Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. That which lies or is laid; a row; a stratum; a layer; one rank in a series reckoned upward; as a lay of wood.
2. A viol should have a lay of wire-strings below.
4. Station; rank. [Not used.]
8. A song; as a loud or soft lay; immortal lays.
9. [It is used chiefly in poetry.]
1. of lie. The estate lay in the county of Hartford.
2. When Ahab heard these words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his head, and fasted and lay in sackcloth.
3. 1 Kings 21:27 .
1. To bring or produce eggs.
3. To contrive; to form a scheme. [Unusual.]
4. To lay about, to strike or throw the arms on all sides; to act with vigor.
5. To lay at, to strike or to endeavor to strike.
6. The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold. Job 41:8 .
7. To lay out, to purpose; to intend. he lays out to make a journey.
8. To take measures.
9. I made strict inquiry wherever I came, and laid out for intelligence of all places.
10. To lay upon, to importune. obsolete
1. preterit tense and participle passive laid. [Latin loco, whence locus, Eng. ley or lea. The primary sense is to send or throw; hence this word is the Latin lego, legare, differently applied; Gr. to lie down.]
2. Literally, to throw down; hence, to put or place; applied to things broad or long, and in this respect differing from set. We lay a book on the table, when we place it on its side, but we set it on the end. We lay the foundation of a house, but we set a building on its foundation.
5. A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den.
6. Daniel 6:1 .
7. To beat down; to prostrate. Violent winds with rain lay corn and grass.
8. To settle; to fix and keep from rising. A shower lays the dust.
9. To place in order; to dispose with regularity in building; as, to lay bricks or stones in constructing walls.
11. To spread or set; as, to lay snares.
13. After a tempest, when the winds are laid.
14. To quiet; to still; to restrain from walking; as, to lay the devil.
15. To spread and set in order; to prepare; as, to lay a table for dinner.
16. To place in the earth for growth.
17. The chief time of laying gilliflowers, is in July.
19. To bring forth; to exclude; as, to lay eggs.
20. To add; to join.
21. Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field. Isaiah 5:6 .
22. To put; to apply.
23. She layeth her hand to the spindle. Proverbs 31:19 .
26. To impose, as evil, burden, or punishment.
27. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 5:6 3.
28. To enjoin as a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
29. To exhibit; to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county.
31. The leaders first he laid along.
32. To depress and lose sight of, by sailing or departing from; as, to lay the land; a seaman's phrase.
33. To station; to set; as, to lay an ambush.
34. To contrive; to scheme; to plan.
35. To lay a cable, to twist or unite the strands.
36. To lay apart, to put away; to reject.
37. LAY apart all filthiness. James 1:21 .
38. To lay aside, to put off or away; not to retain.
40. To discontinue; as, to lay aside the use of any thing.
41. To lay away, to reposit in store; to put aside for preservation.
42. To lay before, to exhibit; to show; to present to view. The papers are laid before Congress.
43. To lay by, to reserve for future use.
44. Let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. 1 Corinthians 16:2 .
45. To put away; to dismiss.
46. Let brave spirits not be laid by, as persons unnecessary for the time.
47. To put off.
48. And she arose and went away, and laid by her veil. Genesis 38:1 .
49. To lay down, to deposit, as a pledge, equivalent or satisfaction; to resign.
50. I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:15 .
51. To give up; to resign; to quit or relinquish; as, to lay down an office or commission.
52. To quit; to surrender the use of; as, to lay down one's arms.
53. To offer or advance; as, to lay down a proposition or principle.
54. To lay one's self down, to commit to repose.
55. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep - Psalms 4:8 .
56. To lay hold of, to seize; to catch. To lay hold on, is used in a like sense.
57. To lay in, to store; to treasure; to provide previously.
58. To lay on, to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows.
59. To lay open, to open; to make bare; to uncover; also, to show; to expose; to reveal; as, to lay open the designs of an enemy.
