Targum Onkelos Reader

1. In the first times the Lord created the heavens and the earth. 2. And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the abyss; and a wind from before the Lord blew upon the face of the waters. 3. And the Lord said, Let there be light; and there was light. 4.

And the Lord saw the light that it was good. And the Lord distinguished between the light and between the darkness. 5. And the Lord called the light the Day, and the darkness He called the Night. And there was evening, and there was morning, Day the First. 6.

And the Lord said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it distinguish between waters and waters. 7. And the Lord made the expanse, and distinguished between the waters which were under the expanse, and between the waters which were above the expanse: and it was so. 8. And the Lord called the expanse the Heavens. And it was evening, and it was morning, the Second Day. 9.

And the Lord said, The waters shall be collected under the heavens into one region, and the dry land shall appear. And it was so. 10. And the Lord called the dry land Earth, and the place of the collection of waters He called Sea. And the Lord saw that it was good. 11.

And the Lord said, The earth shall bring forth grass; the plant whose germ-seed is to be sown; the fruit-tree making fruit according to its kind, whose germ-seed is in it upon the earth; and it was so. 12. And the earth put forth grass; the herb, whose germ-seed is sown after its kind; and the tree making fruit, whose seed is in it after its kind. And the Lord saw that it was good. 13. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Third. 14.

And the Lord said, There shall be Lights in the expanse of heaven, to distinguish between the day and the night; and they shall be for signs and for times, for the numbering of days and years. 15. And they shall be for luminaries in the expanse of heaven to shine upon the earth; and it was so. 16. And the Lord made the two great luminaries: the greater luminary to rule in the day; and the smaller luminary to rule in the night, and the stars. 17.

And the Lord set them in the expanse of heaven to shine upon the earth, 18. and to rule in the day and in the night, and to distinguish between light and darkness. And the Lord saw that it was good. 19. And there was evening, and there was morning, Day the Fourth. 20. And the Lord said, Let the waters generate the moving creature (having) life; and the fowl which flieth over the earth on the face of the expanse of heaven. 21.

And the Lord created the great taninia and every living animal which moveth, which the waters generated according to their kind, and every fowl which flieth according to his kind; and the Lord saw that it was good. 22. And the Lord blessed them, saying, Spread abroad and become many, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the fowl become many on the earth. 23. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Fifth. 24.

And the Lord said, Let the earth produce the living animal after its kind, cattle, and reptile, and beast of the earth, according to its kind; and it was so. 25. And the Lord mad, the beast of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and every reptile of the earth after its kind; and the Lord saw that it was good. 26. And the Lord said, Let us make Man in Our image, as Our likeness; and shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every reptile which moveth upon the earth. 27.

And the Lord created the Adam in His image, in the image of the Lord He created him; male and female He created them. 28. And the Lord blessed them, and said to them, spread abroad, and become many, and fill the earth, and be strong upon it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29. And the Lord said, Behold, I have given to you every plant which seedeth green-seed which is upon all the earth; and every tree in which is the fruit of the tree which seedeth germ-seed; unto you it shall be for food, 30. and unto every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every reptile upon the earth in which is the breath of life, every green herb to eat; and it was so. 31.

And the Lord saw all that He had made, and, behold, it was very steadfast. And it was evening, and it was morning, Day the Sixth.

1. And the heavens and the earth and all their host were completed. 2. And the Lord finished in the Seventh Day His work which He had wrought, and rested in the Seventh Day from all His work which He had wrought. 3. And the Lord blessed the Seventh Day and made it holy, because in it He rested from all His work which the Lord had created to make. 4.

These are the memorials of the heavens and the earth, when they were created in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. 5. And all trees of the field were not yet in the earth, and every herb of the field had not yet sprung up, because the Lord God had not caused rain to come upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6. And a mist ascended from the earth, and moistened all the face of the ground. 7.

And the Lord God created Adam from dust of the ground, and breathed upon his face the breath of lives, and it became in Adam a Discoursing Spirit. 8. And the Lord God planted a garden in a region of pleasantness in the time of the beginning, and He made to dwell there the man whom He had created. 9. And the Lord God caused to grow from the earth every tree desirable to look upon, and good for food, and the Tree of Life (Lives) in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of whose fruit they who eat know between good and evil. 10.

And a river went forth from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was divided and became four heads of rivers (or four chief rivers). 11. The name of the first is Pishon, that which encompasseth all the land of Havilah, where is gold; 12. and the gold of that land is good; there is bedalcha and Burilla stones. 13. And the name of the second river is Gichon, which encompasseth all the land of Kush. 14.

And the name of the third river is Digelatlh, which goeth to the east of Athur. And the fourth river is Pherat. 15. And the Lord God took Adam and placed him in the garden of Eden to culture it and keep it. 16. And the Lord God commanded Adam, saying, Of every tree of the garden eating thou mayest eat; 17. but of the tree of whose fruit they who eat know between good and evil thou shalt not eat; for in the day that thou eatest of it dying thou shalt die. 18.

And the Lord God said, It is not right that Adam should be solitary; I will make for him a helper as for his sake (or, as suited to him: Heb., \it kenegdo\it*, as his counterpart). 19. And the Lord God created from the earth every beast of the field and every fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call him; and every (name by) which Adam called the living animal, that was its name. 20.

And Adam called the name of all cattle, and of the fowl of the heaven, and of every beast of the field; but to Adam was not found a helper as for him. 21. And the Lord God threw a sleep upon Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and filled with flesh in place thereof; 22. and the Lord God builded the rib which He took from Adam into Woman, and He brought her unto Adam. 23. And Adam said, This now (this time) is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because from her husband this was taken. 24.

Therefore shall a man forsake the couch (\it beth mishkeb\it*, the sleeping-house) of his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be of one flesh. 25. And they were both naked, Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

1. And the serpent (\it chivja\it*) was more crafty than all the animals of the field which the Lord God bad made. And he said to the woman, Is it in truth (that) the Lord said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2. And the woman said to the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; 3. but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, the Lord hath said, You shall not eat of it, nor approach to it, lest you die. 4.

And the serpent said to the woman. Not to die will you die: 5. for it is manifest before the Lord, that in the day in which you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be (\it ki-rabrebin\it*) as the Great-ones, knowing good and evil. 6. And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and that it was salutary to the eyes, and a tree desirable to contemplate; and she took of its fruitage (\it aiba\it*) and ate; and she gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7.

And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed for themselves the leaves of the fig tree, and made for themselves cinctures. 8. And they heard the voice of the Word of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening of the day; and Adam and his wife hid themselves from before the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9. And the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where art thou? 10.

And he said, The voice of Thy Word heard I in the garden, and I was afraid, because I (was) naked, and I would hide. 11. And He said, Who showed thee that thou wast naked? Of the tree of which I commanded that eating of it thou shouldst not eat, hast thou eaten? 12. And Adam said, The woman whom Thou gavest (to be) with me, she gave to me of the tree, and I did eat. 13.

And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent led me astray, and I did eat. 14. And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, more accursed art thou than all cattle, and than all the beasts of the held; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and the dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. 15. And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy son and her son.

He will remember thee, what thou didst to him (at) from the beginning, and thou shalt be observant unto him at the end. 16. And to the woman He said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy sorrows and thy pains. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and unto thy husband shall be thy desire, and lie. He shall rule over thee. 17.

And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast obeyed the word of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree (about) which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, accursed is the ground on thy account. With labour shalt thou eat from it all the days of thy life. 18. Thorns and thistles it shall put forth for thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until that thou return to the earth, because from it thou wast created; for dust thou art, and to dust thou wilt return. 20.

And Adam called the name of his wife Hava, because she was the mother of all the children of men. 21. And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife vestments of honor upon the skin of their flesh, and clothed them. 22. And the Lord God said, Behold, man is become singular (or alone, \it yechid\it*) in the world by himself, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat, and live forever. 23.

And the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he had been created. 24. And He drove out the man, and before the garden of Eden he caused to dwell the kerubaya, and the sharp sword which revolved to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

1. And Mosheh tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the \it rabba\it* of Midian, and he led the flock to the place of the best pastures of the wilderness, and came to the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, unto Horeb. 2. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in the midst of a bush. And he gazed, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3.

And Mosheh said, I will now turn and see this great sight, why the bush is not burned up. 4. And the Lord saw that he turned to see, and the Lord called to him from the midst of the bush, and said, Mosheh, Mosheh! And he said, Behold me. 5. And He said, Approach not hither; loose the sandal from thy foot, for the place where thou standest is holy. 6.

And He said, I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Jakob. And Mosheh bowed with his face; for he was afraid to look up to the glory of the Lord. 7. And the Lord said, The bondage of My people who is in Mizraim is verily disclosed before Me, and before Me is heard their cry on account of their toils; for their afflictions are disclosed before me; 8. And I have appeared to deliver them from the hand of the Mizraee, and to bring them up from that land, unto a land good and large, a land producing milk and honey, unto the place of the Kenaanaee, an the Hittaee, and the Amoraee, and the Perizaee, and the Hivaee, and the Yevusaee. 9.

And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel ascendeth before Me, and the affliction is also revealed before Me wherewith the Mizraee afflict them. 10. And now, come, I will send thee to Pharoh, and will bring forth the sons of Israel form Mizraim. 11. And Mosheh said before the Lord, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharoh to bring forth the sons of Israel from Mizraim? 12. And He said, Because My Word shall be thy helper: and this shall be the sign that I have sent thee: In thy leading forth of the people from Mizraim you shall do service before the Lord upon this mountain. 13.

And Mosheh said before the Lord, Behold, when I am come to the sons of Israel, and say to them, The God of your fathers hath sent me to you, and they say to me, What is His name? What shall I say to them? 14. And the Lord said unto Mosheh, EHEYEH ASHER EHEYEH. And he said, Thus shalt thou speak to the sons of Israel, EHEYEH hath sent me unto you. 15.

The Lord said moreover to Mosheh, Thus shalt thou speak to the sons of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Jakob, hath sent me unto you. This is My Name forever, and this is My Memorial in every generation and generation. 16. Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, hath revealed Himself to me, the God of Abraham, Izhak, and Jakob, saying, Remembering I have remembered you, and that which hath been done to you in Mizraim; 17.

And I have said that I would bring you up from the bondage of Mizraim to the land of the Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Emoraee, and the Pherizaee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee, to a land producing milk and honey. 18. And they will be obedient to thee, and thou shalt go, thou and the elders of Israel, to the king of Mizraim, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Jehudaee, hath called us; and now let us go, as (for) a journey of three days into the desert, that we may sacrifice before the Lord our God. 19.

But it is manifest before Me that the king of Mizraim will not release you, that you may go, not even on account of Him whose power is mighty. 20. But I will send forth the stroke of My power, and will smite the Mizraee with all My miracles which I will perform among them, and afterward they will send you away. 21. And I will give this people to become favourites in the eyes of the Mizraee, and it shall be that when you go you shall not go empty. 22.

But you shall demand, a woman of her neighbour and the inmates of her house, articles of silver and of gold and vestments, and put them upon you sons and upon your daughters, and shall make the Mizraee empty.

1. And Adam knew Hava his wife, and she conceived, and gave birth to Kain; and she said I have acquired the man from before the Lord. 2. And she added to give birth to his brother, Habel. And Habel was a shepherd of the flock, and Kain a man working on the ground. 3.

And it was at the end (or complement) of days, that Kain brought of the product of the earth an oblation before the Lord; 4. and Habel he brought also of the first-born of his sheep and of their fatlings. And there was acceptableness before the Lord in Habel and in his oblation; 5. but in Kain and his oblation there was not acceptableness. And it was greatly displeasing to Kain, and his countenance was downcast. 6.

And the Lord said to Kain, Why art thou displeased, and why is thy countenance downcast? 7. If thou doest thy work well, is it not remitted to thee? And if thou doest not thy work well, thy sin unto the day of judgment is reserved, when it will be exacted of thee, if thou convert not: but if thou convert, it is remitted to thee. 8. And Kain spake with Habel his brother; and it was in their being in the field that Kain arose against Habel his brother, and killed him. 9.

And the Lord said to Kain, Where is Habel thy brother? And he said, I know not; am I the keeper of my brother? 10. And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of the blood of generations which were to come from thy brother complaineth before Me, from the earth! 11.

And now, accursed art thou from the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother from thy hand. 12. When thou tillest the earth, it shall not add to give its virtue to thee; a castaway and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. 13. And Kain said before the Lord, Greater is my guilt than may be forgiven. 14. Behold, Thou hast rejected me this day from the face of the earth, and from Thy presence it is not possible to hide; and I shall be a castaway and a wanderer in the earth, and anyone who findeth me will slay me. 15.

And the Lord said to him, Therefore anyone who killeth Kain, unto seven generations it shall be exacted of him. And the Lord set unto Kain a sign, lest anyone who found him should kill him. 16. And Kain went out from before the Lord, and dwelt in the land of the wanderer and outcast, which was made for him in the beginnings in the Garden of Eden. 17. And Kain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Hanoch, and he became the builder of a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son Hanoch. 18.

And there was born to Hanoch Irad, and Irad begat Mahujael; and Mahujael begat Methu-sael, and Methusael begat Lemek. 19. And Lemek took unto him two wives, the name of the one Ada, and the name of the second Zillah. 20. And Ada bare Javal; he was the master (\it rab\it*) of all dwellers in tents and lords of cattle. 21. And the name of his brother was Juval.

He was the master of all who play upon the mouth of the pipe, who know the song of the harp and of the organ. 22. And Zillah also, she bare Tuval-kain, the master of all them who understand the working of brass and iron. And the sister of Tuval-kain was Naamah. 23. And Lemek said to his wives Ada and Zillah, Hear my voice, wives of Lemek, attend to my words: I have not slain a man, that on his account I should bear the condemnation of death; or destroyed a young man, that on his account my posterity should be consumed. 24.

If seven generations are suspended unto Kain, will there not be to Lemek his son seventy and seven? 25. And Adam knew yet his wife, and she bare a son, and called his name Sheth; Because, said she, the Lord hath given me another son instead of Habel, whom Kain slew. 26. And to Sheth also was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then in his days the sons of men desisted (or forbore) from praying in the name of the Lord.

1. And Mosheh answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me nor hearken to me: for they will say, The Lord hath no been revealed to thee. 2. And the Lord said to him, What is that which is in thy hand? And he said, A rod. 3.

And He said, Cast it to the ground; and he cast it upon the ground, and it became a serpent, and Mosheh fled from before it. 4. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Stretch forth thy hand and seize it by its tail; and he put forth his hand and grasped it, and it became a rod in his hand. 5. That they may believe that the Lord god of their fathers hath been revealed to thee, that God of Abraham, the God of Izhak, and the God of Jakob. 6.

And the Lord said yet to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom, and drew it out; and, behold, his hand was white as snow. 7. And He said, Return thy hand into thy bosom. And he returned his hand into his bosom, and drew it out form his bosom, and, behold, it had turned to be as his own flesh. 8.

And it shall be, if they will not believe thee nor receive the voice of the first sign, that they shall believe the voice of the latter sign. 9. But if they will not believe either of these two signs, nor receive from thee, take of the water that is in the river, and pour it upon the ground; and the water which thou takest form the river shall become blood upon the ground. 10. And Mosheh said before the Lord, In entreating, I am not a man who is (well) spoken, neither yesterday nor the day before, and from the time that thou spakest with Thy servant: for I am heavy of speech and of a deep tongue. 11.

But the Lord said to him, Who hath appointed the mouth of man, and who hath appointed the mute, or the deaf, or the open-sighted, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? 12. And now go, and My Word shall be with thy mouth, and I will teach thee what to say. 13. And he said, I beseech the Lord to send by the hand of one who is fit to be sent. 14.

And the displeasure of the Lord was kindled against Mosheh; and He said, Is not Aharon the Levite, thy brother, known before Me as one who speaking can speak? And also, behold, he cometh forth to anticipate thee, and will see thee, and rejoice in his heart. 15. And thou shalt speak with him, and put the words in his mouth; and My Word will be with thy mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what to do. 16.

And he shall speak for thee with the people, and shall be thy interpreter, and thou shalt be to him a \it rab\it*; 17. And this staff thou shalt take in thy hand wherewith to work the signs. 18. And Mosheh went, and returned to Jether his father-in-law, and said to him, I will now go and return to my brethren who are in Mizraim, and see if they still live. And Jether said to Mosheh, Go in peace. 19.

And the Lord said to Mosheh in Midian, Go, return to Mizraim; for all the men who sought to kill thee are dead. 20. And Mosheh took his wife and his sons, and made them ride upon the ass, and returned to the land of Mizraim. And Mosheh took the staff with which the miracles had been done before the Lord in his hand. 21. And the Lord said to Mosheh, In thy going to return to Mizraim look to all the wonders that I have appointed by thy hand, and do them before the Pharoh.

But I will obdurate his heart, and he will not send the people away. 22. And thou shalt say unto Pharoh, Thus said the Lord; Israel is My son, My firstborn. 23. And I say unto thee, Let My son go, that he may serve before Me; and if thou refuse to send him away, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. 24. And it was in the way, at the place of lodging, that the Angel of the Lord met him, and sought to kill him. 25.

And Zipporah took a stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and approached before him, and said, On account of the blood of this circumcision let my husband be given (back) to me. 26. And when he had desisted from him, she said, But for the blood of this circumcision my husband would have been condemned to die. 27. And the Lord said to Aharon, Go thou to meet Mosheh in the desert. And he went, and met him at the mountain on which was revealed the glory of the Lord, and he kissed him. 28.

And Mosheh showed Aharon all the words with which the Lord had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded. 29. And Mosheh and Aharon went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel; 30. And Aharon told all the words which the Lord had spoken with Mosheh, and did the signs in the eyes of the people. 31. And the people believed, and understood (heard) that the Lord had remembered the sons of Israel, and that heir slavery was manifest before him; and they bowed, and adored.

1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that the Lord God created man, in the resemblance of Elohim He made him; 2. Male and female He created them; and He blessed them, and called their name Man, in the day that they were created. 3.

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat in his resemblance (one) who was like to himself, and he called his name Sheth. 4. And the days of Adam after he had begotten Sheth were eight hundred years, and be begat sons and daughters. 5. And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. 6. And Sheth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enosh. 7.

And Sheth lived after he had begotton Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 8. And all the days of Sheth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 9. And Enosh lived ninety years, and begat Keinan. 10. And Enosh lived after he had begotten Keinan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 11.

And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died. 12. And Keinan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel. 13. And Keinan lived after he had begotten Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. 14. And all the days of Keinan were nine hundred and ten years, and be died. 15.

And Mahalalel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jered. 16. And Mahalalel lived after he had begotten Jered eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 17. And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died. 18. And Jered lived an hundred and sixty and two years, and begat Hanok. 19.

And Jered lived after he had begotten Hanok eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 20. And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died. 21. And Hanok lived sixty and five years, and begat Methushelach. 22. And Hanok walked in the fear of the Lord, after he had begotten Methushelach, three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 23.

And all the days of Hanok were three hundred and sixty and five years. 24. And Hanok walked in the fear of the Lord; and he was not; for the Lord had not made him to die. 25. And Methushelach lived an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begat Lemek. 26. And Methushelach lived after he had begotten Lemek seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters. 27.

And all the days of Methushelach were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died. 28. And Lemek lived a hundred and eighty and two years, and begat a son. 29. And he called his name Noach, saying, This shall console us from the works and from the labour of our hands from the earth which the Lord bath cursed. 30. And Lemek lived, after he had begotten Noach, five hundred and ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters. 31.

And all the days of Lemek were seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he died. 32. And Noach was a son of five hundred years, and Noach begat Shem, Cham, and Japheth.

1. And it was when the sons of men had begun to multiply upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2. that the sons of the mighty saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and took to them wives of all whom they pleased. 3. And the Lord said, This evil generation shall not stand before me forever, because they are flesh, and their works are evil. A term (or length) will I give them, an hundred and twenty years, if they may be converted. 4.

Giants were in the earth in those days; and also when, after that the sons of the mighty had gone in unto the daughters of men, there were born from them giants who from of old were men of name. 5. And the Lord saw that the wickedness of man had multiplied in the earth, and that every formation (or image) of the thought of his heart was only evil every day. 6. And it repented the Lord in His Word that He had made men upon the earth. 7.

And He said, (in His Word,) that He would break their strength according to His pleasure. And the Lord said, Man whom I have made will I blot out I from the face of the earth; from man to the beast, to the reptile, and to the fowls of heaven; because it repenteth Me in My Word that I have made them. 8. But Noach found mercy before the Lord. 9. These are the memorials of Noach.

Noach was a man righteous and perfect in his generation; in the fear of the Lord walked Noach. 10. And Noach begat three sons, Shem, Cham, and Yapeth. 11. And the earth was corrupted before the Lord, and the earth was filled with violences. 12. And the Lord saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted, each one, his way upon the earth. 13.

And the Lord said to Noach, The end of all flesh cometh before Me, because the earth is filled with violences from the face of their wicked works; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14. Make thee an ark with the wood of cedar; dwellings shalt thou make in the ark, and overlay it within and without with pitch. 15. And thus shalt thou make it: three hundred cubits shall be the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height. 16.

A light shalt thou make to the ark, and at a cubit shalt thou complete it above, and the door of the ark thou shalt place in its side. Lower dwellings, second and third, shalt thou make in it. 17. And I, behold, I do bring the deluge of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens. Everything that is on the earth shall die. 18.

And I will establish My covenant with thee; and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee. 19. And of all that liveth of all flesh two and two of all that enter into the ark to abide with thee, male and female shall they be. 20. Of fowl according to its kind, and of cattle according to her kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of all shall enter with thee to abide. 21.

And thou, take with thee of all food which is eaten, and gather to be with thee; and it shall be for thee and for them to eat. 22. And Noach did according to all which the Lord had commanded him, so did he.

1. And this is the commandment, (these are) the statutes and the judgments, which the Lord your God hath commanded (me) to teach you to perform in the land to which you go over to possess it, 2. That thou mayest fear before the Lord thy God, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command thee; thou, thy sons, and thy sons’ son, all the days of thy life, that thy days may be prolonged. 3.

And thou, Israel, shalt receive, and keep, and perform, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest increase greatly, as the Lord God of thy fathers bath said to thee, (in) the land which produceth milk and honey. 4. HEAR, ISRAEL; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD: 5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy substance. 6. And these words that command thee this day shall be upon thy heart. 7.

And thou shalt deliver them to thy children, and talk of them when thou art sitting in thy house, and when thou goest in the way, and in thy lying down, and thy rising up. 8. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for tephillin between thine eyes; 9. And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts, and affix them to the lintels of thy house, and upon thy gates. 10. And it shall be, when the Lord thy God will have brought thee into the land which He covenanted to thy fathers, to Abraham, Izhak, and Jakob, to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not, 11.

And houses full of goods that thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive trees which thou didst not plant, and thou have eaten and be full; 12. Beware, lest thou forget the fear of the Lord who brought thee out from the land of Mizraim, from the house of bondage. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve before Him, and swear by His Name. 14. You shall not go after the idols of the Gentiles, the idols of the peoples who surround you 15. (for the Lord thy God is a jealous God, His Shekinah dwelleth in the midst of thee,) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and He destroy thee from off the face of the earth. 16.

You shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted Him in the temptation: 17. Keeping you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, His testimonies, and His statutes He hath commanded thee, 18. and do what is right and well ordered before the Lord, that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest enter ill and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers 19. to break all thy enemies before thee, as He hath said. 20.

When thy son shall ask thee in time to come, (mehar, tomorrow,) saying, What are the testimonies, statutes, and judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? 21. Then thou shalt say, We were servants to Pharoh in Mizraim; and the Lord brought us out of Mizraim with a mighty hand, 22. and put forth miracles great and sore upon Pharoh, and all the men of his house, before our eyes; 23. And He brought us out from thence, to bring us in, to give us the land which He sware to our fathers. 24.

And the Lord commanded us to perform all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, that all days it may be well with us, (and) that He may preserve us alive as at this day. 25. And it shall be our righteousness to observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He hath commanded us.

1. And the Lord said to Noach, Enter thou and all the men of thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation. 2. Of all clean animals take thou seven and seven, male and female; and of animals not clean, two and two, male and female. 3. Also of the fowls of heaven, seven and seven, male and female, to continue the seed upon the face of all the earth. 4. Because yet a time of seven days and I will cause rain to descend upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every subsistence which I have made upon all the face of the earth. 5. And Noach did according to all that the Lord had instructed him. 6. And Noach was a son of six hundred years; and the deluge of waters was upon the earth. 7. And Noach entered, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, into the ark from before the water of the deluge. 8. Of animals clean, and of animals not clean, and of birds, and of all which creepeth upon the earth, 9. two and two, they entered with Noach into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had instructed Noach. 10. And it was at the time of seven days, and the waters of the deluge were upon the earth. 11. In the six-hundredth year of the life of Noach, in the second month, in the seven-teenth day of the month, in that day were all the springs of the great abyss upbroken, and the windows of heaven opened, 12. and the rain came down upon the earth forty days and forty nights. 13. In that very day entered Noach, and Shem, Cham, and Yapheth, sons of Noach, and the wife of Noach, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14. They, and every animal after his kind, and all cattle after its kind, and every, reptile which creepeth upon the earth after its kind, and every fowl after its kind, every bird, everyone that flieth: 15. And they entered with Noach into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life; 16. And they, entering, male and female of all flesh, entered, as the Lord had commanded him, and the Lord protected them by His Word. 17. And there was a deluge forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and took up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth. 18. And the waters prevailed and increased mightily upon the earth, and the ark went upon the faces of the waters. 19. And the waters prevailed most mightily over the earth, and all the high hills were covered which were under all the heavens. 20. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail, and the mountains were covered; 21. And all flesh died which moved upon the earth, of fowl, and of cattle, and of the wild beast, and of every reptile which creepeth upon the earth, and every man. 22. Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of the Spirit of life, of all which was upon the dry ground, died. 23. And every subsistence was blotted out that was upon the faces of the earth, from man to the beast, to the reptile, and to the fowl of heaven, it was blotted out from the earth, and Noach was left alone, and they who were with him in the ark. 24. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.

1. And the Lord remembered Noach, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark; and the Lord caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters rested, 2. and the springs of the abyss were shut, and the windows of the heavens, and the rain from the heavens was restrained, and the waters turned from on the earth, going and returning; 3. And the waters diminished from the end of a hundred and fifty days. 4. And the ark rested on the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Kardu. 5. And the waters went and diminished until the tenth month: in the tenth, on the first of the mouth, the heads of the mountains appeared. 6. And it was at the end of forty days, and Noach opened the windows of the ark which he had made. 7. And he sent forth a raven, and going he went out, and returned until the waters were dried upon the earth. 8. And he sent forth a dove from (being) with him, to see whether the waters were lightened (or consumed) from the surface of the earth. 9. But the dove found no rest for the dividing of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, because the waters were upon all the earth; and he stretched forth his hand, and took her, and brought her to be with him in the ark. 10. And he prolonged yet seven days, and afterward added to send forth the dove from the ark. 11. And the dove came to him at the time of evening, and, behold, a leaf of olive broken off was in her mouth; and Noach knew that the waters were lightened from upon the earth. 12. And he prolonged yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove, and she added not to return to be with him again. 13. And it was in the six-hundredth and first year, in the beginning of the first month, the waters were dried from off the earth; and Noach removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the faces of the ground were dry. 14. And in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, the earth was fully dry. 15. And the Lord spake with Noach, saying: 16. Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee. 17. Every living thing which is with thee of all flesh, of fowl, and of cattle, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, bring forth with thee, and they shall generate in the earth, and spread abroad and multiply upon the earth. 18. And Noach went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him; 19. Every animal, every reptile and bird, everything which moveth upon the earth after their kind, went forth from the ark. 20. And Noach builded an altar before the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and uplifted an offering upon the altar. 21. And the Lord received with approval his oblation; and the Lord said in His Word, I will not add to curse again the earth on account of the guilt of man, because the creations of the heart of man are evil from his infancy; and I will not add again to smite every living thing as I have done. 22. Yet all the days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

1. And the Lord blessed Noach and his sons, and said to them, Spread abroad, and multiply, and fill the earth. 2. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heavens, in all which creepeth upon the earth, and in all fish of the sea; into your hands shall they be delivered. 3. Every moving thing that liveth, for you it shall be to eat; as the green herb I have given you the whole. 4.

