Darby Translation OT

1853 Pages·1996·2.79 MB·English

by  John Nelson Darby

T AGES D L
HE IGITAL IBRARY
BIBLES
D T
ARBY RANSLATION
O T
OF THE LD ESTAMENT
by John Nelson Darby
B o o k s F o r Th e A g e s
AGES Software • Albany, OR USA
Version 1.0 © 1996
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The
Holy Bible
Old Testament
Darby’s Translation
Published Gratefully by
SAGE Software
Albany, OR 97321
in the year of our Lord 1996
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CONTENTS
THE OLD TESTAMENT
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Genesis
Exodus The Law
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
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Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel The Books of History
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
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Job
Psalms The Wisdom Books
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
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Isaiah
Jeremiah The Major Prophets
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
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Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah The Minor Prophets
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
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The First Book of Moses
Commonly Called
GENESIS
GENESIS 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
2 And the earth was waste and empty, and darkness was on the face of
the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the
waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
4 And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided between
the light and the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And
there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters,
and let it be a division between waters and waters.
7 And God made the expanse, and divided between the waters that are
under the expanse and the waters that are above the expanse; and it
was so.
8 And God called the expanse Heavens. And there was evening, and
there was morning — a second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together
to one place, and let the dry appear. And it was so.
10 And God called the dry Earth, and the gathering together of the
waters he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth cause grass to spring up, herb producing
seed, fruit-trees yielding fruit after their kind, the seed of which is in
them, on the earth. And it was so.
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12 And the earth brought forth grass, herb producing seed after its kind,
and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in them, after their kind.
And God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening, and there was morning — a third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to
divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and
for seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light
on the earth. And it was so.
16 And God made the two great lights, the great light to rule the day,
and the small light to rule the night, — and the stars.
17 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the
earth,
18 and to rule during the day and during the night, and to divide between
the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
19 And there was evening, and there was morning — a fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls,
and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.
21 And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that
moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every
winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the
waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.
23 And there was evening, and there was morning — a fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind,
cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And
it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth.
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27 And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every
animal that moveth on the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed
that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a
tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
30 and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens,
and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul,
every green herb for food. And it was so.
31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very
good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth
day.
GENESIS 2
1 And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.
2 And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he
had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it
he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.
4 These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were
created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
5 and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb
of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to
rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
6 But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface
of the ground.
7 And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul.
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8 And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there
put Man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of life, in the
midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden, to water the garden; and from thence it
was parted, and became four main streams.
11 The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole
land of Havilah, where the gold is.
12 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are
there.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds
the whole land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows
forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates.
15 And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden,
to till it and to guard it.
16 And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the
garden thou shalt freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.
18 And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I
will make him a helpmate, his like.
19 And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of
the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought to Man, to see
what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul,
that was its name.
20 And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens,
and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no
helpmate, his like.
21 And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he
slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.
22 And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a
woman; and brought her to Man.
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23 And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a
man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to
his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
GENESIS 3
1 And the serpent was more crafty than any animal of the field which
Jehovah Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, Is it even so,
that God has said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden;
3 but of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God has
said, Ye shall not eat of it, and ye shall not touch it, lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said to the woman, Ye will not certainly die;
5 but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be
opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil.
6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give
intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her
husband with her, and he ate.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they
were naked. And they sewed fig-leaves together, and made
themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in
the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.
9 And Jehovah Elohim called to Man, and said to him, Where art thou?
10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I feared, because I
am naked; and I hid myself.
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11 And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of
the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?
12 And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given with me, she gave
me of the tree, and I ate.
13 And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
14 And Jehovah Elohim said to the serpent, Because thou hast done
this, be thou cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the
field. On thy belly shalt thou go, and eat dust all the days of thy life.
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush
his heel.
16 To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy
pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband
shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.
17 And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of
thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with
toil shalt thou eat it all the days of thy life;
18 and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb
of the field.
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the
ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto
dust shalt thou return.
20 And Man called his wife’s name Eve; because she is the mother of all
living.
21 And Jehovah Elohim made Adam and his wife coats of skin, and
clothed them.
22 And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to
know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take
also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever …!
23 Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to
till the ground from which he was taken.
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24 And he drove out Man; and he set the Cherubim, and the flame of
the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard
the way to the tree of life.
GENESIS 4
1 And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and
said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah.
2 And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd,
but Cain was a husbandman.
3 And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit
of the ground an offering to Jehovah.
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their
fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering;
5 and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was
very angry, and his countenance fell.
6 And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy
countenance fallen?
7 If thou doest well, will not look up? and if thou doest not well, sin
lieth at the door; and unto thee his desire, and thou shalt rule over
him.
8 And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they
were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew
him.
9 And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I
know not: am I my brother’s keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood
is crying to me from the ground.
11 And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its
mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its
strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth.
13 And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne.