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1 [… for what I] am doing [with you is awesome.] 2 [Look, I am driving out before you] the [Amorites and the Canaanites] 3 [and the Hittites and the Girgashites] and the [Perizzites and the Hivites and] 4 [the Jebusites. Guard] yourself, lest you make a covenant [with the inhabitant of the land] 5 [into which you] are coming, lest they become a snare [in your midst. For] 6 their altars you shall tear down, and their pillars [you shall smash, and] 7 [their Asherahs] you shall cut down. And the carved images of [their gods you shall burn] 8 [in fire.] You shall not covet silver and gold, which [would ensnare you, for it is an abomination] 9 [to me. You shall not] take from it, and you shall not bring [an abomination into your house] 10 [and become] devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly [detest it and utterly abhor it,] 11 [for] it is devoted to destruction. And you shall not bow down to [another] god, [for the LORD, Jealous] 12 [is his name,] he is a jealous God. Guard yourself, lest you make [a covenant with the inhabitant of the land,] 13 [and they prostitute themselves] after [their gods and] sacrifice to [their gods, and one invites you,] 14 [and you eat of their sacrifices, and you] take [of their daughters for your sons, and] 15 [their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods] and make [your sons prostitute themselves after]
Column 3
1 […] which … […] 2 […] … blue and purple [and scarlet …] 3 […] … your enemies … […] 4 [… the house] to set my name upon it, [all …] 5 […] in it silver and gold from all … […] 6 […] and you shall not defile it, but only from the … […] 7 [… bronze] and iron and hewn stones … […] 8 […] and all its vessels they shall make of pure gold […] 9 […] the mercy seat that is upon it, pure gold […] 10 [… the altar of] fragrant incense, and the table [they shall make of pure gold …] 11 […] shall not depart from the sanctuary; [its dishes and its ladles …] 12 […] and its bowls shall be pure gold, and the fire pans […] 13 […] to bring fire inside in them. And the lampstand and [its vessels shall be of gold] 14 [pure.] And all the altar of burnt offering [they shall make of] 15 [bronze], pure. And the grating [which is] above [it, and the laver and its stand] 16 shall be [polished] bronze, [like mirrors] for seeing [faces …] 17 […] … bronze [shining …] with silver and … […] 18 […] … […] 19 [… continually from the children of Israel … in the house in which I will make my name dwell …]
Column 4
1 […] … […] 2 […] going out … […] 3 [… around the walls of] the house. Widths of four […] 4 […] … and a pavement … between the […] 5 […] … the sixth, a pavement … […] 6 […] … […] 7 […] … the width, and the height of [the holy place …] 8 [… cubit,] and you shall enter the porch […] 9 [… twenty cubits, the width] ten cubits, and its walls [… cubits wide …] 10 […] … and a height of sixty cubits […] 11 […] twelve cubits, and [height …] 12 […] twenty-one cubits […] 13 […] … twenty cubits, square […] 14 […] overlaid [with gold] […] 15 […] half of it […] 16 […] … […] 17 […] … […]
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1 […] joined […] 2 […] cubit … […] 3 […] a thickness of three […] 4 […] … according to the measure of […] 5 [… twenty-eight cubits] by twenty-eight [cubits …] 6 [… its thickness forty cubits], and its roofing also […] 7 [… ten] cubits, the whole height [of the panelling and the windows …] 8 […] … and four gates [to the upper chamber at its four] 9 [sides … and the width of] the gate twelve [cubits, and its height …] 10 [twenty-one …] cubits, and all the panelling [… its doors …] 11 […] lower, and all of it overlaid [with pure gold …] 12 […] 13 […] … and you shall make […] a colonnade […] 14 […] in all […]
Column 6
1 […] … […] 2 […] … above … […] 3 […] … [twenty-eight] cubits [by twenty-eight] 4 [cubits … and] its height [forty] cubits, and its roofing [also …] 5 […] ten cubits, the whole height of the panelling [and the windows …] 6 [… and four] gates to the upper chamber at its four [sides …] 7 [… and the width of the gate] twelve [cubits, and its height] one [and twenty cubits] 8 [… and all the panelling …] its doors […] the lower, and all of it [overlaid] 9 [with pure gold …] … […] … […]
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1 […] the board […] 2 […] … […] 3 […] … the boards of … […] 4 […] the cubit and ten … […] 5 […] … eighty for it […] 6 […] upward, above all … […] 7 […] … a hundred … […] 8 […] … all of it five cubits […] 9 […] … its height. And the mercy seat that is above [the ark,] 10 [two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half] its width. And two cherubim [you shall make at the two ends of the mercy seat,] 11 [one cherub at the one end and the other at] the second end, spreading wings [over the place of the ark] 12 [and covering the mercy seat with their wings] from above the ark, and their faces [each toward the other] 13 […] And you shall make a veil of gold […] 14 […] the work of a designer […] the veil shall be […] 15 […] … […]
Column 8
1 […] … […] 2 […] opposite … […] 3 […] … seven […] 4 […] 5 [… And you shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits] its length, and a cubit [its width,] 6 [and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall overlay it with pure gold,] and you shall make [a molding for it] 7 […] … […] 8 [… And you shall take fine flour and bake it into twelve] loaves; two [tenths shall be] 9 [each loaf. And you shall set them in two rows, and put] on the two rows [frankincense,] 10 [pure, and salt … and] this frankincense [shall be] for the bread as a memorial portion, 11 [an offering by fire to the LORD. And you shall burn it each sabbath day] on the altar of incense when you remove 12 [the old bread from the table. And when you arrange the] bread, you shall put frankincense on it. There shall not [cease] 13 [the bread from before me continually, from the children of Israel, as a] perpetual [covenant] for their generations. And this bread shall be [for the priests,] 14 [and they shall eat it in a holy place … when] they come … […] …
Column 9
1 [… And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work] 2 [shall the lampstand be made, its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs] and its blossoms 3 [shall be of one piece with it. And six branches going out] from its two sides, 4 [three branches of the lampstand from its one side, and from its second side three.] Three 5 [cups shaped like almonds on each branch, a knob] and a blossom, [and three cups shaped like almonds] 6 [on each branch, a knob and a blossom; so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. And on the lampstand four] 7 [cups shaped like almonds, and a knob under two of its branches, and a knob under four] 8 [of its branches, and so for the six branches going out of it,] three [knobs] 9 […] the whole branch 10 […] … three. 11 [And you shall make the lampstand and its seven lamps and its fire pans] and its tongs, all of it of talents 12 [of pure gold. And its seven lamps; and facing its front] all its lamps shall give light. And you shall place 13 [the lampstand before the inner sanctuary, opposite the table.] And the priests, the sons of 14 [Aaron, shall arrange the lamps before me … continually,] perpetual statutes [for their generations].
Column 10
1 […] … 2 […] 3 […] … 4 […] pillar 5 […] as a memorial 6 […] … 7 […] 8 […] gate […] … 9 [… and you shall make] above the gate 10 […] … […] … running, scarlet 11 […] and above, on this side, pillars 12 […] … red purple, and the tops of 13 […] … of […] upward 14 […] purple and scarlet […] 15 […] 16 […] 17 cubit […] 18 … […]
Column 11
8 […] … 9 [And you shall offer on the altar of burnt offering at all the appointed times of the LORD,] on the sabbaths and on the first days of 10 [the months, and on the first of the first month, and at the feast of Passover,] and at the feast of Unleavened Bread, and on the day of the waving of the sheaf, 11 [and at the second Passover, and at the feast of Weeks, which is the feast of] the firstfruits, for the grain offering of wheat, 12 [and at the festival of the new wine, to pour out new wine,] and at the festival of the oil, and on the six days of 13 [the wood offering, and on the day of remembrance, and on the day of atonement, and at the feast] of Booths, and at the closing assembly 14 … […] the inner court […] 15 … […] 16 … […]
Column 12
8 […] … its measurements shall be 9 [… and] twenty [cubits] from corner [to] corner, and a cubit 10 [… And you shall make the altar of stones,] built, all of it 11 [of uncut stones … and so] you shall make all 12 courses … […] … 13 and … and its corners […] you shall make for it 14 […] … […] 15 its bowls […] and you shall make … […] 16 […] … […]
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1 for the sake of […] 2 [and] ten [cubits …] 3 you shall make […] 4 and its doors [overlaid with pure gold …] 5 one on the right and one on the [left …] 6 overlaid […] 7 to it a gate like [the first gate …]. 8 … […] 9 and the beams […] 10 the blood for the people […. And this is what you shall offer on the altar: lambs in their first] year, 11 unblemished, [two each day, a continual burnt offering. The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and its grain offering, a] tenth [and the second lamb you shall offer at twilight] 12 of fine flour mixed [with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, a continual burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, an offering by fire]; and its drink offering, wine, [a quarter of a hin,] 13 to the LORD. [And the priest who offers the burnt offering, the skin] 14 of the burnt offering which is his, to him [it shall belong. And the second lamb you shall offer at] twilight, 15 like the grain offering of the morning, [and like its drink offering you shall offer it, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD]. 16 You shall not … [… a continual burnt offering for your generations]. 17 And on the days of the [sabbaths] you shall offer two [unblemished yearling lambs and two]
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0 [tenths of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil, and its drink offering, the burnt offering of the sabbath on its sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. And at the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD:] 1 [two young bulls, one ram, seven unblemished yearling lambs;] 2 [and a grain offering] of fine flour mixed [, three tenths, with half a hin of oil, and wine for a drink offering,] 3 half a hin for [the one bull; and a grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, two] 4 [tenths] with a third [of a hin, and wine for a drink offering, a third of a hin, for the one ram;] 5 [and a tenth,] a tenth as a grain offering [of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin, and wine, a quarter] 6 [of a hin] for the one lamb. [… an aroma] 7 pleasing to the LORD at the beginnings [of your months. This is the burnt offering of each month in its month] 8 for the months of the year … […]. 9 And on the first of the [first] month, [the beginning of months, the first it is for you among the months] 10 of the year. You shall do no work of [labor. And you shall offer a male goat for a sin offering;] 11 by itself it shall be offered to atone [for you. And you shall offer a burnt offering: one young bull,] 12 one ram, lambs [a year old, seven, unblemished …] 13 [besides the burnt offering of the month; and a grain offering of three tenths of fine flour mixed with oil,] 14 half a hin, [for the one bull, and wine] for a drink offering, [half a hin, a pleasing aroma to the LORD; and two] 15 tenths of fine flour as a grain offering mixed [with oil, a third of a hin, and wine for a drink offering you shall offer,] 16 [a third] of a hin for the [one] ram, [an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD; and a tenth] 17 [of fine flour as a] grain offering [mixed with oil, a quarter of a hin, and wine for a drink offering you shall offer,] 18 [a quarter of a hin for the] one [lamb …] lambs, and for the male goat […].
