Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.

His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord:

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai–roi.

The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;

And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.

Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.

Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:

Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, and honour, and life.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;

So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.

And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.

And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.

And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.

And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.

And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.

And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.