Max Margolis > Quotes

“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.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“19:22As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying: ‘Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“Though firm be thy dwelling-place, And though thy nest be set in the rock;”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“20:7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.’ 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: ‘What man is there that is fearful and faint- hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart melt as his heart.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“17:11And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three regions.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“28:10And Jacob went out from Beer- sheba, and went toward Haran. 28:11And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. 28:12And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. 28:13And, behold, the LORD stood beside him, and said: ‘I am the LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“4:4This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things: 4:5when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it; 4:6and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“11:26And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. 11:27And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“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.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“20:9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

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

“22:11And the children of Israel heard say: ‘Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.’ 22:12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“6:16And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the horns, that Joshua said unto the people: ‘Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. 6:17And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to the LORD; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. 26:6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“and hew down their Asherim,”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“Happy are all they that wait for Him.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“18:25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 18:26And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. 18:27And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“14:14And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 14:15And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 14:16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“34:16And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 34:17’These are the names of the men that shall take possession of the land for you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 34:18And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to take possession of the land. 34:19And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 34:20And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. 34:21Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. 34:22And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli. 34:23Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod; 34:24and of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

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

“23:20Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother: interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest. 23:21Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“11:2And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. 11:3And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said: ‘Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“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.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“2:16And she said unto them: ‘Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and afterward may ye go your way.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“37:1And Bezalel made the ark of acacia-wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it. 37:2And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. 37:3And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof: even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it. 37:4And he made staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold. 37:5And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark. 37:6And he made an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 37:7And he made two cherubim of gold: of beaten work made he them, at the two ends of the ark-cover: 37:8one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end; of one piece with the ark-cover made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof. 37:9And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover were the faces of the cherubim.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“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.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“it is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children that refuse to hear the teaching of the LORD;”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“5:4David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5:5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah. 5:6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke unto David, saying: ‘Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither’; thinking: ‘David cannot come in hither.’ 5:7Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh

“24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin. 24:17Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge. 24:18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.”
― Max Margolis, JPS Tanakh