I am the Conclusion.

As for me,

ISamuelyeaon

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This the twelfth month on the

twelth day in the eleventh year

In the beginning of this new millennium

This day Is MY Birth Day

These are

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created,

in the day -that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

This

And Adam said,

This is -now bone of my bones,

and flesh of my flesh:

That

And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;

and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature,

that was the name thereof.

These are the

LAWS

The sons of Abraham;

Isaac, and Ishmael.

These are their generations:

The firstborn of Ishmael,

Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

These are the sons of Ishmael.

And Abraham begat Isaac.

The sons of Isaac;

Esau and Israel.

The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.

And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.

The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.

The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.

Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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And the Lord said unto him,

What is that in thine hand?

And he said, A rod.

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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

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And he said,

Cast it on the ground.

And he cast it on the ground,

and it became a serpent;

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For they fled from the swords,

from the drawn sword,

and from the bent bow,

and from the grievousness of war.

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and Moses fled from before it.

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And it shall come to pass in -that day,

that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,

according to the days of one king:

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He breaketh me with breach upon breach,

he runneth upon me like a giant.

I -have sewed sackcloth upon -my skin,

and defiled my horn in the dust.

My face is foul with weeping,

and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Not for any injustice in mine hands:

also my prayer is pure.

***

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And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram,

the sister to Laban the Syrian.

*

And Jacob came to Shalem,

a city of Shechem,

which is in the land of Canaan,

when he came from Padanaram;

and pitched his tent before the city.

And he bought a parcel of a field,

where he had spread his tent,

at the hand of the children of Hamor,

Shechem's father,

for an hundred pieces of money.

And he erected there an altar,

and called it ElEloheIsrael.

And Dinah the daughter of Leah,

which she bare unto Jacob,

went out to see the daughters of the land.

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite,

prince of the country, saw her,

he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

*

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die:

and he called his son Joseph,

and said unto him,

If now -I have found grace in thy sight,

put, -I pray thee,

thy hand under my thigh,

and deal kindly and truly with me;

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And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob,

and he loved the damsel,

and spake kindly unto the damsel.

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying,

Get me this damsel to wife.

And Jacob heard -that he had defiled Dinah his daughter:

now his sons were with his cattle in the field:

and Jacob held his peace until -they were come.

And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it:

and the men were grieved,

and -they were very wroth,

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Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows:

for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer,

and every mouth speaketh folly.

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and they were very wroth,

because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter;

which thing ought not to be done.

And Hamor communed with them, saying,

The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter:

I pray you give her him to wife.

 And make ye marriages with us,

and give your daughters unto us,

and take our daughters unto you.

And ye shall dwell with us:

and the land shall be -before you;

dwell and trade ye therein,

and get you possessions therein.

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren,

Let -me find grace in your eyes,

and what ye shall say unto -me -I will give.

Ask me -never so much dowry and gift,

and -I will give according as ye shall say unto -me:

but give me the damsel to wife.

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, -because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

*

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.

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And he said unto them,

Hear, I pray you,

this dream which I have dreamed:

  For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field,

and, lo, -my sheaf arose,

and also stood upright;

and, behold, your sheaves stood round about,

and made obeisance to -my sheaf.

And his brethren said to him,

Shalt thou indeed reign over us?

or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?

And they hated him yet the more for his dreams,

and for his words.

***

And they said unto them,

We cannot do -this thing,

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And God said unto Abraham,

Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore,

thou, and thy seed -after thee in -their generations.

This is my covenant,

which ye shall keep,

between me and you and thy seed after thee;

Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin;

and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

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to give our sister to one -that is uncircumcised;

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And God said, Let us make man in our image,

after -our likeness:
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re-proached, re-proach-ing, re-proach-es. 1. To express disapproval of, criticism of, or disappointment in (someone). See Synonyms at admonish. 2. To bring shame upon; disgrace.n. 1. Blame; rebuke. 2. One that causes rebuke or blame. 3. Disgrace; shame. --idiom. beyond reproach. So good as to preclude any possibility of criticism.[Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiare : Latin re-, re- + Latin prope, near. See per1.]--re-proach'a-ble adj. --re-proach'a-ble-ness n. --re-proach'a-bly adv. --re-proach'er n.

Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary.

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for -that were a reproach unto -us:

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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

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But in -this will -we consent unto you:

If ye will be as we be,

that every male of you be circumcised;

Then will we give our daughters unto you,

and we will take your daughters to us,

and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised;

then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

And the young man deferred not to do the thing,

because he had delight in Jacob's daughter:

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,

and shall cleave unto his wife:

and they shall be one flesh.

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and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.

And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city,

and communed with the men of their city, saying,

These men are peaceable with us;

therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein;

for the land, behold, it is large enough for them;

let us take their daughters to us for wives,

and let us give them our daughters.

Only herein will the men consent unto us for -to dwell with us,

to be one people,

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So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God created he him;

male and female created -he them.

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if every male among us be circumcised,

as they are circumcised.

Shall not their cattle and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours?

only let us consent unto them,

and they will dwell with us.

And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all -that went out of the gate of his city;

and every male was circumcised,

all that went out of the gate of his city.

And it came to pass on the third day,

when they were sore,

that two of the sons of Jacob,

Simeon and Levi,

Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword,

and came upon the city boldly,

and slew all the males.

And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword,

and took Dinah out of Shechem's house,

and went out.

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain,

and spoiled the city,

because they had defiled their sister.

They took their sheep,

and their oxen,

and their asses,

and -that which was in the city,

and -that which was in the field,

And all their wealth,

and all their little ones,

and their wives took they captive,

and spoiled even all that was in the house.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi,

Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites:

and I being few in number,

they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me;

and I shall be destroyed,

I and my house.

And they said,

Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

*

after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

*

Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush,

in one day.

***

And the Lord said unto Moses,

Put forth thine hand, and -take it - -by the tail.

And he put forth his hand,

and caught it,

and it became -a rod in -his hand:

That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers,

the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac,

and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto -thee.

And the Lord said furthermore unto him,

Put now – thine - hand into –thy- bosom.

And –he put –his hand into -his bosom:

and when -he took it out,

behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

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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 blessed be the most high God,

which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand.

And he -gave him tithes -of all.

And the king -of Sodom said unto Abram,

Give me the persons,

and take the goods to thyself.

And Abram said to the king -of Sodom,

I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord,

the most high God,

the possessor of heaven and earth,

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And he said,

Put -thine hand into -thy bosom -again.

And he put his hand into his bosom again;

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And the dove came in to him in the evening;

and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off:

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and plucked it out of his bosom,

and, behold, it was turned again as his - -other flesh.

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign,

that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

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Simeon and Levi are brethren;

instruments of cruelty are in -their habitations.

I will divide them in Jacob,

and scatter them in Israel.

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And there went a man of the house of Levi,

and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

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And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter,

and he became - -her son.

And she called - -his name Moses:

and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

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And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice,

that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land:

and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

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re-quired, re-quir-ing, re-quires. Abbr. req. 1. To have as a requisite; need: Most plants require sunlight

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And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said,

Ye shall not eat of it,

neither shall ye touch it,

lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman,

Ye -shall not surely die:

*

And surely your blood of your lives will I require;

at the hand of every beast will I require it,

and at the hand of man;

at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood,

by man shall his blood be shed:

for in the image of God made he man.

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O my soul, -come not thou into their secret;

unto their assembly,

mine honour, be not thou united:

for in their anger they slew a man,

and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel:

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Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great;

and thou shalt be a blessing:

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The mighty man,

and the man of war,

the judge,

and the prophet,

and the prudent,

and the ancient,

The captain of fifty,

and the honourable man,

and the counsellor,

and the cunning artificer,

and the eloquent orator.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

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And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither here-to-fore, - -nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant:

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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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but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

***

What could have been done more to my vineyard,

that -I have not done in it?

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And the Lord said unto him, -Who hath made man's mouth?

or -who maketh the dumb, or deaf,

or the seeing, or the blind?

have not -I the Lord?

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth,

and teach thee -what thou shalt say.

