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Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with compartments, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
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Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them. But those who survived fled to the hill country.
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So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
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And Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.
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He bought the plot of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.
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Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
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Now then, come and let’s kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, ‘A vicious animal devoured him.’ Then we will see what will become of his dreams!”
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Then Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—so that later he might rescue him out of their hands, to return him to his father.
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and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
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Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him out and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. So they brought Joseph into Egypt.
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Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.
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So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.
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But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and covered it with tar and pitch. Then she put the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
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When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the boy was crying. And she had pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
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Property Rights
“Now if someone opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
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the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his.
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Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, a good distance from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp.
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And when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.
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Then when you sound an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be sounded for them to break camp.
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You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will turn over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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you shall not consent to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.
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You shall not pity him, but you shall eliminate the guilt for the bloodshed of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well for you.
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So you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
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then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
