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JPS Tanakh

Max Margolis

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“I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. 31:53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.’ And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.”

“For he was cut off out of the land of the living, For the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due.”

“7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.”

“6:3And the LORD said: ‘My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.’ 6:4The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. 6:5And the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”

“43:6And Israel said: ‘Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?”

“3:17And 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 toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.”

“35:20And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day. 35:21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder. 35:22And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it.”

“31:54And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.”

“2:3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. 2:4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.”

“2:22And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: ‘I have been aa stranger in a strange land.”

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