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Numbers 1.1: 1 Yahweh spoke appeared to Moses in him by the wilderness oaks of Sinai, Mamre, as he sat in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, tent door in the second year after they had come out heat of the land of Egypt, saying, day.

Numbers 1.2: Genesis 18.2: 2 “Take a census of all He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according tent door, and bowed himself to the number of the names, every male, one by one, earth,

Numbers 1.3: Genesis 18.3: 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions. your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

Numbers 1.4: Genesis 18.4: 4 With you there shall be Now let a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house. little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Numbers 1.5: Genesis 18.5: 5 These are the names I will get a piece of the men who shall stand with you: bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”

Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

Numbers 1.6: Genesis 18.6: 6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel Abraham hurried into the son tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of Zurishaddai. fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

Numbers 1.7: Genesis 18.7: 7 Of Judah: Nahshon Abraham ran to the son of Amminadab. herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

Numbers 1.8: Genesis 18.8: 8 Of Issachar: Nethanel He took butter, milk, and the son of Zuar. calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Numbers 1.9: Genesis 18.9: 9 Of Zebulun: Eliab They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”

He said, “There, in the son of Helon. tent.”

Numbers 1.10: Genesis 18.10: 10 Of He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.”

Sarah heard in the children of Joseph: of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud; of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. tent door, which was behind him.

Numbers 1.11: Genesis 18.11: 11 Of Benjamin: Abidan Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the son age of Gideoni. childbearing.

Numbers 1.12: Genesis 18.12: 12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

Numbers 1.13: Genesis 18.13: 13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’

Numbers 1.14: Genesis 18.14: 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the son of Deuel. set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Numbers 1.15: Genesis 18.15: 15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.” Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.

Numbers 1.16: He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

Genesis 18.16: 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. way.

Numbers 1.17: Genesis 18.17: 17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

Numbers 1.18: Genesis 18.18: 18 They assembled since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the congregation together on the first day nations of the second month; earth will be blessed in him?

Genesis 18.19: 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to may keep the number way of the names, from twenty years old Yahweh, to do righteousness and upward, one by one.

Numbers 1.19: 19 As justice; to the end that Yahweh commanded Moses, so may bring on Abraham that which he counted them in the wilderness has spoken of Sinai. him.”

Numbers 1.20: Genesis 18.20: 20 The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to Yahweh said, “Because the number cry of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old Sodom and upward, all who were able to go out to war: Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

Numbers 1.21: Genesis 18.21: 21 those who were counted of them, of I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Numbers 1.22: Genesis 18.22: 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male The men turned from twenty years old there, and upward, all who were able to go out to war: went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Numbers 1.23: Genesis 18.23: 23 those who were counted of them, of Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. righteous with the wicked?

Numbers 1.24: Genesis 18.24: 24 Of What if there are fifty righteous within the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to city? Will you consume and not spare the number of place for the names, from twenty years old and upward, all fifty righteous who were able to go out to war: are in it?

Numbers 1.25: Genesis 18.25: 25 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

Numbers 1.26: 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, May it be far from twenty years old and upward, all who were able you to go out do things like that, to war:

Numbers 1.27: 27 those who were counted of them, of kill the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 1.28: 28 Of righteous with the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to wicked, so that the number of righteous should be like the names, wicked. May that be far from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.29: 29 those who were counted of them, of you. Shouldn’t the tribe Judge of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Numbers 1.30: 30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.31: 31 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. earth do right?”

Numbers 1.32: 32 Of Genesis 18.26: 26 Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the children of Joseph: of city, then I will spare the children of Ephraim, whole place for their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according sake.”

Genesis 18.27: 27 Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the number of the names, from twenty years old Lord, although I am dust and upward, all who were able to go out to war: ashes.

Numbers 1.33: 33 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand Genesis 18.28: 28 What if there will lack five hundred.

Numbers 1.34: 34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, fifty righteous? Will you destroy all who were able to go out to war:

Numbers 1.35: 35 those who were counted of them, of the tribe city for lack of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred. five?”

Numbers 1.36: 36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

Genesis 18.29: 29 He spoke to the number of the names, from twenty years old him yet again, and upward, all who were able to go out to war: said, “What if there are forty found there?”

Numbers 1.37: 37 those who were counted of them, of He said, “I will not do it for the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred. forty’s sake.”

Numbers 1.38: 38 Of Genesis 18.30: 30 He said, “Oh don’t let the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old Lord be angry, and upward, all who were able to go out to war: I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”

Numbers 1.39: 39 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Numbers 1.40: 40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according Genesis 18.31: 31 He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the number of the names, from Lord. What if there are twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war: found there?”

Numbers 1.41: 41 those who were counted of them, of He said, “I will not destroy it for the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred. twenty’s sake.”

Numbers 1.42: 42 Of Genesis 18.32: 32 He said, “Oh don’t let the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old Lord be angry, and upward, all who were able to go out to war: I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?”

Numbers 1.43: 43 those who were counted of them, of He said, “I will not destroy it for the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred. ten’s sake.”

Numbers 1.44: 44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for Genesis 18.33: 33 Yahweh went his fathers’ house.

Numbers 1.45: 45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and upward, all who were able Abraham returned to go out to war in Israel— his place.

Numbers 1.46: 46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty. Genesis 30.0:

Numbers 1.47: 47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them. 30

Numbers 1.48: 48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 1.49: 49 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not count, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

Numbers 1.50: 50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all Genesis 30.1: 1 When Rachel saw that belongs she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it. Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Numbers 1.51: 51 When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; Genesis 30.2: 2 Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger he said, “Am I in God’s place, who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 1.52: 52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

Numbers 1.53: 53 But has withheld from you the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle fruit of the Testimony, womb?”

Genesis 30.3: 3 She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that there she may be no wrath bear on the congregation of the my knees, and I also may obtain children of Israel. The Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.” by her.”

Numbers 1.54: 54 Thus the children of Israel did. According Genesis 30.4: 4 She gave him Bilhah her servant as wife, and Jacob went in to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did. her.

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A Psalm of thanksgiving.

Psalms 100.1: 1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

Psalms 100.2: 2 Serve Yahweh with gladness.

Come before his presence with singing.

Psalms 100.3: 3 Know that Yahweh, he is God.

It is he who Genesis 30.6: 6 Rachel said, “God has made us, judged me, and we are his.

We are his people, has also heard my voice, and the sheep of has given me a son.” Therefore she called his pasture. name Dan.

Psalms 100.4: 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,

Genesis 30.7: 7 Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and into his courts with praise. bore Jacob a second son.

Give thanks to him, Genesis 30.8: 8 Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and bless his name. have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

Psalms 100.5: 5 For Yahweh is good.

His loving kindness endures forever,

his faithfulness Genesis 30.9: 9 When Leah saw that she had finished bearing, she took Zilpah, her servant, and gave her to all generations. Jacob as a wife.

Psalms 115.0: Genesis 30.10: 10 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a son.

115 Genesis 30.11: 11 Leah said, “How fortunate!” She named him Gad.

Psalms 115.1: 1 Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, Genesis 30.12: 12 Zilpah, Leah’s servant, bore Jacob a second son.

but to your name give glory,

Genesis 30.13: 13 Leah said, “Happy am I, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

Psalms 115.2: 2 Why should the nations say, daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

“Where is their God, now?”

Psalms 115.3: 3 But our God is Genesis 30.14: 14 Reuben went in the heavens. days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

He does whatever he pleases.

Psalms 115.4: 4 Their Genesis 30.15: 15 Leah said to her, “Is it a small matter that you idols are silver and gold,

the work of men’s hands.

Psalms 115.5: 5 They have mouths, but they don’t speak. taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?”

They have eyes, but they don’t see. Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

Psalms 115.6: 6 They Genesis 30.16: 16 Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have ears, but they don’t hear. surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.”