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1 [on every] single day […] 2 a year old, seven; and [a male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering …] 3 according to this rule. [And for the ordination, one ram for each day, and] baskets of bread for all the [rams of the ordination, a basket for the ram, for the] 4 one. And they shall divide [all the rams and the baskets over the seven days of ordination, for each] 5 [day] by day according to their divisions. [They shall offer to the LORD the right thigh] 6 as a burnt offering from the ram, and [the fat covering the entrails, and the two] 7 kidneys and [the] fat [that is on them, and the fat that is on] 8 the loins, and the fat tail [whole, close to its backbone, and the lobe of the liver,] 9 and its grain offering and its drink offering according to the [rule. And they shall take one unleavened cake from the basket, and one cake] 10 of oil bread, and a wafer [, one; and they shall place it all on the fat portions] 11 with the thigh of the contribution, which [is on the right. And those who offer shall wave] 12 the rams and the baskets of bread as [a wave offering before the LORD; it is a burnt offering,] 13 an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma before the LORD. [And they shall burn it all on the altar, on] 14 the burnt offering, to ordain themselves for the seven [days of ordination.] 15 And if the high priest is to stand [to minister before the LORD, who has] filled 16 [his hand] to put on the garments in place of his father, [he shall offer a bull,] 17 [one] for all the people and one for the priests. [And he shall bring near the one that is] 18 [for the priests] first. And the elders of the priests shall lay [their hands]
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0 [on its head, and after them the high priest and all the priests. And they shall slaughter the bull before the LORD. And the elders of the priests shall take some of the blood of the bull and put some of the blood with their finger on the horns of the altar, and the blood they shall pour out all around on the four corners of the court of the altar. …] 1 […] … […] 2 [And they shall take some of its blood and] put some of the blood [on the lobe of his right ear and on the thumb of his] 3 [right hand and of his] right [foot]. And they shall sprinkle [some of the blood that is on the altar on him and on his garments] 4 [… he shall] be [holy] all his days. [And he shall not go near any dead person;] 5 [even for his father or his mother he shall not] defile himself, for holy [is he to the LORD his God …]. 6 [And he shall offer on the] altar and burn [the fat of the first bull …] 7 [all] the fat that is on the entrails and [the lobe of the liver and the two] 8 kidneys and the fat that is on them [and the fat that is on] 9 the loins, and its grain offering and its drink offering [according to their rule. And he shall burn them on the altar;] 10 it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma [before the LORD. And the flesh of the bull] 11 and its skin with its dung they shall burn outside [the temple city on wood in fire] 12 in a place set apart for sin offerings. There they shall burn [it, its head and its legs] 13 with all its entrails. And they shall burn all of it there except its fat; a sin offering 14 it is. And he shall take the second bull, which is for the people, and make atonement with it [for all the people of] 15 the assembly with its blood and with its fat. As he did for the first bull, [so he shall do] 16 for the bull of the assembly. And he shall put some of its blood with his finger on the horns of the [altar, and all] 17 its blood he shall toss on the four corners of the court of the altar. And [its fat and] 18 its grain offering and its drink offering he shall burn on the altar; it is a sin offering for the assembly.
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1 [… the] priests, and they shall give [crowns …]. 2 […] and they shall rejoice, for atonement has been made for them […]. 3 [… a holy convocation] this day shall be for them, [an eternal statute] 4 [for their generations] in all their dwellings. And they shall rejoice and … […] 5 […] 6 [And they shall keep] on the fourteenth of the first month [at twilight] 7 [the Passover to the LORD,] and they shall sacrifice before the evening offering. And they shall sacrifice [at its appointed time]; 8 from twenty years old and upward they shall perform it. And they shall eat it at night 9 in the holy courts. And they shall rise early and go each to his tent […]. 10 And on the fifteenth of this month, a holy convocation; 11 you shall do no laborious work on it; the festival of unleavened bread, seven days 12 to the LORD. And you shall offer on every single day for [these] seven days 13 a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls and a ram and seven yearling lambs, 14 unblemished, and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering 15 [according to the rule] for the bulls and for the rams and for the lambs and for the goat. And on the seventh day 16 [a solemn assembly] to the LORD; you shall do no laborious work on it.
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1 […] … […] 2 […] for this ram […] 3 [… a holy convocation it shall be for them] this day. And […] 4 [… and they shall offer a male] goat for a sin offering for […] 5 [to make atonement for them, its grain offering and] its drink offering according to the rule: a tenth of fine flour 6 [mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil, and] wine for a drink offering, a quarter of a hin 7 [… He shall make atonement] for the people of the assembly for all their guilt 8 [and they shall be forgiven. For their generations] this shall be an eternal statute for them 9 [in all their dwellings]. And afterward they shall offer up the one ram, once 10 [only] on the day of the waving of the sheaf. And you shall count 11 [for yourselves] seven complete sabbaths from the day you bring the sheaf 12 [of the wave offering. You shall] count until the morrow of the seventh sabbath; you shall count 13 [fifty] days. And you shall bring a new grain offering to the LORD from your dwellings, 14 [bread of fine flour], leavened, new, firstfruits to the LORD, bread of wheat: twelve 15 [cakes; two] tenths of fine flour shall the one cake be. 16 [And they shall bring them, the heads of the] clans of the tribes of Israel, and they shall offer.
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1 […] … […] 2 [… and they shall burn] the burnt offering [of the firstfruits] 3 [… and their grain offering and their drink offering according to the rule,] twelve […] 4 [… their grain offering and their drink offering] according to the rule. And [the priests] shall wave […] 5 [… as a wave offering on the bread of the] firstfruits; they shall be for the priests, [and they shall eat them in the] 6 [inner court, a] new [grain offering], the bread of the firstfruits. And afterward […] 7 [… new bread,] fresh ears and ripe ears. And [this] day shall be 8 [a holy convocation, an] eternal [statute] for their generations; [no] laborious work 9 [shall they do; it is the festival of] Weeks and the festival of firstfruits, a memorial forever. 11 [And you shall count] for yourselves from the day you bring the new grain offering to the LORD, 12 [the] bread of the firstfruits, seven weeks; seven complete sabbaths 13 [there shall be] until the morrow of the seventh sabbath; you shall count fifty days. 14 And [you shall bring] new wine for a drink offering, four hins from all the tribes of Israel, 15 [a third] of a hin for each tribe. And they shall offer with this wine on this day 16 [to the LORD] twelve rams, all the heads of the thousands of Israel.
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0 [And he shall offer the rams and their grain offering according to the rule: two tenths of fine flour mixed with oil, a third of a hin of oil for the ram, with this drink offering … and two young bulls, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, and one male goat … … to make atonement for the people of the assembly. … their grain offering and their drink offering according to the rule for the bulls and for the ram … to the LORD. At a quarter of the day they shall offer …] 1 [the rams and the drink offering. And they shall offer for the sacrifice of] peace offerings […] 2 [… yearling lambs,] fourteen […] 3 [… the burnt offering] they shall prepare them […] 4 [… and their fat] they shall burn on the altar, [the] 5 [fat covering the entrails] and all the fat that is on the [entrails] 6 [and the lobe of the liver, with] the kidneys he shall remove it, and the fat [that is on them] 7 [and that which is on the loins, and] the fat tail close to the backbone, and they shall burn 8 [it all on the altar] with their grain offering and their drink offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma 9 [before the LORD]. And they shall offer every grain offering with which a drink offering is brought [according to the rule]. 10 [And every grain offering] on which frankincense is offered, or a dry one, they shall take from it a handful, 11 [its memorial portion], and burn it on the altar; and the remainder of them they shall eat in the court, 12 [the inner one]. The priests shall eat them [unleavened]; it shall not be eaten leavened. On that day it shall be eaten, 13 [and the] sun [shall not go down on it]. And on all your offerings you shall put salt, and you shall not omit 14 [the covenant of salt forever]. And they shall raise a contribution to the LORD 15 [from the rams] and from the lambs: the right thigh and the breast and 16 [the jaws and the stomach] and the foreleg as far as the shoulder bone, and they shall wave them as a wave offering.