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Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great;

and thou shalt be a blessing:

*

And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom - -thou wilt -send.

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses,

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And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son:

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and he said, Is not Aaron the –Levite- thy - brother?

I know that he can speak well.

And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee:

and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people:

and he shall be, -even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth,

and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

And thou shalt take -this rod -in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

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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 God said unto Moses,

I AM -THAT I AM:

and he said,

Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,

I AM hath sent me unto you.

And God said moreover unto Moses,

Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel,

The Lord God of your fathers,

the God of Abraham,

the God of Isaac,

and the God of Jacob,

hath sent me unto you:

this is -my name for ever,

and -this is -my memorial unto all generations.

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And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive.

And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

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And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth;

both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;

for it repenteth me that I have made them.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

These

These are the generations of Noah:

Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,

and Noah walked - -with God.

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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After this -opened - -Job -his mouth, and cursed his day.

And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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These

These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created,

in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

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And the sons of Noah, -that went forth of the ark,

were Shem,

and Ham,

and Japheth:

and Ham is the father of Canaan.

These are the three sons of Noah:

and of them was the whole earth overspread.

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These

The sons of Japheth;

Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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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And the sons of Ham; And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite:

Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: where-fore it is said,

Even as RAheme the mighty hunter before the Lord.

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.

And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,

And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.

And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite:

and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad

These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder,

even to him were children born.

The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

And unto Eber were born two sons:

the name of one was Peleg;

for in his days was the earth divided;

and his brother's name was Joktan.

And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

These are the sons of Shem, -after their families, -after their tongues, in -their lands, -after their nations.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, -after their generations,

in their nations:

and by these were the nations divided in the earth -after the flood.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And Jacob called unto his sons,

and said, Gather yourselves together,

that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

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The twelve sons of Jacob Israel

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram,

the sister to Laban the Syrian.

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And Laban had two daughters:

the name of the elder was Leah,

and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Sons of Leah

Leah conceived, and bare a son,

and she called his name Reuben:

for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,

Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated,

he hath therefore given me this son also:

and she called his name Simeon.

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said,

Now this time will my husband be joined unto me,

because I have born him three sons:

therefore was his name called Levi.

And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said,

Now will I praise the Lord:

therefore she called his name Judah;

and left bearing.     

Sons of Zilpah

And Zilpah -Leah's maid bare Jacob a son.

And Leah said, A troop cometh:

and she called his name Gad.

And Zilpah Leah's maid bare Jacob a second son.

And Leah said, Happy am I,

for the daughters will call me blessed:

and she called his name Asher.

The Sons of Rachel

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, -go in unto her; . . . And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife:

and Jacob went in unto her.

And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

And Rachel said, God hath judged me,

and hath also heard my voice,

and hath given me a son:

therefore called she his name Dan.

And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again,

and bare Jacob a second son.

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And Jacob was left alone;

and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him,

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And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house,

that ruled over all that he had,

Put, I pray thee, -thy hand under my thigh:

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And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

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I am poured out like water,

 and all my bones are out of joint:

my heart is like wax;

it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd;

and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;

and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

For dogs have compassed me:

the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me:

they pierced my hands and my feet.

I may tell all my bones:

they look and stare upon me.

They part my garments among them,

and cast lots upon my vesture.

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he touched the hollow of -his thigh;

and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint,

as he wrestled with him.

*

And Isaac his father said unto him, -Who art thou?

And he said,

I am thy son,

thy firstborn Esau.

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said,

Who? -where is he -that hath taken venison,

and brought it me,

and I have eaten of all before thou camest,

and have blessed him?

yea, -and -he shall be blessed.

*

And he said, Let me go,

for the day breaketh.

And he said,

I will not let thee go,

except thou bless me.

And he said unto him,

What is thy name?

And he said, Jacob.

And he said,

Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel:

***

And the flood was forty days upon the earth;

and the waters increased, and bare up the ark,

and it was lift up above the earth.

And the waters prevailed,

and were increased greatly upon the earth;

and the ark -went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;

and all the high hills,

that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail;

and the mountains were covered.

*

for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men,

and hast prevailed.