They have noses, but they don’t smell. He lay with her that night.

Psalms 115.7: 7 They have hands, but they don’t feel. Genesis 30.17: 17 God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

They have feet, but they don’t walk, Genesis 30.18: 18 Leah said, “God has given me my hire, because I gave my servant to my husband.” She named him Issachar.

neither do they speak through their throat. Genesis 30.19: 19 Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.

Psalms 115.8: 8 Those who make them Genesis 30.20: 20 Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will be like them; live with me, because I have borne him six sons.” She named him Zebulun.

yes, everyone who trusts in them. Genesis 30.21: 21 Afterwards, she bore a daughter, and named her Dinah.

Psalms 115.9: 9 Israel, trust in Yahweh! Genesis 30.22: 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

He is their help Genesis 30.23: 23 She conceived, bore a son, and their shield. said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

Psalms 115.10: 10 House of Aaron, trust in Yahweh! Genesis 30.24: 24 She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”

He is their help Genesis 30.25: 25 When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and their shield. to my country.

Psalms 115.11: 11 You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh!

He is their help Genesis 30.26: 26 Give me my wives and their shield. my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

Psalms 115.12: 12 Genesis 30.27: 27 Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. has blessed me for your sake.”

Genesis 30.28: 28 He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will bless the house of Israel. give it.”

He will bless the house of Aaron.

Psalms 115.13: 13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh,

both small Genesis 30.29: 29 Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and great.

Psalms 115.14: 14 May Yahweh increase you more and more,

you and how your children. livestock have fared with me.

Psalms 115.15: 15 Blessed are Genesis 30.30: 30 For it was little which you by Yahweh,

who made heaven had before I came, and earth.

Psalms 115.16: 16 The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens,

but he it has given the earth increased to the children of men. a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

Psalms 115.17: 17 The dead don’t praise Yah, Genesis 30.31: 31 Laban said, “What shall I give you?”

neither any who go down into silence;

Psalms 115.18: 18 but we Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will bless Yah,

from do this time forward thing for me, I will again feed your flock and forever more. keep it.

Praise Yah!

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Romans 13.1: 1 Let Genesis 30.32: 32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every soul be in subjection to speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, sheep, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Romans 13.2: 2 Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; spotted and those who withstand speckled among the goats. This will receive to themselves judgment. be my hire.

Romans 13.3: 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do Genesis 30.33: 33 So my righteousness will answer for me hereafter, when you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do come concerning my hire that which is good, before you. Every one that is not speckled and you will have praise from spotted among the authority,

Romans 13.4: 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do goats, and black among the sheep, that which is evil, might be afraid, for with me, will be considered stolen.”

Genesis 30.34: 34 Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

Genesis 30.35: 35 That day, he doesn’t bear removed the sword male goats that were streaked and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in vain; for he is a servant it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil. his sons.

Romans 13.5: 5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of Genesis 30.36: 36 He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

Romans 13.6: 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants rest of God’s service, continually doing this very thing. Laban’s flocks.

Romans 13.7: 7 Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

Romans 13.8: 8 Owe no one anything, except Genesis 30.37: 37 Jacob took to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13.9: 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up plane tree, peeled white streaks in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 13.10: 10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is them, and made the fulfillment of white appear which was in the law. rods.

Romans 13.11: 11 Do this, knowing Genesis 30.38: 38 He set the time, that it is already time for you rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than drink. They conceived when we first believed. they came to drink.

Romans 13.12: 12 Genesis 30.39: 39 The night is far gone, flocks conceived before the rods, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off flocks produced streaked, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 30.40: 40 Jacob separated the deeds of darkness, lambs, and let’s put on set the armor faces of light.

Romans 13.13: 13 Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling flocks toward the streaked and drunkenness, not all the black in sexual promiscuity Laban’s flock. He put his own droves apart, and lustful acts, and not didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.