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0 [To the priests shall belong the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering. … the forelegs and the jaws and the stomachs as portions … as an eternal statute from the sons of Israel. And the shoulder that remains from the foreleg for the Levites … … an eternal statute for them and for their seed.] [… And the commanders of the thousands shall give from the rams and from] 1 [the lambs to the priests one ram, one lamb, and to the Levites one ram, one lamb, and to each] 2 [tribe one ram,] one lamb, for all the tribes, [the twelve tribes of] 3 [Israel; and they shall eat them on this day in the outer court] before the LORD. 4 [… the priests shall drink there] first, and the Levites [second]. 5 [… the heads of the thousands of Israel,] the princes of the standards, first, 6 [… the men of] renown. And after them all the people, from the greatest to [the least,] 7 [shall begin to drink new wine. And they shall not eat] any grape or unripe fruit from the vines, [for] 8 [on this day they shall make atonement for the] new wine. And the sons of Israel shall rejoice before the LORD, 9 [an] eternal [statute] for their generations in all their dwellings. And they shall rejoice on [this day,] 10 [for they have begun] to pour out a drink offering of strong drink, new wine, on the altar of the LORD, year by year. 12 And you shall count [for yourselves] from this day seven weeks, seven times: nine 13 and forty days; seven complete sabbaths there shall be. Until the morrow of the sabbath, 14 the seventh, you shall count fifty days. And you shall offer new oil from the dwellings of 15 the tribes of the [sons] of Israel, half a hin, one from each tribe, new beaten oil. 16 [And they shall offer of this oil the first of the] fresh oil on the altar of burnt offering, firstfruits before the LORD.
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0 [… atonement with it for all the congregation before … and its grain offering … fine flour, three tenths, mixed with this oil, half a hin … and he shall burn its fat and its grain offering and its drink offering according to the rule; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. … This oil] 1 [they shall burn in the lamps of the lampstands]. With them [they shall give light …]. 2 [… the standards,] the commanders of the thousands [with the princes of …]. 3 [… lambs a year old,] fourteen, [and their grain offering and their drink offering …] 4 [… for the lambs and] for the rams. And the sons of Levi shall slaughter [the …] 5 [And the priests, the sons of] Aaron [shall toss] their blood [on the altar all around] 6 [… and] their fat they shall burn on the altar of [burnt offering …] 7 [and their grain offering] and their drink offering they shall burn on the fat portions [… offerings by fire, an aroma] 8 pleasing to the LORD. And they shall raise [from the rams and from the lambs a contribution:] 9 the right thigh and the breast of the wave offering, and as the first portion [the foreleg and] the 10 jaws and the stomach; for the priests it shall be, as a portion according to their rule; and for the Levites 11 the shoulder. Afterward they shall bring them out to the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel shall give to the priests 12 one ram, one lamb, and to the Levites one ram, one lamb, and to each 13 tribe one ram, one lamb. And they shall eat them on this day in the outer court 14 before the LORD. Eternal statutes for their generations, year by year. Afterward 15 they shall eat and anoint themselves with the new oil and with the olives, for on this day they shall make atonement 16 for [all] the fresh oil of the land before the LORD, once a year. And they shall rejoice
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0 [all the sons of Israel in all their dwellings before the LORD, an eternal statute for their generations. … … …] 1 […] … […] 2 […] which they shall bring […] 3 [… the wood], a burnt offering to the LORD […]. 4 […] male goats, two […] 5 [… and] their [grain offering] and their drink offering according to the [ordinance …] 6 […] one bull, one ram, one lamb [a year old.] 7 [So they shall do for every] tribe, the twelve sons of Jacob. 8 [And they shall offer them in the fourth part of the day] on the altar, after the [perpetual] burnt offering [and its drink offering]. 9 And the high priest shall offer [the burnt offering of the Levites] 10 first, and after it he shall burn the burnt offering of the tribe of Judah. And [while he is] 11 burning it, they shall slaughter the male goat before him first, and he shall bring 12 its blood up to the altar in a bowl and put some of its blood with his finger on the four horns of the altar 13 of burnt offering and on the four corners of the altar’s ledge. And he shall dash its blood against the base 14 of the altar’s ledge all around. And its fat he shall burn on the altar: the fat that covers 15 the entrails, and what is on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver together with the kidneys 16 he shall remove, and the fat that is on them, and what is on the loins. And he shall burn 17 the whole of it on the altar with its grain offering and its drink offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. And …
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1 […] the head […] 2 […] … and the … […] 3 […] the breast with the […] 4 […] … the legs. And they shall burn […] 5 [And they shall put on it its grain] offering of its oil, and the drink offering [of its wine. And they shall burn the fat] 6 [and the grain offering and] the flesh for a [pleasing] aroma, [an offering by fire] 7 [it is, to the LORD. So they shall do for every] bull, and for every ram, and [for every lamb]. 8 And its pieces shall be set by themselves, [and its grain offering] and its drink offering on it, [eternal] statutes 9 for your generations before the LORD. 10 And after this burnt offering he shall offer the burnt offering of the tribe of Judah by itself. Just as 11 he did for the burnt offering of the Levites, so he shall do for the burnt offering of the sons of Judah after the Levites. 12 And on the second day he shall offer the burnt offering of Benjamin first, and after it 13 he shall offer the burnt offering of the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh together. And on the third day he shall offer 14 the burnt offering of Reuben by itself and the burnt offering of Simeon by itself. And on the fourth day 15 he shall offer the burnt offering of Issachar by itself and the burnt offering of Zebulun by itself. And on the fifth day 16 he shall offer the burnt offering of Gad by itself and the burnt offering of Asher by itself. And on the sixth day
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0 [he shall offer the burnt offering of Dan by itself and the burnt offering of Naphtali by itself. … … … …] 1 […] he shall offer … […]. 2 […] and in the [seventh month,] 3 [on the first of the month, you shall have a solemn rest, a] memorial of trumpet blasts, a [holy convocation]. 4 [And you shall make a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma] before the LORD, and [you shall offer one bull] 5 [of the herd, one ram, lambs] a year old, seven, [without blemish, and one male] 6 [goat for a sin offering, and] their grain offering and their drink offerings according to their ordinance, [a pleasing aroma] 7 [to the LORD, besides the burnt offering of the] perpetual offering and the burnt offering of the month. Afterward [you shall make] 8 this [burnt offering] in the third part of the day, eternal statutes for your generations [in all your dwellings]. 9 You shall rejoice on this day; on it you shall do no work of [labor]. A solemn rest this day shall be 10 for you. And on the tenth of this month 11 is a day of atonement. And you shall afflict yourselves on it, for every person who does not 12 afflict himself on this very day shall be cut off from his people. And you shall offer on it a burnt offering 13 to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, one male 14 goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and their grain offering and their drink offering 15 according to their ordinance for the bull, for the ram, for the lambs and for the goat. And for the sin offering of atonement you shall offer 16 two rams for a burnt offering. One the high priest shall offer for himself and for his father’s house.
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1 […] 2 […] 3 [… And the high] priest [shall cast over the two] 4 [goats lots]: a lot [for one, for the LORD, and a lot for the other, for Azazel]. 5 [And] he shall slaughter the goat on which [the lot for the LORD] fell, [and he shall bring up] 6 its blood in the golden bowl that is in [his hand. And he] shall do with [its blood as he did with the blood of] 7 the bull that was his own, and with it he shall make atonement for all the people of the assembly. And its fat, and the grain offering 8 with its drink offering, he shall burn on the altar of burnt offering; and its flesh, its hide and its dung 9 they shall burn beside his bull. It is the sin offering of the assembly, and with it he shall make atonement for all the people of the assembly, 10 and they shall be forgiven. And he shall wash his hands and his feet of the blood of the sin offering and come to 11 the live goat. And he shall confess over its head all the iniquities of the sons of Israel together with 12 all their guilt for all their sins, and put them on the head of the goat, and send it away 13 to Azazel, to the wilderness, by the hand of a man made ready. And the goat shall carry all the iniquities
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1 […] … […] 2 for all the sons of Israel, and they shall be forgiven […]. 3 Afterward he shall offer the bull and the [ram] and [the lambs] according to their ordinance 4 on the altar of burnt offering, and the burnt offering shall be accepted for the sons of Israel, eternal statutes 5 for their generations. Once a year this day shall be a memorial for them. 6 And they shall do no work on it, for it shall be a sabbath of solemn rest [for them]. And any man 7 who does work on it, or who does not afflict himself on it, shall be cut off from the midst of 8 their people. A sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation, this day shall be for you, 9 and you shall consecrate it as a memorial in all your dwellings. And you shall do no 10 work. And on the fifteenth day of this month
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0 [a holy convocation it shall be for you; you shall do no work of labor. And you shall offer] an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma [to the LORD. And you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days]. [And you shall offer] on the [first] day [thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish; and one male goat for a sin offering; and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths, with half a hin, and a drink offering of wine, half a hin, for each bull of the thirteen bulls; and a grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, two tenths, with a third of a hin, and a drink offering of a third of a hin of wine for each ram of the two rams; and a tenth for each, a grain offering of fine flour mixed with a fourth of a] hin, and a drink offering [of a fourth of a hin of wine for each lamb]. So they shall do for the [fourteen] 1 lambs [and for the goat, besides the perpetual burnt offering] and its grain offering [and its drink offering, all of it on] 2 the altar, an offering by fire, a [pleasing aroma it is to the LORD. And on the] 3 second day: twelve bulls, [two rams, fourteen lambs] 4 and one male goat [for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering] 5 according to their ordinance for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs and for the goat, an offering by fire, 6 a pleasing aroma it is to the LORD. And on the third day: 7 eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs, 8 and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering according to the ordinance for the bulls, 9 for the rams, for the lambs and for the goat. And on the fourth day: 10 ten bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs a year old, 11 and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering for the bulls,
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0 [for the rams, for the lambs and for the goat, according to the ordinance. And on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs, and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering according to the ordinance for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs and for the goat. And on the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs, and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering according to the ordinance for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs and for the goat]. [And on the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs, and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering and their drink offering according to the ordinance for the bulls, for the rams, for the lambs and for the goat. And on the eighth day you shall hold a solemn assembly; any] work [of labor you shall not do on it. And you shall offer to me a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, and] lambs, seven, [and one male goat for a sin offering, and their grain offering] 1 and [their] drink offering [for the bull, for the ram, for the lambs and for the goat, according to their ordinance]. 2 These [you shall offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, besides your vows and your freewill offerings,] 3 for your burnt offerings and for your drink offerings [and for your peace offerings], in the house on which I [shall settle] 4 my name. […] burnt offerings, [each day’s due] on its day, according to the instruction of this ordinance, 5 continually, from the sons of Israel, besides their freewill offerings, for all that they offer, 6 for all their drink offerings and for all their gifts that they bring to me, to be accepted for [them]. 7 And I will accept them, and they shall be my people, and I will be theirs forever. [And] I will dwell 8 with them forever and ever. And I will consecrate my [sanctuary] with my glory, for I will settle 9 my glory upon it until the day of creation, when I myself will create my sanctuary 10 to establish it for myself for all time, according to the covenant that I made with Jacob at Bethel.
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1 […] and I will consecrate 2 [the sanctuary with my glory …] 3 [… to] make. And you shall [make a house] 4 for the steps, a [winding stair …] in the house that you shall build [for my name] 5 upon it. [… And] you shall make the winding stair north of the temple, a square house, 6 twenty cubits from corner to corner across its four corners. And it shall be distant from the wall of 7 [the] temple seven cubits, on the northwest of it. And you shall make the width of its wall four 8 cubits, [and its height forty cubits], like the temple, and its inside from corner to corner 9 twelve [cubits]. And a pillar in the middle, at its center, square, its width four 10 cubits on all its sides […] … which goes up all around in steps …
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1 […] … 2 […] the gate 3 […] … 4 […] the second priest 5 to the house of [… the] high [priest]. 6 And in the upper room of [this] house [you shall make a gate] opening onto the roof of the temple, and a way made 7 in this gate toward the opening of [the roof of the] temple, by which they shall go into the upper room of the temple. 8 [All] this house of the winding stair they shall overlay with gold: its walls and its gates and its roof, from within 9 [and] from without, and its pillar and its steps. And do according to all that I speak to you. 10 And you shall make a house for the laver to the southeast, square on all its sides, twenty-one 11 cubits, distant from the altar fifty cubits; and the width of the wall three cubits, and the height 12 twenty cubits […]. And gates shall be made for it on the east and on the north 13 and on the west; and the width of the gates four cubits, and their height seven.
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1 […] three cubits […] 2 […] … […] 3 […] … […] 4 […] … […] 5 […] … […]. 6 […] their guilt offering, to make atonement for the people. And when [they] go up 7 […] … and to burn on the altar 8 of burnt offering […] …. And you shall make in the wall of the house 9 itself niches [on the inside], and in them [windows …] a cubit wide. And their height 10 from the ground four cubits, [overlaid with] gold, [on which] they shall lay [there] their 11 garments in which they [come], above, over the house of the […] 12 when they come to minister in the sanctuary. [And] you shall make a channel around the laver beside its house. And the channel 13 shall run [from the house of] the laver to a cavity, going down [and spreading] into the earth, so that 14 the water shall pour out and run into it and be lost in the earth. And no 15 man at all shall touch it, for it is mixed with some of the blood of the burnt offering.
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1 […] … coming […] 2 […] and at the time [when …] 3 […] … and […] 4 […] that are on them, and laying [them …] 5 […] … the house of the laver and … […] to the laver […] 6 [… And those who come] to them and those who go out from them to [the middle court shall not] 7 consecrate my people with the holy garments in which [they minister]. 8 And you shall make a house east of the house of the laver, by the measure of [the house of the] laver. 9 And its wall shall be distant from its wall seven cubits, and all its building and its rafters like the house of the laver. 10 And it shall have two gates, on its north and on its south, one facing the other, by the measure of the gates of the house of 11 the laver. And all this house, the whole of its wall, shall be made with blind windows on the inside, 12 two cubits their width by two cubits, and their height four cubits, 13 with doors, as compartments for the vessels of the altar: for the bowls and the jugs and the fire pans 14 and the silver stands, on which they bring up the entrails and 15 the legs to the altar. And when they finish burning
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1 […] [set] on a tablet of bronze […] 2 […] … and between pillar and [pillar …] 3 […] which is between the pillars […] 4 […] … into the space between the wheels […] 5 [they open] and close the wheels. And [after …] 6 and they tie the horns of the bulls to the rings, and […] in the rings. 7 Then they shall slaughter them and gather [the blood] in the basins, 8 and dash it on the base of the altar all around. And they open 9 the wheels and strip the hides of the bulls off their flesh, and cut 10 them into their pieces, and salt the pieces with salt, and wash the 11 entrails and the legs, and salt them with salt. And they burn them on 12 the fire which is on the altar, bull by bull, with its pieces beside it and its offering of fine flour on it, 13 and the wine of its drink offering beside it, and part of it on it. And the priests, the sons of Aaron, shall burn the whole 14 on the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing aroma before the LORD. 15 And you shall make chains hanging down from the ceiling of the twelve pillars.
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1 [into the holy] of holies [he shall not come …] 2 … Any man who is not […] 3 [he]; any man who is not […] holy 4 […] … and any […] he is not 5 a priest, shall be put to death. And any man who [is a priest], who comes 6 … while he is not wearing the garments [of holiness in which] he was 7 ordained, they too shall be put to death. And they shall not profane [the sanctuary] of their God, and so bear 8 a guilty iniquity unto death. And you shall make holy the [area] around the altar and the temple and the laver 9 and the colonnade, and it shall be most holy for ever and ever. 10 And you shall make a place west of the temple, a colonnade all around of standing pillars, 11 for the sin offering and for the guilt offering, set apart from one another: for the sin offering of the priests and for the goats, 12 and for the sin offerings of the people and for their guilt offerings. And none of these shall be mixed 13 with the others, for their places shall be set apart from one another, so that 14 the priests do not err with any sin offering of the people or with any rams of guilt offerings, and so bear 15 a guilty sin. And the birds on the altar: he shall prepare the turtledoves
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1 […] … […] 2 […] gates and a hundred […] 3 […] from the corner […] 4 [to the corner] of the gate [a hundred and twenty cubits. And] the gate is forty 5 [cubits] wide on every side [by this measure]. And the width of [its wall] is seven cubits, 6 [and its height] five [and forty cubits up to the ceiling] of [its] roof. [And the width of its chambers] is six 7 and twenty cubits from corner to corner. And the gates by which one enters 8 and by which one goes out: the width of the gate is fourteen cubits, and their height 9 twenty-eight cubits, from the threshold to the lintel. And the height 10 of the ceiling from the lintel is fourteen cubits. And it is roofed with woodwork 11 of cedar overlaid with pure gold, and its doors are overlaid with fine gold. 12 And from the corner of the gate to the second corner of the court is twenty 13 and a hundred cubits; and such shall be the measure of all these gates which 14 belong to the inner court; and the gates go inward into the court.
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1 […] … […] 2 […] new, out of the gardens, for all the […] 3 [… structure] between … […] 4 [the] inner [court], for the enclosure of the altar which … […] 5 the peace offerings of the children of Israel … and for the [priests …] 6 […] … […] the corners of the lower colonnade, made … 7 and cooking places beside [… the] gates on both [sides of] the gate. 8 And you shall make in the [inner court] a building of seats for the priests, and tables 9 in front of the seats, in the inner colonnade beside the outer wall [of the court], 10 places made for the priests, for their sacrifices and for the firstfruits and for the tithes 11 and for the peace offerings which they sacrifice. And there shall be no [mixing] of the sacrifices 12 of peace offerings of the children of Israel with the sacrifices of the priests. 13 And in the four corners of the court you shall make for them a place [for hearths] 14 where they shall cook their sacrifices. [And] the sin offerings
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1 [… there] they shall eat […] 2 […] … […] you shall make … […] 3 […] they shall eat and drink […] 4 and it shall be eaten [… and on the days of the firstfruits] for the grain, for the new wine and for [the oil …] 5 […] … […] 6 eating beside the west gate […] 7 […] any wood that comes to the [inner court; the grain offering of the offerings] 8 [is] on it, frankincense, and for … [… and the grain offering of jealousy] 9 and to the right of this gate … […] 10 … there they shall eat [the produce], the birds, and the turtledoves and the young pigeons […]. 12 And you shall make a second court around the [inner court], a hundred cubits wide, 13 and four hundred and eighty cubits long on the east side. And such is the width and length of all 14 its sides, to the south and to the west and to the north. And the width of its wall is [four] cubits and its height eight 15 and twenty cubits. And chambers are made in the wall on the outside, and between chamber and chamber three.
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1 […] … … 2 [and their height … cubits from the threshold to the lintel, up to the height of] the ceiling of the roof [from the lintel] 3 [… cubits. …] and its doors are overlaid with gold 4 [fine] … [. And so you shall make all these gates which belong to] this court […] 5 … and [there shall] not [enter …] … a fourth generation, a son 6 of Israel [… ] to bow down before me, all the congregation of the children 7 of Israel … [… ] No woman shall come into it, nor a child, until the day 8 that he fulfils the statute [and gives a ransom for] his life to the LORD, half a shekel, an everlasting statute 9 as a memorial in their dwellings; the shekel is twenty gerahs. 10 And when they have taken the half shekel from him for me, then they may enter, from 11 twenty [years old and upward. And the] names [of the] gates of this court shall be after the names 12 of the sons of Israel: Simeon, Levi and Judah on the east; Reuben, Joseph and Benjamin to the 13 south; Issachar, Zebulun and Gad to the west; Dan, Naphtali and Asher to the north. And between gate and gate 14 the measure: from the northeast corner to the gate of Simeon is ninety-nine cubits, and the gate 15 is twenty-eight cubits; and from this gate of Simeon to the gate of … Levi is ninety-nine 16 cubits, and the gate twenty-eight cubits; and from the gate of Levi to the gate of Judah.
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1 […] to put on the [garments …] 2 […] … to serve […]. 3 […] the children of Israel, and they shall not [die … an everlasting statute. …] 4 […] this [court] … […] 5 […]. And you shall make a third court […] 6 [… and] for their daughters and for the sojourners who were born [to them, the] 7 [third generation …. The] width around the middle court [is five hundred and sixty cubits], 8 with a length of about one thousand six [hundred] cubits from corner to corner. Each side has this measure, 9 to the east and to the south and to the west and to the north. And the width of the wall is seven cubits, and its height nine 10 and forty cubits. And chambers are made between its gates on the outside, level with the foundation 11 up to its battlements. Three gates are in it on the east, and three on the south, and three 12 on the west, and three on the north. And the width of the gates is fifty cubits and their height seventy 13 cubits. And between gate and gate [the measure] is three hundred and sixty cubits. From the corner to 14 the gate of Simeon is three hundred and sixty cubits, and from the gate of Simeon to the gate of Levi 15 the same measure, and from the gate of Levi to the gate of Judah the same measure, three [hundred] and sixty
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0 [cubits; and from the gate of Judah to the south corner the same measure, three hundred and sixty cubits; and from this corner to the gate of Reuben three hundred and sixty cubits; and from the gate of Reuben to the gate of Joseph the same measure, three hundred and sixty cubits; and from the gate of Joseph to the gate of Benjamin three] 1 [hundred and sixty cubits; and from the gate of Benjamin to the west corner] 2 [three hundred and sixty cubits; and so from] this [corner] 3 to [the gate of Issachar three hundred and sixty] cubits; and from the gate 4 of Issachar [to the gate of Zebulun three] hundred [and sixty] cubits; 5 and from the gate of [Zebulun to the gate of Gad] three hundred [and sixty] 6 cubits; and from [the gate of Gad to the north corner] three hundred 7 and sixty cubits. [… And] from this corner to 8 the gate of Dan three hundred and sixty cubits; and so from the gate of Dan to 9 the gate of Naphtali three hundred and sixty cubits; and from the gate of Naphtali 10 to the gate of Asher three hundred and sixty cubits; and from the gate 11 of Asher to the east corner three hundred and sixty cubits. 12 And the gates project outward from the wall of the court seven cubits, 13 and they extend inward from the wall of the court thirty-six cubits. 14 And the width of the gate openings is fourteen cubits, and their height 15 twenty-eight cubits up to the lintel. And they are roofed 16 with beams of cedar wood and overlaid with gold. And their doors are overlaid 17 with pure gold. And between gate and gate you shall make storerooms on the inside,
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0 [and rooms and colonnades. The width of the room is ten cubits, its length twenty cubits and its height fourteen cubits; and it is roofed with beams of cedar wood. And the width of the wall is two cubits, and beyond it on the outside are the storerooms. The width of the storeroom is ten cubits] 1 [and its length twenty cubits, and the wall two cubits wide] 2 [and its height fourteen cubits] up to the lintel. And [its entrance] 3 [is three cubits wide. And so you shall make it] for all the storerooms and [their] rooms. 4 And a colonnade [… the width] is ten cubits. And between gate 5 and gate [you shall make] eighteen storerooms, and their rooms 6 eighteen […]. 7 And you shall make a staircase beside the walls of the gates, inside 8 the colonnade, going up by winding steps into the second colonnade and the third 9 and onto the roof. And storerooms are built, with their rooms and their colonnades, like the lower ones, 10 second and third levels by the measure of the lower ones. And on the roof of the third 11 you shall make pillars, roofed with beams from pillar to pillar, 12 a place for booths, their height eight cubits. And the booths shall 13 be made on them every year at the Feast of Booths for the elders 14 of the congregation, for the chiefs, for the heads of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, 15 and for the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds who go up 16 and sit there until the burnt offering of the festival is offered, which belongs 17 to the Feast of Booths, year by year. Between gate and gate there shall be.
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1 […] … for six […] 2 […] on the Sabbath days and on the days of […] 3 […] and on the days of the firstfruits for the grain, for [the new wine and for the oil] 4 [and at the festival of the offering of the] wood. On these days it shall be eaten, and they shall not leave 5 any of it from one year to the next. For this is how they shall eat it: 6 from the Feast of Firstfruits for the grain of wheat they shall eat the grain 7 until the second year, until the day of the Feast of Firstfruits. And the wine, from the day 8 of the festival of new wine until the second year, until the day of the festival 9 of new wine. And the oil, from the day of its festival until the second year, 10 until the festival of the day when new oil is offered on the altar. And whatever 11 is left over from their festivals shall be made holy: it shall be burned with fire; it shall not be eaten again, 12 for it is holy. And those who live far from the sanctuary, a journey of three 13 days, shall bring whatever they are able to bring. And if they are not able 14 to carry it, they shall sell it for money and bring the money, and buy with it grain 15 and wine and oil and cattle and sheep. And they shall eat it on the festival days, and 16 they shall not eat of it on the working days in their sorrow, for it is holy. 17 And on the holy days it shall be eaten, and it shall not be eaten on the working days.
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1 […] who dwell […] 2 […] which is within the city to the [east …] 3 […]. And you shall divide [the storerooms and their rooms. From the gate] 4 [of Simeon] to the gate of Judah shall be for the priests [ …]. 5 And all the right of the gate of Levi and its left you shall allot to the sons of Aaron your brother: 6 one hundred and eight storerooms and their rooms and their two booths 7 which are above the roof. And to the sons of Judah, from the gate of Judah to 8 the corner, fifty-four storerooms and their rooms and the booth 9 which is above them. And to the sons of Simeon, from the gate of Simeon to the second 10 corner, their storerooms and their rooms and their booths. And to the sons of Reuben, 11 from the corner which is beside the sons of Judah to the gate of Reuben, 12 fifty-two storerooms and their rooms and their booths. And from the gate 13 of Reuben to the gate of Joseph, to the sons of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh. 14 And from the gate of Joseph to the gate of Benjamin, to the sons of Kohath, of the sons of the Levites. 15 And from the gate of Benjamin to the west corner, to the sons of Benjamin. From this corner 16 to the gate of Issachar, to the sons of Issachar. And from the gate
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0 [Issachar to the gate of Zebulun, for the sons of Zebulun; and from the gate of Zebulun to the gate of Gad, for the sons of Gershon of the Levites; and from the gate of Gad to the northern corner, for the sons of Gad.] [From this corner to the gate of Dan, for the sons of Dan; and from the gate of Dan to the gate of Naphtali, for the sons of Naphtali; and from the gate of Naphtali to the gate of Asher, for the sons of Merari of the Levites.] 1 And from the gate [of Asher to the eastern corner, for the sons of Asher. And all the chambers belonging to the tribe of Levi shall be] 2 [two hundred and] seventy [chambers; and for the sons of Israel, five hundred and eighty-six chambers.] 3 And when [the divisions come in and go out,] the second shall be coming in on the left, [and as it comes in] 4 the first shall go out on the right. They shall not [be] mixing with one another, nor their vessels […] … 5 each division to its place, and they shall encamp. One comes in and the other goes out on the eighth day, and they shall cleanse 6 the chambers one after another, at the time the first goes out, and there shall be no 7 mixing there. And if a man has an emission in the night, he shall not enter 8 any part of the sanctuary until he completes three days. He shall wash his clothes and bathe 9 on the first day, and on the third day he shall wash his clothes and bathe, and after the sun has set 10 he may enter the sanctuary. And they shall not come into my sanctuary in the impurity of their uncleanness and defile it. 11 And if a man lies with his wife and has an emission of semen, he shall not enter any part of the city 12 of the sanctuary where I make my name dwell for three days. No blind man 13 shall enter it all their days, and they shall not defile the city in whose midst I 14 dwell; for I, the LORD, dwell among the sons of Israel for ever and ever. 15 And any man who is cleansed of his discharge shall count seven days for his cleansing, and on the 16 seventh day he shall wash his clothes and bathe his whole body in running water. After that he may enter the city 17 of the sanctuary. And no one unclean through a corpse shall enter it until they are cleansed. And no one with skin disease 18 or affliction shall enter it until they are cleansed. And when he is cleansed, he shall offer
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1 […] … [… and] no 2 unclean bird shall fly over my sanctuary […or over] the roofs of the gates [that belong] 3 to the outer court. And [no unclean bird may] be in the midst of my sanctuary forever 4 and ever, all the days that I [dwell] among them. 5 And you shall make a terrace all around, outside the outer court, a width of 6 fourteen cubits, matching the openings of all the gates. And twelve 7 steps you shall make for it, by which the sons of Israel shall go up to it 8 to enter my sanctuary. 9 And you shall make a trench around the sanctuary, a hundred cubits wide, which shall 10 separate the holy sanctuary from the city, so that no one comes suddenly into 11 my sanctuary and profanes it. They shall keep my sanctuary holy and revere my sanctuary, 12 in whose midst I dwell. 13 And you shall make for them a latrine area outside the city, to which they shall go out, 14 outside, to the northwest of the city: roofed houses with pits inside them, 15 into which the excrement will drop, so that it will not be visible to anyone. It shall be far 16 from the city, three thousand cubits. And you shall make 17 three places to the east of the city, separated from one another, to which shall 18 come those with skin disease, those with a discharge, and men who have an emission.