60. To lay over, to spread over; to incrust; to cover the surface; as, to lay over with gold or silver.
61. To lay out, to expend; as, to lay out money, or sums of money.
62. To display; to discover.
63. He takes occasion to lay out bigotry and false confidence in all its colors. obsolete
64. To plan; to dispose in order the several parts; as, to lay out a garden.
65. To dress in grave clothes and place in a decent posture; as, to lay out a corpse. Shakespeare uses to lay forth.
66. To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. So with the reciprocal pronoun, to lay one's self out, is to exert strength.
67. To lay to, to charge upon; to impute.
68. To apply with vigor.
69. To attack or harass. obsolete
70. To check the motion of a ship, and cause her to be stationary.
71. To lay together, to collect; to bring to one place; also, to bring into one view.
72. To lay to heart, to permit to affect greatly.
73. To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay one under restraint or obligation.
75. LAY up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Matthew 6:19 .
76. To confine to the bed or chamber. He is laid up with the gout.
78. To lay wait, to station for private attack; to lay in ambush for.
79. To lay the course, in sailing, is to sail towards the port intended, without gibing.
80. To lay waste, to destroy; to desolate; to deprive of inhabitants, improvements and productions.
81. To lay the land, in seamen's language, is to cause the land apparently to sink or appear lower, by sailing from it; the distance diminishing the elevation.
1. Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
2. Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
3. Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
1. The laity; the common people.
3. Faith; creed; religious profession.
4. A law.
5. An obligation; a vow.
6. That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
1. To produce and deposit eggs.
2. To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
1. To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
2. To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
6. To cause to lie dead or dying.
8. To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
9. To apply; to put.
10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
12. To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
13. To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
15. To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
16. To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
17. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
18. To place (new type) properly in the cases.
19. A wager.
20. A job, price, or profit.
21. A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
24. A plan; a scheme.
Layamon
Encyclopedia Britannica
LAYAMON, or Laweman, the author of a chronicle of Britain entitled Brut, a poetical semi-Saxon paraphrase of the Brut cι Angleterre of Wace, was as he himself informs us a priest who read the services of the church at Ernleye, on the banks of the Severn (now Lower Arley or Arley Regis, 3£ miles south-east from Bewdley, Worcestershire). Of his personal history nothing further is known. Nor can the date of the work with which his name is associated be very accurately ascertained; but the probability is that it was not completed before the beginning of the 13th century. The original text, with a literal translation, notes, and a grammatical glossary, was first edited by Sir Frederic Madden in 1847. See English Language, vol. vii. p. 394; and English Literature, ib. p. 408.
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Laybach
Encyclopedia Britannica
LAYBACH. See Laibach.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 14, p. 374
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1. la'er. [from lay, the verb.]
2. A stratum; a bed; a body spread over another; as a layer of clay or of sand.
3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. A hen that lays eggs.
1. One who, or that which, lays.
2. That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. An artificial oyster bed.
A propagating by layers.
Putting; placing; applying; imputing; wagering.
1. The act of one who, or that which, lays.
2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.
1. One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
2. A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
Laynez
Encyclopedia Britannica
LAYNEZ, Diego. See Jesuits.
