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.
***
And the Lord said unto him,
What is that in thine hand?
And he said, A rod.
*
Now
the serpent was more subtil than any beast
of the field which the Lord God had made.
*
And he said,
Cast
it
on the ground.
And he cast it on the ground,
and it became
a serpent;
*
For they fled from the swords,
from
the drawn sword,
and from the bent bow,
and from the grievousness of war.
*
and Moses fled from before it.
*
And it shall come to pass in -that day,
that Tyre shall be forgotten
seventy years,
according to the
days of one king:
*
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.
***
*
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;
*
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,
*
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.
*
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.
*
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,
*
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.
***
to give our sister
to one -that is uncircumcised;
*
And God said, Let us make man in our image,
after -our likeness:
*
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.
*
for -that were
a reproach unto -us:
*
Now the serpent was more subtil
than any beast of the field which
the Lord God had made.
*
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:
*
Therefore shall a man leave his father
and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one
flesh.
*
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,
*
So
God
created man in his own image,
in the image
of God created he him;
male
and female created -he them.
*
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.
*
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,
*
And he said,
Put
-thine hand into -thy
bosom -again.
And he put his hand into his bosom again;
*
And
the dove came in to him in the evening;
and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf
plucked off:
*
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.
*
Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments
of cruelty are in -their habitations.
I
will divide them in Jacob,
and scatter them in Israel.
*
And there went a man of the house of Levi,
and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
*
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.
*
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.
*
re-quired,
re-quir-ing, re-quires. Abbr. req. 1. To have as a requisite; need: Most plants require sunlight
*
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.
*
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:
*
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:
*
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.
*
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:
*
By these were the
isles of the Gentiles divided in
their lands; every one after his tongue,
after their families, in their nations.
***
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?
***
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.
*
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,
*
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:
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
These
These
are
they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
*
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,
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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,
*
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:
*
And the
servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master,
and sware to him concerning that matter.
***
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.
*
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.
*
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;
*
The
Lord
shall add to me another son.
*
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.
*
I have waited for
thy salvation, O Lord.
these
and by these
were the nations divided in the earth -after the flood.
*
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.
*
And I will
put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between
thy seed and her seed;
*
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.
*
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.
*
And when the
sun was going down,
a deep sleep
fell upon Abram;
and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
*
And the
serpent said unto the woman,
Ye
shall not -surely die:
*
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;
*
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.
*
And it
repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth,
and it
grieved him at his heart.
*
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.
*
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.]
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
The Law
And Abraham gat
up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
*
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:
*
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.
*
and -God
talked -with him, saying,
As
for me,
behold, my
covenant is with thee,
and thou
shalt be a father of many nations.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
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:
*
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.
*
where-fore he slew him also.
*
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.
*
And they said,
Should he deal with our sister -as with an harlot?
*
When Judah saw her,
he thought
her -to be an harlot;
because she had covered her face.
*
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.
*
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.
**
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:
***
And he spake many things unto them in
parables, saying,
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
*
And he cast it on the ground,
and it became
a serpent;
***
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:
*
When Judah saw her,
he thought
her -to be an harlot;
because she had covered her face.
*
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,
*
that
he
-spilled it on the ground,
***
But -other
fell into good ground,
and brought forth fruit,
some
an hundredfold,
some sixtyfold,
some thirtyfold.
*
Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they
shall be filled.
***
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.
*
They
know not, neither will
they understand;
they
walk
on in darkness:
all
the foundations of the
earth are out of course.
*
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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.
***
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).
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary
*
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.
*
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.
Excerpted from American Heritage Talking Dictionary.
*
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.
*
Ephraim,
he hath mixed -himself among the people;
Ephraim
is
a cake not turned.
*
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.
