Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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

As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers;

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:

And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

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

And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:

And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;

And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.

And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other did set up the tabernacle against they came.

And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.

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 the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.

So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

And the asses of Kish Saul’s father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

And he put them all together into ward three days.

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.

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

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes–dammim.

And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.

Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Beth–el, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days;

And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.

And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.

But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth–lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot’s house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

And thou shalt make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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

And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: