From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

She replied, “Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.

In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.

You are to make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem and bells of gold between them all around.

For the west side there were hangings seventy-five feet long, with their ten posts and their ten bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

Then the priest must remove its entrails by cutting off its tail feathers, and throw them to the east side of the altar into the place of fatty ashes,

“‘Then he must take up all the fat from the sin offering bull: the fat covering the entrails and all the fat surrounding the entrails,

In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they must slaughter the guilt offering, and the officiating priest must splash the blood against the altar’s sides.

“Every one of the Israelites must camp under his standard with the emblems of his family; they must camp at some distance around the tent of meeting.

All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel at the front.

The leaders offered gifts for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed. And the leaders presented their offering before the altar.

“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples – as is apparent today.

You are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.