But the flesh with its life-blood you shall not eat. 5. And also your blood of your lives will I require, from every beast will I require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of the man who sheddeth the blood of his brother will I require the life of man. 6. Whoso sheddeth the blood of man, by witnesses, upon the sentence of the judges, his blood shall be shed; because in the image of the Lord made He man. 7.

And you, spread abroad and multiply; bring forth in the earth and multiply therein. 8. And the Lord spake to Noach, and to his sons with him, saying, 9. and I, behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your children after you, 10. and with every living thing which is with you, of fowl, of cattle, and of every beast of the field that is with you, of all going forth from the ark of every animal of the earth. 11.

And I will establish My covenant with you, and all flesh shall not again be consumed by the waters of a deluge, nor shall there be again a deluge to destroy the earth. 12. And the Lord said, This is the sign of the covenant which I appoint (give) between My Word, and between you, and between every living soul that is with you unto perpetual generations. 13. I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between My Word and between the earth. 14.

And it shall be that when clouding I becloud the earth, the bow shall be seen in the cloud, 15. and I will remember the covenant which is between My Word, and between You, and between every living soul of all flesh; and there shall not be again the waters of a deluge to destroy all flesh. 16. And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between the Word of the Lord and between every living soul of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17.

And the Lord said, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between My Word and between all flesh which is upon the earth. 18. And the sons of Noach who went forth from the ark were Shem and Cham and Yapheth: and Cham is the father of Kenaan. 19. These three are the sons of Noach and from them was the whole earth Overspread. 20. And Noach began to be a man working on the earth; and he planted a vineyard, 21. and he drank of the wine, and was drunk; and he was uncovered in the midst of his tent. 22.

And Cham the father of Kenaan saw the nakedness of his father, and he showed to his two brethren without. 23. And Shem and Yapheth took a mantle, and laid it upon the shoulders of both, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were averted, and the nakedness of their father they saw not. 24. And Noach awoke from his wine, and knew that which his youngest son had done unto him; 25. and he said; Accursed be Kenaan, A working servant shall he be to his brethren. 26.

And he said: Blessed be the Lord the God of Shem, And Kenaan shall be servant unto them. 27. The Lord shall enlarge Yapheth, And He shall make his Shekinah to dwell in the tabernacles of Shem: And Kenaan shall be servant unto them. 28. And Noach lived after the deluge three hundred and fifty years. 29. And all the days of Noach were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

1. And all the earth was of one language and one speech. 2. And it was in their migrations at the beginning, that they found a plain in the land of Babel; and dwelt there. 3. And they said, a man to his companion, Come, let us cast bricks and bake them in the fire.

And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4. And they said, Come, let us build a city, and a tower, the bead of it coming to the pinnacle of the heavens. And we will make to us a name, lest we be dispersed upon the face of all the earth. 5. And the Lord was revealed to punish the work of the city and the tower which the sons of men had builded. 6.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people are one and the language one with all of them: and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be restrained from them of what they imagine to do. 7. Come, We will be manifest, and will confuse their language there, that a man shall not bear the language of his companion. 8. And the Lord dispersed them from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they were restrained from building the city. 9.

Therefore the name of it is called Confusion, because the Lord there confused the tongue of all the earth, and from thence the Lord dispersed them upon the face of all the earth. 10. These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a son of a hundred years, and he begat Arphaxad, two years after the deluge. 11. And Shem lived after he had begotten Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 12.

And Arphaxad lived thirty and five years, and begat Shelach. 13. And Arphaxad lived after he had begotten Shelach four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 14. And Shelach lived thirty years, and begat Eber. 15. And Shelach lived after he had begotten Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. 16.

And Eber lived thirty and four years, and begat Peleg. 17. And Eber lived after he had begotten Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. 18. And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu. 19. And Peleg lived after he had begotten Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. 20.

And Reu lived thirty and two years, and begat Serug. 21. And Reu lived after he had begotten Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. 22. And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nachor. 23. And Serug lived after he had begotten Nachor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 24.

And Nachor lived twenty and nine years, and begat Terach. 25. And Nachor lived after he had begotten Terach a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. 26. And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran. 27. And these are the generations of Terach.

Terach begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 28. And Haran died before Terach his father in the land of his nativity, in Ura of the Kasdaee. 29. And Abram and Nachor took to them wives: the name of the wife of Abram, Sara; and the name of the wife of Nachor, Milcha, daughter of Haran the father of Milcha and the father of Yiska. 30. And Sara was barren, she had no child. 31.

And Terach took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and went forth with them from Ura of the Kasdaee to go to the land of Kenaan. And they came to Charan, and dwelt there. 32. And the days of Terach were two hundred and five years, and Terach died in Charan.

1. And the Lord spake to Mosheh and Aharon in the land of Mizraim, saying, 2. This month shall be to you the beginning of the months; the first, it shall be to you, of the months of the year. 3. Speak with all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb for the house of a father, a lamb for the house. 4.

And if the house be smaller than the numbering (required) for the lamb, let him take himself, and his neighbour who is nearest to his house, according to the number of the souls, every man according to the mouth of his eating shall you count over the lamb. 5. The lamb shall be perfect, a male, the son of a year; it shall be to you; from the sheep or from the goats you may take it. 6. And you shall have it in keeping till the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole church (\it kehala\it*) of the congregation of Israel shall kill him between the suns. 7.

And they shall take of the blood, and apply it upon the two posts and upon the lintel of the houses in which they eat him. 8. And they shall eat the flesh in that night roasted with fire, and (with) unleavened cake with bitters you shall eat him. 9. You shall not eat of it while living, neither boiled with boiling in water, but roasted with fire; his head with his feet and his inwards. 10. And you shall not leave of it till the morning; and that which remains of it till morning you shall burn in the fire. 11.

And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, with your sandals on your feet, and your staves in your hands, and you shall eat it in haste; it is the Pascha before the Lord. 12. And I will appear in the land of Mizraim in that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land from man unto beast, and on all the idols of Mizraim I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. 13. And the blood shall be for you a sign upon the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and will have mercy upon you, and there shall not be among you the destruction of death when I slay in the land of Mizraim. 14.

And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall solemnize it a festival before the Lord in your generations; an everlasting ordinance (covenant) shall you solemnize it. 15. [no translation\f + \fr 12:15 \ft Etheridge, p. 370.\f*] 16. And on the first day there shall be an holy congregation, and on the seventh day an holy congregation shall there be to you. Every kind of work may not be done in them; save what pertains to the eating of every soul, that only may be done by you. 17.

And you shall keep the (feast of the) Unleavened; for on this very day shall I have brought your hosts out of the land of Mizraim, and you shall keep this day to all your generations forever. 18. In Nisan, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening you shall eat unleavened, until the twenty and first of the mouth in the evening. 19. Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; for whosoever will eat of that which is leavened, that man shall perish from the congregation of Israel, of the stranger, or of the native of the land. 20.

You shall eat no leavened (food), in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened. 21. And Mosheh called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out, and take to you from the sons of the flock for your families, and kill the pascha. 22. And you shall take a bundle of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and sprinkle upon the lintel and the two posts from the blood which is in the basin; and you shall not go forth from the door of your house until the morning. 23.

For the Lord will be revealed to smite the Mizraee; and seeing the blood upon the lintel and upon the two posts, the Lord will be merciful upon the door, and will not suffer the Destroyer (or destruction) to enter your houses to smite. 24. And you shall observe the thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. 25. And it shall be, when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you as He hath said, that you shall (still) keep this service. 26.

And it shall be, when your children say to you, What is this service to you? 27. You shall say, It is a sacrifice for compassion before the Lord, because He had compassion on the house of the sons of Israel in Mizraim, when He smote the Mizraee, but spared our houses. And the people bowed and worshipped. 28. And the sons of Israel went and did as the Lord had commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they. 29.

And it came to pass at the dividing of the night that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Mizraim; from the firstborn of Pharoh who should sit on the throne of his kingdom unto the firstborn of the captive in the house of the chained, and all the firstborn of cattle. 30. And Pharoh rose up in that night, and all his servants and all the Mizraee; and there was a great cry in Mizraim, because there was no house in which there was not the dead. 31.

And he cried to Mosheh and to Aharon by night, and said, Arise, go out from among my people, you and the sons of Israel, and go and serve before the Lord, as you have said. 32. Your flocks and your herds take also, as you have spoken, and go, and pray also for me. 33. And the Mizraee were forcible on the people to hasten to send them away; for they said, All of us are dead. 34. And the people took their dough while not leavened, remaining in the kneading pans, bound with their clothes upon their shoulders. 35.

And the children of Israel did according to the word of Mosheh, and demanded of the Mizraee vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment. 36. And the Lord gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mizraee, and they demanded of them, and left the Mizraee empty. 37. And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramases to Succoth; about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children (or families); 38.

And a multitude of strangers also went up with them, and flocks and herds and very much cattle. 39. And they baked the dough which they had brought out from Mizraim (into) unleavened cakes; for it had not been leavened, because they had been driven out from Mizraim and could not stay, and they had not made provision. 40. And the dwelling of the sons of Israel in their abode in Mizraim (was) four hundred and thirty years. 41.

And it was at the end of four hundred and thirty years, in that same day, that all the hosts of the Lord went forth from the land of Mizraim. 42. It is a night to be kept before the Lord for bringing them forth from the land of Mizraim: this is that night before the Lord kept by all the children of Israel in their generations. 43. And the Lord said to Mosheh and to Aharon, This is the rite of the Pascha.

Every son of Israel who apostatizes shall not eat of it; 44. But every male servant bought with silver, and thou hast circumcised him, may eat thereof. 45. A sojourner and a hireling shall not eat thereof. 46. In one company it shall be eaten.

You shall not carry any of the flesh from the house without, and a bone shall not be broken in him. 47. All the congregation of Israel shall do this. 48. And when the sojourner who sojourneth with thee will perform the pascha before the Lord, every male of his shall be circumcised, and he may then approach and perform it; he shall be as one born in the land, but none uncircumcised shall eat of it. 49.

One law shall there be for the native and for the proselyte who sojourneth among you. 50. And all the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so did they. 51. And it was on the same day that the Lord led forth the sons of Israel from the land of Mizraim by their armies.

1. And the Lord spake to Mosheh, saying, 2. Speak with the sons of Israel that they return and encamp before Pum-Hiratha, between Migdol and the sea, before Beel Zephon: you shall encamp before it by the sea. 3. And Pharoh will say of the children of Israel, They are bewildered in the land, the desert hath got hold of them: 4.

And I will harden Pharoh’s heart, and he will pursue them; and I will be glorified in Pharoh and in all his host; and the Mizraee shall know that I am the Lord. And they did so. 5. And it was seen by the king of Mizraim that the people had gone. And the heart of Pharoh and of his servants was turned to the people; and they said, What is this that we have done, that we have sent Israel away from serving us? 6.

And he set his chariot in order, and took his people with him. 7. He took also six hundred select chariots, and all the chariots of the Mizraee, and appointed strong men over them. 8. And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharoh king of Mizraim, and he pursued after the children of Israel. But the children of Israel went forth with uncovered head. 9.

And the Mizraee followed after them, and overtook them while encamping by the sea; all the chariot horses of Pharoh, and his horsemen, and his army, by Pum-Hiratha which is before Beel Zephon. 10. And Pharoh drew nigh, and the sons of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Mizraee were coming after them: and they were greatly afraid, and the children of Israel cried before the Lord. 11. But to Mosheh they said, Was it because there were no graves in Mizraim that thou hast taken us to die in the wilderness?

What is this that thou hast done to bring us out of Mizraim? 12. Was not this the word which we spake with thee in Mizraim, saying, Let us alone, and we will serve the Mizraee? For better would it have been for us to serve the Mizraee, than to die in the wilderness. 13. And Mosheh said to the people, Fear not, stand still (or, be ready) and see the Lord’s deliverance which He will work for you this day; for as you have seen the Mizraee this day, you will see them no more forever: 14.

The Lord will fight for you the fight, and you shall be quiet. 15. And the Lord said to Mosheh, I have heard thy prayer. Speak to the children of Israel that they go onward: 16. And thou, take thy rod and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it, and the children of Israel shall go in the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17.

And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Mizraee, and they will go in after them; and I will be glorified by Pharoh and by all his army, by his chariots and his horsemen; 18. And the Mizraee shall know that I am the Lord, when I have been glorified by Pharoh and his chariots and his horsemen. 19. And the angel of the Lord who went before the camp of Israel passed by and came behind them; and the column of the cloud passed from before them and abode behind them. 20.

And it entered between the camp of the Mizraee and the camp of Israel; and was a cloud and darkness to the Mizraee, but unto Israel a light all the night: and that came not near to this all the night. 21. And Mosheh stretched forth his hand over the sea; and the Lord drave the sea by a mighty east wind all the night, and caused the sea to be dry, and the waters were disparted; 22. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon dry ground; and the waters were to them a wall on their right hand and on their left. 23.

And the Mizraee followed and entered in after them, all the horses of Pharoh, and his chariots and horsemen, into the midst of the sea. 24. And it was in the morning watch that the Lord looked upon the host of the Mizraee from the column of fire and cloud, and perturbed the host of the Mizraee. 25. And he removed the wheels of the chariots, so that they drave them by strength; and the Mizraee said, Let us flee from before Israel; for this is the power of the Lord which hath done battle for them against Mizraim. 26.

And the Lord said to Mosheh, Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and the waters shall return upon the Mizraee, upon their chariots and their horsemen. 27. And Mosheh stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned, at the time of the morning, unto its strength; and the Mizraee fled before it; and the Lord drowned the Mizraee in the midst of the sea. 28. And the waters returned and covered the chariots and horsemen and all the host of Pharoh who had gone after them into the sea, and there remained of them not one. 29.

But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. 30. And the Lord delivered Israel that day from the Mizraee, and Israel saw the Mizraee dead upon the shore of the sea. 31. And Israel saw the Power of the Great Hand which the Lord had made (to appear) in Mizraim; and the people feared before the Lord, and believed in the Word of the Lord, and in the prophetic (work) of Mosheh His servant.

1. After these things the word (\it pithgama\it*) of the Lord came to Abram in prophecy, saying, Fear not, Abram: My Word (\it Memra\it*) shall be thy strength, and thy exceeding great reward. 2. And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt Thou give me, and I go without a child: and this son of business (bar phargama) who is in My house is the Damasekah Elieser? 3. And Abram said, Behold, Thou hast not given me a child, and, behold, the son of my house is my heir. 4.

And, lo, the word (\it pithgama\it*) of the Lord was with him, saying, This shall not be thy heir, but a son whom thou shalt beget will be thine heir. 5. And He led him without, and said, Behold now the heavens, and number the stars, if thou art able to number them; and He said to him, So will be thy sons. 6. And he believed in the Word of the Lord, (\it Memra da Yeya\it*,) and He reckoned it to him unto justification. 7.

And He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought thee forth from Ura of the Kasdaee, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8. And he said, Lord God, by what may I know that I shall inherit it? 9. And He said to him, Bring Me three calves, and three goats, and three rams, and a turtle dove, and the young of a pigeon. 10. And he brought before Him all these.

And be divided them equally, and set the divisions a division against his fellow; but the birds he did not divide. 11. And the fowl descended upon the divisions, and Abram drave them away. 12. And it was sunset, and sleep fell upon Abram: and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13. And He said unto Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy sons will be sojourners (or aliens) in a land not theirs, and they will serve among them; and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14.

And the people whom they will serve I will judge, and go forth with much substance. 15. And thou shalt be gathered to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in good old age. 16. And in the fourth age (or generation) they will return hither; because not (yet) complete is the guilt of the Amoraah. 17. And it was at the going away of the sun, and there was darkness.

And behold a furnace that burned, and a flame of fire which passed between those divisions. 18. In that day the Lord compacted with Abram a covenant, saying, To thy sons will I give this land; from the river of Mizraim unto the great river, the river of Pherat, the Shalmaee, 19. and the Kenizaee, and the Kadmonaee, 20. and the Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, and the Gibbaraee, 21. and the Amoraee, and the Kenaanaee, and the Girgashaee, and the Yebusaee.

1. Then sang Mosheh and the children of Israel this hymn before the Lord; and they spake, saying, We will sing and give thanks before the Lord, because He is magnified upon the mighty, and the power is His own; the horse and his rider hath He cast into the sea. 2. My strength and my song is the terrible Lord; He hath said by His Word that He will be mine to redeem This is my God, and I will build Him a sanctuary; the God of my fathers, and I will worship before Him. 3.

The Lord is the Lord of Victory in battles, the Lord is His Name. 4. The chariots of Pharoh and his horses He hath cast into the sea, his chosen warriors are drowned in the sea of Suph. 5. The depths covered them over, they went down to the bottom as a stone. 6. Thy right hand, O Lord, is illustrious in power; Thy right hand, O Lord, shattereth the adversary; 7.

And in the greatness of Thy might Thou hast broken down them who arose against Thy people. Thou didst send forth Thy wrath, and it consumed them as stubble in the flame, 8. and by the word of Thy mouth the waters, (as if) wise, stood up like a wall; the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea. 9. The adversary said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, and my hand shall destroy them. 10.

Thou didst speak by Thy Word, the sea covered them over, they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 11. There is none beside Thee, 0 God, (who art) glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. 12. Thou didst uplift Thy right hand, the earth swallowed them up. 13. Thou hast led forth in goodness Thy people whom Thou hast redeemed; Thou wilt bring them by Thy strength to the dwelling of Thy holiness. 14.

The nations will hear it, and be moved; terror will seize on the inhabiters of Pelasheth; 15. Then will the princes of Edom be alarmed, the strong ones of Moab will be seized with trembling and they who dwell in Kenaan will be broken down. 16. Fear and dread will fall upon them, by the greatness of Thy power they will be silent as a stone, until Thy people, O Lord, pass over Arnona, until Thy people whom Thou hast redeemed pass over Jardena. 17.

Thou wilt bring them in, and cause them to dwell in the mountain of Thine inheritance, in the place which Thou hast ordained for the house of Thy Shekina, the sanctuary which Thy hands, O Lord, have prepared. 18. The kingdom of the Lord endureth forever, and forever, evermore! 19. Because, when the horses of Pharoh with his chariots and his horsemen had entered into the sea, the Lord caused the waters of the sea to return upon them, and the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea. 20.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aharon, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and choruses. 21. And Miriam answered them: Sing and give thanks before the Lord, for He hath magnified Himself upon the proud: and the majesty belongeth (only) unto Him; the horse and his rider hath He cast into the sea. 22. And Mosheh caused Israel to remove from the sea of Suph, and they went forth into the desert of Chagra, and went three days in the desert, but found no water. 23.

And they came to Marah, and could not drink the waters of Marah because they were bitter; therefore he called the name of it Marah. 24. And the people were fretful against Mosheh, saying, What shall we drink? 25. And he prayed before the Lord; and the Lord instructed him (in the properties of) a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There decreed He a statute, and a judgment, and there He tried him. 26.

And He said, If hearkening thou wilt hearken unto the Word of the Lord thy God, and wilt do what is right in His eyes, and wilt listen to His precepts and keep all His statutes, none of the maladies which I have set upon Mizraim will I put upon thee; for I am the Lord thy Healer. 27. And they came to Elim, and there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there before the waters.

1. And the Lord was revealed to him in the Vale of Mamre; and he sat in the door of the tent while the day was hot. 2. And lie lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, three men stood towards him; and he saw, and ran from the door of the tent to meet them, and worshipped upon the earth. 3. And he said, Lord, if now I have found favour in Thine eyes, pass not, I pray, from Thy servant. 4.

Accept now a little water, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree, 5. and take a mouthful of bread, and strengthen your hearts, afterward you shall pass on; because for this you have come over unto your servant. And He said, So do as thou hast spoken. 6. And Abraham hastened to the tent to Sarah, and said, Make haste with three seyin of the flour of meal, mix and make cakes. 7. And to the herd ran Abraham, and took a calf, tender and good, and gave to a young man, and he hastened to dress him. 8.

And he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had prepared, and set before them, and he waited upon them under the tree, and they ate. 9. And He said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 10. And He said, Returning I will return to thee, according to the time that you shall revive, and, behold, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

And Sarah heard in the door of the tent, and it was behind Him. 11. And Abraham and Sarah were old and advanced in days, and with Sarah had ceased to be the way of women. 12. And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After that I am old shall I have a child, and my lord (being also) old? 13. And the Lord said to Abraham, Wherefore laughed Sarah, saying, Can it be in truth that I shall bring forth, and I being old? 14.

What word is hidden from before the Lord? At the time I will return to thee, according to the time that you shall revive, and Sarah shall have a son. 15. And Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not: for she was afraid. And He said, No, but thou didst laugh. 16.

And the men arose thence, and looked towards the face of Sedom; and Abraham went with them to accompany them. 17. And the Lord said, Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am doing? 18. And Abraham shall be indeed a people many and strong, and in him shall all the peoples of the earth be blessed; 19. because it is manifest before me that he will instruct his children, and the men of his house after him, to keep the ways which are right before the Lord, to do righteousness and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him. 20.

And the Lord said, The cry of Sedom and Amorah (is heard before Me) because it is great, and the guilt of them is very mighty: 21. I will now see, and will judge, whether they do according to the report of them which hath ascended before me. I will deal with them thoroughly unless they convert; but if they convert, I will not punish. 22. And the men turned away from thence, and went toward Sedom. 23.

And Abraham yet ministered in prayer before the Lord. And Abraham approached, and said, Wilt Thou, in anger, destroy the righteous with the guilty? 24. If perhaps there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt Thou in anger destroy and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous who are within it? 25. More true are Thy judgments than that Thou shouldst do a thing like that, to destroy the just with the guilty, and that the just should be as the guilty!

Thy judgments are true! Can the Judge of all the earth but do justice? 26. And the Lord said, If I find in Sedom fifty righteous in the midst of the city, I will spare all the place for their sake. 27. And Abraham answered and said, Behold, I have done a great thing, to speak before the Lord, and I dust and ashes! 28.

Perhaps of the fifty righteous there may be wanting five: shall all the city perish through five? And He said, I will not destroy, if I find there forty and five. 29. And he added yet to speak before Him, and said, Perhaps forty may be found there. And He said, I will not make the end on account of the forty. 30.

And he said, Let not the anger of the Lord now kindle, and I will speak. Perhaps thirty shall be found there. And He said, I will not make the end if I find there thirty. 31. And he said, Behold, I have done a great thing to speak before the Lord: perhaps twenty shall be found there.

And He said, I will not destroy for the sake of twenty. 32. And he said, Let not now the anger of the Lord kindle, and I will speak only this time: perhaps ten may be found there. And He said, I will not destroy for the sake of the ten! 33. And the Glory of the Lord ascended when He had ceased to speak with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

1. For the priests and Levites, (even) all the tribe of Levi, there shall be no part or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the oblations of the Lord and his inheritance, 2. but have no heritage among their brethren, the gifts presented unto the Lord they are his heritage, as the Lord hath said to him. 3. And this is what shall appertain to the priests from the people, from them who offer a sacrifice, whether bullock or lamb; they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the maw. 4.

The first of thy corn, wine, and oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, thou shalt set apart for him. 5. For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the Name of the Lord, he, and his sons, all the days. 6. And if a Levite come from one of thy cities out of all Israel, where he hath dwelt, and come with all the desire of his soul, to the place which the Lord will choose, 7. then he shall minister in the Name of the Lord his God with his brethren the Levites who minister there before the Lord. 8.

Portion for portion shall they eat, beside the accustomed allotment which cometh on the Sabbath, as the fathers have appointed. 9. When thou hast entered into the land which the Lord thy God will give thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of these peoples: 10. No one shall be found among thee who maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, using enchantments, observing times or augury or witchcraft, 11.

Nor an incantator, or a consulter at a heathen oracle, or a wizard, or an inquirer from the dead: 12. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord; and because of these abominations the Lord thy God driveth them out from before thee. 13. Thou shalt be perfect in the fear of the Lord thy God. 14. For these nations which thou shalt possess hearkened to diviners and enchanters; not so hath the Lord given thee to do. 15.

A PROPHET from among thee, of thy brethren, like me, will the Lord thy God raise up unto thee, to him shall ye hearken. 16. According to all that thou didst ask before the Lord thy God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying: Let me not again hear the voice of the Word of the Lord my God, and let me not see the great fire any more, lest I die. 17. And the Lord said to me, That which they have spoken is right: 18.

I will raise up to them a Prophet from among them like unto thee, and I will put My words of prophecy upon his lips, and he will speak to them all that I shall command him. 19. And the man who will not hearken to My words which he will speak in My Name, My Word will require it of him. 20. But a prophet who shall do wickedly in speaking in My Name a word which I had not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of the gods of the Gentiles, that prophet shall die. 21.

And if thou say in thy heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken? 22. When a prophet speaketh in the Name of the Lord, if the word come not to pass, neither be confirmed, that is a word which the Lord hath not spoken: of the prophet who hath spoken in wickedness thou shalt not be afraid.

1. In the third month of the outgoing of the sons of Israel from the land of Mizraim, on that day came they to the desert of Sinai. 2. And they journeyed from Rephidim, and came to the desert of Sinai, and dwelt there by the side of the mountain. 3. And Mosheh ascended before the Lord.

And the Lord called to him from the mount, saying, As thus thou shalt speak to the house of Jakob, and show to the sons of Israel: 4. You have seen what I did to the Mizraee, and how I bare you as on eagles’ wings, and brought you nigh to serve Me: 5. And now, if hearkening you will hearken to My Word, and will keep My covenant, you, before Me, shall be more beloved than all peoples; for all the earth is Mine. 6.

And you, before Me, shall be kings (and) priests, a holy people. These are the words which thou shalt speak with the sons of Israel. 7. And Mosheh came, and called the elders of the people, and set all these words in order before them, as the Lord had instructed him. 8. And all the people responded together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.

And Mosheh brought back the words of the people before the Lord. 9. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Behold, I will be revealed to thee in the darkness of the cloud, that the people may hear, in My speaking with thee, and also that they may confide in thee forever. And Mosheh showed the words of the people before the Lord. 10. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go unto the people and prepare them, today and tomorrow, and let them purify their clothing; 11.

