thee according to the time of life: and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. and Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

11 (Now Abraham and Sarah were old and stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women)

12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old, and my lord also, shall I have lust?

13 And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah thus laugh, saying, Shall I certainly bear a child, which am old?

14 (Shall anything be hard to the Lord? At the time appointed will I return unto thee, even according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.)

15 But Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraid. And he said, It is not so: for thou laughedst.

16 Afterward the men did rise up from thence and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

17 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do,

18 Seeing that Abraham shall be indeed a great and a mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

19 For I know him that he will command his sons and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that he hath spoken unto him.

20 Then the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is exceeding grievous,

21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to that cry which is come unto me: and if not, that I may know.

22 And the men turned thence and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

23 Then Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

24 If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

25 Be it far from thee from doing this thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be even as the wicked, be it far from thee. Shall not the judge of all the world do right?

26 And the Lord answered, If I shall find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then will I spare all the place for their sakes.

27 Then Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have begun to speak unto my Lord, and I am but dust and ashes.

28 If there shall lack five of fifty righteous, wilt thou destroy all the city for five? And he said, If I find there five and forty, I will not destroy it.

29 And he yet spake to him again, and said, What if there shall be found forty there? Then he answered, I will not do it for forty’s sake.

30 Again he said, Let not my Lord now be angry, that I speak, What if thirty be found there? Then he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

31 Moreover he said, Behold, now I have begun to speak unto my Lord, What if twenty be found there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

32 Then he said, Let not my Lord be now angry, and I will speak but this once, What if ten be found there? And he answered, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

33 And the Lord went his way when he had left communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned unto his place.
Genesis Chapter 19

1 And in the evening there came two angels to Sodom: and Lot sat at the gate of Sodom, and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face to the ground.

2 And he said, See my Lords, I pray you turn in now into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early and go your ways. Who said, Nay, but we will abide in the street all night.

3 Then he pressed upon them earnestly, and they turned in to him, and came to his house, and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

4 But before they went to bed, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom compassed the house round about from the young to the old, all the people from all quarters.

5 Who crying unto Lot said to him, Where are the men, which came to thee this night? Bring them out unto us that we may know them.

6 Then Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

7 And said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

8 Behold now, I have two daughters, which have not known man: them will I bring out now unto you, and do to them as seemeth you good: only unto these men do nothing: for therefore are they come under the shadow of my roof.

9 Then they said, Away hence, and they said, He is come alone as a stranger, and shall he judge and rule? We will now deal worse with thee than with them. So they pressed sore upon Lot himself, and came to break the door.

10 But the men put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door.

11 Then they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness both small and great, so that they were weary in seeking the door.

12 Then the men said unto Lot, Whom hast thou yet here? Either son in law, or thy sons, or thy daughters, or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place.

13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the Lord, and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

14 Then Lot went out and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the city: but he seemed to his sons in law as though he had mocked.

15 And when the morning arose, the angels hasted Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here, lest thou be destroyed in the punishment of the city.

16 And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him and his wife, and his two daughters by the hands (the Lord being merciful unto him) and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

17 And when they had brought them out, the angel said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in all the plain escape into the mountain, lest thou be destroyed.

18 And Lot said unto them, Not so, I pray thee, my Lord.

19 Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life: and I cannot escape in the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die.

20 See now this city hereby to flee unto, which is a little one: Oh let me escape thither: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?

21 Then he said unto him, Behold, I have received thy request also concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

22 Haste thee, save thee there: for I can do nothing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

23 The sun did rise upon the earth, when Lot entered into Zoar.

24 Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone, and fire from the Lord out of heaven,

25 And overthrew those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities; and that that grew upon the earth.

26 Now his wife behind him looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham rising up early in the morning went to the place, where he had stand before the Lord, and looking toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain:

28 Behold, he saw the smoke of the land mounting up as the smoke of a furnace.

29 But yet when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God thought upon Abraham, and sent Lot out from the midst of the destruction, when he overthrew the cities, wherein Lot dwelled.

30 Then Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain with his two daughters: for he feared to tarry in Zoar, but dwelt in a cave, he, and his two daughters.

31 And the elder said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth.

32 Come, we will make our father drink wine, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

33 So they made their father drink wine that night, and the elder went and lay with her father: but he perceived not, neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.

34 And on the morrow the elder said to the younger, Behold, yester night lay I with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also, and go thou and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

35 So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose, and lay with him, but he perceived not, when she lay down, neither when she rose up.

36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

37 And the elder bear a son, and she called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

38 And the younger bear a son also, and she called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.
Genesis Chapter 20

1 Afterward Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. Then Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but dead, because of the woman, which thou hast taken: for she is a man’s wife.

4 (Notwithstanding Abimelech had not yet come near her) And he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even the righteous nation?

