Burnt Offerings V

And Ruth said,

Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.

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And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Adam 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.

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And when the workman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make - one wise,

she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked;

and they sewed fig leaves together,

and made themselves aprons.

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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her,

then she left speaking unto - her.

So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass,

when they were come to Bethlehem,

that all the city was moved about them,

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So Moses brought Israel - from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

And the people murmured against Moses, saying,

What shall we drink?

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and they said,

Is this Naomi?

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara:

for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

I went out full,

and the Lord hath brought me home again empty:

why then call ye me - Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

So Naomi returned,

and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab:

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Unto Adam also - and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

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The sons of Japheth; . . .And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. . . .By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one - after his tongue, - after - their families, in their nations.

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Abraham said of Sarah his wife,

She is my sister:

and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night,

and said to him,

Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the workman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.

But Abimelech had not come near her:

and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Said he not unto me,

She is my sister?

and she,

even she herself said,

He is my brother:

in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

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and they came to Bethlehem - in the beginning of barley harvest.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

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And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed:

and,

behold,

he stood by the river.

And,

behold,

there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed;

and they fed in a meadow.

And,

behold,

seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favoured - and leanfleshed;

and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

And the ill favoured - and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured - and fat kine.

So Pharaoh awoke.

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And he slept and dreamed the second time:

and,

behold,

seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

And,

behold,

seven thin - ears - and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

And the seven thin ears - devoured the seven rank and full ears.

And Pharaoh awoke,

and,

behold,

it was a dream.

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And Ruth the Moabitess

 said unto Naomi,

Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

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And Laban answered

and said unto Jacob,

These daughters are my daughters,

and these children are my children,

and these cattle are my cattle,

and all that thou seest is mine:

and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, - or unto their children which they have born?

Now therefore come thou,

let us make a covenant,

I and thou;

and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

And Jacob took a stone,

and set it up for a pillar.

And Jacob said unto his brethren,

Gather stones;

and they took stones,

and made an heap:

and they did eat there upon the heap.

And Laban called it

Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

And Laban said,

This heap is a witness - between me and thee this day.

Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

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And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

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