15:1After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

18:16The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way. ^18:17Yahweh said, "Will I hide from Abraham what I do, ^18:18seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him? ^18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him." ^18:20Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, ^18:21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."

19:12The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: ^19:13for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

19:23The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. ^19:24Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. ^19:25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. ^19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

6:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land."

7:1Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. ^7:2You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land. ^7:3I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ^7:4But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will lay my hand on Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. ^7:5The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them."

12:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ^12:2"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. ^12:3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household; ^12:4and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. ^12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: ^12:6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. ^12:7They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. ^12:8They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. ^12:9Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. ^12:10You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. ^12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover. ^12:12For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh. ^12:13The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. ^12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

18:13It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening. ^18:14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"

25:1Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab: ^25:2for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods. ^25:3Israel joined himself to Baal-peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel. ^25:4Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel. ^25:5Moses said to the judges of Israel, Kill you everyone his men who have joined themselves to Baal-peor.

27:18Yahweh said to Moses, Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; ^27:19and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. ^27:20You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey. ^27:21He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation. ^27:22Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation: ^27:23and he laid his hands on him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by Moses.

33:1These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron. ^33:2Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. ^33:3They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, ^33:4while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed judgments.

1:9I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: ^1:10Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude. ^1:11Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! ^1:12How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? ^1:13Take wise men of understanding and well known according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you. ^1:14You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to do. ^1:15So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. ^1:16I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner who is with him. ^1:17You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it. ^1:18I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

25:1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked; ^25:2and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. ^25:3Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

2:8Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. ^2:9They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill- country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. ^2:10Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel. ^2:11The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals; ^2:12and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. ^2:13They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. ^2:14The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. ^2:15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed. ^2:16Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them. ^2:17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; but they didn’t do so. ^2:18When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them. ^2:19But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. ^2:20The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; ^2:21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; ^2:22that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. ^2:23So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.