Burnt offerings IX

Ruth

And God said,

Let us make man in our image,

after our likeness:

and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air,

and over the cattle,

and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And the firstborn

said  unto the

younger,

Our father is old,

and there is not a man in the earth - to come in unto us - after the manner of - all the earth:

Come, let us make - our father drink wine,

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If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?

and if thou doest not well,

sin lieth at the door.

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and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

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As for that night,

let darkness seize upon it;

let it not be joined unto the days of the year,

let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo,

let that night be solitary,

let no joyful voice come therein.

Let them curse it that curse the day,

who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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Behold,

these shall come from far:

and,

lo,

these from the north and from the west;

and these from the land of Sinim.

Sing,

O heavens;

and

be joyful,

O earth;

and break forth into singing,

O mountains:

for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

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And they made their father drink wine that night:

and the firstborn went in,

and lay with her father;

and he perceived not when she lay down,

nor when she arose.

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And when she was risen up to glean,

Boaz commanded his young men,

saying,

Let her glean - even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:

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And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.

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And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord,

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And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh,

and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, - which were in the land of Egypt,

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Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan,

and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain,

and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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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.

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And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her,

and leave them,

that she may glean them,

and rebuke her not.

So she gleaned in the field until even,

and beat out that she had gleaned:

and it was about an ephah of barley.

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