Genesis 30.41: 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, Jacob laid the rods in strife and jealousy. front of the eyes of the flock in the watering troughs, that they might conceive among the rods;

Romans 13.14: 14 But Genesis 30.42: 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put on them in. So the Lord Jesus Christ, feebler were Laban’s, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts. stronger Jacob’s.

Judith 13.0: Genesis 30.43: 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Judith 13.1: Genesis 47.1: 1 But when the evening had come, his servants hurried to depart. Bagoas shut the tent outside, Then Joseph went in and dismissed those who waited from told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the presence land of his lord. They went away to their beds; for Canaan; and behold, they were all weary, because are in the feast had been long. land of Goshen.”

Judith 13.2: Genesis 47.2: 2 But Judith was left alone in the tent, with Holofernes lying along upon From among his bed; for brothers he was drunk with wine. took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

Judith 13.3: Genesis 47.3: 3 Judith had Pharaoh said to her servant that she should stand outside her bedchamber, his brothers, “What is your occupation?”

They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we, and wait for her our fathers.”

Genesis 47.4: 4 They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come out, to live as she did daily; foreigners in the land, for she said she would go out to her prayer. She spoke to Bagoas according to there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the same words.

Judith 13.4: 4 All went away from her presence, and none was left famine is severe in the bedchamber, small or great. Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God land of all power, look Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in this hour upon the works land of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. Goshen.”

Judith 13.5: Genesis 47.5: 5 For now is the time Pharaoh spoke to help your inheritance, Joseph, saying, “Your father and to do the thing that I your brothers have purposed come to the destruction of the enemies which have risen up against us. you.

Judith 13.6: Genesis 47.6: 6 She came to the rail The land of the bed, which was at Holofernes’ head, Egypt is before you. Make your father and took down his scimitar from there.

Judith 13.7: 7 She drew near to your brothers dwell in the bed, took hold best of the hair land. Let them dwell in the land of his head, and said, “Strengthen me, O Lord God Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of Israel, this day.” my livestock.”

Judith 13.8: 8 She struck twice upon Genesis 47.7: 7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his neck with all her might, father, and took away his head from him, set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Judith 13.9: Genesis 47.8: 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

Genesis 47.9: 9 tumbled his body down from Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the bed, years of my life have been few and took down evil. They have not attained to the canopy from days of the pillars. After a little while she went out, and gave Holofernes’ head to her maid; years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Judith 13.10: Genesis 47.10: 10 Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and she put it in her bag of food. They both went out together to prayer, according to their custom. They passed through from the camp, circled around that valley, and went up to the mountain presence of Bethulia, and came to its gates. Pharaoh.

Judith 13.11: Genesis 47.11: 11 Judith said afar off to Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the watchmen at land of Egypt, in the gates, “Open, open best of the gate, now. God is with us, even our God, to show his power yet land, in Israel, and his might against the enemy, land of Rameses, as he has done even this day.” Pharaoh had commanded.

Judith 13.12: Genesis 47.12: 12 It came to pass, when the men Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of her city heard her voice, they made haste his father’s household with bread, according to go down to the gate sizes of their city, and they called together the elders of the city. families.

Judith 13.13: Genesis 47.13: 13 They There was no bread in all ran together, both small and great, the land; for it the famine was strange to them very severe, so that she had come. They opened the gate land of Egypt and received them, making a fire to give light, and surrounded them.

Judith 13.14: 14 She said to them with a loud voice, “Praise God! Praise him! Praise God, who has not taken away his mercy from the house land of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies Canaan fainted by my hand tonight!” reason of the famine.

Judith 13.15: 15 Then she took Genesis 47.14: 14 Joseph gathered up all the head out of money that was found in the bag land of Egypt, and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, in the head land of Holofernes, Canaan, for the chief captain of grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the army money into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 47.15: 15 When the money was all spent in the land of Asshur, Egypt, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand land of a woman. Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”

Judith 13.16: Genesis 47.16: 16 And as the Lord lives, who preserved Joseph said, “Give me in my way that your livestock; and I went, my countenance deceived him will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

Genesis 47.17: 17 They brought their livestock to his destruction, Joseph, and he didn’t commit sin with me, to defile Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and shame me.”