And be ready for the third day; for on the third day the Lord will be revealed in the eyes of all the people upon mount Sinai. 12. And thou shalt set a limit for the people round about, saying, Beware you of going up on the mountain, or of approaching the border of it. Whoever approaches the mountain, slain he shall be slain. 13. No hand shall touch him; for stoned he shall be stoned, or pierced he shall be pierced; whether beast or man, he shall not live.

When the trumpet is prolonged they shall be allowed to go forward to the mount. 14. And Mosheh came down from the mountain unto the people, and prepared the people, and they made white their clothes. 15. And he said to the people, Be ready on the third day, approach not to a woman. 16. And it was the third day at morning; and there were voices, and lightnings, and mighty clouds upon the mountain, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people trembled who were in the camp. 17.

And Mosheh led forth the people out of the camp to meet the Word of the Lord; and they stood at the lower parts of the mount. 18. And the mountain of Sinai was altogether fuming from before the revelation of the Lord upon it in fire; and the smoke went up as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount trembled greatly. 19. But when the voice of the trumpet went forth and became exceedingly strong, Mosheh spake, and from the presence of the Lord he was answered by a voice. 20.

And the Lord was revealed upon mount Sinai, on the head of the mountain; and the Lord called Mosheh unto the head of the mount; and Mosheh went up. 21. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go down, warn the people lest they break through before the Lord to see, and many of them fall. 22. And let the priests also, who are to minister before the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord slay them. 23. And Mosheh spake before the Lord, The people are not able to come up to mount Sinai; for Thou hast warned us, saying, Set a boundary to the mountain, and sanctify it. 24.

But the Lord said to him, Go, descend, and come up, thou and Aharon with thee; but let not the priests nor the people break through to come up before the Lord, lest He slay them. 25. And Mosheh went down to the people, and spake with them.

1. And the Lord spake all these words, saying, 2. I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Mizraim, out of the house of servitude. 3. Thou shalt have no other God beside Me. 4.

Thou shalt not make to thee image nor likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth: 5. Thou shalt not worship them nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God; visiting the sins of the fathers upon the rebellious children, unto the third generation and to the fourth generation of those who hate Me; while the children continue (or complete) to sin after their fathers; 6.

But doing good to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. 7. Thou shalt not swear in the name of the Lord thy God vainly; for the Lord will not acquit him who sweareth in His Name with falsity. 8. Remember the day of Shabbatha to sanctify it. 9. Six days shalt thou do service and do all thy work; 10. but the seventh day is Shabbath before the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not do every work; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy servant nor thy handmaid, nor thy cattle, nor thy sojourner who is in thy city. 11. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the day of Shabbath, and sanctified it. 12. Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth to thee. 13.

Thou shalt not kill life. \va 14\va* Thou shalt not commit adultery. \va 15\va* Thou shalt not steal. \va 16\va* Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour a testimony of falsehood. 14. \va 17\va* Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s. 15. \va 18\va* And all the people saw the thunders, and the flames, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and the people saw, and trembled, and stood afar off. 16. \va 19\va* And they said to Mosheh, Speak thou with us, and we will hearken; but let it not be spoken to us from before the Lord, lest we die. 17. \va 20\va* And Mosheh said to the people, Fear not; for that He may prove you He hath revealed to you the glory of the Lord, and that His fear may be before your face, that you may not sin. 18. \va 21\va* And the people stood afar off, but Mosheh drew nigh to the darkness where was the glory of the Lord. 19. \va 22\va* And the Lord said to Mosheh, Thus shalt thou speak to the children of Israel; You have seen that I have spoken to you from the heavens. 20. \va 23\va* You shall not make before Me idols of silver, neither idols of gold shall you make to you. 21. \va 24\va* An altar of earth shalt thou make before Me, and shalt sacrifice upon it thy burnt offerings and thy sanctified victims, thy sheep and thy oxen.

In every place where I may cause My Shekinah to dwell, thither will I send My blessing, and will bless thee. 22. \va 25\va* And if thou wilt make Me an altar of stone before Me, thou shalt not build it with hewn stones lest thou lift up thy cutting-tool (lit. thy sword) upon it and profane it. 23. \va 26\va* And thou shalt not ascend by steps to My altar, that thy nakedness may not be discerned upon it.

1. And it was after these things that the Lord tempted Abraham; and He said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold, I am. 2. And He said, Take now thy son, thy only, whom thou lovest, Izhak, and go into the land of worship, and offer him before Me there, a burnt offering, upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee. 3.

And Abraham arose in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Izhak his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which the Lord had spoken to him. 4. And in the third day Abraham lifted, up his eyes, and saw the place from afar. 5. And Abraham said to his young men, Wait you here with the ass, and I and the young man will ascend yonder and worship, and return to you. 6.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid on Izhak his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife, and they went both of them as one. 7. And Izhak spake to Abraham his father, and said, Father! And he said, Behold, I am, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? 8.

And Abraham said, The lamb for the burnt offering is revealed before the Lord, my son. And they went, both of them, as one. 9. And they came to the place of which the Lord had told him. And Abraham builded there the altar, and set in order the woods, and bound Izhak his son, and laid him upon the altar above the woods. 10.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to cut off his son. 11. And the Angel of the Lord called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Behold, I am. 12. And he said to him, Stretch not out thy hand upon the youth, neither do anything to him: for now I know that thou fearest the Lord, and that thou hast not spared thy only son for Me. 13.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes after these (words), and saw, and behold, one ram, holden in the bush by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14. And Abraham worshipped and prayed there in that place, and said before the Lord, Here shall generations worship: wherefore it shall be paid in that day, In this mountain Abraham worshipped before the Lord. 15.

And the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham the second time from the heavens, 16. And said, By my Word have I sworn, saith the Lord, because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only son, 17. therefore, blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy sons as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and thy sons shall inherit the cities of their enemies. 18.

And all the peoples of the earth shall be blessed through thy son: forasmuch as thou hast received My word. 19. And Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together unto Beer Shava, and Abraham dwelt in Beer Shava. 20. And it was after these things it was shown to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcha, also, hath born sons to Nachor, thy brother: 21. Uts his first-born, and Booz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22. and Kesed, and Chazu, and Phildash, and Yedlaph, and Bethuel. 23.

And Bethuel begat Revekah. These eight bare Milcha to Nahor, brother of Abraham. 24. And his concubine, whose name was Reuma, she also bare Tebach, and Gacham, and Tachash, and Maaka.

1. And the sons of Israel moved onward, and encamped in the plain of Moab (at some space) from the ford of the Jordan (towards) Jericho. 2. And Balak bar Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amoraah. 3. And the Moabaah feared before the people greatly, because they were many; yea, the Moabaee were in distress before the sons of Israel. 4.

And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this host consume all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the herbage of the field. And Balak bar Zippor was the king of Moab at that time. 5. And he sent messengers to Bileam bar Beor unto Pethor Aram which is upon the Phrat, the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying: Behold, a people hath come out of Mizraim; lo, they cover the sunshine from the earth, and they are dwelling over against me. 6.

Come now, I entreat, curse this people for me, for they are stronger than I: if perhaps I may become able to fight with him, and drive him from the land: for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou dost curse is accursed. 7. And the elders of Moab and of Midian went, with the (price of) divinations in their hands, and came to Bileam, and told him the words of Balak. 8. And he said to them, Lodge here for the night, and I will return you word, according as the Lord speaketh with me.

And the princes of Moab tarried with Bileam. 9. And a word from before the Lord came unto Bileam, and said, Who are these men who are with thee? 10. And Bileam said before the Lord, Balak bar Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent to me. 11. Behold, a people are come out of Mizraim, and hide the glance of the sun from the earth.

Now come, curse him for me, that I may be able to fight him, and drive him away. 12. And the Lord said to Bileam, Thou shalt not go with them: thou shalt not curse the people, for he is blessed. 13. And Bileam arose in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Go back to your country; for it is not pleasing before the Lord to permit me to go with you. 14. And the princes of Moab arose and came to Balak, and said, Bileam refuseth to come with us. 15.

But Balak added to send princes more (in number) and nobler than those. 16. And they came to Bileam, and said to him: Thus saith Balak bar Zippor: Be not, I beseech thee, hindered from coming to me; 17. For I will greatly honour thee with honour, and will do all that thou shalt bid me. Come, then, curse me this people. 18.

Bileam responded, and said to the servants of Balak: If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord my God, to do either little or great. 19. But now I beg you tarry here this night, that I may know what yet the Lord will speak unto me. 20. And word came from before the Lord unto Bileam by night, and said to him: If the men come to call thee, arise and go with them; nevertheless the word that I speak with thee, that thou shalt do. 21.

And Bileam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. 22. But the displeasure of the Lord was provoked because he (so) went; and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to withstand him: and he was riding upon his ass, and his two young men with him. 23. And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass started aside from the road, and went into the field.

And Bileam struck the ass to make her to return into the road. 24. And the angel of the Lord (again) stood in the way of the vineyards in a place where there was a fence here and a fence there. 25. And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and thrust herself to the wall, and drave Bileam’s foot against the wall; and he smote her again. 26. And the angel of the Lord yet passed on, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn to the right or to the left. 27.

And the ass discerned the angel of the Lord, and fell down under Bileam; and Bileam’s wrath was provoked, and he smote the ass with his staff. 28. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass; and she spake to Bileam, What have I done to thee that thou bast smitten me these three times? 29. And Bileam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: would that there was a sword in my hand! For now would I kill thee. 30.

And the ass said to Bileam, Am I not thy ass, upon whom thou hast ridden from (the time that) I have been thine unto this day? Have I ever been used to do thus to thee? And he said, No. 31. And the Lord unveiled Bileam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword unsheathed in his hand: and he bowed, and worshipped upon his face. 32.

And the angel of the Lord said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I have come out to withstand thee, because it is seen before me that thou art willing to go in a way contrary to me. 33. But the ass discerned me, and turned from before me these three times: unless she had turned from before me, now should I have slain thee, and her would I have spared. 34. And Bileam said to the angel of the Lord, I knew not that thou wast standing before me in the way.

And now, if it be evil in thine eyes, I will return. 35. But the angel of the Lord said to Bileam, Go with the men; only the word that I shall speak with thee, that thou shalt say. And Bileam went with the princes of Balak. 36. And Balak heard that Bileam was coming, and went forth to meet him, at a city of Moab which is upon the border of Arnon, on the side of the frontier. 37.

And Balak said to Bileam, Did not I sending send for thee to call thee? Why didst thou not come to me? Hast thou not indeed said that I am not able to do thee honour? 38. And Bileam said to Balak, Behold, I have come to thee: but even now, have’ I really any power to speak anything?

The word which the Lord putteth into my mouth I will speak. 39. And Bileam went with Balak, and they came to a city of his territory. 40. And Balak slaughtered oxen and sheep, and sent to Bileam and to the princes who were with him. 41. And when it was morning, Balak took Bileam, and brought him up to the high places of his idol; and he saw from thence the extreme of the people.

1. And Bileam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 2. And Balak did as Bileam had spoken, and Balak and Bileam offered up a bullock and a ram upon every altar. 3. And Bileam said to Balak, Remain by thy burnt offering; and I will go, if perhaps the Word may meet me from before the Lord; and the word that He showeth me I will disclose unto thee.

And he went solitary. 4. And the Word from before the Lord met Bileam; and he said to Him; The seven altars have I set in order, and have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar. 5. And the Lord put a word upon Bileam’s mouth, and said to him: Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. 6. And he returned to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt sacrifice, he and all the nobles of Moab. 7.

And he took up his parable, and said: Balak, king of Moab, hath brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east: Come, curse me, Jakob, Come, hunt down Israel for me. 8. How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? How shall I persecute whom God hath not? 9. For from the top of the mountain I discern him, And look upon him from the heights; Lo, the people by themselves are to possess the world, And among the nations they shall not be judged with consumption. 10.

Who can number the dust of the house of Jakob, Of whom it is said, They shall increase as the dust of the earth, Or of one of the four camps of Israel? Let mine be the death of his truthful ones, And let my end be as theirs! 11. And Balak said to Bileam, What hast thou done to me? I brought thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, blessing hast thou blessed them. 12.

But he said, That which the Lord hath put in my mouth must I not observe to speak? 13. And Balak said to him, Come now with me to another place, from whence thou mayest see him, where thou canst see only the outer side, but not the whole, and curse him for me from thence. 14. And he brought him to the field of the watch-tower on the top of the hill; and builded seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar. 15.

And he said to Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, and I will go yonder. 16. And the Word from before the Lord met Bileam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus speak. 17. And he came to him, and he was standing by his burnt offering, and the nobles of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the Lord spoken? 18.

And he took up his parable, and said: Arise, Balak, and hear, Listen to my words, Bar Zippor: 19. The word of Eloha is not as the words of men; The sons of men speak, but lie; Nor is it as the works of the children of flesh, Who decree to do, but repent, and change their counsels. What He hath said He will perform, And His every word is steadfast. 20. Behold, I have received benedictions to bless Israel, And I may not turn my blessing from him. 21.

I have seen that in the house of Jakob The worshippers of idols are not, Nor in Israel the workers of the work of lies. The Word of the Lord their God is their helper, And the Shekinah of their King is among them. 22. God, who brought them out from Mizraim, Becomes his strength and exaltation. 23. For no divinations can prosper against the house of Jakob, Nor enchantments against the myriads of Israel.

According to the time it shall be said of Jakob and of Israel, What hath Eloah wrought! 24. Behold, the people shall dwell as a lioness, And as a lion shall he lift himself up; Until he hath slain with slaughter, He will not rest in his land, And inherit the treasures of the nations. 25. And Balak said to Bileam, Neither cursing curse them, nor blessing bless them. 26. But Bileam answered and said to Balak, Did I not tell thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must do? 27.

