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The Five Books of Moses — Chronicle

Ordered by chapter. No event in this book could be dated from the text, so it is not dated — no anchor, no chronology; a date is never inferred. Time expressions are copied from the text as written. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.

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905 events · no event could be dated from the text

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Genesis 1
God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1 · the first day

God heaven earth

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1
God created light and separated it from darkness.

Genesis 1 · the first day

God light

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1
God made the firmament and divided the waters.

Genesis 1 · the second day

God firmament

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.

Genesis 1
God gathered the waters, revealed dry land, and brought forth vegetation.

Genesis 1 · the third day

God Earth Seas

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1
God made the sun, moon, and stars to govern day and night.

Genesis 1 · the fourth day

God greater light lesser light stars

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1
God created aquatic creatures and winged birds.

Genesis 1 · the fifth day

God great whales living creature winged fowl

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1
God created land animals according to their kinds.

Genesis 1 · the sixth day

God beast of the earth cattle creeping thing

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1
God created man in his image and blessed male and female.

Genesis 1 · the sixth day

God man male female

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 2
God blessed and sanctified the seventh day.

Genesis 2 · on the seventh day

God

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.

Genesis 2
God formed Adam from dust and made him a living soul.

Genesis 2

God Adam

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2
God placed Adam in the garden of Eden to dress and keep it.

Genesis 2 · 📍 [[garden of Eden]]

God Adam

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 2
God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2 · 📍 [[garden of Eden]]

God Adam

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:

Genesis 2
God made Woman from Adam's rib and brought her to him.

Genesis 2

God Adam Woman

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Genesis 3
The serpent tempted Eve by denying that eating the forbidden fruit would cause death.

Genesis 3 · 📍 [[garden of Eden]]

serpent Eve

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 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.

Genesis 3
Eve ate the forbidden fruit, gave it to Adam, and Adam ate it.

Genesis 3 · 📍 [[garden of Eden]]

Eve Adam

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Genesis 3
God cursed the serpent and established enmity between the serpent and Eve.

Genesis 3

God serpent Eve

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3
God judged Eve with painful childbirth and subordination to Adam.

Genesis 3

God Eve Adam

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Genesis 3
God cursed the ground for Adam, made labor difficult, and decreed his return to dust.

Genesis 3

God Adam

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3
God clothed Adam and Eve with coats of skins.

Genesis 3

God Adam Eve

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Genesis 4
Eve gives birth to Cain.

Genesis 4

Eve Cain

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Genesis 4
Eve gives birth to Abel.

Genesis 4 · again

Eve Abel

And she again bare his brother Abel.

Genesis 4
God accepts Abel’s offering but rejects Cain’s offering.

Genesis 4

God Abel Cain

And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.

Genesis 4
Cain rises against Abel and kills him.

Genesis 4 · 📍 [[the field]] · when they were in the field

Cain Abel

and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Genesis 4
God curses Cain, making the ground unproductive and Cain a fugitive.

Genesis 4

God Cain

And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Genesis 4
God marks Cain and protects him from being killed.

Genesis 4

God Cain

And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Genesis 4
Cain leaves God’s presence and settles in the land of Nod.

Genesis 4 · 📍 [[the land of Nod]]

Cain

And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 4
Eve bears Seth as another seed in place of Abel.

Genesis 4 · again

Adam Eve Seth

And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Genesis 5
God created Adam in his likeness.

Genesis 5 · In the day that God created man

God Adam

In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5
God blessed Adam after creating male and female.

Genesis 5 · in the day when they were created

God Adam

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5
Adam begat Seth.

Genesis 5 · an hundred and thirty years

Seth

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5
Adam died after living nine hundred and thirty years.

Genesis 5 · all the days that Adam lived

Adam

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

Genesis 5
God took Enoch, who was no longer present among the living.

Genesis 5

Enoch God

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 5
Lamech begat Noah and named him Noah.

Genesis 5 · an hundred eighty and two years

Noah

And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah,

Genesis 5
Lamech died after living seven hundred seventy and seven years.

Genesis 5 · all the days of Lamech

Lamech

And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

Genesis 5
Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 5 · Noah was five hundred years old

Shem Ham Japheth

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6
God decrees destruction of all flesh and every living thing by a flood.

Genesis 6

God

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

Genesis 6
God establishes a covenant with Noah and promises his household’s preservation in the ark.

Genesis 6

God Noah

But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Genesis 6
God commands Noah to build and seal an ark.

Genesis 6

God Noah

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Genesis 6
God commands Noah to bring pairs of every living kind into the ark.

Genesis 6

God Noah

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Genesis 6
God commands Noah to gather food for himself and the creatures.

Genesis 6

God Noah

And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

Genesis 6
Noah carries out everything God commanded him.

Genesis 6

Noah

Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

Genesis 7
God commands Noah to enter the ark with his household.

Genesis 7 · 📍 [[ark]]

God Noah

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 7
God commands Noah to preserve animal pairs and fowls in the ark.

Genesis 7 · 📍 [[ark]]

God Noah

Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Genesis 7
Noah and his sons enter the ark with their wives as the flood begins.

Genesis 7 · 📍 [[ark]] · In the selfsame day

Noah Shem Ham Japheth

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

Genesis 7
God shuts Noah inside the ark.

Genesis 7 · 📍 [[ark]]

God Noah

and the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7
God brings the flood upon the earth.

Genesis 7 · after seven days

God Noah

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

Genesis 7
The flood destroys all living creatures, while Noah and those with him remain alive.

Genesis 7

God Noah

And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

Genesis 8
God caused the floodwaters to subside around Noah.

Genesis 8

God Noah

And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

Genesis 8
God commanded Noah and his household to leave the ark.

Genesis 8

God Noah

Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Genesis 8
God commanded Noah to release every living creature from the ark.

Genesis 8

God Noah

Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth;

Genesis 8
Noah left the ark.

Genesis 8

Noah

And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

Genesis 8
Noah built an altar and offered burnt offerings to God.

Genesis 8

Noah God

And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 8
God promised not to curse the ground or destroy every living thing again.

Genesis 8

God

I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Genesis 9
God blessed Noah and his sons, commanding them to multiply and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9

God Noah Shem Ham Japheth

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9
God established a covenant with Noah, promising never again to destroy all flesh by a flood.

Genesis 9

God Noah

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Genesis 9
God promised that no future flood would destroy the earth.

Genesis 9

God Noah

And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood;

Genesis 9
God set the rainbow as the token of his covenant with Noah and every living creature.

Genesis 9

God Noah

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Genesis 9
Noah cursed Canaan, declaring him a servant to his brethren.

Genesis 9

Noah Canaan

And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Genesis 9
Noah blessed God of Shem and declared Canaan his servant.

Genesis 9

Noah God Shem Canaan

And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Genesis 9
Noah declared that God would enlarge Japheth and that Canaan would serve him.

Genesis 9

Noah Japheth Shem Canaan

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Genesis 9
Noah died after living nine hundred and fifty years.

Genesis 9 · after the flood three hundred and fifty years

Noah

And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

Genesis 10
Shem, Ham, and Japheth had sons born after the flood.

Genesis 10 · after the flood

Noah Shem Ham Japheth

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 10
Japheth fathered Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10

Japheth Gomer Magog Madai Javan Tubal Meshech Tiras

The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Genesis 10
Gomer fathered Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Genesis 10

Gomer Ashkenaz Riphath Togarmah

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

Genesis 10
Ham and Cush fathered the recorded descendants of their respective branches.

Genesis 10

Ham Cush Mizraim Phut Canaan Seba Havilah Sabtah Raamah Sabtechah Sheba Dedan

And the sons of Ham; 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.

Genesis 10
Cush fathered Nimrod, whose kingdom began at Babel and included several cities.

Genesis 10 · 📍 [[Babel]]

Cush Nimrod

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod 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.

Genesis 10
Asshur went forth from Shinar and built Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen.

Genesis 10 · 📍 [[Nineveh]]

Asshur

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.

Genesis 10
Shem’s line continued through Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, and Peleg, when the earth was divided.

Genesis 10 · in his days

Shem Arphaxad Salah Eber Peleg

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.

Genesis 10
Joktan fathered thirteen sons, whose dwelling extended from Mesha to Sephar.

Genesis 10

Joktan Almodad Sheleph Hazarmaveth Jerah Hadoram Uzal Diklah Obal Abimael Sheba Ophir Havilah Jobab

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.

Genesis 11
God confounded humanity’s language and scattered them across the earth.

Genesis 11 · 📍 [[Babel]]

God

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth

Genesis 11
Shem fathered Arphaxad.

Genesis 11 · two years after the flood

Shem Arphaxad

Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

Genesis 11
Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11 · seventy years

Terah Abraham Nahor Haran

And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11
Haran fathered Lot.

Genesis 11

Haran Lot

and Haran begat Lot.

Genesis 11
Haran died in the land of his nativity.

Genesis 11 · 📍 [[Ur of the Chaldees]] · before his father Terah

Haran

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

Genesis 11
Abram married Sarai, and Nahor married Milcah.

Genesis 11

Abraham Sarah Nahor Milcah

And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah

Genesis 11
Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 11 · 📍 Haran

Terah

And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

Genesis 12
God commands Abram to leave his country and promises to bless him and make him a great nation.

Genesis 12

God Abraham

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:

Genesis 12
God promises to give the land to Abram’s descendants.

Genesis 12 · 📍 [[Sichem]]

God Abraham

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:

Genesis 12
Abram builds an altar to God.

Genesis 12 · 📍 [[Sichem]]

Abraham God

and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Genesis 12
Sarai is taken into Pharaoh’s house after being presented as Abram’s sister.

Genesis 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · when Abram was come into Egypt

Pharaoh Sarah Abraham

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 12
God afflicts Pharaoh and his household with great plagues because of Sarai.

Genesis 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Pharaoh

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

Genesis 12
Pharaoh orders Abram to take Sarai and leave Egypt.

Genesis 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · now therefore

Pharaoh Abraham Sarah

now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Genesis 12
Pharaoh’s men send Abram, Sarai, and all their possessions away.

Genesis 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh Abraham Sarah

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Genesis 13
Abram and Lot separate after Lot chooses the plain of Jordan.

Genesis 13 · 📍 [[plain of Jordan]]

Abraham Lot

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Genesis 13
God promises Abram all the land he sees and innumerable descendants.

Genesis 13 · after that Lot was separated from him

God Abraham

For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Genesis 13
Abram worships God by calling on his name at the altar.

Genesis 13 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Abraham God

Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 13
Abram builds an altar to God after settling in Hebron.

Genesis 13 · 📍 [[plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron]]

Abraham God

Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.

Genesis 14
The kings who had served Chedorlaomer rebelled against him.

Genesis 14 · 📍 [[vale of Siddim]] · in the thirteenth year

Chedorlaomer Bera Birsha Shinab Shemeber

Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Genesis 14
The invading kings captured Lot and seized his goods.

Genesis 14 · 📍 [[Sodom]]

Chedorlaomer Lot

And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

Genesis 14
Abram defeated the invading kings and brought Lot, the people, and their goods back.

Genesis 14 · 📍 [[Hobah]] · by night

Abraham Lot Chedorlaomer

And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Genesis 14
Melchizedek blessed Abram in the name of the most high God.

Genesis 14 · 📍 [[Salem]]

Melchizedek Abraham

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

Genesis 14
Abram gave Melchizedek tithes of everything.

Genesis 14

Abraham Melchizedek

And he gave him tithes of all.

Genesis 14
Abram refused the king of Sodom’s goods, accepting only his allies’ portions and consumed provisions.

Genesis 14 · 📍 [[valley of Shaveh]] · after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer

Abraham

That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich: Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

Genesis 15
God declares Abram's biological offspring, not Eliezer, will inherit as his heir.

Genesis 15

God Abraham Eliezer of Damascus

This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

Genesis 15
God promises Abram descendants as numerous as the stars.

Genesis 15

God Abraham

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.

Genesis 15
Abram believes God, and God counts his faith as righteousness.

Genesis 15

Abraham God

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 15
God commands Abram to prepare specified animals for the covenant ceremony.

Genesis 15

God Abraham

Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

Genesis 15
God reveals that Abram's descendants will suffer servitude for four hundred years before liberation.

Genesis 15

God Abraham

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;

Genesis 15
God establishes a covenant granting Abram's descendants the land between Egypt and the Euphrates.

Genesis 15

God Abraham

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:

Genesis 16
Sarai gives Hagar to Abram as a concubine.

Genesis 16 · 📍 Canaan · after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan

Abraham Hagar Sarah

And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

Genesis 16
Hagar conceives by Abram, changing her status and provoking Sarai’s contempt.

Genesis 16

Abraham Hagar

And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

Genesis 16
Sarai deals harshly with Hagar, causing Hagar to flee.

Genesis 16

Sarah Hagar

And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

Genesis 16
God commands Hagar to return to Sarai and submit to her.

Genesis 16 · 📍 [[Shur]]

God Hagar

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Genesis 16
God promises to multiply Hagar’s descendants beyond counting.

Genesis 16 · 📍 [[Shur]]

God Hagar

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 16
God foretells Hagar’s son and commands that he be named Ishmael.

Genesis 16 · 📍 [[Shur]]

God Hagar Ishmael

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Genesis 16
Hagar bears Abram a son, and Abram names him Ishmael.

Genesis 16

Abraham Hagar Ishmael

And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

Genesis 17
God established an everlasting covenant with Abraham and his seed.

Genesis 17 · when Abram was ninety years old and nine

God Abraham

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

Genesis 17
God changed Abram’s name to Abraham.

Genesis 17

God Abraham

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham

Genesis 17
God changed Sarai’s name to Sarah and promised to bless her.

Genesis 17

God Sarah

As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her

Genesis 17
God established an everlasting covenant with Isaac.

Genesis 17 · at this set time in the next year

God Isaac

But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

Genesis 17
God promised that Sarah would bear Isaac.

Genesis 17

God Sarah

Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac

Genesis 17
God blessed Ishmael and promised to make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous.

Genesis 17

God Ishmael

And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly

Genesis 17
God commanded Abraham to circumcise every male among his household.

Genesis 17

God Abraham

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.

Genesis 18
God appeared to Abraham.

Genesis 18 · 📍 [[plains of Mamre]]

God Abraham

And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre:

Genesis 18
God promised that Sarah would have a son.

Genesis 18 · according to the time of life

God Abraham Sarah

I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

Genesis 18
God declared that Abraham would become a great nation blessing all nations.

Genesis 18

God Abraham

Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 18
God announced that he would investigate Sodom and Gomorrah's grievous sin.

Genesis 18 · 📍 [[Sodom and Gomorrah]] · now

God Abraham

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.

Genesis 18
God agreed not to destroy Sodom if ten righteous people were found there.

Genesis 18 · 📍 [[Sodom]]

God Abraham

And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

Genesis 19
God destroys Sodom, Gomorrah, the plain, and their inhabitants with brimstone and fire.