Judith 13.17: 17 All for the people were exceedingly amazed, flocks, and bowed themselves, for the herds, and worshiped God, for the donkeys: and said he fed them with one accord, “Blessed are you, O our God, which have this day brought to nothing the enemies of your people.” bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

Judith 13.18: Genesis 47.18: 18 Ozias said When that year was ended, they came to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in him the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; second year, and blessed said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is the Lord God, who created the heavens all spent, and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the prince sight of my lord, but our enemies. bodies, and our lands.

Judith 13.19: Genesis 47.19: 19 For Why should we die before your hope eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not depart from the heart of men die, and that remember the strength of God forever. land won’t be desolate.”

Judith 13.20: Genesis 47.20: 20 May God turn these things to you So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for a perpetual praise, to visit you with good things, because you didn’t spare your life by reason Pharaoh, for every man of the affliction of our race, but avenged our fall, walking a straight way before our God.”

And all Egyptians sold his field, because the people said, “Amen! Amen!” famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

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4 Maccabees 2.2: 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Genesis 47.23: 23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is praised in seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Genesis 47.24: 24 It will happen at the harvests, that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the indulgence field, for your food, for them of sense.

4 Maccabees 2.3: 3 For, although young, your households, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated food for your little ones.”

Genesis 47.25: 25 They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in by reasoning the stimulus sight of his passions. my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

4 Maccabees 2.4: 4 And Genesis 47.26: 26 Joseph made it is not merely a statute concerning the stimulus land of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able Egypt to master.

4 Maccabees 2.5: 5 For instance, the law says, You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor anything this day, that belongs to your neighbor.

4 Maccabees 2.6: 6 Now, then, since it is Pharaoh should have the law which has forbidden us to desire, I shall much fifth. Only the more easily persuade you, that reasoning is able to govern our lusts, just as it does land of the affections which are impediments to justice. priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

4 Maccabees 2.7: 7 Since Genesis 47.27: 27 Israel lived in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord the land of Egypt, in the passions? land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

4 Maccabees 2.8: 8 A man, therefore, who regulates his course by Genesis 47.28: 28 Jacob lived in the law, even if he be a lover land of money, immediately puts force upon his own disposition; lending to Egypt seventeen years. So the needy without interest, and cancelling the debt days of Jacob, the incoming Sabbath. years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

4 Maccabees 2.9: 9 And should a man be parsimonious, he is ruled by the law acting through reasoning; so Genesis 47.29: 29 The time came near that Israel must die, and he does not glean called his harvest crops, nor vintage: son Joseph, and in reference said to other points we may perceive that it is reasoning that conquers his passions. him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

4 Maccabees 2.10: 10 For the law conquers even affection toward parents, not surrendering virtue on their account.

4 Maccabees 2.11: 11 And it prevails over marriage love, condemning it Genesis 47.30: 30 but when transgressing law.

4 Maccabees 2.12: 12 And it lords it over the love I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of parents toward Egypt, and bury me in their children, for they punish them for vice; burying place.”

Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”

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4 Maccabees 2.14: 14 It allows not to cut down the cultivated herbage her husband’s, a mighty man of an enemy, but preserves it from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins.

4 Maccabees 2.15: 15 And reason appears to be master wealth, of the more violent passions, as love family of empire Elimelech, and empty boasting, and slander.

4 Maccabees 2.16: 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.

4 Maccabees 2.17: 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning. name was Boaz.

4 Maccabees 2.18: 18 For Ruth 2.2: 2 Ruth the temperate mind is able, as I said, Moabitess said to be superior Naomi, “Let me now go to the passions, field, and to transfer some, and destroy others.

