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Plain text of Chapter 33

And Jacob went and dwelt to the south of Magdalâdrâ'êf.

And he went to his father Isaac, he and Leah his wife, on the new moon of the tenth month.

And as for any man who uncovereth his father's skirt,

his deed is wicked exceedingly, for he is abominable before God.

For this reason it is written and ordained on the heavenly tables that a man should not lie with his father's wife, and should not uncover his father's skirt, for this is unclean:

they shall be judged and punished together, the man who lieth with his father's wife and the woman also, for they have wrought uncleanness on the earth.

And there shall be nothing unclean before our God in the nation which He hath chosen for Himself for His service.

And again, it is written a second time: "Cursed he be who lieth with the wife of his father, for he hath uncovered his father's shame"; and all the holy ones of God said "So be it; so be it."

And do thou, Moses, command the children of Israel that they observe this word; for it entaileth a grave punishment; and it is unclean, and he who hath committed this is to be judged and punished according to the law, and removed from the midst of the people of our God.

For to no man who doeth so in Israel is it permitted to remain unpunished, for he is abominable and unclean.

And do thou, Moses, write it down for Israel that they may observe it, and do according to these words, and not commit a sin unto death; for God our Lord is judge, who respecteth not persons and accepteth not gifts.

And tell them these words of the covenant, that they may hear and observe, and be on their guard with respect to them, and not be destroyed and rooted out of the land;

for an uncleanness, and an abomination, and a contamination, and a pollution are all they who commit it on the earth before our God.

And there is no greater sin than the fornication which they commit on earth; for Israel is a holy nation unto God its Lord, and a nation of inheritance, and a priestly and royal nation and for His own service;

and there shall no such uncleanness appear in the midst of the holy nation.

And in the third year of this sixth week Jacob and all his sons went and dwelt in the house of Abraham, near Isaac his father and Rebecca his mother.

And these were the names of the sons of Jacob: the first-born Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon, the sons of Leah;

and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin;

and the sons of Bilhah, Dan and Naphtali, and the sons of Zilpah, Gad and Asher; and Dinah, the daughter of Leah, the only daughter of Jacob.

And they came and paid their respects to Isaac and Rebecca, and when they saw them they blessed Jacob and all his sons,

and Isaac rejoiced exceedingly, for he saw the sons of Jacob, his younger son, and he blessed them.