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Authors: Tyndale
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 Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
2
 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
3
 and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4
 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
5
 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not
so much as
to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when
as yet
he had no child.
6
 And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat
them
evil four hundred years.
7
 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
8
 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so
Abraham
begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac
begat
Jacob; and Jacob
begat
the twelve patriarchs.
9
 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10
 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
11
 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
12
 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13
 And at the second
time
Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
14
 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to
him,
and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
15
 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
16
 and were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor
the father
of Sychem.
17
 But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
18
 till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
19
 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
20
 In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
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 and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
22
 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
23
 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
24
 And seeing one
of them
suffer wrong, he defended
him,
and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25
 for he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26
 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
27
 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
28
 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
29
 Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
A Song of degrees for Solomon.
1
 Except the L
ORD
build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the L
ORD
keep the city, the watchman waketh
but
in vain.
2
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It is
vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows:
for
so he giveth his beloved sleep.
3
 Lo, children
are
an heritage of the L
ORD
:
and
the fruit of the womb
is his
reward.
4
 As arrows
are
in the hand of a mighty man; so
are
children of the youth.
5
 Happy
is
the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
28
 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
29
 A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way
that is
not good.
30
 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
1
 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2
 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof
was
an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3
 And
it was
covered with cedar above upon the beams, that
lay
on forty five pillars, fifteen
in
a row.
4
 And
there were
windows
in
three rows, and light
was
against light
in
three ranks.
5
 And all the doors and posts
were
square, with the windows: and light
was
against light
in
three ranks.
6
 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof
was
fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch
was
before them: and the
other
pillars and the thick beam
were
before them.
7
 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge,
even
the porch of judgment: and
it was
covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8
 And his house where he dwelt
had
another court within the porch,
which
was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken
to wife,
like unto this porch.
9
 All these
were of
costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and
so
on the outside toward the great court.
10
 And the foundation
was of
costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11
 And above
were
costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12
 And the great court round about
was
with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the L
ORD
, and for the porch of the house.
13
 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14
 He
was
a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father
was
a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15
 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
16
 And he made two chapiters
of
molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter
was
five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter
was
five cubits:
17
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and
nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which
were
upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18
 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that
were
upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19
 And the chapiters that
were
upon the top of the pillars
were
of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20
 And the chapiters upon the two pillars
had pomegranates
also above, over against the belly which
was
by the network: and the pomegranates
were
two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
21
 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22
 And upon the top of the pillars
was
lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23
 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other:
it was
round all about, and his height
was
five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24
 And under the brim of it round about
there were
knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops
were
cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25
 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea
was set
above upon them, and all their hinder parts
were
inward.
26
 And it
was
an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
27
 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits
was
the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28
 And the work of the bases
was
on this
manner:
they had borders, and the borders
were
between the ledges:
29
 and on the borders that
were
between the ledges
were
lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges
there was
a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen
were
certain additions made of thin work.
30
 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver
were
undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
31
 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above
was
a cubit: but the mouth thereof
was
round
after
the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it
were
gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
32
 And under the borders
were
four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels
were joined
to the base: and the height of a wheel
was
a cubit and half a cubit.
33
 And the work of the wheels
was
like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes,
were
all molten.
34
 And
there were
four undersetters to the four corners of one base:
and
the undersetters
were
of the very base itself.
35
 And in the top of the base
was there
a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof
were
of the same.
36
 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
37
 After this
manner
he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure,
and
one size.
38
 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths:
and
every laver was four cubits:
and
upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
39
 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
40
 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the L
ORD
:
41
 the two pillars, and the
two
bowls of the chapiters that
were
on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which
were
upon the top of the pillars;
42
 and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks,
even
two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that
were
upon the pillars;
43
 and the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44
 and one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45
 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the L
ORD
,
were of
bright brass.
46
 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47
 And Solomon left all the vessels
unweighed,
because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
48
 And Solomon made all the vessels that
pertained
unto the house of the L
ORD
: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread
was,
49
 and the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right
side,
and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs
of
gold,
50
 and the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers
of
pure gold; and the hinges
of
gold,
both
for the doors of the inner house, the most holy
place, and
for the doors of the house,
to wit,
of the temple.
51
 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the L
ORD
. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated;
even
the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the L
ORD
.