4 Maccabees 2.19: 19 For why, else, does our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain glean among the whole race ears of the Shechemites, saying, Cursed be their anger.

4 Maccabees 2.20: 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have spoken thus.

4 Maccabees 2.21: 21 For at the time when God created man, He implanted within grain after him his passions and moral nature. in whose sight I find favor.”

4 Maccabees 2.22: 22 And at that time He enthroned above all the holy leader mind, through the medium of the senses.

4 Maccabees 2.23: 23 And He gave a law She said to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, and just, and good, and manly reign. her, “Go, my daughter.”

4 Maccabees 2.24: 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning be master of the passions, has it no control over forgetfulness Ruth 2.3: 3 She went, and ignorance?

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4 Maccabees 6.2: 2 And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he field belonging to Boaz, who was with of the beauty family of piety. Elimelech.

Ruth 2.4: 4 Maccabees 6.3: 3 Then tying back his arms Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and hands, they disdainfully used him said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with stripes; you.”

4 Maccabees 6.4: 4 a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king. They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

4 Maccabees 6.5: Ruth 2.5: 5 But Eleazar, Then Boaz said to his servant who was set over the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all. reapers, “Whose young lady is this?”

4 Maccabees 6.6: Ruth 2.6: 6 But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh The servant who was stripped off by set over the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through. reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

4 Maccabees 6.7: Ruth 2.7: 7 And falling upon She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the ground, from his body having no power to support reapers among the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright sheaves.’ So she came, and unbending. has continued even from the morning until now, except that she rested a little in the house.”

4 Maccabees 6.8: Ruth 2.8: 8 then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, Then Boaz said to force him upright. Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

4 Maccabees 6.9: Ruth 2.9: 9 But he endured Let your eyes be on the pains, field that they reap, and despised go after them. Haven’t I commanded the cruelty, young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and persevered through drink from that which the indignities; young men have drawn.”

4 Maccabees 6.10: Ruth 2.10: 10 Then she fell on her face and like a noble athlete, bowed herself to the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers. ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

4 Maccabees 6.11: Ruth 2.11: 11 His countenance sweating, and he panting Boaz answered her, “I have been told all about what you have done for breath, he was admired by your mother-in-law since the very torturers for his courage.

4 Maccabees 6.12: 12 Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,

4 Maccabees 6.13: 13 partly from the sympathy death of acquaintance, your husband, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of how you have left your father, your mother, and the attendants land of the king said,

4 Maccabees 6.14: 14 Why do your birth, and have come to a people that you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries? didn’t know before.

4 Maccabees 6.15: 15 We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, Ruth 2.12: 12 May Yahweh repay your work, and do a full reward be given to you save yourself by pretending that from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have eaten swine’s flesh. come to take refuge.”

4 Maccabees 6.16: 16 And Eleazar, as Ruth 2.13: 13 Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,

4 Maccabees 6.17: 17 Let I am not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use one of an unbecoming pretense; your servants.”

4 Maccabees 6.18: 18 for it were irrational, if having lived up Ruth 2.14: 14 At meal time Boaz said to old age in all truth, her, “Come here, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,

4 Maccabees 6.19: 19 eat some bread, and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to dip your morsel in the young, as being an example of pollution eating. vinegar.”

4 Maccabees 6.20: 20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, She sat beside the reapers, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,

4 Maccabees 6.21: 21 they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending left some of it.

Ruth 2.15: 15 When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the death for our divine law. sheaves, and don’t reproach her.

4 Maccabees 6.22: 22 Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly Ruth 2.16: 16 Also pull out some for your religion.

4 Maccabees 6.23: 23 You° spearbearers of her from the tyrant, why do you° linger?

4 Maccabees 6.24: 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, bundles, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire: leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her.”

