1. Moses is the author of the first five books of the Bible.
2. Genesis is the book of beginnings.
3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good:
and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And there was evening
and there was morning, first day.
4. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven
to divide the day from the night;
and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and
for days and years: And let them be for lights in
the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth:
and it was so. And God made the two great
lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars
also. God set them in the firmament
of heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day
and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness:
and God saw that it was good. And
there was evening and there was morning, fourth
day.
5. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he
had made; and he rested on the
seventh day from all his work which
he had made.
6. Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
7. Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden;
8. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh: she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.
9. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which Jehovah God had made.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye
shall not surely die:
10. Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, cursed art thou above
all cattle, and above every beast
of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou
eat all the days of
thy life:
11. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy
pain and thy conception; in pain thou
shalt bring forth children;
and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over
thee.
12. unto Adam he said, Cursed is the ground for
thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the
days of thy life; thorns
also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat
the herb of the field;
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast
thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return.
13. And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was
the mother of all living.
14 Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as
one of us, to know good and evil; and
now, lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever
15. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the
garden of Eden the Cherubim,
and the flame of a sword which turned
every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
16. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a
tiller of the ground.
17. Abel, brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the
fat thereof. And Jehovah had
respect unto Abel and to his
offering:
18. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
unto Jehovah. but unto Cain
and to his offering he
had not respect.
19. Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
20. Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
21. Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth.
22. Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
23. all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:
and Enoch walked with God:
and he was not; for God took
him.
24. Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
25. Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the ground;
both man, and beast,
and creeping things,and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth
me that I have made them.
26. God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come
before me; for the earth is filled with violence
through them; and, behold,
I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood;
27. Noah did according unto all that Jehovah commanded
him.
28. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood
of waters was upon the earth.
29. Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of
Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three
wives of his sons with
them, into the ark;
30. Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
31. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness
of his father, and told his two brethren
without.
32. Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid
it upon both their shoulders, and went backward,
and covered the nakedness
of their father
33. And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and
fifty years. And all the days of Noah
were nine hundred and
fifty years: And he died.
34. And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
35. Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah
did there confound the
language of all the
earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon
the face of all the earth.
36. Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and
from thy kindred, and
from thy father's house,
unto the land that I will show thee:
37. Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son.
38. There was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt.
39. Sarai, Abram's wife, bare him no children: and she
had a handmaid, an
Egyptian, whose name
was Hagar.
40. Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born
in his house, and all that
bought with his money,
every male among the men of Abraham's house, and
circumcised the flesh
of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
41. Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen
years old.
42. Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah
is great, and because their sin is
very grievous;
Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire
from Jehovah out of heaven;
43. Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old
age, at the set time of which God had
spoken to him. And Abraham
called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom
Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
44. The daughters of Lot were with child by their father.
The first-born daughter bare a son,
and called his name
Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the
younger,
bare a son, and called
his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon
unto this day.
45. Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
46. Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
47. Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne
unto Abraham, mocking.
She said unto Abraham, Cast out
this handmaid and her son.
48. God told Abraham, in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
49. God proved Abraham, and said, Abraham. He said, Here
am I. And God said, Take now
thy son, thine
only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah.
And offer him there for
a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee
of.
50. Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid
it upon Isaac his son. And he
took in his hand the fire and
the knife.
51. Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
52. The angel of Jehovah called unto him out of heaven, and
said, Abraham, Abraham.
And he said, Here I am.
And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou
anything unto him.
For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son,
from me.
53. The life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years.
54. Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
55. Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field
of Machpelah before Mamre
(the same is Hebron), in the land
of Canaan.
56. Isaac took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And he loved
her. And Isaac was comforted
after his mother's death.
57. Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
58. after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son.
59. Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the
daughter of Bethuel the Syrian
of Paddan-aram, the sister
of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
60. Issac and his wife Rebekah had twin sons Esau and Jacob.
61. Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field.
62. Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
63. Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison.
64. Rebekah loved Jacob.
65. Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. The younger would serve the elder.
66. Issac passed the birthright to Jacob and Esau lost his birthright.
67. Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.
68. Jacob was told to flee for his life to the place of his uncle Laban the brother of Rebekah.
69. Isaac sent away Jacob.
70. Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
And he lighted upon a
certain place, and tarried
there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the
stones of the place,
and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. And
he
dreamed. And behold,
a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.
And behold, the angels
of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, Jehovah
stood above it, and
said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God
of Isaac. The land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
And thy seed
shall be as the dust
of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to
the east,
and to the north, and to
the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed.