5 Said not he unto me, She is my sister? Yea, and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright mind, and innocent hands have I done this.

6 And God said unto him by a dream, I know that thou didst this even with an upright mind, and I kept thee also that thou shouldest not sin against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

7 Now then deliver the man his wife again: for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee that thou mayest live: but if thou deliver her not again, be sure that thou shalt die the death, thou, and all that thou hast.

8 Then Abimelech rising up early in the morning, called all his servants, and told all these things unto them, and

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The Geneva Bible:

The Forgotten Translation


When Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) became queen of England in 1553, she was determined to roll back the Reformation and reinstate Roman Catholicism. Mary had strong ties to Catholic Spain. She married Philip II of Spain and induced the English Parliament to recognize the authority of papal Rome. Mary met with a great deal of resistance from Protestant reformers in her own country. Mary showed no signs of compromise. The persecution of Protestants followed.
The era known as the Marian Exile drove hundreds of English scholars to the Continent with little hope of ever seeing their home and friends again. God used this exodus experience to advance the Reformation. A number of English Protestant divines settled in Calvin's Geneva: Miles Coverdale, John Foxe, Thomas Sampson, and William Whittingham. With the protection of the Genevan civil authorities and the support of John Calvin and the Scottish Reformer John Knox, the Church of Geneva determined to produce an English Bible without the need for the imprimatur of either England or Rome - the Geneva Bible.
Translation Work Begins In 1557
The Geneva translators produced a revised New Testament in English in 1557 that was essentially a revision of Tyndale's revised and corrected 1534 edition. Much of the work was done by William Whittingham, the brother-in-law of John Calvin. The Geneva New Testament was barely off the press when work began on a revision of the entire Bible, a process that took more than two years. The new translation was checked with Theodore Beza's earlier work and the Greek text. In 1560 a complete revised Bible was published, translated according to the Hebrew and Greek, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I. After the death of Mary, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, once again moving England toward Protestantism. The Geneva Bible was finally printed in England in 1575 only after the death of Archbishop Matthew Parker, editor of the Bishop's Bible.
England's Most Popular Bible
While other English translations failed to capture the hearts of the reading public, the Geneva Bible was instantly popular. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 144 editions appeared. For forty years after the publication of the King James Bible, the Geneva Bible continued to be the Bible of the home. Oliver Cromwell used extracts from the Geneva Bible for his Soldier's Pocket Bible which he issued to the army.
A THREAT TO KING JAMES
In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth with their Bibles and a conviction derived from those Bibles of establishing a new nation. The Bible was not the King James Version. When James I became king of England in 1603, there were two translations of the Bible in use; the Geneva Bible was the most popular, and the Bishops' Bible was used for reading in churches.
King James disapproved of the Geneva Bible because of its Calvinistic leanings. He also frowned on what he considered to be seditious marginal notes on key political texts. A marginal note for Exodus 1:9 indicated that the Hebrew midwives were correct in disobeying the Egyptian king's orders, and a note for 2 Chronicles 15:16 said that King Asa should have had his mother executed and not merely deposed for the crime of worshipping an idol. The King James Version of the Bible grew out of the king's distaste for these brief but potent doctrinal commentaries. He considered the marginal notes to be a political threat to his kingdom.
At a conference at Hampton Court in 1604 with bishops and theologians, the king listened to a suggestion by the Puritan scholar John Reynolds that a new translation of the Bible was needed. Because of his distaste for the Geneva Bible, James was eager for a new translation. "I profess," he said, "I could never yet see a Bible well translated in English; but I think that, of all, that of Geneva is the worst."
A THREAT TO ROME
In addition to being a threat to the king of England, the Geneva Bible was outspokenly anti-Roman Catholic, as one might expect. Rome was still persecuting Protestants in the sixteenth century. Keep in mind that the English translators were exiles from a nation that was returning to the Catholic faith under a queen who was burning Protestants at the stake. The anti-Roman Catholic sentiment is most evident in the Book of Revelation: "The beast that cometh out of the bottomless pit (Rev. 11:7) is the Pope, which hath his power out of hell and cometh thence." In the end, the Geneva Bible was replaced by the King James Version, but not before it helped to settle America.
Back in Geneva
Calvin knew that the job of reforming a city seemingly bent on destruction would not be easy. "There is no place in the world that I fear more," he confessed. Immorality was at an all-time high, with gambling, street brawls, drunkenness, adultery, and public indecency common everywhere. But not all was dark. When he arrived on September 13, 1541, a change had come over the city. The people actually wanted him to return. The city officials bestowed honors on him and apologized for the way he had been treated. The Council members assured Calvin that they would cooperate with him to restore the Gospel and moral order. The businessmen were equally relieved to learn that Calvin might return. Calvin was overwhelmed by the outward display of affection and decided to return to Geneva. On September 16th he wrote to Farel: "Your wish is granted. I am held fast here. May God give His blessing."
Calvin's Contributions
Calvin continued his work of reformation, not by a heavy-handed use of the civil magistrate, but with the preaching of God's Word and the building of the Church. Church government was lacking, not only in Geneva, but all over Protestant Europe. Calvin understood that only the Church, not the State, could define orthodox theology and bring about true long-term reform. According to the Bible, the State and the Church were jurisdictionally separate. Each had its God-ordained area of jurisdiction and authority - one civil (the State) and one ecclesiastical (the Church). Even so, Calvin insisted, both Church and State were ordained by God and obligated to follow His laws as they applied to their specific appointed jurisdictions.
Calvin's view that God reigns everywhere and over all things led him to develop the biblical idea that man can serve God in every area of life - church, civil government, education, art, music, business, law, journalism. There was no need to be a priest, a monk, or a nun to get closer to God. God is glorified in everyday work and family life. Calvin's teaching led directly to what has become known as the "Protestant work ethic." Individual initiative leads to economic productivity as Christians work out their faith in their callings before God.
Stricken with tuberculosis, Calvin preached his last sermon on February 6, 1564. Although bedridden until his death on May 27, 1564, Calvin continued to work, extending his legacy in the lives of those who sat under his teaching.
Thanks to the Institutes of the Christian Religion, his printed sermons, the Academy, his commentaries on nearly every book of the Bible (except the Song of Solomon and the Book of Revelation), and his pattern of Church and Civil government, Calvin shaped the thought and motivated the ideals of Protestantism in France, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungry, Scotland, and the English Puritans; many of whom settled in America. The great American historian George Bancroft stated, "He that will not honor the memory, and respect the influence of Calvin, knows but little of the origin of American liberty." The famous German historian, Leopold von Ranke, wrote, "John Calvin was the virtual founder of America." John Adams, the second president of the United States, wrote: "Let not Geneva be forgotten or despised. Religious liberty owes it most respect.

