Back Aa

Bible (KJV) 01-03: Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus

02:017:001 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. 02:017:002 Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? 02:017:003 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? 02:017:004 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. 02:017:005 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. 02:017:006 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 02:017:007 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? 02:017:008 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim. 02:017:009 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. 02:017:010 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 02:017:011 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. 02:017:012 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 02:017:013 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 02:017:014 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 02:017:015 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi: 02:017:016 For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. 02:018:001 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; 02:018:002 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back, 02:018:003 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: 02:018:004 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: 02:018:005 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: 02:018:006 And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her. 02:018:007 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. 02:018:008 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the LORD delivered them. 02:018:009 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians. 02:018:010 And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. 02:018:011 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them. 02:018:012 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God. 02:018:013 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. 02:018:014 And when Moses' father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? 02:018:015 And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: 02:018:016 When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. 02:018:017 And Moses' father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. 02:018:018 Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. 02:018:019 Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: 02:018:020 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. 02:018:021 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: 02:018:022 And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee. 02:018:023 If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace. 02:018:024 So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 02:018:025 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 02:018:026 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 02:018:027 And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land. 02:019:001 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 02:019:002 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 02:019:003 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 02:019:004 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 02:019:005 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 02:019:006 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. 02:019:007 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 02:019:008 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. 02:019:009 And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. 02:019:010 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 02:019:011 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 02:019:012 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: 02:019:013 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. 02:019:014 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. 02:019:015 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. 02:019:016 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 02:019:017 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 02:019:018 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 02:019:019 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 02:019:020 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 02:019:021 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. 02:019:022 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. 02:019:023 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 02:019:024 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them. 02:019:025 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them. 02:020:001 And God spake all these words, saying, 02:020:002 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 02:020:003 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 02:020:004 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 02:020:005 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 02:020:006 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 02:020:007 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 02:020:008 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 02:020:009 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 02:020:010 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 02:020:011 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 02:020:012 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 02:020:013 Thou shalt not kill. 02:020:014 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 02:020:015 Thou shalt not steal. 02:020:016 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 02:020:017 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. 02:020:018 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 02:020:019 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 02:020:020 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. 02:020:021 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. 02:020:022 And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. 02:020:023 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. 02:020:024 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. 02:020:025 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. 02:020:026 Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon. 02:021:001 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 02:021:002 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 02:021:003 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. 02:021:004 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 02:021:005 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: 02:021:006 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. 02:021:007 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. 02:021:008 If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 02:021:009 And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 02:021:010 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. 02:021:011 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. 02:021:012 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 02:021:013 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 02:021:014 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 02:021:015 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 02:021:016 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 02:021:017 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 02:021:018 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: 02:021:019 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. 02:021:020 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. 02:021:021 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money. 02:021:022 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 02:021:023 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 02:021:024 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 02:021:025 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 02:021:026 And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 02:021:027 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 02:021:028 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 02:021:029 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death. 02:021:030 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 02:021:031 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 02:021:032 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 02:021:033 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein; 02:021:034 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his. 02:021:035 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide. 02:021:036 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own. 02:022:001 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 02:022:002 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 02:022:003 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 02:022:004 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double. 02:022:005 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 02:022:006 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 02:022:007 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double. 02:022:008 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods. 02:022:009 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 02:022:010 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: 02:022:011 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 02:022:012 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 02:022:013 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 02:022:014 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good. 02:022:015 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire. 02:022:016 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 02:022:017 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 02:022:018 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 02:022:019 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 02:022:020 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 02:022:021 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 02:022:022 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 02:022:023 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 02:022:024 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 02:022:025 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. 02:022:026 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down: 02:022:027 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 02:022:028 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. 02:022:029 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. 02:022:030 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. 02:022:031 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs. <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

1 of 2

2 of 2

Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.