71. Jacob rose up early in the morning, took the stone
that he had put under his head, set it
up for a pillar, and poured
oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place
Beth-el.
72. Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me,
and will keep me in this way that I go,
and will give me bread
to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's
house in peace, and
Jehovah will be my God, then this stone, which I have set
up for a
pillar, shall be God's house.
And of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the
tenth unto thee.
73. Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, I will serve thee
"Laban", seven years for Rachel thy
younger daughter.
74. Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed unto
him but a few days, for the love he
had to her.
75. Laban made a feast. And it came to pass in the evening,
that he took Leah his daughter, and
brought her to him "Jacob".
And he, "Jacob" went in unto her.
76. Jacob loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
77. Rachel borne Joseph.
78. Rachel died having her son Ben-oni: but his father called
him Benjamin. Rachel died, and
was buried in the way to
Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
79. The sons of Jacob were twelve:
80. The days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.
Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and
was gathered unto his people,
old and full of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
81. Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
82. God said unto him "Jacob", Thy name is Jacob:
thy name shall not be called any more
Jacob, but Israel shall be
thy name: and he called his name Israel.
83. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age: and he
made him a coat of many colors.
84. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren;
85. Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
86. When Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they
stripped Joseph of his coat,
the coat of many colors
that was on him; and they took him, and cast him into the
pit:
and the pit was empty, there
was no water in it.
87. The brothers of Joseph lifted up Joseph out of the pit,
and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites
for twenty pieces of silver.
And they "Ishmaelites" brought Joseph into Egypt.
88. They took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped
the coat in the blood; and they
sent the coat of many colors,
and they brought it to their father, and said, This have we found:
know now whether it is thy son's
coat or not. And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat: an
evil beast hath devoured him;
Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. And Jacob rent his
garments, and put sackcloth
upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
89. The Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar,
an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain
of the guard.
90. Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and
he was in the house of his
master the Egyptian.
91. His master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. But he refused.
92. She spake unto her husband according to these words,
saying, The Hebrew servant, whom
thou hast brought unto us,
came in unto me to mock me: and it came to pass, as I lifted up
my voice and cried, that he left
his garment by me, and fled out.
93. Joseph's master took him, and put him into the
prison, the place where
the king's prisoners
were bound: and he was there in the prison.
94. Jehovah was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him,
and gave him favor in the sight
of the keeper of the prison.
95. The butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended
their lord the king of Egypt.
They were put into prison.
96. They dreamed a dream both of them.
97. Joseph answered and gave the interpretation three
days later Pharaoh woild kill one
and restore: Pharoah killed
the chief baker and restored the chief butler. Yet the chief
forgot Joseph.
98. Pharoah dreamed a dream the Butler remembered Joseph could interprete dreams.
99. Joseph interpreted the dream and Pharoah made him a ruler over Egypt.
100. Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.
101 Jacob said to his sons, behold, I have heard
there was grain in Egypt, get you down thither,
and buy for
us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
102. Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
103. Joseph was the governor over the land; he sold to the people
of the land. Joseph's
brethren came,
and bowed down themselves to him.
104. Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself
strange unto them,
and spake roughly
with them; Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
105. Joseph sent them back with grain and told them, when they
came again to bring their
younger brother
with them.
106. The famine continued and the brothers were forced to go
back to Egypt taking Benjamin
with them.
107. Joseph hid a cup in the sack of Benjamin and had his brothers
brought before him.
He then told
them he was their brother and to bring their father back to him.
108. The report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's
brethren are come:
it pleased Pharaoh
well, and his servants. Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say unto thy
brethren, This do
ye: lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;
and take your father
and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you
the good of
the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. Now thou
art
commanded,
this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones,
and for your
wives, and bring your father, and come. Also regard not your stuff;
for
the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
109. Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father
and my brethren, and their
flocks, and their
herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan;
and, behold, they
are in the land of Goshen.
110. Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and
thy brethren are come unto thee:
the land of Egypt
is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren
to dwell;
in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able
men among
them, then make
them rulers over my cattle.
111. Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen
years: so the days of Jacob, the years
of
his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.
112. Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be
with you, and bring you again
unto the
land of your fathers.
113. These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this
is it that their father spake unto them
and blessed
them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
114. Joseph commanded his servants the physicians
to embalm his father: and
the physicians
embalmed Israel.
115. Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead,
they said, It may be that
Joseph will
hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
116. Joseph's brothers sent a message to Joseph, saying, Thy father
did command before he died,
saying So shall
ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy
brethren, and
their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee,
forgive
the transgression of
the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when
they
spake unto him.
117. Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in
the place of God? And as for you, ye meant evil
against me;
but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to
save much people
alive. Now therefore
fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he
comforted
them,
and spake kindly unto them.
118. Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,
God will surely visit you, and
ye shall carry
up my bones from hence.
119. Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house:
and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
Joseph died, being
a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put
in
a coffin in Egypt.
EXODUS STUDY NOTES
1. The word Exodus describes the parting of the Israelites from the land of Egypt.
2. The book was written by Moses. Exodus is the second book
in the genre
of Biblical literature we call the Pentateuch.
3. The book of Exodus is written afte Israel has grown into a
populous nation in
the land of Goshen in Egypt. The descendants
of Jacob or Israel are numbered
into the twelve tribes that comprise the nation
of Israel.
4. After the death of Joseph we have a process of time pass
where the descendants
of Israel multiply and a ruler or Pharoah
that knew not Joseph arrived to the
throne of power.
5. The Israelites dwelled in Egypt after Joseph for 215-430 years.
6. The names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob:
Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali,
Gad and Asher.
7. All the souls that came from the loins of Jacob were 70 souls: Joseph was already in Egypt.
8. The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly,
and multiplied, and waxed
exceeding mighty; and the land was filled
with them.
9. There rose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. He said
to his people, Behold,
the children of Israel are more and mightier
than we: Let us deal wisely with them, lest they
multiply, and it come to pass, that, when
there is a war, they join themselves to our enemies,
and fight against us, and get them up out
of the land.
10. The Egyptians set taskmasters over the to afflict them with
burdens. They built Pharaoh store-cities,
Pithom and Raamses. The
more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and spread abroad.
The Egyptians were grieved because
of the children of Israel. The Egyptians made the children of Israel
serve with rigor: and made their
lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, in all manner of
service in the field
11. The king of Egypt spoke to Hebrew midwives, the name
of one was Shiphrah, the name of the
other Puah: He said,
When you do the office of midwife to Hebrew women, and see them on
the birth-stool; if it is
a son, then kill him; if it be a daughter, then she shall live. The
midwives
feared God, and did not
as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
12. The king of Egypt called the midwives, and said to them, Why have
you done this, and saved the
men-children alive? The midwives
said to Pharaoh, the Hebrew women are not as Egyptian women;
they are lively, and delivered whether or
not the midwife comes to them.
13. God dealt with the midwives: the people multiplied,
and grew very mighty. The midwives
feared God.
Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son is born you shall cast
into
the river, and every
daughter ye shall save alive.
14. There was a man of the house of Levi, and his wife was a daughter
of Levi. The woman
conceived, and bare a son:
saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
When she could not longer hide him,
she took an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime
and with pitch; She put the child
there, and laid it in the bushes by the river's edge
15. The infants sister stood off, to know what would be done to
him. The daughter of Pharaoh
to bathe at the river; her maidens
walked along the river-side; and she saw the ark among the
bushes, and sent her handmaid
to fetch it. She opened it, and saw the child: the babe wept.
She had compassion on him, and said,
This is one of the Hebrews' children. His sister said to
Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call
a nurse of the Hebrew women, to nurse the child for
thee? Pharaoh's daughter said,
Go. The maiden went and called the child's mother. Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, Take this child away,
and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.
The woman took the child, and nursed it.
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's
daughter, and he became her son. She called
his name Moses, because I drew him out of water.
16. When Moses grew up, he went to his brethren, and looked
on their burdens: he saw an Egyptian
smiting a Hebrew, one of
his brethren. He looked this way and that way, and saw that
no man,
he smote the Egyptian, hiding
him in the sand. The second day, two men of the Hebrews were
striving together: and he
said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
And he said, Who made thee
a prince and a judge over us? Thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killed
the Egyptian?
Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known. When Pharaoh heard
this thing,
he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:
17. The priest of Midian had seven daughters: they
came and drew water, to water their father's
flock.
Shepherds came and drove them away; Moses stood up and helped them,
water their
flock.
They came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so
soon to-day?
They said, An
Egyptian delivered us out of the hand shepherds, and he drew water for
us, and
watered
the flock. He said to his daughters, where is he? Why did you leave
the man? Call him,
that he
may eat bread.