4 Maccabees 6.25: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on Ruth 2.17: 17 So she gleaned in the fire, field until evening; and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils. she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

4 Maccabees 6.26: 26 And he being at length burned down to Ruth 2.18: 18 She took it up, and went into the bones, city. Then her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, she brought out and said,

4 Maccabees 6.27: 27 You know, O God, gave to her that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire. which she had left after she had enough.

4 Maccabees 6.28: 28 Be merciful Ruth 2.19: 19 Her mother-in-law said to your people, and her, “Where have you gleaned today? Where have you worked? Blessed be satisfied he who noticed you.”

She told her mother-in-law with the punishment of me on their account. whom she had worked, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”

4 Maccabees 6.29: 29 Let my blood Ruth 2.20: 20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.

4 Maccabees 6.30: 30 Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his torments, kindness to the living and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.

4 Maccabees 6.31: 31 Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is master a close relative to us, one of the passions. our near kinsmen.”

4 Maccabees 6.32: 32 For had Ruth 2.21: 21 Ruth the passions been superior Moabitess said, “Yes, he said to reasoning, I would me, ‘You shall stay close to my young men until they have given them the witness of this mastery. finished all my harvest.’”

4 Maccabees 6.33: 33 But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.

4 Maccabees 6.34: 34 And it Ruth 2.22: 22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is but fair good, my daughter, that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.

4 Maccabees 6.35: 35 Ridiculous would it be were it not so; you go out with his maidens, and I prove that reasoning has they not only mastered pains, but that it is also superior meet you in any other field.”

Ruth 2.23: 23 So she stayed close to the pleasures, maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and withstands them. of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

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Psalms 15.1: 1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety Yahweh, who shall dwell in the sea of passions, your sanctuary?

4 Maccabees 7.2: Who shall live on your holy hill?

Psalms 15.2: 2 He who walks blamelessly and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, does what is right,

and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, speaks truth in his heart;

4 Maccabees 7.3: Psalms 15.3: 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death. he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,

nor does evil to his friend,

nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Psalms 15.4: 4 Maccabees 7.4: 4 Not so has ever in whose eyes a city, vile man is despised,

but who honors those who fear Yahweh;

he who keeps an oath even when besieged, held out against many it hurts, and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. doesn’t change;

4 Maccabees 7.5: Psalms 15.5: 5 For father Eleazar, projecting he who doesn’t lend out his disposition, broke money for usury,

nor take a bribe against the raging waves innocent.

He who does these things shall never be shaken.

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Wisdom of Solomon 13.1: 1 For truly all men who had no perception of God were vain by nature,

and didn’t gain power to know him who exists from the priesthood! you good things that are seen.

They didn’t pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced recognize the clean and lawful, a partaker architect from his works.

Wisdom of profanity. Solomon 13.2: 2 But they thought that either fire, or wind, or swift air,

4 Maccabees 7.7: 7 O harmonizer with or circling stars, or raging water, or luminaries of heaven

were gods that rule the law, and world.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.3: 3 If it was through delight in their beauty sage devoted that they took them to a divine life! be gods,

let them know how much better their Sovereign Lord is than these,

for the first author of beauty created them.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.4: 4 Maccabees 7.8: 8 Of such a character ought those to be But if it was through astonishment at their power and influence,

then let them understand from them how much more powerful he who perform formed them is.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.5: 5 For from the duties greatness of the law at beauty of created things,

mankind forms the risk corresponding image of their own blood, Maker.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.6: 6 But yet for these men there is but small blame,

for they too perhaps go astray

while they are seeking God and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even desiring to death. find him.

4 Maccabees 7.9: 9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making Wisdom of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible Solomon 13.7: 7 For they diligently search while living among his works,

and they trust their sight that the words things that they look at are beautiful.

Wisdom of philosophy. Solomon 13.8: 8 But again even they are not to be excused.