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1 […] … […] 2 […] upward and not downward […]. 3 [And] their cities [shall be] pure, and [I will dwell … with them] forever. And the city 4 that I sanctify to make my name and my sanctuary dwell [within it] shall be holy and pure 5 from everything, from any impurity by which they could be defiled. Everything within it shall be 6 pure, and everything that comes into it shall be pure: wine and oil and all food 7 and all drink shall be pure. No hide of a clean animal that they slaughter 8 within their cities shall they bring into it; for in their cities they shall use 9 them for their work, for all their needs, but into the city of my sanctuary they shall not bring them, 10 for their purity matches that of their flesh. And you shall not defile the city in which 11 I make my name and my sanctuary dwell. For in the hides of animals they slaughter 12 in the sanctuary, in those they shall bring their wine and their oil and all 13 their food to the city of my sanctuary. They shall not pollute my sanctuary with the hides of their 14 unfit sacrifices that they slaughter in their land. And you shall not treat a city 15 from among your cities as pure as my city; for as the purity of its flesh is, so are the hides made pure. If 16 you slaughter it in my sanctuary, it is pure for my sanctuary; and if you slaughter it in your cities, it is pure 17 for your cities. And all the pure things of the sanctuary you shall bring in hides from the sanctuary, and you shall not defile 18 my sanctuary and my city with the hides of your unfit offerings, for I dwell in its midst.
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1 [the cormorant, the stork, the heron after] its kind, and the hoopoe [and the bat. Every winged swarming thing that walks on] 2 [all fours is detestable to you.] 3 [These of the winged swarming things] you may eat: the locust after its kind, the bald locust after its kind, the cricket 4 after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. These of the winged swarming things you may eat: those that walk on all fours that 5 have legs above their feet for leaping on the ground, and fly with their wings. No 6 carcass of bird or beast shall you eat; sell it to a foreigner. And nothing abominable shall you 7 eat, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You are sons 8 of the LORD your God; you shall not gash yourselves or shave a bald patch between your eyes 9 for the dead. You shall not put cuts in your flesh for a dead person, and you shall not write tattoo marks 10 on yourselves, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. And you shall not defile 11 your land. And you shall not do as the nations do: in every place they 12 bury their dead, and they even bury inside their houses. Instead, you shall set apart places 13 within your land in which you shall bury your dead. For every four 14 cities you shall assign a place to bury in. And in each city you shall make places for those afflicted 15 with skin disease, with plague, and with scall, who may not enter your cities and defile them. And also for those with a discharge, 16 and for women during their menstrual impurity and after giving birth, so that they do not spread defilement among them 17 with their menstrual impurity. And the one with skin disease who has a chronic disease or scall, whom the priest declares unclean,
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1 […] … […] 2 [… and you shall isolate] them [for seven days …] 3 […] … and with cedar wood and with hyssop and with [crimson thread …] 4 your cities with the plague of skin disease, and they become unclean. 5 And if a person dies in your cities, every house in which the dead person dies shall be unclean 6 seven days. Everything in the house and everyone who comes into the house shall be unclean 7 seven days. And any food on which water is poured shall be unclean; any drink 8 shall be unclean. And earthenware vessels shall be unclean, and everything in them shall be unclean 9 for every pure man. And the open ones shall be unclean for every person of Israel, all the drink 10 that is in them. 11 And on the day that they take the dead out of it, they shall sweep the house clean of all 12 defilement of oil and wine and water moisture. Its floor and its walls and its doors they shall scrape, 13 and its locks and its doorposts and its thresholds and its lintels they shall wash with water. On the day that 14 the dead is taken out of it they shall purify the house and all its utensils: mill and mortar, 15 and all utensils of wood, iron and bronze, and all utensils that can be purified. 16 And clothing, sacks and hides shall be washed. And as for the people, everyone who was in the house 17 and everyone who came into the house shall bathe in water and wash his clothes on the first day. 18 And on the third day they shall sprinkle the water for impurity on them, and they shall bathe and wash their garments 19 and the utensils that are in the house. And on the seventh day 20 they shall sprinkle a second time and bathe and wash their clothes and their utensils, and by evening they shall be clean 21 from the dead, so that they may touch all their pure things. And as for the person who has not been defiled by
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1 […] … to […] 2 for the water of purification [… the] mingling with the dead […] 3 they became unclean; there is no longer […] … until they sprinkle a second [time] 4 on the seventh day, and they shall be clean at evening when the sun sets. And any 5 man who, in the open field, touches the bone of a dead person, or one slain by the sword, 6 or a dead body, or the blood of a dead person, or a grave, shall purify himself according to the statute of this 7 ruling. And if he is not purified according to the ruling of this instruction, he is unclean; still 8 his uncleanness is in him. And anyone who touches him shall wash his clothes and bathe, and be clean 9 at evening. 10 And if a woman is pregnant and her child dies in her womb, all the days that 11 it is dead inside her she shall be unclean like a grave. Every house she enters shall be unclean, 12 with all its utensils, for seven days. And anyone who touches it is unclean until evening. And if 13 anyone enters the house with her, he shall be unclean seven days. He shall wash his clothes 14 and bathe in water on the first day. And on the third day he shall sprinkle and wash his clothes and bathe. 15 And on the seventh day he shall sprinkle a second time and wash his clothes and bathe, and when the sun sets 16 he shall be clean. And all the utensils, clothing, hides and all 17 goat-hair work, you shall treat them according to the ruling of this instruction. And every 18 earthenware vessel shall be broken, for they are unclean and can never be made clean again, 19 for all time. 20 Of all the swarming things of the earth, you shall treat as unclean the weasel, the mouse, the great lizard after its kind, the wall lizard, 21 the monitor, the sand lizard and the chameleon. Any man who touches them when they are dead
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1 [… and all that comes out] of them [when they are dead … shall be] unclean 2 [to you. And you shall not] become unclean by them [… and anyone who touches them] when they are dead shall be unclean 3 until evening. He shall wash his clothes and bathe [in water, and when] the sun [has set,] he is clean. 4 And whoever carries any of their bones or their carcass, skin, flesh or claw shall wash 5 his clothes and bathe in water, and after the sun has set he shall be clean. And you shall warn 6 the sons of Israel against all the impurities. And they shall not defile themselves with those that 7 I am declaring to you on this mountain, and they shall not be defiled. For I, the LORD, dwell 8 among the sons of Israel. You shall make them holy, and they shall be holy. And they shall not make 9 themselves detestable through anything that I have set apart for them as unclean, and they shall be 10 holy. 11 Judges and officers you shall appoint for yourself in all your gates, and they shall judge the people 12 with righteous judgment. They shall not show partiality in judgment, nor take a bribe, nor 13 pervert judgment; for a bribe perverts judgment, twists the words of righteousness, blinds 14 the eyes of the wise, causes great guilt, and defiles the house through the guilt 15 of sin. Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue, so that you may live and come in and take possession of 16 the land that I am giving you to possess for all time. And the man 17 who takes a bribe and perverts righteous judgment shall be put to death, and you shall not be afraid of him 18 to put him to death. 19 You shall not do in your land as the nations do: in every place they 20 sacrifice, and plant Asherah poles for themselves, and set up sacred pillars for themselves, 21 and set carved stones in place to bow down on, and build for themselves
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1 […] … You shall not plant [for yourself an Asherah, any tree, beside my altar] 2 [that you make] for yourself, and you shall not set up for yourself a pillar [that I hate, and a] stone 3 [with] carvings you shall not make for yourself anywhere in your land to bow down on it. And you shall not 4 sacrifice to me an ox or a sheep that has any serious defect, for they are detestable 5 to me. And you shall not sacrifice to me an ox or a sheep or a goat while they are pregnant, for they are detestable to me. 6 And an ox or a sheep, it and its young, you shall not slaughter on the same day, and you shall not kill a mother 7 together with her young. Every firstborn that is born in your herd and in your flock, 8 the males, you shall consecrate to me. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstborn of 9 your flock. You shall eat it before me year by year in the place that I choose. And if it has 10 a defect, lame or blind or any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to me. In your gates 11 you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean among you alike, like the gazelle and the deer. Only you shall not eat the blood; 12 you shall pour it out on the ground like water and cover it with dust. And you shall not muzzle an ox while it threshes, 13 and you shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. You shall not slaughter a clean ox or sheep or goat 14 in any of your gates within three days’ journey of my sanctuary; rather, within 15 my sanctuary you shall slaughter it, to make it a burnt offering or a sacrifice of well-being, and you shall eat 16 and rejoice before me in the place that I choose to set my name on. And every animal 17 that is clean but has a defect, you shall eat it within your gates, far from my sanctuary, 18 thirty ris all around. You shall not slaughter near my sanctuary, for it is unfit 19 meat. You shall not eat the meat of an ox or sheep or goat within my city, which I sanctify 20 to set my name within it, that has not come into my sanctuary; they shall sacrifice it there 21 and dash its blood against the base of the altar of burnt offering and burn its fat.