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Production Roget’s Thesaurus §161
N. {ant. 162, 158} production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis|, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit
V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate|, cause, acquire
Adj. produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic
Phr. ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet
Moderation Roget’s Thesaurus §174
N. moderation, lenity, temperateness, gentleness, sobriety, quiet, mental calmness, moderating, anaphrodisia, relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification, measure, juste milieu, golden mean, ἄριστον μέτρον, moderator, lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum, rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, "poppy or mandragora", wet blanket, palliative
V. be -moderate, keep within bounds, keep within compass, sober down, settle down, keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail, moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy|, attemper, contemper, mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten, sober down, tone down, smooth down, weaken, lessen, check palliate, tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off, slake, curb, tame, smooth over, pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters, pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin, go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"
Adj. moderate, lenient, gentle, mild, mellow, cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured, tempered, calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still, slow, smooth, untroubled, tame, peaceful, peaceable, pacific, halcyon, unexciting, unirritating, soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne, hypnotic, sedative, antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac, mild as mother's milk, milk and water
Adv. moderately, gingerly, piano, under easy sail, at half speed, within bounds, within compass, in reason
Phr. est modue in rebus, pour oil on troubled waters, 4, indirect power
Location Roget’s Thesaurus §184
N. location, localization, lodgment, deposition, reposition, stowage, package, collocation, packing, lading, establishment, settlement, installation, fixation, insertion, habitat, environment, surroundings (situation) 183, circumjacence, anchorage, mooring, encampment, plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment, colonization, domestication, situation, habitation, cohabitation, "a local habitation and a name", endenization, naturalization
V. place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install, house, stow, establish, fix, pin, root, graft, plant, shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit, cradle, moor, tether, picket, pack, tuck in, embed, imbed, vest, invest in, billet on, quarter upon, saddle with, load, lade, freight, pocket, put up, bag, inhabit, domesticate, colonize, take root, strike root, anchor, cast anchor, come to an anchor, sit down, settle down, settle, take up one's abode, take up one's quarters, plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself, squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing, encamp, pitch one's tent, put up at, put up one's horses at, keep house, endenizen, naturalize, adopt, put back, replace
Plain Roget’s Thesaurus §344
N. plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero
Music Roget’s Thesaurus §415
N. music, concert, strain, tune, air, melody, aria, arietta, piece of music, work, number, opus, sonata, rondo, rondeau, pastorale, cavatina, roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza, cadence, fugue, canon, quodlibet, serenade, notturno, dithyramb, opera, operetta, oratorio, composition, movement, stave, passamezzo, toccata, vorspiel, instrumental music, full score, minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra, concerted piece, potpourri, capriccio, vocal music, vocalism, chaunt, chant, psalm, psalmody, hymn, song, canticle, canzonet, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo, solfeggio, lydian measures, slow music, slow movement, adagio, minuet, siren strains, soft music, lullaby, dump, dirge, pibroch, martial music, march, dance music, waltz, solo, duet, duo, trio, quartet, quartett, septett, part song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale, antiphon, antiphony, accompaniment, second, bass, score, bourdon, drone, morceau, terzetto, composer, musician
Adv. adagio, largo, larghetto, andante, andantino, alla capella, maestoso, moderato, allegro, allegretto, spiritoso, vivace, veloce, presto, prestissimo, con brio, capriccioso, scherzo, scherzando, legato, staccato, crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando, affettuoso, obbligato, pizzicato, desto
Phr. "in notes by distance made more sweet", "like the faint exquisite music of a dream", "music arose with its voluptuous swell", "music is the universal language of mankind", "music's golden tongue", "the speech of angels", "will sing the savageness out of a bear", music hath charms to soothe the savage beast
Poetry Roget’s Thesaurus §597
N. poetry, poetics, poesy, muse, calliope, tuneful nine, parnassus, helicon, pierides, pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, *monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest &c, hexameter, pentameter, alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum
Adj. poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, melibean, skaldic, ionic, sapphic, alcaic, pindaric
Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star", dichtung und wahrheit, furor poeticus, "his virtues formed the magic of his song", "i do but sing because i must", "i learnt life from the poets", licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, "o for a muse of fire!", "sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge", "the true poem is the poet's mind", volk der dichter und denker, "wisdom married to immortal verse"