4 Maccabees 7.10: 10 O aged man Wisdom of more Solomon 13.9: 9 For if they had power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over to know so much,

that they should be able to explore the passions, Eleazar! world,

4 Maccabees 7.11: 11 For as father Aaron, armed with how is it that they didn’t find the Sovereign Lord sooner?

Wisdom of Solomon 13.10: 10 But miserable were they, and in dead things were their hopes,

Who called them gods which are works of men’s hands,

gold and silver, skillfully made, and likenesses of animals,

or a censer, hastening through useless stone, the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, work of an ancient hand.

4 Maccabees 7.12: Wisdom of Solomon 13.11: 11 Yes and if some woodcutter, having sawn down a tree that is easily moved,

skillfully strips away all its bark,

and fashioning it in attractive form, makes a useful vessel to serve his life’s needs.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.12: 12 so, Eleazar, Burning the descendant scraps from his handiwork to cook his food,

he eats his fill.

Wisdom of Aaron, wasted away Solomon 13.13: 13 Taking a discarded scrap which served no purpose,

a crooked piece of wood and full of knots,

carves it with the diligence of his idleness,

and shapes it by the fire, didn’t give up skill of his reasoning. idleness.

4 Maccabees 7.13: 13 And, what He shapes it in the image of a man,

Wisdom of Solomon 13.14: 14 or makes it like some paltry animal,

smearing it with something red, painting it red,

and smearing over every stain in it.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.15: 15 Having made a worthy chamber for it,

he sets it in a wall, securing it with iron.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.16: 16 He plans for it that it may not fall down,

knowing that it is most wonderful, though unable to help itself

(for truly it is an old man, though the labors image, and needs help).

Wisdom of Solomon 13.17: 17 When he makes his body were now spent, prayer concerning goods and his muscles were relaxed, marriage and his sinews worn out, children,

he recovered youth. is not ashamed to speak to that which has no life.

4 Maccabees 7.14: 14 By the spirit Wisdom of reasoning, Solomon 13.18: 18 Yes, for health, he calls upon that which is weak.

For life, he implores that which is dead.

For aid, he supplicates that which has no experience.

For a good journey, he asks that which can’t so much as move a step.

Wisdom of Solomon 13.19: 19 And for profit in business and the reasoning good success of Isaac, his hands,

he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument. asks ability from that which has hands with no ability.

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4 Maccabees 7.15: 15 O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.

4 Maccabees 7.16: 16 If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.

4 Maccabees 7.17: 17 But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

4 Maccabees 7.18: 18 But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh;

4 Maccabees 7.19: 19 they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.

4 Maccabees 7.20: 20 This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:

4 Maccabees 7.21: 21 since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,

4 Maccabees 7.22: 22 and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

4 Maccabees 7.23: 23 For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions.

4 Maccabees 7.24: 24 Whence it is, that even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures:

4 Maccabees 7.25: 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing,—

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4 Maccabees 14.1: 1 And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.

4 Maccabees 14.2: 2 O reasoning more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!

4 Maccabees 14.3: 3 Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven kindred as concerning piety!

4 Maccabees 14.4: 4 None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.

4 Maccabees 14.5: 5 But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.

4 Maccabees 14.6: 6 For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed to death for religion’s sake, as through the immortal soul of religion.

4 Maccabees 14.7: 7 O holy seven of harmonious kindred! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,

4 Maccabees 14.8: 8 so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.

4 Maccabees 14.9: 9 We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only saw, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.

4 Maccabees 14.10: 10 And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.

4 Maccabees 14.11: 11 And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains.

4 Maccabees 14.12: 12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children.

4 Maccabees 14.13: 13 And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection,

4 Maccabees 14.14: 14 where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

4 Maccabees 14.15: 15 The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses, defend their fledglings.

4 Maccabees 14.16: 16 Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.

4 Maccabees 14.17: 17 And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.

4 Maccabees 14.18: 18 But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals?

4 Maccabees 14.19: 19 The very bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach; and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even to death.

4 Maccabees 14.20: 20 But sympathy with her children didn’t turn away the mother of the young men, who had a spirit kindred with that of Abraham.