To prepare for the midterm, you should know:

- where is this passage found (book, chapter)

- who is speaking, to whom, context

- (most important!!) How does this passage control the "textual traffic"? What are the major themes flowing this the story in which the passage is found and how do they connect with our understanding of the larger text?

1. Let us make man [Adam] in our image, after our likeness.

2. I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband.

3. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.

4. Cursed by Canaan [!]; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers.

5. Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad the face of the whole earth.

6. Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation ....

7. Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs....

8. Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.

9. Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.

10. Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

11. Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.

12. Only on this condition will we consent to you; that you will become as we are and every male of you be circumcised. Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.

13. She is more righteous that I, inasmuch as I did not give her to my son Shelah.

14. As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive....

15. I AM WHO I AM. Say this to thye people of Israel, "I AM has sent me to you."

16. Israel is my first-born son, and I say to you, "Let me son go that he may serve me"; if you refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay your first-born son.

17. Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me; how then shall Pharoah listen to me, who am a man of uncircumcised lips.

18. Moreover choose able men from all the people, such as fear God, men who are trustworthy and who hate a bribe; and place such men over the people as rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

19. ... and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

20. An alter of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause my name [shem] to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

21. You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22. And I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off’; so they give it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and there came out this calf. Earlier: "these are your gods, O Israel!"

23. I have taken the Levites instead of the first-born among the people of Israel. And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do service for the people of Israel ....

24. O that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing ... and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.

25. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD.

26. The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. Only, do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the LORD isd with us; do not fear them.

27. Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?

28. How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

29. Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers; except Caleb....

30. For I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but you shall go over and take possession of that good land. Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image ....

31. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD; and you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

32. Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth ....

33. Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time .... This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.

34. O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth; what wilt thou do for thy great name?

35. ...know assuredly that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

36. And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or your bow. I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you dwell therein; you eat the fruit of vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.

37. So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

38. I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.

39. Tell of it, you who ride tawny asses, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way. To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the triumphs of the LORD, the triumphs of his peasantry in Israel.

40. Will you contend for Ba’al? Or will you defend his cause? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his alter has been pulled down.

41. Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you earrings of his spoil ....

42. If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

43. My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.

44. A razor has never come upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

45. I pray thee, only this once ... that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes. No king.

46. Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine; let me bring them out now. Ravish them and do with them what seems good to you; but against this man do not do so vile a thing.

47. Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would not be guilty.