Genesis 19 · 📍 [[Sodom and Gomorrah]]

God

Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Genesis 19
God rescues Lot from the destruction that overthrows the cities of the plain.

Genesis 19 · 📍 [[Sodom]]

God Lot

And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow

Genesis 19
Lot enters Zoar after escaping the destruction of Sodom.

Genesis 19 · 📍 [[Zoar]] · when the morning arose

Lot

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

Genesis 19
Lot’s firstborn daughter lies with him after making him drink wine.

Genesis 19 · that night

Lot

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19
Lot’s younger daughter lies with him after making him drink wine.

Genesis 19 · that night

Lot

And they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19
Moab is born from Lot’s firstborn daughter and becomes the ancestor of the Moabites.

Genesis 19

Moab Lot

And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

Genesis 19
Benammi is born from Lot’s younger daughter and becomes the ancestor of the Ammonites.

Genesis 19

Benammi Lot

And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

Genesis 20
Abimelech took Sarah after Abraham presented her as his sister.

Genesis 20 · 📍 [[Gerar]]

Abraham Sarah Abimelech

And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

Genesis 20
God warned Abimelech that taking Sarah made him liable to death.

Genesis 20 · by night

God Abimelech Sarah

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

Genesis 20
God commanded Abimelech to restore Sarah, threatening death if he refused.

Genesis 20

God Abimelech Sarah

Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

Genesis 20
Abraham disclosed that Sarah was his paternal half-sister and his wife.

Genesis 20

Abraham Sarah

And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Genesis 20
Abimelech restored Sarah to Abraham and gave Abraham livestock and servants.

Genesis 20

Abimelech Abraham Sarah

And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

Genesis 20
God closed every womb in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah.

Genesis 20

God Abimelech Sarah

For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 20
After Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech’s household, and the women bore children.

Genesis 20

Abraham God Abimelech

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

Genesis 21
Sarah bore Abraham a son, and Abraham named him Isaac.

Genesis 21 · at the set time

God Sarah Abraham Isaac

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

Genesis 21
Abraham circumcised Isaac as God had commanded.

Genesis 21 · being eight days old

Abraham Isaac God

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 21
Sarah demanded Hagar and her son be cast out, and Abraham sent Hagar away.

Genesis 21 · the same day that Isaac was weaned

Sarah Abraham Hagar

Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son. And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away:

Genesis 21
God promised to make Hagar’s son a great nation.

Genesis 21

God Hagar

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21
God revealed a well to Hagar, enabling her to give her son water.

Genesis 21 · 📍 [[Beersheba]]

God Hagar

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

Genesis 21
Abraham and Abimelech made a covenant concerning the well.

Genesis 21 · 📍 [[Beersheba]]

Abraham Abimelech

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Genesis 21
Abraham planted a grove and called on the name of the everlasting God.

Genesis 21 · 📍 [[Beersheba]]

Abraham God

And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

Genesis 22
God tested Abraham's faith.

Genesis 22 · after these things

God Abraham

God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

Genesis 22
God commanded Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering.

Genesis 22 · 📍 [[land of Moriah]]

God Abraham Isaac

Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering

Genesis 22
Abraham bound Isaac and placed him on the altar.

Genesis 22

Abraham Isaac

Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

Genesis 22
God stopped Abraham from harming Isaac.

Genesis 22

God Abraham Isaac

Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him

Genesis 22
Abraham offered a ram instead of Isaac as a burnt offering.

Genesis 22

Abraham God

Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

Genesis 22
Nahor's household expanded through children born to Milcah and Reumah.

Genesis 22 · after these things

Nahor Milcah Reumah

Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 22
Bethuel fathered Rebekah.

Genesis 22

Bethuel Rebekah

And Bethuel begat Rebekah:

Genesis 23
Sarah dies in Kirjatharba, which is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23 · 📍 [[Kirjatharba]]

Sarah

And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan:

Genesis 23
Abraham pays Ephron four hundred shekels for the field and cave as a burial possession.

Genesis 23 · 📍 [[Machpelah]]

Abraham Ephron

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Genesis 23
Abraham buries Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah.

Genesis 23 · 📍 [[Machpelah]] · after this

Abraham Sarah

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 24
Abraham commands his servant to find Isaac a wife from his kindred, not the Canaanites.

Genesis 24

Abraham Abraham's servant Isaac

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 I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

Genesis 24
The servant identifies Rebekah as the woman appointed for Isaac after God answers his sign.

Genesis 24 · 📍 [[Mesopotamia]] · the time of the evening

God Abraham Abraham's servant

And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out

Genesis 24
Laban and Bethuel approve Rebekah's marriage to Isaac as proceeding from the LORD.

Genesis 24

Laban Bethuel Rebekah Isaac

Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the LORD hath spoken.

Genesis 24
Rebekah agrees to leave immediately and is sent away with Abraham's servant.

Genesis 24 · 📍 [[Mesopotamia]] · in the morning

Rebekah Laban Abraham's servant

And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

Genesis 24
Isaac takes Rebekah as his wife, and she comforts him after Sarah's death.

Genesis 24 · at the eventide

Isaac Rebekah

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 25
Abraham took Keturah as his wife.

Genesis 25

Abraham Keturah

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

Genesis 25
Abraham gave Isaac all that he had as his inheritance.

Genesis 25

Abraham Isaac

And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

Genesis 25
Abraham sent his concubines’ sons away from Isaac toward the east country.

Genesis 25 · 📍 [[east country]] · while he yet lived

Abraham Isaac

But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

Genesis 25
Abraham died in old age and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25

Abraham

Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 25
God blessed Isaac after Abraham’s death.

Genesis 25 · after the death of Abraham

God Isaac

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac;

Genesis 25
Ishmael died after living one hundred thirty-seven years.

Genesis 25

Ishmael

And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

Genesis 25
Rebekah gave birth to twin sons, Esau and Jacob.

Genesis 25 · when her days to be delivered were fulfilled

Isaac Rebekah Esau Jacob

And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Genesis 25
Esau swore and sold his birthright to Jacob for bread and lentil pottage.

Genesis 25 · this day

Esau Jacob

And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

Genesis 26
God commands Isaac to remain in the land and not descend into Egypt.

Genesis 26

God Isaac

And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

Genesis 26
God renews His covenantal promise to Isaac, reaffirming the oath made to Abraham.

Genesis 26

God Isaac Abraham

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

Genesis 26
Abimelech discovers that Rebekah is Isaac’s wife, exposing Isaac’s deception.

Genesis 26 · 📍 [[Gerar]] · when he had been there a long time

Abimelech Isaac Rebekah

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

Genesis 26
God blesses Isaac’s harvest, producing a hundredfold yield.

Genesis 26 · 📍 [[Gerar]] · the same year

God Isaac

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

Genesis 26
Abimelech orders Isaac to leave because Isaac has become stronger than the Philistines.

Genesis 26 · 📍 [[Gerar]]

Abimelech Isaac

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

Genesis 26
Isaac builds an altar and worships God at Beersheba.

Genesis 26 · 📍 [[Beersheba]]

Isaac God

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

Genesis 26
Isaac and Abimelech swear an oath and establish a covenant of peaceful relations.

Genesis 26 · 📍 [[Beersheba]] · betimes in the morning

Abimelech Isaac

And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Genesis 26
Esau takes Judith and Bashemath as wives, causing grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Genesis 26 · forty years old

Esau Judith Bashemath

And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

Genesis 27
Isaac blesses Jacob with dominion over his brethren and abundance from heaven and earth.

Genesis 27

Isaac Jacob

And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: 27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

Genesis 27
Isaac gives Esau a lesser blessing, declaring he will serve Jacob until breaking Jacob’s yoke.

Genesis 27

Isaac Esau

And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; 27:40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Genesis 27
Esau resolves to kill Jacob after their father’s death because Jacob received Isaac’s blessing.

Genesis 27

Esau Jacob

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Genesis 27
Rebekah commands Jacob to flee to Laban in Haran until Esau’s anger subsides.

Genesis 27 · 📍 Haran

Rebekah Jacob

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

Genesis 28
Isaac blessed Jacob.

Genesis 28

Isaac Jacob

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him

Genesis 28
Isaac commanded Jacob not to marry a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 28

Isaac Jacob

Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Genesis 28
God blessed Jacob with fruitfulness, descendants, Abraham’s blessing, and inheritance.

Genesis 28

God Jacob

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

Genesis 28
God promised Jacob land, descendants, protection, and return.

Genesis 28

God Jacob

the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth

Genesis 28
Isaac sent Jacob to Padanaram.

Genesis 28 · 📍 [[Padanaram]]

Isaac Jacob

And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian

Genesis 28
Esau took Mahalath as his wife.

Genesis 28

Esau Mahalath

and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

Genesis 28
Jacob set up a pillar and dedicated the place as God’s house.

Genesis 28 · 📍 [[Bethel]] · early in the morning

Jacob God

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel

Genesis 28
Jacob vowed to serve God and give Him a tenth of everything received.

Genesis 28 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Jacob God

then shall the LORD be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

Genesis 29
Laban deceived Jacob by giving him Leah instead of Rachel.

Genesis 29 · in the evening

Laban Jacob Leah

And it came to pass, in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

Genesis 29
Laban gave Rachel to Jacob as a wife after Jacob fulfilled Leah’s week.

Genesis 29

Jacob Laban Rachel

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

Genesis 29
God opened Leah’s womb while Rachel remained barren.

Genesis 29

God Leah

And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 29
Leah conceived and gave birth to Reuben.

Genesis 29

Leah Reuben

And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben:

Genesis 29
Leah conceived again and gave birth to Simeon.

Genesis 29

Leah Simeon

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

Genesis 29
Leah conceived again and gave birth to Levi.

Genesis 29

Leah Levi

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.

Genesis 29
Leah conceived again and gave birth to Judah.

Genesis 29

Leah Judah

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.

Genesis 30
Bilhah is given to Jacob as a wife and bears him two sons.

Genesis 30

Bilhah Jacob

And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 30:6 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. 30:7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Genesis 30
Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali to Jacob.

Genesis 30

Dan Naphtali Bilhah Jacob

And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. 30:6 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. 30:7 And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. 30:8 And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Genesis 30
Zilpah is given to Jacob and bears him Gad and Asher.

Genesis 30

Zilpah Jacob Gad Asher

When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. 30:10 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son. 30:11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. 30:12 And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son. 30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

Genesis 30
Rachel’s womb opens, and she bears Joseph to Jacob.

Genesis 30

Rachel Jacob Joseph

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. 30:23 And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: 30:24 And she called his name Joseph; and said, The LORD shall add to me another son.

Genesis 30
Jacob and Laban establish Jacob’s wages as selected speckled, spotted, and brown cattle.

Genesis 30

Jacob Laban

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock. 30:32 I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. 30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. 30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

Genesis 30
Laban separates the selected cattle, leaving Jacob to tend the remaining flock.

Genesis 30 · that day

Jacob Laban

And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 30:36 And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Genesis 30
Jacob’s stronger flocks increase while Laban’s weaker flocks remain, greatly increasing Jacob’s wealth.

Genesis 30

Jacob Laban

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s. 30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

Genesis 31
God commanded Jacob to return to the land of his fathers and kindred.

Genesis 31

God Jacob

And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

Genesis 31
God transferred Laban’s cattle to Jacob.

Genesis 31

God Jacob

Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

Genesis 31
Rachel stole Laban’s household images.

Genesis 31

Rachel Laban

And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.

Genesis 31
Jacob secretly fled with his cattle and possessions toward Isaac.

Genesis 31 · 📍 [[Padanaram]]

Jacob Laban

And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

Genesis 31
God warned Laban not to speak harmfully to Jacob.

Genesis 31 · by night

God Laban

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Genesis 31
Laban overtook Jacob and confronted him at the mountain.

Genesis 31 · 📍 [[mount Gilead]]

Laban Jacob

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

Genesis 31
Laban and Jacob established a covenant witnessed by a stone heap and pillar.

Genesis 31 · 📍 [[mount Gilead]]

Laban Jacob

Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

Genesis 31
Laban blessed his daughters and departed for his place.

Genesis 31 · early in the morning

Laban Rachel Leah

And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

Genesis 32
Jacob sent messengers to Esau announcing his return and seeking his favor.

Genesis 32 · 📍 Seir

Jacob Esau

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Genesis 32
Esau came to meet Jacob with four hundred men.

Genesis 32

Esau Jacob

We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Genesis 32
Jacob sent Esau a large present of livestock to appease him.

Genesis 32 · that same night

Jacob Esau

And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

Genesis 32
Jacob wrestled with God and suffered a dislocated thigh.

Genesis 32

Jacob God

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32
God changed Jacob’s name to Israel after Jacob prevailed in the struggle.

Genesis 32

Jacob God

Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Genesis 32
God blessed Jacob after the nighttime struggle.

Genesis 32

God Jacob

And he blessed him there.

Genesis 32
Jacob recognized that he had seen God face to face and survived.

Genesis 32 · 📍 [[Peniel]]

Jacob God

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Genesis 33
Jacob and Esau reconcile when Esau embraces, kisses, and weeps with Jacob.

Genesis 33

Jacob Esau

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Genesis 33
Esau accepts Jacob’s gift.

Genesis 33

Esau Jacob

And he urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 33
Esau returns to Seir.

Genesis 33 · 📍 Seir · that day

Esau

So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

Genesis 33
Jacob builds a house and booths for his cattle at Succoth.

Genesis 33 · 📍 [[Succoth]]

Jacob

And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Genesis 33
Jacob purchases a field from the children of Hamor.

Genesis 33 · 📍 [[Shalem]]

Jacob Hamor

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.

Genesis 33
Jacob erects an altar and names it EleloheIsrael.

Genesis 33 · 📍 [[Shalem]]

Jacob God

And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.

Genesis 34
Shechem took Dinah, lay with her, and defiled her.

Genesis 34

Shechem Dinah

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

Genesis 34
Shechem requested that Hamor obtain Dinah as his wife.

Genesis 34

Shechem Hamor Dinah

Get me this damsel to wife.

Genesis 34
Simeon and Levi deceitfully conditioned giving Dinah on circumcision of every male.

Genesis 34

Simeon Levi Dinah Shechem Hamor

If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

Genesis 34
Every male among the city’s people was circumcised.

Genesis 34

Hamor Shechem

every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Genesis 34
Simeon and Levi attacked the city and slew all its males.

Genesis 34 · on the third day

Simeon Levi

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.

Genesis 34
Simeon and Levi slew Hamor and Shechem with swords.

Genesis 34 · on the third day

Simeon Levi Hamor Shechem

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

Genesis 34
Simeon and Levi took Dinah out of Shechem’s house.

Genesis 34 · on the third day

Simeon Levi Dinah

and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.

Genesis 34
Jacob’s sons spoiled the city and took its households captive.

Genesis 34

Simeon Levi

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city

Genesis 35
God commanded Jacob to arise, go to Bethel, dwell there, and build an altar.