The Captain of the Lord’s Army (Joshua 5:13-15)


Joshua chapter 5 describes the consecration of the people of Israel in preparation for the great task that lay before them. As such, it stands as a bridge between the crossing of the Jordan and the beginning of the military campaigns to subjugate the inhabitants of the Land. For many, however, especially to those trained in military tactics, this chapter may seem like an enigma, at least from man’s point of view. And of course, that’s precisely the issue here. God’s ways are infinitely higher than our ways. From all appearances now was the time to attack the enemy. The people of Israel were filled with the excitement and motivation of having miraculously crossed the Jordan on dry ground. Further, they apparently knew the enemy was in disarray from the standpoint of their morale (5:1); surely, it was time to strike. Many of the military leaders under Joshua’s command may have been thinking or even saying, “For goodness sake, let’s not wait. Let’s go! Now is the logical time and the enemy is ripe for the taking!”

But in God’s economy and plan there are spiritual values, priorities, and principles that are far more vital and fundamental to victory or our capacity to attack and demolish the fortresses that the world has raised up against the knowledge and plan of God (2 Cor. 10:4-5). Looking at conditions from our perspective of deadlines, feeling the pressure to perform and accomplish things to please people and sometimes our own egos, we are too often in a hurry to get the show on the road. But to be victorious or successful from God’s standpoint, certain things are essential if we are going to attack the various fortresses of life in His strength and according to His principles. Perhaps, a letter written by an Englishman during World War II may illustrate the point:

As one man, the whole nation has handed over all its resources to the Government. We have invested the Cabinet with the right to conscript any of us for any task, to take our goods, our money, our all. Never have rich men set such little store by their wealth; never have we been so ready to lay down life itself, if only our cause may triumph.1

Before Israel was ready to face the enemy, they too needed a similar preparation of heart and willingness to submit to God’s directions that they might also experience His power. To ensure that, God took them through several events to instruct and prepare them for battle. Chapter 5 falls into five instructive sections with each one being fundamental to victory. These include:

(1) A statement regarding the morale of the inhabitants of the land (5:1). Essential to spiritual victory is our understanding that in Christ, all the enemies we face are in essence defeated foes (cf. Rom. 6; Col. 2:1-15; Heb. 2:14).

(2) The renewal of the rite of circumcision (5:2-9). As a sign of God’s covenant with Abraham, circumcision stood for Israel’s faith in God’s promises which included the possession of the land as their inheritance. It was an act of faith and spiritual preparation.

(3) The observance of the Passover (5:10). By partaking of the Passover, Israel was to relive their deliverance out of Egypt by the blood of the Lamb, but as with circumcision, this too was related to the land. As observing the Passover in Egypt protected them from the destroying angel, it also assured them of two more things: (a) that just as crossing the Red Sea would be followed by the destruction of the Egyptians, (b) so likewise the crossing of the Jordan would be followed by the defeat of the Canaanites. Remembering the past became an excellent preparation of faith for the tests of the future.

(4) Eating of the produce of the land with the ceasing of the manna (5:11-12). Observing the Passover stood for God’s deliverance out of Egypt and from judgment of the destroying angel, but for God’s covenant people, deliverance from Egypt included the promise they would inherit the land, a land of abundance, a land of wheat, barley, fig trees, olive oil and honey (cf. Deut. 8:8-9). It spoke of their new beginning, of their new life as the people of God delivered from judgment and rock solid in the place of blessing. May I repeat the principle: the Passover not only looked back, but it looked forward to their new life in the land enjoying its abundant blessings by the power of God, and so eating of the produce was an act of confirmation of God’s abundant blessing.

(5) Joshua’s encounter with the Captain of the hosts of the Lord (5:13-15). This becomes the last key event of preparation. But why this encounter?

With everything apparently now prepared for the conquest of the land, the next scene opens with Joshua, God’s appointed commander of Israel, not in the camp of Israel at Gilgal, but by the city of Jericho. What do you suppose Joshua was doing there? He was surely about the Lord’s work and gathering information about the city and its fortifications in preparation to launch his attack. He was naturally concerned about several things. First of all, he needed a plan of action. Just how would they go about attacking Jericho, probably the best fortified city of Canaan? Besieging a city like Jericho was something for which they had little or no experience. Further, they undoubtedly lacked equipment like battering rams, catapults, scaling ladders or moving towers. All they had were swords, arrows, slings, and spears which naturally would seem totally inadequate for the task before them. So how would Joshua prepare his army and how should they go about taking the city? He must have felt like the weight of the world was pressing down on his shoulders.

Can we fault Joshua for being at Jericho and surveying the situation? Absolutely not. In fact, another great leader, Nehemiah, did the same when faced with the fallen condition of the walls of Jerusalem. But nevertheless, Joshua needed an encounter with the God he served that he might grasp afresh an important truth, one that was equally vital as part of his preparation for victory by the power of God. As all of God’s saints tend to get their eyes on the enormous tasks facing them at times, something was missing in Joshua’s perspective or mindset as he looked over the city of Jericho. Perhaps he simply needed to be reminded of some very important truth for both clarification and encouragement.

Suddenly, while surveying the situation, Joshua was confronted with a man standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand.

Joshua 5:13a. Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, . . .
The Man’s Position

With Joshua’s mind engrossed in his concerns about the task before him and feeling the weight of the responsibility on his shoulders, he looks up and there stands a man with sword drawn. What kind of picture does this bring to mind and what does it mean? Standing with any weapon drawn is a military position of one who either stands guard or who stands ready to go against a foe defensively or offensively. Standing with sword drawn suggested he was there to fight either against, or with, or for Israel.
The Man’s Identity

Verse 14 will tell us that this man came as the “captain of the hosts of the Lord,” the commander of the Lord’s army. Joshua’s response in verse 14b and the statement of the captain in verse 15 show this was a theophany, or better, based on the truth of John 1:1-18, it was a Christophany. A Christophany is a manifestation of the preincarnate Christ, who, as the Logos, is the one who reveals God. If only a man or an angel, he would certainly have repelled Joshua’s worshipful response (vs. 14). Compare the response of Paul in Acts 14:8-20 to those who wanted to make them into gods and the response of the angel to John in Revelation 19:10.

Here then, the preincarnate Christ appears to Joshua to teach, guard, and reinforce certain vital truths for God’s people and especially for those in positions of leadership, which really includes all believers to some degree.
Joshua’s Question
(vs. 13b)

. . . and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”

This was a natural response to a man with his sword drawn and it expressed Joshua’s concern as well as his courage. No one from the army of Israel should have been there for evidently no orders had been given for anyone to leave the camp. So who was this stranger who suddenly appeared out of nowhere? Surely, Joshua thought, “Since he is not one of ours, could he be the enemy, or perhaps someone who has come to help us?”

But in view of the answer given to Joshua, Joshua’s question reveals a typical mindset that poses a threat and a hindrance to our effectiveness in the service of the Savior. What then is that mindset? We tend to see the battles we face as our battles and the forces we face as forces marshaled against us and our individual causes, concerns, agendas, and even our theological beliefs or positions on doctrine. And in a sense, that is true, if we are truly standing in the cause of Christ. But there is another sense in which that is simply not true, and that is the issue here.
The Answer Given to Joshua
(vs. 14a)

And he said, “No, rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the Lord.”

The answer comes in two parts. The first part of the answer is seen in a flat negation of either one of Joshua’s options. The first answer is simply a flat “neither.” Why didn’t he say, “I am here for you and for Israel”? But in essence, the man with the drawn sword said, “Neither; I am not here to take sides, yours or that of anyone else.”

