And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.

If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath–sepher:

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:

Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

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

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.

Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

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 he set the one in Beth–el, and the other put he in Dan.

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath–jearim.

And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth–shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:

And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,

And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

And sixteen thousand persons;)

And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

And Moses told it unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.

And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,

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

And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.

In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.

Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.

If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

And it came to pass that night, that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying,

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?

And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

And the sons of Dan; Hushim.

Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.

Halhul, Beth–zur, and Gedor,

Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?

And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse,

And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.

We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,

And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion–gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;