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0 [… when I enlarge your territory] 1 [as I promised you, and if the place that I have chosen to set my name there is too far from you,] 2 [and you say, “I will eat meat,” because] your soul craves to eat [meat, as much as your soul craves,] 3 you may eat meat, [and you shall slaughter] from your flock and from your herd, by the blessing that I give 4 you. And you shall eat within your gates, the clean and the unclean among you alike, like the gazelle 5 and the deer. Only be firm not to eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water and cover it 6 with dust, for the blood is the life. And you shall not eat the life with the meat, so that 7 it may go well with you and with your sons after you forever. And you shall do what is right and good 8 before me; I am the LORD your God. 9 Only your holy offerings and all your vows you shall take, and you shall come to the place where I make 10 my name dwell. And you shall sacrifice there before me as you consecrated or vowed with your mouth. 11 And when you make a vow, you shall not delay to fulfill it, for I will surely require it of you, 12 and it will be a sin in you. But if you refrain and do not vow, there will be no sin in you. 13 What passes your lips you shall keep, as you vowed a freewill offering with your mouth, to do 14 as you vowed. And if a man makes a vow to me or swears 15 an oath to bind himself with a pledge, he shall not break his word; according to all that comes out of his mouth 16 he shall do. And if a woman makes a vow to me or binds herself with a pledge 17 in her father’s house by an oath in her youth, and her father hears her vow or 18 the pledge by which she bound herself, and her father keeps silent toward her, then 19 all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand. But if 20 her father firmly forbids her on the day he hears it, none of her vows or pledges 21 by which she bound herself shall stand, and I will forgive her, because he forbade her.
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1 [hears it. And if he annuls them after the] day [he hears it, he shall bear] 2 her iniquity; [her husband has annulled them. Every vow] or every oath of [binding to afflict the soul,] 3 her husband may confirm [it] and her husband may annul it on the day he hears it, and I will forgive her. 4 And every vow of a widow or a divorced woman, all that she has bound upon herself, 5 shall stand against her, according to all that went out of her mouth. All the words that 6 I command you today, you shall take care to do; you shall not add to them and not 7 take away from them. 8 If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of a dream, and he gives you a sign or 9 a wonder, and the sign or the wonder of which he spoke to you comes to pass, saying, 10 “Let us go and serve other gods whom you have not known,” you shall not 11 listen to the word of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream, for 12 I am testing you to know whether you love the LORD, 13 the God of your fathers, with all your heart and with all your soul. After the LORD 14 your God you shall walk, and him you shall serve, and him you shall fear, and to his voice you shall listen, 15 and to him you shall cling. And that prophet or the dreamer of the dream shall be put to death, for he has spoken rebellion 16 against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and I redeemed you 17 from the house of slaves, to lead you astray from the way in which I commanded you to walk. And you shall purge 18 the evil from your midst. 19 And if your brother, the son of your father or the son of your mother, entices you, or your son or your daughter, 20 or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, in secret, saying, 21 “Let us go and serve other gods whom you have not known,” you
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0 [and your fathers, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, those near you or those far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, you shall not consent to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not pity him, and you shall not spare him; for you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward. And you shall stone him with stones and he shall die, because he sought to lead you astray from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. And all Israel shall hear and fear, and they shall not again do] 1 [anything like this evil thing in your midst.] 2 If you hear about one [of your cities which] I am giving you to [dwell in,] 3 saying, “Men, sons of [Belial], have gone out from your midst and have led astray all the inhabitants of 4 their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve gods whom you have not known,’” 5 then you shall ask and inquire and search out thoroughly. And if it is true, the matter established, 6 that this abomination has been done in Israel, you shall surely strike all the inhabitants of 7 that city with the edge of the sword. Devote it to destruction, and all that is in it, and 8 all its cattle you shall strike with the edge of the sword. And all its spoil you shall gather into the middle of 9 its square, and you shall burn with fire the city and all its spoil as a whole offering to the LORD 10 your God, and it shall be a mound forever; it shall not be built again. And there shall not cling 11 to your hand anything of what is devoted to destruction, so that I may turn from the heat of my anger, and I will give you 12 compassion and have compassion on you and multiply you, as I spoke to your fathers, 13 if you listen to my voice, to keep all my commandments which I command you 14 today, to do what is upright and good before the LORD your God. 15 If there is found in your midst, in one of your gates which 16 I am giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in my eyes, 17 transgressing my covenant, and goes and serves other gods and bows down to them, 18 or to the sun or to the moon or to all the host of heaven, and they tell you about it, 19 and you hear of this matter, then you shall inquire and search out thoroughly. And if 20 it is true, the matter established, that this abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out 21 that man or that woman and stone them with stones.
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1 or to the [judges who shall be in those days], and you shall inquire, and they shall [tell you] 2 the matter about which you [came to inquire, and they shall tell] you the judgment. 3 And you shall act according to the instruction which they declare to you, and according to the word 4 which they speak to you from the book of the Torah. And they shall declare it to you in truth 5 from the place which I choose to make my name dwell upon it, and you shall take care to do 6 according to all that they teach you; and according to the judgment which they speak to you 7 you shall act. You shall not turn aside from the instruction which they declare to you, to the right 8 or to the left. And the man who does not listen and acts presumptuously, not 9 heeding the priest who stands there to minister before me, or 10 the judge, that man shall die, and you shall purge the evil from Israel. And all 11 the people shall hear and fear, and they shall no longer act presumptuously in Israel. 12 When you come into the land which I am giving you, and you take possession of it and dwell 13 in it, and you say, “I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,” 14 you may surely set over you a king whom I choose. From among your brothers you shall set a king over you. 15 You shall not set over you a foreign man who is not your brother. Only he shall not 16 multiply horses for himself, and he shall not make the people return to Egypt for war in order to 17 multiply horses for himself, and silver and gold. And I have said to you, “You shall not 18 return again by this way.” And he shall not multiply wives for himself, so that they do not 19 turn his heart away from following me. And silver and gold he shall not multiply for himself greatly. 20 And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, they shall write 21 for him this Torah in a book, from the one that is before the priests.
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1 And this is the Torah [which they shall write for him from before] the priests. [They shall take] 2 on the day that they make [him] king [the count of the] sons of Israel from 3 twenty years old to sixty years old according to their standards, and he shall appoint 4 at their head commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and commanders of fifties 5 and commanders of tens in all their cities. And he shall choose for himself from them a thousand, a thousand 6 from each tribe, to be with him, twelve thousand men of war, 7 who shall not leave him alone, lest he be seized by the hand of the nations. And all 8 the chosen men whom he chooses shall be men of truth, fearers of God, 9 haters of unjust gain, and mighty warriors for battle. And they shall be with him always, 10 day and night, and they shall guard him from every matter of sin 11 and from a foreign nation, so that he is not seized by their hand. And twelve 12 princes of his people shall be with him, and from the priests twelve, and from the Levites 13 twelve, who shall sit together with him for judgment 14 and for instruction. And his heart shall not be lifted above them, and he shall not do anything 15 in any counsel apart from them. And he shall not take a wife from any of 16 the daughters of the nations, but from his father’s house he shall take for himself a wife, 17 from the clan of his father. And he shall not take another wife in addition to her, for 18 she alone shall be with him all the days of her life. And if she dies, he may take 19 another for himself from his father’s house, from his clan. And he shall not pervert judgment, 20 and he shall not take a bribe to pervert righteous judgment. And he shall not covet 21 a field or a vineyard or any wealth or a house or any desirable thing in Israel, and seize it.
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1 […] … […] 2 [them and …] their men. 3 And if the king hears about any nation or people [that] seeks to plunder anything that belongs 4 to Israel, he shall send to the commanders of thousands and to the commanders of hundreds stationed in the cities of 5 Israel. And they shall send with him a tenth of the people to go out with him to war against 6 their enemies, and they shall go out with him. And if a large army comes into the land of Israel, they shall send 7 with him a fifth of the men of war. And if a king with chariots and horses and a large army comes, 8 they shall send with him a third of the men of war, and the two other parts shall guard 9 their cities and their border, so that no raiding band enters the midst of their land. 10 And if the battle presses hard against him, they shall send to him half of the people, the men of 11 the army, and the other half of the people shall not be cut off from their cities. And if they defeat 12 their enemies and break them and strike them with the edge of the sword and carry off their spoil, they shall give 13 from it to the king his tenth, and to the priests one in a thousand, and to the Levites one in a hundred, 14 of everything; and they shall divide the rest in half between those who fought the battle and their brothers 15 whom they left in their cities. And if he goes out to war against 16 his enemies, a fifth of the people shall go out with him, the men of war, all the mighty men of 17 valor, and they shall keep themselves from every unclean thing and from all indecency and from all iniquity and guilt. 18 And he shall not go out until he comes before the high priest, and he shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim 19 and the Thummim. At his word he shall go out and at his word he shall come in, he and all the sons of Israel who are 20 with him. He shall not go out by the counsel of his own heart until he has inquired by the judgment of the Urim 21 and the Thummim. And he shall prosper in all his ways when he goes out according to the judgment which
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1 […] … […] 2 [and] they shall scatter them in many lands, and they shall become [a horror,] a byword and a taunt, under a heavy yoke 3 and in want of everything. And there they shall serve gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, silver 4 and gold. And in all this their cities shall become a desolation and a hissing and a ruin, and 5 their enemies shall be appalled at them. And they, in the lands of their enemies, shall groan 6 and cry out because of a heavy yoke. And they shall call, but I will not hear; and they shall cry out, but I will not answer 7 them, because of the evil of their deeds. And I will hide my face from them, and they shall become food 8 and plunder and spoil, and there shall be no one to save them, because of their wickedness, for they broke my covenant 9 and their soul loathed my Torah, until they incur every guilt. Afterward they shall return 10 to me with all their heart and with all their soul, according to all the words of this Torah. 11 And I will save them from the hand of their enemies and redeem them from the hand of those who hate them, and I will bring them 12 to the land of their fathers, and I will redeem them and multiply them and rejoice over them, 13 and I will be their God and they shall be my people. And the king whose 14 heart and eyes turn faithlessly from my commandments shall never have one of his line found sitting on the throne of 15 his fathers, for I will cut off his seed forever from ruling again over Israel. 16 But if he walks in my statutes and keeps my commandments and does 17 what is upright and good before me, there shall not be cut off from him a man of his sons sitting on the throne of the kingdom of 18 Israel forever. And I will be with him and save him from the hand of those who hate him and from the hand of 19 those who seek his life to take it. And I will give all his enemies before him, and he shall rule over them 20 according to his will, and they shall not rule over him. And I will set him above and not below, the head 21 and not the tail. And he shall prolong his days greatly over his kingdom, he and his sons after him.