And Balak said to Bileam, Come now, I will take thee to another place; perhaps it may be pleasing before the Lord, that thou mayest curse them for me from thence. 28. And Balak conducted Bileam to the top of the high place that looketh toward the face of Beth Jeshimon. 29. And Bileam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams. 30. And Balak did as Bileam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

1. And He said to Mosheh, Come up before the Lord, thou and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and they shall worship at a distance. 2. And Mosheh shall draw nigh alone before the Lord, but they shall not draw nigh, nor shall the people ascend with them. 3. And Mosheh came and recited to the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words that the Lord hath spoken will we do. 4.

And Mosheh wrote all the words of the Lord. And he arose in the morning, and builded an altar at the lower part of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5. And he sent the firstborn sons of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed oxen (as) consecrated victims before the Lord. 6. And Mosheh took half of the blood and set it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled upon the altar. 7.

And he took the Book of the Covenant, and read before the people; and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do and obey. 8. And Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it upon the altar to propitiate for the people, and said, Behold the Blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath ratified with you upon all these words. 9. And Mosheh and Aharon, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up. 10.

And they saw the Glory of the God of Israel, and under the throne of His glory as the work of a precious stone, and as the face of heaven for its clearness. 11. Yet the princes of the sons of Israel were not hurt; and they saw the Glory of the Lord, and rejoiced in their sacrifices which were accepted with favour, as though they had eaten and drunk. 12. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Come up into My Presence in the mountain, and be there, and I will give thee the tablets of stone, and the law and the precepts, as I have written (them), that thou mayest teach them. 13.

And Mosheh arose and Jehoshua his minister, and Mosheh ascended the mountain on which was revealed the Glory of the Lord. 14. But to the elders he said, Wait for us here until we return to you: and, behold, Aharon and Hur are with you: whosoever hath a (matter for) judgment, let him bring it before them. 15. And Mosheh ascended the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain; 16. And the glory of the Lord dwelt upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud enveloped it six days.

And He called to Mosheh on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud. 17. And the appearance of the Glory of the Lord was as the appearance of devouring fire on the summit of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel. 18. And Mosheh entered into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount; and Mosheh was in the mount forty day and forty nights.

1. And Bileam saw that it was appointed before the Lord to bless Israel; and he went not as at those former times to inquire by divinations, but set his face towards the calf that the sons of Israel had made in the wilderness. 2. And Bileam lifted up his eyes, and beheld Israel dwelling by his tribes; and the Spirit of prophecy rested upon him from before the Lord. 3. And he took up his parable, and said: Bileam, the son of Beor, hath said, The man who saw the Beautiful hath said, 4. he hath said who heard the Word from before God, Who saw the vision of the Almighty, prostrate when he saw: 5.

How goodly is thy land, O Jakob, And the house of thy habitation, O Israel! 6. As rivers flowing onward; as the watered garden by Euphrates, As aromatics planted by the Lord; as cedars planted by the waters. 7. The king anointed from his sons shall increase, And have dominion over many nations; His king shall be mightier than Agag, and his kingdom be exalted. 8. God, who brought them from Mizraim, is mighty and high, and by Him Shall Israel use the wealth of the nations their foes, Enjoy the spoils of their kings, and inherit their lands. 9.

He reposed in his strength, as the lion and the lioness, And no kingdom may commove him. They who bless thee shall be blessed, And they who curse thee be accursed. 10. And the anger of Balak was roused against Bileam, and he smote his hands together. And Balak said to Bileam, I called thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, blessing hast thou blessed them these three times! 11.

And now go to thy place. I said, Honouring I would honour thee; but, behold, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour. 12. But Bileam said to Balak, Did I not also tell the messengers whom thou sentest to me, saying, 13. If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I have no power to transgress the decree of the Word of the Lord, to do good or evil of my own will; whatsoever the Lord shall sat that will I speak? 14.

And now, behold, I go unto my people. Come, I will give thee counsel what thou shouldst do; and will show thee what this people will do unto thy people at the end of the days. 15. And he took up his parable, and said: Bileam, the son of Beor, speaketh, The man who saw the Beautiful speaketh, 16. He speaks who heard the Word from before God, And who knoweth knowledge from the Most High, Who saw the vision of the Almighty, prostrate when he saw. 17.

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh. When a king shall arise out of Jakob, And the Meshiha be anointed from Israel, He will slay the princes of Moab, and reign over all the children of men; 18. And Edom shall be an inheritance, And Seir a possession of his adversaries; But Israel shall prosper in riches. 19. One will descend from the house of Jakob, Who will destroy him that escapeth from the city of the peoples. 20.

And he looked on the Amalkaah, and took up his parable, and said: Amalek was the beginning of the wars of Israel, But in his end he shall perish forever. 21. And he beheld the Shalmaah, and took up his parable, and said: Strong is the house of thy dwelling, And in a strong fortress thou hast set thy abode; 22. But yet Shalmaah shall be destroyed, For Athuria will make thee captive. 23. And he took up his parable, and said: Woe to the wicked who may live when God doeth this! 24.

And ships will come from the Kittaee, And afflict Athur, and subdue beyond the Phrat; But they also shall perish forever. 25. And Bileam arose, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went upon his way.

1. And Izhak called Jakob and blessed him. And he commanded him, and said to him, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan; 2. Arise, go to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel the father of thy mother, and take to thee from thence a wife of the daughters of Laban, the brother of thy mother. 3.

And the All-sufficient God bless thee, and make thee to increase and multiply, and become an assemblage of tribes; 4. And give the blessing of Abraham to thee and thy sons with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land of thy habitation which the Lord gave to Abraham. 5. And Izhak sent Jakob away, and he went to Padan Aram to Laban bar Bethuel, the Aramite, the brother of Revekah, the mother of Jakob and Esau. 6.

And Esau, when he saw that Izhak had blessed Jakob, and sent him to Padan Aram to take from thence a wife, and, as he blessed him, commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Kenaan, 7. and that Jakob had obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan Aram, 8. Esau, considering that the daughters of Kenaan were evil in the eyes of Izhak his father, 9. went to Ishmael, and took Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael bar Abraham, the sister of Nebaioth, over his wives, unto him to wife. 10.

And Jakob went forth from Beersheva, and went to Haran; 11. and he arrived at a place, and lodged there, because the sun had gone. And he took of the stones of the place, and set his pillow, and lay down in that place. 12. And he dreamed: and, behold, a ladder was planted in the earth, and the head of it reached unto the height of heaven; and, behold, the angels of the Lord ascended and descended upon it; 13. and, behold, the Glory of the Lord stood above it, and He said, I am the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak.

The land where thou sleepest, unto thee will I give it, and unto thy sons. 14. And thy sons shall be many as the dust of the earth, and shall prevail to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and through thee shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed, and through thy sons. 15. And, behold, My Word shall be for thy help, and I will keep thee in every place whither thou goest, and I will bring thee again to this land; for I will not leave thee until I have done what I say to thee. 16.

And Jakob awoke from his sleep, and said, Verily the Glory of the Lord dwelleth in this place, and I knew it not. 17. And he feared and said, How awful is this place! This place is not common (ground), but a place where there is pleasantness before the Lord; and this is nigh the gate of heaven. 18. And Jakob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had set for his pillow, and set it up, a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19.

And he called the name of that place The House of God (Bethel). But Luz was the name of the city at the first. 20. And Jakob vowed a vow, saying, If the Word of the Lord will be my help, and will keep me in that way in which I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to wear, 21. and bring me again in peace to the Lord shall be my God. 22. And at this stone which I have set up (as) a pillar, will I worship before the Lord; and of all that Thou shalt give me, the tenth will I separate before Thee.

1. And it will be that when all these words of blessings or of maledictions which I have set before thee have come upon thee, and thou turn unto thy heart among all the nations whither the Lord thy God will have led thee captive, 2. and return to the fear of the Lord thy God, and obey His Word, according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart and all thy soul, 3. that the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have mercy upon thee, and will return, and gather thee from all the nations among which the Lord thy God hath dispersed thee. 4.

If any of thy dispersed be (scattered) unto the ends of the heavens, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and lead thee. 5. And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers did inherit, and thou shalt possess it: and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers. 6. And the Lord thy God will take away the foolishness of thy heart, and the foolishness of thy children’s heart, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 7.

And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thy enemies and upon them who hated and persecuted thee; 8. But thou shalt return and be obedient to the Word of the Lord, and do all the commandments which I command thee this day. 9. And the Lord thy God will make thee to abound in all the works of thy hand, the offspring of thy womb, the increase of thy cattle, and the produce of thy land, unto good; for the Lord will return to rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers; 10.

When thou shalt be obedient to the Word of the Lord thy God, to keep His commandments and statutes which are written in the book of this law, if thou return unto the fear of the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul. 11. For this commandment which I command thee this day is not apart from thee, nor is it far away. 12. It is not in the heavens, that thou shouldst say, Who shall ascend for us into heaven, that he may bring it to us, that we may hear and do it? 13.

Nor is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldst say, Who will go over for us beyond the sea, and bring it to us, that we may hear and do it? 14. For the word is very nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 15. Behold, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; 16. For I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in the ways that are right in His presence, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply, and the Lord God may bless thee in the land into which thou art going, to possess it. 17.

But if thy heart be averse, and thou wilt not obey, but wilt go astray, and worship the idols of the Gentiles, and serve them, 18. I have shown you this day that perishing you shall perish. You will not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to enter in and possess it. 19. I call heaven and earth to attest in you this day that I have set before thee life and death, blessings and curses: but choose for life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy children, 20.

To love the Lord thy God, to be obedient to His word, and to keep close unto His fear, for He is thy life, and the prolonged of thy days, to abide upon the land which the Lord sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, Izhak, and Jakob, to give unto them.

1. And Laban arose in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them, and went; and Laban returned to his place. 2. And Jakob went on his way, and the angels of the Lord met him. 3. And when Jakob saw them, he said, This is a host from before the Lord; and he called the name of the place Mahanaim. 4.

And Jakob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, in the region of Edom; 5. And he instructed them, saying, So shall you tell to my lord, to Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jakob, With Laban I have dwelt, and have tarried, until now. 6. And I have oxen, and asses, sheep, and servants, and handmaids, and have sent to show my lord, to find grace in thine eyes. 7. And the messengers returned to Jakob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau; and he cometh also to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. 8.

And Jakob feared greatly, and it distressed him. And he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep, and oxen, and camels, into two hosts, 9. And said, If Esau come to the one host and smite it, the host that is left may escape. 10. And Jakob said, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Izhak, the Lord, who didst say to me, Return to thy country and to thy native place, and I will do thee good; 11. less are my righteousnesses than all the mercies and all the benefits which Thou hast performed unto Thy servant: for alone I passed this Yardena, and now I have become two bands. 12.

Deliver me now from the hand of my brother, from the band of Esau; for I am afraid of him, lest he come and smite me, and the mother with the children. 13. And Thou hast said, In doing good I will do good with thee, and will make thy sons many as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for number. 14. And he housed there that night, and took of that which came to his hand, an offering for Esau his brother; 15.

Goats two hundred, rams twenty, ewes two hundred, and rams twenty, 16. Camels giving milk and their young ones thirty, cows forty, and bulls ten, she-asses twenty, and colts ten. 17. And he gave them into the hand of his servants, herd by herd separately, and said to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd. 18. And he commanded the foremost, saying, If Esau my brother meet thee, and ask thee, saying, Whose art thou?

And, Whither goest thou? And, Whose are these that are before thee? 19. Thou shalt say, They are an offering of thy servant Jakob, which he hath sent to my lord, to Esau; and, behold, he also cometh after us. 20. And he instructed also the second and the third, and all of them who followed the herds, saying, According to this word you shall speak with Esau, when you find him; 21.

And say also, Behold, thy servant Jakob cometh after. For he said, I will quiet his anger by the offering that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me. 22. And the offering went over before his face, and he himself lodged that night in the camp. 23. And he arose in the night, and took his two wives, and his two concubines, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jubeka; 24.

And he took them and made them pass over the torrent, and made what was his to pass over. 25. And Jakob remained alone; and a Man wrestled with him till the morning ascended. 26. And he saw that he prevailed not with him, and he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated in wrestling with him. 27. And he said, Let me go; for the morning ascendeth And he said, I will not let Thee go, unless Thou bless me. 28.

And He said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jakob. 29. And He said, Thy name shall be no longer Jakob, but Israel; for a prince art thou before the Lord, and with men, and thou hast prevailed. 30. And Jakob asked Him, and said, Show me now Thy Name!

And He said, Why dost thou ask My Name? And He blessed him there. 31. And Jakob called the name of the place Peniel: because I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face, and my soul hath been saved! 32. And the sun arose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he went lame upon his thigh. 33.

Therefore the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day, because He touched the hollow of Jakob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.

1. But the people saw that Mosheh delayed to come down from the Mount; and the people gathered together unto Aharon, and said to him, Arise, make us gods (\it dachalan\it*, pl. objects to be venerated) that may proceed before us; for this Mosheh, the man who brought us up from the land of Mizraim, we know not what hath been to him. 2. And Aharon said to them, Take off the golden ear-rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me. 3.

And all the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears and brought them unto Aharon. 4. And he took them from their hands, and formed it with a graver, and made it a molten calf. And they said, These are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up from the land of Mizraim. 5. And Aharon saw, and builded an altar before it; and Aharon proclaimed and said, A feast shall be held before the Lord tomorrow. 6.

And they arose next day, and sacrificed burnt offerings and offered oblations; and the people sat around to eat and drink, and rose up to disport. 7. And the Lord spake with Mosheh, Go, descend, for thy people whom thou broughtest up from the land of Mizraim have corrupted themselves; 8. They have quickly warped from the way which I had taught them; they have made a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and sacrificed unto it and have said, These are thy gods, Israel, which have brought thee up from the land of Mizraim. 9.