Genesis 35 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

God Jacob

And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God

Genesis 35
Jacob built an altar and worshipped God at Bethel.

Genesis 35 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Jacob God

And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him

Genesis 35
God blessed Jacob and changed his name to Israel.

Genesis 35 · when he came out of Padanaram

God Jacob

And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name

Genesis 35
God promised Jacob nations, kings, and the land given to Abraham and Isaac.

Genesis 35

God Jacob

a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it

Genesis 35
Rachel died after giving birth, and her father named the child Benjamin.

Genesis 35 · 📍 [[Ephrath]] · when her soul was in departing

Rachel Benjamin

as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin

Genesis 35
Reuben lay with Bilhah, Jacob’s concubine, and Israel heard of it.

Genesis 35 · when Israel dwelt in that land

Reuben Bilhah Jacob

Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it

Genesis 35
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried beneath Bethel.

Genesis 35 · 📍 [[Bethel]]

Deborah

But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak

Genesis 35
Isaac died at an advanced age, and Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 35 · 📍 Hebron

Isaac Esau Jacob

And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him

Genesis 36
Esau took Adah, Aholibamah, and Bashemath as wives.

Genesis 36

Esau Adah Aholibamah Bashemath

Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

Genesis 36
Esau’s sons Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah were born in Canaan.

Genesis 36 · 📍 Canaan

Esau Adah Bashemath Aholibamah Eliphaz Reuel Jeush Jaalam Korah

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36
Esau moved his household away from Jacob and settled in mount Seir.

Genesis 36 · 📍 Seir

Esau Jacob

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

Genesis 36
Timna became Eliphaz’s concubine.

Genesis 36

Timna Eliphaz

And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau’s son;

Genesis 36
Timna bore Amalek to Eliphaz.

Genesis 36

Timna Eliphaz Amalek

and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek:

Genesis 36
Bela son of Beor began reigning in Edom.

Genesis 36 · 📍 Esau · before there reigned any king over the children of Israel

Bela Beor

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel. And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom:

Genesis 36
After Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah succeeded him as king.

Genesis 36 · 📍 Esau

Bela Jobab Zerah

And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

Genesis 36
After Baalhanan died, Hadar succeeded him as king and was associated with Mehetabel.

Genesis 36 · 📍 Esau

Baalhanan Achbor Hadar Mehetabel Matred Mezahab

And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

Genesis 37
Jacob made Joseph a coat of many colours, marking him out among his children.

Genesis 37

Jacob Joseph

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Genesis 37
Jacob sent Joseph to check on his brothers and their flocks.

Genesis 37 · 📍 Shechem

Jacob Joseph

And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I. And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Genesis 37
Joseph’s brothers conspired to kill him when they saw him approaching.

Genesis 37 · 📍 [[Dothan]]

Joseph

And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Genesis 37
Reuben prevented the brothers from killing Joseph and proposed putting him in a pit.

Genesis 37 · 📍 [[Dothan]]

Reuben Joseph

And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

Genesis 37
Joseph’s brothers stripped him and cast him into an empty pit.

Genesis 37 · 📍 [[Dothan]]

Joseph

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Genesis 37
Judah persuaded the brothers to sell Joseph, and the Ishmeelites carried him into Egypt.

Genesis 37 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Judah Joseph

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content. Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37
Jacob believed Joseph had been devoured and mourned his son for many days.

Genesis 37 · many days

Jacob Joseph

And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces. And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 37
The Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer and captain of the guard.

Genesis 37 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Potiphar Joseph

And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

Genesis 38
God slew Er because he was wicked in the sight of the LORD.

Genesis 38

God Er

And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

Genesis 38
Judah commanded Onan to marry Tamar and raise seed for his deceased brother.

Genesis 38

Judah Onan

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

Genesis 38
God slew Onan because his actions displeased the LORD.

Genesis 38

God Onan

And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.

Genesis 38
Shuah died.

Genesis 38 · in process of time

Shuah

And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died;

Genesis 38
Tamar conceived by Judah after receiving his signet, bracelets, and staff.

Genesis 38

Judah Tamar

And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

Genesis 38
Tamar revealed Judah’s belongings as proof that he had fathered her child.

Genesis 38 · about three months after

Judah Tamar

By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

Genesis 38
Tamar gave birth to Pharez, one of her twins.

Genesis 38 · in the time of her travail

Tamar Pharez

And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.

Genesis 38
Tamar gave birth to Zarah, her second twin.

Genesis 38 · afterward

Tamar Zarah

And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

Genesis 39
Potiphar bought Joseph from the Ishmeelites in Egypt.

Genesis 39 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph Potiphar

Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites

Genesis 39
Potiphar made Joseph overseer over his house and entrusted everything to him.

Genesis 39

Potiphar Joseph

And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

Genesis 39
God blessed the Egyptian’s household because of Joseph.

Genesis 39

God Potiphar Joseph

the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

Genesis 39
Potiphar imprisoned Joseph after hearing the accusation against him.

Genesis 39 · 📍 [[the prison]]

Potiphar Joseph

And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

Genesis 39
God showed Joseph mercy and gave him favor with the prison keeper.

Genesis 39 · 📍 [[the prison]]

God Joseph

But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Genesis 39
Joseph was entrusted with all the prisoners and became responsible for everything done there.

Genesis 39 · 📍 [[the prison]]

Joseph

And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

Genesis 40
Pharaoh imprisoned his chief butler and chief baker after becoming angry with them.

Genesis 40 · 📍 [[the prison]]

Pharaoh

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers. And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Genesis 40
Joseph interpreted the chief butler’s dream as predicting his restoration to service.

Genesis 40 · 📍 [[the prison]] · within three days

Joseph

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Genesis 40
Joseph interpreted the chief baker’s dream as predicting his execution by hanging.

Genesis 40 · 📍 [[the prison]] · within three days

Joseph

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

Genesis 40
Pharaoh restored the chief butler to his office and received the cup from him.

Genesis 40 · the third day

Pharaoh

And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

Genesis 40
Pharaoh hanged the chief baker as Joseph had interpreted.

Genesis 40 · the third day

Pharaoh

But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Genesis 41
God reveals through Joseph that seven years of plenty will be followed by seven years of famine.

Genesis 41 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Pharaoh Joseph

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Genesis 41
Pharaoh appoints Joseph ruler over all Egypt, second only to Pharaoh.

Genesis 41 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh Joseph

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41
Pharaoh gives Asenath to Joseph as his wife.

Genesis 41

Joseph Asenath

And he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.

Genesis 41
Asenath bears Joseph two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 41 · before the years of famine came

Joseph Asenath Manasseh Ephraim

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

Genesis 41
Joseph gathers and stores Egypt's abundant food in the cities.

Genesis 41 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the seven plenteous years

Joseph

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:

Genesis 41
The seven years of famine begin throughout the lands, while Egypt retains bread.

Genesis 41 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended

Joseph

And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended. And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 41
Pharaoh directs the starving Egyptians to Joseph, who opens the storehouses and sells grain.

Genesis 41 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · when all the land of Egypt was famished

Pharaoh Joseph

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

Genesis 42
Jacob commands his sons to buy corn in Egypt.

Genesis 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Jacob

Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence;

Genesis 42
Joseph recognizes his brothers while they remain unaware of his identity.

Genesis 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph

And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Genesis 42
Joseph orders his brothers detained until Benjamin is brought to him.

Genesis 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph Benjamin

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison

Genesis 42
Joseph takes Simeon and binds him before his brothers.

Genesis 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · the third day

Joseph Simeon

and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.

Genesis 42
Joseph fills his brothers’ sacks, restores their money, and supplies provisions for their journey.

Genesis 42 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph

Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way:

Genesis 42
Jacob refuses to let Benjamin travel with his brothers.

Genesis 42 · 📍 Canaan

Jacob Benjamin

My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone

Genesis 43
Judah guarantees Benjamin’s safe return to Israel.

Genesis 43

Judah Benjamin

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Genesis 43
Joseph welcomes Benjamin and his brothers to dine at his house.

Genesis 43 · 📍 [[Joseph’s house]] · at noon

Joseph Benjamin

And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

Genesis 43
Joseph gives Benjamin a portion five times larger than the others at the meal.

Genesis 43 · 📍 [[Joseph’s house]]

Joseph Benjamin

And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs.

Genesis 44
Joseph orders the silver cup placed in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44

Joseph Benjamin

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money.

Genesis 44
The silver cup is found in Benjamin’s sack, subjecting him to Joseph’s charge.

Genesis 44

Benjamin Joseph

And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Genesis 44
Joseph declares Benjamin his servant while releasing the other men.

Genesis 44

Joseph Benjamin

but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

Genesis 44
Judah offers himself as Joseph’s bondman instead of Benjamin.

Genesis 44

Judah Benjamin Joseph

Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

Genesis 45
Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers, ending his concealment from them.

Genesis 45

Joseph

while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

Genesis 45
God sends Joseph ahead to preserve lives during the famine.

Genesis 45 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Joseph

for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 45
Joseph invites Jacob and his household to move to Goshen, promising to nourish them.

Genesis 45 · 📍 [[Goshen]]

Joseph Jacob

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me

Genesis 45
Pharaoh commands Joseph to bring his father and households from Canaan to Egypt.

Genesis 45 · 📍 Canaan

Pharaoh Joseph

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

Genesis 45
Joseph gives Benjamin three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.

Genesis 45

Joseph Benjamin

but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

Genesis 45
Joseph sends his brothers away with provisions for their journey.

Genesis 45 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · after this manner

Joseph

So he sent his brethren away, and they departed

Genesis 46
God promises Jacob a great nation and eventual return from Egypt.

Genesis 46 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · the visions of the night

God Jacob

I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again

Genesis 46
Pharaoh sends wagons to carry Jacob and his household into Egypt.

Genesis 46 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh Jacob

the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Genesis 46
Asenath bears Manasseh and Ephraim to Joseph.

Genesis 46 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the land of Egypt

Asenath Joseph Manasseh Ephraim

And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.

Genesis 46
Er and Onan are reported dead in Canaan.

Genesis 46 · 📍 Canaan · in the land of Canaan

Er Onan

but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 46
Judah is sent ahead to Joseph to direct Jacob's household toward Goshen.

Genesis 46 · 📍 [[Goshen]]

Judah Joseph

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Genesis 46
Joseph reunites with Jacob, embraces him, and weeps upon his neck.

Genesis 46 · 📍 [[Goshen]]

Jacob Joseph

And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Genesis 47
Pharaoh grants Jacob and his brethren the best land in Egypt for dwelling.

Genesis 47 · 📍 [[Goshen]]

Pharaoh Jacob

The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell

Genesis 47
Jacob blesses Pharaoh.

Genesis 47

Jacob Pharaoh

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47
Joseph gives Jacob and his brethren a possession in Egypt’s best land.

Genesis 47 · 📍 [[land of Rameses]]

Joseph Jacob

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

Genesis 47
Joseph purchases all Egyptian land for Pharaoh during the famine.

Genesis 47 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph Pharaoh

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47
Joseph establishes Pharaoh’s fifth-part tax over Egypt, excepting the priests’ land.

Genesis 47 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · unto this day

Joseph Pharaoh

And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 47
Jacob asks Joseph to bury him outside Egypt, and Joseph swears to fulfill the request.

Genesis 47 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · the time drew nigh that Israel must die

Jacob Joseph

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said. And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him.

Genesis 48
God promised Jacob numerous descendants and everlasting possession of the land of Canaan.

Genesis 48 · 📍 [[Luz]]

God Jacob

And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Genesis 48
Jacob claimed Ephraim and Manasseh as his own, equal to Reuben and Simeon.

Genesis 48

Jacob Ephraim Manasseh Reuben Simeon

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Genesis 48
Jacob blessed Joseph and his sons, invoking God's protection and multiplying blessing upon them.

Genesis 48

Jacob Joseph Ephraim Manasseh

And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Genesis 48
Jacob blessed Ephraim above Manasseh, declaring the younger brother would become greater.

Genesis 48 · that day

Jacob Ephraim Manasseh

And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

Genesis 48
Jacob granted Joseph one portion above his brothers.

Genesis 48

Jacob Joseph

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

Genesis 49
Jacob declares that Reuben will not excel because he defiled his father's bed.

Genesis 49

Jacob Reuben

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Genesis 49
Jacob curses Simeon and Levi's anger and foretells their division and scattering.

Genesis 49

Jacob Simeon Levi

Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Genesis 49
Jacob grants Judah praise, authority, and dominion over his brothers.

Genesis 49

Jacob Judah

Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.

Genesis 49
God is declared to strengthen and bless Joseph with abundant blessings.

Genesis 49

God Joseph

But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob

Genesis 49
Jacob blesses all twelve sons according to their individual blessings.

Genesis 49

Jacob Reuben Simeon Levi Judah Zebulun Issachar Dan Gad Asher Naphtali Joseph Benjamin

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.

Genesis 49
Jacob charges his sons to bury him with his fathers in the cave of Machpelah.

Genesis 49 · 📍 [[Machpelah]]

Jacob

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite

Genesis 49
Jacob gathers up his feet, yields up the ghost, and is gathered unto his people.

Genesis 49

Jacob

And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Genesis 50
Joseph orders his father embalmed, changing Jacob’s bodily state after death.

Genesis 50

Joseph Jacob

And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Genesis 50
Pharaoh permits Joseph to bury his father according to his sworn obligation.

Genesis 50 · when the days of his mourning were past

Pharaoh Joseph

And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

Genesis 50
Jacob is buried in the cave of Machpelah.

Genesis 50 · 📍 Canaan

Jacob

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah

Genesis 50
Joseph reassures his brothers and promises to provide for them and their children.

Genesis 50

Joseph

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones.

Genesis 50
Joseph declares that God will bring his people from Egypt to the promised land sworn to the patriarchs.

Genesis 50

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Genesis 50
Joseph makes an oath that his bones will be carried out when God visits his people.

Genesis 50

Joseph

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Genesis 50
Joseph dies at age one hundred ten and is embalmed and placed in a coffin.

Genesis 50 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 1
Joseph died, ending his generation’s presence in Egypt.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Joseph

And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Exodus 1
A new Pharaoh arose who no longer recognized Joseph.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh Joseph

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Exodus 1
Pharaoh imposed taskmasters and forced the Israelites into labor building treasure cities.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 1
Pharaoh commanded the Hebrew midwives to kill every newborn son.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh Shiphrah Puah

if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus 1
The midwives disobeyed Pharaoh and preserved the Hebrew male children.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Shiphrah Puah

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Exodus 1
God rewarded the midwives by establishing households for them.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Shiphrah Puah

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

Exodus 1
Pharaoh ordered every newborn Hebrew son thrown into the river while daughters were spared.

Exodus 1 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh

Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Exodus 2
Moses was born and hidden for three months.

Exodus 2

Moses

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

Exodus 2
Moses became Pharaoh’s daughter’s son and was given his name.