Chance. 2 Roget’s Thesaurus §621
N. chance, lot, fate, luck, good luck, mascot, speculation, venture, stake, game of chance, mere shot, random shot, blind bargain, leap in the dark, pig in a poke, fluke, potluck, faro bank, flyer*, limit, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, heisenberg's uncertainty principle, drawing lots, sortilegy, sortition|, sortes, sortes virgilianae, rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice, wager, bet, betting, gambling, the turf, gaming house, gambling house, betting house, bucket shop, gambling joint, totalizator, totalizer, hell, betting ring, dice, dice box, gambler, gamester, man of the turf, adventurer, dicer|
V. chance, stand a chance, toss up, cast lots, draw lots, leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents, tempt fortune, chance it, take one's chance, take a shot at it (attempt) 675, run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance, stand the hazard of the die, speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards, risk, venture, hazard, stake, ante, lay, lay a wager, make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for, play at chuck farthing
Adj. fortuitous, unintentional, unintended, accidental, not meant, undesigned, purposed, unpremeditated, unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of, random, indiscriminate, promiscuous, undirected, aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless, without purpose, possible, unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey
Adv. randomly, by chance, fortuitously, unpredictably, unforeseeably, casually, unintentionally, unwittingly, en passant, by the way, incidentally, as it may happen, at random, at a venture, at haphazard
Phr. acierta errando, dextro tempore, "fearful concatenation of circumstances", "fortuitous combination of circumstances", le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir, "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances", "the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms", "god does not play dice with the universe"
Hindrance Roget’s Thesaurus §706
N. prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage, embolus, embolism, infarct, interruption, interception, interclusion|, hindrance, impedition|, retardment, retardation, embarrassment, oppilation|, coarctation, stricture, restriction, restraint, inhibition, blockade, interference, interposition, obtrusion, discouragement, discountenance, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag, check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil, bar, stile, barrier, turnstile, turnpike, gate, portcullis, beaver dam, trocha, barricade, wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne, bulkhead, block, buffer, stopper, boom, dam, weir, burrock, drawback, objection, stumbling-block, stumbling-stone, lion in the path, snag, snags and sawyers, encumbrance, incumbrance, clog, skid, shoe, spoke, drag, drag chain, drag weight, stay, stop, preventive, prophylactic, load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta, dead weight, lumber, pack, nightmare, ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea, remora, difficulty, insuperable, obstacle, estoppel, ill wind, head wind, trammel, tether, hold back, counterpoise, damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy, party pooper, party crasher, interloper, trail of a red herring, opponent
V. hinder, impede, filibuster, impedite, embarrass, keep off, stave off, ward off, obviate, avert, antevert|, turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud, retard, slacken, check, let, counteract, countercheck, preclude, debar, foreclose, estop, inhibit, shackle, restrict, obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock, block, block up, choke off, belay, barricade, block the way, bar the way, stop the way, forelay, dam up, put on the brake, scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel, put a stop to, traverse, contravene, interrupt, intercept, oppose, hedge in, hedge round, cut off, inerclude|, interpose, interfere, intermeddle, cramp, hamper, clog, clog the wheels, cumber, encumber, incumber, handicap, choke, saddle with, load with, overload, lay, lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience, incommode, discommode, discompose, hustle, corner, drive into a corner, run foul of, fall foul of, cross the path of, break in upon, thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil, faze, feaze, feeze, baffle, snub, override, circumvent, defeat, spike guns, spoil, mar, clip the wings of, cripple, put an extinguisher on, damp, dishearten, discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport, lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on, cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine, be in the way of, stand in the way of, act as a drag, hang like a millstone round one's neck
Adj. hindering, obstructive, obstruent, impeditive, impedient, intercipient|, prophylactic, impedimentary, in the way of, unfavorable, onerous, burdensome, cumbrous, cumbersome, obtrusive, hindered, windbound, waterlogged, heavy laden, hard pressed, unassisted &c. (see assist ), single-handed, alone, deserted
Phr. occurrent nubes
Laity Roget’s Thesaurus §997
N. laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, # brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist
V. secularize
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311 KJV and 176 BSB verses contain “Lay” — showing the first 20. Show all 394 verses (searchable)
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him; for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And they agreed.
And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.