Afaring

From The Anglish Moot

Israel's growth and thraldom

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1. These are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob; [each] man and his household came.
2. Ruben, Simon, Levi, and Judah;
3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;
4. Dan and Napthali; Gad and Asher.
5. All of Jacob's offspring were seventy souls - Joseph having been in Egypt.
6. Then Joseph, all his brothers, and all that bearing died.
7. And the children of Israel teemed and swarmed. They grew and waxed mighty great, and the land was filled with them.
8. Now there arose over Egypt a new king who did not know Joseph.
9. And he said to his folk: "Look, the folk of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
10. Come, let us wise up to them, lest they grow and, should war break out on us, they also gather with our foes, wage war against us, and then leave the land.
11. So they set over them geld lords to strike them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh stocktowns, Pithom and Raamses.
12. But the more they struck them, the more they grew and overflowed, and they came to loathe the children of Israel.
13. Egypt ruthlessly worked the children of Israel.
14. And they made their lives bitter with hard work, with clay and brick, and with all kinds of field work. All the work which they worked was ruthless.
15. The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, the name of one of which was Shiphrah, and of the other Puah.
16. And he said, "When you birth the Hebrew women, look at the birthstool. If it is a boy, you shall kill him; if a girl, she shall live."
17. But the midwives feared God, and they did not do that which the king of Egypt had told to them. They let the boys live.
18. So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, letting the boys live?"
19. The midwives said to Pharaoh, "For the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; they are lively. Before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth."
20. And God did well for the midwives. The folk grew and waxed great.
21. And it was since the midwives feared God, he made for them households.
22. Then Pharaoh bade all his folk saying, "Every boy that is born you shall cast into the water-run, but every girl you shall let live."

The Afaring

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1 And God said all these words:

2 I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of thraldom's stead.

3 You shall have no other gods but me.

4 You shall not hew a likeness of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

5 You shall not bow yourself before them or give them worship: for I, the LORD your God, am a grudging God who will not give his worth to another: and of them that hate me, I will wreak woe upon the bairns for the sins of their fathers unto the third and fourth after-bearings; 6 and for a thousand after-bearings I will show mildness of heart on the bairns of those who love me, and keep my bodewords,

7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God worthlessly, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who mispeaks his name.

8 You shall bear in mind the Sabbath and keep it holy. 9 You are to till the ground on six days and do all your work: 10 But the seventh is the Sabbath day of the LORD your God and on that day you shall do no work, neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your bondsman or your dey, your cattle or the outlander who is amongst you. 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this ground the LORD blessed to the seventh day and hallowed it;

12 You shall give worth to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

13 You shall do no murder.

14 You shall not break the wedlock oath.

15 You shall not steal.

16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.

17 You shall not crave your neighbour's house, or his bondsmen or his deys or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

18 And all the folk saw the thundering and the skyflames and the sound of the horn and the bergs smoking; and they kept afar, shaking with fear:

19 They said to Moses, speak with us and we will hearken, but do not let God speak with us, lest death come upon us.

20 And Moses said to the people, have no fear: for God has come to put you to ordeal so that through fearing him you may be kept from wrongdoing.

21 And the people kept afar, but Moses went near to the dark welkin, nigh unto God.

22 And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to the bairns of Israel that you have seen that the words which have come to you from heaven are of my tung.

23 "You shall not make afgods of silver and afgods of gold for yourselves.

24 "You shall make for me an hallow of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your frith, your sheep and your oxen; and in every stead where I have hallowed my Name, and I will come to you and give you my blessing. 25 And if you make me a hallow of stone do not make it of hewed stones: for the smite of a tool will make it unclean. 26 And you shall not build steps up to my hallow for fear that a part of your body may be from there seen bare."