Exodus 2

Moses

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses:

Exodus 2
Moses slew an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew.

Exodus 2 · when Moses was grown

Moses Egyptian

he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2
Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in Midian.

Exodus 2 · 📍 Midian · Now when Pharaoh heard this thing

Moses

But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian:

Exodus 2
Moses married Zipporah, Reuel’s daughter.

Exodus 2

Moses Zipporah

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

Exodus 2
Zipporah bore Moses a son named Gershom.

Exodus 2

Moses Gershom

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom:

Exodus 2
God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 2 · in process of time

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 3
God appeared to Moses in a burning bush that was not consumed.

Exodus 3 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus 3
God commissioned Moses to bring Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 3 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 3
God promised to accompany Moses during his mission.

Exodus 3 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee:

Exodus 3
God revealed his enduring name to Moses.

Exodus 3 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

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.

Exodus 3
God promised to deliver Israel from Egypt and bring them into a fertile land.

Exodus 3 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;

Exodus 4
God transforms Moses's rod into a serpent and then restores it as a rod.

Exodus 4

God Moses

And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. 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:

Exodus 4
God makes Moses's hand leprous, then restores it to normal flesh.

Exodus 4

God Moses

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 he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.

Exodus 4
God sends Moses to return to Egypt after those who sought his life have died.

Exodus 4 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

Exodus 4
God appoints Aaron as Moses's spokesman to the people.

Exodus 4

God Moses Aaron

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.

Exodus 4
God commands Moses to perform wonders before Pharaoh and declares Pharaoh's heart will be hardened.

Exodus 4 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Pharaoh

And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

Exodus 4
God warns Pharaoh that refusing to release Israel will bring death to his firstborn.

Exodus 4

God Pharaoh

And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

Exodus 4
God sends Aaron to meet Moses in the wilderness.

Exodus 4

God Aaron Moses

And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

Exodus 4
Zipporah circumcises her son, and God releases Moses from the threat of death.

Exodus 4 · 📍 [[the inn]]

Zipporah God Moses

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

Exodus 5
God commands Pharaoh to release Israel for a wilderness feast.

Exodus 5

God Pharaoh

Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

Exodus 5
Pharaoh refuses to release Israel or obey God.

Exodus 5

Pharaoh

I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

Exodus 5
Pharaoh orders that straw no longer be provided while maintaining the brick quota.

Exodus 5 · the same day

Pharaoh

Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Exodus 5
Pharaoh increases the labor imposed on the people.

Exodus 5 · the same day

Pharaoh

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Exodus 5
Moses identifies himself as sent by God to Pharaoh.

Exodus 5

God Moses

why is it that thou hast sent me?

Exodus 6
God establishes his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, promising them the land of Canaan.

Exodus 6

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

Exodus 6
God promises to redeem Israel from Egyptian bondage and give them the promised inheritance.

Exodus 6

God

And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.

Exodus 6
God commands Moses to tell Pharaoh to release Israel from Egypt.

Exodus 6

God Moses

Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 6
God charges Moses and Aaron to bring Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 6

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 6
Amram takes Jochebed as his wife.

Exodus 6

Amram Jochebed

And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife;

Exodus 6
Jochebed bears Aaron and Moses.

Exodus 6

Jochebed Aaron Moses

and she bare him Aaron and Moses:

Exodus 6
Aaron takes Elisheba as his wife.

Exodus 6

Aaron Elisheba

And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife;

Exodus 6
Elisheba bears Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Exodus 6

Elisheba Nadab Abihu Eleazar Ithamar

and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Exodus 7
God appointed Moses as a god to Pharaoh and Aaron as Moses’s prophet.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Aaron Pharaoh

And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

Exodus 7
God commanded Moses and Aaron to speak to Pharaoh about releasing Israel.

Exodus 7

God Moses Aaron

Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land.

Exodus 7
God hardened Pharaoh’s heart and multiplied signs and wonders in Egypt.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Pharaoh

And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 7
Aaron’s rod became a serpent before Pharaoh and his servants.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Aaron Pharaoh

And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

Exodus 7
Aaron’s rod swallowed the magicians’ rods.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Aaron

For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

Exodus 7
Pharaoh refused to let the people go and would not heed Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Pharaoh

And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

Exodus 7
God sent Moses to Pharaoh to demand that the people be released to serve Him.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · in the morning

God Moses Pharaoh

The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:

Exodus 7
God turned Egypt’s river waters to blood, killing the fish and making the water undrinkable.

Exodus 7 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Aaron Pharaoh

And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

Exodus 8
God commands Moses to demand that Pharaoh release Israel for worship.

Exodus 8

God Moses Pharaoh

And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 8
God commands Aaron through Moses, and frogs cover Egypt.

Exodus 8 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Aaron Pharaoh

And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt. And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8
God removes the frogs after Moses intercedes, and the frogs die.

Exodus 8 · To morrow

God Moses Pharaoh

And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God. And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only. And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.

Exodus 8
Pharaoh hardens his heart and refuses to release the people after the frogs depart.

Exodus 8

Pharaoh

But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

Exodus 8
God commands Aaron through Moses, and lice cover people and beasts throughout Egypt.

Exodus 8 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8
God sends flies across Egypt while separating Goshen from the Egyptians.

Exodus 8 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Pharaoh

Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are. And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be.

Exodus 8
Pharaoh agrees to let Israel sacrifice in the wilderness but restricts their distance.

Exodus 8 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

Pharaoh Moses Aaron

And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me.

Exodus 8
Pharaoh hardens his heart again and refuses to let the people go.

Exodus 8

Pharaoh

And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

Exodus 9
God commands Moses to tell Pharaoh to release His people.

Exodus 9

God Moses Pharaoh

Then the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 9
God kills all Egyptian cattle while sparing every Israelite animal.

Exodus 9 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · on the morrow

God

And the LORD did that thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

Exodus 9
Pharaoh hardens his heart and refuses to release the Israelites.

Exodus 9

Pharaoh

And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

Exodus 9
God sends devastating hail across Egypt, sparing only Goshen.

Exodus 9 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses

And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9
Pharaoh confesses sin and promises to release the Israelites if the hail stops.

Exodus 9

Pharaoh Moses Aaron

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked. Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

Exodus 9
God ends the thunder, hail, and rain after Moses spreads his hands toward the LORD.

Exodus 9

God Moses

And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the LORD: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

Exodus 9
Pharaoh reneges, hardens his heart, and refuses to release the Israelites.

Exodus 9

Pharaoh

And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.

Exodus 10
God commands Moses to go to Pharaoh and recount the signs performed in Egypt.

Exodus 10 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him: And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

Exodus 10
Moses and Aaron demand Pharaoh release the people, warning that locusts will come if he refuses.

Exodus 10 · to morrow

Moses Aaron Pharaoh

And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

Exodus 10
Pharaoh offers to release only the men, then has Moses and Aaron driven from his presence.

Exodus 10

Pharaoh Moses Aaron

Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Exodus 10
God brings a devastating locust plague over Egypt after Moses stretches out his rod.

Exodus 10 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · when it was morning

God Moses Pharaoh

And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10
Pharaoh confesses his sin and asks Moses to obtain forgiveness and removal of the plague.

Exodus 10

Pharaoh Moses Aaron

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Exodus 10
God removes the locusts but hardens Pharaoh’s heart, preventing Israel’s release.

Exodus 10 · 📍 [[Red sea]]

God Pharaoh Moses

And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

Exodus 10
God brings palpable darkness over Egypt for three days while Israel retains light.

Exodus 10 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · three days

God Moses Pharaoh

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Exodus 10
Pharaoh orders Moses never to appear again, threatening death, and Moses agrees not to return.

Exodus 10 · in that day

Pharaoh Moses

And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die. And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

Exodus 11
God announces a final plague that will kill Egypt’s firstborn, including Pharaoh’s firstborn.

Exodus 11 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · About midnight

God Moses Pharaoh

Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne

Exodus 11
God commands Moses to have the people borrow silver and gold jewelry from their neighbors.

Exodus 11 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and jewels of gold.

Exodus 11
God gives the people favor among Egyptians, while Moses becomes greatly esteemed in Egypt.

Exodus 11 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses

And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt

Exodus 11
God hardens Pharaoh’s heart, causing Pharaoh to refuse releasing Israel from Egypt.

Exodus 11 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Pharaoh

the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 12
God establishes the Passover ordinance and restricts participation to the covenant community.

Exodus 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

Exodus 12
God strikes every firstborn in Egypt, including Pharaoh’s firstborn.

Exodus 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · at midnight

God Pharaoh

And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne

Exodus 12
Pharaoh orders Moses and Aaron to leave Egypt and serve the LORD.

Exodus 12 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · by night

Pharaoh Moses Aaron

And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people

Exodus 13
God commanded Moses to sanctify every firstborn as belonging to God.

Exodus 13

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

Exodus 13
God slew every firstborn in Egypt, both human and animal.

Exodus 13 · 📍 [[Egypt]] · when Pharaoh would hardly let us go

God

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast:

Exodus 13
Moses carried Joseph’s bones out of Egypt.

Exodus 13 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

Moses Joseph

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

Exodus 13
God redirected the people through the wilderness of the Red sea instead of the Philistine route.

Exodus 13 · 📍 [[wilderness of the Red sea]]

God

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 13
God guided the people continuously with cloud by day and fire by night.

Exodus 13 · by day and by night

God

And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

Exodus 14
God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, causing him to pursue Israel.

Exodus 14

God Pharaoh

And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel:

Exodus 14
God commanded Moses to stretch out his hand and divide the sea.

Exodus 14

God Moses

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it:

Exodus 14
Moses stretched out his hand, and God divided the sea into dry land.

Exodus 14 · 📍 [[the sea]] · all that night

God Moses

And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Exodus 14
God troubled Pharaoh’s host and disabled their chariot wheels.

Exodus 14 · in the morning watch

God Pharaoh

And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily:

Exodus 14
God commanded Moses to stretch out his hand so the waters would return.

Exodus 14 · 📍 [[the sea]]

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

Exodus 14
God overthrew Pharaoh’s army in the sea, and the returning waters covered them.

Exodus 14 · 📍 [[the sea]] · when the morning appeared

God Pharaoh

And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

Exodus 14
God saved Israel from the Egyptians, who were found dead upon the seashore.

Exodus 14 · 📍 [[the sea shore]] · that day

God

Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

Exodus 15
God drowned Pharaoh’s army while Israel crossed the sea on dry land.

Exodus 15 · 📍 [[Red sea]]

God

For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

Exodus 15
Moses and Israel sang praises to God after the victory at the sea.

Exodus 15

Moses God

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Exodus 15
Miriam led the women in worship and proclaimed God’s triumph over Egypt.

Exodus 15

Miriam God

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Exodus 15
God made Marah’s bitter waters sweet after Moses cast a tree into them.

Exodus 15 · 📍 [[Marah]]

God Moses

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet

Exodus 16
God promises Moses bread from heaven and instructs the people to gather it daily.

Exodus 16 · every day

God Moses

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day

Exodus 16
God commands Moses to announce that Israel will eat flesh and bread.

Exodus 16 · at even

God Moses

I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread

Exodus 16
God’s glory appears in the cloud before the congregation as Aaron speaks.

Exodus 16

God Aaron

as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud

Exodus 16
Moses commands Aaron to summon the congregation before God.

Exodus 16

Moses

And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD

Exodus 16
God provides twice as much manna and establishes the Sabbath rest.

Exodus 16 · on the sixth day

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws? See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath

Exodus 16
Moses commands Aaron to preserve an omer of manna before God for future generations.

Exodus 16

Moses Aaron

And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept for your generations

Exodus 16
Aaron stores the manna before the Testimony as commanded.

Exodus 16

Aaron

As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept

Exodus 17
God commands Moses to strike the rock so water will come out for the people.

Exodus 17 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God Moses

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. 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.

Exodus 17
Moses strikes the rock, and water comes out for the people to drink.

Exodus 17 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

Moses

And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Exodus 17
Moses commands Joshua to choose men and fight Amalek.

Exodus 17 · 📍 [[Rephidim]] · to morrow

Moses Joshua

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.

Exodus 17
Aaron and Hur support Moses’ hands, keeping them steady until sunset.

Exodus 17

Aaron Hur Moses

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.

Exodus 17
Joshua defeats Amalek and his people with the sword.

Exodus 17 · 📍 [[Rephidim]] · Then

Joshua

And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

Exodus 17
God commands Moses to record the battle as a memorial and tell Joshua.

Exodus 17

God Moses Joshua

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua

Exodus 17
God swears to wage war against Amalek from generation to generation.

Exodus 17

God

For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Exodus 18
Jethro brought Zipporah and Moses’ sons to Moses.

Exodus 18 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

Jethro Moses Zipporah Gershom Eliezer

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness

Exodus 18
Jethro offered sacrifices to God.

Exodus 18

Jethro God

And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God

Exodus 18
Jethro acknowledged that God was greater than all gods.

Exodus 18

Jethro God

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods

Exodus 18
Jethro advised Moses to delegate judgment and appoint subordinate rulers.

Exodus 18

Jethro Moses

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness

Exodus 18
Moses appointed rulers over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Exodus 18

Moses

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.

Exodus 18
Moses judged the people from morning until evening.

Exodus 18 · on the morrow

Moses

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.

Exodus 18
Moses allowed Jethro to depart and return to his own land.

Exodus 18

Moses Jethro

And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

Exodus 19
God commands Moses to present Israel with covenant terms and the promise of becoming a holy nation.

Exodus 19

God Moses

Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. 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: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.

Exodus 19
God commands Moses to sanctify the people and prepare them for His descent on Mount Sinai.

Exodus 19 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]] · the third day

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 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.

Exodus 19
God commands Moses to set boundaries around the mountain and warns that trespassers will die.

Exodus 19 · 📍 [[the mount]]

God Moses

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:

Exodus 19
Moses sanctifies the people, and they wash their clothes as preparation for meeting God.

Exodus 19

Moses

And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19
Moses brings the people to the mountain to meet God amid thunder, lightning, trumpet blasts, and trembling.

Exodus 19 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]] · on the third day in the morning

Moses God

And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.

Exodus 19
God descends upon Mount Sinai in fire, causing the mountain to smoke and quake.

Exodus 19 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]] · on the third day in the morning

God

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.

Exodus 19
God calls Moses to the mountain summit, and Moses goes up to Him.

Exodus 19 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God Moses

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.

Exodus 19
God orders Moses to descend and return with Aaron, while forbidding the priests and people to approach.

Exodus 19 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God Moses Aaron

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.

Exodus 20
God commands Moses not to make gods of silver or gold.

Exodus 20

God Moses

Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

Exodus 20
God commands Moses to make an altar of earth and offer sacrifices.

Exodus 20

God Moses

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:

Exodus 20
God commands Moses not to build a stone altar from hewn stone.

Exodus 20

God Moses

And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone:

Exodus 20
God commands Moses not to approach the altar by steps.