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1 [And they shall eat in the most holy place …] … […] … 2 and all their wave offerings, and every firstborn male [of their cattle], and all […] 3 of their cattle, and all their holy gifts which they consecrate to me, with every holy gift of 4 their praise offerings; and the levy of their contribution of birds, of beasts and of fish, one in a thousand 5 of what they catch; and all that they devote; and the levy of the spoil and the plunder. 6 And to the Levites, the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil which 7 they have consecrated to me first; and the shoulder from those who offer the sacrifice; and the levy from 8 the spoil and from the plunder and from the game, of birds, of beasts and of fish, one in a hundred; 9 and of the young pigeons; and the tithe of the honey, one in fifty. And to the priests 10 one in a hundred of the young pigeons, for I have chosen them from all your tribes 11 to stand before me and to minister and to bless in my name, he and all his sons, all the days. 12 And if the Levite comes from one of your gates, from anywhere in Israel, where 13 he sojourns, with all the desire of his soul to the place which I choose to make 14 my name dwell, he shall minister like all his brothers the Levites who stand there before me. Portion like portion 15 they shall eat, besides what is sold from the fathers’ estates. 16 When you come into the land which I am giving you, you shall not learn to do 17 according to the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter pass 18 through fire, a diviner of divinations, or a soothsayer or an augur or a sorcerer, a charmer, one who consults a ghost 19 or familiar spirits, or one who seeks out the dead. For they are an abomination before me, all who do 20 these things, and because of these abominations I am driving them out before you. 21 You shall be blameless with the LORD your God, for these nations which
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0 [whom you are dispossessing listen to soothsayers and to diviners, but as for you, not so.] [I will give you a prophet from among your brothers like Moses; I will raise him up for you, and to him you shall listen, in keeping with all that you asked of me at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, “I will not hear the voice of the LORD my God again, and I will not see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.”] [And I said, “They have done well in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers like him, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. And the man who does not listen to my words which the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. But the prophet who acts presumptuously] 1 to speak [a word] in my name which I did not command him to speak, or who [speaks in the name of] other gods, 2 that prophet shall be put to death. And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word 3 which the LORD has not spoken?” When the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the word does not happen 4 and does not come about, that is the word which I have not spoken; the prophet spoke it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid 5 of him. 6 A single witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin that he commits. On the testimony of two 7 witnesses or on the testimony of three witnesses a matter shall stand. If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse 8 him of wrongdoing, then the two men who have the dispute shall stand before me and before the priests and the Levites and before 9 the judges who are in office in those days. And the judges shall investigate, and if the witness is a false witness who has testified falsely 10 against his brother, you shall do to him as he planned to do to his brother, and you shall remove the evil from your midst. 11 And the rest shall hear and be afraid, and they shall never again do a thing like this in your midst. Your eye 12 shall not pity him: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. When 13 you go out to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army larger than yours, you shall not be afraid 14 of them, for I am with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. And when you come near to battle, 15 the priest shall step forward and speak to the people and say to them, “Hear, Israel, you are drawing near.”
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1 [another man puts it to use. And who is the man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? He shall go back to] 2 his house, [lest he die in the battle and another man take her. And the judges shall go on] 3 to speak to the people and say, “Who is the man who is afraid and faint of heart? He shall go back to 4 his house, lest he make the heart of his brothers melt like his own heart.” And when the judges have finished 5 speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of the armies at the head of the people. When 6 you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. And if 7 it answers you with peace and opens its gates to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become 8 forced laborers for you and shall serve you. But if it does not make peace with you and wages war against you, 9 you shall lay siege to it. And I will give it into your hand, and you shall put all its males to the sword. But 10 the women and the children and the livestock and everything that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder 11 for yourself, and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies which I give you. So you shall do 12 to the cities that are very far from you, which are not among the cities of these 13 nations. But from the cities of the peoples which I give you as an inheritance you shall leave alive 14 nothing that breathes, for you shall devote them to destruction: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, 15 the Hivite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite and the Perizzite, as I have commanded you, so that 16 they do not teach you to do all the abominations that they have done for their gods.
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1 been worked, which [has not pulled in a yoke. And the elders of] that city [shall bring] the 2 heifer down to a wadi with a constant stream, which is not sown or tilled, and there they shall break the neck of the heifer. 3 And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for I have chosen them to serve before me and to bless in my name, 4 and by their word every dispute and every case of injury shall be decided. And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man 5 shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi, and they shall declare, “Our hands 6 did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see it. Grant atonement for your people Israel whom you have redeemed, 7 LORD, and do not lay innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.” And the blood shall be atoned for them. And you shall remove 8 the innocent blood from Israel, and you shall do what is right and good before the LORD your God. 10 When you go out to war against your enemies and I give them into your hand and you take them captive, 11 and among the captives you see a beautiful woman and desire her and take her for yourself as a wife, 12 you shall bring her into your house, and you shall shave her head and cut her nails, and you shall remove 13 the clothing of her captivity from her. And she shall remain in your house and mourn her father and her mother for a full 14 month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But she shall not touch your pure things until 15 seven years have passed, and she shall not eat of the peace offering until seven years have passed; after that she may eat.
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1 [the first sign of his strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.] 2 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or his mother, 3 and they discipline him and he will not listen to them, his father and his mother shall seize him and bring him out to 4 the elders of his city and to the gate … of his place. And they shall say to the elders of his city, “This son of ours is stubborn 5 and rebellious and does not obey us; he is a glutton and a drunkard.” And all the men of his city shall stone him 6 and he shall die, and you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all the children of Israel shall hear and be afraid. If 7 a man informs against his people and hands his people over to a foreign nation and does harm to his people, 8 you shall hang him on the tree, and he shall die. On the testimony of two witnesses and on the testimony of three witnesses 9 he shall be put to death, and they shall hang him on the tree. If a man has committed an offense that carries the death penalty and flees to 10 the midst of the nations and curses his people and the children of Israel, you shall hang him also on the tree, 11 and he shall die. And their bodies shall not remain on the tree overnight, but you shall bury them on that same day, for 12 those hanged on the tree are cursed by God and by men, and you shall not make unclean the land which I 13 give you as an inheritance. You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep or his donkey 14 straying and turn away from them; you shall bring them back to your brother. And if your brother does not live near 15 you and you do not know him, you shall take it into your house, and it shall stay with you until he comes looking for it.
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1 [You shall make tassels for yourself on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.] 2 If you come upon the [nest] of a bird by the road, in any tree or on the ground, 3 with chicks or eggs, and the mother sitting on the chicks or on the eggs, 4 you shall not take the mother along with the young. You shall let the mother go, and the young 5 you may take for yourself, so that it may go well with you and you may live long. When you build a new house, 6 you shall make a railing for its roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls 7 from it. If a man marries a wife and goes in to her and then dislikes her and makes shameful accusations against her 8 and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, and when I came near 9 her I did not find in her the evidence of virginity,” then the father of the young woman or her mother shall take and bring out 10 the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders at the gate. And the father of the young woman shall say 11 to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and now he dislikes her, and he has made 12 shameful accusations against her, saying, ‘I did not find in your daughter the evidence of virginity.’ But here is the evidence of the virginity of 13 my daughter.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of that city. And the elders of that city shall take 14 that man and discipline him, and they shall fine him a hundred pieces of silver 15 and give them to the father of the young woman, because he gave a bad name to a virgin of Israel. And not
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1 [they shall bring the two of them out to the gate of] that city […] 2 and stone them, and they shall be put to death: the young woman because she did not cry out 3 in the city, and the man because he violated the wife of his neighbor. And you shall remove 4 the evil from your midst. But if the man found the woman in the open country, in a place distant and hidden 5 from the city, and seized her and lay with her, then only the man who lay with her shall be put to death, 6 and you shall do nothing to the young woman; the young woman has committed no offense that carries death. For just as when 7 a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case. For he found her in the open country; she cried out, 8 the betrothed young woman, and there was no one to rescue her. If a man seduces a young woman 9 who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and she is permitted to him by the statute, and he lies with her 10 and is found out, then the man who lay with her shall give the father of the young woman fifty pieces of silver, and to him 11 she shall be a wife. Because he violated her, he may not send her away as long as he lives. A man shall not take 12 the wife of his father, and he shall not uncover the skirt of his father. A man shall not take the wife of 13 his brother, and he shall not uncover the skirt of his brother, the son of his father or the son of his mother, for this is impurity. 14 A man shall not take his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother; it is an abomination. A man shall not 15 take the sister of his father or the sister of his mother, for it is depravity. A man shall not 16 take 17 the daughter of his brother or the daughter of his sister, for it is an abomination. A man shall not take
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