18. Moses was content to dwell with the man: He gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter. She bare a son,
and he called his name Gershom;
for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
19. The king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed
by reason of bondage, they cried, and their
cry came to God concerning
the bondage. God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant
with Abraham, Isaac,
and with Jacob. God saw the children of Israel, God took knowledge of them.
20. Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian: he led the flock to
the back of the wilderness,
and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.
21. The angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush: and he looked,
the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed. Moses said, I will turn aside now,
and see this great sight,
why the bush is not burnt. Jehovah saw he turned aside to see,
God called
to him out of the midst
of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. he said, Here am I. He said,
Draw
not nigh hither: put off
thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy
ground.
He said, I am the God of
thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
22. Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Jehovah said, I have seen the affliction
of my people in Egypt, and heard
their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sorrows;
I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and bring them out of that land
unto a good land a large, land
flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, Amorite, Perizzite, Hivite,
and the Jebusite.
23. Behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me:
I have seen the oppression where the
Egyptians oppress them.
Come now, I will send you to Pharaoh, to bring my people the children
of Israel out of Egypt.
24. Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh,
that I should bring the children of
Israel out of Egypt?
He said, I will be with thee; this shall be the token to thee, that
I have sent
thee: when you bring the people
out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
25. Moses said to God, when I come to the children of Israel,
and say unto them, The God of your
fathers sent me to you;
they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say to them?
26. God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM: he said, This shall
you say to the children of Israel, I AM
hath sent me to you.
God said to Moses, This shall you say to the children of Israel, Jehovah,
the
God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me
to you: this is my
name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
27. Go, gather the elders of Israel together, say to them, Jehovah,
the God of your fathers, the God
of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob, appeared to me, saying, I have visited you, and seen that which
is done to you in
Egypt: I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction
of Egypt to the land
of the Canaanite, the Hittite,
the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, the Jebusite, to a land flowing
with milk and honey.
28. They shall hear your voice: shall come, you and the
elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you
shall say to him, Jehovah,
the God of the Hebrews, met with us: now let us go, we pray thee,
three days'
journey in the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to Jehovah our God.
29. I know the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no,
not by a mighty hand. I will put forth my
hand, and smite Egypt with all
my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: after that he will
let
you go. I will give
this people favor in the sight of Egyptians: it shall come to pass, that,
when ye
go, you shall not go empty.
30 Every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that
sojourneth in her house, jewels of
silver, jewels of gold, raiment:
and you shall put them on your sons, and on your daughters; and
you shall despoil the Egyptians.
31. Moses said, they will not believe me, nor hear my voice; they
will say, Jehovah has
not appeared unto you.
Jehovah said to him, What is in your hand? He said, A rod.
He said, Cast in on the ground.
He cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent;
Moses fled from before it.
32. Jehovah said to Moses, Put forth your hand, take it by the
tail: (he put out his hand, and laid
hold of it, and it became
a rod in his hand:) 5That they may believe Jehovah, the God
of their
fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.
33. Jehovah said to him, Put your hand in your bosom. He put his
hand in his bosom: when he took
it out, his hand was leprous,
white as snow. He said, Put your hand into your bosom again.
( he put his hand into his bosom again;
when he took it out of his bosom, it was turned again
as his other flesh.)
34. It shall come to pass, if they will not believe you, neither
hear the voice of the first sign, then
they will believe the voice of
the last sign. It will come to pass, if they will not believe these
two signs, neither hear
your voice, you shall take the water of the river, pour it on dry land:
and the water you take out of
the river will become blood on the dry land.
35. Moses said to Jehovah, Lord, I am not eloquent, I am
of slow speech, and a slow tongue.
Jehovah said to him, Who has made man's
mouth? Who makes a man dumb, or deaf, or seeing,
or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?
Go, I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you speak.
36. He said, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand
of him whom thou wilt send. The anger
of Jehovah was kindled against
Moses, he said, Is Aaron your brother the Levite? I
know he can speak well.
He comes to meet you: when he sees you, he will be glad
in his heart.
37. You shall speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth:
I will be with your mouth, and his
mouth, and will teach you
what ye shall do. He shall be your spokesman to the people;
it shall
come to pass, that he shall be
to you a mouth, and you shall be to him as God.
38. You shall take in your hand the rod, and do the signs.
Moses went and returned to Jethro his
father-in-law, and said
to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren in Egypt, and
see whether they be alive.
Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
39. Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt;
all the men are dead that sought
your life. Moses
took his wife and his sons, set them on an ass, and returned to the land
of Egypt: Moses took
the rod of God in his hand.
40. Jehovah said unto Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that
you do before Pharaoh all
the wonders I have put in your
hand: I will harden his heart and he will not let the people
go.
You shall say to Pharaoh, Thus
saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born: I have said to thee,
Let my son go, that he may
serve me; you have refused to let him go: behold, I will slay your son,
your first-born.
41. Jehovah met Moses, and sought to kill him. Zipporah
took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son,
and cast it at his
feet; she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood are you to me. He let
him alone.
She said, A bridegroom
of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.
42. Jehovah said to Aaron, Go to the wilderness to meet
Moses. He went, and met him in the mountain
of God, and kissed him.
Moses told Aaron the words of Jehovah where he had sent him, and
all the signs he had charged
him.
43. Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children
of Israel: Aaron spake
all the words Jehovah had
spoken to Moses, and did signs in sight of the people. The people
believed: and when they
heard Jehovah visited the children of Israel, and seen their affliction,
they bowed their heads and worshipped.
44. Moses and Aaron came, to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of
Israel, Let my people go, that
they may hold a feast unto me
in the wilderness. Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that
I should hear
his voice to let Israel go? I
know not Jehovah, and I will not let Israel go.
45 They said, The God of the Hebrews met with us: let us go, we
pray thee, three days' journey into the
wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah
our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
The king of Egypt said to them, Wherefore
do ye, Moses and Aaron, loose the people from their works?
Get you unto your burdens.
Pharaoh said, the people of the land are many, and you make them rest
from their burdens.
46. The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people,
and the officers, saying,
You will no more give the people
straw to make brick, let them go and gather straw for
themselves.
The number of bricks, they make you shall lay on them; you
shall not diminish
aught for they are
idle; they cry, saying, Let us go sacrifice to our God. Let heavier
work be
laid on the men, that they
may labor in; and let them not regard lying words.
47. The taskmasters went out, and the officers, and said, Thus
saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
Go get you straw where you find
it: your work shall not be diminished. The people scattered abroad
throughout the land of Egypt to
gather stubble for straw. The taskmasters were said, Fulfil your
works, your daily tasks, as when
there was straw. The officers of the children of Israel, whom
Pharaoh's taskmasters set over
them, were beaten, and demanded, have you not fulfilled your task
both yesterday and today, in making
brick as heretofore?
48. The officers of the children of Israel cried to Pharaoh,
saying, Why do you deal like this to your
servants? There
is no straw given to your servants, they say to us, Make brick: your servants
are
beaten; and the fault
is in your own people. He said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you
say,
Let us go and sacrifice
to Jehovah. Go now, and work; there will no straw be given you, yet you
shall deliver the
same number of bricks.
49. The officers of the children of Israel did see that they were
in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall
not diminish aught from
your bricks, your daily tasks. They met Moses and Aaron, standing in the
way, as they came from Pharaoh:
They said to them, Jehovah looks on you, and judge: because
you have made our savor
to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants,
to put a sword in their
hand to slay us.
50. Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Lord, why have you dealt
ill with this people? why is it that
you have sent me? Since
I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt ill with the people;
neither have you delivered your
people at all.
51. Jehovah said to Moses, Now you will see what I will
do to Pharaoh: by a strong hand he shall let
them go, and by a strong
hand he shall drive them out of his land.
52. God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am Jehovah:
I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, as God Almighty;
by my name Jehovah I was not known to them. I have established
my covenant with them,
to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein
they sojourned. I
have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep
in bondage;
I have remembered my covenant.
Say to the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, I will bring you out
from under the burdens of
the Egyptians, I will rid you out of their bondage, I will
redeem you with an
outstretched arm, and with
great judgments: I will take you to me for a people,
I will be to you a God;
ye shall know that I am
Jehovah your God, who brings you out from the burdens of the Egyptians.
I will bring you in to the
land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will
give
it you for a heritage: I
am Jehovah. Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel: but
they hearkened not
unto Moses for anguish of
spirit, and for cruel bondage.
53. Jehovah spake to Moses, saying, Go in, speak to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, that he let the children of
Israel go out of his land.
Moses spake before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have
not
hearkened unto me; how then shall
Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips? Jehovah spoke
to Moses and to Aaron, and gave
them a charge to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt,
to bring the children of Israel
out of the land of Egypt.