Exodus 20

God Moses

Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

Exodus 21
A Hebrew servant goes out free after serving six years.

Exodus 21 · in the seventh

Hebrew servant

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Exodus 21
A servant who refuses freedom becomes a lifelong servant after his ear is bored.

Exodus 21

servant master

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.

Exodus 21
A maidservant is released free if her master withholds required provisions and marital duty.

Exodus 21

maidservant master

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

Exodus 21
A man who strikes another and causes death is sentenced to death.

Exodus 21

man

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

Exodus 21
A person who steals and sells another person is sentenced to death.

Exodus 21

man

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 21
A servant gains freedom when a master destroys the servant’s eye or tooth.

Exodus 21

servant master

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.

Exodus 21
An owner whose known dangerous ox kills someone is sentenced to death with the ox.

Exodus 21 · in time past

ox owner

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.

Exodus 21
An ox that gores a servant is stoned, and its owner pays thirty shekels of silver.

Exodus 21

ox owner manservant maidservant

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.

Exodus 22
A thief unable to make restitution is sold for his theft.

Exodus 22

a thief

if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Exodus 22
A man who entices an unbetrothed maid must endow her to become his wife.

Exodus 22

a man a maid

If a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Exodus 22
If the maid’s father refuses the marriage, the man must pay the virgins’ dowry.

Exodus 22

a man her father

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Exodus 22
A witch is sentenced to death.

Exodus 22

a witch

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Exodus 22
Anyone who lies with a beast is sentenced to death.

Exodus 22

Whosoever

Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 22
An idol sacrificer is condemned to destruction.

Exodus 22

He God

He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Exodus 22
God threatens to kill those who afflict widows or fatherless children.

Exodus 22

God you

And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Exodus 23
God sent an Angel before Israel to guard them and bring them to the prepared place.

Exodus 23

God Angel

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Exodus 23
God promised that the Angel would lead Israel into the land and remove its peoples.

Exodus 23

God Angel Amorites Hittites Perizzites Canaanites Hivites Jebusites

For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

Exodus 23
God promised to bless Israel’s food and remove sickness from among them.

Exodus 23

God Jacob

And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Exodus 23
God promised to send fear before Israel and cause their enemies to flee.

Exodus 23

God Jacob

I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

Exodus 23
God promised to send hornets that would drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites away.

Exodus 23

God Hivites Canaanites Hittites

And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

Exodus 23
God promised gradually to drive out the inhabitants until Israel increased and inherited the land.

Exodus 23

God Jacob

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Exodus 23
God promised to establish Israel’s boundaries and deliver the land’s inhabitants into Israel’s hand.

Exodus 23

God Jacob

And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

Exodus 24
God establishes a covenant with Moses and the people through sacrificial blood.

Exodus 24

God Moses

Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

Exodus 24
God commands Moses to come up the mountain and receive stone tablets, law, and commandments.

Exodus 24 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God Moses

Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exodus 24
Moses enters the cloud on Mount Sinai after God calls him from within it.

Exodus 24 · the seventh day

Moses

And the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Exodus 24
Moses remains on the mountain within the cloud for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 24 · forty days and forty nights

Moses

And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 25
God commands Moses to request willing offerings from the children of Israel.

Exodus 25

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

Exodus 25
God commands Moses to have a sanctuary made according to the revealed pattern.

Exodus 25

God Moses

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. 25:9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Exodus 25
God promises to meet and commune with Moses above the mercy seat.

Exodus 25

God Moses

And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

Exodus 25
God commands Moses to make the furnishings according to the pattern shown on the mount.

Exodus 25 · 📍 [[the mount]]

God Moses

And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

Exodus 26
God commands Moses to make the tabernacle with ten curtains.

Exodus 26

God Moses

Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet:

Exodus 26
God commands Moses to construct the tabernacle’s boards and supports.

Exodus 26

God Moses

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

Exodus 26
God commands Moses to erect the tabernacle according to the revealed pattern.

Exodus 26

God Moses

And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.

Exodus 26
God commands Moses to make a veil separating the holy place from the most holy.

Exodus 26

God Moses

And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

Exodus 26
God commands Moses to place the mercy seat upon the ark in the most holy place.

Exodus 26

God Moses

And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

Exodus 27
God commands Aaron and his sons to tend the lamp continually before the LORD.

Exodus 27 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · from evening to morning

God Aaron

In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD

Exodus 28
Aaron and his sons are appointed to minister in the priest’s office.

Exodus 28

God Aaron Nadab Abihu Eleazar Ithamar

And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office

Exodus 28
Aaron and his sons are commanded to be anointed, consecrated, and sanctified for priestly service.

Exodus 28

God Aaron Nadab Abihu Eleazar Ithamar

And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 29
God promises to dwell among Israel and be their God.

Exodus 29

God

And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Exodus 30
God commands Moses to make an incense altar before the testimony.

Exodus 30

God Moses

And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

Exodus 30
God commands Aaron to burn sweet incense on the altar continually.

Exodus 30 · every morning

God Aaron

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

Exodus 30
God commands Aaron to make yearly atonement on the incense altar.

Exodus 30 · once in a year

God Aaron

And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements:

Exodus 30
God commands Moses to make a brass laver for washing.

Exodus 30

God Moses

Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal:

Exodus 30
God commands Moses to anoint and consecrate Aaron for priestly service.

Exodus 30

God Aaron

And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 31
God calls Bezaleel by name for sacred workmanship.

Exodus 31

God Bezaleel

See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

Exodus 31
God fills Bezaleel with wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and workmanship.

Exodus 31

God Bezaleel

And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

Exodus 31
God appoints Aholiab alongside Bezaleel to make everything commanded.

Exodus 31

God Aholiab

And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan:

Exodus 31
God commands Moses to proclaim the Sabbath requirement to Israel.

Exodus 31

God Moses

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep:

Exodus 31
God gives Moses two stone tablets bearing the testimony written by God's finger.

Exodus 31 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God Moses

And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 32
Aaron fashioned a molten calf, and Israel proclaimed it as the gods that brought them from Egypt.

Exodus 32

Aaron Jacob

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32
Israel worshipped the molten calf and sacrificed to it.

Exodus 32

Jacob

They have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32
Moses interceded for Israel, and God relented from the judgment he had intended.

Exodus 32

Moses God Jacob

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Exodus 32
Moses broke the testimony tablets after seeing the calf and Israel’s dancing.

Exodus 32 · 📍 [[the camp]] · as soon as he came nigh unto the camp

Moses

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Exodus 32
Moses destroyed the calf, ground it to powder, and made Israel drink it.

Exodus 32

Moses Jacob

And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

Exodus 32
Moses ordered the slaughter of Israelites, and about three thousand died.

Exodus 32 · 📍 [[the camp]] · that day

Moses Jacob

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

Exodus 32
God ordered Moses to lead Israel onward, with an angel going before them.

Exodus 32

God Moses Jacob

Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

Exodus 32
God plagued Israel because they made the golden calf.

Exodus 32

God Jacob

And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

Exodus 33
God commands Moses to depart with the people toward the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 33

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:

Exodus 33
God promises to send an angel before Moses and drive out the surrounding nations.

Exodus 33

God Moses

And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

Exodus 33
God declares that he will not accompany the people in their midst because of their stubbornness.

Exodus 33

God Moses

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

Exodus 33
Moses pitches the tabernacle outside the camp and designates it the Tabernacle of the congregation.

Exodus 33

Moses

And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation.

Exodus 33
God's cloudy presence descends at the tabernacle, where he speaks with Moses.

Exodus 33 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · as Moses entered into the tabernacle

God Moses

And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

Exodus 33
God promises that his presence will accompany Moses and give him rest.

Exodus 33

God Moses

And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

Exodus 33
God agrees to Moses's request because Moses has found grace in his sight.

Exodus 33

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

Exodus 33
God promises to shield Moses in a rock cleft and reveal only his back parts.

Exodus 33 · while my glory passeth by

God Moses

And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

Exodus 34
God commands Moses to prepare replacement stone tablets and meet Him on mount Sinai.

Exodus 34 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]] · in the morning

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. 34:2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

Exodus 34
Moses worships God after God proclaims His name and character.

Exodus 34

Moses God

And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Exodus 34
God establishes a covenant with Moses, promising marvelous works before the people.

Exodus 34

God Moses

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

Exodus 34
God commands Moses to write the covenant words.

Exodus 34

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Exodus 34
Moses writes the covenant’s ten commandments on the stone tablets.

Exodus 34 · forty days and forty nights

Moses God

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Exodus 34
Moses descends from mount Sinai carrying the tablets, and his face shines.

Exodus 34 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

Moses

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

Exodus 35
God calls Bezaleel by name for appointed craftsmanship.

Exodus 35

God Bezaleel

the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

Exodus 35
God fills Bezaleel with wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and workmanship.

Exodus 35

God Bezaleel

And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

Exodus 35
God enables Bezaleel and Aholiab to teach and perform skilled work.

Exodus 35

God Bezaleel Aholiab

And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

Exodus 36
God gave wisdom and understanding to Bezaleel, Aholiab, and the skilled workers for sanctuary construction.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

God Bezaleel Aholiab

Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary

Exodus 36
Moses summoned Bezaleel, Aholiab, and the skilled workers to perform the sanctuary work.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

Moses Bezaleel Aholiab

And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it

Exodus 36
Bezaleel and Aholiab received Israel’s offerings from Moses for constructing the sanctuary.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[sanctuary]] · every morning

Moses Bezaleel Aholiab

And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal.

Exodus 36
Moses ordered the people to stop bringing offerings, and the camp was restrained from further contributions.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[the camp]]

Moses

And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

Exodus 36
The curtains were coupled together, forming one tabernacle.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel Aholiab

And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

Exodus 36
The tabernacle boards were connected with bars and overlaid with gold.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel Aholiab

And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

Exodus 36
A decorated veil was made and installed on four gold-covered pillars.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel Aholiab

And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work. And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold

Exodus 36
The tabernacle door hanging was made and supported by five pillars.

Exodus 36 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel Aholiab

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; And the five pillars of it with their hooks

Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood and overlaid it with pure gold.

Exodus 37

Bezaleel

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.

Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the mercy seat and two golden cherubims.

Exodus 37

Bezaleel

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof. And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;

Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the golden table and its vessels.

Exodus 37

Bezaleel

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof: And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.

Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the golden candlestick, its lamps, snuffers, and snuffdishes.

Exodus 37

Bezaleel

And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the incense altar of shittim wood and overlaid it with pure gold.

Exodus 37

Bezaleel

And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same. And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it:

Exodus 37
Bezaleel made the holy anointing oil and pure incense of sweet spices.

Exodus 37

Bezaleel

And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

Exodus 38
Bezaleel made the altar of burnt offering and all its brass vessels.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel

And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof. And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass. And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

Exodus 38
Bezaleel made the brass laver from the women’s lookingglasses.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel

And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Exodus 38
Bezaleel made the court and its linen hangings, pillars, sockets, and gate.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[court]]

Bezaleel

And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

Exodus 38
Ithamar counted the tabernacle’s materials according to Moses’ command for Levitical service.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses Ithamar

This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

Exodus 38
Bezaleel completed everything God had commanded Moses.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[holy place]]

God Moses Bezaleel

And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.

Exodus 38
Aholiab joined Bezaleel as an engraver, craftsman, and embroiderer.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[holy place]]

Bezaleel Aholiab

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

Exodus 38
Bezaleel cast the sanctuary and veil sockets from the congregation’s silver.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[sanctuary]]

Bezaleel

And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

Exodus 38
Bezaleel made the altar, court sockets, and tabernacle and court pins from the offering’s brass.

Exodus 38 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Bezaleel

And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar, And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

Exodus 39
God commanded Moses to make holy garments for Aaron.

Exodus 39

God Moses

as the LORD commanded Moses

Exodus 39
The tabernacle and all its furnishings were completed and brought to Moses.

Exodus 39

Moses

Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they. And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture

Exodus 39
Moses inspected the completed work and blessed them.

Exodus 39

Moses

And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

Exodus 40
God commanded Moses to set up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month.

Exodus 40

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

Exodus 40
Moses reared up the tabernacle.

Exodus 40 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month

Moses

And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.

Exodus 40
Moses clothed, anointed, and sanctified Aaron for priestly service.

Exodus 40 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses Aaron

And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Exodus 40
Moses finished the work of erecting the tabernacle and its court.

Exodus 40 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses

So Moses finished the work.

Exodus 40
God’s glory filled the tabernacle, and a cloud covered it.

Exodus 40 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God

Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40
Moses could not enter the tabernacle because the cloud and divine glory remained there.

Exodus 40 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses God

And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 40
God’s cloud determined when the Israelites could continue their journeys.

Exodus 40 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · by day

God

But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

Leviticus 1
God commands Moses to speak to the children of Israel about offerings.

Leviticus 1 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses

And the LORD called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel

Leviticus 4
God commands Moses to speak to Israel about sins committed through ignorance.

Leviticus 4

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance

Leviticus 5
God commands Moses concerning trespass offerings for sins committed in ignorance.

Leviticus 5

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

Leviticus 6
God commands Moses regarding the law of the burnt offering.

Leviticus 6

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering:

Leviticus 6
God commands Moses to instruct Aaron and his sons about the sin offering.

Leviticus 6

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering:

Leviticus 7
God permanently gave Aaron and his sons portions from Israel’s peace offerings.

Leviticus 7

God Aaron

For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.

Leviticus 7
God commanded Moses regarding Israel’s offering laws at mount Sinai.

Leviticus 7 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]] · in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD

God Moses

Which the LORD commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.

Leviticus 8
God commanded Moses to take Aaron and gather the congregation at the tabernacle.

Leviticus 8 · 📍 [[door of the tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread; 8:3 And gather thou all the congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Leviticus 8
Moses anointed Aaron, sanctifying him.

Leviticus 8

Moses Aaron

And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

Leviticus 8
Moses anointed and sanctified the tabernacle and its sacred furnishings.

Leviticus 8 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses

And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. 8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.

Leviticus 8
Moses sanctified Aaron and his garments with anointing oil and sacrificial blood.

Leviticus 8

Moses Aaron

And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.

Leviticus 8
Moses commanded Aaron to remain at the tabernacle seven days during his consecration.

Leviticus 8 · 📍 [[door of the tabernacle of the congregation]] · seven days

Moses Aaron

And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you.

Leviticus 9
God commanded Aaron to offer sacrifices and make atonement for himself and the people.

Leviticus 9 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · on the eighth day

God Aaron

And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.

Leviticus 9
Aaron slew the calf of his sin offering.

Leviticus 9 · 📍 [[altar]] · on the eighth day

Aaron

Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

Leviticus 9
Aaron slew and offered the people's goat as a sin offering.

Leviticus 9 · 📍 [[altar]] · on the eighth day

Aaron

And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

Leviticus 9
Aaron slew the bullock and ram as peace offerings for the people.

Leviticus 9 · 📍 [[altar]] · on the eighth day

Aaron

He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people:

Leviticus 9
Aaron blessed the people after completing the offerings.

Leviticus 9 · on the eighth day

Aaron

And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.

Leviticus 9
Moses and Aaron entered and exited the tabernacle, and God's glory appeared to the people.

Leviticus 9 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · on the eighth day

Moses Aaron God

And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.

Leviticus 9
Fire from God consumed the burnt offering and fat on the altar.

Leviticus 9 · 📍 [[altar]] · on the eighth day

God

And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat:

Leviticus 10
God sent fire that killed Nadab and Abihu for offering strange fire.

Leviticus 10

God Nadab Abihu

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Leviticus 10
Mishael and Elzaphan carried Nadab and Abihu’s bodies out of the camp.

Leviticus 10

Moses Mishael Elzaphan Nadab Abihu

So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

Leviticus 10
Moses commanded Aaron and his surviving sons not to mourn publicly or leave the tabernacle.

Leviticus 10 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses Aaron Eleazar Ithamar

And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die

Leviticus 10
God commanded Aaron and his sons to abstain from wine when entering the tabernacle.

Leviticus 10 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Aaron Eleazar Ithamar

Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die

Leviticus 11
God commands Moses and Aaron to speak to the children of Israel about permitted animals.

Leviticus 11

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel

Leviticus 12
God commands Moses to speak to the children of Israel.

Leviticus 12

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,

Leviticus 13
God gives Moses and Aaron instructions for identifying and judging leprosy.

Leviticus 13

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:

Leviticus 13
Aaron pronounces a person with leprosy unclean and orders isolation outside the camp.

Leviticus 13

Aaron

He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head. And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Leviticus 13
Aaron orders garments with spreading leprosy to be burned.

Leviticus 13

Aaron

He shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

Leviticus 14
God commands Moses regarding the law for cleansing lepers.

Leviticus 14

God Moses

14:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:

Leviticus 14
God commands Moses and Aaron concerning leprosy in houses in Canaan.

Leviticus 14 · 📍 Canaan · When ye be come into the land of Canaan

God Moses Aaron

14:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 14:34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

Leviticus 15
God commands Moses and Aaron to proclaim the laws concerning ritual uncleanness.

Leviticus 15

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying, 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them

Leviticus 16
God commands Moses to warn Aaron against entering the holy place at all times.

Leviticus 16 · 📍 [[holy place]]

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat

Leviticus 16
Aaron offers a bullock and makes atonement for himself and his household.

Leviticus 16 · 📍 [[holy place]]

Aaron

And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

Leviticus 16
Aaron sacrifices the goat chosen for the LORD as a sin offering for the people.

Leviticus 16 · 📍 [[holy place]]

Aaron

Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail

Leviticus 16
Aaron confesses Israel’s sins over the live goat and sends it into the wilderness.

Leviticus 16 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

Aaron

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel

Leviticus 16
Aaron makes yearly atonement to cleanse the people from all their sins.

Leviticus 16 · 📍 [[holy place]] · the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month

Aaron

For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

Leviticus 16
God establishes an everlasting annual statute of atonement for Israel’s sins.

Leviticus 16 · once a year

God Moses

And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year.

Leviticus 17
God commands Moses to speak to Israel about proper sacrifices and offerings.

Leviticus 17

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them; This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, saying,

Leviticus 18
God commands Moses to speak unto the children of Israel.

Leviticus 18

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel

Leviticus 19
God commands Moses to speak to the congregation of Israel.

Leviticus 19

God Moses

19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Leviticus 21
God commands Moses to instruct Aaron’s priests about defilement for the dead.

Leviticus 21

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:

Leviticus 21
God commands Moses to instruct Aaron about blemished descendants approaching sacred offerings.

Leviticus 21

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

Leviticus 22
God commands Moses to tell Aaron and his sons to separate from the holy things.

Leviticus 22

God Moses Aaron

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel

Leviticus 22
God commands Moses to instruct Aaron and Israel about acceptable offerings.

Leviticus 22

God Moses Aaron

Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them

Leviticus 23
God commanded Moses to proclaim the LORD’s appointed feasts as holy convocations.

Leviticus 23

God Moses

23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

Leviticus 23
God commanded Moses to instruct Israel regarding firstfruits offerings after entering the promised land.

Leviticus 23

God Moses

23:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

Leviticus 23
God commanded Moses to proclaim the trumpet memorial on the first day of the seventh month.

Leviticus 23

God Moses

23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

Leviticus 23
God commanded Moses to proclaim the feast of tabernacles beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.

Leviticus 23

God Moses

23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

Leviticus 24
God commanded Moses to bring the blasphemer outside the camp for execution.

Leviticus 24 · 📍 [[the camp]]

God Moses

Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

Leviticus 24
Moses ordered the blasphemer removed from camp and stoned, and Israel carried out the command.

Leviticus 24 · 📍 [[the camp]]

Moses

And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Leviticus 25
God commands Moses to instruct Israel about the land’s sabbath.

Leviticus 25 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel

Leviticus 26
God promises abundant harvests and safety to those who obey his commandments.

Leviticus 26

God

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26
God threatens punishment, disease, defeat, and oppression for disobedience.

Leviticus 26

God

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Leviticus 26
God sends wild beasts that reduce the people and destroy their cattle.

Leviticus 26

God

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

Leviticus 26
God scatters the people among foreign nations and leaves their land desolate.

Leviticus 26

God

And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

Leviticus 26
God remembers his covenant with Jacob after the people confess and accept punishment.

Leviticus 26

God Jacob

Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26
God remembers his covenant with Isaac after the people confess and accept punishment.

Leviticus 26

God Isaac

Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26
God remembers his covenant with Abraham after the people confess and accept punishment.

Leviticus 26

God Abraham

Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26
God establishes statutes, judgments, and laws with Israel through Moses at Sinai.

Leviticus 26 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God

These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Leviticus 27
God commands Moses to instruct Israel on vows and valuations.

Leviticus 27 · 📍 [[mount Sinai]]

God Moses

27:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.

Numbers 1
God commands Moses to number Israel’s adult males able to go to war.

Numbers 1 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]] · on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Numbers 1
Moses and Aaron assemble Israel and declare the people’s pedigrees for the census.

Numbers 1 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]] · on the first day of the second month

Moses Aaron Jacob

And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names: And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

Numbers 1
Moses, Aaron, and Israel’s tribal princes number 603,550 adult men fit for war.

Numbers 1

Moses Aaron Jacob

These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers. So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel; Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Numbers 1
God commands Moses not to include Levi in Israel’s census.

Numbers 1

God Moses

For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying, Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

Numbers 1
God appoints the Levites to carry, serve, dismantle, and erect the tabernacle.

Numbers 1 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses

But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

Numbers 1
Israel follows everything God commanded Moses.

Numbers 1

Jacob Moses

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

Numbers 2
God commands Moses to organize Israel’s camps by standards around the tabernacle.

Numbers 2 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

Numbers 2
The western camp is designated to depart third under Elishama, Gamaliel, and Abidan.

Numbers 2 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Elishama Gamaliel Abidan

On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud. And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred. Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni. And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.

Numbers 2
The northern camp is designated to depart last under Ahiezer, Pagiel, and Ahira.

Numbers 2 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Ahiezer Pagiel Ahira

The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred. And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran. And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred. Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan. And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.

Numbers 2
Israel follows all of God’s commands through Moses, camping and departing according to the assigned standards.

Numbers 2

God Moses

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

Numbers 3
Aaron’s sons were anointed and consecrated to serve as priests.

Numbers 3

Aaron Nadab Abihu Eleazar Ithamar

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

Numbers 3
Nadab and Abihu died after offering strange fire before the LORD.

Numbers 3 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]] · when they offered strange fire before the LORD

Nadab Abihu

And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai

Numbers 3
God assigned the Levites to Aaron and his sons for tabernacle service.

Numbers 3

God Aaron Nadab Abihu Eleazar Ithamar

And thou shalt give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel.

Numbers 3
God claimed the Levites instead of Israel’s firstborn.

Numbers 3

God

And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be mine;

Numbers 3
Moses numbered the male Levites according to God’s command.

Numbers 3 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]] · from a month old and upward

Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.

Numbers 3
Moses gave the redemption money for Israel’s excess firstborn to Aaron and his sons.

Numbers 3

Moses Aaron Eleazar Ithamar

And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 4
God commands Moses and Aaron to number Kohath’s sons for tabernacle service.

Numbers 4

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 4:3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Numbers 4
Eleazar receives oversight of the tabernacle, its sacred vessels, and its appointed offerings.

Numbers 4 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Eleazar Aaron

And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

Numbers 4
God commands Moses and Aaron to preserve the Kohathite families and assign their sacred duties safely.

Numbers 4

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying, 4:18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: 4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:

Numbers 4
God commands Moses to number the Gershonite men eligible for tabernacle service.

Numbers 4

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 4:22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; 4:23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

Numbers 4
Ithamar is placed in charge of the Gershonite service and burdens.

Numbers 4 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Ithamar

This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Numbers 4
Moses and Aaron count 2,750 Kohathites eligible for tabernacle service.

Numbers 4 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses Aaron

And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers, 4:35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation: 4:36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

Numbers 4
Moses and Aaron complete the census of all Levites eligible for tabernacle ministry and burdens.

Numbers 4 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses Aaron

All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers, 4:47 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4:48 Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore,

Numbers 5
God commands Moses to remove the defiled from Israel’s camp.

Numbers 5

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

Numbers 5
God commands Moses to require confession and restitution for trespasses.

Numbers 5

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the LORD, and that person be guilty;

Numbers 5
God commands Moses to prescribe the jealousy procedure for suspected marital unfaithfulness.

Numbers 5

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

Numbers 6
God commands Moses to instruct Israel about the Nazarite vow.

Numbers 6

God Moses

6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD:

Numbers 6
God commands Aaron to bless the children of Israel.

Numbers 6

God Aaron

6:22 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 6:23 Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

Numbers 7
Moses sets up, anoints, and sanctifies the tabernacle, altar, and vessels.

Numbers 7 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle

Moses

And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;

Numbers 7
God commands Moses to accept the princes’ offerings for tabernacle service and distribute them by service.

Numbers 7

God Moses

Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

Numbers 7
God directs each prince to present an offering on his appointed day for dedicating the altar.

Numbers 7

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.

Numbers 7
The princes of Israel dedicate the altar through twelve successive offerings.

Numbers 7 · 📍 [[altar]] · the day when it was anointed

Nahshon Nethaneel Eliab Elizur Shelumiel Eliasaph Elishama Gamaliel Abidan Ahiezer Pagiel Ahira

This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

Numbers 7
Moses hears God’s voice speaking from above the mercy seat between the cherubims.

Numbers 7 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation

Moses God

And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

Numbers 8
God commands Moses to tell Aaron how to light the seven lamps.

Numbers 8

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

Numbers 8
Aaron lights the seven lamps according to the commanded pattern.

Numbers 8

Aaron

And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 8
God commands Moses to take and cleanse the Levites.

Numbers 8

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Numbers 8
Aaron offers the purified Levites before God for service.

Numbers 8 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · after that

Aaron God

And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

Numbers 8
God gives the Levites to Aaron and his sons for sanctuary service and atonement.

Numbers 8 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Aaron

And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel;

Numbers 8
Moses, Aaron, and the congregation carry out God’s commands concerning the Levites.

Numbers 8

Moses Aaron

And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.

Numbers 8
Aaron offers the purified Levites and makes atonement for them.

Numbers 8

Aaron God

And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the LORD; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

Numbers 8
The Levites begin their service in the tabernacle before Aaron and his sons.

Numbers 8 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · after that

Aaron

And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons:

Numbers 9
God commanded Moses that Israel keep the passover at its appointed season.

Numbers 9 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]] · in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Numbers 9
Moses instructed the children of Israel to keep the passover.

Numbers 9 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]] · in the first month

Moses

And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

Numbers 9
God provided a second-month passover for people defiled by a dead body or traveling far away.

Numbers 9 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]]

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD. The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Numbers 9
God decreed that a clean person refusing the passover would be cut off from the people.

Numbers 9 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]]

God

But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 10
God commands Moses to make two silver trumpets for assembling Israel and directing the camps.

Numbers 10

God Moses

Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

Numbers 10
Moses invites Hobab to journey with Israel, but Hobab refuses and departs to his own land.

Numbers 10

Moses Hobab

And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

Numbers 11
God judged the complaining people with fire that consumed the camp’s uttermost inhabitants.

Numbers 11 · 📍 [[Taberah]]

God

And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Numbers 11
Moses prayed to God, and the fire was quenched.

Numbers 11

Moses God

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

Numbers 11
God commanded Moses to gather seventy elders to help bear the people’s burden.

Numbers 11 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

Numbers 11
God gave the spirit upon Moses to seventy elders, who then prophesied.

Numbers 11 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses

And the LORD came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.

Numbers 11
God’s spirit rested on Eldad and Medad, and they prophesied in the camp.

Numbers 11 · 📍 [[the camp]]

God Eldad Medad

And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

Numbers 11
God brought quails around the camp, providing flesh for the people.

Numbers 11 · 📍 [[the camp]]

God

And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp

Numbers 11
God smote the people with a great plague while they ate the quails.

Numbers 11 · 📍 [[Kibrothhattaavah]]

God

And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.

Numbers 11
Moses rejected Joshua’s request to forbid Eldad and Medad from prophesying.

Numbers 11

Moses Joshua

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

Numbers 12
Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, challenging his unique authority before God.

Numbers 12

Miriam Aaron Moses

And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

Numbers 12
God judged Miriam with leprosy after becoming angry with her and Aaron.

Numbers 12

God Miriam

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

Numbers 12
Moses pleaded with God to heal Miriam.

Numbers 12

Moses God Miriam

And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

Numbers 12
God commanded Miriam to remain excluded from the camp for seven days.

Numbers 12 · seven days

God Miriam

let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.

Numbers 12
Miriam was shut out from the camp, halting the people's journey.

Numbers 12 · seven days

Miriam

And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

Numbers 12
Miriam was received back into the camp, allowing the people to journey onward.

Numbers 12 · after that

Miriam

and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

Numbers 13
God commanded Moses to send tribal rulers to search the land of Canaan.

Numbers 13 · 📍 Canaan

God Moses

Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel:

Numbers 13
Moses sent twelve tribal leaders to spy out the land of Canaan.

Numbers 13 · 📍 [[the wilderness of Paran]]

Moses Shammua Shaphat Caleb Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel

These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land.

Numbers 13
Moses changed Oshea’s name to Jehoshua.

Numbers 13

Moses Jehoshua

And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

Numbers 13
The spies returned from searching the land and brought back its fruit and report.

Numbers 13 · 📍 [[Kadesh]] · after forty days

Shammua Shaphat Caleb Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

Numbers 13
The spies reported that Canaan flowed with milk and honey.