The second part of the answer gives the reason. In other words, “I am here, not to take sides, but to take over and take charge as Commander of the Lord’s army.”

This is so important and lays down two principles that are foundational for all of life and our warfare against the forces of the world and Satan. Now, there is no question that the Lord was there with the armies of heaven to secure Jericho and this so God’s people could possess their God-given inheritance, the Land, yet a certain perspective was vital for true success.

The first principle: It was not for Joshua to claim God’s allegiance for his cause no matter how right and holy it might be. Rather, the need was for Joshua to acknowledge God’s claim over Joshua for God’s purposes. We tend to approach our battles and causes backwards; we turn things all around and try to marshal God to support us rather than to submit and follow Him. Certainly, the battle was a joint venture, God and the people of Israel under Joshua’s leadership as appointed by the Lord (1:1-9). But Joshua, as with all of us in the army of the King, must be following the Lord, submitting to His authority, taking our orders from Him, and resting the battle in His hands because we realize it is really His battle as the Supreme Commander. There seems to be no question that Joshua understood this as evidenced by his question, “What has my Lord to say to his servant?” Here he was asking the Lord for orders and it was surely then that he received the directions for taking Jericho.

The second principle: As the one who had come to take charge, the Lord was also reminding Joshua (and us) of both God’s personal presence and His powerful provision, the provision of His vast hosts. The promise of God’s personal presence always carries with it the assurance of God’s personal care. Likewise, the promise of His powerful provision always carries with it the promise of His infinite supply and power no matter how impossible the problem may appear to us. So there was more, infinitely more, than Joshua’s army. There was Joshua and his army, but there was also the myriads of God’s angelic forces who always stand ready to do God’s bidding and to serve the saints. Three other passages can serve as helpful examples that we might grasp the issue here and its significance to our daily walk.

(1) First, compare 2 Kings 6:8-17. When Elisha was at Dothan with his young servant, he found himself surrounded by the army of Ben-Hadad, who, during the night had marched out and surrounded the city of Dothan. The next morning, when Elisha’s servant went out to draw water, he saw the vast army surrounding the city. Being fearful and greatly distressed, he cried out to Elisha, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” Elisha responded, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” Elisha then prayed a very interesting prayer. He said, “O Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” We then read that “the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” They were not alone. With them to fight for them was a host of God’s angelic forces who soon struck the armies of the king of Syria with blindness.

(2) A second example is found for us in Matthew 26:52-53. With the disciples still reluctant and perplexed over the fact Christ must go to the cross, Peter drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave cutting off his ear. Jesus replied, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?”

(3) A final example of God’s angelic armies and their ministry to God’s people is seen in Hebrews 1:14, which reads, “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?”

In this, we see the second reason for the Commander’s description of himself as “the Captain of the Lord’s hosts.” He was assuring Joshua of God’s provision through His mighty angelic armies or His heavenly legions.
Joshua’s Response
(vs. 14b)

And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”

How we each need this response—the response of worship and submission. Joshua quickly got the picture. He had been thinking of a conflict between the Israelites and the Cannanite armies. Perhaps he had been thinking of this as his war. Certainly he felt the load of responsibility on his shoulders. But after being confronted by the divine Commander, he was reminded of a truth he had heard Moses declare many years earlier when they stood on the banks of the Red Sea. There he had heard Moses say, “The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still” (Ex. 14:13b). Joshua learned afresh the truth that David too had learned and would later declare when facing Goliath, “the battle is the Lord’s” (cf. 1 Sam. 17:47).

But that’s not all. As an outworking of his worship and submission, we also see Joshua’s inquiry, the inquiry of a servant looking to his Commander for direction with his words, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”

Do you remember Paul’s response on the Damascus road, when he came to realize it was the glorified Lord who was speaking to him? He quickly answered, “What shall I do Lord?” (Acts. 28:10).

What a comfort and how encouraging to know that we never have to bear our burdens alone or face our enemies alone. Joshua was to know that the battles ahead and the entire conquest of Canaan was really God’s conflict. What is our part? We are soldiers in His army, His servants for whom He abundantly supplies the armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18).

While Dr. C.I. Scofield was pastor of the First Congregational Church of Dallas, there came a time when the burdens of the ministry seemed heavier than he could bear. All but crushed by the weight of the frustrations and problems of the work, he knelt one day in his office. In deep agony of spirit, he opened the Scriptures, looking for some message of comfort and strength. Led by the Spirit to the closing verses of Joshua 5, he saw at once that he was trying to carry the responsibilities alone. That day he turned his ministry over to the Lord, assured that it was His work and that He could accomplish it. In accepting God’s leadership, Dr. Scofield allied himself with God’s power.2

Surely, these verses drive home the truth of Christ’s preeminence and lordship. He is the head of the church, indeed, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

The passage also reminds us that God is not present to fight our battles or help in our causes or jump to our rescue when we get in trouble as though He were a genie in a bottle. Instead, it reminds us that the battle is His and that our role is that of soldier/servant. We are here to serve Him, to do His will, to follow Him and depend on Him completely.
The Commander’s Final Revelation
(vs. 15)

And the captain of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

In these last words of the Captain, there is a command, “Remove your sandals,” and an explanation, “for the place where you are standing is holy.”

Removing the sandals was a sign of servanthood and a sign of respect and submission. And the declaration of this place of encounter and revelation as holy ground calls attention to the special import of what Joshua had just learned and experienced.

God is not only the Holy One in our redemption through the provision of the suffering Savior, but He is the Holy One in our warfare through the Victorious Savior. We can only enter into the battle so that we experience God’s deliverance when we remove our sandals and submit to His authority and His presence and power.

Here we see that the warfare of the Christian is a holy calling, but also a divine undertaking accomplished in those who humble themselves under the mighty hand of God.

1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.
Conclusion

In this passage, Joshua had an encounter with the living Logos, the very revelation of God. It was an encounter that lifted a great burden from his shoulders. The experience mentioned previously of Dr. Scofield illustrates the same truth through this very passage. May we all see how this illustrates how much we each need to be in the Word with a listening ear so God can teach us the things we need to hear.

Joshua, standing and perhaps also walking about the city of Jericho studying what lay before him and weighed down with the burden of his responsibility, is so very much like us today! We see the things we believe God has called us to do, but we are so prone to activity and running ahead more than we are to worship and inquiry from the Lord. Is our lifestyle such that it sends us out into battle mindful of the Lord and who He is to our every move, mindful of those principles of His Word that must guide our every thought and step and fortify us with the comfort of God?

Pastor Werlein,POBox 1003,Eau Claire,WI 54702 USA

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YAHWEH’s Priesthood

This document summarizes the beliefs of Yahweh’s Priesthood. Yahweh commands that we prove all things ordained in His Word, thus we encourage all who may read this to prove from the Bible everything written here, 1Thessalonians 5:21. Yahweh’s Priesthood seeks to adhere to all of Yahweh’s Word, whether popular or not. Everyone is welcome regardless of race or nationality.



1. Foundation in the Old Testament

We in Yahweh’s Priesthood affirm that the Old Testament is the basis for the New Testament. From many references made by Yahshua and His apostles to the Old Testament Laws, Psalms, and prophets, the authority of the Old Testament is easily seen, Luke 24:44, Acts 24:14.

2. Basis for the New Testament

We affirm that both the Old and New testaments are inspired, and that they are to be used for teaching, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, Matthew 4:4, 2Timothy 3:16. We are not to delete from either text, Revelation 22:18, and neither Old nor New Testament is open to private interpretation, 2Peter 1:21. We must not take from or add to Scripture, Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32.

3. The Father

We affirm that the Heavenly Father’s Name is Yahweh, Psalm 68:4; Isaiah 42:8; Jeremiah 16:21. Yahweh is His Name forever, and is the verb of existence, Exodus 3:14-15; Isaiah 63:12. He is the Supreme Ruler over everything. Worship is to be directed toward Him and He is to be venerated above all, Exodus 20:5, Deuteronomy, 6:4, 13, 2Kings 17:36, Psalm 99:9, Matthew 4:10. We are commanded to use and revere Yahweh’s Name, Exodus 20:7, Leviticus 22:2, Deuteronomy 28:58, Psalm 105:1, Isaiah 52:6, Matthew 6:9, John 17:26.

4. The Son

We affirm that the true Name for the Messiah is: Yehoshua. Yahshua. Yahshua literally means "Yahweh saves" or "Yahweh is salvation." His Name is a contraction of YAHweh and hoSHUA. He literally came in His Father’s Name, John 5:43. Yahshua is the only name under Heaven that offers salvation to all those that would call upon it, Acts 4:12. He pre-existed before His earthly birth and was the spokesman for the Father in the Old Testament, Genesis 1:26; 19:24; Proverbs 8:25; Micah 5:2, John 1:1-3; 8:58; 13:3; 16:28-30, 1Corinthians 10:4; Colossians 1:15-17. We believe that He came in human form and was born of a virgin by Yahweh’s own power, Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23; John 17:5, Philippians 2:5-7. Yahshua lived a completely sinless life, Isaiah 53:9; 1 Peter 2:22, and died upon the torture stake through which we have atonement for our sins, Isaiah 53, Hebrews 9. On the third day He rose from the tomb to be the mediator between mankind and Yahweh, Matthew 12:40; John 14:6; 1Corinthians 15:1-8; Hebrews 3:1; 4:14.

5. The Holy Spirit

We affirm that the Holy Spirit is an invisible force proceeding from the Heavenly Father. It is in essence the mind and power of Yahweh, which is also bestowed upon the Son, Luke 24:49; John 15:26. The Holy Spirit is placed within those who are baptized into the saving Name of Yahshua the Messiah through the laying on hands of the presbytery, Acts 2:38; 5:32; 8:17; 19:6; 1Timothy 4:14; 2Timothy 1:6. Through this power a person receives Yahweh’s strength to overcome sin and live a repentant life. We do not believe that the Holy Spirit constitutes a third person of a trinity, which is a concept conceived in ancient mystery religions.

6. Obedience to Law

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the Bible commands the observance of all Yahweh’s laws, statutes, and judgments in both Old and New testaments (except the sacrifices mentioned in Hebrews 9 and ritual circumcision), Deuteronomy 6:6-9; 7:6-11; Matthew 4:4; 5:17-20; Revelation 12:17; 14:12; 22:14. Through obeying His commandments we demonstrate our love for Yahweh, John 14:15, 21; 15:12. Faith does not annul His law, Romans 3:31; James 2:14-17.

7. Baptism

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that upon true repentance a person is to be baptized into the saving Name of Yahshua the Messiah (meeting the scriptural age of accountability, which is 20), Matthew 3:13-17; Acts 2:38; 4:12; 8:16; 10:43; 19:5; Romans 6:3. Baptism is by complete submersion, once, backward in water. Through baptism we become a new man, free of our old carnal nature, Romans 6:3-6; 7:6; Colossians 2:12; 1Peter 3:21. There is only one true and correct baptism, Ephesians 4:5, uniting all under the Messiah.

8. Sabbath

We teach that the Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week and commemorates creation through Yahweh’s mighty hand, Genesis 2:2-3. The weekly Sabbath is a sign between Him and His people, setting them apart from the common world, Exodus 31:13-17. The Sabbath restricts any servile work, including cooking, Exodus 16:23; 20:8-11. We are not to buy or sell on Yahweh’s day of rest, or bring any burden into our dwellings, Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15-21; Jeremiah 17:21-22, 24-27. The Sabbath is a day to pray and meditate on Yahweh’s will, forsaking our own wants and desires, Isaiah 58:13-14, Acts 16:13. It is a day to come together and worship Yahweh in spirit and truth, Leviticus 23:2-3, Hebrews 10:25.

9. Passover

We affirm that the Passover memorial begins at dusk at the start of the fourteenth of Abib (month of green ears of barley), Exodus 12:6; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 28:16; Deuteronomy 16:1. The Passover represents two significant events—the death of the firstborn of Egypt and the passing of the death angel, and the impalement of our Savior on the torture stake, Exodus 12; John 18-19. The Passover is a memorial, not a High Sabbath. Work may be done on this day, Matthew 27:62; Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; John 19:14. Yahshua partook of the Passover at twilight on the fourteenth day of Abib with His Apostles, Matthew 26:17-29; Mark 14:12-25, thus fulfilling the law. We no longer sacrifice a lamb at Passover, but partake of the prescribed emblems, which represent Yahshua’s body (unleavened bread, matzoth) and blood (unfermented grape juice, the pure blood of the grape, Deut. 32:14), Luke 22:12-23, 1Corinthians 11:23-26.

10. Feast of Unleavened Bread

We believe that the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on the 15th day of the month of Abib and extends through the 21st day of that same month, Exodus 12:15-18, Leviticus 23:6; Numbers 28:17. The first and last days of the seven-day observance are observed as high days, Exodus 12:16, Leviticus 23:7-8, Numbers 28:18, 25. During this time we are to worship Yahweh and examine ourselves, removing any pride, sin, falsity or false doctrine from our lives, Exodus 5:1, 1Corinthians 5:8. We are to remove all leaven products from our property and eat unleavened bread with our meals for all seven days of the Feast, Exodus 12:15, 18, Leviticus 23:6.

11. Feast of Weeks

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the Feast of Weeks (Heb. Shavuoth) or Pentecost is the third of the seven annual observances. This Feast is to be calculated from within the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We are to start the count from the day after the weekly Sabbath that falls within the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and count seven complete weeks, Leviticus 23:15-16. On this day the New Testament Assembly received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Acts 2.

12. Feast of Trumpets

We affirm that the Feast of Trumpets is a High Sabbath, a memorial of blowing trumpets, that falls on the first day of the seventh Hebrew month, Leviticus 23:23-25, Numbers 29:1-6.

13. Day of Atonement

We affirm that the Day of Atonement comes on the 10th day of the month of Tishri. On this day no manner of work is to be done, it is a strict Sabbath to Yahweh. On this High Sabbath we are to afflict ourselves by abstaining from food and drink, Leviticus 16; 23:26-32; Numbers 29:7-11.