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 Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,

and I have prevailed:

and she called his name Naphtali.

*

And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated,

he opened her womb:

but Rachel was barren.

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And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children,

Rachel envied her sister;

and said unto Jacob,

Give me children, or else I die.

And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel:

and he said,

Am I in God's stead,

who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

*

And God remembered Rachel,

and God hearkened to her,

and opened her womb.

And she conceived, and bare a son;

and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

And she called his name Joseph;

and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph,

that Jacob said unto Laban,

Send me away,

that I may go unto mine own place,

and to my country.

Give me my wives and my children,

for whom I have served thee,

and let me go:

for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.

*

And they journeyed from Bethel;

and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath:

and Rachel travailed,

and she had hard labour.

And it came to pass,

when she was in hard labour,

that the midwife said unto her,

Fear not;

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The Lord shall add to me another son.

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thou shalt -have -this son also.

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni:

but his father called him Benjamin.

And Rachel died,

and was buried in the way to Ephrath,

which is Bethlehem.

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I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

these

and by these were the nations divided in the earth -after the flood.

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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.

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And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,

and between thy seed and her seed;

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And the Lord said unto Abram,

after that -Lot was separated from him,

Lift up -now -thine eyes,

and look from the place where thou art northward,

and southward, and eastward, and westward:

For all the land which thou seest,

to thee will I give it,

and to thy seed -for ever.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth:

so that if a man can number the dust of the earth,

then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it;

for I will give it unto thee.

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And Abram said, Behold, to me -thou hast given no seed:

and, lo, one born in my house is -mine heir.

And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,

This shall not be thine heir;

but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

And he brought him forth abroad,

and said, Look now -toward heaven,

and tell the stars,

if thou be able to number them:

and he said unto him,

So shall thy seed be.

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And when the sun was going down,

a deep sleep fell upon Abram;

and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

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And the serpent said unto the woman,

Ye shall not -surely die:

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And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety -that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land -that is not --theirs,

and shall serve them;

and they shall afflict them -four hundred years;

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In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,

Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth,

and it grieved him at his heart.

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And God said,

Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,

and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God made the firmament,

and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:

and it was so.

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ap-pear  (-pir)v. intr. ap-peared, ap-pear-ing, ap-pears. 1. To become visible: a plane appearing in the sky. 2. To come into existence: New strains of viruses appear periodically. 3. To seem or look to be: appeared unhappy. 4. To seem likely: They will be late, as it appears. 5. To come before the public: has appeared in two plays; appears on the nightly news. 6. Law. To present oneself formally before a court as defendant, plaintiff, or counsel.

ap-par-ent    (-parnt, -par-)adj. 1. Readily seen; visible. 2. Readily understood; clear or obvious. 3. Appearing as such but not necessarily so; seeming: an apparent advantage.[Middle English, from Old French aparant, present participle of aparoir, to appear. See APPEAR.]

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The Law

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

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And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,

the Lord appeared to Abram,

and said unto him,

I am the Almighty God;

walk before -me,

and be thou perfect.

And I will make my covenant between me and thee,

and will multiply thee exceedingly.

And Abram fell on his face:

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For God doth know that in the day -ye eat thereof,

then your eyes shall be opened,

and ye shall be -as gods,

knowing good and evil.

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and -God talked -with him, saying,

As for me,

behold, my covenant is with thee,

and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

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And Shem and Japheth -took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders,

and went backward, and covered the nakedness of -their father;

and -their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

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Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram,

but thy name shall be Abra-ham;

for a -father of many nations have I made thee.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful,

and I will make nations of thee,

and kings shall come out of thee.

And I will establish my covenant -between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,

to be a God unto thee,

and to thy seed -after thee.

And I will give unto thee,

and to thy seed after thee,

the land wherein thou art a stranger,

all the land of Canaan,

for an everlasting possession;

and I will be their God.

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And God said,

Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed;

and thou shalt call his name Isaac:

and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,

and with his seed -after him.

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Then Isaac sowed in that land,

and received in the same year an hundredfold:

and the Lord blessed him.

And the man waxed great,

and went forward,

and grew until he became very great:

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The sons of Judah;

Er, and Onan, and Shelah:

which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess.

And Er, the firstborn of Judah,

And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn,

whose name was Tamar.

And Er, Judah's firstborn,

was wicked in the sight of the Lord;

and the Lord slew him.

And Judah said unto Onan,

Go in unto thy brother's wife,

and marry her,

and raise up seed to -thy brother.

And Onan knew that the seed should not be his;

and it came to pass,

when he went in unto his brother's wife,

that he spilled it on the ground,

lest that he should give seed to -his brother.

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where-fore he slew him also.

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And it was told Tamar, saying,

Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to -shear his sheep.

And she put her widow's garments off from her,

and covered her with a veil,

and wrapped herself,

and sat in an open place,

which is by the way to Timnath;

for she saw that Shelah was grown,

and she was not given unto him to wife.

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And they said,

Should he deal with our sister -as with an harlot?

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When Judah saw her,

he thought her -to be an harlot;

because she had covered her face.

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And he said,

What pledge shall I give thee?

And she said,

Thy signet,

and thy bracelets,

and thy staff that is in thine hand.

And he gave it her,

and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

And Tamar his daughter in law -bare him Pharez and Zerah.

All the sons of Judah were five.

The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.

And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara:

five of them in all.

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And God made the firmament,

and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament:

and it was so.

RAheme

The same day went RAheme out of the house,

and sat by the sea side.

And great multitudes were gathered together unto him,

so -that he went into a ship,

and sat;

and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

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Then Isaac sowed in -that land,

and received in the same year an hundredfold:

and the Lord blessed him.

And the man waxed great,

and went forward,

and grew until he became very great:

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And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying,

Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

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And he cast it on the ground,

and it became a serpent;

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And when -he sowed,

some seeds fell by the way side,

and the fowls came and devoured them up:

Some fell upon stony places,

where they had not much earth:

and forthwith they sprung up,

because they had no deepness of earth:

And when the sun was up,

they were scorched;

and because they had no root,

they withered -away.

And some fell among thorns;

and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:


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When Judah saw her,

he thought her -to be an harlot;

because she had covered her face.

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And he said,

What pledge shall I give thee?

And she said,

Thy signet,

and thy bracelets,

and thy staff that is in thine hand.

And he gave it her,

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that he -spilled it on the ground,

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But -other fell into good ground,

and brought forth fruit,

some an hundredfold,

some sixtyfold,

some thirtyfold.

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Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:

for they shall be filled.

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Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Shew the things that are to come here-after,

that we may know -that ye -are gods:

yea, do good, or do evil, -that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

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They know not, neither will they understand;

they walk on in darkness:

all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

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I will go down now,

and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it,

which is come unto me;

and if not, - -I will know.

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The Declaration of Independence

as conveyed

By

RAheme

The son of God

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

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Huram said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.

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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,

it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Charges

3.1   He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

        He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

        He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

        He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

        He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

        He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

        He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

        He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

        He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

        He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

        He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

        He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

        He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

        For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

        For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

        For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

        For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

        For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

        For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

        For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

        For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

        He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

        He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

        He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

        He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

        He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

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Our cattle also shall go with us;

there shall not an hoof be left behind;

for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God;

and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.

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He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.

This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidels powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. He has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce determining to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

Conclusion

4.1   In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

        Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren.

        We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

       

u-sur-pa-tion (yoosr-pashn, -zr-)n. 1. The act of usurping, especially the wrongful seizure of royal sovereignty. 2. A wrongful seizure or exercise of authority or privilege belonging to another; an encroachment: "in our own day, gross usurpations upon the liberty of private life" (John Stuart Mill).

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        We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.

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con-san-guin-i-ty  (konsan-gwini-te, -sang-)n.pl. con-san-guin-i-ties. 1. Relationship by blood or by a common ancestor. 2. A close affinity or connection.

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        They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

        We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

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Ephraim, he hath mixed -himself among the people;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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Summation

5.1 We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of RAheme, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, 
That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

        And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

For then will ISamuelyeaon turn to the people a pure language, -that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.