¹ 利亚给雅各所生的女儿底拿出去，要见那地的女子们。

² 那地的主─希未人、哈抹的儿子示剑看见他，就拉住他，与他行淫，玷辱他。

³ 示剑的心系恋雅各的女儿底拿，喜爱这女子，甜言蜜语地安慰他。

⁴ 示剑对他父亲哈抹说：求你为我聘这女子为妻。

⁵ 雅各听见示剑玷污了他的女儿底拿。那时他的儿子们正和群畜在田野，雅各就闭口不言，等他们回来。

⁶ 示剑的父亲哈抹出来见雅各，要和他商议。

⁷ 雅各的儿子们听见这事，就从田野回来，人人忿恨，十分恼怒；因示剑在以色列家作了丑事，与雅各的女儿行淫，这本是不该做的事。

⁸ 哈抹和他们商议说：我儿子示剑的心恋慕这女子，求你们将他给我的儿子为妻。

⁹ 你们与我们彼此结亲；你们可以把女儿给我们，也可以娶我们的女儿。

¹⁰ 你们与我们同住罢！这地都在你们面前，只管在此居住，做买卖，置产业。

¹¹ 示剑对女儿的父亲和弟兄们说：但愿我在你们眼前蒙恩，你们向我要甚麽，我必给你们。

¹² 任凭向我要多重的聘金和礼物，我必照你们所说的给你们；只要把女子给我为妻。

¹³ 雅各的儿子们因为示剑玷污了他们的妹子底拿，就用诡诈的话回答示剑和他父亲哈抹，

¹⁴ 对他们说：我们不能把我们的妹子给没有受割礼的人为妻，因为那是我们的羞辱。

¹⁵ 惟有一件才可以应允：若你们所有的男丁都受割礼，和我们一样，

¹⁶ 我们就把女儿给你们，也娶你们的女儿；我们便与你们同住，两下成为一样的人民。

¹⁷ 倘若你们不听从我们受割礼，我们就带着妹子走了。

¹⁸ 哈抹和他的儿子示剑喜欢这话。

¹⁹ 那少年人做这事并不迟延，因为他喜爱雅各的女儿；他在他父亲家中也是人最尊重的。

²⁰ 哈抹和他儿子示剑到本城的门口，对本城的人说：

²¹ 这些人与我们和睦，不如许他们在这地居住，做买卖；这地也宽阔，足可容下他们。我们可以娶他们的女儿为妻，也可以把我们的女儿嫁给他们。

²² 惟有一件事我们必须做，他们才肯应允和我们同住，成为一样的人民：就是我们中间所有的男丁都要受割礼，和他们一样。

²³ 他们的群畜、货财，和一切的牲口岂不都归我们麽？只要依从他们，他们就与我们同住。

²⁴ 凡从城门出入的人就都听从哈抹和他儿子示剑的话；於是凡从城门出入的男丁都受了割礼。

²⁵ 到第三天，众人正在疼痛的时候，雅各的两个儿子，就是底拿的哥哥西缅和利未，各拿刀剑，趁着众人想不到的时候来到城中，把一切男丁都杀了，

²⁶ 又用刀杀了哈抹和他儿子示剑，把底拿从示剑家里带出来就走了。

²⁷ 雅各的儿子们因为他们的妹子受了玷污，就来到被杀的人那里，掳掠那城，

²⁸ 夺了他们的羊群、牛群，和驴，并城里田间所有的；

²⁹ 又把他们一切货财、孩子、妇女，并各房中所有的，都掳掠去了。

³⁰ 雅各对西缅和利未说：你们连累我，使我在这地的居民中，就是在迦南人和比利洗人中，有了臭名。我的人丁既然稀少，他们必聚集来击杀我，我和全家的人都必灭绝。

³¹ 他们说：他岂可待我们的妹子如同妓女麽？

¹ They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

² The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³ and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

⁴ Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.

⁵ It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."

⁶ Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening, then you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;

⁷ and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"

⁸ Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."

⁹ Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"

¹⁰ It happened, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹² "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"

¹³ It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.

¹⁴ When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.

¹⁵ When the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, "What is it?" For they didn't know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat."

¹⁶ This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded: "Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, you shall take it, every man for those who are in his tent."

¹⁷ The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

¹⁸ When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

¹⁹ Moses said to them, "Let no one leave of it until the morning."

²⁰ Notwithstanding they didn't listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.

²¹ They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

²² It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

²³ He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to Bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"

²⁴ They laid it up until the morning, as Moses asked, and it didn't become foul, neither was there any worm in it.

²⁵ Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. today you shall not find it in the field.

²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

²⁷ It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

²⁸ Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

²⁹ Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day.

³¹ The house of Israel called its name Manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

³² Moses said, "This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, 'Let an omer-full of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.'"

³³ Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."

³⁴ As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

³⁵ The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

³⁶ Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.