Numbers 13 · 📍 [[the wilderness of Paran]]

Moses Shammua Shaphat Caleb Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel

We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

Numbers 13
Caleb urged Israel to immediately possess the land.

Numbers 13

Caleb Moses

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

Numbers 13
The other spies declared Israel unable to defeat the land’s inhabitants.

Numbers 13

Shammua Shaphat Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel

But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

Numbers 13
The spies spread an evil report, claiming the land consumed its inhabitants and contained giants.

Numbers 13

Shammua Shaphat Igal Jehoshua Palti Gaddiel Gaddi Ammiel Sethur Nahbi Geuel

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel

Numbers 14
God pardons the people after Moses intercedes.

Numbers 14

God Moses

And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

Numbers 14
God promises to bring Caleb into the land because he followed Him fully.

Numbers 14

God Caleb

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Numbers 14
God commands the Israelites to turn into the wilderness by way of the Red sea.

Numbers 14 · 📍 [[the wilderness]] · Tomorrow

God Moses Aaron

Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

Numbers 14
God condemns the murmuring adults to die in the wilderness, excepting Joshua and Caleb.

Numbers 14 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

God Moses Aaron Joshua Caleb

Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 14
God decrees that the rebellious congregation will be consumed and die in the wilderness.

Numbers 14 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

God

I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.

Numbers 14
God causes the men who spread the evil report to die by plague.

Numbers 14

God

Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD.

Numbers 14
Joshua and Caleb survive while the other spies who searched the land die.

Numbers 14

Joshua Caleb

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

Numbers 15
God commands Moses to instruct Israel about offerings upon entering the promised land.

Numbers 15

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

Numbers 15
God commands Moses to establish atonement and forgiveness for unintentional sins.

Numbers 15

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,

Numbers 15
God sentences a man to death for gathering sticks on the sabbath.

Numbers 15 · 📍 [[the wilderness]]

God Moses a man

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Numbers 15
The congregation stones the man to death outside the camp as God commanded Moses.

Numbers 15

Moses a man the congregation

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 15
God commands Moses to require Israel to wear blue-ribboned fringes as reminders of the commandments.

Numbers 15

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:

Numbers 16
Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and On led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 16

Korah Dathan Abiram On Moses Aaron

And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you

Numbers 16
Moses instructed Korah and his company to offer incense so God would reveal His chosen servants.

Numbers 16 · to morrow

Moses Korah

This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company; And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow

Numbers 16
God ordered the congregation to separate from Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

Numbers 16

God Moses Aaron

Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

Numbers 16
God opened the earth and swallowed Korah, Dathan, Abiram, their households, and their possessions.

Numbers 16 · as he had made an end of speaking all these words

God Korah Dathan Abiram

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Numbers 16
Fire from God consumed the two hundred fifty men who offered incense.

Numbers 16

God

And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Numbers 16
Eleazar converted the burnt men’s censers into broad plates covering the altar as a memorial.

Numbers 16

Eleazar

And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered; and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar

Numbers 16
Aaron made atonement for the plague-stricken congregation, and the plague stopped.

Numbers 16

Moses Aaron God

And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

Numbers 17
God commands Moses to collect twelve rods and write each man’s name on his rod.

Numbers 17

God Moses

Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers

Numbers 17
God commands Moses to place the rods before the testimony.

Numbers 17 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses

And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Numbers 17
Moses places the rods before the LORD.

Numbers 17 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

Moses

And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.

Numbers 17
Aaron’s rod blossoms, produces almonds, and confirms the chosen priestly house.

Numbers 17 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]] · on the morrow

Moses

And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Numbers 17
Moses displays the rods to Israel, and each man retrieves his rod.

Numbers 17

Moses

And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Numbers 17
God commands Moses to preserve Aaron’s rod as a token against rebels.

Numbers 17 · 📍 [[before the testimony]]

God Moses

Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels

Numbers 17
Moses carries out God’s command.

Numbers 17

Moses

And Moses did so: as the LORD commanded him, so did he.

Numbers 18
God commands Aaron and his sons to bear the sanctuary’s and priesthood’s iniquity.

Numbers 18

God Aaron

And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

Numbers 18
God gives Aaron and his sons the priestly office and responsibility for the altar and sanctuary.

Numbers 18

God Aaron

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift

Numbers 18
God gives Aaron responsibility for Israel’s holy heave offerings as a permanent ordinance.

Numbers 18

God Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

Numbers 18
God establishes a perpetual salt covenant concerning Israel’s holy offerings with Aaron and his descendants.

Numbers 18

God Aaron

it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

Numbers 18
God denies Aaron a land inheritance and declares Himself Aaron’s inheritance among Israel.

Numbers 18

God Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

Numbers 18
God assigns Aaron the LORD’s heave offering from the Levites’ tithes.

Numbers 18

God Aaron

Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD’s heave offering to Aaron the priest.

Numbers 19
God commands Moses and Aaron to instruct Israel about the ordinance of the red heifer.

Numbers 19

God Moses Aaron

And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

Numbers 20
Miriam died and was buried at Kadesh.

Numbers 20 · 📍 [[Kadesh]] · in the first month

Miriam

and Miriam died there, and was buried there.

Numbers 20
God commanded Moses and Aaron to speak to the rock for water.

Numbers 20

God Moses Aaron

Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water

Numbers 20
Moses struck the rock twice, and abundant water came out.

Numbers 20

Moses

Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly

Numbers 20
God judged Moses and Aaron by barring them from bringing Israel into the promised land.

Numbers 20 · 📍 [[Meribah]]

God Moses Aaron

therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

Numbers 20
God commanded Moses to transfer Aaron’s garments to Eleazar before Aaron’s death.

Numbers 20 · 📍 [[mount Hor]]

God Moses Aaron Eleazar

And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

Numbers 20
Moses transferred Aaron’s garments to Eleazar, and Aaron died on the mount.

Numbers 20 · 📍 [[mount Hor]]

Moses Aaron Eleazar

Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount

Numbers 20
Aaron’s death caused the congregation to mourn for thirty days.

Numbers 20 · 📍 [[mount Hor]]

Aaron

when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days

Numbers 21
God sent fiery serpents among the people, causing many to die.

Numbers 21

God

And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

Numbers 21
God commanded Moses to make and display a fiery serpent for the bitten to live.

Numbers 21

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

Numbers 21
Moses made and displayed the brass serpent, enabling the bitten to live.

Numbers 21

Moses

And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

Numbers 21
God promised Moses water for the gathered people at Beer.

Numbers 21 · 📍 [[Beer]]

God Moses

that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

Numbers 21
Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, after which its villages were taken and the Amorites driven out.

Numbers 21 · 📍 [[Jaazer]]

Moses

And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

Numbers 21
God assured Moses that Og, his people, and his land had been delivered into his hand.

Numbers 21 · 📍 [[Edrei]]

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land;

Numbers 21
God delivered the Canaanites to Israel, and their cities were destroyed.

Numbers 21 · 📍 [[Hormah]]

God

And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

Numbers 22
Balak sent messengers to Balaam, asking him to curse Israel.

Numbers 22 · 📍 [[Pethor]]

Balak Balaam

He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor

Numbers 22
God forbade Balaam to accompany Balak’s messengers or curse Israel.

Numbers 22

God Balaam

And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.

Numbers 22
Balak sent a second delegation of more numerous and honorable princes to Balaam.

Numbers 22

Balak Balaam

And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

Numbers 22
God permitted Balaam to go with the men, but commanded him to speak only God's words.

Numbers 22 · at night

God Balaam

If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

Numbers 22
God opposed Balaam’s journey, and the angel of the LORD stood against him.

Numbers 22 · in the morning

God Balaam

And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him.

Numbers 22
God opened Balaam’s eyes, revealing the angel standing before him with a drawn sword.

Numbers 22

God Balaam

Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand

Numbers 22
God opened the ass’s mouth, causing it to speak to Balaam.

Numbers 22

God Balaam

And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

Numbers 22
God allowed Balaam to continue, restricting him to speaking only what God commanded.

Numbers 22

God Balaam

Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak.

Numbers 23
God met Balaam and instructed him to deliver a revealed message to Balak.

Numbers 23 · 📍 [[an high place]]

God Balaam

And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.

Numbers 23
Balaam blessed those Balak had hired him to curse.

Numbers 23

Balaam Balak

What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

Numbers 23
Balak directed Balaam to attempt the curse from another location.

Numbers 23

Balak Balaam

Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence.

Numbers 23
God commanded a blessing that Balaam declared impossible to reverse.

Numbers 23

God Balaam

Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.

Numbers 23
Balak ordered Balaam neither to curse nor bless them.

Numbers 23

Balak Balaam

And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

Numbers 24
God’s spirit came upon Balaam, enabling him to perceive Israel’s blessed future.

Numbers 24

God Balaam

And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.

Numbers 24
Balaam revealed to Balak a prophecy concerning future dominion and destruction.

Numbers 24

Balaam Balak

And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

Numbers 24
Balak dismissed Balaam and ordered him to return to his place.

Numbers 24

Balak Balaam

Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.

Numbers 25
God commands Moses to hang the people's heads before him to turn away his anger from Israel.

Numbers 25

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.

Numbers 25
Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi, stopping the plague among Israel.

Numbers 25

Phinehas Zimri Cozbi

And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Numbers 25
God gives Phinehas a covenant of peace and an everlasting priesthood for his descendants.

Numbers 25

God Phinehas

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

Numbers 25
God commands Moses to vex and smite the Midianites.

Numbers 25

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

Numbers 26
God commands Moses and Eleazar to count Israel's war-capable congregation.

Numbers 26 · after the plague

God Moses Eleazar

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

Numbers 26
Moses and Eleazar number Israel's congregation.

Numbers 26 · 📍 [[the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho]]

Moses Eleazar Jacob

These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

Numbers 26
Dathan and Abiram are swallowed by the earth during the rebellion against Moses and Aaron.

Numbers 26

Dathan Abiram

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

Numbers 26
God orders the land to be divided as inheritance according to the census and by lot.

Numbers 26

God Moses Jacob

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Numbers 26
Nadab and Abihu die after offering strange fire before God.

Numbers 26

Nadab Abihu

And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

Numbers 26
God's judgment leaves none of the earlier numbered generation alive except Joshua.

Numbers 26 · 📍 [[wilderness of Sinai]]

God Jacob Joshua

For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 27
God grants Zelophehad’s daughters an inheritance among their father’s brethren.

Numbers 27

God Mahlah Noah Hoglah Milcah Tirzah Zelophehad

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

Numbers 27
God establishes that a deceased man’s inheritance passes first to his daughter when he has no son.

Numbers 27

God Moses

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

Numbers 27
God tells Moses to view the promised land before being gathered to his people.

Numbers 27 · 📍 [[mount Abarim]]

God Moses

And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

Numbers 27
God appoints Joshua to lead the congregation and commands Moses to commission him.

Numbers 27

God Moses Joshua

And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

Numbers 27
Moses publicly lays hands on Joshua and gives him the commanded charge.

Numbers 27

Moses Joshua Eleazar

And Moses did as the LORD commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 28
God commands Moses to instruct Israel to offer sacrifices at appointed seasons.

Numbers 28

God Moses

28:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

Numbers 29
God commanded Moses regarding the appointed feast offerings.

Numbers 29

God Moses

And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 30
God commands Moses concerning statutes governing vows and binding oaths.

Numbers 30

God Moses

These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses

Numbers 31
God commanded Moses to avenge Israel against the Midianites.

Numbers 31

God Moses

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Numbers 31
Moses sent Phinehas with Israel’s forces to war against Midian.

Numbers 31

Moses Phinehas

And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest

Numbers 31
Balaam was slain with the sword during Israel’s war against Midian.

Numbers 31

Balaam

Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

Numbers 31
The Midianite captives and spoil were brought to Moses at Israel’s camp.

Numbers 31 · 📍 [[the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho]]

Moses

And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab

Numbers 31
Moses ordered the killing of Midianite males and women who had known men.

Numbers 31

Moses

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

Numbers 31
God commanded Moses and Eleazar to count and divide the captured prey.

Numbers 31

God Moses Eleazar

Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation

Numbers 31
Moses gave the tribute from the war booty to Eleazar as the LORD’s offering.

Numbers 31

Moses Eleazar

And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

Numbers 31
Moses and Eleazar brought the captains’ gold offering into the tabernacle as a memorial.

Numbers 31

Moses Eleazar God

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation

Numbers 32
God made Israel wander in the wilderness until the sinful generation was consumed.

Numbers 32 · 📍 [[the wilderness]] · forty years

God

And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

Numbers 32
Moses commanded Eleazar and Joshua concerning the eastern inheritance arrangements.

Numbers 32

Moses Eleazar Joshua

So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:

Numbers 32
Moses gave Gilead to Machir, who settled there.

Numbers 32 · 📍 Gilead

Moses Machir

And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.

Numbers 32
Machir took Gilead and dispossessed the Amorites living there.

Numbers 32 · 📍 Gilead

Machir

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

Numbers 32
Jair took the small towns and named them Havothjair.

Numbers 32 · 📍 Gilead

Jair

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.

Numbers 33
God judges the Egyptians and their gods after smiting Egypt’s firstborn.

Numbers 33

God

For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

Numbers 33
Aaron dies at age 123 on mount Hor.

Numbers 33 · 📍 [[mount Hor]] · in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month

Aaron

And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.

Numbers 33
God grants Israel the land and commands its division by lot as an inheritance.

Numbers 33 · 📍 [[the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho]]

God

And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it. And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families:

Numbers 34
God commands Moses to instruct Israel about inheriting the land of Canaan.

Numbers 34 · 📍 Canaan · When ye come into the land of Canaan

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan;

Numbers 34
Moses commands Israel to inherit Canaan by lot among the remaining tribes.

Numbers 34

Moses

And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the LORD commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

Numbers 34
God directs Moses to appoint Eleazar and Joshua to divide the land by inheritance.

Numbers 34

God Moses Eleazar Joshua

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

Numbers 35
God commands Moses to allocate cities and suburbs to the Levites.

Numbers 35 · 📍 [[the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho]]

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

Numbers 35
God commands Moses to establish cities of refuge for accidental killers.

Numbers 35 · When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 35:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 35:11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

Numbers 36
God commands Zelophehad’s daughters to marry within their father’s tribe.

Numbers 36

God Mahlah Tirzah Hoglah Milcah Noah

This is the thing which the LORD doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry to whom they think best; only to the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.

Numbers 36
Zelophehad’s daughters marry their cousins, keeping their inheritance within Manasseh.

Numbers 36

Mahlah Tirzah Hoglah Milcah Noah

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons: And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

Deuteronomy 1
Moses slew Sihon, king of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 1 · 📍 [[Heshbon]] · in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month

Moses Sihon

After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon,

Deuteronomy 1
Moses slew Og, king of Bashan.

Deuteronomy 1 · 📍 [[Astaroth in Edrei]] · in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month

Moses Og

and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:

Deuteronomy 1
God swore to give the promised land to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants.

Deuteronomy 1

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

Deuteronomy 1
God exempted Caleb from judgment and promised him the land he had explored.

Deuteronomy 1

God Caleb

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.

Deuteronomy 1
God barred Moses from entering the promised land because of Israel's rebellion.

Deuteronomy 1

God Moses

Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

Deuteronomy 1
God appointed Joshua to enter the land and lead Israel to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 1

God Joshua

But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 1
God commanded Moses to tell Israel not to fight because God would not accompany them.

Deuteronomy 1

God Moses

And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

Deuteronomy 2
God gave mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

Deuteronomy 2 · 📍 Seir

God Esau

because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

Deuteronomy 2
God destroyed the generation of men of war from among Israel.

Deuteronomy 2 · thirty and eight years

God

until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

Deuteronomy 2
God gave Sihon and his land into Israel's hand for possession.

Deuteronomy 2 · 📍 [[the land of Sihon]]

God Sihon

I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

Deuteronomy 2
God hardened Sihon's spirit and made his heart obstinate.

Deuteronomy 2

God Sihon

for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand

Deuteronomy 2
Sihon came out with his people to fight Israel.

Deuteronomy 2 · 📍 [[Jahaz]]

Sihon

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

Deuteronomy 2
God delivered Sihon and his people into Israel's power.

Deuteronomy 2 · 📍 [[Jahaz]]

God Sihon

And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

Deuteronomy 2
Sihon's cities were captured and their inhabitants utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 2 · 📍 [[the cities of Sihon]] · at that time

Sihon

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

Deuteronomy 3
God delivered Og, his people, and his land into Israel’s hands.

Deuteronomy 3 · 📍 [[Edrei]]

God Og

So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.

Deuteronomy 3
Moses gave the remaining Gilead and Bashan to the half tribe of Manasseh.

Deuteronomy 3 · 📍 [[Bashan]] · at that time

Moses Manasseh

And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh;

Deuteronomy 3
Jair took Argob and named the region after himself.

Deuteronomy 3 · 📍 [[Argob]]

Jair Manasseh

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.

Deuteronomy 3
Moses gave Gilead to Machir.

Deuteronomy 3 · 📍 Gilead

Moses Machir

And I gave Gilead unto Machir.

Deuteronomy 3
Moses charged Joshua to lead Israel and cause them to inherit the land.

Deuteronomy 3 · at that time

Moses Joshua

But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

Deuteronomy 3
God refused Moses permission to cross Jordan and enter the promised land.

Deuteronomy 3 · 📍 [[Jordan]] · at that time

God Moses

But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

Deuteronomy 4
God destroyed those who followed Baalpeor.

Deuteronomy 4

God

Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

Deuteronomy 4
God declared his covenant and commanded its performance.

Deuteronomy 4 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God

And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Deuteronomy 4
God swore that Moses would not cross Jordan or enter the promised land.

Deuteronomy 4 · 📍 [[Jordan]]

God Moses

Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land

Deuteronomy 4
God commanded Moses to teach statutes and judgments.

Deuteronomy 4 · at that time

God Moses

And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

Deuteronomy 4
Moses established three cities of refuge east of Jordan.

Deuteronomy 4 · 📍 [[Jordan]]

Moses

Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

Deuteronomy 4
Moses and the Israelites defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 4 · 📍 [[Heshbon]] · after they were come forth out of Egypt

Moses Sihon

in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt;

Deuteronomy 4
The Israelites possessed the land of Og, king of Bashan.

Deuteronomy 4 · 📍 [[Bashan]]

Moses Og

And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

Deuteronomy 5
God made a covenant with Israel at Horeb.

Deuteronomy 5 · 📍 [[Horeb]]

God

The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 5
God commanded Moses to tell the people to return to their tents.

Deuteronomy 5

God Moses

Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.

Deuteronomy 5
God instructed Moses to remain and receive the commandments for teaching Israel.

Deuteronomy 5

God Moses

But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them

Deuteronomy 6
God swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give their descendants a great and goodly land.

Deuteronomy 6

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,

Deuteronomy 6
God brought his people out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Deuteronomy 6 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God

We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:

Deuteronomy 7
God redeemed the people from bondage under Pharaoh.

Deuteronomy 7

God Pharaoh

hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8
God fed Israel with manna in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 8 · these forty years

God Jacob

and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know

Deuteronomy 8
God promised to bring Israel into a fertile land.

Deuteronomy 8 · this day

God Jacob

For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water

Deuteronomy 8
Israel is commanded to bless God for the land given to them.

Deuteronomy 8 · When thou hast eaten and art full

Jacob God

then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee

Deuteronomy 8
God established the covenant sworn to Israel’s fathers.

Deuteronomy 8 · this day

God Jacob

for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers

Deuteronomy 8
God warned that Israel would perish for forgetting him and worshipping other gods.

Deuteronomy 8 · this day

God Jacob

I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish

Deuteronomy 9
God swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob concerning the land Israel would possess.

Deuteronomy 9

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 9
God gave the two stone tables of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9 · at the end of forty days and forty nights

God

And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 9
God became angry with Aaron and threatened to destroy him.

Deuteronomy 9 · the same time

God Aaron

And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

Deuteronomy 10
God commanded Moses to make new stone tablets and an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10 · 📍 [[the mount]] · At that time

God Moses

At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10
God wrote the ten commandments on the tablets and gave them to Moses.

Deuteronomy 10 · 📍 [[the mount]] · in the day of the assembly

God Moses

and the LORD gave them unto me.

Deuteronomy 10
Aaron died and was buried at Mosera.

Deuteronomy 10 · 📍 [[Mosera]]

Aaron

there Aaron died, and there he was buried;

Deuteronomy 10
Eleazar took Aaron’s place in the priestly office.

Deuteronomy 10 · 📍 [[Mosera]]

Eleazar Aaron

and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.

Deuteronomy 10
God commanded Moses to lead the people toward the promised land.

Deuteronomy 10

God Moses

And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land

Deuteronomy 11
God caused the earth to swallow Dathan, Abiram, their households, tents, and possessions.

Deuteronomy 11

God Dathan Abiram

how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession

Deuteronomy 11
God destroyed Egypt’s army, horses, and chariots in the Red sea.

Deuteronomy 11 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Pharaoh

how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day

Deuteronomy 11
God swore to give the land to the fathers and their seed.

Deuteronomy 11

God

the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed

Deuteronomy 11
God promised rain and pasture to those who obey and serve him.

Deuteronomy 11

God

That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain

Deuteronomy 11
God promised to drive out the nations and give Israel possession of greater lands.

Deuteronomy 11

God

Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves

Deuteronomy 11
God appointed a blessing and a curse to be placed on Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 11 · 📍 [[mount Gerizim]]

God

thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal

Deuteronomy 14
God chooses his people as a holy and peculiar people above all nations.

Deuteronomy 14

God

For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 18
God drives out nations practicing abominations.

Deuteronomy 18

God those nations

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Deuteronomy 18
God promises to raise a Prophet and put His words in the Prophet’s mouth.

Deuteronomy 18

God Prophet

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

Deuteronomy 18
God will hold accountable whoever refuses to heed the Prophet’s words.

Deuteronomy 18

God those who reject the Prophet

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Deuteronomy 18
A prophet speaking presumptuously in God’s name or in other gods’ names shall die.

Deuteronomy 18

that prophet

But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Deuteronomy 19
God cuts off nations and gives Israel their land to possess.

Deuteronomy 19 · When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations

God Jacob

When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

Deuteronomy 22
The elders chastise and fine the husband, requiring him to retain his wife permanently.

Deuteronomy 22 · 📍 [[the gate]]

the elders of that city the man the damsel

And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 22
The damsel lacking proof of virginity is stoned to death by the men of her city.

Deuteronomy 22

the damsel the men of her city

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die

Deuteronomy 22
A man and a married woman found committing adultery are both put to death.

Deuteronomy 22

the man the woman

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman

Deuteronomy 22
A betrothed woman and the man with her are stoned when she does not cry out in the city.

Deuteronomy 22

the man the damsel

Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die

Deuteronomy 22
The man who forces a betrothed damsel in the field is put to death, while she is not punished.

Deuteronomy 22 · 📍 [[the field]]

the man the betrothed damsel

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.

Deuteronomy 22
A man who violates an unbetrothed virgin pays her father and must marry her permanently.

Deuteronomy 22

the man the damsel the damsel’s father

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

Deuteronomy 23
God refused Balaam’s curse and turned it into a blessing.

Deuteronomy 23

God Balaam

Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

Deuteronomy 24
God judged Miriam after Israel came forth from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 24 · after that ye were come forth out of Egypt

God Miriam

Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 26
God brought Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders.

Deuteronomy 26 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God Jacob

And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

Deuteronomy 26
God brought Israel into the land and gave it to them as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 26

God Jacob

And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26
Israel brought the land’s firstfruits before God and worshipped.

Deuteronomy 26 · now

Jacob God

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:

Deuteronomy 26
God blessed Israel and the land he had given them.

Deuteronomy 26

God Jacob

Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 26
Israel avouched God as their God and committed to follow his ways and commandments.

Deuteronomy 26 · This day

Jacob God

Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

Deuteronomy 26
God avouched Israel as his peculiar people, as he had promised.

Deuteronomy 26 · This day

God Jacob

And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

Deuteronomy 27
Moses commands Israel to keep all the commandments.

Deuteronomy 27 · this day

Moses Jacob

And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

Deuteronomy 27
Israel becomes the people of God.

Deuteronomy 27 · this day

Jacob God

Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.

Deuteronomy 27
Moses commands Israel to erect and plaster stones bearing the law.

Deuteronomy 27 · 📍 [[mount Ebal]] · when ye be gone over Jordan

Moses Jacob

Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

Deuteronomy 28
God promises blessings and elevation above all nations for those who diligently obey his commandments.

Deuteronomy 28

God

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

Deuteronomy 28
God brings curses upon those who refuse to obey his commandments.

Deuteronomy 28

God

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Deuteronomy 28
God brings a foreign nation against the disobedient people to destroy them.

Deuteronomy 28

God

The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Deuteronomy 28
God scatters the disobedient people among all nations, where they serve unfamiliar gods.

Deuteronomy 28

God

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

Deuteronomy 28
God brings the people back into Egypt, where they are sold as bondmen and bondwomen.

Deuteronomy 28 · 📍 [[Egypt]]

God

And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Deuteronomy 29
God commands Moses to make a covenant with Israel.

Deuteronomy 29 · 📍 [[the land of Moab]]

God Moses

These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab

Deuteronomy 29
God establishes Israel as his people, fulfilling his oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29 · this day

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Deuteronomy 29
God refuses to spare the defiant sinner and blots out his name.

Deuteronomy 29 · then

God

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 29
God separates the condemned person from Israel according to the covenant curses.

Deuteronomy 29

God

And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law;

Deuteronomy 29
God brings covenant curses upon the land and expels its people into another land.

Deuteronomy 29

God

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 30
God will restore the captives and gather them from all nations.

Deuteronomy 30

God

That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations

Deuteronomy 30
God will bring the people into their fathers’ land and multiply them.

Deuteronomy 30

God

And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

Deuteronomy 30
God will transform the hearts of the people and their descendants to love him.

Deuteronomy 30

God

And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deuteronomy 30
God will place the curses upon the people’s enemies and persecutors.

Deuteronomy 30

God

And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

Deuteronomy 30
God will bless the people’s work, descendants, livestock, and land when they obey him.

Deuteronomy 30

God

And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good

Deuteronomy 30
God warns that turning to other gods will result in certain destruction.

Deuteronomy 30 · this day

God

I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land

Deuteronomy 30
God swore to give the land to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their descendants.

Deuteronomy 30

God Abraham Isaac Jacob

for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Deuteronomy 31
God declares that Moses must not cross Jordan into the promised land.

Deuteronomy 31 · this day

God Moses

also the LORD hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Deuteronomy 31
God appoints Joshua to lead Israel across Jordan and possess the land.

Deuteronomy 31

God Joshua

and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.

Deuteronomy 31
Moses charges Joshua to lead Israel into the land promised to their fathers.

Deuteronomy 31

Moses Joshua

Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 31
God summons Moses and Joshua so Joshua can receive his charge before Moses dies.

Deuteronomy 31 · 📍 [[tabernacle of the congregation]]

God Moses Joshua

call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.

Deuteronomy 31
Moses gives Joshua a charge to bring Israel into the promised land and assures him of divine presence.

Deuteronomy 31

Moses Joshua

And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

Deuteronomy 31
Moses completes writing the law and places it beside the covenant ark as a witness.

Deuteronomy 31

Moses

when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished

Deuteronomy 32
God claimed Jacob as his inheritance and led him through the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 32 · 📍 [[desert land]]

God Jacob

For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Deuteronomy 32
God commanded Moses to ascend mount Nebo and behold the land of Canaan.

Deuteronomy 32 · 📍 [[mount Nebo]] · that selfsame day

God Moses

And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

Deuteronomy 32
God decreed that Moses would die on the mountain and be gathered to his people.

Deuteronomy 32 · 📍 [[mount Nebo]]

God Moses

And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people:

Deuteronomy 32
Aaron died in mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

Deuteronomy 32 · 📍 [[mount Hor]]

Aaron

as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people

Deuteronomy 32
God judged Moses for trespassing at Meribah-Kadesh by forbidding him to enter the promised land.

Deuteronomy 32 · 📍 [[mount Nebo]]

God Moses

Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Deuteronomy 33 · before his death

Moses Reuben Judah Levi Benjamin Joseph Zebulun Issachar Gad Dan Naphtali Asher

And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed Reuben with continued life and numerous men.

Deuteronomy 33

Moses Reuben

Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed Judah and asked God to help him against his enemies.

Deuteronomy 33

Moses Judah God

And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed Levi and asked God to bless his substance and accept his work.

Deuteronomy 33 · 📍 [[Massah]]

Moses Levi God

Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed Benjamin with safety under God's protection.

Deuteronomy 33

Moses Benjamin God

The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed Joseph's land and descendants with abundant precious things.

Deuteronomy 33

Moses Joseph God

Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

Deuteronomy 33
Moses blessed Zebulun and Issachar in their journeys and dwellings.

Deuteronomy 33

Moses Zebulun Issachar

And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.

Deuteronomy 34
God revealed that Moses would see the promised land but never enter it.

Deuteronomy 34

God Moses

This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

Deuteronomy 34
Moses died in the land of Moab according to God's word.

Deuteronomy 34 · 📍 [[the land of Moab]]

Moses

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 34
God buried Moses in a valley, and his burial place remained unknown.

Deuteronomy 34 · 📍 [[a valley in the land of Moab]]

God Moses

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

Deuteronomy 34
Moses laid his hands on Joshua, who received wisdom and became accepted as Israel's leader.

Deuteronomy 34

Moses Joshua

And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him

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