And the Lord said to Mosheh, It is seen before Me that this people are hard-necked. 10. And now refrain from thy prayer before Me, and My anger shall prevail against them, and I will destroy them, and will make thee to a great people. 11. But Mosheh prayed before the Lord his God, and said, Why, Lord, is Thy anger strong against Thy people, whom Thou didst bring up from the land of Mizraim with great power and with might hand? 12.

Wherefore should the Mizraee speak to say, With evil (purpose) He led them out to kill them among the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from the strength of Thine anger, and revert from the evil which Thou hast threatened to do unto Thy people. 13. Remember Abraham, Izhak, and Israel, Thy servants to whom Thou hast sworn by Thy Word, and to whom Thou hast said, I will multiply your sons as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give unto your sons, and they shall own it forever. 14.

And the Lord did turn from the evil which He had threatened to do unto the people. 15. And Mosheh returned and went down from the Mount, and the two tablets of testimony were in his hand: the tablets were inscribed on their two sides, here and there were they inscribed. 16. And the tablets were the work of the Lord, and the writing was the writing of the Lord set forth distinctly upon the tablets. 17.

And Jehoshua heard the voice of the people as they made outcry, and he said to Mosheh, The voice of war is in the camp. 18. But he said, It is not the voice of men who are victorious, nor is it the voice of the weak who are beaten, but it is the voice of revelers that I hear. 19. And it was that as he drew nigh the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that the anger of Mosheh grew strong, and he cast from his hands the tablets, and brake them at the declivity of the mountain. 20.

And he took the calf which they had made, and burned it in fire, and ground it until it was powder, and spread it on the face of the water, and made the sons of Israel drink it. 21. And Mosheh said to Aharon, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought upon them so great a sin? 22. And Aharon said, Let not my lord’s anger be violent: thou knowest the people, that it is prone to evil. 23. And they said to me, Make us gods that shall go before us: for this Mosheh, the man who brought us up form the land of Mizraim, we know not what hath been done to him. 24.

And I said to them, Whoever hath gold let him deliver, and give it to me; and I cast it into the fire, and this calf came forth. 25. And Mosheh saw that the people were undone (or, made empty); for Aharon had undone them, to defile them with an evil name in their generations; 26. And Mosheh stood at the gate of the camp, and said, Let those who fear the Lord come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered together to him. 27.

And he said to them. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Let every man put his sword upon his thigh, pass through, and return, from gate to gate in the camp, and slay, a man his brother, and a man his companion, and a man his neighbour. 28. And the sons of Levi did according to the word for Mosheh, and there fell of the people in that day as three thousand men. 29. And Mosheh said, Present your hands this day an offering before the Lord, every man with (or, on account of) his son and his brother, that you may bring blessings upon you this day. 30.

And it was on the day following that Mosheh said to the people, You have sinned a great sin; but now I will go up before the Lord, if haply I may propitiate for your sin. 31. And Mosheh returned before the Lord, and said in his prayer, This people have sinned a great sin, for they have made to them gods of gold. 32. But now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin! But if not, blot me now out of the Book, which Thou hast written. 33.

And the Lord said to Mosheh, Him who hath sinned before Me, will I blot from My book. 34. But now, go, lead the people to the place that I have told thee of: behold, My Angel shall proceed before thee; and in the day that I visit, I will visit upon them their sin. 35. And the Lord smote the people because they had worshipped (or served) the calf which Aharon had made.

1. Listen, ye heavens, and I will speak; give ear, O earth, to the words of my mouth. 2. My doctrine shall be soft as rain; let it be received as the dew, and my word be as the breath of the rain that breathes upon the grass, and as the showers of the latter rain upon the herbage. 3. For in the Name of the Lord do I invoke: Ascribe ye greatness unto our God; 4.

The Mighty One whose works are perfect; for all His ways are justice; a faithful God from whom no iniquity proceedeth, just and true is He. 5. They have corrupted themselves, and not Him; children who worship idols, a generation that changeth its work, and maketh it another. 6. Behold, render you this before the Lord, ye people who have received the law, but have not become wise? Is He not thy Father, and thou art His who made thee and bought thee? 7.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of generation and generation; ask thy fathers, and they will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He made the distribution of the children of men, He ordained the boundaries of the nations after the numbers of the son of Israel. 9. For the Lord’s portion is His people, Jakob is the lot of His inheritance. 10.

He satisfied their wants in the land of the wilderness, in the dry place where there was no water; He placed them round about His Shekinah; He taught them the words of His law; He kept them as the apple of His eye. 11. As the eagle which hasteneth to his: nest, and spreadeth himself over his young ones, stretching out his wings, taketh them, upbeareth them with the strength of his pinions, 12. So did the Lord alone prepare them to dwell in the world which He will renew (set right), while the worship of idols shall not be established before Him. 13.

He made them to dwell in the strong places of the earth, to eat the spoil of their enemies: He gave them the spoil of the rulers of cities, and the wealth of them who dwelt in strong defenses. 14. He gave them the spoil of their kings and sultans, with the riches of their princes, and the strength of the people of their lands, their possessions, the booty of their hosts and camps, and the blood of their heroes was poured out like water. 15.

But Israel waxed fat and kicked, he prospered, grew strong and got rich, and forgot the worship of Eloha who made him, and provoked the Almighty who redeemed him. 16. They provoked Him by the worship of idols, by abominations they made Him angry. 17. They sacrificed to demons in whom there is no help, (nothing that is needed,) and fearful things that they had not known, new (gods) that were lately made, with which your fathers had no dealings; 18.

Of the Awful One and the Omnipotent who created thee, thou art forgetful; thou hast forsaken the worship of Eloha who made thee. 19. And it was seen before the Lord, and His anger was kindled by the provocation of His sons and daughters before Him. 20. And He said: I will take away (take up) My Shekinah from among them; what will be their latter end is manifest to Me; for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faith. 21.

They have moved Me to jealousy by that which is not worshipful, they have angered Me by their idolatries; and I will make them jealous by what hath not been a people, by a foolish nation will I provoke them. 22. For a burning, strong as fire, shall go forth before Me in fury consuming unto the lowest hell, to make an end of the earth and its produce, and to destroy the mountains to the end; 23. And I will multiply calamities upon them, My plagues will I send forth among them; 24.

They shall be swollen with hunger, and be eaten by the fowl, and be vexed with evil spirits; and the teeth of wild beasts will I appoint among them with the venom of serpents that crawl in the dust. 25. Without will the sword devour, and within the chambers be the slaughter-work of death, the youths and the maidens, the sucklings with the aged. 26. I said I would make My anger to remain upon them and consume them; I will abolish their memorial from (among) the children of men: 27.

Only that the wrath of the enemy would be condensed, and the adversary make himself great, and would say: Our hand hath prevailed, and all this is not from the Lord. 28. For they are a people that letteth counsel go, and there is no understanding in them. 29. O that they were wise, that they had understanding in this, and would consider what will be in their end! 30. How would one Pursue a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless the Mighty One had delivered them up, and the Lord had requited them! 31.

For their strength is not as our Strength, and our enemies are the judges. 32. For as the punishment of the people of Sedom will their punishment be, and their stroke like (that) of the people of Amorah; their plagues will be evil as the heads of serpents, and the retribution of their works like their venom. 33. As the poison of dragons is the cup of their punishment, and as the heads of the cruel basilisks. 34.

Are not all their works manifest before Me, laid up in My treasures against the day of judgment? 35. Their punishment is before Me, and I will repay; in the time of their dispersion from their land; for the day of their ruin draweth near, and that which is prepared for them maketh haste. 36. For the Lord shall decide the judgment of His people, and the avengement of His righteous servants shall be avenged; for it is seen before Him, that in the time when the stroke of their enemies would prevail against them, they will be wavering (as those who) are forsaken. 37.

And He will say: Where are their idols, the mighty things in which they had trusted, 38. which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drink the wine of their libations? Let them now rise up and help you, let them be a shield over you. 39. See, now, that I, even I, am He, and there is no God beside Me. I kill and make alive, I wound but also heal, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand. 40.

For I have prepared in the heavens the abode of My Shekinah, and have said, I live forevermore. 41. When My sword is revealed like the sight of twofold lightning from one end of the heavens to another, and My hand taketh hold on judgment, I will render vengeance on My enemies, and My adversaries will I repay; 42. I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall slay the peoples, that by the blood of the slain, and the captives, I may take the crowns from the head of the foe and the enemy. 43.

Give praise, ye Gentiles, with His people, because the avengement of His righteous servants will have been made; for He will bring retribution on them who hate Him, and will show mercy unto His land and His people. 44. And Mosheh came and spake all the words of this hymn before the people, he and Jehoshua bar Nun. 45. And Mosheh concluded to speak all these words with all Israel, 46. and said to them, Set your heart upon all the words that I have witnessed to you this day, that you may instruct your children to observe and perform all the words of this law. 47.

For the word is not (given) in vain to you; it is your life, and by this word will you prolong your days upon the land which you pass over Jordan to inherit. 48. And the Lord spake with Mosheh the same day, saying: 49. Go up to this mountain of Abaraee, the mountain of Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, over against Jericho, and see the land of Kenaan which I have given to the sons of Israel for possession; 50.

And, dying on the mountain to which thou goest up thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aharon thy brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people; 51. Because thou wast perverse with My Word in the midst of the children of Israel, at the Waters of Contradiction, at Rekem, in the desert of Zin, and because thou didst not sanctify Me among the children of Israel. 52. For, though thou mayest see the land, yet from thence thou shalt not go in unto the land which I have given to the children of Israel.

1. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go, descend from hence, thou and the people thou hast brought up from the land of Mizraim, unto the land which I have covenanted unto Abraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob, saying, To thy sons will I give it. 2. Arid I will send My Angel before thee, and will drive oat the Kenaanaee, the Amoraee, and Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, the Hivaee, and the Jebusaee; 3. to the land producing milk and honey: for My Shekinah shall not go up among you, because thou art a hard-necked people, lest I destroy thee in the way. 4.

And the people heard these words of evil, and lamented, and no man put on his usual ornaments. 5. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Say to the children of Israel, Ye are a hard-necked people; if one hour My Shekinah go up among thee, I should destroy thee. And now take off thy garnishing from thee, and it will appear before me what I shall do with thee. 6. Arid the children of Israel removed their usual ornaments (on their return) from the mount of Horeb. 7.

Arid Mosheh took a tabernacle, and spread it for himself without the camp, at a distance from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the House of Instruction: and it was that everyone who sought instruction from before the Lord, went forth to the tabernacle of the house of instruction without the camp. 8. And it came to pass that when Mosheh went forth to the tabernacle, all the people rose up, and stood, every man at the door of his tent, and looked after Mosheh until he had entered into the tabernacle. 9.

And it was when Mosheh had entered the tabernacle, the column of the Cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and (He) spake with Mosheh. 10. And all the people saw the column of the Cloud standing at the door of the tabernacle, and all the people arose and worshipped, every man at the door of his tent. 11. And the Lord spake with Mosheh word with word, as a man speaketh with his companion.

And he returned to the camp; but his minister, Jehoshua bar Nun, a young man, did not remove from the tabernacle. 12. And Mosheh said before the Lord, See, Thou hast said to me, Take this people up; but Thou hast not let me know whom Thou wilt send with me; yet Thou hast said, I have ordained thee by name, and thou hast found mercy before Me. 13. And if now I have found mercy before Thee, show me, I pray, Thy good way, that I may know Thy loving-kindness, and may find mercy before Thee, and make it manifest before Thee that this people is Thy people. 14.

And He said, My Shekinah shall go, and I will give thee rest. 15. And he said before Him, If Thy Shekinah goeth not among us, let us not ascend from hence. 16. And in what shall it be known that I and Thy people have found mercy before Thee, if Thy Shekinah go not up with us, to make for us the distinction, and to distinguish me and Thy people from every people that is upon the face of the earth? 17.

And the Lord said to Mosheh, This thing that thou hast spoken will I do, because thou hast found mercy before Me, and I have ordained thee by name. 18. And he said, Show me, I pray, Thy Glory! 19. And He said, I will make all My Goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the Name of the Lord before thee, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and have mercy on whom I will have mercy. 20.

And He said, Thou canst not see the Face of My Shekinah; for no man can see Me and abide alive. 21. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place prepared before Me, and thou shalt stand upon the rock, 22. and it shall be, when My Glory passeth, I will put thee in a cavern of the rock, and My Word shall overshadow thee until I have passed; 23. And I will take away the Word (dibberath) of My Glory, and thou shalt see that which is after Me, but My Aspect shall not be seen.

1. And this is the benediction wherewith Mosheh, the prophet of the Lord, blessed the children of Israel before his death; 2. And he said: The Lord was revealed from Sinai, and the brightness of His glory appeared to us from Seir. He was revealed in His power upon the mountain of Pharan, and with Him were ten thousand saints; He gave us, written with His own right hand, the law from the midst of the fire. 3.

He loved the tribes, all the holy ones of the house of Israel; with power He led them out of Mizraim, and they were conducted under Thy Cloud, they journeyed by Thy Word. 4. Mosheh gave to us the law and delivered it an inheritance to the congregation of Jakob. 5. And he was the king in Israel, when the heads of the people were gathered with the tribes of Israel. 6. Let Reuben live in life eternal, and not die the second death; and let his children receive their inheritance according to their numbers. 7.

And of Jehudah he said this: Hear, O Lord, the prayer of Jehudah when he goeth forth to battle, and let him return to his people in peace; let his hands do vengeance upon his enemies, and be Thou to him a help against his foes. 8. And of Levi he said: With perfections and lights, clothe Thou the man who is found holy before Thee whom Thou didst try in the temptation, and he was upright, and whom Thou didst prove at the Waters of Contention, and he was faithful. 9.

