The Nazarene XII

and they took up of the fragments that remained - twelve baskets full.

 *****

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

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

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

And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.

So I awoke.

*****

And they that had eaten were about five thousand men,

be-side women and children.

And straightway RAheme constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go - before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes - away.

And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain - apart to pray:

*****

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood - before the Lord:

*****

and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

ISamuelyeaon-Am-Allah-Ohpia

The Nazarene XI

And they did all eat, and were filled:

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats - for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

**

And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over - before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went - before - the people.

And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, - that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When - ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.

**

But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

And they took up As-ah-el, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethle-hem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

**

So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.

Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

*

And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed 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:

*

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heard-est my voice.

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves - passed over me.

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. . . .

*

The name of the first is P-r-ison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,

*

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

*

. . . I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

*****

and they took up of the fragments that remained - twelve baskets full.

ISamuelyeaon-Am-Allah-Ohpia

The Nazarene X

and gave the loaves to his disciples,

 **

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man - became a living soul. . . .

***

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they - went forth - to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

*** 

. . . And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man - whom he - had formed.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;

the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and d-evil.

**

And he said,

Hagar,

Sarai's maid,

whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

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

**

As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up - before the Testimony, to be kept.

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited;

they did eat manna,

until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

**

Bind up the testimony, seal the law - among my disciples.

 *****

and the disciples - to the multitude.

*****

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood - by them under the tree,

and they did eat.

*****

And they did all eat,

*****

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.

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled again-st thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified again-st them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

*****

and were filled:

*****

ISamuelyeaon-Am-Allah-Ohpia

The Nazarene IX

and the two fishes,

I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: - from day - even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes - fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

*****

and looking up to heaven,

*****

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of  - the most high God,

possessor of heaven and earth:

**

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he - felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.

**

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,

saying,

Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

**

And Jacob asked him,

and said,

Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.

And he said,

Wherefore is it that thou dost ask - after my name?

And he blessed him there.

**

And he blessed Joseph,

and said,

God, before - whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me - all my life long unto this day,

**

And Joseph said unto his father, - Not so, - my father:

 for this is the firstborn;

put thy right hand upon - his head.

And his father refused, and said, I know it,

my son,

I know it: he also shall become a people,

and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless,

saying,

God make thee as Ephraim and as Man-as-seth: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

**

All 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.

*****

he blessed,

*****

So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it - in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

*****

and brake

*****

Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; - - but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

*****

and gave the loaves to his disciples,

ISamuelyeaon-Am-Allah-Ohpia