14. Feast of Tabernacles

We affirm that the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Ingathering starts on the 15th day of the seventh biblical month and advances through the 21st day of the month. The Feast of Tabernacles is a seven-day Feast, which has a High Day on the 15th day of Tishri, Exodus 23:16; 34:22; Leviticus 23:33-36, 39-43; Numbers 29:12-34; Deuteronomy 16:13-15. Yahshua set the example for all mankind by observing the Feast in the New Testament. Further, we are told that all people in the Millennium will observe the Feast of Tabernacles, Zechariah 14:16-19; John 7:2, 37.

15. Last Great Day

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the Last Great Day immediately follows the Feast of Tabernacles and comes on the 22nd day of Tishri as a High Sabbath. On this day no manner of work is to be done. This special day commemorates the closing of the yearly feast cycle, Leviticus 23:36; Numbers 29:35-38.

16. New Moon

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the first visible crescent marks the new month. The start of the year is determined by the green ears of barley and the new moon that immediately follows their confirmation, Exodus 12:1. The new moon is a day to gather and observe the crescent, 1Chronicles 23:31; 2Chronicles 2:4; 8:13; 31:3; Isaiah 66:23; Ezekiel 45:17; 46:3.

17. Sin

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that sin is the transgression of Yahweh’s Law, 1John 3:4. Without Law sin does not exist, Romans 3:20; 7:7-12, and that the penalty of sin is death, Romans 6:23; Hebrews 9:27, and we realize that all have sinned and come short of the glory of Yahweh, Romans 3:23.

18. Divorce and Remarriage

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the New Testament does not make provisions for divorce. A marriage between two individuals is for life, with re-marriage allowed on the death of the mate, Matthew 19, Romans 7:2-3. Yahshua said that an engaged couple can "divorce" or separate if there was fornication by one of the parties, Matthew 1:18, 5:32. See Malachi 2:16.

19. Headcoverings

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that all women in the assembly are to have their heads covered with a type of covering during worship, and that all men are to leave their heads uncovered, 1Corinthians 11:4-10.

20. Speaking in the Congregation

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that only men are permitted to speak before the assembly, and that Paul admonishes women to remain silent during formal worship services, 1Corinthians 14:34-35; 1Timothy 2:11-12.

21. Tithing

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that tithing is a Biblical practice that all of Yahweh’s people are commanded to perform, Leviticus 27:30-33; Malachi 3:8-12; Matthew 23:23. A tithe is defined as 10 percent of a person’s income (increase). Yahweh also commands a second tithe to be set aside to insure sufficient means to attend His Feasts, Deuteronomy 14:22-26.

22. Clean Food Laws

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that Yahweh’s dietary food Laws were not annulled in the New Testament, but remain for His New Covenant believers, Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14; Isaiah 65:4; 66:17; 2Corinthians 6:17.

23. The Adversary

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that Satan is a spirit being who was cast out of heaven because of his pride, Isaiah 14:12-20; Ezekiel 28:13-19; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:7-9. Satan will eventually be destroyed, Ezekiel 28:16; Romans 16:20 ("bruise" = crush in pieces); Hebrews 2:14. Through the help of Yahweh we can overcome the wiles of the Adversary, James 4:7.

24. Lake of Fire (Gehenna)

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the Bible does not support an ever-burning hellfire, but that the wicked who are placed in the lake of fire (Gehenna) will be destroyed quickly and completely, and will not burn forever, 2Thessalonians 1:7-10; Malachi 4:1-3; Psalm 37:20-22; Jude 7. "Hell" is the Hebrew sheol in the Old Testament, which means grave or pit; the New Testament counterpart is the Greek hades, which also means grave.

25. Salvation and Immortality

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the dead are unconscious in their graves until they are resurrected, Job 14:12-14; Daniel 12:2; John 5:29; 1Corinthians 15:51-56; 1Thessalonians 4:13-17; Hebrews 11:13, 39. We humans do not have immortal souls, Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Matthew 10:28, but receive immortality as a reward at the resurrection, John 17:2-3; 2Timothy 1:10.

26. Love

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that love is a critical aspect of the true believer’s life. Yahweh requires that we all demonstrate love for him and our fellow man. The two greatest commandments are—loving Yahweh with all our hearts, and loving our neighbors as ourselves, Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 6:4-7; Matthew 19:19; 22:34-40; James 2:8. Love is showing an unselfish and outgoing desire for Yahweh and our fellow man. Without love we have no hope of eternal life, 1Corinthians 13.

27. Body of Messiah

Yahweh’s Priesthood affirms that the Body of Messiah governs all of Yahweh’s people and assemblies. In the Body of Messiah Yahweh blesses certain people with different gifts to further the work, Romans 12:4-8; 1Corinthians 1:10-13; 3:4-9; 12; Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 4:3-8.


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