Who, when they had sinned, had no mercy in the judgment upon his father or his mother, and no respect to his brother or his children; for they have kept the charge of Thy word, and Thy covenant have they not altered. 10. These are worthy to teach Thy judgments unto Jakob, and Thy law unto Israel. They shall set the sweet incense before Thee, and the full free-will offerings upon Thy altar. 11. Bless, Lord, his substance, and the oblation of his hands receive Thou with favour; break the loins of his enemies and of his adversaries, that they may not arise. 12.

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him: the shield will be over him all the days, and the Shekinah will dwell in his land. 13. And of Joseph he said: Blessed be his land from before the Lord; let it make fruit by the dew of the heavens from above, and from the fountain springs, and the depths which flow from the abysses of the earth beneath, 14. Let it make fruit and produce which the sun causeth to grow; let it make fruit from the beginning of month after month; 15.

And firstfruits from the mountain tops, and goodly things from the unfailing hills, 16. With the good of the earth and its fulness, and the favour of Him Those glory is in the heavens, and who was revealed unto Mosheh at the Bush: let all these come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the man who was separated from his brethren. 17. The greatness of his children will be his beauty, and the mighty works wrought for him from before the Omnipotent and the Most High, by whose strength he will slay nations together unto the ends of the earth; and these are the myriads of the house of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of the house of Menasheh. 18.

And unto Zebulon he said: Rejoice, Zebulon, when thou goest out to war against thy adversaries, and thou, Issakar, when thou goest to compute the time of the festivals in Jerusalem. 19. They shall assemble the tribes of Israel at the mountain of the sanctuary, to offer there the holy sacrifices with free-will; for they will eat the victims of the Gentiles, and the treasures hidden in the sand shall be disclosed for them. 20.

And of Gad he said: Blessed is He who enlargeth Gad. He dwelleth as a lioness; he will kill sultans with kings: 21. And he shall receive his own at the beginning: for there, in his inheritance, Mosheh the scribe-prince of Israel is (to be) buried; he who came out and went in at the head of the people, who hath wrought righteousness before the Lord and His judgments with Israel. 22. And of Dan he said: Dan is strong as a lion’s whelp; his land is watered by the streams that flow from Mathnan. 23.

And of Naphtali he said: Naphtali, satisfied with favour and full of blessings from the Lord, shall inherit from the western sea, Genesar, unto the south. 24. And of Asher he said: Blessed shall be Asher with the blessings of children: let him be acceptable to his brethren, and be nourished with the dainties of kings: 25. Strong shalt thou be as iron and brass, and as the days of thy youth shall be thy strength. 26.

There is no God like the God of Israel, whose Shekinah in the skies is thy help, and whose power is in the heaven of heavens. 27. The habitation of Eloha is from eternity, and the world was made by His Word; and He will drive out thy enemies from before thee, and will say, Destroy. 28. And Israel shall dwell securely by themselves, according to the benediction with which Jakob their father blessed them in the land producing corn and wine; the heavens also above them shall drop down with dew. 29.

Happy art thou, Israel; none is like unto thee, a people whose salvation is from the Lord, who is the strength of thy help, and from whom is the might of thy victory: thy enemies shall be liars unto thee, and thou shalt tread upon the necks of their kings.

1. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Hew thee two tablets of stone as the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words that were upon the former tablets which thou hast broken. 2. And be ready in the morning, and go up at morn to Mount Sinai, and stand there before Me on the summit of the mountain. 3. Let no man ascend with thee; let no man be seen upon all the mountain, nor sheep nor oxen be grazing upon the mountain. 4.

And hew two tablets of stone like the former ones. And Mosheh arose in the morning, and ascended Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 5. And the Lord was revealed in the Cloud, and He stood with him there, and He proclaimed the Name of the Lord. 6. And the Lord made His Shekinah pass before his face; and he proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, Merciful and Gracious, slow to anger, and making goodness and truth to abound; 7.

Keeping goodness for thousands of generations; Forgiving iniquity and rebellion and guilt; Pardoning them who convert unto His law, but acquitting not them who convert not; Visiting the guilt of fathers upon the children and upon the children’s children of the rebellious, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. 8. And Mosheh made haste, and bowed upon the ground and worshipped. 9. And he said, If now I have found mercy before Thee, O Lord, let, I pray, the Shekinah of the Lord go among us; for it is a hard-necked people; but forgive Thou our guilty and our sin, and take possession of us. 10.

And He said, Behold, I make a covenant before all thy people that I will do wonders which were never created upon all the earth, nor among any of the people; and all peoples among whom thou art shall see the work of the Lord; for terrible shall that be which I will do with thee. 11. Observe thou that which I command thee this day. Behold, I will drive out from before thee the Amoraee, and Kenaanaee, and Hittaee, and Pherizaee, and Hivaee, and Jebusaee. 12.

Beware lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land upon which thou shalt enter, lest it become a stumbling-block in the midst of thee: 13. But their altars thou shalt destroy, and their statues break, and their groves cut down; 14. For thou shalt not worship the idols of the peoples; for the Lord, Zealous is His Name, a zealous God is He. 15. Lest thou strike a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and go erring after their idols, and to their idols offer sacrifices, and they invite thee, and thou eat of their sacrifices, 16.

And thou take of their daughters for thy sons, and they make thy daughters go erring after their idols, and thy sons to go erring after their idols. 17. Molten gods thou shalt not make to thee. 18. The feast of the unleavened thou shalt keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened (bread) as I have commanded thee, in the time of the month of Abiva; for in the month of Abiva thou didst come out of Mizraim. 19.

All that openeth the womb is Mine; all males of cattle thou shalt sanctify, the first-born of oxen and of sheep. 20. But the firstling of an ass thou mayest redeem with a lamb; but if thou redeem him not, thou shalt cut him off. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And let none appear before Me empty. 21.

Six days thou shalt labour, and on the seventh day rest; in sowing (time) and in reaping thou shalt rest. 22. And the feast of Weeks thou shalt make to thee, of the firsts of the wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering in the cycle of the year. 23. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Master of the World, the Lord God of Israel. 24. For I will drive out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders, and no man shall covet thy land when thou goest up to appear before the Lord thy God three times in the year. 25.

Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of My Pascha with leaven, nor shall the fat of the sacrifices of the Paschal feast be left without the altar till the morning. 26. The chief of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring to the sanctuary of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not eat flesh with milk. 27. And the Lord said to Mosheh, Write for thee these words; for upon the expression of these words I make covenant with thee and with Israel. 28.

And he was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights; bread he ate not, nor water did he drink; and he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Words. 29. And it was when Mosheh descended from the mountain of Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Mosheh, in his descending from the mount, that Mosheh knew not how great was the splendour of the glory of his countenance through His speaking with him. 30.

And Aharon and all the sons of Israel saw Mosheh, and, behold, great was the splendour of the glory of his countenance, and they were afraid to approach him. 31. But Mosheh called to them, and Aharon and all the chiefs of the congregation returned to him, and Mosheh conversed with them. 32. And afterward all the sons of Israel drew near, and he taught them all that the Lord had said to him on Mount Sinai. 33.

And when Mosheh had completed to speak with them, he put a veil upon his face. 34. But when Mosheh went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he removed the veil until he came out. And he went forth and spake with the sons of Israel of that which was commanded. 35. And the children of Israel saw the face of Mosheh, that the splendour of the glory of Mosheh’s face was great; and Mosheh put the veil again upon his face until he went in to speak with Him.

1. And Mosheh went up from the plains of Moab to the mountains of Nebo, to the summit of the height which is over against Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead unto Dan, 2. And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Menasheh, and all the land of Jehudah to the hinder sea, 3. And the south, and the country of the plain of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. 4.

And the Lord said to him, This is the land which I covenanted unto Abraham, Izhak, and Jakob, saying, To thy children will I give it; thou hast seen it with thine eyes, but unto it thou art not to pass over. 5. And Mosheh the servant of the Lord died there, in the land of Moab, by the Word of the Lord. 6. And He buried him in a valley (or cavity, \it becheltha\it*) in the land of Moab, over against Beth Peor: but no man knoweth his sepulchre unto this day. 7.

And Mosheh was a son of a hundred and twenty years when he died: his eye had not dimmed, neither was the radiance of his face changed. 8. And the children of Israel wept for Mosheh in the fields of Moab thirty days; and the days of the mourning for Mosheh were completed. 9. And Jehoshua bar Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom; for Mosheh had laid his hands upon him, and the children of Israel obeyed him, and did as the Lord had commanded (by) Mosheh. 10.

But no prophet hath arisen in Israel like unto Mosheh, unto whom the Lord revealed Himself face to face, 11. in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Mizraim upon Pharoh, and on all his servants, and on all his land, 12. and all the Mighty Hand, and all the great manifestations which Mosheh wrought in the eyes of all Israel. END OF THE TARGUM OF ONKELOS ON THE TORAH.

1. And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather together, and I will show you what will befall you in the end of the days; 2. Assemble, and hearken, O sons of Jakob, and receive instruction from Israel your father. 3. Reuben, thou art my first-born, my strength, and the beginning of my power.

Thine should it have been taking to take the three portions, the birthright, the priesthood, and the kingdom: but because thou hast proceeded perversely, 4. Behold, as water outpoured thou wilt not prosper, neither wilt thou receive the excellent portion; because thou wentest up to thy father’s place of sleep: then, my son, didst thou become profane, when thou wentest up to my bed. 5. Shimeon and Levi are brothers; mighty men in the land of their sojourning, they did mightily. 6.

My soul was not in their secret; into their company to come I would not have descended from mine honour. For in their anger they slew a slaughter, and in their wilfulness they razed the wall of their enemy. 7. Accursed was their anger, for it was strong, and their wrath, for it was relentless. I will divide them in Jakob, and I will scatter them in Israel. 8.

Jehuda, thou art praise and not shame; thy brethren shall praise thee; thy hand shall prevail against thine adversaries, thine enemies shall be dispersed; they will be turned backward before thee, and the sons of thy father will come before thee with salutations. The dominion shall be (thine) in the beginning, and in the end the kingdom shall be increased from the house of Jehuda, because from the judgment of death, my son, hast thou withdrawn. 9.

He shall repose, and abide in strength as a lion, and as a lioness, there shall be no king that may cut him off. 10. He who exerciseth dominion shall not pass away from the house of Jehuda, nor the saphra from his children’s children forever, until the Meshiha come, whose is the kingdom, and unto whom shall be the obedience of the nations (or, whom the peoples shall obey). 11. Israel shall pass round about in his cities; the people shall build his temple, they will be righteous round about him, and be doers of the law through his doctrine.

Of goodly purple will be his raiment, and his vesture of crimson wool with colours. 12. His mountains shall be red with his vineyards, and his hills be dropping with wine; his valleys shall be white with corn, and with flocks of sheep. 13. Zebulon will dwell nigh the haven of the sea; he will subdue provinces with ships, and will eat the good of the sea, and his boundary shall come unto Sidon. 14.

Issakar, rich in substance, will have his heritage between the boundaries; 15. And he, seeing his portion that it is good, and the land that it is fruit-bearing, will subdue the provinces of the people, and disperse their inhabitants, and they who remain of them will become servants to him and bringers of tribute. 16. From the house of Dan will be chosen and will arise a man in whose days his people shall be delivered, and in whose years the tribes of Israel have rest together. 17.

A chosen man will arise from the house of Dan, the terror of whom shall fall upon the peoples; (a man) who will smite the Philistines with strength, as the serpent, the deadly serpent, lurking by the way, be will slay the mighty of the Philistines host, the horsemen with the foot; he will weaken (loosen) the horses and chariots, and throw their riders backward. 18. For thy salvation have I waited, O Lord! 19.

From the house of Gad will armed hosts go over the Jardena before their brethren to the battle; and with much substance will they return unto their land. 20. The land of Asher will be good; and he shall be nourished with the dainties of kings. 21. In a good land will the lot of Naphtali be cast, and his inheritance be fruitful; over them will they give praise and benediction. 22. Joseph is my son who shall increase, my son who shall be blessed, as a vine planted by a fountain of waters.

Two tribes will come forth from his sons, and they shall receive a portion and inheritance. 23. The mighty men, the men of division, were bitter against him; they afflicted him and sorely grieved him 24. And his prophecy shall be fulfilled in them, because he was faithful to the law in secret, and set his confidence firmly. Therefore was gold laid upon his arm, and the kingdom was strengthened and confirmed.

This was to him from the mighty God of Jacob, who by His Word pastureth the fathers and the children of the seed of Israel. 25. The Word of the God of thy father shall be thy Helper, and the All-Sufficient shall bless thee, with the blessings of the dew that descends from the heavens above, with the blessings that spring from the depths of the earth beneath, with the blessings of thy father and of thy mother. 26.

The blessing of thy father shall be added upon the blessing with which my fathers blessed me; which the princes who are of the world have desired: all of them shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the man who was separated from his brethren. 27. Benjamin: in his land will dwell the Shekina, and in his possession will the sanctuary be builded. In the morning and evening will the priests offer the oblation, and at eventime divide the remaining portions of the residue of the sacred things. 28.

All these the tribes of Israel are twelve; and this it is which their father spake to them, and blessed them; according to the blessing of each man, blessed he them. 29. And he commanded them, and said to them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cavern which is in the field of Ephron the Hitaah; 30. In the cavern which is in the double field over against Mamre, in the land of Kenaan, which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hitaah for an inheritancesepulchre. 31.

There buried they Abraham and Sarah his wife; there buried they Izhak and Revekah his wife; and there buried I Leah. 32. The field, and the cavern that is in it, purchased of the sons of Hitaah. 33. And Jakob ceased to instruct his sons, and drew his feet together in the bed, and died, and was gathered unto his people.